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HELP US CARRY OUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S PAPER CONSERVATION PROGRAR r : .. The Omaha Daily Bee . . . t VOL. XLVIII. NO. 19. "orpTlT iiS OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 191812 PAGES Sli" -ii2ii!Si. V-?Si SiS." TWO CENTS. 1 ) iSERVAl OF GE1R1AM HUM RAIL WRECK DEATH TOLL AT LEAST 100 Most of Victims of Head-On Collision ' Near Nashville Negroes on Way to Powder Plant.1 By Associated Press. : Nashville, Tenn., July 9. At least 100" persons, most of them negroes, .were killed and as many more injured in a head-on collision today jetween passenger trains on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway at Dutchman's Bend, five miles from this city. Most of the killed and injured were n local train from Louisville, which carried several coaches full of workmen going to a nearby powder plant The other train was an ex press from Memphis and the west and after the two engines had reared and fallen beside the track, the heavy coaches of the express ploughed through the baggage car of the ac commodation train and demolished two other coaches. Engine Crews Killed. As the crews of both locomotives were killed the cause of the collision may never be established. The ex press train was running late and one theory advanced was that the engineer of the accommodation train may have disregarded signal and tried to make a switch just beyond where the wreck occurred before the Memphis train arrived.- Thert also, was. the possibility that, he may Jiavebeen . given ; wrong tostrucbnfcn-'-ry';,.''; '" : - ' Three investigations of the wreck were expected, one by officials-of the road, another by state officials and a third by the railroad administration. Few Women Among , Victims. Only a few women were among the killed. Most of the white persons killed were in the telescoped smoking car of the accommodation train. Among-the killed were: Private John P. Hussey, Uhlian, Iir., Wilson B; Harris, of the Naval reserves, and a member of the marine corps named -Alexander. ' "Johnny" Moore Gets , ,Two Years and $1,000 Fine Under Drug Law "Johnny" Moore, negro proprietor of a "place" at 221 North Thirteenth street, was' found guilty of selling drugs by a jury in federal court Tues day afternoon. Judge Woodrough sentenced him to two years' imprison ment and ordered him to pay a 'fine of $1,000. No witnesses appeared for the de fense, and neither the prisoner nor : his counsel spoke when the judge asked if either had anything to say before sentence was pronounced. Almost $1,000 worth of drugs was found in Moore's room when he was -arrested, and marked money,, which agents of the Department of Justice testified they had paid him for co caine, was found in his possession. Anna Moore, a white girl, formerly a maid at the Neville hotel, testified' , that she had bought "M,'V morphine, from the negro dealer. Hearst Is Turned Down By New York Democrats Syracuse, N. Y July 9. Unable to agree upon a candidate after five bal lots the "committee of 42" up-state democrats decided to submit to the party conference at Saratoga July 23 the names of seven men, any one of whom will be acceptable as a candi date for governor. The list does not include the name of William Randolph Hearst His name was not presented for mally or informally, neither did he receive a vote. The seven include James W.. Gerard and Congressman George Rf Lunn of Schenectady. Son of Secretary Daniels Enters U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Md., July -9. Worth Bagley Daniels, son of the secretary of the navy, entered the naval acad emy as a midshipman today. Young Daniels is 18 years old and was ap pointed by Senator Overman of North Carolina. He is an enlisted man in the naval reserves. Four More Bodies Recovered From River Steamer, Wreck Peoria, III, July 9. With the re fcovery of four more bodies today the death list .of the steamer Columbia disaster 'was increased to 84. - At least eight more bodies, possibly as many aj 15, are still in the water. 0M FLAMS Greeting Sent American Mothers by Those of Italy Washington, July 9. Count V. Macchi Di Cellere, Italian am bassador, today transmitted to President Wilson a message of greeting sent by mothers of Italian combatants to American, mothers. The text follows: "In the day in which Rome, all Italy, exultant, welcomes and ac claims your generous sons, the mothers' of the Italian combatants send a fraternal auspicious greet-' ing to the American mothers and, united with them by the same throb of patriotic and maternal love, tfcey hail the valor of their sons, the final victory, the triumph of civiliza tion." v NATIONS TO UNITE IN AIDING RUSSIA UNDER U. S. LEAD Project Taking Shape to Counteract German Influ . ence and Enable People to Rehabilitate. By Associated Press. Washington, July 9. Entente gov ernments,! through their embassies in Washington, now are fully advised of the views of the Washington ad ministration as to the best means of carrying out President" Wilson's pledge to "stand behind Russia." It is understood that a project is tak ing shape which, it is hoped, will cpunteract German influence-and lead the people to rehabilitate themselves without exciting distrust 3 of th?. un selfish 'motives 'which lie behfad It. .. There is reason to Believe the pro posal' to send American business men to Russia forms the basis of the ne gotiations between 'Washington and the entente capitals. Only it has as sumed a new phase through the 'in jection of the idea to make the com mission and armed guards interna tional in composition, thus tending to disarm any suspicion on the part of the .Russians that their country is to be exploited in the interests of a single power. This measure is far short of the original desires of the entente gov ernments, which favored the dispatch of a military expedition into Siberia. Kerensky Urges Intervention. Taris, July 9. The parliamentary committee on action abroad today re ceived Alexander Kerensky, the for mer Russian premier, who explained the situation in Russia and suggested immediate intervention. . Lineup in Russia. London, July 9. Prominent Rus sian residents in London consider the Czecho-Slovak movement in Siberia as the, only real basis for a struggle against bolsheviklsm. The recent Moscow rising ii con sidered here to have been-a quarrel be tween the bolsheviki aif'cl their late fraends, .the social revolutionaries of the left. The Kerensky group did not partici pate in the counter revolution and had nothing to do with the murder of Count von Mirbach. Thfrd Liberty Loan Total ; Above Four Billion Mark Washington, July 9. Final com pilations of third Liberty loan sub scription announced by the treasury department tomVht sh ow a total of $4,176,516,850, an increase of $6,497,-1 zuu over the total officially estimated last May 8; after the loan campaign closed. ADVERTISING GREAT FACTOR Appeal of Types to, American People Helped Gather Wheat at Critical Moment UPHOLDING CAUSE OF ALLIES' San Fraflcisco, July 9. The vital part taken by advertising in develop ing American prosecution of the war was noted by President Woodrow Wilson in a telegram received here today by William C. D'Arcy, presw dent of the Associated Advertising clubs of the world, which are in con vention here. "I realize how squarely and spon taneously the advertising men of the country have 'stood behind the war," the telegram said. When the late Lord Rhondda, British food controller, after hearing a discouraging report on wheat im ports,' said, "The war is over, we are beaten," the people of America saved the day, Ralph P. Merritt,' federal food administrator for California, told the conventin: "The story of wheat has been a drama in itself," Mr. Merritt said. "In January Mr. Hoover ' cabled Lord Rhondda: 'On January 1 we sent you the last of the surplus of the 1917 BALLOONS AVIATORS PIL0 TS EXPOSED TO FOR LONG PERIOD Austrian Prisoners Surprised and Glad To Find U. S. in War Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, July 9. Austrian prisoners who have been taken late ly by the Italians appear not to be informed of the part the United States is playing in the war. When an automobile carrying members of the United States military expedi tion halted this afternoon in front of a line of prisoners, one called out in English to the chauffeur, "Say, what are you doing over here?" When informed that the United States was in the war he expressed surprise and said: ''Well, I hope the Americans keep on coming strong enough to win the war. Then we can get out of this mess and I can go back to America." M KELVIE FLAYS" NONPARTISANS IN OMAHA SPEECH Republican Candidate for Gov ernor Appeals for Patriotic Politics and Cites T. R. and Taft's Examples. In a speech delivered to the Mc-Kclvie-for-Governor club, in the as sembly room on the. 16th floor of the City National Bank, building, be fore, a larta audience of f enresentifc tive republicans last night, 5. R. Mc- ernor, said he was unalterably opposed to socialism, the kind parad ing under the guise of nonpartisan ship, which tend6 ultimately to state ownership of industries and farm lands, and which is sponsored by the democratic party of the state. Mr. McKelvie was introduced by Myron Learned, chairman of the meeting. In his speech the candidate said there had been no time since the civil war when the country needed the' constructive policies of the re publican party so much as at present. This is a time for partisanship in its truest and best sense, for it is a time for this government not only to win the war against a foreign foe, but also a time to develop and cherish its highest ideals. He recalled the scene in the La Salle hotel, at Chicago, where two of the leaders of the republican party, both ex-presidents, who had been working at cross-purposes for years in their leadership of different fac tions, meeting without prearrange (Contlnurd on l'litre Two, Column Four.) Warning of Defeat founded by Deputy In Prussian Lantag Washington, July 9. An official dispatch today from Switzerland says the independent socialist deputy, Stroebel, in a violent speech in the Prussian Landtag recently, con demned the German government for its efforts to secure a peace by force. He warned the German people that unless they rid themselves of their government and "send their politi cians of war and rapine to the devil." America's millions of soldiers wil! prove too strong a force to combat. wheat harvest. All the wheat we can send between January and September must come from the savings of our people." "Upon receipt ofthis message Lord Rhondda closed his desk, turned to his associates and said: " 'The war is over. We are beaten.' "The surplus of wheat which was shipped up to January 1, 1918, from the 1917 wheat harvest was 20,000,000 bushels. By the first of September, 1918, there will have been landed on the other side of the Atlantic not less than 170,000,000 bushejs of wheat, or wheat products, and of this amount 150,000,000 bushels is directly attribu table to the voluntary savings of the people of America." New Orleans was made the unani mous choice1 for1 the 1919 convention of the Associated Advertising clut.s of the world at the session of the various presidents tonight. The se lection remains to be ratified by the convention Thursday mornirg. OVER 00 Foe Under Special Orders to Shoot Down Huge Bags and Put Observers Out of Action If Possible; Correspondent Describes Experience In Air Close To Firing Line. By WILBUR FORREST. CopyrlRlit 11)18, by The Tribune Annm-iiitlon. With the French Armies, July 9. (Special-Cablegram to New York Tribune and Omaha Bee.) The extreme impor tance of sausage balloon work in open warfare where highly trained observers now many times remain aloft over the battle field as much as sixteen hours at a stretch in a flimsy basket with their lives literally in their hands, caused the Tribune cor respondent to investigate this unique arm of the service today at an altitude of about 2,400 feet. The sausage arm of the service is a branch where there is much danger because of the constant exposure to German airmen's attacks as well as hostile and grueling work, because your eye must be alert as an eagle's no matter how long aloft. The enemy's trenchs and organiza tions for miles in the rear must be constantly combed for any untoward movements. Your own guns must be told Where their shells are breaking. Dozens of other things are required which are too technical for explanation here and all .this time you sit there between heaven and earth with a parachute strapped to your arms and legs, ready to jump into space if necessary. I ascended today with a French lieutenant who explained the work while aloft and though the scene was an instruction center some distance from the actual war, it was near enough to warrant constantly manned machine guns in the ground waiting for -any roving Boche. t ., ji; .. Captured German aviatjon '.docu ments in the past few weeks have shown the importance which the ene my attaches to the destruction of the eagle-eyed gas bags which quietly sit in the upper void spotting his every movement. Sausage War is On. There is a sausage war on between the combatants which means today that a large percentage of the sau sages ascending on both sides come down in flames. The observers stake their lives on the flimsy umbrella-like parachutes which always hang compactly on the outside of the wicker basket like a canvas water jbag. The enemy airmen are now ordered not only to destroy the sausages but to kill the observers in mid-air. Before Germany began her last big attacks, there were ethics in the sau sage warfare. Invariably if. the ob setver was lucky enough to escape death in the sheer 60-yard drop be fore the parachute opened, he was allowed to sail safely toward the earth, naturally taking his chances with the wind drifting him over the enemy's lines or in contact with trees or other obstructions in landing. Attack In Groups. But today the enemy is attacking the sausages in groups of four or five airplanes, one of which is ordered to machine-gun the observer to death if the parachute opens. Though it was perhaps unneces sary, this fact explains the small car bine resting in the bacelle, as the lieutenant and myself were strapped into harness and attached to the para chute, preparatory to travel over 2,000 feet above today. The carbine serves as the only pro. tection as the parachutes drop earth ward. fc . The bacelle also contained a neat map of the surrounding country, a telephone, an altimeter, binoculars, (Continued on Pane Two, Column Two.) Empress Zita Driven To Sick Bed by Slander, Is Report From Vienna Amsterdam, July 9. Denying rumors circulating in Austria-Hungary regarding Empress Zita, the cor respondent at Vienna of the Tijd says: "It is true the Austrian empress partly desires peace and has, with proper dignity, advocated it, but the rumor that an energetic Austrian of fensive against Italy was delayed by her influence is slanderous, asalso is the rumor that the empress was to blame for one or two setbacks which followed the offensive. "It is still more slanderous to in volve her honor as a woman with imperial statesmanship and the im perial house. The empress, whose sensitiveness is well known, suffered not a little under the imputations, which have driven her to a sick bed. "The slander js more painful, as it even assailed the wedded fidelity which so distinguished the conduct of the imperial couple, while the non existent correspondence, which was said to contain utterances of the em press regarding peace, is reported to be the first cause of the difference between the emperor and the empress. FRE READ! DANGER IN SERVICE TIME RIPE FOR PEACE PARLEYS, SAYS HARD Berlin Political Writer Says Germany Would Accept Dis armament Proposals; Out lines Peace Conditions. v ,. v, By Associated Press. -, :-v Copenhagen, July 9, -Writing in the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin, Georg Bernhard, political editor, says: "The time is now ripe openly to discuss peace conditions. Having re gard to the ideal peace conditions laid down by President Wilson, unanimity on the matter undoubtedly could easily be reached if a method of discussing the peace terms could only be agreed upon." ' Bernhard says Germany and her allies would undoubtedly accept reasonable disarmament proposals. President Wilson's demands for self-government by small nations, the writer says, would be favorably re ceived, but the central powers would insist upon knowing the attitude ot England regarding Ireland. Negotia tions, the writer adds, should take place directly between the belligerents respecting frontier regulations. Suggests Peace Conditions. While claiming no official sanction and even admitting that their realiza tion would encounter strong opposi tion from ' the German government and people, Bernhard submits the fol lowing peace conditions: France and Italy to discuss with Germany and Austria their future frontiers without the intervention of third parties. All German colonies to be returned. Belgium to be restored completely as an independent state. All merchants of the central pow ers who have been deprived of their property overseas to be rtstored to their former rights of possession. Great Britain to evacuate uncondi tionally all parts of the Turkish em pire and Persia. Situation before the war to be re stored inEgypt. The Dardanelles, on the basis of a treaty applying to the states border ing the Black sea, to be free for the passage of Russian ship. Grand Dukes Escape Death at Hands of the Bolsheviki By Associated Press. Amsterdam, July 9. Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, brother-in-law of the former Russian emperor, was -interviewed at the end of June in Aitodor, in the Crimea, by the cor respondent of the Budapest Az Est, according to a telegram to Dutch newspapers. Relating his experiences after the abdication of the Romanoffs, the grand duke said: "We were for days at Dulbar (near Aitodor) at the, house of Peter Nico laievitch, all together. We owe our lives solely to that good and 'intelli gent man. My sons and myself were on the blask list. We scarcely hoped to escape with our lives. They took our money and property. Our house in Petrograd was razed to the ground. "Fortunately, I have a property with a vineyard in Aitodor, on the produce of tohich my family and my self can live." The correspondent remarked that Russia might within the year again have a monarchical constitution and the grand duke asked skeptically if RGETC 1A 3 K 1 NCHFR SPIED OUT Gen. Pershing Sends Personal 'Greeting To Elks of the Nation Atlantic City, July 9. General Pershing, who heads the list of 30,000 members of the" order of Elks in the military service of the country, today cabled a message of greeting to the 500,000 members of the order. The message was read at today's session of the Elks' convention, and is as follows: "I send greetings and express my full confidence in the loyalty and patriotism of all members of the order of Elks and their undivided and hearty support of our president .in this crisis of our nation's his tory." Bruce A. Campbell of Illinois was elected grand exalted ruler. TROOPS FIGHTING FIRE IN NATIONAL FORESHESERVE Menace in Northwest Most Serious in Years: Military Patrol in Woods to Be Established. By Associated Press. Olympia, Wash., July 9. Governor Ernest Lister today called Brig. Gen. Harvey J. Moss, adjutant general, to Olympia to confer on the forest fire situation, .and announced his intention to call out the Washington national guard to patrol threatened forests and tight fires. Strict military rule will he enforced in the woods to prevent fires. ' .'. , N ' ; ."'; ; J SoldieYs from Camp LeAls are fight ing the big Cispuj' fire in the Rainier national reserve, which is said t o have covered more than 30,000 acres. The (ire started from lightning and has been burning for a month. To Double Force. Today the Washington Fire asso ciation took steps to double its force of 100 patrolmen in western Wash ington woods. Land Commissioner C. V, Savidge has agreed to send out patrols to I guard the state's timber lands. The northwest forest fire menace is said to be the most serious in his tory. No green timber has been burned to speak of, but fires are every where in old workings. The most des perate fight being waged against fires is in the North River section of Pac ific county, where flames cover a region a mile in length and three miles long. Vast private and state timber tracts surrounding the burn ing section are in jeopardy. 4 "ew f,re southeast of High Rock in Snohomish county was reported today. Wide Areas of Pine Burn. San FranciscB, July 9. A half-score forest fires in the Klamath and other national forests in northern Califor nia are consuming wide areas of pine timber, urgently needed for govern ment contracts, according to tele grams received here today by the United States forestry service from its agents in the fire regions. Fires near Ukonom, Camp Creek and 1 Keyes were being fought by forestry crews. United Lutheran Church to Embrace 1,300,000 Members Atlantic City, July 9. As the result of a conference today of the general ways and means committee nearly 1, 300,000 church members are to be brought under one jurisdictional head in the United Lutheran church, which is either to ltf incorporated by act of congress or under the laws of New York state, depending on a decision to be reached tomorrowi l thi3 would be possible. The corre spondent added that Emperor Nicho las, however, would not again come to the throne and the grand duke re marked with vivacity: "Certainly not. He is vividly of the old system." The correspondent related a con versation he had with General Bal baroff, who was the lord high steward of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaie vitch, former commander-in-chief of the Russian army. General Balbaroff gave him details of Nicholas Nicolaie vitch's escape after being sentenced to death by the Bolsheviki. The latter declared they would not be content with the simple execution of the em peror's relations but would drive them to death in a specially cruel manner. It was a Caucasian officer named Dsiolikan charged with keeping guard over the grand duke's family, accord ing to the correspondent, who javed their lives. In order to divert su spicion he first treated the famil with exceptional severity and succeed ed in having their execution postponed until German troops arrived OMT: ; FRENCH GAIN IN THRUST Allies Giving Enemy little Op- flortunity to Perfect Ar , rangements for Launch- ing Attack in West. , . By Associated Press. While waiting for the Ger" man high command to show its hand,' the allied forces are giv ing the enemy little opportuni ty to perfect his arrangements for launching the attack. From the Lys sector on the north to the Champagne front, in east ern France, there have been sudden thrusts at the German lines, at least one of which has mue considerable ground. This blow was struck by the French west of the Oise and north of the Matz river, on the battlefield where the Germans were stopped short in therir attempt to hew their way through to Compiegne early in June. French Score Advance. The French advanced along, the, Compiegne road northwest of Anthe uil and occupied the Loge and Porte farms on each side of the highway The ground they have taken is im- portant from a defensive standpoint and cuts down the area In which the Germans must maneuver. -, 'There aeemt to have been spirited fighting on -the British front along La Basse canal, northwest of Lens, and north of the Somme. In the Pi- cardy sector. Berlin announces the British were repulsed in freauentlv re peated attacks and that their attacks north of the Somme broke down. The -French attack at Antheuil is merely mentioned in the official German statement which says attacks in the Villers-Cotterets and Chateau Thierry sectors were repulsed by the Ger mans. - Turn Austrian Right. While the fiehtinsr on the Mace donian and Albanian frontiers must remain a side issue the progress of the French and Italians along the Al banian coast brings that theater of ' the war into consideration. ' Rapid strides have been made since the French and Italians assaults were launched north of Avlona July 6. It appears that the allies have been successful in turning the Austrian right wing. An official statement from Rome says that Italian cavalry have gained the Austrian rear and destroyed bridges across the Semini river, which parallels the Voyusa. where the attack was begun.' This marks an advance of about 15 miles. Von Kuehlmann Retires. Dr. Richard Von Kuehlmann. the German foreign minister, has retired from office, it is announced, and the German emperor has accepted . his resignation. This has been expected since Von Kuehlmann's address in the German reichstag .'June 25, , jn the course of which he said that victory by purely military, decisions,, could hardly be expected. . " s , Czecho-Slovak forces in eastern Si beria have extended their sphere of influence up the Amur river to Niu layevsk, an important naval stat'on. The defeated Bolshevik troops, with their Austro-German allies, are said to have retired toward Khabaravsk. the capital of the maratime province. Von Hintze Slated to y Succeed Kuehlmann As Kaiser's Minister Paris, July 9. The German emper or has accepted the resignation of Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the German foreign secretary, accordine to a Basel dispatch to the Havas agency. v.' it is expected that Admiral von Hintze, the German minister at Chris- tiania and formerly minister to Mex ico, will succeed him. , y Konnenkamp Authorizes Strike -of Telegraphers in Canada Chicago, July 9. S. J. Konenkamp, f international president of the Com mercial Telegraphers' union, today - sent a message to C E. Hill at Toronto" Can.. .vice president of trie- organization, authorizing him to call a strike of the 600 employes of the , Great Northwestern Telegraph com-' pany tomorrow. ' President Konenkamp said ; the union insisted upon the reinstatement of a number of telegraphers dis- charged last March,-, who later were ' vindicated of charges made by the . company. The Canadian government officials, he said,-had . requested tbe - company to reinstate the meny bm the demand has been ignored, 1
