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"WIN THE WAR NOW'MS A MIGHTY GOOD PLATFORM FOR PATRIOTIC AMERICANS TO STAND ON The Omaha Daily Bee THE WEATHER: For Nebraska Fair and I warmer. Hour. Der. 5 a. m.... 60 6 a. m r9 7 a. m IS S a, in 63 t a. m 61 10 a. m , 70 It a. m 75 11 m 75 Hour. 1 p. m.. rtt. ...It ...St ...- ...M ...M . ..sr, ...83 I' fcfA P. in.. p. m.. p. m. . p. m. . P. m. . p. tii.. VOL. 48 NO cHni -im mk mi m. i9oc. OntlM P. 0. uatfw tct at Minh 3. U7S. OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918. lfl WW BOARD TO FIX COST OF SUGAR ROUMANIAN FAlLlRE IN WAR TRACED " TO FATAL BL UNDER A T BU CHARES T rv ii r Organization Created Pres ident Wilson to Equalize Prices and Regulate 1 Distribution. By Associated Press. Washington, July 11; To equalize the price of sugar to the consumer, in the face of prospects for an increase due to a threatened shortage, and to secure better distribution, President Wilson today ere ated the sugar equalization beard, on recommendation of FoocAdministrator Hoover. The board will be incorpor ated at $5,000,000, the capital to be furnished by the presi dent from his special war fund, and wilj have authority to ac quire, even at a loss to the gov , eminent, the production of ,beet sugar factories that can not under the present price of beets be sold to the public at a reasonable price, and other high cost sugar. This will be resold in the common lot at the stabilized price, thus saving considerable to the consumer. ft t . 4 4 a unices oi tne ooara win be in Washington. Mr, Hoover has been appointed chairman and George Kolph sugar rector in the food ad ministration here. Entire Supply Under Control. The United States now virtually controls all sugar produced in the s country as well as that imported, through the international sugar com mission, which organization controls the domestic industry. . ' The directors ofjlie board are F. commission, Clarence Woolley of the war trade board, Sugar Administrator George Zabriskie, Theodore Whitemarsh and William T, Glasgow, all of the food administration. 4 An announcement by the food ad ministration said the new organiza tion is expected to facilitate joint deal ing with the allies in foreign sugar and the adjustment of differentials in overseas freight rates. A small mar giniJTprofit may be made on the low cost of certain foreign sugar which i may De purcnased, tnus securing equalization of the price to the con sumer on a lower level than would otherwise be possible. Prices May Increase. "It is expected," the announcement said, "that the price of sugar will need to increase in the latter part of the year in view of the increased costs of overseas and internal railway rates and in view of the higher costs of production and manufacture of sugar, particularly in the increased costs of beets, bags and labor and transporta tion. "By the creation of this board, how ever, it will be possible to work out a price for the public upwaf3s of 1 cent a pound less than would be the case if the price of sugar were advanced to a price that will cover the high peaks in cost from all quarters." It was said at the food administra tion that application for a charter for the new sugar board was made today in New Jersey. Lieutenant Merrick of Iowa Drives Down Hun Plane in Flames E, iUSCH FAMILf BUYS HUN BONDS UVCMHILCU D 1 1 , - , . r 9 BREWER HAS $1,000,000 OF WAR PAPER POLITICIANS German and Bulgarian Armies Might Have Been bagged in Dobrudja, Genera! Von Mackensen Declares Bv Associated Press. London, July 11. How the Roumanian armies lost an op portunity of annihilating the German and Bulgarian armies in the Dobrudja in 1916 is re vealed in a confidential docu ment which has just reached the Associated Press from an authoritative source in Rou mania. The document contains an account of a conversation between Field Mar shal von Mackensen and the Rouman ian military leaders which occurred shortly after the Roumanian peace treaties were signed. Von Macken sen declared that the failure of the Roumanians to press their advantage in 1916 changed the whole course of the war. He said that his entire armv could easily have been pocketed and compelled to surrender and this might have, been followed by a sep arate peace with Bulgaria which would have separated Turkey from her allies and changed the wholebal- ance of power in the east. Blunder at Bucharest. The Roumanian failure, the memo randum states, was due not to the military leaders, but to the short sightedness of the politicians at Bu charest. In September,. 1916V General Aver- scu, commander-in-chief of the Rou manian army and by far the ablest of all the Roumanian gefierals, had taken .an army of four divisions and had crossed the Danube into the heart of the enemy's country. He had fgmiri a clear path into the heart of the German-Bulgarian Dobrudja army, and had penetrated 15 miles with, a view to cutting off all their communica tions and striking them from I the rear. General Averscu s own position ADVANCE Aviators Drop Flowers As Body of Former Mayor Mitchel Borne to Tomb in New York 4 AIRMEN HOVER OVER CORTEGE OF DEAD COMRADE ADtylT GERRYMANDER MOVE v FOR PARTISAN ADVANTAGE Thousands View Remarkable and Impressive Funeral From Roofs, Windows and Other Points. By Associated Press. j New York, July 11. Maj. John : l'urroy Mitchel, soldier, statesman , and former mayor of New York, was laid to rest today in Woodlawn cem etery here, in the presence of 5,000 mourning citizens, after one of the most remarkable and impressive funerals ever held. The obsequies were not only hon ored by the presence of men prom inent in world affairs, including for mer President Roosevelt, Joseph P. Tumulty, representing President Wil son, envoys from the War and Navy departments and official representa tives of England, France, Italy, Japan, Cuba and Persia, but 18 American aviators in battle formation, as a token of respect to their dead comrade-in-arms, hovered over the funeral cortege ' as it mjsved slowly vup Fifth avenue to St. Pjjrick's cathedral and thence to the cemetery. Thousands of American beauty roses, from the gardens of Mrs. "(Coattaned an Par Two, Column .) Military Aeronautics Officers Must Qualify To Serve as Pilots Washington, July 11. Only of ficers who have qualified as junior military pilots will hereafter be given appointments in the military aeronautics division, under a rul ing today by Major General Kenly, director of the reorganized air service. At present there are many officers in the nonflying branches of the service, which in cludes all administrative and staff work, and plans are afoot for re quiring all officers now on such duty in Washington to learn to fly. A flying field now being estab lished near the city probably will be used for this purpose. divisions of support and reinforce- With the American Army in France, July 11. American pursuit planes today interrupted German ob servation and photography work be hind the American lines. Lieutenants Edgar Tobin of San Antonio, Tex., and Edgar Jones of Chicago attacked a biplane over Flirey at an altitude of 3,000 yards. They dove after him four times, down, to 1,000 yards when he feU over Thiaucourt. Lt. Charles T. Merrick of Eldora. Ia., attacked another biplane north of Flirey. j The German went sliding down en his win, and was reported later by another American flyer as having fallen in flames. Pursuit planes also attacked" the en-, emy's observation- balloons which I X 1. t , . , . - r were nasmy punea down 4 Miss Ella Morrison Leaves Soon to Do Red , Cross Work in France Miss Ella K. MorrisSn of Wavne. Neb., sister of Miss Estelte Morrison. instructor in English at Central High i uuaiuuu i.i . , . - ... was safe, for behind him he had eight I v "?S A , 0Tae.a J? re?ort ,,n reinforce- Jut" -iy oy juiy to ana to De ready to sail within a week thereaf ter to take up Red Cross canteen work. Miss Morrison volunteered for 'the service some time ago and was successful in passing the necessary preliminary examinations. She will pay her own expenses. Miss Morrison has been instructor in surgical dressings for the Red Cross in the northeastern part of the state for some time. She was edu cated at the University of Nebraska and in Europe She speaks French fluently. She is the daughter of the late John J. Morrison, Lincoln at torney, and of the late Mrs. Ella K. Morrison. Recently she has been making her home with her sister Mrs. J. Woodward Jones of Wayne YANKEES BREAK UP PATROL RAID ON MARNE FRONT French Rename Belleau Wbod in Honor of U. S. Marines Who : Stopped German - Rush oh Paris. ' ments. including Serbian and Rou manian troops of first quality. Ordered to Withdraw, But Averscu had neglected to cut the wires which connected him with the politicians in the Roumanian cap ital, and he had only gotten 15 miles beyond the Danube when there came a peremptory order to withdraw his forces. It was an absolute command from the war cabinet. Averscu tried to reason with hiY political chieftains over a long distance tele phone wire, and even threatened to resign, but the politicians had decided and refused to change the decision. ihe cabinet, it appeared, felt that there was danger of the German armies on the other side of Roumania the Carpathian front breaking through and doing a great deal of harm at a time when Averscu's army was far afield. The politicians timidly preferred a defensive oolicv to a dar ing offensive and after a day 0 two of delay, Averscu and his army with drew from their commanding posi tion in von Macken sen's rear and retired back across the Danube. Germans Puzzled at Maneuver. The Germans were much puzzled by this maneuver, and never were able to secure. a satisfactory explana tion of this withdrawal of their ene my at the very moment when his cause seemed won. Von Macken sen was an old crc-war friend of Averscu and knew the latter's abi!- lties too well to underestimate them. That was why von Mackensen sought out Averscu during the peace parleys a few weeks ago in Bucha rest. "Why did you withdraw?" asked von Mackensen. "If you had gone forward 'you most certainly would have bagged the whole of the Bul garian ans German armies in the Dobrudja." Arrange to Launch 18 Large Steel Ships At 'Frisco Labor Day San Francisco, July 11. Eighteen large steel ships will be launched here on Labor day, September 2, if plans inade at a conference today between Charles M. Schwab, di rector general of the Emergency Fleet corporation, and officers of labor organizations are realized. Approximately 100,000 tons of ship ping would be added to the United States marine by the projected launchings. Announcement of clans for the Labor day launchings were made after x the shipbuilding ' employes pledged themselves to break all con struction records. "We have launched and are build ing as many torpedo boats as were included in all the principal navies of the world at the beginning of the war," said Mr. Schwab at an army lunch, where he ate, from a tin plate, "the-regulation soldier's fare. (By Associated Press.) With the American Forces on.ihe Marne, July 11. A large German patrol which attempted to raid the American trenches on the Marne front this morning was broken up and leuted in confusion. The Germans left several dead, which aided the Americans in establishing the identi fication of new German units. .The weather yesterday and today did not permit of much airplane ob servation. Artillery activity continues below normal. In recognition of the valiant serv ices of the American troops when they stopped the German rush on l'ans in the second battle of the-f Marne. capturing Bois De Belleau, lomnig me merman machine gun nests and establishing themselves in commanding positions on the Marne sector, the French authorities have of hcially changed the name Bois de Belleau to Bois de Brigade de la Ma rine, and have ordered all maps cnanpd accordingly. A Paris dispatch July 3, said that tne general commanding the French army in the Bois de Belleau resrion had announced that the wood here after would be -known as the Bois des .merican. Five U. S. Planes Lost. Berlin, Via Londou, July 11. Five American airplanes of a squadron of six which started out to rafd Cob lentz fell into the hands of the--Ger- nians, according to the announcement from general headquarters today. The crews were taken prisoner. Majority Commissioner Also Contend Disfranchisement of . 6,000 Voters Necessitat ed by Law Requirement. Frankly basing on partisan motives their gerrymander in rearranging the county commissioner districts of Douglas county, the democratic ma jority of the commission neverthe less insisted Thursday that its action in practically disfranchising over (,000 registered voters of district No. o was necessitated by the require ments of law. "You can't blame us democratslor favbring ourselves when we had the opportunity." was the exnlanatinn vouchsafed by the deniocratic county commissioners when they were con fronted by indignant protests from all over the city. "The republicans would have done the same thing in our places. Besides, w gave Mc Donald all that he wanted in the way of changes in his district; so we guess that the republicans have no kick coming." Commissioner Leo. Hoffman said: "If we had left district No. 3, now represented by Mr. Compton, as it was, it would have consisted of 2,000 fewer voters than the other districts, and district No. 5. which I now represent, would have Ijad 2,000 votes too many. Since the two dinf nVt adjoin each other, and since th law provides that each district must con sist of contiguous territorv. the onlv way out of the difficulty was to take a slice off district No. 5 and add it to district No. 3." 6,000 Voters Affected. Figures of the elerti sioner show, however, that over 6,000 registered voters are afTectctTby the change. Over 4,000 of these voted in the last election. The territory changed consists of (Continued on Vagt Two, Column Fire.) Over Hundred Million Worth Sold in This Country for Propaganda and Pur chase of Paperr. Busch By Associated Press. New York, July 11. The family of St. Louis bought $1,000,000 worth of the German war bonds which the government bcfieves;wcre sold in this country for propaganda and for the purchase of the New York Even ing Mail and other newspapers, ac cording to a statement issued tonight by Alfred L. Becker, deputy state attorney general. Mr. Becker added that probably more than $100,000,000 worth of the bonds had been sold in the United States. Mr. Becker emphasized the pofnt that while the United States was still neutral the imperial German govern ment established a fund "to seduce part of the American press with good American gold, exchanged for mere scraps of paper." Many Americans, he said, invested in the German bonds before this coun try went to war in the same manner that they ar.e now buvintr Lihprt bonds, thinking that the money was to be used legitimately for the pur chase of munitions and war supplies, and not suspecting that their dollars were to be used against their own country. 'T" v"" vw U. S. Al OfHcer Buys Also,. ' Capt. David A. Henkes, who was dismissed from the U. S. army by LINE TO HEIGHTS Capture of Corcrand Strong Positions in Vicinity Hinders Hun Between Marne and Aisne. i People of Germany !d They Must Go Barefooted London. July 11. "We warn you to go barefooted," is a notice to the Berlin public published by the Ger man clothing department, as quoted in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam today. - Tt. . , . ., rccomnipnH in )in I t"e message bid the Associated Advertising Cluhs Itaff. not Vitr lifXZff of the World Godspeed, at the con t ? dtln.t,." , 1?L LL6;. PL? sion of their 14th annual conven- - .v v.uiu. vi suing uai cwuicu. Advertising Forces Pledge Support to War Leaders Bad Frost in Brazil Washington, July 11. Tremendous .damage" from frost in Brazil was re- ported today in official dispatches. Un f usual freezing temperatures in Sao Paulo have ruined the young coffee plantation and a majority of the i plantations of sugar castor beans and t Iruits are destroyed i - By Associated Press. San Francisco, July 11. Charles M. Schwab, director-general of the Emergency Fleet corporation, arose from a "trench mess" here todav to tion. The final day of the convention was m the nature of a war demonstra tion. It started vith the promulga tion of a "war message to American business," which pledged the adver tising forces of the nation to get squarely behind the war leaders and use extreme endeavors to further the successful prosecution of the strife. In the selection of officers William C. D'Arcy of St. Louis was returned to the post of president. The ticket prepared by the nominating com mittee was carried throughout. Those elected with Mr. D'Arcy were: Vice presidents: George W. Hop kins, New York; E. T. Meredith, Des Moines; Sidney W. Wilson, Cleve land; C. A. Fisher, Dallas; William G. Rock, Toronto; Arthur G. New meyer, New Orleans; F. W. Kellogg, San Francisco; Charles Higham, Lon don. England. Secretary-treasurer: P. S. Florea, Indianapolis. New Orleans was approved by the convention as the next convention citv. The "Truth Trophy" for the most effective truth advertising during the year was awarded to Baltimore. Woman and Two Men Dead In Wisconsin Farm Tragedy Waukesha., Wis., July 11. The bodies of William Hille, his sister, Edna, and Ernest Fenze were found dead today at the Hille farm, near here. Evidence of poisoning was found in Miss Hille's body. Several horses were found to have been shot. Hille and his sister were about 60 years old. The details of the tragedy are not known. Coal Is Boosted 75c Per Ton in Council Bluffs Retail coal prices in Council Bluffs have been raised from 70 to 75 cents a ton. The raise goes into effect at once, and covers all grades of bituminous coal, the only kind now available here. The increase was ordered Thursday at a conference of tne local dealers and members of the fuel commission. Plan Reception For Japanese Red Cross Mission Here Tonight Nebraska officfals of the American Red Cross, officers of the Omaha chapter, uniformed women Red Cross workers and members of women's am bulance corps, will unite Friday even ing in a patriotic demonstration in honor of the Japanese Red Cross commission, which stops in Omaha Friday night between trains. The commission is headed by rnnce Yosnihisa tokugawa and is escorted by William L. Keene, special icprcscniauve oi tne American Red Cross. The Japanese commission landed recently at a Pacific port and IS on its wav to France. Th mrtv ...:n ... - . 7 - ' ' win arrive in umana at V:JU p. m. on the Union Pacific. Pilot Returns Decorations With Protest to tl - Kaiser Chnstiania, July 11. Hans Olsen. one of Norway's best known pilots, who for years piloted the Ge-man era oeror'n varhf- I t ' TUiiiuct tl UI3C3 inNorwegian waters, has returned to the German legation, the ntftoerous decorations given him by the emperor. He wrote the German mini:lr tU?t the decorations were returned as a protest airainst the shameful mnrrW and cruel massacre of Norwio-ian sailors, many of them his friends, by German Submarines. While he had appreciated the decorations, their possession now gave him no feeling but disgust. court martial for wishim? to resign a ter being sent to France and who was sentenced to 25 years at Fort Leaven worth, used part of his army pay to nuy uerman bonds, according to Mr, Becker. ' Mr. Becker said the monev rained on the bonds was denositerl to th credit oi Dr. Heinrich F. Albert and Count Von Bernstorff and that thev i t. . .. . r . . y tncLKca oui irom me war loan funds what money they needed for buying newspapers. i'r- i . ..... . . ve nave not nnisneo witn our examinations," he added. "All of the evidence will go before the grand jury ana ii is saie to assume that there will be more arrests before we get inrougn. Admits $500,000 Investment. St. Louis. Tulv 11. Auo-iiKt A Busch, son of Mrs. Adolphus Busch, Wnight declared the statement of Altred L. Becker, deputy attorney general of New York that the Busch family had purchased $1,000,000 of German war bonds, to be exaggerated by half. t "It is true" he said, "that I bought $300,000 of the bonds througn ?. local trust company about two years ago. If I had had the least intimation that the money was to be used for Gcrnvn propaganda 1 would not have invest ed a cent." Government to Control Supplies of Raw Wool Washington. Tulv 11. To insure its complete control over raw wool sup plies the government is to take over the importation of wool from Argen tina, Uruguay and South Africa. The war trade board announced to night that after July 28 licenses for the importation of wool from the three countries, named will be issued for the remainder of this vear onlv to the quartermaster general of the army. There will not be sufficient wool. the statement continued, to take care of both civilian and military needs un less some comprehensive clan is adopted for purchasing and import ing mc iicicssiry supplies. Wife Who Disguised Herself ' as Soldier Dies in New Mexico Douglas. Ariz., July 11. Mrs. Hazel Carter, who last fall went with an infantry regiment from Douglas to France, disguised as a soldier, died at Lordsburg, N. M.. today. Mrs. Carter's husband was a corporal in the regiment with which his wife went to Europe, and still is in France. Her identity and sex were not discovered until shortly before the ship bearing the troops reached itsdestination, and she was sent back to the United j States on a returning transport Daily Rations In Vienna Are Doled Out by Ounces Amsterdam, July ll.The alarminir food situation in Vi enna is described in a dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt from its Vienna correspondent, who says : "The daily rations per head are fixed at approximately three ounces of bread and flour substitues, one ounce of meat, less than a quarter ounce of fat, two and a half ounces of po tatoes, three-quarters of an ounce of jam and a quarter of an ounce of war coffee, making the total daily allowance seven and three-quarter ounces." The rations may be supplemented by recourse to secret channels and by the payment of exorbitant prices, the corre spondent declares. For example, flour can be secured by paying the equivalent of from $4.50 to $5 a pound; meat at from $5.75 to $7 and norse flesh at $3,50 a pound. Meals at the middle class res taurants cost $3.50. By Associated Press. French pressure along the line from the Marne to the Aisne, which began two weeks ago as a series of local attacks, has begun to yield results which are appreciable when viewed on the map. The town' of Corey and strong positions in that vicinity have been cap tured by the slow, methodical advance that has been the source of much annovanca tr the enemy for several days. a "suit of the assaults made by the French from Amhl eiiv. south a! the Aisne to the hills south of Corey, their line has been advanced to high, ground which lends itself 'to defensive operations and gives the French ob servation points from which ihev n., see what is going on behind the Ger man lines. Dash for Paris Anticipated. There has hcin mm r.in ... , . . , ----- l.KWU J Ul believing that when the Germans re sume their offensive on the western troilt thev will atlemnl- f,..i. through between the Marne and Aisne m a dash straight for Paris, rur inis reason, the operations which the J-rencli have carried out assume .importance. ooiltli of CorCV. the Cerm-m Kn ' extends slightly to the westward, but it curves sharply eastward just beforo it reaches the Clignon river, north west of Chateau Thierry. From the Uignon southward to the ; Marne American forces have been improving their positions in recent days and acw have a strong line oppositions running northward from Hill 204 ' ' sMflsr T"ierrr' s Australians in Xction. - On the British front Ac.i:.' have been in action once more.pene- . tratmg German positions and captur ing prisoners. On the rest of the 1 mes held by the British there have been the usual artillery duels and pa trol engagements. French and Italian detachments are steadily pushing Austrian fasces back along the' western , slopes of the mountains thai parallel the coast of Albania. They are reported north of the important town of Berat and have , moved ahead in the hilly country to the east. Vienna admits the allied success in this quarter. In the mountain sectors of the northern Italian front, Auslrian units which approached the Italian posi Hons have been driven back Bolsheviki Claim Victories. iiOlshevikl fnrra hi . , ... ' battles with the Czecho-SIovaks in European Russia, and an nffir.M statement issued at Moscow claims fll u The. !igh,t,ng aPPear t( have oeen hardest in the rpm'nn t, ... . and southeast of Petrograd, which ' may indicate that the Czecho-Slovaki ' have advanced from the Urals, where -they have been reported art.'v. tn. some weeks. A Peking aecho-Slovaks are in virtual control ot all of western Siheria n., stretches of this country they have triumphed over the bolshevik.. The overthrow of the boleviki at Irkutsk has been confirmed. Muns Get Five U. S. Planes. An. -official statement fmm r.-i:.. says that five of a squadron of six American airplanes which started 6u t ' witn the intention nf hnmhi.. .1... city of Coblenz fell into the Lands of me vjcrmans. oir George Cave Rritich t,,- . retary, has announced in the house of commons that the British government will apply to the courts for an order C to wind up the business of enemv banks and make it impossible, for a " Kw.u ui years arter the war, for n enemy bank to be opened in England In addition every male enemy alien over 18 years old will be immediate-' ' y interned. Premier Lloyd George , in speaking on the subject has said that the work will be carried out fSTs"' y' ngorously and with Muravieff Killed Himself, ' Says Russian Official Report London, July 11. General Mura-. vieff, .compander, of 4he Bolshevik forces operating against the Czecho slovaks, lias committed suicide, ac cording &ah official Russian wire- . less dispaloh, which says: "He issued a false and treacherous ordei'.Jo his troops and sought to direct 'an offensive against the soviet government of Russia. He ordered -sis men to advance aeainst Mosrnw and at the same time attacked the -town of Simbirsk, in the Volga region. The soviet troops, however, i declined to obey his orders, and re mained faithful to the Soviets' author- . ity. Finding the troorja would nt follow him in betravine the mnln. . " tion, Traitor Muravieff shot himself." ' ' oeneral Muravieff, under the im 1 perial regime, was nolice insnrt of Petrograd, with the rank of colonel