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THE BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1918. CREW OF 100 CARRIED BY UUtl RAIDER Vessels Destroyed by U-Boa First Searched and Oil : Taken; Survivors Row '. 180 Miles in Dories. f aaasSBsSBBB " ' BULLETIN. Washington, Aug. 13. The steamer Henry S. Kellogg hat been torpedoed by a German submarine off the New Jersey coast, according to a report received late tonight by the Navy de partment No details were available, but it was presumed the steamer was still afloat. ' J - By Associated Press. Boston, Aug. 13. Reports by sur? , vivors of fishing vessels sunk off the New England coast by a German sub marine indicate today that the enemy cratt.had cot been. out as long as . gome of its officers had endeavored to make it appear. The submarine is , painted white. Two of the fishing . fleet captains agreed that the hull hid been painted very recently and they said, that it did not seem that the U-boat could have been in American . waters as far back as May. ; The vessel was described as -300 v feet in length with'two guns, 6-pound- ers, mounted tore and aft. ' purvivors said that there were at least 100 in - the crew and that the captain of the pirate crew, appeared more Spanish -than uerman, , In several cases the commander of the U-b-4old the American of ficers. wltf, vessels were sunk thatl ins ciuij- srmuiua w i,vuy nines, which v.jdla give him many miles to TSpare beyond a voyage from German port to- this side and return. AH vessels destroyed were first searched and every gallon of oil that might he of use on the U-boat was ' taken. Row 180 Miles in Dories, Nantucket. Mass., Aug. 13. The crew of six men of the fishing schoon er cruiser who were thought tor have lost their lives when their craft was ; sunk by a German -submarine in George's Banks Saturday afternoon were brought in here today. . They rowed for -180 miler' before they were rescued off Great Round Shoal lightship, six miles off this island, v Outruns Submarine. An Atlantic Port, Aug. 13. Run- : ning at top speed, an American steamer outdistanced a German U-boat off Fire Island yesterday morning and escaped the fate of the Norwegian steamship Sommerstad, which was sunk off that point about four hours later. Officers of the X steamer which reached fhis port to tii'giit said that the undersea craft was coming towards them when she was sighted. The steamer's engines were pushed to the limit, they said, and after a short while the U-boat gave up the chase. , . s v ' Cabinet Discusses Raids. Washington, t Aug. 13. Germanl submarine raids in American waters were understood to have been dis cussed today at an unusually pro longed session of the cabinet, but if any new plans for combatting this menace were formulated it was not disclosed, , . The only report of the activities of the raiders reaching the Navy de : partment during the day told of the , destruction of the Norwegian ' steamer," Sommerstad, 25 miles south east of Fire Island, N. Y. Captain Jlansen and his crew of 30 men were landed by a naval patrol boat which found them at sea in small boats' 10 0. hours after the steamer went down. Destruction of the Sommerstad by . astorpedo which passed. under the ship's bow and later circled and rtruck the vessel amidships gave rise :o a suggestion that the torpedo was controlled by radio on the submarine, but this was ridiculed by naval ex perts. They explained that the course of a torpedo 4s regulated by the gyroscope, which carr be so set before . discharge that tha weapon will describe a circle. 1 his has been done time and again during torpedo practice in the American navy so as to return the weapon to the ship dis charging it, and it has not been an uncommon thing for torpedoes fired by German submarines to take similar courses. With the torpedo's steering gear set so the weapon will run in a circle it becomes almost doubly effective naval officers explained, for if it misses the object when speeding on its outward course, the possibility re mains that it will strike after it turns about, a possibility that is increased in case the ship attacked goes full zpeed ahead as the Sommerstad did. GERMANS IN POCKET FIGHT DESPERATELY (Contlnncd from Tug Om.) reinforcements and large numbers guns have been brought up by the enemy to aid him in his endeavors to hold the line, which is essential to the safety of the German armies now in the pocket described by the Somme on the north and east and the Oise on the south. , I he uerman j are not merely on the defensive. At salient points here and there they are delivering violent counter attacks against the allies and are also bombarding fiercely the- rear areas. " " , Chaulnes Under Heavy Fire. Notwithstanding the enemy's ef forts. Chaulnes is receiving a mighty Visitation of shells from the allied guns, and Koye has been so en croached upon that it is now under a heavy cross fire from both the north and south and seemingly both towns ultimately must be evacuated. An ad ded danger to Roye is the fact that the French are knockintr at the door of Lassigny, about seven miles to the south, and also are pressing forward eastward toward Noyon in a wedge driving maneuver which not onlv is outflanking Roye but bringing Noy- on oauy nearer to tne range ot tne big guns. v Unofficial reports say the Ger mans, fearing capture in the pocket between Roye and the pise, already are retreating along the Oise valley toward Noyon, and if ths statements should prove true it is not unlikely that the entire German battle line to the north will give wav in unison and that even there mav be a re adjustment of the enemy front from soissons to Kheims. , Attack Begun to North. P ar to the north from Ynrei in Albert there has been .considerable activity ' on the Dart of the British and French forces against the Ger mans. Ihe latest German commu nication, asserts that all the attacks were repulsed. .-. On the Vesle river the Germans n attacks against Fismette. which is held by the Americans , and French. are saia to nave driven the allies to the southern bank of the river. A counter attack resulted in the reoc- cupation of the village. l ne Uccho-Movaks in Russia, who are opposing the Bolshevik element, nave Deen formally recognised by Great Britain as an allied nation and their armies as an allied force waging war against me ieutontc allies. The;Weather Compsmtlrt toAU Record. 1 lilt lata iini Hlfhest todsf ...... It ,11 ,77 i 14 towut today , 7 tt If 14 moan lemparamr II . 7 II 74 Pro!plutlon ...,.... .0 1 ,00 .00 .00 Tsmpsraturs and precipitation departures from th normal! Normal temperature 75 Rxcma for th dajr .1........,,,,,,,,,,, 7 Total excess ilnoa March 1 .75 Normal precipitation r .1, nch Deficient for the dar ......., .11 Inch Total rainfall ilnoa March 1 ..10.11 Inches Pef c ency stnos March 1 ; s.14 Inch.. Daf e aney for eor. period, 1117.. I ll Inches Deficiency for eor. period, 1111.. I. IS mohea Reports From Stations at 1 r. M. Station. Stats of Temp. High- Kaln weather. S t. m. ... .... ' WBfc, v u.j.nne, rain ,. Davenport, part cloudy.. U Denver, otoudy ,.j Dea Moines, cloudy 14 Dod City, part cloudy SI North Platte, p't cloudy 71 Omaha,, cloudy , ,,st Pueblo, rain ..'...II Rapid City, clear... ..,,.7 Salt Lake, cloudy. ......10 Santa Pb, part cloudy.. 14 TS .41 Bherldan; clear ...74 flloui city, clear to Valentine, clear 7S T" Indicates trace nt I A. WELSH, Meteorologl.tl The A nnQX says: GOOD-BYE! WE HAVtt DONE OUR PART For one year in these) strenuous days of merchandis ing we have been offering wonderful value in Lower Priced Garment. t TOMORROW' IS OUR LAST DAY.' TOMORROW WIGHT, WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES 5; OUR DOOR CLOSES FOREVER. . ' . . ! r Therefore, we want to make tomorrow memorable. ' fWe are going to offer every Odd and End in our tock. Some are good atyle; come are not good tyle; all are food quality. , COATS SUITS ; WAISTS DRESSES SORTED INTO TWO LOTS ONE LOT AT .50 ONE LOT AT The : Annex 502 South leth. First National Bank Building. BRITAIN GIVES RECOGNITION TO CZECHS AS ALLIES Troops Landed at Vladivostok Proceed to Ursurl River and Are Given Enthu . siastic Reception. By Associated Press. London, Aug. 13. -The British gor- eminent has . issued a declaration formally recognizing the Czecho slovaks as an allied nation and the Czecho-Slovak armies as an allied force - regularly waging warfare against the central powers ' British trooos landed at Vladivo stok have proceeded to the Ursuri river, where they were given an en thusiastic reception by the Czecho slovak forces, with whom they are keeping, according to an official an nouncement issued here last night. v Washington In Sympathy. Washington. Ausr. 13. Recognition by the British government of the Czecho-SIovaks as an independent al lied nation arrayed against the central powers follows similar action by Italy and France. x It-is recalled . thalt only recently Secretary Lansing in a statement ex pressed the deep sympathy with which' this government views the national aspirations of Czecho-SIovaks and other oppressed peoples of the Aus- tro-riupganan empire.' The Czecho-SIovaks are regarded as the most powerful of the disaffect ed peoples in Austria-Hungarjtr They inhabit a long stretch of territory oh the southern boundary of Germany and their representatives in the en tente capitals have contended that establishment of an independent Lzecho-blovak . nation after ihe war would set up a barrier between Germany and Austria, and dissipate the pan-German dream of an open roaa irom .Berlin to Bagdad. "NO PATCH PEACE." SAY NEBRASKANS THROUGH REAVIS DO LOYAL NEBRASKA VOTERS WANT TO GIVE SUPPORT TO RECORD MADE BY SEN. NORRIS (Cantlnued from Fate One.) est holocaust the world has ever known." Mr. Morris continuing, we are taking a step today that is fraught with untold danger. We are going into war upon the command of gold. We are going to risk the sacrificing of millions of our countrymen's lives in order that our countrymen may eoinlheir life blood into money.-And even if we do not cross the Atlantic and go into the trenches, we are go ing to pile up a debt that the toiling masses' that shall come many gener ations after us will have to pay.' Un born millions will bend their backs in order- to pay for the terrible step that we are about Jo take. We are about to do the bidding of wealth's terrible mandate. By our act we will make millions of our countrymen suf fer, and the consequences of it may well be that millions of our brethren must shed their lifeblood, millions of broken-hearted women must weep,, minions ot children must surfer with cold, and millions of babes must die from hunger, and all because we want to preserve the commercial right of American citizens to deliver munitions of war to belligerent nations. "I know that I am powerless to stop, it. I know that this war mad ness has taken possession of the financial and political powers of our country. I know that nothing I can say will stay the blow that is soon to fall.. I feel that we are committing a sin against humanity, and against our countrymen. I would like to sav to this war god, 'You shall not eoin into gold the lifeblood of my brethren.1 I would like to prevent this terrible castastrophe fr.om falling upon my people, l would be willing to sur render my own life if 1 could cause this cup to pass. I charge no man here with a wrong motive, but it seems to me that, this war craze has robbed us of our judgment I wish we might delay our action until rea son could be again enthroned in the brain of man. I FEEL THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO PUT THE DOL- LAR SIGN UPON THE AMERI CAN FLAG. (Continued from Pass Dm.) ' 11 Thierry in which the Prussian guard was smasnea up. i saw trjem right ing hand'to hand, saw th ftrman break and run. 1 It was done 'with bayonet, club, rifle, fist and feet. I saw a report captured from a German intelligence officer which said the American soldiers were the equal ot the best shock troops in Eu rope. V ; 'I merit fwn riavi with th fiOth Ai. vision which hat all the Nehraslr na, tional army. The boys are billeted in Villages about 18 mil frnm r7nr1 rersning s - neaaquarters. They are ocated m the most beautiful part of ranee. Want No Half Peace. "I made five aneecfies tn riiffrnt sections Ot our Nebraaka hnvi anrf iaiicej to practically all of them per sonally. I have ahnnf 9001) written messages to send to their friends in the home state. "The bovs are enthtiiatii and int. jcus w get into the big gan. - uenerai jf ersning told me that he ad reviewed thi rfivUtnn of hm Rant,!., A-..i hfk.k:.. II -j vvicuioiiuii, juiy it, nu that it was the finest disciplined and De anuea division he had ever. seen. "The measure the hnvi mm mm to the folks at home was ahnut 1iL-e this; 'Don't make an Inconclusive peace, l ell the folks at home to stand nat until - r ------ w uwvieiThij whiDDCa Germanv. If thev An iht ths nr.. .:ti v.. 1...T. .... ! ...w jisnn mm ub V-UIH.lU81Ve OUl II peace is oeciareo before we do tfiat, the whole thing will have to be lougnt out again.' , Ships Well "Protected. "The bova are in xntenHirt health and keen to get into action." speaking . ot the voyage from an. ictis saia tne voyage was uheventfuL . "The orotection eiven -1 tmnn snips is . ueyona criticism. Every possible means to protect the. ships from the Submarine i taWen anrl th number of Americans in Europe tells mo story ot tne efficient manner in Which trOOD movement are oriini-rt. ed." : " " " " Mr. Reavia. not havimr a rnntl on his hands for the republican nom ination for the house, will remain in Washington until the fill h.f, mg to nil homer in Falls City, Neb. ror iwo weexs ne will be busy send ing messages to the hnme fftflra en to him by the Nebraska boys "nvee there " . Federal Occupation Tax. ; Washington, Ana. 1.1 Pmn.tn.. oi u ousmess tna protessional men wun oniy a tew exceptions will pay an annual federal lirenae nf tm .a heads of wholesale concerns doing yeany easiness ot flJU,uuu or more Will be reauired tn Aiv m a of $25, according' to schedule in- seneo toaay in tne aratu of the rev enue Dili mr tna nnttxe means committee. v Farmers, merhon. ics, ministers nd teachers will be exempted from -the $10 occupational iax at win concerns dnmir in nual business of less than tWI (VYI - YVUUVV, I 1 ' Rebuking Mr. Norris on the soot, Senator. Reedof Missouri, said: "It has been no- part of my purpose to participate in this debate, but a state ment or series of statements made by the senator from Nebraska. Mr. Nor ris, seem to me to demand instant re pudiation. I need not say to that senator or to the members of this body that I hold the senator from Ne braska in the very highest personal regard, and esteem, and because of that regard and esteem I shall not permit myself to characterize his speech as I believe it ought tto be characterized. There are men in this world of high intelligence who be come so obsessed by certain ideas that they permit them to color all oth er objects coming within theif men tal vision, me senator from Nebras ka, I fear, is so obsessed with a fear of money and of profits and of for tunes' that all that it is necessary to suggest is that some wealthy concern may have an interest, remote. . con tingent, or direct, in tne subject mat ter, under consideration in order to confuse his mental vision. So we find the senator here today reading a let ter which he says, comet from some unnamed Wall street man. 1 he let ter purports to be nothing save t business man's views as to the busi ness outcome in the event of possible hostilities. - Because of tnat letter the senator makes the statements which I propose to challenge. He said: "We are taking a step today that is fraught with untold danger. We are going into war upon the com mand of gold. We are going to run the risk of sacrificing millions of our countrymen s lives in order that other countrymen may coin their lifeblood into money." Mr. President, that is an indictment of the president of the United States. That is an indictment of the congress of the United States. That ia an in- dictraent of the American people. That is an indictment of the truth, and it is not the truth. The senatoi continues:" . "By our act we will make millions of our countrymen suffer, arid the t consequences of it may well be that millions of our brethren must shed their lifeblood, millions of broken hearted women must weep, millions of children must suffer with cold, and millions of babes must die from hunger, and all because we want to , preserve the commercial right of American citizens to deliver muni tions of war to belligerent natious." "Mr. President, that is another in; dicttnent of the president of the United States, of the congress of the United States, of the American peo ple, and of truth and fact The' sen ator continues: "I know that I am powerless to stop it I know that this war mad ness has taken possession of the financial and political powers of our country." " , a And he continues: , "I would like to say to this war god, You shall not coin into gold the lifeblood of my bretnren.' " . , Then he adds: : - "I feel we are about to put the dollar mark upon the -American" flag.". - .. .. "All, Mr. President. I am sorrv from my heart that such a statement should have been made at this time by an American citizen in the highest body of the American congress. If that be not giving aid and comfort to - the enemy en the very eve of the opening of hostilities, then I do not know i what would bring comfort to the heart of a Hapsburg or a Hohenzollern. If that be not treason it takes on a character and guise that is so near to treason that the enemies of Amer ica will gain from it much consola tion." ' Renegade Russ, Vorr Taube, . Now Commands Convict Squad '- Washington, Aug. 13. German and Austrian prisoners operating with the bqlsheviki in Siberia are commanded by the renegade Russian general, von Taube, who at the beginning of the war was removed from his Russian command on account of his pro-German proclivities. t This information was made public today by Captain Vladimir S. Hurban. the Crecho-Slo vak officer in- Washington to report to Prof. T. G. Masaryk. the Czecho Slovak commander-in-chief. '. Von T-aube now commands the bol sheviki forces between Irkutsk and Vladivostok.- Married Men Must All Go Into Army, h Rule .Made by Draft Boards Married men with no children must go to war, according to orders received Tuesday at local draft boards. v' , .... This rule aoclies to all childless" men,' Only a few exceptions will be made, as the orders are explicit in ruling that married men with no children must be reclassified at once and placed in Clasa 1 wherever there are reasonable" sources of support available for the wife. - Draft board members say. that til fact that a wife has never, be- ore earned money will not be ac cepted as an excuse if she la able- bodied. In families where there are no cWldren, only Invalid wires will be a reason for deferred classifica tion for the husband. Some of the local boards already have begun the work of reclassifka-' ! ton according to this new "wife work and husband fight" ruling. The Program y Nowadays Is to Save! GrapeNuts food fits in fine with this idea No fuel re quired to prepare; no sugar needed; there's no waste; and the use of bar ley, in its making, conserves wheat. Grape-Nuts ;is economical, nour ishing and delicious. Try a package. v mm v . - t a. m N. P. DODGE FOR CONGRESS ; "The greatest step toward good government that has ever been taken in Omaha was taken when the Dodge election-law went into effect," .., World-Herald Editorial, 1913. &he fashion Center for Wbmof7 - Srinimer Dresses .- Hundreds of women 'have with the remarkable. sum- , mer dress values, in our : basement section. If in meed of a gingham ' dress see the values offered at ' ; " v- . $5, $5.05 and $7.50 . . v . ' ; .. .,.'.:;v. v . . " Children's Gingham Dresses, ' Special values at 89c each. A Little Information to the Public About the Production of SflniiiriPiisl . . (Incorporated Under the Laws of Nebraska.) , ' Reduction Works at , 'Main Office Omaha National Bank 'Building, Rooms 708-712 . . . , . - . THE STANDARD POTASH COMPANY iwns, hj purchase, a 50-year lease on albout 20,000 acre? of deeded land adjoining the townsite of Lakeside Neb. On this leased land there ' are located from thirty to forty lakes. Under the beds of most of these lakes is found the Potash. . Producing Potash- it really a mininsr oroDosition. Ton have first sot to rrostect under the water of these lakes to find the location of the Potash' beds. ' When the Pot ash is found, it is mined by sinking a large number of well points through the bottom of the; lakes to the potash beds. ''These well points are then all connected together to" the pumping system, which carries the Potash brine in solution by a pipe line to the f reduction works. The process is, then simply -a matter of evaporation .by, the use" of ! immense boiler capacity to make steam to operate the large evaporators. . The water is separated from the Potash by this process. The Potash is then run through the driers ' and from the driers to the grinders, to be put in merchantable condition for the market. The drier capacity of the STANDARD POTASH-COMPANY consists of four 450-horse- . power Babcock Wilcox boilers, a unit as large' as its takes to operate a. street, railway , company. The evaporator and driers are very large affairs and the plant as a whole has tli e appearance of a large smelting plant. ,, After about one year's work on the STAND ART) POTASH COMPANY ; plant it " has now about completed its first 50-ton unit, and is expected 'to be under operation early this coming October, ready to produce potash for the market. The foundation for ' the second 50-ton unit is now in and, as the boiler capacity is large enough for these . two units, it will only take a short time to equip the second unit with evaporator and driers. The STANDARD POTASH COMPANY will then have a complete 100-yton daily capacity plant. v V '' ' ; 1 ' - v . -' v' - ' ' ' ' 'v.', '' . '-. .' -V- . - ; . Investors who have field stick in the older, legitimate Potash plants have been paid very large dividends on their investment, and have been pleased to find ; that the increase in the market value of their stock has .doubled a number of times;". in fact, . "it is almost impossible to obtain any stock in these older companies at a price less than. , from $400 to $800 per share. 'Investors who want to get into the Potash business now - ; cannot do better than investigate the STANDARD POTASH COMPANY.' Up to the ; present time the stock of the company has-been- selling at par-$100 per share but ' V .. owing to the nearness of the operating of this plant, this stock may soon increase in . . price, and probably before thirty days there wUl be none of the stock for sale at less ' than $200 per ,sharev , . .:' - : ' ; ' , ' ' . i":;t , I ' :- " ' ." ' . N" (., ,''.-' There have been no promotion or selling expenses charged against the selling of this stock. Every cent of thf proceeds of the stock, has been used in the purchase of the - - lease and the building of the plant. The lease was secured at a very low prict, and there is no officer, director or other parties connected.with the STANDARD POTASH COMPANY who. holds stock who lias not paid par value in money for it, consequently ? investors will get into a company that is ready for business and has absolutely no ' ;' promotion st6ck, oir' "water" as it is called, to absorb the earnings of the plant ; THE STANDARD POTASH COMPANY has not a, million dollars in stock for salf as some of the companies.'advertise, but has a small amount of unsold stock which is now offered to the public at par. . . ::;r , ' 1 I v ' -'" . ' " .. 1 r' -- " . . ' " It is advisable to act quickly if you are interested in the best Potash proposition . on the market. Stock not sold in lessjhan fire, share lots, 'r . n . ' - For further information j'ou can' obtain same by writing, phoning or.calling at the : Omaha office of the STANDARD POTASH COMPANY, ' Omaha National Bank Build- . Ing, where you can obtain the names of a namber of prominent business and professional men who hold stock in this company and whom yon can confer with as to the truth of v the above statements. - These gentlemen have no objection o your advising with them, .but they do not care to have their-names made public in connection with any concern. (FRANK E. bliARK k 13ecretary. - I vouch for the truthof the above statements. - : c JOHN O. WOODWARD, Stockholder and Directoro u i 7"- f . J X