i
' "The Stars and Stripes
" forever."
AIRCRAFT
Of 350 Srfliadrons' Needed to
Win War Only 13 Are Now
in France; Pilots Wait
ing for Planes.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 24.
America's aircraft program for
the great army that is counted
upon to win the war next year
:alls for 350, complete squad
rons of planes, and the man
part of the- program already is
ahead of schedule, with 3,000,
pilots, trained
i.V This information, given by Major
General Kenly, chief of the division
3t military aeronautics, and many
other facts hitherto held secret were
disclosed today when the senate mili
tary committee made public testi
mony taken behind closed doors dur
ing three months of investigating by
the aviation' subcommittee headed by
Senator Thomas of Colorado.
273 Machines in France.
General Kenly told the committee
there are now 13 American airplane
squadrons of 273 machines now in
France, whereas there should be 175
squadrons.
William C. Potter, assistant di
rector of airplane production, said
General Pershing had called for
25,000 planes by July 1, 1919, and had
been told it was hoped to deliver
18,000 to 20,000. This would meet re
placement demands of squadrons in
the fields
C W. Nash, former president of the
Nash Motor company and now as
sistant to Mr. Ryan in engineering
and production, gave it as his opin
ion that nothing but De Haviland
machines could be delivered before
next January and if 10,000 airplanes
were delivere-' by next July it would
te "almost a miracle."
Witnesses Speak Plainly.
In fact all of the witnesses appar-
sntly gave their statements with what i
senator Keea cnaracterizea at
one
stage as "brutal frankness," all being
examined secretly and apparently
without considering the possibility
!f the publicity now given. Personal
:riticisms were voiced with freedom
An example is found in General
Kenly's examination concerning Gen-
rral Pershing s calls tor airplanes. In
response to questions General Kenly
spoke of what he would do if he were
in charge at home and abroad, and
added:
"If you look over the cables you
tvill find a cajole from overseas for
one thing one day and the next coun
termands the order, and the next day
asks for it again, and a week later
:ountermands it."
There is no real friction between
the army and navy, General Kenly
told the committee, "except a very
strong feeling that the navy some
times is getting more than its
share."
Stops Spad Manufacture.
General , Kenly and other officers
confirmed reports that General Per
shing stopped manufacture of Spad
machines last year and recently had
criticised several jf the De Haviiand
models forwarded.
In outlining next year's program,
sent in by General Pershing, wit
nesses told the committee that Gen
eral Pershing was advised that in try
ing to get 18,000 or 20,000 machines
delivered by next July the authorities
"are aiming rather high." J
A squadron in the aviation service,
it was explained, normally consists of
18 flyers, but they usually have 21.
During Secretary Baker's exami
nation he was sharply questioned re
garding airplane photographs dis
tributed by the committee on public
information with what the secretary
conceded were "exaggerated" cap
tions. During the tilt, Senator Reed
of Missouri referred to Chairman
George Creel of the information com
mittee as "a licensed liar," intending
to mislead the public.
Nebraska Slow to Approve
Increase in Express Rates
Washington, Aug. 24. Modifica
tions of express charges for short
hauls within the so-called "first zone"
now being worked out by the rail
road administration probably Will re
sult in increases in rates on fruit,
produce and other materials shipped
into cities from adjoining localities.
The 10 per cent general advance in
express rates recently approved by
the Interstate Commerce commission
now 'has received . the sanction of
public service commissions in all
states except Utah. South Dakota.
Nebraska and Iowa. Reports here
indicate that the commissions of
these states will act shortly. j
LAGGING
SEE TODAY'S SPECIAL SECTION DEVOTED TO LINCOLN
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VOL. XLVIII-NO. 11
Famous Army Aviators to
Thrill Omaha by Flights
Over City Next Saturday
Commissioner Manley of the
Chamber of Commerce will go to
Kansas City tonight to make final
arrangements with the British and
American aviators who will be in
Omaha next Saturday to do all sorts
of stunts in their big machines.
The aviators are making a tour of
the central cities of the United States
to give the people a knowledge of the
different types of airplarfes used and
the kind of tactics used in air battles.
They will make flights in Kansas City
Monday. Thence they will fly to
Des Moines,' where they will give ex
hibitions Thursday. Then they will
rise and fly to Omaha in an hour or
two of time, alighting on the Field
club field probably Friday morning.
The appearance of a dozen or
more airplanes over Omaha in all
sorts of thrilling maneuvers will oc
cur next Saturday and will be the
greatest and most spectacular sight,
it is said, that Omaha has ever wit
nessed. People will be here from hundreds
of miles around to see this greatest
of "free shows.
4 The flights here will be designed to
show what sort of work, bombing
planes, battle planes, scout planes
and others do in the air. One of the
wonders will be a sauadron of six
planes of the type J. N. 6H (what-
ever that means), which will fly over
the city in battle formation, con
trolled by wireless from the ground.
There will also be acrobatic flights
by small planes, illustrating the
"stunts" performed by fighting pilots
when in immediate contact with the
enemy.
Among the entertainments ar
ranged for the distinguished airmen
of the party will be a public affairs
luncheon at the Chamber of Com
merce either f Friday or Saturday
noon. Some of the party will make
addresses.
Maj. C. K. Rhinehardt is in com
mand of the party, which consists of
two British and about , a dozen
American aviators. Accompanying
the party as guest of honor will be
Brig.-Gen. Charles Lee, a veteran
British aviator, now head of the Brit
ish Aviation mission to the United
States. He will fly around in his own
machine and will be accompanied by
one or two members of the staff, also
in British planes.
Major Rhinehardt is one ot tne
youngest majors in the air service.
(Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
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AutOIUODlle ACldentS
Cause Injuries to Two
Men Saturday Night
Just after he had alighted from a
street car at Sixteenth and Dodge
streets, Charles Dixon, 1823 Lake
street, was struck by an automobile
operated by Max Osier, an auto
mechanic, 1618 North Twenty-fifth
street. Dixon's right arm and hand
were severely cut and he suffered
painful bruises about his body. He
was taken home. Osier tried to drive
away after the accidenf, Military Po
liceman William Sheppard said, and
he had to employ force in order to
take him. Osier was charged with
fast and reckless driving.
Pete Christensen, 4602 Redmond
avenue, suffered a ftadly wrenched
hand and wrist at 8 o'clock Saturday
night when he was run down by an
automobile operated by J.J- Troxall,
6815 North Twenty-fourth street.
Christensen was riding a motorcycle
east on Capitol avenue near Twenty
fourth street He was taken to the
police station, given surgical atten
tion by Police Surgeon Edstrom, and
taken to his home.
Need Two Thousand Men
In Dakota Harvest Fields
Two thousand harvest workers are
needed at once in North Dakota.
The wage is from $45 to $50 a
month with board and room.
This message comes to the govern
ment employment bureau. Examiner
Robert P. Samardick advises that
men who want this work go to Fargo,
Grand Forks or Devils Lake, where
they will be directed to the fields
awaiting the reaper.
Former Bellevue Star in
Hospital at Great Lakes
After trying vainly for fifteen
months to enlist in some branch of
the service, Paul Ohman, Omaha high
school student and former Bellevue
college athlete, underwent a special
operation for hernia in order to enter
the navy. He was accepted, only to
be forced to enter the navy hospital
at Great Lakes, 111., within two weeks
after he arrived there. For the last
month he has been confined to a
bed.
Ohman, who was Bellevue college
football captain in the fall of 1914
and who made an enviable record in
other branches of athletics during his
college career, was teacher of science
and coach of the football team at
North Platte high school. He ap
plied for admission to the first of-.
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f,rpT?1S5? WiTM !& OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1918. 5&J2(t1r'ii,0Jl!&J& FIVE CENTS.
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MAJ. C. K. RHINEHARDT.
FLIGHT SURGEON
WILLIAM R. REAM
KILLED BY FALL
Was Formerly Practicing Phy
sician at Walthill, 'Neb.;
Fatal - Plunge Due to -Stalling
of Engine. !
St. Louis. Aug. 24. Major William
R. Ream, of San Diego, Cal., flight
surgeon of the British-American "fly
ing circus, which started early today
from Indianapolis to St. Louis, was
killed when an airplane piloted by
Lieut. Wesley Benner, of Metuchen,
N. T., fell 150 feet at Effingham, 111.,
at 10 a. m. Lieutenant Benner suf
fered a compound fracture of a leg
and internal injuries. His condition
is reported serious.
Other airplanes are reported to
have landed safely near Effingham,
101 miles east of St. Louis, after
the accident. Attempts to reach
St. Louis today were abandoned.
According to information received
here Lieutenant Benner was ap
proaching a landing in a corn field,
one mile out of Effingham, when his
engine apparently stalled and his
plane did a nose dive to earth. It was
reported the flyers ran into a severe
rain and wind storm which caused
Lieutenant Benner to attempt to
land. Two machines previously had
made a safe landing in the field. Four
machines landed safely just outside
of Marshall, 111., about 40 miles west
of Terre Haute, and one landed at
Martinsville, 111.
Major Ream's death was-the second
(Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
Special Service for Women
Entering Missionary Field
Rev. F. W. Leavitt will give a coin
missionary service yat the First
Central Congregational church Sun
day for Miss Anna Lane. 4314
South Twenty-third street,' who
leaves in the near future for
Peking, China. She will be an in
structor in natural science at the
woman's college in that city,
Temperance Union Will
Quilt for Belgian Relief
The North Side W. C. T. U. will
meet at the home of Mrs. C. J
Schmidt, 3342 Larlmore avenue,
Wednesday, to make a quilt for the
Belgian relief. Members and friends
are requested to come early, bring
ing needle, thimble, thread and a
bundle of quilt pieces.
ficers' training camp at Fort Snelling,
he tried to enlist in the balloon school
at Fort Omaha and tried other
branches of the service, but was re
jected everywhere because of his
physical defect.
A special operation at North Platte
remedied his trouble, and he was ac
cepted for the navy. But unaccus
tomed strain shortly after he reached
Great Lakes broke open his wound
and he was sent to the hospital.
"I shan't lift anything heavier than
a match for a year," he writes to his
mother, Mrs. Bonnie Ohman, 2404
Davenport street, "or perhaps my
fork to my mouth. They keep me in
bed all the time and I guess all hope
of my getting into active service for
some months is past."
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MAN POWER
BILL PASSED
BY 336 TO 2
Final Effort to Place 19-Year-Old
Boys in Deferred Class
Defeated by Vote of
191 to 146.
Washington, Aug. 24. The new
man power bill extending the selec
tive draft to all men between the
ages of 18 and 45 years was passed
by the house tonight with only mi
nor changes in the original draft of
the War department.
On the first roll call only two neg
ative votes were cast by Representa
tive London of New York, the so
cialist, and Representative Gordon of
Ohio, democrat. The final vote was
announced as 336 to 2.
The final vote was preceded by
three days' debate, during which the
chief contention was an amendment
to defer the calling of youths from
18 to 20 years until older men had
been summoned.
A final effort was made by Chair
man Dent today to place the 18-year
old boys in a deterred class, but a
motion to recommit the bill to the
military affairs committee with in
structions to incorporate that amend
ment was lost, 191 to 146.
Goes Now to Senate.
Ihe bill now goes to the senate,
where leaders tonight predicted its
passage early next week. The senate
plans to substitute the house bill for
the measure favorably reported by
the military committee of that body
and thus expedite its hnal enactment.
Congressional leaders hope to tend
the measure to the president by the
I" latter part of next week.
Ihe senate soon after convening
unexpectedly abandoned plans for a
vote today and adjourned until Mon
day. An attempt in the house to insert
a work or fight amendment, by which
those exempted from military service
on occupational grounds would be re
quired to remain at their civil tasks
failed, 52 to 91. The amendment was
directed against strikes and was char
acterized by officials of the American
Federation of Labor as a conscrip
tion of labor.
Congressmen Excepted.
The house today reversed its action
of yesterday in voting to include
members of congress in the draft. By
a rising vote, 89 to 143, it defeated an
amendment by Representative Gregg
ot iexas, which would make mem
bers of congress, state legislatures
and federal and state executive offi
cers liable to draft.
An amendment by Representative
Smith of New York to exempt police
officers in cities of more than 500.000
population and designed to relieve the
situation in New York, where a short
age of police officers is said to be
threatened, was defeated.
An amendment by Representative
Treadway of Massachusetts, which
was adopted, provides for the ap
pointment of special examiners in
local conscription districts for the
re-examination of men placed in de
ferred classification as a means of
further combining the deferred classes
for additional men for active service.
Chairman Dent of the house mili
tary committee read a letter today
fom Secretary Baker in which the lat
ter set forth his objections to the
McKenzie amendment, which was de
feated yesterday and which provided
for deferring the call of youths from
18 to 20 years. Mr. Baker sa'd he
believed the amendment wauld seri
ously impair the ability .of the wiys
and means committee to get the men
in accordance with the military pro
gram. More Than Two Hundred
Omaha Boys Register
For Military Service
More than 200 men who have at
tained majority since June 5 regis
tered for militM-y service in Omaha
Saturday.
The men were given their ques
tionnaires immediately after regis
tering. Only a few of the regis
trants claimed exemption. Some of
them are married and some support
one or both of their parents.
Exemption board members say
that more than half of the regis
trants will make soldiers.
About 150.000 21-year-olds regis
tered in the United States Saturday
and, it is estimated, that 75,000 of
them will be inducted for general
military service.
Are Ypu Reading
Oh, Money! Money!
By ELEANOR H. PORTER
Author of "Pollyanna" and
"Just David"
Today's Installment on Page 9.
AND COMING NEBRASKA STATE FAIR
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GERMANS RATTLED
BY STURDY BLOWS
OF HAIG'S ARMIES
Staggering Enemy in State
Loss of Important Positions in Thiepval Salient;
British Mow Down New Divisions Thrown Into
Fighting; Continue Victorious Advance.
By Associated Press.
With the British Army in France, Aug. 24.- Field Mar
shal Haig's fighting armies achieved further victories today.
They delivered blow after blow to the staggering enemy, who
in some places, such as the Thiepval salient, was reported to
be in a state of great confusion.
Thiepval itself, a mighty position atop a high hill from
which the surrounding country for miles is under observation,
has been occupied and the British line has been straightened
between Grandcourt and La Boisselle.
Miraumont, that boche position which has held out for
days in the center of the battle front, is gradually being sur
rounded. The town is choked with German dead and manv
living Germans may be captured there shortly.
FALL OF BAPAUME IMMINENT.
In the advance on Bapaume village the village of Avesnes-les-Bapaume,
just at the edge of the larger town, has been
reached. It seems certain that BaDaume will fall, but rriftrp
heavy fighting is expected. British troops have advanced to
a point north of Morey and have also entered Croiselles, which
is some miles east of the Arras-Bapaume road and probably
marks the peak of the advance eastward in the northern battle
zone.
There- has also been fighting north
of the river Scarpe and the British
have penetated the old German front
line for more" than 500 yards. The
British attacked Givenchy and recov
ered the old front line from which
they retired during an attack last
evening.
Every Yard Contested.
While field Marshal Jiaigs men
pressed forward with mighty strides
on the main battle front today, they
had to fight for every yard of ground
Considerable numbers of guns and
prisoners have been captured all
all along the line and the British have
again inflicted the heaviest possible
casualties on the enemy. The ground
over which the battle has been fought
was invariably littered with dead Ger
mans.
Still fighting a losing battle, the
Germans are unquestionably becom
ing disorganized and rattled. Officers
who have been taken prisoner have
mentioned recent reverses, and espe
cially the defeat which is now being
suffered and said that Germany was
willing to give anything for peace.
These statements are of value only
as showing how the German army is
coming to look upon the war now
going aginst them.
New German divisions continue to
arrive in the zone, only to be stood up
before the advancing British and
mowed down. While they have been
able to check, in a measure, the allies,
they have been unable to stay their
continuous forward movement.
There are stories of less than a
dozen men being left in some of the
German companies which have par
ticipated in the recent fighting. Sol
dier prisoners captured today ex
pressed themselves generally as hav
ing lost faith in the higher command,
while noncommissioned officers at
tributed the defeats to the inefficiency
of the German air service, and more
especially to the presence of many
untrained recruits in the older divis
ions. Some are said to have de
serted while on the way to the front
to participate in the battle. i
American Gunners Rush
Into Battle When Under
Orders to Remain in the Rear
London, Aug. 24. How a detach
ment of American machine gunners
managed to take part in the recent
fighting on the British front is told in
a letter from an officer commanding a
Canadian machine gun-section. The
letter says:
''We had a largenumber of Amer
ican machine gunners attached to our
section for instruction. When' orders
for the attack came, our colonel, who
regarded the Americans, as insuffi
ciently trained for participaticn, issued
strict orders to the Americans to re
main behind during the attack. , We
were well across into German terri
tory when suddenly Americans ap
peared in the thick of the fray on
the right flank. They had been left
behind, according to orders, but re
mained only about two minutes and
then took matters into their own
hands. As soon as the first wave had
Bee
of Confusion as Result of
LOBECK VOTES
WITH EAST UPON
MMER BILL
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Splits With Delegation From
Nebraska on Measure; Rea
vis Expresses Himself
On Exemptions.
Washington Bureau of The Bee.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 24.(Spe
cial Telegram.) On the motion to re
commit the new draft or man-power
bill to the committee on military af
fairs of the house with instructions
to create one deferred class in the bill
from 18 to 19, the Nebraska delega
tion exclusive of Sloan, absent, and
with the single exception of Lobeck.
voted in favor of recommending the
bill.
Lobeck split with Shallenberger
and Stephens, his democratic breth
ren, for two reasons, probably. First
because the administration wanted a
free hand in handling the draft in
its own way, and. second, because the
industrial centers seemingly were ar
rayed against this.
At least an anaylsis of the vote
would seem to warrant such con
clusion.
Keep Boys Where Belong.
Congressman Keavis in ODDOsmK
the Madden amendment to the man
power bill prohibiting any employe
in the executive departments of the
government boards or commissions
from being exempt or given deferred
classification, by reason of such em
ployment, from military duty said
that the house, in his judgment, was
getting itself into a more or less ab
surd, position, by stating last night
that a congressman should not be ex
empt, tie thought such a course
would put the Membership of the
(Continued on Pace Two, Colnmn Thrw.)
gone over they followed the Cana
dians.
"One of the first officers they en
countered on the other side of No
Man's land was the colonel who had
commanded them to remain behind;
but he was too busy to do much more
than frown at them. They excused
their presence on the ground that
they thought they could prove useful
in escorting back prisoners, and the
colonel gave them permission to do
this.
"But some hours afterward I saw
them again, well up in the front of
the attack,, close behind our cavalry,
and very busy firing their guns, which
they roust have kept concealed some
where during their interview with
the colonel.
"They worked like veterans and
stayed with us throughout the next
tw days. One of them is in line for
a decoration." i
THE WEATHER
Fair and slightly warmer
Sunday, Monday cooler.
Thermometer Boadmcu
m 67 1 m. .......... IS
m 7 Jo. m 87
7 a. m e t p. n ,. M
a .m..... 65 4 p. m m
a. m 70 S p. m M
10 a. m 76 6 p. m. .......... 80
11 a, m HO 1 p. m 88
It m 83
ADVANCE
BEGUN BY
U. S. LADS
Bapaume Expected to Fall
Soon, but Not Without Se
vere Fight; French Clos
ing on Noyon.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Aug. 24. rhe Ameri
can troops in the Fismes sector
have advanced as far north as
the Soissons-Rheims road, on a
front of about 800 meters, ac
cording to the war office an-'
nouncement tonight.
British Headquarters in
France, Aug. 24. The town of
Thiepval, northeast of Albert.
on the Ancre front, was entered
today by British forces in the
teeth of much machine gun and
rifle fire. Bray also was cap
tured by the British. ' '
London, Aug. 25. "New
Zealanders, striking in the di
rection of Bapaume, have cap
tured Cojeul with trresistable
dash," says an official state
ment Issued by the 'war office
shortly after midnights . The
oiily Cojeul appearing on the
maps is the , Cojeul rivef, nine
miles north of Bapaume, but
it is possible that there is a
small village of that name
near Bapaume.
Without pause the British forces
battling against the Germans are
moving forward in the direction of
Bapaume. The fighting has been ex
tremely heavy, but there has been
no stopping field Marshal Haig's
men and the latest report from Brit
ish headquarters says that they are
making progress along the entirt
front of the British attack. ,
Important Towns Taken.
The important towns of Bray, ,
Thiepval and Grandcourt, together
with several smaller places, have been
captured, and more than 2,000 prison
ers have been taken.
Around Miraumont, which lies a
little north of Grandcourt, the fight
ing has been of great intensity, and
this place apparently has fallen, as
Haig's report says that "the enemy
held out until outflanked by advancing
columns." -
British detachments have reached
Avesnes-Les-Bapaume, which lie
very close to Baoaume. whose cao-
ture is expected at an early date but
not without severe fighting.
Pass Beyond Bray.
Nearer the Somme, however, the
Germans have not been So suoc'ssfut.
Bray has heen captured by the Brit
ish who are said to be to the east
of that town. Bray is important be
cause it stands on high ground and
dominates a large amount of terri
tory on each side of the Somme.
There are iew details of the pro-
fress of the fighting south of the
omme. The capture of cannon is
reported from this region, but there.
(Continued eo Pace Two, "Colnmn Throe.) j
Jess Eckford Goes Back to
Regiment at Camp Funstonf
Jess Eckford, who was arrested dur
ing the slacker raid .last Thursday,
returned to Camp Funston, Kan., last
night. . ; ; f
Eckford was arrested by a military
policeman upon suspicion that the;
army uniform Eckford was: wearing
was "camouflage," ,and local police
confirmed that-suspicion.
Investigation, however, proved that
Eckford is a United States soldier
stationed at Camp Funston, and that '
he had been there for more than two
months. He was absent without leave
in Omaha and was accompanied back
to Camp Funston by Sergeant Cook.
Great Lakes Naval Band T r
To Lead Labor Day Parade
The Great Lakes Naval band will
lead the Labor day parade in Omaha.
Arrangements have been made' hy
Ensign Condict of the local naval res
cruiting station for a concert on the. "
street Saturday night. "
The band will also play at the Fort-
Dodge-Navy ball, game at. Rourke
park Sunday next. The band , is tev
leave Tuesday morning for the sisMJ
fair at Lincoln . . . : . -
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