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BOMB EXPLODED
AT CHICAGO KILLS
FOUR,
Missile Thrown Into Entrance of Federal Building Where
I. W. Ws Were Convicted; Haywood in Build
ing at Time Denies His Men Are Guilty
of the Murderous Act.
Chicago, Sept. 4. A bomb exploding in the entrance of
the federal building this afternoon killed four persons and
wounded seventy-five others.
William H. Wheeler, a mail clerk.
J. B. Ladd, a sailor, from the great
lakes naval training station, whose
home was in Salina, Kan.
F. R. Kolkew, a postal clerk.
Miss Helen Michike, of Chicago.
The blast was attributed to the I.
- W. W. by Philip J. Barry, acting chief
of the local federal investigation bu
, reau.
While the city police were rushing
the wounded to hospitals, federal
agents hurried from the building and
made two raids on I. W. W. head
quarters. Nine men were bagged at
these places and a woman was
grabbed in a nearby office building.
Her identity is being kept secret.
Wrecks Entrance.
The explosion wrecked the en
trance of the building and shattered
every window in the first three floors
of two buildings across the street
, The courtroom of Judge Kenesaw
M. Landiti where 95 I. W. W. leaders
were given prison sentences a few
days ago, is on the sixth floor of the
federal building. '
Will-am D. ("Big Bill") Haywood,
"uncrowned king" of the I. W. W.,
was in the building at the time of the
explosion. J With his lawyer he was
planning to seek a writ ot error to
stay "the execution of the 20-year
prison sentence given him. .
He deplored the outrage and ad
mitted he thought the I. W. W. would
be blamed, but denied emphatically
that any member of the organization
had committed the act.
Haywood Feels Tremble.
Haywood plainly felt the building
. tremble with the detonation of the
bomb and heard the glass crash in
the dome of the structure and the
cries of the injured. He appeared
calm and did not leave the deputy
marshal's office. "It -is unfortunate
that this thing happened at this time,"
he said feelingly, "I know that the
I. W. W. , will be blamed but I am.
convinced in my own heart that no
man of my organization was in any
way connected with this matter. It
would be insane for an I. W. W.
to commit such an act at this time."
One of the men being sought in
connection with the explosion is
Peter Dailey of St. Paul, Minn., who
was placed on trial with the other
I. W. W. members, but was later re
(Contianed on Fag Two, Column Two.)
Visiting Nurses Net
$9,000on Their Tag
Day Sales Yesterday
' Directors of the Visiting Nurse as
sociation surpassed their expecta
tions in the large sum they received
for their efforts yesterday on Tag
day. It is expected the total will
reach $9,000.
The amount reported last night
, was $8,923 with several more sales
men to hear from, so that they are
confident of reaching the $9,000 mark.
The amount collected last year was
$5,600.
Mrs. Margaret Hynes, president of
the association, made the following
statement:
"The Visiting Nurse association
wishes to thank the people of Omaha
for the generous manner in which
they have supported our Fifth An
nual Tag day, the newspapers for
their splendid publicity, the movies,
the street railway and printers who
have so liberally contributed in bring
ing our work before the public.
"We especially wish to thank the
committee and workers who assist
ed so faithfully in accomplishing our
success. . You all have, given a ser
vice to the nation by assisting us in
conserving our greatest war resource,
the health of our people."
Austrian Attack in Force
Checked on Italian Front
Rome, Sept 4. Austrian troops
yesterday attacked the Italians north
of the Noce valley, to the south of
Mantello. The attack, which was de
livered in some force, is reported to
day by the war office to have been
checked with heavy losses to the en
emy. The Austrian gain appears to
have been confined to the occupation
of two observation posts
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VOL. 48. NO. 68. ,rtf23l7Sft !& OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918. R.WLTi
WO UNDS 75
PROVISION MADE
FOR REGISTERING:
MEN WHO ARE ILL
Anyone Unable to Appear Ma
Be Represented by Proxy
Before Draft Board on '
September 12. "
Washington, Sept. 4. Provisions
for the registering of men within the
age limits of the new draft who may
be ill on September 12 were an
nounced today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder. Any man who is
unable to appear for registration may
send someone else to the draft board
and where the board is. satisfied the
case is bona fide the representative
will be deputized to make out the
card and the registrant's report. The
word "sick" will be written on the
card, which on being delivered to the
registrant must be mailed or taken to
the local board having jurisdiction.
Much broader grounds for claims
for exemption from military serv
ice are provided in new regula
tions now being worked out by Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder, to
govern the classification of men be
tween 18 and 45, who will register
on September 12.
Important modifications are based
upon the change of a few words in
the original draft law made in pass
ing the new man-power act. The
term, "industrial occupation" is
eliminated and the law now provides
persons may be given deferred classi
fication when engaged "in occupa
tion or employment, including agri
culture, which can be established as
necessary to the military establish
ment or the maintenance of the na
tional interest."
Voluntary enlistments for the army
except as authorized by acts of con
gress in certain cases have been or
dered discontinued by General March
and all recruiting stations will be
closed. The enlisted men serving at
stations will be sent to the nearest
recruit depot to be physically ex
amined and their qualification records
made out with a view to their assign
ment to "appropriate duty."
General March's order supplements
one prohibiting the voluntary enlist
ment of men between the new draft
ages of 18 and 45 years until after the
man-power act was passed by con
gress. The order is taken to mean
that all men hereafter accepted for
active military service will be drawn
through the draft machinery.
The only original voluntary enlist
ments hereafter authorized the War
department announced today, will be
o men over 46 years of v. and un
der 56 years, and their enlistment is
authorized only for staff corps and
departments.
Wilson Decides Societies
Doing Welfare Work Shall
Conduct Joint Campaign
Washington, Sept. 4. President
Wilson has decided that the seven
recognized societies doing welfare
work among the American soldiers
at home and overseas shall conduct a
joint campaign for the funds neces
sary to,' carry on their work during
the coming year.
The president's decision was com
municated to Chairman Raymond D.
Fosdyck of the commission on train
ing camp activity, who in making pub
lic the president's letter tonight an
nounced that the campaign would be
conducted during the week beginning
November 11, and that the American
people would be asked to srive $170.-
500,000 to the organizations.
"It was evident from the first, and
has become increasingly evident,"
said the president's letter to Mr. Fos
dyck, "that the services rendered by
these agencies to our army and to
our allies are essentially one and all
of, a kind and must of necessity, if
FOOTS
WITHDRAWAL OF ENEMY
The Germans are
ground over the entire 150-mile bat
tlefront from Ypres to Rheims.
Seemingly the question whether the
Germans will be able to hold even
relatively their present line from
Flanders to Champagne is being an
swered. And the answer apparently is
negative.
Marshal Foch's strategy which im
posed on the Germans the necessity
of falling back in Flanders, Artois
and Picardy is compelling the ene
my to withdraw from the Vesle be
tween Soissons and Rheims north
ward toward the Aisne.
Position Precarious,
Outflanked on all defensive works
along the western part of the battle
line and in greater danger of a turn
ing movement eastward from the re
gions of Noyon and Soissons, the
German high command has been
forced to begin the retrogade move
ment in the boissons-Kheims sector.
dJilitary experts long ago predicted
wis, would be necessitated by the
1 wd successes.
Jhe climax to the German maneu
is along the Vesle culminated when
.e French swept away the portion of
tie old salient in the region of Novon
and the French and Americans north
of Soissons and along the Vesle
reached positions dominating the
Aisne and the Chemin Des Dames
and crossed to the north side of the
Vesle on a front of nearly 20 miles.
Huge Fires Behind Front
All behind the front toward the
Aisne huge fires are to be seen where
the enemy is making his way as fast
Hi USE REJECTS
WILSON'S ADVICE
ON POWER BILL
Net Investment Recapture Pro
vision Retained in Measure
Over Objection of the
President.
Washington, Sept. 4. The house
today rejected President Wilson's
suggestion that the recapture clause
of the administration water bill be
amended to eliminate the provision
for paying the net investment in the
event that power projects are taken
under federal, state or municipal con
trol at the end of the lease periods,
Jlhe recommendation of the water
power committee was retained, the
house defeating, 96 to 71, a proposal
by Representative Ferris of Okla
homa that "fair value" be substituted
for 'net investment" as urged by the
persident.
In the debate Representative Sin-
nott of Oregon criticised what he
termed presidential interference with
legislation. In all war legislation, he
said, he had supported the president
ana in otner matters had given care
tui ana respected consideration to
whatever he had said to the house.
"When these utterances bear evi
dence of the president's mature and
thoughtful consideration,". Mr. Sin
nott said, "they are persuasive and
should not be desregarded, except
for the most cogent reasons. But
when they bear upon their face pos
itive evidence that they are not the
result of mature deliberation they
should be disregarded accordingly."
well rendered, be rendered in the
closest co-operation. .It is my judg
ment, therefore that we shall secure
the best results in the matter of the
support of these agencies if these
seven societies will unite their forth
coming appeals for funds, in order
that the spirit of the country in this
matter may be , expressed without
distinction of race or religious opin
ion in support of what is in reality
a common service."
The budget is divided as follows:
Y. M. C. A., $100,000,000.
Y. W. C A., $15,000,000.
National Catholic War council, (in
cluding work of, Knights ol Colum
bus and special war activities of wom
en), $30,000,000.
Jewish welfare board, $J,500,000.
At Library associationi
$15VOaoS,0(S.amP COmmU"ity Smice'
Salvation Army, $3,500,000.
TACTICS
By Associated Press.
now givingas possible northward, in all proba-
bility harassed by outposts of French
and American troops and by artillery
fire and the machine guns and bombs
of the allied aviators.
While the debacle in the south
seems complete, in the north the
Germans are also facing a crisis.
Everywhere from Peronne to Ypres,
BIG BATTLE
APPROACHES
NEW PHASE
Pershing's Army Expected to
Be Included in Plans for"
Decisive Blow Foch
Is Preparing.
Washington, Sept. 4. Announce
ment today by General March that
more than 1,600,000 American troops
had been embarked for all fronts up
to August 31 furnished a new mea
sure of the forces Marshal Foch has
at his disposal with which to follow
up the victorioes already won on the
western front
Included in the American ship
ments are men sent to Italy and
Siberia, the arrival of Major-General
Graves, American general, at Vladi
vostok with nearly 1,400 men of the
forces dispatched direct from the
United States having been announced
today by General March. The total
number of men sent elsewhere than
to France, however, is less than 10,-
000, leaving more than 1,500,000
American troops available for the
use of the supreme commander in
the great battle.
The size of this American force
becomes Increasingly important as
the scope of the new British assault
at the very center of the German
line on the Douai-Cambrai front be
comes apparent. In the opinion of
army othcials the breakdown of the
German lines on this front may
prove the entering wedge for allied
successes of a sweeping nature.
Britons Smash Hindenburg Line.
In his mid-week conference with
newspaper correspondents, General
March reviewed the battle situation
of the last three or four days, not
ing particularly that the British in
the most impressive phase of the
mattle east of Arras had smashed
their way across the Hindenburg line
on an eight-mile front with Cambrai
as their objective. The major enemy
resistance along the whole 60-mile
battle front from the Scarpe to the
Oise, he said, had been encountered
and overcome by the British and the
swift advance of the French troops
last week, when they gained five or
six miles on a 25-mile front in a
single day, was due largely to with
drawal forced upon the enemy in the
north.
General March pointed out as in
dicating the rapidity with which the
battle front is shifting under the
steady drive of the allied armies that
the British had pressed ahead 14
miles since they launched their at
tack on August 21.
Even as General March talked,
word came from the battle front that
the enemy had been hurled still fur
ther back along the Douai-Cambrai
line and indicating the British early
roaay stood within five miles of this
(Contlnned on Pago Two, Column Fonr.)
Germans in Esthonia
Hoist Red Flag and
Sing the Marseillaise
Christiania, Sept. 4. (Havas.)
German troops in Esthonia are
showing signs of insubordination,
according to advices received here
from Russia. Several hundred sol
diers have hoisted the red flag,
singing the "Marseillaise." Their
officers were powerless to keep or
der. At Reval 400 German soldwra
and sailors took Dart in similar
demonstrations, according to the
reports.
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Oh, Money! Money!
By ELEANOR H. PORTER
Author of "Pollyanna" and
"Just David"
Today's Installment on Page 4
. .
FORCE
Field Marshal Haig's men are keen-
ing hard after the enemy, whose line
daily is being sent back further east
ward, giving the British better points
of vantage from which to work in
their task of regaining as their first
objectives St. Quentin, Cambrai, Lille
and Armentieres. From Ypres to
Lens additional towns have been re
captured and the old salient more
nearly reclaimed.
Lens Evacuated.
Lens, the famous coal city, is said to
have been entirely evacuated by the
Germans, and the British are only
awaiting the dissipation of the nox
ious gases and the rendering of the
city safe from the possibility of the
detonation of mines in the subterran
ean coal chambers to enter it.
From Arras southward to Peronne,
English, Scotch, Welsh, Canadian and
Australian troops everywhere are har
assing the enemy, meeting his vio
lent machine gun hre with irresist
ible pressure that the enemy has been
virtually nonplussed and has retired
at some points almost precipitately.
Eastward of the old Drocourt
Queant line the enemy has been
pushed across to the east of the
Canal Du Nord, where at last ac
counts he was endeavoring to pre
vent the British advance by machine
gun fire.
To the north of Peronne, over an
eight-mile front between Moislains
and Demicourt, the British at several
points have beaten their way across
the canal and Wednesday night were
pressing the enemy well to the east
ward. '
HUMBERT'S ARMY
ROUTS HUNS ON
LINE JF CANAL
French Advance Made Foot by
Foot , as Machine Gunners
Had Orders to Die at
Their Posts.
BULLETIN.
With the French Army in France,
Sept. 4. The Germans appear to
be burning supplies and blowing up
ammunition dumps in the region
north of the Oise river and east of
the Noyon-Guiscard road. Many
conflagrations have been seen as
far east as Tergnier and explosions
at Ugny, north of Chauny.
Paris, Sept. 4. General Humbert's
Third army has been fighting a des
perate battle for the past two days
northeast of Noyon along the line
of the Canal Du Nord in the neigh
borhood of Campaigne and Genvry,
The determination of the French
troops eventually overcame th now
erful resistance of the enemy, who
early today began to give way along
me enure tront.
The Germans had resolved to hold
on here and had fortified the canal
in the most formidable manner with
great fields of barbed wire, cemented
sneiters ana defense systems brist
ling with machine guns hidden be
hind enormous loirs.
The enemy machine gunners had
received orders to hold at all costs
and die at their posts, rather than
give ground. In many instances they
did so and the advance of the French
had to be made literallv frr W
foot. '
The French had brought a great
array of artillery to bear on the
woods and villages fronting them.
lhe enemy guns were also extremely
active ana counter-attacks were fre
quent. The object of the French maneuver
was to attain the northern border
of the hilly mass formed by Autre
court wood, thus menacing Guiscard.
When the German line beiran to pivft
way the French cavalry joined in the
action ana early tnis morning reached
the farm of St. Martin, on the road
between Noyon and Guiscard. The
infantry advanced to a front run
ning through Salincy, Bourbeteuse
and eastward - through Tarlefesse,
Poilbarbe; Crisolles and Fretoy-Le-Chateau.
Behind the German lines
Jussy, Chauny and Lafers can be seen
in flames.
The French are pursuing the ene
my and keeping in closest touch.
Lieut. John McArthur of
Fremont German Prisoner
Washington. Sent 4. Nam rA ad
ditional American officers' and men
who are prisoners in Germany were
announced today bjr the War depart
ment vThe camps in which they are
held are unknown. Lt. Tohn Mr.
Arthur, Fremont, Neb., is included in
the list.
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C3
AMERICAN TROOPS
PURSUING GERMANS
NORTH FROM VESLE
. -;
Main Bodies of Enemy Withdrawing From Soissons
Rheims Salient Preparatory to Crossing Aisne;
Canal Du Nord Crossed by British on Wide
Front in Face of Dogged Resistance.
Paris, Sept. 4. -In addition
treat north of the Oise and on
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maue uik gams nunneasi oi ixoyon, according to tne war omce
announcement tonight. The greatest gains were made north
of the Vesle which has been crossed on a front of nearly. 20
miles.
London, Sept. 4.- The Canal du Nord and the Tortilla
river have been crossed on a
ungnsn ana vveisn troops, according to Field Marshal Haig's
communication issued tonight. Moislains lies about three
miles north of Peronne. , ' : '
The statement savs:
LIFE FOR LIFE
SOVIET THREAT
TO THE ALLIES
Attacks on Russian Officials
to Be Met by Attempts on En
tente Statesmen; 7Brit-
! ain Files Demand. .
London, Sept. 4. The Moscow cor
respondent of the Frankfort Zeitung
reports that a member of the soviet
has asserted that the Russian gov
ernment contemplates informing en
tente countries that any further at
tempts upon the lives of Russian gov
ernment officials will be countered by
attempts upon entente statesmen in
their own countries.
The same correspondent is quoted
as saying that it has been declared in
soviet circles that General .Boris Sa
vinkoff organized the recent crimes
against high persons in Russia.
Britain Demands Reparation.
London, Sept. 4. The British gov
ernment has sent a telegram to the
bolshevik government at Moscow de
manding reparation and prompt pun
ishment of those culpable in the at
tack on the British embassy at Petro
grad on Saturday when the embassy
was sacked and Captain Cromie, the
British attache, was killed. .,
The British government threatens
in the event of the failure of the
bolshevik government to give satis
faction, or if there should be a repe
tition of acts of violence, to make
the members of the soviet govern
ment individually responsible and
have them treated as outlaws by civi
lized nations.
"No Activities Reported,"
German Official Version
Berlin, Sept. 4. "Up to the present
no activities have been reported,"
says tne omual Uerman statement is
sued tonight.
"Between the Scarpe and the Som-
me, tne communication adds, "the
enemy felt his way forward to our
new lines. Between the Ailette and
the Aisne fresh French attacks were
repulsed.
Sea Joy Rider Found
Guilty of Conspiracy
New York, Sept. 4. Capt. Leland
P. Hawkins of the steamship Yadkin
and five ship officers were found
guilty of conspiracy against the gov
eminent tonight. The men took the
ship for a marine "joy ride" in the
Mediterranean and financed the.
cruise by selling the ship's stores.
Empress is Worse.
Zurich. Switzerland. Sent. 4. The
health' of the German empress, who
last week became ill with hurt af
fection, is slightly worse todav. ac
cording io tne Munich newspapers.
Kaiser is Forced to
Move Into Germany
With . the American Army In
France, Sept 4. It has been re
ported, and what seems to be partial
confirmation has been given the re
port, that German main headquar
ters has been moved from Spa, Bel
gium, to Bonn, Germany.
A dispatch from Amsterdam
Tuesday said the German general
staff headquarters had been trans,
ferred from Spa to Verviers, 14
miles east of Liege.
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to forcing the Germans to re
the Vesle front the French today
1 i 1 1
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wide front north of Moislains, by
"During the early part of the day;
the enemy held the east banks of the;
river and canal and with artillery
and machine gun1 fire endeavored
to arrest our advance at this line. ;
Advance With Great Dash.
"Despite the natural strength of -the
enemy's positions, our troops ad- '
vanced with great dash and courage
YANKS IN CLOSE PURSUIT. .
Washington,' Sept 4.r-American
troops in close pursuit of the Ger
mans retiring north of the Vesle
have captured the villages of Ba
toches, Pefles, Fismette and Ja f
lieux. taking prisoners and . ma
chine guns; General Pershing re
ported in his communique for to
day, received tonight by the War
department. ;
The American forces, General
Pershing said, have reached the
general line Vaux Cere-Blanzy-Le
Grand Hameau.
American aviators also have suc
cessfully bombed , the railroad
yards at Longuyon, Domary
Daroucourt and Conflans.
The gain of the Americans de
scribed by General Pershing ap
parently is on a front of about five
miles to a depth of more than two
miles and indicates that the Ger
mans now are less than five miles
from the river Aisne.
Tht French official statement to
night said the Germans had retired
north of the Vesle on a front of
20 miles.
and carried the villages of Manan
court and Etricourt. Then overcom
ing obstacles presented by the canal
and river, they made substantial
progress on rising ground to the east.
"Further north New Zealand divi
sions have taken Ruyaulcourt and
reached the northern outskirts of
Havrincourt wood east of the canal .
line. Other divisions gained the west
bank of the canal opposite Demicourt ,
and Boursies, beating off a counter'
attack.
"English troops entered Moeuvres
from the north, and the fighting con
tinues here among the old Hinden
burg line defenses.
"In the course of our advance fur.
ther prisoners and material have fall
en into our hands, including two of
three German tanks used by the
enemy in an unsuccessful counter-attack
on August 31.
"On the Lys front also we made
progress at different points."
Withdraw from Vesle. '.
With the American Army on the
Vesle Front, Sept 4. A German with-,
drawal from the Vesle has begun.
Combat patrols of Americans and
French are close on their heels to
the west of Bazoches and eastward
to a point beyond Fismes. . , :
Smart machine gun resistance fs
being encountered. By all indica
tions the Germans have withdrawn
their main bodies to the north, pos
sibly preparatory to crossing the
Aisne.
Light forces of Americans have ad
vanced their lines some distance north
of the Vesle. ; .
Continue Punishing Fire.
It became more apparent today that
the Germans had given up the strug
gle to maintam a foothold -north of
the Vesle. American and French
artillery continued their puntshinjj'
fire over an area extending to
the Aisne without bringing a
reply that could be compared in in
tensity. The advanced American detach-
ments were confronted with the same
sort of machine gun fire that the Ger
mans have used in all other cases
recently to hold off the oooosintr
forces while making good their retjeat.'
But one by one the gunners ' were
(Continued on Fag Two, Column One.) '
English Author Dies.
London. Sept. 4. Henry Hamilton.
dramatic author, died today at the
Haven, his residence at Sand Gate, '
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