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PRINCE AXEL ENJOYS
BRONCHO BUCKING SHOW
EI Paso. Tex., Oct. 9. Prince
Axel of Denmark . saw "Funeral
Wagon" and other bucking horses
ridden at the Fort Bliss remount
station late today while the goest
of Gen. James J. Ilornbrook, dis
trict commander. Prince Axel was
wlore interested in the broncho
lucking contest, arranged for him
by Col. John A. Wagner, than in
the guard mount at the post. He
cheered the cowboy broncho bust
ers, looked at "Funeral Wagon's"
wicked teeth and ecn ventured to
pat the famous outlaw horse from
Pendleton, Or,e.
2,000 SOLDIERS CUT OFF
1N FOREST BY FLOODS
Ashville, N. C, Oct. 9. -Two
thousand negro soldiers and a num
ber of white officers; employed in
the Pisgah forest, have been cut off
from all supplies by floods caused
by heavy rains. Reports received
here today from Brevard said the
railroad running into the forest had
been washed out for a distance of
22 miles and wagon roads have
been destroyed. ' Although -many
houses in the district have been
washed away, it is not believed any
lives have been lost.
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NEW YORK HOTELS
HAVE tfOMEN WAITERS
New York, Oct. 29. Hotel Astor
today began hiring women waiters,
following thestrike called yesterday
by male .waiters at the McAlpin,
.Waldorf-Astoria and Claridge ho
tels. Hundreds of young women
hurried to the hotels today to se
cure the jobs abandoned by men.
The management of the hotels de
clared the experiment with wonvn
waiters had resulted in "improve
ment of dining room conditions"
and said they expected to keep the
: young women permanently.
A
NEW FOOD RULES
BAR CLUb SANDWICH
New v'ork, Oct. 29. Club sand
wiches' containing chicken and ba
con, or any d'shes combining more
than one kind of meat, must disap
pear from hotel menus, according
to an interpretation tonight by the
federal food board of the 12 regula
tions governing public eating
houses, recently announced by the
hotel division of the food adminis
tration. The established combina
tions of 'iam and eggs or bacon and
eggs, however, are not to be dis
turbed. Patrons may call for re
duced portions, with the provisions
that "It should be understood when
such, a reduced portion is served
. the price should be reduced accord
ingly." LEE'S GRANDSON BACK
FROM FRANCE WOUNDED
Rockford, 111., Oct. 29.-Capt.
Robert E. Lee, grandson of the con
' federate leader, arrived at Camp
. Grant from France today to act .ait
n instructor.: He served with the
33d (Wildcat) division, of the 118th
jnfantry until wounded.
GUN. INVENTOR'S SON
NAMED IN BOOZE CASE
' San Francisco, Oct. 29. War
rants charging John Browning, a
capitalist of Ogden, Utah, said to
be the ,son of John M. Browning,
inventof of the Browning ma hine
gun, S H. Devine and Joseph
Eccles, Ogden attorney.and three
others, with conspiracy to ship
wholesale quantities of liquor into
. Utah, were issued by the federal
court today. According to E. M.
Blanford, chiei of the bureau of in
... vestigation, Department of Justice,
the me; shipped five trunks, each
containing 10 gallons of whisky, to
Utah.
FUEL DEALERS
OBJECT TO CITY
' SELLING COAL
Protest on Coal Yard Read at
1 Night Meeting of w City
' N Council; May Abandon
Night Meetings.
.: A protest was reag( at the city
. council meeting last night from the
Midwest Wholesale Fuel Dealers'
association against the municipal
coal yard and its operation. The
, association protests that the muny
yard "interferes with legitimate
- business and tends to defeat the
"efforts of the coal dealers to com
ply with the fuel administrator's
order to lay in large stocks of coal
itu-thekvards against the winter's
demands.
v Commissioner Butler, head of the
street cleaning and maintenance de
partment asked to have an emer
gency appropriation of $10,000 to
run his department until the end of
the year. At the present time there
is just $62 left in the funcL
Butler warned the council last
May that this deficiency wrold have
to be met because his predecessor
in office, Commissioner Parks, ex
pended Jhree-fifths of the entire
year's appropriation in three and
a half months. Butler has made the
other two-fifths of the year's ap
propriation run the department for
five and a Half months. The coun
cil will pass the emergency appro
priation. Thursday morning.
The council voted $2,000 from the
bequest of the late Frank Murphy
to buy books for the city library at
the Tfcquest oi Miss Edith Tobitt,
' librarian.
This was the fifth of the monthly
evening council meetings, inaugurat
ed by the present city council to
give citizens n opportunity, after
..their day's work, to come up and
see to it that the' council does its
"duty.
But the citizens don't seem to
"give a darn" what the council does.
Only two citizens were present
though the audience was swelled" To
total 'of six . by city employes.
ALLIED ARMIES
WIN SUCCESSES
ON ALL-FRONTS
British, French and Italians Swiftly Driving Enemy
From Mountain Passes and Across Plains East of
The Piave; Operations in France and Bel
gium Confined to. Artillery Activity.
MANY SLAIN IN
STREET FIGHTING
IN BUDAPEST
Soldiers Use Machine Guns and
Bayonets in Conflict With
Mob Besieging Arch-,
duke's Castle.
By The Associated Press.
In the Italian theater over a front of nearly 40 miles
from the Brenta to the middle reaches of the Piave river, the
British, French and Italian'armies are developing with suc
cess an offensive against the Austro-Hungarians and are
swiftly driving them from the mountain passes toward the
Austrian frontier and across the plains east of the Piave
in northern Italy. American reserves are behind the lines
"prepared to aid the allies when the opportune time arrives.
On all the other battle fronts theS
allied arms continue to be served.
In Belgium there has 1)een little
fight except by the artillery wings
of the opposing armies, while in the
region around Valenciennes the en
gagements between the British and
Germans have savored more of out
post encounters than pitched bat
tles. In whatever fighting there has
been, however, Field Marshal Haig's
men have retained the upper hand
and taken more prisoners and addi
tional guns and war stores.
French Leveling Salient.
Farther south the French are con
tinuing successfully their process of
leveling the old salient between
the territory east of St. Quentin
and Rethel.
Additional oroeress has been
made"by General Debeney's troops,
notwithstanding the violent resist
ance of the Germans, who all along
the front are using machine guns
to retard the advance of the French
men toward the important lines of
railway communication to the east.
On some sectors the Germans are
slowly retreating, but nowhe. are
the French patrols permitting the
enemv to ge- out of contact with
them
Aside from artillery and machine
gun activity there has been little
righting on that part of the front
held by the Americans from the
Meuse river to the vicinity of
Grandpre.
The Germans have been heavily
bombing the American positions
with shells of all caliber, including
gas projectiles, with the Americans
answering them shot for shot.
The new big guns of the Ameri
cans are violently shelling German
positions far behind the lines, tak
ing under their fire towns of strate
gic importance from the standpoint
of communications and troop form
ations preparing to be sent as re
inforcements to salient points of the
crumbling battle line.
Railway Under Heavy Fire.
Conflans, lying to the west of
Metz and the principal junction
point of communication with the
big fortress on the Moselle and
Spincourt and Dommary-Baron-court,
also important railroad junc
tions, all were under a particularly
heavy fire from the American guns
throughout Tuesday.)
In addition American aviators
continually are lending their aid to
the big guns in the process of blast
ing enemy positions and troop con
centration points inside the German
lines. In the latest operations by
the aviators nine German machines
were sent crashing down.
Large numbers of prisoners and
numerous guns have been taken by
the allied troops in the big battle in
progress on the Italian front.
The allies, particularly the Brit
ish, are well across the Piave river
from where the battle line in the
mountains curves and bends south
ward toward the Adriatic.
The latest British official (I
munication announces the opp'.i
tion of the Austro-Hungarians ap
pears to be weakening in the face of
the attacks of the British tenth
army which is successfully driving
northeastward.
Germans Are Beginning
To Evacuate Brussels
With the British Armies in
France and Belgium, Oct. 29. Be
tween October 10 and 22, various
administrative departments were
packing up and leaving Brussels for
Germany.- According to prisoners,
Brussels is shortly to be evacuated
and a line established between Ant
werp and Namur.
Memorial Services for Camp
Dodge Flu Victims Sunday
Des Moines, la., Oct. 29. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Memorial services
for Camp Dodge soldiers, who died
of Spanish "flu." have been an
nounced to be held next Sunday aft
ernoon at the camp in charge of
Brie. Beniamin T. Simmons. Gover
nor Harding will be the principal j ed the highest number of influ
sneaker . - 1 emi cases"
London, Oct. 29. Serious rioting
took place at Budapest on Monday
eveniri1"&ccoraTng to a Budapest
dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung
of Berlin, which is quoted in a Co
penhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company. Many lives are
said to have- been lost,
A deputation was sent by the
party of Count Michael Karolyi to
the castle at Budapest to ask Arch
duke Joseph to appoint Karolyi pre
mier, it is said. A great crowd fol
lowed the deputation and attempted
to break through the military guard
Severe fighting followed, the sol
diers using machine guns and bay
onets. A lare number of people
were killed and the fighting was still
in progress when the telegram was
dispatched at 9 o'clock Monday eve
ning.
The correspondent adds that the
republican movement is growing
and that a general labor revolt may
be expected at any moment.
Interest on Farm Loan
Bonds Cut to 4 1-2 Per Cent
Washington, Oct. 29. Farm loan
bonds in the future will bear only
4 per cent interest instead of S
per cent, -carried by the last block
of more than $50,000,000 offered last
May, it was stated today. Since
these bonds, to be issued soon, will
be absorbed entirely by the treasury,
however, the reductioin will have
little practical effect on the mar
ket. Scandinavia Overrun by
Refugees From Russia
Stockholm, Oct. 29. The over
flow into Scandinavia of Russian
refugees seeking an asylum in Fin
land, has created such a problem
that1 Dr. Hellner, the Swedish for
eign minister, has taken up the
question with Great Britain, inform
ing Great Britain that Sweden has
had to refuse to receive a new in
vasion of the Russians.
Rioters Attack Germans in
Constantinople and Smyrna
Athens. Oct. 29. (Havas.) Riot
ing has broken out at Constantino
ple and Smyrna, according to a dis
patch from Mytilene Island of Les
bos to the Patris. In both cities,
the dispatch adds, Germans were
attacked. . '
Flu Cases Increase
As New Increments
Arrive in Army Camps
Washington, Oct 29. New
cases of influenza and pneumonia
continue to show a slight increase
in army camps over the country,
particularly in camps where new ,
increments are arriving. Reports
received tonight show new cases
of . influenza numbered 2,860
against 2,831 for the ' previous
day, while there was a narked in
crease in new pneumonia cases,
619 being reported against 431
for yesterday. Deaths totalled
1C8 against 188 the day before.
Camp Cody, Tex, again report-'
Germans Fleeing Rhine Land;
Berlin in Throes of Money Panic;
Socialists Threaten the Kaiser
British Wireless Service.
London, Oct. 29. Civilian depar
tures from the lower Rhineland and
part of Westphalia, which were begun
on a small scale when the first allied
bombs hit Cologne, have developed into
a panic flight, according to the ,Hague
correspondent of the Daily Mail.
All the banks are being stormed by
depositor' who are 'withdrawing their
savings in German bank notes of as high
a value as are obtainable, the 100 mark
note having an appreciable market
value over lower currency. But even
small notes, of one mark, are being
taken eagerly.
Not only are some of the banks at
their wits' end for legal currency to pay
out deposits, but in places, especially
Cologne and Dusseldorff, all except lo
cal, and therefore, valueless, currency
has disappeared.
Everybody who can possibly afford
it is trying to make his or her way east
ward. In Berlin financial panic has seized
the people and the ordinary paper cur
rency of the empire has vanished. The
municipality has been compelled to is
sue emergency currency to the value of
about 50,000,000 marks, valid until
February 1, next, within the confines of
greater Berlin. Tradesmen may refuse
to accept this currency, or at least de
cline to change the notes, except when
compelled to take them in payment for
goods already delivered.
The big German banks have pub
lished appeals to "our fellow citizens"
not to withdraw deposits and not to
hoard currency notes. But the rush on
the banks has -grown worse than ever.
' The working population of Cologne,
seeing the war factories closed down,
big houses evacuated and eastbound
trains crowded with well-to-do fugi
tives, are demanding immediate peace
more insistently than ever. Demonstrations-have
been increasingly violent. A
manifesto, which has been issued by a
section of the social democrats, declares
that if the emperor does not voluntarily
abdicate he will be removed. It says:
"If the necessity arises and the hour
comes, the organized masses of labor,
with strong middle class support, will
remove every hindrance to peace which
does not voluntarily yield to the will of
the huge majority of the people."
GERMANY TO GET
TRUCE AND PEACE i
TERMS TOGETHER
GREAT GUNS OF AMERICAN ARMED FORCES
HAMMER AT VITAL HUN LINES FAR SACK
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Versailles Conference Reported to Have Agreed on
Main Points of Armistice, Which Will Be Submit
ted to Military Commanders, and to be Con
sidering Conditions Following War. , '
By Associated Press. fc
London, Oct. 29. The Versailles conference, accord
ing to the report current in London this afternoon, has
agreed on the main points of the armistice terms, which will
now be considered by the military commanders.
The final peace terms, it is said, will be submitted to'
Germany simultaneously with the armistice terms.
as part 0f t,e terms of an arm
istice, the Evening News says it un-
Huge Projectiles Weighing Fifteen Hundred Pounds Continually Dropping
Areas Behind German. Front Along Meuse Where Enemy Communi
cations Must Be Kept Up at All Hazards to Maintain Army
in
1,000 LIBERTY
MOTORS TURNED
OUT IN WEEK
Washington, Oct 29. Produc
tion of American aircraft now has
reached a stage where it is limited
practically only ' by facilities for
transporting the airplanes to
France. The production of Liberty
motors, during October, reached a
stage of 1,000 a week, a goal which
had not been hoped for, at least
until December.
The latest compilations show
that since Tune 1 approximately 2,-
500 fighting airplanes of all descrip
tions have been shipped to the
American forces in France. When
it is realized none of the belliger
ents at any one time since the be
ginning of the war has had more
than 3,500 airplanes actually in ser
vice, the significance of an Ameri
can production of 2,500 planes in
five months becomes apparent.
These 2,500 planes included nearly
150 heavy bombers and the remain:
der were planes of all classes," in
cluding observation machines and
day bombers.
Reports from all the production
centers show the results rapidly
growing. lhe American forces have
been moving so rapidly during the
last few weeks that it has been
found necessary to give up some of
thr transportation space which was
intended for airplanes to other ma
terial.
Tonight's reports showed there
were more American planes await
ing shipment at points of embarka
tion, than could be loaded,
-
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Oct. 29. The
American big guns cracked down
on the main line of the railroad in
the region of Conflans today, and
also shelled a largeenemy troop
concentration in, the neighborhood
of Margiennes.
The Conflans line is important
because it extends from Germany's
principal communication line to
Metz. The firing in the direction of
Conflans continued intermittently
throughout the day.
When a troop concentration was
reported in the region of Bois De
Villers and Margiennes the guns
were turned in that direction, hurl
ing projectiles weighing 'approxi
mately 1,500 pounds each.
At intervals also the big gun.,
inside the American lines shelled
the territory around Spincecourt
and Dommary-Baroncourt, impor
tant railroad junctions. "
Aviators Bomb Troops.
American aviators successfully
bombed two points today where
German troops were being assem
bled. In the morning a squadron
of bombers, accompanied by pr--(Continucd
on Page Two, Colnma Three.)
Brigade of Roumanians
Organized in Siberia
Washington, Oct. 29. A brigade
of Roumanian infantry has been or
ganized in Siberia fo fight with en
tente troops, according to a cable
gram receivtd today by 'Prof. T. G.
Masaryk, president of the Czecho
slovak national council. The unit
is Composed of Roumanians of Austria-Hungary
who were taken pris
oners by the Russiats in the early
days of the war and sent to Siberia
as prisoners.
Roumanians of Austria-Hungary
also are fighting under the allied
command ia France and Italy,
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HUGHES URSES
NATIONAL UNITY
IN WAR WORK
New York, Oct. 29. Calling for
national unity "after. the methods
of a republic and not an autocracy,"
and deploring President Wilson's
assumption that only , the return to
congress of a democratic majority
would uphold his national leader
ship, Charles E. Hughes, declared
in an address here tonight that bi
partisan support alone "would save
the president from the lesser dig
nity and influence of mere party
leadership."
Speaking at a republican rally at
the Union League club Mr. Hughes
declared that "no political party
was pariraount in patriotism and
that republicans had a right to ex
press tneir politicals-preferences.
"Must we republicans." he de
clared, "patriotically, loil and give
without seeking a voice in the na
tional assembly, yielding our repre
sentation to democrats, not as more
worthy or more loyal, not as more
sacrificing or more intelligent, but
to democrats as such, simply be
cause they are democrats?"
After declaring the issue was
transcendant, Mr. Hughes empha
sized the rteed for complete victory
in the war, the crushing of arbitrary
and tyrannical military power and
the dawn of the new era of peace
and justice.
j
Hayashi Resigns Post. (
Tokio. Oct.' 29. Raron Gonsuke
Hayashi, minister to China, has re
signed. He will be succeeded by
Yukichi Obata. former charee d'af-
fairej of the -legation at Peking.
ANOTHER S. 0. S.
CRY RECEIVED
FROMjjUSTRIA
Foreign Minister Andrssy Ap
peals to Lansing to Inter
vene With Wilson for
Armistice.
Vienna, Via Basel, Switzerland,
Oct 29. Austria-Hungary, through
her new foreignrejmi.aister4:. Count
Andrassy, has sent a note to Secre
tary of State Lansing, requesting
the secretary's intervention with
President Wilson for an immediate
armistice on all fronts and for the
commencement of peace negotia
tions. The note says:
"Immediately after having taken
direction of the ministry of
foreign affairs and the dispatch of
the official answer to your note of
October 18, 1918, by which you
were able to see that we accept
all. the points and principles laid
down by President Wilson in his
various declaration, and are in
complete accoftkwith the efforts
of President Wilsonto.prevent fu
tureXwars, and to create a league
of nations, we have taken prepara
tory measures, in order that Aus
trians and Hungarians may be
able, according to their own de
sire and without being in any way
hindered, to make a decision as
to their future organization and
to rule it.
"Since the accession to power
of Emperor or King Charleiis
immovable purpose has been to
bring an end to the war." -More
than ever this is the desir of the
sovereign of all the Austro-Hun-garian
peoples, who acknowledge
their future destiny can only be
accomplished in a pacific world
by being freed from all disturb
ances, privations and sorrows ofk
war.
"This is why I address you di
rectly, Mr. Secretary of . State,
praying that you will nave the
goodness to intervene .with the
president of the United Statesjjn
order that in the interest of 1N
manity as in the interest of allx
those who live in Austria-Hungary,
an immediate armistice may
be concluded on all fronts and
for an overture that immediate
negotiation for peace will follow.
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Ends Today
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call attention of our out-of-town
readers to Oma
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derstands, the allied nations will in
sist upon the surrender of the Ger
man fleet, including all the German
submarines, and upon the occupa
tion by allied forces of all the forti
fied towns on the Rhine.
Sir George Cave, the British'
home secretary, today gave a long
account in the House of Commons
of Germany's ill treatment of Brit- y
ish war prisoners and its continued s
violation of agreements concerniajSv. '
prisoners of war. The home secre-
tary declared that Germany ougtit
to be made to pay for these viola :
tions. ! t
For the timeteing there has been
a cessation of U-boat attacks on
passenger steamers, Andrew Bonar
Law announced in the Honse o!
Commons .today. But, he added,
there have been attacks on other
steameri, during, the, last -week. ' .- .
Crown Council Rtaches Decision, v
Paris, Oct. 29. (Havas) Extreme
ly important decisions were taken
at the meeting of the crown coun
cil, held under the presidency of
Emperor William at Berlin on Sat
urday, says a dispatch from Zurich
to Le Journal. - '
The greatest agitation prevails in
the reichstag where groups of dep
uties, the message, adds, are sitting
continuously. y -;
Considerable nervousness, tl U
said, prevails in German military
circles, as a result of the decisions
reached at the crown council. The .
German government, it i$ declared,
is determined to resort to extrems
measures. ,
The Arbeiter Zeitung of Vieuni
declares that Germany and Austria
Hungary will capitulate without de
lay. Protests Laon Deportations, 'j,
Tty: French government has pro
fested to Germany concerning the '
carrying away by force of civilian
residents of Laon and has informed
Germany that the repatriation of
German civilians from France will
be stopped unless the Laon civilians
are returned immediately to the
keeping of the French government
The action of the Germans in
carrying off the civilians of Laon,
including .Mayor Ermant, was a
violation of the agreement con'i
eluded between France a"nd Ger&
many last April. The Germans also J "
carried away 300 French civilians
from Furnet. v
The executive committee of the
German parties in Austria has
formed a provisional government,
according to a dispatch from Vi
enna, and has decided to send a
separate note to President Wilson.
Basel, Switzerland. Oct. 29. .
(lontinaed on Paso Two, Column Two.)
Henry Morganthau, y
Former Ambassador i
To Turkey, in Omaha
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Henry Morganthau, former am
bassador to Turkey, was an Omaha
visitor Tuesday. He spent the day
quietly in his room at the Fonten
nelle hotel visiting with 'poljllcians
and friends wjio came in to ee him,
returning to the east at 6 o'clock
in the evening. s
Mr. Morganthau' was sent to Tur- ,
key in 1914 just at the outbreak of
the war and remained v there until
1916, when ill health compelled hi-
return.
In speaking of the situation nt '
Turkey, he said. "The allies niust
make a military occupation of the
country. They must open the
Dardanelles to the world." -
Mr. Morganthau is a staunch ad
mirer of President Wilson, and was -quite
vitriolic in his denunciation of
the enemies of his administration,
and warned the American people
that they must not be fooled by the
new dress with which the, "inter
ests" of the privileged class is at
tempting to camouflage "democ
racy." "President Wilson is the foremost
figure of the day," continues the
ambassador, "and I believe it is pro-?
vidential for the world that a man '
possessed with such knowledge,
temperament and ability to command
respect is with us at the pravS
time."- - - . . -'