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THE BEE f OMAHA', MONDAY. NOVEMBER 25, l9la CONTROL OF WIRELESS BY U.S.PLANNED Administration Asks Legisla tion for Acquisition by Navy Department of Ail Radio Stations. .Washington, Nov. 24 Permanent government control of all radio communication through acquisition and operation by the Navy depart ment of all shore wireless stations in the United States used for com- Tmercial purposes is planned by the administration under a bill now be- t lore congress. ! Representative Alexander, chair- ian of the House Merchant Marine tonjmittee, who introduced the pleasure in tne nouse, announced today that hearings on the bill will bejrin before his committee Decem ber 12 and continue until all inter ests have been given an opportunity : tn h hearH A similar intro duced in the senate by Chairman Fletcher of the committee on com merce, has been approved by Presi dent Wilson. Besides providing for the acqui sition and operation of the stations by the navy, the bill directs that the secretary of the navy shall, so far as may be consistent with the trans action of government business, open laHin ctarinne tr ffpnpfil nuKKr business under regulations pre- owiuvu uy tutu auu aiidii ha iiic rates lor sucn service. He also , shall establish special rates for the handling of press dispatches by trans-oceanic or oiner special sta tions. Monopoly Held Necessary, v Reasons why the government re gards k as necessary lor tne navy . to operate or control radio stations in this country are given in a state ment prepared by officials of the i-.a.jf ucjjai iuiciii- auu UldLIC jjuum today by Representative Alexander. The statement in part follows: "In general the bill provides for the acquisition and operation by the Navy department of all radio stations on shore used for commer cial purposes. Irrespective of i'.e general jwnership, this principle is clearly indicated as necessary in the case of this particular public utlity. Since the early days of the use of radio-telegraphy many companies have tried to operate radio ions as a commercial enterprise in the United States generally, c. in cer tain localities. Except in very spe cial circumstances, these enterprises have' failed to make an adequate return, and in most cases no profit has been made except through tlie sale of stock. The reason for this is that a complete monopoly is nec essary. A period of about 18 years has clearly demonstrated that the United states government is the only concern able to obtain and maintain duui a iiiuuupvi Would License Stations. "i 'Xm however, is not to cre ' ate ' a complete government monop oly. '--The scientist, manufacturer anrf shin rtwnpr ar cnpriat1v nrrvvirt- 'ed for and no change is proposed in thefr status under existing !iw. Stations may be licensed for special communication and these are ex empted from government operation. "This is not a war measure. In accordance with the act of 1912, all raJio stations in the United States and possessions, which were not al ready in the government's hands, were taken over by the Navy de partment promptly in April, 1917, as a war measure, and are now being operated by that department. Many , changes have occurred during the war. Stations formerly operated commercially have been found to be unnecessary for either commer cial or war nurposes. ' "The business of all companies having been suspended and their operators having made an instant show of patriotism by joining the navy in the earliest days of the war, it is believed most of the companies owning radio stations would be glad at this time to sell their Ma tions to the government at a fair one, which is provided for in the bill." Grand Duke of Baden Renounces His Throne Basel, Nov. 24. In a proclama- ton issued Friday in Karlsrupe, Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden says he relieves officials and soldiers from their oath of fidelity and re nounces the throne for himself and his descendents in accord with his cousin and heir, Prince Maximilian, the former German chancellor. The provisional people's govern ment of Baden in announcing the abdiction to the people, declares that the grand duke and his family and their honor are under the protec tion of the Baden republic. Denison Leaves a Host of Omaha Friends During the last week E. F. Teni son has been learning how many friends he has in Omaha. Farewell functions have been held by many organizations religious, fraternal and commercial. Next Thursday, November 28, he and his family leave Omaha for Chi cago, his future home. Edward F. Denison has had a re markable career of success in Young Men's Christian association work, nearly all of it in the Omaha asso ciation. He was born on a fan . near At lantic, la., and lived there until he vas 21 years old. He was educated in the country schools, high school and Grinnell college, from which he graduated in 1903. He immediately entered association work, vroine as boy's secretary to the association at Ottumwa, la. Comes Here in 1905. In the spring of 1905 he accepted the position of boys' secretary of 'he Omaha Young Men's Christian as sociation, then located in the old building on the present site of the Brandeis stpre, Sixteenth and Douglas streets. So marked was his success in this line of work that, when Secretary B. C. Wade left in November, 1910, Mr. Denison was elected general secretary of the Omaha association, a position which he held up to the present time. He has spent most of his time away from Omaha since August 1, 1917, engaged in association war work. From August 1, 1917, to April 1, 1918, he was general secre tary of association work at Camp Cody, Doming N. M. He was then appointed to the big ger pos'tion of personnel secretary for the southern department com prising the states of Louisiana, Ar kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, with headquar ters at San Antonio Tex. His du ties then included supplying secre taries of the proper calibre for all the army camps m that territory. In Bigger Work. He is now about to take up a much bigger work of great impor tance. x Young Men's Christian as sociation work has expanded so enormously during the war that its after-the-war program will be on a much larer scale than ever before. The association is preparing for this and the selection of the right kind of men for secrc ies is of the ut most ' ortance. The personality of Mr. Denison, his insight into men, his gift of deal ing with them in the way the like to be dealt with, these qualities have led to his selection for the new work of personnel secretary for the inter national Y. M. C. A. During the eight years that he hasieen secretary of the Omaha as sociation the work has gone forward steadily and with great prosperity. It is now in good financial condition and it has the confidence of the Omaha public to an even greater de gree 'than most other associatio s. Mr. Denison's policy has been to go ahead and "do business," to try nothing spectacular but to perform the daily service to men which is the mission ot the association, to do solid, wjrth-while work year by year. The local association now has more than 2,500 members which is more than it ever had before a this time of the year, and this in spite of the war. This number does not in clude those who are away at war, There are several hundred students in the night school classes. GERMAN RULE IN METZ ENDS; CITY ORDERLY Affairs of Territory and of Municipality Placed En tirely in Hands of Na tive Inhabitants. POULTRY SHOW OPENS TODAY AT THE AUDITORIUM Gay Chantecleer to Reign for Week; Many Birds Are Here in Quest of Ribbons. Snow at San Antonio. San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 24. Last night for the first time in the history of the city, snow fell here during the month of November. All the country north and northwest of San Antonio extending to the Pan handle received a covering. Missouri Jurist Dies. St. Louis. Nov. 24. Thomas A. Sherwood, 89 years old, chief justice and associate member of the Mis souri supreme court for 28 years, died of pneumonia at Long Beach, CaL , , OBITUARY. ': MRS. RICHARD R. EVANS died at the Clarkson hospital on Sunday morning after a serious illness of several weeks. She was born in Man chester, England, 4n 1854, of Welsh parents and came to Chicago in 1858, where she was married in 1881 and in 1888 she ana her husband came to Omaha. She is survived by her hus band and five children, Beulah, Cora, Haaei, Mrs. Hug: H. Harper, and a on, Lt John Dwlght Evans, who is now In France, a sister, Mrs. F. W. Segur of Kansas City, Mo., and two brothers, D. Edward Jones and J. H. Jones, both of Chicago. She was a faithful member of the First Pres byterian church. The funeral will be held from the home. SOS South Fifty-sixth street, at 3 o'clock Tuesday", fiutiaj it Efi2i Lava cemetery. The Fifth Annual Poultry show opens this morning at the Auditor ium with 1,500 birds placed on ex hibition by 137 exhibitors from all parts of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons, bantams and pheasants form the exhibits. Two Rhode Island Reds, cocks, owned by M. T. Coffey of Omaha, are also on exhibition. These birds won first place in Chicago as cockerels and topk the first ribbon in Syracuse, N. T., .s cock birds. The judging of the birds will be gin today. The judge- of the ex hibition classes are J. C. Johnston of Bridgetcm, Mo., A. C. Smith of St. Paul Minn., and Adam Thomp son. Amity, Mo. The judges of the utility classes will be C. T. Corn man, government extension poultry man, H. M. Wells, poultry extension department of the University of Ne braska, W. H. Matthews of Cher rycroft farm, and O. C. Ufford of the M. C. Peterfe Milling Co. The judges will lecture once ev ery afternoon and evening on poul try raising and keeping. The M. C. Peters Co. and the Ne braska State Agricultural college will have educational displays. Ideal poultry houses anI methods of rais ing poultry will be shown. Banner Court Dance Tonight. Banner Court of Honor, No. 540, will give a social dance tonight at the Swedish auditorium. Every body invited. ADD ANOTHER GOLD STAR TO SERVICE FLAG VATICAN WILL PUBLISH WHITE BOOK ON WAR Pope Should Have Place at the Gathering of Powers Around Peace Table, Says Cardinal O'Connell. Paris, Nov. 4. The Vatican cor respondent of the Naples Mattino gives details of the preparation of a white book, which is to be issued. The first of the series of documents will concern the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinate at Sarajevo June 28, 1914. These docu ments will be of capital importance as they have to do with the prepara tion of the war and the desperate efforts of Pqpe Pius X., to prevent it. The second will include the per iod from October, 1914, to March, 1917, from the election of Pope Benedict to the preparation of his famous peace note, and will also concern the pontifical efforts in be half of prisoners of war. The third will run from March, 1917, to December, 1917, and will deal specifically with the peace note and its consequences. It will in clude letters of the chiefs of state and other documents and will throw light on Italy's actions and prove the bad faith of its enemies. The fourth of the series will be of a particularly religious charac ter. Says Pope Should Be Heard, Boston, Nov. 24. In the gather ing of the powers of the world about the peace table Pope Benedict should surely have a place, Cardinal O'Connell said in an address before the League of Catholic Women at the academy at Notre Dame Satur day. The cardinal said the pope's terms of peace are "in reality identi cal with those which were finally proposed, at least tentatively by the allies." "Certainly," he continued, "Pres ident Wilson's 14 articles show lit tle practical divergence from those which had already been formulated by Benedict XV. "Now the powers of the world are soon to gather to arrange the terms of peace. Surely in that, gath; ering the pope will have a hearing and a rightful place." ROBERT HILAND. A telegram has been received by Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hiland, 3343 Grand avenue, announcing the death of their, son, Robert Hi land, who was lost on the tr6op ship, Otranto, which was sunk off the coast of Scotland on October 6. Robert Hiland enlisted in the United States army on March 11, 1918, and was assigned to the artil lery corps as a cook. Prior to his enlistment he was employed by the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company as an electrician. The last heard of him by hfs par ents was a letter written from New York Cilv and received her on Oc tober 2. He is survived by his parents and three brothers, Jess, Willie and Roy, and two sisters. OrtrtirU anil Flnr. ence, all of Omaha. Corp. Henry Fulsos of Bradish, Neb., and Private Michael Zuerlein of .Humphrey, Neb., were also amontr 100 additional ?n1istH mn of the army lost in the Otranto disaster, wnose names were an. noun'ceu ty the War department last ni Thousands erf under nourished people have found "thed Wit food 7-7-a sdervtrfic blend of nour ishing cereals helps wonderfully in Duiiam 1 111 neaitn an happiness. Needs no iar By Associated Press. With the French Army at Metz Nov. 24. The German revolution in Met? was accomplished a few days before the signing of the armistice 'by three sailors who had come from Hamburg unarmed to demand the surrender of the fortress. The gov ernor immediately capitulated and the three German jackies were for a few days masters of the fortress Their reign gave place to that of a council of soldiers and workmen composed almost entirely of natives of Lorraine whose object was more to maintain some kind of order than to install a revolutionary govern ment. Neither the German military nor civilian authorities made any resistance to any of the three sailors or the council composed of soldiers and workmen. Apparently anything in the name of revolution would have imposed upon them at that time. Several days later when they discovered that the spirit of revolt was nowhere nearly as strong as it had at first appeared it was too late to take measurgs. The ar mistice had been signed and the sol diers and workmen of Lorraine who formed the council were as ready as any to welcome the French troops. Food Prices Reduced. The German signs are being given a French color, the names of hotels, restaurants and business houses los ing their Teuton flavor. The arriv al of French troops with the pros pects of more and better food has had a decided effect in lowering prices. Articles that were IS marks a week ago are selling for 10 francs. It is possible to lunch well in Metz for five francs. The portions on the principal hotel menus that were six marks have been cut down to four francs. The bread and meat ra tions, as fixed urfder the German card system, will be increased on the arrival of trains of provisions al ready on the way. ( Most French officials sent here to administer the affairs of the terri tory of Metz are natives of Lor raine, who know the mentality of the population thoroughly. The mu nicipal council, half of which was compSsed of natives and the other half immigrants, has been dissolved because no immigrants will be ad mitted to participation in the ad ministration of affairs at present. One hundred persons, including some women chosen from the French population will, in 1 turn, choose , a municipal commission to take charge of the city's affairs in co-operation with Commissary Mir-i man. Germans employed in public ad ministrations will be retained so long as they perform their duties properly, but the direction of all municipal affairs will, within 48 ho.urs, be entirelv in the hands of the French population. The gen eral policy will be- to respect the Germans and in no way molest them as long as they make no trouble. Those that disturb the peace will be severely dealt with. Socialist Leader Dies. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. . 24. Miss Anna Milay, editor and lec turer until reticently one of the five members of the executive commit tee of the socialist party of America, died at her home here today. At one time Miss Milay was a candi date on the socialist ticket for gov ernor of Washington, and polled a large vote. HUNS GIVE TO YANKS CORDIAL RECEPTION (Continued from tl One.) tc haul their supplies and some ar tillery. Barriers Demolished. American forces have completed demolishing barriers which guarded the old German front east of Ver dun. consisting of reinforced con crete pillars stretching along th old front for two miles. At Mars-La-Tour, just at the edge of the vi aee. the Americans en countered tank barriers some of which were only half completed A few blasts of dynamite soon put them out of commission. At, Etain the Germans had bar riers of logs chained together on four wheels, the logs being movable like a gate. On these barriers the Germans had installed ingenious de vices to remove the wheels from be neath the logs which would then dron across the road at the main road entrance into Etain. This log barrier was just at the western entrance, the logs acting as a check in the event that the mines failed to destroy the bridge. Verdun-Metz Railroad Completed, American engineers today laid the last rail connecting the stand ard euage railroad between Verdun and Metz. having virtually rebuilt nine miles "of the track. It is over this line orincipally that the forces of occupation will be supplied dur ing their advance, and regular serv ice will begin probably tomorrow. More than . 10,000 Americans are moloved on the task of rebuilding the railroads across JNo Mans L.ana northeast of Verdun, the Twenty third engineers regiment having charge of the work. Mile after mile of trackage has been destroyed by four years of constant shelling, nec essitating a new road bed. Luxemburg. Nov. 24. Within , a stone's throw at some points of the rear guard of the German army, the American forces, under Major- General Dickman, settled themselves Friday for a step across the enemy s frontier. Without opposition at any place the Americans continued the absorption of that part of the terri tory evacuated by the Germans un der the armistice terms. On the extreme left the American army of occupation reached before night fall Ingledorf, about a mile west ot Diekirch. In general a line along the Our nd Moselle rivers was occupied, the extreme right being south ot Remich. The closing movement to day brought more than a score of towns under allied control. In one or two of these, just west of the German frontier, the inhabitants were somewhat less demonstrative, but even then, a majority of the people seemed to be pleased at the change. In most of the towns en- husiasm found lively expression in flags hanging from public buildings and even the poorest houses, while the villagers shouted a welcome to every passing group oif soldiers. Along the Moselle river, near the northern part of the lines, the American outposts look across the narrow stream at German soldiers marching or sauntering along the streets of villages over which the German flag flew. Grevenmacher, the largest town in proximity of the American line, was evacuated before noon, the movement of the Germans to the opposite bank of the river in dicating that they were making ready to retire still further during the night or on Saturday. French Steadily Advancing. Paris, Nov. 24. The war office announcement' last night on the op erations of the army of occupation says: "The complete occupation of lib erated territories in Alsace and Lor raine is in process or achievement. During the course of the day our troops installed themselres in nu merous towns and Tillages in the Sarre valley, notubly in Dillingen, Sarrebruck and Sarrelouis, where the general commanding the first army entered at the head of his troops. "In Alsace French advanced enthusiastically welcomed by the populations. British Reach Border. London, Nov. 24. Field Marshal Haig's report tonight of the Brit ish advance says: "We reached today the German guards reached the former frontier ! frontier immediately north of Lux and took possession of Woerts, I emburg. Our general line along the Froeschwiller and Reischoffen, as j frontier lies south of Beho, Grand well as Soultz and Bischwiller. Menil, Bomal, Huy and east of Av Everywhere the French troops were l enses." George Walwork, Former ,1 Omaha Boy Dies In France Word was recently received hera of the death of George Walwork son of John Walwork, who died fni France of pneumonia. John Wal work is well known in Omaha, and was superintendent of the Omaha Packing company several year ago He now lives in Denver. i l , ,44 THESAME Kow banded to insure your getting the genuine Quality unequaled Sold in Omaha, and-everywhere you go H.FENDRICH, Maker ' EVANSVILLE .INS. UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION. ' W. G. McAdoo, Director Cmieral of Railroads. WABASH RAILROAD A change in the Passenger Train Service of the Wabash Railroad will be made effective Sunday, November 24th, 1918. This advance notice of the change in time is published for the informa tion of the public. WESTBOUND READ DOWN EASTBOUND READ UP 3 I 11 14 12 9:03 AM 8:00 PM Lv. St. Louis Ar. I 7:55 AM ! 10:50PM 11:48 PM 9:15 AM Ar. Omaha Lv. 5:45 PM 7:02 AM. Nos. E0 and 61 Council Clufis-Stanberry accommodation trains will be discontinued cn Si ndrys. I ... ....... . II. E. WATTS, Gen. Pass. Agent - A WITH 'AMERICAN AVIATORS IN FRANCE, Sept. 20, (Correspondence of The Associated Press) . . . the aviators went silently to their quarters for their great, heavy Arctic clothing. In the turn of a hand they were back on the field, swathing and swaddling themselves to the eyes, tucking chocolate in their pockets (for they get hungry up in the air), or breaking open a fresh pack age of chewing gum, which helps to alleviate , nervousness, and has a steadying effect" New York Times) Please remember some soldier boy over there received that package of your favorite Adams gum, when you found it missing from the counter. If you can't get . Adams Black Jack, try Adams California Fruit, Adams Pepsin, Adams Yucatan or any other Adams brand. ADAM Pure Chewing Gum A Adams Black Jack Adams Chiclet3 v r Adams repsin Adams Spearmint 7 CHICLE Adams California Fruit Adams Yucatan Adams Sen Sen Adams Clove Send a Stick in Every Letter to Your Soldier Boy