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1G THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2. 1919. GERMANS MIGHT Edsel Ford, U Years Old, RESTORE KAISER. To Draw $150,000 Salary THINKSJARTl! Teuton Socialist Leader Says "Michael is Strange Indi vidual;" Has Suspicions as to Groener. London, Jan. 1. Richard Barth, secretary of the German indepen dent socialist party, regards General Groener, the successor of General I.udendortT. as the leader of a mili taristic counter-revolutionary move ment, according to the Express, v which prints an interview that its Berlin correspondent secured with Barth. , General Groener, it is stated in the interview, is thought to have been given secret orders by the military leaders with the intention to re store the monarchy, but Herr Barth could not say whether, after the former emperor's "cowardly flight," it would aim at restoring the Ho hcnzollerns to power. Asked by the correspondent whether the people were likely to support a monarchist government, Herr Barth is quoted as saying: "The German Michael is a strange individual. He adores today what !ie detested yesterday." Discord Overcome. Announcement of the retirement if three independent socialists from the Ebert cabinet and the appoint ment of Gustave Noske and Herr Wissel, sockil democrats, has been made by Germany in a wireless re ceived here. The first port of the proclamation reads; 'Tafalyzing discord overcome. The government of. the empire is again formed in unity. It knows only one law for action the wel fare, stability and indivisibility of the German republic before every party consideration." Premier Ebert and Fhilipp Seheidemann, secretary of colonies, ?et forth in the proclamation their program, which includes the crea tion of a military force, the disarm ing of persons not entitled to carry weapons, the attainment of peace as speedily and on as favorable con ditions as possible and the dispatch abroad, as representatives of the German republic of "new men filled with the new spirit." Distant Earthquake is ; , Recorded at Washington Washington. Jan. 1. Seismo graphs of the Georgetown univer sity recorded heavy earth shocks last night, beginning at 10:18 o'clock and lasting until after midnight. ,The distance was estimated at 2,300 miles from Washington, but the record was partially obscured by that of a lighter quake between 9 s and 10 o'clock. New Manager. Iichmoml, Va.. Jan. 1. Appoint ment" of J. B. Parrish as genera? manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad was announced last night by George W. Stevens, federal man ager of the road. Mr. Parrish wfff succeed to the place made vacant by the death of J. Paul Stevens. Succeeds Father as Head of Ford Motor Company; New Minimum Wage Announced. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 1. A new mimrffum wage scale of $6 a day, a flat increase of $1 a day for approx imately 28,000 employes throughout the country, was announced today by the Ford Motor company. Em ployes of the Ford tractor interests also are included in the increase. The new wage minimum becomes effective today. Twenty-three thousand other em ployes of the Ford interests already receive $6 or more a day. Coincident with the announce ment of the wage increase, it was made known that Henry Ford has formally resigned as president of the Ford Motor company and his son, Edsel Ford, elected to succeed him at a salary of $150,000 a year. Mr. Ford in tendering his resig nation gave as his reason his desire to devote more time to the tractor industry. He retains, however, his seat on the board of directors of the company in an advisory capacity. Edsel Bryant Ford, wdio becomes the executive head of a corporation representing an investment of close to $200,000,000, is only 24 years old. He entered the shops of the Ford plant when he was 16 years old to Sailor Killed in Riot Following New Year's Frolic in Norfolk, Va. Norfolk, Va.,v Jan. 1. One sailor was killed, another - dangerously wounded and several citizens re ceived minor injuries early today in a disturbance which started after a midnight frolic of enlisted men from the army and navy on shore leave. While the streets in the business section were filled with crowds, men in uniform held up street caVs, hurled missiles, raided restaurants and looted show windows and pawn shops from which weapons were ob tained. The police opened fire on a number of men caught looting a jewelry store window, after which fighting became more tr less gen eral. F. II. Rossen, a seaman, stationed at the naval base, died at a hospital from a bullet wound in the head. J. F. Carroll, a chief petty officer, was stabbed in the body, aim bryce Custer, a seaman, in the leg. Foch Sends Greeting to U. S. Paris, Jan. 1. (By Associated Press.) Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the French forces, yester day gave the correspondent the fol lowing New Year's greetings to the people of the United States. "On the morrow of the struggles in which the United States army has taken so glorious a part and in which it has shown magnificently qualities of valor and skill, I am particularly happy to send to the American people my cordial greet ings and wishes fcr their prosperity. (Signed) FOCH." HElRY roRXX gain a working knowledge of his father's business. Concerning the wage increase Henry Ford said today that it was "only a just reward to the men who remained loyal to the company dur ing the war period." , Kansas City Strike Comes to War Board in Omaha Kansas City, Mo., an. 1. Late last night Thomas C. Trigg, assist ant superintendent for the Street Railways company was accidentally shot and probably fatally wounded by the motorman of a car the two were operating during the strike. Trigg descended froln the car to throw a switch and the motorman not seeing him, fired a revolver in celebration of the new year. The bullet passed through Trigg's head. Conferences between officials, the federal conciliator, city officials and representatives of the strikers last night apparently had broSight the street car strike, which has crippled street car service since December 11. no nearer to a settlement. Hearing will be held before the war labor board at Omaha, Friday. W. B. Fitzgerald, assistant to Wil liam D. Mahon, president of the In ternational Street Car Men's organi zation, issued a statement last night that unless the Street Railway com pany moved for a setlement tomorrow-the strike would pass into the hands of the International organiza tion. An explosion in one of the local Street Railway company's barns in Kansas City, Kan., last night shat tered all of the windows in the structure and the surrounding build ings. No one was injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Lodgeman Dies. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 1. Manford W. Saxon of Topeka, major general commanding the Modern Woodmen of American Foresters, uniform rank, -died of paralysis after a pro tracted illness. PALESTINE DRIVE BRILLIANT FEAT, ALLENBYSHOWS Commander of British Forces Makes Report of Campaign Which Wipes Out Turk- v ish Army. London, Jan. 1. (British Wire less Service.) Details of what was, perhaps, one of the most spectacu lar operations of the war became kisqwr. today when General Alien ing report on the Palestine cam paign was published. British, In dian, French and Italian contingents participated in the fighting and, in addition. Arab forces from east of the Jordan rendered effective assist ance. The British navy also had a share in the operations. General Allenby's plan was am bitious. He sought to break the Turkish lines, send his cavalry thn ugh and encompass what he de scribes as a "rectangle 45 miles in length and 12 in depth," in which the Turkish troops were crowded. By this stroke he planned to cut the enemy's communications and com plete his discomfiture by joining hands with the Arabs. Great Gap in Lire. A force vastly superior to the Ttrkish armies was gathered against the right wing of the en emy's army, near the Mediterranean coast. On the morning of Septem ber 19, after an intense bombard ment lasting only 15. minutes, the allies attacked. The great gap was torn in the Turkish lines and through it were sent masses of cav alry, which had been held in leash until the moment had arrived. "Within 36 hours," says General Allenby. "all the main avenues of escape for the Seventh and Eighth Tirkish armies had been closed. "Alt organized enemy resistance cc-r.sed and roads were blocked by retreating men and transport. Then the allied air forces hurled them selves at the huddled masses of Turks. "The Turkish armies melted into nothingness," savs the report. "A j junction was made with the Arabs and tlie way to Damascus and Aleppo was open." British Revenues Show Heavy Increase in 1918 London. January 1. Revenues of the United Kingdom for the past nine months aggregated 509,165805 pounds, an increase of 108.515,502 pounds for the corresponding period of 1917, according to a statement from the British treasury today. The total expenditures for the same period chargeable against revenues were 2,049,993.606 pounds, compared with 2,029,435,062 pounds for the same period last year. U. S. Officials Expect No Great Differences at Peace Conference -- Paris. Jan, 1. American officials here today expressed the belief that when the full significance i Premier Clemenccau's declaration before the Chamber of Deputies-becomes apparent there will not be any difference in the principles in volved. , The impression apparently is growing that the progress is dispos ing of the details of the questions re garding peace conditions has been so satisfactory that the actual ses sions of the conference have been appreciably shortened. j It is now anticipated that many! questions which at hrst it was sup posed would command the attention of the conference for a long time, such as boundaries of states and racial determination, "will.be made the subject of joint investigations the result of which will be presented later for ratification without the con ference being held in waiting for them. The same is supposed to be true concerning the bill of damages I against Germany, which may be as sessed by a commission on which all the belligerents may be represented. When the peace commission has disposed of the question of actual damages, the question ot punuive in demnity may be raised. The impres sion of some of the Americans who haw beeifstudying this matter is tharwhen actual damages have been assessed the bill will run so high that the collection of indemnity will present n pcrnlexinjr problem. Mexico Places Heavy Tax on U. S. Flour and Sugar Douglas, Ariz., Jan. 1. Beginning at midnight last night the Mexican government placed an import duty of $1.10 a hundred pounds on flour and sugar shipped from the United States. This became' known last night when shippers at Naccy where spheral cars are waiting to be sent acoss the line, sought to make ar rangements to pass their goods free, it was announced a recent order of the Mexican governor. It is under stood that similar duties have been pl.-ccd on other foodstuffs, which t'.:e people of Sonora badly need and which mostly are procured from the United States. Kaiser Burned All His Letters Before He Left Potsclam, Says Kautsky Paris, Jan. 1. All the correspond ence of the former German emperor which was kept at Potsdam had been burned, as well as a number of djcumcnts dealing with internal questions, according to a statement made to a correspondent of the Matin by Carl Kautsky, who is pre paring a white book dealing with the origin of the war. Kautsky said the book would contain all diplomatic "documents bearing on the war from the assas sination of Francis Ferdinand to the invasion of Belgium. It would be in three or four volumes and the first volume would appear within 15 days. The book will contain many papers annotated in pencil in the handwriting of the former em peror. Kautsky said that not one paper was missing from the foreign office. Kautsky would not say who, in his opinion, appeared to be most compromised. , Swiss Protest Treatment of Legation by Russians Berne, Jan. 1. The Swiss govern ment has telegraphed a strong pro test to the soviet government of Russia relative to the latter s action in preventing the departure of the Swisr legation and staff from Rus sia. Switzerland declares it will hold Russia responsible for all de lays and demands and immedfate answ er. Soldiers and Sailors at Norfolk Celebrate New Year With Riot Norfolk, Va., Jan. 1. Soldiers and sailors celebrating the begin ning of the new year, caused so much disorder in the business sec tion of Norfolk, this morning that the local police appealed to naval authorities for marines to quell the disturbance. Several shots were tired, trolley cars held up and civil ians -roiiRhly handled. Two hours after the disturbance started there were unconfirmed re ports that one soldier had been stabbed to death. The enlisted men raided stores. broke show' windows a'nd forced restaurants in the business district j to close. 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