THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. 1919.
NOTHING GOULD
STOP THE YANKS.
SAYSJIIELDOli
Secretary of State Historical
Society Returns from
Visit to French Battlefields.
By a Staff Correspondent. V
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 27. (Special)
The Yanks fought with a spirit
which was invincible, said A. E.
Sheldon, director of the Nebraska
legislative reference bureau and
secretary of the State Historical so
ciety, who returned today from the
battlefields of France where he has
been collecting material on Ne
braska's part in the world war for
the archives of the state.
Mr. Sheldon reached General
Pershing's headquarters about No
vember 1, after numerous, delays in
company with a party of French,
American and Australian newspa
permen, and was privileged to sec
the final 11 days fighting of the 'var
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This announcement is
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the people of Omaha, in
view of the fact that
government v shipping
restrictions on this coal
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soft coal sold in Oma
ha) will be removed
February 1.
He was in the capacity of a newspa
per correspondent, which accorde;
nim all the courtesies of the pro
fession and enabled him to collect
some exceedingly valuable mater
ial. Proceeding directly from General
Pershing's headquarters to the head
quarters of the Seventy-seventh di
vision, fighting its way through the
rough, flooded country on both sides
of the Meuse river, he witnessed
some of the hardest fighting just a
few days before the signing of the
armistice.
Doughboys Swim iver.
The capture of Dun, an important
stronghold on the east bank of the
river, was effected while he was
there. American doughboys swam
the river at night, climbed the bank
and drove the German pickets, but a
heavily fortified hill bristling with
machine guns still remained to be
taken. It was not attacked directly,
but other troops were sent across
the river outflanking it on both sides
and the Germans were forced to
withdraw from their strategic
stronghpld.
"The best tribute to the American
soldiers' prowess," said Mr. Shel
don, "is that the ttoops went for
ward day by daf under such condi
tions and with German artillery fire
covering all of their movements.
Nothing could stop the Yanks."
The American infantry not only
braved the German artillery, he
said, but also had to advance against
innumerable machine guns con
cealed behind trees or in holes. The
losses were so heavy that they
were not given out officially. Some
of the names of men killed in the
Meuse river fighting are now being
published for the first time, he said.
Visted All Fronts.
Mr. Sheldon visited practically all
of the famous battlefields and
picked up a large amount of ma
terial from the Somme battle
grounds and at Ypres. He spent
eight days traveling from Ypres,
Dixmude and Passchendale, to Ar
mentieres, La Basse, Bapaume,
Lens, Arras, Douai. Lille, Cambrai,
San Quentin and Peronne.
Most of this country is still de
serted he said, and hardly recog
nizable as having ever been inhab
ited by human beings. The city of
Lens, with 100,000 people, is in
ruins, with scracely a building
standing. In front of Ypres for a
distance of 20 miles long and seven
or eight miles wide the entire area,
Mr. Sheldon said, looked as though
some giant golf player with a mam
moth putting stick had chopped up
the soil until one could not find a
space large enough to sit down
upon which did not show the effects
of high explosives. The British
lost an average of 500 men per day
on this, sector for the two years
which they held it.
Christmas with Nebraskans.
Mr. Sheldon did not get to spend
as much time with the Nebraska
boys as he desired. He found them
well and happy. He was present
at the Nebraskans Christmas day
celebration at Saarburg, where the
Huskers were with the army of oc
cupation. Nearly a thousand Ne
braska boys were there with the
355th regiment from Camp Funs-ton.
Abuse, Congratulations
And Flowers Sent to Bill
Admirers of Former Kaiser
' Send Birthday Presents
Which Undergo Dou
ble Censorship.
By Associated Press.
Amerongen, Sunday, Jan. 25.
William Hohenzollern on his 60th
birthday tomorrow morning, will
have received many flowers sent by
German admirers in Germany and
Holland. Since Friday bouquets
have been arriving in great quanti
ties from school girls and former
supporters in Germany.
At the same time every mail
brings piles of letters and telegrams,
most of which are congratulatory.
However, there are dozens of car
icatures and letters of abuse. The
letters undergo a double censorship.
First the Dutch authorities look
over them to prevent intrigues. Then
a servant inspects the letters and
permits only those communcations
which he considers will please the
former emperorf to Kach him.
Concert Raises Criticism.
Much adverse comment has been
heard in Holland regarding the pro
posed concert which was to Inve
been given Saturday in the castle in
the precinct of the former emperor
by the Amerongen church choir. It
was reported the concert would be
given in honor of the emperor's
birthday. '
The exact facts are as follows:
The choir gave a concert in the vil
lage church shortly after Christ
mas, which was attended by several
members of the former emperor's
suite. The choir, under the patron
age of the young Countess Von
Bentinck, was invited to sing at the
castle Saturday evening, the former
emperor knowing nothing about the
arrangement. The program, con
trary to assertions in the press, was
to contain Dutch folk songs, the
Dutch national anthem, psalms and
hymns.
Lives Humdrum Life.
The outcry was so great that the
concert was abandoned. The former
Nation's Boy Power to
Be Organized to Meet
Farm Labor Shortage
To call in the "boy power" of the
nation in- the coming spring ' labor
shortaee is the, purpose of the pres
ence in Omaha Tuesday of Edwin
S. Shortess, national field director
for the United States Boys' Working
Reserve.
A conference has been arranged
at the University club at noon at
which George Kleffner, federal la
bor director, Lenord W. Trester,
federal state director for the reserve;
Thomas P. Curran, assistant, and
Superintendent Beveridge of the
public schools will attend.
Appointment of a junior counsel
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emperor as yet knows nothing about
the matter.
The veil which up to this time
has hidden William Hohenzollern's
daily life from the public has been
lifted sightly and shows that he
employs his day in the humdrum
fashion usual among country gentle
men who do not frequent society.
He rises a about 8 o'clock and fol
lows an ordinary routine. His bath,
however, is followed by a thorough
massage to which he has been ac
customed since his university days.
After his bath he has an extremely
simple breakfast, sometimes in his
own rooms and sometimes with the
Bentinck family.
Always Has His Nap.
After lunch the former German
ruler occasionally takes a short nap,
after which he gives himself to writ
ing or dictating to his private sec
retary, a former officer. Tea is serv
ed in the English style at 5 o'clock
and then the exile reads until dinner
at 8 o'clock, after which there fre
quently is music in the parlor.
The former emperor never wear's
uniforms nowadays, although many
uniforms, including those of all the
German guard regiments, and sever
al general's outfits were brought
across the frontier when he left
Germany. The exile wears civilian
clothes made by the local tailor at
Zeist.
No Use for Dinner Plate.
Those who have not noted the
gradual change in the former emper
or's appearance scarcely recognize
him in the elderly civilian with short,
whitish Vandyke beard and some
what thinned gray hair, which, how
ever, still is in good .condition con
sidering his age.
Enormous quantities of baggage
wer brought across the - frontier
when the former emperor fled, but
many trunks are still unopened.
Little use is made of the silver din
ner set for 25 covers which also was
brought along.
The former emperor, it is said, is
beginning to realize the change in
his position with the departure for
Germany of many of the attendants
who had been with him for long per
iods and to whose presence he had
become accustomed.
lor for Nebraska will be made at
this meeting He will handle all
working reserve work for boys and
girls under 21.
"Our aim is to keep children in
school as long as possible, but if it
is no longer possible, to distribute
them in industry in a manner best
for them and industry," said Mr
Trester.
Public School Enrollment
is Larger Than Ever Before
Omaha public schools opened
their new semester today with a very
large enrollment, estimated to be
larger than ever before. The fine
weather brought out an especcially
large attendance in the kindergar
tens which received a large number
of new 5-year-olds-
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OVER FOR THIRD
TIME 111 MONTH
Confessed Auto Thief is Held
to the District Court Under
' Bail of Two Thousand"
Dollars.
William McKenna, confessed au
tomobile thief, was bound over Mon
day morning for the third time this
month ofi a charge of grand larceny.
He waived the preliminary hearing
in police court and was held for the
district court on a bond of $2,000.
L. C. Jones, said by the police to
be one of the ring-leaders in a gang
of automobile thieves was named in
the same complaint. He also waived
and was held under bond of $2,000.
Jones was arrested Saturday by
Police Chief Eberstein. Both men
were alleged to have stolen a car
owned by C. J. Tumulcwicz Sep
tember 28, 1918.
Police are making an effort to
have McKenna held in the city jail
despite the state law which requires
that prisoners awaiting trial on a
state complaint be taken to the
county jail.
A mittimus commanding McKen
na's removal from the city prison
and his delivery at the county jail
was made out.
Chief of Police Eberstein, who
was present at both hearings asked
Judge Fitzgerald to order the de
tention of both men at the police
station. Judge Fitzgerald said he
had no right to make such an or
der. .
McKenna has been held incom-
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mother and Chief Briggs are the
only persons allowed to see him.
It is feared if he is taken to the
county jail and others allowed to
interview him he might explain the
reason for his release when he
signed the "mysterious" affidavit
now in the hands of the county at
torney. Mother May Talk.
Mrs. M. McKenna, mother of
William McKenna, intimated she
would have something to say about
the mysterious affidavit her son
signed in Captain John Briggs' of
fice a month ago.
She would neither deny nor ad
mit that her son had been promised
immunity if he would incriminate
"higher-ups" in the theft of automo
biles. "I will have something to say after
I see what happens to my boy," was
her only remark about the affair.
She admitted having been in con
ference with -police officials. She
is a daily visitor at Chief Briggs'
office.
Victor Rosewater to Speak
on the League of Nations
Victor Rosewater, editor of The
Bee, went to Sioux City yesterday
to present the subject of the
"League of Nations" with the So
ciological club, which is the princi
pal discussion club-of that city.
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MAYOR SMITH
WILL TALK 0F
NOME FOR GIRLS
To Address Ministerial Union
Following Sermon in Which
Rev. Leavens Criticises
Attitude.
Following the sermon delivered
Sunday morning to the congrega
tion of the First Unitarian church
on. the women's detention home by
the Rev. Robert F. Leavens chiti
cizing Mayor Ed P. Smith's antago
nistic attitude towards the manage
ment of the women's detention
home, the mayor has agreed to ad
dress the Omaha Ministerial union
next month.
While the invitation extended the
city's chief executive did not desig
nate a subect, Mayor Smjth de
clared that among other things he
would talk on the detention home.
"I am going to tell the Omaha
ministers some things they do not
know," he said. "I shall bring to
their attention some things which
by all means they should know."
landeis Ste
Mayor Smth had no comment to
make on the sermon of Rev. Mr.
Leavens.
Asked if Police Conttm'ssionet
Ringer had made a report on th
investigation of the charges impli
cating several policemen in accept
ing bribes in connection with theit
duties at the detention home, Mayot
Smith declared that Commissioner
Ringer had failed to comply with
the arrangement to advise him ol
the results of his probe.
"I am still waiting to hear from
Mr. Ringer," said the mayor. "I
assume he will let me know what
has been done in the matter, as he
has agreed to do. Mr. Ringer's de
lay has not dampened my intense
interest in the situation at the De
tention home. The cloud which
has been hanging over that institu
tion absolutely must lift sooner or
later." 7
T have nothing to say t this
time," Commissioner Ringer replied
to the question as to what has been
revealed by his investigation be
gun some time ago pursuant to the
charges of Wilma Rice and pub
lished in The Bee.
"I may have something to say
later." he continued. "There is
nothing to talk about at this time,
however. I nave learned mat ine
Bee did not quote Miss Rice cor
rectly. She did not make all the
statements which were credited to
her."
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