BRIEF
RIGHT
REEZY
BITS OF NEWS
MEDALS GIVEN WOOD,
SCOTT AND HOLBROOK.
Washington, April 5. Secretary
Baker personally presented'Distin
guished Service medals today to
nearly two score officers and civil
ians who rendered conspicious ser
vice to the nation in the preparation
of the army and the mobilization of
industry for the war. the first being
Major Gen. Leonard Wood, ranking
officer of the regular army.
Others decorated included Major
Generals Hugh L, Scott, retired, and
Willard A. Holbrook.
Before he began presenting the
medals, Mr. Baker made a brief ad
dress, pointing out that while it had
been the fortune of some officers to
serve their country in the time of its
peril at the front or with the armies
in France, to others had come the
no less trying and arduous duties
that went with raising and training
the army at home. He expressed
liis fui: Recognition of the loyalty
and devotion with which they had
given themselves to the work before
them, whatever its nature, in order
that the Nation .might triumph.
PRESIDENT WILSON
STILL HAS SOME FEVER.
Paris, April 5. President Wilson
was "slightly better" at noon today,
an official bulletin on his condition
said. His cold, however, was stilt
pronounced enough to cause slight
temperature. i
( "The president has conie very
near having a serious attack of in
fluenza, but by going to bed at once
by my direction he has apparently
. escaped, but still is necessarily con
fined to bis bed," said a statement
issued at 4 o'clock this afternoon by
Rear Admiral Grayson, 'the presi
dent's physician.
Colonel House asserted that Pres
ident Wilson was feeling cheerful
during the visit of the premier and
himself. He was sitting up in bed,
Colonel House said and would prob
ably be able to resume his place in
Jthe council on Monday.
While the afternoon bulletin
showed an improvement in Pres
ident Wilson's condition, all pre
cautions are being taken against
anything which might lower his vi
tality. LIST OF ARMY UNIFORM
FOR DISCHARGED MEN.
Washington, April 5. Every en
listed man on discharge, the War
department announced today, will be
allowed to retain as bis personal
. property the following articles of
uniform equipment:
Overseas cap, (for men with over
seas service, hat fd others), olive
drab shirt, woolen coat and orna
ments, woolen breeches, one pair
shoes, one pair lcggins. one waist
belt, one slicker and overcoat, two
suits underwear, four pair stockings,
one,pair gloves, one toilet set, one
; barracks bag, gas mask and helmet
(for overseas men only).
. Soldiers who have already turned
in' their equipment are authorized to
redraw them by aplying to the direc
tor of storage in this city. " '
The department today called at
tention to the fact it is unlawful for
a discharged soldier to wear the
regulation uniform without the red
chevron which show his connection
with the military establishment has
been terminated according to law.
FORCE PEDESTRIAN INTO
CAR AND THEN ROB HIM.
Three men riding in a Ford auto
mobile stopped John Bambano, 2109
Pierce street, about midnight Satur
day on Twenty-second and Pierce
streets, commanded him at the point
of a gun to get into 'the car with
them, and fter a long ride, robbed
him and set him out for home "on
foot', according to the report John
1 made to the police.
Bambano says the bandits drove to
Fiftieth street and Popplcton avenue
with him and relieved him of $30
and his revolver. He said two of
the men were about 20 years old. and
the third about 24. The latter, he
Said had a police badge.
TAG SELLING STOPPED
BY POLICE IN TACOMA.
Tacoma, Wash., April 5. The po
lice of Tacoma arrested many per
sons today who defied the city coun
cil's order that tags should not be
sold on the streets under the aus
pices of the soldiers and sailors
council: Early this afternoon four
snlHiprs who served overseas were
among the men and women who had
been put in jail.
The city council ordered 100 extra
policemen to go on duty when it was
declared that the ship yards workers
would defy the police and sell tags.
The controversy is waged around
the purpose of the organization in
selling the tags. Members of the
city council believe it is founded
along lines of the Russian Soviets.
Leaders of the organization de
clare its purposes are misrepresent
ed. A proposition was made to the
city council that the soldiers and
workers council would call off the
sale if the city authorities would re
lease all those in jail.
BAKES TO REVISE
ARMY LEGAL PROCEDURE.
, Washington, 'April 5. secretary
Baker will submit a comprehensive
and constructive program for revi
sion of the army legal procedure
rnuAritiit rmirt-martial when rnn-
gress reconvenes. For this purpose,
he said today,, he has directed in
quiry into every phase of the mili
tary justice system. The results of
the study, made by all agencies at
. work on the problem, will be com
bined in a bill to be laid before con
gress. RAINBOW BOYS BID
GOODBYE TO THE RHINE.
Coblenz, April S. The Rainbow
division today began saying good
bye to the Rhine. Soon after 10
clock this morning the first train
-, pulled out for Brest, carrying the
division headquarters and the units
j' attached to it.
The departure of the 42d division,
composed of National Guardsmen of
27 states, and the third division to
land in France, is the first division
al movement of troops for home
from the American area of occupa
tion Three trains will leave the sta
tion near Remagen daily until April
11. when the tail end of the Rain
bows will see the-, last of the Rhine.
VOL. XLVIII NO. 43.
TRIAL FOR
SLAYING
TWO OF KIN
Seventy-Year-Old Mother of
12 Said to Have Confessed
Killing Son and Grandson
to Save Her Boy.
Montrose, Colo., April 5. That
Mrs. Nancy Jane Bush, 70 years old,
was suffering from "senile demen
tia" when she confessed she had
slain her son with an axe, and dis
posed of the body by boiling it with
lye in a soap vat, was the defense
outlined by her counsel today after
the state rested its case in the trial
of Mrs. Bush. . The aged woman is
accused of killing her son, John
Bush, and her young grandson, Otis,
at the Bush farm home near Olathe,
Colo., in December, 1917.
i Said She Boiled Bodies.
In the alleged confession submit
ted by the prosecution, Mrs. Bush
was quoted as having said that she
slew her son and boiled his body
after he had killed the boy," Otis,
and disposed of his body in a similar
manner because the boy had stolen
a small sum of money. Mrs. Bush
is alleged to have said that her son
compelled her to help dispose of
the boy's body, and that she killed
the boy's father for fear he would
attack her.
The defense outlined late today
was that Mrs. Bush had concocted
this story to enable her son to es
cape after the murder of the boy.
In suppore of this contention, the
defense today placed two witnesses
on the stand. r J. H. J?oatcap testi
fied that he saw John Bush1 in
Olathe two days after the date of
the alleged murder. The witness,
however, became confused as to the
exact date on cross-examination.
Walter Lips testified that he saw
a man who answered the descrip
tion of Bush at Kelso, Wash., sev
eral months ago.
Bones Found On Farm.
Before resting its case, the state
introduced two witnesses. Dr. Ed
ward C. Hill, city chemist of Den
ver, and Dr. J. C. Parks, a dentist,
to establish that bones found at the
Bush farm were of an adult as well
as a child. Dr. Hill said chemical
examination of blood tains found
on the premises as well as exam
inations of bones found on the farm,
established this fact, and Dr. Parks
testified that the teeth of an adult
were among those exhibited by the
state.
Mrs. Bush is the mother of 12
children, nine of whom are living.
Twenty-one Hospitals
Being Used in Caring
for Disabled Soldiers
Washington, April 5. An exten
sive program of caring for disabled
soldiers after their discharge from
military service was announced to
day by the war risk insurance bu
reau which is charged by congress
with this work.
Twenty-one hospitals with a
capacity of 1,500 beds already are in
use and the War department has
turned over to the treasury seven
camp hospitals for care of disability
cases. These are to be enlarged and
improved out of the $9,000,000
fund appropriated for hospitals for
disabled soldiers to be controlled by
the war risk insurance bureau and
conducted by the public health serv
ice, another treasury agency.
Death of Former Czar
Said to Have Resulted
From Effort to Escape
London, April 5. Documents re
lating to an alleged attempt of Nich
olas Romanoff, the former Russian
emperor, to escape from Ekiterin
burg shortly before his reported
death, are printed by the soviet or
gan Izvestia, a Russian wireless dis
patch from Moscow says.
In commenting on the documents
the Izvestia says:
"This attempt failed and the last
ruler of Russia fell a victim to an
unsuccessful and untimely attempt
to escape.",
Spartacan Soldiers
in Trenches Get Hail
of German Shells
Stuttgart, April 5. A battle be
tween 400 Spartacans and govern
ment troops occurred last night
southeast of Stuttgart. The Spar
tacans. who had dug trenche? on
the hills between Wangen and Gais
burg, placed machine guns in posi
tion. The government troops bom
barded the trenches with artillery,
WOMAN ON
MAKE USE OF THE BEE'S QUESTION AND
The Omaha
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UUVl
County Attorney Admits
That Inquest Into Death
( Of froeltz Girl Was Farce
Says Assistant Made Mistake in Not Bringing Out
All Facts; Pending Divorce Case May Develop
New Angle as to Motive ; Boy Burglar Denies Love
Romance Was Serious.
With flowers in their hands and sadness in their hearts,
a small circle of relatives and friends will stand by the raging
flames of an oil blast in Forest Lawn crematory this after
noon, while the final chapter is written in the life of Mildred
Hoeltz. r
Tomorrow afternoon about three quarts of ashes, all
that will remain of the pretty.disappointed department store
clerk, who took her own life Wednesday afternoon in the
home of her mother, 114 North Twenty-eighth avenue, will
be deposited in an urn of silver for sacred keeping..
What blighted the life of 15-year-old Mildred Hoeltz
and withered young womanhood in the bud? What stifled
the girl's soul and impelled her own hand to strike the blow,
which shrouded relatives and friends in mourning?
Inquest Failure.
There are questions in regard to
which the coroner's investigation
shows nothing.
Will Mildred Hoeltz's secret be
locked in the urn with her ashes?
With the termination of tiie 'coun
ty attorney's investigation, was the
question of the influence which
crushed the girl's spirit, and sub
sequently actuated self-destruction,
consigned to the dim mystery of the
things which have gone?
It may not be so.
Up out of the murky mist of the
past it is pointed oit there likely
will be shot a gleam of light which
will explain what the inquest failed
to bring out what Mildred Hoeltz
meant when she wrote her mother
the death note in which she said:
Death , Note Not Explained.
"Dear Mother: I am tired of
life. There is nothing to it but
sin and free love, so I am going
to sleep, the everlasting sleep.
Please don't think I am doing
jthis because of love or because
of the quarrel we had this niorn-
irig. But I have been ready to
die'' for three years, ever since
I was operated on. So goodbye,
my dear, forget me and lead a
happy and clean life.
"From your daughter,
"MILDRED."
It is predicted soon a divorce case
will be tried in district court when
facts will be developed in connec
tion with the tragedy, whirh were
not developed at the coroner's hear
ing. The occasion for the girl's refer
ence in her note to "A wot Id of
sin and free love" was not explained.
Though Mrs. Hoeltz, her mother, on
the witness stand, declare'! she
could explain this and why her
daughter ceased to make a confident
of her, she was 1 told that it was
not necessary for her "to relate
anything which she saw fit t keep
from the jury." She did not ex
plain. Mrs. Hoeltz also spoke of i mys
terious conversation Mildred had
with a man named A. J. Smith, a
traveling salesman, the night before
she died. Though Mrs. Hoeltz prom
ised to have him at the inquest,
Smith failed to put in an appear
ance. Harvey D. Wralker, friend and ad
viser of Mrs. Hoeltz, referred to a
sweetheart the girl had in Califor
nia, while the mother insists her
daughter had no sweetheart. Walk
er insisted at one time that he was
not even a friend of the Hoeltz
family, declaring he was just a
neighbor.
Admits Inquest Farce.
County Attorney Shotwell de
clared yesterday that he did not ap
prove of the way in which Deputy
County Attorney Paul Steinwender
conducted the corner's inquest.
"Had I been there," he said, "I
would have insisted on Mrs.
Hoeltz's giving in detail all of the
facts in the case. That is the proper
wav to conduct an inquest. The
! witnesses should not have been ex
Bolshevik Doctrines Are
Introduced ip N. Y. Schools
High School Pupils Well Supplied With Lenine, Trot
zky and Other Bolshevik and Socialist Literature,
Universal Service Correspondent Finds.
, BY BEN MELLON.
(Inlversal Service Staff Correspondent.)
New York, April 5. Grovtr Mc
Kinley Isidor is 17 years old, .'.us
cular, but slight of build. He has
no idle hours. He lives in 'loore
street in the Williamsburg restrict
of New York, attends the boys' hih
school in the day time an I works
at night. His views on government
Americanism are now .:i the
making. He believes that the men
who founded America were patriots
whose first thought was independ
ence, appreciates the advantages of
education advantages his .'atlte:,
who v as born in Kieff, Russia, cctild
not enjoy and, having battled and
won over ash can forts, believes in
the success and failure of in l'vi'1
uals by their own efforts.
Never Left New York.
Grover McKinley Isidor was born
in a little house in Moore -tr.'et.
He has never been outside of New
York city. He knows nothing about
OMAHA, SUNDAY
Jtt
cused from answering questions
calculated to throw any light on the
situation."
While telling her story Mrs.
Hceltz hesitated 'as she approached
an explanation of her daughter's
farewell note, and was told ( by Mr.
Steinwender she would not1 be re
quired to reveal anything she did
not care to relate to the jury.
Following Mr. Walker's solici
tious attentions recently to Mrs.
Hoeltz, who has been accused pre
viously of accepting Air. Walker's
favors, Charles A. Goss. represent
ing Mrs. Walker in her divorce suit,
declared last night he did not know
whether or not he would amend his
petition naming Mrs. Hoeltz.
May Amend Petition.
"I will not take this feature of the
case up until it is necessary said the
attorney. "Should it become neces
sary, of course, I shall file an
amendment to the petition."
Mrs. Hellena G. Walker is seek
ing a divorce from her husband on
th grounds of cruel and inhuman
treatment. She charges her hus
band, to whom she was married
February 26, 1890, with wholly dis
regarding his marital duties and ex
cessive gambling.- Mrs. Walker is
55 years old, and declares Walker
is the father of her three children,
25.24 and 20 years old, respectively.
Walker is an automobile salesman
and earns a monthly salary of $200,
Mrs. Walker alleges. He owns a
house and lot valued at $5,000 and is
interested in other real estate in
Omaha, Mrs. Walker declared.
Mrs. Walker further charges that
her husband carries a loaded re
volver, and has often threatened to
do himself injury with the weapon.
She declared he was extremely cruel
to her on numerous occasions and
asks a division of their property,
alimony and suit money.
Walker at Inquest.
Walker appeared at the ir,uest
Friday and remained by Mrs.
Hoeltz's side when she was not on
the witness stand. He cruised a
scene when he attempted to have
the reporters excluded from the cor
oner's hearing, and interrupted Mrs.
Hoeltz's statement to the press
after the jury returned a verdict,
to tell her just what and how much
she should say for publication.
- Walker lives with his family just
across the street from the Hoeltz
residence. Both he and Mrs. Hoeltz
declare that their acquiinlance
amounts only to a - "neighborly
friendship."
Both Walker and Mrs. Hoeltz de
clare that Mildred's urgent request
in her death note that her mother
live a "clean and happy lite" had no
significance at all as far as Mrs.
Hoeltz's past life was concerned.
Walker declared positively '.hat this
request in the girl's last note to
her mother had no reference to his
attention to Mrs. Hoeltz. Mrs.
Hoeltz asserted that her daughter
was an unusually good girl and the
request was made without anything
in particular in her mind.
"Mildred was a good girl,'" she
said, "and her mind did not dwell
on evil things. The note made no
(Continued on I'nge Two, Column Two.)
green fiejds and out of the way wild
places that make boy world worth
while. He has two brothers and a
sister, all younger. Their perspec
tive on life has been held to the
Moore street neighborhood by :he
force of circumstances. Isidor, sr.,
is a tailor. The family .ortures
have been controlled largely by
strikes. These strikes have gener
ally been for fewer working hours
in 25 years they have been reduced
from 14 hours to eight. Shorter
working hours and better living con
ditions are not an issue with the
Isidor family they are paramount
facts.
For 10 years the boys' high school
has taught history, Latin, mathemat
ics, literature and all kindred sub
jects that come within the sphere of
a school of that class. There are
many other schools, from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific, which have done
their work as well, but none better.
They must all be missing "some
(Continued on Pas Two, Column Three,)
ANSWER COLUMN
Sunday Bee
MORNING, APRIL 6, 1919.
RUSSIAN FLAG
TORN DOWN BY
U. S. ARMY MAN
Animosity Against Americans
Excited by Bearing of the
Troops in Manchuria,
Gen. Graves Is Told.
Irkutsk, April S. An American
soldier is alleged to have torn a
Russian flag from the rear platform
olf a special train bearing General
Diedrichs, commander of the
Czecho-Slovak forces in Siberia, and
Colonel Romanovsky, an anti-bolshevik
leader in the Uditisk district,
when it was passing through the
village of Pelka, Manchuria. Offi
cers on the train expressed indigna
tion over the incident when the train
reached here today.
The officers were especially irri
tated, since this was the second un
pleasant incident in which Ameri
can soldiers have figured recently.
Three days previously several Amer
icans from a troop train waiting on
a siding at Mulin Station, Manchu
ria, tried to board the same special
train in spite of the platform guard.
Several cars filled with armed ca
dets from the Vladivostok Military
school were attached to the special.
What promised .to be a serious sit
uation was relieved when the com
mander of the cadets ordered the
train to start.
Reports of the incidents have
been sent to Maj. Gen. William S.
Graves, commander of American
expeditionary forces in Siberia, by
Colonel Romanovsky. The latter
informed General Graves that the
men were intoxicated, and said:
"I regret the lack of discipline in
these troops, which increases the
animosity of Russians toward Amer
icans." He added that the conduct
of American officers had been above
reproach, but that tlve men seemed
to be uncontrollable.
General Graves has telegraphed to
Colonel Romanovsky expressing his
regret. He stated that an investiga
tion had been ordered and that the
guilty persons will be severely pun
ished. World War Veterans
Merge With American
Legion Over Country
New York, April 5. Officials of
the recently organized world war
veterans of America, with one ex
ception, have resigned in order that
the organization may be absorbed
into the American legion now being
formed by Lieut. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt and other former officers
of the American expeditionary
forces, it was announced here to
night. '
Permanent organization of the
American legion, which its .-porsors
hope will become the one body of
veterans of the world war, will be
effected at a meeting in St. Louis
May 1.
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt is
chairman of the "preliminary com
mittee," which is arranging the or
ganization convention.
Chicago Dwellers Enjoy
Summer Day in April
Chicago, April S. The warmest
fifth of April in ten years was re
corded here today when the tem
perature reached 70 degrees at 5
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By Mall (I year). Dally. $4. SO: Sunday.
Dally an Sua., $5. SO: outildt Neb. cottage
Change of Costume
Son of Gen. Pershing
to Visit France With
Sec. of War Baker
By Universal Service.
New York, April S. Eight-year-old
Warren Pershing, only
living child of General Pershing,
is to go to France to visit his
father and will' have a military
escort.
Warren, who wears clothing as
near like the American dough
boys' uniform as he can get. is
to accompany Secretary of War
Baker when the secretary sails
next week. Mr. Baker has ap-.
pointed First Sergt. Joseph A.
Welz of New York, who was
decorated at Chateau Thierry, as
personal bodyguard to the gen
eral's son.
0, S. SURGEONS
HUNT SLEEPING
SICKNESS GERM
Qualified Medical Officers to
Make Comprehensive Inves
tigation of Malady; States
Asked to Aid.
Washington, April 5. Although
183 cases of lethargic encephalitis,
or "sleeping sickness." with 14
deaths, were reported to the United
States public health service up to
March 29, officials of .the bureau
still are undecided whether the dis
ease of the type prevalent in Europe
has reached the United States.
"In the absence of any method of
positively establishing a correct
diagnosis and especially because of
the failure thus far, both in this
country and abroad, to find a spe
cific germ in these cases, the public
health service is unwilling to ac
cept 'lethargic encephalitis' as the
new disease," said a statement issued
by the bureau.
Surgeon General Blue has detailed
qualified medical officers to make' a
comprehensive investigation in or
der to learn the true facts regarding
the prevalence of the malady, and
has requeued state health officers
to make the disease reportable , so
that the study of it can be facil
itated. Charge Brickmakers
of Chicago Combine to
Raise Price of Product
Chicago, April 5. A dozen wit
nesses were examined today by the
legislative commission investigating
the high cost of building materials
in an effort to show the existence of
an alleged price fixing combination
.among Chicago briok manufacturers
The testimony showed that the
American Equipment company,
which leases on royalty a patented
brick setting machine to the leading
brick manufacturers, wields a pow
erful influence over the industry.
B. M. Weber, president of the
National Brick company, testified
that there was a clause in this con
tract which permitted a majority of
the manufacturers in the agreement
to alter tiie maximum price of $7
in Chicago and $5 on cars whenever
they desired. It is believed that it
was under this provision in the con
tract that the present price of $12
wasy fixed.1
FIVE CENTS.
SOLDIERS STOP
SELLING OF TAGS
FOR PROHIBITION
Returned Men Indignant Over
Attempts of Temperance
Workers to Cut Off
Rum and Tobacco.
By Universal Service.
Toronto, April 5. The indigna
tion of returned soldiers over at
tempts made by the temperance
workers to cut off tiie rum issues
and prevent soldiers while on active
service from obtaining smokes came
to a climax today when the women
were holding a tag campaign to raise
money to build a home and further
carry on their work against "the
booze.'"
Big posters adorned the various
khaki clubs during the morning and
at noon the soldiers inaugurated a
parade and marched up and down
the main streets. Eventually they
stampeded the city hall and demand
ed that the tag sellers should be
taken off the streets. They were
successful.
After a hurried session of the po
lice commissioners it was decided
that the women should be recalled.
The soldiers then concluded their
parade and hundreds of citizens who
refused to remove their tags found
that the regular element in the pro
cession was not' inclined to indulge
in ceremony beyond snat.:hingthe
offending tags from the weareis.
"We are going to carry 'his thing
on until we get our rights returned,"
one of the leaders shouted in course
of an impromptu speech on the city
hall steps. "We fought for liberty
and have come home to bondage"
"Ghost" of Chaloner
Reappears in New York
to File Damage Suit
New York, April 5. The robust,
virile "ghost" of John Armstrong
Chaloner, millionaire, who was ad
judged insanse by a New York court
22 years ago and later pronounced
"legally dead" by a sheriff's jury
after his escape from the Blooming
dale insanse asylum, returned to
New York today after an absence of
22 years, to prosecute a suit for
alleged libel against a newspaper
here.
The "ghost," who says he is still
"dead" under the "Machiavellian
laws" of New York state, came to
the city from his home at Merry
Mills, Ya., where he has been held
to be both "alive" and sane, under a
writ of protection granted by Fed
eral Judge Hand. This writ re
strains New York authorities from
rearresting and committing him to
Bloomingdale under the insanity
judgment which still stands against
him.
$2 50:
antra.
Appeal of Street Railway
Company to Be Heard in May
Lincoln, April 5. (Special Tele
gram.) The appeal of the Omaha
and Council Bluffs Street Railway
company from an order of the Ne
braska Railway commission denying
an increase in street car fares has
been advanced by the supreme court
for hearing at the session of court
beginning May 5,
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BIG DRIVE
TO FRANCE
General March Planning Now
to Bring Men Home Faster
Than They Were Sent
Overseas.
Washington, April S. Comment
ing on the fact that tomorrow will
be the Eecond anniversary of the'
entrance of the United States into
the war, General March today said;
"Tomorrow, April 6, is the sec
ond anniversary of the entrance of
the United States into the world
war. One year ago we were start
ing a tremendous drive to get troops
to France. When I took charge of
the office of chief of staff on March
4 of last year, I found that February
had touched bottom in tiie number
of troops shipped abroad only 43,
000 men having sailed.
309,000 Men Sent in Month.
"We built ships; we bought ships;
we begged ships, we commandeered
ships and on last April 6, the flood
of men across seas had definitely
begun, increasing in volume until
we reached our maximum of o09,00(
men in one month. Now on our sec
ond anniversary the great problem
is to get our men back to their
home's across the seas. I have sel
as a mark to be reached 310,000 men
in one month. Each month is show
ing a steady increase over the month
before, and we will do our best to
break the record in transatlantic
shipments.
"Demobilization has been speeded
up at home. One camp has' estab
lished a camp record of demobilizing'
over 4 000 men in one day and we
can easily handle the maximum num
ber of men per month, which the
available shipping permits us to
bring back. Every state in the union
is now welcoming its returning sons
the finest types of American man
hood, clean and virile, and deserv
ing the thanks of the people."
Out of Archangel By June.
Declaring the Archangel situation,
from a military view, was well in
hand. General March said it was
"incredible that the allied force
there can be driven into the sea by
anybody." He announced that the
War department's plan was to have
the American forces out of that por
tion of Russia by the end of June.
The chief of staff's statement was
made in connection with reports
ijrom England that the allied and
American forces combating the
bolsheviki were in a serious situa
tion. There has been no statement of
the conditions under which, the
Americans will withdraw, nor any
announcement to indicate that they
will be accompanied by all the al
lied forces now operating in co
operation with the anti-bolsheviki
north Russian armies.
The central powers faced odds ol
greater than two to one in mobilized
troops when Germany gave up the
fight last November. The estimated
aggregate strength of the enemy
powers ,at that time according to
official estimates made public today
by General March, chief of staff, was
7630,000. The indicated 'aggregate
allied strength on the date was more
than 15,700.000.
This situation is disclosed in the
figures received by the War depart
ment from France giving the present
status ' of the - belligerent armies.
They show that the central powers
on Burdette street" and they would
be given $50 for each car. Swan
was arrested yesterday morning.
Falconer is his brother-in-law.
Another Man Accused
of Having Part in Plot
to Steal Automobiles
Ed Falconer, 1844 North Twen
tieth street, is in jail, accused of
being tiie man to whom Fay Hat
field and Francis O'Neil, Council
Bluffs boys, were told to deliver a
Ford automobile which they at
tempted to steal Friday night from
Seventeenth and Douglas ftreets.
Hatfield and O'Neil, when at rest
ed Friday night, told the poiic: that
William Swan, 3424 Seventh avenue,
Council Bluffs, told them to steal
Ford cars' and bring them to a "place
on Burdette street" and they'd be
given $50 for each car. Swan was
taken into custody yesterdav morn
ing. Falconer is his brother-in-law.
Chamber to Give Luncheon
for Balloon Men From France
The post war activities committee
Saturday took action extending an
invitation to the members of the 12th
balloon company, recently returned
from France, to luncheon a; the
Chamber of Commerce on Monday
noon, April 7. The invitation hai
accordingly been sent to ihe com
manding officer of the company at
Fort Omaha. This event y. ill be
held in the main dining room ol tlf!
chamber and it is hoped all ni
bcrs ot the chamber will ai
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