Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-24
OSHANS YET UNREPORTED
Considerable Number of Them Have
Not Sent Word.
SOME STILL IN EVERY COUNTRY
Friends reel NsSurrd that TheN
WIN Not suffer uRrm, hut Arc
Greatly Concerned at
situation.


Although number of Omaha people
have already reached homo from Europe,
vhero their summer tours were inter
rupted by the war. and many moro have
been heard from since hostil.ties began,
there arc still quite number who are
Yet within the pail Of silence which has
existed in some parts of Europe ever
since the FIRST mobilization was ordered
Perhaps stranEcst Of these cases is
that Of 4. VI, Andreesen of the Lec-Coit-
ANDERSEN Hardware company, and Alex
Gunther of $50 Farnsm street his neigh
Dor. They went abroad together in
tended to return together, but separated
IN Germany in order to visit their reSpcc-
tive relatives at different cities, and not
a single word has been heard FROM them
since the last week in July Mrs Luther
Kountzc, daughter Of AIR. ANDERSEN, has
repeatedly appealed TO the state depart
ment for aid in locating her father and
Mr.. Gunther. nut so far without avail
On July Is the latter was at Denklinger,
Germany. and soon after that time Mr.
ANDERSEN was to meet him at Cologne.
They had return passage on the George
Washington. sailing September 10.
Swobodas Ia Berlin.
announcer sllCliNt which - willy ms
Omaha relatives is that OF MIR. and Mrs.
c. II. Swoboda. son and daughter, who
were last heard from in Berlin July 20.
Mr.. Swoboda, who has been well
known florist here Tor many years, left
/ Germany when youth because he
wished to avoid q marriage which his
family had arranged for him. He did not
serve his required military term, so it lie
! possible that he has now been drafted
| into tho German army.
! William II. SCHNEIDER Of the Schneider
& Mueller piano company is another well
known Omahau who has not been heard
/ from. lie wus visiting mis- mother, aged
and III at Eisensch. in southeast Germany
when the war broke out, and he is now
cut off from the rest Of the world by the
warning forces on all sides.
! Hans Roser. the German vice-consul for
/ Omaha. is also marooned in Germany with
his wife. They have not been heard from
since they sailed. so far as is known
They were to return on the Naterland,
which has been Communicated by the
German government.
Teachers Jnheard From.
Among the teachers caught abroad by
the War, Miss Marie Wetzcl of Saunders
school has not been heard from, except
indirectly. since July IS. At that time
she was leaving Miss Ethel Lynn, an
other Omaha teacher in Switzerland.
Miss Wetzell was going to Germany, and
Miss Lynn reached Paris safely, from
which city she wrote regarding the other
| teacher.
Henry Schumacher, custodian Of the
German Home here, was in Germany at
last reports, and is not known to have
communicated with Omaha people since
last month Misses Pollard, Isabel Pol
lard and Josephine Neary have not been
heard from. They are nurses and were
studying in Germany. 1t is believed they
may have Joined the Red Cross. Miss
Corinne Paulson Miss Luella Pegau and
Miss Gertrude Keeper were also in Ger
many when last heard from in July Mrs.
H. b. Gugler Mrs D. 3. Griffith and
Ernest Peycke were also there and have
not been heard from since the war began.
In Zone Of Fighting.
Right in the zone of fighting, in the
Duchy of Luxembourg, was the location OF
Mrs. Otto Vollmer and two children at
last reports, last month. Mr.. and Mrs,
Frederick X. Kuegle and Rev. o. d.
Baltzly OF Kountze Memorial Lutheran
church are not known to have sent word
to their relatives here since the wal
caught them Unexpectedly on the CONT
nent.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Brown
are believed to be safe at a mountain
villa near Vienna, no word has passed
t. or from them for many weeks. Al
though Randall X. Brown has made a
number of efforts to reach them through
the state department, he has so far sue
ceeded only in finding out that AN i'm
penetrable wall surrounds their locality
so far as private dispatches are con.
ccTned.
The same situation exists with Edward
J B. Perkins, son Of Mr. and Mrs F. w