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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
FRENCH MAKE A
COUNTER ATTACK,
GAINING GROlI'y.s
Drive the Germans Or - r.
beaux, Which The. .Ss ed
in Occupying in ~ att
ing Drive Tuesday.
vERDUN A SLAUGHTER PEN
German Captives Describe Fighting
Along the Front and Give Idea
Of the Heavy Losses.
PROMISED A CLEAR FIELD

PARIS, March S.-The French by
strong counter attack today sue
ceeded in driving the Germans from
the greater part of the Corbeaux
wood, which they occupied yesterday.
and, according to the official state
ment issued by the war office to-
night, the Germans now hold only
the eastern extremity OF this wood e.
The Germans, however, have reoccu-
pied the Hardamount redoubt.
Douaumont. to the north OF Yer
dun, is again being heavily bonn
barded
German prisoners taken at Ver-
dun estimate the losses of the bat
talions which took part in infantry
assaults since February 25, at an
average of two-thirds of their total
strength.
our officers promised us said one.
that cannon would clear the way for
us, so that we could occupy the French
lines almost without loss. We believed
also lnaL at eaCn stage OF our ADVANCE,
new artillery preparations would enable
us TO continue without great risk. In
stead, our battalions, under unheard of
fire from field guns and machine guns
for hours together, were cut to pieces.
The effort we made passed all measure
of human strength. That is why the
march on Verdun failed"
Here Come the French.
a German soldier belonging to the
SiXty-fourth infantry, said our bat
talon started from its position in the
woods the night OF March 2. with orders
to occupy an eapthwork to the east Of
Fort Douaumont. Suddenly some one
called:
Here come the French.
THE shock was so impetuous that II
overwhelmed our lines. 1 fell into a
hole made by a she'll and lay there all
night. listening TO the calls OF the wounded
for stretcher bearers. The means often
ended in the death rattle.
There can scarcely be anything left
OF my company. 1t already had lost one
fourth of it's numbers in the fighting
from February. q 90 "a. This finished IT.
Another German, member OF the
Twenty-fourth regiment. said: II was
glad to get out OF that hell. Our spirits
were pretty low and in all the division,
because we felt that the work OF taking
Yerdun would have to be begun all over
again"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
Ambassador Morgenthau Asks for
Collier to Take Food to Palestine

WASHINGTON. March s. Henry
Morgenthau. American ambassador q
Turkey. took up at the Navy and State
departments today the question Of send
ing a collier with food 10 sufferers in
Palestine. He said a group OF men I'm
New York were willing to supply about
500 tons OF food.
Americans in schools and other insti-
tutions in Constantinople. Mr.. Morgen-
thau said. are well supplied with food
now, but viii need more in the fall. lie
refused 10 discuss reports that Turkey
desired a separate peace.
President Wilson was invited today by
Rabbi JoFeph Silverman OF New York
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
Wheat Piled High
on Ground Awaiting
Cars for Shipment

HUTCHINSON. March s-An estimate
that 2O4,OOO bushels OF wheat were piled
on the ground awaiting freight cars for
shipment on the lei Paso division of the
Chicago, Rock Island a. Pacific railway
between Herington. Kan. and Tucum-
carl, n. NJ. was made today by Lyman
Osborn. division freight agent OF tho
road. The elevators along the lines were
full he said, and cars could not be
obtained TO move the surplus. He said It
probably would be several months before
the road could handle adequately the
grim offered II.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
Coal Company May
Intervene in the
Rock Island Case

CHICAGO. March S.-Federal Judge
Carpenter today Permitted Attorney H.
@, Miller. representing the Consolidated
Indiana Coal company, to file an inter
yening petition Objecting 10 the payment
OF $4,000 interest on the 100000 issue
OF 5 per cent debenture bonds OF the Chi
cago. Rock Island & Pacific railway, due
January IS, 1916.
The coal company bases its objections
on the ground that the railroad company
unconditionally guaranteed the interest
on a S,U3,OO0 bond issue OF the Indiana
corporation, which It is contended is
prior claim.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09

and SIMON Wolf, former minister 10 Tur-
key, 20 attend n mass meeting In Mr..
Morgenthau's honor in New York during
this month or April. The president said
he would go II possible.
Regarding reports that he might re-
sign, Ambassador horgenthau said a
number Of his friends had urged him 10
do so. 10 permit him to work for Presi-
dent Wilson's reelection, but that his
present intention was to return 20 Con-
stantinople. He said. however. that he
might resign n IL were shown during the
next few weeks that he could do work
for Mr., Wilson which could be accom-
plished by no one else.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
TEUTON TO keep
WITHIN SEA LAW
IF BRITON DOES
This is Said to Be Purport Of Long
Note Delivered to Secretary
Lansing by Ambassa-
dor Bernstorff.
sUBsEA NEW ENGINE OF WAR
Kaiser Admits International Code
Makes No Provision for
It's Use.
PUTS BLAME ON GREAT BRITAIN

WASHINGTON. March s.-The
German government in a memoran-
dun, handed today by Count Won
Bernstorff to Secretary Lansing, out
lines in detail its position in regard
to armed ships, reviews events lead
ing up to its decision to torpedo
without warning all armed mer-
chantmen OF its enemies, comedies
that International law, as at present
constituted. makes no provision for
the use of submarines, and expresses
willingness to operate its submRr-
ines in accordance with international
law prevailing prior to the war on
the condition that Great Britain does
not violate the same laws.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
Nearly Quarter of
Wheat Crop Still
On Farms March l

WASHINGTON. March s.--The Depart
ment OF Agriculture crop report today
announced:
per cent of the 1915 crop, remained on
farms March 1. About 6l.7 per cent will
be shipped out of counties where grown.
Corn. about LIS. 77s.0C0 bushels. or S7.S
per cent remained on farms. About 1876
per cent will be shipped About T.3 per
cent is merchantable.
Oats-About 296,GOO.OOO bushels. or ss.7
per cent remained on farms; about 30 per
cent will be shipped.
Barley-About 6O,5l1OO0 bushels. or 25.5
per cent remained on farms; about lS.1
per cent will be shipped.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
FRANK OAKLEY. FAMOUS
CLOWN, KILLS HIMSELF

NEW YORK. March s-Frank Oakley.
who as "Slivers." a circus clown. made
millions OF people laugh throughout the
was found dead. a suicide from
asphxiating gas in a theatrical boarding
house here early today. "Slivers," who
was 45 years old. came by his nick name
through his height and slenderness. For
years he Travelled with Barnum's circus
lie was born In sweden.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
Tong King ChOng,
Head of Chinese
Association, Dead

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. March s.
Tong King Chong. president OF the
Chinese Republican association. founder
md editor Of the Chinese Republic Jour
nal and active in the promotion OF the
resent revolution IN China, died here
asst night OF lung affection.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
Bank at st. Paul,
Mimi, is Robbed

ST. PAUL. Mimi, March s.-A robber
held up the Security state bank here this
afternoon and escaped with about $1,000
in currency Three employees of the
bank were in the building at the time.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09
The Weather

For Enthusiastically cloudy; warmer
in east and central portions; colder Thurs
day in west portion.
For Iowa-Partly cloudy and warmer;
unsettled and warmer in east and south
portions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09

interesting picture
nher n thel leoion
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09

The fuII text OF the German note
viii he found ON page 3.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-03-09

Temperature rpIiit and precipitation depar-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-27

had her fathers obstinacy of char
acter. I'm going-and you can ask
me to come back when you want
me-"
Rogers did not reply. The next
day Mile left home, and the mother,
terrified by the unyielding face Of her
husband, could only weep and fur
lively press her savings into the girls
hand. Later these came back. Let
tiers arrived, too, but Rogers pretend
ed never to notice them. It was only
when his wife prepared to spend a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-27
"PIay-Acting and Dancing Are the
Deadly Sins"

couple of days in the city that he let
his oppressed heart reveal itself.
81 know where you are going,
wife, " he said, land you don't go. If
you leave my house you never come
back
For once the spirit of the woman
who had once been so gay fiared up.
''Pu &C" she cried. But half an hour
later she went to her husband. 'I'u
stay for your sake, Jim" she said.
As the years passed the house grew
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-27

THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME
BY Robert SIaden
FHs 49, -
Five years had passed since MiIIie
Rogers had left her fathers home to
90 on the stage, and during those
i've years her father had tried in vain
10 shut the girl out of his heart.
Never during that time had her name
passed his lips.
His Puritan training had evoked in
Mile only stubbOrnness. Even
when she was just big enough to tod
die across the floor she had seemed
made for light and laughter. Her
gayety had shocked the old man; he
could not understand how he could
have given life to a child like that.
The austeTity of his religion hung
glOOmily about him.
It hung gloomily about his wife,
too Samantha Rogers had accom-
modated herself to his life, but she
secretly yeaTned for the old days of
harmless jollity before her marriage. /
The sOberness of the new life had
weighed her down. Then Mile was
born. Insensibly mother and daugh-
ter drew together.
If Jim Rogers was aware that he
was being shut out from the lives of
his wOmenfoIk he said nothing, but
went his way, growing sOurer and
grimmer as the years went by. AS
she grew older he ceased to scOId his
daughter; he accepted her as a mis-
fortune, and it was not until she an
noUnced her intention of going on
the stage that his repressed anger
blaZed out.
IF you sell yourself to the devil
you are no longer any child of miner
he said. I've borne with you these
twenty years, but there's a limit"
Many good women are on the
stage" said Mile
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

Z. L. TRACY, NJ. d. oaiee and residence
2ii Main St. Hours to o.3O a. IL, l to Q
and ~ $50 p. IN. Tel. 256.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
TELEPHONE COMPANY
TO DIVIDE BONUS
Employees to Be Especially Remembered
in This Season of Special Demands
Upon Their Income.

More than $4,000 employees Of the
New England Telephone and Telegraph
company will each participate, next
week Wednesday, in the distribution of
an emergency payment to assist them
In meeting unusual present expenses.
Employees who have been in the ser
vice one year or more will receive
three-weeks pay. Employees who have
been in the service lass than one year,
bat not less than three months. will
receive twoweeks pay. No employee
will receive more than $l75 and no en-
plCye of less than three months ser
vice and no general official will in any
way share in the payments.
While in no sense a holiday present,
the fact that it comes most unexpected
ly at this time of the year makes it a
most timely evidence of the continued
concern of the company officers for
the welfare of its employees. This distri-
button to employees, amounting to over
100000, was decided by the directors
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
QUIET CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND.
Campaign Against Extravaganza viii
Make Holiday Gloomy.

LONDON, Dec. o0.-Here are some
of the reasons why the average Eng
lishman will think twice this year be-
fore providing an elaborate Christmas
for his family:
Every $3.50 worth of food equals 80
cartridges
Bottle of champagne equals 100
cartridges.
Box of cigars equals 400 cartridges.
New hat equals four steel helmets.
New dress equals four service rifles.
Motor car equals an airplane
Piano equals loo shells
Lapdog equals 20 shells.
Diamond tiara equals one field gun.
There Is to be q new sort of Christ
mas IN England this year, if the ad
vice OF the government is followed
1t will be a self denial Christmas. de-
signed to furnish the proper amount
of festivity without thoughtless ex-
travagancc. Christmas in wartime, as
| the British newspapers conceive it,
should have neither economy nor fast
ing as the keynote. but merely the old
Diekensanian unselfishness. War econo-
my means more munitions.
Christmas has always been a dreary
| day in England. because the avera ge
middle-class English family retires in
TO large dining room and eats for sew
eral hours. The food, although rich and
| well cooked. IS what Americans call
that heavy English stuff Christmas
parties, after feasts of such weight
tend toward somnolence. Nevertheless
the English Christmas has always been
tradition in the United States, one Of
those merry English traditions based
upon blazing fires, cosy chimney corners,
tankard of ale, steaming heads of wild
boar, church warden pipes, elear-sound
ing carols, and family prayers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
LONDONDERRY.

Henry Hathorn has gone to Ludlow
TO visit his brother.
Mrs. Marion Wright is spending a
week in Newfane and Brattleboro.
Mrs. Fannie wilkins has gone to live
with her daughter, Mrs Robert Charl-
ton.
News has been received here of the
death OF Amos Lathrop in Palmer,
Mass.
Miss Clara Marden is home from
Manchester for a two weeks vaca-
ton.
Mrs. Amos Stone has gone to Spring
field, Mass, to spend Christmas with
their son, Maurice Parker.
Miss Marion Gibson, who teaches
school in Thompsonburg, is taking a
week S vacation. The village schools
have vacation next week
Mrs. Guy Wyman and Miss Beatrice
Wyman were in Brattleboro Saturday
Mrs. Carl Wright and Mrs. Helen
Rounds were there Monday
Mrs. Maria johnson is not feeling as
we'll and L. A. Wilder is confined in the
house with lumbago. Lyle Bolster is
driving the Manchester stage.
Mrs. F. F. Stevens and son, Albert
have gone to Allentown, Pa, to spend
the holidays with his mother and sis
tiers. Mrs. Crossman of Thompsonburg
is keeping house for her
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
HEAD AND NOSTRILS
STUFFED FROM COLD
'Pape's Cold Compound" ends a cold
or grippe in few
hours

Your cold will break and all grippe
misery end after taking a dose of
''Pape's Cold Compound every two
hours until three doses are taken.
1t promptly opens clogged-up nostrils
and air passages in the head, stops
nasty discharge or nose running, re
lieves sick headache, dullness, feverish-
ness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and
stiffness.
Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing
and snuffling! Ease your throbbing
head-nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Papes Cold
Compound which costs only 25 cents
at any drug store. 1t acts without
assistance, tastes nice, and causes no
inconvenience. Accept no substitute
| Advt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
'In the Spotlight

Of the New England Telephone and
Telegraph company at their meeting in
Boston today. Naturally, the "voice
with the smile : is particularly in evi-
dcnce among telephone employees, with
out regard to sex or relative rank.
In connection with this announce
ment President Spalding said:
The revenues of the company de-
pend on the rates for service allowed
by the commissions, and should provide
for all expenses, a fair return to the
owners of the property, and a surplus
to care for emergencies. Their sufiicien-
cy Is judged by the results of a period
of years, for il is not feasible to be
constantly modifying rates on the one
hand, and expenses on the other, to
meet changes occurring III general bust
ness conditions. In this respect the tele-
phone company is entirely different
from the manufacturer, who from time
to time increases or decreases his
forces as the demand for his product in
creases or decreases. and changes his
wage schedules to conform to changes
i'll the selling price of his goods and
changing profit of his business.
Employment in the telephone com
pany is practically continuous, and fur
thermore, special benefit fund has
: been created to insure reasonable secur-
/ ity of the income of its employees
/ against the emergencies of sickness, ac-
cident or death, and to provide pen,
sion for those who have served the
company faithfully and grown old in
its service. Nevertheless, without try
ing to pry into the private affairs of
our people, we have been impressed
with knowledge, gained from many
sources, that the present increase III
the cost of the necessities of life was
| seriously diseommoding some of our en-
ployes.
We found that this affected no par
ticular employees, or even class Of EN-.
/ ployes but that the burden of in
| creased expenses was being felt gen.
orally by employees receiving $4,000 and
| less, and especially by such as were
| heads of families or had others depend
| ent upon them. We desire a high quail
! t. service from all, and we desire also
| the feeling that we are all one big
| family and that the welfare of each i.
! the concern of all. and especially is il
the concern of those having administra
tive duties. After gathering such facts
as seemed necessary for defnit opin
ion on the subject, | recommended II
our directors the plan which they unan
imously adopted today.
eve shall make the payments mex
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

DIR. HENRY TUCKER. Residence. IL Grove
ST.; telephone, 255. Office, Leonard block
Hours: 100 to Q. and 20 8. Telephone,
2g-W.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
SOUTH HALIFAX.

Miss Gladys Chase is at her home for
the holidays.
Frank Stone s mill has been shut
down this week for repairs.
Floyd Stone was in Turner's Falls
Thursday and Friday on business.
Mrs. Frank Upton is with her daugh,
ter, Mrs. Leon Williams, in Jackson.
vile.
Fred May, ir., has put in a dynamo
in his saw mill and will light his
buildings by electricity.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Mitchell attend
ed the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Viii
liam Beaudry, Sunday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

in some quiet room, the right kind Of
UNDERTAKING
can bc carried out with due respect for
the dead and vast deal Of comfort to
the living. This establishment has
truly earned the palm Of approval for
the dccorum, beauty and artistic fu-
neral arrangements so often left en-
tirelv in our hands by sorrowing
friends. The seal Of approval is always
set on both our efforts and our reasona-
bic prices.
Moran & Rohde
Embalmers and Funeral Directors
Phone S54-W. 81 Main ST.. Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
OUCH! LAME BACK.
RUB LUMBAGO OR
BACKACHE AWAY
Rub pain right out with small trial
bottle of old, penetrating
EST Jacobs OIL"

Kidneys cause Backaehe9 No!
They have no nerves, therefore can not
cause pain. Listenl Your baekache is
caused by lumbago, seiatica or a strain,
and the quickest relief is soothing, pen
etrating est. jacobs OIL" Rub il
right ON your painful back, and instant
~ the soreness, stiffness and lameness
disappears. Don't stay crippled! Get
a small trial bottle Of "St. Jacob s
Oil'' from your druggist and timber
up. A moment after it is applied YOU III
wonder what became of the backache
or lumbago pain.
Rub old, honest est. Jacob s Oil"
whenever you have sciatica, neuralgia,
rheumatism or sprains, as it is abso-
lutely harmless and doesn't burn the
skiu.-Advt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

Wednesday. They will represent, not
charity, on the one hand, nor a raise
of wages, on the other, but rather, if
| can reduce tha idea TO phrase, mes
sages OF goodwill, understanding and
appreciation on the part Of the officers
Of the company for efficient and loyal
employees in temporary time Of
stress.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

B. e. WHITE, M. d. General ractitionerl
Office rooms, and 8. Crosby block. Hours
TO .. m, 1 to g. and to .. N. Resi-
denee, 20 Grove St. Telephone, TIT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

". r. MOVES, N. D, Eye, Far. Nose and
Throat. o 20 ~. l to 5, " ednesd and
Saturday evenings. Other hours and ) ndays
by appointment. Appointments for glaa ses At
ting made by mail or phone. American Bldg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-25
BOARD Of NAVIGATION
PLAN Of Mr.. M'ARTHUR
Introduces Bill Providing for Com
mission of Seven Members at
$4,000 Year Each.

A complete revision of the maritime
and navigation laws of the United
States would be effected if the bill in
troduced today by Representative Nc
Arthur of Oregon is enacted. The bill
provides for centralized control ovel
the construction, classification, equip
ment, operation and manning of YES
sells. The control would be exercised
by a board consisting of the supervis-
ing inspector general of the steamboat
inspection service. the commissioner OF
navigation and five men to be APP
pointed by the President. Salaries are
to be placed at $4,000 a year.
The object of this measure" said
Mr.. Macarthur. "iS to bring about Il
thorough revision of the navigation and
shipping laws of the United States,
based upon reports made by a commits
sion of high salaried experts, who are
to give this great subject their undi
vided attention and make recommends
lions as to legislation that will restore
our merchant marine and moderniZe
our shipping and navigation laws.
There is widespread demand for leg
islation of this character, and / have
offered the bill after lengthy study and
consideration of the general subject
and consultation with shipping men of
wide experience
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-25
Predicts Ship Purchase Defeat.

Congress has not enacted much con-
structive legislation on this subject,
but in view of the widespread interest
in shipbuilding and the great possibili-
ties in store for our commerce with
foreign countries and for restoring
the American flag to the seas the time
has come when something should be
done. The ship purchase bill of the
administration is doomed to defeat, but
there should be something in the ma
ture of a substitute that will clear up
the situation and enable Congress to
receive frst-hnd information from an
official board that will be qualified to
speak and to make recommendations
for shipping legislation.
IF this bill should be enacted there
would be no more disasters like the
Eastland catastrophe in Chicago last
year, for the board must examine and
approve all plans for vessels not only
sea going craft. but also those operat-
ing on the lakes and rivers of the coun-
try. 1t will be perceived that the board
is to include marine engineer. This
is to enable it to have the benefit of
technical advice in that direction. The
board is also empowered to retain a
marine architect when found neces-
sary.'