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The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
navy EXPECTS TO aid
in ARMING OF Ships
Believed Details of Assistance Render
ed Will Remain Military Secret.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

out the country have begun a well-or-
ganized campaign, directed toward in
fiuencing the administration and Con-
gress to prevent actual hostilities. Fol-
lowing the lead of William Jennings
Bryan. many peace organizations have
started write to your Representative"
campaigns, and a flood of peace petitions
and letters suggesting means of avoiding
war Is deluging Congress and the White
House.
Big Peace Gathering.
A local committee representing the Ma
tional Emergency Peace Federation yes
terday announced monster mass meet
ing tonight TO discuss peace measures.
The sneakers at the meeting will include
Prof. Emily Balch, of Wellesley College:
DR.. John Harvey Kellogg. Morris Hill
Quit. and DR.. Allen Overstreet OF the
University of New York. Former Secre-
tary of State Bryan and Miss Jane
Adams. Of Chicago. have been invited
to attend the meeting. The announce
ment OF the meeting set forth the follow
ing program:
ITO urge Congress to defer until the
war is over the settlement of interna
tional disputes which cannot be settled,
| by peaceful means.
ITO war Americans out Of danger
zones.
ITO submit the question of declara-
ton OF war to a referendum vote Of the
| people"
| It was understood here last night that
a note from the German government ex-
pressing its thanks for tho care with
which American diplomats have handled
German affairs In the entente countries
had been framed in Berlin for transmits
sion to the United States. This is a usual
| diplomatic formality where one nation
has been handling the diplomatic affairs
| Of another, and follows the action of
Great Britain In the note handed Ambas-
! sador Page 1t was pointed out here that
some expression of friendliness or OF
hopes that friendliness will continue, in
| the German note on this subject may
I have been responsible for the report that
Germany was prepared to make peace ad-
vances to this country.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
nation UNlTES TO PAY
TRIBUTE To LINCOLN
Birthday to Be Celebrated Privately
and Publicly.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE osx

in observing the day. recently wrote to
President Wilson requesting that he write
for the occasion a letter worthy of the
immortal Lincoln
What President Wrote,
In reply, Mr.. Wilson wrote;
Tt would be impossible for me In the
midst OF the present unusual pressure
and character of my public duties to
write letter which. In your phrase,
would really be worthy of tho irnnnor-
tai lincoln, but cannot refrain from
sending you in anticipation of the
twelfth Of February an expression Of my
earnest and heartfelt subscription to all
that the unfuriing Of the flag on that
day in Philadelphia and in Kansas
means"
thrilled by stories of their popular Arneri-
can hero. Special and appropriate exer-
cises have been arranged for all schools
Every patriotic society and other or
santzatioH will flttingly observe the day
with programs this evening.
Many members of Congress and others
OF prominence In various parts of the
country were members OF a party which
left Washington last night for Cum
berland Gap, Tenn. to participate in the
Lincoln's birthday ceremonies to be held
today at the Lincoln Memorial University
under the auspices of patriotic societies
OF the North and South Senator Owen,
OF Oklahoma, will deliver the PRINCIPAL
address
Lncoln's memorable Gettysburg ad-
dress VIII be read by thousands today.
rms ADDRESS. which was delivered No
Vember 10, 1853. at the dedication services
on the battlefield. follows:
Text of Famed Addre..
-Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this continent
new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that ali men
are created equal
Now We are engaged in a sreat
civil war. testing whether that nation.
or any nation so conceived and SO
dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefeId of
that war.
We are met to dedicate a portion Of
1t as the anAl resting place of those
who here gave their lives that that
nation might 1--we.
1t is altogether fitting and propsr tba,
we should do this.
But in larger sense, we cannot
dedicate. we cannot consecrats, we can
not hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead. who
struggled here. have consecrated it far
above our power to add or detract.
The world Will little note. nor long
remember. what We say here, but It
can never forget what they did here.
1t Is for US. the living. rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work
that they have thus far so nobly carried
on.
1t Is rather for US to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before US: that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to tina,
cause for which they here gave the
last full measure of devotion; that we
here highly resolve that the dead shall
not have died in vain; that the nation.
shall under God. have a new birth Oh
freedom. and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people.
shall not psrfsh from the earth
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
MONEY CONSUMPTION NEXT.

London. Feb. IA warning given by
Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer'
in his recent Glasgow speech, that COM
pulsion may be resorted to II the present
voluntary method falls to bring In sur
ficient subscriptions to the new war loan.
has attracted widespread attention.
The chancellor used such terms as the
possibility of other ways or obtaining
the money" methods which ne said ne
.'beIieved would be bad for the country
but that If such steps were necessary,
account would be taken of the contrf-
buttons which had already been made
Voluntarily I"
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
Senhies Drive Of
Aqueduct Wreckers

(By international News seYvfee)
New York. Feb. 1.-Two at
tsmpts to tamper with New York
Citys water supply at Pleasant
vile, ". Y. were made within the
last twenty-four hours Both were
frustrated by the Guardsnen on
duty. Early today. two men tried
to climb over the wall of the aqus-
duct. but were driven OF BY the
shots Of the sentry. Saturday night.
two men escaped IN an automobile
after being surprised while at
tampttns to Get at the mechanism
Of the squeduct
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
JACK THE HUGGER" FINED.
Boldly Attacked Young Woman on
South Broadway

Baltimore, Feb. 11.--After giving a dem
onstration Of his prowess, George Con-
dora, believed by the police to be a .Jack
the Hugger." was before Justice Gerecht
In Eastern Police Court this morning.
Condora was arrested in the act of hug
ging by Patrolman Dieter Saturday night.
AS several young women were passing
along South Broadway Condora uncere-
moniously picked his choice, according to
the patrolman, and lifting her aside bodi-
ly. hugged her to his hearts content
The young woman broke from his hold
and fed, and the others. fearing a SINH
lar demonstration of affection scattered.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
PRISON FOR CHICAGO BANKER.

Ottawa. Ills. Feb. l1.-Charles B. Mum
day, former vice president and active
head of the La Sale Trust Company and
Savings Bank. of Chicago, Of which Will
liam Lorrimer was president. must serve
five year sentence in prison unless the
state supreme court rules in his favor
The appellate court here yesterday
upheld the conviction of Mundsy on
charge of misapplication of the funds of
the La Sale street institution.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
JAILED FOR BURNING FOOD.

London. Feb. 11.-so many precautions
have been taken by the government to
conserve its food supply that persons
caught wasting food are severely dealt
with.
A striking example Of the severe pun
ishment meted out to careless persons
was. given recently, when a sailor was
sent to prison for five years for setting
fire to a quantity of barley worth $500.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
TWO-YEAR CHECKER GAME.
Phtladelphia Lighthouse Players to
Wac Contest by Mail.

Philadelphia, Feb. 11.-Braving ruthless
submarine interference with their game.
eight checker players at the lighthouse
have settled down to a game of checkers
with French and Canadian soldiers In
France. The contest will last for at least
two years. 1t is said.
The playing opened last night. As soon
as a move had been decided upon the re-
suit was mailed to the base hospital at
Neuilly, France.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
POTATO GIRDLE FOR PARIS.

Paris. Feb. ia band OF territory
about 16o yards wide and eighteen miles
long skirting the fortihcations of Paris,
and now uncultivated.- will probably be
planted to potatoes next spring. The
mayors of the twenty ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
or wards. of Paris have arranged to meet
and settle the details.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
sCHWAB BUYS COKE PLANT.
sBethlehem steel Disclosed as Fur-
chaser of Lehfgh Concern.

South Bethlehem. Pa, Feb. u.-With
the official announcement by the Beth
Iehem Steel Company that that concern.
and not the Pittsburgh By-Product Com
pany, Of Pittsburgh. as first announced.
was the purchaser Of the Lehigh Coke
Company's plant. a H5ooo.ooo corporation.
the mystery as to the real purchaser of
This plant Is cleared up.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
WHOLE TOWN ARRESTED.
More Than 200 Maltby Residents
Fined for Taking Coal.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. n.-Virtually the
entire population of Maltby has been ar
rested and subjected to fines. The arrests
were made by the State police at the in
stance of the officials OF the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad.
The railroad runs through the town. A
gondola, carrying about fifty tons OF coal,
collapsed while 1t wss being pulled over
the tracks. The coal was spilled and
men, women and children turned out with
pails and wheelbarrows to help them
selves
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
FoRMosA REVOLT BREWING.

Tokyo, Feb 1.-THE Formosan natives
again show signs of insurrecuon A dis
patch from Talhol<u reports that tribes
men In Nanto prefecture in Central For
mosa revolted and attacked police sta
ton, Two native policemen were killed
and two others wounded
The Washington herald., 1917-02-12
CoNsUL's HOME ON FIRE.

Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. n.-Fire of un-
known origin today damaged the resi-
dence of DR.. Oscar Metzger, German Con-
sui here. Metzger and his family gave
the owner notice of leave soon after
diplomatic relations with Germany were
broken of. but just vacated the house
few days ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
new GENERATOR is
HIGHLY EFFICIENT
Hydro Pneumatic Device Gives
Greatly Increased Mileage
on Mixture of Gasoline
and Kerosene.

Five hundred million dollars is a
conservative estimate Of the annual
saving, according to experts, to the
concern of automobiles pleasure cars
and trucks) effected by the Duntley
Hydro-Pneumatic Gas Generator
which has Leen perfected by John w.
Duntley of Chicago, III. This device
Is being placed on the market at a
most opportune time. 1t will bring
an enormous saving to the nation
without realizing this vast sum is ac-
:umulating in the pockets OF the users
Of pleasure cars and trucks. This gas
generator enables the use of fuel of
,ne-half kerosene and one-half gaso-
line at cost of IA cents per gallon.
This ingenious device handles this
ow-grade fuel with perfect combus-
ion, eliminates carbon deposit; there
an absence of any gaseous odor or
imoke or vapor. The motor operates
ON a superheated hydrogen and car
,on-monozide gas of unknown chem
cal analysis. The mixture, however,
known beyond doubt to possess
cry high heat units, which increases
he power of the motor from 10 per
tent to Is per cent, depending upon
the condition of the motor.
A Little Giant" truck of two-ton
capacity, with gas generator attached,
s being exhibited at 2429 Farnam
)trest by the Haarmann-Locke Motor
company, distributors for Chicago
Pneumatic Tool company, manufac-
urers of the Little Giant truck.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03

laurels for his decorating ability.
The walls are decorated with red
streamers at regular intervals and of.
set with large and small American
flag shields. In the center Of the
show room is large American eagle
with wings spread and talons clutch
ing number OF American flags.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
Paterson Sells When Car
Climbs SteepeSt Hill

Speaking of hills" says Mr.. Linch
of the Nebraska Paterson Auto COM
pany, "there is a fair-siked little hill
over in our sister city, Council Bluffs.
1--WE, being strangers in Council
Bluffs, had not been over all the
streets there and didn't know about
Second street hill until someone said
they would buy a Paterson If we
could climb this hill in high gear.
"Thcre was just one thing to do and
that was to try it and, not knowing
the hill, we didn't know how steep It
was.
However, we went right on over
the top without shifting from high
gear. Although it was a real test
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
liberty Bonds to
Be Given Away as.
= Prize in Contest

So successful was the Maxwell deal
srs' national gasoline economy test
which was recently staged that a SIM
liar stunt will be put on in which the
contestants will! be made up of Max
we'll owners.
The c. w. Francis Auto company
received telegraphic information last
week to the effect that national gas
oline economy test will be made by
10000 Maxwell owners during the
period from June 16 to rs.
Fifty thousand dollars in Liberty
bonds will be given away as prizes.
Twenty-Five Thousand dollars in Lib
erty bonds will go to Maxwell owners
entering the contest and $4,000 in
Liberty bonds will go to the dealers
throughout the United States for con-
Quoting the contests.
All Maxwell owners have an equal
chance to compete for the prizes,
women included. The prizes in each
community will be awarded to the
driver getting the greatest mileage on
a gallon of gasoline.
q In the contest among dealers which
was staged May % it is claimed that
the average among 1000 contestants
was thirty miles to the gallon.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
War Demands Shorten
Hudson Super.Six Supply

"The government has just distribu-
ted orders for $4,000 motor cars Of
all descriptions" said Guy L. Smith,
local Hudson agent. This is just
preliminary-the first of the war or
ders which shortly will demand prac-
tically all the cars of certain grades
that can be manufactured. Fifty
thousand motors are necessary for
immediate organization uses. We can
only conjecture what tremendous de-
mands will follow when the govern
ment begins to mobilize the great
army which will begin to take shape
in a few weeks.
"If we need an example of how war
strips the motor market, we can find
it in France, or any of the nations at
war. France is now making five
times as many cars as it did before
the outbreak Of the war, and only
few of these are available for private
purchase"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03

Persistent Advertising is the Road
to Success. .a...E
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
STATE GUARDS MAY
SOON Be NO MORE
Adjutant General Hall Says
That Branch of the Serv-
ice Must Be Better
Treated.

Lincoln, Neb,, June 1.-The Ne,
braska National Guard and the Ma.
tional Guard of number of other
states soon will cease to be a mill.
tary unit of the state. Even now i,
faces utter dissolution and ultimate
absorption by the federal government
This is the opinion of Adjutant Gen.
eral Phil Hall, and he bases his rea.
soning upon the following difficulties
now confronting the guard:
Unusual requirements at short no.
tice by the War department.
Lack of inducement to enlist in the
guard.
Failure of the government to fur.
nish equipment.
The low pay Of the private.
A certain listlessness toward the is.
sues of the war.
The prospect Of long period of in.
action.
And the War departments attitude
of apparent hostility toward the guard
as an efficient factor of the fighting
forces of the United States.
There are number of other rea-
sons, according to General Hall, but
these are he most obvious.
Recruiting Goes On.
Notwithstanding his belief that the
Nebraska National Guard will lose its
identity as a military force; his belief
that it will be unable to meet the re.
quirements Of the War department,
and that 1t will at last be drafted into
federal service and be officered by
regulars, General Hall is making a
final effort to secure 900 recruits need
ed to bring the two regiments, the
Fourth and Fifth, to war strength
$50 men to the company.
General George H. Harries, head
Of the draft division of the State
Council of Defense, has been petit
toned to use his office to arouse en-
thusiasm for enlistment. General
Harries has appointed a member of
the County Council for Defense in
each county a special recruiting Off
Ger, supplied him with posters and
with advice, and until the Nebraska
guards are modified for intensive
training about July the campaign
for more men will go on unceas-
ingly, regardless Of the application
of the draft under the selective con-
scription law.
Hard to Get Men.
General Hall believes the require
ment of $50 to each company, the
number fixed by the War department,
is unusually severe. He Secalled the
effort necessary to bring the guard to
the strength at first required-l00
men to each company. Furthermore,
the adjutant general continued, there
is no compelling argument to induce
men to enlist in the guard-or, for
that matter, as privates in the regular
army. Certainly, if it could be brought
home to the men of the country that
this nation is menaced, that this war
is nearer home than they can be made
to believe, they would flock to the COL
ors. We have not yet been able to
make them see this. The war seems
a long way from home just now. I'M
minent application of the draft is, of
course, causing them to take the sit
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03

street under the name of the Walter
Andersen Electric Car company.
Andersen is particularly well fitted
to this line Of work, having been EN-
ployed by the Electric Garage and
the Drummond Motor company for
several years as the electric car spe-
cialist. Andersen recently moved
from the Blackstone garage at Thir-
ty-eighth and Farnam to enter the
new quarters at 2026 Farnam street.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03

1t hardly ever happens that uni
versity graduate gets to be principal
of a high school before he even re-
ceives his diploma, but William
Thompson of the University OF
Omaha and honor student of the class
Of 1917 is an exception. Although he
will not receive his bachelor OF arts
degree until June 6, he has already
been appointed principal of the Ban
croft High school.
Thompson is former graduate Of
the Omaha Central High school,
where he carried away a large num-
Der Of AS. He was a members OF
Athenian Debating society and made
the debating team several times. He
is also known as a good tenor.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
Temperaments Not Suited,
So Judue Grants Divorce

Judge Day. sitting in divorce court,
i'll freeing Frank E. Johnson from
Minnie Johnson, said he found their
temperaments were incompatible to
such an extent as to make it impossi-
Bile for them to live together" Cruelty
and desertion was the basis of the
suit. Johnson alleged that she aban-
doned him four years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
PAGEANT FOR s. s.
AT AUDITORIUM
Fiftieth Annual Celebration of
State Association to Be
Held in Omaha This
Month.

A Sunday school pageant to cost
$500 is to be presented at the Audi
torium June q in connection with the
hftieth annual celebration OF the Or
ganization OF the Nebraska Sunday
School association. 1t is expected that
more than 500 persons will take part
i. the pageant and as many more in
the special chorus which is to supply
music for the convention. Three
thousand delegates will attend.
The convention Is being directed by
Archie Carpenter, vice president Of
the Douglas County Sunday School
association. The chorus is to be
trained by Mr.. Helgren Of Kountze
Memorial church.
Mrs. c. A. Musselman. 2475 North
Forty-seventh street, is organizing the
pageant,
The pageant is to represent the de-
velopment OF Sabbath school work
since the days Of the Jewish patri-
archs and will portray dramatic
scenes of the New Testament, such
as Paul before Agrippa.
Boy Scouts will direct the dele
gates about the city.
Boy Scouts will be stationed at
road crossings throughout the state
to guide autoists to Omaha. Scouts
will meet the delegates at the Omaha
depots. Campfire Girls will also as
sist.
Twenty-seven Sunday schools OF
Omaha and Douglas county will each
present an episode in the long his
tory of Sunday school work OF the
world. Paul Weimer Of the First
Baptist church Sunday school will
have charge of the decorations.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03

for a motor car, the Paterson made
good the claims OF its makers and
we made the sale"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
Walter Andersen Opens
:. A New Electric Garane

Announcement has just been made
by Walter Andersen, we'll known to
the Omaha automobile trade, to the
effect that he will open new cleo
&C service station at 2026 Farnam
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-03
Guy Smith Puts Another
Dress on His Show Room

Omaha's cleverest little show room
decorator, Guy L. Smith, has trans
formed the appearance of his show
room again, gaining for himself more
Evening star., 1917-09-17
FOUR ITALIAN A|RPLANES
TOFLY TO WASHINGTON
VIII Make Trip From Hampton
Roads-one Machine to Garry
Eleven Persons.

Four Italian airplanes, piloted by
Italian army aviators. are to fly from
Langley field. at Hampton Roads, to
Washington, just as soon as the wealth
er clears from the recent coastal gale.
One of the planes will carry ten pas
sengers, in addition to the poIit, while
the other will have on board an observer
as well as the pilot. a big Caproni will
be operated by Lieut.. Resnati, and the
smaller ones will be Pomilio, Lieut..
Baldioli; Fiat, Lieut.. Ballerini. and a
Macchi. Lieut. Adamoli. The big Ca
proni is a bombing plane. while the
Pomilio and Fiat are reconnaissance
mechines. The Macchi is a fighting
seaplane. very speedy.
Lieut.. Ballerini and Alessandro Po-
milo, an Italian engineer now in this
country, explained today that the
growth of the airplane industry in Italy
was remarkable. At the declarat ton of
war between Italy and Austria there
were about eighty machines, all of a
French type, in Italy. Col. Ottavio
Rica1doni was placed in charge of avia-
tion affairs and by speeding production
in the big factories at Turin and Milan
and by establishing new works the out
put was brought to such a point that
now the Italians have 5000 machines.
are now twenty-five factories making
airplanes employing thousands of men
and women.
One of the latest achievements of Ital-
ian engineers is a triplane of the Caproni
type. which carries nine quick fire guns.
A number of o-her Italian planes are
soon expected at Langley field, one of
climbing capacity of 10000 feet in six
minutes. Another, with a single engine
developing 700 horsepower, will give a
speed of 140 miles.
Evening star., 1917-09-17
U-B0Qt Commander Laughs
While He DrOlUnS SO SeQnlen
Virqinia Negro Sole American Surviuor; Tells of
Cruel Inllur1an Conduct of German Cap
tain After Sinking Vessel at Sea.

the freighter had completely disap-
peared. Then the submersible leisureiy
ran af1oat for a short time. then slowly
nosed her way below the surface
The reason became apparent a Bit
ish patrol boat. tearing off about TWEEN
" knots. raced up frcm the horizon
line AS afterward developed. its ON
GERS had heard the bombing of the Bel
s1an Prince. 1t was after the u-boat'
so much so. indeed, that it passed by
Willie Smell. going full speed (though
some aboard waved to him), and raced
Tor where the debris of the freighter
lay Hoatlng. 1t circled about this spot
FOR time. with men standing by its
guns.
The only time ever really gave up,
a through the night and morning, was
"nen this patroller passed me- Smell
sara: knew they saw me, and L
thought they weren't going to pick me up
stopped swimming then and didn't care
What happened. So when they came back
and lowered boat they had to put rope
around me and haul me in. l was un-
conscious. This was about o'clock in
the morning"
y few days later the big fellow was
on his way back to America on an
other ship, the Kenmore. This, too. was
torpedoed. But that was nothing at
all. merely long pull to shore. And
then. again, the very passenger liner on
which he arrived al the Atlantic port
yesterday was shot at by a torpedo
but was missed.