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Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
Iowa Pastor Resigns.

Red Oak. Ia, Nov 2.-(Speciai)-
Rev. Royal ]. Montgomery, pastor
of the Congregational church, has ten
dered his resignation
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
GERMANS SEIZE FIRST US.
SOLDIERS TO FALL CAPTIVE
IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR
Berlin Reports Capture at RhineMarne Canal Result of
Reconnoiterins Thrust Probably at Night; No Word
u From Pershng; to Care for the American
y Prisoners in Germany.
(By Associated Press.)

Berlin, Nov. 3-(Va London 1.-The capture of American
soldiers by German reconnoterng party announced by
the office.
The statement says that the Rhine Marine canal
result of accommodating thrust North American soldiers
brought in.
Two u. S. Privates Dead
Washington Nov. SGeneral Pershing reported to the
War department today the deatn OF two one from
as possibly accidental.
PRIVATE RALPH W. WHEELER, Machine gun battalion
son ofFred Wheeler Westmoreand N H. died October 20
of natural causes. .,.
PRIVATE FRANK VANA, infantry, died November of
blood poisoning the result Of gunsho wound possibly acc
dental His mother Mrs May Vana, lives at 437 Twelfth
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
HONOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Cedar County

Platte County
g.. .Chas. A. Welch Lindsay EMANUEL
Holy Family Para Lutheran School
cbial School
Douglas County
Irvington School. II. Louise Peterson
Union precinct So. Madeline Dorsey
sc. Union precinct 23 Eleanor Peterson
t.. .Verda Thorpe 24Mrs. M. JOHNSON
5..Verby Fitzpatrick Anna Cusick
4... Anna Larsen
Colfax County
II, 2s, 30 and AZ.
Deuel. County
ST.. Peter Jacobs 12. MT. Vernon schl
sl.,.. ..Pierte School e.....Pudue School
Nemaha County
30. Q. Ss. 53. 2s, 40 So, 81. Ii, 80
Burt County
90. Nina Ireland 50....C jacobson
ILL.,. Lucy Burns 81. Frances Miller
&c.. .Elzada Close 49,. Estelle Knapp
Dodge County
BE. Brimacombe IS. Mabel Cusick
So. Lille Sinamark So. Ruth Baldwin
So. Mary Brennan g.. Joseph Pollock
TO-. Henry Wasner 49,. .Marceia Kelly
s..H. r. Partridge 24......Ida ,Woerth
H.. .Luella Sampson 37..... Hazel Snow
27.....Fern Phillips 76. .Mollie Richards
B..s.. Mary Wolfe S4...... Ethel Lund
51.!. Mabel Forney
Webster County
16, 80, 81, 81, ,S3, 81 o.. Mrs. II. Smina
Butler County
L. Mrs. C. Hewitt "a. Louisa Hahn
32.... T. 2. Zacels 4S......Anna Hiatt
3D.. Martha Thege 52.... Anna Drake
49,. Marie Proskovec 3S....Agnes Randall
6s....!. Edna Egly 20..... Alice Flynn
49,. Nellie Lanspa Brainard Holy Trim
H.. Irene Norris lty School.
Thayer County
a.. Ida Morehead 7s...... Mrs. Young
H.. .Verna Walker 50. Mary surber
36 Gertrude Backer 50. Rachel Mllbourne
H....... Cecil Cane 3D.. Blanche Carey
22.... Herbert Sim 35...... Carl Yorhg
d.. .Cecile Polage .Lulu Reed
4S...... Bessie Dill 5...,..Mrs. Bignell
16. .Adeline Hesteen
Washington County
IA. 30, SO, 2. rs. IS 4S, So, 7. 6, 10, %
10, 20, 80. 50, 21, IL
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
PICKET BOAT PATROL FROM
BATTLESH|P MICHIGAN IN
: HOME MATTERS IN DISASTER
Three Bodies Swept Ashore; Craft Believed To Have
Foundered in Heavy Sea; Crew Believed Lost
and Navy Department Has Announced fs
u.s.. w. Casualty List of Twelve ~

Washington Nov. 3-Twelve men-the of the picket
boat of the battleshp Michgan-ere lost when their little
craft foundered in home waters
In brief of the disaster today the Navy
department gave details of place. Presumably the fast
little picket boat patrol duty and foundered in heavy
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04

London, Nov 3-The admiralty that certain
British forces have been engaged the Categat
the North Sea between Sweden and Denmark and that prison
being brought in
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
BRITISH DESTROY FOE
CRUISER AND PATROL
IN BIG NAVAL BATTLE.
Sixtyour Prisoners Taken in Engagement in North Sea-
No British Losses Reported German Raider
Is Sunk for Second Victory; Traw-
lers Sent to Bottom.
BULLETIN.

london, Nov. 3.-Thirty men on the German auxiliary
cruiser Marie of Flensburg killed engagement with
British deroyers according to Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Copenhagen. !.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
LATE WAR
BULLETINS

BELIEVE LEAK" IS FOUND.
El Paso, Tex, Nov. Sin the ar
rest of Ernest Lahendorff, govern
ment agents here believe they have
discovered an Underground" route
by which information has been trans.
mitted between the United States and
Mexico City for relay to Germany.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
GERMANS TRYOUT
new RADIO BOAT:
BRITISH SINK IT
Attack Along Belgian Coast by
Electrically Controlled High
e Speed Vessel Prevented by
....-.,. Quick Work Of Navy. -

f. London, Nov. s.--An attack was
made today on British vessels patrol
ing the Belgian coast by an electrical.
~ controlled high speed boat. The
boat was destroyed. 49,
The following official statement
was given out:
San attack was made today on our
vessels patroling the Belgian coast by
an electrically controlled high speed
boat. The attack was defeated and
the boat was destroyed"
F New Radio Device.
Washington, Nov. 3.-Use by the
Germans of an electrically con-
trolled boat" off the Belgian coast
was taken here to mean that device
similar to the radio controlled tor
pedo with which the United States has
been experimenting for some time,
has been developed by German engi-
neers to supplement their land bat
teries along the coast.
The theory of distant control of
boats, torpedoes or airplanes through
the use Of radio apparatus is an old
one. In this country basic patents
for q device of that character were
obtained by Rear Admiral Fisk, ap-
proximately 20 years ago.
Hammond Tries Plan.
No practical application OF the
theory. to boats or torpedoes was OF
record until John Hays Hammond,
ir., began his experiments and worked
out the plan with which the govern
ment has been experimenting.
The Hammond device, as originally
demonstrated, was applied to a swift
motor boat. From shore station the,
inventor was able to send the motor
boat in any direction he pleased by
the use of a radio telegraph key. The
little craft SKINNED far out, almost
out of sight, stopped, turned back,
circ1ed about a schooner that was
passing and then returned to its dock.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
ITALIAN LEFT ATTACKED.

Rome, Nov. 3.-Austro- German
pressure was more noticeable yester.
day on the left wing of the Italian
armies on the Tagliamento line, says
the official statement, issued today by
the Italian war Office. Attempts made
by the Teutons to reach the right
bank of the river, the statement adds,
has been detained by the Italian
troops.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04

Comparative Local Record.
1917 1916 1915 1914
Edass, Highest TO-DAY today .. g ss - i =
Mean temperature .... 81 81 so 81
Precipitation ........ 90 90 90 90
Temperatures and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March !,
and compared with the past two years:
Normal temperature ................... a
Excess for the day NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10
Total deficiency since March !, ......432
Normal precipitation .......... ,05 inch
Deficiency for the day ......s. .05 inch
Total rainfall since March 1....2l.24 inches
Deficiency since March i........6.20 inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916 .12.10 inches
deficiency for cor period, 1915. 2.21 inches
/ Reports From Stations at 2 p. NJ.
station and States Tenn. High Rain
OF Weather. Up. m. est. fall.
Omaha, clear .,........t. go ss 90
L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
The Weather

Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04
REPORT 100000 PRISONERS.

Berlin. Nov. 3.-(British Admiralty,
per Wireless Press. )--More than
100000 prisoners have been taken in
the Austro- German campaign on the
Italian front, the war Office reports.
There was no important fighting on
this front yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-04

Continued on Page Two, Column Two.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
Col. Roosevelt Given a
Big Reception by Moose;
Plan For War Relief
Rr .AssncintrI Prccs

Pittsburgh, Pa. July ga recep-
tion said to be more enthusia site
and greater than any accorded Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsburgh,
was given the former president when
he arrived here to-day to deliver an
address at the biennial international
convention of the Loyal Order or
Moose. Crowds lining the downtown
streets cheered loudly as Mr.. Roose-
velt was escorted by a reception COM
mittee of city and Moose officials
from the station to his hotel and later
to flag raising at the quarters of a
division of the Pennsylvania National
Guard.
The former president was the guest
at noon at luncheon given by the
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce,
but made no address. He will address
an open-air session of the Moose con-
vention at o'clock this afternoon,
speaking on "Americanism." Colonel
Roosevelt is an honorary member of
the Moose, an international conven-
tion of the order held in San Fran
cisco several years ago having voted
to make him a member.
At a session of the Moose conven-
tion to-day. plea for a fund of ST.
000.0 900 for war relief was made by
James ]. Davis, director general of
the order. Director Davis proposed
that the fund be raised by an assess
ment of one dollar upon each mem
ber of the order and that it be used
to provide a Moose Red Cross ambu-
lance and for the support of depend
ants of members of the order who
enlist or are drafted into service. No
action was taken on the proposal to-
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
Holland to Send Mission
Here Because of Embargo

The Hague, July 26.-"we are
going to America to clear up what
we believe is a misunderstanding of
our position, said ]. B. Van Der
Houven van Cordt, member of the
mission which is being sent to the
United States to plead the cause of
Holland in the export question, in a
statement made here to-day. He is
former vice-president of the council
of the Netherlands and the East
Irdies and former under secretary
for the colonies.
I'VE shall go prepared to show the
United States government and people
by facts and figures the real Sit
uation." he continued. "I believe it
is in the interests of America and
her allies that our traffic with Amer
lea shall continue. For instance.
sixty or seventy Dutch ships are now
in American ports. That alone is a
big disadvantage to the allies in view
of the shortage of cargo space"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
COMMEND LOCAL
RECRUITING IN
SPECIALLETTER
Captain Harrell's Office Is
Praised by War Depart
ment For Enlistments

A letter commencing the work of
the local army recruiting Office was
received this morning by Captain
Harrell from the Secretary of War.
The office. was inspected recently by
a Federal officer who at the time de-
olared it to be the best organized
one he had visited. The letter COM
plimented the local ONCE not only on
organization, but the way in which
advertising campaigns had been
managed and interest in recruiting
stimulated since April l. Army Of
ficers say that a letter from the de-
partment commencing the men for
good work is exceptional.
The entire state of Pennsylvania
yesterday was credited with a total
of 210 recruits. OF these the Har-
risburg district sent 11S. The Office
force at the station worked last even
ing until the last train west had left
at midnight and fifteen men still re-
main to be examined and furnished
with their necessary papers before
being sent to central posts.
To have so many recruits on one
day that the office force could not
handle them has been the ambition
of Captain Harrell. He admitted
this morning he almost reached that
mark yesterday bu the greater num-
ber of the men reported late in the
evening or otherwise the Harrisburg
Continued on Page 10
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26

AS far as artillery and technical
appliances of the Seventh and
Eighth armies are concerned there
IS also no hope of their being saved.
The Germans were already a couple
Of days ago across the best road
on the shortest line of retreat. The
rate of the enemy's advance on the
western wing has accelerated and
The gun positions are behind the
line now occupied by the Germans.
II is becoming an exceedingly
Eighth army will succeed in getting
away at all, but it is making the
best haste eastward.
The situation in Russia, according
20 a dispatch to the Times, is de-
,lared TO be gravely dangerous and
S attributed to the lack of discipline
,f the army and German propa-
yanda. the impudence of which is
almost past belief" Petrograd, the
writer says, is exhausted by the con-
inued political excitement and the
people are craving a stable govern
nent. Decisive and swift action is
necessary above everything else.
Feeling of Relief
Trial of persons proved to have
connection with German propaganda
With immediate death penalty of
hose guilty of the more severe Of
lenses would have an immeasurable
effect. The governments declaration
IF itself as a committee of public
safety has caused a feeling of relief
md a strong handling of the out
break in Petrograd caused the eX-
remist to vanish but the cancer is
incurred. The roots are still there
md a further operation is neces-
iary.
The masses are too much out of
hand to be deferred by anything but
4 reintroduction of the death pen
llty. The problem before the gov
.rnment is immense" concludes the
correspondent. They stand on the
brink of a precipice. If they can
aold back the country the situation
saved. If not, the country will
'ush into chaos and anarchy"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
Appropriation Bills
Will Be Completed by
Governor Tomorrow

Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
will complete work on the appro-
priation bills tomorrow and the bill
for landscape and grading work of
the Capitol Park extension will be
approved for the whole amount of
$350,000 and enough will be allowed
for purchase of a site for the Camp
Curtin memorial and for the parking
of it. These are projects to which
the Governor has given hearty ap-
proval.
The outlook for the Millersburg
bridge is not so bright.
The Governor has been laboring
on the bills for three weeks and has
considered in approvals for charities
such matters as the increased cost
of maintenance and supplies, the
revenues of the state applicable to
appropriation. the needs of the in
stitutions and their relation to their
communities, the character of the
communities. industrial or otherwise.
and the type of management of the
establishment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
Gen. Goethals May Go
to France as Chief of
u. S. Army Engineers

Washington, D. c., July 26.-The
possibility that Major-General Goe-
thals may go to France to head the
American army engineers is fore
most among the developments which
have followed President Wilson's re-
organization of the Shipping Board.
There is nothing new in the gen.
erals wish to take up active service
at the front; it was foremost in his
mind when the President called him
back from the retired list of the
army to take up the shipbuilding
program. The general frequently
has expressed his wish to close
friends and even to officials of the
War Department. AS a retired officer
ha is subject to any duty to which
the President may assign him. The
probability that he would be as
signed to service at the front has
been recognized ever since it be-
came apparent that he would leave
the fleet corporation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
Forty-six Bodies Taken
From Blasted Mine

Sydney, c. B., July 26.-Oficials
of the Dominion Coal Company to-
day said they had been unable 10
determine the cause of the explosion
in the company's mine at New Wa
terford yesterday which caused the
death of sixty-two men. Forty-six
bodies had been located early to-day.
Officials said there was no fire in the
mine.
When the explosion occurred 26O
men were under ground. Rescue
parties to-day were making rapid in
vestigations, having in view the pos
sibility that some of the men i'm
prisoned might yet be saved. The
explosion was at a point 2,10O feet
down the slope. Gas fumes We're
responsible for a number of the
deaths.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
Pershing Meets Military
Chiefs For Conference
Ru Associated Press

Paris. July 25.-While the princi-
pal delegates to the conference of
the entente allies to-day discussed
political questions, Major-General
Pershing, commander of the Ameri-
can expedition; General Sir William
Robertson chief of the British i'm
perial staff: General SHUTS, minister
of defense of the union of South
Africa; General Foch. chief of staff
of the French ministry of war; Gen.
eral Count Cadorna, chief of the
Italian general staff. and the other
military representatives conferred
lengthily on the military situation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
CONFEREES WILL
KEEP SECRET ITS
FOOD BILL WORK
Nothing to Be Made Public
Until Control Measure
Is Complete


Washington, July 26.-Conferees
on the administration food control
bill to-day undertook to reconcile
differences between the House and
Senate with a vigorous fight threat
ened over certain features of the
legislation. Their task was made the
more difficult by the action of the
House in instructing its conferees to
disagree to all Senate amendments.
The main contests We're expected
to come over the Senate's proposals
for the creation of a congressional
war expenditures committee and a
food control board of three mem
bers. both of which are opposed by
President Wilson.
The President wants the war ex-
penditures committee eliminated
because, he says, it would embarrass
him in the conduct of the war and
also the proposal to have three food
commissioners instead of one be-
cause he wishes to leave Herbert
Hoover unhampered in his work.
Several Differences
The Senate's amendments to fix a
50 minimum for wheat and to per-
nit continuance of the use of food
stuffs in the manufacture of light
wines and beer also are subjects of
differences to be overcome in con-
ference.
In their first session to-day gen.
eral sentiment. in a preliminary sur
vey by the conferees, was said to be
for disposal of the prohibition ques-
ton first, in order that the finance
committee may be advised of any
action which may affect revenues in
connection with the war tax bill. 1t
also agreed to expedite the confer
ence and hold night sessions.
1t was announced that nothing
would be made public until the bill
is virtually completed at least and
"solemnly pledged" to secrecy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
u. S. Soldier Risks Life
to See How French Bomb
Works; Loses His Hand

With the American Forces in
France wednesday,. July 25.-The
first near casualty among the Amerf-
can forces occurred to-day. A SOL
dier became too inquisitive in regard
to the construction of a live French
bomb among the supply broG yht to
camp for training purposes. +, ex-
tracted the safety pin in some n.?n-
ner and very soon thereafter a lold
explosion occurred. Fortunately 70.
the soldier the bomb did not contain
charge of full battle strength. or
he would have been blown to pieces.
AS it was. he escaped with the loss
of his right hand.
At every vantage point near the
camp men in Khaki and men in blue
could be seen to-day drilling, march
ing and digging side by side. Field
maneuvers were in progress at sew
eral places, while from more secluded
spots came the rattle of machine
guns. Musketry practice was being
held and on every hand was activity
which was most impressive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
PHYSICAL TEST
TO COME FIRST
in ARMY DRAFT
Claims For Exemption on
Any Ground Will Then
Be in Order
TO PREPARE A KEY LIST
Table Will Show Men First
Drawn How They
Stand
BY .issociGtcI PrcSs

Washington, July 26.-While local
selection boards were at work to-
day assembling men of the S, ectiVe
draft forces, officials of the provost
marshal generals office began pre-
pairing new publication to furnish
registered men with an easy method
OF keeping track of their status i'll
their districts.
The new list will be issued with
cross reference by number between
the red ink and drawing numbers 1t
will be possible for those. supplied
with the lists to inform any man al
most instantly in what order he was
drawn when he furnished his red
ink number. Presumably these lists
Will be placed in the selection boards
headquarters so that registrants may
ind out quickly where they stand.
II the master list is used for this
purpose it might be necessary to read
over several thousand numbers be-
fore registrant could find his own
number.
To Give Instructions
A careful outline of the process
to be followed both by the selection
is also being prepared for publica-
ton. Registrars and their relatives
are worried over action they should
take and the object of the statement
will be TO answer their questions
fully. The only thing registrants who
expect to be called in the first draft
can do now is to watch the selection
board headquarters so as to know
Immediately when their names are
posted. The date when they are to
report for physical examination will
be shown at the same time. There IS
nothing else for registrants to do and
in fact nothing that they can do un-
til that examination has been held.
Even the question of dependents
will not come up in any way until
a report on mans physical condi-
ton shows him to be suitable for
military service. When that has been
received the selection board will be
prepared to receive affidavits on de-
pendants the prospective soldier has.
The forms of the affidavits will he
shown by the board.
Similar forms for applications for
exemption on industrial grounds or
for appeal from the ruling of the Sc
lection board will not be available
until the time for their use comes.
The purpose of the plan is to avoid
the piling up of documents and to
provide that the boards will have be-
fore them at any time only the pa
pers of cases in process of hearing
That is the only way, officials be-
lieve, in which rapid action can be
assured.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity. Fair
Tonight and Friday. Continued
warm.
For Eastern Pennsylvania; Partly
cloudy tonight. Friday fair.
Gentle south winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and all its
branches Will continue TO fall
slowly. 4 stage of about 40
feet Is indicated for Harrisburg
Friday morning.
Temperature at s n. mt "A de-
Rrees.
Sun; Rises S4.52 a. m.
MOoni Full moon August ..
River Stages as feet.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature S5.
Lowest temperature 73.
Mean temperature 10.
Normal temperature 75.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
.BERLIN,S WORLD
CONQUEST DREAM
NOW SHATTERED
Newly-Captured Peasants Do
Not Know America Has
Entered the War
SAY THE KAISER is SAFE
Teutons So Used to Monarch
That They Refuse to
Depose Him
BY Associated Press

London, July 26.-Germanys dream
of world conquest has been shattered
and the belief among all classes there
now is that the war must end through
diplomacy rather than by brilliant
victory, according to the German
prisoners in England.
A representative of the Associated
Press who has just returned here
after visit to the large internment
camp at Dorchester, where approxi-
mately 1900 German prisoners are
quartered, is enabled to present many
interesting sidelights on the German
viewpoint as represented by men of
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-26
CHESTER QUIET
AFTER A NIGHT
OF RACE RIOTING
National Guardsmen and
State Police Aid in Re-
storing Order
FIFTY ARE UNDER ARREST
Four Men Shot and MANY
Hurt in Street
Battles
BY .fSsoeiGtrd Press

Chester, Pa, July Chichester was
calm to-day after race riots had
laged between scores of white men
and negroes in the river front section
from o'clock last night until /
o'clock this morning.
Four men, one of them a negro,
were shot; a dozen were otherwise
hurt, and about fifty whites and
blacks were arrested, charged with
inciting to riot
The outbreak was the sequel of an
affair Tuesday night, when Edward
Mchlnney' Il, was stabbed by two
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