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Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
Central France in
Grin of Cold and Snow

Paris, Jan. 2,-Another heavy fall
Of snow in eastern and central France
ard in the Vosges has greatly in
creased transportation difficulties,
Lyons with the thermometer stand
ing at zero, Fahrenheit, degree of
cold almost unheard of there, is snow
bound. The Lyons-Mediterranean
line has cancelled a considerable num-
Der of trains and the few still running
aft hours behind schedule. St.
Etienne, in the heart of the great iron
working district OF central France,
is under three feet of snow and the
railroads in the region are completely
blocked.
Paris and northern France, curl
ously enough, are far more favored as
regards both temperature and snow
than central and southern France and
transportation for the armies IS going
on without interruption.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
American AUiatOr
Barely Escapes Death

Paris. Jan. 2.-Lieutenant Raoul
Lufbery Of Wallingford, Conn, Of
the La Fayette escadrille, had a
narrow escape in a fight with four
German battle machines last Sat-
urday. The gasoline pipes on his
airplane were punctured during the
engagement and although he had
the advantage of higher altitude
his machine became almost help
less through the stoppage of his
motor.
Lieutenant Lufbery seemed vir-
tually at the mercy of the Germans,
but by clever maneuvering with one
of the Germans following him down
almost to earth and firing contin-
uously he managed to escape I'M
hurt. His machine was found to
have II bullet holes in it.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
RUSH TROOPS TO
BATTLE FRONT IS
" war COUNCIL CRY
State Department Announces
Plans Outlined by Great In
ter Allied Conference
Held at Paris.

Washington, Jan. 2.-Constant and
speedy dispatch of American troops
to the European battle front is the
principal recommendation made to the
government by the American dele
gates who recently returned from the
inter allied wal council at Paris.
The principal recommendations OF
the American delegates, headed by
Colonel L. NJ, House. as President
Wilson's personal representative, are:
That the United States exert all
their influence to secure the entire
unity of effort, military, naval and
economic, between themselves and the
countries associated with them in the
war.
Inasmuch as the successful termi-
nation of The war by the United States
and the allies can be greatly fastened
by the extension of the United States
shipping program, that the govern
ment and the people of the United
States bend every effort towards ac-
comp1ishing this result by a syste-
matte coordination OF resources of
men and materials.
Speed Up Ships.
Speeding up of the merchant ship
building program and closer co-opera-
ton with the co-belligerents.
Through a new inter-allied organi,
cation for coordination of shipping
resources arrangements have been
made to devote "the greatest amount
of tonnage possible for the transpor-
tation of American troops"
Arrangements were made to have
the United States participate in mill
tary deliberations of a supreme wal
council "as a step toward efficient
and centralized unity of control OF
military operations"
To Rush U. S. Troops.
In order to enable the United States
to visualize the problem of food con-
troll at home Great Britain, France
and Italy have agreed to put in legal
lied and compulsory control of food
stuffs in their countries.
The extent Of the military effort TO
be aimed at by the United States was
clearly determined and an allied advi-
sorry board was created to advise each
nation on allotments of ships, so as
to permit the American military ef-
fort to be realized.
More active utilization of American
naval forces and all agreement was
made with the British admiralty to
effect certain plans for anti-subma-
rine warfare.
Contribution Of the United States
to pooling of war resources. The
arrangement guarantees full equip
ment of every kind will be available
to all American forces sent to Europe
during 1918.
THAT the fighting forces of the
United States be dispatched to
Europe with the least possible. delay
incident TO training and equipment.
Summary in detail Of recommendations
Of inter-allied war council will be found on
page a.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
RED GARRISON
ROUTED IN FIGHT
WITH COSSACKS
Town of AlexandrOvsk 0CCu-
pied; BoIsheviki Regiments
Disarmed by Kazatin; Street
Fighting in Odessa.
BULLETIN,

Petrograd, Jan. "A new republic
has been set up in the Black Sea ter
ritory with Novorossysk as the capi-
tai A coalition cabinet, including
constitutional democrats, has been
formed. Delegates from Ukraine to
the Constituent assembly will arrive
i'll Petrograd tomorrow. No effort
was made to open the assembly today.
Tchernomorsk, or the Black Sea
territory, is a district of Trans-Cau-
casia, consisting of long, narrow
strip on the coast OF the Black Sea
and on the west slope of the Cau-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
RED CROSS CHIEF
SAYS CIVILIAN
RELIEF Big JOB
T. J. Edmonds, Director of Cen
traI Division, Tells of So
ciety's Aims After the
War.

Civilian relief is the big Job OF th,
Red Cross which will justify the So
ciety's continuation after the war, &C
sording to T. !. Edmonds. directo,
bf this department in the Central di
vision, who talked to Omaha volun
tecr relief workers at the Young
Women's Christian association.
The man in the front line trenches
is better fighting machine if he
knows his family at home is we'll takcl
care of, he said. This is not char
ity work; it is doing our duty to the
family and community from which
the man was removed. Where relic
is given it should be as diguihed a,
possible. All families to whom this
department should give service will
not be dependent families. Another
big work will be the explanation ot
war risk insurance and government
allowances to the families OF enlisted
men,
Too Many Societies.
Mr.. Edmonds issued warning
against the organization of innumer.
able relief societies for the aid of sol,
diers' families. The community
should know this is the field of the
Red Cross. In the civil war there
were 1000 relief societies, not one OF
which was properly organized or Fl.
nanced for the big work"
"One-half of Red Cross work now
is concerned with civilian relief
rather than military relief, for whicl,
the Red Cross was organized, and the
work will increase as time goes on.
said the speaker. Civilian relief is
the most important work because il
must maintain all the social stand.
ards of the nation When the war is
over our men must find the world a
good place to live i'll, after all, and a
good place i'll which to convalensce
Standards of national life will be
stressed in the meantime, but they
must not be exhausted. Child labor
and overtime work for womcr-mu
not be countenanced."
Mr.. EdmondS traced the growth OF
the Red Cross from its Organization
IN 1859 for men salvage by nursing
to 'the establishment of public health
disaster relief work and its present
war work, which includes not only
medical departments, but cantcens
Christmas and comfort packets, sup.
Elementary clothing and civilian re.
lief.
He pointed out the economic i'm.
portance OF the prevalence of women
knltters in public. 1T means using
up time which would otherwise be
wasted. Hand-knitted articles, too
wear better than machinc-made
ones"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
Judge to Decide HOu
Old an Egg Should Be

When is an egg bad? This mo-
mentous question will be decided by
Police Judge Fitzgerald at the hear
ing of David Specter, proprietor of
the Chicago Bohemian bakery, 1907
North Twenty-fourth street. A
complaint states that Specter has
been using eggs past the egg limit
in the making of pastries. A sec
ond complaint, charging he is keep
ing an unsanitary bakery. has been
filed against Specie
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
LATE WAR
BULLETINS
GERMAN PLANES DOWNED.

Paris, Jan. 2.-Six German airplanes
were put out of action yesterday by
the French, it is announced officially.
Artillery fighting continues at various
points on the front, but no large in
fantry actions are reported.
BRITISH REPULSE ATTACKS.
London, Jan. 2.-Several raids were
made by the German forces last night
on the British positions on the Bel
gian and ArraS fronts. The official
statement issued by the War depart
ment today says that all the raiding
parties were repulsed.
PUSHED BACK AGAIN.
Rome, Jan. 2.-Another attempt to
cross the Piave river has been de-
feated by the Italians, the war office
announces. Half a score of vessels
loaded with enemy troops were dis
persed at 1ntestadura, where the
crossing was attempted.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
Five Of Houston Rioters
Sentenced to Be HANGED


San Antonio. Tex, Jan. Five Of
the negroes tried by the last court
martial in connection with the Hous-
ton riots have been sentenced to be
hanged, according to the verdict of
the court, announced by Major Gen
eral Ruckman this morning.
The arc Priyates Babe Collier.
Thomas McDonald. James Robinson.
Joseph Smith and Albert D. Wright.
AL of Company |, 2+th United States
infantry. Execution Of the sentence
will oe suspended until after the case
Is reviewed by President Wilson.
Three OF ,hc fifteen tried were sen.
fenced to ten years at Leavenworth
and seven to seven years each.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
Cossack Troops Seize Town.
(By Associated Press.)

London, Jan. 2.-Cossack troops
have occupied the town of Alexan-
drovsk without opposition and the
Bolsheviki garrison was disarmed. ac-
cording to reports received here from
Petrograd regarding the civil war in
Russia. 1t is not stated which Alex
androvsk was captured. (There are
several towns and villages in Rus
sia named AleNandrovsk, but the
nearest to the Cossack territory are
those in Ekaterinoslav and i'll Stavro-
poll
Reds Disarmed.
Other Bolsheviki regiments are
said to have been disarmed by the
Orenburg Cossack leader, Kazatin,
who returned the arms after the Boil
sheviki swore never TO fight against
the Ukrainians and CoSsacks. The
Cossack commander at Rostov re-
ports that the Bolsheviki have liber-
ated a number of prisoners of war
and armed them. Bolsheviki troops
still occupy parts of the Don mining
district, but they are unable to send
coal to Petrograd.
There was more street fighting in
Odessa on Monday, but it apparently
was not serious.
The Bolsheviki authorities, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Petrograd, have received
information that the situation on the
Roumanian front is very serious. The
relations of the Bolsheviki with Rou-
manian officers are said to be becom-
ing alarming. 1t is said the Rouman-
ians have occupied the Bessaraban
town of Loevo and have arrested and
shot several Bolsheviki leaders.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03

PAVE FLANK INTACT.
While holding strong positions in
the mountain region from Asiago
across the Brenta to the Piave, the
Italian flank along the Piave is now
intact. The enemy has replied only
with artillery to the French stroke
which gained valuable positions in
the Monte Tomba region.
The weather apparently also is COM
ing to the aid of the hard pressed
Italian army, which has had little rest
since the Austro-German drive be-
gan lat" in October. Heavy snow is
falling on the Swiss-Italian and Swiss
Austrian frontiers. Troops and other
trains are being held in the Alps by
the snow. and the food supply of the
enemy troops on the Italian front has
been cut off temporarily.
Raid is Repulsed.
On the western front the coming Of
1913 was welcomed by strong artillery
duels in the Ypres, Cambria and Yer
dun areas, In the Nerdun sector the
Germans have extended their fire to
the left bank of the river, but have
made no attacks. The Germans at
tempted raid near Loose, north of
Lens, Tuesday morning, but were re-
pulsed by the British.
With the entire Cossack territory
reported aroused against the Boil
sheviki, General Kaledines' troops are
advancing toward Moscow and fight
Ing with the BolsheViki has been re-
sumed at Hurst, about 200 miles south
OF Moscow.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
United States to Provide
Necessities to Sweden

Stockholm, Jan. 2-The Swenska
Dadbladet ascribes to the Swedish
foreign office information that nego-
tiations with the United States have
been concluded satisfactorily. 1t says
that an agreement has been reached
under which 1000 tons of necessities
chiefly coffee, petroleum and drugs
will arrive in Sweden about the mid
3le OF February.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
London Markets Close;
Meat SuppLY Exhausted

London, Jan. 2.-Many butcher
shops throughout London were
without their usual supply of meat
today and some were forced to
close. Almost no beef arrived at
the Smithheld market and the
scanty stocks were exhausted long
before the retailers, who stood in
line from S o'clock in the morning
until noon, could be supple
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03

them the good news, but | dare not"
~ conan Senseuey has been granted
Is days shore leave and lett
Tuesday morning for Plaiuvew to
visit his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Scnseney On the return trip he
will go to San Francisco and be as
signed to another torpedo destroyer
which will make the "Trip to the war
zone
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
REFUSE TOACCEPT
PEACE 'OFFEREDBY
CENTRAL POWERS
German Conditions to Retain Poland and Lthuania Bring
Objectons From Bolshevki Delegates; Demand
Every German Soldier Leave Country; leu
tons Plead for Time and Beg Secrecy.

London, Jan. Peace negotiations BresLitovsk have
been broken off by the Boevk owing the
attitude regard Poland and Lhuana and the
emy proposal that be retained Lbau Riga and
elsewhere according telegram from the Petrograd
spondent of the Daily News appearing in that paper today
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
FLANK ALONG P|AvE MADE
INTACT WHEN GERMANS ARE
DRIVEN FROM BR|DCEHEAD
Central Armies Lose Position Occupied Since MidNovem
Der; Troops and Trains Held in Alps By Heavy
Snow Storms; Enemy Food Supply
Cut Off Temporarily.

Italian troops have the first victory recorded in the
The defensive line from Lake Garda the Adac
has been strengthened by the Italian driving the
AustroGermans from the Zenson bridgehead the
bank of the Piave which they had held mid November
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03
Skating Rink Burns.

Montreal, Jan. 1.-The Montreal
arena, the biggest skating rink in east
crn Canada, was destroyed by fire to-
da~
Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03

Summary in detail Of recommendations
Of inter allied war council will be found on
mage A.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Airplane Apologia
(From The Evenino Post


The last thing The Tribune did was to send
Mr.. knappen out to prove the physical phe-
nomenon of arplanes coming alive and rising
out OF what onlY few months ago seemed
hopeless confusion. We told him to touch then,
smell them, bite them count them and ride in
them. He is repo rtnp
The long Tribune editorial from which
we quote is an apologize of which the sub
stance is virtually that not all the reck
lessness and foolishness written about our
aeroplanes got into print. 1t is an apoloeia
due from pretty nearly the entire Ameri-
can press, whose surrender to panic and
gossip has been all the more inexcusable
because IN this matter of the aeroplanes
we were obviously passing through the
same phase that navy, army, ships and food
IN turn passed through; of which nayv.
army, ships and food we are now so proud
Inc trouble seems to have been mainly that
people set out to find out the truth about
aeroplanes by touching, biting, smelling
and every other sense except common sense
and the rules of arithmetic. There has
neen no attempt to Discriminate Within
the last fortnight there have been pub
iished long exposures of breakdown and
disaster side by side with opposite state
ments from authoritative sources. and M
attempt to reconcile the two. In the course
OF not more than a month the Liberty mo-
tor has passed from \ dazzling success to
dismal failure and back again to a tr;.
"mnhant achiavamant-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28

We notice that good deal of bread is
worse than it need be, and that some,
even in very good places, is not edible at
all. 1t is charged for more than ever.
The result is that the use of bread in
hotels and restaurants is declining.
From wheat substitutes, especially corn
-four, it is possible to make delicious
bread; but, instead of taking the neces-
sary pains to make the best bread pos
sible out of the materials available, many
kitchens out of which other rich foods
are served send loaves and rolls that are
fit only to be taken back. Are the cooks
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
A Striking Success

Judged by plain common sense and a
spirit of ordinary, everyday fairness.
the enrolling of almost SO per cent Of
the women of the city at their first
opportunity to ally themselves with a
political party is striking and over
whelming success. A special trip to the
polls was required. An utterly new
problem was presented. Every consid-
Grafton operated to keep down the en-
rolment-every consideration, that is.
except genuine eagerness to play the
part of voter intelligently and faith
fully.
OF course, "The Times" reaches quite
other conclusions. But think of the
pathos Of this valiant die-hard of the
antis and protector of womankind!
For years it protested that women did
not want the vote, that only an hysteri-
cal handful of women thought they did
Now it faces enrolment figures showing
that almost so per cent OF the eligible
women of the city were so interested
in voting that they fastened to enroll
in parties so as to be able TO play their
part in the primaries! lngratitude Of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28

women could scarcely go further No
wonder "The Times" is respondent and
paints a gloomy picture of all popular
government.
That government will not be re-
generated overnight by the women.
everybody comedies. Women have just
begun to apply themselves to their new
task. They are bound to make mis-
takes and be disappointed, as have men
voters. But they bring a new point of
view and new zest, as the enrolment
figures show. If they do no more than
stimulate everybody's interest, male as
we'll as female, in primaries and such
like, they will give real boost to popu-
lar government that might accomplish
almost anything.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
disloyal? Or does it pay to make bread
SO bad that people will pay for it and
leave it uneaten?

The Socialist "Vorwarts," of Berlin,
coming out for peace by negotiation, ex-
plains that it has changed it's mind be-
cause a decision by force on the West
front is not now so probable as it seemed
a little while ago. Therefore, it appeals
again to the workers of all other coun-
tries to help end the war, because to pro-
long it will be an injury to democracy
and socialism everywhere. Such uncon-
scious revelations are fascinating and
dreadful. Destructive, acquisitive and
initiative, each to an abnormal degree,
the German mind is morbidy introvert-
ed, from turning always inward upon
itself in the infantile manner of children
and barbarians. 1t has no power to
translate other peoples emotions into
the terms Of it's own understanding.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Gay Death

A true artist was Anna Held in that
role of the stage which she filled so gayly
and popularly-a minor role and friv-
olous one, yet done sincerely and wen.
Perhaps we all should have seen the
significance Of this touch of art. We
should have realized that, however slen-
der its substance, a true artistic gift,
faithfully developed and expressed, nec-
essarlly presupposes truth of soul and
a courage of will beyond the ordinary.
Some such misjudgment undoubtedly
lay behind the whole American failure
to appreciate the French genius-before
the war. In gayety we spelled needless
ness, and SO on. That is bygone story
and we are glad to forget it. Only, in
forgetting it, let us take time to see
where our blunder began and how we
could have avoided it.
BY truer appreciation of art and the
artist and all art means, we suggest.
Had we realized the labor and will and
self-denial that go to the making of an
artists career, of a butterfly of the stage
as OF any other artist, no one would
now be astonished to read of Anna Held's
brave face to death--as fine and gay and
honest as any Blue Devil on his last
charge.
That art is sacrifice and self-control.
And who loves beauty must be stern of
SOUL
So wrote an American woman con-
corning France and our new wisdom re-
garding her. They are splendid words
and eloquent-but none too splendid to
belong to Miss Anna Held for the spark
of true French spirit that is in her.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-28
Up to Fifty-Gve

The government is moving rapidly
power for war purposes. Secretary
Baker has Just sent to Congress the draft
of bill raising the maximum age for
volunteers entering the regular army or
the old National Guard organizations
The present limit is forty years. Mr..
Baker wants to have it raised to fifty
FIVE
This is another step toward broader
military policy. We are getting away
from the fetch of ''young men only for
war" The original draft of the selec-
tive conscription act, drawn by the War
College division of the General Staff, fixed
the maximum draft age at twenty-eight
Congress raised it to Nthirty-one. Twen-
ty-eight is good limit for short war
a war in which the supply of young men
will be ample to fill all the non-combatant
as we'll as the combatant services
1t is not a good limit for a war like
this one, which may last two or three
years longer, and in the course of which
our army may run as high as 100000
or 100000 men, Recruitment for the
regular army was always rigdly-al-
most stidiousy-selective But it
recognized the fact that men up to forty
make first class soldiers. We should
have more thoroughly selected draft
army-both from the economic and mill
tary point of view-if the range Of choice
were wider and if it included all physi-
cally qualified men between tWenty-one
and forty, instead of between twenty-one
and thirty-one.
Modern armies are unlike the old
armies in the proportion which rules be-
tween combatants and non-combatants
The auxiliary services now absorb 35 and
even 40 per cent of the total. In these
auxiliary services older men can be freely
utilized, and their use releases younger
men for fighting purposes.
Mr.. Baker says that thousands of men
between forty and fifty-fve have applied
for service. They are perfectly compe-
tent to do many sorts of military work
1t is foolish to deny them the opportunity
to do it. In some Of the Continental
armies men up to fifty and fifty-fve are
sent to the firing line. Eligibility for
military service does not depend strictly
on age. It depends on physical fitness,
experience as mechanics and artisans,
adaptability and economic status-that
is, relative usefulness for army work or
war work at home and relative freedom
from obligations to dependents.
Youth must have the first call. But
modern warfare long ago exploded the
idea that service in all the branches of
great military establishment should be
monopolized by youth