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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
OBITUARY.

VIRGINIA SAVAGE, 2 years of
age, died in a local hospital Thurs
day morning of Spanish influenza.
She is survived by her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. P. C. Savage, and one sis
ter
MRS. CHARLES E. CARLSEN, 81
years of age, died Sunday. The flu
neral will be held Friday afternoon
at 2 o'elock in johnson & Swanson's
chapel, with interment in Forest
Lawn cemetery.
WESLEY LETT, So years of age.
died in the University hospital We'd
nesday morning of Spanish influenza.
The body will be taken to Maryville,
Miss, for burial Mr.. Lett is sur
vived by his widow and an 11-year-
old son, who reside at $3.50 Chicago
street.
GEORGE riley, 65 years of age,
died in local hospital Tuesday of
Spanish influenza. The funeral was
held this afternoon at o'clock in
Stack & Falconers chapel, with in
terment in Forest Lawn cemetery.
Mr.. Riley is survived by one daught-
er, Mrs. G. Sickle.
MRS. ELIZABETH ASHER, AZ
years of age, died in the University
hospital Tuesday night of Spanish
influenza. The funeral was held
Thursday Afternoon at 2 o'clock in
Stack & Falconer's chapel, with in
terment in Holy Sepulcher cemetery.
Mrs. Asher is survived by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. A. Nelson.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
One Hundred AirpIanes
To Participate in Exhibition

New York, Oct. 24.-One hum
dred airplanes will participate at
Belmont Park Saturday in the
greatest aeronautic meet ever held
in America. The planes will be
manned by fiers who have seen
service at the front and will per-
form various squadron evolutions.
Among other features will be ex-
hibitions of bomb dropping and an
airplane race in which crack pilots
from the various training stations
will fly to the statue of liberty and
return. Efforts will be made to
lower the present record OF "a min
utes 1873 seconds for the "a miles
The meet will be held under the
auspices of the first provisional
wing of the United States air SER
vice for the benefit OF the national
aeronautic committee which sup
plies the various flying fields with
athletic equipment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Deputy Asks ReichStag
For Law to Control War

Basel. Oct. 24.-After the speech
of Prince Maximilian, Deputy Karl
Herold, in the name of the centrist
party, read a statement in the
Reichstag asking that the reform Of
the constitution of the empire be
extended so that war cannot be de-
clared without the consent of the
Reichstag. p He added that if peace
with the entente allies is not posi-
Bile, the government will have to
call on the last man for the defense
of Germany.
Deputy Ebert, majority socialist,
declared the German people would
no longer permit themselves to be
without the right to decide their
own fate. Friedrich Nauman, radi-
cal, said he considered peace i'm
possible by military means and that
Germany must use her diplomatic
resources to end the war.
Count Won Westarp, conservative,
declared his party would not vote
for the constitutional reforms pro-
posed by the chancellor, because it
considered them dangerous.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Lincoln and Cambridge
Scrap Over Expenses

Regarding the football game to
be played between Lincoln and
Cambridge on Thanksgiving day,
there seems to be some hitch in the
proceedings regarding expenses.
The Lincoln State Journal says
that there is a difference of some
$500 in the way the expenses are
figured, and goes on to say that
Cambridge has figured one night at
thee hotel and four meals for the
players while in reality it should
be two nights lodging and at least
six meals.
Cambridge comes back at Lincoln,
saying that there was nothing in
the agreement that calls for any
meals or lodging, but for straight
guarantee of $500. They also state
that the money to pay the expenses
of the Lincoln team is in the hands
OF the treasurer and ready to be
paid on the day of the game.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
South Side Brevit1es

John Written, clerk in Melady Brothers.
commission office, has been sick with the
influenza for week. He made a call at
the office Thursday but is not sufficiently
recovered to resume his work
Elbridge Hotchkiss of Colorado Springs,
Colo, who has been the guest for a week
of his mother, Mrs. Jane Hotchkiss. and
his sister, Mrs. w. B. Horne. ABS South
Twentieth street has returned to his home.
Julian Vermilliun and Miss Katherine
Sporl, both residents of South Omaha,
were united in marriage at noon Wednes-
day at the parsonage Of the Wheeler
Memorial church byt the pastor Rev. Rob-
ert L. Wheeler.
Mrs o. Benson, ABS South Seventeenth
street, returned from Lincoln, where she
has been caring for her daughter. Florence
who has been i'll. Her daughters. Helen
and Florence, returned home with her
and will remain until the university re-
opens,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
South Side
Motor Trucks Prove Big
Success in Stock Yards

The plan adopted about a month
ago by the Stock Yards company of
using auto trucks for the delivery
Of hay and feed through the yards,
has been success and the four
trucks now in use are shortly to be
followed by more. 1t has been
found that a truck will deliver twice
as much hay as a team in the same
time and offer less obstruction to
the stock moving in the alleys and
pens.
While the feeding business in the
yards is to be motorized the teams
will still be used in hauling the
refuse from the yards. Even this
part of the work is likely to be mo-
torized before a great WHILE" said
Bruce McCulloch, "and the future
visitors to the yards will miss the
splendid big gray teams that have
long been a familiar sight here.
"A western stockman remarked the
other day that the buyers, sellers
and traders were not using as good
saddle horses as a few years ago
nor as many of them and wondered
if that part of the business would
not also be motorized before very
toro"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
District Attorney
Asks for Reheariing
Of White Slave Case

A motion for a rehearing in the
John c. Lynch white slave indict-
ment was filed by the United States
district attorney Thursday morning
following the decision handed down
by Judge Woodrough Wednesday
sustaining demurrer on three counts
related to the question of the fur
nishing of the transportation. He
held that the indictment should have
stated that Lynch procured or
assisted in procuring a ticket for
Florence Dean, the girl he is alleged
to have transported to Kansas City,
and that the indictment should have
used the word ticket" instead of
transportation"
In filing the motion for a rehear-
ing the United States district attor-
ney contended that the decision of
the court is contrary to the holding
Of the circuit court of appeals for
this circuit, and insists that Judge
Woodrough is bound by the opinion
of the circuit court of appeals in a
similar case.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
WORRIES over
EARLY CLOSING.
Law IN berlin
Homer Lawson Writes That
Soldiers Expect a Few
Days Vacation After
Reaching Capital.

"Ill be home to help plant next
years garden, lis the CHEEKY mes
sage Homer c. Lawson in France
with a medical detachment with the
34lst machine gun company writes
to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs" c. 5.
Lawson, 1921 Harvey street.
He writes, "Our greatest worry
now is whether they have an 8
o'clock law in Berlin. We expect
to have a few days off there and
then we'll look up the transact
lantic time tables and take the fast
est boat back. Order half a dozen
water melons, nine gallons OF ice
cream, a flock of ham and eggs and
ton of angel food cake to be de-
livered as soon as / arrive.
Enjoy Delicacies. y
THE Salvation Army brought
truckload of chocolate bars, nuts,
sugar waters, raisins and canned
fruit yesterday and say, there was
line of soldiers a mile long wait
ing to get them. They would only
sell 70 cents worth to each man.
"The Y. M. c. A., Red Cross,
Knights of Columbus and the Sal
walton Army do wonderful service
for us. They hold religious and
song services whenever possible.
| often play for them and | some.
times think some of our devout
friends at home would be shocked
at the pep we put into our songs.
But it is the real spirit and is sim
cere.
THE Red Cross serves hot ehoc.
olate here all night for those who
are on duty or going through here
at night
Our first night here was made
interesting by visit from some aero
planes. They didn't try to do any
damage here but we took enough
precautions to prepare us for the
whole aerial force of the Huns.
We have seen few gassed men
and few suffering from she'll
shock. The gassed patients had en-
countered some tear gas" which
inflames the eyes and causes abb
normal flow of tears,
Il am anxious to get back home
but, as some famous person has said,
the shortest way back is straight
ahead"
The young soldier is a graduate
of the Omaha High school and at
tended the state university at Lin
coin and later was student at
Creighton medical college.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
ARRANGEMENTS
MADEF0R THREE
GAMES IN Omaha
Fort Omaha to Play Chicago
Naval Reserve, Camp Grant
and Camp Dodge in
November.

Omaha will have the opportunity
of seeing three of the biggest army
football games of the season next
month. The first game will be be-
tween Fort Omaha team and the
Chicago Naval Reserve, on Novem-
Der 2, that is, if the influenza re-
stricions are withdrawn. The second
game will be held on November 10
with the Camp Grant team from
Rockford, III. This is expected to
be the biggest game of the season
for the Omaha boys. SO we all want
to be on hand to cheer them to vic
tory. The third game will be on
November 80, when the Camp
Dodge team will, at this time, come
up for their trimmings"
The games will be played at
Rourke park and the proceeds will
be divided between the teams play
ing. The Fort Omaha team is going
to use its winning in charging the
gymnasium.
Arrangements for the securing Of
Rourke park. appointment of COM
mittees, and handling of the pub
licity were completed at a meeting
of the bureau of publicity Thursday
noon, and at a special meeting called
later in the afternoon by Chairman
c. O. Talmage.
Columbus D. Behan of Chicago,
representing the Camp Grant per-
manent athletic fund, composed of
influential business men, appeared
before the bureau of publicity and
gave it the benefit of the Chicago
plans, and helped to arrange the de-
tails of the Omaha series.
Randall X. Brown, chairman of
the war activities committee of
the Chamber of Commerce;
Major P. E. Van Ostrand,
the recently appointed executive Of
ficer of Fort Omaha, and Col. J. w.
Wuest. commanding officer of the
fort, are actively behind the project.
The Fort Omaha arrangements
are under the direction of Lieut.. ].
G. Mckay athletic director; Lieut.
E. G. Hotchkiss, team manager;
Lieut.. J. P. Spang,> jr., coach, and
Lieut. T. E. Falk, coach Spang
played with Harvard, Falk with
Washington University, and Mckay
with Pittsburgh University
A downtown office of the civilian
committee will be located, in the
Chamber of Commerce in charge of
Joe McGlynn, a member of the
chamber and now a private at the
fort.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
USE FOR SHIPS
after The WAR
TO Be PROBLEM
Field Secretary of the Navy
League Tells Of Problem
to Be Met at Close !
of the War.

The people of the United States
are today facing the most important
problem they have been called upon
to solve in the history of the ma
tion," said L. J. Smyth, Washing
ton, field secretary of the Navy
League OF the United States, before
luncheon given by the public af-
fairs committee of the Chamber of
Commerce Thursday noon.
This is the problem of what to
do with the $8,000,000,000 worth of
ships we are building for war pur-
poses. Other nations now at war
long ago began the consideration of
the reconstruction period that will
come with peace, and the Navy
League is urging business men
throughout the nation to begin at
once the study of conditions we
must meet when war is ended.
"At the outbreak of the world
war, the world had 100000 tons
OF shipping. OF this, America had
100000 tons. Since 1914 more
than half of the worlds tonnage has
been destroyed, so that today the
total is about 100000 tons. Amer
lea is breaking all world records in
shipbuilding, and if the present pro-
gram is successfully completed, will
have about 100000 tons at the
close of the war. What to do with
this huge tonnage; how to operate
i prohtably in competition with the
shipping of other nations, is a prob
lem that should have the earnest
attention of all business men.
1.-TWO of the first three measures
passed by the first congress related
to the merchant marine. As a re-
suit, our shipping steadily gained,
and for 40 years we carried from 90
to 95 per cent of our commerce in
our own bottoms. Then we lamp
cred with the laws and our shipping
began to decline, until at the out
break of the world war in 1914, we
were carrying only E per cent of our
products in our own ships! With
such a small tonnage, we paid an
nually to foreign nations $3,000,000,-
000-an average of $50 per person
in the United States. We lost mill
lions in cancelled contracts due to
failure of delivery because we had
not the ships to reach the foreign
customer.
"a new situation will face us at
the close of the war. Foreign ma
tons, having lost shipping so heav-
ily will need all that remains for
their own use. We will find it even
harder than ever before to employ
the foreign ship. We must there
fore operate our own shipping; but
in order to do this, must revise our
laws; repeal bad ones, pass good
ones, and interest our young men
if offering and manning = our
sh;ps."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Man Injured in Auto Smash
At Sixteenth and Farnam

Harry Alderman, GA South Sew
enteenth avenue, driving a truck,
collided with car driven by Rob-
ert Mccullough, a bell boy at the
Willard hotel, at the intersection of
Sixteenth and Farnam streets Thurs
day night. Alderman sustained a
severe cut on nose and right eve.
and body bruises. He was arrested
for violation of the road rules and
unlawful possession of Intoxicating
liquor, a half full whisky bottle hav-
ing been found on his person. Nc
Cullough was arrested for reckless
driving. He was uninjured. The
car driven by Alderman was totally
demolished, and McCullough's car,
which he had rented frin the Ford
livery, was badly damaged. Police
say there were three other occu-
pants in the car driven by McCul-
Tough who escaped after the acci-
dent
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
NEW INFLUENZA
CASES ARE NOT
VERY SERIOUS
Health Commissioner Manning
Says Germs Are Getting
Tired Out; Conditions
Better.

Only l6 deaths from Spanish in
huenza were reported to the city
health commissioner in the. "a hours
ending at 9 o'clock Thursday moln-
ing. This is the smallest number
fol one day i'll the last two weeks.
Ninety new cases were reported.
But even these cases, DR.. Manning
says, are mild.
Many of the cases reported now
as Spanish influenza, I believe are
nothing more than bad colds"
he says. "The germs are getting
tired out, as it were, and no
longer produce the violent SICK
ness that they did at first"
DR.. Manning has issued a warning
to pool halls against allowing any
crowding. Many of these are filled
to sutfocation with crowds and have
little ventilation. Unless conditions
are improved, he says, the pool halls
will be closed up along with other
recreation resorts. He leaves i: to
the proprietors to limit the crowds
in their places and provide ven
tilation.
Criticism is heard of the state
board of health which, it is said, has
done nothing to combat the epidemic
except to issue the state wide clos
ing order.
"The state board" said a phvsi-
clan, hasn't done thing know
of. There are communities out in
the state where most of the doctors
have entered the army and these
communities have had no medical
assistance from outside in fighting
the epidemic. The state board hasn't
even issued any bulletins for dis
tribution regarding the epidemic.
There is an attempt in certain
localities to blame the stat. wide
Epidemic on the Ak-Sar-Ben festivi-
ties, for the obvious reason of try
ing to knock Omaha. What, then,
is the reason for the epidemic
spreading over all the other states
where they have no Ak-Sar-Ben7
1T is well-known fact that Ne
braska is fourth from the bottom on
the list of states in efficiency of
their state health regulations. The
national health registration service
doesn't even accept our state health
statistics because they are not SUI
flciently accurate"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Charge Former Policeman
With H0IduD of Officer

South Side-police arrested Percy
R. Hiatt, 9709 South Twenty-fourth
street, and Emmett Lindsey, of the
o. K. garage, 4944 South Twenty
fourth street, about noon Thursday,
and are holding them as the men
who held up Patrol Driver Frank
Jackson on the morning of Octo-
Der IS.
Hiatt had been on the police force
up to about two months ago when
he was suspended for not attending
to his duties. 1t is alleged that
Hiatt and Lindsey held up Patrol
Driver Jackson at Twenty-fourth
and Leavenworth streets, after his
car had broken down, on the morn
ing of October IS. They will be
arraigned in the South Side police
court Friday morning.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
68GaGi SNeZumln

1t. Robert Fisher Wilbur, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Wilbur, 234l
South Thirty-fourth street, who was
reported severely wounded in action
on August 20, while fighting near
Albert, France, has recovered and
expects to be back with his COM
pany in the near future. He was
taken to the American Red Cross
hospital in London, England, where
he had large piece of shrapnel
taken from his left limb.
Word was just received that his
brother. Capt. Leroy Wilbur, of
the l27th field artillery, has arrived
safely in France.
Robert Lee Beverage, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Beveridge, is
home on a Today furlough before
HI enters the naval officers training
school at Pelham Bay, New York.
He has just completed an intensive
course of training at Municipal Pier
in Chicago and aboard the S. S.
Manchester, plying the Great Lakes.
Robert is the third son of this
family in the service. John is
lieutenant with the 18TH machine
gun company at Camp Lewis, Amer
lean Lake, Wash, and Bede is with
the l23rd field artillery, in France.
Arthur Wells, former Omaha at
torney, now in the service, has been
commissioned captain in the army,
and will leave soon for southern
camp.
Maj. P. c. Van Nostra,1, execu-
tive officer at Fort Oma, J does his
best to keep the army post cheerful
and recently made the ruling that
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Regimental Team Trophy
Cup Exhibition at FunSt0n

Camp Funston, Kan, Oct. a.
The trophy cup for the regimental
team championship in the Kansa>
state trap shoot, held at Army City
July 80, has reached camp and has
been placed on exhibition in the Of
fee of camp activities and amuse-
ments. The cup was donated by a
Kansas City firm. The members of
the winning team we're: Sergeant
Moravek, Corporal Highley, Pri-
Yates Van Alsdale, Dickinson and
Sergeant Barlow.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25

the united war work campaign in
telegram received here tonight by
the sports committee. The mes
sage, dated Wichita Falls, Tex,
read:
will gladly box for war work
campaign"
1t was announced that the sports
committee would select Willard S
opponent and the date and place of
match, which probably would lie
staged at one of the large army
environments.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Visiting Catholic Prelates
Presented to President

Washington, Oct. 24.-Bishop
Heating of North Hampton and the
bishop of Arras, Catholic prelates
who arrived recently in the United
States to attend the golden jubilee
celebration of Cardinal Gibbons,
were presented to President Will
son.
Speaking at a luncheon at the
Catholic university today. Bishop
Heating declared, "The British pub
lie in general and British Catholics
in particular are determined that
the findings of the Irish convention
shall not remain a dead letter.
"Ascendency must end in Ireland
as it must end in Prussia and else
where"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
FOUR BALLOTS
CERTIFIED FOR
FALL ELECTION
Election Commissioners Office
Open Nights for Those Who
Wish to Change Reg
iStrati0n.

Election Commissioner Moor
lead has received from the secre-
tary of state the latter's official list
I of state candidates to be voted on in
this county and is preparing copy
OF the official ballots ios the printer.
There are to be four ballots. the
main ballot, one for the nonpartisan
judiciary, another for the school
district and fourth for the water
district.
The democratic county commit
tee has named E. NJ. Rohrbough of
Benson to take the place of Edward
]. Krigbaum, who withdrew from
->the race for county surveyor. 1t is
generally conceded that LOUISE.
Adams, present surveyor, will be
reelected, but the democratic mech
anicians induced Mr.. Rohrbough to
let them use his name rather than
to have the place blank on the bal
lot.
George w. Marsh, republican can
didate for state auditor, is spending
the week with his son, Wayne
Marsh, 22l7 Harvey street. Mr.,
Marsh served as secretary of state
from 1901 to 1905. His home is in
Lincoln. He reports having heard
many favorable expressions for
Albert w. Jefferis for congress dur
ing his travels in this county.
The election commissioners Of
fee will be open until 9 o'clock to-
night and on Friday night for re-
vision of registration. The regis
tration books will be closed then
for this election.
Abel V. Shotwell, republican
nominee for county attorney, who
has been on the sick list, is on the i
mend and expects to be out within
a few days. In the meantime friends
are looking after his campaign in
terests.
Chairman Baker and Secretary
HOLSTER of the republican county
central committee headquarters on
Thursday morning received the first
lot of pamphlets containing cuts and
personal references to the republican
county candidates and Albert w.
Jefferis, candidate for congress from
the Second district. The little book
let is of convenient size for the
pocket and on the cover appears a
picture of Gen John ]. Pershing.
P. A. Barrows of Lincoln, repub-
1ican candidate for lieutenant COVER
nor, came UP to the metropolis on
Thursday to spend the week end |
looking around. He stated that
Omahans would De surprised if they
really appreciated what a strong
sentiment has been developed
throughout the state for Samuel R.
McKelvie, candidate for governor.
D. B. Cropsey, republican candi-
date for state treasurer, was OBJ
served on Farnam street Thursday
morning.
H. P. Stoddart of the state ST.
preme court staff is visiting in
Omaha, his former home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Allied Forces in Russia
RepulSe BoIShevik Attack

Archangel, Oct. 24.-American
and British forces yesterday re-
pulsed heavy attacks by the Boil
shevlk infantry against advanced al
lied positions on the Dvina frint.
Bolshevik gunboats heavily shelled
the Americans and the British for
six hours.
In attacks the Anglo
American troops captured two ma
chine guns, inflicted heavy losses
on the enemy and captured prison.
>eTs. They made a slight advance
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
"Sports Week Events
EXEMPT From Taxation

New York, Oct. 24.-Announce-
ment that the government will exact
no tax on admissions to the events
of sports week" which are to lie
held in connection with the united
war work campaign to raise $780,
100000 the week of November ll-18
was made tonight by William H. Ed
wards, internal revenue collector.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-25
Two Colonels Promoted

Washington, Oct. 24-Brig. Gen.
Charles G. Long, holding that rank
temporarily in the marine corps,
was nominated by President Wilson
today for promotion from the grade
Of colonel to brigadier general in
the regular establishment. Col.
Smedley D. Butler was nominated
brlgadier general for the war per-
iOd