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Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23
Timely lettings and Reminders.

One thousand five hundred and
forty-ffth day of the great war.
One year ago today the first shot
was fired by the American expedi-
tionary force in the war with Ger
many.
Birthday greetings to Nine. Bern
hardt, the worlds most famous
actress, who today enters her 18th
year.
Library problems in wartime are
to be discussed by the Missouri Ii
brary association, meeting in annual
session today at Kansas City.
Storyette of the Day.
The lady who had charge of the
village postoffice was strongly sus-
pected of tampering with the par
cells entrusted to her care. One day
a rosy-cheeked youngster entered
the Office and laid huge slice of
cake on the counter.
"My sister, the brides compli-
ments, and will you please eat as
much as you can," she said.
The postmistress smiled delight
eddy.
How kind of the bride to remem-
Der me-" she cried, did she know
of my weakness for cake?"
"She did replied the youngster
coldly. "And she thought she'd send
you some to take the edge off your
appetite before she sent any boxes
to her friends. "-Pearson's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23

"Bg Jeff" for congress. Let's have con-
gresham who is more than "a messenger boy.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-23

"a buy n chicken for his mother. As the
lady in leaving, closed the door OF the
cabin, the cook was heard to say. "dim-
me dat dollah, chile. and go git dat chick.
en- in de natchul way."--Everybody's Mag
azine,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
NOW SHIPPING SMALL ARMIES
TO FRANCE, FOR RESERVE USE

find few in class one remaining unless
the war department has completed its
classification Of he new thousands
Hence there may be some slight slow
ing up of draft calls during June and
July.
Meantime a new and determined
movement is afoot in congress to insist
upon universal military training.
A determined attempt to put it in
he great army expansion program will
be made when the 00,000,00O army
appropriation bill reaches the floor Of
the house.
Advocates Of the system will propose
that young men be given three months
training in their nineteenth year, three
months in the twentieth anil six months
in the twenty-first. Although the plan
was defeated In the senate and was OPP
posed by the administration, the big
expansion program has doubtless added
strength 10 the universal training for
ccs. A majority Of the republicans havs
been lined up behind the plan, II is
claimed.
Universal training would make a
much smoother working war machine,
Representative Madden said today.
."The men of 21 who are to be taken
inso the army as they become Of aga
would be ready for the finishing train
ing touches the moment they are induet-
ed into service"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
During Fall and Winter Amer
ican Army VIII Be Melhcd-
icany Organized

Washington, May 6.-Ameriea is now
shipping small armies to France in re.
sponse to the allied appeal for reserves.
During May and June contemplated
shipments will more than equal the
fighting strength of the combined Bel
gian and Portuguese forces on the west
front.
July and August will show slight
decline in the average as added tonnage
is turned to the task Of getting across
newly needed supplies in increased
quanti ics.
In the fall and winter months the
work of building up this country 4
fighting forces abroad will be mor6
methodieal Divisions torn apart for the
purpose Of brigading units with the
British and French will be brought to
gether and organizes ions left behind
will be sent to complete cohesive all
American army.
1t is purposed to have registration
June 5 for all ~oung men who have
reached 21 since the last regis ration.
This will create new reservoir Of class
one men. At the present rae July ] will
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
NEW PERIOD OF PFSSIMISM
SWEEPS CENTRAL EMPIRE

is the final card that the Hohenzol-
lerns have to play That the argumen;
will be used with all the desperation
of despair is certain. But. to make it
effective, the kaiser must show there
is a possibility of a peace conference
being called in the immediate future
at which the gains in Picardy aud
Flanders can be capitalized.
The 0erman government, therefore
must start another peace drive at the
earliest possible moment. 1t will be
necessary for the allies to block this
crafty new offensive before il gathers
serious impetus. A conference to end
the war under present military eondi.
tions would be interpreted by the peo'
pie of Germany and Austria Hungary
as having been forced on the allies by
Hindenburg's drive against the west
front.
If peace overtures from the central
empires are rejected at this time, the
kaiser s militarists must at once take
up permanently defensive positions in
the west to meet America Is final blow
for the triumph of democracy. When
the German people realize that a Ho.
henzollern peace is impossible and that
America s millions are preparing to
strike, then only will there be created
an environment of alarm bordering on
panic which is imperative before kais.
erism can be overthrown.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
PATRIOTIC MILLIONS
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Four Billion Dollars Will
Probably Be Subscription
Mark Reached

Washington, May y6.-Twenty mil
lion patriotic Americans have probab-
ly bought third liberty bonds. Inflow
ing reports to the treasury department
today had swollen the number Of in
diyidual subscriptions to lS,00O,000
with large blocks Of territory yet un-
heard from Officials were confident
the final mark will hover about 90
000, 900.
The loan total in dollars stood at
So, 400, 100000 and took account only
Of reported subscriptions up 70 four
o clock Saturday afternoon. At least
$500, 100000 was expected to be added
by the hurricane windup which swept
the country Saturday afternoon and
night.
Indications were that the loan had
set a new record for initial payments,
with an approximate eight per cent
average.
The Atlantic district which startled
the country with a last minute spurt
carrying it from less than half its quo
to to- smashing over-subscription dur
ing the final hours, today bid fair to
record $50 per cent sale.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
GERMANS CAPTURE
RUSSIAN FLEET
WITH SEDASTOPOL
List Is Given Of Vessels Of
Various Kinds in HarbOr,
by Victorious Germans

Constantincple. MAY 6.-(Via Lon
dOn)-German troops, occupying Sc.
baStopol Gin the Crimean peninsula J
found in the harbor most of the Rus.
sian Black sea fleet including eruis'
ers, destroyers, torpedo boats, subma.
rines and merchant ships, it was OF.
ficially announced today.
The Sultan Selim and the Hamidieh
have arrived there.
The dispatch would indicate that at
least a large portion of the Russian
Black Sea fleet had been captured by
the Germans. This fleet is said to have
played an important role in the re-
capture of Odessa by the Russians and
it was expected to be the chief aid OF
the Russians in their effort to retain
control of the Black Sea.
According to available official lists
the Russian fleet includes the battle
ships Joann Zlatoust and Sviatci Ev
staff. both of $4,000 tons; the battle
ship Potemkin Tayritcheskie of l2,-
$40 tons; the battleship Rostislay of
1920 tons; the battleship Tri Sviatieha
of 1880 tons; the battleshp Georgi
Pobiedonosetz, of 11,210 tons; the pro
teeted cruisers Otchakoff and Pamiat
Merkuria, of $3.50 tons each; the pro
tected cruiser Prut, formerly the Tur
kish Medjidieh, of 5000 tons, which
was salvaged after being mined; the
gunboats Teretz and Donetz of 1926
| tons each; nine transports, ranging
from 430 to l0.250 tons; two armed
yachts; two mine layers; two mine
sweepers; training vessel; 81 destroy
ens; seven torpedo beats and tive sub
marines. The fact that the Constant
nople report omitted any mention Of
'battleships may mean only a smal
and comparatively unimportant por
tion of the fleet was captured. Three
huge dreadnaughts of $4,000 to 27,O0C
tons, were also reported under constru'
tion in 1914 and 1915, as well as foul
modern cruisers, but it is doubtful i
these were ever finished. One CT thes'
dreadnaughts was being built at Sc
bastopol, while the others and thu
cruiser were under construction a
kolaieff-claimed by the Russian
and the Germans.
The Sultan Selim, formerly was thu
German battle cruiser Goeben of 23'
900 tons, which has variously been re
ported sunk or irreparably damaged
by allied shell fire, aerial bombs ant
torpedoes. The Hamidieh is Turtisi
nroteetad cruiser OF $500 tons, former
llv the Abdul Hamid.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
Large Appropriation
for Light Ordnance

Washington, May 6--The army pro
gram for the next year of the war
calls for expenditures of $3,37s,3O2,S0l
for light ordnance, General March, act
ing chief Of staff, told the house mill.
tary committee today.
Expenditures for heavy ordnance,
provided in the Notifications bill, now
before the. house appropriations com
nit ee are expected to- total nearly 81
000,0O0,O00.
The quartermas.er' corps, March
said, would require $3.50, 1888 for
paying, equipping and maintaining sol
diers here and abroad and enlarging
cantonments.
Appropriations for 100000 machine
guns for use on airplanes was asked
bv General Dixon. In addition 81 ,O00,-
100000 will be expended for incendi-
ary bombs, indicating that the activi-
ties Of the American aviators, although
delayed, may be potent force within
the year.
Secretary Baker, it was revealed to-
day, has told the commi5tee he "hopes
to have 2200 airplancs in service on
the French front by July |. " Many OF
these, he admitted, will be made IN
England and France.
The aircraft program for the coming
year calls for approximately $l,OOOl
600 900. This will be taken up in DEAL
tomorrow.
Although admitting deliveries o.
rifles are somewhat behind now, Dix
on was certain that the department
could supply the 100000 men asked
for the next year with the improved
Enfield rifle.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
Several Minor Successes Are
Reported By British
Commander Today
CAPTURED GERMANS
ARE MORE DESPONDENT'
Deliberate Destruction of
Amiens by German Artil-
lery Fire In Progress
By William Philip simms

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
With the British Armies in France
May 6,-British troops have advanced
1900 yards on from; of more than a
mile, between the Ancre and the Somme
North of the Somme, the Australians
advanced 700 yards on 1900 yard
front, and early Today they added an
other 500 yards, on a 1000 yard front
The first Australian advance was
made in the darkness early Sunday
morning. Suddenly and silently they
swept forward, surprising the thin Ger
man garrison in the front line just nor i
of the Somme and taking some prison
ers.
Similarly, in pitchy blackness eariJ
today, they pushed on despite strong op
position. There are many German dead
and the Australian casualties are moi
heavy.
Intermittent shelling eoninres. 1t il
raining.
Enemy prisoners are betraying svmp
toms Of apathy. Captured letters intend
ed for the German people at home ad
dcd 70 this impressions The boehes Ger
tainly are less cocksure than at tht
start of their offensive and apparent
ly are suffering from a fit of TeutoI
blues, which is typical when anything
goes wrong.
The German troops write daspond
emily of the still distant peace, whicl
'fhey had been I'D to believe was near
The whole tone Of the prisoners plant
is tha the troops have been mis-
led and Instead of peace, there will b.
more static warfare.
Although they are down in the mouth
they will continue to do Hindenburg
bidding certainly for some time t,
come. Further heavy fighting is pos
sible at any time.
Today | saw long columns of Tom
mics and poilus. Elsewhere, | observ
I'D Americans, each of their faces stamp
ed with curious expression of mike,
cherriness and grimness that spoke vol
umes.
Anticipatory of the next fight, bot
the French and British are optimis,. ic
Continued On page six.)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
SOVIET FILES PROTEST
ON SIBERIAN POLICY
Assertion Made That Allies
Are Favoring Autonomous
Government In Province

Washington, May 6.-The state de-
partment has received protest from
the soviet republic of Russia asserting
that the American consul at Vladivo-
stok improperly encouraged a move
ment fer establishing an autonomous
Siberian government.
This protest, also delivered tda en-.
tente diplomats, suggests that the re-
lations between these parties and eoun-
ter revolntionists in Siberia have been
over friendly.
While the state department has not
yet made its reply, III was indicated
that it will answer the soviet with the
statement that the Vladiyostok consul
has been guilty of no impropriety and
has given no encouragement to sep.
arate government movement.
The department suggests that the
consul here necessarily had to deal
with many factions and that these deal
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
MRS POTTER PALMER,
SOC|ETYLEADER, DEAD
Active Career Embraced
Many Activities Mostly Of
Interest TO Chicago

Chicago, May 6.-Mrs. Potter Palmer
Chicago society leader and one of the
best known women in the United States
died today at her win ser home in Sara
sofa, Florida, according to message
to relatives here.
Mrs. Palmer had spent the winter
at Sarasota, There was no indication Of
serious illness in letters received by
friends here who said she had planned
returning shortly to Chicago to aid in
war work. However, relatives were my.
ieriously called to her Florida home d
few days ago.
The cause Of Mrs. Palmer s death was
pneumonia. It became known today that
members of her family had been sum
moned to Florida several days ago when
it was evident that her illness vas very
serious. This, however, was not made
public and the news Of her death came
Unexpectedly to her friends here.
Mrs. Palmer was 63 years old. She
is survived by two sons, Potter Palmer
Jr., and Honore Palmer, a brother, Ad
rian Honore, Of Chicago; and sis er
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, whose hus
band was the son Of President U. S
Grant. These relatives, with their fam
lilies, weEe at her bedside.
Her marriage to Potter Palmer oc
CURED in 1871, the year Of the great
Chicago fire, that swept away much Of
the fortune Palmer had built up in thu
comparatively early, romantic days Of
the eity's history. She was generally
credited with aiding him greatly in tn,
rehabilitation Of his affairs. PaImeI
had been business associate of Marsha
(Co.+;noaa - ~nn1 tkranN
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
People Begin to Realize That
hmdenburg and Kaiser
Have Not Made Coed
By j. w. T. Masen
United Press war expert

New York, May 6. y A period Of
pessimism has begun with the central
empires, because of the cessation Of
Won Hindenbnrg's bloody offensive
and realization that the extrSvagant
promises of the kaiser S militarists
have not been met.
Henseforth increasingly serious con-
ditions will be reported as existing in
Germany and Austria Hungary The
kaiser S ineorrigibly dramatic tem-
permanent made this reaction doubly
by ordering last March the
announcements in such grandiloquent
terms of Hindenburg 5 spring slaugh-
ter.
Nevertheless, caution is necessary in
interpreting too optimistically the re-
cent results of the disappointed hopes
of the German and Austrian people. AL
Though HindeEburg has been checked,
the kaiser can tell his subjects that
Germany's position at the peace con
ference has been greatly strengthened
because of the Picardy offensive. This
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
ANTI YELLOW DOG CLUB.

Portland, Or, May 6.-Yellow dogs
disloyalists-will be hunted down here
by the anti-yellow dog club just or.
ganized.
Seventy charter members of the club
who have concluded preliminary organ
ization work, viii organize permanently
this week, eleeting as officers men who
have sons In the trenches.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
Freak Rip Tide Catches
Many San Diego Bathers

San Diego, Cal, May 6.-Police and
life guards were today patrolling the
ocean beach near here, searching fol
the bodies of bathers who were drown
ed there yesterday when peculiar
freak rip tide caught about 100 in the
surf.
Two are known to be dead and eleven
are missing.
Heroic work by police and life savers
saved scores. The beach is usually safe
a& the point where the bathers werf
caught, and the rip tide which came N
suddenly could not be accounted for by
scientists here today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06

BY Fred s. Ferguson

Omitted Press staff correspondent
With the American Army West of
Mcutdidier, May American guns
are shelling Montidier, Cantigny, Mes
nil.St George aud other towns and
roads in this vicinity captured by the
Germans scme time ago.
Montdidier, which can be seen from
observation posts in the American
lines has been badly knocked about,
but the church is stili standing. The
Cantigny church also Is intact, al
Though it probably is used as German
observation post.
The American artillery blew up
What probably was an ammunition
dump near Cantigny, the fire lasting
half an hour.
There is great aerial activity in this
sector. Two boche planes recently were
shot down and another was captured.
The Germans have introduced a new
method of using gas. They are throw
ing over glass bottles, apparently fir
ed by springs, which burst and liberate
nauseous fumes.
Three Germans recently were cap
tured by Yankee trick. Nine ef them
attempted raid ON an American post.
Three of them were caught One Of
these escaped, but before reaching the
German Lines he encountered another
American patrol and was wounded and
re-captured.
An American patrol which encounter
ed more than forty boches in No
Mans Land fought its way safely
back to the American lines, infhcting
heavy casualties on the Germans.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
President Wilson Orders De-
partment Of Justice to In
vesiigate Thoroughly
l}ORGHUM NOT OFFICIALLY
EMPLOYED INVESTIGATOR
Letters Made Public In Order
That Public May Under
stand True Conditions

Washington May 6-The White House
announced today that President Will
son has ordered an official probe of
charges mado by Gutzom Borglum
against ,he aircraft production board.
Having ordered Secretary of War Ba.
kcr to inquire into the possible need
for a court-martial hearing in the mat
Ter, the president today asked the jus
tice department to sift down ,he Borg
lum allegations to determine the need
fer grand jury investigation.
The president suggests further that
any information the senate military
committee have or develop in the case
will be appreciated and examined by
the justice department.
AS sta ed by the United Press Sat
urday, the presidents purpose is not
only to determine whether any Ameri-
can officer or civilian has been guilty of
criminal mismanagements, but also to
determine whether any individual has
been guilty Of criminal libel in bring
ing the charges, which have cast sus-
picion on the aircrafi production work
and which those close to the president
declared are wholly reckless and unjust.
Presidents Anxiety.
The president is as anxious to throw
safeguards around honest and loyal gov
ernment workers in ordering the probe,
the outcome Of which he is entirely con
fidcnt as he is to sift tie Borglunl
charges for possible guilty workers.
The president carefully studied both
the Borglum charges and the special re-
port made by his investigating cons.
mittee under S. Snowden Marshall, be-
fore making his decision. 1t is under.
atood that the Marshall repor4 reveals
that the only censure to be paced on
those carrying On the production work
is that of ''over optimism as to pos
sble results, That there is no evidence
Of graft in expenditures of appropria
tions for the work is declared by those
who have seen this report
Nevertheless, rumors ard veiled
charges which followed Borglum Is re-
port and which were aired on the floor
Of congress, have created seethng sus
picion which the president, Saturday
determined to expose. Meantime it is
stated thot former officers who directed
the work of aircraft production "have
been near physical and mental col
lapse" as the result of the "irrespon-
sible reports" on their work.
The investigation was launched a,
the urgent request of Howard Coffin
former chief of the board.
Borglum Not Employed
simultaneously with lis announce
ment that the Borglum probe had beer
ordered, the White House made public
correspondence Of President Wilson
sbowing that Borglum was "never al
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
TWO GIRLS KILLED.

Oakland, Cal, May 8. Two u year
old girls who had just re urned from
confirmation at the Franciscan monas-
terry chapel, were instantly killed and
two women fatally crushed when an in
terurban electric train struck an auto
mobile driven by Arturo Elias late yes.
terday. Elias was severely injured and
his eight year old daughter Gcneyieye
badly bruised. The dead girls are Mary
Elias and Frances Noynagh. Mary Gar
eta and Margaret Bizoni died soon after
the accident.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
Germany Presents Peace
Proposals Through Holland

+ Amsterdam, May 6.-Former
( Dutch War Minister Colyn is
( reported to have gone to Lon
don to present the following
!. proposals in behalf Of Germany:
Renbpciation Of all claims
( in the west; full restoration
of Belgium; autonomy Of Al
< SAGE Lorraine within the Ger
< man confederation; continua-
( ton of the present status in
the east; certain concessions
< Hy Austria in the Trentino,
< and an international confer
ence to decide the Balkan and
< colonial questions.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
FORCED TO SUBSCRIBE.

Yankton, S. D. May 6.-Al-
though they will not subscribe
to liberty bonds, Mennonites
near here did rot resist loan Of
fieers who drove 1000 head Of
cattle from the Mennonite set
tlement. The cattle will be sold
for $4,000, which will be in
vested in bonds for 5his peace
loving sect.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-05-06
Denied BY Balfour

London, May 6. = Foreign
Secretary Balfour, replying to
a query in the house of COM
mons this afternoon declared
that no peace offer had been
made to the allies recently and
that no representatives Of any
neutrals are here who have
made any tentative offer Of
formal peace negotiations.
Regarding the reported Ger
man peace proposals through
Holland. Balfour said.
sit is all a mare S nest"