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Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-16
Serbia and Croatia
Included in Plans
for Union of Slavs

Washington, Nov. l5.-Complete
agreement as to the union of the
Jugo-Slav provinces of Austria with
the kingdom of Serbia has been
reached by Premier Pachitch. of
Serbia, and the delegates of the Ma
ton council of Agram as representa-
tive of the Serbs, Croats and Slo-
venes of the Austrian-H Hungarian
empire, according to an official dis
patch received here. The conference
was held in Geneva November 7.
At the request of the delegates
from Agram, Premier Pachitch
agreed to present the Serbian and
allied governments the proposal that
the national council of Agram be
recognized as the supreme power Of
the newly constituted state COM
posed of parts of the Austro-Hun-
garian monarchy until the formali-
ties of the final union with Serbia
can be carried out.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-16


Headquarters In Court House,
18th Street Side.
Open 8 A. NJ. to s P. NJ.
Members Of Omaha Chapter can
vote by mail by procuring ballot
from above headquarters, or by cut
ting out this ballot from a newspaper
and mailing 1t so as to reach Head
quarters before 8 p, m. on Noyem-
Der Goth. This ballot will only be
published once.
Tellefs will be In attendance at
above polling p,ace to check of
names Of members who desire to vote
for Directors.
Sixteen Directors % be elected.
Mark cross next to the names OF
sixteen persons you wish elected.
Mrs. II. Il. Baldriga
Rev. Chas. E. Baskerville.
J. Fl. Beveridge.
Madam A. M. Borglum.
Vaclav Buresh.
Dr.. W. O. Bridges.
Randall K. Brown
e. z. Bruce.
w. B, Cheek,
Rabbi Cohn.
Henry Doorly.
Mrs. Luther Drake
W. A. Frazer.
Rev. Michael Gluba
VIM. F. Gurley.
JOS Hayden.
W. D. Hosford.
Jas. A. Howard, Benson.
Mrs. R. G. Howe.
Walter Jardine
T. r. KimbalL
Ezra Millard.
W. D. McHugh.
Sophus Neble.
Louis J. Patti.
J. G. Robinson, Waterloo.
W. E. Reed.
RI Arthur C. Smith.
w. Farnam Smith.
T. F. Stroud.
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Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-16
Jugo-Slav State.

New York, Nov. 15.-Denying
Swiss report that the Croatjans
wished to join Austria, Bogumil
Vosnjak, a member of the Jugo-
Slav national committee, declared
today that the United States of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes will soon
be established and will seek ratif-
cation by the peace conference of
plans for a single Jugo-Slav state.
Authority for this statement. fhe
said, was contained in an official re-
port from the Serbian legation in
Paris.
The Jugo-Slav national council.
with headquarters at Agram, capital
of the former Hungarian province of
Croatia-Slovenia. has urged the Ser
bian, French, British, Italian and
American governments that it be
recognized as the supreme power of
the newly constituted state, accord
ing to Mr.. Vosnjak. 1t is proposed
to include in the new nation, he add
ed, not only the Croatian and Sla-
woman provinces of the former Aus
tro-Hungarian empire, but also Ser
bia and Montenegro.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

Organizes Red Cross Motor Corps

Organization of an Omaha Red
Cross motor corps is the work under
taken by Mrs. w. E. Martin, under
the direction of Gould Dietz, chairman
of Omaha chapter. An appeal for vol
unteers for home service has been
made by Mrs. Martin, the instruction
In motor mechanics to be invaluable,
of course, to those who may later de-
eide to apply for overseas service.
Impetus to the organization was
given last week by the visit of Mrs.
Frederick H. Elijah Of Chicago, CEN
trail division commandant of the
motor corps. Mrs. Elijah will return
In September to give further aid to
the organization.
Important commissions of long and
dangerous trips have been given
girls and women Of the Red Cross
motor corps In the east by Uncle Sam
and there is no reason to doubt that
Omaha women can give the equal of
valuable war time service as soon as
they qualify.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

mass; ESQ pieces of orange-blossom
soap had been specially made for the
presentation. The games section in
cluded foot balls, Hanna, Judo, box
Of bowls, two gramophones, many
packages of playing cards, writing
blocks with gay pictures, thousands
of pencils, and hundreds of novels. In
the grocery section were: Tea, coffee,
kegs of cod liver oil, cheese from
South America, biscuits, sweets, and
special chocolate for the wounded sent
by the women Of Guayaquil.
"In the middle OF the room were
two tables laden with Tobacco and
cigarets. A great table of hospital
requisites, hotwater bottles, sticks,
bed-rests, armslings, had as neighbor
one with crutches, table-rests and the
like. Rugs from Ecuador had the ma
tural oil left in; a life-saving waist
coat from the Golder's-green branch
had letter attached telling of life
that had been saved by a similar one.
I'm the tapestry room the queen
found the overflow gifts. There was
a quilt made by an old lady, the
aunt of the mayor of Toronto. 1t
contains 100000 stitches. There
were other quilts with the names OF
Canadian women, who had helped to
make them worked in. A large COL
lection of old silver, not yet valued,
included the christening spoon of a
woman aged IS years, and many hand
some antiques. One noticed a sheep
skin coat from Rio de Janeiro, pretty
rag mats from New York, and rugs
from Peru. There were also Is beau-
tiful light quilts made in the quilt
room of the Guild at Friary Court.
Thousands of individual gifts va
ried from several pairs of fine blank
cts to one cake of soap or an egg.
One lady, aged l02, had sent 100 hand
kerchiefs that she had hemmed, and
with them her photograph taken in
her garden in California.
"The gifts shown took three weeks
to unpack, and included contributions
from l2S branches in the United
Kingdom, besides gifts from Alder
ney, Australia, the Argentine, Brazil,
British Guiana, Bolivia, Canada, Cen
trail America, Chile, China, Ecuador,
the Falkland Islands, the Hawaiian
Islands, Holland, Japan, Jersey, Mexi-
co, Panama, Peru, South Africa,
Sweden. Uruguay, the United States
of America, and Venezuela. Sixty-six
cases from oversee have not yet ar
rived, and their contents are un-
known"
Mrs. M. B. Newman is president of
the local chapter, which every year
collects linens and garments for
needy institutions and families.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
!. CONSERVATION NOTES

The canning Unconstitutional the
home OF Mrs. J. L. Lynch, 30l2 South
Thirty-second avenue Tuesday, was
very successful. Ten women respond
ed to Mrs. Woodlands invitation,
whereas it 10 necessary to have only
six present when a demonstration is
given by government agents in the
home. The methods were quite new
to some of those present. Corn, toma-
toes, beets and beans were canned.
Mrs. Woodland, district chairman,
was asked to arrange another demon
stration for those in the district who
could not attend that day or who did
not know the demonstrations were
still being given.
There has been such a demand for
the bulletins on sugar conservation
in canning that an order for more OF
them had to be sent in. AS soon as
these bulletins arrive, they will be sent
to the addresses left at Room 2l9,
Union Pacific building Names will
also be recorded if those wishing
copies will call Tyler 1922.
The boys and girls canning clubs
are progressing wonderfully.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
:World Needlework Guilds Shower
Silver Wedding Gifts ON Queen:


Omaha members of the Needlework
Guild of America. of whom there are
hundreds, are interested in the report
OF the royal silver wedding Shower"
given by all the needlework guilds
10 the world to Queen Mary Of Eng
land, who organized the guilds in
1914. The gifts, which numbered over
half q million and are valued at 49,
625 pounds in Eglish money, besides
a cash gift OF over 5000 pounds. will
be used for the comfort OF soldiers,
sailors and airmen.
The London Times bears the fol-
lowing description of the gifts:
Queen Anne's drawing room,
where the principal display of gifts
was arranged, was first viewed by the
queen. 1t was wonderful sight
more like the stock room of whole
sale store which had paid special at
tention to Manchester goods than a
royal drawing room. Three and a
half tons of blankets rose like range
OF mountains across one wall and
overflowed near a mass OF handker-
chiefs and pillow cases. Almost every
kind of blanket was in The collection,
which numbered nearly 1000. Army
blankets, white woolly blankets. rugs,
coverlets, native blankets from Chile,
and padded blankets from japan
lay in closely folded piles. The
socks, many OF them hand knitted,
number nearly 10000 pairs, and in
Guided beautifully made bed socks.
Around the walls were massed sheets.
surgical slippers. day shirts tied up
in tens. towels, gloves and mittens.
Toilet waters, toilet soaps, and
kindred requisites made fragrant
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
How to Look And Feel
Bright in Hot Weather

When depressed BY the heat and. you
want to freshen up for the afternoon or
evening. just bathe the face In a lotion
made by dissolving an ounce Of pure pow.
dered saxolite in half pint of witch hazel.
You will find this more refreshing than an
hours rest
As a wrnkle-remover the saxolite lotion
Is remarkably successful. Its action Is al
most magical. The deepest burrows, as we'll
illness, weather or worry-are Immediately
affected. Enlarged pores are reduced flab-
by skin is drawn in." facial contour is i'm
proved wonderfully. The simple ingred-
tents Of course can be had at any drug
store. and you need not hesitate to try the
least,--Ady
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

the Boyd theater closed, Mr.. and Mrs.
Burgess started to motor east, but
found the roads beyond Detroit in such
bad condition, being cut to pieces by
the long trains of motor trucks in the
employ of the government carrying
munitions, that they gave up their
proposed ramble through New Eng
land resorts. came back to Omaha and
Immediately took the train for Los
Angeles.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

w WasEaimgtom
Society
BY EDGAR E. SNYDE

BY EDGAR E. SNYDER
Washington Bureau of Omaha Bee
M ID-SUMMER in Washington is
A'A making up in fierce heat what
the early summer lacked in even mild
heat. The wonderfully cool weather
for the many weeks in Jun. and July
gave the strangers a wrong impress
sion OF the climate, and as many of
them as could find accommodations,
took comfortable houses or apart
ments, settled down to housekeeping
and brought the families on. The
most OF these have been busy getting
away this month, for even the wealth
er bureau disclaims any knowledge
OF previous heat equal to it, SO it is
little matter what the Oldest inhabi-
tant says about it. Were it not for
the bathing beaches and the Country
clubs, life would be indeed almost un-
bearable to the thousands OF war
workers, many Of them women and
girls who have come here from cooler
climes. to remain during the troublous
times.
The Lansings are back from their
several weeks of play. and the Nj
Adoos are at home after mixed
journey for both pleasure and busi-
ness; the former in the northeastern
part OF the country, and the latter in
the extreme western Mrs. McAdoo is
now resting, in their cottage at the
White Sulphur springs, where the
family has been for several months,
and Mr.. McAdoo, who has been at his
desk every day this week, will join
her there for the weekend.
Senator and Mrs. Norris have
their daughter. Mrs. Nelson, with
them now for an indefinite period.
She is the bride of few months. of
1t. Harvey Nelson and has been with
him at Fort Dodge, Iowa, ever since
their marriage She arrived here on
Tuesday from Des Moipes. while 1t.
Nelson came on east with his COM
pany the following day after she left.
Mrs. Nelson and her sisters, Misses
Hazel and Gertrude Norris went over
to New Y ork at the end of this week,
to femain somewhere near the camp
until he sails for France. After his
departure they will all return here
to the Cleveland Park home of the
senator. They will entertain the Ne
braska Girls Knitting class at its
next meeting.
The last meeting of the class. in
the home of Representative and Mrs.
c. F. Reavis OF Falls City. was a gala
occasion. Mrs. Reavis entertained
the girls charmingly. and at the sam'
time celebrated the safe return from
France, of her husband, who had gone
over two months ago. Their son, Jack
Reavis, will enlist in the army in the
autumn.
Among the newest arrivals of war
workers here, is Miss Teresa Jones,
of Endicott, Neb., who has estab-
lished herself in Brookland, D. c.,
one of Washington's attractive sub
urbs.
The surgical dressings workers
of the Woman's Congressional club,
has discontinued its meetings during
August. The president of the club,
Mrs. Horace Towner of Iowa has
gone home /
Miss Pauline Ranney, daughter Of
Judge Ranney of McCook, Neb., ar
rived on Thursday to make short
visit to Miss Hazel Holmes of
Hastings, Neb., who is staying with
Mrs. w. E. Andrews, formerly of
Hastings, in her home, 1885 Fairmont
street. Miss Ranney has just COM
pleted a special course of study at
Columbia University of New. York,
and is on her way home. She
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
WOMAN'S COUNCIL
NATIONAL DEFENSE

fCsntinued From Page one.)


ing women to fill mems places will be
the prime aim of the new committee,
headed by Mrs. J. w. Gill.
Mrs. w. N. Halsey, chairman Am
ericanization work, reported the prog
ress of the local campaign at meet
ing Friday. St. Anne's Italian parish
has organized a sewing auxiliary for
the Red Cross civilian relief depart
ment. Mrs. H. NJ. Craig, president OF
Frances Willard Women's Christian
Temperance union, will teach English
to a class of foreign women; DR.. Olga
Stastny, state chairman, has named
Miss Vera Harvalis to head American
ization work among Greeks through
out the state, and Miss Jessie Kruger,
president OF the Young Women's
Hebrew association, reported her
visit to Americanization headquarters
in Chicago recently.
A number of inquiries have come to
Prot. S. B. Hrbkova and to Miss Mary
B. Cogil, director of Nebraska's drive
for 100 student nurses, regarding the
eligibility OF colored girls to the SER
vice. Orders were issued July % by
the War department which will en-
able colored nurses who have been
registered by the American Red Cross
society to render service for their own
race in the army.
Colored nurses will be assigned to
the base hospitals now established at
Camp Funston. Fort Riley, Kan;
Camp Grant, Rockford, ILL.,; Camp
Dodge, Des Moines; Camp Taylor
Louisville, KY; Camp Sherman, Chill
licothe, o., and Camp Dix, Wrights-
town, N. ].
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

expects to teach in Hastings. Neb.,
the coming season.
Capt. and Mrs. G. S. Cannon are
now at the Woodley apartments. al
though Mrs. Cannon is making a
visit to her old home in Bronxville,
N. Y. Capt. and Mrs. Cannon are
we'll known in Omaha.
1t. and Mrs. Albert Kaufman have
returned form their wedding tour and
are in their apartments at 1858 R
street. Mrs. Kaufman was formerly
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

Miss Rita Krone of Lincoln, Neb
Their marriage took place early last
month in Washington. 1t. Kaufman
is New York man in the Signal
Reserve corps, now stationed here in
connection with the work of compil-
ing a Photographic history of the par
ticipation of thc United States in the
present war.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Burgess have
returned from Los Angeles. After
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
To Finance canteen Worker.

Miss Helen Cornell, AIS North For
tieth street, who received the Red
Cross appointment for canteen ser
vice abroad, has orders to prepare
her passports, The Dundee Woman's
Patriotic club, will partly finance Miss
Cornell in her oversee service. The
club has already sent Miss Dorothy
Ringwalt and Miss Frances Nieman.
The Dundee club has the distinction
Of being the first club in the country
to finance canteen workers overseas,
according to Mrs. Joseph Cudahy,
head of this service for the Central
division.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
. WAR BENEFIT BRIDGE

Omaha Daughters OF the American
Revolution will give another of the
series of war benefit bridge parties
at the Country club Wednesday at 2
o'clock, the directors having given the
courtesy of the club house for the
game and the luncheon which pre-
cedes it, at 81 per plate. Mrs. Jo-
seph M. Metcalf has charge of the
affair and will be assisted by Mes
danes Arthur M. Pinto, Charles w.
Martin, Philip Potter, ]. J. Sullivan,
Fred Clarke, c. H. Johannes, James
E. Chadwick, L. P. Overgaard and
F. F. Porter.
Danish Sisterhood lodge 81, Red
Cross auxiliary, will meet Thursday
at 2 o'clock with Mrs. A. N. Lang
horn, 4520 North Fourteenth street.
Miss Belle Dewey, who has been
for some time resting in California,
will shortly return, and is expected
to again take up her newspaper
work.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
Army and Navy Notes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sidney Powell, who 10 in the guar
tcrmaster corps at Camp Johnson
Jacksonville, Fla, has beea advanced
10 top sergeant in two weeks.
Lieutenant Knight has returned tc
Fort Omaha after spending q II
days leave at his home in Boston
Mass.
1t. James McHugh, and 1t. Johr
Muschell. who were stationed at For
Omaha are now at Fort Sill. Ok.
1t. William Holiday Of Fort Oma.
ha is spending a Today leave in the
east, and at his home in Pennsylvania
1t. Edwin Connolly, who has beer
in the east, returned Friday to Fort
Omaha.
1t. Philip Chase has been trans.
ferred from Boston. Mass. to New
Haven, where he will have charge
OF inspection of the Connecticut Air
craft company. r
DR.. Newell Jones left Friday for
New York to report to American
Red Cross headquarters. He expects
to sail soon for France.
Mai. John Maher. commanding Of
: fcef OF the Omaha quartcrmaster's
corps, returned Tuesday after attend
ing a conference in New York City.
Word comes by cable to Mrs.
Morehouse that her husband, Capt.
Rex Morehouse, @. M. r. c., has ar
rived safely overseas. He had beep
stationed at Camp Sherman. where
he was commander of the personnel
Of the quartermaster's corps.
Elliott E. Gilmore, son OF Mrs.
George F. Gilmore. has been trans
ferred from Camp Dodge to the engi-
neers' training camp in Washington.
D. c.
1t. Winfield O. Shrum, machine
gun company, 352d infantry at Camp
Dodge, one OF the officers chosen for
special training overseas, has arrived
safely, according to word received
BY his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. W. C.
Shrurn.
Judge and Mrs. ]. w. Woodrough
4 had word that their son, Guy Beckett,
who has been attending the navy
training school at Pelham Bay, N. Y,
had been given commission as en-
sign.
Mrs. James o. Whitney received
word from her husband, who went to
Camp Dodge with the July draft, that
he has been transferred to headquar-
ters department and given the rank OF
corporal. Mrs. Whitney left Saturday
for Des MONIES to spend few days
visiting her husband.
Lester Rigby, with the 127th field
artillery at Fort Sill, spent a few days
with his wife in this city early last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Benolken have
received word from their son, 1t.
Irving Benolken, of his safe arrival
overseas. Lieutenant Benolken was
promoted from a second to a first
lieutenant
Virgil A. Deems, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Deems of Dundee, who
has been stationed at Lincoln for the
last two months. taking radio work,
has been transferred to Fort Leaven-
worth. ..
Ralph T. Henderson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George ]. Henderson, left
Thursday for Kansas City to take
special training in radio and mechani-
cal arts at Rake Auto school, He
was an employe of the Federal Re-
serve bank. ,.
George Cleveland left for two
months training in the Rahe auto
school in Kansas City. He is a gradu-
ate of the Nebraska military school
in Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

Mrs. J. L. Sexton returned Friday
from Salt Lake City where she
spent the past month.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

1t. James McHugh, and 1t. John
Muschell, who were stationed at Fort
Omaha are now at Fort Sill, Okl.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

1t. William Holiday Of Fort Oma-
ha is spending a Today leave in the
cast, and at his home in Pennsylvania.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

Sidney Powell, who 10 in the quar-
tcrmaster corps at Camp Johnson,
Jacksonville, Fla, has beeA advanced
10 top sergeant in two weeks.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

Lieutenant Knight has returned to
Fort Omaha after spending . 10
days leave at his home in Boston,
Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18

1t. Edwin Connolly, who has been
in the east, returned Friday to Fort
Omaha.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-13

This story dominates the Baltimore
Orioles of tive decades ago for the
honor of being the greatest baseball
club OF all time.
whenever fans Of the present day
think OF wonderful ball teams. their
thoughts center solely on two-the
Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia
Athletics. That's because most OF
them were Kids In the Oriole days and
have gained their baseball knowledge
since the days OF the scrappy Baiti-
moreans. The Cubs and Athletics
both were marvellous machines, but
comparison with the McCraw-Jer1a
nings- Kelly Robinson combination that
made history in the Baltimore me-
tropolis more than twenty @years agcf
No club ever was welded together
that could hit like those Oriolesl
Their batting feats. compared with
present day accomplishments, seem
like miraculous happenings, Over a
sweep of four complete seasons the
Baltimore regulars dubbed for the all
most incredible average OF .346. Think
of 1t They sing songs of the
greatres of the Athletics. but In 1910.
1911. 1919 and 1914 when Connie
Mack's machine was at ite best, the
notches below the Orioles, OF course,
the Orioles didn't have the foul strike
rule to menace them. but allowing for
that advantage the fact remains that
the Orioles, over a four-year period,
onthit anything In baseball history
In 1894 the eight Orioie regulars
hit for a grand average OF .360--the
greatest team average ever compiled.
Not one man Of the eight ever landed
below 800. Joe Kelly led the attack
with .ss1. followed by Brodis with
$50, Willie Keller with .38T and Dan
Brouthers with g&z.
Much has been eaid and written
about the hitting power of the Tiger
outfeld In it's prime. A great trio,
without a doubt. But think Of the
Orioles. In 1894 the three men--Kei-
ly, Brodie and Keeler-clouted the
for an average of .s7s. The
year they came back with
.s77. following with .352 IN 1885 and
winding up with .s73 In 1871 grand
four-ysar mark OF ass. Quite an out
field. chr
~he Orioles were great through
1924. 1925, 1895 and 1891, winning
three pennants; the Cubs we're In their