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Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
HUNS WEAKEN
UNDER STEADY i.
B0MbARDME
Withdrawal of One or Two Di'
visions on SoiSSons-RheimS
Front Indicated by Oh
servers Reports.
By Associated Press.

With the American Army on the
Vesle. Aug. 15.-The sustained pres
sure by the French and the Americans
on the line between Scissors and
Rheims appeared today to be having
the expected result. Information
from behind the German front, OBJ
tanned by observers, indicated the
withdrawal of one or two enemy dl-
visions. In addition the counter at
tacks of the Germans have been
notably reduced of late.
Moreover, the enemy's reply to the
American guns, which never have
ceased their punishment, has been ap-
preciab1y less prompt, and the falling
off in the enemy's aerial activities has
been especially noticeable.
There was some bombing and some
observation work last night, but
rothing to compare to the previous
night, when enemy planes were over
the greater part of the allied line and
far into the back areas. French and
American airplanes continue their OBJ
servation work and are doing some
bombing. Additional artillery has
been brought up.
The German position still is of a
mobile character, consisting almost
wholly of machine guns at short in
tervals. The line offers an excellent
defense and at the same time can be
quickly evacuated. There we're COM
paratively unimportant ratrol actions
today but no attacks.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Swift and Company
To Segregate Their
Foreign Properties

Chicago. Aug. 15-Swift & Co. to-
night ann unced a plan whereby its
South Am, rican and Australian prop
critics are to be segregated and the
title to them is to be given to the in
Gividual stockholders of the domestic
company. in return for the surrender
OF domestic stock. A new company
called the Campania Swift Internacion-
al S. A. c. (Sociedad Anonima Com
srciaD. which probably will be call
I'd Swift international on the street,
las been formed with capitalization
If $22, 100000 Argentine gold, divided
INTO 100000 shares of SIS par value.
The exchange plan provides that
the stockholders shall deposit IS per
cent of their present holdings and re-
ceive in return as many OF the new
SIS shares as they had originally $l00
shares. If all the stockholders accept
the plan. the outstanding stock of the
domestic company will be reduced
to $l27, 100000, and there will be in
the treasury $22,500,000 of stock
which the directors will use in future
financing.
The properties owned by the new
company are in Brazil, Argentina,
Uruguay. Paraguay and Australia
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Bombing of Frankfort
!Bv Allied Airnen Causes
Panic in Rhine Towns

Geneva Aug 15-An official dispatch received here from
Frankfort Germany says that Monday morning that city
attacked by enemy avatos who dropped 26 bombs killing
IL persons and inuring five others.
Reports from Basel however, assert that the casualties
They that bomb fell in the crowded
Kaserstrasse killing many and stopping street
that another the middle of the largest station and
its vicinity, while fell in the barracks and still
other Goethes house, which undamaged
The Basel dispatch says the aerial attack has increased
the panic reignng in the Rhine towns
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
AMERICAN FORCE
GOES TO AID OF
CZECHO-SLOVAKS
Twentyseventh Regular Infantry Regiment From Manila
Dsembarks at Vladivostok; Additional Troops To
Follow and Join International Force in Oppos-
ing Bolsheviki and Germans.
By Associated Press.

Washington, Aug l5-American troops today began to
dsembark at Vladvostok and Immediately will join the inter
national force to aid the army in its campaign
Siberia The Americans compose the 9th regular infantry
regiment from Manila and will be followed by another reg
nent from the Philippines and additional troops from the
United States.
The 9th regiment has not been recruited to strength
and the exact number not definitely known here but
estimated at from 200 to 1900 Colonel Henry D. Styer
commands the 9th regiment The entire American force viii
under Major General Graves who has been commanding
regular army division in Camp Kearney Cal.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
seventy-five Committed to the
County Jail; to Have a
Chance to Show They
Have 0beyed Law.

Leading business men of
Omaha, members Of Co. C,
Home guard, state agents, rail
road detectives: deputy United
States marshals, military po-
lice, deputy sheriffs, policemen
and detectives of the Omaha
police department to, the num-
ber of 200 or more, were all
drafted by Marshal Eberstein
of the Department of Justice
in the biggest raid that has
ever occurred in the city of
Omaha, and which resulted in
the arrest of at least 1,400 per-
sons last night.
Of these IS were held and commit
ted to the county jail.
1t was a "slacker" drive, instituted
to catch all classes of drift evaders
and persons subject to military call
and who have not responded.
Brings War Home.
1t brought home to thousands in,
the city the fact that there is war,
that war conditions exist and that
Uncle Sam is in earnest.
1t tore husbands and fathers from
wives and children, sweethearts were
sundered in parks, amusement places
and on the streets; men were taken
from their work and others from
hotels, restaurants and srooming
houses.
Innocent suffered with the guilty,
and failure of persons who appeared
to be of draft age to have registra-
ton and classification cards caused
immediate arrest.
Russell Eberstein had charge of
the big drive and he was assisted by
Chief of Police Dempsey, Sheriff
Clark and State Agent Wilson. All
of these officials placed the whole of
their respective departments at the
disposal of the federal officers and
Chief Dempsey notified his men to
stay on the job to the last man as
long as any assistance was required.
Home Guards to Fore.
Many leading citizens, military
police, detectives and police Of
fcers. as we'll as state agents, deputy
sheriffs, men of the secret service,
railroad detectives, citizens and men,
bers of the home guards, the latter
armed with their rifles, and most of
them dressed in new uniforms, were
told off into squads and we're given
certain districts to work under cap
tains. There was no part of the city
that was not covered. the only place
sacred from invasion being the prl-
yate homes of citizens
The men were instructed to take
into custody every man of draft age
who failed to show his registration
card and his classification certificate,
special instructions being given to
bring in all men whose registry num-
oers were below 5000. Alien citizens
Of neutral countries, such as Mexl-
cans, Greeks. Italians, etc. were ex-
.epted, but in the excitement this
order was overlooked.
Bring Prisoners In Cars.
At 8 o'clock so of the finest auto
mobiles in the city, some of them
iimousines of luxurious furnishings
and with every refinement, driven by
leading business and professional
men of Omaha, and manned with
aiding squads, set off for various
parts of the city and in short time
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column One)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
HUN M0N0PLANE
SHOT DOWN BY
IOWA AVIATOR
Lieutenant Schultz Figures in
American Aerial Victories;
British Destroy 22 Ma
chimes, Losing IS.
By Associated Press.

With the American Army in
France, Aug. 15.-Capt. Charles J.
Biddle of Andalusia, Pa. is the latest
American aviator to bring down a
German airplane. While out with a
patrol this morning, Captain Biddle
met three monoplanes north OF
Flirey.
The Americans attacked and one
Of the German machines fell, appar.
entity out of control. 1t vanished in
the mist. so that Captain Biddle's
victory has not yet been confirmed.
1t. Vaughan R. Mccormick of Co.
fumbus, O., got his second official
German airplane yesterday when he
engaged the enemy in the air north
of St. Mihicl. French observers have
confirmed the destruction of the
German.
Another enemy machine was shot
down August 10 by Capt. Ray c.
Bridgeman of Lake Forest, Ill.,, near
Aivrayin, the destruction of which
Lieutenant Mccormick also shares
officially.
Additional American victories in
the air include a monoplane appar.
entity shot down by 1t. Hermann
Schultz of Bettendorf, Ia, which
went down i'll steep dive through
the clouds over Flirey after 375 shots
had been fred at it, and biplane at
tackled by 1t. Edgar {. Tobin of San
Antonio, in the vicinity Of Evrezen.
Confirmation is being sought for both
these victories.
Britons Down % Planes.
London. Aug. l5.-Twenty-two
German airplanes were destroyed and
six driven down out OF control yes
terday, according to the official COM
munication on aerial operations is
sued tonight. Fifteen British ma
chimes are missing as result OF the
air combats.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Kansas Aviator Brings Down
Three Planes in Five Minute

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 15.-Lt. Donald
Hudson, formerly of this city and
now with the American aerial forces
in France. recently brought down
three German airplanes in five min
utes, according to an announcement
today by Mrs. Marie Wear, assistant
state librarian and Hudson's aunt.
The aviator's father, Paul Hudson,
now in Washington, received news of
the feat from the commander, Mrs.
Wear said. Lieutenant Hudson is a
grandson of the late J. +. Hudson,
we'll known newspaper publisher.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
FROM OMAHA,

FROM OMAHA.
Elmer Brooks, 25l1 n. 26tt
John Jackson, 91S Cap. Ave
Jas. Wallore, 1881 Howard
Chas. Smith. 1413 N. 18th
VIII Morris, N. cath st.
Jack Golub, 2212 California
James Pine, 1907 Webster
Theo. Pulls, 18th and Jackson
Bud Preice, 1914 S. 5lst
Amy Ladd, 18th and Howard
Gum Jumbra, 1901 @ St.
Mike Vitalick, 2S16 r st.
Dana Mitis, 5235 S. oath St
Mike Sazarok, 1920 @ st.
Creeya Troykoresh, 5235 S. "a
Geo. Dimethuse, 1905 R st.
Dumitru Andrews, 2S14 r St,
Geo. Rodohovia, 1920 r st.
John Kolb, 1913 S. 2Sth St.
Guiseppi Solero, Des NJ. Hotel
Walter Zephka. 5025 s. 37th
V. J. Wright, Galesburg. Ill.
Mike Nielick, 5615 s. 33d
Jack Abajicum, 66S S. rs Av
Louis Masses, Douglas Hotel
Claude Asbly, O'Brien Hotel
H. Schwabau, 22O N. 18th
Carl Senio Chabez, Doug. st.
Enoch Peterson, 2519 Fort st.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16

Angelo Confalone, f07 North
Forty-first street.
Ed F. Ellis. 2O1l Cass
]. S. McNeis, 10th & Doug
From ether Cities.
Victor Swanson, Rosalie
r. II. Wilson, Lincoln
Alvin Anderson, Kennard
G. II. Little, Schuyler
L. II. Harmon. Bancroft
Omar kingry, Lyons
Eibe Hendricks, Platte Cen.
o. S. Mattka. Grand Island
w. NJ. Nelson, Grand Island
j. f. Martin, Central City
George Ellis, Westport
C. E. Fitzmorris. Geddes,
s. D.. registered at Lake
Andes.
Clarence Kunert, Watertown,
Wis, claims he is only 20.
Rudolph Kriepela, West
Point, Neb.
Elex Swinton. Darlington,
S. G.
Earl Wright, no address
]. l.. McNess, Norton Kan
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Dean Nicholson to, Direct
Students Army Training Work

Washington, Aug. 15.-Dean Ed
ward E. Nicholson of the University
of Minnesota, has been chosen as one
of the IL regional directors of the
students army training corps. His
territory will include Iowa. North
and M;ib;son South Dakota Nebraska and
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Allied Casualties Less Than
Number of Prisoners Taken

London, Aug. l5.-The proportion
Of the German losses TO those of the
allies, since August 8, is greater than
at any other period of the war. it
was announced here tonight. 1t is
said that the total allied casualties
probably will not be as large as the
rumber of Germans taken prisoner.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Interest Rate Reduced.

Washington, Aug, l5,- To aid
further in financing crop move .cnts.
the War Finance corporation tod.y
reduced from to 5 pr ~r' N
rual interest rate on shor. term ad-
vances to banks to cover l.ans made
to farmers or mer -hauts for narAst.
ing wheat and other s.ons ~
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Louis Pecka. b4ll S. 2lst

| Louis Pecka, 54f1 S. 2lst
Otto Starkay, Her Grand
Lawyer Williams 2104 Paul
Jim Terlicki. 1917 l street
John Porter, 18th street
Begedar Slich, 2S12 F st.
Frank Lurmur, New State
hotel.
Laskaris II. Nicholson,
207 South Fourteenth
James H. Mcintosh, 405
South Twenty-fourth Ave.
Elex Swnetun, South 11th
Stephen Waters, 4622 s. 23d.
Will Mack. South Side
Arthur johnson, 1916 S. 18th
Roy d. Thompson, 1919
Corby
Sex Waters, 5O7 South 18th
Mike Columbus. POPS Pierce
Dan Rod, 5133 South 26th
Vincient DusZynski. 2410
South Twenty-ninth
Joe Flores, 5235 South gath
Alex Noreiga. 11th & Dodge
Joseph Piekal. 1913 Farnam
VIM. Richardson, 710 North
Twenty eighth avenue
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Sioux City Councilman
Accused of Seekinq Bribe

Sioux City, Ia, Aug. l5,-Bribe So
Letting and misconduct in Office are
charged to Councilman w. S. HamIl-
ton, head of the public safety depart
ment, in a petition asking for his
removal, filed in district court today
by Attorney General H. NJ. Havner
and County Attorney Ole T. Nagle-
stad
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
Italians Take Positions.

Washington, Aug. 1s.-Italian
troops last night established them
selves in positions taken from the
enemy in Val Tellina and Val Ca
monica while their artillery continued
concentrated fire upon the important
Austrian defense positions,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
FEDERAL OFFICERS ROUND UP
l,400 YOUNG MEN IN EFFORT TO
FIND THOSE NOT REGISTERED
List of Men Committed
In b. S. Raid for Slackers

Following are the names of the men detained in last
nights federal raid They will given the opportunity of
proving their registration. If unable do they will be
Quoted into United States army service:
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-16
|. U.S.TR00PS Ian D IN S|bE|
STACKER RAID IN ON

Norris War Record
Makes Him Hazardous
To Republican Success
Osceola. Neb.. Aug. 1s.-To the
Editor of The Bee: Keep on
pounding Norris record. His
nomination is suicidal to republican
success this year. H. c. BEEBE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30
The Parrot of Amiens.

Possibly for English readers the
fame of the Jackdaw of Reims has
eclipsed the fame of the Parrot of
Amiens. But Vert-Vert was a bird
who made history in a small way. He
was monastery parrot renowned for
piety until he was sent on visit, by
canal boat, to nunnery, and acquired
a new vocabulary on the way-with
terrible results, as can be imagined.
The author of his adventures, Jean
Baptiste Gresset native of Amiens,
had to leave clerical school in con-
sequence of the scandal caused by the
poem of which Vert-yert was the
avian hero.-London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30
BUILDING the CITY.

The new and better world after the
war, of whick we dream these days,
will not build itself any more than
the rubble which marks the site of
Ypres or Louvain will come together
of itself into beautiful and splendid
buildings, observes writer. 1t will
take time and struggle and infinite pa
tience, and if men and women are not
willing to pay the price of new and
better world, such will not come mere
ly because they have airy visions of
it. Much of our talk about better
things to come is too cheap and easy
and has not enough of grip and pur-
pose to make it worth much. What
God is giving us, and will give us in
those great after-the-war days, is q
Wonderful opportunity, but we shall
have to meet that opportunity with
heroic endeavor and self-sacrificing eff.
fort before it can possibly become
fruitful. Talk is cheap and dreams are
sweet and inspiring. but it is not with
these alone that the Kingdom of God
is builded in the earth and mankind
is won for righteousness and brother
hood.
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TO conserve his strength. for the
treasure seekers lust beset him. Rosa
looked on, wringing her hands and urg-
ing him to greater haste.
But the low, thick door was built of
some hard. native wood: it was wet
and tough and slippery. O'Reilly's
blows made no impression upon 1t, nor
upon the heavy hasps and staples with
which 1t was secured in place. The
latter were deeply rusted. to be sure,
was finally forced to rest, baf1ed. en-
ragged. half hysterical from weakness
and fatigue.
Daylight was at hand once more, but
he refused to give up and worked on
stubbornly, furiously, until Rosa, in
an agony, besought him to desist.
Johnnie again collapsed on the grass
| and lay painting while the other two
replaced the planks.
another hour and I'd have been into
It," he declared. huskily.
''You will skill yourself" Jacket told
him.
Rosa bent over him with shining
eyes and parted lips. Eyes," said she.
'Be patient. We will come back,
O'Reilly, and tonight we shall be rich"
|
Colonel Cobo lit black cigarette.
leaned back In his chair, and exhaled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30

two fierce jets of smoke through his
nostrils. For full moment he scowled
forbiddingly at the sergeant who had
asked to see him.
"What's this you are telling me?'
he inquired finally.
The sergeant, mean-faced, low
browed man, stirred uneasily.
SIT is Gods truth. There are spirits
on La Cumbre, and 1 wish to see the
priest about it."
Spirits? What kind of spirits?"
The fellow shrugged. evil spirits
spirits from hell. The men are buying
charms"
"Bahl 1 took you to be a sensible
person"
"You don't believe me? Well, l
didn't believe them when they told me
about it. But saw with my own
eyes,"
Cobo leaned forward, mildly aston
ished. Of all his villainous troop, this
man was the last one he had credited
with Imagination of this sort. "What
did you see?'
ga ghost, my colonel, nothing else.
La Cumbre is no place for an honest
Christian"
The colonel burst into a mocking
laugh. San honest Christian! You
OF all my vile ruffians, you are the
vilest. Why, you're thief, liar, and
an assassini You are lying to me now.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30
EsKIMos ARE HAPPY PEOPLE
Have No Fear of Death, Are ChiIdlike
In Nature, Humorous and
lnquisitive.

In Herschel island, where the sun
shines continuously for eight weeks IN
summer, the Eskimos had sun dance,
not always clothed in the garments OF
nropriety. They had an idea that when
tbe sun came back its movements
were directed by an invisible power
but they had no tangible conception OF
a God. They had no belief In future
life. either of reward or punishment
Today they are religious, truthful, klno
To their children and to the aged. They
are ambitious to learn; they are prac-
teal. extremely industrious, sanitary
in their habits, well clothed and well
housed. Insanity is unknown, but tu-
berculosis is quite common.
They whale in summer and trap ID
winter. They are clever in trading
good workers on land, water and ice
and take excellent care of their house
hold effects. Tools, If broken. are
neatly repaired. When at Hersche'
island or Fort Mcpherson they eat the
white mans food with great relish. In
summer they eat their fish and bluoDer
raw and in winter frozen.
The EskimoS have no fear of death
If told that death is approaching they
will respond with complacent smile.
They are q very happy people. Their
natures are childlike and they do not
continue in the same frame of mind
for two minutes at a time. They are
good-uatured and humorous and very
inouisitiye. Their emotions are sud-
den and rt-lived-uproariously hap
nv one moment and almost crying the
next
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30
IT'S A PREMATURE MONUMENT
Tall CbeIisk Was Raised by the Turks
to Commemorate Anticipated
Capture If kut.

Approaching Kut-el-Amara from the
south by the River Tigris, the first
thing one sees nowadays is tall ODE
lisk. 1t stands or ground sacred to
no people in the world but the Brit
ish, Eleanor Franklin Egan writes In
the Saturday Evening Post. 1t stands
on the wide, sheil-torn and deeply
trenched neck Of land-base of the
peninsula on which the town is built
where for IA days the shattered rem
nant of a British army withstood
Couble siege of constant bombardment
and slow starvation.
This obelisk was raised by the
Turks to commemorate the surrender
of General Townsend and their vic
tory over the British forces that had
tried so long and so heroically to re-
lieve him. To me it was an eXclama-
ton point to punctuate my own aston
iShment!
lights of early EVENING" tall white
shaft in a half-circling fringe of palm
trees, lifting itself against back
ground of placid river, which lay in a
short, straight stretch TO the north, re-
fiecting the colors of the sunset.
Was ever anything quite so prema-
ture? 1t makes one realize, as moth
ing else could, how confident tsae
Turks and the Germans were that they
had the British in Mesopotamia per-
manently defeated. Defeated 1t
seems incredible that anyone could
have imagined it. In the face of things
as they have become, that obelisk
seems to me to express kind Of
whimpering enmity, as though it felt
itself strangely inappropriate and
would get away if it could to follow
it's builders on the long trail of re-
treat to the north. 1t is monu-
mental misconjecture, the ironic hui
NOR of it being unique and thing in
which Englishmen may now rejoice.
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for there is every chance that you viii
be disappointed. And don't mention
1t to Evangelina. Now. then, I've a
few pennies left and I'm going TO buy
some candles"
Rosa embraced her lover impulsive-
ly. Something tells me it is true /!
Something tells me you are going 70
save US all"
Evangelina in the far corner OF the
hut muttered to her husband: "Such
love-birds! They are like parrakeets.
forever kissing and cooing!"
Jacket returned at dusk. and with
him he brought rusty three-foot iron
bar. evidently part of window graf
ing. The boy was tired, disguised. and
In vile temper. "A pickaxl A crow
bari" he cursed eloquently. "0ne might
as well try TO steal cannon out of
San Severino. I'm ready TO do any
thing within reason. but"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30

Come-the truth for once, before give
you the componte."
"As God is my judge, I'm telling you
the truth" protested the soldier. ''Flog
me If you will-rather the componte
than another night in those trenches.
You know that Old quinta?"
"Where Pancho Cueto made goat
of himself? Perfectly. Do you mean
to say that you saw old Esteban Va
roma walking with his head in Ms
hands2"
mo, but l saw that she-devil Who
fell in the well and broke her neck"
Sch? When did you behold this
this marvel?"
"Two nights ago. She was there be-
side the well and her face shone
through the night like lantern. There
was fire upon 1t. She came and went,
like a moth in the lamplight. l tell
you repented of my sins. Some OF
the men laughed at me when told
them, as they had laughed at the 9TH
ers. But last night two of the doubt
ers went up there"
(TO BE CONTINUED1
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30
Cement From Beet Sugar.

A result of experiments in French
factories is the production of an excel
lent cement as a by-product of beet.
sugar refining. The first step In the
production of sugar from beets is boil
ing them. 1t has heretofore been GUS
tomary to throw away as valueless the
scum formed on the caldrons. But it
has now been discovered that this
scum contains large quantities of car
Donate of lime. 1t is estimated that
1000 tons of the carbonates can be
recovered from 10000 tons of beets.
To this quantity of the carbonate LOO
tons of clay is added, the resultant
product being good cement. The
best scum is pumped into large reser-
voirs and allowed 10 evaporate for a
certain length Of time before being
mixed with the clay. 1t Is then stirred
or beaten for an hour before being fed
into rotary ovens such as are used in
making Portland cement.-The Arco
naut.
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Getting His own Back.

A cook at cheap lodging house
played trick on a grumbling boarder
by serving him with piece of leather
instead of steak.
"YOu have evidently chsnged your
butcher" said the boarder. looking up
at the lGndlady, after saving a minute
or two on the heather.
"Same butcher as usual" said she.
feigning innocence of the trick Of the
cook, of which she had been quietly
informed; "why?"
"Oh, nothing much" said the man,
still trying to make an impression on
the leather; "only this piece of meat
is the tendereSt I've had here for some
time"