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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-12-02
AT STOCK SHOW.

Messrs. Roy Grove and Fred Payne,
dealers in horses and cattle, have gone
to Chicago to attend the annual Inter
national stock show
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-12-02

Killed in Action.
William D. Ward, Miller Avenue
,son4el Court, Wheeling, w. Va.
Thin Rowley, Waverly, Hood Coun-
T. " Va.
1ehn Fredtricke Weiss, Triadelphia
|W Va.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16

Is the opinion of Will H. Maupin,
state publicity agent, better than that
Of the combined judgment Of 1000
crop reporters and an expert travelling
field agent?
This is the question asked by A. Z.
Anderson, field agent for Nebraska for
the Bureau of Crop Estimates OF the
federal Department of Agriculture.
Recently the government estimated
that the winter wheat crop of Nebras-
ka would be 100000 bushels and
there would be 100000 bushels OF
spring wheat.
Will Maupin, who is an optimist OF
so pronounced type that like Colonel
Sellers, he can see millions where
others only see naughts, says the gov
ernment report.is not even conserva-
tive-it is merely bad guess. He
claims the federal authorities fell H.
100000 bushels short in its estimate Of
winter wheat and so per cent short IN
its report on winter wheat production
in the state of Nebraska.
Director Anderson recalls during
the month OF May when the effects OF
drouth and high winds were at their
height from the Missouri river west to
North Platte and McCook. with win
ter wheat firing badly, Mr.. Maupin
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16

gave the press a flattering report on
Nebraska crops, stating "the pros
poets were never better"
Mr.. Anderson says: Travelling 25,.
600 miles annually within Nebraska
making inquiries, inspecting fields
studying weather conditions AMI tab
ulating thousands OF crop reports, may
not place one on par with the able
Nebraska publicity agent, but the
judgment of 1000 OF Nebraska's best
farmers say he knows very little abou,
wheat.
"The government estimates are gen.
orally accurate to within per cent to
3 per cent, and this can be proved
beyond a doubt.
"An optimistic spirit may be desira-
bic for a state publicity agent, but the
government prefers cold-blooded facts
and conservative estimates. Uncle
Sam does not like to promise the al
lies more wheat on June than the
conditions on June warrant.
IF the Nebraska publicity agen,
cotld harness the energy Of his ire
pressible optimism to a plow and
make it produce extra loaves of bread
it would do more toward raising the
government estimate than unwise crit.
icism and exaggerated crop guesses,'
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
"Entire War Family Affair Of
Hohenzo||erns," Declares Or.
Cohn, Socialist Deputy
in ReiChstag.
{By Associated Press.)

Amsterdam, June 1S.--A scene was
caused in the Reichstag yesterday by
DR.. Cohn, socialist member, when,
according to the Cologne Gazette. he
declared: .-%,
"The border states have become
territory where lie bleaching the
bones of the best in the land. who
have been slaughtered by the misled
German soldiers"
An uproar followed this declaration
and Deputy Cohn was called to order,
but he continued:
"The whole war has become fam
lily affair of the Hohenzollerns. 1t is
possible that we may finally remain
the only warriors in Europe and the
entente will have to submit, but
Europe will have become a continent
of beggars and we shall all suffer the
consequences of such a peace"
Lieutenant General Won Stein. Prus-
sian minister of war and state, in reply
asserted:
1T is not one family in this coun-
try, which is waging war, but the
German people, under the kaiser. is
waging war for its existence"
According to another account OF the
excited debate, several independent
socialists shouted, robbers, mur-
derers," when Dr.. Cohn said that peo-
pie were being slaughtered by the mis-
led German soldiers" Members of the
center and the conservative parties
thereupon left the chamber. it is re-
ported
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
BOLSHEVIK FORCE
ANNIHILATED BY
HUNS In UKRAINE

Amsterdam, June 15.-General Kno-
erzer in telegram to General Eich-
horn. the German commander in the
Ukraine, reports, according to a mes
sage from Kiev, that about 10000 boil
shevik red guards, commanded by
Czech officers, have been almost
wiped out by German troops to the
west of Taganrog, Russian port on
the north shore of the sea of Azov.
The bolshevik troops, it Is am
nounced, coming from Leisk. landed
on the Ukraine coast of the sea Of
Azov and were advancing toward
Taganrog. More than 5000 dead bol-
shevik soldiers were counted and THE
did not include the bodies of those
drowned. 80
General rKnoerzeu claims the loss
of the Germans was slight.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
NEW AMERICAN
ACE DOWNS l3
GERMAN PLANES

Paris, June 15.--Sergt. David E
Putnam of Brookline, Mass. is re-
ported to have downed FIVE Germans
on June 10. Three of Putnsm's aerial
victories nov are official and the
other two are under investigation.
This record, if the victories are Off
cially accredited, makes Putnam's to-
tai IS, supplanting Frank Baylies OF
New Bedford, Mass. as the American
ace of aces.
The feat accredited to Sergeant
Putnam is the most notable performed
by an American aviator and has prob
ably been eclipsed only once during
the war The only other aviator get
ting a larger bag of enemy airplanes
in single day is Lieut.. Rene Fronck
a French ace. who on May 9 brough,
down six German machines.
First 1t. Frank E. Baylies is Off.
cially credited with II enemy air
planes.
Sergeant Putnam a descendant oi
Israel Putnam. On April q it was
announced that he had been awarded
the war cross by the French govern.
mert.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
ATTACK
RESUMED
IN italy
Announcement Made in Rome
That Tremendous Onslaught
Starts From Mountains
to the Sea.
(By Associated Press.

Rome, June 15.-The AUS
trians began a great offensive
at 7 o'clock this evening on the
front from the Asiago plateau
to the sea, a distance Of nearly
100 miles.
This announcement was made
in the Chamber of Deputies by
Premier Orlando, who added:
"Our troops are everywhere
resisting magnificently.
Nearly the whole of our front is
engaged as the offensive extends with
extreme violence from Astico to the
Brenta, from the Brenta to the Piave
and along the Piave everywhere in-
volving the Astico plateau the Mount
Grappa sector and the plain"
Offensive Is Fooled.
Premier Orlando declared that the
Austrians had failed to achieve even
the preliminary results which usually
followed crushing offensive.
Describing the operations the pre-
micr said:
"A very violent bombardment be.
gan at 3 o'clock and at 2 o'clock an
infantry attack was launched along
the whole line. The latest news which
has reached me summarizing the situ-
alton at o'clock is that our troops
have offered magnificent resistance"
A message sent from the front to
the premier concludes as follows:
"A comparison of all reports re-
ceived shows that the offensive was
pressed only in the FIRST zone of resist
ance, and not even at few points has
it obtained the effect which the enemy
must have hoped for from his pow-
erful bombardment and the esscrncuS
effectives launched---an attack against
which our troops resisted magnihcent-
~"
Vienna Reports Heavy GunHre.
Vienna, Via London, June l5.-The
beginning of great offensive IS I'M
dicated in the official communication
from Austrian headquarters, which
says:
Junhre increased to great 1ntens-
ity on many sectors of the southwest
front early this morning.
"On the Albanian front new French
attacks which were carried out yes
terday northwest Of Sinaprente broke
down"
Italians Prepared for Blow.
The last great Austro-German Of.
fensive begun in October, 1917, rolled
back General Cadorna's line from the
Isonzo front and along the Venetian
plain. More than 100000 enemy
troops participated In this operation
and it was not for many weeks that
the Italians were able to stay the adj
vance. About the middle of Novcm-
Der the Piave battle began along .
90-mile front in northern Italy and
French and British troops were hur-
ried to reinforce the shaken Italian
army. The crisis was passed about
December and since that time there
has been heavy fighting, in which the
Italians and their allies carried out
many successful counter attacks.
There have been insistent cries from
Germany for Austrian action along
the Italian front to coordinate with
the German offensive in the western
zone and for months past the Italians
have been preparing for just such a
blow as apparently is now being
struck. The Italian army has been
re-equipped and General Diaz has
succeeded General Cadorna as the
commander-in n-chief.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
y. s. to Send Unarn,ed
Hospital Ship Across
Sea Without COnDOL

Amsterdam, June l5.-Referring
to the report that the American hos
pital ship Comfort is to be sent to
Europe without escort and that
Germany has been notified of this
by the American government, the
Lokal Anzeiger says:
1--WE humbly venture to ask the
question, What will the Comfort
carry. on her first voyage to Eu-
rope, as she will have no sick or
wounded aboard1 We greatly fear
American flying men, and, perhaps,
a few dozen airplanes. After the
ample experience we have had in
the course of the war of hospital
ships bearing the sign of the Red
Cross, the gentlemen of America
and their president will perhaps not
take it amiss if we ask this qeus-
ton"
The German government has been
notified that the Comfort will 60
across unarmed and without convoy.
It will be the first American hos
pital ship to enter the war zone.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Treasury Receipts Saturday
Nav Exceed Billion Dollars

Washington, June 15.-This was
the biggest tax gathering day in the
nations history. Millions-perhaps
more than a billion-of income and
excess profits assessments from
which the government rates most of
its internal revenue were paid to
collectors in the "a districts in such
numbers that it will take two weeks
to tabulate them.
Persons who failed to pay by to-
night, as required by law, will re-
ceive next week notices of their de-
llnquency, with demand that they
pay before June Is, in order to avoid
penalties imposed after that date.
Nearly four million separate pay
ments have been made up to tonight,
it is estimated.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
RACE STRIFE ROCKS AUSTRIA;
SUBJECT SCORES HUN RULER
SIavs and Poles Bent on Real
izing National Aspirations;
Vienna Government to
Be Reorganized.
(By Associated Press

~
Washington, June 15.---The inter.
nal situation in Austria daily becomes
more acute. An official dispatch to-
day from France says reorganization
Of the ministry is planned in spite
of threats of the German deputies to
60 over to the opposition if the
Seydler ministry resigns. Several
members of the cabinet already have
threatened to give up Office, the dis.
patch says, unless the government
convenes the Reichstrat in responses
TO the demands of the Czechs.
In reply to accusations of the Ger
mans that they are trying to betray
the dual monarchy for the benefit OF
the entente allies, the Slavs and Poles
have announced that they will con-
tinue to fight for the realization OF
their national aspirations at whatever
cost.
Amsterdam, June 15.-The Berlin
Tageblatt prints the following dis
patch from its Vienna correspondent:
The death sentence has been
passed on the government and it re-
mains to be seen what course the gov
ernment will take if the crown declines
to accept the coming designations. This
is a state crisis and the Austria OF
1867 has gone. Premier Won Seydler
declines to recognize this and the dan
ger of the situation. Berlin must re-
alize that the old signatory alliance no
longer exists and no power on earth
not even Germany's protection, can
revive it"
1t is reported rioting has broken
out in Vienna and matters have come
to crisis in Bohemia and Moravia.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
DRAFT AGE
LIMIT May
Be RAISED
Extension Necessary to Main
tain Calls at Present Rate;
Army to Number 5000, 900
by August |.

Washington, June 1s.-Three mil.
lion Americans will be under arms by
next August /, the senate military
committee was told today by Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
Extension of the age limits i'll the
army draft will be necessary, General
Crowder said, if the present rate oi
draft calls is continued. He estimated
that all the men in class | would be
exhausted soon after next January |
General Crowder said that l,347 .OOC
Of the 2,42S000 men placed in class
|. already have been called to the
colors. He estimated that some 100000
additional men for the first class will
be secured from the men who regis
tered last June and that another
100000 will be added by the reclassi-
fication of men in the re-examination
of the questionnaircs now being made,
Requisitions Reach 100000.
Requisitions from the draft to COM
plete the 100000 total by August |
General Crowder said, have been
made. Of these 100000 will be draf,
registrants and the other volunteers
and national guardsmen.
Everybody thinks there will be
heavy calls during the first six months
of 1919" was a significant statement
made by General Crowder. Genera
Crowder approved the general princi
ples of the bill introduced by Senate
France of Maryland, extending tn
registration ages to from 18 to a
years, thereby providing additiona
men for military and industrial serv
ice. He did not, however, approve tht
age limits fixed in the bill.
After outlining the plans OF the Wai
department for additional calls, Gen
eral Crowder said that at the present
rate class | will be exhausted by the
end of the present year and that un.
less the age limit is extended and an.
other registration held, it will be nee
essary early next year to call men in
class 2 and probably soon thereafter
in class 3.
Final figures Of classification of the
first registration totalling 8,6So,447
were given. The registrants were
shown to have been divided as fol-
lows:
Class I. 2,42S729; class 2, 5O9,666;
class 3, 427,S70; class 4, 3,483, ,326; class
S, 1,S39,856.
General Crowder submitted figures
showing the progress of the draft this
year. A total of l,347,5l2 men, all from
class |. will have been called by the
end of July, divided by months as
follows:
January, 1928; February, 1879;
March, 132,4S4; April, 174,377; May,
360230; June, 2a3,354; July. 100000.
To Train in Schools.
A call for 1860 draft registrants Of
grammar school education and quail
fed for general military service was
made on the various states today by
Provost Marshal General 0owder.
The men, of whom 1861 are to be
negroes, will be sent to schools and
colleges for training.
The entrainment date was set for
July |, but the cali will be held open
for volunteers until June Il. If on
that date enough are not to be OBJ
tanned boards are authorized to draft
the remainder needed
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
DUNDEE WOMEN
RAISE $1,000 FOR
CANTEEN WORKER

The names of women volunteers,
preferably school teachers, for can
teen service in France, are desired by
the Dundee Womens Patriotic
league. The expense of sending the
successful candidate to France will
be borne by the Dundee women.
The money to pay this expense was
raised at the street carnival conducted
by the league the last week. More
than l,500 was netted the league at
the close of the entertainment Satur-
day night.
The women give credit for the large
profits to Billy Byrne, stage director;
Mogy Bernstein, auctioneer, and Al
Dresher. The total receipts of the
three days went we'll over the $4,000
mark, netting $l,500.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Racing Delivery Trucks
Blamed for Auto Crash

Mrs. w. S. Robson. 3ll4 Popple-
ton avenue, was slightly injured Sat-
urday night when an autmobile driven
by D. P. Singles, 1901 South Thirty
first street, in which she was riding.
was run into tree at Thirty-third
street and Poppleton avenue. Wit
nesses of the accident declare Mr..
Singles was forced over the curb by
two Troy laundry wagons which were
being raced down the street at a high
rate of speed. The other occupants
of the car escaped without injury.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Welfare Board at Park

The Board of Public Welfare and
the superintendent, Mrs. Rose Ohaus
visited the scene of the Fridays
double tragedy at Krug park last
night. lhe board watched the dancing
at the pavilion and seemed pleased
with the manner in which the dancing
was conducted. Large posters bear
ing the city ordinance and regula-
Ions for dancers are at each end OF
the hall.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Jeremiah 0'Leary Found;
Fugitive on Chicken Ranch

/. New York, June l5.-Jeremiah A.
O'Leary, fugitive from justice since
the eve of the date set for his trial
on a charge of violating the espion-
age act by publication of seditious
matter in the anti-British periodical
Bull, and later indicted for conspiracy
to commit treason, has been arrested
at, Sara, Wash, and is on his way
back to New York, in the custody
of federal agents, it was announced
here tonight. He was on chicl1A
ranch.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
DANIELS ASKS
10000 MORE
MEN FOR NAVY

Washington, June 15.-Upwards Of
10000 men will be needed to man the
great feet Of warships which the
United States will turn out during the
next fiscal year, the house naval COM
mittee was advised today by secre-
tary Daniels.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
American Treasury Lends
More Millions TO Allies

Washington, June l5,-The treas
ury today extended new credits of
$175,000,000 to Great Britain and
$9000,000 to Belgium. This brought
total credits to the allies TO 1884,
$4,000, including $3,l70,000,O00 to
Great Britain and $12l ,ss0,0o0 to Bel
pj,Im
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Held as Fugitive.

Bert Therber, 22l0 Harney street,
was arrested Saturday and is being
held for the Lincoln police. 1t is al
legged that Therber is a fugitive from
justice and that he violated an order
of the district court of Lancaster
county ordering him to pay alimony
to his divorced wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
U. S. Navy Has Sunk
% Submarines Since
Jan. I, Says Senator

Pemberton, Mass, June is
"Since January cur navy has sunk
2S German submarines and our sail
ors should have the credit for it,"
declared Senator John w.
Weeks, member of the senate mil
itary affairs committee, in an ad-
dress here today.
Il believe when a heroic deed is
done, it should be made public" he
added.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16

Holstein Tluins, Being
Bully Fighters, Ready
For Crack at William,

"The Holstein twins" are neither
cows nor steers. but, it is said that
they are bully" fighters.
They are Peter and William
Ruser, twin brothers, of Holstein,
Ia, who enlisted in the United
States navy at Sioux City, Ia, and
day came to Omaha for final ex-
animation.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16

ARRESTED ON
SPY CHARGES
E. J. TuIIy Seized With Blue
Prints Of Concrete Ships n
PhiIadeI phia;; "Steve"
KrajieCk Held.

Philadelphia, June 15-(Special Tel
egram.) )--E. J. Tully of 5004 Walnu
street, young craftsman in the EN-
ploy of the Emergency Fleet corpora
ton here, was held today under SIS,
900 bail for hearing by United States
Commissioner Long on the charge o
stealing an almost complete set o
blue prints and plans of the new con
crete boats which the government ha'
begun to build in large numbers. 1t il
said he formerly worked at his pro
fession in Omaha.
Government officials who were
present at the hearing intimate tha
at the further hearing Monday star
tling developments will come to light
They say that Tully is only the dupe
for German spies who have been try
ing for months to get the plans oi
the concrete boats. In Tully's pos
session were found several letters
which had been written to him from
New Orleans by man who signed
himself "Steve Krajieck," also former
ly employed in Omaha.
In one letter Krajieck offered to re-
ward Tully handsomely if he would
procure a complete set of plans and
blue prints of the boats now being
manufactured on Emergency Fleet
corporation ways. ...-
Krajieck Also Arrested. .
Kraiieck, Special Agent Frank Gar,
barino announced, has been arrested
in New Orleans and has been held
under the espionage act.
Pending the arrival of additional in
formation from the Department OF
Justice in the Louisiana town, Gar
barino would tell little. Tully was ar
rested upon information received from
government officials in New Orleans.
His arrest was made just "a hours
after Krajieck had been taken. Gar
barino hurriedly dispatched John Nc
Dewitt, one of his agents, to Tully's
rooms at 5004 Walnut street. The
young craftsman was at home.
McDevitt told Tully that he was
under arrest and then proceeded to
search his room. Concealed under a
bed in travelling bag. McDevitt
found what he was seeking. In the
grip were 100 blue prints and draw
ings and each one of them was gov
ernment plan of some part of the new
concrete ships being turned out by
the Emergency Fleet corporation.
Said to Have Worked Here.
A person named E. J. Tully, whose
name is the same as that of the man
arrested in Philadelphia on an espion-
age charge, lived at the home of J. C..
Tully, 543 South Twenty-seventh
street. He was craftsman in the en-
ploy of the Concrete Engineering
company, with offices in the Omaha
National bank building, officials of
the company say.
He resigned his position with the
engineering company about 10 weeks
ago and went to Washington, D. C.
Friends here later learned that he
entered the federal employment and
was assignd to the Emergency Fleet
corporation work at New Orleans.
Steve Krajieck, arrested at New Or
leans on the same charge, was also in
the employ of the Concrete Engineer
ing company and was assistant agent
tor the concern at Chicago. He came
here from West Point, Neb., where
his parents were prominent in the
county. 1t is thought they are living
in Omaha at the present time, but
efforts to find them were unavailing,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
British Raid Huns

London, June l5.-A successful To-
cal operation was carried out last
night by British and Scottish bat
talions north of Bethune, on the
Flanders front and 90 prisoners TAX
en-.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Concert at Hanscom Park.

| Fairbrother's band will give a con-
cert at ianscom park this evening at
6 o'clock in conjunction with Elks'
| day flag program
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
Irish Nationalist Decide
To Return to Parliament

Dublin, June 15.-The members of
the Irish nationalist party have de-
cided to return to parliament the week
after neYt
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-16
THE WEATHER:
For Nebraska:
fair and cooler.

Hourly Temperatures,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26

no guns to drill with--not even wooden
guns-so far as I could see. For four
months the men have been going
through the motions with this chief
article of attack represented by an area
marked on the ground. Consider how
much invaluable time for technical in
struction has been lost.
I'm laying out the camp the con-
ventional design was strictly followed
with unfortunate consequences. The
country at Camp Upton is rolling, and
the rigid adherence to the plan resulted
IN some quarters being placed in hol-
lows of the ground. Naturally during
the recent snowfalls and thaws the
floors of some were flooded MANY bar
racks. though not flooded, are day
totally surrounded by frozen ponds
Extensive drainage must be provided
in the future if the camp is to be kept
Open At the present time all roads
OF approach to the camp are Of soft
dirt frozen into prodigous ruts. Some
thing must be done before the spring
thaw or Upton will be isolated except
by railroad. This is serious situation
OF which no cognizance seems to have
been taken at Washington. Carloads Of
cinders should be on the way there now.
at is doubtful if the camp was wisely
placed. The surrounding country is
somewhat marshy and has a reputation
Of excessive heat and mosquitoes in
summer. An effort must be made to
drain these marshes. In spite of all,
however, substantial progress has been
made in infantry work, and it was my
pleasure to see an admirable drill of
q regiment of engineers"