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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Senate PASSES
twelve BILLION
AR my BUDGET
Fortifications Bill Providing for
Enormous Increase in Ord
nance Manufacture Rushed
Through.
BY Associated Press.

Washington, June 29.---ln passing
the $l2,OO0.00OOoO army appropria.
ton bill today, the senate empha
sized sentiment for enlarging the
army beyond the 100000 men pro
vided in the measure, but declined
while awaiting the War Department.
new expansion program specifically
to direct the president to raise an
army of 100000.
After a weeks debate and without
a roll call or dissenting voice, the
huge supply measure-a worlds rec.
ord breaker-was sent to conference
between the two houses, with a view
to its enactment next Monday, when
the appropriations are needed.
None of the appropriations for the
army's part in the war for the fiscal
year beginning July was reduced
by the senate. Instead, it increased
many items, approved without change
the house clause clothing the presi-
dent with unlimited authority to in
crease the army by further draft
calls, and added scores of important
legislative riders.
Big Ordnance Appropriation.
Without a roll call or dissenting
vote and with but 20 minutes discus
sion, the senate late today passed
and sent to conference the $s,408, ,000,-
600 Notifications bill, which provides
for enormous increase in ordnance
manufacture.
Among important legislative pro.
visions added by the senate to the bill,
many of which the house leaders al
ready have agreed to accept, are the
following:
Authorizing the president to organ
ize volunteer Slavic and Russian le-
gions.
Proposing the rank of lieutenant
general for Provost Marshal General
Crowder in recognition of his Sc
lective draft administration.
Providing for training and equip
ping of foreign troops, designed es-
pecially for the so-called "Pan-Ameri-
can army. &.f
Amending the draft law to have
quotas based on the number of men in
Class l instead of on the state popu.
lation. T.
Giving effect to the British-Ameri-
can reciprocal draft treaty and other
similar conventions which may be
concluded, and permanently debarring
from American citizenship citizens OF
neutral nations who have filed pre-
citizenship applications and
who claim exemption from the draft.
Authorizing formation of an $780,
100000 corporation under the air
craft board. -. ......
Providing distinctive badges or
buttons for men discharged from and
rejected for military service.
Authorizing the. president to COM
mandeer timber and lumber md con-
duct, timbering operations, proposed
for the aircraft and shipbuilding pro-
grams.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
UNCLE SAM ENDS
PNEUMATIC TUBE
LETTER SERVICE
Congress Passes Bill, But
Fails to Carry Measure Over
Veto of President Wilson;
Affects Six Cities:

Washington, June 2o.-Further gov
esnmen. use of pneumatic tube sys-
tens in six large cities was blocked
today bya presidential veto Of the
postofiice appropriation bill with a
provision directing that the Postof-
flee department retain the tubes until
next March pending an investigation
by the Interstate Commerce COM
mission to determine the advisability
of their purchase by the government.
When an attempt to pass the bill
over the veto failed in the house,
both the house and the senate re-
passed the measure with the provision
objected to eliminated.
In his veto President Wilson sup
ported Postmaster General Burleson,
who has made fight for abandoning
the tube systems as obsolete and USE
less because of the growth Of the
volume of mail and the development
of the automobile.
Contracts for the operation of tubes
in New York City, Brooklyn, Boston,
Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis
expire Monday. 4
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Nonproductive Workers
Quit Old Jobs for Real Ones

The work or fight" ukase issued BY
Provost Marshal Crowder to become
effective tomorrow will not seriously
affect business in Omaha, according to
employers and employees named in the
non-essential list. Workmcn en-
ployed at non-productive labor quit
their jobs Saturday night in prepara-
ton for change of employment.
Railroads, farms and packing
houses appeared to be the favorite
work selected. Many arranged to
take the places of men called in the
June draft quota and will take up
their new duties Monday.
Employers say they are having
little trouble in obtaining help to take
the places of men forced to change
occupations. Men over the draft age
and men discharged from the army
tor physical disability are favored
where night work Is necessary. Wo-
men are being employed largely for
day work.
Chief of Police M. F. Dempsey ex-
poets noAropble in enforcing the rul-
ing in Omaha. Lounge Lizards"
pool hall habitues, dope fiends and
plain vagrants have been ordered to
get employment during the past few
weeks and the majority have COM
piled with the orders of the police.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
U-BOATSLURE
Keen for Shot at
Reptiles of the Sea
TO U. S. TARS

United States sailors do not cross
the ocean in fear of the German u
boats. They long to sight the rattle
snakes" and are sorry when they get
no chance to sink few, of them as
they make trip across, according to a
letter just received by Mr.. and Mrs.
F. w. Greenman. ~120 Dorcas street,
from their son, Curtis, who writes:
Have landed again in the U. S. A.,
and never even sighted a bloody u
boat. All of the crew were disap-
pointed, for we long to show them
how Yankee sailors can fight" !
The young sailor enlisted in the
navy in February, 1917, and was given
training at the Great Lakes station.
He is in the radio service. For three
months he served on a speedy sub
marine destroyer. Heis graduate Ct
Train school and attended both Gem
trial and the Commercial High schools.
He is now in the radio service
aboard the L, S. s. Des Moines and
has made many trips overseas. His
ship is used as convoy and he
writes, that they made their last re
turn trip in just nine days
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Packers Deny Charges;
Say Poor Time to CriticiSe

Chicago, June 2o.-Sharp retorts
were made tonight by representatives
of Armour & Co., Morris & Co. and
Swift & Co., denying charges of prof
iteering made in the report of federal
trade commission investigators at
Washington.
The packers statement declared the
present is not the time for any one
branch Of governmental activity to
strike at the packing industry, as it is
trying to supply the American army
with meat. The statements, too, called
attention to the fact that their profits
were but fractional part of a cent
per pound of product and directed at
tention to the prices of meats to con-
sumers and the prices paid for live
stock to indicate whether or not the
packers have been prohteering.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
LIEUT.. M'EACHRON ON WAY
Victim Of Trench Fever Expected
BY Family to Reach Omaha by July 4
HOME FROM BATTLE LINES

ger and hardship Of front line
action. s.k
Saturday Mrs. McEachron received
three letters. Ali were of different
date, but evidently came over on the
same transport. The last letter
written by her husband stated that
he had been stricken with trench"
fever and another fever of an eb-
scure nature which has just developed
among the soldiers and ofWtich the
physicians know very little.
He wrote that he had been inval-
ided because o. his illness and has
been granted an honorable discharge
and will soon be home. He hopes
that he will regain his old-time Wig
orous health after a few months rest
and recuperation in his Omaha home.
The family think it is glorious
Fourth Of July news for them, and
they are eagerly awaiting the arrival
of the husband and father. 81. ,
Lieutenant McEachron, before the
war: was in the office of the county
clerk
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30

The three happiest persons in
Omaha today are the wife, little son
and daughter Of 1t. Willard Nc
Eachron, of Co. L, 1s6th Infantry,
United States ExpeditioAary forces.
They are happy because they have
received word, that daddy" is on
his way from "over there"
Lieutenant McEachron enlisted in
the old Fourth Nebraska ten days
after the United States declared war
on Germany. On May q, 1917, he
went to Fort Smelling with the first
contingent to the officers training
school, and on August /, of the same
year, he was commissioned.
He was then ordered to Mineola, L.
l., where he was assigned to his
company and regiment and was
among the first of the Rainbow -Di-
vision to set foot in France.
He has been in several hard en-
gagements and served many days in
the trenches, exposed to all the dan
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Germany Menaces SWiss
Because of Criticism in
NeUspaper of Lausanne

Paris, June 2o.-The Gazette of
Lausanne, Switzerland, again has
been warned by the German chan
cellor in connection with its savage
criticism of the Germans incorpor-
ated in it's review of former Ambas-
sador Gerard's book my Four
years in Germany" The newspaper
has been notified that another article
Of the sort, characterized as threat
ening to compromise Swiss rela-
tons with Germany, will be more
severely punished.
The warning cites the following
passages in the introduction to the
review as Objectionable:
"One sees in the author the
memoirs of an absolutely honest
man required to- live four years
among knaves and other malefac-
tors.
But Germany has always violated
Divine right and human laws. Its
lies, its inexcusable savageries, and
the relentlessress with which it has
destroyed the most beautiful monu-
nients Of the earth and with which
it has burned precious libraries and
museums have dishonored it for
ever. The world must destroy il or
the world is lost"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
SHORT
LINE ROADS
TURNED BACK
Action NuIIifies Legislation
Passed by Congress Yester-
day Intended to Prevent
REIMBURSEMENT of
Many Lines.

Washington, June 29.-About 1,700
short line railroads were turEed back
to private management todsy by the
railroad administration, few hours
before congress passed legislation in
tended to prevent the REIMBURSEMENT
of many of them. Between 800 and
400 of the roads relinquished had
sought to remain under government
management. About 400 short lines
were retained as part of the national
system.
Announcement of the action was
withheld by the railroad administra-
ton until less than an hour before
the legislation, which would have
stopped it, was finally enacted. 1t
was explained that the course was
made necessary by the railroad acts
provision requiring the government
to decide before July ] which short
lines would be retained and which re-
linquished. Railroad administration
officials also explained that since the
vas not taken up by either
house OF congress until about 4 o'clock
this afternoon, they could not know
whether it would be enacted. The
legislation therefore is virtually null
lifted. T.
Some May Be Taken Back.
More than 1900 of the roads turned
back to private management were in
dustrial or plant facility lines, or
others which did not seek to remain
under government control and over
which no issue existed. Many of
those relinquished may be taken back
later, it was announced, and all will
be given fair divisions of joint rates,
insured a reasonable car supply and
protected against undue disturbance
in traffic routing. Special study will
be given their problems by new
short line section OF the railroad ad-
ministation.
Short lines represent about $4,000
miles of track in the United States,
or about one-seventh of the total rail-
way mileage.
The legislation of congress was in
the form of a resolution extepding
from July / to next January I. the
period in which the railroad admin
istration would have been forced to
decide its course affecting short lines,
with an amendment providing that
lines in competition or in physical
connection with railways operated by
the government should not be turned
back to private management against
their will.
The original resolution was intro
duced by request of Director General
McAdoo, on his representation that
the, railroad administration had had
sufficient time to consider its policy
toward many short lines. The amend
ment was added by friends of the
lines, which have insisted that they
could not operate prohtably in COM
petition with government-operated
railways, considering rerouting and
other practices initiated by the rail-
road administration.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Pope Benedict Prays
At Midnight Mass for
Peace, Charity, Justice

Rome, June 2o.-At a midnight
mass for peace and the re-establish-
ment of justice, charity and frater-
nifty throughout the world, Pope Ben
edict raised his voice in prayer in ST.
Peters cathedral this morning.
The pontif, accompanied only by
Archbishop Bonaventure Cerretti,
secretary of the congregation for ex-
traordinary ecclesiastical affairs. went
TO the cathedral at 10. o'clock last
night to anticipate in. the ceremonies.
There were about 1000 present, in
cluding a large part of the Roman
aristocracy, Prince Colonna, mayor
of Rome; Prince Orsini, senior as
sistantsat the papal throne; Prince
G. 3. Rospigliosi and Prince Massini.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
OMAHA Boys
RISE IN ARMY
IS METE0R|C
Eight Months Ago W. Treat
Was Clerk; Now He's Cap
tain, With More Honors
in Sight.
Washington Bureau of
The Omaha Bee,

toA4 ~ olACSts
Washington, June 2o,-(Special Tel
egram. Eight months ago 1t. w.
Treat, of 3708 Hawthorne street, Oma-
ha, was appointed to clerical position
in the balloon section of the signal
corps. Soon thereafter he won a gilt
stripe and was commissioned Sec
ond lieutenant in that corps. He was
active and efficient and it was not long
before he was authorized to exchange
the gilt for the silver OF a first lieu
tenant.
Lieutenant Treat fitted the place and
performed his duties SO thoroughly
and evinced such ability as a lieuten-
ant that he has just been promoted
to a captaincy in the balloon section
of the air division of the army.
Tonight he is on his way to Omaha
on a tour of inspection and before the
emu of the year probably will be en-
titled to the gilt leaf OF a major.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
ENEMY LINE PUT IN JEOPARDY
Splash on Fourth VIII
Go Around World, Says
Shipping Boards Head

Washington, June 29.--"Your
employees will douse the kaiser"
said Chairman Hurley of the ship
ping board in a final message to-
day encouraging all shipyards to
exert every effort to carry out with
out fail the July Fourth launching
program. Mr.. Hurley's message
said:
Nearly 100 ships overheard in
one day will be a new declaration
of independence. 1t is great, yet
it is only Americas stride. The big
splash will go around the world.
The employees are behind Pershing's
men; behind the faith of France.
the logged courage of England, the
vim of Italy. They will douse the
kaiser"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Two Taken in Gambling
"a Raid Accused Of Sedition

Twenty men were arrested Saturday
night as inmates of an ill-governed
house in 1902 South Thirteenth street.
Police allege gambling was in prog
ress when the raid was made. Alftan
Prokopik was charged with being the
keeper of the house. Ray Slack, 2727
South Thirteenth street, and Fred
Jackson, 220l North Twenty-ifth
street, arrested in the raid, were
charged with sedition. Police allege
that they violate the Crowder work
or fight" ruling. :.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
The returns to date from the state
ire. Societies
Nicaragua to Observe Fourth
As Mark of HOMAGE to u. S.

Managua, Nicaragua, June 29.-The
president Of Nicaragua has decreed
the Fourth of July a holiday through
out the republic, "as mark of honor
to and admiration for the United
States as the bulwark of democracy,
with which Nicaragua is allied in the
great war;"
Military commanders are charged
to celebrate the day with due SOL
enlnitY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Salt Lake, Rotary Clubs
Meeting Place Next Year

Kansas City, Mo-. June 29.-Salt
Lake City was chosen as the 1919
meeting of the organizations offices
Association. of Rotary Clubs, at a.
meeting of the organizations Offices
here today, marking the windup of
this years convention. New Orleans
and Chicago were eliminated early
and the contest was narrowed down
to Cleveland and Salt Lake City.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
ReprisaL Air Attacks
Against German Cities
Demanded by Parisians

Paris, June 2o.-In an effort to
organize the defense of Paris
against German raiding airplanes
the aviation committee of the
Chamber of Deputies will recon-
mend the pursuit of German ma
chimes which lombard the capital
and the creation of three distinct
defense zones. The first Of these
zones will be exclusively for cannon
and airplanes, the next will be de-
Tended by small balloons and the
third will be brilliantly lighted.
Reprisals against German cities
are demanded by the press, the
Petit Parisien demanding that the
cities of Cologne, Coblenz and
Frankfort be made special objects
of attack.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
OMAHA FAR PAST
ITS WAR SAVINGS
SOCIETY QUOTAS
Number Reported Is 1,215,
With Eight Districts to Hear
From; State Goes Be-
yond $500.

Omaha is going "over the top"
three times in the war savings So
cieties drive, which closed Friday
night, with Omaha having organized
three times the number asked Of it.
Omaha's quota is 900 and at present
the number of societies reported
formeda is 1,2ls. Reports from eight
solicitors, each in charge of district
are yet to come in. A large number
of people are expected to be reached
through the churches Sunday.
- Reports have come in from II coun-
ties in the state. In these counties,
whose total quota is 1918, more than
5000 societies have. been formed.
Douglas county outside of Omaha had
a quota of 100 societies and made
slightly better than 100 per cent
record.
Returns From State.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Crosby Now Held in Berlin.

Amsterdam, june 29.- Maj. Henry
Crosby Emery, who was seized on
the Aland Islands by the Germans
last, March, now is in Berlin, Accord
ing to information reaching here.
He is at liberty. but must report to
the police cnce week. He is re-
ported in good health.
Major Emery left the United
States i'll September, 1910. to repre-
sent New York banking interests Id
Petrograd
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-30
Wen Lick the Kaiser!

To win, however, takes
team work. The Bee is
enlisted with you for the
war. 1t will keep you
posted on what you can do
to help.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-06-21
Douglas Returns
AS Cub Mainstav

the Cubs means great deal.
There has been no club in the
National league hit harder by the
draft than the Cubs.
When the season started Mitch
had a club that looked about one,
two in the league. Then he lost
Alexander, Douglas had been laid
up with an operation and Kilduff
went to the army making big
hole in his infield.
Did the Cubs fall down?
Not that anyone could notice
Mitchell celebrated by passing the
Giants and taking the league lead.
But the most striking incident
in connection with the Cubs TAX
ing the lead was the fact that the
game that displaced the Giants
was pitched by Phil Douglas
against the Phillies. Douglas had
been out of the game all season
and his first appearance was
watched for with mingled hope
and anxiety by Mitch.
Douglas first game, one of three
hits, presages his ability to carry
his share of the pitching burdens
Of the Cubs this year which is well
come news in Chicago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-06-21
I I1.SsS SPORT SAlADW|zI

Passersby at the Smelter Ath-
letic club last evening were ask
ing where the automobile show
was?"
One OF the fannettes wanted to
knw If Harold Jones was Irish.
1t seems pity that a fellow like
Harold can't wear green pants
without being branded Irish. This
outburst from Fannette McQuade
of Icy" fame.
Two fannettes had to be strap
ped to their seats. They couldn' {
keep still when Jones and Pete
tangled in swift exchanges, and a
little claret flowed.
Little Morgan Jones, Harold S
brother, is swift, cute bantam
So is frankie Custino. Ask Nor
gan. He knows.
Chef Is very heavy with that
I'VE have with us tonight" stuff.
We suspect he had been official
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-06-21
Jones and Pete
Fight Fast Draw

Even IL the fans were disap-
pointed that they couldn't see
Chef Mcintyre and Frank Farm
er go in. an exhibition last night
at the Smelter Athletic club, they
watched program full of good
and unexpected endings.
A big crowd of Smelter boys
showed up, while not a few fan
nettes were seen looking down on
the fighters from above.
I'm the heavyweight go. between
Oscar Foss and Otto Deizy of Sc
attic. Foss ran into the r. /. p.
sign in the first round and ere
it was over he was lying prone on
the floor-K. Cd. A wicked swing
to the jaw put Oscar down and he
stayed there.
In the go between Kid Peter
son, who fought Jack Hartford a
draw at George Shanklin's last
smoker, and Patsy Giacco, Tacoma
lightweight, there was some clev-
er fighting. Artie Schock declar-
ed this draw.
Before the Jones-Pete go came
on for hearing, fans predicted Pete
would prove too tough for the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-06-21
Spectacular
Tug-of-Wa ar

Tacoma and Seattle will buck
up with rope between them on
July Fourth in what will be the
most spectacular tug-of-war ever
staged in the west.
This is to be one of the feature
numbers on the program at the
Speedway on July 4 when Mearne.
Pullen, Cooper, Lewis and Durant
are to stage the big 100 miles of
speeding. 1t is to be pulled be-
tween the races.
Seattle is sending over a 12-
men team from Boilermakers'
union No. 104, and Tacoma is
sending in against her the best in
Tacoma Boilermakers' union No.
Sos.
They are pulling for glory-but
there is also cash prize of $500
which goes TO the winner. Mum
dorf, captain of the Seattle team,
and Smith, captain for Tacoma,
were in consultation late yester-
day afternoon and made a few al
terations in the rules and regula-
tons which make the going even
SITTER than was first planned.
Seattle is planning on sending
over a large delegation.
1t is safe bet that the tug
of-war will he an event worth the
price of admission-and it all
goes in with the racing program.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-06-21
Wallace Reid Here
At the Apollo

Girls, he's back, with his Won
derful pompadour chow we have
longed to get our hands on it,
his elegant clothes, and his
charming personality.
or whom am ! speaking?
Why. who could it be but Wal
lace Reid, the matinee ideal SUI
preme of thousands OF the maid
ems of the great republic.
Coming in a new type of pic
ture. THE House of Silence
which is a cleverly worked de-
tective story, Reid displays his
unusual ability.
1.-THE House of Silence" is now
showing at the Apollo.
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slim Smelter lad. But this wasn't
so. The opening round was a Sc
ries of polite exchange taps, but
tho subsequent rounds revealed
some swift scrapping.
Jones got in some nice cuts"
on Pete, but Pete can stand a lot
of hitting. Jones, too, despite his
clevesness in sidestepping, couldn t
dodge several mile-a-minute slams
from Pete who drew little claret
from Harold's nose in the fourth
round.
Artie Schock echoed the fans
approval when he held up both the
boys hands at the end of the
sixth round.
Quick action and much laugh
ter, marked the battle royal, in
which Donald McInturf, Chester
Garretson, Roy Murphy and Floyd
Johnson took part in. They furn-
ished a great found rounds which
was easily one of the features of
the evenings program.
Chef did the mana gerial hon.
ors of the evening in great shape.
The smoker was for the benefit of
the Smelter Patriotic league.