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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
The American Red Cross.

By Anton Ort, Aged IL, 1906 South
Third Street, Omaha, Neb.
The American Red Cross will come
to you soon for more money, of which
every cent shall be spent to relieve
pain.
We have sent our boys "over there"
to fight for democracy, liberty and
Old Glory. They are ready to die
for US. Can we give the money to
care for them when they are cold,
tired or wounded?
We have sent our nurses "over
there" to take care of our boys. They
are giving their lives, too. They are
like a mother to them. We will soon
have $4,000 "over there" to take care
of the millions of our boys who will
soon be "over there"
We cannot ask our nurses to fight
without their ammunition. Their am
munition is sterilized cotton, n1edi-
cine and all other things these brave
nurses fight death.
In France, Belgium, Italy and all
the other countries where the Huns
have gone thousands of somebody's
wives, mothers and children are beg
ging for food, clothing and shelter.
Who will save them? The Red Cross
will save them.
Out in No Mans Land there is 4
wounded soldier crying for help.
Who will save him? The Red Cross
will.
So. Busy Bees, give to the Red
Cross and let's try to make Omaha
one of the most patriotic cities OF the
United States of America. 1t is al
ready. but make it more.
But-d-m the kaiser, the chief of
hi, man of HI, killed my brother,
but also somebody else's brother,
son, husband, and even father, but
them who are left shall pay him back.
So Murray for Old Glory and for the
Yankees.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Buster.

Agnes Logan, Age 10, Logan, Ia.
We call him Buster, "the dandy
pup" on account of his cunning ways,
and the tricks he plays for his little
owners. -.
Buster is a small fox terrier, all
white except his sharp pointed black
ears and short black tail.
His eyes are brown and intelligent,
and he is a great friend of the chill
dren.
His mother was a white fox terrier,
stray in the neighborhood, who was
stoned and chased by all the boys in
that end of town. -.
She came to our house one cold
winter morning. hungry and forlorn,
and was fed by the children.
A week later six cunning little pup
pies were found in the wood shed, and
mamma said only one could be kept.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Help Belgian Orphans.

By Bertha Bunker, Aged IA. Strang,
Neb., Blue Side.
Jean was a little French orphan.
Her father was killed in the war and
her mother died from starvation. Jean
was taken to a place where many
other children were. / think Jean
would like to tell you the rest.
This place where l was taken the
Red Cross took care of me.
One day letter came to me from a
little American girl (the girl / am
with now. 1t said for me to come
down and live with her. She sent
me money for my car fare, and her
address and picture. The little girls
name was Mary Jones.
The maid took me to the ship
which | was to sail to United States
in. 1t took me number of days, but
I soon got there. Mary was there to
meet me, and when we got to her
home she showed me many beautiful
things. I told her of the French chill
dren and she got tears in her eyes.
The next day l found her in her
room printing something onf card
board. And this is what it said:
Help the poor French children.
They are starving. MARY JONES" \
She tackled this up on "a post so
people could see it, and they all tried
to help all the more.
I lived there the rest Of my life in
happiness.
Let US all be like Mary. Help the
French children from starving. | vii
try and do my part.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Visits Uncle and Aunt.

By Flora Fithian, Aged 49, Ieat
Gushing, Neb.
Dear Busy Bees: Last Sunday we
went down to my aunt's and uncle's.
who live at Phillips. We started at
8 O'Clock in the morning and went
through Cushing, St. Paul. ST. Libory
and Grand Island. 1t started to rain
before we got to Grand Island and
we had to stop until it quit. We ar
r,ved at my aunt's at II o'clock. We
ate dinner and then played the
victrola and my aunt played the piano.
We all got in the cars and went
down to see the steam shovel, which
is about mile away. We saw the big
railway bridge across the Platte
river, 1t certainly is large. After
that we went home. Going home we
went through Worms, Palmer and
Gushing. We got home at 8 o'clock.
very tired, after dandy time ana
ride
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Good for Something.

By Florence Ham, Aged IS Years,
623 West Charles ST., Omaha.
1t was fifteen years ago. There
was a little boy year of age lying
on an old cot in an old shack. He
was very i'll, almost dying. Suddenly
the door was pushed open and man
came in. 1t was DR.. Sevele. He
sat down by the bed, and soothed
the boys aching head. At last the
boy said: "Why don't you let me
die?" every one says I am no good,
in this world. But the doctor said;
You will be good in this world, as
every one does some good" At these
soothing words the boy fell asleep
1t was three weeks after that. The
boy was in the doctors house and
the doctor had adopted him, but peo-
pie still said he would do no good
in this world But let them wait.
1t is IS years after the boys i'll
ness and he is now 20 years of age
The people that said he would be nc
good in this world were much mis-
taken-as-listen:
"He is now serving in the United
States army"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01

So Buster was kept for the baby, and
the Others given away.
In six months he was almost grown
and knew many tricks. He would
jump over a stick, sit up and beg for
his dinner, and run and get 4 ball
and return it to til girls.
One night he went to town with
the girls. and was run over by an
automobile.
Two days later he got poisoned,
and nearly died.
Buster wears little wire muzzle
most of the time and one day he
came running in with an old squirrel
head. holding On to it by tiny
bit of fur run into the wires of the
muzzle.
In little while he was very sick,
and after doctoring him up we ex-
amined the head. 1t was q stuffed
squirrel, and was full of white pow
der to preserve the fur. 1t had two big
orange and black eyes made of glass,
and had been thrown on some trash
pile by one of the neighbors, and had
nearly been the death of the dandy
pup.
Buster is a good watchdog, not al
lowing anything about at night, and
always watching the baby, to whom
he is much attached.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01

Lila Coe and Gertrude Wells spend
many days at the warehouse in the
surgical dressings department, where
Mrs. Mettlin shows them how to fold
and pack dressings. @#
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
1000 Swedes Seek
To Evade Draft Law
Ask Legation for Advice as to
How They May Obtain
EXEMPTION
TStaf CoYrespondence]

WASHINGTON, April 49, The
Swedish legations advice has been
requested by 1000 Swedish subjects
who fear they will be drafted into the
American army and who desire to avail
themselves of their Swedish national
ity to exempt them from military SER
vice in the United States.
Up to the present the legation has
asked this government for the release
of nearly 700 drafted Swedes, about 96
per cent of yhom have taken out their
first citizenship papers. So far only
forty have been freed. More than 100
Swedes of military age have petitioned
the legation for permits to return to
Sweden, and since November 23 the
legation has made representations tc
the State Department in seventy of
these cases. None as yet has been
acted on.
Secretary Of State Lansing has ad-
vised the legation, however, that Swed-
ish declarants who have not been in
Quoted into the army and subsequently
discharged or exempted for physical
disability cannot, except in special in
stances, be allowed to leave the United
States under the existing rules and
regulations.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
$1O,6O6,5 $50 of Bonds
Sold by School Pupils
Boys High of Brooklyn Leads,
With De Witt Clinton
Second

The school children of New York
City in their zeal to help oversubscrbe
the Liberty Loan sold s1O,6O6,55O of
bonds in nine business days to S8.658
persons. DR.. William j. O'Shca, dis
trict superintendent in charge Of the
Liberty Loan canvass, in making this
announcement yesterday also said that
the pupils had sold $4,500,O0O on the
first two school days Of this week.
Among the high schools, Boys High,
Of Brooklyn. leads with $1,33s,5O in
sales. De Witt Clinton is second, hav-
ing disposed Of $244,2OO Morris High
School has received $3.50 individual
subscriptions, more than any other in
the city.
In total sales in the elementary
schools Public School 4S, Bronx, stands
first in the city, School 46 in Manhat-
tan, School in Brooklyn and School
II in Queens. In the number of sub
scriptions taken Public School 48
stands highest not only in The Bronx.
but in the entire city; Public School 62
leads in Manhattan, Public School 8 in
Brooklyn and Public School n in
Queens.
The totals by boroughs follow:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Songs Boost Liberty Loan
Firemen's Band Plays at Rally
at Sub-Treasury

The steps of the Sub-Treasury Build
ing, at Broad and Wall streets, served
as vaudeville stage yesterday. Song
writer's, the Firemen's Band and the
quartet of the fQur-mnute men did
their stunts to arouse the enthusiasm
Of the midday throngs. The meeting
ended with the reminder that every
man, woman and child is expected to
buy Liberty bond.
Arthur Field, of "It's Long Way
to Berlin" fame, delighted the crowd
with poem, opening, "It's for Liberty
Land, SO lend him a hand, and put
him over the top" The enthusiasm
rose higher when he sang patriotic
song, which prophesied that "Just like
Washington crossed the Delaware, SO
will Pershing cross the Rhine"
Harry Carroll said: "a military
band can't play inspiring songs to
cheer our soldiers unless its members
work on a full stomach. There will
be mighty few full stonachs in the
army unless you men and women buy
Liberty bonds and buy them now."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Lebanonians Refuse
Exemption From Army
League Wants to Fight for
Freedom Of Lebanon From
Turkish Rule
TSt0f C0ryesD0ndence1

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The Leb-
anon League Of Progress, of which
Nahoum A. Mokarzel, of New York, is
president, has appealed to President
Wilson to prevent the exemption of
Lebanonians in the United States from
military service. They "beg that they
be considered independent in their own
right and now available material for
the army of freedom. either under the
flag of the United States or the Allies"
"They should not" the petition
states, "he exempted from military SER
vice by the intercession of the agents
of Spain on the ground Of being Turk
ish citizens"
The communication states that deb
anon should be reinstated within its
natural boundaries, comprising Beirut,
Tripoli and the adjoining plains from
Anti-Lebanon to the sea and from the
Leventes to the Prontes River up to
HONS, all of which lands being inhabit-
ed by peoples of Lebanonan descent
ask to be independent under the sole
protection of France, which shall ap-
point a French ruler with special adj
visers and commander of the army, but
to govern in the name of Lebanon"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
New York Man Wins
The Croix de Guerre
DR.. G. F. Patton Braved Ger.
man Gas to Aid the
Wounded

DR.. George Francis Patton, of 2083
Washington Avenue, lieutenant in
the Medical Reserve and serving with
the 165th Infantry Goth Regiment)
has received the Croix de Guerre, ac-
cording to information reaching his
father Charles E. Patton. He risked
his life during bombardment to care
for the wounded of his regiment,
removing his gas mask to work more
swiftly in spite of the danger from gas
shells.
He is thirty-one years old and a
graduate Of Fordham and Maryland
universities. He was married on July
IL, shortly before obtaining his COM
mission. In letter dated March % he
informed his father that he had been
slightly wounded and probably would
be sent to Nice.
Mrs. Frances Irene Forrest, of 19
Wyckoff Street. Brooklyn, was noti-
fed Yesterday that her son, Theodore
w. Forrest. {. member of the 116th Ca
madam Battalion, had died in action in
France on April 3. He was twenty
three years old and enlisted in Canada
soon after the outbreak Of the war.
Word reached two of New York's let
ter carriers yesterday that their sons
had been wounded in France. They are
Al Kley, whose son. Arthur, was in
Company L. Of the 165th Infantry, and
Thomas F. Rraham, whose son, Joseph
T., is in Company M of the same regi-
mcnt
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Washington Hears They
Have Isolated the Ter
ritory From Russia
World Empire Link
Peasants in Uprising, Is Re-
port; People Resent
Grain Seizure
lStaf Correspondence


WASHINGTON, April 1s.-The State
Department announced to-day that ap-
parently the Germans are trying to
convert the Ukraine into a German or
Austrian colony. They have cut off
all communication between the Ukraine
and Russia as far as possible, and are
gradually replacing all the native Off
cials with German or Austrian Off
cinls.
They are also forcing Austrian and
German money into circulation. In ex-
tending their control over Ukrainian
affairs they have gone so far as to
order the arrest Of all Entente officials
there. 1t was stated that no American
officers are in the Ukraine.
The State Department has received
In addition to the preceding authentic
intelligence Il report that the Ger
mans and Austrians intend to dissolve
the Ukrainian Rada and install q gov
crnment Of their own in it's stead.
Another unconfirmed report received
by the department is to the effect that
the Austrian troops operating in the
Ukraine, very few German soldiers be-
ing lHeTe, nave refused TO go elCncr
to the Western front Or to the Italian
theatre.
The departments advices confirm the
skepticism expressed by officials here
Immediately after the signing Of the
Brest-Litvosk peace concerning the in
tcntions of the Central Powers toward
the Ukraine. The belief then voiced
that Germany and Austria desired to
make of the Ukraine the great granary
of the Teutonic empires, as we'll as a
link in their scheme of world empire
was held to have been sustained by the
new policy being followed by the Ber-
lin and Vienna governments toward the
Ilkrn inc
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Cartoonists to Aid Loan
Briggs to Sketch Pictures of
$1OO Bond Purchasers

This is cartoonist day at the Liberty
Loan Theatre, on the steps of the Pub
lie Library, Fifth Avenue and Forty
second Street. Briggs will be on hand
promptly at noon o. N to draw pictures, of
purchasers of $500 bonds. Three other
artists will also help-James Mont
gomery Flagg, Hy Mayer and Rube
Goldberg.
After the artists have completed the
sketches Lucien Muratore, Of the Chi
cago Grand Opera Company, will sing
the "Marseillaise," assisted by a de-
tachment of French and American SOL
diers.
The performance, beginning with
sketching, leading to grand opera and
interspersed with Liberty Loan ap-
peals, will conclude with an exhibition
of shooting by the champion woman
rifle shot of the world, Jane Fulton,
who will fire at a target held in the
hands of Tiny Kline, widow of the
famous Rough Rider Otto Kline, who
was killed in circus performance in
Madison Square Garden several years
ago,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Defeats Amendment to the
Agricultural Budget Bill
by 167 to SO
Back to Conference
Upper Body Expected to Con-
cur, to Expedite APP
preparation

WASHINGTON, April 18.-Proposed
increase of the government guaranteed
price of wheat to $3.50 was defeated to-
night in the House, which rejected by
vote Of 167 to SO the Senate amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill making the change.
This action sends the question back
to conference, and the Senate now is ex-
rected to receoc 60 as not to hold up
the appropriation bill.
Under the food control act the price
of 1918 wheat was fixed at So bushe,
but by proclamation last February
President Wilson fixed a minimum
guarantee of 1920 a bushel at the prn-
cipal interior primary markets. Under
the Senate ->>ler to the appropriation
bill the price would be increased to
$3.50 bushel and the farmers local
elevators made the basic market.
A proposal to concur in the Senate
amendment and reestablish the interior
markets as the basis was rejected, 1870
to 1873, and another to include the same
guarantee for the 1919 crop also was
rejected.
Representative Lever, chairman Of
the Agricultural Committee, who re-
Gently led the fight against adoption of
the amendment, declared the proposed
guarantee would not increase the spring
wheat production and denied that the
present guarantee was inadequate.
The vote was preceded by four hours
Of general debate, during which Repre-
sentative Young, of Texas; Madden, Of
Illinois, and London, of New York,
spoke against the increase. Among the
Champions of higher prices were Repre-
sentatives Baer, North Dakota; Bur
nett, Alabama; Lesher, Pennsylvania; ;
Ferris, Oklahoma; Mckenzie, Illinois
Moore, Pennsylvania: Shallenberger,
Nebraska; Campbell, Kansas; Haugen,
Iowa, and Fess, Ohio.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
10 rotect Loyal Men
of German Descent
President Deprecates Unjust
Suspicion or Violence
Against Them

CHICAGO. April ia message
from President Wilson teprecating
unjust suspicion or. violence against
Americans OF German blood was pre-
sehtcd 70 the Chicago Association of
nmmerce :, yesterday by DR.. William f.
Bohn, secretary Of the New York
branch Of the Friends Of German De-
mocracy. In part the message read:
You may be sure that sympathize
and shall cooperate with every effort
to see to it that the loyal residents of
the United States Of German birth or
descent are given genuine proof of the
sincerity of our institutions. 1t dis
tresses me beyond measure that sux.
picion should attach to those who do
not deserve it and that acts of in
justice and even violence should be
based upon the auanicinnn
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Berlin Offers Reward
For u. S. Agents
Try Tho A.sot,.,.d p....,

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. April 18-~The activities Of
the German military authorities in
suppressing propaganda at home arc
shown in the following Quotation from
Il German bulletin which has becn re-.
ceiycd at American headquarters:
Baron Won Gayl, general command
Ing tho 7th German Army Corn. in
Mucnstcr. oRers 1000 marks to the
person who first succeeds in impli-
eating aa English or American agent
guilty Of melting disturbancox or rev.
olut.on in this district in such II nax-
ner nat he may be condemned by a
court"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

1t is the type of legislation that should
always receive the veto of the Governor
and the Mayor. 1t is fragrant viola
ton of home rule. If the bill had been
sent to me for action l would have
most certainly vetoed the same.
The people look to both you and to
me to protect them from such legis-
latlon. No such unnecessary and un-
called-for additional financial burden
City of New York at time when the
taxes are SO high, the demands Incl
dent to the war so great, and the prob
ability Of a direct tax so certain"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
German Prisoners
To Go to Georgia
Thirty-eight Men From u
Boat IS To Be Imprisoned
at Fort Mcpherson
IStof Correspondencel

WASHINGTON, April 18.-America's 8
first prisoners taken in the war against
Germany--thirty-ei eight officers and men
of the crew Of the U-boat SO, captured
by the crews of the destroyers Fan
ring and Nicholson on November IL
are to be imprisoned for the period of
the war at Fort Mcpherson. Ga, the
War Department announced o-day.
The prisoners. who arrived at an At
lantic port yesterday, are to be re-
moved by naval officials to the Georgia
camp and turned over to the War De-
partment for safekeeping. Acting Sec
retary Of the Navy Roosevelt to-day
issued the following statement in re-
gard to the prisoners:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Aland Islands Plead
To Unite With Sweden
IStaf Correspondencel

WASHINGTON, April 1s.-.The pop
ulation of the Aland Island@ has sent
telegraphic appeals to the Senate of
Finland, the King Of Sweden and the
Emperor of Germany praying that the
Inhabitants be allowed a plebiscite by
which they may express their choice OF
allegiance, according to advices re-
ceived from Stockholm to-day through
diplomatic channels.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Hylan Attacks Bronx Bill

Mayor Hylan yesterday sent letter
to Governor Whitman urging him to
veto the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture providing for various positions in
the newly created Office of Commits
slonerr OF Records in the Bronx. John
Rnewltzz, Republican leader of the
Bronx, holds the new Office. The Mavor
said:
There is absolutely no necessity for
this Office in the County of the Bronx
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
To Entertain Fighters

The performance to- be given this
sailors under the auspices of the State
Women's War Relief will be held at
the Playhouse, on West Forty-eighth
Street, between Sixth and Seventh ave-
nues. Miss Grace George is to act as
mistress of the occasion and one Of
the best entertainments thus far ar
ranged is promised.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Denies Hearing From
Captain Of Cyclops

NORFOLK, Va, April 1S.-Mrs.
Selma W. Worley. wife Of the COM
mandor of the naval collier Cyclops,
denied to-day that she had received
any word from her husband and said
that her statement Of last night that
the vessel probably would be heard
from within uwenty-four hours was
only an expression of her personal
opinion.
Mrs, Worley said she was confident
that the ship is adrift at sea, with her
engines disabled or short of coal.
When Mrs. Worley visited a news
paper Office yesterday to request the
suppression Of an interview she had
given about her husbands change Of
name and his birth in Germany she
said:
~ will be able to give bigger story
tomorrow"
When pressed for additional infor-
nation she added: "You know there
are other ships at sea-"
"Hsve you any reason to believe the
Cyclops is safe other than your hopes ?"
she was asked.
eyes," was her reply.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-Navy De-
partment officials said to-day that Mrs.
WorIey had told their representatives
IN Norfolk that she never had said
her husband was born in Germany, and
that she had made no statement in
which she said she expected word Of
the safety Of the Cyclops within twen-
ty-four hours.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Textile Industry's importance

IN the reports Of war contributions
% various factors of foreign traAe.
loan >. l>awrence, Of Boston, repre-.
s~sst'n, the fertile .--1@styv. zainted
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-02-14
British Captain Kills, Five Ger
mans as Toll for Manning
His Baby.
Then TAKES MACHINE GUN
Wounded In Fighting, the Captain
Holds His Command Until Relief
Comes-Another Hero During
Offensive at Masnieres.

With the British Armies in France
The full story of the heroism of a Brit
ish captain, who was so moved with
hatred of the Germans for crippling
his child with bomb that he attacked
and killed five of them with a club
and withstood a German onslaught by
his inspiring leadership, has Just been
received. The tale has made the cap
tain's name a bywOrd of bravery in the
British camp. Here are the facts:
When the Germans delivered their
tremendous assault against Masnieres
and MarcOing during their offensive
on November 80, those two towns and
the territory about them were being
held by division of English troops.
On the staff of the commanding gen
eral there was a captain who may be
designated as Captain Black.
Black was man. of long service.
He had been a jovial companion until