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Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
NebraSkanS and loWans
Named Government Clerks

Washington. May II. - Especial
Telegram.-Elizabeth Howard has
been appointed clerk in the postoffice
at Omaha, Edna B. Wright at Ne
braska City, Harry Doyle at Chey-
enne, Wyo.
Kate w. Wood of Keokuk, Eleanor
]. Pohassey of Cedar Rapids, Kate
c. Funk of Jennings, John G. Farms
worth, Blackhawk; Mabel T. Hanley,
Davenport; Margaret H. Lowery,
Grinnell, Ia; Samuel Pinnell, Omaha;
Karel G. Duncan, Marshalltown, Ia;
Henrietta F. Kintz, Keokuk, Ia;
Gladys M. King, Omaha; Ruth w.
Moore, North Platte, Neb.; Virginia
Meyers, Council Bluffs, Ia; Mary E.
Brossil, Keokuk, Ia; have been ap-
pointed clerks in the War depart
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
Canadian Officer Used Cane to
Slay Hun Rats in French Trenches

When Lieutenant c. w. Heming of
the British-Canadian recruiting mis-
sion came to Omaha, he brought with
him a cane on the end of which is
fastened the copper driving band OF
a German she'll which he picked up at
Neuville-St. Vast.
Lieutenant Heming carried the stick
with him during his IS months eN-
perience with the Canadian forces. He
has been in many big battles along
Vimy Ridge and until two months
ago when he was returned to Canada
because he had passed the draft age
for married men.
THE cane is not only priced as
relic. but it proved useful in killing
rats" Lieutenant Huming explained.
The rats are vertiable scourge,
which infest not only the trenches, but
the whele war area. They say that
the Germans turn them loose on us"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
Noted Jewish Lecturer Speaks
Tonight in Swedish Auditorium,

Jewish citizens of Omaha are
interested in the address which L. ].
Malamuth will give tonight in the
Swedish auditorium.
The spirit of the occasion will be to
celebrate the British declaration,
favoring establishment of a Jewish
free state in Palestine, recently taken
by British forces after being domi-
mated for centuries by anti Christian
rulers.
Mr.. Malamuth is a Jewish writer
and lecturer of note. He has studied
this subject thoroughly and will bring
a message of utmost Importance and
interest.
Tonight's gathering will be a mass
meeting: Several local speakers will
refer briefly to the occasion.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12

Rev. John Calvert, pastor of the
Benson Methodist church, who resides
at 2o10 North Sixty-third street, will
leave next Thursday for New York,
where he has been called by the in
ternational headquarters, Young Mems
Christian association, for assignment
somewhere" in France as general
secretary and religious director in war
service.
Pastor Calvert's successor will not
be named until conference meets in
September, but supply pastor will
be appointed temporarily to fill the
pulpit.
While Rev. Mr.. Calvert is in France,
his family will reside in Omaha. For
three years he was pastor in Crete,
FIVE years in Sutton, four years in
humboldt and this is his third year in
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12

sons, bulkheads and struts. For sew
eral months hatch covers and frames
have been built by this company.
The Omaha company will probably
devote three-fourths of the capacity
of the plant to government orders. II
is estimated that during the next six
months from 5000 to 5000 tons of
steel will be fabricated each month.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12

construction of ships for the govern
ment.
The contract was signed following
the calling of General Manager Karl
+. Vogel and Contracting Manager
Robert L. Hyde to Washington for a
conference. A general line of steel
work will be built, including ship
sides. deck beams, floor girders, keel
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
IVY DAY UNFURLS
j. SERVICE FLAG
WITH 1,403 STARS
Omaha Students Are Honored
at Traditional May Festival
on Campus in Lincoln With
Patriotic Exercises.
OMAHA GIRLS BLACK
MASOUES.
Miss Catherine Newbranch and
Miss Ruth Welch.
OMAHA BOYS INNOCENTS.
Walter c. Johnson, Victor Graham
and Wilson Bryans.

and Wilson Bryans.
Lincoln, May 1l.-(Special. 1.-The
traditional Ivy day exercises of the
University of Nebraska were given
added interest today when a service
flag, IS feet square and bearing l,403
stars, representing every Husker STU
dent in military service, was formally
presented.
Ideal weather favored the Ivy day
program, including the crowning of
the May queen and the planting of
the small strip of ivy sent back from
France by University of Nebraska
men in the service over there, Lieu-
tenant Herb Reese and Lieutenant
Marcus Poteet.
Queen of the May Crowned.
Miss Edith Yungblut, Lincoln, was
crowned queen of the May. She is
president Of the University Girls club
and Black Masque. She was crowned
by Miss Elizabeth Frazim, president
of the senior class.
The pageant was staged on the
green between the gymnasium and
the administl alton building. A bower
had been built for the queen. As a
prelude, 800 girls N flowing Grecian
robes marched in procession.
Twelve May day dancers followed.
Members of the Black Masque and
Innocents, senior societies represent
ing 70 most prominent workers in the
junior class, were announced.
Society Members Named.
The Black Mosques are:
Elinor Bennett, Lincoln; Genevieve
Bechter, Pierce; Helen Doty, Beaver
Crossing; Gwendolyn Drayton, Or
chard; Eliza Gamble, Mead; Gather
inc Kohl, Hastings; Helen Minor, Lin
coin; Hannal. interchangeable, Lin
coin; Catherine Newbranch, Omaha; /;
Dorothy Pettis, Lincoln; Marian Wy
man, Lincoln; Ruth Welch, Omaha.
The Innocents are:
Walter Bunk, Grand Island; Harry
Reed, Beaver Crossing; Paul Dob
son, Lincoln; Lawrence Finney, Lin
coin; Ralph Thorpe, Nebraska City;
Leonard Kline, Blue Springs; Dwight
Kirsch, Lincoln; Walter C. Johnson,
Omaha; Victor Graham, Omaha; Alex
Krause, West Point; Wilson Bryans,
Omaha; Wallace Spear, Genoa, and
Robert Wenger, Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
AIIenbaCh Is Convinced
Of GermanY's DupliCity
From a Staff Correspondent.)

(From Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, May 1l.-(Special. REV.
George Allenbach, German Lutheran
minister of Lincoln, who resigned
from his charge a short time ago after
he and four other German Lutheran
ministers were assailed by Charles E.
Matson, Lancaster county Liberty
bond chairman, for refusing to attend
a patriotic meeting, has issued a
statement in which he regrets in the
light of present conditions, his pro-
German writings published when
America was neutral country. The
statement follows a conference with
the county Council of Defense.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
Department Orders,


Washington, May 11.-(Special Telegram.)
The postoffice at Giarth, Clayton county,
Iowa, has been discontinued; mail to Nc
Gregor.
Rural letter carriers appointed: Nebraska
Blue Hill. Bruce Laird; Creighton, Marion
Scott: Nebraska City, Harvey c. Hall;
verdigre, Willis Stevens
1owa-Des Moines. Sydney L. Harvey; Le-
mars, Howard L. Smith; Lineville. Preston
c. Wahn; Stanley, Harry A. Wooteson; Bel
mond, Clyde Z. Hammond; Boone, Fred
erick L. Abel; Linden, William c. Wright;
Prole, James F. Bland; Remsen, Harm r.
Dirks, and Herman s. Wilberding; Iowa
Falls. Erwin L. Dow.
The Postoffice department has accepted
the proposal Of the Security bank to lease
the present quarters for postoffice at
Creighton, Neb., for term Of five years.
Lee NJ. Buckmaster has been appointed
postmaster at Aredale, Butler county. Iowa,
vice Millard Fl. Bailey, resigned.
The charter Of First National bank of
Trager, Ia. has been extended to May 3.
1873.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
A. F. Smith, Omaha, Honored
BV National Jewelers. Body

Philadelphia, May 1l.-(Special
gram.)-Arthur F. Smith, presi-
dent of the A. F. Smith company,
Harney and Sixteenth streets, Omaha,
Neb., today was elected unanimously
as member of the executive commit
tee of the National Wholesale Jewel
ers' association in annual convention
here.
The national organization includes
200 leading wholesale and manufac-
turing jewelers.. The election of Mr..
Smith is a recognition of Omaha's
growing progress and importance as a
distributing center for jewelry.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
Two Cadets Land Safely
From Runaway Balloon

San Antonio, Tex, May 1l.-Leap-
ing from the basket of a runaway
sausage" balloon which broke its
moorings at Camp John A. Wise, near
mere this morning, two cadets, after
a thrilling cross country ride, landed
in safety by means of parachutes
which were attached to their uniforms.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
Omaha Structural Steel
Works to Help Make Ships

The Omaha Structural Steel works.
Forty-eighth and Lcavenworth
streets, has contracted to furnish
fabricated steel for the United States
Shipping Board Emergency corpora
ton. The steel will be used in the
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-12
Emil Olsen, Omaha Man,.
Dies at Camp Merritt, N. J..

Emil Olsen, 80 years old, a men,
Der Of the 34lst machine gun COM
pany, stationed at Camp Merritt, N.
J., Omaha man, died late Friday, ac-
cording to advices yesterday to his
brother, Nels Olsen, 22l7 North
Twenty-seventh avenue, Emil o.
sen was among the first to enlist
here. He formerly was in the gro
Gerry business here and resided at
1920 North Twenty-fifth street.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Hylan Asks for List
Of Rich Tax Dodgers

Mayor Hylan yesterday wrote Presi.
dent Jacob A. Cantor, Of the Depsr-
ment of Taxes and Assessments, ask.
ing him for list of the wealthy CHI.
zens VINO are accustomed to try TO
dodge their personal taxes "by making
oath that they are non-residents of the
city and who generally give their
places Of residence in some small set.
tlement or village just outside the
City of New York, or in a neighboring
state, where the administration of the
personal tax law is not effective and
the rate much lower"
"They are members of the city
clubs" said the Mayor, have palatisl
residences with their families in New
York. and can always be relied upon
to initiate all civic movements Wills
the people generally are under the IN.
preston that they pay their share o.
the clty's expenses. They are also
largely interested in our transit com
panles and to some extent are respons'
ible for the frightful conditions exist.
ing in the street railway system ano
subways."
The Mayor said he would endeavoIt
to have their names published snd
see that proper publicity is giYe1
them"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Newsboys Need $500
For Their Defence F und
THE TRIBUNE.

\ a ORE than $1,000 has been sub
1VA scribed to the Newsboys' De-
fence Fund by more than 100 con-
tributors. For the preparation of the
.ase now in the courts and other
cases in the hands of Lemucl Ely
Quigg, who is serving the newsboys
without compensation, not more than
81 800 is row needed
Mr. Quigg would like to have 500
persons who sympathize with the
vendors send checks for ST each to
make up the necessary sum-
The money will be expended in the
preparation of the cases now in court
IN preparation for court or impcnd
ing, all Of which are correlated. The
expenditures will be audited bv a
committee of newsdealers appointed
at meeting of the joint committee
held September 9. J. A. Sultan, chair
man, and J. NJ. Marcus, secretary
were authorized to make an account
ing of funds so contributed. their
report to be printed in The Tribune
Copies OF the report will be sent to
each contributor.
Should more than $500 be needed
for expenses in these cases of the
newsboys, another appeal will be is
sued
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Wilson May Act in
Bridgeport Strike
lspce,ol Disp1tch to Tho Ir,bunel


WASHINGTON. Sept. 1O.-Officials
of the National War Labor Board have
recommended that the Preside take
drastic action TO enforce the award Of
the board in the bridgeport machinsts'
controversy and break the strike, which
is now seriously Interfering with the
munitions output there. White House
action is expected within the ncNt few
days.
Just what course the President will
take is not Vet clear. It is known that
he has been impressed with the neces-
sity CT supporting the War Labor
Board in the enforcement of its de-
cisions if the board is to retain it's
standing in the adjustment of indus
trial disputes.
The bridgeport machinists, the War
Labor Board has made clear TO the
President, have violated two of the
specific agreements to which American
labor is committed for the period of
the whs In striking they have VIC
lated, it is pointed out, the "no strike
agreement, and they have further de
clined TO accept the award of the War
Labor Board, after having agreed to
abide by it. one OF the necessary prece :
dents 70 every controversy which the
board undertakes TO adjudicate
AS soon as the draft registration is
completed on Sentember l2, it is point
cd out the Presiden., as commander in
chief of the army, can issue orders
giving the strikers the choice of i'm
mediate return to work under the
terms of the National War Labor
Boards award or of being Immediately
inducted into the military service un
der the "work or fight" rule
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Threat Against Jews
Freed Slav Officers
(By The Associated Press J

STOCKHOLM, Sept g. - Ten thou
sand officers of the old army, who were
ordered to register in Moscow, were
held prisoner for nearly a week, almost
without food. Cholera broke out among
them because of the crowded and unsan-
itary conditions of their quarters.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Secre-
tary of War wired General Alexieri
commander in chief Of the anti -Bolshe-
vk forces, that an officer would be
shot for every Bolshcviki killed by the
Czechs or White Guard. Alexieff is
reported to have replied that ii off :
GERS were shot he would not stop re-
prisals until every Jew in Russia was
quattercd. Finally majority Of the
officers, half of them from Moscow,
were released. but hundreds of Off
GERS are missing and are reported to
have been Shot. Many thousands of
officers of Moscow refused to answer
the call to register and made their es
cape to the various anti Bolshevik
'front.';
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

no opinion on the legal phases of the
proposal yesterday.
1t is not expected that the Brooklyn
company will fly in the face of the
commissions order yesterday and ct
tempt to put the proposed fare raise
n effect in thirty days.
Referring to the subject OF transfers
the company in its statement says that
the new tariffs will eliminate many
transfers between surface lines and
practically all transfers between sur
face lines and elevated or subway
roads. This is done the statement
adds, because the transfer arrangement.
ordered by the commission reduced the
average fare during the year ended
June 80 last to 1927 cents person and
because many people abused the privi~
lege in jamming their way into crowd
ed cars to ride only block or two.
The elimination of the transfer sys-
TEN now in operation will put practi-
cally all of Brooklyn in the lO-cent
zone or force people to walk 1t will
mean the end of transferring to the
"L' roads and B. K. T. subways from
the surface lines covering the OUTLYING
d =
maica, and at Broadway and Marcy
Avenue (the Williamsburg Bridget and
VIII render useless except as cross
town line the Red Line using the Man
haitian Bridge.
The petition to .hc Public Service
Commission then takes up the failure
Of the Board of Estimate to approve
its application for 7-ccnt fare, with
a 2-cent charge for transfers, and en-
phaslzes the fact that the original pro-
posal IS I'm many respects less dra site
ana less onerous upon the public than
the tariffs fled yesterday.
1T (the 7-cent proposa) would make
fares geographically more uniform, ,"
the statement continues at would
furnish more substantial relief. But no
action has as yet been taken upon it.
and Immediate relief Is required and
difficulties are becoming more pressing.
If, before the time wnen the passenger
tariffs herewith filed become effective.
the Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment should grant the application Of
July 8 it would be the intention of
your petitioners to abandon these tar
ifs and 10 file new schedules in har-
mony with the new authority thereby
granted"
Referring 10 the financial condition
of the company the petition states that
since June 80 the passenger receipts of
the company have fallen $1,000 below
the passenger receipts for the same
period last year. while the operating
expenses have increased. Salary in
creases to employees that will mean an
additional yearly outlay of $1,000, 900
have been granted since August .. the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Hylan in Revenue Fight

Mayor Hylan yesterday sent letter
to the Mayors of some of the principal
cities in each state, inviting their CO.
operation in protesting against the sec
tlons OF the war revenue bill, now pend
ing before Congress, providing for the
taxation Of municipal bonds and other
city securities. The Mayor also sent
a letter to all the members Of Congress IS
from New York State, asking them to
use their influence against the passage
of these sections of the bill.
The Mayor said that the proposed
legi station was Objectionable because,
without any corresponding financial
benefit to the nation, whose require
ments are, of course, concededly para
mount, 1t viii do great and irreparablc
injury to the credit of every municipal
lty IN the country" He declared that
the proposed legislation was, in a
sense, discriminatory because it would
operate to give an undue preference to
Farm Loan Bonds as against securities
issued by statax and municipalities.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Cold Feet-Not Hearts-Send
Gurkhas From French Trenches

and they'll Outright any bunch of men
on earth. They're a pack of little rub
Der devils. It's almost impossible to
kill one of them. The harder you hit
him the wider he grins and the worse
IT'S going TO be for you later when he
gets out his kookri
"a kookrl is foot-long, triangular
bladed knife which every Gurkha car
rles when he goes into battle We had
a few regiments of our little friends
with us at Loos. They used to lie out
between the trenches nights or crawl
into the German lines with only their
knives for weapons. 1t was a very de
spondent Gurkha next day who hadn't
sliced a couple of Hun throats during
the darkness. Mention kookri to a
German who faced that crowd and it
will take bullet to stop his running.
"The Gurkhas in New York probably
are on their way to Mesopotamia. Most
of their comrades are there now. There
are also some Scottish regiments en-
route. These were sent. probably, to
keep the Gurkhas happy. For some
strange reason the Scots and Indians
are like blood brothers. They don't
look alike and they don't fight alike,
but there's some sort of a bond be-
tween them that nobody has ever been
able to understand. In India it usually
was the. custom to brigade their reg-
mentS toCethcr
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

a contingent of grlnnng, brown, un
dersizeG soldiers in billiard cloth green
uniforms and black turbans passed
through New York yesterday CT route
to somewhere on the other side of the
globe. They called themselves Gurkhas.
and said they had been taken out of
the trenches in France because of an
attack OF cold feet
The turAhas thems selves were willing
to let the statement stand at face value,
but British officers in the city FASTENED
10 correct any mistaken notion about
the lighting prowess OF their Indian
allies. The Gurkha tribes come from
Nepal. on the southern side of the
hlmaaya Mountains. They made peace
with the British in 1914, and since that
time have been rated among the best
troops OF the empire.
"If ANYBODY thinks the Gurkhas were
recalled from France because they were
afraid he has another think coming"
said an officer at the British recruiting
mission, in the Gambler Building. "They
did have cold feet in the trenches, but
The trouble was due to the weather
and not nerves. Almost all suffered
from frosthite, and half the toes of an
entire division dropped off during our
irst winter
Give the Gurkhas a warm climate
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

of increases in the fares" said Mr..
Shonts, (which would make the rev
enues OF the company sufficient to take
care of its greatly increased operating
expenses and provide the increased pay
to which the men are undoubtedly en-
titled.
"The Board of Estimate and Appor-
tionment and the Public Service Com
mission are now making an inquiry
into the question of appropriate fares
and service, and the company has no
doubt that when the subject has been
fully examined some plan will be de-
veloped which will fully protect every
body concerned.
"This company seeks no improve
ment in its condition as the result of
the war, but it does feel that it is en-
titled to maintain its finances upon a
basis which will rot impair its ability
to provide the best possible quality of
public service, as we'll as to fulfil its
moral obligations to those who have
invested their money in providing the
facilities to render that service
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

petition says, and in orcer to avoid
financial embarrassment 1t is necessary
to have the Board of Estimate approve
the 7-cent fare proposal or to establish
the 5-cent fare zones.
New Zones Proposed
Under the company's plan the fol-
lowing zones would be established:
Grand Street Lne--First zone, between the
Delaney STREET terminal of the Williams
burg Bridge and Nevtown Bridge. Second
zone. from Newtown Bridge to North
Beach and Flushing.
Flushing knickerbocker Line - First zone.
from the Park Row Terminal of the Brook
lyn Bridge TO Myrtle and Wyckoff avenues,
Ridgewood Second zone. from Myrtle and
Wyckotf avenues TO Fresh Pond Road,
Queens.
Flushing Avcnuc-First zone. from the Park
Row terminal of the old bridge to Flushing
and Onderdonk avenues, Maspeth Second
zone, from Maspcth to North Beach and
TO Flushing. taking in Corona and other
New York suburbs populated in the main
by men and women employed in Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue Lne--First zone, Park Row
to Flatbush and Nostrand avenues. Second
zone. from tlatbush and Nostrand ave-
nues to Bergen Beach or Flatbush Avenue
and Avenue u (Fatlands)
Fifth Avenue Linc-tirst zone from the Full
ton and South ferries to Fifth Avenue and
lhirty-slxth Street Second zone from
Fifth Avenue and Thirty sixth Street to
Fort Hamilton.
Ocean Avenue Line-First zone, from the old
Broadway Ferry Williamsburg Bridges
Brooklyn plaza to Avenue NJ Flatbush.
second zone from Flatbush to Sheepshead
Bay.
hamburg Avenue Line-First zone, from the
Delaney Street terminal of the Williams
burg Bridge to Rockaway Avenue and New
OTIS Road east New York and Browns
and Brownsville to Canarsic.
West End Line - First zone from New
Utrecht Avenue OF Thirty ninth Street and
Bay Ihirty-ninth street to the West En,,
Terminal at Coney Island.
Thirty ninth Street Ferry. Coney Island Line
irst zone. from the Thrty-ninth Street
crry. south Brooklyn. to Bay Thirtv-ninth
,trcet. Bay Ridge. Second zone. iron, Bay
lhlrty- ninth street to the West End Ter
lnlnal. Coney Island.
broadway Line lrst zone. Delaney Street.
Manhattan, 10 Fulton and Alabama ave.
nues, East New York. Second zone, from
East New York to Jamaica Avenue ana
Crescent Street. Queens.
metropolitan Avenue Line-First zone. from
Dclancey Street. Manhattan. to Dry Harbor
iSoad. Second zone, from Dry Harbor Road
TO Metropolitan Avenue Queens
franklin Avenue Line-First zone. from Ne
lancey Street, Manhattan, to Park Circle
second zone, from Park Circle to Consv
Island These zones have been in exist
ti'ce Tor many years and several .attempts
TO abolish them by legislation have been
unsuccessful)
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
On Trial as Sugar Hoarder

Rudolph Oelsner, vice president and
general manager of the Germania Res.
taurant Company, which operates the
Cafe New York, formerly Known as
the kalserhof, at Broadway and Thirty
ninth Street, and the Stadtkeller. at
Broadway and Chambers Street, was
brought to trial in the Federal Court
yesterday before Judge Manton, charged
with boarding sugar in violation of
the Federal food conservation law. A
jury was obtained and the trial will 20
on to-day.