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Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11
SOFT CITY PLUMS
FACE dire DOOM:
AK TO FALL SOON
Incoming Officials Agree on
Smith as Mayor and Indi.
cate That Economy Will
Be WatChWord.

Ed P. Smith, mayor. I
w. G. Ure, accounts and finance.
]. Dean Ringer, police, sanitation
and public safety.
Roy N. Towl, public improve.
ments.
Harry B. Zimman, fire. 49,
Thomas Falconer, parks and bou-
levards.
Dan B. Butler, street mainte-
nance
The foregoing assignments of city
departments were adopted Friday al
a conference of the commissioners.
elect in the Office of Ed P. Smith.
Frank L. Weaver of the law firm
of Weaver & Giller will be city at
torney, succeeding John A. Rine. Mr.
Weaver for many years has been
identified with the Jacksonian camp
of democracy, as opposed to the
Oahlmantes.
w. c. Lambert, corporation coun-
sci, will be retained until important
pending litigation shall have been dis
posed of. A case against the electric
light company is set for hearing in
the United States district court OF
appeals, St. Paul. May 81, and Mr.
Lambert is familiar with that suit
A new corporation counsel will be
appointed within a few weeks.
Appointments of two city prose
cutors for legal department staff have
not been considered. The legal de-
partment will have four attorneys in
stead of six as at present. H. B.
Fleharty and L. J. TePoel will auto
matically be removed.
The new mayor and commissioners
will meet in the city council cham
Der Monday morning and organize
by adopting resolutions, ratifying the
selection of Mr.. Smith for mayor
and assigning the departments as
agreed upon.
One of the policies of the new city
council will be reduce the number
of small departments, which have
been established with the years. Con-
solidation will be practiced, consist
ent with efficiency, is one of the an
nouncements made by the commits
sioners-elect.
Economy Is Watchword.
Next Monday the new council will
prepare an abstract of all of the city
departments and divisions of depart
ments, with lists of employees and
their salaries. Then the looping off
will be started.
Mr.. Smith will go to Lincoln to-
night in connection with an applca-
ton of the Omaha & Council Bluffs
Street Railway company, before the
State railway commission, asking for
authority to increase street car fare
to 6 cents.
1--WE will get in shape to resist
this from the very frst," stated the
mayor-elect.
Highly is Mentioned.
Beecher Highly, former city clerk,
is being mentioned for the same posi-
tion under the new order of municipal
government. He worked for the allied
candidates during the campaign and
has been a frequent visitor in the city
hall during recent weeks. Henry F.
Meyers and Joe Sherry also are in
the race.
Frank Honza is among the possibil-
ties for city comptroller, a position
which will fall to Commissioner Elect
Ore to make. Honza was with Ure
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11

in the court house when the latter
was treasurer.
Commissioner Butler, who will have
the street maintenance department,
under the new regime, will also have
the muny coal department which he
started year ago in connection with
the accounts and finance department.
II was not called into conference
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11

department, Mr.. Zimman, is lawyer
who has had nine years experience as
city councilman, having served two
years of that time as acting mayor.
/ Ed. P. Smith and City Attorney
Rine agreed on the proposition that
the first Monday after election is the
legal time for the new city officials
to take their seats.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11
Sues for $4,000 Damages for
Death of Son While Coastinq

John w. Sund, sr,, whose son, John
W. Sund, jr,, was killed at Twenty
fifth and K streets, when the sled
upon which he was coasting on Feb
ruary II, 1916, collided with an auto
truck belonging to Smisek & Hrdlicka,
grocers, is suing the grocers for $l0,-
600. The trial is being heard in dis
trict court.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11

| Boys Clothing
and Furnishings
Special values that will inter-
est parents with boys to clothe.
Boys Wash Hats
White, tan, rose and khaki
colors, Csc, 75c and $l.OO.
Boys Straw Hats
White straw in all the new
shapes and sizes, CSC to $500.
Black straw in all the new
shapes and sizes, $3.50 to $500.
Boys Suits
With two pair of pants, big
selection Of styles, materials
and patterns, at $8.95.
Boys Blouses
Splendid selections of pat
terms, at 75c to $500.
Boys Pants
Washable, good materials and
patterns, 75c to $3.50.
Boys Wash Suits
Newest styles, guaranteed
colors, ages 2 to s years, for
$3.50 to $6.95.
Burgess-Nash Co.---Fourth Floor
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
COLUMBUS, NEB.,
BOY KILLED AS
MANLEY STRUCK
Seventeen Are Dead and Seven
teen Missing From American
Destroyer Which CoIIided
= With British Destroyer.
(Ry Associated Press,)

Washington, March L5.-Vlce Al
miral Sims cabled the Navy depart
ment today that in addition to II
dead, II nett are missing from the
American destroyer Manley as a re-
suit of her recent collision with "a
British warship, and the consequent
explosion of depth bomb on board.
Of the dead Lieutenant Com.
mander Richard Mccall Elliott, the
commanding officer, and fourteen en-.
listed men have been identified, and
two enlisted men have not been iden
tilted. Six men were seriously In
,, jured and Is Slightly injured.
..a..e, List of Dead.
The following names of the dead,
in addition to those previously re-
ported, were given in today's dis
RICHARD BURKE, chief water
tender, Chelsea, Mass.
TIMOTHY M. CORCORAN, sea-
man, Cambridge, Mass.
NICHOLS M. DREJA, machinist's
mate, Chicago.
GEORGE G. HARTMAN, cleo
trician, Columbus, Neb.
CHARLES H. KLAHARE, ma
chinist's rnate;-Akron,"O
WILLIAM HARRISON MIL
LER, boilermaker, Portsmouth, 0.
EUGENE D. MITCHELL, fire.
man, Frankfort, KY.
EDWARD VINCENT SULLI-
VAN, coppersmith, Brooklyn, N. Y.
CLAUDE MANN, oiler, Joliet. Ill.
CHARLIE WARD, fireman, Rose
dale, Kan.
The death of Lieutenant Com
mander Elliott and four enlisted men
previously had been announced.
Seventeen Missing.
The following 19 names include the
IL missing and the two unidentified
dead:
EDWARD ELIAS BREWER,
gunner's mate, Lynchburg. o.
WILLIAM w. EDDS, fireman,
Sherman, Tex.
ALLEN FLEX1NG, JR, seaman,
Athens, Ga.
LESTER o. HARTMAN, fireman,
Columbus, Neb.
ALBERT VAN H. HERDMAN,
coxswain, New York City.
EDWARD CLARK ISHUM, fire.
man, Washington, Ind. I
ALBERT L. JOHNSON, engine
man, Worcester, Mass.
JULIUS ROBERT JONES, fire.
man, Humble, \ Tex.
MARTIN CHARLES KURDT,
chief machinist's mate, Lindenhurst,
N. Y.
HENRY FREDERICK LOB
MEYER, machinist's mate Hartford,
JOHN DAVID LowDER, JR,
fireman, Lisbon, S. c.
JOSEPH WALTER MALEWITZ,
fireman, no address,
MICHAEL, FRANCIS M'GOW-
AN, blacksmith. Staunton, Pa.
JOHN JOSEPH O'DONNELL,
seaman, Lowell, Mass.
ALBERT ANDREW ROSS. sea-
man, bingham, Mass.
MARTIN ROSEANSKI, seaman,
Toledo, 0.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
French At GRIPS
WITH ENEMY FOR
HEIGHTS OF 0|SE
Go to Assistance Of British and
Take Over Sector of Front;
Heavy Fighting Near
N0y0n.

Paris, March rs. .- France has
thrown the weight of its forces into
the great battle raging with unex-
ampled intensity on the western front
and the British and French armies are
now battling together against the on
slaught of the common enemy in his
desperate attempt to break through
the allied line.
The French on Saturday. went to
the assistance of the British and took
over a sector of the battle front, the
war Office announces.
In the region of Noyon and or The
right bank of the Oise, heavy fighting
with the Germans is in progress
The official statement says:
French troops began to intervene
on March e in the battle now being
fought on the British front. They
relieved certain Of the allied forces
and took up fighting themselves on
this sector Of the front.
Clash at Oise River.
AT the present time they are en-
gagged in heavy fighting in the region
of Noyon and they are disputing the
heights of the fight bank of the Ojse
with important German forces.
Northwest of Rheims there has
been violent artillery action in the
region of Courcy and Loivere. In the
Champagne two German surprise at
tacks east of Suippes resulted in fail
ure. French patrols took some prison.
ers near Tahure.
There was much artillery activity
between Arracourt and the Vosges.
At daybreak German forces attacked
the French lines east of Bleneroy and
east of Bad6nviller. The Germans
were renulsed with heavy 1nsses"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
Secretary of War Baker
Presented to King George

. London, March Is. - Secretary
Baker was presented to King George
at Buckingham palace today by Am
bassador Page. The secretary re-
NAMED for an hour with the king,
discussing Aineyica's efforts in Eu-
rope.
Mr.. and Mrs. Page remained for
luncheon with the king and queen,
but Mr.. Baker had to hurry away
to call on Premier Lloyd George, at
1890 o'clock. Later he gave lunch
con to the members of his staff and
to Vice Admiral Sims and Major
General Biddle. The secretary spent
the remainder of the day at the war
office, in conference with the earl of
Derby, secretary of state for war,
and other British military officials.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26


EXPENDITURES ARE LOW.
Authority to issue $4,500, 5000 in
bonds in addition to the s., 3,666, 900, 900
already authorized and unissued, is
proposed in new loan Legislation pre-
pared for submission to congress, so
that the total amount which may be
issued is So, ,166, ,000,0 900.
Mr.. McAdoo said expenditures OF
the United States and the allied gov
ernments had been much below esti-
mates,- and that consequently it was
not necessary to make the loan larger
than $4,000 900, 100000
INTEREST RATE LIMIT.
Congress will be asked for author
| ity to make additional loans to the
allies during the coming summer. The
decision to make the new bonds in
convertible, the secretary announced,
was reached in order to put an end to
the expectation of higher interest
rates.
Secretary McAdoo issued this state
ment: =
The secretary of the treasury in a
conference with Mr.. Kitchin, chair
man of ways and means committee,
today outlined his plan for the third
Liberty loan. Actual expenditures of
the United States government and of
the allied governments having been
much less than had been indicated by
the estimates, the amount of the next
loan will be only $3,000,000000. the
right being reserved to allot over-sub-
scriptions.
"The secretary will ask authority
Gom congress to issue bonds bearing
interest at the rate of AZ per cent
per annum, acceptable at par and ac-
crued interest, in payment of United
States inheritance taxes, and having
the benefit of sinking fund of 5 per
cent per anlum during the period of
the war and for one year thereafter.
1T is the belief of the secretary
that the rate now proposed is suffi-
cient and that, by restricting unneees-
sary capital issues, and by inducing
the people who subscribe for Liberty
bonds to save and keep them for in
vestment, and by purchases with the
sinking fund from those who find
themselves compelled to sell, future
increases in The interest rate may be
avoided. In order to put an end to
the expectation of higher interest
rates, it is proposed that the CONVEX
sion privilege shall be eliminated
from the new bonds but the holders
of Liberty bonds of all existing is
sues will be given an opportunity to
convert their bonds into the new AZ
per cent bonds.
'In addition to the foregoing prin-
cipal items Of the proposed pro-
gram congress will be asked for au-
thority to issue bonds to the amount
of $4,500,000000 in addition to those
now authorized in order to provide
for future issues; for authority to
issue additional treasury certificates
of indebtedness; for authority to
make additional loans to the allied
governments by the summer, and for
authority to deposit income and ex-
cess profits taxes with national banks,
state bank and trust companies
Continued on Page Two, Column Four)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
Minister'S Wife Injured
When Motor Cars Collide

Mrs. w. o. Anderson, wife of the
pastor of Calvary Baptist church, was
severely injured Sunday evening,
when the automobile in which she was
riding, accompanied by her husband.
collided with another automobile at
the corner of Thirty-third and Hamil-
ton streets.
The driver of the automobile which
struck her car has not been identi-
fed. He drove away Immediately
after the accident. The police, how
ever, have the license number.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26

Federal charges were filed against
five men accused of being principals
in novel scheme for robbery of box
cars in interstate commerce. Albert
Schwartz, alias Albert Houcek, is
charged with larceny of interstate
commerce of freight, Jarold Sex
ton, Walter Knobbs, Richard Raven
and Edward Baker are charged with
aiding anu abbetting Schwartz.
Three of the men were captured
by Union Pacific special agents while
in the act of robbing box car in a
freight train in Lane Cutoff, west
of Omaha. One of the men ran along
the side Of the moving car, which
was moving very slowly up the steep
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
Omaha Business and Social
Life Ready for Daylight Saving

If you do not adapt yourself and
your clock to the new daylight saw
ing law next Sunday and thereafter
during the summer months you are
going to be late and that is all there
is TO it.
All Omaha is going on the new
schedule and if you do not move your
clock ahead and get up according to
the clock you will be late to church.
The new law is a national law and
everybody is supposed to abide by the
new rule. Railroad trains will be run
by the new schedule and the news
papers will have to get outetheir edi-
tions to make the trains. The Asso-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26

ciated Retailers of Omaha decided
their stores would open under the new
scheme and close the same. Big man
'ufacturing institutions will start at
the same hour (by the clock) as usual
and the railroad Offices will do the
same.
Gardening in Omaha will be given
a big boost, as we'll as the great game
OF golf Clerks and the bosses as
we'll will have the benefit an extra
hour from the time of leaving their
place of business until slumber time.
Riders on the owl cars will find
they have changed along with the
railroad trains for many of these are
based on the arrival of trains.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
MEETINGS HELD
UP WHEN SOLONS
FAIL TO ARRIVE
CFrom a Staff Correspondent. D.,

Lincoln, March 25.-(Special Tel
egram.) )-Preliminary meets of men,
bers of both the lower house and the
senate of the state legislature, sched-
uled to be held tonight, have. been
postponed owing to the tradiness of
the solons in-arriying at the capital.
The house meeting was postponed
until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The senate meeting was postponed
indefinitely.
Indications tonight were that Rep
resentative Taylor and Senator Beal
of Custer and Lieutenant Governor
Howard would make AN effort to
force the prohibition issue at the spe-
cial session starting tomorrow. They
will ask, it is said. that vote be made
on the national amendment.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
FIFTY PLANES DoWNED.

= FIFTY PLANES DoWNED.
The intensity Of the struggle is
shown by the official announcement
that British aviators on Saturday
brought down 81 enemy machines.
The, British st only nine. In addi-
ton to carrying out their work in
the fighting Jone, British airmen have
dropped bo- lbs successfully on Mann.
helm, Germany, Il
The British this morning were
counter-attacking between Nesle and
Ham.
Reuters correspondent at British
reports the French also
were in action.
North of Bapaume, he states. tho
Germans were attacking in consid-
cradle force at dawn, but did not go
through the British barrage.
Rely on Numbers.
The Germans, says the correspond
ent, are relying upon sheer weight
of numbers in their heavy attacks OH
the British lines, relieving their tired
troops by fresh divisions which press
forward without waiting for artillery
support
The enemy all day yesterday and
through the moonlight last night kept
up his hammering OF the British posi-.
tions, the message states, the British
troops resisting with valiant stubborn
ness.
The Germans are employing many
small bodies of Uhlans, mainly az
scouting patrols, it is added. y
Germans Claim Bapaume.
The Germans are now standing to
the north of the Soinme in the mid
die of the former Somme battlefield.
says todays official statement. Ba-
paume WIS captured in night fight
ing.
In the evening Nesle was take. by
storm, the statement adds. B'ifish,
Americans and French were THROWN
back through pathless wooded
country.
Guiscard and Chauny were cap
tured in the evening. .
Violent fighting developed for tos-
session Of ~Combles and the h:i ,,hts
west OF the town. The enemy was ce-
feated, the statement says.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
HUGE Saving OF
FOOD Is MADE BY
HOTELS OF STATE
Nearly Half Million Pounds
Flour is Record for Feb
ruary; J. F. Letton CON-
piles Figures.

Hotels and restaurants of Nebraska
during February saved Al, ,78l pounds
of -four as a result of the wheat-sav-
ing campaign of the food administra-
tion. Figures have been compiled by
J. F. Letton, chairman of the hotels
and restaurants committee of the food
administration of Nebraska.
The figures show a great increase
in saving of -four and meat over the
savings of December, which were
also tabulated.
Out of 1864 hotels and restaurants
in the state, 1887 reported the Febru-
ary figures. They showed a saving
as a result of wheatless and meatless
meals and other regulations with re-
gard to foodstuffs of the following:
Flour ...%.......421, ,781 Pounds
Meat ........... .641,217 Pounds
Sugar ..........2 .279,l27 Pounds
Saving in December.
\The saving of these commodities
by 1927 hotels restaurants re-
porting in December was:
Flour ............ .294,410 Pounds
Meat ...........422,822 Pounds
Sugar ........... .l98,44l Pounds
Hotels, restaurants and all public
eating places are required to~serve
not more than six pounds of flour to
90 meals, which is only a fraction
more Ian an ounce per meal.
By April ID the bakers will be re-
quired to use 25 per cent substitutes
in the baking of bread.
[ J. F. Letton and Richard Kitchen
of Omaha, and probably E. L. May
of Beatrice, will go to Washington
Wednesday night to attend a confer
ence of hotel and restaurant men with
Food Administrator Hoover with re-
gard to further regui, ions to save
wheat.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
Federal Charges Are Filed
Against Alleged Car Robbers

grade, and broke the seal, opened the
door and jumped in. He then threw
out boxes which rolled down the en-
bankment and were picked up by the
other men in an automobile -
When the officers swooped down
on them, two of the men escaped in
the car, but were arrested later at the
Neumayer hotel, Council Bluffs. The
federal >charge alleges that the men
stole LOO pairs Of hosiery, valued at
l,l00. Federal officers say the OBJ
ject of the men was to get into box
of liquor which was passing til: 'ugh
the state from Chicago to western
"wet" city.
The FIVE men are held under $1,000
bond each.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
GERMANS WILL
HOLD PETROGRAD
WITHIN "a HOURS

Washington, March 25.-German
occupation Of Petrograd within "a.
hours was predicted by American
Consul Tredwell in a dispatch reach-
ing the State department today dated
March 20. Virtually all Americans
have left the city, the dispatch said.
The consul reported from Moscow
after returning from trip to Pet
rograd.
The commlssary of the city, he said.
had told him that he expected the
establishment of German control with
in day
Another consular telegram from.
Moscow confirmed the report that the
patriarch of Russia refused to sane
ton the German peace treaty and
strongly condemned. it.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
Wood Quizzed in Senate.

Washington, March 25.-Major
Generak Leonard Wood, wherecently
returned from the battle front, was
called before the senate military
committee late today to inform the
committee regarding the general mill
tary situation and especially as to the
American expeditionary forces.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
BIG GERMAN GUN
ROUTS ALL PARIS
FROM BED EARLY
Little Alarm Exhibited by Popu-
lace; French Airplanes Hot
on Trail OF Monster
Weapon.

Paris, March 25,--The long range
bombardment of Paris was resumed
at $50 o'clock this morning, bu: " as
interrupted after the second shot.
After a brief interval, two more
shots were fired. The bombarilrent
was again suspended at 9:l0 o'clctk.
Another air raid alarm was soonded
shortly after o'clock this morr,r g..
After three-quartcrs of an hour fire.
mems bugles and church bel, an
nounced all was clear and the Paris.
ians were able to return to their beds
AS was the case yesterday, the co.
pie did not take to shelter. Cellars
which were filled on Saturday re-
mained empty this morning. Little
interest was shown In the bomtard-
ment, -~-'-
Alarm by Drums.
Soon after they were awakened by
the first shot the people were brorght
to their windows by the rafting oi
drums. Policemen circulated through
each quarter of the city, introducing
the new system of alarm, which is
distinguished from the alarm n the
case Of air raids The police came
in for q great amount of chaffiSs the
people being greatly amused at heir
lack of proficiency with the drum.
sticks, y
This appeared to mark their limit
Of interest in the bombardment. Work
was resumed under normal conditions
All the transportation lines were
running. The streets were full oi
people whose sole subject of conver.
Continued on Page Two, Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26

REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE.
"A heavy attack delivered by fresh
enemy troops in the afternoon en-
,;bled them to make progress west and
southwest of Bapaume, in the direc-
uon of Courcelette. South of Peron1e
our troops have been pressed back in
several places, slightly west \of the
NSomme, while further south the en-
emy has succeeded in making some
progress, and has captured Nesle and
Guiscard.
French reinforeements are arriving
in this neighborhood.
"Our troops, although tired, are in
good heart and are fighting splendidly,
and the enemy is only progressing at
the cost of heavy sacrifices" the eve
ming official statement says: Our
losses in material have been heavy,
and include certain number OF tanks.
Hold Foe at Ervillers.
British Army Hea 'duarters in
France, March 25.-EarlJ this morn
ing the Germans. again hurled great
numbers of infantry against the Brit
ish line near Ervillers, but at the latest
reports the onrushing troops had been
unable to force their way through the
intense artillery barrage which the
British maintained.
A heavy battle also has been pro-
ceeding on the British right flank,
where the enemy had succeeded in
\ forcing his way across the Sonime
and the canal south of Ham. The al
lies were delivering counter-attacks
with the purpose of pushing back the
invaders across the waterway.
German Troops Dog-Weary.
There seems small doubt but that
che German attacking troops are dog
weary, fighting under great strain;
but this islmentioned merely as an in
teresting sideljght and not for the
purpose of sounding note of optin1-
ism. Harder fighting than has yet
occurred undoubtedly will follow.
Throughout the night there was
fierce fighting north of Bapaume,
along the Bapaume-Arras road, but
except that Mory again changed
hands, the defenders held their own
gallantly.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
BRITISH BEAT OFF
GERMAN SMASHES
THROUGHOUTDAY
Terrible Slaughter Inflicted On Teutons By Artillery
Machine Guns and Low Flying Airplanes; Few
Tanks Are Lost By British French Troops
Rushed to Weak Points
(Ry Associated Press. J

London March 25-Monday morning the British the
front from the Some far north Wancourt beat off
heavy with complete The of
the British official statement out this evening" is fol-
lows:
he capture by the Germansof the towns of Nese and
Guiscard, is confirmed
'eavy losses have been inflicted the enemy by
llery and machine guns whilst low flying airpanes
peatedy attacked the eney advancing columns further to
tk.~