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The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
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SpectacIes Indicated Riches.

Spectacles were invented in Italy,
about 1885. They were at first very
expensive, and so were worn only by
wealthy persons or noblemen, and so
came to be regarded as mark of
rank. The larger the spectacles the
higher the rank, and so the glasses
grew to prodigious size. There are
two or three busts extant OF Italian
gentlemen wearing specs" and in
one Of these cases the lenses are three
inches In diameter.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Notes of Interest

Clothing made of pressed
feathers as q substitute for wool
has been invented by an Italian
priest.
A gasoline blow torch supplies
the heart for a new cooking
stove for campers that cannot
. be blown out.
A pneumatic latch with which
door may be opened from dis
tant points has been patented.
A new mop for washing auto
mobiles has hollow handle
through which water is fed by
strewing 1t to bose.
The determination of all flies
is the aim Of two British physi-
clans who are experimenting
with parasite that kills the in
sects.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Difference.

"Do you think it is proper to use pro-
family to a mule?"
$50 far as my own feelings are con-
cerned." declared the expert teamster,
lit is highly improper. But when you
are trying to get along with as sensi-
tive and exacting an animal as mule.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Wise and Otherwise.

Many a worthless man has a
good disposition.
All typewriters are not types
Of feminine beauty.
That man is generous to a
fault who never corrects 1t.
Lazipess isn't exactly a crime,
but 1t is the next thing to 1t.
A double wedding might prop
erly be called four-in- hand tie.
1t would be pretty tough on
some men If others did the right
thing by them.
Discretion Is the salt that pre- :.
serves life and fancy Is the
sugar that sweetens it.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Mexican Rice.

Fry three pieces of salt pork or ba-
con until crisp, then add a third OF
cupful of rice, four tomatoes. one large
pepper and a medium-sized onion. all
cut up, and pour over the rice and fat.
AS it cooks add vegetable water saved
from draining potatoes or other vege-
tables; season well with salt and pep
per, add few dashes Of paprika and
serve very hot.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Wild Guess.

"Why uO they
refer to a states
man as a sOlOn?"
"The word is
derived from the
dead languages"
answered the man
who assumes to
know everything,
land refers to a
6 t a t e s mans in
stinctive desire to
get on a platform
and do an orator
ical solo,"
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Rye Popovers.

Mix and sift together a third of
cupful of rye meal and two-thirds of
cupful of wheat flour; add salt. two
beaten eggs and one cup of milk; mix
and fill hot buttered pans; bake 40
minutes.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Information Limited.

us this d bureau of information or
is it not!''asked the caustic person.
TITS n bureau of information to q
limited extent" replied the clerk. "We
are not trying to tell anybody when the
war will end"
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Where He Was.

Angry Womau-My husband at
tempted to strike me. I want to have
him arrested.
Police Captain-All right. Where
will we find him?
Angry Woman-In the emergency
hospital.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
IT IS TO SMILE
Her Complaint.

Doctor-Your daughter, madaIa, Is
suffering from constitutional inertia.
The Girl-There, ma! And you've
been saying was simply lazy.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Mothers Cook Book :

The people who indulge in honeyed
phrases seldom have any fear of eating
their own words.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Episcopal Priest Gives Up
Parish to Enter u. s. Army

Rev. Joseph J. Dixon, rector of the
Episcopal church at Galloway, Neb.,
has resigned his parish and volun-
teered as private in the army. He
was inducted into service with the
last draft from Nebraska and was
appointed to command the contin-
gent from Custer county, numbering
20 men.
"A goodly number Of his parisfior
ers Of draft age, but given deferred
classification, rallied around him,
waived exemption and were inducted
into the army with their fighting
pastor" He has lived in Galloway
for the past three years and won the
respect and love OF the entire COM
munity. .-
He is essentially a mans man and
upon the declaration of this country
that state of war existed he volun-
teered his services as chaplain. He
could not wait action by the War de-
partment and when the draft came
waived exemption.
Bishop George Allen Beecher went
to Callaway last Sunday and preached
farewell sermon for the departing
pastor. He arranged that the family
of the soldier-priest should remain in
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Czecho-Slovak Army
OF $4,000 Keen For
Service in France

San Francisco, July 24.-An army
of 10000 Czecho-Slovaks has seized
5000 miles of the Siberian rail-
road and is training to drain Russia of
all Czecho-Slovak nationals for SER
vice with the allies in France, Capt.
Vladimir S. Hurban, member of these
forces, and a special emissary to Presi-
dent Wilson, said here today.
Captain Hurban has credentials to
show that he has been delegated to
secure ships from America, if posi-
Bile, to transport this entire force
from Vladivostok to the United States
and Canada for ultimate service in
France.
I'VE want to get into the very first
trenches and punish the vandals who
are upholding the hand of Austria" !"
Captain Hurban said 1--WE cannot
fight Austria, as we are practically
unarmed. But we can get equipment
in America and France, and then our
force of $4,000 will be at the service of
the allies and humanity"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25

other aft. Two hours later, another
torpedo was seen coming, but when
it got close a gunner on the Justicia,
with extraordinary aim, hit it clean
and exploded it. ~,
All was quiet until 8 o'clock in the
evening when the fifth torpedo was
sighted The gunners on the JUS
tlcia placed their shots so near il
that the torpedo was DETECTED and
missed its target.
Most of the crew by this time had
been transferred to other ships which
had remained near the liner all night
The Justicia was we'll, on her way
to port Saturday morning when to-
ward o'clock the gunners again
were hard at work as the sixth and
seventh torpedoes went past. Two
hours later submarine. fired the
eighth and ninth torpedoes and one
OF them struck forward and the other
aft.
The Justicia was formerly the
Dutch steamer Statendam, which was
taken over by, the British government
on the stocks at Belfast when it was
nearing completion. It was vessel
of 32,234 tons gross.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
COL. HAYWARD AND
HIS men IN THICK
OF Marine BATTLE
Information From France and
Press Dispatches Together
Indicate Nebraskan Has
= Proved His Mettle.

Col. William Hayward, formerly OF
Nebraska City, commanding New
York regiment on the firing line, has
been in the recent big fighting. AL
though in hospital recovering from
a double operation for an old trouble,
he would not be restrained when he
heard his men were to help punish the
Huns, but led them to victory along
the Marne> river, in the middle of
July.
About the middle OF June his regi-
ment was retired from active service
and Colonel Hayward was sent to
the hospital for an operation on his
ankle and upon his abdomen. A few
days later he was able to write let
ters. July lS press dispatches spoke
of a negro regiment, resting at the
time of the Rheims drive, which re-
quested to be sent in. The colonel
is said to have broken away from
the hospital and come to the front
in an auto. There seems little doubt
to those who investigated the cir
cumstances that the brave colonel was
Hayward. Although suffering from
the operation on his ankle and from
mustard gas, the Nebraska boy put
the Huns to flight.
The regiment was in the vicinity of
Rheims late in June. 1t is known that
it participated n the fight there.
Dan Smith, jr., another Nebraska
City boy, a member of the 18th New
York regiment which Colonel Hay
ward commanded, was in the big fight.
He attended the Nebraska City high
school and was prominent in athletics
there.
The regiment and one of the cap
tains, Capt. Ham" Fish, is mentioned
in last weeks number Of the Satur-
day Evening Post in Trench Es-
sence," by Irwin Cobb.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
In Long Fight
j., Finally Sink Transport

London, July 24.-The White Star
liner, Justicia, says a Belfast dis
patch today, was sunk off the north
Irish coast on Saturday afternoon.
The Justicia carried crew OF be-
tween 600 and 700. Eleven members
of the crew are dead.
The Justicia had troop carrying
capacity Of between 1000 and 5000
men.
From three to eight submarines are
said to have been concerned in the
attack on the Justicia, according to
the Daily Mail, which says the fight
began at o'clock Friday afternoon
and lasted intermittently until Satur-
day morning. The ship sank about
l o'clock in the afternoon after nine
torpedoes had been fired.
When the liner was first struck the
torpedo boat destroyers which accom-
panied her raced to attack the enemy
and dropped many depth charges,
while patrol boats stood by the ship
and tug took her in tow.
The second and third torpedoes
were fired about S o'clok in the after
noon. Both missed their marks, one
going ahead of the steamer and tn
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25

"The steamer was about $500 tons
and looked as il it had been at sea a
long time. Two unusually high wire
| less masts rose from its decks. 1t
bore no name or home port, and flew
no flag.
1t had been camoufaged, apparent
ly, but the paint was nearly washed
off, and the sides were covered with
iron rust. There was large crew
aboard.
The incident occurred between E
and 9 o'clock in the morning. This
was three hours before German
submarine appeared off Orleans on
the Cape Cod shore and attacked a
tugboat and its tow of barges The
position given by Captain Price places
the steamer in the lane of trans
Atlantic travel
The sinking of the schooner Rob
ert and Richard of the Gloucester fish
ing fleet Monday by German sub
marine has not intimidated fishermen
here. Schooners have gone to sea
since the news was received and the
captains declare they will keep on
fishing in spite of the enemy sub
marines.
Report of Signals Unveri6ed.
Boston, July 24.-An official investi-
CATION today of the report that Brit
ish steamship off the north Atlantic
coast was sending S. o. S. signals
had only negative results as far as
the first and second naval districts
which cover the New England coast
line was concerned. Intelligence Of
fcers reported no distress Signals had
been picked up.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
JAWS Of
TRAP ARE
CLOSING
Massed Reserves Struggling
FranticaIIy to Save Half
Million German Soldiers
Pocketed in Salient
BY Associated Press.

Washington, D. c., July "a.
--Massed German reserves are
holding open the jaws of the
trap General Foch has sprung
\ in the Aisne- -Marne region, in a
desperate effort to stabilize
their lines without the crushing
of the forces withdrawing from
the Chateau Thierry and
Marne salients.
Official reports to the War
department show the enemy
has but a single railway to get
material out of the pocket into
which he has been forced.
The situation was graphically ex-
planned today by General March
chief OF staff, in a mid-week confer
snce with newspaper men. For the
last two days, General March said
the employment of probably IS di.
visions of fresh German reserves on
The scissors jaw of the trap has
practically steadied the line there.
On the eastern jaw front the enemy
has been crushed back more than .
mile and z-haf' or -a-10-mile front
further imperiling his whole position
in the. salient from which he is en-.
deavoring to extricate his troops.
Railroad Under Fire.
The railroad running from Sois.
sons to Chateau Thierry now is either
in our hands or under our fire." Gen
eral March said. "The only way in
which the enemy can get out now,
or get supplies over railroad, is by
The remaining line from Nanteuil on
the Ourcq to Bazoches on the River
Vesle.
IT was necessary for him, if he
did not intend to be caught abso-
lutely in a pocket, to keep troops
from advancing and cutting off this
road, which would put him entirely
az the mercy of the allied forces"
Some officers here are of the opir1-
ion General Foch was rushing for
ward masses of heavy artillery,
which with airplanes would pound
the interior or the German positions
from three sides.
They say the very strength of the
German lines now established will
make his losses great from the con-
centrated fire. The enemy forces oc-
cupy wedge the center of which is
less than Is miles distant from the
hard pressing lines of the allies at
any point. All his communication
lines are within gun range, once the
.'heavies" get up behind the allied
lines.
Lacking railway lines on which to
maneuver, the enemy probably is
making desperate efforts to get his
biggest guns away safely. The at
tacking lines are backed by circling
railways on which long range weap-
ons on railway mounts can be shut
tied back and forth at will. 1t is re-
called that the German attack on
Continued on Page Two, Column Two)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
M'ADO0 GRANTS
RAIL SHOP MEN
RAISE IN WAGES
Addition to Aggregate Annual
Payroll of Half Million Men,
- Estimated as NearIy~0ne -
Hundred Million Dollars.

Washington, July 24.-Wages of
railroad ,shopmen were increased to
68 cents an hour today by Director
General McAdoo, with proportionate
advances for assistants and miscel-
laneous classes in mechanical de-
partments. The new rates, which
are retroactive to last January |, are
from five to IS cents an hour higher
than wages paid these men in most
shops under the general wage ad-
vance allowed two months ago by the
director general. but are somewhat
less than the labor organizations
sought,
Beginning August !, eight hours
will be recognized as standard work.
ing day, and overtime, Sundays and
holiday work will be paid at the rate
of one and one-half times the usua!
rate. Back pay will be given the
men as soon as it can be calculated.
The advances apply to about 100000
men and apply flatly to all sections of
the country, despite local differences
prevailing heretofore. The addition
to the aggregate annual payroll is es-
timated at nearly $l00,000,000.
The advance is the first extensive
modification of the new wage scale
and was made on recommendation
of the commission on railroad wages
and working conditions following rep
resentations of shop crafts that high
wages paid machinists and other me-
chanical workers in shipya-ds result
ed in discrimination against railroad
shop employees. rt~ =,
The new scale of wages was an
nounced as follows:
Machinists, boiler makers, black,
smiths, sheet metal workers, moulders
and first class electrical workers, 6S
cents per hour.
Carmen and second class electrical
workers, So cents per hour.
Helpers, As cents per hour.
Foremen paid on hourly basis, 5
cents per hour more than respective
crafts. =E
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25

} For this reason, the order of Gen
eral Boehm, written a month trior tc
the beginning of the battle, is of un
usual significance. He deplores tn,
lack of discipline which resulted in the
pillaging of stores in the back areas
during the advance in May, when al
edible booty found in the wake oI
the retiring French speedily vanished
instead of being distributed amcne
the hungry troops in due propor'
tions.
Gorge on Captured Food.
The order continue
1T is necessary to depart from the
beaten track, which has been followed
in the utilization of material and pro
visions and stores from the occupied
territory. Hopes of the utilization .
captured food as rations and OFT
distribution of fixed portion of III.
provisions to the fighting troops
have proved to be fallacious, owing to
the fact troops have taken these pro-
visions themselves and eaten them,
without treating them as part OF
the authorized scale Of rations.
In this way some of the units,
which have chanced to have the op-
portunity to capture booty OF this
description have lived in abundance,
while others are suffering privations
Further, it, has not even been the
troops in the front line to whom
this more abundant supply of food
has fallen, but second line troops,
train echelons and, especially, strag-
glers who are roaming about behind
the army.
Food Taken Without Authority.
1T has even happened that men
have taken food without authority
and by force from the stores in the
military occupation and adnlinistra-
ton, and | regret to say some officers
have not been ashamed to interfere
with the guard in the execution of
their duty and to insult the officials
to whose charge the provisions were
entrusted. 1t appears to be neces-
sary for the supply officials to follow
the first line troops as closely as
possible and to be accompanied by
escorts Of cavalry or police, so that
important stores and depots may at
least be administered by them with
as little delay as possible.
IF our progress results in the oc-
cupation of new area, this must be
placed under regular system of ex-
ploitation as soon as possible. Order
must be maintained in the villages
by sentries and patrols. The troops
must be restricted and prohibited
from making acquisitions in the fields
and taking the crops. The people at
home are so short of all provisions
necessary to life that enough can
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Fve.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Liberty Loan Campaign
Begins September e;
Continues Three Weeks

Washington, July 24.-The treas.
ury virtually has decided to hold the
fourth Liberty loan campaign in the
three weeks period between Saturday,
September %, and Saturday. October
1e. ...
The length Of the drive will be re-
duced from the usual four weeks with
the hope of avoiding the usual slump
of interest in the middle of the cam
paign.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Germans Exaggerate
Losses Of American
Troops in Offensive

Washington, July 24-The Wolff
bureau dispatch purporting to picture
tremendous sacrifices among the
American troops in the great often
sive is characterized by officials here
as pure propaganda.
Amsterdam, July 24.-This after
noon the Wolff bureau telegraphed
correction to the report relative to
losses in the battle. Instead of some
hundred thousands of killed negroes
and Americans" the bureau says that
the correspondent reports some tens
of thousands killed."
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Fifty Per Cent Increase
in Estate Taxes Pr0posed

Washington, July, PA 50 per
cent increase in the, present gradu-
ated tax on estates up to and includ-
ing $S,000,000 estates, with greater in
creases from larger estates, was ten-
tatively agreed upon today BY sthe
house ways and means committee.
1t is expected the new system of
estate tax rates will yield revenue
of $l00,0O0,000 when in full working
operation, against the present 80
100000.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
SUPPOSED GRADER SEEN
IN OCEAN TRAVEL LANE
Nameless Steamer Flying No Flag and Having Unusually
High Wireless Masts Encountered Off Nantucket
Before Attack on Tug boat and Its Tow
of Barges on Sunday Last.
-
By Associated Press.

Gloucester, Mass July 24-Capt. William Price, of the
fishing schooner Elizabeth King which arrived here tonight
reported an encounter Sunday with what he believes
German raider, off Nantucket.
Captain Price said the steamer approached within 100
feet of the Elizabeth King keeping forward and aft
trained the schooner.
81 expected he would hail u.s. said Captain Price, but
he did not asked him through megaphone if ne had seen
something in foreign language that understood
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
June Shipping Losses
LoWest Months Record
Since September, 1916

London, July 24.-The losses to
British and allied shipping due TO
enemy action or marine risk for the
month of June totalled 275,629 gross
tons, this being the lowest record
for any month since September,
1916.
The British losses totalled 161 ,062
tons, and neutral losses 114,567. -
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Army Officers Cleared

Washington, July PA formal
statement from the War department
today denounced as entirely unfound-
cd any differences tending to involve
army officers in accusations of wrong
doing in connection with the con-
tracts for army raiacoats.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
August SpeCht Injured
When Hit bV Automobile

August F. Specht of the city health
department suffered a sprained wrist
and bruises when struck by an auto
mobile Tuesday night at Twenty
sixth street and St. Mary's avenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Nebraska Boy Among
Saved Aboard San DIEGO

Aurora, Neb., July 24.-(Special
Telegran.) n.)-Mrs. S. Isakson of Mar
quette today received letter from her
son, Leon Dahlsteadt, who was re-
ported lost with the cruiser San Diego.
Dahlsteadt wrote from Hoboken, N.
!. saying he lost everything but his
lie 7 ~
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
STORES OF PROVISIONS
PILLAGED BY SOLDIERS
Claim of High Command That Retirement on Marine
Is Part of Set Program Refuted by Order of
General Won Boehm Concerning Use Made
of Booty by His Disordery Horde
Ry Associated Press.

With the British army in France Tuesday, July 23.-The
claim of the German high command that the retirement on
Marine part of set program given the lie by order of
General Won Boehm, commander of the Seventh army
The Seventh army has borne the full weight of the Foch
counter offensive the west and its divisions around Scissors
suffered heavily at the hands of the Americans while those
east of Chateau Thery thrown back the Marne
by the pressure of the French
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
London, July 24.--The British to-
day gained important ground in
Vrigny wood, southwest of Rheims.
By Associated Press.

With the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne front, July 24-No great
artillery activity characterized fighting
today. Yesterday, the Americans
fought three times for the possession
of Epieds, the Germans count4ing
every time. The Americans passed
Epieds today with comparatively little
resistance, The French on their part
of the line also found the enemy will
ing to move.
Hot rear guard actions are contin-
uing. The losses among the Germans
have been lighter than usual on ac-
count of their failure to resist streny
uously the ADVANCE of the allies. North
Continued on PAGE Two, Column Four.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Brown Shades Restricted.

Washington, July 24.-Shoe manu-
facturers were asked today by the
war industries board to confne
shades of brown shoes to two colors,
medium and dark.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Called in Aircraft Work,

Washington, July 24.-Provost
Marshal General Crowder today is
sued a call for 624 registrants for
work in the aircraft production
bureau.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
R0UT LOOMS FOR HUN ARMY
HARD PRESSED IN RETREAT
German Troops Throw OffShdckles of Discipline
Whisky Sold at Shilling
A Sniff at English Fair

London, July 24.-Hieh grade
whisky is becoming scarce in Eng
land. At a country fair the other
day. tidy sum was realized by
charging one shilling a sniff at
bottle of pre-war Scotch.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
PASSED
BY AMERICANS
DRIVING ENEMY
German Commander Moves
Large Part of Guns and
Stores; American Flyers
Down Five Machines.
BULLETINS.

Paris, July 24.--Highly important
gains by the French and American
forces on the Aisne-Marne front
are reported in the official state
ment of the war office tonight. In
the center of the line an advance of
nearly two miles was made,
Desperate engagements were
fought in the direction of Epieds
and Trugny-Epieds, which villages
the. Americans recaptured from the
Germans To the north of Epieds,
the Franco-American line is now
beyond Courpoil.
North of Montdidier, the total
number of prisoners taken July %
in the region of Mailly- Raineval
and Aubvillers is 1850, including 81
officers, among them four battalion
chiefs. Among the supplies cap
tured were four cannon of II, As
trench cannon and 800 machine
guns.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
Edward A. Run1ely

Life Story of Man Who Bought
New York Mail for the Kaiser
on Page Ten Of This Issue