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Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
OMAHANS GET
fine VIEW OF
sun ECLIPSE
Celestial Phenomenon Arrives
on Schedule Time, at 5:19
P. NJ; Scientists Climb
High for Photos.

Popular tradition has II that the
eagle, proud bird of freedom, can
gaze hnblinkingly into the eye Of the
sun. Thousands Of Omahans tried
this very stunt yesterday afternoon.
even when the SIN was in partial OBJ
scuraticn because cf eclipse, and thSs
found that the felthefed emblem q
Colnmbia had il on them thousand
ways.
The briiliancy Of the proud orb 81
day even when itlwas trying to hide
behind its lesser satellite, pale Luna,
was so great that it dazzled the hu-
man eye, and one who gazed even
mementarily at the spectacle could
see eclipses for many minutes alter
ward.
True to schedule thel shadow OF
the moon appeared on the suns disc
at SIG and for more than an hour
The sidewalks in Omaha's downtown
district were lined with persons who
observed the celestial phenomena
through smoked glasses, perforated
cardboard and silk haudkerchiefs4
One resourceful boy, probably a
future astronomer, stood in front OF
the Henshaw hotel and studied the
different phases of the eclipse for a
long time through the small end OF
tumbler. the bottom Of which had
been smoked.
Only a Penny a Peep.
Another enterprising lad, a news
boy, had picked up piece Of photo
graphic plate and offered to rent it to
Fifteenth street sky gazers, saying:
Its got dry smoke on it, mister,
and It won't dirty your fingers. Only
penny peep" He did thriving
business among smiling customers.
In residence districts parties gath
cred on a neighborhood lawns and
children would listen to parental
descriptions of the eclipse with awed
countenances.
When the elmoon began TO encroach
on the sun a weird, erry, unearthly
shadow seemed to veil and diffuse
the normal light of day. 1t had "a
psychic effect on all observers and
one could easily understand how il
would cause superstitious alarm
among the earth's population II
MEDIEVAL days. Persons who reat
the vivid description OF the eclipse
and the manner in which it thwarted
the evil designs of Merlin. the magi.
clan and astrologer,of the dark ages
recalled the effect It had on the fof-
tunes of "A Kentucky Yankee ir
King Arthur's Court"
The eclipse here ended at 7:45, at,
fording the only opportunity Omaha
Continued on Page Five, Column One)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
CROPS RUINED ON
5000 ACRES IN
IOWA BY FLOOD

Cedar Rapids, Ia, June 8.--Re-
ports from the districts flooded by
waters from the Iowa river tonight
are that the water is going down and
that the crest of the huge wave is
now in Louisa county.
The damage, done is estimated at
s2,000,000 with 5000 acres swepr clear
OF growing crops. 4 large per cent
OF this land was planted in corn,
Preparations already are making TO
plant buckwheat as soon a, she soil
is in proper condition.
The greatest damage was done IN
the vicinity Of Tana, Chelsea, Belle
P1aine, Marengo, hmana and on down
ID Iowa City.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
ESCAPE OF sixth"
JEWEL R0DDER IS
MYSTERY NO MORE
Leonard, Participant in Mala-
shock Store PIundering Con-
fides to Friend How He
Obtained Freedom.

= Five Of the bandits who participated
in the Malashock jewelry store hold
up, and the subsequent battle at the
plunder house, 1907 North Fourteenth
street, in which Detective Frank
Rooney received wounds from which
he died, the night of January 80, have
been brought to the bar of justice
and all with the exception of Big
Wally" Martin, have been tried. Three
have received long sentences and Nc
Kay went free of the murder charge.
Charles Leonard, alias Jack"
Leonard, alias Jack Adams, the
sixth man involved in the daylight
robbery and gun fight, and whois one
of the most notorious of the big "gun"
men of the country, is still at large. =
The escape of Leonard from the
plunder house, while the building was
surrounded with detectives-and
fierce bombardment of the place and a
raging, is one of the most thrilling on
record.
I Details of Battle.
A conhdant of the escaped bandit
received word through one of the
latter's pals of the details of the fight
and they are, now related for the first
time.
Leonard was in the house with the
other participants of the crime and
was engaged in dividing the "swag''
from the jewelry store robbery when
the police arrived and started the
battle.
He was coatless and had his hat of
when the bullets began to fly and
was one Of the first to try to get out
OF the besieged house. With Williams
CONTINUED on Page Five, Column Tyo.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09

warine warfare, over the. top, trench
life, coolies, etc, with newer a really
definite thought on how the war
started, why we were in il and what
there was for us to do to win the war
and settle it in such a fashion that
never again would such laughter be
necessary.
Then Teddy came-and told her.
Not in soratorical figures or Well
turned phrases, but in simple words
such as any woman could readily
understand and grasp without a dry
old political lexicon to help.
He put it in terms of the individual.
No high-sounding words of laws OF
natfons, but merely as man to man.
Nations must govern themselves
as any high-minded individual should
conduct himself. ! never subscribed
to the standard that there was one
type of morality for nations and diff
Continued on Page Six, Column TWP
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
GREEKS DEPORTED
FROM THRACE and
SLAIN BY TURKS
UnspeakabIe 0utrages Com
mitted Against Hellenic Peo-
pie IN Ottoman Empire
During War.

New York, June S--Mohamnledan
prisoners Of war in Saloniki, accord
ing to cable message from Athens
to the Greek legation il, Washington,
made public here today by the Amer
icap committe for Armenian and
Syrian relief, say that "the Greeks in
Turkey are undergoing the worst
blow since the fall Of Constantinople,
1453, A. d.
The message states that the Mo-
hammedan captives say that from the
beginning of the war to the end OF
1917 more than 100000 Greeks be-
tween the ages of Is and 48 have
been drafted forcib1y into the Turk
ish army and that thousands of these
have died as a a/result of i'll treatment,
hunger and epidenics.
More than 100000 Greeks have
beeen deported from Thrace into
Asia Minor. One-half of the de-
portees died from torture and i'll
ness" says the cable messages.
MANY were slaughtered and the
survivors are in terrible plight.
women are sold as slaves, men
are forced to become Mohammedans
and $5,O00,OoO,OOO worth of property
belonging to the Greeks has been
conhiscated. Men from Avail and
many other cities we're seen work
ing as slaves, in rags and begging
for bread. Forty to SO deaths occur
daily among the Greeks in Smyrna as
the result of hunger and weakness.
Two hundred families have been de.
ported from Tatavla, in Constan.
tYople.
s"The streets in the large cities arc
full OF Greek orphans, half naked
and begging for bread in spite OF the
fact that the Turkish authorities have
torn them from the bosoms of their
(o,reptrD t.e,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09

He did not mention the name Of
the kaiser. Neither did he mention
that OF President Wilson. He criti-
cised the prosecution Of the war but
he did SO il only indirect manner.
His voice has the characteristic
faisetto tone at places, particularly
when he becomes humorous. Some of
the terse sentences from his speech
were these: I
Might Have Saved Russia.
IF we had gone to war when the
Lusitania was sunk Russia would not
have broken and the war would be
over now"
Il don't believe in fighting unless
it is impossible to keep from it with
honor. But when we fight, let us
fight. Don't hit man at all if you
ca1i-help it. But if you have to hit him,
put him to sleep"
81 would like to see congress re-
peal the charter of the German-Amer-
icansalliance. They tell us the snake
. in it is dead, but I'd like to kill it
anyway"
"The man who says he loves this
country entirely though he loves an
other one just as much is like the
man who says he loves his wife, but
loves other women, too.
It's year and a half since we
entered the war but we haven't yet
built any modern artillery. was
told that our American built big
guns in France increased 100 per cent,
as we had one and now we have
, two"
The meeting was unique in that it
started on time or even little ahead
Of time. And at o:20 o'clock Colonel
Roosevelt had finished his speech
and the great crowd was surging' out.
Huge Crowd to Hear.
A crowd that filled the stseets
waited for the doors to open. They
were opened soon after 7 o'clock.
Manager FRANKIE of the Auditorium
held watch and stated that in ex-
actly 5 minutes. and As seconds from
the time of opening the doors, every
seat was filled.
Soon the standing room at the
rear. of the main floor and the
balcony was filled and the crowd
surged up the aisles/ The stage was
filled with hundreds of men and
women.
An immense American flag decor
ated the stage. The flags of the
allied nations were draped around
the balconies and over the proscen-
ium. A band played patriotic airs
= while the audience waited for the
distinguished speaker. The Grand
Army men and Spanish War veter-
ans marched in and up the aisles to
Continued on Page Two, Column Four.)
Complete speech Of Former President Roose-
5@ses ou Pa1Q gA
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
my BraUe Troops" VIII
Win Respect for German
Name, Declares Kaiser

Amsterdam, June s.-"With pride
and thankfulness ] daily watch the
giant deeds Of my brave trobps,
which will secure respect for the,
German name for all time"
This is one Of the striking phrases
used by the German emperor in
sending a contribution of $4,000
marks to the Ludendorif fund, initi-
ated by the national committee for
The care Of disabled soldiers. The
emperor added
.E also see suffering borne BY
the German soldier in manly and
resolute manner; see him bleed
and die for the fatherland's greater
honor; / gain an insight and knowl-
edge of the innermost life of the
wounded warrior
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
"GoId Cup" Awarded
BY Emperor William
Found to Be PelCtey

New York, June S.-German
proof of the saying that all is not
gold that glitters was forthcoming
here today with the disclosure that
the magnificent cup which EN-
peror William awarded to the Am
lnerican winner Of his ocean yacht
race in 1905 was not gold and was
not worth $4,000 as announced at
that time. 1t was made Of pewter
with a thin veneer of gold and was
scarcely worth $40.
The deception recoiled against the
emperor during the recent Red
Red Cross drive, it was revealed to-
day, as il was auctioned and re-
auctioned until it added Sl25,000
to the nations mercy fund.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
ALLIES STEADILY
GAIN GROUND I'M
THIERRY SALIENT
American Marines and French Repulse Two Violent AZ.
tacks and Continue Advance Scope of Drive Extends
Northward; Bombardments Presage Thrusts by
Germans in Montdidier and Verdun Sectors.
(By Associated Press. J

In the battlefield of the Marne where week ago the Ger
hurng their Of troops against the western
side of the wedge they had driven into the allied lines in the
battle that began Marcn g. the Teutons standing
tually the defensive the Chateau Therry sector.
American and French troops participating in
ton the extreme tip of the salient and making progress
in this important region The British engaged the other
side of the wedge between the Marne and Rhims.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09

Colone Theodore Roosevelt last night addressed an audi
that packed the City Auditorium the DOORS audience
estimated at nearly 5000 people His subject Winning
The War"
He spoke for preparedness against war; for universal
vice. He declared that had begun to prepare when the
great started had entered the when the
tana sunk the would be now. e~s
He spoke against big boasfulness and small accomplish
men He declared there should be newspapers published
this country any language but English He said German
should be taught only in the higher institutions Of learning just
as any other foreign language is taught.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
President Wilson Sees Game

Washington, June 8.--President
Wilson was spectator at the annual
base ball game today between house
republicans and democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
ROOSEVELT SAYS
FIRST DUTY TOPUT
THE HUN TOMEEP
Former President In Address to Cheering Thousands at
Auditorium Declare. Aa. No Use for Fify-fifty
Americanism; German. at War With u S.
Before America Knew It.
SOME ROOSEVELT HO 7 SHOTS POURED
] OUT IN HIS ADDR ESS AT AUDITORIUM

# man does not come here to be an American citizen,
let him stay away.
Don't fight if you help it, but if you have to fight
then fight Don't hit if you help it, but don't hit softly
If you do hit, put him to Sleep
1t is 16 months since Germany went to with and
II months sincewe went to with Germany
speak literally when say that life would not be worth
living for any who had to bow the neck to German
quesN '...
Let us not boast until we have something to boast Of
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
THE WEATHER:
For Nebraska:

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THERMOMETERS Readings:
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
LetCuticuraBe
YourBeautyDoctor
Spoiled His EvenInu,

isn't it glorious here?" she ex-
claimed when the waiter had taken
their orders.
do you think SOP he replied.
ITS perfectly lovely. Everything Is
In such beautiful harmony-the foun-
tain, the trees, the swaying lanterns,
the music-everything is ideal. It's
like fairyland."
I'm glad you like It,"
Pm simply enchanted. Doesn't 1t
make you feel as if you had stepped
out of the everyday world into some.
thing strange and new?"
"Not a bit"
whats the matter? You don't seem
to be enjoying YOURSELF"
MY boss is sitting at the third ia
BILE over there to your left, and l can
tell by his look that he's wondering
how l a afford to blow myself AZ
a place like this."-Dayton News. ~
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
SITUATION
IN AUSTRIA GRAVE
EMPEROR ORDERS PARLIAMENT
CLOSED TO STOP Criticism
AGAINST WAR PARTY.
TO USE ENTIRE STRENGTH
President Of Lower House Says De-
mands Of Political Parties Rem
der Impossible the Order to
Close Parliament.

Amsterdam. - Emperor Charles of
Austria has empowered the Austrian
premier to adjourn Parliament and
forthwith inaugurate measures to rem
de impossible the resumption of it's
activities a Vienna dispatch says.
A statement published in Vienna in
dicates that the closure of Parliament
Is due to the seriousness of the food
situation. The statement says:
The government will devote its en-
tire strength to the economic prob
lem and will try to create conditions
required to enable the population to
hold out"
A Vienna dispatch says that the Aus
trian premier, DR.. Won Seydler speak.
ing at a conference of party leaders,
declared that the serious economic
and food conditions made it impera-
tive for the present government to be
spared parliamentary criticism. He
therefore demanded that the proposed
oilllh6o VI 1 lllullCLL NC pOSlpOuCu,
adding that unless the party leaders
took this step the government would
prevent the sessions forcibly. (Appar-
emily this conference, the date of
which Is not given, was held before
the emperor acted
The president of the lower house of
Parliament said in reply to the pre-
mier that the conditions prevailing in
the country and the demand from the
larger political parties for resumption
OF the sittings OF Parliament made a
further postponement impossible. The
leaders of the German party favored
postponemeDt, but DR.. Victor Adler,
the Socialist leader and other party
representatives, including the Polish
group, were opposed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
ASKS US. ARMY OF 5000, 900

Washington. 49, Five million men
must be sent to the battle front by the
United States within a year, Senator
McCumber of North Dakota, declared
in an address to the senate, which re.
viewed Americas work during its first
year In the war.
The result of Americas efforts have
been almost negligible up to the pres.
ent, he asserted. Six months, he said,
have been wasted by the Shipping board
and 5000 GOO, 900 for air craft has been
worse than s%Quarndered.
"lf we fail to put less than 5,0OO,O 600
men on the fighting front before the
end Of another year" he continued,
1--WE will again have grossly failed to
measure up to our moral duty. We
will have charged to our discredit an.
other year Of colossal b%lunders,"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
GERMANS FAIL IN
MAIN OBJECTIVE
NO IMPORTANT GAINS MADE BY
HUNS AFTER OVER A MONTH
OF SEVERE FIGHTING.
USE MANY FRESH DIVISIONS

London.-A representative of Gen,
Radcliffe, director of military opera.
lions at the war office. sums up the
military situation on the western front
as follows:
In the north. while the Germans
failed in their main objective. they
made their right flank secure by the
capture Of KENNEL. but we must re.
gard the operation from the viewpoint
of economy Of men. and they used up
five divisions from the general reserve
besides seven or eight divisions pre-
viously employed,
1.-THE results Of the past week on
the whole were satisfactory, because
the enemy used up a larger number of
fresh divisions than the allies. with
out strategic result. In all. he used
on the north front 35 fresh divisions,
besides the nine divisions already
there.
"The effect of the operations In the
north will be to reduce materially the
number of fresh divisions the Germans
have available.
"As to the future, the Germans have
large numbers Of divisions recovering
which can be used shortly. It. Is diff,
ficult to make an exact %comparisol
of the staying powers OF the two
armies, but the facts shown are In
our favor. If the enemy continues his
offensive in the north, he must impair
his chances of success in the south.
"The main aim is to separate the
Anglo.French armies in the south, and
If the enemy continues the campaign
in the north without important results
he Is using up his forces to no pur
pose"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
ORDERS MORE FREIGHT CARS
Two Million Dollars Worth Of Freioht
Cars Ordered by Railroad
Administration.

Observation-Disclosures for 10000 adj
ditional freight cars to supplement the
10000 contracted for several days ago
were placed by the railroad admins.
tration with 10 car building ncern
The aggregate cost is between $780,.
O0O, 1000 and 1910. 900, 900, and the aver
age profit to builders is about 5 per
cent.
This is the largest single order for
freight cars ever let. Together with
orders already placed, these contracts
make up a railroad rolling stock build
ing program which will shortly be un.
der way of 1926, 600, 200, including $50
600, 900 for 1,025 locomotives ordered
earlier in the week.
The cars will have steel under
frames, but the sides will be largely
of wood to save steel for other war
purposes. All are Of standard design
recently arranged by the railroad ad.
m~inistration.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
LIBERTY LOAN SALE
GOES OVER THE TOP
FINAL TABULATloNs EXPECTED
TO SHOW ABOUT FOUR Bill.
LION DOLLARS REALIZED.
ALL DISTRICTS OVER QUOTA
Total Number Of Subscribers May To-
tai Seventeen Millions-SmaIl Buy
ers Saved Dsy-Big Corpora
tons Light Buyers.

Washington.-For the third time
within a year the American people
have heavily Oversubscribed q war
credit.
The treasury department announces
the campaign for the third Liberty
loan has been IAN overwhelming sue
cess" Although $4,000, 900, 900 was
the formal goal Of the campaign, i~offi-
cial reports, including only a small
proportion of the ayalanches Of sums
pledged, showed the total was $3,203,.
G15, 400, and there were indications
that the aggregate would be increased
to neary $4,000, OOO, 900 when banks
have time to tabulate the multitude OF
last minute applications.
The exact result Of the campaign
probably will not be known until late
in the week.
Official estimates placed the mum,
Der Of subscribers at between 10000
600 and 1900, 000-far above the TO-.
100000 Of the second loan or the A.
10000 Of the first-and some official
figures expressed the belief that the
roll OF bond buyers would be even
greater. To them this was one of the
most encouraging features.
All II federal reserve districts
which were the largest campaign
units, oversubscribed, and a majority
Of the states made the same record.
Delaware doubled It's quota. Head
quarters Of the Atlanta district re-
ported the district was $40, 600, 900
yer It's quota.
Bond selling continued actively in
many cities up to a late hour Satur-
day night, and banks stayed open in a
final effort to roll up more subscrip.
lions than the $4,616, 900, 600 of the
second Liberty loan last October.
Messages reaching Washington in
Dictated however. that the big sub
scriptions from corporations and bust
ness interests which were features OF
the last hours Of the second campaign,
were lacking, owing to the imminence
Of income and excise profits tax pay.
ing time in June, when mor than $50
900, 000, 600 in war levies will have to
be paid to the government. The sue
cess OF the campaign, ever without
he big individual subscriptions, DEM
onstrated that the loan "a popular
and that bonds will be widely distrib-
uted among all classes and localities
Of the country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
F0CH IS PREPARED
FOR EMERGENCIES
lMPENETRABLE BARRIERS HAVE
BEEN PLACED BETWEEN IN.
VADING HUNS AND PARIS.
HAS 27 LINES OF TRENCHES

Washington.-Gen. Foch, generals.
simo Of the allied armies, is taking
nothing for granted as to the ability
Of the Observation-Disclosures line to
hold. The crumpling up of the British
fifth army, which at the outset of the
German offensive guarded the gate
way to the plains of Picardy, carried
Its lesson home.
While the people of two continents
have been specializing a~nxiously as 10
the whereabouts of Foch and the inter.
allied army of maneuver, It is learned
authoritatively that Foch has not been
idle.
T~wenty.seven lines Of trenches, it
was disclosed, have been constructed
recently between the battle front in
Flanders and the city of Paris.
Foch, it was stated, determined, de-
spite the impotence of %onlookers, to
attempt nothing in the way of a coun-
Ter offensive until assured beyond
doubt that there existed between the
enemy and Paris an impenetrable line
of %defenses, every attack against
which would take from the Prussians
a frightful toll in blood.
Within the past few days, it Is indi-
Gated in high quarters, the character
of resistance being offered the enemy
around Ypres and other sections of
the line gives reason to believe that
the Germans are beginning to blunt
their swords on Foch's defenses.
Meanwhile, American experts, con-
fident that the crisis in the fighting
has been reached, express the belief
that the fighting Of the next few days
will probably determine the fate of
Foch as supreme commander and 9TH
er high commanders on the western
front.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-10
TO OBSERVE MOTHERS DAY
Soldiers in France Expected to Write
Special Letters Home to Their
Mothers May IL.

Paris.-"Mothers' Day"-a day on
which every soldier of the American
expeditionary forces, young and old,
high and low, is expected to write
home to mother-has been fixed for
May ~. The idea originated with
The Stars and Stripes, the official
newspaper of the American forces in
Europe and was approved by head
quarters, which is doing everything
possible to help it along.
The postoffice is rising to the oc-
~casion, and the Young Mems Chris
tian Association has promised that on
that date its huts will be well stocked
with writing papers. The censols
have decided to work overtime so that
the letters will be speeded to the
United States without delay.
Mothers may expect their letters t.
begin arriving early in June. Soldiers
in the front line trenches will be given
every opportunity to scribble a few
lines to their mothers, which will BE-
hurried to the rear and flushed along
to their destination. All other bust.
ness will be put aside except that Of
fighting the Germans. On that day the
mothers will be uppermost in the
minds of the soldiers. The letters will
be marked mothers letter. on the
envelopes and will be given prefer.
ence over all other mail matter.