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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
GERMAN STRIKE
GROWS, DESPITE
OPPOSITION.
Harsh Measures of Govern
ment Fail to QuelI Movement
Altogether; Extends to
Towns Outside.
tBy Associated Press,

London, Feb. 2.--The strike in Ger
many is not ended by any means, &C
cording to information received from
various sources, despite the strong
stand taken by the military authori-
ties.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says that
the strike continues to extend to many
other, towns, while in Berlin il does
hot diminish. although martial law
has been declared in some of the fac
tories and the workers have been or.
dered to return by Monday, under
threat of disciplinary military meas.
ures.
The uneasiness OF the government
over the situation is shown by its ac-
ton in placing the burden OF sup
pressing the strike on the shoulders
Of the military and the rest OF the
socialist leaders, including Deputy
Wilhelm Dittman, whose detention
according to one dispatch, has caused
profound irritation in socialist circles
A national demonstration of protest is
being organized.
Would Summon Reichstag.
The socialist paper Vorwearts ad-
vocates calling a meeting of the
Reichstag, and declares that the gov.
ernment must take notice of the dis
content, which, it says, is struggle
between the pan-Germans and the ad-
vocates Of peace by understanding, ad-
ding: "The social democratic party
must least OF all desire that the move
ment should lead to process of dis
integratinn and civil war"
The Deutsch Tags Zeitung violently
attacks Austiia-H Hungary and accuses
that ally of having caused the present
trouble by demanding -four from Ger
many at such critical time.
According to Berlin dispatch to
the Dutch papers the Bourgeois par
ties have decided to oppose the social
democratic party's demand for the
convocation of the Reichstag, because
they believe that the parties of the
extreme xleft intend to use such a
meeting for purposes OF their own
propaganda.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
ROMANS |NFL|CT
TERRIF|cL0ss0N
TEUILON ARMY
Germans Make Powerful Effort
to Redeem Losses Early in
Week, But Are Beaten
Back.
(By Associated Press.l

Italian Army Headquarters, Fri
day, Feb. 1.-The enemy made an
other powerful effort yesterday to
redeem the situation west of the
Brenta river, where the Italians re
Gently won notable success. but was
beaten back by the c0mhipedra6t
redching his objective Of Monta pi
Val Bella, where the Italians are
maintaining their position.
The extent of the enemy losses in
the fighting early this week is now
known to be larger even than the first
accounts indicated. An, observer who
talked with a number of the captured
officers and men said they werq a
miserable looking lot, many of them
wearing Italian uniforms taken dur
ing the invasion of the Friuli region.
Trenches Are Leveled.
All the prisoners agreed as to the
furious nature of the fighting and the
exceptionally heavy losses caused by
the concentration of the fire of the
Italian, French and British batteries.
The trenches were leveled and the
links between the forward and rear
lines swept away, thus stopping all
communications and preventing the
officers from securing coordination
in the work of the artillery-and the
infantry.
The few trenches remaining were
Uttered with dead and the survivors
were found for the most part on their
knees, Historically crying or praying,
The 21st rifle division of the Aus.
trian forces had 5000 men put out
of action, or about 20 per cent of
the fighting force. Brigades of the
18th and Sixth Austrian divisions had
casualties amounting to approximate
.ly so per cent.
. Only" Few Hundred Left.
But the most terrible loss was in
flicted on the Tooth ,landstrum, which
of several thousand men in line, has
only few hundred left.
The magnitude of such losses was
due to the triple artillery fire of the
allies, maintained for 40 consecutive
hours, often cross firing frcm two or
three directions simultaneously.
An unusual feature of this artillery
action was the complete unity brought
about among the Italian, French and
British batteries.
This was so marked that one of the
chiefs of the artillery staff exclaimed :
AT. last we have realized unity Of
command right in the face Of the en-
emy fire."
An enemy battery with four mon
ster 240 millimetre guns was de-
stroyed completely. The whole &C.
ton disclosed unusual decentralization
and confusion in the enemy lines.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
Two Anarchists Must 49,
Serve Jail Sentences

New York, Feb. R.-Emma Gold
man and Alexander Berkman, anarch-
lists, today lost the liberty they have
had under bonds while the United
States supreme court was considering
their appeal from conviction for con-
spiracy to interfere with the operation
of the selective draft law.
Bcrkman will be taken to the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. and Miss
Goldman will be returned to the state
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. \
Both were sentenced to two years
Imprisonment and to pay fines of
$4,000 each and were serving their
terms when they were released under
bonds of $4,000 each, pending the su-
preme courts decision,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
City Politics Buzz and Buzz;
Many Qualify for Primary

Election Commissioner Moorhead
has registered the names of the fol-
lowing who have qualified to have
their names on the city primary bal
lot April g: Hugo Melchoir. 1920
South Thirty-hfth street: Albert C.
McGfone, Harley hotel; Leonard c.
Johnson, 370lK North Twenty
fourth street; Jerry Howard, Park
hotel, Florence,
Deputy Election Commissioner Os-
from stated that nearly 70 petition
blanks have been taken out. Peti-
tons are being circulated for E. P.
Smith, w. 6. Ure, Thomas Falconer
and r. ]. Sutton. Whether Mr. Ure
will agree to have his name appear
on the ballot is not known, but a
coterie of friends are getting the pc
tition ready.
"A man who claims TO have inside
information states that Chief of Po-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
Red Guards Are
Defeated bH Firms

Stockholm, Feb. 2.--The latest
reports from Finland indicate that
the government troops under Gen.
eral Mannerhcim are making good
progress toward the south, de-
feating detachments of the red
guard and the Russian Bolsheviki
on their way.
The taking Of Kristinestad was
OF especial value as it gives the
government troops access to a
harbor and helps to solve the prob
lem OF feeding the troops.
BY occupying Tavasteus, Gen.
eral Mannerheim has cut railway
communication with Helsingfors
to Tammerfors.
The railway stations are crowded
with peasants awaiting transporta-
ton TO join the army.
The Helsingfors correspondent
of the Copenhagen Dagens Nyhe-
der reports that all the shops, the
large restaurants and the banks CT
the capital are closed and the in
habitants are fleeing from the city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03

lice Dunn will make the race for city
commissioner. y
Thomas Falconer is being backed
by an organization known as the
"Falconer Commissioner club"
whose membership comprises 20
business men. Carl E. Herring is
chairman of the executive committee
and S. J. Leon is secretary. Meetings
are being held every Monday night
in the City National Bank building
assembly hall. This is the first vol
unteer organization to come out for
a candidate. Mr.. Falconer is now a
member of the Board of Education.
During the week c. E. Black, W.
G. Ure, c. L. Saunders. c. H. Eng
lish and few friends met at Mr..
Blacks Office. 1t is being noised
around that Mr.. Black will enter the
race il. a combination with Ure. Saun-
ders and English. =
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03

TRENCHES IN MARSH.
The American trenches all are in
more or less marshy ground, making
the use of "duck boards" necessary
except when the trench water and
mud are frozen. The trenches we're
shallow when the Americans moved
in, but since then they have been
deepened and improved.
Water Drives Rats Away.
In every dugout thu soldiers work
almost constantly at the pumps keep
ing out the water which seeps in.
The watery conditions are unfavor-
able for tpench rats and few of them
are seen. One unit spent more than
week in the line before seeing a
rat, and he was in hurry to get to
some place where the ground was
drier.
In some places the artillery is on
ground but little higher than the
trenches, although a number of our
batteries manage to keep dry feet"
most of the time.
The enemy artillery in some places
is on higher ground than the Ameri-
can, and within sight of one Of our
positions there is German observa-
ton post overlooking much terri
tory. ..
This has been shelled repeatedly
and doubtless has been hit on sew
eral occasions. On cle.r nights the
hill upon which this post stands out
against the sky is illuminated occa-
'sionally by rockets sent up by one side
or the other SO that the men in the
line may see the shadows which mean
that the enemy is near.
Night Scenes Are Thrilling.
The scene at night is thrilling and
inspiring.
On the firing platforms the men
stand near their rifles. Others splash
through the trench, sometimes slip
ping from the duck boards into water
above their knees.
They probably are going out on
patrol. If the position is near the
enemy lines hardly a word is spoken.
and when a>Word is necessary 4 is
spoken in whisper.
PARKWAY to one side Of the posi-
ton a white stream shoots UP to the
sky and breaks irto white balls that
throw light as if from powerful
electric batteries. The reflections
nlow wire iertanglements and scrubby
bushes on the hills near by, then the
lights die out.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
The Weather
Tor Nebraska--Fair; colder.
Temperature at Omaha YESTERDAY.
Comparative Local Record.

Comparative Local Record.
1918. 1917. 1915. 1915.
Highest yesterday :. 80 s 13 IL
Lowest yesterday !. . ga II II
Mean temperature :. IS -s 3 1s
Precipitation ...... 90 90 90 90
Temperature and precipitatlon departures
from the normal:
Normal temperature ......!...,.......2l
Deficiency for the day..
Total deficiency since March 1.........743
Normal precipitation ............ .o3. inch
Deficiency for the day ......... .o3 inch
Total precipitation since Mar. 22is inches
Deficiency since March I...... T47 inches
pefieency for cor period, 1916 1896 inches
Defieiency for cor. period, 1915 o.sS inch
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
POLICE USE SABERs.

POLICE USE SABERS.
The newspaper Tyd learns from a
reliable source that the rioting in
Berlin on Thursday. was precipitated
by shot fired when the police were
trying to disperse q crowd which was
proceeding towards Charlottenburg
crying "peace and bread
A panic ensued when the shot was
fred and the police charged with
drawn sabers.
The strikers sought shelter behind
overturned tram cars and fired or
hurled projectiles at the police, who
were unable'to keep The excited peo-
pie under control.
About 80 strikers were wounded
and taken to a hospital. Many on
lockers who were wounded were
treated in drug stores.
Crowds at various places attempted
further riots.
Detaehnents Of cavalry and ma
chine gun corps have been collected
In the neighborhood OF Berlin.
MOB ATTACKS SOLDIERS.
Serious rioting ON Thursday at
Spandau, where important German
war industries are located, Is reported
in German newspapers, an Exchange
, Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam
says.
Soldiers were attacked by a mob.
Avpolicenlan was dragged from his
horse and beaten.
-Four thousand men who have been
employed at the Harbor works are on
strike, the dispatch reports.
Strikers attacked the railway lead
ing to one OF the factories. At Sic
menstadt. a suburb Of Spandau, tram
cars were overturned.
A mob stormed d bakery and CONF
pelled the proprietor to Distribute
bread without bread cards.
Factories Under Martial Law.
Seven Berlin factories have been
placed under martial law and the
strikers ordered to resume their work
by 7 o'clock Monday morning at the
latest, according to 4 Central News
dispatch from Amsterdam today.
Their failure to return, it is af-
nounced. will be punished according
to military discipline.
Socialists Want Reichstag.
A demand that the German Reich
stag be summoned to discuss the
strike was made by the Vorwaerts in
leading article Friday, an Exchange
Telegraph company dispatch from
Copenhagen Friday says.
The Berliner Tageblatt, it Is added,
declares that the civil power will not
grant the wish of the socialists and
Summon the Reichstag, as the radi-
cal elements would only be given an
opportunity to preach strike propa-
ganda in the parliament.
Dittman Addressed Crowd.
Amsterdam, Feb. 2.-Berlin even-
ing newspapers just received here
state that Wilhelm Dittnian, socialist
member of the Reichstag, was ar
rested when he attempted to address
crowd in suburb of Berlin.
Deputy Dittman's name was linked
last October with those of Deputies
Haase and Vogtferr, also socialists.
with the mutiny in the German feet.
The Vorwaerts in its report Of
Reichstag debate quoted Herr Haasc
as saying that the condemned sailors
we're accused of distributing PAM
phlets given to them by Deputy Ditt-
man, which had been passed by the
censor.
The mutiny is reported to have oe-
Cured about eight months previous
to the debate. @
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
General March to Be
=, New Chief of Staff

Washington, Feb. 2--Major Cen
eral Peyton c. March is slated to
become acting chief of staff of the
army if General Pershing can spare
him from his present duties as chief
of the expeditionary forces.
No reply has been received as yet
from General Pershng.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
SERGEANT MADSEN
DISPUTES STORY
DETECTIVES TOLD
Denies Imputation of Cowardice; Says His Companions
Try to Beltle His Part in Fight With Bandits; Each
Side Call. Other LIAR Scene Rehearsed
Before Chief and Superintendent.

Acting Chief Of Police Dempsey and Superintendent Kuge
yesterday afternoon witnessed reenactment of the auto
bandit capture at the Of the thrilling battle last Wednes
day night +. E
Sergeant Madsen had voiced his opinion that he being
beed the part he played in that affair and to satisfy
themselves the chief and superintendent decided to have
drama reproduced nearly possible the actual conditions
when the bullets flying and Detective Rooney mortal
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
Estate Your Facts

There is always the possibility that
you may know SO much about the
property you have for sale that
you fail to appreciate how little
your prospect knows about it.
Each one of your want ads should
be, as far as possible, complete
presentation, d sales talk, as thor
ough as If you were making per-
sonal presentation.
Drive every point home, don't leave
too much to the readers imagina-
tion. Give q full description, not
flamboyant and full of gush, but
straightforward talk, based on abb
solute facts,
Place your ad in The Bee before
9 O'Clock
tonight for presentation in The
Bees big Sunday want ad section,
and don't forget to
Keep Your Eye On The Bee.
IMPROVING EVERY DAY
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03

=
PERSONAL QUARREL.
!. The participants in this re-enact-
nient were Sergeant Madsen and De-
. tectives Dolan, Van Deusen, Dan
baum, Brinkman, Murphy, Barta and
Jolly and Chaufeurs Armstrong and
Bowman.
The scene yesterday afternoon re-
solved itself into a bitter personal
contention between Madsen and the
detectives, Van Deusen, Danbaum and
Dolan being particularly outspoken
against the police sergeant. The lie
was passed several times between
Maasen and Danbaurn, and Acting
Chief Dempsey interfered with this
acrimonious feature of the reproduc-
tion scene.
Z CALL EACH OTHER LIARS.
Danbaum passed the lie to Madsen
and the sergeant passed it back, and
again the sergeant called the detec-
tive a liar and received a similar
epithet in return. t,
NNan Deuserl charged that the SER
geant was IN the safest place during
the thick of the fray and Dolan de-.
cla-sd.t,lat f.,iasnA iseNfsi - aHe'l0tul
a i, e. . too id badiy ScafceIs'
Thkre IS too much yellow about
you" said Detective Dolan to Ser
geant Madsen. !.
"You can't. hand me anything" re-
Piled Madseu.
"You were not handcuffed. / did
not see you going up the stairs, were
a few Of the burning words hurled by
Detective Danbaum to the sergeant.
whereupon Acting Chief Dempsey and
Superintendent Kugel interviewed, ex-'
planning that they had gone to the
house to witness faithful reproduc-
tion of the scene and not to listen to
personal exchanges of feelings.
Sergeant Madsen's face flushed
withe anger. , !.
\ what he said and did," suggested
Dempsey. ...l
Sergeant Madsen did not have a
supporter among the group OF detec-
tives. who took part in the drama, but
he contended that he was telling the
truth and at times questioned the cor.
rectness of words and movements OF
some of the detectives. ,-
Rehearse the Scene.
The crowd went out to the house in
automobiles and at the direction OF
the acting chief started the grewsome
scene. beginning at the time when
Dan Deusen, Dolan, Danbaum, Mad
sen and Bowman approached the
front door and Murphy and Brink
man. went around on the south side
OF the house to the kitchen door.
Van Deusen rushed up the front
steps, followed by the others, and
when the door was opened he asked
who 1ived there. Being told that Mrs.
Daisy lived there, he forced his way
into the house and exclaimed:
There's a mans coat, look outG
Madsen said he asked at the front
door whether the man who drove the
automobile lived thdre. Van Deusen
then went 10 a room east of the
onrth frons room and indicated where
he saw the coat, whereupon Madsen
contended that the aoat was in the
north room just off the main parlor.
Dolan and Danbaum then led the
way upstairs as they said they did
on "Wednesday night. In the up
stairs bedroom Danbaurn and Dolan
described where they stood when
Rooney was Shot Rooney was just
outside of the door, Dolan inside
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-02-03
BERLIN LEADERS
PLAN NATIONAL
DEMONSTRATION
Arrest of Socialist Deputy Enrages Strikers Police Use
Swords to Disperse Rioters at Capital; Many Fac
tories Placed Under Martial Law and Work.
ers Ordered to Return to Tasks.
(By Associated Press.

10y FASsUcIateu IreSSsJ
London, Feb "A national demonstration being
lied Germany protest against the arrest Of Herr Dttman,
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam reports
Hugh Haase, socialist deputy, appealed to Chancellor
Won Hertlng to obtain the release Of Herr Dttman
The chancellor said he powerless, Berlin
tireIy in the hands of the military.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-16
JOINT CONFERENCE
OF the Seven War Work organiza
ton In jacksonville, Sept. 16th-17th

For the purpose Of perfecting plans
for the War Fund drive for $4,000.
900, which will be launched in No.
vember, a two-days Conference will
be held in Jacksonville, Monday and
Tuesday, September 18th and 18th
at Morocco Temple.
The Conference will be time of
great inspiration, and 1t is expected
that over three hundred people from
all over the State will attend, in
Guiding county chairmen, district
chairmen, and those interested in the
work of the Y. NJ. c. A.; Y. w. c. A.;
American Library Association; War
Camp Community Service, Salvation
Army; Catholic War Council and
Jewish Welfare Board.
The women will hold their confer.
ence in the Woman's Club, while the
men will remain at the Morocco TEN.
pie for special conference. Lunch
cons will be served in the Morocco
Temple each day, and the conferen.
ces will probably close with a joint
session of the men and women repre-.
sentatives.
Among the prominent speakers
who will talk on Y. w. C. A. work
will be Miss Katy Boyd George, who
formerly had charge of all the work
in France; Miss Mary Cady, Miss
Amy Shelson of London, Eng. Miss
Katherine H. Howes and Miss Amy
Smith, of Richmond, Va.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-16
TRAINING ROOM FAULTS
Experience Of British Ministry Of
Munition Shows Dangers In
PREPARING Workers for Jobs

Preparing Workers for Jobs
At this time, when intensive labor
is demanded in all lines of war work
the Section on Industrial Training
Council of National Defense, sends
out the warning, d"Beware of bad
training rooms"
When a representative Of the Brit
ish ministry of munity said a year
ago that some manufacturers seem to
think that they need only set up a
training department and then look
for miracles, he called attention to q
tendency Americans will do we'll To
avoid.
Three or four cases where time has
been wasted have come to notice re
Gently in the United States. One
large airplane factory put q manual
training teacher in charge Of Its
training rooms. This man persisted
in teaching workers to make nal
boxes and school exhibits and caused
them to practice with certain tools
that would never be used in actual
airplane production. Never mind
speed he is reported as saying
THE Government has the money and
what 1t wants is accuracy" His pu
pills learned to loaf In the training
room and to continue loafing In the
factory His successor will increase
production from 20 to 40 per cent
Another director of training, tc
whom was intrusted much machinery
could not forget the slow methods
of general technical instruction and
planned TO deliver monthly to the
factory only 80 or 100 mechanics
when there is a monthly demand fol
1000 skilled workers and 1000 other
workers, part of whom are semi
skilled. A third factory with 7OOC
workers has had a training room fol
five weeks in which it prepares won
ems for work, instructing them in
simple operations that should require
only the most casual direction for be
ginners.
Emphasis is now put on the fact
that every training department
should be developed with the needs
of the employment Office in mind
officers and managers should visi
training departments frequently so al
to assure cooperation between tbs
trainers and the foremen of the fac
tories. It is an axiom that a goot
training room is worth 20 per CEN
of the pay roll