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XLV mucu TROOPS TAKE POSITIONS DOWN IN EARTH Gallic Forces Occupy Passages of Germans Along Front of 500 Metres to Depth of 200, N(O) | LEADER OF LATTER DAY EAINTS WHO GETS REVELATION. | | | [ i et FIRE CURTAIN HALTS ATTACK Large Position West of Meuse, Near ' Verdun, Occupied After All Day and All Night Fight GERMANS PENELRATE ONE LINE PARIS, Aprii 6 hand-to-hand figbting Fort Dousumont today Pronch troops in of carried Ger southwest man underground passages works along a front of to a depth of about 200 meters A hombardment rected Germansg to the of the Mause against Cote DI Polvre, but the French curtain of fire pre vented an Infantry attack, according officlal Matement war office tonlght and 500 meters violent the Wi di by Dr Frederick M Smith SMITH RECEIVES A "REVELATION" President of Latter Day Baints Hears from On High that McGuire Is Chosen Bishop, to the the ismued by BERLIN, April 6 (Via London,) German troops have village of Haveourt, on the Avocourt Hiethincourt front, northwest of Ver dun, the war office announced today stormed the PARIS, April 6, —The war office announced this afternoon capture by the French of 4 large portion of the position north 4f Avocourt, known an Bols Carre, or “Square Woods,' This ground captured fn the course of fIghting, which went on all of yesterday afternoon and last night the Verdun reglon, of the Meuse, on the Avocourt-Bethincourt BISHOP KELLY 18 T0 TRAVEL INDEPENDENCE, (Bpecial Telegran ) President Fred erick M, Bmith and big Elbert A, Smith, were kn charge (o Mo,, April 6 aunociaio was ference of the Reorganized Church of Jewus Christ of Latter Day Baints opened, The church recorder, Claude I. Carpenter, reported a gain by hap tism of more than 1,200, more than in any report, the totul baptisms for the year having been 5,000, The of Missour] leads In the matter of con 82 Hriggs, n went, line At one point along the Lethincourt line, ceeded In penetrating tions, Two attacks were made man troops agalnst French position rorth of Calllette but they were without result, The text of the Jows: “In the Argonne A surprise attuck de livered by us this moriing on one of the enemy's trenches near the highway of 8t, Hubert resulted in our inflicting perceptible lonses on our adversaries and in bringing back some twenty prisoners “During ghis, attack oy artillery in the next sector violently bombarded tha! portion of the Avocourt woods occurd:d by the Germans. “In the reglon of Verdun, the enemy after the relative calm of yemterday af ternoon, gave evidence of great netivity during the evening hours, A the night progressed there took place (o the west of the Meuse, a bombardment treme violence in the Avocourt the Germang sue previous annual yrench post close to wlute by Ger« verts, having recorded The report of (seorge N dent of Graceland college, constroction there amateur wireless stations in the west, In mccordunce with Presldent Bmith's desire to place his people in line with various activitles for advancement and progross. The Religlo soclety and Sunday Bchool ssgociations of the church have endowed a'loan fund by which deserving young people may he enshled 1o get thelr edu cation woods, prest of one of the best communication fol- | “Hevelntion” Presented, At the afternoon sesston Amwociate Presidept Kibert A, Smith presided and presented to the body which had éome Lo the young president of the reh, ‘Fhis sented to the leading onterday and the members of the nd the yast number of iuitors to the with expectation and thers was searcoly in the lurge nuditorium The A iU A revelation,” 1 reyelation” was pre quorumy of the of_ex - chureh reglon between - - eknuten and conference (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) | 1€ nd nferen British Anti-Air Craft Guns Drive Zeppelin Away April 6, ngland fenwes was demonstrated last night the single Zeppelin which undertook the fifth rald In days ented from pénetrating the northeast coast and « wan forced flos the visit of the kind yet made The night was clear and without wind, Searchlights disco: ered the ralder coming over the sea lost him during hia stuy flying con smalleat gun target 1 great height and irrounded hatl of Apr After, manei were on tiptoe today standing Pevelation was ncoepled the by ananimous an the word of ths Lord to the church, Tt Benjamin 1, MeGulre of Brooklyn, to the office of presiding bishon chit with ¥, Kier of Chicago nan ofe counsalor, Bishop MgGiulr other t to Al retiring of that poss in quorima ote Y of Tame LONDON The of fectiveness of increasing anti-alreraft de the ol at body. The wx was. ped pendence, Mo weed in ontinued on Page Calumn One,) Miss Emllv G Batch Will Join the Ford Party at Stuokholm Apr to after briefest moonlight with and ever once A he reached the const he aratively low ound hin wa suCh An easy at he of to rise to The YORI f, Emily found the lghts wan fore " guna ther nnge alded by o passen where Miss f Henry 1 with a terrific atah hell A northesst wnd high exy near Ford's about ten minutes, i ' “ ew hombs were en 1o turn and sall homeward od imposed The Weather Femperninres at Omahn Y esterdny. f these neutral and, Hweder Harrison Confesses Big Train Robhery Hepnris tram Satlons sy T ¥ And W pH I/I( tells of the | middle | room WWZE{;—_—W ‘ Unsettled OMAHA, FRIDAY \ IORNING, APRIL 7, 1916--SISTEEN PAGES On Trains, at Kotel Nows Btands, oto, o SING SENATE VOTES T0 HEEP VOLUNTEER ARV 2 SION | Up \1\MAIV Rr!ulnn This Clause oll Army Measure by Close Shave of Thirty-8ix to Thirty- Two MOTION TO STRIKE OUT LOST | | Days of Upon This Action Debate Ends Four in Chamber Section of Bill ALREADY BEATEN IN HOUSE | \' I'he | olun WABHINGTON, nenate the vislons In the April fe army bill late i, Lae's amendment bill [ retained oril teor pre today by & vote of 46 to rejecting to wirike I'he on the Hanutor the section from the vole ended a four-day debate " tion \dvocates of the the flrew Jine regulur Natlonal Guurd of defensé beliind upported the Igorounly of wenate [ the ministration wrugkle fought In the of congress It began after the de fent of the military Tant | week when a proposal to create wrmy nd the hardest Wis one the At this gession committes “ 1 National Guard section of the staff was written army | general the bill into Benten in the House Phe nasrow margin by which ornl voluntesy provision makes It doubtfu) the me finnlly framed ommittes by fAhe will b by the wo houses retnined In the confer AN | i At onee t offort during debate, on the house army 1 the ‘ 0 hotme v GERONIMO'S day when the sixty-third annual con-| bill (o insert this wgned provide | eontinental army Gurrison pecthon wuch which | foree proposed former e by ncretary Without republican support teer section would s b the democratic fact that It was mended by the military Twenty-four demoerais wan decisively the volun voted out daspito the | penilor unaniine recom commitie and ten repnh including nearly sl the oled to wirike ans progre republicans, it out Nineteen | publicans and me it democraty enteen ros voted 1o retain The vole follows The Vote on Neetl \ Voting To eliminate the » Damorruts-—Auhi s, fa Lof Arkanass, Culberson, O Huglios, Kern, Lee of Maryand, |awia \mun Overman, Ransdell, Reed, Hobin | on, Khafroth, Wimmons, Fmith of Ceor | Clarks , Hardwick, In Smith of Bovth Caroline, Stone, wanson, aggart, Thompson and Vards DR Tepublicans Jones, Kenyon Hherman ana Tord), Votlng (o retnin the section Democrats-—Beckham Droussard, <hnm Hiteheodk, Hoills, Husting Jobn Jne, Johnwon of Bouth Dakota, Lane, Newlpnds, O'Gorman, Pittman ‘h merone, Naulpbury, Sheppard, Smith | of Marviand, Waleh ana Wi Hura-19, opuuleans ciark of Wy Gallinger mz pitt Poindexter, Binoot Warren and Woeks | Total, % Charges Agninst Gunrd, Aote followed charges Notiofinl Cumrd organizations throughout the country were condusting againat the federal voluntesr plan | ator Chamberiain, chairman of the tary the | the course of the debate that if the | tionial Guard feally active | tegcinlntion, he Crptim, Page Cumming, “amber, Norris 1 cimp, Works { | berlajn, | #om of Thomas, Pornh, oming Brandeges DAl Lodge, Brerling Catron D3 Oliver Bunderlund that ihe lohby mili commities warned enate In proposed to become polit A endeavor to Influence s It had done would In future federal ald for the | Chdmplons of the |the military training camps I bean equally active in behalf | They :w‘.mvmumi on Page Two, Column Three,) appose i ther soldiers ntate gunrd wiad that arsociation deral volunteer sections. polnt RUSSIANS TO AID FRENCH AND BRITISH IN GREECE-A large number of Russian soldiers and marines have been landed at Saloniki to aid the British and French in defend ing the Allied positions in Greece against the expected Teu ture shows some of the Russian troops resting in their kits ton-Bulgar attacks, The pic fter the occupation of Fort. 7 b o PUS.‘»MNS RELIEVING Mdl LVES or KITS. APACHE SCOUTS ARE German Consul Band of Twenty Indian Warriors preparing tonight to start tomorrow o General “ [ t ponles they will eross the border for mountainy of GGuerrero and not ue they did last night, on the peout and traller of the Apaches, wan puth years thelr Interpreter, word did not reach with the others from the White | Apnehe | ever [ | Columbun before the border is crossed capture in the Cleronim soldiers n old medteine A | night A ‘Babler Is Named as ' Committeeman by Missouri Republicans EXCELAIOR SPRINGE, Mo, A | " ore f Arnwal eldringhn My N aETeemer e, Babler wnd il dving f the delognte entlor T N Mabile BAVARIA AND SAXONY LIMIT SALE OF MEATS tight! wh Money Prizes--$5.00, $4.00, $3.00, Solutions of The Bee's Shakespeare Ter-centenary Pu Forged Passport for OFF T0 HUNT VILLA WARHINGTON ment's investigntion Carl A Hltimaore April 4 f th, Luderits, with The nljogod govern Pu'puréd to Bet Out Upon Trail of Bandit, of neetlon thie onsul at 1 an omeriean paasport 1o orst vou dor ol confessed Garman spy, under the of reached n point to fnets CAPTORS .THERE Bridgman Taylor, has the where next wtep | hefore N COLUMBUS amped M., April 6. —En In little brown army tenty, Apache Indian Iny the o fodoral grand Jury The story (o1d to Departraent Von der wenty Beouts were of Justice York Jury Van der Golts Golly, nt New akents by # Lo be made action In his statement v quoted an sayink he went to Baltimore fre Vipen the former German requesting the Goltg In any Pershing's siu of grand hendquarters to take Wila wiry t Ban Geronimo ranch up With mountain he he trail of Francisco of thelr with a letter from captaln von military attache here consul Ao sl der e could. Von dor Goltz has told the agents he prosented lattor and dfscussed with Taderits plans for obtaining fraudulently Amaeriean pasaport Vop der Golts'n atory been corroborated Tucker, arrested three weeks ago nt Kl ano and now held at ¥llis Island, N. ¥ Tuckar, it 18 asserted, was familjar with Von Aer Goltz's plans to obtain an Amer wrrival Von he trip through the desert to the the They slept tonight on the ground, an it in mald, the haw loor of a raflroad sleeping car, the herthy of which were unfamiliar and 1ot 1o their Miking. Only the arrival described an premier prine o ePachon, needed to complete their happiness n the prospect of taking the war. again, after more than thirty of ecivilization, acecording der Golta's story in it essentialu. France Asked for Assurances About o Way. mountain hes on the the Peache was In nnd Wim in time to start Apri Prande hnk aspirances that the tiner Vulenin at used for defennive pur the WASHINGTON L been asked to glve vapld fire New ork will be posen only If the United Btates clear Mountain reservation in Arizgona. Tow guns on the the men said that Peachies probab) rding hard in an attempt to reach whip. It wan indicatéd that thorities would not L lews the same the | v ore glven o Tallan lners York with the toms pu Thirty vears ago four of the twent Wi une wwde 0 similar trip into mexico to™w it o = 445 for aome s another ecavalry command. in were which guns aboard wivell weveral Hlerra, Maderes of another have into New iaw—Ceronimo, the war chief of the SHENANDOAH POSTAL I another of the scouts hiis together with o after was Penches i made encape from the M vent ¢ and again nto Vhoeniz, Lencalero, path Wy the | BHENA total DOAM, | Amo p the w 0, April G office for the oY Ihe the touh po viz, and captured hin quarter Wkl of the |ending Mareh $51,252.00, rent have he to approxi and of 917,000 in Aw the scouts, clad in {r departure to- | mate Hlamp wale Fe stuck Iry, prepared for th the box the made Thi to the Vagle ather the nogain into the halr onl ¢ lant yemr menns D will pache inalgnin of war 00 n year raise tuking offe 430 Shonandonl that of the salnry o of long hinck the shoulders of thefr primitive na woven bralds 1 It Tamienon, 1 hung over lason, bl uggented th of then be A the pont ary the same America s officen at Ottumwa Uniforms, i fully pre Disenrd r win CANDY MAKERS WANT LOWER FREIGHT RATES |/ ath wl been of the ince ¥ path, Captals AWh Y each man's alning a padr ettor kno £ o on th r of trail ] monrd the N nveloped the edings One Killed and Eight Injured as Zeppelin Once More Visits Britain $£2.00, $1.00--For sle. See Him, Says Goltz| foan passport and has corroMorated Von | (tuns on Vulcain | RECEIPTS SHOW GAIN Special,) | @ /mre ,/U"I lHVI‘l MEXICAN BANDITS MASSACRE FIFTY Outlaws Wreck Train and Kill All Men, Women and Children Riding, It's Reported. | ARE SHOT DOWN ONE BY ONE LAREDO, ex,, April 6 wons, Fifty per Including women and children, | Torreon and Zacatecas on March 28, | when the maruaders wrecked |Im train on which they were riding, ac-| | cording to word brought here today puRsengers The bandits, wtory told here, by the wreeked the train in n hilly section far from any place of habltation and shot down the passengers one by one as smerged from the wreckage, all the passengers were killed or wounded, the bandits set fire to the wreckage and gremated the hodies, A military train followlng according to shogtly afterward, but turped back | to Torreon without rendering aid, No other detalls were avallable, The source In considered authentie here Rail Brotherhoodg Assert Raise Would Benefit the Sluppcrs CLEYELAND, ment 1anued here rond brotherhoods which ure | O, April 6.-in & #tate toduy by the four rafl domanding from 0 rallroads in It s contended the merchanta In the country it the brotherhoods boeause the elght-hour freight traing one-half miles an paying | nn elght-hour day the United Htates, shippers and be benefitted thelr fight demand s based on an making hour overtime ' Al merchants und mont manufacturers try to buy in as twelve and in order to escape rews { statement mays sl and | quick turnovers in thelr stock, but with slow frelght shipments It is mpossible to do thin, Radlroads in order to Increase thelr train mile are londing thelr locomotives with every car hat they can possibly pull. If the de of the men for an eight-hour da payment of time one-halt for quantitien as possible traln earnings per ) mand and the with | rallroads will lttle « traina fastor [avertima in granted to 1t that ne and move thelr nd It horter tralng to uleker t the and qet then Lafollette Elects Ten of Twenty-Six Badger Delegates § from var Spanish Cabinet is Called to Consider Sinking of Ships Be [ssue the Five Sunday's wore murdered by bandits between | they | When | the rogiments. make | LEE COPY TWO CENTS, CARRANZA HOLDS BACK PERMIT FOR USE OF RAILROAD ! Washington Says Question is Unset- tled, But it Regards the Situation as More Favoravie VILLA HEADED TOWARD PARRAL Advice to General Funston Indicates that American Advince Party is Near Batevo APACHE S8COUTS AT COLUMBUS WELLETIN WABHINGON, April 6. -Becretary today flatly denled that (hera wan any ground whatever for the reports that the withdrawal of Ameriean from Mexico wan being contemplated troops NULLETIN MEXICO CITY, Aprit 8, General reported the War de today that the capture of Pranciseo Villa within a very shor time was coartain, Ho sald constitu tonalist forces were ugain reported 10 have loeated Villa and surrounded Fim, Gutlerrey to partment " WABHINGTON, i patehes reporting continuing nego tlatlons with General Carranza for upe of the raflways were recelved to- ‘ny from Hpecial Agent John L. Ledgers at Querotaro, They Indicated the question war sl unnettled, but officlals regarded the aituation as favorable, The ex- pet questions under negotiation wers not disclosed Becretury Lansing declined to say what progress hag been made with General Carranza, The last official | ennouncement was of submission by Carranza of neveral modifications, | These apparently still are béfore the Btate department, Klesio Arredondo, General Carranza's ambassador here, has conferred with Hecretary Lansing In more than s week, Aprll Dis- not Wil Nend Reo Nonth, C(leneral Funston today asked the War department (o send the reerults, lated der the recent muthorization of 20,000 | mdditional men, to Brownsville, Tex., for [ distribution among the border patrel The recruit are being as- and drilied ab cecultium. ata- | membled pansenger renched the wrecked train tons at Jefferson Bareacks, Mo, Colum- [ Bun Barracks, O,; Fort 1 | Fort Aleatrax, Cal, They will not be sent across the bor- der, but will il up regiments of the | border guard | At Generul Funston's reatiest a bat in‘r)’ of the Fourth flald artiilery, which had been ordered from Brownaville to |the Panama canal zone, will remain on {the border In view of Mexican condi- ‘llnhl oKng. Colo.,, and Villa Weaded for N SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aprli 6-The mont advanced cavalry detachments en- | #nged In running down Villa wers be yond communication today and at Gen eral Funston's headquarters It was be- lieved they were alrendy nu tar south as Batevo, from whenee tralls extends toward Parral. Only unofficial and lloting reports as to Villa's where abouts have heen received hers, but General Tunston and his staff officers place moat credence in the report that ho was fn the vielnity of Batevo Tues Aged Woman Beaten to Death and Robbed SEATTLE, of Mra and Mrs, Kate found fn their he VH. 8 King both women had Wash., April 6, Whealor Hwift The hodies 76 years old, aged 53, were hera oarly today by The heads of ‘ushed, nnd $3,000 hidden in the reported to the Corrine n their nephew the police 1 shocking committed The bodies of the nd in differen o, wore fully rding to the murdore Whesler ar o year ag that his aunt n the hous found after & L Mon e rdere tor elgh Blind Address! 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