Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 21

CPERATES THREE THOUSAND TIMES Dr. Eugene Hurd, American Sur- geon in Russian Army, Performs that Number During War, HAS MANY NARROW ESCAPES (Corrempondence of the Associnted Press,) PETROGRAD, March 16.--More than 3000 surglonl operntions, most of them vlose to the fighting line and with the rour of artillery in his ears, is the last year's record of Dr. Kugens Hurd, unti) the only American surgeon at with the Russian forces. Dy Hurd 1n ehief surgeon in charge of the Twenty-nfinth, known as the “Grodno No recently the front Uility"” flylng eolumn, He haa the rank of olonel In the regular army. His 11 fue—he stands six feot three Ir in nelght ar fghs 286 pounds—makes him a conspdeuous figure, aven among the big fellows of the Siberian corps among whom he works, He has ac quired a reputation among the simple minded soldlers for doing tho fmpossible A woldiar returning from the hospital told hiw follows that the “blg American sur geon comld take a hand that had been shot off, pateh it together and put it buek on good as new." Hurd has been reported Al times Killod, wounded or missing. 1o has made A number of hurried getaways, but he hus Always tumed up with his outfir when the smoke cleared, 111s column was outfitted by the noble families of Grodno soon after the ottbreak of the wip. they looked about for a wirgeon to take charge, About that time Hurd, who wia in Meattle, was offering his services to flussln, Through the Itussian consul in Heattle, his offer was acoepted and he salled om November 3 for Viadivostok Ho was st onoe sent to Grodno with a contract to serve during the term of the war, He belleved he was glving his serv jcon gratis, but several months later when he had time to have his contract trans Inted, he found that he was to receive 40 roubles monthly. His first taste of battle was on the Grodno front. On the rotreat of the Rus san army last szmmer Hurd narrowly ascaped an involuntary transfer of him netivities to the Cerman slde, After o twenty-hour stretch of hard work he was ordered to retire by night to Oranl, At 2 o'clock tn the morning he had reached an estats six miles from that polnt wnd there he decidad to rest until daylgit Vhen prepuring (o resums his journey the following morning, he found the stabla yard full of Russian eavalry horses, some of them wounded, A Russian soldier in formed him that Orani had been captured by the Germans early fn the moming and that they wore appromching less than two miles awny, Ho made a hurried exit wouthward through sand dunes, where Napoleon lost his transports on the re trent from Moscow, Until 4 o'cl the afternoon, when he reached n new Tussian position e was between the hos tile lines, uncertain as to the location of elther army. Kaenpes Under Five, At another time the German cavalry broke through the Russian lines beforo Hurd was aware of the fact and had cut 148 fleld telephone, ‘They passed his operating base, evidently belleving his capture assured on their return. But tho Ameriean doetor harnessed his horses and with hix operating force made a break for the retiring Russian army. The Ger- mans turned a battery on him, and with wolls bursting all around him, he gal- oped his teams over the crest of a hill ontnally made his way to safety works customarfly about a ile biek of the trenches In line with the light artillery and in front of and nder the heavy batteries, | balfeve the Russian soldier to be the best in the world,” he said, on a recent I8it to Petrograd, his third brief absence from the trenches in more than a year. e Russian is & fatalist, is absolutely fenrlers, willing to attack under any con- Iitlons and 1s an expert with the bayonet, weapon. I am convinced { (he Germans lost twenty men to our ne on the retreat last summeor, A new form of trench bomb, filled with an acid that aots like vitriol, is the lant element we have to contend with, I'he effect 18 fatal if the fumes are in- lialed and the least effect is to produce otal and permanent blindness. These ombs are fired at close range and ex- on contact. Trom one to seven affectod where the explosion men unprotected by Then and ¢ Dr, Hurd n favorite nlode nen are urs among res pirators, Often the men have not time ndjust their respirators in time to cRcape, that T have ob sen of frozen A remarkable thing orved In the number of ot among Cerman prisoncrs, while 1 ot to treat the flrat Russian for trouble. The remson 1a that the jermans wear close fitting hoots, while he Russian hoot is large, and in place sooks he winds his feot In yards of jlen cloths, The boota are waters ight. One seldom finds a Rusaian sol fler with wet feet, Another thing: The Mussian trenches are deep and wide nough (hat the men may stand and " t Trench-foot due e amped positions and impalred ofroula % unknown among our soldiers rigld Alscipline In my pa of istants, wnd through a sys pucking and handiing whioh 1 have devised, T oan break camp and be o move within twenty minutes, or . mh nd hegin an operation n minutes after arvtval Amerioan surgeon at ad f the Twenty-first | nn, W vother Hibertan | | METHODIST MISSION HELPS | KOREAN EDUCATIONAL FUND| } Ma b The Ament | ' toroi ssionary hodies 1o | . rean sducations . N . o Tha | . i N L] . . . ; N N fosies waa ta . ' . e iwibng . . . et & " - ' "o Nete reigian W ne " Wt Government May Take Over the Patent Whiskey Stills in the British Isles, DISTILLERS NOT FIGHTENED (Correkpondence of the Associated Prew LONDON, March 2 -—Teetotalers and prohibitfonists bave hailed with joy an Intimation by David Lloyd George, the minister of munitions, that all patent Whisky stills in the British Isles will be taken over by the war work until the end of the war, to be ussd government for for the production of certaln of the in kredients of explosives Thera will be no shortage of whisky, however, The distillers sny they have A stock In bond quite suffielent to supply the normal consumption n this country for at least threa years. They also pomt out that unless the war should a wudden end their supply would last four yenrs, owing to the leasened consumption due to the restricted sale now in fo Only mbout a dozen of the bigmest dis tilleries in Beotland coms under (he cate Kory of patent stills. In the year en March last there were distilled in Seot Innd 26,000,000 gallons, and there were in #tock 112,000,000 gallons of the coms te Thero are many other type of still or pot stilla not likely to be taken over by the government. In thess fer mented llauor obtained from the barley 0 bofled tn a pot. Tha escaping passen through a pipe densed am apirit, but it 18 impure and has AgAIn o be distilled, ‘The patent still | a complicated apparatus which, with the application of steam requires no wecond distilation, Bishobs in Ireland Allude to the War vapor whera it is con in Lenten Letters| (Correspondence of the Arociated Press.) | DUBLIN, April 8-The Irish Roman Catholic bishops, in thelr Lenten pastoraj lottors, direct attention to the necessity for thrift and for ratsing as much food stuffs as pomsible on the farms. Thero are frequent alluslons to the war in the pastorals, the most emphatic exhortation to recrulting appearing in the letter of the bishop of Tuani, Dr. Mealy, who hopes that while the people will (1l thefr fleldn, they will also be ready to fight for them against all comers, espocially AEAINAL the Gormans. “Trishmen are able to fight,” he writes, “as they have well proved on every battle front in ¥urope They do not want thel* 7ertile solzed by the foe, What Is to save them but the strong arms and courageous hearts of the Irish people and allies?’ Ho hopes that they will rally to the flag, 'not by compulsion or coercion, but from a sense of duty ns becomen free men,"” Cardinal Loguo speaks of the war an “not only the greatest and most destrue tive war in history, but a war that seems to have stirred to their lowest depths the worst and most depraved of human pas slonw. The distinction between soldier and civilian seems to be ignored. Even neu trals and thelr property are no longer fmmune from destriuction. Peaceful ol wens traveling by with thelr wives And ehildren are sent to the bottom with out warning. Men, old and young, help less women and innocent children, often in their beds at night, are made vietima of a sudden and terrible death.” The bishop of Limerick in hiy pastoral prediots that the war will leave the world in a condition of direct poverty, and acros nen #peake of the storm which will break over | European mocioty when the war s over. “If anyons thinks,” he says, “that the | milllons of working men trained to arms in Hurope will settle down peaceably to starvation at the and of the war In order to help to reamass fortunes for their ‘betters,’ he may have a rude awakening. BOYS STOP DYNAMITE TRAIN Jumps from Auto to Cab of Ran- awny Engine and Prevent Bxplosion, Two boys in an automobils, after a race through the raliroad yarda at Dryad, Wash., captured and stopped a runaway switch engine that was bumping a car load of dynamite on to the main track following a passenger train just leaving Doty. The train was sidetracked at Lit tell and derafling orews wero sent to cateh the runaway Leaping from the autemobile, one of the boys jumped Into the cab of the en &ine and stopped its fllght through the YAras just bafore it reached the derafling point, Clyde and Roy Ru banks were In the machine The engine belonged to the Doty Lum ber and Shingle company As it gressed through the yards it an empty stock oar and to tha main Iina of the Iflo. The awent at Dryad was in struotad to derall ft, but deoided to lot It pass through the town, fearing a dls Astrous explosion. Hoth cars wera badly damaged the engine was stopped and the explosive seattared the loaded car.—Ta Smoothers pro pleked up procesded on Northern Pa when was About yma Ledger An Fasy One or two At night ment of the b Plensant Laxative, King's New ldfa Py froe and easy move Al druggiate Advertisement POLITIOAL ADVERTINING, For District works quickly and | their | CharlesL. For Delegate to Republican National Convention W. G. THE BEE: ( (PRORIBS ARE J0YOUS LOT (UBAN PARTIES President Menocal, Record, 8aid to Stand Chance for Re-Election, LIBERALS ARE VERY DUBIOUS (Correspondance of The Associated Pross HAVANA, March 25.~With the holdin, of both the conservative and liberal part conventions the naming of the principal candidatos for the presidential election | | Cuba tn completed, an follows Conservatives: Prestdent, Marln Menocal for re-sloction; Cleneral Bmili; Nunes, wecretary of agriculture, for vic president Liberals prosident under ton of 19913 for president; Carlos Mondieta, A member of the of representatives, for ce president The nomination of Zayas and Mendieta 18 hatled by practically all factlons of the Itheral party as ending the long-con tinued feud hetween the supporters of Znyas and the Miguelistas, who are the followers of the former president, Joss Miguel Gomer, Thixk fued grew eut of the apparently finplacable hostility of Prosidont Glomes to the presidential as pirations of his former ecolleagus In the adminiatrtaion From the beginning of the feud in the onrly duye of his administration Genern Gomez has declared that nothing could reconelle him the sipport of Zayas until finding himself outgenoraled by the po ltlenl dexterity of the Iatter and all hope | of his own nomination vanished, he Kave his adheston o the verdiet of the cen entlon. That he gave it grudgingly, and that there a some doubt whether he wil “ive his enthusiastic personal support to the ticket, in evidenced by the fact that he refused to attend the convention and, after the adjournment when the trium vhunt Zayistas gathered fn front of his palneo on the Prado demanding that he nddress them, he declined to do wo and delogated the vics prestdential condidate o speak In his behalf, That his follew Dr. Alfred Zayas, former vioe the Gomez sdministra« and Dr house IMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL only ba developed during the course of | the campalgn. On the other hand the | | voting strength of the liberals s un questionably great and will be inoreased the support of many Cubans who or hostility to the administration, are dis posed to welcome A change with & Good | "W\ ® e ibarals protess to fear is that they will be denled a falr co in power will adop box stuffing. The and that the party the tactios of ballot also say that, sinee the inecorporatior of the old rural guard In the resular army there ia grave danger of militar )| terrortam at polla. Hence thers 1s & | renewed discusston of the abvisabilit y|of saking the United States government to appoint a commission to supervise the the n| remtsteation and voting as the on means of assuring a perfectly falr ele ;. |tlon and obviating the perll of ravolu oftlon that might result from any aus o| Piclon of unfairness. 1t 1 unlikely, how over, that this step will be resorted to for some time, at least until party pas siona should besome dankorously aroused The politioal eampalgn will probably not reach an acute stage until tha period between tha close of the sugar grinding seanon In July and the oelection, which 15, 1916, 21 WIFE OF BAKER, THE ENGLISH EXPLORER, DIES IN LONDON their progress. She also sccompanied her husband ($hen he commanded an expedi- tion to C'entral Africa organized by the Khedive for the suppression of the slave trafflc. She was the flrst white woman, first man, to recently at Newton Abbot, Devon at 7 yoara of age, was known as one of the mont daring explorers. In 1561 she accom panied her husband upon an expedition (Correspondencs of The Associated Preas.) | for the discovery of the Nile sources, The LONDON, March 2.-Lady Wiorence |party went on without interpreter or | as her hushand was the Haker, widow of Mir Hamuel White [ £111de and In defiance of the opposition of [set foot in the reglon of the Alber Haker, author and explorer, who died |the slaye hunters who attempted to bar | Nyansa |ake. NG, CAL ADVERT POLITICAL ADVE Judge Albert J. Cornish Candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court Is now serving his 21st IHere is what the news. takes place on November | politteal fnauen nre struggle there clothing Into cash with a Hes ern, however, led by his own former right hand, Bpeaker Ferrara, and other Influentinl leaders, will loyally support Znyas there i sald to be no doubt The only elements of the Iberal party |now outside the bresstworks are the |faetions led by former Governor Asbert and Kuseblo Hernandez, who are de- clared to be unlikely to prove of much | Importance. ‘The Asbertistas, who are | somewhat numerous In Havana provinee with & smaller following in and the Hernandistas are A negligible quantity. There possibliity that both may | conelled to the regular ticket. The iib- |eral leaders, in any event, declare the | prospocts of the success of thelr ticket |are bright | With Presldent Menocal fn control of [all the machinery of the government |having the support of the army, and | himaelt popular with a good record of administration, he will not be eastly de feated, There I8, however, in the con- sorvative party an element which {8 op | posed in principle to re-election, and what the strength of this element may be can Matansns, regarded as In alwo become re | | POLIVICAL ADVERTISING, ’, VOTE FOR 0. H. PARSON For State Representative He is a Champion of Good and Just Laws for Everybody, GEO.A.ECKLES JOHN C.MARTIN Central City, Neb, Onandidate for Supreme Judge On Nonpartisan Judiciary Ballot, Primaries, Tuesdny, April 18th, PLATFORM, Equality before the law Remove the law’s vexatious delays, Substantial justice unhampered by technlcalitios, Purify the courts by severe punish ment for perjury. No polities or favoritism known on the bench, “To do the right as God gives me to see the right.’ GRORG Wants every voter to remem. | ber the name and when voting | make a X after it on ballot, | Vote For A. H. MURDOCK NonsPartisan Candidate for 'MUNICIPAL JUDGE One of the Present hhllrl | Emil A. Ericson | NEPUBLICAN FOR REPRESENTATIVE Saunders Convention Delegate to URE Flrst [ works hehalt sary surphis Fourth rates for n the pre thonsand gallons f homes. bush Mfth | fave Hixth being simply for offles I am opy none Turn old furniture, household goods and Want w CAMPEN, ) Of werfoun [ year nx Judge of the Dis. trict Clourt of Lancaster Ad County, He s Fair, Alert and Huran His home people have 5 times wanted him to he their Judge 1. R. GURNEY, Fremont N, P. DODGE, Omaha Twenty years experience in construction, and operation of municipal utilities. 15, L. HEVELONE, Beatrice A. (. lKPPERSON, (ay Center Primaries for GEORGE L. CAMPEN (Member American Society Civil Engineers.) One of the Directors METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT maintenance JUDGE CORNISH HAS ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS EVER MADE BY A DISTRICT JUDSE IN NEBRASKA FOR DECISIONS AFFIRMED BY THE SUPREME COURT Attention! Republicans Success for the Republican party in 1916 depends on the re-uniting of all factions of the party along progressive lines and the burial of all differences, named below, for delegates and alternates, to the Republican National Convention at Chieago, stand for a “GET TOGITHIR' policy and a “RE-UNITED PARTY." DELEGATES AT LARGE 4 Vote for Four 0. 0. SNYDER, 0O’ W, L. ANDERSON, Lincoln A, B, WOOD, Gering JPW T T e S S s Primaries April 18, 1916. Polls Open 8 A. M.; Close 8 P. M, Cut This Out For Your Guidance. ‘ Republican and tlona ing of the cities of Panama and Colon, Including the collection of all w r rents. Was Assistant City Engineer of Omaha three YORTs PLATFORM: | will consider that the Water belongs to the people and to be run in their Second | will give respectful and courteous at tention to all compla i avery water consumer he treated with fairme el wath the sume con ideration that vRaf \ hant give to tomer Third | fle the lowest rate that candition t tead of piling up unneces fmmediate reduction of water ) JUstion PR $2.00 § mstruetion nia LMoY eme the payment of wages to employes ! | vte husiness and Water Board, a levoting thei Seventh- | fuvor the pl water main extensions now he abutting property, the » he pa hut when @ Wate nadde to this proportion of t pays 6 per cent upon the nade, then the total cost or erest will be refunded to t o not favar the practioe « the plan adonpted Bighth 1f the onstruet) he Water Boand, | | \ wol niea n canstraction, mainte nANCY ipal utilitie Ninth | fuve dalled At cost meters he W™ If you favor my platform vote for me and have your friends do likewise. “\g As Clity Hngineer of Lincoin, 1 planned the reconstruction of the Municipal Water System and con- structed Plant Works of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, 1 adopted by 1 water rates, which were the Republic of Panama and the United States and had charge of Government, the maintenance and operation of the water works, sewer and pav- well as the employes of the \Water Works, time to pelitics or any other business except for which they are employed in to a of our City on and operation of the Municipal Lighting plant is placed in the hands of Kive traning and twenty voars' experience papers of his home town think of him: “Judge Corniah In recognized oy him nalghbors ne a really big man wnd thay belleve that If the voters are Jooking for that kind of a man n the wupreme hench they need ok ng further”-—~Nebrasks Sta ournal M has baen upon the distriet el of this county for mora AN LWenLY Years, A B deciwions have wtood far better (ian_those of most Judges, the tomt of the higher tribunal—Lin- coln Dafly Btar ¢ ¢ & Ay a member of sy prome court of Nebruskn, he will Lo ons of the ablest men that has evar boon selected to membership in the highest court of this e —Lineoln Trads Raview The candidates ALTERNATES Vote for Four Neill HI'TE, Blair, " Biography the Municipal Lighting Aw Water Commissioner Huperintendent of Publie made the interna- soas the cost of made, or to be made, to ame as hps been done in r rents from connections he water main extonsion the extension so without n he property owners. | of | Assessiment lacing unredoemahle This is sub by the Uity of Chieago them the benefit of and aperation of Muni ng furnished and in