Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1915, Page 1

! I [ f / \ advertising in The the storekeeper takes show window into home of every reader By Bee his the [——— — VOL. XLIV-NO. OMAMA, FRIDAY OMAHA PACKERS PAY HIGHER RATE , ON KANSAS COAL s Railroads Charge Missouri River Plants More Than Those at Other Points for Fuel Haauls, TESTIMONY GIVEN AT CHICAGO Witnesses at Hearing Declare Pro-| posed Advances Asked by Car- riers Unwarranted. BIOVX OITY MAN UPON STAND OHICAGO, April 15 —Packing | House plants on the Missouri river ln{ view of distance and service rendered, pay & highor freight rate on coal | from the Kansas fields than do other | points, acdording to testimony today | before the Interstate Commerce com- | mission’s hearing of the petition of | the forty-one western railroads for | increased freight rates. Witnesses sald the proposal advanke of § cents a ton on coal was unwarranted. The testimony touched slack coal chiefly. Increases Discussed. Increases in freight rates for the Kansas coal fields to Kansas City, St. Joseph and South Omaha plants of Switt & Co., from 55 cents a ton in 1906, to 70 cents, at the president rate, were discussed by R. O'Hara, chief rate clerk of Swift & Co. | e declared that for aimilar distances Tllinols coal was carried by the railroads to Chicago with average car mile earn- ings of 13.7 cents, while the car mile carnings from the Kansas field to Kan- THE WAR IN EAST AFRICA --An officer’'s pony dyed in order to make it Tess noticeable in the field. sas City were 2.2 cents, to St. Joseph 1§ cents, and South Omaha 16.7 cents. On erous-examination the witness said that density of traffic had not figured in his compilation. Manker's Testimony. W. W. Manker, assistant traffic man- | ager of Armour & Co., tmetified along| similar Alnes, his discussion including Sioux City, la., as well as the points covered by Mr. O'Hara. Mr. Manker KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Forty-Third Annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery of State' Comes for Two Days. {LOCAL KNIGHTS AS THE HOSTS mines to Missouri river points are on a much higher basis than those from other coal flelds and points similarly distant.” | The specitic contention that present coal rates from Illinols coal mines to Sioux City, Ta, now yield a higher revenue per car than do other commodi- ties was advanced by C. E. Childe, com- missioner of the traffic bureau of the Sloux City Commercial club. 3 Mr, Childe reviewed statistics presented by a raftroad witness on the average load of the primcipal commodities handled in Sloux ity territory and said: ., “The averige car mile revenue on the commodities named by the witness for the raflread was lexs than 16 cents. Sioux City now pays 19.8 cents per car mile on ita lump coal and over| 16 cents on its steam coal.” Seven Alleged Night Riders Are Indicted CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo, April 16— Seven men were Indicted in connection with the recent activity of night riders | in Missouri by the federal grand jury which adjourned here yesterday. Judge D. P. Dyer of 8t. Louis, under whose in- structions the jury carried on its in- vestigation, announced that heavy sen- |Pier's absence. tences would be imposecs on all men con-| Omaha officers of the grand command- victed in his court of participation in the ery are: Right Eminent Sir Francis E. night riders’ work: Letters have been |White, grand recorder; Eminent Sir sent recently to the large land owners Fenry C. Akin, grand treasurer, and Emi and ‘merchants of this vicinity threaten- |nent Sir Charles L. Shook, grand sword ing the destruction of their lives and bearer. Eminent Sir George §. Ticknor property unless wages were raised, mulu commander of Mount Calvary Com- lowered and negroes driven from the!mundery No. 1 and Sir Luther B. Hoyt dlatrict. captain general POST PARCELS MAILED BY | Rignt Mmiwent. sir Hutson 5. Coiman GERMANS ARE RETURNED of Kalamazoo, Mich., has arrived to rep- CHIABSO0, April 1b.—~(Via Paris.)—Sev- |0 popienelle, For fbe forty-third annual cop- clave of the grand commandery of the Knights Templar officers and members have gathered from all parts of the state for the ceremonies and entertainments which yesterday alternoon and con- over 300 local and visiting knights and their ladies in atténdance. Mount Calvary Commandery Omaha is host. for the visiting i knights, and its opening in full forin jaf ‘the Masonic temple at.4 o'clock marked the beginning of the annual | assembly. Willetts in Charge. Right Eminent Sir Will A. Needham o Ploomtield, grand commander of the grand commandery, is the only officer not atténding the conclave. He has moved to Montana to live, Vice Eminent 8ir George Willeits, jr., of McCook, deputy grand {commander, will be in charge of the grand commandery ‘conclave in the for- is general chairman of IN SESSION HERE/ of Nebraska’ {tinue until this afternoon. ~with] ot resent the most eminent grand master jduring ‘the conclave. He is stopping at ‘eral thousand parcel post packages mailed from Germany to the United States, after being delayed here for some time, have been returned to the senders by the postal authorities because the Brit- ish and Frnch governments have given notifieation that parcels addressed to German citizens in the United States will be selzed when they are found on ship- board. . The Weather Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hours. 5 Wa .6 na - 2m -'_’2 ip .1 2p - 8 3p. 31 =1 o .0 5D b4 6p. % 7 (] s " tve Loesi Record. 1915 1814, 1918 1912 O TR S Compar: Highest yesterday .. o B0 Lowest yesterday - v @ 68 M & Mean temperature ® .00 .0 .0 Precipitation ’ Temperatures and precipitation depar- tures from the normal: = Normal I!mrel(l‘llur! .ep % iixcess for the day 8 Total deficiency since March 1 105 Normal precipitation 10 Inch ]ltflthn: tor the fl‘l; &t :l; ::fi:el 3 arc 2 Total rainfall ‘[elme H lhn-r:\dl . y cor, period, 191 2;2::":3: cor. period, 113.. .. 214 inches Reporta from Stations at 7 P. M. Etation and State Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. 7p. m. est. fall Cheyenne, cloudy o 2 Davenport, clear w» " w0 Denver, cloudy ...... m T Des Moines, cloudy .. L w0 Omaha, cle % Rapid City, cloudy & 0 She , clondy - ] Sioux City, clear . . w0 ntime, pt. cloudy....7: 78 .00 recipitation. W Forecaater. { This morning Mount |Calvary commandery will assembli at 9 io'clock, and form in line to eseort him |ana the deputy grand commander from {the hotel headquarters to the Masonic FIFTEEN KILLED IN DETROIT WRECK Track in Front of Freight Train —Twenty-Eight Hurt. STUDENT MOTORMAN IS BLAMED DETROIT, Mich.,, April 15.~-To the inexperience of a student motor- man is charged the death of fifteen persons, ten of them women, who were killed last night in a collision i western end of this eity. to the police, the unexplajned inac- tivity of the student’s instructor aiso contributed to the<disaster. “Twenty- elght other persons were injured, four of them seriously. .Early today only seven of the dead had been jden- ‘| titted. Handled by Student. With a heavy load of passengers. home- ward bound, the car, handled by Student Motorman J. C. Westover, halted as it reached the rallroad crossing. The con- ductor ran aheaa and seelng a string of freight cars pushed by a switch engine approaching the intersection, signalled ‘fllr motorman to walt unti] it had passed. { The novice misunderstood the signal and |v|ll on power. The car started flowllo | slight Incline leading to the tracks. hen 100 late the motorman shut off the cur- rent and applied the brakes, put the car #1d along untll it stopped directly in the path of the oncoming train. Davenport Man Leaves Million to Public Charities terms of ‘the will of M. Di Petersen, & { Davenport, merchant, who left an estate ally distributed among charitable institu- tions, Heavily Laden Street Car Runs on/ between_a street car and |_lr.lght' train op the -tracks of the Detrolf,oince. el Y Toledo & Ironton railroad in- dhe | v Am:urdhs[cnm by the assosiation. April 15—By the | = THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ = MORNING, APRIL 16, 1915--TWELVE PAGI SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ' POSTAL CHIER SAYS |Bandits With Auto Trucks Steal $50, BUFFALO, N. Y, April 15-A dozen robbers held up & New York Central fast freight train at Sanborn, nine miles east of North Tonmawanda, early today,| stripped several cars of bolted allk valued At 60,000 and wped away In automobile trucks upon which they had loaded their GPERATOR WON'TBE ~ FIRED FOR TALKING Powers Asserts Telegrapher's Testi- mony to Commission Not to ‘ [ | i Cost Him His Job, as | plunder. The robbers fired several shots | Iat the crew. No one was infured. A | Feared. Posse of detectives and mounted police | > were at the scene shortly after the | GIVES SIDE OF THE COMPANY | nolaup After forcing the engine crew to un. couple the locomotive and run it a short | Regular Day Trick of Ticker is Nine | 000 Worth of Silk distance down tracks, the Ined up the enginemen and three other memibera of the train crew against a box | car and left one of their number as guard | while the others looted the merchandise | carn. Four flve-ton automobile trucks were walting and were quickly loaded with booty. Fngineer Gose of Syracuse es- | caped the guard and, running a fusillade of shots, reached his engine in safety He made a record run into Suspension Rridge eight miles away and gave the alarm. robbers | He Avers. : RESERYOIR DAM AT s or 1 o e[ YWAN [§ BROEN | €HICAGO, April 15.—The Postal | Telegraph and Cable company, ac-| | cused before the United States Com- mission of Industrial Relations yes- terday of overworking its men for| inadequate pay, made reply today through T. N. Powers, manager of {the operating department of the| ! Chicago office. | man The regular day trick of telegra-| phers is nine hours and other tricks ?nra shorter, he testified. | | “ls it impossible at times for men to| lobtaln lunch rellef?” asked Frank P.| | Waish, chalrman of the commiseion. “At times when business is very heavy, tes at the beginning of the war’' Mr | Powers replied, and added Bxtra t Create “When business decreases an extra list is crented by men who are anxious to lok vhat moriey they can rather than :‘.: .dlll,“_-‘ 1 man had been living directly under| My, Walsh explained that one of the the reservoir dam, which collapsed, | | Postal telegraphers who testifled vester-|ag did a similar, but smaller, dam ten |day feared that his adverse comment :In vears ugo. At St. Johms todsy the the company would cost Mm and his companions, who also testitied, their obs, | {100d had reachied a depth of three| I feet in some placeg, although no “Not at all so long as they observe the {rules of the company,”’ answered the wit-| great damage has bean done there. | Three of the elght persons drowned at I ness. Lyman dam were the children of Mr. | Mr. Powers read a list of employes, .ll\ ing their earnings ranging ‘from #0 /and Mrs. Ellls Palmer, and grandehildren | Hours, While Others Shorter, | | | Wall of Water Sweeps Down Valley of Little Colorado River and Drowns Eight Persons. HOLBROOK, Ariz, April 15 Ly | reservoir, which impounds waters of the Little Colorado river| twelve miles south of ;. Johns,| Apache county, broke shortly before midnight last night, drowning eight | persons. A reservoir at Hunt, north- west of 8t, Johns, is in the path of the flood, and if the dam there, which | |is threatened, gives away Woodruff, twelve miles southeast of Holbrook, (will be in danger. i The eight persons drowned at l,yr‘l for new and Inexperienced men to $110|of Mrs. Rachel Berry, one of the two to the hest men. He gave the eamings | women members of (he Arizona state of Yarrington, one of the extra list men |legislature. furnished water to |Germans Say Russ who testified yesterday, as $82 the first| Lyman reservolr !month. Later, he sald, Yarrington grew |irrigate 3,000 acres. 0 irregul Damage Four Hundred Thousand. % 97'1n one seamih. PHOENIX, Arix, April 15.—Dispatches R ieid Msmbir. recelved here today, telling of the broak- 4 ing of the Lyman reservpir dam near St B hg b e "::e 'g::n:l:r;:l"'.h,:: Johns, estimate the total damage so far |raphers' union, but would not diaturb a :::‘ “::I‘::‘t::. ';: '::"m 'f:'";’“'“:_: {member already holding @ job and dotng | | " e state, |bis work right. | "“They are all right so long as they Gon't . bring the union into the office,” he satd. Denles Prenoh Guns | Asked as to the association of em- [plove 3 Powers remarked e var-| Mounted on Louvre ringi 4 scclation’s restatirant, and the deficlt was| ~ ‘,_. Gh . ) Commissioner Garretsofi rei to tha| WABHINGTON, Aprll 16—An officlal | “evila” of the. extra llat, g denial of reports from Berlin that public “We can abolish it today if you want|bulldings in Parls were being used as to throw these men out of work. We |Military observation posts was oabled to jdon’'t need It,” replied Mr. Powers, the French embassy here today by For- | Commissioner Arishton took up the ex-| ¢/ Minister Delcasse, |amination, and: witness said that srievs Embulyhofllclll- said the forelgn o!lmn "y saw in these reports the laying of a B e i R foundation for attacks by Zeppelins and 120k koe bosnde S5 1ime. AR “.n:‘"" l! aerovianes ‘:mnrlheu bulldings. Y Stoq T| Forelgn Minister Delcasse, after refer- rever see the sub-chief. There havew't| g (5 the publication of dispatches on heen more than half a dosen complaint® | Apr) 13 to the effect that wireleas telo- fa.s month,'; 4619, Poway, graphic apparatus for military commun It w ounced that Inquiry into the |cation had been placed upon the Invalid 1813 strike of Michigan copper miners|tne Louvre, the municipal library and other public buildings and that they had also been armed with mitraleuses to at- tack German aircraft, sald H “It 18 hardly necessary to say that | L Attempt to/INVAA0 i Bt e ey iniras { ' and’ the French government protests ! Hungary a Fa]_lure against such imputations on the author- ity of German officers, who are so far dis- BERLIN, April By Wireless to |tant from Paris that they cun have no Sayville)—~The German war office today | knowledge of the facts they assert.” gave out a report on the situation in T v .3'5.5."’"'2':'"‘ dated Monday, April 12, German Submarlne “The Russian atfempt with the army that was before Przemysl to force the Sinks Dutch craft invasion of Hungary has resulted in fail- ure. The endeavors to get through the | LONDON, April 15~The Netherlands Lupkow and Fast Dukla passes were not (sieamer Katwhok from Baltimore fof | successful, and the Russian attacks at { valued at ‘over $1,000,000, will be eventu- | Deg. | "' 33 | McClanighan, &1 The wife and children are given a life Interest In the.estate. At thelr { death it is to be divided among the Ma- | sonic charity fund of Iowa and a number {temple, where the business sessfon of the {conclave will be ield. While that Is in progres, the wives of ithe visiting sir knights will enjoy an auto | of Davenport institution ifide about the city, starting from the | { Fontenelle at 10 o'clock. ; RN {Funeral of Colonel \Merrow May Not Have| Nelson Will Be on ] { Committed Suicide A post murtem examination held by Dr. | coroner's physician, vealed the sturcung fact that two b ,lets hiad plerced the body of G. W. M {row, who was found dead at Ibis heart and | bratn, tatal dict of suicide the death, - but Y B s O merai e examination may lead to further, In tigation as it rather refutes that pos :PRESIDENT SMITH SENDS | bility { WORD HE IS IMPROVING i KANSAS CITY, April 15.—Only one edi- Ye“ ftion of the Kansas City Star, the noon ul- edition, will be published tomorrow, out der- lof respecy for the memiory of Willlam Elkkhorn | g, Nelson, editor and owner, whose fu- One bullet went throuk | neral will be heid jn the afternoon. Busi- the other through hisdness ‘houses throughout the ety have and either or both could have been | annoynced that tife A coroner's jury returned a ver- . p, the on ¥ would suspend busi- | | Scatropko and Felorzebeurz have defin- iitely come to an end. The Russians con- sequently are attacking further to the cast, but here they were repulsed near Koziowa with heavy losses | “The attacking stiength of the Rus- islans has visibly lessened.” \Secretary M’Adoo Will Ask That His Case Be Post d Fridafis_'_Afternooni s L dy ment of the hearing to a later date will WABHINGTON, April 15 Postpone- be asked by tho defense tomorrow, when the injunction proceedings of the Riggs National Bank against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller of the Currency Wil- | ltams are taken up in the district supremes | court. ! Louls D. Brandeis, retained as special counsel to ald the Department of Justice | in defending the officials, made this an- l nouncement “It is physically impossible to prepare the case by tomorrow. The government, therefore, will ask for a postponement to isufl' AGAINST SHERIDAN |‘:.;\“\:3’1;.1" Ia, ADriL G~ (Special Tele-l' later day l POST MUST BE TRIED | Saints' conterence was on - Tistazy ot | | Education” by Prof. F. M. McDowell, fol- CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 16.~(Special;) | }0WInE Which Bishop J. A, Brecker of | ~That the district couft of Sheridan- Ohio Preached 1 county erred when it dismissed the peti-| A teleEram from President ¥. M, Smith | {tion of the plaintiff in the suit of Charies | States that he is improving and expected | i Kutcher against the Sheridan Post 1A | Printing company and Thomas T. Tynan, | time. Alvah H. Christenson, now mis- 1.01 inches {an action for $10,000 damages for alleged | *lonary in the South Sea jslands, was | |Ubel, 18 a decision which was handed down | ©hosen (o the office of seventy. by the Wyoming supreme court today. ' Were the following men | The supreme court remanded the cause to Independence, Mo.; |the Sheridan county court for trial of Brown City, Mich.; Hinman W. Sav- | Kutcher, who, at the time, was mayor of | 88¢, lately returned from the South Sea | Sheridan, sued the Post 8o also J. A. Dowker of Columbus Scott of Lamon! resigned as senlor president of the council of seven presidents of seventy, which office he has | held for thirty years. The evening speaker was Hider B, K. ltnu of Grand Rapids, Mich, committed & libel when, on March 18, {1912, it published certain statements about the officlal acts of Kutcher. Tynan now s mayor of Sherldan, having succeeded Kutcher. 4 to sit up in his chair today for the first | Richard D. Weaver | company and |islands, and John R. Grice of Flint, Mich, | wl'r\ nan on the ground that the Post had The Missouri river which skirts Omaha is part of the greatest river system in the world. It ishere hemmed in || by high bluffs and spanned by three bridges. Despite its muddy water, it affords in summer time much beau- tiful landscape scenery. Rotterdam, was torpedoed yesterday eve- ning while anchored reven to the west of the North Hunder light lightship in the North Sea. The crew of twenty- three men was saved and taken aboard the lightship. The Katwyk was o frelght steamer. | Bullt in 1903, 1t was 1,257 net tons and 21 feet long. It\salled from Baltimore iiarch | 2 for Rotterdam and passed Dover om April 14 BALTIMORE, Md., April 15.—~The Kat- wyk was loaded with 116,383 busheis of corn consigned o The Netherlands gov- ernment, according to the agents of the vessel here. |Hunt Dam Carried Out by a Flood HOLBROOK, Ariz., April 16.—The Hunt dam, twenty miles from St. Johns, was carried out by the flood shortly before noon. The water swept down towurd the Woodruft dam. Woodruff will be sub- merged unless tho dam there also breaks | The flooG will reach Woodruff tonight [MATHISON ELECTED HEAD | KEARNEY MILITARY ACADEMY KEARNEY, Neb, April 15.—(Special | Telegram.)—The trustees of the Kearney Military academy met In Kearney today |end sprung a big surprise on the people {of the Episcopal church and citizens-at- {large by electing E. T. Mathison of Chi- cago head of the school for the coming year Archdeacon Ware, who has.been at the head of the school the t year has done & great work in bullding up the In- stitution after & badly run-down session, #nd the for his not belug re- |eiected has not been explained. 1t was |stated that the trustees carried out the reason | wishes of Bishop Beecher, E Mathison, formerly assistant rector of the Shattuck academy, has been doing missionary work in Nebraska. ——— % BRITISH STEAMER | PTARMIGAN SUNK Small Freight Ship is Torpedoed by a German Submarine in the North Sea. ELEVEN SAILORS ;BE DROWNED LONDON, April 15.—The British slieamship Ptarmigan has been Iorv? pedoed and sunk by a German n?»: marine near the North Hinder light- ship, in the North sea. Kileven sall- ors of the Plarmigan's crew of twenty-two men were saved. The Ptarmigan had a tonnage of | 476 net and was bullt at Dundee in 1881. The vessel was 218 teet long, | 30 feet beam and 16 feet deep. It was owned by the General ‘Navigation company- Mystery Around Murder of Young Woman Deepens NEW YORK, April 16.—Mystery sur- rounding the murder of a young woman, whose body was found In the Bronx Eaturday, deepened today when the iden- tification of the hody as that of Miss Claudia Hansbury of Troy was con- tradicted. A message from Troy sald Miss Hansbury was at home, Mi Christiana Carr, an aunt of Miss Hans- bury, last night identltied the body ae that of her niece. Despite the news from ‘Troy, Raffaele Viullo, a contractor, charged with homi- cide, and Mrs. Bertha Wilson, who the police allege, said she introduced Miss Hanbury to the cohtractor, were ar- raigned before a police magistrate today. Viullo was held without ball for further examifiation, while Mre. Wilson was held in 3600 hal a materlal witness. Viullo 'was' areested last night after a fountain tifled, the police say, as hl:.‘ 4 Court Refuses J ury To Pass on Sanity 0f Harry K. Thaw NEW YORK, April 15, —~Supreme Court Justice Newburger declines today to consider (the motions of lawyers for Harry K. Thaw that he be granted a Jury trial to determine his sanity. He AIRSHIP ATTACK ON BRITISH SHIP YARD FRUITLESS | Damage Done by Bombs Dropped by Zeppelin Near River Tyne is Negligible—Two Civilians Are Injured. RUSSIAN ADVANCE I8 CHECKED Main Offensive in Vieinity of Uzsok Pass Halted by Reinforced Ten- tonic Armies. DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN WAITS .' The Day’s War Ncwo‘ FOUR ATTACKS by the French are fallures, niatement, however, asserts that in the Ally wood, a seet of ground 100 yarda at in Alsace BRITISH STEAMER PTARMIGAN has been mk hy & Ge marine in the North wea. men of were saved. BRITISH CASUALTIES from (he heo winning of " April 11 amount to 189,847 men. ) Eleven Ita crew of twenty-two Steam | FAILURE OF RUSSIAN attempt (o invade Tungary was awnounced today by the German war office. Although reports trom Petrograd o no mnck we. verse, they 1 ente the Russian ndvance han been Brought virtue ally to & halt. J ROME ADVICKS from Saloniki say the intervention Id the war of Roumania appears to be tmminent. It is sald the Roumanian army is well equipped and ready for iIn. nt aeth OPERATIONS ALONG the western fromt omce more are mearly at a standatill, The vigorous counter offensive of the Germans in. the Meunse-Mosele district apparently has checked the French inttintive. LONDON, Apfil 15.—England x- perienced a second Zeppelin raid last night, when a Germap airship made an extensive flight over the North- eastern coast in abortive attempt to damage ship-building works along the river Tyne. With the e of negltgible damage to The promptness with which the cities and towns in this of Eng- land were plunged darkness when the coming of the Zeppelin was announced - undoubtedly prevented the infliction of greater damage. As it was some narrow escapes wers recorded, with bombs falling near a passenger (rain in one instance an close to a shipyard {n another, According to special dispatches appear- held that the writ In the case was re- |ing In London, both the Russians wnd turnable next Mouday and should be en- tertained by the justice then sitting, who will be Justice Hendricks. Justice Newburger Interrupted prelimi- nary argument by John B. Stanchfield of Thaw's counsel to announce his aa-l cision. Mr. Stanchfield had at that time eviewed the history of the Thaw case, | which he argued constituted a “pecullarly fit case to warrant the court in calling upon & jury to aid his conscience in de. termining whether the defendant - s sane.' V Thaw and his mother were both oourt, Farmer is Taken to SOMERSET, Pa. men took Geory April 16.—A party of Berndt, a well-to-do farmer of Lincoln township from the residence of his father near here last | night, led him into a dense forest and | threshed him with thorn switches. The | leader of the party, which numbered | about forty, told Berndt that the wn-l Ishment was admiristered because it was | charged he did not provide for his wife and five children. Berndt today sought | warrants for the arrest of the men, many | of whom were waid to be leading resi- | dents of Linccin township. | John Bunny, Screen NEW YORK, April 1A—John Bunny, comedian of the screen, was thought to be at death’s door today of a complica- tion of kidney and heart afiments. He has been 11l for three weeks at his home in Brooklyn. Today ‘was one of his worst Mr. Bunny, whose face and figure are known to milllons of moving picture devotees, is 52 years old. He has been on | the stage therty vears, achleving his greatest s within recent years as a moving picture actor. NEW CASES OF BERI BERI KRONPRINZ WILHELM NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April 16— Provisions for four days were | taken aboard today by the German commerce ralder, Kron Prinz Wilhelm, the three days' supply allowed it when it came inte port having been exhausted. To- morrow the crutser will go nw dry dock for survey by the naval board. The ship’s surgeons sald today that members of the crew suffering from beri beri were much fmproved. Thirty-one new cases of the disease have developed since the raider arrived here, but with the Austrians still claim local successes in the Carpathians. Nevertheless it would appeat as though reinforced Aus- tro-German forces had checked the main Russian offensive in the reglon of Uzsok pass. £ ‘ Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George has presided at the first meeting of the business committee, which is to organize to the full the resources of the nation in the production of war material. The war office, the admiraity and the Board of Trade each is represented. on the committee. Complete detalls s v the needs of the military. departments and the means at present .avallable to supply them are being collected. \yhen {the imformation thus obtained shail have Woods and ! Thrashed! been examined the work of, co-ordinating the national enefgies will be started, | Reaponsibility for the delay in the ope- j®tions of the alliéd flest against the {Turkish positions on the = Dardanelies |@galn has heen placed on unfevorable | weather conditions. 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