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| / \r NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN. VOL. XILIV—NO. 260, OMAHA, SATURDAY THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE WEATHER Cloudy MORNING, APRIL 17, 1916—~TWENTY PAGES. CAN'T FIND A NAN 10 UMPIRE GAME; LAST ONE 1S SHOT IBuburban Teams of Los Angeles Unable to Secure Arbiter After Spectator Puts Two Bullets in Beferee. |HE HAD BET ON OTHER SIDE '"Wounded Official Takes Gun from Assailant-and Chases Him from the Field. 'WON'T FUNCTION ANY MORE LOS8 ANGELES, Cal,, April 16.— El Monte and Irwindale, suburban base ball nines, began hunting here today for somebody who would be umpire, but found no candidates, After one umpire had been chased out of yesterday’'s game, John Hayes, a rapcher, undertook the .position, and upon announcing his first deci- sion was shot twice in the breast by a gpectator who had bet on El Monte. | Hayes called time, rushed upon his ! aseailant and took away the weapon, with which he drove the man from * the field. He then finished the game, but | declined to officiate in any more. He | was not dangerously hurt. May Confiscate | German Craft for Each Vessel Sunk PARIE, April 16-M. Leguales Mezau- n, president of the Brittany Ship Own- re’ association, has suggested that the inister of marine replace each ship be- longing to the allies sunk by a German ¥marine by a vessel of corresponding fsize from among the 8 German ships |detained at French ports since the bo- ginning of the war. This M. De Maszau- ‘an believes would cause German ship jowners to da their utmost to induce Em.- jperor Willfam to put a stop to a method lof wartare the coat of which was bofn By them. The proposal of M. De Mazauban has Doen . taken into comsideration by the French government, but before it can be put into execution an arrangement must be reached with the British authorities. ‘Former Soldier . of Young Woman | | LIMA, O., Apdii HW Riddle, %, & machinist, was awa! & hear- pERE S T ‘with |96, a factory worker, whosé body' was ifound yesterday near the Lima railroad ‘yards. Aceording to the police Riddle, who was | tormerly & corporal in the United States | army, oconfessed shortly after his arrest {last night. The police sald the girl was | about to become a mother. Riddle tol the police he struck her with | the tron door of & fire box, crushing her skull. He gave no motive for the attack. | !In his room the police found the girl's pocketbook and several garments stained |with blood. /Chinese Here to Stud Newspapers of U. 8. SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.~Three {Chinese publishers, members of a, com- | mission appolisted by President Yuan |8hi Kal of the Chinese republic to in- ’m the newspapers. of the United Htates, seeking suggestions for their own papers, arrived today on the steamier | Sterra. The members of the commiesion are Tsung Hap-Fang, L4 Sum-Ling and Yang ‘Wen-Ping. “American newspapers are regarded as the best in the world,” one of the mem- bers said, “and our government selected {them as our study ground in preference Ito the papers, after much con-n Mdderation.” The commission also will report on ¥inancial conditions. ONE OF THE INCIDENTS for France, captured by the the German emperor. T OF WAR-—Italians, fighting Germans, and being led past & WESTERN GRAIN MEN GATHER IN OMAHA CHICAGO STRIKE BEGOMES LOCKOUT Building Trades Employes Who Would Continue Work Referred to Union Officials. WILL BRING IN NONUNION MEN CHICAGO, April thousand union carpenters, striking for an increase of & cents an hour, | | 16.—Slixteen | On Traing and at Motel Wews Btands, So, SING! LE COPY TWO CENTS, |VILLA AND WILSON |Bombs Dropped by German Planes |BOMBS DROPPED LONDON, April 16.—It s reported that & German acroplane at midday today PROBE “VIOLATED" | MEX NEUTRALITY 5 sraions o d Which dropped bomhs on Favorsham was |ahot at by looal marksmen, but their Al apparently was poor. Flying over Sittingbourne the airman Aropped another bomb, but the only re- sult was the digxing of a hole in an orchard. 8till another bomb was drop- ped into a chalk quarry. The German machine then started for the sea by way 6f Rea! from which direction is bhad appeared over Kent. Tt has not as yet been conclusively de- termined whether one or two German asroplanes took part in the rald in Kent o e e TR N WUOAR w0 e "0t NELSON LAID AWAY disinclined to credit reports um‘ Business is Practioally Suspended in Japan had established a naval base | at Turtle Bay, Lower OCalifornia, Kansas City During the Funeral Services. ! Upited States officlals today insti- STAR EMPLOYES PALLBEARERS tuted an investigation to learn ex-; ‘lcfl)' what use the belligerent war- | ships were making of Mexican terri- | torial waters. 1 ! Becretary Daniels telegraphed Rear KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 16.— ‘Flags were set at half-staff here to- day, schools and public libraries were closed and hundreds of business houses and factories suspended oper- | Admiral Howard of the Pacitio fleet ! the substance of the published stories ations during the hour of the funeral of William R. Nelson, editor of the |and asked him to ascertain whether | there was any foundation for them. Kansas City Star, whose death oc- curred Tuesday. | Secretary Bryan had received no in- sformation from the American consuls The servicés at the Nelson home were open to the public. Private | in Lower California to the effect that the aJapanese intend to establish a naval base there, but it is understood e will communicate the press re- | ports to them, with a request for any | facts that may bear on the subject, |ceremonies later were held at Mount | Washington cemetery. Vilia Ordevs Probe. Bishop Cameron Mant, . Eplacopat | Enrigue C. Llorente, Washington rapre- | bishop of Florida, and a Iifelong friend isentative of General Villa, telesraphed |of Mr. Nelson, arrived today to have |Estevan Cantu, military governor of |charge of the ceremonies. Pall bearers Lowes California, which is controlled by | were selected from among the employes {the Villa faction, to make an investign- |of the Star, various departments bsing | tlon of the uation. represented. There were. no. honorary Commander Nomura, naval attache of | pall bearers and simplicity marked all the Japanese embassy, called Informally | arrangements of the funeral. | Bryan and Daniels Seeking to Fin | Out if Japanese Have Estab- lished Naval Base in \ Turtle Bay. |IF S0, A PROTEST IN ORDER | Washington Agency of Northern | Chieftain Also Begins Investi- gation of Incident. {v. 5. oFFICI ! [ { Reoeption Held at Omaha Grain Ex- were under the ban of a lookout or- on Navy department offictals today and the .murder of Susie Coleman, aged.|. change, Convention Following and Banquet Concluding. FIVE HUNDRED IN ATTENDANCE Five hundred grain men concluded the first day's program of their two days’ session of the Western Grain Dealers association {n Omaha, with a banquet\at the Hotel Fontenelle dast night at 7i30e’clock. It re- quired almost the capacity of the big uet and ball room of the hotel the T B, s there was room for the cabaret artlsts %o slip about among the chairs and tables, and’ show off their several, varfous and divers stunts to the best advantage {n all parts of the room. Male and female cabaret talent Was employed, and some clever singing, dancing and chestnut-cracking was | dished np for the entertainment of the. visitors. }\moed, althovgh one formal speech was |scheduled. But the grain men had list- iened .to speches and shop-talks all day. They were ready for something lighter— {something to wash the mind clear of shop-business and leave it in & mood re- ceptive of the things to come at the business session this morning. Plokell Talks to Grain Men. The only formal speech of the even- ing was that of J. Ralph Pickell of Chi- cago, editor of Price Current Graun Re- porter. He chose for his subject, “Truth: A Tribute and Some Other Things." Then he soared into the subject and made it lively enough to satisfy even those who had come principally to enjoy the cabaret. An automobile trip starting at the Fon- tenelle jist after the close of the ‘after- noon eession, took the grain men all over the city. The Omaha grain men, besidos giving the vigitors a banquet, were anxious that they look over the city and get some fdea of its industries and its gemeral scope. They took them to the most in- teresting points in the city, where they saw parks, now just turning green, saw | Jarge substantial buildings in the busi- nees dlstrict being torn down, only to make room for skyscrapers: saw .other business blocks already in process of con- struction and got th: general idea of der by their former employers today. | assured them that there was no truth in Painters, lathers, plasterers and sheet | the reports that amy attempt was being Speech making was more or less ta- | metal workers found themselves in similar circumstances and enough al- lled trades were affected to bring the total of idle men beyond 76,000, The carpenters were on strike from 4:30 p. m. yesterday untll midnight. Then the lockout order went into effect and today men who wished to bolt the striko order and continue at work were told to carry thelr grievances to the union of- Al Hande Tadd Off- |« When work cesed on approximately 400 of the 40 untinighed structures ‘fn the city the cantractors laid off all hands éxoept a few n retanéd to clean up odd jobs. Wat, were employed ' to ikeep -close vigll over anfintshed bufld- Ings. This precaution was' deemed . par- tictilarly necessary because of the de- cislon of most of the employers to bring nop-utifon workmen ‘into Chicago fiom other cities. g o ' Contracting painters and decorators bave decided to substitute strangersifor 9,00 union brush wielders, who were locked out because 3,000 of their muntber struck in protest against the anti-stiike agreement which all members of the | Bufiding Construction Employers’ asso- clation wore pledged to exact from -mil buflding crafts. Violence Reported. Violence alreaay has been reported by men interested in the painting and deco- rating trade. A big automobile carrying men armed with brass kouckies and black jacks appeared on the north side, and several non-ynlon men were beaten, according to reports. Knights Templar Elect Officers and Conclude Goncla,ve The forty-third apnual conclave of the grand commandery, Knights Templar of Nebraska met in the Masonic Temple yesterday morning and concluded the business before adjournment, Will A, Needham presiding. Shortly after # o'clock members of Mount Calvary commandery, Omaba, in uniform, at the Hotel Fontenelle, met the delegates to the conclave and escorted them to the temple, where they immedi- ately went into session, lstening to re- prorts and disposing of matters left with made ta'establish a permanent naval base. Many olvic and commercial organiza- tions gathered to attend the services In membership bodles. Scores of former friends of Mr. Nelson were present from | He ts understood to have explained that the presenge of the Japanese warships was due_ entirely to the accident to the oruiser Asama, which ran aground there recently. 4 There was informal discussion of the Turtle Bay situation at today's cabinet Swiss Officer Says All Campaigns of eeting, but the gemers! tendenay waa to A s S | Allies Are Failures Cabinet officers are \ g | Amerioas wrecking v . Apet, oqmy Wil 1o vessel was fast in the mud almost to its m wave out the following: degks. ;-Vy 3 ‘who ‘have given at-. scouts report | l" on. to the subject say it would not be NM:G there: W ':::ma:.“ it the Asama Was Dever re- m‘- wlunmln Leve o o Attraet Wide Attention. ; from. A head- . The published reports, howéver, at-|qugrters describe the mr“::':; battle tracted wide atention among diplomats |y ¢ne Carpathian mountains as the mest and officials. The fact that Britieh col- | gigantio . in the' history of the world, T oTaicttie that (hare | SNy s Patticiodiing: EDY- buitle ps convin: 3 clfmax dayw . could be no foundation for the ides that o b ey AR any movement was afoot to establish a permanent base. pulsed with the most appalling losses. On some days as many as 600 trains were Should. it develop that the British and | ysed for wounded. The field . hospitals Jupendse vossels were actually using | are overcrowded with wounded and stok Mexican waters as a temporary base of | gnd thousands succumb without adequate supplies it is considersd possible that the | medical sttendance. attention of Mexican authorities may be | “A high Swise officer who has studied called to it by the Washington govern- (the situation, according to & Zurich news- ment and the matter also bo brought to | paper, characterizes as utter tailurss the the attention of Great Britain and {French and Russian offensives as well Japan, as the attempts to foroe the Dardanelles. Liberty Bell Will (i i Sy Be Taken to West Upon Special Train forces “clearly indicates thal the triple only question now remaining is when this truth will be realized. “Prof. Oskar Von Mueller, president of the soclety of German engineers, has | PHILADELPHIA, April 16.—Mayor m‘““"; oo “'h.' 'm""'m'mm.wu‘:::. - Blankemburg today signed the resolu- |, yitend the International Engincering tion passed by the oity councils yester- [oon 0 B e nclaco, since they day authorizing the taking of the Hberty | r S UCL S0 ot o erving the father- bell to the Panama-Pacific exposition. | jang The relic will not leave here until after PR I PULC A | SONR panied by« commities ot wwents-toue | BTyaD Notified that Londitions in Mexico City Very Serious councilmen and other citizens. WABHINGTON, April 16.—~Duval West, The old bell will be taken west on & speclal train. It will be placed on & flatear, so that the people enroute may have an unobstructive' view of It DENVER PAPER ENJOINS PAYMENT TO SPEAKER { 1 partment, today telegraphed Secretary Bryan that oconditions in Mexico Oity ' Armour entente has ldet the war and thet the | special representative of the State de- | Secrédtary White since the last conciave. | nmnvER, Aprll M.—Sult was filed in Omaha’'s present era of prosperity Cowglill Extends Welcome. Presient F. 8. Cowglill of the Omaha Gratn exchange opened the convention at the Hotel Fontenelle in the afturnoon ture at Omaia Yesterday.|with o brief address of welcome, dur- e ing which he remarked that as Omahs 'was & home market for the gain men, 8 |ne wanted them to feel thoroughly at while here. He emphasized the The Weather Bt e Gonnmi Sreraar: Vicinity \Partly cloudy; not much ehange in tem- Tempera: \ primary grain market in the United During the time whep the kpights were holding their session the wives of the visitors were the guests of the wives of the Omaha knights and were automobile ride about the city, returaing to the hotel just before the Junch hour. The following officers were elected and installed Grand - Generalissimo—Claude Watson, Nebraska. City. Grand_ Captain Geperal-Wyman 8. Clapp, Kearne ! y Grand Benior Warden—John 8. Harman Tecumsech, given an | | the district court here today by the | Denver Post, through F. G. Bonflls, leecretary of the Post Printing and Pub: i Mshing company, to enjoin the payment ot $,00 voted by the legislature at fts | recent sewson to Bpeaker P. B. Stewart ’fnr incidental expenses. States. | | Grand Junior Warden-Bdward 0. Jack- | on, Blair. were again becoming serfous, owing to | the lack of foodstuffs and the interrup- tion of communications. The department immediately notified Consul Billiman st Vera Cruz to vrge the Carranza authorities to co-operate n clearing the rallway to the Mexican capital for the shipment of supplies. ABOARD - UNITED STATES SHIP COLORADO OFF MAZATLAN, Mexico, April U-<(By Wireless to San Diego, Cal,, April 16)—The Cnrranse gunboat Geneval Guerrero, which fafled to salute the flag of Admiral Thomas B. Howard, commanding the Pacific fleet In accord- Near London Cause Little Damage this afterncon. The reports, however, Indicate the presence of a single ma- chine. The German machine, which was of the biplane typo, flow also over Sheerness. Thore the anti-airoraft gune fired on it and the machine was seen suddenly to winged and cheered wildly The aeroplane, however, recovared and Again ascended. Then it traveled at a high speed mcross the Isle of Sheppey at the :nouth of the Thames and escaped to the open océan. Apparently no bombs were dropped in Sheerness British asroptanes are sald to have | appeared over Sittingbourne, NELSON W. ALDRICH - DIES OF APOPLEXY | Former United Btates Semator Ex- pires at His Home After Illness of Few Hours. BURIAL WILL BE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK, April 16.—Nelson W. Aldrich, for thirty years United States senator from Rhode Island and republican leader whose name was stamped upon tariff and currency legisiation of his party, died of an apoplectic stroke at his home on Fitth avenue here today. He had been 111 of indigestion gince yesterday at‘ernoon, Until then he had been in excellent health. He was in his seventy-fourth year. Semator Al- drich will be burfed in Swan Point cemetery, Providence, R. L, Sunday afternoon. Dr. John 8. Thatoher, the family phy- siclan, had left Mr. Aldrich less than half an hour before he died. When Dr. Thatcher left the patient appeared to be recovering from the slight atteck of in- digestion. Ten minutes after the physi- clan left Mr, Aldrich suddenly became | unconscious and died within a few min- Utes, Members of his immediate family were Lurriedly summoned when he became un- conscious and were at the bedside when |be died. They included his wife ani Mru. |John D. Rockefeller, jr., his daughter, |and Winthrop Aldrich, his sop John D. Rockefeller, jr. was notified within » fow minutes after Mr. Aldrich died. yeatorday Mr. Aldrich bechme iil early afternoon. Dr. Thatcher but “eould not be Thi was to the home. Ha dingnosed sed Mr. Aldrich's illneas ir Says Unions Are Not Necessary For Wfim of Men CHICAGO, April 18~J. Ogflen Armour, Russian offensive was halted and re-|president of. Armour & Co,, testitying be-| sham, fore the United States commission on in. dustriel relations today expressed the opinton that industrial unrest in the United States is slowly decreasing. His cwn employes, he sald, were adequately protected through the privilege of ap- pealing to the respective form. The witness sald that he keeps in touch with employes in their homes through foremen and the company's weltare work- ers. Bmployes are privileged to appeal to the president of the company when they | think subordinate’ officlals deal unjustly {wm- them. “Do you belleve a proper standard of living can be maintained by a weekly wage of §13.50?" Mr. Armour was asked. “It Is a very broad and difficult ques- tion,” he replied. He denled that his company took ad- |vantage of an overgupply qof immigrant |labor to pay less than living wages. Mr. Armour sald that he did not be- 'Ih\'a that unions were necessary to the welfare of employes. ““The success of an employer depends on { best work of the employe the best wages the market affords must be paid.” Mr Armour sald he would not have organizers around the plant fof™ reasons both industrial and economie. “As s0on as & union has a littls power it commits excesses,” he sald. | Customs Men Watch | for Prize Fight Films NEW YORK, April 16.—Warned by H. C. Stuart, special deputy collector of cus- toms of this port, that word had been received of an attempt to bring into New York the Willard-Johnson fight fllme made at Havana, every examiner om- ployed by the port appralser was on the watoh for them today. A similar warning, it was reported, has been sent to the customs officlals of all Atlantic seaboard cities. dip. The spectators thought it had been gone in pursuit of the machine which the employe,” sald he, “and to get the | WITHIN THIRTY ' MILES OF LONDON | German Aeroplanes Make Daylight Flight Over Several Towns in Vicinity of the British Capital. | FRENCH AVIATORS ALSO BUSY {Paris War Office Says German Head- quarters Successfully Bom- barded from Sky. FIGHTING IN WESTERN ARENA I The Day's War N¢m| UNOFFICIAL REPORTS from Hun- wary deseribe a battle in the Car. pathian region as & result of » German attack on a Mussian poi- tion. The ceollision occurred in the seotion hetween the Stry and Ondava rivers, 4 the Germans are sald to beaten back. DISPATCH FROM the Itallan fron- tier says Italy new has 1,200,000 soldiers fully equipped under arms. The people and govern- ment #tfll hope, however, to aveld war. ANOTHER RAID by u German air ship—~the third in as many days—— was reported today from London. It is said that & German aeroplane dropped bombs in Kent at meen. Last night's Seppelin rald resulted in censiderable damage to prop- erty, although, so far as is known, no lives were loat. ! RUSSIANS HAVE taken up the at- tack alomng the Warsnw front after the long winter lull, Sochacsew, about from the Polish capital. vieinity of Ossowets, t made their pearance over Herna Bay, to the of Canterbury and wbout fifty miles from London. Within & few | they were reported over closer to thirty miles . ) 4 fi-cuhl.ndwry‘od; afterward they appeared over Favor- nz more than thirty miles away, dropping bombs on each town. | This was the third German aerint England within the last thirty-six hours. The two previous attseks were made at night by Zeppelin' air- ships. This raid was carried out by aeroplanes. ' . French Aviators Also Busy. bardment from the sky of the German headquarters in retaliation for Zeppelin Lult on Naney, . ¥ et | A German wireless credits to a wwr the statement that French have dropped bombs on several Ger- man ‘towns unprot by anti-aircratt | guns. . | London no longer considers ftselt im- . (mune from air ralders of the Zeppelin (type. Tt is realized also that even aero- planes could bombard the city, Zeppelina on their recent night rads have traveled further from their Cuxhaven base than the distance from Cuxhaven to London, and aeroplanes thirty miles from the capital and choosing their own course, have brought a mew conception of the effective range of this type of machine. 1 ( l lu ! i : Ideal Want Ad Weather Like any other salesmen, Bee Want Ads are influenced by the weather, especially cer- le powers for harm of Zeppelins, the attack ‘on the eadtetn counties of Gontinued on Page Five, Column Three) Defending Nebraska's recently eracted | ot public warehouse law, while expounding what such laws ought to be, when passcd |by & stete legisiature, Attorney Edward {P. Smith of Omaha, told the grain men | that although cept deposits of money without giving u e bond direct to the depositor, no grain or Sonm B M 3lcevator man should be sllowed to acospt Precipitation C % & .3 b erain for storage without glving a bond “"':: and precipitation depar- (1o protect the farmer. He asserted that R s U Borwa / there are now six bankruptoy cases in S 15 | Nebraska courts, as the wesult of srein since Toal d 57 | men selling stored grain on a rising mar- oy J0%nch ket and then being unsbie to deliver to Total rainfall since March 1....%12inches [the farmer on demand. Continuing said Deflciency since March 1........ #8inch |Mr. Smith: ?"“;{,"’J,,""‘;,‘.Tfif:,"";,'" 11 inches | " pypiio warhouse laws, to e satis- Bonerts from Statione &t . ltactory and workable, sbould be o Statioh and State Tomp. High- Rain. |tional (0 the elevator wen, as ‘n N of Weather. Tp.m. est fall. |brosks, rather than corapulsory; etorage (;:.v’;:::,; Ly -8 ] 00 |charges shoula be fixed, rather than | Denver, cloudy............. @ o |sliding, fn order to be fair to all; and e Pygeen, pare coudy.. B | 0 | guch laws should watisgy the farmer, the | Detsiele, fosdy.. - B ® | country elevator man, the terminal mar- ity, cloudy......... % 10 |ket man and the banks. Public ware- TN 0 [nouse certificates ousht to be as good | Wu‘y % | ‘o] collateral as government bonds’' Mr. 7 trace precipitation. . | [Continved on Tia G vy banks are allowed to ac- | | Grand Prelate—Wesley W. Barnes, Ne- | braska City ! “Grand Treasurer—George H. Thummel Omaha | @Grand Recorder—Franchs White, Omaha | Grand Standard Bearer—Charles L. Shook, Omaha. Grand Sword Bearer—John W. Mitchell, Superior. Grand Warder—Jesse a Tsland Grand Captain of the Guard—Arthur C. Stem, Chadron Movies Used to D. Teach Foot Ball| BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 16.—Mo- tlon pictures of foot bsll games played Jlast season wes the first course pre-| ‘lfl'lbd’ for candidates for the WI5 foot ball eleven at Indiana uvalversity when | Coaoh C. C. Childs begen his spring train- ing searon here yestorday. The the use of a local metion pisture theater and Couch Childs discussed the different methods of attack snd defense as they were thrown upon the screen. He said be would certinue this form of instrue- tion for ten days before taking the men out ou the Ueld, Whitmore, | men had | ance with naval custom when the Gen- eral Guerrero arrived yesterday, fired the delayed salute of seventeen guus to- day. The Colorado, Admiral Howard's | flagship, returned the salute, gun by sun. A French mining company operating at Santa Rosalla, ninety miles southeast of Chihuahua, is reported to be without sup- plies because of the confiscation of its steamers by Carransa forces. SIMPSON ORATOR WINS PROHIBITION PPRIZE AMES, In. April 15.—~(Special)}~The | “aryest” oratorical contest held In lowa o Sot i v Py ® || during the year was the colleglate debate ST Took over my et It tosna’us |lof the Towa Intercollegiate Probibition it *Jou ‘Could not Teave my office | |association held at Simpson college, In- without finding Just what you wan 1 can sult the man or woman with a few hundred dollars or have & bus. || ineaw for the ‘man who ean spend $1601000 and secute cntrol of « bua- negs worth double that amount. rite Or mee me at once. A ? Omaha is entertaining the Western Grain Dealears’ association. Next week we will be host to the Macca- bees and the Nebraska edi- tors. Something interesting and worth while to drop in on here all the time. Never in the history of merchandis- ing has there -been such a favorable tion. Medale were awarded by the Simp- son College Prohibition asociation. Bight Towa colleges and universities took Martin of Stmpson. Becond prize went to R, L. Mitchell of Morningside college, J. L. Spargo of Central Holiness unfver- sity receiving the third eward danola The debate was on prohibi: The first cash prize, §16, was given C, J. | Di68s received a sentence of two years tain classifications. Take for example, the Houses and Cottages For Rent, Furnished Rooms, Real Estate and other classifications that require outside investigation. It is an easy matter to coax people out when the weather is balmy and spring-like. Your want ad placed in Commenting on this action, Jess Wil lard sald. “I guess that means we can't afford to take any chances of losing the films just | at present. You can say for me that we | dla not expect to bring the filme in at | this time and that we have made no ef- | fort to break past the customs house with them and don’t intend to make any such effort’ Diggs and Caminetti Ask for New Trial SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.-—-Counsel for Maury I. Diggs and F. Drew Camin- ettl, convicted under the Mann act, peth- tioned the United States ciroutt court of | NeXt Sunday’s Bee will | appeals for & rehearing of the case. ring you Diggs and Caminetti were found gullty b m‘nm“ “ Te- in 1913 of transporting Lola Norris and| Sults. Marsha Warrington from Sacramento, Cal., to Reno, Nev., for immoral purposes. Telephone Tyler 1000. and a fine of $2,000 and Caminett! elght- een months and 31600, Camipett! 1s the son of Anthony Caminetti, United States comumlasioner of LRIIGTAYOL ~ | Everybody Reads Bee Want and then over Sittingbourne, Aerial onslaughts, however. have not been limited to the Germens. French of- . wr PN Novertheless the public is skeptical of - THE OMAHA BEE