Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1915, Page 1

) Fullest and timeliest sport news and gossip in The Bee day by day. Special Sport Section every Sunday. VOL. XLIV--NO. IE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ "= | OMAHA, 'l‘Hl‘R.\'I!.\\‘ MORN l\(._ .\l‘I\‘IlA 22, 1916 'l‘\\El‘\ E PAGES, On Traine and at Motel News Stands, So SINGLE COPY T\\O CENTS. T. R, TELLS OF BARNES' PACT WiTH MURPHY Colonel Testifies Loeb Asserted Albany Boss Said He Had Iron. clad Agreement with Tlmmuly Chief. TWO * MACHINES" CO- OPERATED Ronevelt Aromel Llnghter in De- scribing How Wigwam Helped Eleot G. 0. P. Leader. DENIES ANY FEELING OF MALICE ! SYRACUSE, N. \' April Colonel Roosevelt concluded his di- rect testimony late today, after stat- ing that the sole purpose of his at- | tack on Mr. Barnes and Mr. Murphy | was to try to correct abuses in the state government. He swore that he did not mean to make any charge of corruptien against the plaintiff, When the afternoon session opened Mr. Bowers began asking the witness to continue his testimony about Allds, “‘Senator Newcomb told we,” Colonel Roosevelt, “that nation between the machine dem- ocrats and Barnes republicans, which resulted in Allds’ nomination, was held during the early stages of the| impeachment proceedings the combi- | rise to his great responsibility by setting Frag | | “It is the universal opinion that {Leo M. Frank is innocent,” says | Rabbi Cohu. “Those who have care- fully, impartially investigated {the matter are unanimous that l-\—lnk was the victim of 2 most un- fortunate set of circumstances. The ‘pnbhc clamored for a victim and the police pounced upon Frank. His trial was a farce. Judge, jury, counsel and witifesses were intim- idated, their lives openly threat- ened. Race and religious prejudice entered in. All that the lovers of fair play throughout the country, all that Frank himself asked, was a fair trial. This, on technical | justice. “The whole country looks to| the Governor of Georgia to Rabbi Cohn | grounds has been denied. and we said 8re on the eve of a judicial murder, “It seems a terrible thing that when the whole country is practically convinced of Frank’s innocence legal technicalities should stand in the way, and, like an iron wall, render impossible the road to right and America is being rushed into a great crime. It will be a stain against on our country, the home of freedom, justice and humanity, as well ! Senator Allds, which resulted in b8 gg on the state of Georgin. Let us be warned that terrible mistakes {have been made by passion-blinded peoples in the past and save our- !selves by some means from the shame and remorse of such a tragic | _being thrown out of the senate. Gendy Makes Speech. “I was told that after all the other organization men had abandoned all dis- cussfon, Senator Grady made a speech in his behalf. “Senator Newcomb informed me later | that the combination between the ma- chine democrats und republicans contin- ued, and that what the democrats had done was reciprocated by the machine republicans at the time of the Stiliwell | gervice to the cause of justice, as well as saving the life of an innocent’ The eyes of the world are upon him, as well as their prayers Stillwell was retained in the scn- the machine men, but he was affair. ate by blunder. lof committing judicial murder. “The whole country looks to the governor of Georgia to save his |state, as well as the fair renown of America, from the pffrnal infamy Governor Slaton hay the unparal. leled, may one say, the providential opportunity of rendering a great man. convicted in the courts and sent to the that God may grant him wisdom, strength and courage to rise to his peuitentiary.’ “Do you remember having seen a re- port of the Bane committee?’ ers asked. “I saw that,” the witness replied. Xnow some of the members of that com- mittee. I knew Senators Bane and Burd as anti-machine democrate.” The Bane Report. The Bane committee Investigated al- fairs in the city and of . Albany and submitted a de report uf so- called evils they said they had unearthed. 7The report was filefl &8 a part of Colonel Roosevelt's answer to Mr. Barned' com- plaint: Mr. Howers offered the Bane commit- tee’'s report in evidence. The report cons tains under subheads: '“The Case of Wil- lum Barnes' “Failure to Sujrress Crime,” “Gambling,” “Printing," “Fit- | teen Per Cent Paid the Journal Company h, Argus Company to Get City Printing, “Graft and’ Bxtravaganee,” ‘“Padding of the Public Printing for the Benefit of the Journal Company,” ‘‘Duplicate Pa:ments | for Publlv Printing Made to Journal Com-; pany,” “Selectial Trial Jurors” and "The Albany Lircoln League.” Justice Andrews ruled he would re- celve, but not at this time, that part ot! he report which relates to printing. Talked to Loeb About It. Colonel Roosevelt then went on: “After 1 had seen the Bane report, T )iad -gonversations with a person in Al- | bany about: it. ‘T talked to William Loeb about it “Mr. Loeb informed me that the com- Lination of crooked business and crooked bosses extended mnot only to businesses like llrimlnl but to businesses of the worsl tvpe.” “Mr. Loeb told me that at one time he went to Mr. Barnes to ask if the repub- Jicans in the legislature would support an anti-machine democratic candidate. Mr. Barnes told Mr. Loeb it was impos- sible, as he had an ironclad arrange- ment with Mr, Murphy and that Mr. Murphy to have a free hand to do (Continucd on Page Five, Column One.) The Weather p. m. n. Thursda “ouncil Bluffs ai ha Vietnity | not much change in tem- | Ferecast til 7 For Omaha Partly cloudy; Hou hu Ta m 6 Sa. m 9 9a. m 64 08 m §1 la m 70 2m 2 1p.m 3 2p.m ip. m 4p. m. 5 p. m... 6p.m Tp.m $p. m. Comparative Local Record. 191 Highest Lowest ¥ Mean. temperature Precipitation Temperatures and precipitation depar- tures from the normal: Normal temperature Excess for the day i T« al deficlency sin sapszasiss M Normal precipitation .10 inch Deficiency for the day...... 10 inch Total rainfall since Marc h 1 Zikln:hel Deficiency since March 1. 1.00 hoe Deficlency for cor. period. i514. s ...n.u Excess for cor. period, 1913.......156 inches Reports from Stativns at 7 P. M. Stativn and State Temp. Higb- Rain- of Weather. Tp. m. est. fall Cheyenne, cloudy... 62 o n Davenport, partly Denver, iy cloudy. m k' Dea Mainas, cloudy. 2 © Lander, cloudy . [ 0 North Platte, pt. cloudy [ ® Omabs, clear...... 3 @ Pueble, il % © Itapid l"l)‘. \lnuly “w e 0 Salt Lake City, cloudy.... 64 ® Suuta Fe, cloudy.... R ] ~herid: " 6 [ Sioux Cf 1 7 o Valentine, ;-rlly cloudy.. ™ 00 L. A WELSH, Tocad Forecater. 1!ting Frank free.” :grnt responsibility in this hour and give expression to what is in the ' Mr- Bow- [hearts of millions, absolutely unprejudiced lovers of the right, by set- 'ALIES LANDING TROOPS TN TURKEY Twenty Thousand Soldiers Will As- sist Warships in Attack on | Forts of Dardanelles, | fnous TRY TO RUN STRAITS | BERLIN, April 21.—AVia Wire- less to Sayville, N. Y.)—The Tages Zeitung today publishes a special dispatch, the original of which, how- jever, is not given, saying that 20,- ,000 British and French troops have been landed near Enos, in European J‘urkey, on the north side of the gulf iof Saros. A heavy cannonading took place between the Turkish batteries !uound Enos and the warships of the | allies. A dispatch received in Berlin from { Athens s great activity has been noted among the British forces on the island of Lemnos, which lies to the west | of the entrance Dardanelles. Troop |transports are arriving dally at Laemnos | {from Alexandria, Egypt: the censorship is more rigid and all 'ndications point to |strong action against the Dardanelles at an early date. A dispatch received in London yester- |day from Dedegatch, Bulgaria, a short distance to the west of Enos, sald a vio- lent cannonading occurred in the gulf of !Saros Sunday evening. The firing was |80 heavy that buildings at Dedegatch were shaken. | Atteptm to Run Stra: { CONSTANTINOPLD, April 20.—Vip Wireless to Berlin and London, April 21.) |—An official statement issued today by !nm War office says: “It 18 now definitely known that six torpedo boats ‘ttempted to penetrate the Dardanelles Monday night.” There has been no previous announce- ment of a concentrated effort Monday night by vessels of the allled fleet to run the straits and the above dispatch falls to disclose what was the result of the operation. GENUINE CORREGGIO BOUGHT FOR SMALL SUM CHICAGO, April 2L.—A chased for a nominal sum in Ttaly forty |years ago by Theodore Schmeider and presented at that time to his friend, Dr | Florenz Zeigfeld, president of the Chicago Music college, was pronounced a genuine Correggio today. Dr. Ziegfeld noticed a similarity of ! coloring in his picture and some of Cor- reggio’s work which he saw in Italy. He | procured the service of A. De Severinus. an art expert. De Severinus examined the painting and announced today. The title of the picture is Genfus of Music. ““The {TWO HOTELS IN DECATUR. ILL DESTROYED BY FIRE DECATUR, lll, Apnl 21.—~Fire which | | for a time threatened the entire business | section early today destroyed the Decatur | and Arcade hotels. The loss is estimated {at $225000. Members of the Decatur | Three 1 base bell team were in the! | Decatur hotel and had s narrow escape. Manager Elmer Duggan and nine players { escaped in their trousers anJd night) | skirts painting pur- | " |today, and by mutual arrangement with | its authorship | WILSON REBUKES KAISER'S ENYOY President in Reply to Von Bern- storff, Says Note Could Be Taken to Impugn U. 8. Good Faith. ASSUMES IT NOT S0 INTENDED WASHINGTON, April 21.—The United States government replied to- day to the recent memorandum, in which Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, declared that | observe true neutrality, they will| ! find means to stop the exclusive im- | portation of arms to one side, or at with Germany, and especially the “if the American people desire to| THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND WILLIAM BARNES, principal figures in libel suit now being tried at Syracuse, N. Y., as they apppepared on their arrival there. FOUR CHAPTERS IN Letter Carriers' MBINY PUITS “FAT i, B ties Bétween Chairman Barnes | tional president of the National ,uneu- and Governor Hughes. tion of Letter Cafriers, is the guests of the officers and members of Branch No. 5, Natlonal Association of Letter Carrle MURPHY AND BARNES D of this city. Mr. Galner arrived in Omaba ye t-mlr SYRACUSE, N, Y, April 21. — | trom Chicago, where Jie reports the mam- | bers very enthuslastic over the comink Four chapters of Albany politics| Co o "o .\ ntion, to be held here next were related by Theodore Roosevelt | g..iamber. Chicago will send 130 or on the witness stand today. The | more, Including its famous letter carriers' former president gave what he|band which is acknowledged to'be one of claimed to be details of the election | the finest bands in Chicago and the mid- w b | die west. by “Barnes republicans,” assisted bY | "0 cites are planning to come to “Murphy democrats,” of an, officlal | omgha on special trains, and Mr. Gainor leader of the republican’ party in New | says “Omaha will undoubtedly have the York: the cause of the hostilities be- | largest convention in point of attendance tween William Barnes and Goverior | ! the history of the organization.” Branch No. § of this city celebrated Jast Hughes; the defeat of the Hart-Ag-| svening the twenty-fifth anniversary of |least to use this export trade as a | new racing bill by the republican or-|the organization, with their national means to uphold the legitimate trade | ganization and the fight he sald the | president their honored guest. combined democratic and: republican | Today the Omaha contingent will: at- tend the state’convention at Fremont, go- trade in loodstuffs.” !m.eh(n-, the: latter led by Mr. !mu on & apecis) train from’ OMmabe,’aos | The American note, which is|Barnes, made against direct pri-| companied by their band of forty-five signed by Secretary Bryan, was|maries legislation, | pleces, the Ladies' auxiliary, and also |drafted at the State department, but was finally penned by President Wil- son himself, Language of Envoy. | After pointing qut that the language | used by Count von Bernstorff is ‘‘sus- ceptible of being construed as impugning | ! the good faita of the United States in the performance of its duties as a neutral,” the note “takes it for granted that no sueh implicaticn wes intended,” and sug- geats that cvidently the German amb: |sador “is laboring under certain false impressions." It 18 then declared that while the rela- tions of the United States wifh any one of the belligerents “can not wisely he made a subject of discussion with a third | Rovernment,” such correspondence be- tween the United States and the allies as | has been published shows “the steadfast refusal' of the government “to ac-| knowledge the right of any belligerent to alter the accepted rules of wur at sea | insofar as they affect the righte and in- | terests of neutrals.” Attitude Restated. The attitude of the United States on the question of the exportation of arms is restated, namely, that to place eny em- | bargo on arms during the progwess of a war would be “o direct violation of the neutrality of the United States.” The! |note refers to the spirit of fricndship | | which the people of the United States de- | {sires always to manifest toward Germany | {and Its people, and concludes with the | |declaration that the neutrality of tha| United States “is founded upon the firra | | basis of cousclence and good will."" | The communication was delivered by | messenger to Count von Bernstorff late | the German embassy, the State depart-| | ment dade it public tonight | | Woman is Charged With Buying Votes, | PARIS, DL, prominent | Miss Fattie April 1—H. Clay lou‘; democratic politictan, and O'Nell were arrested here | last night on the charge of buying votes during vesterday's city election on the commission form of government. War- rante for other prominent citizens, among them several women, have been issued, It is estimaied that 90 votes were bought for from §5 to $12 cach. He also identificd a letter written by | Postmaster John C. Wharton and Assist- Mr. Barnes in which the latter told him | ant Postmaster J. I. Woodard. “the idea of getting rid of bosses is | - Congressman Lobeck, Senator Hitch- absurd so long as you have party gov- |cock and Assistant Superintendent of ernment.” { Malls George Klettner of Omaha will Colonel Roosevelt was to continue this | 50D off at Lincoln to attend the clerks' afternoon the story by which he hopes to State convention, continuing to Fremont prove that he was justified in causing | Ib the afternoon to be present at the let- the publication of the statement upon .ter carriers’ state convention, returning which Mr, Barnes i suing him for libel. | With the special train in the evening. | The Ladle auxiliary and members of . Branch No. 6, Nationul Assoclation of Aviators Fall Into g e am. f Frainent o F B ]mlod to demonstrate the cordial Invita- San ranclsco ay! ! earriers’ ' convention that will be held SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 2.—A | commencing Labor day, September 6 to hydro-aeroplane in which Charles Strauss | 11, 1915, Postmaster John C. Wharton tion that Omaha extends to the slster \ cities to be present at the national letter of Dallas, Tex., was riding as a pas-! will make the welcome address at Kre- senger, fell meventy-five feet into the'mont today. bay nere yesterday. Strauss and Robert | After the state convention President Fowler, the aviator, were rescued by & Gamor will return home via Sloux City launch. Nelther were injured and Des Mc IQutlaws Killed in Gun Fight With Officers in Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., April 21 outlaws, the Leon brothers, |and killed in a mountain guich Monday Two Mexican Omaha's Commercial Club maintains a special bureau night when confederates tried to rescue to look after the comfort | them from the hands of Pina county 3 deputies, who are attempting to .fld welffl.rl Of conventions Greater Ville, a border community, of of the different state and |/vad men. according to a report recelved national associations and | here. Jose Maria, one of the attacking | party, was wounded and captured. When the deputies went to Greater Ville to sorve a warrant on Antonio Encinas, charged with the abduction of Mrs, Loretta Vanez, | his revolvers snd escaped. Then the Leon brothers, armed, woke the deputies dur- | ing’ the night and ordered them to lea % the settlement. The officers ostensibly |started for Tucson, but instead doubled |back and arrested the Leon brothers and T young man with $1,000 to | [then took them to a mountain gulch. t, can secure responsible and || Fearing attack they set a watch. The societies that meet here from time to time. Omaha's convention hospitality in- cludes all who attend, these gatherings whether del- egates or not. rative position with estab- y 4 s AT eaian $180 er rescue outlaw party was taken by wsur mo. salary and share of profits: in prise and the shooting followed. yestment fully secured. 'All veplies | 'snerttr " Foroes telegraphed trom he! con lential (live age, past ex e lonce Tolerioon B { Greater Vilie last night that Enciuas and his band had been located and sur- For further ldon:::lo; lh‘n: lrounde(l in the hills, A posse was sent P e Sy { from here in automobiles to aid in round- |ing up the outlaws. were shot | Encines opened fire with | BIG GUN DUELS FEATURE WAR IN WESTERN ARENA Small Advantage Seems to Rest with Germans in Region Be- tween Meuse River and Lorraine. FRENCH ADVANCE AT FLIERY Official Report Indicates Gains Are Not in Proportion to the Ef- fort Expended, HEAVY FIRING IN DARDANELLES l The Day’s War Ncwp‘ LAND AND SEA attack on the Dardanellies on a larger at any time sinee the allles hegan v effort to win Constantinople says that six torpedo hosts attempted to penetrate the stralts ve attacks of the Amnstrian Tarnow fifteen miles weat of Lembers. OFFICIAL INFORMATION was re- celved in Be pre- viems reports of a German victory over a British force in German East Afrien. The British ere given at about 700 and those of the Germ: as fifty-six. LONDON, April 21,-—Dispatches reaching London from the Frenth front show considerable military tivity, with the artillery taking a prominent part in the attacks made by one side or the other. There is little evidence, however, that either side has galned, but whatever small advantage has been reaped seems to D1 oS rest with the Germans between the Meuse and the Lorraine fromtier. The French have made a slight ad. | vance at Fliery, but their report CRISIS IS NBAR IN 52525 B 2 . ”Rslm onate to the effort put-forth. Berlin claims_several ome be- 8aid to Be 10g the recapture of a small village in Loraine, the loss of which had not been o»-uuug Ultimatum to Be ) lm to China. TEXT OF nnum AOWIAT‘ April !1 ~~The orm- come in the negotiations with China to the acceptance ot the demands of the Tokio govern- ment has been followed by a pro- tracted conference of the cabinet. The members of the “‘genero,” or the elder statesmen of Japan, have been communicated with on the sub- ject. < 'The semi-official press ex- presses - the belief that Japan has brought the unsettled clauses of its demands down to the irreducible minimum and that in the event of further . procFastifigtion “on, the. par\ of China it probably will press for a veply within & given period of time | The members of the cabinet this after- noon conferred with the elder statesmen concerning’ the Chigese negotiations. In- terest' in the situation in Peking is in- Another attack In the . district appears to lave made an advance, ‘The English newspapers today are de- voting columns to commeént on the op- timistic speech delivered at Newcastle fast night by 'Premier Asquith. The ut- térances of the prime minister are in substance the putting Into effect of a sort of industrial comsviipilon by which employers shall foregoo some of their profits, the trade unions agree to sus- pend some of their rules necessary in time of peace and the taxpayer shall con- tribute an indemnity to factories in cases where the loss and injury has been caused by commandeering for the government, Sofla is responsible for a report. that bombardment violent enough to whake Luilldings at Dedeagatch has been going on in the Dardanelles and on the Gulf of Saros. REPORT OF GERMAN VICTORY IN AFRICA IS CONFIRMED BBERLIN, April 21.—(Via Londen, 12:15 ». m.)—Official news from German Bast Africa of the defeat of the British forces on January 18 and 19 in a two days' bat- tle at a point’ near Jassini, has just reached Berlin. The British forces lost . ng some 200 men killed. Their total casual- Translation s Acrurate. !ties amounted to about 700. These include PEKING, April 1o.~Official announce- the capture of four companies of men, menf was made today by the Chinese )i rifies, one machine gun and 60,000 sovernment that the translation of the pounds of ammunition fell into the hands full text of the demands made by Japan|of the Germans. The loss (o the Ger- Gpon;China, as slready published in the imans was seven officers and eleven men United States, was the officlal transla-|killed and thirty-elght men wounded. tion of the Chinese text ak the Japanese Mafia is land, off the coast of German themselves presented it to the Forelgn ! Bast Africa, was occupied by the British office here on January ‘15, in both the!January 10. Japanese and Chinese languages. This_announcement was made by reason of the fact that the Japanese nvernmont has. repeatedly protested because the Chi- nese government was informing r-rllln‘ Farm |.,rl-h(n legations as to the progress of | Management The Chinese government's Irlnllfl“‘ifl“ has been carefully chocked by a legation | 4} t of t tcul ! : awe > agricul- Which possessed a copy of Japan's Chi| 18 the newest of e agrion [neme foxt, and it is stated at the legation | tural sciences. It’s develop- |that only the verblage differs. The lega-! ment has been brought about tion's version is In somewhat h.rllnrl Inbguage than that of the Chinese gov-| DY the changes in farm capital, ernment_translation. { The pioneer days required only. | For example, the article which In the| . o . {government text is translated to provide| & f€W hundred dollars. Now: that China shall agree to the propaga-|the average Nebraska farmer tion of “Buddhism’ by Japanese suojects| . i 41 sapi lin China s translated by the legation to FCAMITCS $16,000 capital. |read “shall have the right to propagate | religious doctrines.’ UNSUCCESSFUL PURSUIT | OF WOMAN'S ASSAILANT | BIOUX FALLS, 8. D., April 2 - (Special | Telegram.)-Bome members of the sher- | iff's posse have returned here from an | unsuccessful pursiit of a stranger who ! today criminally assaulted Mrs. Hanson, | wife of a farmer living about four miles | west of Sloux Falls The stranger came from the north and entered the Hanson home while the hus- band of the woman was at work in a dis- tant field and her children were at school Tho bandit knocked the woman down with a gun and then tied her hands. The only fnformation Mrs Hanson cun give is that her ussailant was shabbily dresed and drove a single bay horse to a light buggy. The man drove southward after The successful farmer of today is a business man, employing not only more capital than the average village merchant, but con- ducting a greater variety of enterprises. Farm values in the Middle West are rising, but a glance through the want ad section of today’s Bee will show you wany productive farms reason- ably priced. Telephone Tyler 1000 THE OMAHA BEE ‘‘Everybody Reeds Bee Want Ads* f I committing the crime. and there ig a pos- sibility that he swung around and came to Sloux Falls and went luto hiding here. Ereviously admitted by the Pmul starf,