Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1915, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO FOURTEEN THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE VOL. XLIV-—NO. OMA HA, SUNDAY MORNING, 1915 FIVE K] SCTIONS - FORTY-FOUR PAGES., THE WEATHER Cloudy SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. CHINESE KILLING SELYES 10 ESCAPE > PANGS OF HUNGER Many Are Starving and Thousands Are on Verge of Famine in Province of 8zuan as Drouth Result. CLAY ONLY FOOD OF NUMBERS Wretches Eat Roots and Barks, and | Even 80il, to Assuage Their Sufferings. MAIL REPORT T0 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 24.—Many are starving, others are committing suicide to escape the terrors of hun- ger and thousands are on the verge scribe his antograph on one half of Leo M. Frank. | MAYOR DAHLMAN stops in front of the City Hall to in- of The Bee's petitions in be- FOUR MORE SHIPS WITH TORPEDOES :dl Two Norwegian Vessels Destroy by Submarines of Germans After Crews Given Ten Minutes to Get Off. CAPRIVI ONE OF THE VICTIMS® Steamship Ruth with Cargo of Coal for Gothenburg, Sweden, is Sunk in North Sea. FINNISH ORE SHIP ALSO SUNK RULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 24.-—The German embassy announced today it |had information “from a reliable source” that a British battleship was PARIR forelgn April 24 —Christakis Zographos minister of Greece, is the quoted today Information as declaring that Greece was ready to unite with the alllea in the operations at the Dardanelles It invited to do Information M. Zographos this pent to Hubert Jacques, serespondent of thi wspaper. Up to the present time, he said, Greece had not been asked to co-operate with the says that END OF THAW CASE STILL FAR AWAY Attorney Gemeral Will Ask Appel- late Court for Writ Against Jury Trial. of starvation in the province of Sze- | chuan, China, because of famine, ac- | cording to mail advices to the State | department received today from F. Carleton Baker, American consul at | Chung King. | Due to Drouth. The famine is due to a protracted | drouth, particularly in the region of Fuchow and Chung Chow. ‘““Many of the poorer people are al- | ready dying and others are on the verge of starvation,” says the memo- randum to the State department. “The price of rice has more than| doubled. Are Eating Clay. COURT EXCEEDED ITS POWER NEW YORK, April 24, Harry K Thaw, who went to sleep in the Tombs prison last night elated by his belief that he had won his long fight for a jury trial to test his sanity, severely damaged in the last Zeppe- lin attack over the Tyne LONDON, April 24 The freigh Ruth wae sunk by a German subma rine on Wednesday when about 100 miles east of May island, in the North | 868, - The CreW Was rescusd And was | SYOke today:to learn that be must I:(.ivd t Leth, Scotland | await a decision of ' (he appellate al a v ! divi b The Ruth left Leith with & cargo vision of the gupreme court before " |such a hearing would be granted. of coal for Gothenburg. Captain| ™y, " (L 0hock in his attempt to ob- Andersen, its skipper, who I8 &|¢ain hia freedom from the Matteawan Swede, reports that the first torpedo jasylum. to which Justice Page had or- discharged by the submarine missed |dered him returned, was due to the an- {ts mark. The second torpedo struck | POUncement of Attorney General Wood- s {bury that the state would make applica- the Ruth amidships, wrecking the |5, (o the nppellate divieion for a writ vessel, ter “Some of the people are so desperate | that they are eating roots and barks | from the trees and even clay, and others | are committing sulcide terrors of starvation.” It is believed conditions will not im- prove until the next harvest in the late summer, Conswl Baker's message stated. Presjdent Yuan Shi Kal is said to have authorized an expenaiture of $100,000 for relief of the sufferers. The letter to the department was dated March 10 last. Breitung Says He Gave His Son-in-Law Chance to Make Good NEW YORK, April 24—BEdward N. Breitung, capitalist, was called to the stand when the suit for $350,000 brought sgainst him and his wife by Frederick Kleist, a coachman, for alineation of their daughter's affections, which was resumed In the United States district court today. Mr, Breitung’'s testimony, a resume of that given at the first hearing of the to escape the t which ended in a mistrial, was tbat | e ‘was-dispesed interest from the start _was willing to heip him. On MW how- ever, Mr. Breitung. adm ocoasion he was going to strike and kick Kilefst, but Juliet fritervened. This was when Kleist called on his parents-in- law here. Mr, Breitung sald Kieist was wearing “my socks, cravat and scarfpin.’ “Why were vou going to strike him?" the withess was asked. “Because he made a slighting remark about my daughter.” Klelst protested, the witness sald, that the socks, cravat and scarfpin were glven to him by Jullet. After Mr. Breit- | ung's anger had cooled, he sald, he asked ! Klelst to go to New Mexico. The witness | sald he did so to give him a chance to make good. My, Breitung said his daughter had asked him to have the marriage an- nulled. He told her, without giving any reason, that it could not be done, he said. “She sald she wanted to get an annul- ment and get married again,’ Mr. Breit- ong testitied. “She said she was somewhat nshamed.” Frederick Pleads Guilty to Forgery in First Degree #T. LOUIS, April % —August H. Fred- erick, who recently rosigned from the presidency of the board of aldermen, to which he was elected this spring by a 22,000 plurality, today pleaded gullty to forgery in the first degree. He was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary. It wes announced he would be taken to prison today. The charge on which he pleaded guilty was the forging of the name of Mrs. Bsther BEllls of Winchester, I, to a §2,100 deed of trust. Frederick was taken to the penitentiary at Jefferson City on a fast train this afternoon. To avold the crowd, he boarded the train at Tower Grove sta- tion, insteady of Union station. Nene of bis family were present to see him off. The Weather m. Sunday: | Bluffs and Vieinity change in Forecast till 7 p. ¥or Omaha, Council —Partly eloudy; not much temperature. Tempernture at Yesterday. Omaha Hours, . m.. aensne~iEESenaas gres PPPTPYY Comparative [y i Record. W14 1913 » b8 - T 25 sagppee: pIzaEs Highest yesterday lowest yesterda, Mean temperature. Precipitation Temperatures and p tures from the normal Normal temperature Fxcess for the day.. ... Total excdess since March 1 Normal precipitation Deficiency for the day ... ... Total rainfall since March 1 Deficlency since March 1 Deficiency for cor. period, 19i4 inch Excess for cor. period, '1813.. 2.3 inches T indicates trace of precipitation 1. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster, - 82 recipitation depar 13 inch 12 fnch 2.34 inches inches only to act in Kleist's | o | 'VERDICT $1,000 IN EDITH HICKS' CASE Clark , Mast ‘Pay for Foreible Kiss Taken from. Pretty Plaintift; Bays Jury. FIFTEEN HOURS' DELIBERATION Atbert A, Olark, Councll Bluffs capitalist, must pay $1,000 to pretty Edith Hicks, 21 years old, for a for- cible kiss taken in the sleeping porch of his home April 21, 1618, a jury in Judge Leslle’s district court decided yesterday. The verdict was returned at 5:456 o'clock yesterday after fif- teen hours ’deliberation. The jury took the case at 4:15 o'clock Friday afterndon. At 10 o'clock that evening the members went to their homes, returning at 9 yesterday morning and continuing their deliberations all day. Reports after the verdict was returned said !that most of the ballgts taken by them were seven to five and eight to four for substantial damages for the plaintiff, | “Mr. Clark said last evening he was not prepared to make a statement whether he would take an appeal to the supreime court. “I do not know what to think about it, sald Mrs. Hicks. I do not want to say | anything now."” “Other litigation pending between M | Hicks and Mr. Clark will be pressed said John O, Yelser, attorney for the young woman. ‘““The verdict of the jury has sustained her allegations.” Nine Married Men on Jury. The jury which returned the verdict was composed of nine married men, two wid- owers and one single man, who lives with his mother and sisters. Its members fol- low: W. T. Bpringmeyer, elerk, | _C.'8. Anderson, "insurance cashier, 114 North Twenty-fift G. W. Springer 2001 Maple | _Jacob Katelman, real estate dealer, 2770 | Webster. J. C. Carter, bookkeeper, 418 South | |'Twenty-fifth avenue. William H. Guild, rallwsy chief clerk, 6106 Chicago. William Gibbs, farmer, Banson, Wing, plumber, 719° North i . Herbert Thirty-third. W, 'H. McDermott, laborer, 1188 North | Beventeenth. | Herbert D. Brown, checker, 5198 Lari- more avenue W. G. Templeton, insuraice agent, 4904 | Chicago. 0. s Welmer, | North “Thirty-fifth FORMER IOWA MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING CHEYENNE, Wyo., April #.~—(Speclal.) igar salesman, 'The Bee’s Leo M. Frank Peti- l‘“' him that T am sure, from opinions [the country, that the exercise of ex- {of prohibition against the order for a The sixteen members of the crew (Jury trial, granted yesterday by Justice Hendrick. Mr. Woodbury's decision was made public after Thaw hi retired for the night. The attorney general con- tends that Juatice Hendrick does not pos- sess power to grant a jury trial on the writ of habeas corpus obtained by Thaw. The hearing before a jury has been set for May ¥, but it was considered likely that it would be postponed by the state's appeul, Lawson is Charged With Cannonading Strikers During Row TRINIDAD, Col., April 24.—The charge John R. Lawson, international xecutive board meniber of the United Mine Workers of America, was in com- mand of the striking coal miners in the battle, near Ludiow, October %, 1913, when John Nimmo, & députy sheviff was killed, was made in the opening state- ment today by Norton Montgomery, asajstant attorney general. Lawson ls on trial, charged with murder In connection with Nimmo's death. 4 According to Montgomery, Nimo, & deputy sheritf, was one of & forve of officers stationed mnear Ludlow to pre- serve order and prevent clashes between strikers and mine guards prior to the arrival of the militia. The deputies were attacked, Montgomery declared, and fought the battle In defense of their lives, During the fight Nimmo was shot in the left les, the bullet severing the femoral artery. He dled soon after. ant attorney general told the ohn R. Lawson then was in charge of the Ludlow tent colony, had bought and imported arms and was in direct command of the strikers, who did the tighting. Horace N. Hawkins, chief counsel for the defense, interposed an objection to the inclusion of events that took place several hours after the death of Nimmo. Montgomery desisted from that feature of his statement. The first witness for the were all Swedes. They drifted abmn!‘ in small boats for many hours before | being picked up. | Norme Ship Sunk. i The Norweglan steamship Caprivi, | which safled from Baltimore April 6 for | Christianiaby, way of Androssan, Scot-! land, struck a mine at a point mu-.-n[ miles northeast of Tory fsland last night | and sank, according to a dispatch re- | celved here today by Lloyd's agency | from Inishtrahull, Irelana ' The crew of the Caprivi was landed at Inishtrahull today. | The Caprivi had a net tonnage of 1,872 and was bullt in 1892. The vessel was 330 ! feet long, 40 fest beam and 0 feet deep. | Crews Landed. DURY ISLAND, Scotiand, April The crews of the Norwegian barks, Os car and Eva, were landed here today by | the steamship Anna, flying the Danish | flag. A German submarine overhauled the barks gbout 170 miles northoast of tle | Longstone and allowed their crews ten minutes to board lifeboats, The subma- the German submarine the Danish steamer Anna -n;} lered ft to take aboard the crows the Oscar and Eva. The barks were bound for a Scottish port and were loadad with pit props. Finnish Steamship Sunk. STOCKHOLM, April 2.—(Via London.) ~The Finnish steamer, Fra Frack, has been torpedoed and sunk In the Baltic by a Germen submarine. it is belleved that the members of its crew were saved. The Frack carried a cargo of iron ore | and was on its way to Abo, Finland. RUSH WILL PROSECUTE LOS ANGELES MAIL CASES LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aprl 2.—Syl- vester R. Rush, special assistant to the United States attorney general, has ar- rived here from Washington to aid in the prosecution of “eleven former directors and officlals of the Los Angeles Invest- ment company, indicted on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Rush re-| cently prosecuted the so-called Florida | JAPAN DEMANDS REPLY FRON CHINA i Ultimatum Sent to Peking Insists ¢ Three Days. NEWS COMES VIA HONOLULU ~ 'HONOLULU, T. H., April 24— An ultimatum, demanding a satisfac- tory answer within three days to the demands of Japan on China, has ‘been sent by the Japanese cabinet to Eki Hicki, the Japenese minister at Peking, for delivery to the represen- tatives of China at the negotiations, according to a dispatech frdm Toklio to the Hahaii Shino, & Japanese newspaper here. EIGHT BUSINESS HOUSES BURNED AT PEEVER, S. D. ABERDEEN, 8. D, April 24.—(Special Telegram.)—Fire originating in the post- office at’ Peever, 8. D,, at 1'o'clock this morning, wiped out the entire business block, including elght firms. The loss 15 $50,000. s City. The Los Angeles Investment com- pany trial will begin May 25. tions are in great demand and are being fast filled with sig- natures. The Bee's petitions asking the governor of Georgia to save Leo M. Frank from the death penalty sre growing in demand, not only in Omaha, but in surrounding cities and towns. One volunteer, with- out waiting for a blank, made one of his own by cutting the form out of The Bee and sent it in all filled. Several have come back to our offices more than once for additional blanks. Samples of some of the letters we are receiving are here subjoined: Traveling Man Writes. OMAHA, April 23.—To the Bditor of The Bee: Your paragraph in your editorial column’ $nding (the governor of Georgid) Zi8 not s mind reader,” has borne fraft, In one case at least. I have written the governor, tell- i be called a fair trial. A very large who have followed the case believe it would be a crime to put Frank to death on such evidence. Many peo- ple would sign petitions for the gov- ernor of Georgia to save his life if | the petitions were sent into the | neighborhood and placed in news | stands. But many of these people | will not write to the governor of! Georgla. esides, the governor will | which I have heard on the road, ex- pressed in widely different parts of Bert McAllister, aged 2 years, a farmer, was instantly killed late Thurs- 9 |day, by a bolt of lightning, which struck |him while he was plowing on his home- |stead, sixty miles north of this place. |The bolt also killed three horses. which | were attached.to the plow. The bodies | were found later by a neighbor and that {of McAlllster was brought to Cheyenne i | Friday. The lightning presumably struck Mo~ Allister, passed through his body, the plow and the harness into the bodies of ithe horses. The bolt struck McAllister Jon the heaq, tearing a hole in his hat, {Jumped to his walst and plowed a jagged |and. singed furrow In his flesh to his |right foot, His right shoe was burned off. MecAllister came to Wyoming about a year ago from Blakesburg, Ia., where Lis parents reside. He was unmarried. ecutive clemency in the Frank case would be approved and applauded throughout the whole United States. JOHN WATSON CARY, 1101 Monadnock, Chicago, Nl | hapdly beAble to read so many thou- | sand letters. If petitions are sent| | to Kearsiey 1 want to sign one. Box 275. J. W, DAVIS, Seward Wants a Petition. SEWARD, Neb., April 23.—To the Kearney Folks Are Interested. | Rditor of The Bee: Will you please KEARNEY, Neb., April 23.—To send me a copy of the petition you | the Editor of The Bee: I am inter- are getting out in the Leo M, Frank ested in the movement to save the life | case? There are several of us here, of Leo M. Frank of Georgla. I read |at least, who have followed this case, | the reports during the trial and have | whe would like to sign a petition for read in the leading magazines and | executive clemency. We are glad papers the comments on the case.|The Bee is making this humanitarian The court and jury that convicted |effort. bhim must have been influenced by 1 shall be much obliged to you majority of those in this community | | ety Roy Campbell, formerly deputy ocoroner, Everglades land fraud cases In Kansas who told of making a trip to Ludlow for the body of Nimmo. He was ques- tioned by Frank West, assistant attorney general. He said the death of Nimmo was caused by loss of blood. Dr. Perry Jaffa, formerly county physiclan, tola of performing an autopsy upon the body. He described the wound which caused death. K. E. Linderfeldt, formerly a deputy tional guard of Colorado and consplcuous in the subsequent events of the recent strike of the coal miners, was asked on cross-examination whether he saw. which sige fircd the first shot in the battle between strikers and deputy sheriffs on October 1913, in which Nimmo was killed. “No, 1 did not,” he replied. The question was asked by Horace N, Hawkins, chief counsel for the defense, Linderfelt previously had testified that he was in conimand of the deputy sheriffs, | but that he was not present when the i battle started Wives of Strikers Attack the Police With Broomsticks STAMFORD, Conn., April #.—Wives of striking laborers here, to the number of or more, med with broomstic pick handles and salt, fought hand-to ter attempted to disperse them after a demonstration at the town hall rest was made, About 80 laborers, including nearly all of those employed by the city and local contractors, are on strike for 8 a day, an elght-hour day and recognition of their unjon. The women marched in a body to the town hall, and when Mayor Brown ap- peared, called on him to concede the strikers’ demands. The mayor explained that only the common council could act on the demands and that it would not meet untll Monday, He asked them to dispense and, when they refused, directed the police to disperse them. Police Chbief Brennan seized the leader of the women, Mrs. Mary Doldosi. This was a signal for the outbreak and the policemen were beaten, scratched and bitten by the women, who rushed to their leader's as- sistance. Mrs. Doldosi was hurried into the town threats of violence and it cannot well R. R. MASTIN. hall, where she was charged with breach of peace. The wowen then dpersed. state was | sheriff and later a leutenant in the na- | «s, | W'MILLAN GIVEN TWO YEARS hand with the police today when the lat- | One ar- ! PRUSSIANS SINK | Greece Ready to Join in Attack On the Dardanelles if It Is Asked allies The forelgn minister is quoted as sa: Ing that in respect to this question the of hia cabinet s identical with that ot M. Venizelos, the former premier, whose retirement has been gemerally un- | derstood to have been brought about by | his desire for participation in the war by Groece on the side of the allies. “Tt s simply a question of the pro- pitios moment.” the forelgn minister in quoted as saying policy Governor Orders Greater Omaha Vote To Be Taken June 1 (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 24.—(Special Telegram. ) —Governor Morehead this afternoon issued the proclamation calling for the election in Omaha and | | the territory affected by the proposed | annexation as provided in senate file | No. 2, setting the clection for June 1, | 1015, It reads as follows: | “Executive Office, Lincoln, State | of Nebraska—By virtue of the au- thority in me vested and in accord- | and with the law of the state of Ne- braska, in such cases made and pro- vided, I, John H. Morehead, governor of the state of Nebraska, do hereby proclaim that on Tuesday, the first day of June, 1915, there will be held a special olection in the usual voting | places in the metropolitan city of | Omaha, and the cities of South| Omaha afid Florence and in the vil-| lage of Dundee. in Douglas county, state of Nebraska, at which time there will be submitted to the elect~ ors of the paid cities and village the following question: “ ‘Shall the cities of South Omaha and Florence and the village of Dun- dee be consolidated with the metro- politan city of Omaha?' “The ballots used at sald election shall provide for a ‘yes' and ‘no’ vote | in the usual manner on the question, “In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand angd caused to be affixed the great seal of the state of Nebraska this 24th day of April, A. D, 1915, “JOHN H. MOREHEAD," “Governor." ! Brother of General 0 n Executed by Villa for Revenge NEW YOREK, April M.—Franciaco 8 Ellas, consul for Mexico under the Car- ranza faction, amnounced today that he had received a telegram from General Obregon asserting that General Obre- ®on's brother, Francesco, taken prisomer by Villa and sent to Chihuahua, had been shot by Villa‘'s order. Mr. Ellas made public the text of a telegram sent him by General Obregon from Trapuato, reading as follows: “I wish to make it known to you that Villa, to avenge himaelf upon me for the defeat which my troops have In- flicted upon him, has arrested and sent my brother, Francesco Obregon, a man 70 years old, a prisoner to Chihuahua. He was Iving peacefully in Guadalajara sue with neither of the factions. When Villa fled from the city he ordered that he be arrvested. This is nothing more than vevenge which he ls secking from me for the defeat which he suffered.” Another dispatch from General Obre- gon, Mr. Ellas asserted, had been re- cefved later stating that General Obre- #on had sent a telegram to General Villa pointing out that his brother was »a feeble old man and non-combatant and requesting his release. The only reply | recelved to this message, Mr. Elias said the dispatch stated, was a reply from Villa which read: ““Your brother has been shot.” People of Italy Are Urged to Keep Nerves in Order| ROMB, April 23.—(Via Parls, April 24.)~ | “Keep your nerves in order,” is the ‘\'Ira given to the people of Italy by the |Glornal ' Ttalla iIn an editorial, “for| {what is most needed is national dis- | cipline.” The paper says that while the govern- | | ment knows all the elements which have {entered into a difficult international sit- | uation and has recelved from Parliament | full power to act, the country must be (allowed to work In peace until the time | comes when it 1s considered possible to |reveal what has been done without in- | juring the Interests of the nation. WHEN HE PLEADS GUILTY D, April 24.—(Special Tel- | egram.)— cult court at Fort Pierre, | Maurice McMillan entered a plea of ! Kuilty to the charge of embeszlement o |eity funds when auditor and was given | a sentence of Lwo years. In the cases {charging bank wrecking agsinst John Hays one charge of forgery, second de- | &ree, was set aside on demurrer and Judge MoGee directed a verdict of acquit- tal on a second charge., There are five other faformations yet to be tried, which will be heard next week, CROP CONDITIONS OF BE IN WESTERN NE KEARNEY, Neh., April 24 -(Spesis) | Telegram.)—A fine rain. fell here today | after sbowers the last two days. The rain extended as far west as Callaway apd covered a general territory in this seotion. Over one Inch of rainfall was reported today, which makes orop condi- tong of the beat, PIERRE, § GERMANS DRIVE WENGE THROUGH LINE OF ALLIES Sudden Attack North of Hill No. 80 Forces French and Belgians Back to Yser Canal. COUNTER ATTACKS INITIATED Germans Are Forced by Quick Ad- vance of Allies to Give Up Most of Ground Occupied. HARDEST FIGHT FOR MONTHS The Day’s War News A SERIES OF GERMAN successes along the western front is an- noan official weport from fice report ston of the ADVANCE OF THE GERMANS s ascribed by the French war office in the trenches. FREIGHTER RUTH has been sunk in the North Sea by a German sub- s orew of sixteen wan FINNISH STEAMER FRACK has heen k in the Baitic sea by o Germ The erew s hellev NEW BATTLE IN BELG! in the went since the prese: tle line wi on the part of the British, OFFICIAL STATEMENT from t The loas of these positions exposed the Canndian division, which wi compelled to fall back. nadians lost four pleces lery, but later AVIATORS OF THE ALLIES operat- Ing over Smyrna report that the Tarks are defending the olt v b ¥ with trenchon. sunk a fort were kil from the nerop! ——— LONDON, April 24.—Over an arecs Iike front in Belgian Flanders, which is roughly ten miles long from the :.t‘“. of Bixschoote, in the north, ta . Elof, in the south, Freuch, Brit. ish and Belglan troops are locked with the Germans today in & series of engagements which recall the fighting of last October, Driven from Hill No. 60 to the south of Ypres, and failing to retake it by a counter attack, the Germang launched a sudden advance of the town apd after stu; [ killing men in the first deadly guses, according to official reports, they drove & wedge of infantry forward, foretng French and Belgiang | y gt which at the same time compelled the British line north of Ypres to fal} back to conform with the French, counter attack, the result to compel the Germans to give up of the ground they had them in a northeasterly direction Langemarck, from which place tack started, Bome of the London mewspapers characterize this German rush as attempt to break through to Calais, and some oxtimates say they have 500,000 men avallable for this effort. By this time the British are presumably well strengthened and have consolidated the attention on Hill No. 8. The hard-! est fighting, consequently, is expected, north of Ypres. Just as the Germans have been bate| —_—— | (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Free Coupon Good for 25 cts. or 50 cts. By special arrangement with the management for the bene- fit of B readers, Observe strictly the conditions and limi- tations stipulated in the coupon. This Bee Coupon Entitles Bearer to one 25c¢ or 50c¢ Seat For the performance of “The Deep Purple” At the Boyd Theater, Monday Evening, April 19 Present at Box Office any time fflor to performance and get a ree admission ticket in addi- tion to the ticket you buy st the regular price. You must have a Bee coupon for each extra ticket you sk for.