Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 1

By advertising in Th Sepor taes Bee the his show wi w inte the home of every reader THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ | 1915—-TWELVE PAGES, NI.\'(HVAIAI COPY TWO CENTS. 200,000 BRITISH ONAEGEAN: BECIN VOL. XLIV—-NO. 268 TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, OMAHA, On Traine and at Rotel News Stands, So - Ef AMERICAN SAID TO RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS AT WORK. under road conditions that force them to plow BATRARRN DOOMED: [ 70 103 S wad aad mor o eicty smapile to e oty AND ROOSEVELT| DASH FOR PORTS | ? y TODEATHRELEASED ATTAGJ(_BY LAND “Gevermer “wne o mesa | ON FRENCH COAST News Writer from This Country Re- | Jury to Show Relations., ported Given Capital S8entence in Vera Cruz on Way Home. Reports Current that Kitchener Has [ALL IN THE OPEN, SAYS TEDDY ‘mh': “Greatest Battle “u: the Enormous Army Near Turkey, - War” is Raging Along the - f the Yser While lf Is Stated Troops sories of confidential letters taken | o (;.nd Disembarked. |trom the files kept by the late| i Thomas C, Platt while he was TeP- wATSER REPORTED AT FRONT resenting the state of New York in! the United States senate, were today | SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 26.—A | EL PASO DISPATCH SAYS 80 Phillip McCleary Ordered Shot Be- | cause He Gave Out Uncen- | SOLDIERS NOT OFF TO FRANCE sored Reports. APPEAL RECEIVED BY BRYAN EL PASQ, Tex., April 26.—A tel- egram to relatives here says that Philip B. McCleary, reported under arrest at Vera Cruz three days ago, was shortly wfter his arrest released @and sailed from Vera Cruz three days ®go. MeCleary was in the employ of the Carranza government as pub- licity agent, Doomed to Death. WASHINGTON, April 26—Philip E. Mc- Cleary, an American newspaper corre- ®pondent at Vera Cruz, has been impris- oned and sentenced to be shot by Car- ranza authorities for having sent out un- censored news dispatches. a Bécretary Bryan received an appeal for aid today from John W. Roberts of El Paso, McCleary’s home, and instructed Consul Stlliman to take the question up at once with General Carransza. Carranza troops from Tampico are being brought to Vera Cruz and sent inland by rail. Quiet was reported at Progreso. Yaqui Indians operating in Sonora are charged with numerous ralds and mur- ders. In a recent attack on the ranch of the Richardson Conseruction eompany in the Yaqui valley they were repulsed. Packers Say Rates On Dressed Meats Already too High CHICAGO, April 2.—Packing house products .were the subject of testimony in the western commodity rate case be- | fore W. M. Danlels, Interstate Commerce commissioner today. Luther M. Walter, Tepresenting Morris & Co., packers, made an opening statement in which he de- clared it would be shown that freight rates on packing house products are more remunerative to the raflr~ads than any ©other commodities. “The proposed advance is unnecessary, as will be shown by comparing the rates ‘we pay, car for ocar, with other com- modities,” sald Mr. Walter. “We shall show errors In the statistics pre- AUSTRIA FORTIFIES ITALIAN FRONTIER Large Caliber Guns Planted Behind Concrete Fortifications Ready to Raze Villages. APPARENTLY WAR MUCH CLOSER BELLUNO, Italy, April 25.—(Via Paris, April 26.)—~Italian refugees from Austria report that Austrian troops have fortified the entire fron- tier, even bullding entrenchments of concrete, behind which have been placed cannon of large caliber. Of- | ficers are sald to have declared that if hostilities are begun they will raze |the villages nearest their lines from 1SOIVI. east of Lake Garda in Italy, to {Laste, Italy, twenty miles to the north of Selva. e This information has done much to counteract the effect of reports. that Austria is dlsposed to conduct diplomatic negotiations regarding the cession of the territory to Italy. Industry in Trent Paralysed. VERONA, Italy, April %3 p m.) ~Via, Paris, April 2, 9:26 a. m.)—Dis- Datches recelved from the frontier n—l by the roads which 1| seribing conditions in the province of omonitrate that the rallrosd..mxhibits | Trent state’ that commarce and Industry are useless as the proposed ad- | &re paralyzed and agriculture at u stand- varice, The amount of olir product trans. | #EIIl boeuas 6" the lack of workmen, 40,- ported 18 heavy and we will show, that |00 having been called to the eolors, Al the rates requested as excessively high.”'|norses and oxen have been requisitioned. C. B. Helnemann, -assistant traffic! -The lack of sulphate of copper used to manager for Morris & Co., the first wit- | kill pa ‘which infect the mulberry ness, testified that the proposed advance |tree ha riously threatened the silk of 3% cents .a hundred would merely | WOrk industry, one of the chief resources swell a tate which already is higher than ‘ of that section. the average rate on all other commodities. | Austrian military authorities are sald Mr. Heinemann gave figures on a repre. |10 be rapidly completing their prepara- sentative meat train that moves dally |tlons for defense. )Twelve thousand out of Kansas City on the Wabash rail- | troope are q\urmred/n Trent; 4,00 at road for Buffalo. The figures, he sald, | ROVereto; 4000 at Rivs, and 15000 a showed that the meat traffic w: aving | 8ether at varicus smaller placee. train earnings that are 2% per cont of | Fdngements are being made for housing the average and carnings per ca 0 Prussians, 5000 at Trent and 2,000 at cent higher. than the average. Mezzo Lombardo. West Point Wants | Ninety More Cadets 1. s, doison s o tuive par. {to May 12 the dete upon which the WASHINGTON, April %.-As a result | Chumber of Deputies reconvenes, Parlia- of about ninety fallures among prospect- jmeat will Le prorogued. ive West Toint candidates in the March | International questions could not be examinations, Secretary Garrison has discussed in Parliament while they were ordered an additional cxamination May |Still under negotiations it Is argued, and 2 next, which will be held at sixteen |1t would he absurd and almost undig- army posts in all parts of the country, {Pifled for Parliament to discuss trifling The successtul candidates will be ad-|Matters when such highly important mitted to the milltary academy on July 1, | QUestions were before the country. Fur- The present first class at West Point, | thermore the chamber has given full numbering 164 members, will exceed the |PCWers to the cabinet and nothing has second lieutenancies available on July 1, ,ocourred to destroy this confidence. according to present estimates. There | RCfeTring to the international financial are only 1% prospective vacancies in the | SitUstion crested by the war, the Glor- Krade of second Ileutenant, {nale D'Italla savs the United States at ineluding thirty-five in the engineers, thirty-one th® ¢nd of hostitities will be the only May Prorogue Parllament. ROME, April 26.—(Via Paris)—~The opin- jlon prevails in parliamentary circles that 1€ no definite decision as to Italy’s par-| First Judgment for Breach of Promise- In Japan Awarded (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) TOKIO, Saturday, April 3.—Miss Hede Nozawa has won $10,000 by the award of the highest court of Japan from Sozahira Vanaka, for breach of promise, which e not only the first breach of promise case to be adjudicated in Japan, but a long step forward in the recognition of the rights of “women, who, under the old regime, were considersd more or less as chattels, as they still are in most of the orlent, Under the existing law a marriage is not valld unless registered, and registra- tion is not compulsory or even usual. Miss Nozawa had consented to share Vanska's house on the condition - that their union be entered on the records. Vanaka put the matter off for months, and then left the house, after quarreling with the girl, “Instead of ylelding to circumstances in the meek oriental way, Miss Nozawa brought sult. One court turned down her cal She took it to another. Again she lost. But undiscouraged she went to the highest tribunal in the land. Witnesses who had arranged the union appeared for her and the result was damages amount- ing in Japan to a small fortune. Representatives and Senators Guests of SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—A hurried visit to the Panama-Pacific exposition, a trip on Ban Francisco bay and a dinner tonight was the program of entertain- ment for a party of about 140 United States senators and representatives and their wives which arrived here today in a special train. The party Included Con- gressman Joseph G. Cannon and House Minority Leador James R. Mann. It will sail for the Hawallan Islands to- morrow on & tour of the Hawallan Islands. {John Bunny Dies | at Home in Brooklyn NEW YORK, April 2.—John Bunny, whose antics as a moving picture comedian have made mililons laugh, died at his home in Brooklyn today. He had been 1l for about three weeks, with a complication of diseases. when he died. For a week he had ap- parently been on the mend. A strenuous |month of work, |breakdown, which resulted in his deatn. Members of his family were with him | NEW ¥ it is sald, caused the |BA! How Leo M. Frank Received WHEATLEY ASSERT NEVER IN AMERICUS Singer Arrested in Lincoln by Fed- eral Authorities Declares Officers Have Made Mistake. WITNESS ON WAY FROM EAST (From a Staff Correspondent,) LINCOLN, Neb., April 26.—(Spe- clal Telegram,)—Federal officials are anxiously awaiting the arrival of & witness from Chicago tonight to unravel the mystery connected with the arrest last night of Walter Her- bert Wheatly, operatic tenor, who has been conducting a school music here in Lincoln for some time. Wheatly was arrested for being ‘con- nected with the downfall of the Ameri- can National bank of Americus, Ga., In 114 George D. Wheatly was assistant cashier of the bank and to him Is ascribed the misfortune of the bank. Government officials claim that Walter Herbert Wheatly of Lincoln is the George D, Wheatly they have been look- ing for, Mr. Wheatly claims that he never was in Americus, but on the other hand can prove he was singing in grand opera In New oYrk City during the,1913-14 season fi “’“W" deft. America with To Diu ey Lane he showed o entury company the opera season above, and says that upon his return . from Burope he sang ‘with the Chicago Symphony orchestra. He had been in Lincoln ever since. Mr. Wheatly is out on $5,000 bonds fur- nished by Drs. Mayhew and Willlams, NEW DISTANCE RECORD ok | Transports Carrying Them Against read to the jury trying | Sultan Instead of Across Chan- | nel as Believed. | Theodore Roosevelt in the supreme |court here. Some of the letters were ANNOUNCED |signed by Colonel Roosevelt. In |nearly all of them the writers dis- NEW YORK, April 26.—Private cussed candidates for offlce in the advices received in New York today | state government, and in reply to a | from London convey a report currenllquuuon by Mr. Barnes' counsel the :’lu England that Earl Kitehenor's | former president said without the | new army to the number of 100,000, | slightest hesitation that he consulted and even 200,000, men s in lhl-jfroely with Senator Platt about af- | Aegean. fairs at Albany, knowing and realiz- It was supposed that these troops, | ing at all times that he was the which have been leaving British | “boss™ of the republican party in this shores in large numbers, were :olnx!ntnle. One of the letters read dur- |to the continent, but observers who!ing the afternoon session contained | have returned from the British front | a posteript which read: *All right, {in France have commented on the|I'll change the whole board of tax fact that none of Kitchener's army | assessors.” 118 there and it is known that thou-| The colonel denied emphatically sands of them left Tngland during |that such conferences constituted the last six weeks. “invisible government." General Attack Begun: “My actions,” the witness asserted, LONDON, April 26.—The admi-|‘'Wwere as visible as they could be.” ralty and the War office declared this | afternoon that a general attack on the Dardenelles had begun. An army, it wag sald, had been disem- Ibuked successfully. The following official announce- l BATTLE ON IS | | . _Roosevelt Writes Parsons. When ¢ourt opened a stipulation between counsel that depositions of four unnamed witnesses outside the |1t the witnesses appeared on the ment was given out in London today: [stand was read into the records, Mr. ““The general attack in the Darda-|Ivins, Mr. Barnes' attorney, then put nelles by the fleet and the army was | into the rocord letters written by Mr. resumed yesterday. | Barnes to Colonel Roosevelt and by “The disembarkation of the army | Colonel Roosevelt to Mr. Barnes, and covered by the fleet began before|to Herbert Parsons. The latter let- sunrise at various points on the Gal- | ters, dated August 21, 1908, were lipoll peninsula, and in spite of seri- { nearly identical In conténts and ous opposition from the enemy in|phraseology. In one letter Mr, strong entrenchments protected by Barnes discussea Governor Hughes. barbed wire was completely success- | He said that should Hughes be ful. elected he would set up a political “‘Before nightfall large forces| machine and that all politiclans who were established on shore. The |opposed him would have to ‘‘sneak landing of the army and the advance |in the back door or get out of poli- continue." tica," e The reply of Colone! Roosevelt, written DONDg;"A:r‘l:.x::‘;;o groat |4.008ie Bay, rande ) mek: : " X “My Dear Mr. Barnes: Yesterday 1 expectations was ralsed by the pre- Willtam ! ! Barnes' sult for alleged libel against | state would have the same effect s | NEW VICTORIES Resumption of German Offensive in Force is Distinct Shock to the British Publie. BLOODY FIGHTING IN MOUNTAINS The Day’s War News NEW GERMAN OFFENSIVE in Bel. minm, styled by some Brivish com- manders as (he greateat hattle of the war, 18 being pushed on with » to have thin fromt. The offl nouncement trom Berlin today re- ports impreasive victortes, al- thoumh no admisstons to th feet are made tn Paris or London, DN I8 GROWING IN ROME i, grandson of the fam: who recently Ttalia stateaman, eetved from them the impression that Tialy wowld enter the war with the . m by the with concrete | trenches and heavy artillery, the fighting in ™ the Carpat brought up a tillery along the Carpat LONDON, April 26.—~What some military. critice are inclined to pro- nounce the ‘‘greatest battle of tha war,” ig now under way along tho Yser canal. Officlal reports are both meager and contradictory, but it gemerally is believed in London that the Ger- mans again are making desperate ef- forts to break through to the French channel ports. Some such recrud- escence of the German offensive has been auticipated by the war. experts, but this movement, tha liminary =operations of the allles for |in the Dardanelles, according to rep- resentative Britfsh newspapers, which are accreditéd to the expedi- tion, “The British navy s convinced,” the correspondent says, ‘“‘that the narrows could be forced if occasion Justified the loss of ships that would FOR WIRELESS TELEPHONE | result, but unless there were a pow- NEW YORK, April 2%6.—A new distance record for wireless telephony in raflroad service was claimed today by officlals of the Lackawanna rallroad, Communica- tions by wireless concerning the move- ment of Lackawanna trains were exe changed between railroad superintendents at Scranton, Pa., and Binghamton, N. Y., sixty-three miles. Trains between those cities were moved for several hours yes- terday under orders sent or received by wireless. Movements of Ocean Steamers. Safled. Kentuckian Portland Philadeiphia erful army ready to occupy the Galll- (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) Judge Dismisses Kleist Suit Agaiist The Papa of Juliet NEW YORK, April 26~The $20,000 damage suit brought against BEdward N. ‘Breitung, ecapitalist of Marquette, Mich., and his ‘wife, by Max Frederick Klelst, their gon-in-law, was dismissed today by Federal Judge Hough. Kieist charged his parents-in-law with allenating his wife's affections. In dismissing the suit after the evidence was all in Judge Hough read a lengthy opinion in wEich he said the parents were in no way obliged to accept the conduct of a son-in-law. The court ruled that Klelst had failed to prove any Improfer act on the part of the defendants In the treatment of their child. Klelst's attorney) lon, Mike ::;‘ Cooks ,u"mm; guE man ot &'. natlonal committee, have been carefully going inte the mattér since I saw you. 1 appreclate to the tullest the fm:‘-ol the Amlln‘ you urged against " renomination. 4 ia not ploasatit for fie to support & man [Ment. but some who has wantoniy behaved badly to the | London papers them down in the public Interest, but I | Hindenberg from the east the object to its being done wantonly. More- | operations and Bmperor Willlam himsel? over, I appreciate that he has allenated’| I8 reported as proceeding to the Yser quite needlessly very many voters and | front. It we had the right man to put in his| It is impossible as yet to get a clear place ( the right man from the stand.| Carpathians compete with the Yser for point of getting votes) I should say that | interest. The gateway into Hungary {it was certainly wise to nominate such a | formed by the Ussok pass again is be- nim and that this demage will extend |thelr lines from within front of the Polish outside of the state. While, therefore, I|C8Pital for new concentrations along want most emphatically to disclaim any |fronts of Cracow and in the Carpathians, intention of seeming to dictate the | The fairway between nomination, I think I ought to tell you :‘MM still in belng kept clear 'h:‘-c.;py of the above letter was sent to | the steamer No:hn. bearing the women Mr. Parsons. delegates to the peace On August 24, 1908, Coionel Roosevelt wrote to Mr, Barnes, from Washington, in part as follows: mdor Page. “Most emphatically whatever my | place (the right man from the stand- | “‘":‘-"’”“'7-;.‘" special attention by them, I have given them, including S - ‘:“‘-"u‘-m ceased you, my best judgment. land activities. “Now, it you and those like you, fear that 1 shall ask you to cut your throats - { ! hat he would app in the Inf: . '® | conntry to have secured large economic th N 17' t th S |announced th nfantry, twenty-seven in the cav- profit. This paper then gives .nnm( e ews a ¢ u reme‘ Mrs. E. N. Breltung, def you fear is groundless, But my judgment alry and eight in the coast artillery. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesday: » v | For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity | —Partly cloudy. , , Tempernture at Omaha Yeaterday, Hour. Deg 5a. veee 00 8 L0 gEEEes wasnaneeiEsSe eSEEEPES ord. 195, 1914. 1913, 1912 Comparative Highest yesthpday. 2 e 2 Lowest yesterfay . 8 W B 60 Mean téemperature a w6 Precipitation 09 680 . ‘emperatures ecipltatjon depar- tures from the mrm&f e pe Nqrmal temperature Extess for the day. Deficiency since March 1. 141 inches Excess for cor. period, 1514, Al inch Deficiency for cor, period, 1913..2.14 inches bm”rll from Stations at 7 P. M. Station and State Temp. H - - of Weather . Tpom. st Tfan | 00 - | Montgomery, Ala,, | to show the increase in American exports |ana says further | “This war, which is devouring Europe | thing financially for the | jis & magniti | United States. King’ Victor Emmanuel met the mem- {day. He talked with Premier Salandria |ana - Foreign Ministor Sonning on the i situation - at length and after they had gone he was closeted for an hour with Minister of War Zuppelll. ' Heat Wave Covers East Central States CHICAGO, April 2.—The present hest over the eastern half of |the Uniged States, is unprecedented. at ! this scason in the history of the weather | bureau, acocrding to today's report of | the weather bureau The table of temperatures for yester- day shows that Milwiukee, Wie., and 64 degrees. It was 8 at Chicago, | Columbus, O., hottest spot reporting to the bureau |Girl Changes Her | Testimony Often and Chéyenne, clear... %% "% lu‘-;;:;wrpt.‘rgltlfixfl- u 33 T| LOS ANGELES, April 26—Edith Serkin, Des Moines, clondy. ® w3 |star witness against Charles E. Sebastian, City, clear.. 0 7 .00|suspended chief of police, and Mrs. Lillie 8 7 00 | Pratt, testified here today that she went’ ¥ % B 3 automobile riitng with the defendants in blo, clear BT & big red car with a gong. All police de- e, Rovtr.- & partment automobil black. When 8 Fe, ciond: v % 3| this was brought out the/witness seemed Bler I‘:\ clear. .0 ks ]lollllud Bhe bLap made thus far 100 Sloux City, part & n 04 | changes from her direct testimony. The indicates trace of recipitati L A WELsH, Vorecaster. defendanis are accused of contributing to her delinquency, registered the same, | with 9 degrees was the | deal, ruled against his appeal: It was with the same appearance |of calmness, the same . self-control that has distinguished his course evér since the accusation of murder was laid against him, that Leo M. Frank, in his cell in the Tower today, ourt decision that ended for him tho last hope of a review of his convie- | tion by a judicial tribunal. A reporter brought him the news. Alone in the triple-parred cell Frank was gmoking, and he contin- ued to smoke, with seeming delibera- tion as the fatal news was told. “Naturally, 1 am very much dis- appointed,” he sald quietly and coolly. He asked for details. The reporter had none, having recelved merely the first flash that came frolg Washington that Frank had lost. Frank, however, proceeded to discuss the probable division in the court, rising end walking about t! cell as he spoke and still smoking. “I am confident 1 will never suf- fer the death penalty,” Frank said later. “Truth and justice will even- Court Had Ruled Against Him. | A man's faith in himself is tested by his behavior in a trying or- Here is the local newspaper acoount of the manner in which the news was broken to Leo M. Frank that the supreme court had her husband in the suit, on t! day, testified she had met Klelst only twice, The witness denied having a fight with her daughter in which Juliet received a | black eye, a loose tooth and & torn | walst, as testified by another witness, Two More Hot Days tually prevail. Consclous of the, ' . right of my cause and innocent as 1| Predlcted l[l E&St am, I have never faltered in spirit. I — will be a free and exonerated man. | WASHINGTON, April 3.—At Jeast o # p | fOrty-elght hours more of the early sea- | 1 lisve never-ancy. lostfalth," ha | iFL es i as Dredioted today by the | continued. * “I have borne up With|weather bureau. Extraordinarily high |all the philosophy I was capable. I|temperatures for the season was reported | is that the convention will nominate Hughes and that it would hurt very much more not to noininate hin than to nominate him, although it will un- doubtedly hurt us slso to nominate him. Class Diatinctioncv here are not so sharp as in Enrope. However, there are some people whose station in On Septembver 16 Colonel Rocsevelt| |ife jg higher than others, and it e I B e s oftan” spells oppbeei the nomination of Hughes unaatmous.|for the class lower. After the election I shall want to see you in Wasbington and talk over matters with you."” On November 4, 1908, election day, Colo- nel Roosevelt wrote this to Mr. Barnes from the White House: “Dear Mr. Barnes: Good for you. Roosevelt Praises Barnes. For exsmple, a wealthy . man buys a new auto every year, and that means sell- We | exoneration. | "It is a long road that has no turn- |ing., The road has gone as long as | 1t possibly can. There is obliged to {be a turning, and my innocence wiil be recognized.” 1 Frank's health s robust. He has' galned fifteen pounds since the be ginning of his confinement nearly | two years ago. He malntains a syz- | tem of dally exercise, reads exhaus- |tively and receives visitors at ap- | pointed hours. | Later the reporter brought bim | more complete information. He read | the dispatch without blinking. He! bad started to speak, when Mrs.| |Frank came in, herself apparently |ealm, She kissed him through ths bars of the cell. The. reporter with- | |drew, | The Bee's petitions asking the governor of Georgia to save Frank } from the death penalty are being rapidly siened un #ippl river and new records for an April hot spell were made in many places, in- cluding Washington, D. C.; Hartford Conn., and Detroit, The absence of rain except for some scattered showers is being felt in many gections and crops are suffering Omaha is one of the West- ern League base ball cities and has an easily accessible and well equipped ball park. The season it just opening If you're a fan, you can’ “‘stop off'' and see a good gameon any of the team's home dates. received the néws of the supreme have always felt assured of eventual today from all points east of the Missis- &re to be heartily congratulated on the | whole business, national and state. cerely yours, “THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Replies by Mr. Barnes to some of the colonel's letters were also read to the ;h.ry The witness identified all of the {letters and declared them to be authentio, In one of his letters Congressman Par- sous objected to being “treated as a |puppet.”” Mr. Parsons said he had asked |the advice of “Stoddard of the New York {Mail” about a proposition to hold an un- official primary on the question of re- nominating Hughes. When the letters had been read Mr. Ivins asked Colonel Roosevelt about Taft's and Hughes' plurality in New York He sald Hughes' was small. | “Who was present at the conference in Oyster Bay, mentioned in the correspond- ence?’ “At the first Mr. Parsons and Mr, Barnes were there. At the second Mr, Sherman, afterward vice president, was present.” People Wanted Hughes. Colone! Toossvelt said his favoring Governor liughes was not due to any (Gonllnued on Fage Tyvo, Colums Oom), ing at a discount his prac- tically new car. By placing an ad in The Bee’s Anto For Sale classi- I fication, he gets in touch with a man who cannot buy a new car, but can afford a good ueed one, Bee Want Ads are per- forming this service every day. If you have no use for something you have now, . try selling it through the For Sale column, Telephone Tyler 1000, « THE OMAHA BEE Ivm“h“. Ade, oL