Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1915, Page 1

Wanta swap something for something else more useful to ‘youf Use the Swappers' column of The Bee. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XIIV—NO 269, / ANNEXATION LAW _ DOES NOT / PPLY TO ' CITY OF FLORENCE, Governor Discovers Clause in Act Regarding Gas Service that He Holds Excludes Omaha's Oldest Suburb. WE ISSUES NEW PROCLAMATION Executive Reoalls Former Order to Election and Issues New One for Same Date. QUOTES SENTENCE IN STATUTE (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., April 27.—(Spe- efal Telegram.)—On account of a mlmnflcntmdlng of the pro\lalnnsw of ‘the Omaha annexation bil), | which provides that only the citles can come under the annexa- tion provisions which receive gas| service from Omaha, the governor has revoked his former proclama- | tion and has issued the following, ! leaving out Florence, which it wus| supposed was affected by the bill. ""Whereds, The ity of South Omaha, a | <" city of the first-class, and the village of ( Dundes adjoin the metropolitan city of | Omaha, and safd city of South Omaha | and village of Dundee and their inhabi- tants are supplled with water and with &8s and electric light and street car serv- ice as and In the manner described in the law of this state passed as senate file No. 2 and approved at the 1916 sesston of ite legislature; and, | ““Whereas, Thougn the city of Florence does adjoln the tropolitan city of | Omabha, yot nelther itnor its ‘inhabitants | are supplied with s, although rnm, its propelier and rudder. LATEST SEA ROVERn™® % ~~nt—Kron Prinz Wil helm in dry dock at Newport News, showing condition of OMAHA, WEDNESDAY — pot o8 x(?\*‘\“ R | | i BRITISH PRISONERS | House of Lords Told Wounded Offi- captors. ‘sald | man army of British prisoners. | ways and in some cases the evidence { shot in cold blood. Our oficers aven insulted and frequently struck.” THE WEATHER ‘ Fair MORNING, APRIL 28, 19 INSULTED AND SHOT, KITCHENER CHARGES' Commander of England's Armies Says Germans Have Stripped | and Maltreated Their Cap- tives of War, SUFFER INDIGNITIES | MADE TO cers Wantonly Struck by Teuton Conquerors. NO’I’HIRG LIKE IT IN SUDAN LONDON, Anru 27.—~War Secre- tary Kitchener told the House of lLords today that British prisoners had been insulted, maltreated and even shot down by their German | He made a statement to the house on this subject, in which he| been forced with re-! as Indisputably the Ger- The “I have lucttance to accept true the maltreatment by Hague convention has been grantly disregarded by German of-| ficere. Our prisoners have been stripped and maltreated in various goes on to prove that they have been when wounded, have been wamntonly Says Can't Be Doubt Earl Kitchener said that as a soldler he hitherto had always held officers of the German army in respect, but “con- | {the chimney and who then dlnm-mrod | | RATLROAD BILL NOTE T00 LATE | gram 15—FOU RTM“\ PA( .}n.\ Clockwork Bomb in Turlush War Office is Set for the Council Hour PARIE, Aprll 2.—A powerful clock work bomb was found hidden yesterday M the ministry of war at Constantinople, | |according to a dispatch from Saloniki It was timed to explode at an hour when the council would be In session. The meetings of this body are attended by | Enver Pasha, minister of war; Fleld | Marshal Von Der Golts and General Liman Von Sanders. An investigation s sald to have dis-| closed that the bomb was placed In the | roony by a saweap who had come to clean PLATT WRITES T0 ROOSEVELT OFTEN More Correspondence Between Late Republioan Boss and Defendant Placed in Evidenoe. SINGL E COPY TWO CENTS. Several minor officials oconnected with the ministry of war have been arrested an suspieton being his accomlicoss. | The police heliove the plot was directed | Agninst the Young Turks and the Ger | mans. Members of the committee of Union | and Progress are said to have decided at A meeting to which no Germans were admitted to adhere “to a walting poliey,” but to favor the conclusion of a separate peace with the allles if Germany falled to provide assistance sufficlent to repulse | an attack on the Dardanelles. WALSH ANSWERS - ROCKEFELLER, JR. He Says Women Were Buffocated in Oave While Bullets from Mine Guards Whistled Over It. OIL KING OMITS SOME FACTS SYRACUSE, N Y April telegram, in which States Sendtor Platt urged Theo- dore Roosevelt to sign a dbill exempt- ing from the franchise tax bill grace "‘_yvro-slnln of steam raflroads and said |(ng statement in reply to the answer | that “our friends of the New York Central and Senator Depew were anx- fous,” was read in the supreme court here on this, the sixth day, Roosevelt has been on stand in the $60,000 brought against him by Barnes. In reply the colonel wrote Senator Platt that he had recetved tné teto- “'too late." Two other letters bLearing on legisia- the witnesa libel suit William —A | former Unitel| Colonel | CHICAGO, April 27.—Frank P.: Walsh, chairman of the United |state Commission on Industrial Re- [lations, returning to Chicago today |trom Kansas City, lssued the follow- [ot fohn D. Rocketeller, jr., to Mr. | Walsh's comments accompanying the | correspondence in the Colorado Fuel and Iron cqse: ‘I note that Mr. Rockefeller, jr., !denounced me as & liar. The pub- lished letters which arouse Mr, Rockefeller's ire are all admitted by hini to have been written and cor- |rectly quoted, so that hig voluminous newspaper assertion {8 fn no senms | n denial of anything given to the BRITISH PUBLIC LOOKING TOWARD DARDANELLES Landing of Troops on Peninsula Continues and Russian Fleet is Bombarding the Bos- phnr\u Forts. | BATTLE IN mnnm RAGING Belgian Report Toll- of Repulse of Three German Attacks South of Dixmude. GERMANS ADVANCING IN FRANCE The Day’s War News GERMAN RUSH IN FLANDERS has halted, at least for the offtetal communiontt French, ar moment. Hritish and today German, departments portance farther than to chéck the advance of their opponents. ITALIAN AMBASSADORS at Berlin, flenna and London have mmoned home for n confercuce with the Italinn forelgn minister. GENEVA dfspntches German ensunitien tn the Tast two days are estimated at 20,000, THE BELGIAN AnM once more in reported to have vepalsed successive attacks of the Germans south of Dixmude in the great bat. ® apecial election for June 1, 1915, in all the said cities and in sald village to vote | upon’ the question of their consolidation, | 1t was erroneously oconsidersd and as- sumed that the satd city of Florence was | supplied with gas from the gas plant | within the sald cfty of Omaha and thus | came within the provistons of sald law. “Now therefore, I, John H. Morehead, Bovernor of the state of Nebraska, hesgby | revoking ana cancelling my uldl proclamation of April 2, 1915, do mow | and hereby proclaim and call, by virve of the authority in me vestsd and in the sy of Jume, 1915, in the sald 'Mmh-de‘Om-nl and in the South-Omaha and village of ‘at which election there shall be subnitted to the electors of sald city of - South. Omaha and village of m the question of thelr e-:::ucn / the following form, towit: A ‘&‘! South Omaha and village of ! n—-umua with the metro- “l‘ 00 unm “etestion to in the usual menver, !orli Aand Mo’ vote on said question, and | the election commissioner of the county, oo Thontonioc didunhiimitmiut it bt (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) - Says Rates on Meats ., are Higher Than on Other Gommodltlesnl CHIOAGO, Aprli 71.—The general con- | tention” that the westérn rallroads are | now recelving returns amply -aequllel duots and fresh meats was advanced to- | day at the western freight rate hearing, merce commissioner, by W assistant traffic manager Co. “Present earnings on the traffic Armour & | in! from South Omaha and Chicago are now paying & much ter revenue per ton wmile than the average of all commodi- ties," sald Mr. Manker. “The prosent rate { yields 757 mills and the proposed rate | 91 mills per ton mile.” The proposed frelght advance on the commeodities in which the packers are in- terested is 3% cents a hundred pounds. Mr. Manker testified that the proposed #livance in frelght rates would cost Armour & Co. 38019 & year on the | traffic from South Omaha to Chicago alone and that on all traffic the pro- posed advances would cost the company B415,784.78 yearly. The Weather Temperature at Omaha Yester' . | § | Bxcase tor the day. L exceas since March ¥ ' | Noj pricivitation.. “i2'inch - ey for the o . 2 inch Taintall since. March 1548 faches oy simc: March 1....... 163 inches for cor. perivd, i8id... 64 inch for cor. Period, 1913.... 2.48 inches 4 f 00 -0 18 o 0 E o0 0 a . © - » inluhn. 1 LA vm orecaster. NOT SURE WHEATLY IS MAN WANTED | Chicago wnneu Who Goes to Lin- coln to Look Over Alleged De- faulter Fails to Identify, HEARING GOES OVER TO FRIDAY (From a Staff Correspondent.’ LINCOLN, Neb., Aprl 2.—(Special)— W. A. Hamilton, a Cbicago rea. estate an, who arrived here last migit for the | Purpose of\ identifying Walter . Wheat- ley, in connection with the Jefalcation of a at Americus, Ga, bollevos that Whiatley fs' the Ggorse A \Vhostley wanted, -Iunulh be ald not cure to beén pu df !-‘rldav, witnesses will arrivo ‘from Americus. Wheatley insists that at the .time he _was " alleged to be In Americus that he was in London making reccrds for the Columbia Phonogroyh company and has asked Commissionsr \Phitmore to listen to the' records. Easlly Cleared. ‘Walter Wheatloy, music teacher of this city and Lincoln, arrested Sunday at te | | American mources, has brought it home {to ail who have sifted the evidence that Reed Brings Suit Against National Attorney General \Willls E. Reed yes- terday hegan a suit in district court in which dlssolution of (he National Fidelity and Casualty company of Omaha - | sought, recently aired during a legal contest par- | tictpated in by warring camps of tock- | holders, which it is asserted has not been | remedied, is assigncd as the reason for the sult in the peti District Judge Redick signad an order | reauiring the my 10 lhqw cause '&'u‘t'..m ek company mml it u “solvent & Vigorous defense will be made, | et el g e ‘China Will Submit Answer to Demands { Of Japan in Week | th tha | f orueities on PEKING, ADHI #1.—President Yuen #ug (TR0, By the ttiiotion & ROMB, April ctate capital on a government charge,|Iai and his councillors were in confer.| British prisoners, but by a contrivance, |1aljan ambassadors nt Paris, | the Inhutnenity displayed by the German | claby, 44 Bewond doubt.” Fidelity Company I | Germana themselves, who is not heartlly authorfties; toward British prisoners espe- The aecrethry guoted articles from the conventions adopted at The Hague relat- Ing to the treatment of prisoners of war, Mr. Odell on this subject at once. In his reply Senator Platt .al1 he would ‘tele- &raph Odell at once and urge him to line up the republican forces unitedly In favor of the bill" In the next letter, Colonel Roosevelt dlscussed the commission which was ap- pointed to revise the New York ity and asseiied that they had been disre- arded flagrantly by German officers. He Gdet .1 think it only falr and right to say humanity. “@ermany has for many years posed be- fore the civilized world as a great mill- tary nation. It has abundantly proved ity military skill and courage. 14 Sét Standard. “Bul surely it was for 4t to set up a standsrd of military honor “eonduct Af mot Instoad, 1t has stooped #hip. of nations to ae chartor, These messages weore part of the addi- tional correspondence that passed be- tween Oolonel Roosevelt and Senator {that the German hospitals should be ex- | Platt, which was presented in court to- An impairment of capital which was cepted In any charges of deliberate In-|day. A series of private lotters that passed between Mr. Barnes and Colonel Roose- velt were introduced Into the records. These covered a period between 184 and 1910. They were (o be read at the after- noon session. The reading of the cor- respondence between Colonel Roosevelt and former United Btates Senutor Platt, which will surely stain indelbly |ministrative affairs, was comploted to- itw nilitary history and which would vie [dey. with the barbarous savagery of dereyishes of sudan. “I @0 not think there can be & of any nationality, even ll.';‘t ashamed of the slur Which has been thus brought upon the profession of arms, The jusages of war have not only been out- {alleging emberzlement at Americaus, Ga., | ence today concerning the demands pre- | WNich must have arrested your lordships’ i doclared that the government made a very | sented to the republic by Japan, No in- . 8ttention, the Germans have in the last |, Rome to confer with Foreign Minister bunglesome joh of this case, in that the | officers did not make suwe' of the man they were after before arresting him and giving publieity to the arre Mr. Wheatley makes this statement: formation yet is obtalpable . concerning | the decialon reached by them. | 'The reply of the Chinese government to | the lateat Japanese communication will| be kiven within a wsek, the Chinese | week introduced a method of placing their oppononts hors de combat by the | use of asphyxiating gases, and they em- ploy these polsondus methods to prevaill when their attack, according to the rules “To prove that I am the wrong man is | wishing to give Japan no exeuse for a ! Of war, might otherwise have h"'fl publicity is another matter, At the time of the alleged embezzlement by a man before W. M. Daniels, l-urn-re com- | sald to be George D, Wheatley at Amer- (drawing from its attitude as already ‘W. Manker, iicus 1 was leading tenor at the Century tm-‘o known opera house, New York CHf books of that theater will col assertion, and the | onfirm that 1 never saw the town of packing house products and fresh meats { Amerieus in my life. My surprise is, mlt‘ the government should cause the arrest of a man before they know he Is !ha- man wanted. It is an injustice. I fn- tend to take the matter to the offlcials at Washington and intend to have the Omaha feders! officer who caused m) arrest give an explanation of his pro cedure. 1 realize that the last name of {the man wahted is the same as mine and in some respects the alleged .embezzler | resembles me, buf that ddes not excuse subh bunglesome detective, work." {Grief-Crazed Woman Throws Baby from Fast Moving Train| ABERDEEN, .§. .., April 7 Telegram.)—Crazed because of worry over Incendiary Bombs Set Fire to Ypres LONDON, April %i.—¥pres i in flam the .Germans having throw a hall of in- cendlary bombs into the town. thus tele- 2 | graphs the Morning Post's correspondent in northern France. “The fighting continues hotly along this front,” the correspondent adds. “The Germans show extraordinary daring front line, the guns used able carvizges. “Th Germans also are using effect- tvely armored trains, carrving 4.1 guns For the use of tho Germans bave consolldated and strength- ened the system of light raliways, unit ing a number of small towns in th neighborhood of Ypres, to which they have added strategical branch lines." in bringing up heavy artillery close to thelr | being mostly | thirteen-inch Austrian howlitzers on mov- | ‘on transportation of packing hovse pro- ,m easy matter, but to offset the unjust | repetition of the charge that they are | procrastivating. There are no. indication of Japan with- @rimsby Trawler Recolo is Blown Up LONDON, April 2—~The (rimsby | trawler Recolo has been blown up In the North Sea. 8even survivors, some of them x(-r‘f!blv mutilated, were picked up out of {a crew of nine, The ongineer went- down. {with the ship. Ome uf the injured men died. Opinion differs whetHer the' Recolo lwu destroyed by a' mine or a torpedo. "It 18 a orrible. story from every Par- ticular—one of the biackest spots on even German methods of war. My object i riging is to say with all emphasis and all deliberation that we shall not forget and we ought not to forget this horrible rec- ord of caleulated crueity and crime. “We shall at the end of this war hold it to be our duty to exact such repara- tion against those who are proved to be the gullty agents in this matter as it ‘may be possible for us to infliet. I do not think we would be doing our Juty either to those brave, unfortunate men, or to the honor of gur country, or to the plain dictates of humanity, iIf we should be content with anything less than that.” “Frank’s Appeal is Based on —($pectal | Foms.: DeE: 'her husband, who is fighting in the | 6u 67 | European war, Mrs. Stratedtio L.ygia, a | s 8 ' Swiss woman, who was traveling. from t Sa 8 | ik River, 1a8bo.. to her native cousiry. | appeal for exeoutive clemenoy for Wa. ’ threw her Z.year-old chl from a car 0 '3 ® | windaw on a Milwaukee train near Bow- | New York World says about it: m. : 1 75 | dle, west of bere. Though the train w Frank's ea for Life, l; flllu!n( at the rate of forty-five miles an | :m“ 3 " g :"‘ H | our, the child escaped with siight bruses | The .unwillingness until now o b 8 lon is face. The woman was taken into | Leo M. Frank, under sentence of §p .. 81 i custody here, and will be held for an | el F$ 3 examination as to her sanity death in Georgia for murder, to ask | ifor anything less than acquittal har-| monizes with his unfailing plea of in- | nocence. A man falsely Londnnnnd' | naturally seeks liberty and’ vindica- {tion. In his case, however, the le- #ue has at last become one of life or death, and if, as thousand: believs, | he is the vietim of a remarkable com- | bination of ecfreumstances, his de- | clsion to ask for a commutation of | sentence s praetically the only| course left to him | | “The plea shauld have weight with | | many people who are not yet pre-| {pared to hold Frank guiltless’ It | Commission and the governor with- of the Justice of the Verdict.”’ | '} Something More Than Doubt —New York World. Let no one otherwise sympathetic permit his heart to be hardened | by the suggestion that the court’s decisions leave no ground for an Leo M. Frank. Read what the out nullifying a single judicial act and be fully justified by the doetrine of reasonable doubt. That there is room for something more than doubt | of the justice of the trial jury's ver- dict has been admitted by the judge {who presided and by hundreds of competent persons who have exam- ined the record. “The whole theory of executive clemency rests upon the knowledge that there may be technical gullt for Wwhich extenuation may be offered, and that even by perfectly lawfu) | processes errors may be committed, especially by jurles, that cannot otherwise be corrected, Asking for life, Frauk's appeal s now to his fel- low-citizens of Georgia, who, in jus- tice to themselves no less than to ‘@ armored trains, the | may be granted in fact by the Pardon | him, can hardly fet 1t g0 unheedod New York World. Anyone still desiting to sign The Bee's petition for Frank or ciroulate one may apply for blanks at our office. Italian Ambasgsadors at War Capitals are Called for Conference T.~(Via Paris.)~The London, Vienna and Betrlin have been summoned Sonnino. In Rome this action s regarded as {preliminary to the anmouncement of a grave and important decision part of the Itallan government. Bignor Tittonl, the ambassador to France, reached Rome this morning. He left this city only a fortnight ago for Paris. on the @uch ‘information as had been furnished | stant tosttmony thas ""; "‘:""' n, ""°:\‘"““" ‘:‘"'::" “" ""_:"‘“‘ were A ‘l n alpress by me. Mr. Rlchlelhr'li b R him April 24, 1915, when the understaned, |, {anly from our own escaped prisoners, but note to Senator Platt, the colonel sug- | resentment obviousl Anno made tha as governor, lssued a proclamation calling | from French, Russian, Belglan and |Kested that he should “communicate with | * ger and y nee grow out of a misconception as to my duties. I was not appolnted to ‘allay’ or smother the causes of in- dustrial unrest, but to Investigate them and make them manifest lol the world.” Defendern Contradict Themueelves, “It i» Interesting and wmusing to nota that Jesse F. Welborn, preaident of the Rockefeller companies in Colorado, wives A labored interviow attempting to show that no such Jetters were ever written: while L. M. Bowers, chairman of the ex- ecutive committee of the Rockefeller in- tereats In Colorado, now at Birmingham, furnishes his somewhat lame contribution to the Rocketeller defense by confessing the authontioity of the correspondence, but declaring that it did not amount to anything and besides it had been uncov- ered by the ~ fiufl"mfl.hl“dflb appointment, however, with Mr. Rooke- feller's statement. Mo fafls to explain In any way the amasing confessions of Mr. Bowers that. the Colorado Fuel and Iron company leads in fixing prices and conditions labor, He falls to set forth the memorandum which he declared iIn his letter of July 2, 1014, with which he Wwas not entirely satisfied, but to whioh he was to make certain amendments for Governor Ammons. “Also the explanafien of Mr. Rocke- foller was fragementary, to say the least, in that it did not contain the names and locations of . the ‘friendly papers' to which the Ludlow massacre was to be given as suggested in the telegram from Mr. Bowers on the morning after that unspeakable horror. Tells Part of ‘Trath, “I am glad to note that the Rockefeller defense to the Ludlow massacre is that the two women and eleven chlidren who met thelr deaths upon that awful occa~ Marchesl Carlotti, the ambassador to Petrograd, will not come back because of the distance and the difficulties of travel under the present conditions, but & messenger has been sent him with in- structions. Ship With Women Peace Delegates is Given Release LONDON, April An admiraity order tsued today releamsd the steamen Noor- dam, whereupon the vessel proceeded on s way to Rotterdam. 14 The Noordam has on board the Amer! can women delegates to the International Women's Foace congress at The Hague It left New York April 13, but was held up in English waters on account of the embargo of the British government on traffic in the North Sea. U. S. STEEL AGAIN PASSES DIVIDEND ON COMMON STOCK NEW YORK, April #1.—The United Btates Steel corporation today declared its | regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent on the preferred stock. As in the case of | the previous quarter no action was taken on the common stock dividend. The total earnings of the corporation for the tiret quarter of 1916 were $12,457,909, the net in- come for the quarter was 35,884,570; the de- ficit for the quarter $6.189,861 OMAHA EHE-GATE CITY-OF THE-WES'] As a music center, Omaha has achieved a reputation far and wide. Our local || musical organizations main- || tain the highest standards || and the readiness of our music lovers to recognize |! their art and respond liber- ally with support brings to us all the leading musical attractions of the country. | | the heights of Uzsok pass, #lon were not shot, but merely smothered Ir a pit, while the bullets from the mine guards of thelr companies were flying cver the mouth of the pit. Entire eandor, however, should have moved Mr, itucke- feller to add the additional detail that his mine guards, in the gulse of state mili- tiamen, burned down the tents and looted the victims before and after the deaths. “Mr. Rockefelier's personal abuse of myself Is in line with the customary Rookefeller policy of crushing any Indi- vidual who opposes him in any way. I meet it with composure, however, tesling sure that this very publicity will create 4 sentiment among the American people which will prevent & recurrence of the Ludlow horror, perhaps go a long way toward re-establishing a republican form of government in those communities con- trolled by the Rockefeller interests, “On aocount of pressing duties with the commission on industrial relations I am unable to answer Mr. Rockefeller's attack in detall at this time. I shall, however, make full reply on the occasion of my next public speech, which will probably te at Cincinnatl, O., next Bunday." v Steamshlp Centric is Sunk in Baltic Off Aland Islands | BTOCKHOLM, April 27.—~(Via London)- The steamer Centric on its weay from Btookholm to Helsingbork, Sweden, Has been sunk by a mine off the Aland Islands. The members of the vesesl's crew were savod. | o | The steamer Centric was of 90 tone net and 20 feet long. It was bullt at Port | Glasgow in 1908, It left Savannah Maroh 3 for Kirkwall, where it arrived March 21, sailing subsequently to Gothenburg. |Russians Begin Another Strong Offensive Move GENBVA Switzerland (Vie Puris), April 21.—The Russians have begun an- other strong offensive movement around in the Car- thian mountains, according to a tele am recelved by the Tribune of Geneva | The Austro-German casualties there in the last two days, the dispatch says, num- ber 0,000 wep town of Lizserne, n storm center in the battle, has heen ugain taken ATING whether attack marks is in progress in conmnection with the mew attempt of the allies to Dardanelles and Con- stantinople. Nothing is known of the score of detnils of these opern- tions boyoud the official Britiah was LONDON, April 27.—An, official announcement from the war depart- ment at Constantinople today says that “the enemy attempted to land troops at four points " at the Dar- danelles. The statement adds that the troops which landed at Tekeburun were forced back and that Turkish at- tacks at all points were progressing. LONDON, April 37.—The English public, hoping that the most violent phase of the German offensive along the Yser canal has been witnessed, is turning its numugn again to the ' Dardanelles, where the landing of troops 1s still under way ! lending earnest co-operation by bom. barding the forts of the Bosphorus, where a Turkish battleship is re- ported to have made only a feeble reply. No attempt {s made here to mini- mize the importance of the German operations in Flanders, which have been declared to be at least an ample revenge for the British vietory last month at Neuve Chapelle. The Bel- (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) 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