Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1915, Page 1

The Sunday Bee is the only Omaha newspaper that gives its readers four big pcges of colored comies. VOL. XLIV—NO. 270, STRYKER OF SOUTH _ OMAHA PROTESTS | MEAT RATE RAISE/ Secretary of Live Stock Exchange Asserts it Would Give Kansas City Advantage Over the Northern Market. ST. JOSEPH MAN IS A WITNESS { \ | | Commerce Club Commissioner of that City Makes a.Similar Argument. OTTUMWA PACKER IS mnn; CHICAGO, April 28.—Protests | against < the advance In freight fates on packing house products and fresh meats from Transmississippi | river territory, proposed by forty-| one western railroads, among dther commodity rate advances, was volced | today before W. M. Daniels, Inter- state Commerce commissioner, in the 'hearing of the western rate case. Representatives of packers in in- terior points, spokesmen for South ' Omaha and St. Joseph interests, gave thelr reasons for opposing the in- srease of 314 cents per 100 pounds, | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ & | OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1915~ FOURTEEN PAGE Motel News Stands, So SINGLE COPY TWQ CENTS. ——— COMING OF THE CZAR'S ARMY- -Entrance of the vic- torious Russians into the mai fall of the Austrian fortress 'PRENCH CRUISER IS SUNK BY AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE CRAFT M.Jor‘ty of an o(‘ over stvrn to the letter wddressed te him by Frof Hundred Men of Leon Gambetta | X\nC Mever of the University of Her Lost as Ship Torpedoed in Otranto. n street of the town after the i ’ . of Przemysl. Lid on Free CAMBRIDG! - A tent universit Mass,, Lawrence April 28 —Presi. Loweil of of Harvard made public his reply Hn, In which the latter protested against the publication by a Harvard student j per of a poem entitled “Gott Mit Uns, Dr. Lowell dtsclaims for the university autharities any responsibility for the ALL OFFICERS DIE AT POSTS ,erses and savs Harvard's policy of free - dom of speech will be preserved His Victims Are Mostly Asleep When """';m‘;_‘::",:._“ Explosion Destroys the War Prot. Vessel. Mass., April 5-My Dear Your letter has come. and 1 am grieved at the fecling of Irritation against Harvard that it shows The poem and prize to which you refer | had ROOSEVELT OPTEN CONSULTED PLATT | Legislatug> Obeyed Boss and He Went to Headquarters When He Meyer BOAT IS DOING PATROL DUTY Pee BRINDISI, Paris, April Transmissfon.) Leon Gambetta has been by the Austrian submarine U-6 in the Strait of Otranto, the waterway lead- ing to the Adriatic Sea, The firdt report of the destruction of thig crulserscame from the men on duty at the semaphore station of | Santa Maria Leuca. once gave the alarm and veseels were sent out to the aid of the Leon Gam-| SYRACUSE, Y., April 28 betta from Brindisl, Taranto, Otranto ! Theodore Roosevelt told today as & Italy, April (Via 28,)—~(Delayed In The French cruiser torpedoed libel suit These men at|CROSS-EXAMINATION IS ENDED | never heard of until vour letter came As you are the ot speech of melther the professors nor the students In Ameriean university is limited, nor are they themseslves subject in thelr ntterances to the direction of the authorities. This policy of freedom of speach we shall continue to pursue, we believe it to be the only one accords with the principles of academic freedom. 1 hope the time will come when you and your colleagues in rmany will recognize that this course {s the only right one. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWEL! The poem, which was anti-German ia | tone, was written in competition and the author wus given a prize. The Wwere two professors of the university. 'UNION LEADERS AND BUILDERS INDICTED Labor Oificials and Contractors Are Charged with Boycotting Ma- terial Made Outside City. nware froedom which {100 MEN AND FIRMS NAMED > CHICAGO, April 28,--The teen officials of labor unions, eighty- two contractors or contracting firms Judges | eévé;l Germanwl’rofessor fold No “_AN[] GAMPMGN Speech at Harvard ALONG STRAITS 1S PROGRESSING | French Troops Are Advancing on | Asiatic Side of the Dardanelles and British on the European Side. FIERCE BATTLE IN FLANDERS British and French Reports Indicate that German Offensive Near Ypres Halted. |GERMAN REPORT CONTRADICTS .| The Day’s War News GERMANS IN FLANDERS onee strugxie for mastery of tory near the Yaer canal. I RUSKIANS AGAIN are assuming the offenstive in anot peated efforts to mountaln barrfer in Hungary. BRITISH CORRESPONDENT ern France telegra i | | | and Barl. | witness In the $50,000 | {brought aaginet him by Willlam nmfn""‘"' when governor of New York {and two alleged trusts named in in-| dictments returned in the United States district court yesterday charg-| ing violation of tfie Sherman anti-| Watehing Str the beginning of Anglo-French cperations against the Dardanelles > French warshis In the Adriatic have|8Rd president of the United States, which the railroads are seeking to \add to the present freight rates. A. V. Stryker. secretary of the Live checked definitely, hattle atill continues with vio- lence, Since Ktock exchange of South Omahs, declared that the” chief objection to the proposed .freight rate increases was that it would add to a disadvantage which South Omahe. already. suffered from in.compe- | tition with Kansas City. { -H. G. Krake, commissioner of the traf- | fic bureau of the Commerclal club of St. | Joseph, Ma., inade .a-.similar protest | against the Kansas City rates, which, he declared, worked a direct hardship on St Joseph interests. H. A. Davis, traffic manager of John Morrell & Co., packers’ at Ottumwa, ob- jected to th epropased advance on the ground that it would disturb the present adjustment between itnerior lowa points {pcluding Ottumwa and Memphls, where there is now strong competition, California Non- Partisan Election Bills Become Laws ‘SAGRAMENTO, . Cal, April 2.—Four y Speaker of the Assembly C. C. 1 4 l | | | { | - In Texas Better 'HOUSTON, Tex., April 28—Central South Texas flooded conditions improved steddily last night and today, strength- {(xening the bellef that the worst is over, \ Mth “all transstate streams are out of &t many points and damage is continuing. No. rein, however, has fallen alopg -the lower. yeaches of the rivery in more than forty-elght hours .and the water is receding slowly. Crests of north Texas floods will not arrive for several days and by that time < it 1n ‘Delieved the southern rivers will Nave fallen enough to enable the water to pass into the gulf without trouble. e WOMAN'S SKULL IS CRUSHED WITH HAMMER BALTIMORE, M4, April 2—While Miss 1da Robbins, 22, is in a hospital here ' belleved 1o be dying, the police today are searching for & man and woman who arc thought to have beaten in her skull with a hammer. The assault took place in the office of consclousness she sald her attacker was & negro who demanded money. (Later developments led the police to spspect a white man and womman. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday: s, Council Bluffs and Vietnity ~Fair and cooler. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. | i | limitod thelr activitles to watching the|he conferred with former United Btrait of Otranto, with the idea of pre-|States Senator Thomas C. Platt— venting any Austrian submarine escaping | «the boss.' from the Adriatic, at the head of which : & v An /Pola, fhet Kbatrian ‘nava) bass, and| Whil'De was governor of . New reaching the coast of Turkey. This pa-!| YOrk the colonel declared he dis- trol duty:wia particularly to proiect the |cussed things with Senator Platt be- vessels of the allles operating against the ' cauge he had found out that the leg- | w PULHOTOR SAVES BIG GERMAN FLEET MAN WITH MUMPS Oxygen Administered for Six -1ours | Revives Patient Thought to Be Dying. SIMONS NOW HAS A CHANCE A pulmotor belonging to the Omaha Gas company was rushed to Benson Tuesday on a hurry call to save a man who had the mumps. L. 4. Simons, a salesman for the T. G. Northwall company, was the patient. He had lain unconscious tor. nine hours at his home, 2805 North Bixty-first street, Benson, The mumps had taken a“‘turn for the worse ‘and had "ton' in,” affecting his entire system. 'The physician in attendance, Dr. J. M. P, Heumsnn, saw that there waes danger of the heart falling. He and the father of the young man, Charles Bimons, determined that herolo | measures must be resorted to. The uas | company was Galled up and the siuation explained, Corporations may, indeed, be soulless. | But their employes have souls—and | Could they borrow the pulmotor? Could they? Well, that pulmotor was lying around the gas office just aching for & chance to save a life. Could they | borrow it? Why, the gas company said the Benson folks couldn't keep from bor- | rowing it and they would send it out | douBle quick. It arfived at the house 'n Benson ac- by a skilled operator and sev- eral tanks of oxygem.. In a Jiffy it was at work and the oxygen was pumped | into the system ‘of L. A. Simons. | Administration of oxygen continued | from 10 a. m. until'about 4 p. m., when | it was considered that danger was past. Simons is resting ecaslly now, with every chance of complete recovery. 15,000 Letters Urge Governor Save Frank ATLANTA, Ga., April 8.—At the gov- ernor's office today it was sald that 15,20 | letters ‘have been received urging that Leo M. Frank's death sentence be com- | mutted to life imprisonment. He was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan, a shop girl Allied Air Squadron Raid Zeppelin Base! BERNE, Switzerland (via Parls), April 2.~The military station at Romanshiorn this morning reported the appearance of { a squadron of allied aviators making for | I'ricdrioshafen, where the headquarters | of the Zeppelin dirigible balloops is lo- | cated. Soon afterwards a lively cannonacing, jasting half an hour, was heard. ' #ix ma- | |Dartanttion islature obeyed his orders, And th® The submarine which attacked the Leon A 5 |Gambetta came from Cattaro, on the, Witness thought it best whep there |eastern comst of the Adriatic, an Ausirian | Was any likellhood of that law-mak- |port about 800 miles from Santa Maria!ing body of the state disagreeing with Leuea point. This distance could have|pym o first go to headquarters and {dietmenta are | Interfering and restraining interatate commerce. labor leaders are charged trust and interstate commerce law, were expectod (o appear today to ive bond of $10,000 for each indict- ment in which their names appear. If the Indicted mon do not reespond ithin a few da The charges in each of the eight in- conspiracy o restrain {trade, combination In restraint of trade, with interstate commerces The with having it s announced by | the court capiases wil be issued. IN THE NORTH SEA Captain of Swedish Craft Reports Passing Sixty-Eight Warships of All Classes. ® y b Leen traveled by the submarine in about| 1\ " over” purther, as gov- twenty hours. | Three French cruisers were last night|ermor, the colonel said he did nct | watching the strait between the Island |\want to run any chances of disrupt- of Corfu and the Italian coast ling the republican party. Thelr Position. | As president of the United States the 1t appears that they took up a position | colonel rerdily admitted he EXACT LOCATION IS WITHHELD about half way batween Santa Maria|consiantly with the senator from New {Leuca and tWe Greek island of Othont | York on all manner of things. He said o | There the craft waited for it prey, and he valued the wenator's advice and TRy ANl 8. “m"‘,wmn the opportunity afforded discharged | Wanted tg take advantage of his wide Scott, commanding a Swedish steam- |, "4, 0040 against the Leon Gambetta, | experience. ship, reports the presence in the which was one of three French crulsers| These statoments were made in reply North sea of a German fleet numbe- |doing patrol duty. b S v g, o gy s B o ing no less than sixty-elght vessels It 18 belleved the Leon Gambetta had L oveld oot e g bns .“' fold. ty-elgh on board a orew numbering 74 men, in- |4 oross-examination by counsel - cluding t wo officers. i Captain Scott, wiose vesnel has just (“;:....':' iy el gy “: o ook come to POrt. report.that while erossing i crujser was sunk. M“’"'m by the North sea he was held up by ome ! From information gathered from vari- | p {hiehe o ot these Germin vessels After an ex- |6us survivors it ia possible to construct | ¢ thighs and moved his arms and heed aminatiop of his papers he was per. U6 story of the disaster s follow {his volee ana paunded tpon the arm of mitted to proceed, The German fleet Parts with Jules Ferry. the witiess chair until coupsel tor M was composed of vessels of all classes, | The Laon Gambetta parted company | BUFnes entered wn objection with th from battleships to torpedo boats {With the French crulser Jules Ferry last | 20Ut akalnat what they termed his S AT ¢ {num to cross the Strait of Otranto with | “¥esticulatio «..0f Capiain Scott's encounter | o view to co-operating with other French | Whan Justice Andrews ascended the and just where in.the North sea he' ships in an attempt to block the Austrian | Ponch he warned the jury against read- sighes] (his Gerroan floel has not been | flest if it whowld seek to leave the Adri- |[!N€ the newspapers. ann-unced {atle. This was no unusual maneuver, as | Mr. Ivinse then asked the colonel |/ the Leon‘Gambetta for months had been | Whether he remembered making & speech Reporter Denies ":::“::‘:::';:;‘:J:‘::‘m R at Hudson Falls in 1913 Story He Was Under Sentence of Death asked the colenel. | Gambetta showed no lghts and adopted | . Ivins replied: “I bhave never been [",. other customary precautions, there }.ov'm"r and '0\""0““"’ T'have never ! about e 0’ busbition’ of diniper: been all over the state.” X3 Titalont the: Winhls wee The speech at Hudson Falls was read. [ twenty miles from Cape Santa Maris 1D 1t Colonel Roosevelt was reported as | Lauca, The lookout could see distinctly {*4YIn& that Mr. Barnes was a menace GALVESTON, Tex., April B.—Phil E. [the lights on the Ttallan comst. At sea |10 tho state of New York and that it McCleary, the American newspaper man |nothing appeared on the horizon be was & menace hetore election he Was recently reported sentenced to death by | % mannse vet." General Carranza, arrived here today on Fearful Blast Followa. ohn M. Bowers, Colonel Roosevelt' the steamahip City of Tampico from Vera | Suddenly there was & fearful explosion. | chief counsel, objected. Mr. Ivin ex- Cruz. He sald he had no trouble with the | Which shook the crulser fore and aft. |plained to the court that the colonel's Carranza government, but 1s employed in ' Officers and men remained calm, and, |spoeches were not being introduced with its nows service. (Continued on Page Four, Cplumn Four.) |8n dea of compounding the alleged libel, The Bee’s Frank Petitions will be Transmitted to Governor of Georgia With End of this Week— Interest Growing Right Along. The Bee wishes to give notice it will send in to the governor of Georgia the signed Leo M. Frank petitions with the close of this week, although interest in the movement to save this young man from the death penalty seems to be increasing, as indicated by the requests for petition blanks and the activity of the people interested. The Bee is advised by James Richardson that since forwarding the Cornell alumni petition, published in The Bee last Sunday, five additional gnatures have been secured and transmitted, making a total of thirty-siz, "'I’ reading 'n:ldnlm -pmw h was sustaiged representing practically the total alumni strength in this community, theipo::,,:.:u[;‘w.;::" uh:r'.o:. u::“_‘\ i additional names being C. A. Thomas, '00; John H. T. Riley, '0 David ' W. Magowan, '11; Dr. C. H. Waters, 12, and Sanford R. Gifford, 18, ! Many Individual letters are going forward, copies of some of them ! coming to us, among them one from E. G. Maggi of the Nebraska Board of ) Free Coupon “Where is Hudeon Falla?' | moon shone brightly. Although the Leon Barnes and Murphy. In another speech Colonel Roosevolt was quoted as say! but he said he was incorrectly guoted, “that Mr. B. and Mr. M." should be in the same party. The speech was delivered in Saratoga. In it Colonel Roosevelt was also quoted as saying that one controls New York and | the other controls Albany. | UColonel Roosevelt sald the speech was | mubstantially correct, but that part of |things he sald had been left out and parts had been shortencd and fncorrectly reported “I never sald the colonel sald Mr. Murphy.' " In another' speech’ Colonel Roosevelt was quoted as saying that “Mr. Whit man was one of the most efficlent in- struments of Tammany.” An objection to ‘Mr. B. and Nvr. M " “1 sald ‘Mr. Barnes and (Continued on Page Four, Column Two.) ~ conferred | for #lve omphasis to his words. He raised or handling goods whick had been shipped from outside the state, because of wileged disputes with the concerns to rwmr-v the goods are billed Boyeott Outside Material. The Indictments charge that associa- tions have heen formed here for the pur- | pose of boycutting goods, in certain lines, manifactured outside of Chicugo. The laber leaders, It was alleged, had agreed not to permit their men to work on Jobs where materfal manufactured outalde of Chicago was being used, and the con- tractors agreed, It was charged, to em- ploy enly workmen who were members of the unions which belonged to the as- soctation. Chicago Switchboard Manufacturers’ association wore named In two indictments. Many well known ~slectrical contractors also were included i the liat, The investigation was started a yoar ago. Statement by 0'Donnel. Simon O'Donnell sald of the indictments: “T ani sure 1 know nothing of anything I may be charged with. I have been fighting for the good of the workmen of the city and have held out consistently for an agreement which explicitly sets out that there ehall be no diserimination against goods made outside Chicago. Of courss, no one cares to have a federal indictiment ngainst him." Similar expressions came from other labor leaders who were indicted and from contract s who are alleged to have con- apived with the unlons to keep goods (@ontinued on Miss Jane Addams Made Chairman of Peace Conference THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 28.— (Via London.)—~The International Con- grees of Women today unanimously rade Miss Jane Addams, one of the American delegates, chairwoman, The gathering adopted resolutions pro- testing againat the madness and horrer of war; opposing the assumption that women can be protected under conditions of modern werfare: recognizing women's responsibility In connection with wars, but declaring that their/influence against wars could be effective only with equal political rights; pledging women to do all in thelr power to promote mutual understanding and good will, and urging the necessity of directing the education of children toward the idea of con- structive peace, Other motiuns adopted oxpressed it as the conviction of the conference that in- ternational dlsputes should be to_arbitration and conciliation Thore was adopted also a general reso- | lution daclaring women to be united in spite of the hatred and bloodshed now filiing the world Harvester Denies prevented union workmen from unloading | referred | 5 |ctines are sald to have been over Kried- - % ® 4 4&icricsbaten. Detalls of the raid are lack- % 8 % y | o 0w w0 8 i \and precipitation depar- | GENEVA. Switserland (Via Pars), April ~ ntu‘r;. normal m |288.—A French airman yesterday threw | Norma] te: 5 | four bombe on the Mauser rifie factory at | Local Reecord. M5, 1914. 1912 19) S84, \ Excess for the day. R g See i ol ormal Def} tor the }r.?u?""uhfll Excess h Excess E cor. R s from Stations at -y Btate Temp. Hi R T7p.m. tly cloudy..64 /i 72 TP M. Rain- est. INB2IIABRIR 3225952328288 L. A WELSH, Local Forecaster, Oberndorf, near Stuttgart, Each of these missiies reached its goal, and according to the information coming into Geneva considerable damage was done. Quantities of munitions and some machinery was destfoyed. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND REPORTED AT LINCOLN | Vollowing, is a list of subscriptions to the Belglan rellef fund reported Lincoin: i Amount reported breviovsly J. ). Christner. Waunetta M. club, reported bv Chapin, Lincoln o son e Westminster Presbyterian church Lince'n cones . Cltizens of Kearnev county, re- $11,30 08 | 9.9 | Mrs 6.0 150 | |that our people are big and broad enough at all times to help any In Council Bluffs, former Mayor Thomas Malomey, who is/also ex- | national treasurer of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, sent a petition of | 300 signatures to be presented to the state president of the order at Al~{ lanta, of which the following is a copy: COUNCIL BLUFFS” Ia, April 26 C. Keeney, State President A. O. H, Atlanta, Ga—Dear Sir and 1 am mailing you today & petition which our people up in this country are very much interested in, which I would kindly ask you from a fraternal siundpoint to present to the governor either by yourself or somebody selected by you. This is a petition asking the governor to save Leo M. Frank from the gal lows. 1 am not criticizing the method of the trial or anything connected with its procedures, but we fellows in the face of the circomstantial evidence think tiat the sentence at least ought to be changed to imprisonment for life, aw there is always a chance that somebody might be mistaken, and ‘noné of us would feel like convicting someone that there was any chance of & mis being made along that ling. 1 am writing’ this letter personally and asking you to do this from a stand- Hon. P. Brother at | point of fraternalism apd also to show & lot of bigots in this part of the country | unfortunate fellow, no ifatter what nationality or religion he might be If you will kindly do this for me I will greatly appreciate it, and if the opportunffy ever presents itself 1 will be very glad to return the compliment at any tim Kind regards to all, I am, fraternally yours, THOMAS MALONEY, ported by Robert L. Weich. Ex-National Treasurer. N Pardons, Mayor Fisher of Chadron, Dr. George A. Matthews of Wray, (‘olo.,' For the and several othérs who asked that their names be not printed. . Best Movies | By special arrangement with national mally denfed to Secretary Bryan that it had sought advantages over competitors In Yuecat Carranza Charges WAEBHINGTON, April Harvester company 2%, —The Inter- today for- in the purchase of sisal grass eight of the leading moving picture theaters THE BEE is enabled to give its readers a combination coupon good for a free admission to any ome of them on days ») In Sunday’s Bee and disclaimed knowledge of charges made by the Carranga government that one of its agents had used the name of the Btate department to further ita in- | terests. | On request of Luls Caberera, Car- ranza’'s secretary of the treapury, com- plaimt was lodged with the State depart- ment against the methods said to be em- ployed by Avelino Montes, an agent in Yueatan of the harvester company. The complaint charged that Montes used the name of the State department to force conditions in ..? tiations between pro- ducers and consfmers of sisal and had attempted to pay for the fibre in recog=] nized money issued by Insurgents | Mr, Bryan sent the denfal to Charles Av Douglas, counsellor for the Carranza agency. | | | | CLEANING establishment; - good proposition for a hustler; = has splendld reputation and good 'trade ressons for seiling; will trade or income property or $3,000 cesh For further information sbout fll wee the Want RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN official statements indicate that fighting in the Carpathians is bocoming more intense. Hach slde olaima apparent that 1y the notivity t sprending nlong the greater sectionn of the hattle line, ITALY IS STILL DEBATING the aues whether 1t shall inter- vene in the war, ALLIRS AT THE DARDANELLES stantinople, FRENCH ARMORED CRUISER Leon ment, has been torpedoed by an Austrian submarine. The Berlin news agenoy which made the an. nouncement says that part of the erew of between 700 800 men wos saved, 7 NEW GERMAN ATTACK on a large Acale has been Inaugura slan Poland, SR Vi ~=A well authenticated report reached Berlin that the left 'll::: the allies’ landing force on the Cal- lipoli peninsula, which General von Liman von Sanders, the German com- mander of the Turkish forces re- ported yesterday as holding out, has now surrender to the Turks. LONDON, April 28.—England is breathing free again today in the belfef that the German offensive near Ypres has been stopped and, the coun- try is finding time to turn its atten- tion to the Dardanelles, where an al- lted army has landed on both shores of the straits, Paris reports that the Freneh tion landed on the A.ll.tln shore :‘: s making steady progress, despite the stubborn resistance of the Turk- 1sh defenders, who are strongly en- trenched and supported by artillery. The British section has success- fully made a base on the European side of the straits. Turkey sdmit thess Wadteer et da- clares that the allles have been unable to make any progress toward the interfor. The latest French official announcement |declares that the allies are making con- !llnuld progress between Ypres and Dix- mude where the capture of prisoners, ,maciine guns and war supplies is clatmed. | Following the reported fallure of the German attack at Les Bparges, the (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) 'y - Individual O i pportunity Have you looked, worked | and searched for it in wvain and almost despaired? y Fall into some good lnck, find out where opportu. nities exist in abundance. { It's in the Business Chance i column in the Want Ad See- tion of e Bee: A small thing to look for, but a big thing to find. 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