Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 1

NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TWELVE THE MAHA DAILY — g VOL. XLIV—NO. 272, OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1915--TWENTY-FOUR PAC ES. RAIL WAGE BOARD GIVES MEN RAISE: SAY I7 700 LITTLE Award of Arbitration Body Increases Pay in Many Instances, but Employes Are Not Satisfied. Several Reforms Regarding Work- ing Conditions Are Inocluded in Grants. WILSON TO STICK TO NAGEL CHICAGO, April 30.—The award in the western railroad wage arbitration | recorded here this afternoon increases : the rate to firemen and engineers in many instances, but is believed by the men to fall short of their dc- mande. By reason of the many rules of operation involved no railroad will be able to tell exactly for a month at least the amount of money in-, volved. The surprise test remains. Express Disappointment. i The award Includes ,several re-| forms affecting hours and conditions | of employment. Representatives of | the brotherhoods expressed dlup«: pointment at it, while the railroads in a general way considered it satls-: factory. \The arbitration was strictly | on the démands of the men; there was nothing for them to lose of ad- vantages already enjoyed. Will Keep Nagel. | WASHINGTON, April 30.—President Wilson has concluded that there is no | good reason for the withdrawal of Charles Nagel, former secretary of com- therce and labor, from the arbitration board handling the wage dispute be- tween the western rallways and their firemen and enginemen, because of the raliway employes protest that as a trustee | of the Buach estate of St. Louls, he is 'RBJECT DEHAND | POSSIBILITY OF/A ’ NOVEL FRENOH GUN FOR OUTTIN ! The gun fires the hook into the \ then reeled in, bringing the wire with it. | cable. MADE BY UNIONS Representatives of Allied Building Crafts Refuse to Grant Increase , in the Wage Scale. STRIKE BARB WIRE--To the hook is attached a long idst of the wire entanglements and the cable i.\_ AN if‘ffirik éqtit{iofis Sullin Demand} yppropy RART The police of Atlanta may be i prejudiced against Leo M. Frank,|German Airmen Drop Two Bombs | but not so the police of Omaha,| On Steamship Cushing, En- i | for nearly all the members of the route to Rotterdam. { |police department have attaghed % [ their signatures to one of The Bee's FLYING UNITED. STATES® FLAG | The statement, which was issued | Thig\ rumor probably originated in a 'mlnre(\dmu of the IAVIATORS ATTACK |- ‘i s, | bombarded. Zeebrugge is a base of 'BRITISH OFFICIAL TEUTONS START BIG STATEMENT DENIES | DUNKIRK SHELLED cormuns sesis cenra st Announoemem Asserts Rumor the| French City Bombarded by \ German Warships Due to | Misreading. FIRING IS FROM A LAND GUN) {Paris Tells of Kaiser's Vessels Attacking Atlantic Seaport of Foe. |SEVERAL HOUSES DESTROYED | - LONDON; April 30 A British of- ficial statement given out this even- ing says it is not true that German warships have bombarded Dunkirk, on the coast of France. Another British officfal statement given ont thir evening said “The shelling of Dunkirk is now reported by aerial scouts to have been from a land gun and the reports that German warships were off that!| port were due to a misapprehension.” The British Statement. ! Ly the British Press bureau, is as fol- ?ll‘l‘k: i “The that German |sbips bombarded Dunkirk is untrue. | rumor War- French official | AMSTRRDAM (Via London), | April 80.4-The Telegraaf has pub- | lished a dispatch saying the town of Zeebrugge, on the coast of the North Sea in Belgium, has been heavily the German submarine fleet. Dunkirk Shel PARIS, April 80.—(Via Londoun.) BEE THE w_x_nmx Showers SINGI On Trains and at Hotel News Stands, 8¢ E COPY TWO CENTS. OFFENSIVE MOYE sin on Line from Til- sit to Vistula. FLEET ASSISTS LAND FORCES| PTTROGRAD, April 30.—(Via| London.)-—A general German offen- sive movement once more i{s under way along the entire Prussian border | from Tilsit to the Vistula river. The German advance this time evidently is almed at the Baltic provinoces, which are rich in crops and other od supplies. For months the military operations on the Prussian border had been lim- ited to scouting parties, isolated ar- tillery duels and aeroplane warfare. From Polla a town In the Raltio province of Courland, It was reported to day that an Increased number of German crufsers were proparing to assiat (he con- Into R templated advance Thus far the German offensive move- ment has consisted mainly of heavy ar- tillery fite at Intervals along the whole front and rapid cavalry advances without Infantry support On the Carpathian front nothing has happened in the last two days to alter the curfously balanced situation, namely, Russians directing an offensive against Uszaok and the Austrians asttempting & movement in the direction of Stry. The Austrian forces temporarily are abandon- [ing their attacks at other points and are beink concentrated in an effort to bend back the Russian wing with Lwow (Lem- berg) as the ultimale Austrian objective. The increasing Russian menacs on Uszsok pass, however, Russian military observers say, has brought this move- ment to & standstill, since with Ussok in Russian hands the operations of the Rus- slan right wing deprived of most impor- tant support would automatically col« lapee. Consider Care of Idle and Alien Rush of the land forces. | GALLIPOLI KEY S OCGUPED BY ALLIES’ FORGES Reports to London Paper Say Nar« row Neok of Peninsula is in Possession of the Land- ing Party. TURKISH STORY IS DIFFERENT It Says French Have Been Driven from Asiatic Shore and Britons on Other Side Defeated. GERMAN FLEET OFF BELGIUM (77 D' W o] VBN M NT ficlnl foes as disastroms to the attncking party. It ia anld 4,000 Germans were almost annihilated by the Belgian artillery. OFFICIAL STATEMENT from Parle says that German warships have nppeared off the Belgian coast and have bombarded Dunkirk. Twenty persons were killed. BULLETIN. LONDON, April 80.—An official statement given out this evening by the British war department regard- ing the operations in the Dardanelles says: “The army has been landed suce cessfully at six beaches in the Darda~ nelles. The casualties of the army were heavy. The fleet casualties were confined to destroyers. “A Turkish transport off Maidos has been destroyed by the battleship Queen Ellzabeth." , Following the War PHILADELPHIA, April ®. — Proposis interested in railway securities. The president came to this conclusion after conferences with Federal Judge RE e |=—German warships have been seen petitions asking the govérmor of| LONDON, April 30.—The Reuter | off the Belgian coast, according to an A bullding trades strike is immin- Telegram company has recelved a |Official statement given out in Paris BULLETIN. ¢ Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the fed- eral board of mediation and concillation. He takes the position that the railroad employes knew Mr. Nagel was a trustee of thé Buach estate when he was selected a5 an arbitrator.. and .as no protest was thén made, he sees no reason for his withdrawal when an award is about to be mpde. The limit set for the arbitra- tion. proceedings expires today, but the board has power to extend it. —_— Further Massacres 0f Christians by the ent this morning, May 1, the day set for the strike, providing the builders will not meet the requirements of the five allied building orafts. Sity building contractos from Omaha, South Omahp and Council Bluffs, alter & long session af the Commer- clal elub rooms this afternoon, fasued the following resolutfon: .. }‘. ““That tomorrow morning the contrac- tors mnotify the .carpenters and brick- layers that the scale of wages is to re- main the same as heretofore. Also that we do not take recognition of thé agree- ments made by and bétween the five crafts, namely, the bricklayers, carpen- ters, plasterdts, stone cutters and hoist- Georgia to commute the death sen- tence. ', The sentiment of the women news- ngper workers in Omaha is shown by the aotion of the Omaha Women's dispateh from ‘its correspondent at|today. Rotterdam ng that the American steamer Cushing from Philadelphia arrived at Rotterdam today and re- ports having been attacked by Ger- ess club at its last meeting, at hich al Of&fl_lm‘fll“'fi subscribing their names to a clem- ency petition. e Rl 1 Another ' petition ' contaifis the names of every person residing in the Flatiron hotel, making prac- tieally a complete roster of those alrmen in {he North Sea lest w iy (The airmen dropped t¥o bombs, but no damage was done. The Cush- ing was flying {he American flag at | stroyed the time of this at and its namé was displayed on its sides in huge letters. o g ‘The steamer Cushing left Philadelphia Large shells to the number of nineteen have fallen on Dunkirk, “German warships have been re- ported at large on the west coast of Belgium. y “Dankirk yesterday received nine- teen shells of large caliber. Twenty n%'m killed and forty-five wou: Some houses were de- There have been several dispatches in the last week Indicating that German warships were at large in the North Hea, evidently having evaded the Britlah men. of-war which for many months have been doing patrol duty in front of the German tions to solve the present problem of find- emy ot Political <. 0 affodted of New dent of the United @roe of leaders of social welfare work to devise of eftective labor exchange to for the unemployed. Alba B. Johnson, president of | win locomotive works, who presided. sald i t £ 2} i1 PARIS, Aprll 39.—A dispatch to Athens from the Havas agency says that the city of Gallipoli, on the Bu- ’ Kurds Are Reported living there. |Apr|| 11 for Rottérdam, via Deal. It is {ing and portable engineers.” naval bises on the eastern ‘sidé of the'lthe great recuperative power of the coun- / JULFA, Transcaucasia, April (Via Petrograd and London, April 3, 3:05 P. m)~A remewal of the recant mas- sacres of Christians in Armenia is now in progress in the whole district of Lake Van, Conflicts between the Armenians and the Kurds are dally becoming more ob- stinate. An exceptionally fierce engage- ment is occurring today at Shatasch. BOSTON, April 30.—Officials of the American board of commissioners for for- elgn missions on learning today of the roported renewal of massacres of Chris- tians in the Lake Van district of A menia sald that they feit no apprehension for the safety of their missiongries there, as they were regarded as neutral and not likely to be attacked. The board has nine Americans at Van, two men and several women. In addi- tion, there are several children. . The board maintains a college for boys and a high achool attended by 1,20 girls, and ® hospital. : il Fighting between the Kurds' and Ar- menians has been golng on for several weeks, according to recent dispatches from Transcaucasia. In the center of the Lake Van district is the town of Van, en important seat of American missions. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. For Omaha, Cou ;fi —Showers Baturday; night. Saturday: Bluffs and' Vicinity cooler by Saturday Temperature at Omaha Yesterday.| 2 | ‘This is a fiat refusal to accede to any |8t the demands made by the five allled {trades unjons. The demand was that, be- |#inning May I, wages of the bricklayers I should be raised from 70 cents to 75 cents per hour, that the carpenters should re- ceive 55 cents per hour, and that only union men should be employed in the jwork of hoisting and portable engineer- inz. David Coutts, secretary of the Allied "Buildln‘ Trades' conference, would make | no statement when informed of what the {contractors had done. “I will not make & statement,’”” he said, “for I have been quoted when T should not have been quoted. | am going to keep out of it." |Cold Weather and - High Winds Along ; Pacific Coast SAN FRANCISCO, - April -%0,—Record, breaking cold weather and high winds in {half a dozen far western states abated somewhat today after causing widespread damage. This may be increased in fruit districts by frost tonight Scores of small craft were driven ashore along the California coast and small ves- sels attempting to leave Sap Francisco harbor. had. to put back. In San. Fran- ]vlsro two boys were killed by live wires. Orchards in California and Oregon suf- | ferea | From Idaho came reports of thousands of Jambs frozen to' death In pastern Washington, 1daho and Mon- {of 432 tons net reglster and it is 427 feet long. Requests for petition blanks are still coming in from surrounding towns, and are being sunplied. Plan to Reorganize . Wabash Railroad Company Announced NEW YORK, April 30.—Stockholders of the Wabash Rallroad company recelved today copies of a new reorganisation plan announced by Winslow 8. Plerce, chair- man of the board of directors, and of 4 joint reorganization committee., The plan provides for the organization of a) new company With a capital stock of | $205,118,000, & reduction of $17,901,37 from | the stock of the existing company. It ! ‘was announced that the plan was ap- | proved by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and tha this firm has agreed to act as reorgani- zation managers. A syndicate headed by that firm is being formed. | It is proposed to raise $27,720,000 by an assessment of $30 a ghate on the common | and preferred stock. Holders of the first refunding and extension mortgage bonds, | of which $40800,000 are outstanding, are required by, this plan to supply any part | of the desired $27,7%,000 not paid by the | stockholders. s # | All fixed charges, except those on un- | | derlying bonds, are’ eliminated, reducing | this item to $3,153,915. . This is the chief differerice between the new plan and the one withdrawn after it had been sub- mitted to various state commissions last {the average distance to Sfoux City s 42 Hours. Deg. | tena the .temperature fell % degrees in 0T > Fho pioh e bd G Ie & o | Sa m.. twelve hours. i Ga. m... 3 T T Anates: Addfmonce st e bt rommln:;ughof Tinols, Indiana, Missourl, | 3 tered at 6 &. m. today, the coldest since | 10W® and Ohio. i : o | e | 10 6| Th e Ge B M by 8| Tre wind took u picce o un roonne ot | Blagt in Munitions 12 m. ) ithe California bullding .at the Panama- . . 1p. 7 | Pacific expcsition and blew down sev- P Klll M 13 67 {eral big lamp gosts medr the paiace of actory 8 Men -‘4 P & | mechinery —_— . 35 - PETROGRAD (via London), A*l 0.~ 6p. c.s‘J ] P' d A number of persons were Xilled, Amany 15 =& Juror in Hop Fiel oinars lajored aad much matariel Mam: §p. 64| age was done as the result of an ex- plosion in an ammunition factory in the stburb of Okhta tonight. . Riot Case Murdered; igheet yesterday Wife is AlSo Slain | seversi workshops were destroyea and Mean temperature. many of the inhabitants of the nelghbors Precipitation hodd were hurt by flying debris 1 .| MARYSVILLE, Cal, April 3.—Emil Pickard, a juror in the murder trials fol- 9 llcwing. the Wheatland, Cal., hop viuts of 1913, was found shot dead in his barn today. His wife was found in the house killed with a bullet in her head. |* feW davs \Bcheg | They live nine miles from here | % inoh Richard Ford and Herman Suar, at]| 63 inches | whose trials Pickard was a juror, re- {ceived long penitentiary sentences. Pick- | The number of persons killed has not flela |Y¢t been ascertained. It is asserted that {the stores of loaded shells were not af- |tected and that work will be resumed in Total excess since Normal precipitation...... Deficiency for the day.. Total rainfall since Mareh 1. Deficleacy since March 1 Exeess for cor. period, 18 Fixcess for cor. period, 1913, War Pictures || Reports from Stations at 7 P, M. Station and Sha Fomp. Tign- nflrl_ind‘. life bad been threatened | F thg Front ‘ % | PRESIDENT NAMES i cree i g2t NEBRASKA POSTMASTERS | . | 6| oo e Full Page in 4 2 (From a Staff Correspondent) . | o ‘0| WASHINGTON, April 2.—(Special Tel-| a2 12 legram.)—The president made the fullow- | 17]3 # :'p.m appointments 67 postmasters in Ne. | o @ |vraska: Henry J. Dunkin, Gibbon: | 3 K {George A. Hersog, Harvard: A. E. Meuu S “ Bc’ ] Laurel unaay T indivates trace of L A WELSH, mflhu‘o:n. - Sioux City Stock Yards Object to Increase in Rates CHICAGO, April 30.—Protest against increased freight tariffs on packing house products as they would affect Sioux City, were offered today at the western freight rate hearing by W, H. Benn, traffic men- agr of the Stoux City Btock Yards com- pany. “What we wish is a fair basis of trans- portation rat sald Mr. Benn, “so that ! we tan ‘have a reasonable share of the | competitive business with Chicago, St Paul and Omaha. “‘Mogt of the stock slaughtered at Sloux City comes from the northwest, whence miles less than to Chicago. For that ad- | ditional. hau} Chicago pays 13.7 cents per 100_potinde on cattle, 156 on hogs and 16.6 | on sheep,”or from 5 to 6 ceats per car | mile. On the packing house products | shipped from Bfoux City to Chicago we | pay 9§ to 13 cents per car mile. { 'Wa contend that the proposed increase of 5% cents per 100 pounds on packing| houge. products with no eerresponding in- | orease. in the live stock rate would mot be fair tp Bloux City," The withss added that. the proposed ad- vance alsq would be detrifnental to Sloux City in competition with Omaha and St Paul concerns. Sunday Free Movi:amgon By ospecial arrangement with eight of the best high class moving picture theaters | in Omaha and suburbs, The | Bee is able to give #ts read- | ers the excoptional privilego { of a free ticket for certain | performances. The ounly con- dition is that the coupon be ' cut out and presented at the | box office when buying » regular ticket. The Sunday lBee YOUNG man for must have chance for advanceme and good salary to start; one who bes received to §0 or better. An once. ‘.:.- farther uln-u.l‘a: -: this at North Sea. Captain Scott of & Swedish | steamer reported recently ié had seen in | the North Bea & German fleat numbering no léss th Axty-elght veasels. Dakota Auditor Will Not Pay Expense to The SuEeme Court PIERRE, 8. D., April 3. —(Special Tele- gram.)—No more payment of $60 a month expense to members of the supreme court, are to go unless by a court order, s the decree of State Auditor Handlin, The members of the court have each been drawing $0 a month as expense al- lowance for the last four years and the legislature allowed the same for the years more. Handlin holds this_an_unconsti- tutional allowance regardiess of an opinion to the' contrary by the state legal department, and that he will issue no more such warrants unless compelled to act by a; decislon of the court. The same ruling also affects the gov- ernor and the members of the rallway commission. Great Fire Rages In Heart of Colon COLON, April 30.—A fire is raging In the heart of the city,,#ix blocks, con- taining many important stores, busines houses and banks, already ha: by destroyed. The damage done is estimated at $750,000, A high wind is blowing and the re- mainder of the town is threatened [JOHN HAYES HELD GULTY OF FORGERY BY JURY PIERRE, 8. D., April ®.—(Spectal Tele- | gram.)—A verdiet of guilty was returned in the third eomplaint in which the state ( dopartment. charged John Hayes of Fort Flerre with second degree forgery in the | bank wrecking charges against him, This | is the outcome of one of the hardest legal | fights of years in this section | Hayes was released on one charge on demurrer, on another charge on & di-| brought in & verdict of gullty on the | third charge after being out thirty-six ! hours. An appesl will be taken. try I8 now being feit and that the provement in business conditions would continug. It Is he sald, that the balance of trade In favor of the United States will amount to $1,000,000,000 [thin year, Secretary Willlam C. Redfield of the Department of Commerce, in & speech bédfore the scademy sald both Germeny and Great Britain were in danger of los- ing their supremacy in the forelym trade if the war continued. He forecwst great commercial expansion for the Unfted Btates as a result of the war, Japanese Envoy Expains Demands On China to U. 8. WASHINGTON, April 8. — Viscount Chinda, the Japanese ambassador, had another long conference today with Seore- | tary Bryan, presumably on the Japanese- Chinese negotiations being conduoted in Peking. Both officials adhered rigidly to the policy of secrecy, but it was sssumed the conference related to the revised de- mands presented to the Chinese forelsn |office early this week. The revised list s known to amplify the original twenty-one articles with | three more added. The reappearance of all the original demands in modified form, it is thought, is bringing about explanations from the Japanese authorities. While no inkling has been given of the course to be followed by the United States with respect to the new demands {those familiar with the previous course inl American polioy belleve further modi- | fleation may be urged before the demands |can be construed as npot affecting the | administrative independence of China. It is believed that one of the subjects being considered is Japsn's demand for [ the right to propogate Buddhiym in | China. Zeppelin Drops Bombs Into Towns on British Coast IPSWICH, England, April . -Excited :nch-d verdict of not guilty, but the jury | residents of this historic town spest the early hours of the morning taking stock of the damaege dome by the homb !droppea from a German airship, generally belfeved to have been a Zeppelin, which appeared shortly aftor midnight. So fa: A8 can be learned no one was injured although there were several narrow escapes and the property damage was small. Bombs fell helplessly in Water- loo street, which is the most densely populated district. BURY SAINT EDMUNDS, Pngland April 30.—Police Inspector Wilson sald this porning that just after 1 o'clock he heard several terrific ‘explosions and vealized that a Zeppelin had arrived. The ells dropped from the airship cause our fires. While there was no loss ol life, the property damage was consid erable. The aerial ralder remained over the town ten minutes and then disap ipeared in the direction of the coust. the peninpuls to the north of the town of Gallipoli. Athens predicts that this campaign will last a long time, as the Turks occupy exception-: ally well prepared defensive posi- il H : soii. FHA ;a?; i The chief subject at present before the British mind is the question of Wquor regulation in Great Britaln and the fact (hat the government for the first time since the beginning of the war has had to meet & division in the House of Com~ mons. The attitude of the House prob- ably refiects the opinion of the country, which is sharply divided on the question ot regulating the consumption of aleo- {Continued on Page Five—Column Five) Facts Not Fiction Every Sunday newspaper contains some fiction. It also contains a large amount of facts, The most interesting and largest variety of facts are found in the Want Ad section. The Want Ad section of next Sunday’s Bee prom- ises to be the largest so far this spring. Have you any facts to present to Bee readers? Telephone Tyler 1000, THE OMAHA BEE “Everybody Heads Bee Want Adsgt