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

Greater Omaha Consolidation Election Today. Be Sure to Vote and to Vote “Yes.”’ Drawn For The Bee The best newspaper artists of the country contribute thelr best work for Bee readers. THE OMAHA DAILY BE THE WEATHER. Partly Cloudy VOL. XLIV—-NO. 298 OMAHA, DE PALMAWING BIG ™ Ao mos i suro aces 00-MILEAUTORACE | - oo GOING RECORDPACE, | ke B | | Drives Mercedes Car to Victory at Indianapolis, Breaking All 4 3 y J | Records for Dis- . 3 \ o tance. . \ SPEED ALMOST 90 MILES HOUR| | % 3 = | | Resta Finishes Second After Making o e ! Hard Fight to Head Off ' 3 PRISON COMMISSION | TAKES FRANK'S PLEA UNDERADYISEMENT Appeal of Judge Presiding in Ca Now Dead, Urging Clemency for Accused Man, is Read at Hearing. NOT CONVINCED OF HIS Possible Court Dot Wishes of Jury 3 n"‘* 1, 1915- FOURTEEN PAGES. GLE AN ENGLISHWOMAN, honorary housekeeper of a base hospital in France, bargaining for delicacies for wounded soldiers. 'WILSON STUDIES | NOTE OF KAISER | Official Version Says Lusitania Un- | doubtedly Carried Guns Which | Were Mounted and Masked. SITUATION 18 AGAIN TENSE' —— { WASHINGTON, May 31.—In an! atmosphere of holiday calm, Presi-! dent Wilson studied today the inter- national problems confronting him with respect to conditions in Mexico and the German submarine warfare. Leader. WINNING TIME IS 5:33:55.50 Racers' Positio Driver. Time. Car. Mercedes Pegeot Stutz . .... Stutz . O'Donnell. 6:08:13.27 Deusenberg . Burman...6:13:19.61.. Peugeot By FRED 8. HUNTER. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 31.— (Special Telegram.)—Driving the race of his career, Ralph De Palma, the \ most popular of automobile drivers with speed enthusiastsi oveér- came the jinx which has always pur- sued him and earried off the premier hondrs in the 500-mile sweepstakes race at the famous brick speedway heretoday. De Palma not only won the face, ‘but he shattered every existing rec- ord for distances from 200 miles to De Palma hustled I:: Gcrn:.r; ‘:l.v': o times around the track in h;du: .t:xm—thm minutes fitty-five and one-half seconds. The former record for the distance was $:03:4504, made by Rene Tho in & French De Kage cer in 1914, De ma. also broke the records fof 200, 260, 300, 400, 40 and 600 miles. Made Records to Stand. Speed enthusiasts predict all of the rec- ords will stand for some time. Darius Resta, the sensatjoral English driver, who created such a stir by win- ning the Vanderbilt cup and Grand Prix races, finished second after pushing De Pllm'hl!dlllm"}’- But Resta had met his matoh. At San Francisco De Palme retired the wet traci o by wai 5:37:34.0, an average of .23 miles an hosr IR by 3 o % s Gil Anderson ix Third. Gil Anderson, plioting a Stutz, pushed his car in third money and Eatly Cooper, in another Stutsz, was fourth. Anderson’s time was 5:42:25.57 and Cooper's 5:46:19.85. Eddie O'Donnell, in a Deusenberg, fin- | jby.ed, 16 Per Cent (E_Part Time WASHINGTON, May $l.—More than seven wAge edrners in every 100 were out of employment and about sixteen of ished an ‘easy fifth in 6:08:08.27. For the | the remainder were working only part first time in’history Bob Burman finished : time during March and the early part Letter l\.,s MUCH INTEREST IN INCIDENT ATLANTA, Ga. May 31 The {hearing on Leo M. Frank's petition was concluded late today and the | pricon commiesion took the matter | under advisement. A decision is not | expected under a week. No one ap- peared in opposition to the petition, A lefter written by th clate Judge L. H. Roan, who presided at Frank's trial, urging executive clemency for Frank, was presented at the hearing on Frank's application for commu tation of sentence before the state | prison commission. The letter was dated in December, 1914, and was addressed to lLuther Z. Rosser and Reuber R. Arnold, Frank's principal | counsel at his trial. Judge Roan died | in New York last March. The Judme's Letter. The leter sald ‘ | “After considering your communication | asking that I recommend clemency In the | punishment of eLo M. Frank. I wish to w¥ that at the proper time I shall ask the prison commission to recommend and | the governor to commute Frank's sen- tencé to life imdeisonment. * ¢ ¢ ¢ vit is possible that 1 showed unduc ! deference to the opinioniaf the jury in ' this case when I alalwed thelr yerdict to | stand. They said by ‘their Wefiot that they had found the €ruth..T.was still in The president motored most of the | morning, riding on the front seat of | his ecar, appareutly in deep thoughr. The reply of ithe German govern- ment to the American note protest. ! ing against the sinking of the Lusi- tania and other violations of Ameri- can rights in the war zone brought { disappointment and 'a revival of the tension which preceded the dispatch of the first communication to Berlin. At the White House it was atated that the administration’s plan in the Mexican situation would mot be interfered with by the new developments with respect to Germany oxcept that the president's waming to the Mexican factions mixht not be issued on' the same day as the | | wecond note to Germany s made publie, | [The Mexioan statement had been ex- pectéd tomorrow. | What the president's answer will be te the German note is undetermined. He saw no callers early today, turning over in solitude the grave questions before him much as he did in the dsys im- mediately following the sinking of the Lusitania. At noon he returned from his motor ride and started for Arlington cemetery, where he was to speak at the Memorial day services. Secretary Bryan and other members of the cabinet also were to make apeeches. It 18 not expected that the president would give ahy intimation as to the course to he pursued before tomorrow's cabinet meeting. Official Text Differs Slightly, The officlal text of the German note on a state of umcortality and so exprossed | myselt. 1 roly for the truth, though | (f 1 iron, i o ket i | 10 PLEA OF WILSON WOy of KRR 4 s Sricaéous, | Presidenit in Memorial Day Speech i Applies Lessons of- Civil War was evVidently reached. e ] | “Therefore I considar this a case in N Presi- which the chief megistrate of the stato dent Wilson roused a large audience should ekert every effort in ascertaining ¢ Memorial day exercises at Ariing- 3‘:0.‘:‘:"‘311‘:'“”:“‘:::'_";3;_533; tion Nationdl cemetery to a high | proven to ‘the constituted authorities is Pitch of eénthusiasm today by apply- too horrible to centemplate. I do not ing lessons of the civil waf to pres- belleve that o person should et with ent day problems, He declared that which the action of the United Btates will be based was deciphered today. It differs in phraseology from the unoffivial text sent in press dispetohss last night, but in no essentials, One difference in language, however, ‘which attracted attention was that which isald the “Lusitania undoubtedly had on board which were mounted un- docks or masked.” The word ‘“uns doubtedly’” was omitted ial This was, taken to sovernment. IN GUSTER COUNTY Chief Executive Delivers Memorial ‘Telegram.)—The Memorial day program here was unususlly elaborate, although there was no regular parade. During the | forenoon Taylor's Broken Bow band gave |a concert after which the graves were T Sooerated, - ' |New York had guns on beard which {inounted underneath and masked." COPY TWO CENTS. KAISER'S SUBSEA CRAFT DESTROY MERCHANT SHIPS Forwarding of Reply to United States Seems to Be Signal for Renewed Activity by the Kaiser's Submarines SIX ARE SUNK IN THREE DAYS French and English Forces Report Slight Gains Made Along. the Western Frontier. LULL IN THE DARDANELLES BULLETIN. LLONDON, May 31.-~(8:15 p. m.! ~—Heavy fighting on the Gallipoli penineula, resulting In the rout «f the attacking Turkish forces, is an- nounced in an official statement given out here today. The casual- tles of the Turks are sald to hava aiounted to at least 2,000. The British losses are given as 300. LONDON, May 81.-—(12:07 p. m.) —German submarines have been un. usually busy while the German for- elgn office was engaged in the prep: aration of its answer to the Washing- ton note on the Lusitamia incident. The last few days, it is pointed out In London, provided them with a heavy bag of big merchant ships. These include the steamer Ethiope, 3,700 tons, and the *Tullochmoor, 8,500 tons, which were sunk by sub- marines. Friday in the approaches of the Knglish channel. On Saturday the British steamer Ping Suey, be- longing to the Holt litie, was attacked twice by German undersea boats within the space of five hours, but it succeeded in escaping into Plymonth, and French coasts recently, i i it the extreme penaity of the law untll the in the money at an_ Indienapolis race. Bob manager to sneak over the line in 1of April in fifteen of the important clties | the country, the bureau of labor statistics sixth place fust ahead of Howard WIIC6X. | stateq today in a report on umemploy=| Burman sent his Peugeot over the line | ment, three minutes ahead of Wilcox in his | Returns of a canvass of 29,881 Stutz, which traveled the last ity miles |including 464,358 wage: earners, ""»"‘“"'““’ of the race on three cylinders, WIlcox | 7350, or 115 per.cent, wholly unemployed was given a mighty round of applause !anq 105,067, or 16.6 per cent.’ without full «when he ehugged home with his one dead | time employrhent. v 1 ylinder. It was a plucky finish and | Pocontages of wholly unemployed and | Whcox's tiwe was even beter (han the |of part time wage earners in the aties best previous time ever made' by an |investigated follow: N American car. g | ll'n'&x- Patt Time Tom Alley Eighth, fo nloved. Tom Alley in a Deusenberg was eighth. | goaton Per cent He belleved that he had beaten out Wil- cox, however, and protested that his po-|& sition should have been seventh. - The judges declared Alley eighteen seconds behind Wilcox, but the Deusenbers pro- test will be heard. Hughie Hughes In a Maxwel: was|g: "[ .5 ninth. Hughes finished 4n the car Billy | Springtield, Carison started with~ Ed Van Raalt, the %1.:3"1 ¥nglish army officer, who first entered | Wilkex- under the name of Norman Graham, fin- ished tenth in an Engilsh Sunbeam Takes 837,008 As & result of his victory De Palma | will carry off over $37,00 in cold coin of | the realm. He gets $20,000 for fist pace, | $16,000 for leading at 400 miles and several | SESE5 ansas City g:lvuuker‘. noex Ph(lld“’:*l Pittsburg B EBE» R POt i |German Captain Who Sank Gulflight Did : Not See U, 8, Flag| At the start of the race the Stutz team | WASHINGTON, May 31— Ambassador swung into the lead and after a few 1ap% |Gerard at Berlin has been formaily noti had been run Gil Anderson darted to the lfjeq that the American stcamer Guiflight fore and stayed theré\until the thirty-!wae sunk through a mistake, The Ger- fourth lap. Then he was forced Lo change mgn submarine commander reported that tires and both De Palma and . Resta | he failed to notice the Guiflight's Amer- | court, jury and governor all' shall have | | Deén satisfiod of that persow's guilt. | ‘Hence, at.the proper time 1 shall' express | and enlarge upon these views directly to| the governor and the prison commission. | ‘‘However. if for any cause I am pre- erty to usc this letter at the héearings.’ The ceading of Judge Roan's letter was attendeq with unusual interest as its ex-| istence has not been publicly known unt, yesterday and the contents had not bheen divulged previous to the hearing today. Bernstorff Will | Have Talk with Wilson Wednesday WASRINGTON, May 31.—President Wik son has granted a request of Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, for an interview at the White House Wed- neaday afternoon. It s understood that the ambassador desires'‘to discuss ques- tions pending between his country and the United States. Battle Along San ' is Developingin | Favor of Russians| FETROGRAD, May 31.—(Via London)— The battle of the S8an in the vicinity of Przanysl is developing in favor of the passed him while he in the pits. Resta took the lead and held it until} the sixty-seventh lap, almost 200 miles. was fcan tlag and took it for a British vessel. The State department arnouncement to- day says De Palma was hard_after the English-| ““Phe Amesican ambassador at Beriin | man until the sixty-third lap, when RalPh |reports that the chisf of the admiralty lost a minute changing tires. ataff,” Admiral Behnke, hag informed him | But Resta had come into the pits nn'mn the ‘conumander of the submarine | ontinued on Page Four, Column ‘Three, | Which sank the Guitlignt did so though mistake, becavsc two boats, rimilar {to trawlers, one ‘carrying wireless ap- ] | paratus, were apparently convoying the The Weathe]‘ |Guiflight. The commander, therefore, thought 1£~a British- boats and dié not |notice the American flag oy the ster: {untl just after giving the orler to fire.” @ fVon Bernstorff Tells 4 Berlin of U, 8, Feeling LONDON, May %.—A wireloss dispatch received from Berlin today gives what PUFPOTts to be @ telegram sent by Count § |Yon Berustorff, German ambassador at | . 1 | Washington, to the foreign office fu Ber- | © 88{lin. The telegram, as thus given, says | that the American press is “‘Eetting im- 1912 | patient about the delay in the anewer to | %1the American note”’ and states that “the ok Somabdrature 72 |tenstty has been Increased by the sink- | Precigitation ... .. W 8 uau“g,‘m. of the Nebraskap, which is not vet a prec| epar- | oxplatned " ,',':,’,‘,f“;m}‘:‘m"[‘,“,,,'::fl"‘-"‘ . : In another. telegram to ‘the foreign of- Deficlency for the day.... 7| fice Count von Bernestorff is quoted as Total duficiency since March oo 18§ saying that Americ Do DT attaton e e inel exporters are u Washington to take Total relnfall aince March .55 K(»:uiexwuuur measures azanat England, add ‘eficiency sinee Marc) ride c ing that “unofficial negottations between peficlency for cor. Pe\Ghis "4 4 |oches | giate denartment advisers-and the. Brit- L. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. |ish embassy have been broken off.” ] ~ Forecast for Nebraska—Fair. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hours. Des. m w48 | #| Efemaao amove sore EEEE e TS T Comparative Local Record. 1914 1912 [ ~ A 0 % 15, Highest yesterday T Lowest yesierday i packers and cotton | Russians, according to an offictal an- | nouncement given out today, Furth more the Russians between May 12 and 24 captured mearly 19000 of their an- tagoniste MONITOR AND MERRIMAC | BATTLE ON CAPITOL LAKE | PIERRE, 8. D., May 31.—(Special Tele gram.)—A Dbattle between the Monitor and Merrimae on Capital lake ended one of the best Memorial day programs ever cairied out at Plerre. The details were under control of the Sons of Veterans of the efty Rev. Emil Mueller was the speaker of the day. Following the parade in which ditferent civic organizations and the schools formed a part ,the weather was ideal SUNK BY SUBMARINE | s | LONDON, May 3.—The Danish steamey | Soborg has been sunk in the Enghish | channel by & German submarine, accord- | ing to an announcement made by Lioyds' agency. The members of its crew were saved l CONSTANT RIFLE SHOOTING CAUSES FXPERT'S DEATH | I0WA CITY, 1 egram.)—Calvin one of Iowa unversity’s expert rifle men {and comch of the lowa City champlonship tpam, died today of & disvase which was ageravated by copstant use of rifle d‘u.] A the solemn lesson of the war was that the unity of the United States be exemplified in the actions of its people. “Let us think of our duty and the ac- tions that le before us” declared the | vented from doing this you are at llh-;pnumcm.‘ The president avoided any direct vefer- ence to the present nternational crisis. ‘When he arose to speak the entire crowd tood up and clepped for several minutes. L before the president’'s address Bishop Cranston of Weshingtou prayed that the president be given divine guldarce in the “‘most delicate crisis in the hi®ory of the world,” and Yohn McElroy of the de- partment gf the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; sald the president could be trusted to gulde the country at the present {ime. p “It does mot behoove a nation to walk with its eyes over its shoulder," declared the president in his address. “Its busi- néns Is constantly in years ahead of it and in the present.that challenges it to ths display of its power. But there are reminiscences which are stimulating and wholesom, and among these reminiecences are chiefly to be ranked the recollections of days of heroism, days when greéat ‘na- tions found it/possible to express the best that was in them by the ardent exercise of every puwer that was in them. “The solemn lesson of those memories for us is not that we must be ready to save the union again,”” he continued, “for there are none among us who thieaten its life, but that we must see to it that the unity then realized, the vision then scen, 1s exemplitied in us and things we do. “Greater days lie. before this nation than it has ever seen yet, and the volemn consciousness of those who bear office in this time is that they must make their best endeavors to embody in what they do and say the best things in the United States.” Fire in Nebraska City Brewery. NEBRASKA CITY, Neb,, May il.—(8pe- clal Telegram.)—A fire, broke out in the department where barrels are pitched at the Otoe Brewing plens this morning and before extinguished it did $3,00 damages Kivge Swap Felicltions. LONDON, l?{ 81K Vietor imanual snd King George have ex- 3 telegrams of felicitation over e leg! Italy’s entry into the war. THE-GATE-CITY-OF-THE-WES | The unique transformation of Omaha into Greater Omahais about to take place through consolidation with our suburban neighbors. To observe the process should be interesting even to a stranger. Governor Morehead arrived here Sunday night and spent the forenocn at the ceme- , tery. In the ‘afternoon he made the oration of the day to over 10 people in the auditorfum of the Methodist chureh. He later addressed an overflow meeting of soveral hundred people in the city The business part of town was well j decorated with the national colors and {the weather was perfect. i Sloan Tulks at Fhirbury. FAIRBURY, Neb., May 31.—(Special )~ Impressive Memorial day exercises were held in this city today. The day was marked as a holiday. Russel Grand Army of the Republic, No. 7, and Women's: Ralief Corp held ehurch, where a.choir. rendered spegial !ot Geneva then gave a patriotic talk to the veterans and thelr friends. Follow- ing the ritualistic services at the church, & parade was formed to the cemetery, and automobiles carrying the boys of ‘61, | the Women's Rellet Corp and flower girls, their exerciges in the Methodist Bplscopal , Answer Will Be Prompt. From o knowledge many quarters that he will order the dis- patch of a second note to Berlin within is expected. Reference, It in belleved, will be made to the understanding of the e’ Consresnen couries 15 5o Tl Thousand Aores Available for Entry was formed. Memorial Sunday was observed in Fair- {bury and Rev. 8. J. Megaw of the Pres- | byterian church delivered an address to the veterans of the civil war, the Women's Relief corp and Spanish-Ameri- | can veterans at the Majestie theater. | Services at Cnmbridwe. | CAMBRIDGE, Neb.,, May iL—(Special Telegram.)—Fifteen of the seventeen old soldiers living in this community attended | memoris} services, Dr. John Gallagher gave a very impressive address. Services BELLE FOURCHE, 8. D., May #l.— (Special secretary of the Interfor announces the opening of the fourth unit of the Belle Fourche irrigation project. According to the netice the lands will be available for homestead entry on and after June 8 This unit contains 10,196 acres of public land divided into 16 farms ranging in size from forty to eighty acres of irriga- ble jand To secure one of the farms the entry- man must proceed as follows: After were held both at the cemetery and the making choiée of the farm unit he de- {park. At the park & bost laden with sires he will make formal homestead | flowers was launched in homor to (he entry at the land office in Belle Fourche, watery accompanying the same by a oertificate | from the project manager showing that | water right application has been made and the proper water right charges de- | posited. He will be required to pay down memory of those who had & graves. The Commercial band played. Pastor Jobnsou Spenks. GIBBON, Neb., May 3.—(Special )—Au able memorial service was defivered here | yesterday by the Methodist Episcopal | pastor, Rev. O. E. Johnson of Kentucky Me. Johinson h had the unique experi. ence of having delivered memorial sers fces to both the bluc and the gray vete: ans as well as a union of the two. The oration et the opera house today was .de- livered by Rev. Mr. Knowles of North | Platte, wfter which the old soldiers’ | ®raves were decorated by the school chil- | dren. Swenson Talks at Sidney. SIDNEY, Neb., May 3L—(Special Tele- gram.)~Memorial day was fittingly ob- served Lere today. An ideal summer day attracted many hundred people from the county. At 10 o'clock the parade formed, | composed of the Sidney brass band, | school children, Grand Army of the Re- | publfe, Sons of eVterans and all the |eivie sueloties. They marched to the | graves were deco- | cemetertes and the | rated with flowers and garlands | This afternoon .« program took place at the opers house Joweph M. Swanson deltvered the oration | Voterans Ma | LYONE, Neb, M | gram.) —Memorial day {cess at this pince | untavorable condition of the roads. Sev- eatecn sld soldiers marched in the pro. ceaslon to the cemetery. Colonel Wald- oh ht Lye: 3. —(Speei Tele- was o great suc- notwithstanding the | Catherine B. Willey of Lake Forest, TlI 5 per cent of the construction charge of | $0 per acre of frrigable land .For in- | stance, if his farm upit contains 40 acres ! of irrigable land his initial payment will | be $30. The Tomainder of the construction charge, $38 per acre, may be paid in fif- teen annual, instaliments, the first of which does not become due for five years after filing, The first five of these pay- ments shall be 32 per acre sach, and the remaining installments 32.50 ver acre. No Interest is charged on deferred payments. There is an annual operation and main ance charge. For 1915 this charge is 76 cents per acre, which allows the settler one acre foot of water. Further quan- tities will be furnished at the rate of 60 cents per acre foot. This operation and maintenance chagge is not due until March 1 1916 FIVE MORE BODIES FROM LUSITANIA ARRIVE NEW YORK, May 3L—Five of the Lusitiana’s dead, three men and two women, were hrought to New York to- day by the steamer Lapland from Liver- pool. The bodies were those of Mrs. |Miss Elizabeth Newsomb George B. Cooping Brown, and a man, of »f Torunto, Lindsa) Boston. w. B address wmith of Oskaloosa, la., was the orator, i ot given. i ?s:f !:ag ;gisi :iggi fromi the by way of Athens t o6 Notre Dame Do tack; this movement was easily repulsed by our troops. ““The number of prisoners taken yester- day st the Labrynth to the southeast of Neuville 8t. Voost is 10, including four officers.” Kaiser Calls Last Reserves. AMSTERDAM, May 31.—(Via London)-— The Reich Anzeiger of Berlin has pub- Mshed an order calling to the colors all first clats members of the landsturn re- werve . forces not previously summone This order does not apply to Bavarians. Gormans in Germany must report he (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) The Day’s War News rogra right bank of the Rf been cleared for a distance of the Austro-German for which succeeded in cross- INVADING the provinces are sald to have been pressed back, losing guns and prisoners. The Russian war of- fice scknowlcdges & retreat near Dubysa river, but asserts German attempts to cross the river tajled. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT from Constantineple says the Freach and British attempted in vain to recapture the positions fn their conter said to have been tal the Turks. % MAIN BODIES of Italian and Aus- trian troops have srips. The Itallan meeting Ittle France gains for ported near Arras, est and in Alsace. GERMANS Baltie