Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1915, Page 1

lves. The unrivalled special feat- ure pages of The Sunday ee are in a class by them- Best of them all. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE WEATHER. Unsettled VOL. XLV-N( ! - White House. International Law. WASHINGTON, of state was made at House at 6 o’'clock tonight. sued: ). o LANSING IS NAMED 0 BE CHIEF OF THE TATE DEPARTMENT Formal Announcement of Appoint- ment by President to Fill ! Bryan’s Place Made at OFFER HAS BEEN ACCEPTED Has Been Regarded as Wilson's Mainstay on Questions of DIPLOMATS HIGHLY REGARD HIM June 28.-—For- mal announcement of the appoint- ment of Robert Lansing as secretary the White The following statement was OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE as he starts for the front. is- ITALIAN SOLDIER bids farewell to his family in Rome ———a TWELVE On Traing and ot News Stands, bo NTS, I f IS DISCOUNTED BY LONDON CRITIGS| News of Surrender of Capital of | Galicia to the Austrians is Re- | ceived by Britons With- qut Surprise. | |NOT CONFIRMED BY RUSSIA ‘Pe':romd Report Tells of Important i Success on Dniester and Ignores Lemberg Incident. TRENCH RETAKEN FROM TURKS | LONDON, June 23.-—The state-| jment from Austrian headquarters | that Lemberg had fallen before the forces of Austria and Germany was| received In London with out surprise. It was known that the Germanic al-| lies were within artillery range of the FALL OF LEMBERG | WASHINGTON, June 2--Great ain's further memorandum to the United States on the British order in council as 1L affected neutral shipping reached the State department today from Ambassador | Poge at London. Sir Edward Grey de- livered it to the American ambassador yesterday. Secretary Lansing had not gone over the memorandum today, and It was not known whether it would s conrtrued a reply to the last American note or | & new communication on the subject. Initiative in making it public, it was stated, would be left to Great Britala, un- less the memorandum itself contained some. suggestion on that point President Wilson has taken an interest i efforts of New York importers to bring in goods from Germany which have been | held up by the British orders In council, atd has directed Secretary Lansing to confer with a delegation. The president would recelve the delegation himselt, it was saild at the White House today, but for the fact that he leaves for the sum- mer White House at Cornish tonight. British Order Affectin Shipping Received at Washingto Brite gHNel;tral 4| Russian Foroes Are Unable to With- stand Terrific Onslaught of Allied Hosts. SINGLE COPY TWO CE White Mouse officials are uninformed | first hand of the plana of the Importers, but from other sources they understand they would charter steamers to briug in | goods bought or contracted for in Ger- - | many betore March 1. Much of the mer-|Capital of Galicia Taken in Storm of | chandise I8 at Rotterdam, It was sald i : : and other conslgnments are enrouts from | Teutonic Armies, and Province, Germany to the Dutch port 5 Virtually Free of In- Before June 15 such goods were brought vad to the United States by special pormits | ors. iseued by the British government, but | since then no permits have been issued. CLIMAX OF TREMENDOUS DRIVE Tt 18 estimated that probab'y $50,000,000 | worth of merchandise is involved. The United Siates never has adwmitte the valldity of the so-called blockade of Germany, nor recognised the British or- | dera in councll, and inasmuch as thome ' subjects aré to be treated further in a mew note to Great Britain, upon whieh ARTTLLERY DECIDED CAMPAIGN the State department is working, it was eald today the government was g'ad to BERL June 23.~—~(By Wire- get any facts in possession of the im- | b {leas to Sayville.)——Lemberg has porters and was lenditk a sympathetic | | ear to their case, | been conquered after a very severe | battle, according to an officlal re- | port received from the headquarters {of the Austro-Hungarfan army. The Galician capital, and capitulation was | | regarded a question only of days. | Nothing has been heard as yet from; HARRY THAW TELLS | vt st JURY HE IS SANE | Austrian claim, Slayer of Stanford White Says He| Petrograd doee, however, claim &, Balisves He is Sane—Cross- ‘ Examination Deferred. “Before leaving this evening for a briet rest in New Hampshire the president announced that he had of- fered the post of secretary of state to Robert Lansing, the present coun- selor of the Department of State, and that Mr. Lansing has accepted the appointment.” Galiclan capital fell before the ad- vance of the second army. Lemberg, capital of Galicia, was ocou- TEUTONS DEFEATED Russian Official Report Tells of Im- or nostilities, in the course of the early |Russian drive into Austria. It has there. pomn:lvl;:::z"h;&:r mijier, |tore been In Russian control for over ten victory on the River Dniester, result- | | } Authority on International Law. %r. Lansing, -who i& a son-in-law of former Becretary of State John W. Fos- ter, became counsellor of the State de- tment upon the retirement of John Bassett Moore and has been regarded as Fresident Wilson's mainstay on ques- tions of international law in all the diffi- cult negotiations thrust upon the United Siates by the European war. It was a matter of common remark that he com- mended the respect and admiration of the foreign chuncellories here to a marked degree. Mr. Lansing’s home is in Watertown, N. Y, he is just past 50 years old. |munitions to the, Austro-Germans oand partial confirmation is given this neighborhood by the Russians. Other evidence of the orderly retirement of the Russians is the Austrian report that the armies of the central empires captured few guns. Trench Retaken from Tarks. In the Dardanelles the British report the recapture of a trench forming a dangerous salient to their line after it Since 1 he has practiced law, but he began his first diplomatic work in 1893 when he became counsel for the United States in the Bering sea arbitration. Soon afterward he became counsel for the United States Bering sea claims commission, and following that was so- licitor for the Alaskan boundary trilunal. In 1908 he was counsel in the North At- lantic coast fisheries case at The Hague. His last work before becoming coun- sellor for the State department was as agent for the United States in the Anglo- American’ claims arbitration. He was TAND PAT ONRATE, SAYS WILLIS REED Nebraska Attorney Gemeral Says Lines Are Not Entitled to Increase Now. 'S | NO MORE THAN IN YEAR 1910 mission opposing the rate increases in western classification territory, asked for by the railroads in this territory, advanced an entirely new thought with relation to the desired advance, Using L. W, Wettling’s findings in be< half of the raliroad, Mr. Reed said, tak- ing the Wettling report as a starting point: “In 1910 it was considered that carriers were receiving an adequate re- turn upon such property as they had in- vestad in and they were denled, as I un- derstand, the right of an advance in rates.” “The Wettling exhibit,”” said Mr. Reed, “ghowed that earnings in 1914 by the he hab been an assoclate editor of the Americun Journal of Intérnational law, Mainstay of President. While the motes to Great Britain and Garmany have admittedly been the work ¢f President Whson and former Secre- tary, Bryan was consulted during the preparation, it was no secret that the president was in almost constant com-| (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) Untermyer Benews Charges Against Rock Island Men i to plead stock. of (the Rock -island railroad was|therefors they were not entitied to ple manipulated after 1t had been decided (hard times. . to threw the road iInto the hands of a Oltes Wettling Report. receiver, were made by Samuel Unter-| Mr Reed said that the Wettling report myer before the constitutional conven-lshowed that some 5000 miles of track tion here today. He asserted that after|had been bujlt between 1910 and 1014, t was agreed to bring the proceedings, | which might account for the increased e plan wag kept secret and the stock |carnings, but he insisted that the rafl- {ncreased from 3§18 a share to $39. When |roads hud added the additional mileage the papers were filed. Mr. Untermyer|at their -own risk and that the amount sald the stock within two hours dropped|of money invested in extension of.tracks to $% and betterments was set off by reason of Mr. Untermyer was supporting & Pro-;the difference between the earnings of posed amendment to the constitution 1910 and 1914. which would provide regulation and in-| ““We are driven to the very point that orporation of the New York Stock ex-|the carriers are entitled to earn a fair change. John G. Milburn, attorney for|yeturn upon their money,” said the at- the exchange, later told the committeo|torney gemeral of Nebraska, “I take it were. of the carrylng commodity, will {have a tendency to make one road, per- | haps, earn more and another road earn |less.” Ujeinity | In point he cited the Great Western in|when it bulit into Omaha, “as a rate cutter in my judgment.” About Competing Lines. The Weather For Omaha. Council Bluffs and —Probably showers; not much chi ten perature. Temperature at Omaha Yesterd Hout Dei of the traffic which might otherwise have gone over the Burlington or the North- western, another line was constructed and double tracked In order thaf the par- ticular road, might earn more money. | “In the state of Nebraska, said Mr. Reed, aur people gave, in round figures, 6,000,000 in the way of bonds to ald in the construction of the rallroads in that state, and they gave 0,000 acres of land to assist in the construction of the rail- EEEE S LEEEECT ST T3S Comparative Locai Record. 1915, 1914. 1915. 1912 had been taken by the Turks In a recent attack. An abortive Turkish Infantry attack under cover of 2 rain of high explosive shells also la reported In the western arena most of the im- portant developments have been provided b; IMPERIAL VALLEY SHAKEN BY QUAKE| oo Shocks and Flames that Follow |salient of the German lines between Neu- Cause Damage Estimated -at ville-St. Vaast and Feurle, which has s n the objective About Mill Dollars. been th ij e of almost continuous SE! w‘l English newspapers glve prominence KILLED AT MEXICALIA [t an intsrview with the pobe, published today gave out a statement reading: ’Shll‘vll Heyndlng. the prlnclpl: a‘nd JOb\ o Atthn Ml Ao Ak controlling ‘unit of water supply for|gges jasted thmulhnut"u:.m.u‘nmn_ The the Imperial irrigation system, sagged | Germans furthermore endeavored to de- and settled under the renewed |lUVer new counter attacks, on near Neu- ¥ E quakes? Further shocks might break :',: ::T;‘;‘WI:::P::;".'"::: :‘:.d;';_ the heading and paralyze the entire|pletely repulsed. water system of the valley. “West of the Argonne, not far from the road running from Binarville to Vienn- EL CENTRO, Cal, June 28— |L#-Chateau, fighting is golng on in the Criginating somewhere in the old 78 trenches, hand grenades being Used. On the remainder of the Argonne volcanoes of the Cocopdh mountains, |front the Germans have ween expending the granite backbone of Lower Cali~{8 vast amount of ammunition, but with- fornia, a seismic convulsion shook w.&):'“""" SY° Biatity : Bftack. the heights of the M: t Oy {and rattléd the Imperial valley of {onne, we yesterday evening conquered ruins. Buildings were rent asunder.|i.. attacks a galnst the positions whioch Fire did its part and the damage 18| we have taken near Leintrey. They were estimated at over $1,000,000 in'the rePulsed and we retained all our gains, first reports coming to hand after the | %, N same time making some prisoners. “In the Vosges, at Fontenelle, restoration of wire communication. |region of n....n..-.pg. g;: ...l:, ;,:..l:: Seven persons lost their lives at|Oay éveming, after having thrown nearly Mexicalla, a little adobe town, con-| %% sheils in & few hours against one of our works, advanced along & front of %00 (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) | ¥ards and succeeded in gaining a footing. Best Shells Come %:":.?‘ET"::::'.:‘E:::?F“L""': | from United States, Says Cheyenne Man by a French counter attack, led with &reat brilllancy and the enemy main- tained his position only at the extremity of our work. We took 142 prisoners,” in- cluding three officers. . east of this village.” United States Is a statement contained in a lotter received here from Hans G. Koeberlein of Cheyenne, who s “gerretiter,” or corporal, in the German army before Ypres. Koeberletn, who is a raflway fireman, left Cheyenne immedi- ately after war was declared and suc- ceeded in reaching Germany. Czar Off to Front To Rescue of Army “I am sorry to say,” he writes, “that |left for the front today, clally the French, half of the shells do not explode.” Submarine Sinks PRIEST BADLY INJURED PINE BLUFFS Wyo. June 2.—(Spe- cial.)—Rev. Father C. Schellinger nar- {rowly escaped death last evening when | ightning struck the Catholic church here just after he entered the edifice. He was a British Steamer Loaded With Wheat e s oo e e, e fiying splinters and falling plaster. The steamer | Church was damaged to the extent of $500. LONDON, June 2-The ing in heavy losses in prisoners and | claim by the Austrian official ac-| counts of the stand made in this| | LONDON, June 28.—Emperor Nicholas INSANE ALWAYS, SAYS STATE NEW YORK, June 2. —Harry K. Tha took the stand today the first wi ness 0 the trial before a jury to determine | his sanity. Mr. Stanchfield in his opening state- ment told the jury the main question at issue was whether Thaw is sane at the present time, and whether his iberty would be a menace to soclety. Mr. Stanchfield then reviewed the case | and read the argument in which Willlam | Travers Jerome denounced Stanford | White and sald that “no one pretends { that Thaw is insane as he now shs in court.” Deputy Attorney General Cook asked to be heard on behalt of the state. Mr. Cook declared that the state had no in- terest in the case other than as to whether Thaw was a menace, “We will show you that he is sufiering from Incurable insanity,” said the state's attorney. Mr. Cook declared that he would show “by Thaw's mother that she was suffer- ing from nervous prostration when he was born.'’ Thaw Takes the Stand. Thaw was then called and Mr, Stanch- field began to question him In a low tone, Thaw answered in equally inaudible 1ones. Hg identified his mother, siste* and brother, who were sitting in the court room. “When you left Matteawan did you be- lieve you had recovered your sani‘y?* “1 belleved I was sane,” sald the wit- neas, “Physicians had told you so?" “They had.” Thaw was taken over the history of his escape to Canada and his subsequent movements. “You formed acquaintances at various Mr. Stanchfield asked the witness to |#ive names, dates and flaces in great de- tall, and this Thaw did without hesita- tion. “It s a fact that while you were staying in Manchester, N. H., you enter- tained friends and acquaintances, and in turn were entertained by them?" “That is right,” replied the witness. | Thaw was asked to tell of the examina- tion of his sanity made in Manchester by & federal commiseion in connection with proceedings to extradite him. to New York. He named the members of {the commission and told how it came to be appointed. Physiclans representing & Pittsburgh bank had also come to see him in Man- | “Yes, wund the banks in New Hamp- |#hire, Canada and elsewhere,” said the witness. Mr. Btanchfield then turned the witness over to the state’s uttormey, but Deputy Attorney General Cook announced that {he would not cross-examine at this time, Thaw was then excused, and with &rave demeanor returned to his seat. Men to Attend the J. L. Webster Dinner A governor, two United States senators, | two senators amd three congressmen will be among those present Friday night at ithe Fontenelle at the dinner xiven by John L. Webster to the executive com- SAYS NOTHING ABOUT LEMBERG | PETROGRAD, June 22. (Via LONDON, June 23.)—Onty pass:ng mention of the operations in moi vieinity of Lemberg is made in an| official statement iesued tonight -ti the Russian war office. The asser-| tion is made that desperate attacks were repulsed and 800 prisoners' taken near Rawa Ruska, thirty-two miles northwest of the Galicia capital. The claim also is made by the| Russians that they have scored an important victory below NIjiff, on| the Dniester, after a stubborn battle, | which has lasted since the fifteenth. | More than 8,600 prisoners were cap- tured apd Coesacks are said to be in pursuit uf the fleeing Austrians. Another Russian success, with the capture of 1,000 more prisoners, is reported near the Bukowina border. The communication follows: Are Quarreling BPRLIN, June 2.—(By Wireless to Sayville.)~The Overseas News agency |today gave out the following. | “The German minister at Sofia, Bul- |garia, who has arrived at Berlin to con- [fer with the forelgm office concerning the latest proposals of the quadrple en- tente to Bulgaria, returns soon. The press of the allied countries expreas disappoint- iment at conditions in the Balkans. A revival of the Balkan alliance seems im- possible on account of quafrels between Serbla and Bulgaria about Macedonia; between Serbia and Roumania about the |Banat territory In southern Hungary, quadruple entente of the demands of one or two of the Balkan nations incites the others, “Warning is given in ofticlal eircles against overestimating reports of domes- tio troubles in Russia. In’these quarters tho convigtion e expressed that Russia, it willing, is capable of continuing the war for several months. Rumors of im- pending peace negotiations and the ar- rival of Russian mediators are utferly unfounded." | {Ransom Refuses ] Office of Defender; ! (From a Staff Correspondent.) | LINCOLN, Neb., June 23—(Special Telegram.)—Frank Ransom has declined to accept the appointment of public de- fender of Douglas county and Ralph M. West, the young attorney connected with his office, and whom Ransom recom- mended in the first place, has boen ap- | pointed by Governor Morshead. ’ sshoc according t “:,:y“::m.';:d "::::'"I’_'_u:;,r:;"“cm;::‘ the best ammunition the French and | Reuter's Petrograd correspondent. 2] - " | " | English use comes from the -United M P but between 1910 aad 1914, instead of per. : bt bocwecn 19 axd it nend o 3o | Stfl” Wi ney e thn v swve | LIGHTNING STRIKES CHunch; | a0y Prominent The Day’s War News LEMBERG, CAPITAL OF GALICIA,| has fallen before the Austro-Ger- man armies which have been sweeping scross the provinge for two menth Aun official Austrian SOUTH OF LEMB ter reglon, a strip of A | months. WiHll Have Great Effect. For the last twenty days, since the Austro-Germans took Prsemysl from the forces of Emperor Nicholas, it has been the objective of a series of flerce and concentrated attacks on the part of the Teutonic allies. Their success will have & far-reaching political effect, as the driving out of the Russians from Galicla is counted upon in Berlin to help main- tain the status quo In the Balkans. The capture of Lemberg was one of the earliest important successes of the Russlans. Following it, they pushed ony ward rapidly through Galicla. The high water mark of the invasion found almost all of the province in their hands. They approached within striking distance of Cracow, at the mla"n end of the prov- ince, close to the 'German frontier; wtormed the heights and passes of the Carpathian mountains, which separate Gallcia from Hungary, and to the east they swept down through the crown land of Bukowina to the Roumanian frontier, All This Changed. All this has been changed by the steady succession of Austro-German victories of gradiated from Amherst college and only in Paris, in which the head of the This fact, said the attorney, hac af~| “A large enemy transport loaded with |of German troops wers sent in to assigt yesterday recelved an honorary degree Aporpee . | BRI | Catholic church 1s quoted ma expreasing | fectsd Thaw all his 1ife. the Austrians, as well as a vast amount Prom' v (From a Staff Correspondent.) £ % 5 23, |te desire to hold the seales cvenly be- “We will show you that in his ohild- | (ontinded on, P 2 ; ) lof f1:1d artillery. | The use ot artillery Secretary Lansing’s writings on mter-| WASHINGTON, June 23.—(Spe-| CA €O, Cal, June ~—=|tween the belligeronts; but as declaring | hodd Thaw talked gfbberish and that his A% o nearmgrer Y + {by the Teutonte has been nationsl law have attracted wide atten-|eial Telogram.)—Attorney Gemeral|Further earthquake shocks were felt|that ha awaits only an oppoftunity to | teachers had to talk his language be Berun Report S’ys by 0t a8 on & néver- tigh, One 6f his principal papefs WasS|p .4 o0 Nobraska, in his argument here today. Several tremors, -after|ToVe I favor of peace ! © [before undertaken. It effectiveness was “Government, Its Origin, Growth and| ‘o' O 5 o mmerce com.|midnight, were followed by a severe Frenoh Official Report. Thaw, he continued, had hidden-behind B&lk&n N&tiom ::::"" increased by the shortage of Fordl 4 09 Unel Sestan” Sl 1N shock at 10 o'clock this morning.| PARIS, June 35.—The French war office | th® SKIFts of Evelyn Nesbit. S ML o, ment directed against their positions, and oven the line of defenses mear Grodek, sixtoen miles west of Lemberg, which is of great naturad strength, proved to be untenabie. railroads seeking the increased rate were | Callfornia last night, and today its|further section of the second German |Places where you stopped?™ {and between Serbia and Gresce about Al- |t M":"Vn;""‘* The figures of killed,: $1400000 more than in 1910 and. that | cluster of little cities are partially in | "i0e I ~was fortunate _in forming panie. Russies 4 s even fear a |OURAOY M cavtured, as given in Aun- ALEANY, N. Y., June 2.—Charges that |5 In Lorraine yesterday saw fresh coun- |Acquaintances,” sald Thaw. Sow Dulhin Wt 1 et oy , German and Russian official state- ments, run into the hundreds of thou- sands. Russia had made plans permanen occupation of Galtola, ll'hllm- n clals to set up oivil administration i torritory as fast as it was taken, bers was rechistened Lwvov, the old slan-Palish name. 20,000, and was an fmportant Austrian military station. Although founded in the thirteenth cemtury, it is of modern eppearance and is known for its tmpos- Ing bulldings. The ity s protected by outlying forts, although its defenses are much inferior to those of Przemysi. rlin Rejolces. The fiews that Lemberg had been car- he never.had heard of the charges con-|that any act or deed or anything that 18 | cuEvYENNE Wyo. June 28 (8 ‘ n the reglon of the Fecht river we |chester, said Thaw. : ried by Austrian and Hungarfan t " | NE, = —(8pecial.) | have occupi o) b . | Rl an i cd R Tars Mankracar. dno to vary and change the current of |_miit 1L 1t eitertive ” ammenition | Hore,toP o:r:o‘lng::n&l; ;lna we have | “This Pittaburgh bank honored your | est S ppOlnte | {Continued on Page Two, Column Two) - traffic, that changes the location, as it | .oy by the French comes from the slopes (o the |checks, did it mot?" | umn Two. THE WANT-AD WAY T '\ mittee whic his to arrange for the state et ’m' wayh, in addition t. the twenty-mile | Tunistans has been torpedoed off Lowes- | semi-centennial. Governor Morehead yes- | T!tory is atill iu the And when the Dle was tract which is over every odd section, {toft by a German submarine. It skip- |terday signified his intention to be The ‘“:.‘3' A Y ten miles north and ten milés south, of | per was able to beach it. The Tunisiana present “We're Poultry columa, Free Coupon the Unlon Pacific raliway. I say it is not fair that after the people have given those 36,000000 that you should then fix and use that as part of the basks upon ' ltomch |which to say you must pay 6 or 7 per 10,86 inches | cent on that money which you have al- 196 inches | ready been given.” was bound from Montreal to Hull, with a cargo of wheat. Its crew ianded at Lowestoft. { The British steamer Tunisians is ol‘ 4,220 tons grogs .and is 380 feet long. It | was bullt in 106 at New Castle, It salled | For the Best Movies Prominent men from all over the state will be present, so that the meeting is looked upon as one of special importance, besides the object for which the dinner is given. 'British Cruiser Hit RAL STAFF an.| 0 most {llustrous king.” And the company fl:‘ldfi- 'fl““l“u They mads announce to all e Parm, And now lhe reads the Foultry ads, 'mrv-‘u-. cums 12 utte she peo- Excess for cor. period, 1914.. .48 inch Deficioncy for cor. period, i#id.. 16inch | _ + June 10 from Cape Breton. I ! arrival of imporiant 22, i ooy neports trom sacions u¢ 7 v, . | Montenegring Are Kaiser Mak , i By Shell of Subsea The Poulzy column s the e . O 1o,y 14 { 0 s .1 Aalser MakKes Ally ‘ f el distriet these foress, belleved by | flod of The Bee A:.Tfm ] v 9 4| Maiching On Scutari A Field Marshal imon. sede TEoAR. atngil eemm: {1608 8 s, ST Davenpori, cloudy. ... 0 - ¥ 1€ ars. munication issued by the admiralty to- | e emconatered for the firet e ads any, 23 Des Moines, cloudy...... o ‘0| ROME, June 2.—tVia Paris, June 2.)— | nieht says: " in ee nnu?;fl:'n ..3 - ‘-\‘:"::.Pm:h_fh dy * 2 . ATl The Montenegrg offensive against Scut-| VIENNA (Via London), June &—Em- | “The British s::ulr ':M":l‘hh ::: edium. 'Iw‘ o Sanieey $en ety arl, Albania, Is developing with succoss, | peror William has given Archduke Fred- | struck by a torpe n the or! - A AL R % |according to a dispatch th the Giornals |erick of Auctria the rank of fifld masshal | Sunday last. The damage sustained wes ® SWEDISH STEAMERS bound( Iehed) o8 re 1o t - o City, dear. u 0| Dritalia. Montenegrin trdops are sakd |ju the Procslan army 1 recomnition of his | {not serfous and the cruiser was able to | f 'm..::'.“ .,‘-'.. "."’;."" o fvn‘ui stry, ot Jour LERE, Nevdy L. » Mlto be marching against the city In three|serii cs 10 the compaign which resulted proceed under its own steam. There were | oa yeost vy W AR =y g s T, Dfleatmm e Sromoipiation | | gotumpe §n the tult of Lembers. ! no casusities warships in (he Raltio sea. POT My THm omama reu o k] y