Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1915, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN VOL. XLV—NO. THE WEATHER Showers VE N RESTA WINS 500- MILE AUTO RACE ON CHICAGO TUB Omaha Lad, Eddie Richenbacker, Takes Third Money in the Heartbreaking Chase, | TRAVEL AT 97.6 MILES AN HOUR Winner of the Contest is Entered in Omsaha Races at Speedway { Tuly 5. DIZZY SPEED PROVES MARVEL Flapsed Average | Time Per H'r. | ..5:07:06 97. by 96 5. 05. o4 4. 1. 1. 21 20 Place, Driver. 1—Resta . ..... 2—Porporato 8—Rickenbacke) 4—Grant By F. 8. HUNTER. CHICAGO, Jume 26.—(Sperlali Telegram.)—Dario Resta, the dar-| ing English pilot who is entered in the Omaha Gasoline Derby on July 5 added another victory to his string h\.r carrying off first money in the 500-mile race held at the new May- wood board speedway here todsy.{ Pighty thousand persons witnessed the contest. Resta not only was victorious in the race, but he broke the 500-mile mark for competitive racing with an average of 97.6 miles per hour. By winning the race Resta receives $23,500, Of this amowmt $20,000 is the capi- tal purse for first place. He also re- ceived $1,000 for lewding the field at 200 miles, another thousand for leading at 800 miles and a third thousand for lead- ing at 40 milee. The other $500 {s the Rayfield cash prize to the winnc He also recetves a $1,000 silver trophy. Resta’s time for the distance was 5:07:27. His average Was eight miles an hour fester than the record made by DePalma at Thdianapolis on Memorial day. Resta drove a French Peugeot car. . Porporato, driving his second race in Ameriéa, pushed his English Sunbeam across the tape in second position. He was biit three minutes behind Resta, swalipping the 50O |:l-llel :fl“rln 5:10:50, an erage of 9.5 miles an hour. .‘;nm- ;Ilbksnh‘cher. Omaha's favorite, copped the third money. Fddle learned the racing game on the little dfrt track west of Omaha, and Omahans who knew him during his several years of resi- dence in Nebraska, have alwavs been pulling for him. Dddle drove his Max- well the distanoe in §:14:30, an everage of 9.8 miles an hour. I [ever Stop tor Grant. H‘fl:@r‘nt"fl f:unh‘ll\ a Sunbeam. Grant traveled the entire 500 miles with- out once stopping at the pits, the only oar in the race to perform the feat. When he made his extra lap after receiving the flag, his engine suddenly stopped, and the car rolled on Jts momentum two miles around the track. His gas had just yun out, and it ts well that it did not do po just & few seconds sooner as Farl Cooper in a Stutz was but a. few yards behind. Cooper finished fifth, just twenty-four seconds behind Grant . Purman Finishes Again. Gil Anderson, Cooper's teammate, was #ixth, and Tom Alley, another driver who is entered at Omaha, finished seventh. Tewis Chevrolet, pfloting the Delage car which will be driven at Omaha by John DePalma, won eighth money, and Bob Burman finished his second long race fn the money. Bob was ninth in a Peugeot. At Indianapolis this year Bur- man, for the first time, finished a 500~ lo race. His performance today makes Tds second success. Btrange to relate Burman waa number nine in the elimina~ tion trials and he finished in ninth po- sition. A Closely Grouped for Tenth. Joe Cooper, who is eniered at Omaha. finished tenth in & Scoring. When the tenth car was flagged Ralph Mulford, Babeock, Von Raalte, Orr and Carlson were still in the race. All of the others had withdrawn. The entire Porter-Knight team withdrew just before the race on account of piston trouble. Two of these those driven by Hughle Hughes and Charley Keene, are entered at Omaha, but it is feared they will not be in shape for the race. Billy Chandler was the first to quit. A broken sheft sent his Ogren into the garage at ‘twenty-four miles. Wilcox was forced out at ninety miles by a broken transmission. He was lead- ing the field at the time. Otto Henning (Continued on Page Nine—Column One.) The Weather cast till 7 p. m. Sunday: meomm Council Bluffs and Vienity —Unsettled and cooler. B ture at Omaha Yesterday. ooy g = Hour. Deg. fa m. ee 88 6o m.. somenebs BEEEEE: B3RS d:au&au:a;:éa TOPPEEYLF i i ] A WAR AERO#LANE ‘““UP A TREE''—This remarkable photograph, taken recently in France, shows a military biplane, which was flying low and failed to clear a copse of trees. The aeroplane caught the tree tops by its lower plane, its momentum causing the tail plane to rise in the odd pogition here seen, which.cuggests that it had fallen head- on into the trees, The pilot has climbed a tree to render BOOSTERS RETURN FROM STATE TRIP Hundreds of Miles of Improved Roads Found by Omahans Who Make Annual Tour. CONDITION OF CROPS PLEASING Omaha good m-di and good fellow- ship boosters, with colors flying, but dusty, wheeled into Omaha at § o’clock last night, completing a trip of 826 miles, during which forty-one towns and cities were visited. Twenty-one cars started on the run. A few dropped out Friday angd pulled back to Omaha on account of urgent business at home. Three cars got lost Saturday afternoon just a little above Blair and had to return to Omaha. Like charging a German chlorine gas attack were parts of the trip dur- ing the strong wind of Saturday aft- ernoon, for the roads were extremely dusty. Taken as a whole, however, it was 325 m'les of as fine roads as could be found in Nebraska or. any- where in the west. Fach successive year these trips are made the roads are found in better con- ditton. ‘Each year the boosters find more and more hundreds of miles of road that have been properly beveled for drainage purposes. Much hard gumbo road was encountered between Pliger and Beemer on the Satur- day morning run. It was_a broken| wvelly gumbo that made driving some- | t hard, but just the kind of soi} that | hardens down like the blue slate of a school kid when it is given 4 week's time | after the ordinary rains. | Beemer scarcely had a chance to say “hello” to the boosters. Why? Well, be- (Continued on Page Three, Column Two.) Twenty-Three Serb Reservists Held in Chicago CHTICAGO, June 26.—Twenty-three re- servista of the Serblan army, alleged to be United States citizens, were held by tederal officials here for appearance be- fore & United States commissioner for examination ‘as to a violation of the nation's neutrality The reservists were seized by fiftegn United States deputy marshals as they were leaving, with about 400 of their coun- trymen, for London, Ont, last night. They were to sail from Canada, it was reported, to join their regiments fight- ing with the allies. Other members of the party were permitted to leave after the train had been delayed four hours. The twenty-three men ware detained can be seen on hig. v assistance, .+ A v LABOR WAR WILL— ARFECT BUSINESS Closing Chicago Building Material Supply Houses and Yards Will Be Widely Felt. ANSWER TO CARPENTERS STRIKE CHICAGO, June 26.—Business in many parts of the country probably will suffer as a result of the shut- down in this city's building industry which, ordered by allied building and material interests as a war meas- ure against striking carpenters, went into effect today, James Pryor, a member of the press committee of the employers, said he hhd tele- graphed out of town concerns to can- cel orders and stop consignments al- ready on their way to Chicago. ~ The shutdown will not become general for a week or more, it was sald. In some cases where it needed only the orcder to stop machinery It took place today but iu others, where perisnable gools are handled, thers may be a continuance for several days. Employers woyld venture no definite statement as to the nvmber of men {nvolved, but the estimates runged between 150,000 and 200,000, with approxi- mately one-quarter of the oity's- wase earners directly or indirectly affected. Herbert Ballou, a carpenter contractor, was stabbed, it is thought fatally, in a dispute early today with a man who con- tended that the carpenters’ demand for 7 ocents an hour was justified. tors and labor leaders as the beginning of one of the greatest labor wags in re- | cent years. The action was taken at a meeting last night of representatives of allfed buflding and material interests as &n answer to the referendum vote of 16,000 striking carpenters, who overwhelm- ingly defeated the proposal to arbitrate all questions in dispute. ) The carpenters have been an a strike ®ince April ®. The men demanded a Wwage increase of from @ ocents to 70 cents per hour. By means of e shutdown the em- ployers, it wa; 4d, hope to prevent the independent carpenter coptractors from getting supplies snd thus throw out of work the 10,000 éarpenters who are work- ing under individual agreerents. Huerta Reported On Wiy; to Mexico KANSAS CITY, Mo., June %.—Although General Victoriano Huerta himself de- clared he was on his way to the expo- sition at San Francisco, members of the party who passed through here late last night with the former dictator of Mexico, are quoted as asserting General MHuerta was going to El Paso, Tex. The conductor of the Mleeping car in e, and below is an officer, who | CZAR'S MINISTER OF WAR, RESIGNS Head of Slav Armies Quits Post and Former Assistant Takes Up Work of Opposing Invasion of Teutons. POLIVANOFF IS NEW CHIEF | 4 | Hammering ( of Western Forces Against Muscovite Lines Still Continues. LITTLE ACTIVITY IN WEST LONDON, June 26.-—General W A. Soukhomlinoff, the Russian min-| ister of war, has resigned, according to a dispatch from Petrograd to Reuter's Telegram company. It is understood that General~Polivanoff, a former assistant minister of war, will succeed Genmeral Soukhomiinoft. Hammering by Teutonic armies against the Russian forces in Galicla continues FECTIONS~THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. without cessation, but apparently with | leas success than in most of the many | battiea fought during the long weeks of the Galiclan campaign for the pos- scssion of Prezemysl and Lembers Petrograd Cla s Vietory. From Petrograd come claima of victory n a six-day battle along the Dnelster, all attempts of the Teutons to gain a foot- hold on the north bank having been frus- trated. The latest German officlal state- ment admjts that Russian forces still hold the right bank near Hallcz, this’be Jug coupled with the statement that Gen- eral yon Linkingen's troops are keeping up thelr attacks to effect a orossing and that fighting Is continuing between tho Dnelster and the district east of Lem- Lerg. Accounts of Germian military activity in Russian Poland come at the same time as reports that many big guns from 13ssen, Germany, are being shipped into that region, possibly in preparation for another drive at Warsaw THEIR TRIP WEST Seoretary of State and Mrs. Bryan Will Leave Washington To- day for Journey. FIGHT FOR OFFICES IN STATE (From a Staff Correspondent,) WASBHINGTON, June 26.—(Spe- cial Telegram.) —Ex-Secretary and Mrs. W. J. Bryan will leave for Ne- braska tomorrow afternoon, stopping oft in Chicago for a peace meeting in the latter eity Monday evening, which Colonel Bryan will address. On Tuesday the colonel and Mrs. Bryan will go to Lincoln, where they plan to spend two or three days, and then go on to San Francisco, where the ex-secretary of state will deliver the Fourth of July oration on the exposition grounas, T. 8. Allen, brother-In-law of the ex- secretary, who has been in New York on legal matters, was In Washington today en routs to his home in Lincoln. remain in Chicago until the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and will accompany them to Fairview. Land Officers Stick. In view of Mr. Bryans early departure for the_west and the uncertainty of his, return to Washington in the near future, the question of the land offices in Ne- Lraska were broached to Mr. Allen and ho stated that he thought they would be cleaned up in the next week or two. Bxammatton ef the records show that ex- the Broken Baw pffice who s not satis- factory to Senator Hitehcock, but with this place agreed upon it is belleved that the registers and receivers in the other land offices, O'Nelll, Valentine and North {Continued on Page Two, Column Two) BRYA " T0 BEGIN | He will | «cretary Bryan has a candidate for | | Pronounced German successes seem- ingly have ocourred not far trom the east Prusslan border. The Germans claiming the capture by storm of a Russisn pos! tion north of Przasnysz and the Russians admitting a reverse in that region through superior artillery fire by the Germans. Nelther French nor German statements indicate operations of immediatp move- ment in the western arena. The French admit lack of progress, due In many pla it {8 declared (v storm. ravaged ground, while the Germans set forth. the repulss of all French attacks and the regaining of some trenches. Alibi Established For Ben Stutheit Ben Stutheit, suspected of being ‘“‘the man in blue'" of the Ada Swanson mur- der mystery, has apparently been-cleared of any connection with the case through word recelved by the Omaha police “rom Broken Bow. J. M. Dem'ng, a farmer .’ Custer county, positively asserts that Stutheit wis working for him on the day of the murder. The police have been holding the man owing to his not being able to account for himself on that date. He will probally be turned over to mome institution for examination as to his mental condition. A blood-stained handkerchief found on the person of the suspect has led to a recent investigation on the part of the police, that will be dropped at once, it is believed, with this convincing informa- tion from out in the state, Third Tornado Hits Out Near Oshkosh OSHKOEH, Neb, June 26.—(Special Telegram.)—A tornado struck twelve miles north of Oshkosh late this after- noon, Tts path was about seven miles long and it destroyed farm bulldinge for I. R. Parsmore, leaving the house stand- ing. Further partioulars are not avall- able at this time. This makes the third tornado In this vieinity this summer. Dutch Ship Ceres is Sunk by a Mine LONDON, June 2.—A dispatch received here from Stockholm says that the Neth- eralands steamer, Ceres, from Amster- dam for Lulea, Sweden, has sunk as a result of striking & mine near Soder hamn, in the Guit of Bothnla. The crew was saved. Here’s a Limerick Contest for Youa! Comeon in and Get a Prizeif You Can Selze your pencil firmly. Btrike an attitude. Or for that matter, when the awards are made, they will be given to thelr winners by Buffalo Bl strike apything you want to, just so to |in person, for the great plainsman has get your mind in working order. write & lmerick—just about the best Umerick you ever wrote in your lfe. Because— There'll be money in it. And if there fsn't money, there’s lable to be a ticket | to the eircus. Or maybe two tickets. Por The Bee has M0 and fifty reserved seat tickets to the clrous to give away. And all that is necessary to get & prize is to write a Mmerick about Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bl s coming to Omaha for one day with the Bells-Floto shows and because everybody’'s interested in Buf- falo Bill, The Bee has instituted this oontest. And sinoe it's to be a competi- tion, there must be prizes. Here they Then |consented to appear at The Bee office and hand the prise winnesrs personally thelr awards, And, of course, you know what & Umerick is? Sure you do. But anyway, here's one, just for a sample: Once a fighter naned Buffalo Wilifam Saw some Injuns who ran e'er he killed em. started too late, to relate, For Buffalo Willlam he spilied ‘em. There! That's & limerick. Of course, it may not be as clever or as good as one you cowld write. And now that you know what to do, hers are the conditions: The subject of the Mmerick must be Buffalo Bill. It can be funny, serious, clever, any way you want to make it except, of course, deristve. It must reach | | 1 { The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice Suppose your children had to go through the hot summer months without all the fresh milk and ice they require. The very thought of it makes von | shudder for the children in poor families who will be exposed to that very hardship and danger Contributions from 10 cents to 5 are solioited and will bo eckmow!. adred in this colomn Previously acknowlsdged Morris Milder . ¥. J. MoShane, Jr.. Pxton hotel 28828383233 L] s ° L [ 2 1 1 1 1 00 7 ‘80 40 18 THEIR LINES FIRM | Petrograd Reports that Teutons Have Been Defeated After a Battle of Six Days. UNABLE TO SECURE A FOOTHOLD PRTROGRAD, June 26.— (Via London.)—The Russians are contin- uing successfully to hold their lines along the Dniester. After a six-day battle the Austro-Germans have been defeated at Kozara and Rudsay, north of Kallcz. At Martinova, a similar attempt to gain a foothold on the Russian side of the river falled, the Grand Duke Nicholas troops capturing forty officers and 1,700 men. “At Kosmierjine the Austrians wete re. pulsed on June 22 and 2, after having proviously been defeated at Snovides and wero driven across the Dulester, fighting a rear Ruard battle and losing heavi Thess reverses have caused a German concentration near Kosmierjine and new battles are imminent. “A German force attempting to co-op- erate“in’ this region is descending the Lemberg-Brzesany rallroad, but is being stubbornly opposed.” . Bride Kidnaper Makes Way Out of Prison Coal Mine LBAVENWORTH, Homsr MoCord, the Kan, June 21— so-called Kansas | "bridys kidnaper,” and I'rank Willlams, | convicts in the te prison at «ansing, escaped from the prison coal mine early today by a perilous 30 foot climb up the perpendicular air shaft. MoCord was serving a sentence of five years on a white slavery charge, which grew out of his sensational flight from Iola, Kan,, the evening ot June 24, 1913, with Mrs. Harvey Dean, a 16-year-old bride. The young woman left her hus- ‘band, Harvey Dean, sitting on park bench. The Deans were on their wedding Journey. Willlams and MoCord were lowered into the mine last night to aid in replacing decayed timbers. After midnight the mine was thrown into darkness. A hasty examination revealed that the electro light wires had bene cut and hl‘y::; communication severed. When repairs were made an inspection revealed that Willlams and MeCord were gone. In- vestigation showed they had mounted the timbers of the alrshaft, located some distance from the main shaft and lead. ing outside the prison enclosure. Willlams was serving a sente. robbery. s for Demonstration is Made Against Gov, Slaton .of Georgia ATLANTA, Ge., June »B~Twenty-six men were brought to the county jail here today by militiamen guarding the country home of Governor Slaton. The state guardsmen said they were arrested while trying to enter the governor's es- tate. The arrests and a hostile demonstration when Governor Blaton appeared at to- day's inauguration of his successor, Nat ¥. Harris, made the final day of Slaton's term stormy. The demonstration at the insuguration was quickly suppressed and Governor Slaton was cheered when he remarked, on handing over the state seal, that it had ‘mever been abused during my administration.” His friends thought this was a refer- ence to his commutation to lite tmprison- ment jof the desth sentence of Leo M. Frank. Militiamen, who brought the prisoners in from the Slaton estate, said seven pistols and three clubs were taken from the men after an exchange of shots, in which no one was hurt. PRIZE COURT RELEASES STEAMSHIP PORTLAND LOS ANGHLES, Cal, June 2.—A prize TEUTON ARMIES Germans Are Expected to Make a Drive Toward Calais, Paris or Warsaw Within the Next Few Days. BIG GUNS ARE ON WAY EAST |Most Experts Believe Another Effort Will Be Made to Reach Capital of Russian Poland. HMINOR FRONTS ARE ALL QUIET LONDON, June 36.—There is & pauge at the present moment on both battle fronts on the continent. The British publie, with breathless ex- pectancy, awaits the next move. It {s conceded that this move is Ger- many's, and that it may be made against either Warsaw, Paris or Calals. ~ German activity reported in the Argonne may Indicate a drive on Paris, but the closing of the Belgian |frontier may mean the transfer of | vaterans from the eastern fromt for | another attempt to break through to the English channel. Many persons believe, however, that no great offen- slva movement will be attempted along the western front until another effort has been made to reach War- saw, against which position the Ger- mans are said to be bringing big the Turks in defending the peninsula. The question of munitions atill is ab- sorbing public attention in England. The House of Commons, has been assured b; Walter Runciman, president of of Trade, that Great Britain ficlent high explosives for and that it need have over its food supplies, but |Guirements for shells are still acute, exténding beyond [the fron tn the Tyrol-Trentino region. in ‘Cadora and Carniola, indicate h-E n |activity on the part of thé work of retnforcing and batteries. ‘We are frostrating this work by the efficlent fire of our artillery the bold operations of small m‘: “In Carnlola the night of June 3435, the enemy valnly renewed his attacks against our line from Val Grande to Val Piocolo. - “Our operations along the Isonso are developing methodically in spite of the masniford natural difficulties of the ground. "“An' Austrlan batter, which for some d-nhuhnn‘htmbh‘o'mby its fire, causing especially werious dum- age to villages with injuries to their in- habitants, was located today and became the object of a well directed fire from our artillery. Immediately afterwapd a large white flag, with a Red Croes. was hoisted from a villa near the location of the battery, with the evident purpose of deceiving us and stopping our five," Frerich Offiein] Report. PARIS, June 2.—The French " offiels afternoon report reads: » “‘Considering the front as a whole, night passed with relative quiet. Nx of Arras there s nothimg to report with the exception of some Infintry engage- ments, accompanied a lively can. i “Our progress has been checked by the condition of the ground which ,in certain places, has been rendered almost im- passable by storma. “On the Chempagne front and in Ar- gonne the fighting with mines has been (dn(nnwmmm" BANK OF THE DNIRSTER has beeu entively cleared of the Teutonic troops who foreed their way across at two points early this week, ac- cording to the latest official state- ments, but the Austro-German forces are making desperate e forts to effect a passage elsewhere. MILITARY OBSERVERS are wateh- ing the eastern tervitory and re- ported movements of German forces on their interfor lines with- t venturing more than speculs- tion as to whether these mean an- other Teutonto drive at Warsaw or renewed activity om a huge scale by the Germans tn Alexander. ITALIAN ARMIES are continuing statement. MOST RECENT DEFINITE' NEWS ALLIES WAITING | " NEXT DASH OF - a are: Firel' prise .. Secong prise Third prize Fourth prise court at Blythe, Eng., has released the | VRENCH American steamship Portland, owned by | setivity along the western fromt, the Globe Grain and Milling company of this city, according to word just received by the owners. The vessel, with a cargo of barley, route from San Francisco to Sweden when | AN INTERESTING DOCU:! captured by a British warship and brought to Kirkwall, Claims for damages for selzure of part of the cargo by the British government has been sent by the owners to the State department at Wash- togton. ighest yesterday. west yesterday.. which the party was traveling s also quoted as saying the Mexicans had tick- ets for El Paso and were going there. only after a riot call, that brought a ean temperature score of police reserves to the assigtance Precipitation .00 .00|of the federal officers. When the train Temperature and precipitation depar- | was stopped and federal officers boarded| ®enoral Huerta was awakened by the P N She aevmal: It, he reservists began shrieking in thelr| PWDaDer men while his car was at- | Excess for the day.......... native tongue that German spies had be- |tached to & train west hound from here. | Total d.flulflm‘v since March set them. They scrambled out of the| After being infogmed that the party had | e SRR coaches and fought off the attempts of |tickets to El Paso, General Huerta was otal raintall since March 1 the fedcral officers to arrest them. Po-|asked: i lice were obliged to swing their clubs| “Are you going back to Mexico?" on the heads of the Serblany before order! “I am golng to the San Francisco fair,” was |umunornhquotuumnu the Contest Editor of The Bee, with your {name and address, not later than mid- |night, Monday, July 5, The next day will be used in judging the contestants. Wednesday, July 7, the winners will be PN potne £ ges fog announced, and Thursday, July 8, circus Five prises of $1.00 each. day, at noon, the prizes withbo given | Fifteen prizes of two reserved seat out in front of The Bee office. The tickets edch to the Sells l’loz elrous. | ghow? It will be here Thursday, July Twenty prises of one seat §, at Twenty-first and Paul. And just ticket each. one thing more: The contest is open to Forty-five prizes! For limericks. And lwuvbody: Bo come on in) s N