Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1915, Page 1

WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bs2 is The Paper ask for; if you plan to be t more than a few days, Bave The Bee mailed to you. [———— THE OMAHA DAILY BE VOL. XLV—-NO. 16. | 3 DEMS WILL S00N 1 | i ol ¥y '3 K RECRIVE PLAGES, BRYANYET POWER Administration Heads Weary of Dslay Resulting from Sena- tor Hitchcock’s Attitude Over Jobs, APPOINTMENTS MAY SOON COMET Feeling in Washington Nebraska Benator Not Entitled to Longer Consideration. OFFICIALS WANT AGONY OVER (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 6.—(Spe- cial Telegram.) — Administration aides are getting weary of repub- licans holding the big jobs in Ne- braska and a new order of things is about to dawn, according to in- slde information from the Depart- ments of Justice and the Treasury. Just when the changes in the offices of colector of internal revenue, collector ©f customs, district attorney and mar- shal will be made is still a matter of mystery, but greater efforts than ever are being put forth to bring about a so- lution of the patronage problem and Doth ex-Secretary Bryan and Senator | Hitchcock have been importunmed to “get together for the sake of the party.” Bryan Being Considered. Bo far as the patronage, question af- Yects Nebraska, it was learned today From thoroughly reliable sources, ex- Becretary Bryan will have serlous con- sideration at the hands of the adminis- tration for anything he may desire for his friends. ‘Was he not premier of the Wilson cab- dnet and 18 he not still a leader in the 'Snner councile of his party? As for Senator Hitohoock, where has e shown any abiding Interest in the ‘Wilson administration that would war- yant his recognition over Mn Bryan? These were questions propounded to- ny by a representative of the treasury, in dlecussing the Nebraska political em- brotigo. HMecheock to Washington. Senator Hitcheock 18 expected in Wash- WEDNESDAY OMAHA, ||| CHILDREN LOVE THE SOLDIERS-—Scene in Victoria park, Leicester, where convales cent English soldiers are taking their daily /xercise. | i i | | WESTERN RAILROAD RATE HEARING ON Attorney Wright Says it Will Be Proved Passenger Are Steadily Decreasing. STATISTICIAN FIRST WITNESS CHICAGO, July 6.—The western | passenger rate hearing, in which forty-six western railroads hope to prove that present rates, sald to be ington soon to take up with Attorney | Unremunerative, should be advanced, General Gregory and Secretary McAdoo | began here today before Examiner the subject of maling recommendations | Thurtell of the Interstate Commerce for the offices in question, and if some | .\ pieeion happy solution cannot be arrived at, then it has been about determined on the part of the administration, to make nominations and leave to Senator Hitch- cock their confirmation or defeat. In this case it'a “fish or cut. bait, or g0 ashore.” German Spy Shot in Tower of London (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, June 26—The moat of the Mower of London was the scene of the execution of the alleged German spy, F. R. Muller, convicted of sending informa- tion to the enemy by means of messages written in invisible ink. Muller was taken under an armed es- cort to the tower on June 2. He was watched throughout the night by a guard of the Honorable Artillery com- pany, and at daybreak was taken to the miniature rifle range in the tower moat. At the word of command the elght picked marksmen fired. It sounded like one report and Muller was immediately certified by the medical officer present 20 be dead. The body was afterward taken to a eemetery in North London and burled in unconsecrated ground. Fake Wire Tapper Given Prison Term MINNEAPOLIS, July 6~Dan La Bar, ted of swindling B. W. Coyle, ason City, Ia., out of $,000 by means of a “fake” wire tapping game, Was sen- tenced to the penitentiary today. La Bar was released on ball pending an appeal to the supreme court. The Weather For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity wPartly cloudy; not much change in tem- perature. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. !| been matertally less than it was for t C. C. Wright made the opening statement for the railroads. He said in part: “The carriers expect to show that the net operating income of the roads in- volved during the last seven vears has seven years immediately brior to that perfod. It will be shown that this is true notwithstanding the fact that there has been an Increase In the volume of busi- ness and an increase In the property in- vestment. This, of course, results in a higher operating ratio and naturally a lesser rate of return than has been main- tained heretofore. “Comparisons also wil! be glven show- ing present conditions as against those of 1910. Explanation of the increase in ex- pense also will be made. It will be shown that it is largeiy due to increases in the cost of labor and to taxes and that the economies which have been ef- fected by the carrier and the increased volume of business have not been suf- ficlent to meet the increased cost of operation.” Mr. Wright stated that the present rate of return on property devoted to passen- ger eervice does not amount to 3 per cent. “It 18 belleved,” Mr. Wright continued, “that it is impracticable to maintain state and interstate rates upon any substan- tially different basis.'” Wettling is First Witness. L. F. Wettling, statisticlan for the car- riers, took the stand and presented a voluminous exhibit of comparative fig- ures from 1901 to 1914. “The average ratio of return on. cost of road and equipment in the first seven years of this period was 5.43 per cent,’ sald the witness. “In the second seven years it dropped to 474, while the re- turns for 1914 were only 4.24 per cent, thus showing a general tendency of rail- road profits to decline.” Mr. Wettling testified that expendi- tures for additions and betterment for the roads in 1907-14 reached $966,518,406, of which $390,435,682 was for equipment. “Between 1801 and 1907, he continued, “unproductive expensditures for per- manent improvements, such as passenger stations, viaducts, grade crossings, track elevation and the llke, were $19,662,442. H Deg. o In 1907-14 this sum jumped to $79,§73,002 = i |None of this vast expense brings in ad- P @ ,ditional revenue.” 10 ;é \ 1n . 12 w® R i -#|French Rush to 2 3 82 d { ‘#| Exchange Hoarde H . : 3 Gold for Notes . $p. 1% Compprative ""1'9"; x::cu"u.. 11z, | PARIS, July 6-—The Bank of France Highest yesterda: % "% "3 15 [nas been compellea to dv-l‘nnl;- -A; o Lowest yesterd 63 69 66 70[celving tellers to take the gold offere }l.u‘l ll.em rature ‘Txt) ETA :’3 g in exchange for notes in consequence of recipitation 00 .6 D . " TRolpltation i’ ‘précipitation depart- |the invitation to the public to turn 1 ures from tbe normal at Omaha since its private hoards of gold so as to h 1. and comparisons with the last .l strengthen the national reserve. Long lines of persons waited in front ficlency for the day. . 2 l‘:’nce March 1, . n . ency since March 1 Deficlency for cor. period, 1814 .88 incl Deficlency for cor. period, 1913 1.0 inches ations at 7 P, M. Reports from Station and State Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. Tp. m. est. fall. Cheyenne, clear “ K 00 80 ‘a 50 T £ ] e City,’ clear. 2 % ko Ay P ek otaees 70 ~ orth Platte, cloudy...... 72 ke % ha, partly cloudy 8 5 20 Mo, clear............... 84 o ® id City, cloudy [ % T Lake City, cloudy.... 76 # 0 ta Fe, clear............ W 8 o x City, cloudy 0 &2 2 tine, 'raining “w 9 0 indicates trace of precipitation. 1. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. of the institution all day yesterday and were again there today. The largest sum exchanged was 8,000 francs, the smallest ten francs. The usual amounts were 1,600 or 2,000 francs. The certificates given for the gold bore an inscription stating that the exchange as made for “national defense.” Five Swedish Ships Are Siezed Sunday LONDON, Jury 6~Five Swedish ves- sels were seized Sunday in the Baltic sea |and taken to Swinemunde, says a Copen- bagen correspondent of the Morning Post. The; the steamers Liguarda. ‘Waermela and Henirk Wicander and the sailing vessels Orvar and Hoppet. troops are in readiness to be rushed 19M15—~TWELVE PAGES THE WEATHER Cloudy On Trat Wotel News W SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. | DECLARED PITIFU | American Red Cross Agent Asserts Conditions in City and Else- where in Country Are Very Bad. STILL FIGHTING CONTINUES No Prospect of Settlement Between Attacking and Defend- ing Forces. | | REPORT OF CHARLES J. 0'CONNOR ! WASHINGTON, July 6 The first | report to the Red Cross on the relief lMl\m!Iun in Mexico City came {through today from Charles J. O'Con- |nor, the American agent who suc- |ceeded in getting through the Car- Iranza lines and entered the capital with American Consul Shanklin last Wednesday General O'Connor described the food situation ! as “exceedingly pititul In conference with varlous rellef committees he said he had been told that the plight of the noncombatants in small cities in the vieinit of the apital was even worse than in Mexico City ftself. On July 1, | the day his message was dispatched by & { courfer on the staff of the Brazilian min ister to Pachuca, he was endeavoring to = | arrange transportations. O'Connor and | Bhanklin took Into the city with them a . . - - | portion of the Red Cross medical relief Russia Receiving Many Shiploads "o vin e | A message from the Brazillan minister, of Ammu’"tl‘on by Way of Archangel‘ sent at the same time, said there was no prospect of a pacific settlement’” be- _ ;(v\\‘tn General Gonzales, commanding the NHEW YORK, July 6—Dr. B. R. Ward | I left Petrograd about the middlc uri'|r'l‘"“'”":‘”‘:"M':"l'l';“':"‘,;‘; '::"’ ‘|"“'"m"""“::’: A 1“‘ New Haven, Conn., who arrived here |June. sald Dr. Ward. ”D"""I": ‘“i" | mources it has been reported since the dis- Earnings |ioqay on the steamship United States Loprneiipien e s of new | PACI Was sent that fighting had been from Copenhagen, after spending & year |ia, on are in roadiness to be | [ renewed in Russia, sald that the Russians were |the front as soon as the danger of an- | S R TR making extensive preparations In &rms |other shortage of ammunition is past ‘T n ThOuS d and munitions for an early offensive [They are simply awaiting ammunition e a'l_l agalnst the Germans In Galicia. The |and equipment. Within ten miles of M G. Vologda & Archangel rallroad, ‘“with | Potrograd over 600,00 troops are en- Ontenegrlns 0 newly oconstructed lines reaching from |camped, and I am reliably Informed that Vologda toward the battle line, had besn taken over in its entirety by the govern- ment for the transportation of munitions of war, Since Archangel was opened to naviga- tion, Dr. Ward asserted, ammunition laden ships from Fngland and Canada have been arriving almost Thousands of soldiers at Archangel are busy day and night transferring muni- tions to trains, and all railroad equipment that can be handled is belng operated over the road, the southbound trains being loaded to capacity. CARRANZA LOSES of other places. “While Russia is not recelving much help from Japan, in the form of muni tiong or men, I know of my own knowl edze that bands of trained Japanese of ficers are engaged in drilling dally. [troops In the use of the heavy artillery. officers, the majority of whom served in the slege of Port Arthur, what they were doin |FRANK HOLT TRIES ALL-DAY BATTLE| 10 KILL HIMSELF Army of Eighteen Thousand Men is| Defeated in Assault on Pardon, a Villa Stronghold. TWO0 THOUSAND CASUALTIES LAREDO, Tex., July 6.—8ix hun- dred Carranza troops, it is reported, | were killed in an all day battle in/| a fruitless attempt to capture Pare-| don, a Villa stronghold about thirty miles northwest of Moffterey, Eigh- teen thousand men are said to have been engaged in the battle, with to- tal casualties on both sides of 2,000. Carranza reinforcements renewed the attack today. About 8,000 Carranza troops under Gen- eral Jacinto B, Arevino advanced yes-| terday morning alone the railroad from Villa Garcla, a village about midway be- | tween Monterey and Paredon. The ad- vance followed a Sunday truce, during which both sides buried dead, who, dur- ing the two weeks incessant fighting | Vein in His Wrist with Metal Tip of Lead Pencil. LOSES Washington last Friday night, 1eft wrist with a lead pencil. The attempt was unsuccessful wi with pain. s to menace health. The Carranza officers estimated that Villa had nearly 10,00 men concentrated near Paredon under Generals Urbana and Chao, two of his best known gen- erals, Thelr purpose was to halt a Car-| A BRITI I ATTACK by aer ransa advance on Torreon, about 20| mnd eruiser against the German miles west of Monterey. | positions in a tay of the North Infentry, ca anq artillery on| Sem on the morning of July 4 was repulsed by German alrships, cording to & statement glven o in Berlin, GERMAN OFFICIAL today says two English attgoks a Les Eparges have been repulse (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) Man in Charge of Cargo of Arms Makes His Escape| HOQUIAM, Wash., July 6.—Search was | being made for Walter H. Page, super- entire fromt. Belgium; Arras wa all night long; there as many more are in readiness in dozens Home to Join Army FOOD SITUATION IN |KAISER SOUNDING |RUSSIAN LINE MEXICAN CAPITAL | THE UNITED STATES! AROUND WARSAW Informa] Note Asks What Kind of Reply on Submarine Warfare Will Be Acceptable. I8 TO BE FORWARDED T0 WILSON WASHINGTON, July 6.—S8ecre- tary Lansing stated today that a dis- | patch had been recelved from Am bassador Gerard giving Informally the views of the German government on submarine warfare, but this gov- ernment has not replied While declining to discuss the con tents of the dispatch, Mr. Lansing let it be known that the proposals con- talned in it were similar to those which have already been discussed in Berlin press dispatches, indicating a desire to clarify the situation before making formal answer, Mr. Lansing stated that there had been no exchange of views as yvet and that no 1 — | | negotiations had been entered Into by |the American government. Mr. Gerard's dispatch has been transmitted to Prest [dent Wilson where the decislon rests as [to the character of inatructions to be given the American ambassador In an {swering the Inquiries of Berlin officials. Amicable Settlement E ected, | The effort of the German government to legrn ‘nformally what propesals would {ernment o that whben embodied in the | German reply they might be acceptable |as a basis for negotlation, greated the [distinet tmpression i ofticfal quarters that the dispute between the two govern ments eventually would be amicably re- | wolved. | The message from Mr. Gerard was |somewhat garbled in transmissich. It |®ave no Indlestion as to the time when the formaj reply would be ready. | What Herr Von Jagow, the German | foreign minister, suggested in his con- {ference’ with Ambassador Gerarq as a view on submarine warfare, wi vealed at the State department. |Bryan Makes a Bid for the Newspaper Reporters’ Votes not re- be acceptable to tho United States gov- | means of meating the American point of | Russian | h | SEATTLE, Wash., July 6-Dr. Jovan - | Matanovitch, who sald he was formerly - 1S HOLDING FIRM ! Petrograd Official Reports Say Des- perate Fighting is in Progre Between the Bug and Vistula Rivers, GERMANS ACTIVE IN FRANCE Violent Bombardment Believed to Be Prelude to Another Thrust West of Moselle. TEUTON AIR RAID IS REPULSED BULLETIN, BERLI July 6.—(By Wireless to Sayville, N. Y.)——A great British aeroplane attack was directed against the German positions In a Germas bay of the North Sea on the morning of July 4, according to a German of- ficlal statement {esued under date of July 5. The attack, the announce- ment adds, failed LONDON, July 6.—S8pecial cor- respondents in Petrograd telegraph optimistic predictions concerning a coming Russian campaign for the de- fense of Warsaw which forms the |center of a vast circle of 100 miles of strong fortifications. Even the fall of the fortress of Ivangorod, ac- cording to these correspondents, | would not mean the loss of the Polish capital. Fighting, described as desperate in the ‘official Petrograd reports, is raging between the Vistula and the | Bug rivers along the base of a tri- angle of which Warsaw forms the apex. The country there is marshy and it is predicted in London that because of the terrain this campaign will be a constant drain on the Ger- man resources, until even victory will be almost as costly as defeat. German Artillery Active. The German thrust against the French positions to the west of the Moselle river, apparently has mot extended beyond the infantry attack which regained the trenches previously lost by the Germans; CONSIDERABLE BLOOD GLEN COVE, N, Y., Tuly 86— Frank Holt, J. P. Morgan’s assailant, who has also confessed to setting the bomb that exploded in the capitol at at- tempted to kill himself at midnight by trying to open the artery in his nouncement FRENCH WAR OFFICE reports an active night along virtually the British troops have taken some German tremches in At the hotel in Petrograd where 1 lived |tenegrin reservists and some soldiers to thers were seventeen Japanese artlilery had They made no secret of their presence or of g0 to Montenegro for mervice In the army. He sald that he secured 20 men from Seattle and 600 from the northwest and they will leave in a few days for thelr native land by way of Montreal. Dr. Matanovitch asserted that he is not violating the neutrality of the United Btates, as he merely induces his country- {men to go of thelr own free will. He will leave for the enst today A published dispatch from Roslyn, a coal mining town near here, sald that Dr. Matanovitch was there a few days ago and succeeded in getting together a Assailant of 7. P. Morgan Opens a |large number of men for Montenegrin military sehvice. Grand Jury in Loup is Ordered to Act GRAND ISLAND, Neb,, July 6.—(8pe- clal Telegram.)—News from Taylor, Loup ocounty, recelved this afternoon, states that Judgw Hanna of the distriot court, today instructed a grand jury of that county diligently to inquire into the facts of the alleged slaying of Roy Fox and to bring and indictment, #f the evidence so justifies. +| The court also appointed Attorney ¥, Holt, lying on his side in a cell in |Hawxby as speclal prosecutor. Benjamin the Nassau county jail at Mlnwll.' en by an attendant to writhe The attendant entered the cell, found blood flowing from the wound, summoned the warden and bound up the wrist, checking the flow of flood. Notwithstanding the about Villa Garcia had fallen so thickty (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) The Day’s War News| Franklin Tucker has been foreman of the jury, This is the inquiry recently demanded by citizens of Loup county of Attorney General Reed, it having been set forth that the local authorities have failed to prosecute Mexican Raiders Are Taken in Texas | BROWNSVILLE, Tex., July 6.—A posse of thirty-five officials and special deputies today surrounded twenty to thirty Mexi can rebels in brush thickets forty miles northeast of Brownsville neah the gulf coast. The rebels are reported to have committed depredations about fifty miles ¢ |north of here and ‘are alleged to have planned raids on small county banks. Today's reports indicated no one was Killed in the ralds Sunday. LIBERTY BELL PASSES FORT WAYNE. IND. FORT WAYNE, Ind, July 6-—More than 30,000 people saw the Liberty bell chosen as cargo of the schooner Annie Larsen, during its forty-five minutes’ stop here Whith was selsed when it put in here| ©essant fighting im the Argomne, |today on its journey from Philadelphis week before last with a cargo of muni-| %74 French troops h med | to San Francisco. As the bell was tions. Page eluded his guards yesterday| 'h® ememy om the heig the |[arawn under twenty-three elaborately and escaped In one of the vessel's boats. | Mewse, as well as near the Forest |decorated arches, bands played patriotic of Le Pretre. STIFFER RESISTANCE to the T tonie advan belug offered by the from day to day, the latest offictal reports intimate. Along tire eastern battlefront of tmately 850 miles, from tie to Bessarabia, in fast, the Ru slan lines are apparently holdl Austro-Germans, except at Near Krasnfk, He was a model prisoner and gained the confidence of the two deputies placed to guard him and the cargo of the Annie Larson, Page's desertion of the ship complicates matters as no one can be found to make claim for the cargo. a tinued the Polish capital. IN FRANCE THE GERMANS o na Delegates to the National Fraternity of the Deaf, are “*stopping off'' in Omaha; which reminds us that the Nebraska State School for the Deaf, located here, is always an object of interest to visitors. malne roke: Austrian en vieluity the toward Warsaw is Russians 1 for some time has prevailed along the front heid by the British re. ITALIANS REPORT the satistactory offensive on the success alrs and the crowds cheered heartily. Stops were made in Ohlo towns and {orowds greeted the rello at each place. The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice The Bee's free milk and ice fund has now passed the hundred-dollar mark. It ought to continue to grow even faster, and will, if our char- itable people respond. Every cent of it will come in handy for the hot weather little tots, Contributions from 10 cents to $5 are solicited and will be acknowl- edged in this column. Previously acknowledged Mrs. W. 0. B 10490 . 3.0 | minister to Turkey from Montenegro,| SAN FRANCISCO, July 6—Willlam J. | had, nccording to a statement lust night, | Bryan, former secretary of state, put Just concluded a trip throughout the |Peace and politics aside today, and ap- | United States and induced 10,00 Mon-|Peared as “journalist” before the opening session of the International Press con- gress at the Panama-Pacific exposition. He advised signed stories and editorials in newspapers, suggested passage of a law to compel editors to show their financial interest in policles they ad- vooated, commended the influence of a one-man ‘edited weekly as greater than of & corporation-owned dally newspaper and disapproved “ndependent’” publications. Experience in the state department, Mr. Hryan sald, had convinced him that pub- lle welfare would be benefitted by a law compelling editors to tell what pecuniary Interest they had In governmental policies they advocated, so that the pub- lic might know what welght the editorials deserved. “It seems reasonable to suppose’’ Mr. Bryan sald, ‘“that the signing of edi- torials and news reports would contribute both accuracy and to the reputation of writers. It 1s one of the injustices of the present system that the men who furnish the literary ability, the editorial writers and newspaper correspondents often live in obscurity, while the corporation from which they draw pay reap an unfair profit from thelr geniu Stecher is Given Rousing Reception by Fans at Fremont FREMONT, Neb., July 6~(Special Tel- egram.)—Joe Stecher, champlon heavy~ welght wrestler of the world, was given a rousing reception at the court house tonight by his admirers and patrons of the mat. He left Omaha in the after- noon for Dodge, his home town, but plans had been made to give him a re- ception here tonight and he was caught at Hooper and turned back, reaching here at & o'clock, Stecher was taken to the court house, where he made & short speech and where | several of his local admirers expressed their falth in him and their consratula- tions over his success. Joe was modesty itself over his achieve- ment. but he did not go halves when he expressed his appreciation in the con- fidence in his Nebraska friends There had been plans to give Stecher a big welcome In Dodge, his home town, but these will now be delayed until the occasion of the presentation of the dia- mend belt Officer of Chicago Union Shot Twice CHICAGO, July 6.—Charles H. Jobn- ston, secretary and treasurer of the but preparations are probably under way for a further advance, as Paris reports & violent bombardment in this region. In reply to the German wireless state- ment of an aerial rald on Landgusrd fort at Harwich, the British admiralty states that a German seaplane and an sere- plane, flying at a great height, were pur- sued by British airmen and forced to drop their bombs harmlessly into the sea. Russia has apologised to Sewden for the violation of Bwedish neutrality when the German mine layer Albatross was (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) Safe in Chicago Park Blown Open; $20,000 is Taken CHICAGO, July 7.—Four robbers over- powered two watchmen at the Midway | Gardens, an amusement park, early to- day, blew open the safe and escaped with about $20,000, according to a report made to the police. Rugs saturated with water were Gsed to deaden the sount of the explosion. A large safe containing nothing but records and deeds was ignored, and the smaller strong box attacked without delay. It contained receipts of the two holidays. The police believe the robbery to have been the work of a gang which has made & specialty of robbing theaters and other places of amusement on oocasions when banking facilities have not been avall- able to receive deposits. The auditor of the Gardens after check- ing up sald that the robbers obtained approximately $20,000. ““That figure will not be $500 out of the way, one way or the other,” he said. Brickmakers' union, was shqt twice and | probably fatally wounded as he answered | a ring at his door bell early today. His | assallant, whom he falled to mo‘nlle,‘ escaped. | | Police attributed the shooting to labor | troubles, The brickmakers have been thrown out of employment as a result of the action of the construction ma- terial intercets in refusing to deliver building supplies until the strike of 16,000 carpenters is settled. ALLEGED GERMAN NOBLE KILLS SELF ON WAY TO PEN MINNBAPOLIS, July &—"Count” Curt Garden von Knobleadorf, supposed acion of German nobility, with an uncertain career in America as a social lion and forger, is dead. He took polson ten days ago when on his way to the state peniten- tiary to serve an indeterminate sentence for a statutory crime and died today at the city hospital. The “count” denied his royal connections when faced with the criminal charges There was once a young man named Orock: ett Lost his watch and a chain locket. He put an ad in The Bee And the next day all three Could be seen sticking out I and a They'll come back as fast as a train, e Hadsy Your lost articles will be turned to you if you tell :;h‘:r- you % ?,. IT::‘A. You f.. do very eas ng you in'rite Bee" Felephone T ler 1068 and PUT IT IN THE OMAHA BEER