Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 11, 1915, Page 1

NEWS SECTION VOL. MRS, PORTER TELLS STORY OF MURDER OF 10WA COWMAN Woman Porced by Iowa Bandits to Wash Bloody Quilt Reveals Long Hidden Crime of FaN Mystery- MONEY CHEST BURIED IN GROVE Witness Describes Burial of Treas- ure Possessed by the Cattlemen. CITES CLOUD OVER HER LIFE QUITMAN, Mo., July 10.—Mrs. Maria Porter, who as a girl washed the bloody quilt which a band of ocounterfeiters had wrapped about the body of a rich cattleman they Il York to San Francisco. murdered in Siam, Ia., in 1868, to-| fay told the story of events that led | up to the crime, described the hidlngi pf the chest containing a large sum | of money which the cattleman pos- sessed, related the shooting of Jona- than Dark, her brother-in-law and a member of the gang, by his wife, following a dispute over the treasure, and declared she had held the secret #o many years because she feared the threat by the murderers the night of the crime that they ““would wash their hands in my blood” ‘would be fultilled if she talked. Mrs, Porter is to go to Bedford, Ia., Wuesday to testify at the trial of the pien held there in connection with the murders. Mrs. Porter, whose maiden name was Collins, sald she lived with her brother and sisters and thelr widowed mother ) on a little farm near the scene of the prime. Five counterfeiters lived in*a cdve. Jonathan Dark, one of the gan came often to the Collins home and finally married one of Mrs. Porter's elsters.” “Early in September, 1868, Mrs. Porter related, the counterfeiter gang learned that a wealthy cattle buyer and his son ‘were on their way west to buy stock. The news quickly became common knowledge in the neighborhood. Body Wrapped in Quilt . *“T 414 not see the killing,” said Mrs. Porter, “T had been asleep that night, &nd it must have been about 12 o'clock when L heerd nolses outside and went carrying something ™ &’u u%u. were coming down the road.’ It was moolight and they soon saw me. came up and told me that 1f T ever told what T had seen, they would “wash_thelr hands in my Heart's blood.” 1 was terrified and promiged to keep thelr Bétret, They put the body in an old well near the house and then made me wash the quilt which had been wrapped about the body, and- their clothing, which was Blood-spattered. “In the moonlight 1 saw a wagon drawn by an ox team standing In the road. In the wagon wds & chest. The men took the team away and I afterwards found out tyat they burled the chest in a locust grove. The body of a boy who was with the cattlé buyer also was burled in a shallow grave near the same spot.” " Some time after the murder Mrs. Porter and an elder sister came to Missourl, to Quitrhan, their present home, where Mrs Porter has )ived more than forty years. | Jonathan Dark, her brother-in-law, be- came fearful léest the secret’ would be- canie known and came to Quitman to Kill her, she says. 7 Dark Killed by Wife . “Dark became anzry because he'thought we ald not treat him right and sald he would kil me," Nrs. Porter sald. "My sister took my part and as he reached for his pistol, she shot him. Dark died | with his head in my lap ™ About twenty years ago, Mrs. Porter said; the family became acquainted with Bamuel Anderson, who now owns the farm near Siam, Ia, where the counter- feiters burled the chest. Anderson heard of the buiial of thé money and that Mrs. Porter knew something about it. An- derson soon married Mrs. Porter's daugh- ter. Mre. Porter says Anderson persuaded her 'to tell ihe secret to her husband Bhe'says Anderson tried for fifteen y s to Jocate the treasure chest end wi successful. Her story is vouched for by ‘the son, John And:rson “It 18 not true that T told Frank James mbout the treasure chest,” sald Mrs. Porter. “T knew the James boys, but I never told them.- I did not tell -anybody but by hustand, and that was twenty years aga.” Mrs. Porter said that hor sister Mattle, after her trial and acquittal on the charge of baving killed Jonathan Dark, married “Bob” Little, the Oklahéma outlaw leader and one time member of the James {Continued on Page Two, Column One) The Weather Forecast il 7 p. m. Sunday g:{rmuh., Counell Bluffs and Vicinity Hou Dex. ha 7 6a o Ta o Sa . 67 e m 5 Wa m. it a m 2m... ipm 2p. m. 3p. m. 4p. m. 5p.m. 6 p. m. 7p. m. Comparative Loeal Record. 1915, 1914, 1913. 1912 yesterday....... % 9 8 8 t vesterday. 8 T 82 6 ean temperature % 8 T 7 Precipitation .. 17 0 00 .0 rature and precipitation depari ures foom the normal: e Normal temserature ’ iency for the day. . ‘otal deficiency since Mareh 1 ormal precipitation assasas Excess for the day 38 inch Total rainfall since March 1....12.08 inches Deficiency since March 1... 4.3 inches lor cor. L, " L WE! Forecaster. HIGAWAY 0 BE TAKEN ON FILHS This Week by Official Party on Tour, |RECEPTION EXTENDED IN OMAHA Nebraska's section of the Lincoln | highway, extending from Omaha to | Big Springs, will be taken in motion | pictures this week by Consul-at-Large H. ©. Osterman and his officlal %party of elght other highway officials |and photographers. | They are now in Omaha on a coast-to- coast tour with five - autos, making | “movies” all along the way, to be ex- | hibited at the San Francisco exposition | and later throughout the country to the | hundreds of thousands of people: || “Movies” of Omaha have.been taken | under the auspices of Manager B. V. Par- ifl.h of the bureau of publicity. p. | ick Off Nebrasks. film showing Nebraska's fine auto road across the state and the wonderful val- leys, fields and towns through which the | Lincoln highway passes. - { Fremont will be featured Monday, | Grand Island Wednesday and North | Platte Friday, while In between those times the intervening country and towns will also be taken by the “‘movie” man !to show the nation what a grand state Nebraska really is and how good its | great transcontinental auto route is. A hearty welcome to Omaha and the state was extended the highway party Saturday morning at the state line on | the Douglas street bridge across the Mis- | sourt river by Mayor Dahlman, other city | commiseioners, local and State repre- sentatives of the higshway and & crowd | of citizens and autolsts. | Many to Welcome. | Among the crowd on the bridge to wel- | come Consul Osterman and his' party were the following: ~Mayor Dahiman, City Commissioners Kugel, Withnell, Hummell, Jardine, Butler and Drexel; P. | A. Wells, local consul for the Highway: Chairman €. C. Rosewater and Manager | B. V. Parrish of the Omaha Bureau of | Publicity, under the auspices of which (Continued on Page Thres, Col. Three) 'Daniels Will Ask for at Least Thirty 1 New Submarines July 10.~Plans for making the American submarine more efficient than that of an other power are being worked out by the navy general board, it became known here today in | connection with information that the next | bullding program of the navy would in- | clude estimates for nearly doubls the | number of undersea craft approprinted | for by the last session of congrese. | Navy officers claim that effectiveness | of future American submarines will be | vastly increaged through use of a new | battery that s being introduced for mo- tive power while the underwater boats | are submerged | At least thirty and perhaps more sub- | marines will be asked of the next con- | gress, it 1s sald. Secretary Danlels is eaid to favor a large building program. “We will add just as many submarines as we possibly can find money for." sald the secretary. “Just how many we will ask next year has not been determined, but we want all we can get. I would { mot figure on a large Increass in sub- | marines of the same type as we now “have. T think that we have got to go In for large wsubmarines, although the smaller submarines are very valuable for coast defense, which s our chief need. ‘All these questions will be taken up in the near future to be worked out for | i Near Mexico City | WASHINGTON, July 10—~Dispatches {the Carranza agency today ssy General | Gonzales and his troops attacking Mexico |City have mow penetrated to Villa de | Guadeloupe, about two miles from the in the guter suburbs EL PASO, Tex, July 10.-Carranza's main army north of Mexico City was de- feated south of Aguas Calintes yesterday, according to & message received here to- day from Colonel Enrique Peres Ruel, Villa's chief of staff, Nebrasks Seotion Will Be Covered| WELCOME TO THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS—How the Omaha Good Roads Boosters greeted Gen. ||| eral Consul Osterman and his party on their entry into Omaha. The tour is to inspect the Lincoln Highway from New ||| NEW YORK, July 10.—~Nine bombs| | were found aboard the steamer Wirkos- | wald at Marseilles when the vesscl went to discharge its cargo of sugar from New | York on its last outward voyage, accord- ing to the Kirkoswald's officers who | reached here today on the steamer's re- | turn trip. | | Nome of the bombs exploded and all | were hidden in bags of sugar, the Kirk- | cswald's officers said. The sugar was taken aboard, they said, at the Fabre | line pler in Brooklyn. | The steamer Kirkoswald, fiying the British' flag, salled from New York May | 2 for Marseilles. This was about the time that the activities of the bomb placers, so far as yet -disclosed, reached their height. Of the three other vessels which | it. was learned recently salled out of Now | York with bombs secreted in their cargo, | two departed within a few days of the| Kirkoswald.. These were the Lord Erne, safling April 2, and the Bankdale, which | Teft here May 7. \ Like the Kirkoswald both these vessels ENDS BY AGREEMENT, Sixteen Thousand Oarpenters Are . Given Three Years’ Contract at Seventy Cents an Hour. MEN ALSO B-TE OONCES!ION’ CHICAGO, July 10.—The strike ofi 16,000 union carpenters, which for two months practically has paralyzed the bullding industry of Chicago, is over. , . v o Settlement on all points at issue was reached early today after com-| mittees representing the carpenters, Building Construction Bmployers’ association and bullding inaterial in- terests, . had been locked in confer- enoce sinoe 3 ‘o'clock yesterday after- noon. The carpenters were ordered to return to work at once. The agresment reashed provided that the men shall receive 70 cents an hour that they accep. what is called a “yniform sgreement,” which will prevent strikes and lockouts. The agreement is for three years, dating from May 8L It provides for a closed ghop and also stipi- lates that there will be mo restriction re- garding the source of bullding material— whether it is manufactured here or else- | where. The settlement was regarded by both | Nine Bombs Found Hidden in Sugar Sacks on the Steamship Kirkoswald | sistance of the Russians is doing much | Il CATHOLIC PRELATE | DIES IN ROCHESTER were British and both sailed for a French port-Havre. The United States secret service and the French government, it was sald, have been pressing investiga- tions of these attempts to destroy the vessels. The Kirkoswald is a vessel of 4,021 tons gross register, is 370 feet long and was Archbishop James B. Quigley of Chicago Pa Away at Home of His Brother. DID MUCH FOR HIS PEOPLE built In 1912. It was cleared from this Y port May 1 by J. W. Eiwell & Co., agents| ROCHESTER, Y., July 10.— of the Fabre line James Edward Quigley, Catholic| | archbishop of Chicago, died here to-| | day at 5:20, at the home of his| | brother, Chief of Police Joseph M. | Quigley. The most Rev. Six of the bombs were found In one sack of sugar which burst as the steamor was discharging its cargo with slings. Another sack contained three bombs. The bombs were round and small and rolled on the vessel's deck. The place where the explosive had been placed was sealed with soft tallow or grease, placed over the opening, apparently with the idea of producing combustion in the heat of the hold. Beneath the greass om each bomb was a cap. None of the bombs had been affected by the heat. The sacks containing them had been takén from the ordinary cargo holds. James Edward Quigley, archbishop of the Roman Catholic arch- | |atocess of Chicago, was known as & pro- | found logician, a scholar and a linguist, | and one of the most unostentatious and | conservative prelates of the Cathollo |church of the United States. ke waa born in Oshawa, Ontario, Can- ada, in 18 While an infant his parents moved to Lima, N. Y., and when he was 3 old the family home was es- in Rochester, N. Y. He waa m-. A fgreat interest In him and an his education from his first echéol daye. Staal 65 i o Lol ' BXPERTS- Recent .flahry in South Afrioa and ip oihers at Niagara university he par Russian Stand in East Encour- |sued his studies at 8t -Joseph eollege, age London Observers, Buffalo. From there he wenit to. the University: of Innsbruek, Austria, and AGGRESSIVE IN WEST DELAYED completed his student esreer in Rome at l"" College of; the Propaganda, whete 3 X ‘Cardinal Francis Sattolll, the first papal LONDON, Tuly 10.—A 'feeling 'of |delegate to the. United States, was one optimism, which had beén absent for (of his instructors. some time, again ds menifesting (the dokwe of Dootor of Divinity. = | ar div 1tBeIt here. *This feeling 48’ presuma- | nor. Wil career fn the church, In 1::.:{ bly due to Generhl Botha's victory IR | he passed with highest honors an ex- | German Southwest Africa, which at|amination for West Point, but vielding | one stroke deprives Germany of ter- :: ."‘: '?h‘““ :' ’;'" d"""‘d' he decided A nter e priesthood. | ritory largér than Germany. In 1579 he was ordained priest at Rome | The size of the captured territory by Cardinal Laveiletta. The young priest is enormously disproportionate to|at once returned to the United States | that of the defending forces, which consisted of 204 officers and 8,166 men. These numbers included re- servists and police, as well as the regular military. and was assigned to active work at | The ‘cheerfulness of the entente allies He succeeded to the pastorate and| WILSON AND HIS FAMILY ARE IN A HOTOR ACCIDENT Small Automobile Bumps Into White House Machine from Behind, Breaking Lights on On. coming Car. NOBODY SUFFERS ANY HURTS President's Vehicle Struck While Stopping to Avoid Frighten- ing a Horse. MISHAP NEAR NEWPORT, N. H. CORNISH, N. H., July 10.— mobolie accident near Newport, family, but no one was injured. President Wilson was in an auto-| N.| PAGES ONE TO TEN N D .AY EE Fair XLV=NO. 4. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1915—FIVE SEOTIONS—THIRTYSIX PAGES. SINGLE - COPY FIVE CENTS. KNISER REJECTS CONTENTION OF UNITED STATES Reply to Note of June Nine Refuses to Give Assurances of Safety | for Neutrals Asked by ! the President. ANOTHER GRAVE ISSUE RAISED Answer Implies Intention to Sink American Passenger Ships that Carry Contraband. BREAK IN RELATIONS IS NEAR BULLETIN, WASHINGTON, July 10.—Secre- |tary Lansing will take the German When his machine stopped to avold |nOte to President Wilson at Cornish, trightening a horse a amall automo- N. H., as soon as the official text ar- bile bumped into the White House Tives. The president will then de- car from behind, breaking the front|clde when he will return to Wash- lights on the small automoblle. Bandits Rob Fast Mail Train in South; Conductor is Killed MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 10.—Posses of officers and raliroad detectives were early today scouring the country around Greenville, Ala, sixty miles south of here, in search of four bandits who, near that place, shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, held up and robbed the Louls- ville & Nashville fast train No. 87, bound from New York to New Orleans. No word of the success of the chase has been re- oelved here at an early hour. The band! after forcing the engine crew to abandon thelr engine, cut loose the mall, baggage and express car, ran them a short distance down the track, turned a full head steam on the engine and started it southward, with no one in the cab, and then looted the cars. The value of the loot obtained has not [ been ascertained. The passsngers were not molested. Conductor Phil MoRae of Montgomery was at first reported killed by the ban- dits. Later it was stated he was found dead sitting on the steps of the oLserve~ tior. car of his train and nc wound could be found on his body. It was sald the bandits fired one ghot, but that it went wild. 4 urik The engine came to & near Gar- running forty miles. Chief Mafl ‘Wwho vemained in hig éAs, held up at the'point of & bound and gagmed. . ¢ Eighteen Rundred Leave New York for Ports in Europe dred passengers leave here today on board steamships bound for the bel- Hgerent countries of Europe. Every cabin of the American line steamship St. Louis for Liverpool was occupled and that vessel carried 650 in all. As a result of the explogion on board the Minnehaha, precautions were taken at the American line pler and only those who could blish their right to go on board the steamer were allowed to do #o. Detectives guarded the piér and steamship auntll the hour of sailing, and all baggage and freight was closely ex- amined. The French line steamship Espagne carries 450 passengers for Bor while Ttallan liners carry 700 for Napl irremovable rectorship at St Bridget's church, Buffalo, in 18, after the death | of the vicar-general of the diocese. After | the death of Bishop Ryan of Buffalo in | the same year he was chosen his suc- ! cessor. The following year he was con- | secrated bishop. 1 In the longshoremen's union strike in' Buffalo in 188 ho served as arbiter and after ten days negotiations the strike Attica, N. Y. He was there only a short | time when he was made rector of £t. Joseph's cathedfal in Buffalo, N. Y., | ‘where he remained twelve years. Becomes Bishop. Also has been aided by the stanls being made by the Russtans pear Lubin in southern Russian Poland and along the Ziota Lipa fiver in, Galicla. It is be- lleved in London that the stubborn re- to postpone the dreaded German offensive along the western front. Two Are Killed by Storm at Sioux City SIOUX CITY, la, July 10.—~In an elec- trical storm here early today Kir. and Mre. Tohn Schroeder were killed ington. The president conferred with Secretary Tumulty at noon to- day and asked that Secretary Lans- ing bring the note to him, WASHINGTON, July 10, — Al- though the official text of Germany's |note.on submarine warfare had not reached here early today, the press copy which was read by officials was accepted as verification of earlier impressions that Germany had re- fused to give the United States the assurances asked for in the American note of June 9. Bverywhere in officlal quarters the character of the reply was discussed along with the probable action that the United States would be compelled to take as a result of Germany's un- willingness to concede to Americans the right to travel on the high seas on peaceful merchantmen of any na- tionality. » President Wilson will start from Cornish, N. H., for Washington n a day or two to consider with his cab- inet the grave situation impending. Break Seems Probable. Thase in official quarters familiar with diplomatic precedents and the e b i goa Loy the United States seemed to be an annoupgement that it intended to as- sert its rights as established under the ‘rules of lnternational law. This Wwould medn in effect that the United States would awalt a violation by Germany ‘before taking action to compel respect for the rights as- There he received | NEW YOFK, July 10—Hightesn hun-|serted. There was a revival of talk concern- ing the severance of diplomatic rela- tions. Germany's complete evasion of lla- bilities for the loss of Americans on | the Lsuitania has revived the subject | most acutely, according to well in- |formed person; Vital Question s ygmored. Annalyzing the German reply today, officials found little on which it appeared the negotlations could be further pro- longed. The United States had devoted its attention to the prineiple that Americans should be able to travel on the high seas on unarmed and unresisting belligerent merchant shiye of any na- tionality in accordance with previously recognized principles of (International {law. Assurances had been asked that ’befon any destruction would be at- | tempted the visit and search of peaceful |vessels and the transfer of passengers crew to a place of safety would be mplished, It was recognized that Only fragmentary summaries of the | German reply to the Uhited Sjates have | ¥o far been published here, but for sev- |eral days the -British press has been busy predicting that Berlin's reply to the second Lusitania note would be unsatis- factory. The newspapers comment at length on the speech of Field Marshal Earl Kitoh- | ener at the Guild Flall yesterday, accord- ing to.their views regarding conscription, |one faction maintaining that the war secretary uttered a direct warning of the Visitors to Liberty Beu at Denver | possibility of forced military service, while the other organs profess to sge in - (his remarks a reaffirmation of the ef- DENVER, July 10.—Mare than & dozen | i,0y of the voluntary system. American Indlans in Denver from remote ) reservations as witnessos and interpreters | French Official Report. in the trial of Tee-Ne-Gat. a Plute,| PARIS, July 10.—The French war de- charged with the murder of Juan Chacon, | Partment today issued the following state- a Mexican, wers among the first visitors | ment: to the Liberty Bell when it arrived n | “To the north of Arras certain attompts Denver early today. The redskins, gay|&t attack on the part of the Germans in blankets and feathers, gased -uanuylhlt night directed against our positions at’the bell, and solemnly shook hands on the road from Angres to Bouches with the Philadelphia guards. | were repulsed. At ‘The Labyrinth' there Charles Thompeon, 6 years old [was tighting last night with hand gre- nades, but without making & ‘change in sides as & compromise. The carpenters had demanded s aliding wage scale of 70 cents for the first year, 72% for the second and 7 for the third. The men | previous to the strike had been paid 6 cents an hour. Indians Are First vet- was settled on the lines laid down by Bishop Quigley. He was a vigorous foe of soclalism among the labor unions of Buffalo. He was ordained archbishop of Chicago. January 8, 1008, succeeding Patrick A. Feehan. In assuming this responsible post he had charge of 300 churches, thir- teen colleges and academles, six orphan tals, one theologl- sitles and several convents and monasteries. He always | took a deep interest in the causes of church extension and education Among the important things accom- | plished by Archbishop Quigley in Chicago | waa: | Divided big parishes so as to lessen | *Wierliy® improvea ‘ y the system of R%rn‘n mfi""' o, education in Chicaso. rea of ien trustees In ch sh to luP‘l’Vlfl i o ocruuLy!u creation cf the diocese of Rockfos surrendering territory tributary u's own_archdjocese, Appoin ‘l‘cp 'aul Peter Rhoda as e auxiliary, the first Polish bisho) named in 'the United Sta . Callea the Hiret misslonaty congrens of the Roman Catholie ehurch ever held in ny in its latest ncte had ignored 8 vital question. . THe expramsion by Germany 86 & “eie tident hope" that the United States “‘will | assume to guarantes that those vessels |have no contraband on board, detafls of arrangements for the unhampered pas- sage of these vemsels to be agreed upon by naval authorities of both sides” left R the implication In the minds of many officials that Germany was prepared to destroy American passenger ships if they were found to be carrying contraband. Injects New . The reference in the new nole to the Lusitania tragedy created a profound impression. After having asked the United States in the first place to con- sider that the Lusitanit was in reality an armed auxiliary cruiser and earried high explosives, which the American government in its note contradioted with official information, the German gov- ernment, it now seemed, had formally justitied the action of the submarine | commander in sinking the vessel, thereby refusing to disavow the act as the United dghtning. The Day's War News Amer- and Germany, hut the officlal wot in the hands of the W ton government.. Pen & its re- abagnee of Presi. m the capital com. in efficis]l eireles is with- PERLIN MORGEN POST declares the answer “In every way worthy of Germany," conviction that meet unrestrai, hands of & Ia note ‘“will to eran of the Mexican and civil wars, and | claiming tp be a descendant of the man ' who rang the Liberty Bell when the ! Declaration of Independence was adopted, | was another early visitor i The formal ceremonies began at §| city were given the precedence in view- | ing the bistoric relic. | journey by ‘way of Cheyenne. | { | General Tuani is Killed in Battle WASHINGTON, July 10.—~Gen- 7 |capital. Heretofore all fighting has been | ora) Martin Triana, who led the Car- ranza forces in the recent attack on Auguas Callentes, was killed in the battle, according to ao message re-, celved here today by the vm.i sgency this_country. It was held Chicago thie 3 in cago | Three Ships Sunk by (Gterman Submarines| LONDON, July 10.—The steamship Clio (presumably Itallan) and the Norwegilan steamer Nordaas were torpedoed and sunk . today by German submarines. the tront lines. “In the Champagne district along the front tween Perthes and Beausejour, bet w Hill'No. 1% and the fort a Ger- {Continued on Page Two, Column Two) PICTURE SHOW-—1 belleve that I fi?n truthfully say that this is one of the few shows in Omaha that are money every meonth | fl year; n:glvll Dbetween $175 $ 1} per i expenses, §10i r week: Beat 110% thre shows dally and 1 on || The membsrs of the crew of the Clio Sunaey. ‘Bl wunusurf' contin. | | were saved and are now being landea at uous machine; no “wait a moment, | | Liverpool lease.” The equipment Boss RSN’ & Yory b The crew of the Nordasa is expected | cluded in t price, $2,600, 180 ha at Aberdeen the boat contalning the sall. | a new photo player, which combin: plano, organ, orchestra, and car playea with electricity or: manual creen {8 mirrored, a new mercury || arc rectifier. ' If you mean business and want something up-todate and & money maker, take my advice, for 1 have investigated this carefully. ors having been towed twenty-five miles by a German submarine | The British steamship Ellesmere was shelled and then torpedoed and sunk to day by a German submarine off the Cor-| nish coast. The crew of twenty-one men, with the exception of a Norwegian fire- man, who was killed by a shell, was saved view of the wa the German Southwest Africa increasing powers of reslst shown by the Russi RUSSIAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT reports the blocking of German at- tempts to advance toward War. saw from the north and east and declares the offensives taken by the Russian armies below Lublin s developing. THE TEUTONIC FORCES this AUSTRO-ITALIAN tacks re ported from Rome, Intest statement from Vienaa reports comparative quiet along this front 1 | States had requested | The view that Americans on hoard | belligerent ships were entitled te no more protection than neutrals would be on land in & war zone was vigorous y dis puted by officlals, who pointed out that jurisdiction of the Delligerent on land ‘was complete, while the high seas are jointly owned by all nations. The only definite proposal made by Germany to chauge the present status— the sugwestion that four enemy ehips could sall under the American flag it neutral passenger (acilities provefl in- adequate—was corsidersd certain of re- because, aside (rom other con- principle invoived, the { United States. could not undertake 1o | puarantee any interferance with the law- | ful shipment of contraband from its * | ghores to amy of the LuMige¥ents Kalser Takes Bryan View? Officlals wondered today what in. fluence had caused tha Clerman governs Cont on Page 0,