Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1915, Page 1

PART ONE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE | VOL. XLV—NO. 5 OMAHA, SUNDAY TORPEDO FIRED AT | PASSENGER LINER | ON THE HIGH SEAS German Submarine Attempts to Sink Steamship Orduna Sixteen Hours Out of the Port of Liverpool. SHOT MISSES BY TEN YARDS| Another Boat Comes to Surface and Fires Several Shells, None of Which Hit the Ship. | CAUSES SHOCK AT WASHINGTON | p— | NEW YORK, July 17 The Brit ish passenger liner Orduna, with 22 passengers aboard, - whom were Americans, was attacked | without warning by a German sub-| marine at 6 o'clock in the morning| ot July 9, sixteen hours out of Liver- twent fpool, on its way to New York. An-| nouncement of the attack was mnde} by the ship's captain, Thomas Mec-| Comb Taylor, and passengers when | the Orduna reached here today. | A torpedo was fired at tne steamer | and missed it by ten yards. Twenty | minutes later a submarine rose to| the surface, possibly a different. sub- marine from the one that launched the torpedo, and for half an LATEST PHOTO OF KAISER WILHELM—The emperor rides constantly in his automobile from one battle front to the quarters of General von Heeringen. His Brother, Prince Henry, other, occupies the seat with him, Ho is here saluting on his departure from the head: MOR FORD TO EMPLOY o 300 HEN IN OHARA ing shells, which whistled over the decks above the heads of passengers etanding there with their life bells | on. | Ten minutes Lefore the attack a sall- ing ship with two American flags painted on its side was seen ahead stain Taylor became suspiolous of this craft and began maneuvering his ship. Then came the attack, the first warning of which was the streak of a torpedo which came through the water and missed the Orduna's boy by ten yards or there- abouts. Passengers Awakened. Stewards ran below and aroused the passengers. With clothes hurriedly fast- enod haphazard they made for the upper | deck. There thcy were assembled near the bridge. Life belts were adjusted and lifehoats swung out. The crew stood ready to launch the boats; from a sub- | marine off tho starboard quarter there came a shell which kicked up a minlature geyser in the Orduna’s wake. The sub- marine had the range. Captain Taylor turned the stern of ‘the ship towurd the assailant and ordered full speed ahead. Within two to five minutes another shell, this time passing over the headg of the assembled passen- gors was fired. As it overshot the mark its path was marked by a rising volume of water. Several Shells Fired. A third shell passed overhead and mo close that 1t seemed to olip a lifeboat. Captain Taylor ordered the passengers to go to & lower deck. They obeyed and the lifeboats were adjusted lower still so that the passengers might step into them without delay. The shelling con- tinued, shots falling about the steamer at intervals of from two to five minutés. For about half an hour the submarine pursued the liner with the span of water between them widdening each minute. Seven shots were fired in all. Four of them passed over tha decks. The other three fell close to the ship. Then the gubmarine, distanced, gave up the chase. There were twenty-one Americans .on board the Orduna when it docked today. Passengers say the submarine attack was made without previous warning. Willlam O. Thompson of Chicago, counsel for the industrial relations com- mission of the United States, was -hn-n other of the Orduna's passengers wl saw the attack on that vessel. He |'.. clared that he woull write & protest 4; Washington setting forth the details of the attgelk Danish B The early berths to enjoy with the captain on t attack began ahd W episode. Among them was ‘Baron Marcus Rosenkrauz of Denmark. Who ;“nx?:: Miss Reble Loewe af Atlanta. Ga. ot baroness W with him t;n the trip, b vitness the attack. 4 d“a'A‘:': t‘ha passengers what happened, Captain Taylor eald, when the l)n‘i‘ur:: docked here today. “1 am attache aron Witnesses Attack. rigers who had left their the fine morning were he bridge when the itnessed - the. entire the royal naval reserve and therefore cannot discuss the matter. Ask Baroh Rosenkrantz: he saw the whole thing "But there is one question. Captain Maylor, that you can answer, and you, alone, Were you attacked without warn s m‘“‘l 414 not have even the slightest warn ing of the attack. he repjied. ‘‘Beyond that T will say nothing.” Baron Rosenkrants, with the captaln oula the bridge, detall. "\:“?:'v‘l:;kt E\'erpoo\ about 3:30 oclou'l.‘ on the afternoon of Thursday, July I‘.‘ he eald. “At 6855 o'clock by my watch the first misetle, & torpedo, was fired . A few minutes before that. huuover{i we saw @ small saling ship just ahea us. It had two Americen flags t was turned to us 4 seemed to be umn Thre one of a group described inted of on the side thal was broadside to us an “Two, Col {Continued on Page The Weather 7 p. m. Sundayi For Omaha, Councfl Blutfs and Vieinity Unsettled tonight and Sunday, with cooler Bunday. Forecast till snowers; 1t New Plant to Be Six Stories High and to Cover Practically | Entire Block. |TO BE BUILT BY APRIL 1 | A six-story building of reinforced | concrete and covering eventually | practically a block of ground, is to be Jmnu by the Ford Motor company, beginning September 1 on the block between Fifteenth and Sixteenth street and between Izard and Cum- ing. This 18 to be the new assem- | bling plant of the Ford company where the parts of the cars are re- ceived and set up for distribution. ‘While this has been hinted at for some weeks, it has been kept somewhat under cover while negotiations for the purchase of the ground were in progress, as other citles were bidders for the plant, and competition Was keen. ‘Price Pald $105,000. The price pald by the Ford people for | this ‘entire block was $105,000. The | negotiations were.conducted and the deal | closed through Fred C. Shields of Omaha, who has been a whole year at work ob- taining the necessary options and con- cluding the negotiations. The various Jots on the block were owned by seven different persons, some of them residing far from Omaha. In some cases a singlo lot was divided among two owners which made the negotiations still more difficult and complicated. The owners of the property who have now sold to the Ford people were Mrs. Margaret McDermott, the Brynmawr { college, Byron Reed company, Mrs. Josie McCulloch of California, Jerry Leary, Simon Adler & David Sherman and Mrs. Emily T. Blake. To Employ Three Hundred Men. This new Ford assembling plant is to employ between 300 and 40 men. The bullding is to be six stories high of rein- forced concerte. It is planned that. it ghall be completed and ready for oc- cupancy by April L ‘While much of the ground in this block 1s vacant, there are several buildings that will have to be moved before the excava- tlon for the new plant can begin. Adler & Sherman havel a two-story brick es- tablishment where they conduct - their business of handling second-hand iron and metal. Jerry Leary has a residence on his lot, where he has lived for years and is now. living. The Adler & Sherman place is to be moved across the street, and ‘Mr. Leary is to move to another resi- dence at Twenty-fifth and Burdette streets. The monye was paid for the ground by the Ford people Baturday, the deeds were delivered and are to be filed early this week. P Important Deal. Real estate men look upon this as one of the most important transactions that has taken place in Omaha for some years, Mr. Shields, while he Ras negotiated for some months on the matter, has kept the work remarkably well under cover while the deal was on. Real estate men say this transaction will give a remarkable boom to that immediate section of North Sixteenth street. N. A. Hawkins, commercial manager for the Ford Motor company, was Iin Omaha about two months ago and dropped & remark that the plant here should be enlarged and that there veally should be an assembling plant here. | year. The territory for this branch is | the east three-quarters of Nebraska and ten counties In lowa. Man is Killed by Explosion in Mine PITTSBURGH, Kan., July 17.~One man was killed and another injured in & gas explosion in Mine No, 7 of the Sheridan Coal company, near Mulberry this after- noon. SWITZERLAND PROHIBITS Temperature Hours Deg.| PARIS, July 17.—The Swiss federal 5a.m 70| councll has decided to prohibit the ex- 6a m.. portation of gold in any form, says a Havas dispatch from Berne. Another Havas dispatch, from Berne states that the editor of a newspaper |at Neufchatel, France, now occupled by |the Germans. has been ordered before a court-martial for publishing an article in which he violently attacked Germany Mr. Gould, the local manager, estimates that this branch will sell 18,875 cars next GERMAN SINGERS * HERE THIS WEEK Twenty-Sixth National Saengerfest of the Saengerbund of North- west Starts Wednesday. ALL OMAHA IN GALA DRESS Swiftly now the plans of many months are coming to a focus as the hour draws near for the twenty- sixth national saengerfést of the Saengerbund of the northwest, which {will open in Omaha next ‘Wednesday and continue for the rest of the week. Some people who were not right “up" on big current events have won- dered what the electric lights were being strung all along both sides of the pPincipal streets for. “It's too early for Ak-Sar-Ben yet,” they sald. Correct. But it s not too early for the decorations in honor of the saengerfest, whigh will bring thousands of visitors to Omaha from all over the west. And that is the reasom for the elaborate elec- trica) decorations which are Leing strung about Omaha. Court House Decorated. The court house and other publie buildiregs heve already put on thefr fes- tive dresses of flags and bunting. The Auditorium, both !nside and outside, is drossed with colors. Insids the black, white and red of the fatherland and the red, white and blue of the “son-lund” are very much in evidence from the boxes, which display blg editions of the star spangled banner up to the topmost helghts of the celling, where OTa Glory and the German ensign rule, surrounded by scores of pennants of many kinds. All this decoretion i{s under the direo- tion of no less a person than Gus Renze, chief keeper of the wardrobe for King Ak-Sar-Ben, Moreover, the decoration of Omaha has but ust begun. The first three days of this week will see hundreds of yards of buntiny and hun- dreds of flags displayed from innumer- able bdulldings downtown as well as from many homes. By the time the specig] tralns bringing In tha singers Wednesday morning the city will ke In such gala array as it has not seen for a long time. A Seats for Gpand Choraw. The noise of hammers and saws has filled the Auditorium now for more than a week. There R. C. Strehlow, fest preal- dent and contractor of big and wide ex- perience, is superintending a gang of car- {Continued on Page Four, Column Two.) Does Its Saving NING, JULY 18, 1915—FIVE SECTIONS WASHINGTON, July 17~War ravages apparently have not turned the European wheat flelds to battlefields as exten- sively as gonerally was supposed, ac- cording to figures announced today and gathered by the Department of Agricul- ture. No figures are avallable from Germany or Russia, but in Germany the acreage probably has been Increased and Russia's acreage probably is still the world's largest. “But in the countries of the northern hemisphere where wheat ordinarily ap- proximates 240,000,000 acres, eight show estimated plantings of 153,825,000 acres, against 143,652,000 acres last year. The conclusion 1s that despite the apparent billion-bushel crop in the United States, the farmers of other countries have beey spurred into efforts to Increase théi: own production. Thaw Spending Day at Atlantic City ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, July 17.—Harry | K. Thaw's first night of real freedom in years was spent In restful sleep at a beach front hotel here. After yester- jay's weary ride down the state of New York, where he was released on bail, Thaw was much refreshed and prepared ot spend the day quietly. He remained out of sight early wu the day and took brealktast in his room. The dining room of the hotel was crowded with guests, many of whom prolonged their meal, hoping to see him. Ho far as oould bé learned Tham has formed no definite plans for the im- mediate future except to get as much rest a8 he can. The length of his stay here is not known, but it 1s believed he will g0 to his home in Pittsburgh in a few days. How The Bee’s Milk and Ice Fund Work for the Tots “1 wonder -how much we think of the ‘short and simple annals of the poor’ we go on our happy, contented, well- cared-for ways,” said one of the faithful young women who disburse The Bee's free ice and milk fund among the really ‘deserving poor of Omaha? “It the people could see what we see, my, my, low it would open thelr heqrts: “Coming into such eclose touch with the people, we know just which cascs are de- serving end which are not. And'so much of this Bee fund as we distribute goew exclusively to the deserving. When otie knows for actual certainty that a family bas struggled and strained every musale still has been beaten down by misfortune, then it 1s a real pleasure to help. “One family that we are helping just now consists of a father and mother and two children, aged 2 and 4 years ““This father was always a good pro- vider and a steady worker until he was stricken blind some time ago. . “Then the brave mother leaped irto the carning & much toll, Her hus- band, in his blindness, managed to do the housework. “They would have continued this way but illness overtook the mother. The | strain was too great. The doctor told her she must positively stop work. “Then The Bee's fund found more work to do. And sueh a work! If those who have contributed to this fund could just see what their money is accomplishing for that family slone they would feel amply repald. If they could ses the i and merve to try to make ends meet and The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice Most of the contributions to the fund have been from individuals. In other cities many clubs, social gath- erings and societies take up collec- tions for such purpose and put in the proeeeds in the club’s name, Why not in Omahat Contributions from 10 cents to $5 are solicited and will be. acknowl- ¢edged in this column Previoasty acknowledged . .. tears in that little woman's eyes. 1f they could fesl the silent handshake of that tather, too overcome for words If they ocould see those little ones growing strong with the puve, ¢ool milk that the dimes and dollars are supplying, they would feel the glow of a good deed well done. “Not for one cent does this family ask. And they are so thankful. Every day hey thank us. Every day the mother ex- sresses the bellef that soon she will be ble to go back to work. The fathef is 1so planning to learn chair caning and ther things. ‘And I'll be able to earn nough to support us all even if I haven't y eyes,' he says. “A brave little family and I don't know hat would have become of them If it adn’t been for the good people that pro- ided the money of The Bee fund " ~THIRTY-SI X PAGES. | Finding of British Board of Inquiry Causes Indignation Among the American Survivors. FINDING IS DISTINCT SURPRISE LONDON, July 17.-—'"Torpedoes {fired by a submarine of German na- tionality caused the loss of the steam- |sh'p Lusitania and its passengers,’ _World’s Wheat Area Shows Increase : of More Than Ten Miliion Acres Russia’s area during the last few years has averaged 80,000,000 acres. The United States now comes second with 69,417,000 acres, an increase of 11 per cent over last year. British India has 82,148,000 acres, against 28,464,000 last year. France has 14,142,000 ncres, not including wheat area in the region occupled hy Germany, which in 1914 amounted to 860,170 aores, against 16,040,000 last year. Canada's acroage inoreased from 10,203,000 mores to 12,806,00; Italy has 12,628,000, an increase of 6.3 per cent: Spain, 1,784,000, in increase of 11 per cént; Hungary (proper), 8,106,000, against 8,623,000 last year; Rou- mania, 4,806,010, againet 5,218,000 last year; Denmark shows a slight decrease; Great \qu\tn. 10 per cent; Luxemburg, 7 per jent {ncrease; Switzerland, 10.1 per cent increase; Japan, 1 per cent decrease. Italians Capture Passes After Sharp Bout With Austrians ROME (Via Paris), July i7.—A state- {ment given out at the Itallan headquar- ters, signed by Lieutenant General Count Caderna, and dated July 16, reads as fol- lows: “In ths upper Val Camonios the enemy having advanced through the Venerodolol and Brizio passes, made an attack In force asgainst our positions near Rifugio Gallbaldl, but was repulsed with loss, leaving a few prisoners in our hands. “Our troops after driving back the ad- versary, occupled the two passes, which lare at a helght of more than 10.000 feet “In Carnla the enemy, profiting by fog and darkness, delivered during the after- noon and evening of July 14 two deter- mined attacks on Mount Cogliano and Mount Plzzo Avostano. Both attacks were repulsed. The enemy's ascertained loss was thirty-three dead, including one of- ficer. “In the Isonzo region, at Preppipappy, the ‘exr by small attacks, especially at night, &nd by heavy artillery fire, has continually sought to cause losses, to hamper our slow advance and above all to force our batteries to reply and thus reveal our positions.” Pro-German Agitator is Under Arrest WASHINGTON, July 17.—Frank Wein- sheink, who for pometime has beep con- ducting what he calls an international fnformation bureau and semding out pro- German literature to newspapers, was ar- rested here last night on complaint that he sent certain letters to officlals. He wae committed to the government hos- pital for the | | | | | Kan. ?La,rge—Bequest to ' Yale is Released NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 17.—A be- quest of §760,000 to Yale untversity, which has been held up by long Mtigation In an appeal from the probate will of Mary C. Hotchkiss, now goes to the university, The supreme court of errors today found no error in the lower court's finding in allowing the bequest to go to Yale, |ALABAMA ANTI-TIPPING | BILL VETOED BY GOVERNOR MONTOOMERY, Ala, July 17.~Gover- nor Henderson today yetoed the aati- tipping bill on the sround that he did not belleve the law ocould be enfowced and that ite constitutionality was doubt- ful insane for observation. | | Welnsheink sald his home was in Topeka, | according to the findings of the court of inquiry appointed to Investigate ilhe disaster. | The court held that no blame for | the tragedy attached either to Cap | tain Turner, commander of the ves sel, or the Cunard line, the owners. | “After having ocarefully inquired into |the circumstances of the disaste ways | | the formal report of the court, ™he court finds the losa of sald ship and lives was |due to Aamuge caused the ship by tor- | pedoey fired by a submarine of German nationality. “In the opinion of the court the aoct waa done not merely with the intention |of sinking the ship, but aleo with the |Intention of destroying the lives of the | people on board { Clean Bl for AL THE WEATHER Unsettled GREAT DRIVE AT SEAPORT OF RIGA Russian City on Baltio is Objective | of New Move Intended to De« | stroy the Armies of the Czar. FIGHTING ALONG NEW LINH | Muscovites Making Strenuous Ef forts to Stay Rush Toward Great Strategic Metropolis. | GERMAN GAIN IN WEST SLIGHT | LONDON, July 17.—A new Ger | man offgnsive of huge proportions, | 'iwm\ Riga, a great Russian seaport and the seat of the governor general of the Baltic provinces as its objec tive, 18 revealed in the latest official statements issued at Petrograd and Berlin. Military experts here construe the offensive to be a vast envelopment in which the Germans are making & | Other sulient features of the report are [that the lfeboat and lifebelt facllities| gTeat effort to destroy the Ruselan | were adequate: that the demeanor of the | army, crew waa above all blama and that the conduct of tho passongers, barring a elight panic when the steerage passen- gors came on deck, was praiseworthy. The ocourt also found that was 6,000 casen of cartridged, from which thers was no explosion. Americans Are Indignant. The report was a ment to the American survivors, commended the discipline of the crew. Several attorneys representing Amert the steamshin company. Among the spectators family; Major F. Warren Pearl and Mrs. ton of New York, whose wife was lost. Before the reading besan Major Pearl exprossed the opinion that the decision would sharply condemn the officers of the ship and of the Cunard line for negligence. “No doubt there were mishaps in hand- 1ing the ropes of the boats' Lord Mersey sadd, “but in my opinion there wns no incompetence or neglest.” from twenty-four and one-half to twenty- one knots still left the vessel fastor than any other boat on the Atlantic, sald Baron Merzey, and ho found there was no reason to blame the Cunard company for this economy during war time. U. 8. Submarine Has Cruising Radius of 8ix Thousand Miles BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 17.—8imon Lake, the inventor and bullder of sub- marines for the United States govern ment, was & of the experiment testing the new sub; cruising radius of 6,000 mies. without dependence on any basis of sup plies,” said Mr. Lake question of the economy of fuel.” ‘Phe G-3 was bullt by the Lake Tor | pedo Boat company of this city. Its ex | tensive cruising radius is due to the et motor used for undersea travel. In a series of tests, consisting of tripi sound, the new boat showed a speed ol 147 knots on the surface and 10.7 knot: submerged. It cost $40,000. |ot any In the German navy. the ship unarmed and carried a cargo of goneral ammunition, consisting only of | A small gathering composed almost en- tirely of survivors of the Lusitanla and | their relatives listened to the reading of | the findings by Baron Merzey of Texteth. | stinet disappoint- who expressed indignant surprise at the por- tion which exonerated Captain Turner and the Cunard line from all blame and can clients listened closely to the read- Ing of the judgment, which may have a great effect on actions brought against were Walter Webb-Ware, representing the Vanderbilt The reduction of the Lusitania’s speed || ratitied today by the success marine G-3, which demonstrated that the new boat can cross the Atlantic oocean and return without stopping, having & “It is perfeotly practicable for the G-& with it new engines, Lo cross the oosan, do what it went to do and come back “It 18 merely a ficlency of & new Swiss engine, which drives the boat both on the surface and under water, replacing both the gasoline enyines heretofore used to drive submar- | FIGHTING ON THE Austro-Italian ine craft on the surface and the eleotrie up and down the length of Long Island Both the German and Russian ocom- munioations agree that the German forces are at the Windau river near Goldingen, which & only elghty miles from Riga, the great strategio commercial metropo= lis In the Guif of Riga and on the upper Baltio. An official statement received this morning from Petrograd adds detalls of sanguinary fighting all along the new line in efforts to hold back the German advance, which now is being concen~ trated on Riga and on Warsaw, while | the Austro-Hungarians are moving northe ward trom the Dneister riven Trail of Destruction. Advices reaching London today say that the Germans left a trail of destruo. tion along the Baltic sea from Memel to Libau, where the villas, hotels and oca- sinos are sald to have been dJdestroyed about the only exception, it is said, be- ing the palace of the Polish nobleman whose ocousin married an American Wo- man. The palace now ir belng used as a military headquarters in which Prince . | Henry of Prussia and Fleld Marshal von Pearl of New York and F B. Jenkins of | Hindenberg renently conferred on the new Chicago, survivors, and Willam Oritch- | offensive toward Riga. The Crown Prince Frederick Willlam's 1| drive In the Argonne forest now is ao- cepted as a amall success, in saining & | few hundred yards of terrain, but as & fallure In attalning its real object—a des cisive penetration of the Jrench line Welsh Strike is Danger Point. The ominous attitude of the Weloh coal (Continued on Page Two, lumn The Day’s War News RUSSIAN LINES are holding waell immedintely north of Warsaw, where the Ereatest foroe of the Teutonie move against the Polish onpital is being exert naccording to the latest statement from Petrograd. A withdrawal of the Russian foroes between the Plssa d Orsyo wivers to mew lines along the Narew in the face of General Von Hindenburg’'s attacks is mdmitted by Petrograd. Con. .| tinuation of the German advance in Courland also is concedod. Ine .| ereasing importance is attached by military obseryers abroad te this movement in the Baltic provineces. FIELD MARSHAL Von Mackensen's army that swept through Galleis, is wiving signs of renewed activity in pursuance of the assumed plan Teutonlo forces to attacl - | stmult sly all along the 800. mile front from Baltio to Bessa- rab Unofficial reports through .| Geneva declare that at the lower .| ema of (his lne Austrian troops .| who crossed the Duiester have been driven back to the other bank, where thelr retreat is being hes vesulted in fow recent . t reports from Rome. Numer- ous attacks by the Austrians on t| the Italian advanced positions are " d, all of which are declared to have been repulsed. The G-8 18 only 160 feet long, but seven | ARTEMPTS AT SOLUTION of the new Lake gubmarines which are being | South Wales coml strike problem constructed for the United States navy | failed for the time belng, the will be %0 foet long and possess & much | miners’' executive committee ad. greater radius of activity than the G-3. journing to Monday after an abore I They will use the new engine, and Mr.| tive mttempt to reach an agree= | Lake said today they would be the equal | ment on means to secure a wettle- ! ment. { |\TBESSE |G e i Coupon for Mon, anf ur, Dl’\ia by & ltc pald admission. H IPPODROME 2514 Cuwning St. | night companied by on paid admission | 884 and Arbor Your Favorite. tioket. FREE MOVIE COUPON | Admitting to the Following Picture This Bee Ooupon entitles bearer to a free ticket to any one of these high class Moving Picture Theaters on the || days named. Present at Box Office with regular price of one adult paid ticket and get additional ticket free. 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