Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1915, Page 1

Advertising is the pendu- lam that keeps buying and selling in motion. VOL. XLV—- OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1 PAGES 915--TWELVE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SING FOUR AMERICANS AMONG MISSING; BERLIN NERVOUS, Twenty-Five Passengers Abond! Torpedoed Liner Arabic Are¢ | Still Unaccounted For. | | STATEMENT OF STAR LINE German Foreign Office Alarmed Action Will Lead to Trouble with U. 8, PRESS COMMENT IS FORBIDDEN | BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Aug. names now appear on the State de- partment’s list of American passen-| gers not found amongz survivors nf1 the lost liner Arabic. A dispatch to-| night from the consul at Queens- town, relayed by Ambassador Page at London, added the following: Mrs. F. T. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burgess. J. Kellett. 20.—Eight | | LONDON, Aug. 20.——The Exchange Telegraph company today received President Poincare the disposition of the encmy forces. in new khaki uniform, conversing with M. M iicrand, the French minister of war. the following dispatch dated Berlin via Amsterdam: “News of the sinking of the Anhlc caused great nervousness, the foreig office fearing it would lead to svrlous: difficulties with Washington. | “Details are withheld from the| newspapers, which are prohibited| from making gommentt.” i Revi List Given. | NE WYORK, Aug. 20.—A revised list of the surviving passengers and those unaccounted, for corrected ac- cording to the only despatch received | FRANK FUNERAL HELD IN BROOKLIN Body is Intemd in Mount Carmel Cemetery Early in Morning After Brief Service. WIDOW COILAPSES AT GRAVE| by the White Star line today, was | given out tonight. It showed twenty- five passengers still missing, seven- teen from the cabin and eight from the steerage. The list included four American: Miss Josephine Brugu- iére, Edmund F. Woods, James Houll han and Thos. Elmore. Messrs. Houllhan and Elmore de- spatches recelved by the state depart- ment last night sald were among the saved. Tonight, however, ‘a despatch was re- celved by the state department {rom the Others Minsing. Besides these Americans the revised st of the White Star line gives the fol- lowing list of passengers not accounted for. CABIN. Willlam Bullivant, John Dighton. Miss Mary English. Mre, Mary E. Baton. Patrick Fitzgerald. G. W. Lyons. Miss Marie Mills. Mrs. John H. Ne Mrs. Negus. Mrs. W, G Randall. W. G. Randali. Mrs. Frank Tattersall. Miss Irene Tattersall (One name missing.) THIRD CLASS. NEW YORK, Alll 20.—The body | | of Leo M. Frank, who was lynched at | Marietta, Ga., was buried today in Mount Carmel cemetery, Brooklyn. The automobile hearse and the cars |carrylng the immediate relatives of the dead men traveled at a high rate |of speed over the six miles route trom the home of Frank's parents to {the cemetery in a vain attempt to \elude newspaper men and photo- | graphers. Frank’s parénts, Mr. and Mre. Ru- 1aolpn Frank; the widow, and Frank's rolatives and friends occupied three | ® additional automobiles.. A crowd of | more than 100 people was in front of the Frank home when the body was carried out at 9:10 o’clock. Thirty minutes later the last of the buria] services were concluded at the ceme- | tery. About forty curious pefsons were in the cemetery when Frank’'s body arrived and they ¢rowded close to the grave dur- ing the services. Perfect order was maintained. Mrs. Lucille Frank, the widow, ap- peared calm and restrained until the bufial service had been concluded. Then #he collapsed and was carried to an au- tomobile, Oak Tree Carefully Guarded. MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 20.—Watchmen | | i | | | | i | [ fioston‘ I\)Ian- Falls from Mount Rainier TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 20.~While climb- ing Gibraltar rock on Mount Rainler with a party of eastern tourlsts, G. F. Ordway of Boston slipped and plunged to death down a canyon, according to advices re- celved today. Mrs. Ordway saw her hus- band fall. Ordway's body was recovered by other members of the party and is to | be brought to Tacoma, from where it will | | probably be shipped east. The accident ocecurred late yesterday. (GERMANS TAKE NOYOGEORGIEVSK Last Important Fortress in Poland | Captured, Together with Twenty Thousand Prisoners. HIG GUNS AGAIN VICTORIOUS georglevsk with more than 20,000 ‘men. The statement follows: “The fortress of Novogeorgievsk, the enemy’s last bulw: in Poland, | has been captured tubborn re- | sistance. “The entire garrison, stock of war material, fell into our hands. “The emperor left for Novogeorg- | iovsk in order to give the thanks of himself and the fatherland to the leader of the attack, General Von Beseler and his troops.” including | over 20,000 men. and an enormous RULERS OF FRANCE AND BELGIUM VISITING THE ARMIES IN NORTHERN FRANCE—The photograph shows a Belgian staff officer with a map, explaining to King Albert is the tall figure RAISING WATERS MAROON ST. LOUIS City Cut Off from Suburbs by Swelling Flood, Four Feet in Union Depot. STREET CARS ARE STALLED | ST. LOUIS. Mo, Aug. 20.—By the mid- ldle of the afternoon every automobile {Toad and street car line leading from St. | Louis to the surrounding subnrban towns | had been closed by the rising waters, The first regiment armory and the Cole- seum will be open tonight to house su- burbanites who cannot get home, Four feet of water entered the subway of the Unlon station, the underground | passage through which baggage and mall is handled, Street car service to suburbs was discontinued on many lines. Cars were unable to get to Maplewood, a town of 5,000 people; to Kirkwood, & town of 15,000, or to Webster Grove, a town of | Louls Nmits. Mayor Kiel ordered atreet department |trucks tc take life boats from the city i harbor to Maplewood to help n the work |of rescue. All avallable city automobiles | were hurried to the suburbs, Policemen borrowed automoBile trucks |from factories to haul row boats from Ilho parks te the flooded districts At noon, one fire engine company in the ex- treme southern part of St. Louls, had taken 115 persons from their homes. A Wabash train from Omaha was stalled north of Delmar station, which is about six miles northwest of Union sta- tion. Most of the passengers left the train before the water got too high for them to get out., In the sixieen and one-half hours end- ing at 11:30 a. m,, the rainfall in St. Louls |was 5.2 Inches—the heaviest rainfall here since the government records have been ] | German Socialists | kept. At ncon the downpour continued. today were guarding the big oak tree, two miles frfom here on which the life- less body of Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of ‘Mary Phagan, was found dangling last Tuesday morning, to prevent souvenir hunters or others Florence Thomas. from molesting it. The tree soon is to The total number of passengers who | be surrounded by a concrete wall, it is safled on the Arabic was 181, according | announced, and thus preserved by the to the company's figures, and of these | OWner, W. J. Frey, to mark the death 156 were saved, Including 2! of the 2 Place of the alleged 'slayer of the b e & Bimawite, the treo is bel rded 3 eanwhile, the treo is being gua: Mrs, Josephine Bather Bruguire was Frey had declined an offer of $200 tor drowned when the Arablc was sunk, was, the tree and in doing so planned to bulld | received today by her daughter-in-law, & wall about the tragically historic oalks Mra, . Marlon Bruguiere of Codarhurst,| Visitors to Marietta during the past Long Island. {two days haye been unusually numerous The measuge daled Queenstown was!and practically all have visited the Continued on Page Two, Column Two, | foene of the lynching War Shares Drop ,,,,.,,'.r‘l:.e, Weather | Several Points at m. Counch Blutts ol Vidnlty ghily warmer. Temperatures at vmaha Yesterday. Hours. Del 1 Florence Davey (or Darcy). Mrs. Mary Harrington. Mrs. L. Hermans. Thos. McMahon. Miss Mary Raddington. Cornelius Sullivan. » ] NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Overnight de- velopments in connection with the sink- ing of the Arabic resulted in -extreme ;3 depression of war shares at the opening | € of today's stock market. losses rang- & ,Ing from 3 poinis to § ponts were' ic 73 corded by Crucible Steel, New York Al: 4 Brake, Studebaker, Goodrich, Westing house and General Motors. United States Steel, in which enormous dealings took place yesterday, opened with a sale of 100 shares at 3%, followed by 8,000 at 73 | to 72, against yesterday's close of 4%, Representative stocks, including thiss wanoenenEEiBenaso badadiaa s Ladd dd " BESBEBES: 385338 £ Lowest M “y P perature um lnun the norma rature. anldcne { more and the entire list was thrown o .. state of confusion, part-| There was some moderate recovery from the opening prices, but the mark lwnl-.ll.d to show the effects of aurrie’ liquidation, together with short seiling Sales iIn the first hulf hour exceeded | 20,000 shares. Lreaking all records sinece ly preceding the out- ormal tempe: . Tor the da Total d. clency since March 1. Noi precipitation X De! uu'y for d..{ X T rdnfull llnen arch 1..21.; March early weakness was ‘uu-m.ua to the withdrawal of numerous | i buying orders placed with brokers after | { yesterday’s close, but cancelied before to- day’'s opening, when more detalled ac- countg of the loss of the Firitish liner ap- peared to place the incident in a more serfous lght 5o far as the international situation is concerned. Recoveries of the first half hour were not mammtained, renewed pressure being .dlneua sgainst the specialties Rail- roads aleo began to show greater heavi- " M‘um lg'u “IL.I gatien. ness, going lower than at the opening. Market Opening Oppose Annexation of Any Territory i PARIS, Aug. 20.—A manifesto against { annexation of conquered territory by Germany addressed to the German chan- cellor by committees of the soclal demo- cratic party and the soclalist groups In the Reichstag, is published today by Hu- manite. The document points oay that the party of the German people to defend national | existence and importance, not to make | conquests. | “Every infringement by force,” it says, | “of the autonomy and independence of & people contains the germs of future wars and implies in itself a dangerous coalition of enemies against Germany." The manifesto is dated June 2, but never yet, it s stated, has been published in Germany. Sulzberger Estate Goes to Children | | xew YORK, Auz. 2.—The will of Fer- | dinand Sulzberger, president of the Sulz- yberger and Sons Company of America, iwhich was on file here today, disposed of lan estate of more than $2.000,000, One lson; Smon, who tives 1n Bydney, Auss {trulia, wes given a share in a trust fund of $90,000, The residuary estate was di- Ivided among Sulsberger's seven other | song and four daughters. “Mr. Sampson | ; of Omaha” He was once almost as famous as Mutt & Jeff or Mr. Jiggs Read the fascinating story, with illustrations, recalled by the recent death of the originator of the character of Mr, Sampson, in the Sunday i joined the present struggle with the rest | 'Colorado Germans Protest War Loan DENVER, Col.o, Aug. 20.—The German- American Alllance of Colorado, through its executive committee today, dlspatched a letter to President Wilson protesting against the proposed flotation of a Brit- dsh war loan In the United States. The Alllance contends that such a loan would I be in violation of neuthality. MALVA WHITE SHRINE TO PICNIC AT SEYMOUR LAKE Malva White shrine will enjoy an outing at Seymour Lake Country club, Friday, | August 27, The afternoon will be spent |at rards ana boating and there will be 'a dinner-dance in the evening. The So- journers’ club, headed by the president, Mrs. A. A Wedemyer, will be in charge of arrangemcnts for the afternoon. Mre. Wedemyer will be assisted by Mrs. J. B, Bednar, Mrs A. L. Smith, Mrs, Willlam Berry and Mrs. John Douglas. The So- journers’ club is the social organization Iat the White Shrine, BREAK BETWEEN ITALY AND TURKEY IS NEAR ROME, Aug. 2.—(Via Paris)—A rup- { ture of ‘relations between Turkey and Italy is considered imminent. Delay in | action on Italy's part s ascribed to her | | desire to do her utmost to conserve the interests of Itallans who still remain in ’ the Ottoman empire, who are now esti- mated at 12,000 in number, Fair LE COPY TWO CENTS TEUTONS PRESS |PRESIDENT AWAITS |RUMORS OF MORE ON LAST LINE OF RUSS DEFENSE Proposition to Remove the Seat of Government Back to Moscow . is Being Considered at Peh'o(nd. | KOVNO IS m Gll.lu HANDS Fierce Battle comnne- on Line from Brest-Litovst to Osowets, with Teutons Gaining. GERMANS AGAIN MENACE RIGA | LONDON, Aug. 20.-~As the Aus- | trians and Germans press onto the | last of the outlying fortresses stand- (ing between the Russian capital and ;lha invaders, Petrograd is discussing | the advisability of removing the gov- Eornmcnt to its ancient seat at Mos- | cow, | the nation. Kovno is now definitely in the hands of the Germans. The flanking movement of Field Marshal Von Mackensen grows more threaten- ing hourly, prising if Grand Duke Nicholas should abandon all efforts to form a | pivot From Brest-Litovsk to Ossowetz, which seems to be withstanding the assaults of |other fortress, flerce fighting continues, |with the advantage in favor of the in- 'vnduu. Riga has again become the cen- ter of a struggle on land and sen. Potrograd states that tne Russiun war- ships protecting the Gult of Riga were compelled to draw in closer, owing to the superiority of the German squadron Turks Check Hritons. The landing of British troops at Suvia bay, Gallipoll peninsula, is regarded here as a partial disappointment. The Turks had concentrated their forces in the Anzac sone, a little to the solith, but were able to send troops north in time to prevent any important adyance by the landing forces. It is bB¥eved here that no forward movement of conse- quence is likely unless the British are reinforced considerably. Italy and Turkey appear on the brink of an open rupture. The Itallan public lexpects war, which would give thelr |army. and navy an opportunity to co- operate with the allies in the Dardanelles movement. On the western front the French now hold the cross roads between Lens and A wh!cl ‘was_in_possession of the ‘and formed @ wedge. n. the allfed line, The capture of Novogeorgievsk had been foreseen since the fall of Warsaw. When the general Russian retreat was made from the Warsaw sallent, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander- in-chief, elected to leave a garrison In the' fortress rather than evacuate this position, as it was recognized that the ! only question was how long the defend- ers would be ble to hold out. The grand duke's declsion apparently was due to the strategical position of the fortress. So long as the Russians retained it they were able to stop com- munication on the Vistula river, Novo- georgievak is nineteen miles northwest of Warsaw and Is situated at the junc- tion of the Vistula, Narew and Wkra rivers. On account of its position it was described by an Associated Press corre- spondent, who visited it yesterday, as a second Vicksburg. For nearly ewo weeks the fortress had been completely Invested by the Germans and several of the outlying forts were captured earlier in the week. Nvoo- ®eorgievek was strongly defended and was sald to have been equipped with sufficlent ammunition and food supplies for a long period. Its speedy capture doubtless represents another triumph for the great German and Austrian siege guns. Pleces of the ! heaviest caliber were brought up for the | attack: French Offielal Report, PARIS, Aug. 20—The French war of- fice this morning gave out a statement on the progress of hostilities which reads: “There has been continued activity on the part of our artillery along the banks the Champagn district, along the front at Lasille. “In the Argonne there was fighting with the mines | nthe region of Vienne- le-Chateau and fighting at close range with bombs and hand grenades in the sector of St. Hubert and near Marle Therese. | Bchratsmannele, the German losses have been very heavy, We found a large num- ber of dead German soldiers in the | trenches 260 yards long which we occu- pled.” —— Woman Dies of Snake Bite. YANKTON, Aug. %.—(8pecial)—Yank-' ton relatives have been notified of the death, at Capa, Stanley county, of Mrs, | J. Hemec, aged 72 years, who was bitten { by a rattlesnake Wednesday, and died }1.\ the evening. The deceased was the | mother of Mrs. Frank Knapp of the State | hospital, and of Mr. Frank Petrik of Utica. Entente Offers Bulgaria Part | | | | ROME, Avg. 19.~(Via Parls, Aus, 20)~— | The entente powers, according to & post- {tive statement made by the Sofia cerre- spondent of the Glornale D' Italla, have 'omm to Fulgaria that part of Mace- | kub, of Macedonia; Kavala to Scrbml Beres, wlummdmm pation. Bulgaria on its m]‘ DM'“ (P always considered the heart of | and it would not be sur-| new' line with Brest-Litovsk as the | tho heavy German guns better than any | {to assist another, which has been tor- OFFICIAL REPORT It is Generally Admitted in Wash- ington that Grave Problem Confronts United States. WILSON GOES TO PHILADELPHIA | WABSHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The M.i | ficlal details upon which Pfll’flofl'l Wilson will decide whether the sink- | ing of the White Star liner Arablc was an act deliberately unfriendly to| the United States, were still lacking today, and meanwhile the president and all other administration officials, while realizing fully the gravity of | the new sitnation between the United States and Germany, were keeping their minds open. President Wilson left the White House early to motor to Philadelphia to viait his ocullst, and motor back to the capital this evening. When he has a deep prod- {lem, it is the president's habit to seek seclusion, riding through the country side. Only two officlal dispatches had been recelved, and they gave the fruits of no | Independent investigation, merely trans- | mitting the reports of the White Star The United States will decide its | line. | ficlals, Ambassador Page forwarded a White | Star report that the ship was torpedoed without warning, and Vice-Consul Thomp- | #on at Queenstown, made a similar re- port. Neither accounted for Mrs. Joseph« [Ine 8. Burgulere and Dr. Edmund Woods, the two Americans still missing. New Points Are Ralsed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-While of- ficlals are keeping their minds open dur- ing the hours which will be required for assembling the official evidence, they are thinking about these points: Whether any Americans have been lost and whether the Arabic actually was tor- | pedoed without warning. Whether the Arable, having been convoyed on the beginning of its voyage had, under in- ternational law, partaken of the character of its convoy and walved its right as a non-combatant. Whether by proceeding to the vicinity of the steamer Dunsley, which had just been torpedoed, the Arablo's commander Introduced any qualitying clrcumstances by violating the rule of the British admiralty which for- bids a ship to risk itself by attempting pedoed. Attempt at Rews Justitied, A vigw prevailed that an attempt by the Afrable to succor those on another torpedoed ship was justified and was not affected by the British admiraity rule which was made as a matter of policy for warships and was not a matter of course upon the reports of its own of-| ATLANTIC LINERS SENTT0 BOTTOM New York Hears Nicosian, Lapland and Bovie Torpedoed, but Lon- don Announces the Last Named as Safe. AMERICANS ON THE LAPLAND Apparently, British Censor Is Hold- ing Up Press Reports to United States. WHITE STAR nTAu WORRIED LONDON, Aug. |that the steamer Bovie has been sunk {s untrue according to the Press Assoclation which says the steamer | arrived at Liverpool today and pro- ceeded to Manchester. Rumors Alarm. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Messages from Bngland to the White Star line offices here, apparently guffered from the Wng- lish censorship today. Only one dispatch, one detalling ecertain changes In previous lists of survivors and |mluln¢ and escaped the censors blue pen- ell. The lack of definite news from abroad was balanced by a host of rumors that tried the nerves of officials and left them tonight in a keen state of apprehension as to the fate of at least one more large steamer in or near the war zone, the Lap- land, which salled August 12 from this port for Liverpool with 318 passengers, in- cluding thirteen Americans and a capacity cargo of war munitions and other sup- plies. 20.—The report. | Bovie Reported Lost. It was reported that the liner Bovic, a freighter departing from New York, Au- gust 8 with a blg cargo, but no passen- gers for Manchester, had met the Arabic's fate. Word that the Bovic had been sunk was recelved In a press dispatch here | from London at §:38 p. m. today. Nearly four hours previously a private shipping firm in this city had recelved cable ad- vices reporting the sinking. At 6:30 to- night, however, the White Star line had heard nothing of it. A third report dealt with the steamer Nicosian of the Leyland line, a sub- sldlary to the International Mercantils Marine company, owners of the Whito Star line. A rumor that it, too, had been destroyed by a German U-boat was ocur- rent but, like many stmilar rumors that | asftated ship owners recently, lacked verification. \ Coupled with this rumor, whose source | international right. Whether the Ara- bic’s moverment = toward the Dunsley might be interpreted as an attempt to ram the subfmarine is another point to e developed. Secretary Lansing refused to discuss these or any other features of the case. ‘There 18 no attempt in officlal quarters to minimize the situation confronting the president it investigations develop a vio- lation of American rights in defiance of the last note to Germany, which give notice in final terms that another sink- ing like that of the Lusitania would be considered an ‘“act dellberately up- friendly." The prospect of severance of diplomatic delations with Germany again came for- ward, but It was understood that if such & course should be decided upon it would not immediately be announced. LINCOLN HAS MYSTERY |mll not be learned, was the report that !u-u-mm. ’l"hhl:-m oy by maritime records, ich showed |1 safled from New Orleans August 1 for { Avonmouth and Liverpool. The Nicosian |15 a slow steamer and shipping men esti- !mated that it was just about due to ar- rive In war zone waters. It carried no passengers. A New Boat. 'The Nicosian fs a new boat, bulit in 1912; the Bovic was an old timer, whose keel was laid in Belfast twenty-three years ago. The latter was a twin screw steamer of 6,583 tons, was M feet long and could make thirteen knots, Officlals of the White Stur line were frankly anxious about the Lapland. The same report of disaster oirculated here was current in Queenstown regarding the Lapland. A dispatch from there, how- ever, said it was thought probable it was confused with the Bistol liner New York | City, which fell prey to a submarine yes- | | |terday. The New York City's crew of | fifty-three and its captain Were lande IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT of the Ofse; to the north of the Alsne in | “On the heights of the Linge and of | (From a Btaff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Aug. ' %.-(Special.)=A col- {Mston between two automobiles a short distance west of Lincoln is enveloped in & great deal of mystery. Last night about 10 o'clock & man who refused to #ive his name, entered the Lincoln hotel covered with blood, and went direct to his room. An examination of the reg- ister showed that the room was occupled by Willlam Wilson of Philadeiphia. He would only say that an automobile in jwiich himself and three comrades were riding was run into by another car oc- cupled by four men and both cars were overturned in the ditch. All of the oc- cupants were hurt, some of them quite !meverely, but no one appears to be able !to locate any of the injured persons. WOMAN INSTANTLY KILLED BY LIGHTNING STICKNEY, 8. D, Aug. 20.—~Mrs. Clar~ ience Johnsun, aged 26, was instantly killed by Hghtning on the banks of Fire- | steel creek, some miles from here, where 'she had gone for the purpose of fishing. |When & thunder shower appeared she |started for home. The lightning struck the umbrella she was carrying and then {passed into her body. Two children who |were with her at the time ran to the |house and gave the alarm. Mrs. Johnson was one of the most popular women of her community. About five years ago she graduated with honors from the Plankinton High school. The Day’s War News TWENTY OR MORE persons are be- LU d to have lost thelr lives t nmer Arablo was sunk by a German submarine yesterday. Among the elght passengers miss- ing are two Amerioans, The others missing are members of the orew. BaEEoverts l at Queenstov.n today. This vessel, like- wise, was a British liner. It was a frd‘htlr and Infl. this Iofl Jlll' 2 with THE WANT-AD WAY,