Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1915, Page 1

ADVERTISING 1S THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SPOKEN EVERYWHERE RY BUYERS AND SELLERS, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | THE WEATHE™ { Cloudy | VOL. XLV GOVERNORS BELIEVE " THIS COUNTRY EASY FORINVADING FORCE Majority at Conference of Present and Former Executives Feels Nation Inadequately De- fended. SOFT PREY FOB CONQUERORS Members Will Retum Home with Resolve to Demand Congress- men Get Busy. SALT LAKE CITY NEXT PLACE BOSTON, Ang ..—A majority of governors and former state execu tives, delegates to the governor's conference here at the final session of the conference today agreed that the United States is inadequately prepared to resist invasion by a hostile European force.® Discussion of naval and military preparedness, selection of Salt Lake City as the scene of next year's conference and | the election of William Spry, gov-| ernor of Utah, to be chairman of the | conference executive committee were the outstanding feature of the clos- | ing session. | No resolutions on the subject of preparedness were proposed, but sev- eral of the executives said they felt certain that all the governors would return to their states with the inten- tion of demanding from their con-| gressmen support in any program for strengthening the forces of de- fense. i 9 Give Crowds Chance. The conference sessions were removed today from the state senate chamber to | the more spacious hall of the house of representatives where a large audience followed the addresses with frequent ap- plause. The discussion by the governors were prefaced by remarks by Willlam C. Red- ‘field, secretary of commerce, speaking, he sald, not in behalf of the edministra- | tion, but as a member of it. Becretar)m Redfleld urged restraint of speech and | soberness of thought in what he termed | these trying times. “With that spirit of restraint,” he sald, “should we not be ready for any| emergency of any kind that may arise? Should we not at least have the tools ready, mot for offense, but for our de- fense of our nation?" Under the head, “What should be the state's duty in the matter of national detense?’ Governor James F. Fielder of New Jersey urged an increase in thel standing army by at least 25,000 men, with an adequate line of trained resermvists. , He sald he felt that the states should be | ready at all times to furnish 250,000 men] to this reserve body. Dunne’s Advice. | Governor E. F. Dunne of Illinois said he felt that the nation’s main reliance for a reserve force might well be found in a| requirement that every college and uni- | versity receiving funds, federal or state, | should give four years of military train-| ing to its students. 2 “If war was declared on the United States by any of the principal European nations tomorrow it must be admitted | our situation would be a precarious one,” he said. Referring to the need of a great supply of munitions, as developed by the wu- ropean war, Governor Dunne said that any fleet from Great Britain or Germany could take possession or destroy all means of manufacturing ammunition in the United States, such plants being al- most entirely within 150 miles of New York City. KING OF SWEDEN IS SLIGHTLY INJURED STOCKHOLM, Aug. 21.—(Via London.)— King Gustave had a narrow escape from serlous Injury yesterday at Jerna. As he was entering his 2or to proceed to Stock- holm the train started with a sudden jerk, | throwing him down. His foot was jam- med between the car and the platform | and he fel) heavily, However, except for | slight bruises, he is little the worse for the accident. % The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. ¥For Omaha, Council cinity—Cloudy. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. _ Hour Deg. 5a m... 6 m 1 m. Saturday: Bluffs and Vi- s | speech |attache and the trip to Japan becum- {his wife during all his travels to far dis- | | {J. Bryan, | ARMY MATRON DEAI) FROM I-'IRE AT THE PRESIDIO MRS. FRANCES WARREN PERSHING. | FIRE VICTIM HERE ONHER BRIDAL TRIP She and Her Hulblnd Visited with | Colone] Swobe and Other Friends in Omaha. | | Mrs, Frances H. Pershing, wife oh Brigadier General John J. Pershing, | who was burned to death with her | three daughters in S8an Francisco yes-, terday, visited in Omaha and Ltneoln‘ on her wedding trip in February, | 1905. She and her husband were on | their way to Tokio, Japan, where the army officer had just been stationed as military attache. General and Mrs. Pershing met Colonél Thomas Swobe of Omaha, an | intimate friend, and many other prominent Omahans during their visit here. Colonel Swobe and Gen-| eral Pershing were in the same regi- ment in the Spanish-American war. | In Lincoln the Pershings visited with | a sister of the general and met nu-| merous friends. General Pershing was stationed at Lin- lcoln as commandant of cadets at the | state university.in 1897 and 1898, He then ! {had the rank of first leutenant of the ! Tenth cavalry. Mrs. Pershing was formerly Miss Fran- ces Warren, and shie was & daughter of | United States Senator Francis E. Warren | of Wyoming. She met General Pershing.| at Washingten while he was in charge | {of insular affairs there and the marriage | occurred at the national captat January | %, 1905 Wedding Trip to Japan. Immediately afterward General Persh- ! ing was dispatched to Toklo as military | General trip. General Pershing was accompanied bY4 and Mrs. Pershing's wedding | tant parts. When the Japanese-Russian war began his position at Toklo was changed to that of military observer of | the Japanese army. He had formerly | distinguished himself by service in the Phillppines, and several years ago brought about a transfer which enabled him to | return to the islands. Colonel Swobe Visits Pershings. In January, 1914, General and Mrs. Pershing returned to San Francisco. Col- onel Swobe was in San Francisco at that time and visited with the Pershing fam- Ay, “Mrs. Pershing was a charming woman and en ideal wife and mother,” sald Colonel Swobe. “She was carefully educa- | ted In Washington by her father, Sena- tor Warren, her mother having died dur- | ing her childhood. She was a woman of large ablilities. The mews of her terrible death 18 a great shock.” Bryan Commends Grarrison’s Letter to General Wood KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 21.—Willlam former secretary of state, who passed through Kansas City today had ! this to say regarding the developments | growing out of ex-President Roosevelt's at Plattsburgh, N. Y., military ! training camp | “I am glad to notlce Secretary Garrison ! is disposed to restrict the camps to the work for which they were established }| During the last two weeks they seem to have served more us & platform for jin- | Boeg to talk from than for instruction in Local Record. 1915, 1314, 1913, tive Highest yescerday Lowest yesterd Mean temper: Precipitation . Temperatu ures from Normal temperature 4 K i Deficiency for the day § | Total deficiency since March 1 32 Normal precipitation ilinch | Deficlency for the day 1l inch | Total rainfall since March i Excess since March 1 45 inch Deficlency for cor. period, 191, 5.43 inches Deficlency for cor. period, 1911, 7 2 inche Reports from Stations a¢ 7 P, M. Station and State Temp. High-Raln- of Weather, m. est. Cheyenne, part cloudy h{ Davenport, clear 2 Denver, cloar Des Moines, clear.. o | lLander, part cloudy w0 | North Platte, clear Omaha, cl (Pueblo, clear tapld City, cloudy falt Lake City, clear Santa Fe, cloudy Shewidan, cloudy Sloux City Valentine, A 0 cliitation depart- 00 o0 o o : Sioux Falls Attorney [ H was not ® the art of war.” Guilty of Contempt Aug. 21.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The supreme court today an- nounced its decislon in the contempt cases brought against Joe Kirby, a Sioux Falls attorney, and G, Hipple and the ple Printing company of this city, on arges of contempt of court. The holding was that Joe PIFRRE, 8. D, Kirby Is |guilty and a fine of $500 was imposed. G. E. Hipple individually was adjudged i [not gullty and The Hipple Printing com- pany gullty, and a fine of $1,000 was im- | posed. The disbarment Kirby on the de proceedings against same stutement of facts ded Omahan Licensed to Marry. CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—~(Special Telegram.) George B. Beets of Omaha was licensed Fere this afternoon to wed Miss Maude Briy | her children and called to Mrs. | the Pyesidio hospital. | hospital. | bulldings scattered about the main post | respective governments. | agency here, saying: ' Art Smith Lands | only a short time. JRDAY MRS PERSHING AND " CHILDREN KILLED [ ‘foe of General and Three Daugh- ters Suffocated by Fire Which Partly Destroyed Home. [soN Am 27.~—Mrs, wife of “g\ .wlx‘x‘n,. Aug. Warren Pershing, “idier General John J. Pershing, Jhited States Army, and three of her four children were suffocated to death in their quarters at the Pres- idio of San Francisco early today. Thelr bodies were badly burned. A Mrs. Boswell, a relative, and her two children escaped, as did Warren Fershing, § years old, and three serv- ants. The dead children are Helen, 8; Anne, and Mary, 6. Mrs. Per- shing is a daughter of Senator War- ren of Wyoming. Her husband, com- manding the Eighth brigade, United States infantry, is at El Paso, Tex,, in charge of the border troops Mrs. Boswell Jumps fr Mrs. W, O. Boswell was the first of the people in the house to discover the fire. She was aroused by smoke and awakened Then she opened the door from her room | to the hall. back and she saw flames In the hallway. | She took her children to the stairway, but found it cut off by fire, and re- | turned through her room to the roof of the front porch. i The nolse of the flames by this time had aroused Lieutenant Hugene Santschi, | Twenty-tirst infantry; Private C. J. Haz- | litt and another soldier, who broke in {GENERAL FORMERLY AT LINCOLN doors in the house, but were forced back | Former Paying Tel.lar of Live Stock by the flames. the poreh roof, threw her two children, | Philip and James, 3 and 6 years old, to the men below, still calling to Mra. Pershing. and jumped herself. Her mald | previously had jumped and been caught. Mrs. Boswell fell In a flower bea, wrenching her back. She was taken to| Then Mrs. Boswell, from{ Warren Pershing was found uncon- sclous on the floor of his room by Johnson, the Pershings' aged negro serv- | ant, who led a rescue party into the house. He was revived at the Presidio In the corner of the house, most burnea, the rescuers found Mrs. Pershing dead on the floor, with her arms across one of the chlldren, who was on the bed. On another bed was another child; the third lay on the floor. The bodles of all were considerably burned. The house occupied by the Pershings was the best of a collection of old frame and cantonmenta of the Presidio. Many of these were built as temporary barracks | at the timo of the Spanish-American war | and still are ocoupied, Their shedlike appearance was ronovated somewhat at the opening of the Panama-Pacific expo- | sition by a coat of paint, but they re- (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Carranza Capital Moved to Mexico Sunday, August 29 WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—General Car- ranza will move his capital to Mexico City Sunday. All the departments of his sovernment, except the office of lnrelgni affairs and interior, already have been ! { moved from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and the remiaining departments will go ! with General Carranza himself. President Wilson's appeal to the Mexi- cans for peace, easpecially referred to Mexico City as the place where the capi- tal of any government applying for recog- nition must be established. Carranza's move was regarded in Latin circles as one of the steps in his effort to obtain recognition by the United States. Car- ranza's reply to that American appeal had not reached here today. General Carranza's inquiry as to whether the Pan-American diplomats in appealing to him for a peace conference were acting personally, or with the sanc- tion of their respective governments, will be answered today. - Officlals stated that Carranza would be informed that they were acting with authority of thelg| General Carranza today cabled his “It 1s utterly untrue that any deaths | from starvation are taking place in Mex- | fco City. The food situation has grown | steadily better from the date of Gen-| eral Gonzales' occupation to the present | time," | With Bump When | Aeroplane Balks DES MOINES, la., Aug. 21.—(Special | Telegram.)—~Art Smith, boy aviator, had a mishap in his second flight at the state fair today, but was not seriously hurt. His machine did not seem to work right and he descended after being up His machine struck the track with considerable force and turned over. Smith walked away uninjured, but dld not make his night flight. Here are the dates for our coming Ak - Sar-Ben events: Sept. 29, Carnival begins Oct. 5, Floral Parade Oct. 6, Electrical Parade Oct. 8, Coronation Ball Oect. 9, Carnival Ends MORNING, | one a girl 13 years old, and the other a | he gave us his reason for his return the | { of the court. |of rallroads operating in what is known Ijected by the Interstate Commerce com- | AUGUS FRENCH SPORTING CELEBRITIES NOW AIRMEN--This photo was taken at a French aero base in Northern France. famous French boxer, and next is Somes, French champion cyclist. NlN(H.E Second from the le! ft is Georges Oarpentier, the ‘ Somes had just brought down a German aviator in an exciting aerial battle. | GUESTS ARE SAVED' Pershing. | A gust of smoke drove her| FOITIK COMES T0 SURRENDER SELF National, Short Six Thousand, netum Here. WALKS INTO MARSHAL'S OFFICE V. V. Foitik, formerly paying teller at the Live Stock National bank, who disappeared January 30, leaving his accounts $6,410 short, returned yes- terday from Australia and volun- tarily gave himself up at the office of the United States marshal. Foitik had been in the employ of the Live Stock National bank for ex- actly seven years, having been paying teller for a long period, when he left. With only $12.60 of the thoupands be had taken he startea southggoing through the southern states, ough Mexico, California and Oregd. On June 10 he shipped as a deck hand on a freight ship bound for Australia, He landed in Australia some.weeks later and stayed there but seven days bhaving decided that he would return and give himself up, He sbipped. for Ban Francidco on' an- other freighter, landing in the United States August 17. He then beat his way to Omaha, getting here Wednesday. He gaye himselt up Friday. Foltlk has a wife and two children, boy of 4, living In the South Side, and | fact that he could not forget that they needed him. He sald that he bad taken the money a little at a time, and that he had spent it being a “good fellow." “No one,” sald Foitlk, “is to blame ex- cept myself." He is member of gles and Red Men, n both organizations, dent, at one time, of the Eagles. He walved hearing before United States Commissioner. Singhaus, and. furnished & bond for his appearance at the fall term He expects to enter a plea of gullty and take such punishment as the court may decide upon. Rate to Withdraw Loading in Transit Ordered Cancelled WASHINGTON, Aux the South 8ide having held office being vice presi- 27.=The proposal as the Central Frelght assoclation and Western Classification territories, to dis- | continue generally the practice of stop- ping freight cars in transit to complete |10ading or partially to unload, was re- | mission as unjustified. The commission | had suspended until September 30 the effectiveness of the withdrawal of the practice, and today ordered the canoella- tion of tariffs which would have made the change. Commissioner Harland dis. sented || The Day’s War News THE RUSSIANS, falling back under pressure along the lne t of Kovao southward 0, have cunted of Olita, thirty ot Kovno. MATERIAL ADVANCES are clatmed for the Teutonle armies operating vielnity of Brest-Litovak, the capture of which by the Ger- mang was announced yesterday. FRENCH AVIATOR has dropped ten ierman factory for asphyxiating gases at reports. ROPLANE ave made ralds on the rallrosd at Malhelm, in Baden, and nd Clerges, in the Ar. gonne, They also have dropped explosives on §t. Baussant and Es- sey, in the Woevre district. LATEST NEWS the Da nelles comes through the war of- fice at Constantinople, which re- ports the re against the Turkish Seddul-Bahr, SINKING OF the B Palmgrove, presumably by a Ger- man submarine, s reported to Lon- | don. The crew was saved, | e e fro Garrison Says It Will Be Big Job to Save Roosevelt from Himself, WASHINGTON, Aug 21.—~Becretary Garrison made public today Major Gen- eral Wood's reply to the secretary's tele- Eram of yesterday directing that no repe- tition Le permitted of the Incident at the Plattsburg camp, precipitated by former President Rooseveit's speech to the men in training there, “Your telegram received and policy lald down will be rigidly adhered to,” Wood telegraphed. “I have just read Mr. Roosevelt's state- ment,” sald Secretary Garrison in a state- ment today, “I see he blames the whole thing on me. He takes the position that it 18 notorious that he has the habit of General making indiscreet speeches and that it, tierefore, was my duty to find out if he intended to go to Plattsburg, and if so to head him off and save him from himself. Well, maybe that's so, but it's rather a large order. He I8 a very active man and 1 am a very busy one, and it's going te bo a pretty hard job for me to keep my eye on him all the time. TS oolonel's attitude about himself reminds me of the story of the Maine farmer, who was on | his way to the raflroad station one morn- Ing when he met a friend. ‘Where are you going? sald the friend. He réplied, ‘I'm going duwn to Bangor to get drunk, and great Lord, how I do dread it.' " WELSH MINERS ARE AGAIN ON STRIKE Men Charge that Wage Award Does Not Measure Up to Promises of David Lloyd-George. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND OUT LONDON, Aug. 27.—Reports from thie South Wales conl fields ity @t ernoon state that 26,000 miners al- ready have joined the new strike. The recurrence of labor troubles is dune to growing dissatisfaction with the award of Walter Runciman, pres- ident of the Board of Trade, who acted as arbitrator In the recent strike. The situation was strained further when the colllers learned that Mr. Runciman had declined to see a deputation representing them. Miners Charge Bna t'aith, The miners charge Mr. Runciman with going behind the arrangements made by David Lloyd George and de- mand that Mr. Lloyd George make good his promises to them. Dispatches from Cardiff at the time the strike was settled last month sald that the terms accepted by the miners as a re- mlt of Mr. Lloyd George's trip to Wales provided for a substantial increase in wages and otlier concessions to the strik- ers, which were considered by them as tantamount to an admission of their, |claims on nearly all the oustanding pointa. Mr. Lluyd George won the men over not only by promising concessions, but by | emphasizing the fact that uninterrupted operation of the coal mines was highly essential to the conduct of the war. Mr. Runciman's award contained wage concessions, but rejected a number of, | demands relating to working conditions, | hours of labor and arbitration arrange- ments. Plattsburg Troops Playing War Game PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 21.—A weok of war practice upon which the regiment of business and professionsl men at the camp of Instruction embarked today con- stitutes a part of an elaborate theoretica war with a foreign power, War was theoretically dec European power yesterday and the first brigade at Plattsburg received informa- tion that the Red army of invasion had seized the rafiroad junction at Rouse's Point, N. Y., end had taken Malone, N. Y. The com- mander of the Blue army of defense, which the businessmen's regiment is a part, decided to advance against the enemy at Rouse's Point before he could be reinforced from Malone, Between 5500 and 6,00 men will figure in the maneuver. ed by the ot Tomorrow the Best Colored Comics —with— The Sunday Bee ‘| tortress surrendered. INVADERS ARE IN WHITE RUSSIA Teuton Armies Penetrate Beyond the Horders of Ancient Po- land for the First Time. \BTRIKE AT MOSCOW RAILROAD LONDON, Aug. zv.-—~The Austro- \Germian’ invaders have mot -omly pressed their opponents into old Rus- cla, beyond the political borders of uncient Poland, but have penetrated well beyond the district of Russia | proper, inhabited by the Poles. Thig| enormous advance has now reached | o stage in which troops of Emperor | Nicholas are fighting for existence on the soll of White Russia, which for the first time during this war is feel- ing the effects of invasion. The main object of the German at- tack around Brest-Litovek for a num- ber of days has been the railroad run- ning eestward from the fortress to- ward Moscow. This line,' With a branch running’ in a southeasterly direction, provide the means for Rus- slan evacuation of the fortress. The Austro-German advance against this rallroad has been so slow that it is belleved here the evacuation was ac- complished successfully bol’oro the . Berbla's reply to the note of the quadruple entente, which has not been made public, although reported to have (Continued on Page Two, Column Six.) Bishop Heffron is Shot Twice by Demented Priest | WINONA, Mlnn, Aug. 2.—Right Rev. Patrick R. Heffron, bisnop of Winon diocese, was shot this moruing In his library at Terrace leights by Rav. Father Al Lesches, & demented priest, |who had been spending the last week at St. Mary's college, dlocesan head- quarters here, meeking an appointment, which Bishop Heffron had refused to give him, The priest entered the library as the bishop was reading and, without warn- ing, drew a revelver and shot twice at the bishop. One wound took effect iy the right side of the chést. "The other wound was a flesh wound' in the hip. The at- tending physiclans, -although admitting the chest wound s serious, feel hopeful for the bishop's recovery If complications do not set in. After the shobting Father Lesches re- turned to his room in St. Mary's college and locked himself in. He was arrested lator by Sheriff Barr and Chief of Police Huck, who forced an entrance. The | would-be assassin was locked up in the Winona county jail. He is 4 years of age, of French birth, and came to this country in 1488, REQUISITION ASKED FOR “BLUE SKY” VIOLATION | PIERRE, 8. D., Aug. 21.—(Bpecial Telo- !gram.)—A request of the governor of |lows was fssued today asking for the custody of Henry Moorley, who Ig_in |Sloux City, and wanted in this state on & charge of violating the “blue sky" law, by selling stocks of a company without a | lcense, either for himself or authority in.- the company to sell stock. + COPY TWO CENTS. 'SLAVS POUR OUT OF OLITA; READY T0 FLEE GRODNO Evacuation of Great Niemen Fort- ress Followed Report Russ Are Preparing to Abandon Last Stronghold on Line. FALL OF BREST IS NOT TOLD Public Hasn't Yet Learned Offi- cially of Capture of Key- stone Position. | JUST ONE PLACE IS NOW LEFT AULLETIN, VIENNA, Aug. 27.—(Via London) —The Russians who were defeated at Brest-Ltovak are retreating on both gides of the rallway to Minsk, according to an official statement {ssued today at the Austrian war office, LONDON, Aug. 27.—The Rus- slans apparently have decided to evacuate Grodno, the one important stronghold on their prineipal line of defense which they still retain. A message from Petrograd to Reuters Tslsmm company quotes the Russky Invlid as stating that Grodno be given up when the retreat of tie defenders has been covered. The message indicates that the fall of Brest-Litovsek, announced in Ber- lin yesterday, was not made public in Petrograd at 1 o'clock this after- noon at the filing of the message. Olfta Abandoned. BERLIN, Aug. 27.—Via London.) ~—The Russian fortress of Olita, on the Nieman river, twenty miles south <t Kovno, has been evacuated. Offi- cial announcement té this effect was made here today. The text of the statement by man army headquarters follows: “Western theater: In Champagne and in the Meuse hills French trench works were destroyed by mines. In the Vosges weak advance by the French was ea repulsed. “Eastern theater: Army of Fleld Muai shal von Hindenburg: Battles at Bausk and at Schonberg, southeast of Mitau and in the region of Kovno coktinue. We took 3,450 Russlan prisoners and four oannon and three maghine guns wero cantured. the Ger “‘Southeast of Kovno the enemy was defeated. The fortress of Olita has becn (Continued on Page Two, Column Five ) 'Cold Wave Covers Fastern States WASBHINGTON, Aug. 21.~Weather bureau experts said today that the cold weather which covered the east Thurs- day will last only till Bunday and Mon- day and vanish Into the Atlantic with stmmer close on its trafl. The cold wave came down from Medi- cine Hat, over Lake Superior to the borders of the south and today extendel east from the Missouri river, The coldest place in the United States in the affected zone this morning was Sault Ste. Marle, with @ temperature of 8, but White River, Canada, recorded 32 The low temperatures, however, lasted only until the sun rose and weather bureau experts figured that' practically no damage has been done to crops, THE WANT-AD WAY, The best thing for you to do If your wants you would Is to put an Ad in Sunday's You'll find they fill the Your houses will he - » 'mm-l. 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