Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1915, Page 2

3 THE OMAHA SUNDAY ). \UGL AEROPLANE RAID ON PARIS IS REPULSED One German Machine is Shot to Pieces in Mid-Air by Waiting Air Flotilla. THREE OTHER CARS ECAPE] PARIS, Aug. 28--Four German military aeroplanes attempted to make a raid on Paris this morning. | They were attacked by a French air| flotilla and one of the German ma- chines was shot to pleces in midair. The German machines crossed the French lines flying at a great height and driving toward the eity of Parls, | When over a poiat to the north of the capital, they sighted a French alr | fiotilla, which was waiting for lht-,m,! and three of the German aeroplanes | wheeled about and started for the German lines, Two Aviators’ Bodies Found. Two of the German machines escaped, but one was outdistanced by its pursuers and was riddled by bullots, It fel] flam- 8 ing Into the forest of Halatte, where the burned bodles of two aviators were found The fourth maching dropped five bomba At Montmorency, fifteen miles from Paris. No one was hurt. The batteries at Mont- morency opened fire on the aeroplane, but it got away in the haze. Travelers arriving In Paria by train from the morth can see at almost any hour from ten to fifteen French war| planey in the air at the same time, pro- tecting the capital from German air raids. Munsey Deeclares Chain Ownership of Newspapers is Bad BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 2*.—ADpnounce- ment was made today of the sale by Frank A. Munsey of the Baltimore News and the Munsey bullding to Stuart Oliveer, who has been general manager of Mr. Munsey's Baltimore interests for the 10 last elght years. It iw understood that the . transaction imvolved an amount in the nelghborhood of $4,000000, Mr. Oliveer anounced the he “‘stands alone in purchas- ing these properties, having no alllance with any financial or corporate interests. The independent policy of the paper, he sald, would be continued. I The News today publishes a personal | statement from Mr, Munsey concerning the sale of his Baltimore interests to Mr. Oliveer, in which he sald that he bought ! the Baltimore News with the view to making it one of & chain to be owned and m one central organisation. the idea looked fto sound. “But the newspaper chain in the isn't the same thing It looked 16 be in first analysis,” Mr. Munsey con- © "Ownership management speaks " guage the community understands. DR. DUMBA, Austrian ambassador to the United States, whose luggage was rifled at the Lenox rail- road station, presumably to obtain secret papers. | | | | | | | | TRAIN OF GOLD ON | WAY 10 NEW YORK Big Consignment of Coin and Bonds from London Landed at Halifax | by Britisk Battleship. | WORTH FOIT;-O!’E MILLIONS VANCEBORO, Me., Aug. 28.—~The second large shipment this month of | gold and securities from London to New York passed through here today on a special train It was said here that it consisted of bonds to the value of $26,000,000, and $19,000,- 000 in gold. The gold and securities are belng forwarded to strengthen British credit in this country and to arrest the decline in value of the British pound sterling. They were placed on a heavily guarded train at Halifax, where, it wag understood, they had | arrived on a British Dbattleship, guarded by a convoy of smaller craft. The train carried thirty-eight ex- press guards. After a brief stop here to permit a change of engines the train left at 9 o'clock for Bangor and Portland on its way to New York, Great Britain Urges Subjects to Save More of Savings to NEW ADVERTISING MANAGER OF THE UNION PACIFIC. Frank J Roach TEUTONS STRIKE AN UNEXPECTED IN GALICIA ' CLUB HEN MANGLED Sighs and Groans Come | Throats of Two Hundred Members at Den. | GUESTS OF OMAHA FOR A DAY Sighs and groans were emitted | from the throats of some 200 mem- | City 1ast night at the Ak-Sar-Ben Den. For the squealers and grunters were put through such a rigorous initiation that they mingled sighs and groans with their squeals and grunts, | The Squeals and Grunts are an organization of hog salesmen and | hog buyers of the stock yards of | Kansas City, 8t. osephJ and Sfoux City. They spent the day in Omaha ISQUEAL AND GRUNT | | bers of the Squeal and Grunt club of Kansas City, St. Joseph and Sloux | yvesterday being entertained by the stock yards crowd and the hog sales- n and buyers of Omaha. “They are a bright bunch of fellows, *ald Everett Buckingham, president of the Union Stock Yards company, and president of the Board of oGvernors of from | Ak-8ar-Ben. “You can't beat that bunch | There in not a keener, sharper, brainier |bunch of fellows in the world than a bunch of hog salesmen.” Entertained All Day. All day the fellows enjoyed the hospi- tality of the South Omaha fellows. In te afternoon they were driven about the {eity in automobiles, and in the evening they dined at the Fontenelle hotel. Then they were off for the den. Gus Renze and his force of stage car- penters and perdition brewers had been at work several days on some especially- prepared contraptions for the initiation of theso fellows. And the Initiation was worth while. Like a flock of heroes that they are, the working crew of the Den came out again in full force, even though this was a special show, and even though Satur- dny night is the night when the boys or- dinarily would have other dates. The dancers were on deck. The singers were there. The chorus of nurses of the Pep sanitarfum were dolled out in their striped gowns, and the sallors and pi- rates were ready at the helm and at the anchor hoist. Several other special shows are to be | given before the close of the season this | year, because the heavy rains all through the season made it necessary to postpone & number of entertainments that had been piamned. |Six Hurt in Wreck ? at Idlewild, Colo. COLORADO SPRINGS, (oo, Aug. 2. (Special Telegram.)—Late reports from ldlewfld, on the Colorado Midland road thow that stx persons were Injured and twenty-seven badly shaken up or slightly bruised in the wreck of the Wildflower train In & oullision with a frelght train near that point jate yesterday. Those most serfously Injured included: Mrs. J. P. Lyles, Mason City, Tex., lost two teeth, badly brused about head and shouldersl =~ . P. Lyles, Mason City, Tex., shock, augmented advanced’ age. Mrs. George M. Winstead, Hutchinson, Kan., injured in chest. Misa Freda Tolpe, Wichita, Kan., severe nervous shock and brulses. All will recover, Apartments, flats, nouses and cottages can be rented quickly and cheaply by a Bee “For Rent.” near Ostend. AMBASSADOR DUMBA GRAFT WHICH SANK ARKBIC MAY BE LOST (Continued fiom Page One) & British aviator off the Belgium coast | The admiralty alfo made | a report on the attack on August 16 by & German submarine on the English coast. The announcement s as follows: “One of our submarines on August 16 destroyed by gunfire the Benszol factory and the attached benzol warehouses and coke furnaces near Harrington, England. The statement of the British press that the submarine attacked the open towns | of Harrington, Parton and White Haven s inexact. ““Phe same submarine on August 16 was fired at from a great distance in the Irish sea by o large passenger steamer, prob- ably a royal mail steam packet, but was not hit. The British admiraity announced on August 27 that a German submarine had been destroyed and sunk off Ostend by n British seaplane. This is tnexact. The (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug. 8.—~While the American exchange problem is being apparently ignored by the British government which is content to let gold slip away in small quantities without making an effort to ‘lmret its Indebtedness to the United | States, much advice is being given by economists, through the medium of the press, as to the most effloacious method }nl dealing with this problem, which with an adverse trade balance of several hun- dred millions sterling grows more press- One writer advocates compulsory economy to reduce imports and argues that If the American exchange continues agninst Great Britain the prices of food-| stuffa and other necessaries will continue | to rise. It may develop that there will soon be no exchange at all as in the case of Petrograd where there exists only a. nominal exchange of 20 per cent against it and gold exportation prohibited by law. | hi Russia, however, i# in the position of are concerned. The same writer advo- cates bread tickets as the only method &) of making the bulk of the English popula- | forces are renewing their Galiolan territory and have scored a wages economise, remarking that “ap-! success In the course of an attempt to ton earning large and increasing weekily | submarine was attacked, but not hit, and returned to port undamaged.” The British statoment referred to by fan-|\he admiralty was made on Aukust . Tt {1t stated that Squadron Commander Ar- knows Its mccents, ia intonations and [y, pigyworth had destroyed, single- characteristics, whereas with the sal- R Fifteen Thousand More Canadians . for British Service OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug. %.-~Twel Canadian battalions of infantry are to handed, a German submarine off Ostend. ALWATA #OIE- | g grnouncement contained these words: The submarine was observed to be com- pletely wrecked and sank off Ostend. Awaits Chief’s Report. WABHIN N, Aug. 238.—~Further de- vel ts the situation with Ger- many Row awalt the Berlin government's officlal report onm the sinking of the Arable, The State department expects to recaive this from Ambassador Gerard as | soon as the German admiralty can secure it, and meanwhile negotiations are at a peals useless in Germany, a nation trained docility, will be equally here.” Another, In strongly urging the great wage earning British public to save a portion of the weekly wage, in order that the government may borrow it later at iInterest says the fact must not be over- looked that while trade is supposedly §00d 'we are not trading under ordinary circumstances, and practically all en- gineering firms shipbullders and many manufacturers while paying out wages and piling up profits, are really trading with the government and not adding to the wealth of the nation. A milllon pounds spent on cotton produces wealth distributable in many channels end also assists exports whereas the same sum government only. ing every woek. | tween Muchawieco and Pripet, our troops are driving the defeated enemy in front of them. German cavalry defeated an | enemy division yesterday at Samary on the road from Kovel to Kobrin “Southeastern theater of the war: Un- der the leadership of General Count Bothma German and Austro-Hungarian troops yesterday broks through the Rus- slan positions on the Ziota Lipa river north and south of Brezezany. Counter- | attacks at night by the enemy were re- | pulsed with sanguinary losses. Early today the enemy abandoned resistance fter further fallures. The enemy Iis clear inefficaclous | of Russian troops, which, a conclusion, would result in the Rus- slans being ferced back into their prove ince of Volhynia and Padolia. The occupation of the town of Narew, also reported today, advance of the German armies pushing eastward from the Blalystok-Blelsk line. Tllinois Court Holds being pursued.” Bince the Austro-Germans ave in ed. Today’s statement from German army being self-contained so far as foodstuffs' headquarters that the Russian lines on the Zlota Lipa had been broken through the Teutonlo pparently means that thrusts Appropriations for Departments Void SPRINGFIELD, Tll., Avg. 28.—The gov- spent on munitions is trading with the | €rnor of Illinois has power to veto parts of appropriations made by the legislature in their drive through Gallcla In May and June threw the Russian back upon the line of the Dnelster and the Zlota Lipa and Gnila Lipa rivers late in June, has beén comparatively inactivity along this front, so far as the official reports there the remainder of that territory it carried to records a further in A complete assemblage of all that is new and distinctive in Autumn and Winter Suits, Afternoon and Even- ing Dresses, Coats and embodying the most authoritative style features, materials and colorings to be worn this season. The styles are irresistably novel, with all the distinction and refinement character- istic of our exclusive productions. The very moderate prices will prove interesting to those who study economy. ) N @ ) Thompson-Belden & Co. WOMEN'S FALL ATTIRE standstill. Negatiations covering the general sub- Joct of submarine wartare which, It is as reinforcements | understood, Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, has been instructed by his government to open with a dis- avowal of Germany's intentions to cause loss of life to Americans when the Lusi- tania was sunk, will be begun when the | State department announces its readiness. These exchanges which are to be con- tinuation of the diplomatic discussions, will not be encouraged by the United States until the case of the Arabic has { been satisfactorlly disposed of. i: i i: siyeds ¥ | i g5 1§ FE t sena- of Allen and Loomis senate for confirmation, nited States district at- latter as United States mar- INSPECTOR TO TEST 3 I T st ‘;Pizl ! ; weeks. The market for it § : EDITORS URGED TO ATTEND STATE FAIR SE Horace M. Davis, president of the State i%% £ I - R i gt 1 i : ' The American government belioves that Germany s sincerity In its announcement that undersea warfare against passenger stoamers had ended must be established rights of neutrals will be Insisted upon in all quarters is taken by German of- !ficlals to mean that when it Is estab- lished that Germany has wmodified its submarine policy, England will be asked What it Means. Reiterations by American officlals that to relax the blockade against foodstuffs or Germany. German officlals believe he change of their policy will permit an acceptance by the United States of the concessions which Germany will make when negotiations are revpened. The State department now regards its case on the Arablec as made up as far as British and American sources of informa- tion are concerned. There now remains only the German presentation to afford the department & basis for final declsion. There was no further conference today between Secretary Lansing and Count Von Bernstorff, and it is understood the Iatter probably will not again call st the State department untll his governmeat is ready to submit the statement it has promised in regard to the Arablg inci- dent. DEATH RECORD. Mre. J. W. Ramuckers, Sr. LINDSAY, Neb, day at the Holy Family church. Mrs. Orlande Brott. TECUMSEH, Neb., today. years ago. The funeral will be held Tuesday &/ aoon. 2 . Aug. #.—(Special.)— Ilri. J. W. Ramaekus, sr, died last evening. She was one of the oldest set- tiers in this part of the country, settling on a farm north of town after coming hera in 157, She was the mother of fourteen children, five of whom, with | her husband, survive. The remaining | ehildren are Mort and Hubert, who are in business here, and Mesdames John Bour, Joseph Bour and P. Smith. She : prepared , was 78 years old. In 1810 Mr. and Mrs. ' coal, bids for which will | Ramackus celebrated their golden wed- ding here, being married in Holland in 1880. Funeral services will be held Mon- Aug. 38.—(Special PTEMBER 8! Telesram)—Mrs. Oriando Brott, widow of Martin Brott of this city, died here She was aged 80 years. Mrs. Brott was & native of Mason county, lliinols, and had lived in Tecumasch for fifty years, being among the earliest sottlers. She was jthe mother of thir- teen children. Her husband died two C o i @erman Losses in Assault Upon Ossowetz Enormous DVINSK, Russia, Aug. 3.-(Via Lon- don.)—Wounded members of the former garrison of the fortress of Ossowetz, re- ocently evacuated by the Russians, who are in hospitals here, declare that the German losses before that fortres:. sur- alto- gether more than 8,000,000 shells. 24 | Webster City to Have Watermelon Day WEBSTER CITY, Ia, Aug. 238.—(Spe- clal.)~Webster City will celebrats its an- nual watermelon day Tuesday. The preparations this year have been on a large scale than ever attempted before, and the city confidently expects to enter- tain the largest crowd that has ever been here. Elling O. Weeks of Eagle Grove, the most successful flier in the midwest, will make four flights in his big German taube machine. Lieutenant Governor Harding will give the address of the day, following which Prof. Deets, a soll ex- pert from the University of Minnesota, will speak to farmers. Tbe celebration | will be held In the double city 'parks, and the addresses and a vaudeville pro- gram given from an elevated stage be- tween the two parks. There will be band concerts all day and two ball games be- | tween the Fort Dodge team and the | Webster City Nationals. For the auto floral parade in the imorning over §% in decorations alone has been spent. Watermelon day was established here seven years ago. It is the one day in the year when the merchants Invite the farmers from far and wide and the peo- ple from the nearby towns to come to Webster City and enjoy a big free day. There is no charge for anything but the ball games. Three carloads of water- melons will be distributed free at noon from big corrals in the two city parks.. MEAT SHORTAGE IN SWEDEN BECAUSE OF SHIPMENTS (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8.~The shortage of meat In Sweden, caused by the large exports of the .last twelve months to Germany, is beginning to be seriously felt here, and retall dealers have peti- tioned the government to forbid further exports. During the first three months of 1915 the country’s exportations of cattie were “re¢ times as heavy as & year ago, and ore was a similar increase in the ex- of dressed meat. ,| without vetoing the entire items, accord- penscs CHICAGO, Aug. 38.—Ome of the imme- Alate local effects of Judge Creighton's decision at Springfield today may be to practically knock out the grain in- spection service on the Chicago board of trade, according to a Cook county memo- | randum of the legislature. Balaries of the three appeal inspectors were knocked | out. Fourteen deputy grain inspectors, | most of whom were assigned to the Chi- | cago disrict, also were knocked out of | thelr “alaries by the court’s declsion. ing to a decision handed down today dy Judge James Crelghton of the Sangamon county circuit court. The question of & governor's power in this connection was {one of the topics discussed at the gover- nors' conference in Boston this week. Declaring that they had been passed in an Incorrect form, the court knocked out appropriations amountipg to $200,0.0, which {had been made by the last general assem- !bly, This action may necessitate a spe- clal sesslon of the legislature in order | that state departments may have enough money with which to operate. The de- clsions were made In a case brought by ,John B. Fergus, a Chicago “tax payer.” As a result of the court’s action, mem- bers of the legislature may be forced to refund to the state $26000 which they ap- Powder Maker Says He Was Offered Cash | to Blow Up Plant| GARY, Ind., Aug. 3.—Joseph Kramer, a powder maker, interrogated by the po- lce today, In connection with thelr in- vestigation of the murder of the Ger-| man pastor, Rev, Edmund Kayser, whoso | body was found mear the parsonage in | Tolleston, last Tuesday night, sald two men, one of whom “looked llke Kayser,” | recently approached him with a proposi- tion to blow up the Aetna powder works, where he is employed. He sald he reached an agrement with the two under whi n | he was to get $1500 for destroying the Aetna plant, but that later he decided to tell the police Instead. The Gary police today concentrated their attention on the theory that the pastor came to his death as a result of pro-German sympathies. SWEDEN BRINGS ITS ARMY UP TO RFAL WAR BASIS LONDON, July %.—~The Swad'sh army has been considerably developed since the beginning of the European war, accord- ing to a correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company. Jt is officially an- nounced that Sweden now has 30000 regu- lars and 175,000 Landsturmers. Suppiles of ammunitien and war material have been brought up to date, and the Swedish military writery state that the army has mever hefore stod at such a high point of efficlency. Five thousand new offl- cers and non-commissioned officers have been appointed, and all old soldlers have been called up for a course of supplemen- tal training. Shield yourself against the Cold Days of Next Winter and the Higher Prices which are charged later on in the season. NOW is the time to Buy Your Winter Coal Supply. You can get longest- burning, greatest heat- giving anthracite at low- est cost right NOW in the Summer—Why delay? Order today and SAVE MONEY. Phone us your order to- day while you think of it. McCaffrey Bros. 120 South 17th ng Tyler 40 Wraps, Alberts, Hats, 191 models; for sale of seat. L) o JOHN FELDMAN Phone D, 3188, Eveunings. 206 W. 17th St., om‘"" meh, If speed is what you want in the delivery of cuts, we can satisfy your wants. We have plates going through our plant which must be turned out for use in our own publication and in most cases your work could be made at the same time. Our own cuts show up well in the paper, why not have yours un- der the same conditions? Information and estimates fwnished upon request— 140 Bee Bldg., Omaha. S~ ¥