Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 7, 1915, Page 1

The sure way to satisfy your wants is through -ise of the want ad pages of The Bee. Try a Bee want ad. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE \l\ \() VOL. h!’. STURDY WORKMEN START FESTAL DAY WITH BIG PARADE Large Number Join in the Demon- stration Through Gaily Deco- rated suuu of City. | WOMEN SWELL TKE NUMBERS Ideal Weather Brings Thousands Down Town Section to Sée the Marching Legions. | & SOUTH SIDERS ALSO JOIN IN| R Sturdy workmen of the vnfloua: trades celebrated the day set aside for them each year by a umendld1 parade in Omaha. Tt was sald to be | by odds the best Labor day parndal that Omaha has ever seen. | And the paraders weren't all mere men, .either. A number of automo- biles carried numerous representa- tives of the fair sex. There were in several of the delegations line wore distinctive uniforms, The day was ideal in every way. The | early rain had just laid the dost and old pop Sun was on the job. The various public buildings were gally decorated and the festivity of the scene in labor' honor was still further enhanced by the | banners strung along the streets in honor of the national convention of the letter carriers. \Police Lead the Way. The parade was scheduled to start at @0 o'clock, and it started with very | Iittlo delay. Headed by a platoon of po- | lce, it moved east from Twentieth and | Farnam streets, with bands playing gally. A great crowd was on the streets. The varlous trades had splendid repre- sentations out. The carpenmr were several hundred strong. were In force and the maso typographers. The plumbers all carrled canes made to look like two pleces of pipe joined to- gether, With the proper joints known to all members of the union, but not to laymen. A feature of the plumbers' part of the parade was a float which combined the practical with the humorous. On the float | were all the equipment of a bathroom, even to the steafn radiator. In the bath- tub was & colored boy, only his head and neck visible. Most everybody had some- thing to shout at the grinning youth, ft seemed, and the Movies in Parade. The moving plcture operators’ union had | « float, & compleis moving picture me- f chipe outfit with colored ribbona run- ning from the front of the machine an radlating tloat, on which was the name of the local | union and the lezend “'Safety First.” The features of the parade received frequent cheers from the spectators on the sidelines. In the afterncon tne “official” labor celebgation continued at the German Home on Bouth Thirteenth street, with athletio contests, sports, music, dancing and speaking. South Siders Join. Members &€ the South Side Central Labor Union joined in the parade. Offi- | clals met at the South Bide headquarters | at Twenty-fourth and M streets and from there went to North Omaha, where they joined the procession, carrying local ban- ners. The local representation numbered everal hundreds. i Joliet Convicts See Prize Fight, Despite Order of Governor | JOLIET, 1ll., Sept. 6.—Labor day was a real holiday for the hundreds of convicts in the state penitentiary here. Forgetting the walls and bars which cut them off from the outside world, the convicts stood up and howled with glee while two pugilists pummeled each other In a regu- lation ring in the prison yard. In Chicago Governor Dunne became in- | censed when he learned that the boxing | bouts were in prospect. He telegraphed | to the warden that the fistic feature of the program was wrong @nd must be climinated. The telegram, howeVer, ar- rived too late, as the bouts were over and | the couvicts had had their fun. | London Exchange . | Market Feverish LONDON, Sept. 6.—American exchange continues to fluctuate feverishly and tn | the opinion of financiers here the out- | look is still very uncertain. Cable trans- ' fer opened lower at .6TW@4.65%. The | rate fell to 4.66%@4.67, with few buying | ordeys and later held arpund $4.67 in a | very uncertain market. The Weather For Nebraska—Partly cloudy; In southwest portion tonight. Temperature at Omahs \el("‘ly.! — warmer e —— Hour, Desg. bam 2] 6a m. L6t | Ta m. . @ 3 :l.m 63 . [ Wa | }%Lm. 3 B oe s P m. .8 2p m. 5 U %pm 4 m 5p. m. §p m. i . 7p m. L6 Corarative Loca fiu 2 sseeeses A8 > tare and ,‘fl—"m precipitation dw-n .. 4 465 Iu s i H, Local Forecas ur. geveral fioats, plenty of banners and |- LETTER CARRIERS OPEN CONVENTION. plumbers WPresident Edward Gainor | section continuea todsy. By MAMMOTH FLAG IN THE LETTER CARRIERS' PARADE—Carried by the Omaha division of the Letter Carrie OMAHA, TUKS SDAY N association through the streets of Omaha Monday. Starts Business by Reading Report for Last Two Years. DELEGATES AB.RIVE HOURLY *“To be whipped to bed and whipped to work by the iron hand of circum- stance s an economic absurdity,” shouted President Edwara J. Gainor of the National Assoclation of Letter Carriers, during his extensive report and addrsss at the opening of the convention at the Auditorium this morning. Mr. Gainor did not say that letter | corriers are whipped to bed and whipped to work, Lut rather pointed on " no longer exists’ as extensively as it once did. He was speaking of Sunday closing and holiday closing when he came to this climax. “We now know that Sunday livery was never necessary. It was just a habit,” he sald. “The same is true of countless other eustoms. We inherit them and abide by them for years until we suddenly discover they serve no useful purpose. “Hvery year brings a more general observance of fWe holidays. Business | houses are closed now during hours that decade ago seemed impossible. It #hould not require all of a man's working hours to make a living.” President Gainor declared his belief that a pledge for a retirement bill will be in- | cluded '{n the principal political platforms drawn up in the 1916 national conventions, Petition for BiIL He recommended a campaign of pub- licity for the retirement propaganda. He recommended that the incoming officers of the assoclation and the board pre- | pare a petition to congress setting forth the principal reasons for the desirability of a retirement provision on the statutes, Ho recommended that congress be pe- —— (Continued on Page Two, Oolumn One.) Postoffice Clerks Want Additional Pay and Pensions SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 6. ter Pay and Shorter Hours" is of the delegates to the National Federa- tion of Postoffice Clerks that opened here today for a week's session. Practically the entire week, it was an- nounced, will be devoted to preparing a program, for which, it is sald, the post- office clerks will ask, are: Retirement for aged postal workers; a {higher salary classification; a civil serv- fce court of oppeals; an adequate com- |pensation for injury law; elimination of the stop-watch In speeding clerks to more work, This is the first time the federation ‘m met on the Pacidc coast. MORE SENSATIONS IN TELEPHONE CASE Attempt Made to Burn Elgan Home When Son Finds Prowler Near Place. THREAT AGAINST DAY AND BENO . BULLETIN. The officials of the telephone company are understood to have in their possession the confession of the person who set the mysterious fires in the Council Bluffs biunldings and caused such a furore of excite- ment in Council Bluffs during the last weelk, The confession is said to have been made by Adolph Kigan, 15 year-old son of Manager Elgan of {ithe Felephome company of Oouncil Bluffs, It is not likely that any pros- ecution will result, though this has not been definitely determined. The motive for the offense ap- pears as yet to be obscure. What was at first belleved to be a practical joke took on a more serious phase when it was discovered yester- day morning that in addition to & gquantity of gasoline having been thrown upon the front porch of the residence of Frank Higan, district manager of the Iowa Telephone com- pany of Council Bluffs, the telephone wires had been cut. Mr. Blgan’s son, Adolph, aged 15 years, discovered the | gasoline by detecting its odor, and was hit with a brick by a man whom ! he encountered ‘in the rear of the house. Manager Elgan was also called up by & man who said he was a friend and also friendly to the compeny, but who would not give his name. He sald he had over- heard a conversation in which it was de- clared that Manager Higan and F. J, Day and Charles Beno, pfominent Coun- <il Bluffs business men, were marked for death because they “sold out” & lot of small stockholders in the old Inde- pendent Telephone company. | Stolen Autos l\oconvnd. | MASON CITY, a, Sept. 6.—(Special | Melegran “our automobiles stolen from | this city have been recovered, All were sold in Fréeborn county, Minensota. Of- ficers are after two more., F. V. Kehr and Clarence Hunt have admitted the | thetts. Watchman Eleetresuted. CEDAR FALLS, Ia., Bept. 6.—(Special Telegram.)—Bert Irwin, 35 years of age, night watchman at the Waterloo, Cedar | Falls & Northern substation, was found dead on the floor, with his right side badly burned, indicating he hed touched & live wire. He was married and the father of several children, Fake Photograph Causes Murder of Two Americans by Mexicans BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept. »—The Qisposition of troops in the Broownaville midweek there will be 4,000 men, cavalry, infantry, artillery, signal and aero corps in this district—a command large enough, it is hov-d to exert sufficient moral force to | - 78 | make the use of physical force unneces- | D |sary in maintaining quiet in the border | Icoun(lu with thelr 7 per cent Mexican population. The troops are patrolling a territory nearly the size of Maine which contan only one city, Brownsville, Tex. How to 5 |Qistinguish between loyal and disloyal | | Maxican citisens is an unsolved problem | |and & lack of this knowledge is a menace to the international relations. Bome Americans have come to belleve | even that other nations are trying to in- volve Mexico with the United States, A | n». |few credit reports that Americans who | wish intervention are behind most of the br ) outbreaks. In the two monthe since the bandits ' began operations four Americans have been murdered. Two have been killed at Sebastian by ‘Mexicans who were their personal enemies. Apparently the element of racial revenge did not enter into these kililngs until last weei's murder of two Americans near San Benito. It 1s now established that two Americans werk killed partly in retaliation for e picture post cards which have been spread over all northeast Mexico. These were pictures of Texas rangers on horse back with ropes about the bodies of some Mexicans killed several weeks ago In the fight at Norias. The rangers did not drag these bodies. They only posed for the pictures to satisfy s photographer. The wide sale of these pictures produced bad foelings. The new Seventy-ninth district eourt held its first sitting today at Rio Grande City, about 100 miles up the river from here. Some of the attorneys who sttended court from the old counties sald they were carrying a lawhook o ong hand and & pistol in the other. lnl(\l\l.. £ I‘II"I‘H\! Hlll{ ENGINES CRASH IN HEAD-ON COLLISION 1915-TWELVE PAGES =9 TOBASGO IS RISING AGAINST CARRANZA “Bryan” and “Roosevelt” Meet on‘stlte Reported to Be in Revolt and Track at Speedway as Spec- tacle for Big Crowd. MOTORCYCLE RACES ON PROGRAM Governor and Other Offi- cials Slain, THOUSANDS FACE STAB,VATIOI Two locomotives met in a head-on colligion at the speedway late yester- day afternoon & clilmax to more than three horsu’ entertainment, A crowd of spectators which filled the grand stand and bleachers with the exception of the sections furthest| west and overflowed onto the broad | track, was seemingly well pleased with the show,, The engines were named “‘Bryan’ and “Roosevelt,” those words having been painted on their sides in big| white letters, “Bryan” advanced from the west and “Roosevelt” from the east. A series of explosions of dynamite | Bombs marked the progress of the en- | @ines to thelr meeting place. The ' en- | gineers jumped. “Bryan” came the | faster, Almost directly opposite from the Havana.)—The major portion of the , state of Tobasco has revolted agalnst the Carranza government, Street yfi‘xhung in S8an Juan Hautista, the | capital of the state, and in Frontera, a town on the coast, resulted in the killing of General Colorado, the Car- ranza governor, the chief of police and thé secretary of state, Many women and children were killed on the street. The Carransa officials remaining selzed a boat at Prontera and escaped to Vera Crus. According to reports, Tobasco is making an effort to join the state of Oaxaca in maintaining independenge Men of General Carranza. Oaxaca re-| volted last June and has since re- fused to recognize General Cnrrun. rrand stand the engines crashed to- gether, Both Engines Shattered, The engine which was moving the fastey suffered less damage than the other, but both were greatly shattered. | Each was pushed to one side in opposite directions, but both remained standing. Fire broke out in one engine, but it was immedistely quenched by floods of | water and steam. The air was filled | with steam which poured from the botlers. | Part of the orowd rushed pell mell over toward the enines immediately after the gollision and wasc rostrained with difficulty. The wrecked engines were sold to & dunk dealer for & reporied price of $30. It was sald that the scrap ‘con- tained $200 worth of brass and other valuable materials and as soon as the crowd left the work of removing the debris began, Peterson Proves Fa | Carl Peterson went to the front in {the motorcycle races. Carl (Munger, who was secohd in the fast race, a ! five-mile event, was injured a haif hour later when his machine went down with him on the back stretch while he was taking & practice spin. He was unable to rise and serious injurles were feared, but aftef he had been removed in &n automobile It was | announced that his injuries ‘were of | minor character. | "Al Ward of Los Angeles was third in |the first race, but wase second In the others, in close finishes John B. Is Winner, In the pacing race John B., the winner, was forced to make a hard drive the | first two heats by 'Billy Seal, which in his younger days was an excellent race | horse, The time for the three heats was |1:08%, 1:00 dnd 1:09. Major Constantine, {a nice &-year-old, was thisd and Teddy L was fourth, Here are the dates for our coming Ak - Sar-Ben events: | Sept. 29, Carnival begins Oct, 5, Floral Parade Oect. 6, Electrical Parade Oct. 8, Coronation Ball Oct. 9, Carnival Ends l | County Americans arriving overland from Oaxaca say that thousand of natives are starving, or have died as the re- sult of eating polsonous roots, Denial by Carransa Chief. WABHINGTON, Sept. &.—Major Gen- eral Funston reported today that Gen- eral Nafarotte, the Carranza commander at Matamoras, had agein denied that Carransa troopers were ralding the Mex~ ican border, and proposed bringing more Carransa troops to the Mexican side to suppress dlsorders. The Carranze aw- thdrities have suggested a conference to arrange joint actlon. General Funston's message included the following report from Colonel Bullard st Brownsville: “Carranza con.%| states to me that he has today in person informed Nafarette At Matamoras of the fact that Americans #nd Carranza troops are this morning facing each other near Mission and in danger of conflict; that Nafarette replied he would order his troops to move back (Continued on Page Twe, Column Two.) ~ 7 SUNDAY GEEITED VERA CRUZ Mex., s-u»&-—m-l THE WEATHER Unsettled SINGL BY HUGE CROWD AT CORNING MEETING' Evangelist Tells Church Members | They Will Have to Get | More “Pep” to Win Out. ! MEETS OLD FRIEND ON ROAD Has an Interesting Session With Charley Cook, Who Handles Throttle on Train, TFLI§ THE STORY OF HIS LIFE In., Sept. 6.-—(8Special Telegram.)—"“Well, if it ain't old Bill Bunday! H'are ya BIl1?" Horny fisted Charley Coolk, rall- road cngineer on the Burlington, stuck out a ham-'tke fist and gripped the maul of Bill Sunday. Bill stuck out o ham-like fist al- most as hard and gripped the hand of a pal of bygone days. Together they rode in the cab of the pguon»{ ger train that was taking Bill Sunday and his party to Corning, where this morning the evangelist had the en-; tire population of this city under his spell for over an hour Cook and Sunday were pals In the days when both were knee-high to a grasshopper, and they remuntod; some great old tales as the train thundered along. | The town of Corning ‘“closed up," lter- | ally and actually, today to hear Mr. | Sunday, The tabernacle, which was opened here yesterday by the committes in charge of the Corning revival, was filled today | by the 5,00) persons. Mr. Bunday didn't wasto any time get- ting Into action. His talk was extem- porancous and Intermingled with the y of his iife, He told how he was brought up In an orphanage, on a milk- weed, or wprds to that effect, and how he got his diploma in the University of Poverty, Then he launched into a fusiilade di-| rected at the ‘dead ones” in Coming. | “Why, I'll bet this burg s full of moss- | back church members that are more of o detriment to God Almighty than they are helpera. Rout ‘em out and make ‘em hit the ball for CGlod. You stiffs that yell when 1 hit you are the very ones thay | need hitting. The harder you vell, the lhm-— I'm going to hit'* | 'Friends of Peace Adopt Statement of Prinoiples ' CHICAGO, Sept. l—AIlhoun speaker | after wpeaker declared against the ship-| ment from America to European bellig- | erents of war munitions and criticised the attitude of the administration toward the | matter, the Friends of Peace today made no formal declaration in favor of an | embargo. Instead it adopted a resolution contain- ing the following statement of ‘principles a8 an expression of the purposes of the organization: That the majority of Amerioans are op- Posed to war except for nulonwl defense. That the time has come to discard war, “the. test relic of barbarism. f ar will cease when enlightened women bind themselves tfll’lh.r revent unnecessary Arme mement. at there should freedom of ths CORNING, to ! meas d that the United States lhoul (‘nnlrl to’ thi nlull by lnlllllnl riean commerce in mn-oa s with bel! rmu .. ‘That the man Cl ‘actu Iln1 nts should nol h. for wvm. bi solely for national defon it forel lun- to nnneo -nfl mu enterprises is that ueh’ouon inl interests of our elinln fortunes’ of 'rhns in_view of ail Frie of Peace work to counteract t morality ng ' critical u- to nate m- po g'u\ every ltln flu- secretly serving un of arma and’ armamen Triple Murder at Snow Hill, Md. SNOW HILL, Md., Sept. 6.—Levin P, Robinson, his wife and Alonzo Redden, a farm hand, were shot and killed by Frank Grano, at Robinson's farm, near here, today. Grano was arrested on the roag to Snow Hill, where he was go'ng to give himself up, he sald. Jealousy of Mrs. Robinson was given as the cause of | the triple murder. l ! | |Members of Texas Bar on Trial for Brtbmg of Voters CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Sept. 6.— Judge Waller T. Burng opened district court here this morning for the trial of forty-one defendants in the election fraud cases. A preliminary skirmish of counsel | preceded the regular trial, with & motion to quash the Indictments. A special venire of thirty men, whose names were | kept secret. until their appearance in | court was called for the trial and em panelling the jury probably will take all’ | day. The grand jury convened this morning under & special cull and was given a ®e to investigate political conditions in Dyval county, of which San Diego is the county seat. Sixty witnesses have ,been summoned from there. The Indictment under which the forty- one defendants are to be tried was re- srned following & prolonked investiga- (lon by agents of the Department of Jus- tice of the election of 1914, I which vote:s were alleged to have been bribed and to have had their poll taxes paid for the purposes of voting. Tae charges involve some of the most prominent men Jn public Ife Here, namely, Distriet Judge W, B. Hopkins, who is serving his sixth term; County |Judge Walter ¥. Timon, August Uehlin- |ger, county clerk; Sheriff M. B. Wright, Assessor Joseph Bluntzer and Collector Ed4 R. Oliver. County The defendants bave engaged several | of the elite of the Texas bar and blame their prosecution to the alleged machina- tions of their political enemios, The empanelling of the jury was pre- ceded by two hours' argument on the motion to quash indictments against the defendants on the ground that the in- | @lctments alleged “fraud,” buty not any [{specific violation of the federal statutes. | | b yd { ( | | | | | [ | The defense also urged that the motion | be quaghed on the ground that other allegations are exclusively state offenses. | The arguments were Interrupted by the | empanelling of « grand jury. Out of fifty veniremen, thirty-seven answered | and of this number seven were excused. The petit jury of twelve men was belng selected this afternoon. Judge Burns | | intimated at the close of the mom!nn scasion that the motion to quash the in- ! dietments would be overruled when he | told the members of the jury already Qualified, many of them would serve on the trial jury and that it would be neces sary for them not to dMcuss the cases or suffer themselves to be approached by, anybody. Bhortly after noon the grand jury made & third report on the same indictments, the latest being to correct the one re- turned last week. The six counts were | reduced to ‘v-. CoPY TWoO E BERLIN SAYS IT HAS NO REPORY ON HESPERIAN { Allan Liner Damaged by Explosion Saturday Afloat Night Remains for Thirty- Fo'\r Hours, MAY HAVE ST finICK A MINE No Statement Yet Obtained from, Anvone Who Saw Rither Mine or Torpedo SEVERAL OF CREW ARE MISSING BERLIN (via London), Sept. 6.— The Germaen admiralty has as yet no information regarding the Hesperian The sinking of the limer was cuse, fect: flelally commented upon to this ef« ‘It 18 more advisable to await more definite news as to whether thel wns actually torpedoed, and 80, under what conditions.” winey BULLETIN. A message | trom Consul Frost to the American embassy sald that the total loss of iife might reach twenty., According to information telegraphed by Mr. Frost, the Hesperian went down at 6:41 o'clock at a point not far from the scene of the explosion, all thou on board at the time belng rescued. PULLBTIN, LONDON, Sept, 6.—A Reuter tele. gram from Amsterdam says a semi« offfclal message from Berlin, con- cerning the torpedoing of the Hes« perian, states the detalls must be awaited ag to whether the vessel wad torpedoed at all, and if so, the eiry cumstances which led to the tor- pedoing. LLONDON, Sept, 6.—The Allan line steamer Hesperian sank at 6:45 o'cloek this morning within a few niles of Queenstown, after Captain Main and a volunteer rescue crew of twenty-five had made a brave fight to bring the crippled ship into port. During the night the Hesperian set< tlo: gradually by the t showed ‘the the iiner about to take the final plunge. The ecaptain and crew werd | taken off by rescue boats and landed later at Queenstown by the lt-lul Empress. The sinking of the Hesperian in (Continued on. Page Two, Column Two.) Sunday Firsts “I say to the forces of dam- nation in Omaha, the God- forsaken, weasle-eyed, pus- gutted, hog-jowled spawn of hell, come on, we're ready for you, and you cannot harm us, (f’ord we are ambassadors of 0d.” ‘A lot of people wero mighty plous when they had to walk, but now that they can afford a Ford or a Plerce Arrow or & Packard, it's ‘good-bye, God; Il see you later.’ " “An angel frvm heaven couldn’t come to Omaha and ltve for a week and asso- clate with some of the people you train with and go back to heaven without belng fumi- gated, carbolicized, 'formalde- hyded, dry-cleaned and made over altogether.” “If a man doesn't settle his salvation before the under- taker pumps him full of em- balming fluid, he's all in.” “Any time you thick you can do this stunt better than 1 can, butt in, old man.’A | THE WANT-AD. WAY All mnu Reserved, ' Fr sy Rt »M sack T .,,m..%"”&'fl | ' ROUT IX IN THE