Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1915, Page 1

WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bee is The Paper you ask for; if you plan to be Absent mote than & few days, Rave The Bes malled to you. VOL. XLV—NO. 78 OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING. FIRST TO HIT THE TRAIL AT THE TABERNACLE. SUNDAY ADVISES HEARERS TO GET . ON FIRE FOR GOD Declares Some Church Folk Are Still Standing Aloof and Some Sa- loon Keepers Come. FOR REAL CHURCH WORK Complains There is No Shouting When Prodigal Son Makes Home Run for Heaven. | CHIEF MALONEY AT MEETING | Everybody is going to the Sunday ! meetings. -Yesterday afternoon there were 3,000 people there. Steve Ma- | loney, chief of detectives, stood in the ' corridor and leaned in through the | opening listening attentively toi “Billy’'s” sermon on ‘“‘Personal | Work.” There were plenty of empty ; benches, but Steve didn’t venture in- side. - Near him stood the tall,/ orfental-looking person often seen | about the streets dressed entirely in ‘white with white coat reaching below his knees. There was little slang to mark the evangelist's sermon, It was earnest and a plea, or rather a demand, for| more real work in the church. “You yell like Comanche Indians when the ball team wins,” he said, | “but if some prodigal son makes a | home run for heaven, it's carry h|mj out and put him in the refrigerator. H You don’t rejoice or say anything| about it. “Some church people are standing aloof from these meetings and some saloon- | keepers and women of the redlight are| coming to them. Some of you aren't| backsliders because you have nowhere to backslide from. The Wagon is Different. engines when they come along, but no one moves for an ice wagon. It will be ! e fire wagon instead of an ice wagon. “It 1s a marvelous thing to observe the wa.e of religious revival that is sweeping across this country, when leaders in all are crying out for a revival of the 2 : H i : ? H MISS BERTHA KRAFT, FIRST; T. LEWIS DALLY, SECOND; MRS. T. LL! D tieth street was the first of the sawdust {trall line in this city. She has been a member of the German Hvangelical g “Glory to God.” As Mr. Sunday concluded his sermon & man in the audience shouted in sten- torian tones, “Glory to God.” “Billy”” made a strong talk about boost- ing the ocolleotions and referred to the church, and the card which she signed indlcated that she wishes to be ‘recon- secrated.” The song, “Drifting O'er Life's Sea,” by the Tabernacle choir impressed this young woman so much that she cried, Bhe sald it reminded her of her old home at Neosha, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. T, L. Dally of 278 Seward strdet were second and third of the trail | hitters, respectively. Mrs. Dally would | hawe been the first woman, but she had to stop a moment for one of her rubber shoes that nearly came off along the trail, and in consequence was distanced | by Miss Kraft. This hsuband and wifs | have attended every evening service at | the tabernacle. SUNDAY TALKS 0 SOCIETY WOMEN Givés Reading from Henry Van Dyke’s “The Lost Word” at the G. A. Joslyn Castle. AND “MA” WAS THERE ALSO| “Billy” Sunday’s morning reading &t the palatial home of Mrs. George Joslyn was marked by an absence of verbal pyrotechnics and the vigorous shysical performances of the taber- nacle platform. Only once in his! closing prayer the evangelist smote ! tbe table sharply several times with the notebook which he carried. The men of the city. tions of from $1 up will be asked from the morning audienoce. “If al Ithe churches in Omaha were torn down and all the ministers driven out this city would be but a blot on the map, where no one would want to live, where they wouldn's be safe and where property values would shrink to almost nothing,” he said. ‘“You have the benetit of .their_influence. What do you do to suppert them?" The seérmon to children tomorrow after- noon will be {llustrated by means of the flags of thirty nations which “Biily™ has, It will be more of a “talk” than a sery mon. HASTINGS METHODIST CHURCH RECALLS PASTOR HASTINGS, Neb, Sept. 16 —(Special Telegram.)—By unanimous vote, the Methodist church of this city has called Rev. A. A, Brooks to the pastorate for another year. It is expected the seleotion will be made at the State Methodist con- vention in Omaha next week. The Weather Foregast 1l 1 hé’f‘afl"{i:".‘u Vietnity | TOStrum in the music room from ~—Fair; not much change temperature. | which he spoke afforded him scant Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. | apace. More than 100 society women assembled st the invitation of Mra. Richard Carrier, rs, Charles Johannes and Miss Clara Hawley to hear Mr. Sunday's dramatic version of Henry Van Dyke's “The Lost Word." -Outside of the opening and clos- ! ing prayers, there were few interpola-| tions by Mr. Sunday. | “Those who live on the flowered ! boulevards in ease and affluence often i ALIR BB pEER hide aching hearts and suffer sleepless nights because of a wayward boy just| as much as less prosperous persons,” he sald. “You have wealth, culture, refinement. You can have Jesus, t0o,” he told the women. Thanks God for Opportunity. “It's too bad, Jesus, ‘that there are some homes where you can't walk up to the doors. Help them to come back to you and say, ‘I am lonesome for you, 2298 {nches J€8us’ 1 thank you, Lord, for the op- v inch portunity of speaking in Mrs. Joslyn's %.‘.'{:f;:fi:ihony”"‘ :ud.m- ;Iodn:‘:ny-nd - g “Ma" unday, rs. er an lss e Btate tiams &t T P. M. | .y entered the crowded musio room and were going to sit on the stairs, the only avallable space, when room was made for them in the front row, directly ! beneath the rostrum. Mr. Sunday fre- | quently smiled down at Mrs, Sunday. Homer Rodeheaver, Mr. Brewster and Mrs. Asher sang, “Rody”’ leading the audience in singing “Brighten the Corner | Where You Are” The voices of the women were at first timid and faint, but under “Rody's” yrging they soon as- {Continued on Page Five, Column Thrée.) B - T PEPPYETRHPPPrPPP E5EEE g2 . 1914, 1913, 1912 s 524 lean i ures Thom (ke Somaly " ation Normal t | i w0 ol 11 458 . inch 00 inch 2R, Baeiszas I ATION “#.0n Resolution by Thirty- to-Twelve Vote. l WOULD REGULATE LIQUOR SALES | The Nebraska Federation of Labor jpumd an anti-prohibition resolution | yesterday afternoon by a vote of 30 to 12, The resolution protests against prohibition laws and favors reason- able regulation of the liquor trarfio as enunciated in previous conven- tions. It was the original resolution reported from committee and amended by the committee shortly before the final vote was taken. The result was forecasted a few inutes previously by a vote of 29 te 12 on a substitute resolution offered by Labor Commissioner Coffey which the protest against prohibition laws was eliminated. Secretary Shamp of the International firemen moved the adoption of the anti-pro- , hibition resolution. | Delegates who spoke for resolutions as passed, declared their only concern was preservation if employment of workers. newly organized Traces Union Liberty league, of which he is president, “wll not accept 1 cent from biewery bosses or saloon men,”’ was cheered by the dele- gates. A resolution demanding that the eity of Omaha shall not require firemen in its employ to do other work while on duty, was adopted. The federation also asked the city of Lincoln to put into effect the double shift system in its fire houses as authorized by the lesislature. Want U. 8. Make War Supplies. A resolution favoring government man- | ufacture of munitions of war and chips by day labor was passed. The res;lu- tion asserts that private profit n war supplies is largely responsible for the de- mand for war preparations, | 'The anti-prohibition resolution as passed ead in part: “Resolved, that the Nebraska State Federation of Labor in convention assem~ | blea emphatically protest against any law | having for its object county or state- | wide prohibition ar¥ instructs its exeou- ! tive board and legiMative committes to | work against the same and for reason- | able regulation as enunciated in former | conventions.” | The defeated resolution offered by Mr. | Coffey would “reaffirm fromer declara- | tions™ for “‘just, and equitable regulation ! of the liquor traffic.” Elght-Hour Law Not Wanted. The convention defeated a resolution de- claring for a law fixing a day's work at eight hours. .The tpinion was expressed in debate that contests in the various trades for shorter hours is one of the | issues which holds the unions together. After a two-hour fight on the floor on | the lssue whether te Ftate Federation of | Labor should adopt an anti-prohibition resolutfon reported out of committee, the convention adjourned shortly after noon without having taken action. The issue was made the special order of business for the afternoon session. Two votes were taken, however, in which the wets were numerically su- perior, A motion by Delegate Larsen of the local carpenters to indefinitely post- pone consideration of the reselution was lost, 27to 12, gnd a motion to adjourn, supported by drys and some wets, was defeated, 21 to 20. A recess was taken, however. Several warm spesches were made by delegat Threatens to Withdraw, Burr of the Lincoln printers threw a bomb into the convention when he de- clared that If the anti-prohibition resoln- tlon was passed he would recommend that his union withdraw from the federation, that he expected such action would be taken and that he behwvsd adoption of the resolution would mean the disruption of the organization. He declared the resolution if passed would be misunder- #tood ang that it would be a black eye to the federation, Ashland of the steamfitters declared he would starve by inches before he would accept a job in a brewery, Vice President Beal declared there would be no disruption of the federation in any event. Does Not Prohibit, “Prohibition does not prohibit,” Beal declared. “There is not & town of more than 5,000 in the United States in which & man cannot get a drink of liquor one hour after he arrives,” he asserted. He Ppresented statistics showing more crime in prohibition cities than in wet and teld of thousands of men thrown out of work in prohibition territory. Chelbroad of the local brewery workers sald: “It is a death struggle for the brewery workers." He read a quotation from a speech of Lincoln opposing prohibition, To Stand Together, Wangberg of the machinists asserted that “the interests of one local fs the coneern of all,”" and urged the federation to stand by the men who would be in. Jured by prohibition. He resented im- ) putationg that the liquor interests were | behind the fight against prohibition made by the workers in the trade. Frank M. Coffey, labor commissioner, read & report in which he pointed out benefits and weakness of the compensa- tion law. He told of one case in which & wagon driver who was stung on the wrist by a bee recetved compensation. | | The law on the whole is vastly bene-| ficial, he sald, but he urged the federa- tion members to be prepared to offer amendments to the next legislature to remedy weak spots, The present female labor law as amended is almost useless, according to Mr. Coffey, He declared it was almost impossible to get evidence against em- ployers, because women who ‘peached” He oritiolsed the amendment in force which makes the law tmapplicable in towns under 5,000 population and recom- mended that the measure be made to penalize persons who made contracts to violate its provisions. Such an amend- ment would make it possible to reach those who fall to obey it, he said. The delegates last evening accepted an invitation o attend the Empress theater. in| Lr- way about him, and when ‘r | | SEPTEMBER 17, 1915 driving home one of his points with utmost vigor. TEN PAGES. at Motel to., SINGI THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | "=~ | COPrY Two CENTS *'NOW, LISTEN!"'—*‘Billy”’ Sunday has a most positive he strikes this attitude he is » NBW YORK, Sept. 16.—Standard Of millionaires, including John D, Rocke feller, jr., It was reported today are con | atdering the terms of the proposed $1,000,- /000,000 credit loan to Great Britain and France, with a view of part ipat ng, Members of the Anglo-Fren h (inan- clal commission and Ame ican bankers working for the suoccess of the projoscd 1000000000 credit.loap to Great Hritain and ¥ranoe, have somewhat diffcrent ideas, it became known today, as to some of the terms governing the loan, chief of which is reported to be the rate of in- terest. The commission is reported to be leve the maximum rate should be § per cent Many American bankers . belle.e ihe mammoth issue should at least yleld 6, per cent, while there is some talk of re- quiring 6 per cent. A 6 per cent loan the commission is re- ported as having sald, shou!d be sold at par or a shade under. Some financlers here are sald to doubt whether the Amer- ican public would subscribe to & stralght 6 per cent loan, without collateral at more than 96, if that Gold for Munitions. A possibility that obtained widespreai disctssion today was that payment for munitions of war would be excluded from the operation of the proposed credit loan. This report was that fhe big cre it loan [ ‘would be usell onmly for foodst f s and Other prime mnecessities and that pay- ment of war munitions would be made In wold, Members of the commission seemed well satisfied today with the progress made Use Loan t;) B;:y Fo;d Only: Pay for Munitions in Gold thus far. Millions in pledges, it ; ro-. ported, already had been secured, and more pledges were tentatively assured. Negotiations, It was said, had reached the stage where an authoritative state- ment from the commission would be issued soon, perhaps tonight. It developed today that the pro-German group of New York financiers haq falled the negotiations, although the hint had been dropped that they would welcome it. Certain members of the group have felt somewhat hurt by the failure to in- clude them. Under no clrcumstances, it was said, would members of this group participate in a loan which would cover payment of war munitions. May Offer On n Securities. ST. PAUL, Minn, Bept. 16.—It was ru- mored in local financial oircles today that a proposition would be made to the Anglo-French financial commission in New York by which it is hoped to effect the proposed $1,000,000,000 loan through the ald of Canadian securities. Looal finan- clers who discussed this gossip sald exaot detalls of the plan had not been divulged, but declared it possible that the big loan, It made, would depend upon Canadian backing for completion. Efforts to obtain any comment from the offices of James J. Hill on this re- port proved fruitiess, and none of the loeal bankers close to Mr. Hill would discuss the rumor. Mr., Hill is now in New York with other American finan- clers negotiating with the members of | the Anglo-French commission. BRYAN PRESENTS THE LITTLE GIANT Former Secretary of State and W. H. Thompson Hold Interview with Gregory. NOTHING TO SBAY AFTERWARDS (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—(Spe- clal Telegram.)—Willlam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska presented his fel- low statesman, the ““Little Glant of Grand Island,” Willam H. Thomp- son, to Attorney General Gregory to- day. At an early hour today Colonel Bryan arranged for an interview with the attorney general, who returned from his vacation on Tuesday. The meeting was arranged for 3:30 o'clock, but it was nearly 4 when Colonel Bryan, Mr. Thompson and Mr. McConnaughy and a friend whose name could not be reached the Department of Justice in a “taxi.” Colonel Bryan and Judge Thompson hour they were closeted together. What transpired at that éonference ls |not known. It may be that the attorney | general thought Mr. Thompson's age (66) & bar to his recommendation for the va- | eancy on the federal bench of Nebraska created by the death of Judge W. H. Munger. However, Mr,. Thompeon had nothing to say about his conference, neither had | Judge Thompson snd Mr. Mo onnaughy { to Washington at this particular time for | the purpose of explaining the report of a fleld officer of the Department of the Interfor. ‘Where the fullest effoft to give the ascertained | were immediately aoccorded an nl)dlnnnej by the attorney general and for half an | publio the reason for the appearance of Judge Thompson and Mr. MeConnaughy | existed yesterday, today they even went 80 far as to deny themselves to callers. ‘Billy’ Sunday Visits Woman Who Knew Him at Age of Four Among the sick persons whom Mr. and Mrs. Sunday called on yesterday was | Mrs. Bain, 414 Charles street, who was | present when Mr. Sunday’s grandmother | died in Ames, Ia., nearly fifty years ago. | It was hard to say which enjoyed the | visit most, Mr. Sunday or Mrs. Bain. “T remember, you were about 4 years old then,” sald the aged woman. “And they brought you into the room when | your grandma was near her end. You asked if she was going to dle and they | told you, ‘Yes, she was going to be with | Jesus and you began to ory and sald | you wanted to die and be with Jesus, | too. 1 laid out your grandma's body and ' | Crown. | CHICAGO MEN WILL AP’PEAL‘ LONDON, Sept. 16.-—The Ilrmahi Frive court today condemned the| grouter part of the American prod-1 ucts forming the cargoes of four steamships. The products, valued at several million dollars, are de- clared forfeited to the crown, The judgment wes delivered by Sir Samuel T. Evans, president of the court. It involves the cargoes {of the Norwegian steamships Kim, Alfred Nobel, Bjornsterne-Bjorson CARGOES OF MBAT | ARE CONTRABAND, SAYS PRIZE COURT British Prize Court Condemns Fif- teen Million Dollars Worth of American Packers' Goods NEARLY ALL OWNED IN CHICAGO | Products Are Declared by Tribunal as Forfeited to the British and Fridland. All the goods on RUSSIANS AGAIN ON OFFENSIVE AT SEVERAL POINTS Activity in Mid-Poland and Galicia Tends to Support Lord Kitche- ner’s Optimistio Pre- diction. GERMANS CHECKED AT DVINSK Russians in Last Few Days Have ptared More Men Than They Have Lost. BULGARS MAY JOIN TEUTONS BULLETIN, BERLIN, Sept, 16.—(Via Lon- don,)-—The capture.of the Russian city of Pinsk, about 100 miles east of Brest-Litovsk, was announced to- day at army headquarters. LONDON, 8ept. 16.-Coincident with Earl Kitchener's optimistic re- marks in the House of Lords con- cerning the position of the Russian these vessels, consisting principally of American meat produets, are con- | fincated, with the exception of a small proportion which the court re- leased to claimants. The ocase has been pending for several months, The steamships were seiwed last November, and although efforts were made by the American owners to obtain an early trial the British authorities set the hearing for Juna. The hearing closed last month and judgment was reserved until today, Judgment of Court, In a lengthy judgment, Sir Samuel sald it was plain these ships were carrying toward Copenhagen when captured more than thirteen times the amount of goods which undér normal circumstances would have been taken to that port. That fact " |®ave practical and overwhelming assur- ance that the goods were intended to find thelr way to Germany, although, of ©ourse, it did not prove conclusively that they were destined for an onemy of Great Britain. One circumstance throwing Ught on the real destination of the goods, Sir Bam- uel sald, was that the exportation of lard by ome American company alone to Co- penhagen in three wooks after the out- break of the war was twenty times more than In periods of peace. As to tins of canned meats, he sald, it had not not been shown that they had been sent to Denmark in any great quantity before |the war, yet hundreds of thousands were Lo recetve invitations to participate.in-on the way when the vessels wers cap h | tured. Thesc tins, it seemed, could not have been meant for any other persons other than German soldiers, Referring to the consignments of rubber armies, they are showing an increas- ing disposition to reassume the offensive at many points on the east- orn front. They are not only press- ing thelr attacks against the Aus- trians in Galicla, but for the most part aro holding up the German rush In mid-Poland. The Russians slso assert they have thrown back the in- vaders near Svientsyany, where the German ocavalry cut the Petrograd railroad. between Dvinsk and Vilna. The Germans' battery still holds out at the bridgehead near Dvinsk, al- though the Russians apparently are holding their opponents in check in this region, Russians Gain More Than Lese. Counting thetr captures in Galicia the Russians lately have been taking more prisoners than they have been losing In England hopes are rising that Barl Kit- chener did not make an incautious pie- diction when he decrared Germany hai shot its bolt, but that his statement was based on facts. It is said here that Von Hindenburg’s drive ia losing its vigor, while Von Mackenssn is striving to over- come the difficulties of the marsh coun- try and the Austrians appear to be unable to reguin the upper hand in Galicla. The Balkan situation has not reached a attitude with some anxiety. “Bulgarian aims,” Guardian, " © Artillery Fighting in West. PARIS, Sept. 18—~The French war office sdys the chester described as gum the president said: “I have come to the conclusion that|progress of hostilities reading: gum 15 not a good commercial descrip-| ‘‘Yesterday witnessed fighting with ton for fubber, and that it was used in |hand grenades at the sapheads in the the ship’s manifests in order to avold |sector of Neuville. A bombardment of the difficulty which would result in its the suburbs of Arras brought forth a capture by a belligement. Any conceal- | vigorous reply from our artillery directed ment of this sort will, while I sit in the |against the batteries and the tremohes of prise court, welgh heavily aganst those |the enemy. There was also fighting gave out a report this afternoon om the who adopt such courses.” Bir Bamuel allowed one olaim of a Danish manufacturer for a quantity of rubber, which he said had been shipped in good faith for use in his factory, Fifteen Milllons in Meat. The meat cargoes, shipped for the most part by the great American packing com- panies and valued by them st 15,000,000, were found by the president to be des- tined, except for some small item, not for consumption in Denmark, but for de- livery in Germany. He held that their eventual destination was the German government, for the use of its naval and military forces. T6 rule otherwise, Sir Samuel sald, would be to allow one's eyes to be blinded. The court disallowed sixteen claims, in- cluding those of the Morris, Armour, Hammond, Swift and Bulsberger com- | panies. It allowed elght claims, includ- | ing that of the Cudahy company of Chi- cago. The others were Danish consignee Bir SBamuel gave leave to appeal, fixin; socurity for the costs at 335,000, divisible among the appellants. He also gave the crown attorneys leave to appeal in the Cases of the Cudahy and other claims which were allowed. Loss of Packers Complete, OHICAGO, I1.., Sept. 16.~If the confisca- tion of American meat cargoes ordered the British prize court, Chicago pack will lose approximately §16,000,000, at { which the shipments were valued. The| packers, however, have not yet given up | the fight. Attorneys Henry Veeder, C. J. Faulk- ner, yr., and M. W. Borders, representing | Bwift & Co., Armour & Co. and Morris & | Co.,, this afternoon gave the following | Joint statement concerning the decision | of the British prize court, recelved today: “England’s confiscation of $2,500,000 ‘worth of American meat products, as an- | nounced In the brief press dispatches to- was there until after the funeral ' ol cxs b ! Vienna Receives Note Asking Dumba Recall ' Asking Dumba Rec WASHINGTON, BSept. S-—Announce- | ment was made at the State department late today of the receipt of a message | from the American legation at Berne, Bwitzerland, stating that the note asking | for the recall of Ambassador Lumba wao delivered In Vienna September 10. Officials were unable to explain the allure of the Amerkan embassy at Vienna to acknowledge receipt of the I note, but it is presumed that telegraphic ‘(mmmunh"llun was Interrupted between | Vienna and Berne just after the message from the United States government reached its destination. Potato Harvesters Are Needed, HEMINGFORD, Neb., Bept. 16.—(Spe- his friend Mr. MeConnaughy about ghelr | clal.)—There is a great shortage of farm | Proved oall on Secretary Lane this morning In | hands here to assist in geiting the pots- | bought outright by Danish merchants. the interest of the Tri-County Supple- |toes out of the ground. Men can get | C. J. Faulkner of the legal staff of Ar- mantal Water assoclation, which brought | at least forty daye’ work at $3 and better | Mour & Co.' said: per day and board. Unless at least )| men can be employed in this vicinity ihe largest potato crop ever ralsed will be lost by frost. K. L. Pierce of the Stat bank will direct any laborers who come to farmers who need them. day s not justified by the facts or any | da; ‘with mines in the region of Frise, in the department of the SBomme. ‘“There was artillery firing during all last night around Roye and in the viein- ity of Lassigny, where our shells started fires, In the reglon of ~Au-Bag in Champagne, near St re and Aube- rive, in the northern Wosvre distriot, and in the Vosges at Ban-De-Sapt, the night also was marked by fairly spirited artil- lery actions,’ Peoria Man Chewed to Death by Rats PEORIA, I, Sept. 18--George Miler aged 66 years, died at a hospital here to- having been chewed to death, rats. Authorities yesterday found Mi - ler lying helpless in a barn where he had been stricken with a' sudden iliness. His face was gnawed aimost beyond recognition. The barking of & pet dog attracted attention to Miller's plight. THE WANT-AD-WAY principle of international law. It can only | | were destined to neutral countries, and be construed as of another step in Eng- | land’s policy to interfere with the trade of American cftizens with the citizens of neutral countries. All these shipments the ship's papers, at the time of their seizure, clearly showed such fact. They were not destined to or for the enemies of Great Britain, and, upon trial of the case, no evidence showing they were destined to #uch enemy of Great Britain was ad- duced and none could have.been. This makes necessary further presentation of stronger protests to the Department of State for an equitable adjustment of the claima." Guy C. Shephard, vice president of the | Cudahy Packing company, which escaped with slight loss, sald that his company that its shipments had been “I don't see how Kngland justifies that dicision. The goods shipped on thres of the four ships involved were sent before | the English order was issued. We could not stop the shipments when the ord did come out; they were om the ocean.” ¥ Al Rights Ressrvel llnmm“l% A Want Ad is 4 well-known To hush the time Bt The Want Ad's work is They're LT an Ad P tomo; ou'll it will DAY If it is not convenlent to bring your WANT AD to off) telephone it to us; it e he best care Telephone Tyler 1000 now and FUT IT IN THS ONAEA BEE A