Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1915, Page 1

VOL. XLV—NO. 105. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, WELVE PAGE HE OMAHA DAILY BEE — — 22, s SINGI £ COPY TWO CENTS GRACE SLATER TELLS STORY OF SMITH'S MURDER Girl Who Was with Woodmen Cashier When He Was Killed @Gives Her Version to the Newspapers. ! DID NOT KNOW THE THUG| Says She Had Never Seen Murderer Before—Was Once Engaged to Marry. ENGAGEMENT WAS BROKEN OFF Miss Grace Slater, 21 years old, whom Willlam H. Smith, Woodmen of the World cashier, was accom- panying to her home, when he was murdered at Thirty-first and Dodge streets Saturday night, sald Monday that the bandit whom she saw shoot Mr. Smith knew that his victim was a married man. Miss Slater talked to newspaper men after having gone through an hour's examination by Chiet of Police Dunn. BShe said: *“After the man shot Mr. Smith he said to me: “‘*He is a married man?’' “I.sald ‘Yes.' “He sald, ‘You are married?’ “I said ‘No.'" Was to Have Been Married. Miss Slater was to have been married to & fireman in the employ of the city about October 1, she said. The engagement was broken by mutual agreement,” Miss Blater declared. “We found that ‘we did not care for each other longer. We had planned to be married several times before. The last date we fixed was about the first of this month. The engagement was broken just before the time came when we were to have been married.” Did Not Kmnow Assailant. Miss Slater declared positively that the n who shot Mr. Smith wag unknown to her and that she had never seen him before. Measurements of footprints left by a man and a girl, belleved to have been those of Miss Slater and the murderer, as he was taking her from the scene of the crime, havé been taken by the police. Those of the man’'s footprints snowed that he slipped as he stepped in Lhe mud. Miss Slater sald today she did not re- member that the man had slipped. “F was muddy & good deal of the T saw Mr. Smith fall- not mee him reach the “Zhe man took hold of me and took me away.” The story of the robber's outrageous treatment of her which Miss Slater gave to police officials she did not repeat to newspaper men. % ‘The bandit took her money. Miss Slater believes he intended to kill her. “But after I pleaded with him his man- ngr changed entirely,” she continued. “He sald, ‘I believe you are a good working girl.! Bandit Wants tg Knew. ‘‘He asked many questions about my- self, where I worked, where I lived, how much pay I got and even what size shoe 1 wore. “I told him where I lived, and he sald: ‘No you don’t; I know where you live.' “But I da not belleve that he knew where I lived,” Miss Slater sald she apd Mr. Smith had been discussing holdups before the robber Appeared. The subject arose, she said, on account of the streets which they were Rasaing through, and the fact that Mr. Smith had been heid up in Council Bluffs The girl cleared up the question as to Just Now the robber approached them. Murderer Crosses Street. ‘"He followed us from the opposite side of the street,” she said. ‘‘He came across (Continued on Page Two, Celumn Two.) The Weather i Forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesday: wf Council Bluffs and Vicinity perature at Omaks Yesterday. Hours. Deg. ba b8 Sa L 7a. b4 8a b5 9a. 59 10 a. 60 1 a. 33 12 m. o 1p 66 2p 7 3D o 4P 3 & p. o 8 p. 6 i8 g Loeal Inches M. High- ll?lr est. all. “ 00 3 06 ° .00 6. » - 00 " 00 s 50 " 00 " .3 ” .00 o 0 b 00 [ 00 L 0 Forecaster. : YOUNG WOMAN WITH SMITH | WHEN HE WAS MURDERED. | MIS® GRACH BLATER, 0DD FELLOWS COME T0 OMAHA MEETING Sessions of Grand Lodge and Several Auxiliary Organizations Are in Progress. RACE FOR THE OFFICES STARTS Hundreds of Odd Fellows from all over the state are in Omaha. Rebekahs are here, too. The fifty-eighth annual session of the grand .lodge will commence to- morrow. The forty-fourth annual session of the Grand Encampment is in full swing. The thirty-second an- rual session of the Rebekahs will commence tomorrow, and the Depart- ment Council Patriarchs Militant Is in its twenty-second annual session, Thus members of the Independent Order of Ocd Fellows and members of the auxillary organizations are simply swarming into the city. They will con- tinue to swarm for three days, ending Thiraday night. It is expected that for the various organizations and auxiliaries between 1,500 and 2,000 delegates and vis- itors Wil be In Omaha during the three dave. 3 + Delegates began o arrive Sunday. Grand Master Harnish of OWNeill, Grand Palriaten J. A. Davis of ‘Lincoln, Joe Hoaglang of North Platte, president ot the Odd Fellows# home board, and O. O. Snydet of O'Neifll, chairman of the finance committee, arrived at headquar- ters at the Fontenelle hotel Sunday even- ing. Grand Seribe L. P. Gage of Fremont arrived early this morning. Eneampment Convenes. The Grand Encampment branch of the order convened in regular session at 2 o'clock at the Indepemndent Order of Odd Fellows' hall, ' Fourteenth and Dodgé streets. This was presided over by Grand Patriarch Davis of Lincoln. Reports were read and degrees were conferred upon new representatives of the Grand Encamp- ment. Last Saturday the home board was in session all day at York. The home board has charge of the Odd Fellows' home maintained at York. Routine business was transacted and some of the rules of the institution were revised. The superin- tendent of the home was authorized to make & number of permanent improve- ments on the farm bulldings. Superintendent and Mrs. J. H. Wilson were re-elected superintendent and matron respectively of the home for the ensuing year. During this pession the youngest guest ever taken in the home was accepted. This was the 2-month-old baby of C. A. Jones of Gresham, Neb., who appeared in person before the board. He made a personal appeal for admittance of the baby, and brought tears to the eyes of every one of the board. The mother of the infant died when the baby was born. Charles B. Wyman of Chicago, for- merly superintendent of the Odd Fel- lows' Old Folks' Home of Mattoon, Iil., made an interesting talk before the board on the mansgement of the Odd Fel- lows' home. Banmgardner Talks. C. A. Baumgardner of Omaha gave a talk on the Printers' Home of Colorado Springs, explaining how the funds are raised and how the money is expended, and praised the splendid results obtained both in the home and in the tubercular hospital in connection with is. Last evening the Patriarchial degree was exemplified by Hesperian .en- campment No. 2 at Odd Fellows' hall. The Royal Purple degree was con- ferred by Crusader encampment No. #7. A genera! get-together meeting was held after the degree work was given and refreshments were served. MHats Are in Ring. Candidates for the .poajtion of grand junior warden of the grand encampment are already in the field. This 1s the office from which a man steps almost automat- ically in the, succeeding years Into the shoes of grand high priest, grand senior warden and grand patriarch. Those al- ready in the field for the office of grand junior warden are A. P.' Hansen of Omaha, Otto Steele of the South Bide, Omaha; J. R. Snyder of Chadron, J. Q. Bwope of North Platte, N. E. Welch of Lincoln. A. P. Hanson, who is in the race, is secretary of Dannebrog lodge No. 216, the largest Odd Fellows' lodge in the state. Mr. and Mrs. W, V. Hoagland of North Platte have arrived and are stopping at the Fontenelle. They bear the unique distinction of being grand warden of the grand lodge and warden of the state,Re- bekah assembly, respectively. The Rebekahs are to hold their first meeting of the wesk Tucaday evening at | 7:8 at the Fontenelle hotel for the purt | pose of conferring the state assembly de- L o FIGHT FORSUFFRAGE ¥Ever Known in the Commonwealth. BOTH SIDEBTRE CONFIDENT Votin~ Begins at 8ix in Morning and Will Continue for Thirteen Hours. COUNT EXPECTED TO BE SLOW NEWARK, N. J,, Oct. 18.—The vigor of the hot campaign waged by | women workers for suffrage rose to |ts nhighest piteh tonight, election eve in every section of New elrsey. All day the yellow banners of the suffrage assoclation and the green, white and purple of the woman's political union fluttered from hun- dfeds of automobiles from Cape May to the New York line and tonight tlere were few communities in the state, even of the smallest where the voices of feminine orators were not lifted in the streets for the cause, President Wilson's vote for suf. frage will be cast in Princeton, Both Sides Co t Any man's guess——or any woman's-— was as good tonight as any other's as to how the battle would go tomorrow. The campaign has ben entirely non- equally confident of a victory at the polls. In this city, on the sput where the first settlers holsted thelr standard nearly 260 years ago, a score or more of women campalgn workers have spoken without cessation since 6 o'clock this morning, pausing only long enough to spell one another. Dawn and daybreak, say, will find them still at their post, for this twenty.four-hour meeting is not to end till the polls open at ¢ o'clock, 2 Everywhere In the big cities of the state groups of women workers are speak- ing in the streets, hundreds of them, utllising ‘the waning hours of the long campaign for what they believe to be a smashing drive against their political foes. Far and away, the last hours of this fight have set a new record for political activity in New Jersey. The so-called whirlwind finishes of bygone campaigns within the memory of living Votérs have falled to equal tonight's in- tense activity. F. Feickert, president of the New Jersey State Assoclation for Woman Buffrage, “Woman suffrage will be defated In New Jersey by a large majority,” such was the last word from Mrs. Edward Yarde Breese, president of the New Jersey assoclation opposed to woman suffrage. The polls open at 6 o'clock tomorrow motning and will remain open until o'clogk at night. The vote on suffrage will be cast between § a. m. and 7 p. m. There is not a voting machine in the state and returns, it is thought, will be slow in coming in. The task of the counters, however, will be light, com~ pared with their work on a genoral elec- tion, as there are but three constitutional amendments to be voted on, the suffrage amendment and two others of minor im. portance. “filly" Sunday in 8t. Joseph to Talk “Billy"” Sunday spent yesterday in Bt. Joseph, Mo. He,, with Mrs. Sunday, Homer Rodeheaver and A. G. Brewster of the Bunday party left on an early train for the southern city. He preached there yesterday afternoon and last night, The visit to St. Joseph was made to glve assistance to Mel Trotter of the Union Gospel mision, who at present is in a hospital at Baltimore taking treatment for cancer. Sir Edward Carson Quits the Cabinet LONDON, Oet, 18.—8ir Edward Carson, attorney general, has resigned from the British cabinet. GRAND MASTER OF THE ODD FELLOWS' MEETING HERE. partisan and both sides declare they are| WHERE MANY LIVES WERE LOST--Scene at Fancy creek, near Randolph, Kan,, where a motor train plunged into a washed out bank on Saturday, and many passen- gers were caught in the swirling waters. SUTHERLAND DIES AT KANSAS CITY Former Nebraska Congressman from Fifth District Dead After Long Illness. FUNERAL TO BE WEDNESDAY KANSAS CITY, Oct. 18.—(8pe- clal Telegram.)—Roderick Dhu Butherland, former representative from the Fifth district of Nebraska, died this morning at St. Margaret’s hospital, Kansas City, Kan. \ Mr. Sytherland’s home wag in Nel- son, Neb., where the funeral will be Wednesday afternoon. He had eritieally {Il of Bright's disease for several months. Porn in Towa, Rhoderic' Dhu ‘Sutherland’ was born in Jones county, Towa, in 1562. While a 1ad his parents moved to northern Mis- souri, where they lived for meven years. It was here that he secured his earlier education. ‘The family moved to eastern Nebraska, ltving there two years, after which they moved to Nuckolls county, where Mr. Butherland has made his home for over thirty years. As a young man Mr. SButherland taught school and studied law during his spare moments. IHe was admitted to the bar in Nuckolls county twenty years ago. He has always been identified with the politics of his county and state and has been twice elected prosecuting attorney of Nuckolls county. He was elected to! congress from the Fifth district, being elected on the populist ticket. He was a candidate for the presidential nomination of the people’s independent party in 1900, Nominee in 1912, e was also the democratic nomines in 1912, being defeated by Silas R. Barton. Mr. Butherland was appointed attorney for the recelver of the defunct First Na- tional bank of Superior and was acting in that capacity when he was taken il He has made his home in Nelson since he was admitted to the bar and has always enjoyed a lucrative law practice there. A wife and two daughters survive him, Mrs, Dexter Barrett of Lincoln and Mre. Friend of Kansas City, Kan, Mr. Sutherland’ bore a striking resem- | blance to .Willlam J, Bryan and waa| often taken for Mr. Bryan by those.who were not personally acquainted with either one. War is Declared On the Chipmunk DEADWOOD, 8. D., Oct. 18 —(Special) ~What to do with the little chipmunk which has become a serious impediment to their work, le problem that is vexing the Black Hils national forest officers. For several years past during the fall season when the forest service is col- lecting the pine cones for the seed for replanting the burned over areas, the ohipmunk pl havoc with their work by getting the seed first. Various means have been tried to check him and even exterminate him, but this year he is plen- tiful again. Now seed soaked with in strychnine Is being scattered on the ground In spots wher the little afimals feed, in the hope that it will finally prove effective. Super- visor Kelleter has established a speclal camp between Hanna and Dumont from which men are working out in each di- rection; spreading the polsoncd seed,” un- der the direction of the blological expert from Waghington who summoned for advice. FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN WAR STAMPS ARE TAKEN BVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 18 —Robbers today forced the safe in the office of the United States intérnal revenue collector and took §15000 in emergency war stamps. The theft was committed while postoftice employes were busy on the floor below, [l WILSON T0 OUTLINE DEFENSE PROGRAM % 'Pren'dent Will Present h:epuedneu Polioy in Speech at New York November 4. TO BE LAID BEFORE PEOPLE WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—A na- tional defense program that probably means the expenditure on the army and navy of upwards of $1,000,000,~ 000 in the next six years will be lald before the people by President Wilson November 4, when he goes to New York to make htx first publie|, wildress sinde the scope of the policy upon which his administration has embarked became known. . The president will speak before the Manbattah club in New York City on national defense and the reasons which have impelled him to approve plans to about double the navy and quadruple the trained fight- ing forces ashore within a few years. With ‘the estimates of the War and Navy departments submitted - for the coming year, the breadth of the admin- Istration's policy as to preparedness is belng realized, Polley of Preparedness, It shapes up in totals as follows: b Navy—For new ships and increased personnel In tive years, $500,000,000, Army—For reserve, material (arms and ammunition), within four years, $106,000,- 000, For new coast defenses and mod ernization of old forts within four yoars, $51,000,000, For the new continental army and the propesed increase in the regular army, $26,000,000 (this amount probably will be o continuing, and .if anything, increas- ing appropriation through the first six- year period, which would make the total expenditure at that time $166,000,000). The grand total expenditure thus act- ually planned would be $542,000,000, Result by 1920, According to plans lald out by experts of the Navy and. War departments, theso expenditures would produce by 196 ® first line of dreadnaughts and battle crulsers numbering (forty-three; a fleet of coast defense submarines that would tringe the Atlantic and Pacific coasts with an’ almost solid “line * of = defense agalnst attack, a fleet of nearly 175 de- stroyers and squadrons of huge seagoing submarines to operate with the battle squadrons at great distance from shore, EX-NEBRASKA CONGRESSMAN ‘WHO IS DEAD. , SUTHERLAND, UNITED SHOE SUED UNDER TRUST ACT Government Files Action Against Company Charging Attempt to Lessen Competition. ASKS PERMANENT INJUNCTION ST. LOUIS, Mo, Oct. 18.—The first important governmient suit un- der the Clayton anti-trust act was begun here today by Attorney Gen-| eral Gregory against the United 8hoe Machinery company. The pomlun] filed in the federal district court charges the shoe company with un- lawful practices that substantially lessen competition and tend to mo- nopolize, Temporary and permanent injunctions are sought. The suit is distinet from that againat the same concern under the Sherman anti-trust act begun sev- eral years ago in which its dissolu- tion as an unlawful combination and | monopoly In restraint of trade was| sought and which now is before the United States supreme court. The| present action does not seek dissolu- tion, but asks the court to enjoin the company perpetuaily from fur- ther engaging in alleged unlawful practices. There also is the usual prayer for such other ‘“general and further relief’ as the court may see fit to give, features is that the petition contalns a request for a tem- porary order restraining the United Shoe company from resorting to the practices complained of until determination of the sult, ‘The government's petition charges. That the United 8hoe Machinery com- pany is a monopoly controlling 98% per cent of the trade In shoe machinery in the United States, its principal business holnfi the making and leasing of these ines, at in certain cases it has fixed and is fixing the prices of such machinery on the ocondition and with the aj ment that the lessee or purchaser shall not use | the machinery supplies or other commod- ities of its competitors, That it grants rebates on prices fixed in some inatanves in consideration of t fse by a lesses of other of itsa machine that other leases contaln clauses whose effect is to establish prices 10 per ocent less to those Who agree not to use the ALLIES TURN THE | BULGAR ADVANGE | INTO A RETREA ] Serbians Succeed in Preventing the Bulgarians from Cutting the Saloniki and - Nish Railroad Lines. GERMANS ACTIVE IN THE EAST Attacking Russ Positions in Coun- try Southeast of 'Riga and Pushing On Rapidly. FIERCE FIGHT IN CHAMPAGNE BULLETIN, LONDON, Oct. 18.——The Entente Allles have effected a landing at Enos, on the Acgean sea, in Bu- ropean Turkey, close to the Bulgar- fan border, and have selsed the rail- road at that point, according to a dis- pateh from Athens to the Messaggero ot Rome, transmitted by the Central Nows, LONDON, Oct, 18.—Serblan and Anglo-Frinch troops have oocupled the Bulgarian town of Strumitsa, thirty miles north of Salomiki, ae- cording to official ' telegrams from Athens. This follows oclosely upon pewsd that Serbians, with allied as- slstance, have repuused a Bulgarian attdck at Vilandovo, turning the ad- vance of the Bulgars into a retreat beyond their own border. Thus the Anglo-French and Ser- bian action in the Balkans has leaped out of the fleld of surmise into a vivid foreground of fact, and is as- serted by London military observers' to have been crowned at the outset with success, This arrival of French troops at the phychological moment when the Serbian struggle with 40,00 newly arrived Bul- garl at Vilandovo and Hundovo still hung in the balance has dramatic quali- ties which for the moment have come pletely eclipsed the military exploits in machinery supplied by competitors than | to thome who do not so bind themseives, ] One More Nebraska - Man's Body Found in Randolph Wreok this county, which was taken from the wreck at Randolph, Kan., n graduate of the Beatrice High achool last year. ‘Clay Center, Kan., for some time with Kilpatrick Brothers, the railroad con- tractors of this city and was en route for & visit 'when he was killed. He Was 18 years of age and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peterson of the Virginla icinity, ' was taken from the creek last, night. Beveral bodies have not been recovered, one of them a little child of Mr. and Mrs, Danlinger of Frankfort, Kan. The track was cleared today and trains are again being operated over the line between Beatrice and Manhattan, Kan, Denies that He Would Take Over Smelting Plants BL PASO, \Tex, . Oct. 18.—dovernor Avila of Ohihugh a Villa adherent, in & telegram addressed to Gweorge C. Oarothers, special State department agent here, today denied that he had ordered the confiscation of plants and mines of the American Smelting and Refining company, as previously reported, In mining circles, however, it was de- clared that the confiscation of the prop- erty had been threatened if the smelters were not operated by October 16 in the reduction of government ores. | |Seventy-Four Lids Tilted in Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—Beventy-four viola- tions of the Sunday saloon closing law were recorded in' revised police reports today, an increase over the number re- | ported a week ago when Mayor Thomp- son's order went into effect All cases of vilations will be submitted to Mayor Thompson with the recom- | mendation that licenses be revoked, Henry Bolln Dies at Age of Bixty-Eight Henry Bolln, formerly treasurer of Douglas county, died Monday afterncon At 104 South Twenty-ninth street at the ®ge of 6 years’/ Mr. Bolin had been a res- | ident of Omaha for forty-seven years.| Funeral services will be held at the H.‘ K., Birket: chapel, Twenty-ninth and Leavenworth strects, Wednesday after- | noon at 3 o'clock with burial in Forest Lawn cemetery. Victor E, Bender 1s Dead at Galesburg GALBSBURG, 11, Oct, 18.~Victor E. Bender, one of the most widely known newspaper men in Ilinols, died here to- night from Bright's disease. Il . was brought here two weeks ag) from Sprink- field, where he published tne Daily News. m,uumm*fl&z Mr. Poterson. had been employed at| Of Toutonie forces to the Balkans the other theaters, The ohlef military importance of the' allled-Serblan success is the defeat of the Bulgarian project of cutting the Baloniki-Nish railroad, which is known to have been the Bulgarian objective. It 1s mot clear whether British' troops co- operated with the French in this opera- tion, but & message from Athens, stating “had teft Saloniki Saturday fov the ing, Y Russian and Italian thus far has increased today was identified as Edwin Poterson, | D0 only indirectly exerted by AgKressiveness against the . mans, which makes a further deflestion ime. practicable. a» In the castern theater tho Germans aro agdln attacking the Russian posis tions southeust of Riga, but Petro- d commentators regard this to be purely a demonatration calculated to dis« tract attention from the Dyinek reglon Al but the tricks of the wrecked car| *Pd Oalicia, which have gained greatly in Importance with the Balkan develop nts. It Is clear that although the bat. tle which General Von Ivanoff is fight- ing, continued with varying success, the Germans have been unable to establish themselves on the eastern bank of the river Btripa. With & particularly intense artillery - been captured and the Givenchy wood positions have been Three Night Attacks Repulwed. PARIS, Oct. 18,—French forces repulsed last night three German attacks, aceord- ing to the announcement given out this afternoon by the French war 6ffice. These (Continued on Page Two, Column ) THE WANT AD WAY Al Rights Reserved. This store yoom here is now for wemd, he tac) - The location dossn't matter, 'fin'm'nunm':--uu or rent. b Ty folke Know it with & Went Al Youw'ld back the money spent, Just use & Waut Ad in The Bes wmn-'munq-.m find the! the ":3 yound .{."&—mw Your “Store For Rent":ad in wly o ":1" blyh mm‘{l“ ,;ll:- Tnd several other cltiea; 3 for securing & tenant vt‘ be greatly increased. # Th will be only a few nuh'fl:v-‘ Give full particulars i Earlier he had publ'shed the Omaha Mor- cury and the Council Blufts Nonparel. 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