Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1915, Page 1

[ § i § S U a0 NI Fullest and timeliest sport news and gossip in The Bee day by day. Special Sport ion every Sunday. [—————= = e crmmeth s o Py v pr P i Mo i 4 At ————— e e e BN et A THE OMAHA DAILY BE VOL. XLV—NO. 115, GET TOGETHER 1S WATCHWORD - OF ESTABROOK Noted Orator and Former Omaha Omaha Man Talks to Republicans of State at McKinley Club Banquet, TIME NOW FOR SOBER THOUGHT Bays Country Is in Midst of Most Profound Business Depression Since Year of 1896, PUTS BLAME ON DEMOCRATS Henry D. Estabrook, often spoken of as a presidential possibility, was the principal speaker at the banquet of the McKinley club, held here last evening. He spoke on the subject of “Get Together,” and showed how easy it was for the republican party to stick together. He said that the G. 0. P. was big enough for La Fol- lette and Roosevelt and the rest and that they should resent a united front in the coming contest. He said: “Americans are becing & homo- genous people. It is seldom you meet a man whose peculiarities of wardrobe, hair cut, or parts of speech betray his geography. We look alike, we dress alike, we talk alike, and some of these days we are going to think alike. And the time for re- publicans to begin to think alike is now-—this very minute. The occas- slon—the necessity is here. Our country is at sixes and sevens—in- side and out. “Except for the lamentable, but lucrative traffic in war goods the United States, so far as its legitimate industry is concerned, is in the grip of as profound a business depres- sion as we have experiemced since 1896, Mr, McAdoo in a recent speech says that prosperity has returned. Of courge, prosperity could not “return” it it mever had been absent. But it 18 true that a sort of fearful pros- perity is upon us—prosperity had returned—temporarily at least, and perhaps with a vengeance, In the October Review of Reviews there is a non-partisen” artiele by Charles F. Speare, which every American ought to read, Let me quote you a little of it. ‘In the history of American busi- ness. no chapter reads more ligé a fairy tale than that dealing with the events of the last year. No more rapid or complete transistion from & state of dependence to one of fade- pendence, or from the ‘pauper to prince’ condition, has ever occurred in any country. ‘A year ago the United Btates was worried by its debts to Europe, and apparently had no means of paying. The amount was from $300,000,00 to $400,000,000. England sent commission- ers over here to tell us how it must be pajd. The main argument was to pay in gold and pay quickly. Ameri- can dollars were at a heavy discount, $7 being required at one time to off- set an English ppund, against a nor- mal $4.86. Industries were closing. The numbers of unemployed taxed the organized efforts of all charity bodies. Bavings banks were losing deposits at an alarming rate, Mart- gages were being foreclosed on & scale almost unknown in the east. The stock exchanges, were silent. There were several hundred thous- and idle cars on the side-tracks of American railroads, and a proportion- ate number of idle engines. Money was ‘tight,’ and the banks in New York were much under their legal reserve requirements. Gold poin and gold certificates were being hoarded. Mines were shut down, Bullding op- erations were at a standstil. Even automoblle sales droped abruptly. Democrats and War. “This Is a truthful portrayal of an (Continued on Page Four, Column One.) s o Sl e Bl Bt el The V_Vgather For Nebraskaand Iowa—Fair, Saturday; not much change in temperature. Tempernture at Omaha Yesterday. Hours. Deg. 6a m w 6a m it s . 61 Sa. 62 9a. o 0 a [ a . 6 12 m. .7 1ip. 3 2p. m 8p " 4p. p3 5o .0 $p. . 1p. n 8 p. .« N Locai 1915, 1914. 1913. 1912, T 8 % ®0 61 Hd 6 | and & band of outlaws. », Bethlehem Steel OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1915—TWENTY PAGE | to all APE-MAN OPERATES AGAIN AT TOPEKA Fiend Thought to Have Been Slayer of W. H, Smith Back to His 0ld Haunts, * DESCRIPTION J§ ~THE SAME TOPEKA, Kan., Oet. 29— (Spe- cial Telegram.)——Governor Capper offered $200 reward today for the capture and conviction of Arthur Houser, assailant of women. gMore than $10,000 in rewards have been offered in ten cities for this man, a former convict, who makes a spe- clalty of catching women and their escorts, tieing the man and attacking the woman, Houser made his third attack here shortly before midnight last night. He caught Franols Kiene, the 19-year-old son of the sheriff of Shawnee county, and Laura Balley; 16 years old, on their way home from a school party. He took the boy and girl to a grove on the outskirts of town. There Kiene was blindfolded and his hands and feet tied and he was thrown down the bank of a small creek. The man attempted an assault on the girl, but the struggles of the boy to free himself frightened the man away. Description Tallies with Houser. The description given by Kiene and Miss Balley tallied exactly with that of Houser, who last fall and winter com- mitted two similar assaults here. BSimilar crimes, all committed by a man answer- ing the description of Houser, have been committed in Lawrence, Leavenworth, Wichita, Kansas City, Denver, Spring- fleld, Mo.; St. Joseph, St. Louls, Omaha and Chicago in the last elghteen months. No trace of the ex-convict has ever been found. Bandits Attack U. 8. Soldiers Near Brownsville! BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Oct. 20.—Bandits early today made two attacks upon haif & company of United States infantry sta- tioned at Capote, a village about sixty- five miles up the Rio Grande from here. No casialties were reported on either | side. The attacks occurred shortly after 10:%0 | ! this morning. The number of the attack- | ing party was not established. After the | first attack the Infantry was reinforced | by half a troop of the Third cavalry from Hidalgo, three miles distant Luis De La Ross, the Mexican bandit leader suspected of recent outrages on the American side of the border, is re- ported captured on Mexican soil by a de- | tachment of Carranza soldlers, following i® battle between the Carranza soldiers | | Company is Sued for Three Millions . m i ...... 1.1 inches | PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 20—The 4. 2.78 Inches | Churchward International Steel company 6.78 inches | 1090y brought two suits in the United ¢ 7 P. M. |gtates diatrict court here against the High- Rain- | Bethlehem Steel company charging that (] 00 | In turning out war munitions it is In- k] .0 | fringing on three of the Churchward's u M'pnnu for the turning of allowed steels B % |and slioy of rom and steel and demand- “ c ing damages to the amount of $5.000,000. ™ 0| In one sult it is asserted that the 5 '=Mn.u-mybrlhmd|-. 00 | patented processes earned at least ; s other it ‘WHEN ELFS DANCE AND WITCHES RIDE ABOUT— All.Hallowe'en is the enjoy full liberty, and from them the little night on folks learned the g :mes that make the warm October night one of glee and joy which the imps and sprites Crowd Gathers for Third Battle *“""to Be Staged Near Agua Prieta DOUGLAS, Ariz, Oct. 35,~The ceres ‘were all set today for the third battle to be staged at Agua Prieta, Sonora, since Madero opened the war In Mexico in 1910, An audience numbering severa! thousand have gathered on the Amer- ican side, Y Five thousand American troops with sixteen three-inch guns are mobilized here to see that the Mexicans shoot only on their own side of the boundary, Car- ranza troops lie behind an elaborate sys- tem of earthworks, awaiting the onset of the invading Villa army. Fighting may begin today, tomorrow, Sunday or some time next week. That ia dependent entirely upon plans, disposi- tion and condition of Villa's troops, but the outcome probably will determine whether Sonora, turbulent for thirty years, shall ‘cothe under sway of the onde dominant general or whether he will be driven as a fugitive across the Amerfoan border. Hostilities, however, seemed likely to comuence quickly, for at last reports Villa's forces were scattered from fif- teen to twenty-five miles south of agua Prieta in a reglon where little water is available, while Cafranza forces under General Duegues were reported to be working 1 behind them, Moreover, the Carransa garrison at Agua Prieta numbers hardly more than 3,700 effective men, and the reinforce- ments that General Cailles expected to come from Pledras Negras over the Ameriean territory, with sixteen cannon and twenty-four machine guns, cannot | reach here for two or three days. Greece Denies Any Hostility Toward Entente Powers LONION, Oct. 2.—The Greek legation in London, In a statement issued today disposes of reports from various sources recently spread broadcast regarding the position of Greece. “Lately,” says the statement, “there have appeared in the press various items of news derived from German, Austrian and Bulgarian journals and news agen- cles and bearing upon the attitude and intentions of Greece, such as a mythical mission of M. Sophoulis (former governor of Macendonia) to King Ferdinand; & re- fusal of King Constantine to receive min- isters of the entente powers; an intention by Greece to menace the security of the allled troops at Saloniki, ete. ““The Greea minister has received tele- graphic intructions from Premier Zaimis to contradict in the most categorical man- ner' these rumors, which in spite of re- peated denials, were propagated even In Athens, and the malevolent object of which is only too evident in the endeavor to prejudice public opinion and sow sus- picion and hostility between the entente powers and Greece.” WIDOW OF GUNNER IS APPOINTED FLAG MAKER WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Mrs. Fred- erick Gillman of Vallejo, Cal., widow of & gunner on the submarine F-4 which sank in Honolulu harbor, was today ap- pointed flag maker at the Mare Island navy yard by order of President Wilson. Free Movie Coupon By a special arrange- ment The Bee is able to give its readers each Sunday a combination coupon good for a free admission with each paid ticket to a number of the best movies. J.P. Morgan Has Operation for Appendicitis NEW YORK, Oct. ¥.—J. P. Morgan underwent an operation for appendicitis at hip country home at Glencove, L. I, today. The operation was reported suc- cessful and Mr. Morgan is resting com- fortably. Mr. Morgan was at his office Wednes- day, but was indisposed yesterday and remained at his Glencove home. His physiclans discovered he was suffering from & mild atfack of appendicitis. In order to guard again a recurrence, the physiclans decided to remove the finan- cler's appendix. ‘The operation was performed at moon today and was reported to have been successful in every way. Mr. Morgan was sald to be resting comfortably, His general condition is so excellent that his prompt recovery is looked for. B0 far as could be learned today's operation 18 in no way the result of the shooting of Mr. Morgan by Frank Holt at Glencove on July 3 last, Mr. Morgan has been at his office since early August and has been very active in business during the last few wonths, especlally in connection with the Anglo-French .oan. Coroner’s Jury Suggests County Bag Be Closed A coroner’s jury found that Harry Kah- ler, taxi driver, who was killed October 23 In an auto accident on the West Dodge road, came to his death accidentally. The Jury recommended that the Schlitz bar on West Center street- be closed, and Day’'s piace in Millard also be forced to discontinue business. Testimony was of- fered that beer was purchased a these establishments the night of cident. AMERICANS ECONOMIZED NINETY MILLION ON SHOES CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—In the fiscal year following the outbreak of the Kuropean war the nation's shoe bill declined $%,- 000 000, according to John ¥. Wilder, pres- ident of the National Association of Tan- ners, which is in convention hero. Mr. Wilder added that during the economical streak Americans raade their old toot- wear last longer, but that they were again in the market for new sboes as of yore. BODIES OF GIRL PUPILS IDRTIFIED e = o State Officers Declare No One Orim- ;nn.ly Responsible for Fire in the PUBLIC FUNERAL n'm.m-o-‘mmw- PEABODY, Mass., Oct, 29.—The bodies of all the twenty-one girl pu- plls of Bt, John's Parochial school, who lost their lives yesterday in & fire which swept through the build- ing before they had time to escape, were claimed by their parents today. Five bodles remained over night in an undertaking establishment while relatives endeavored to identify them, Four of these had been iden- titied at noon and there remained the charred form of a little -« girl, burned beyond recognition, After the four had been taken away, Mrs, John Ahearn, mother of Agnes Ahearn, 8 years old, who was unaccounted for, went to the morgue |an announcement made he | R, H. Creel of the United States public and finally accepted the body as that of her child. It was placed in a coffin and sent to her home, ‘While investigation has not fully established the origin of the fire, Acting Chief Neal of the state police, after an investigation today, an- nounced that he had found no one criminally ®esponsible, The only facts subsianviated was that the flames originated In a small store room in the basement, which was locked. It s known that it was customary to place waste paper and sweepings In wooden barrels in the store rooms. Ac- cording to ‘the sisters of the Order of Notre Damé, who were In charge of the school, nothing else was there. At one end of the room there was a gas Jet. This room was closely examined today for evidence showing how the fire started. Public Funeral Planned, Plans for a public funeral for the little ones were discussed today and the ar- rangements were placed in the hands of (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) Miners Celebrate John Mitchell Day HAZELTON, Pa., Oct 20.—This was Mitchell day throughout the anthracite fiela of Pennsylvania in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the termination of the big strike of 1900, the first con- ducted in the hard coal belt, by John Mitchell, then national president of the United Mine Workers of America, In accordance with proclamations issued by their district officials all men with the exception of engineers, pump run- ners and firemen remained idle, The 1900 strike lasted six weeks and re- wulted in the granting of a 10 per cent wage Increase and other concessions. Tomorrow the Best Colored Comics —with— The Sunday Bee \BRITON THINKS = e ——— | SINGLE COPY “’i‘WO CENTS. GERMANY FEELS NEED OF PEACE Lord Sydenham Believes There is Truth in Reports Regarding Overtures to End the War., ‘Aflmfl KAISER CANNOT WIN ] e, | Declares in Interview that Teutons | Have Not Won Single Big | Military Success. RESPONSIBILITY ON THE ALLIES | LONDON, Oct. 29.-—-Confessing | that he had no information which led {him to feel certain that current re- | ports regarding peace overtures are |true, Lord Sydenham thinks that |they are not at all improbable, | “I'should say,” he said, in an inter- | view in the Pall Mall Gazette, “that | the overtures were mainly inspired | by the now certain impossibility of | | German success in the west and the | growing difficulties of the miscon- | |celved and dangerous advance into | | Russia, From first to ast, the Ger- | success, and, although every effort has been made to maintain confi- jdence of the ultimate result in the minds of the German people and of neutrals, there must be many who realize that the prospects of ultimate victory are growing dimmer, “Without in the lease wishing to under- rate the tremendous diffculties that lle before us and the great efforts which are still essontial on the part of the allles, it does not seem unreasonable to suppose that the Germans may consider the time has come to fly kites indicating at least, apparently, their desire for immediate peace, although they may have another motive—by this I mean a desire to Inti- mate to neutrals that they have arrived At a reasonable attitude of mind and that the whole responsibility for the further horrors of war muat rest with the allies,” No Separate Pence for Japan, LONDON, Oct. 2.~Japan has become a Announcement was' made today that & note was addressed to the Japanese gov- ernment on October 15, inviting it to give adherence to the dedlaration of Great Britaln, France and Russia, ' on 5, last year, that none of these nations would conclyde m separate “this request was made, Count Inouye, Japanese am- bassador to Great Britain, replied that |he had been authorised by his government to give “thelr full and complete adher- ence to the terms of this declaration." Italy also is party to this agreement, having given adhesion to It at the time it entered the last May. New Orleans Spends Millions to Make the City Rat-Proof NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 20.—~More than $4,500,000 has been expended in the last year in an effort to make New Orleans rat-proof and prevent the reap- pearance of bubonle plague, according to today by Dr, health service, in charge of the work, Soventy-four thousand five hundred and twenty-six buildings have been made rat- proof. About 7,00 mot consldered worth repairing by the owners have been de- molished and work I8 progressing on 89,001 others. Approximately 37,00 bufld- Ing still are to be made rat-proof. Citizens of New Orleans have expended approximately $3,861,000 on their property, while the federal, state and city govern- ments have spent more than $620,000 in the campaign. Fined for Telling Uncle Sam What He Thinks About Him! IOWA CITY, la., Oct, 2.—(Special Tel- egram.)—It cost John Nusser, a local linotype operator, $300 today to tell the government what he thought of it. Nus- ser falled to get some patent medicine through the mall which he had ordered in the east. He promptly wrote a letter to Washington relieving his frame of mind. Somebow or other the matter got under Burleson's collar, with the result that Judge M. J. Wade of the southern | district fined Nusser a big lump of beans, bones, bucks today for his folly. Women Will Talk Twentyfour Hours NFW YORK, Oct. 29.—Twenty-four hours of continuous oratory, beginning at midnight, with a meeting In Long Acre square, will mark the beginning ot the whirlwind finish of the woman suf- frage campalgn. Forty-elght speakers have been enlisted and will relleve one another at halt-hour intervals, so that the meeting will be continuous until mid. night Saturday night. The list of speak- ers Includes many of the leaders of the woman suffrage objections. ATHENS SAYS ENTENTE PROMISES ROUMANIA LAND London.)—The ATHENS, Oct. 3.~(Via Hestla says it has learned from & dip- lomatic source that there are indications Roumania will accept the proposals of the entente allies for jolning them. It is highly probable, the newspaper says, n forces concentrated on the frontier will pass through Roumania to go to the assistance of Serbla. The entente powers, It s sald, intend to satisfy Roumania's ambitions, includ- ing its desire for tervitory in Russlan Bessarabla. TEUTON ALLIES GET CONTROL OF DANUBE RIVER Way is Now Open for the Passage of War Supplies from Austria and Germany Into Bulgaria, BULGARS THREATENING NISH Fall of This City Would Give Cen- tra] Empire Control of Big Link in Road to Turkey. ENTENTE I8 WATCHING GREECE LONDON, Oct. 29.—Tae first phasé of the Austrian-German-Buigarian campaign in Serbia is completed. Not only have the invaders of Serbia re- alized the (mportant objective of joining hands in the northeastern corner of thé country, but they have enhanced this military advantage by procuring free passage down the Danube. A flotilla of steamers is sald to ba already waiting to transport war { mans have not won a great military | Material and if, as stated confidently by = Austro-Gérman and Bulgarian leaders, Serbia cannot Interfere with these arrangements, Bulgzaria's am- mualition shortage should soon be re- eved and its offensive power greatly strengthened. Bulgarinns Threaten The progres of Bulgarian ‘roo and northeast of Nish both threatens the oity and places the Serblan army In & position of increased danger. Moreover, lke the union of Bulgarian and Teu- tonlo armles further north, the capture of Nish would have more than mere military or strategic advantage, since it would make possible rapid establishment of rallway communication through Bels grade, Nish and Sofia, among Austria, Germany and their allies. From the north the Germans and Aus- trians are advancing over a wide front, which runs slightly southeast of Valyevo and swings in & broad curve northeast almost to the Danube at Kladovo, where it joins the right wing ot the Bulgar- Entente Ia Watehing Greece, Rumor continuea to ascribe to the Groek government intentions hostile to the entente powers, even going #o far s ta sy that Greece has an understanding with Bulgaria, and at the psychological oy it will fall upon the allied troops slgns are really credited to Greece in London, but and Frange con- t.nue to watch the tical situation at Athens with unconcealed anxfety, Bir Edward Grey, the forelgn secre- tary, enld Joday that Greece's espousal Of the cause of the central powers was e imposaibility, and similar assurances come from authoritative Greek The 'hactiyity which has mnzl“m sltuation on the western front for some time 1s still unbroken. : 4 In the east Field Marshal Von Min- denburg’s attack in the Riga distriet has entered upon no new phase. French Offfelal Re PARIS, Oct, ®,<North of the Alsne there was last night very severe fichting with bombs and grendades, so- cording to & statement given out this afternoon by the French war fies. There was also a bombardment in the Champagne district, in which both sides took part The text of the communication fols lows: rt. “Yesterday evering there was fights Ing of particular viclence with bomba and hand grenades to the north of tne Alsne river, In the sectors of Pulsalelne and Quennevieres. “In the Champagne district the bom- bardment, in which both sides took part,' previously reported, continued during the: night in the same locality, namely, near Tahure, as well as in the vicinity of the work called ‘La Courtine.' i “There s nothing to report from the remainder of the lne. '3 All Rights Ressrved' “T_have sev sy oo, Yo, ‘- & hurry, I want my Ad in Sunday's Bes, S0 I won't have to woriy. 2 TOV hate, 33 48 TEL . 5 Lo I 1 T: pne Buturasy, For our bix Sunday paper. 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