Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1915, Page 1

\ | None of ‘em are in it at' fun-making with the Kat- zenjammers, Happy Hooli- gan rnd little Snookums. THE OMAHA VOL. XLV-—NO. 139, OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, ‘SNIPERS' OF VILLA FIRE ON AMERICANS, NOGALES IS TAKEN Three United States Soldiers Are Wounded When Rebels B:gin Fighting in Border Village. | ONE WOMAN REPORTED HURT Twenty Mexicans Sai d to Have Been Killed in Battle with Yankez Troopers. | CARRANZA COURIER IS SHOT BULLETIN. NOGALES, Ariz, Nov 26.— Twenty Mexicans were reported killed in a battle with American troopers. Two of the three Ameri- can soldiers wounded are not pected to live ex- NOGALES, Ariz., Nov. 26.—No- gales, Sonorg, the Mexican town im- | mediately across the border, was | captured today by the Carranza forces of General Alvaro Obregon after snipers, left by General Fran- cisco Villa, engaged in a brief battle | across the boundary with American troops. Three American soldiers of | Company L, Twelfth infantry, were | wounded. Five Mexicans were wounded. Whether any were killed is undetermined. One woman was among the wounded. A Carranza courler, sent to apprise Colonel W. H. Sage, commanding the American troops of the defeat and flight | of the Villa troops, was shot off his| CARRIED MRS. FORD'S $10,000 CHECK TO PAY FOR PEACE TELEGRAMS to wo country, asking them to send telegrams to President W' S begging him to make an active move for peace. Addams of Chicago, preside P eace party, is superintending the work. horse. He was brought to the American side of the line. The battle between the American troops stationed on the line | began shortly before noon. At this time Villa. troops, who, with their chieftain, | had evacuated the town early today were hotly engaged by the Obre forces some twelve miles from Nogales, | Sonora. Mexican Town Looted. The, Mexican town had been looted, and shooting, which began early, sent a shower of bullets to the American side. Throngs which had gathered on the street leading to Nogales, Sonora, and the thoroughfare marking the interna- tional boundary, were hurried back by United States soldiers. Then a body of snipers opened fire on the American town. Colonel Sage had given orders that the American troops | should return any fire that endargered American v Infantrymen stationed near the line opened on the snipers when | CHIMES WILL RING ACROSS CONTINENT Alumni of Ohio State in Columbus, New York and 8an Francisco to | ‘Hear Bells and Speeches. ! given the order 1o fire. - A number of the | ADDRESSES U ‘.I'KBEE CITIES‘ Mexicans were seen to fall. shing Over Mill, , “ dm of Villa ‘ta r; evi- dently a portion of the force engaged south of the city, then was seen dashing over the bills southwest of Nogales, Sonora. They were shooting and dodg- | ing and séeking cover. The American | soldiers replied to thelr fire, shootng deliberately and apparently with suf- | ficlent effect to halt the Mexicars. | The snipers posted In the looted town | gradually stopped firing. Later the Car- ranza courer appeared. A bullet stopped ' him and he was brought to the Ameri- | can side with one bullet in his wrist. Confirm Evacuation 0f Mitau by Germans' PARIS, Nov. 26.—A Havas dilbllth\ from Petrograd today says: | “‘German prisoners brought to Riga from the region of Olai confirm the re- port of the complete evacuation of Mitau by the German troops.” FRICTION REPORTED ON THE PANAMA COMMISS!OI‘ PANAMA, Nov. 2.—Levi M. Kagy, | American member of the Panama }nlnl' land commission, announced at a meet- ing of the commission today, that he had presented his resignation, to take them for the first time. i COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 26. ~—(‘hlma!' ot bolis ‘peallng over the camyus of Chio State university hére this even- {ing will ring into the ears of 500 | been overshadowed for the alumni in New York and San Fram-| cisco over telephone wires. Thie Is| @ feature of the annual celubrullon‘ ot alumni of the university. Offi- clals of the telephone company sald | today they believe the bells will he\ heard distinctly on both sides of the | continent. The set of chimes was dedicated m' months ago and most alumni will hear For one hour beginning at 9 o'clock central time, elvmni at each of the cities will “listen | " while music, speeches, gossip and| visiting nre carried on over the wires. | Columbus will introduce Governor Frank B. Willis of Ohlo as the first speaker. New York will introduce N. C. Kingsbury, vice president of the Ameri- oan Telephone and Telegraph company; G. Bond, president of the New York Alumni essoclation, and others. Ban’ Franclsco ' will introduce Dean Forsythe Hunt of the University of California Agricultural college, and Edward Hyatt, superintendent of instruc- tion for California. JAPAN SILENT ON men'’s clubs in all parts of the nt of the Nnnonul Senator from Utah, Republican ber of Finance Committes, Criticises Statement of Secretary. CHARGES JUGGLING FI@ Those for Expenditure Too Low, He Says. SIMMONS ENDORSES THE | WASHINGTON, 26 8 |tary McAdoo's plan for ralsing internal taxes the additional revent needed by the government to m a deficit and cover the initial e pense of army and navy increases was endorsed today by Senator § mons of North Carolina. the finance committee, chairman who in solving. | Senator Smoot of Utah, one of the leajl {Ing republican members of the finan committee, gave out a statement attac Ing Secretary McAdoo's general financ statement issued yesterday. The Ut senator asserted that all the secretary |revenue estimates were too high a thoso for expenditure too low ang th) | misleading bookkeeping changes had bef rescrted to. ‘ Exemption Too d himselt ps Senator Simmons announ: an advoc chant marine legislation and expresspd |exemption was far too high and thiat gasoline and automoblles should shajre | the burden of the war tax. ‘Ex Federal Agent " | Charged with Part | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 26.=C. . In the county district attorney's office, | was taken into custody here today by Don 8. .Iuplrlmcnt of Justice, in connection | with alleged plots to dynamite munitions ! factorles. He was taken before John W, | Preston, United States district attorney. A complaint was lodged agninst row- MEETS WITH FAVOR IN Pm}hy. charging him with sending money to PEKING, Nov. 26.—The question 'further the destruction by dynamite of vessels bearing munitions of war and of ve-establishment of a. monasehial, he destruction by fire and dynamite of {form of government im China has docks on the Pacific coast, beginning in time | May, 1915, It set forth that Crowley sent three money orders to an alleged coma or Seattle, one on Ma; and two on June 4 for 850 each. Proposal that Celestial Republic En- | ter Entente Not Enthusiastically Received at Tokio, | being by the discussion of the pro-! 'pesal that China enter the entente elifance, which is attracting wide at- [tention. The Chinese press In gen- |Orde s were lasued to a man named Gar- {eral seems to be inclined favorably | ',;;\“m(. Mention ‘Was mande of the em- tcward the proposal and regards lhel,.h..hm of a barge of dyanmite at Beat- attitude of Japan as the principal |t {barrier which might be interposed. wley, federal authorities said, took The newspapera take the view that if [©MPloYment with the Hercules Powder pan seco o here, supposedly to keep 1n Ja nds the Invitation of its allies, | *OMPAny China would not refuse to enter the en. | tOUCh With the shipments explosives sent tente. The Japanese minister, ki Hioko, | {fom here declines to discuss the position of his |, lorinal mervice of tho complaint was s e 4 {held up until he should have opportunity ‘I o talk fully with Mr. Preston ouncemln[ The Chinese public is following edi- effort to discover from them the probable | * " i i, 4 !ana ships and concerning the recent ex- attitude st ‘Toklo, Ast.editorial repsnted ;0,00 or o harge of dynamite af Seattle, from the Mainichi SBhimbui .2 Osaka, \ a " | Wash., was sald by authorities to be al- -.':’n::n. by the Peking Gazette today, {ready In thelr possession WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Officlals of the Department of Justice refuse to dis- cuss the arrest of C. W. Crowley in San Francisco In connection with alleged plots to cripple munition factories, on the ground that his arrest is only one feature (of an Investigati>n which Is now well |under way and which would be defeated “China is a life and death problem to Japan. Japan should be absolutely free and independent so far as concerns its relations with China. Japan should not for a moment lose its standing as the guardian of peace in the far east." NOVEMBER 27, the conviction that the present income thx | To Blow Up Plants| Rathbun, a special agent of the | Delegates of the Morehead Invited Boilermakers and effect as soon accepted by ®ecretary : of State Lansing. y Mr. Kagy gave ill health as the reason for his withdrawal. To Join Ford Party (From a Staff Correspondent.) . by disclosure of their plans. iWa.rden of Arizona Machinists Unseated Prison Refuses to It is known, however, that he had in-| LINCOLN, Nov. %.—Special)—GOver-| gan PRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 26.—Five ! formed friends on the isthmus that fric-{ nor Morehead recelved this morning & | ;ojocates, four representing the Interna- | tion has existed of Jate in the commission. | message from Henry Ford of Detroit | .ol Assoclation of Machinists and one {inviticg him to be his guest In & P oy the International Brotherhood of | to Stockholm, Sweden, to attend a peace 1 conference, The Weather Hellermakers and Shin Bullders and Help- €rs were unseated today at the ninth an The party will of Mr. "“"‘1;:.4..1 convention of the bullding trades e and 100 invited Eue which Include | ;o o rtment of the American Federation Forecast till 7 p. m. Saturday Thomas Edson, John Wanamaker, June',_‘ Labor. The action was taken by a Fot Omaha, Councll Bluffs and Vicinity | Addams and many governors of states. —Fair; warmer. Temperatures at The party will leave New York en De- Omahn Yeaterday.|cember 4, ond the Oscar 11 of the Scan- Comparative Loeal lrco One hundred and sevenly-three new vete of forty-two to twenty-three on the ground thelr bullding trades, organizations were tel.a H 1918, 1934 193 1%, | members of the Commercial club have | =7 jh ~ Ay 0 > [ . o year b: 4 — =2 1‘,'.,..’.1' ye.'l".',.;‘.y S 3i|been secured so far this year by the rllure 4 33| membership committee, according to a | Mean tein) . 01 00| report made at the meeting Friday noon. | “l';' ‘and V{'Clmu!lon depart- | This raises the club's enrollment to over rom © normal 1 umper.u,,., o0 {1,800, Chalrman Stanley Rosewater says ,‘ and his committee has set a new record | ures Excess |one more meeting Christmas and will then take a vacation from its work of swelling the club's roster, Reports from uuu--. ut 1‘ oM Station and State ‘emp. High- Rain- f Weath p. Chéyenne: cioudy ... s 5 V| TURKS IN MESOPOTAMIA | | & sl RETIRING BEFORE BRITISH 3 4 ™ [ ®| LONDON, Nov. 3.—Turkish troops re- Flatie. ‘clear .., -] ®| sisting the British advance in Mesopo- Dity, elur % ‘| tamia are falllng back, according to an Clear ..¢ © 01| official announcement tonight, reporting figar % 8 Dle Turkish retirement on Dfalap, ten Forecaster. |miles from Bagdad. 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. In The Sunday Bee rding to a strict interpretation of the | |tor securing members since the club | moved to its new quarters in the Wood- | | men bullding. The committee will hold Hang ‘Insane’ Slayer, PHOENIX, Ariz, Nov. 26.-R. B. Sims, warden of the Florence penitentiary, stated today that he had notified the State Board of Pardons and Paroles that Willlam Faitin, under - sentence to be hanged before 4 p. m. for the murder of Carl Peterson, a companion, was insane and that he colild not allow the execu- not tion to take place. | 4 « { | If Faltin 1s hanged he will be the first it Deg; | dinavian line. ¢ the length of time which| Th® Unseating of the two delegations |men to be exeouted under ntate auspices count he length o : %3 v Bl il take to nake the tiiy, Governor ‘:"""_,’:'“‘ by _resclutien, etfective "“"'":nnm Arizona was admitted to state- fam. ;fi! Morehead does mot know,whother be €48 | SC 4o o Gicagn, representing the | "ot TN TATR 4RO e todey -1 inking very se.lousy over E oo ® D " 108, m 32/ 80, but is thinl “.Tl “'m Mr. Word a|™achinists, sald, “We'll exist anyway.” |hy the prison physician, Dr. C. W. Ran. - » 8] the mattem, end will is ork w kil y An appeal to the American Federation | gqil, and Dr, E. O. Plath, a medleal ex. 1p iedte.1ate0 W8 -Sie ‘wocepiance or n of Labor was predicted by another ma- |pert, taken to Florence today by an at. 3 i . inist delegate, A. D, Wharion of 8t !iorney for Faltin, E | pmists | Faltin was convicted of the murde: :;: lElGHTEEN HUNDRED MEMBERS; Advocates of the resolution said the de- ‘1\..‘;1 l“'e(erlllnu in Lr Phoenix a yr:r :y‘;’ 60 | IN OMAHA COMMERCIAL CLUB|partment would be stronger if its mem- | An appeal to the supreme court resulted Fi s ‘ol o, LY bers were confined to bullding trades, |in the confirmation of the lower court's verdict ;Army Aeroplanes Finish Long Trip to San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nav. 2.—The six aviators of the First Aero squadron, 17, §. A, reached San Antenio from Austin this morning without aceident, complet- fng the long flight from Fort Sill, Okl., to new quarters at Wort Sam Houston here, Lieutenant J, F. Carberry was the first to arrive, landing on the Fort Sam Houston maneuver fleld at 9:20 o'clock. Within the next twenty-five minutes four more of the aviators appeared. Lieutenant C. . Chapman, last of the detachmen, arrived at 10:10 o'clock. JAILY BEE - o— THE WEATHER. Fair 1915—SIXTE hN PAGE SERBS CHOOSE KOSSOVA Serbians, . PEACE SHIP PLAN | IS NOT RECOGNIZED! i | ENo Representative ofr the United| | States Will Accompany Party I | to Europe. WASHING T(\N Nov. 26.—Presi- |dent Wilson will take no part in the |campaign to bring about a peace con- ,h'n‘nca now being carried on in this| |and other neutral countries. | While he will interpose no objec- |tion to the unofficial movement, he| has heard nothing from Curope | which leads him to believe that the [time is opportune for him to take any steps. | Henry Ford's peace ship will not {earry any representatives of (ho' |American government to Europe. The president ls not expected to make eny officla! announcement regarding vha‘ peace plan now being carried on, but il centinue his policy of carefully watching all developments. Telegrams urging nim 17 support the movement continued to Tour into the White House today. Held for Sending Black Hand Note to Former Employer CASPER, Wyo., Nov. 2.—(Speclal.)— Oharged with writing a “black hand" let ter to Buperintendent L. A. Reed of the big Midwest refinery, threatening to blow up the refinery unless $5,00 was placed beneath a bridge near town, Willard Ia | Frank, an ex-employe of the company, who was discharged by Reed, has been bound cver to the district codrt for trial | and tn default of $1,000 bond is In the county jall. He may be turned over the federal authorities, inasmuch as the threatening letter was sent through the mall, The letter to Reed stated that (00 pounds of dynamite had been placed un- der the tanks, stills and boiler houses of the refinery and that the writer was In & position to met it off instantly In case Reed did not comply with his demand or made any move to cause his apprehen- slon, Reed turned the letter over to Sheriff . L. Pation and the, arrest of Frank followed. The prisoner came here fromn Culorado. Twenty Thousand British Officers | Killed or Wounded (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, Nov. 24.-Officers casualty L'sts for the fortnigat ending November 8 show losses In the British army of %6 hilled, 600 wounded and 6 missing, a total of 1084, | Since the beginning of the war the num- | ber killed amounts to 6,38, wounded 12,661 and 1,762 missing, a gross total of 20,702 Brigadier General Forbes Trefusis was | kilied, Mejor Generai Walker wounded | end seven leutenant colonels killed. LUMBER MAGNATES KILLED | IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT| BAY CITY, Mich, Nov. %.—Bdgar B Foss, millionaire lumberman of this eity, | and Joseph Miksak, president of the Philson Lumber company of Chicago, | were instantly killed today when thoir automobile was struck by a train | Tell What He NEW YORK, Nov, %.—Helole Schults, ;whu says he deserted from the German army, was held at the Ellis Island fm- migration station today for inquiry as |to whether he shall be given refuge, in America. . Schults, who arrived yesterdiy a stow- | the Dutch steamer Noorder- | {away on dyk, says he fought at Liege, Antwerp and the battle of the Marne and was {member of the army division which was first ordered to retrest. “Most of them were killed,” he sald. Mostly 1 was in little engagements when | 1 fought. We could not make out what ' years ago the Turkish sultan, for last stand just where 500 Amurath I, overwhelmed the GERMAN CRUISER FRAUENLOB SUNK Protected Ship is Reported De- stroyed Off South Coast of Sweden by submu-hle. of adequate defense and mfiir- |TIME NOT YET OPPORTUN'E IT CARRIED CBEW OF 2756 MEN LLONDON, Nov. 26.—The German protected cruiser Frauenlob has been sunk by a submarine of the en- u»me allies, according to a semi- lofficlal announcement made at Fetrograd, says a dispatch to the Central News Agency. The Frauenlob is reported to have been sent to the bottom in the same locality where the German protected cruiser Undine, a sister ship of the Frauenlob, was lost. The Frauenlob was a protected orulser of 2,672 tons and was built in 1801, A dis- | patch published in the Politiken of Copen- hagen, on November 11, said a report had been recelved that the Frauenlob had been sunk off the south coast off Bweden. Itg aister ship, the Undine, was sunk, according te an afficial announce- ment made in Berlin, by two m:, from a submarine on the afterncon November 7, while patrolling the south Swedish coast. Nearly the entirely crew was saved. The Frauvenlob and Undine carried crews conslsting of 275 men each. The vessels were 328 feet long, 4.3 foet beam and had a depth of 15.8 feet. They were armed with ten 4.1 inch guns and were equipped with two 18-inch torpedo tubes. Hoth the crulsers were capable of a mpeed of twenty-one knots an hour. Missionary Partv Forced to Leave Its - Work in Asia Minor NEW YORK, No\', 2.~The Rev, Dr. Willlam N. Chambers, who has been doing misstonary work in Asia Minor for thirty years, his wife and & number of ' women and children from the mission at | Adana, Asla Minor, arrived today on the Greek steamer Themistocles. Dr. Cham- bers sald conditions In Asia Minor be- ©ame so Intolerable that he was forced to bring out all the women and children. One of the party, sald Dr. Chambers, had been held In jaill two days because he was a British subject, but that an American consul succeeded in having him released, Dr. Chambers sald large numbers of Americans have been de- — ] SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ROUMANIA NEXT STORMCENTEROF WAR IN BALKANS German Efforts to Secure the Help | of the Kingdom is Largely Off- | set by Russian Army on Its Border. CZAR IS READY TO INTERVENE Large Russ Army Will Be Thrown Into Bulgaria Within a Week, Says Rumor, FALL OF GORIZIA IS IMMINENT having emerged from the uncertainty which for some time has been a po- |tent menace to the allled campaign |In the Balkans, Roumania's problem new commands chief attention in Furope. Although Roumania is ba- set with difficulties somewhat simi- lar to those which caused Greece to Lesitate, it is not involved in the same political turmoil and its situa- ticn is expected to mature more rapidly. Whatever German efforts have made in Roumania, it that they have been largely offset by the presence of large Russian forces close to the frontler and the now rapidly developing Russian preparations, with Odessa s a base, from which no other Inference Is possible than its Immediato entrance into the Balkan conflict. Cunr Mukes Promi Emeperor Nicholas is sald to have prom- ised the appearance of Russlan troops In Bulgaria within a week. There are in- creasing Indlcations that this campatyxn will be launched by way of Roumania, and it s reported that conferences are now being held between representatives of Russia and Roumania to obtaln the latter's consent to this move, This con< sont, as Intimated clearly by Roumanian statesmen, Is dependent on Wwhether the allies gain a proponderence of forces in the Balkans. Roumania gives evidence of being Impressed strongly by the con- centration of 260,000 Russlan troops ut Ismal and Reni, near its border. No Important achlevement has been recorded on elther side since the German announcement of the fall of Pristina and been Is belleved hers Bulgarian commande! \ other hand, that King Peter's troops will be put out of action In a few deye. . Fall of Gorisia Tmminent. commanding thé rallway lines connect- ing the upper and lower Isonzo, and called the key to the Austrian defenses to the north, has been the objective for which army has been struggling for meveral month | Serblans Defeated Near Miterova. | BBRLIN (Via London), Nov. 2.—Ser- ;bhn troops offering resistance in rear actions to the Teutonic advance n-r Mitarova and Sienica have been driven back by Field Marshal von Mac- Ikensen's forces, German army headquar- n.or- announced today. text of the wtatement follows: , "ln the western theater there were ar- tillery duels at various places on the | tront. “In the eastern theater: Army of Field Marshal von Hindenburg; An attempt by /the Russians to cross the Misse river | | i western front of Dvinsk were repulsed. “nl the Balkan theater: Southwest of Sienica and near Mitrovisa enemy rear |suards which haq still remained before (the tront of Field Marshal von Macken- Iun were driven back.” Winter Begins in Vosges. 26.—~Winter has set | PARIS, Nov, in LQNDON, Nov. 26.—Greek affairs ported from near Adana and other places along the fighting line in the mountains in Asta Minor, !of France. A snowfall in the Vosges is Besides Mra. Chambers, who is a sister | reported in the communication this after- | A, Langlots, composer | Princeton sons, | Kiven shelter of Talcott Willlams, dean of Columbia |noon trom the war office, which follows: School of Journallsm, the party included | Mrs, Cyril H. Haus and her four chil- | dren; Mrs. Willlam L. Nute and her son. Miss Mary C. Webb and Miss Lila | Khyat. ! Prof. Langlotz, l Author of Famous | Princeton Song, Dies TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 2.—Prof, Karl of the famous “Old Nassav,” diea at his home here yesterday, after a long {liness. \ He was 82 ye: old and had heen In poor health for five years, two ! of which he had been confined to his room. Prof, Langlotz was deeply in- terested in music and had taught some of the world's foremost players and com- posers. He was & member of the or- chestra directed by Wagner at the play- Ing of Lohengrin at Welmar, for the first time. |German Deserter Says Could Not i Was Fighting For we were fighting for. I hadn't anything |agalnst the French. None of us dld in |the trenches. “That night my father and brother had been killed. They died for their country if you like, but I don’'t want to do that" The soldier sald he formeq & pian to desert. He dropped out of the lines at Yser and fled to Lille where he was for two months by a French girl, Then he was recaptured and thereafter was assigned to unpleas- ant tasks, he sald. While foraging for cattle he hid in & cattie train, rode to Brussels and thence walked to the Dutch border. ““The night was calm over the whole front. “In the Vosges snow fell heavily, espe- clally in the reglon of the Fecht and | Thur rivers.” The Day’s War News FIELD MARSHAL Von Mackensen's armies are pressing the I un.. restatance, but were thrown back in the Mitrovitsa region ard sonthwest of Slenlen, uecar the Montenegrin frontier, Berlin - nounces. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE movemenis ui along the Dvira by the German war offi, Al the attacks were repulsed, Berlin de- clares. BRITISH CASUALTIES in officers, as shown by the lists lssued for the fortnight ended November N, had rea that date a total of 20,703, of which number 6,389 ficers had been killed. BSINKING OF GERMAN protected eruiser Frauenlaub by & submarine entente allies is semi-offi- tspatch sintes. enlaub, & vessel of 328 feet in wth and 62 tons, carricd a erew of 276 m. REMARKABLE SUCCESS for (i mew French war joan is reported from Paria, In that city alone the subseriptions yesterday were e tis muted to be $5,000,000,000. ITALIANS ARE VIGOROUSLY presss ing thelr attack on Gorlsia. Proge ress for the Itallan forees ou the Carso plateau also is clatmed.