Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1915, Page 2

9 < STEELFOR WARSHIPS (RUSSIAN A IS HIGHER IN PRICE, " cember 1 recelved orders to evaouate the | Navy Department Opens Bids for|city of Plevije and to retire on their| Material Needed in Construction |defensive positions. | of Two Battleships. CONBTANTINOPLE (Via London), Dec, 3.~The Turkish war office . TO MAKE DELIVERIES ON TIME| (0.0 wday that in che fehting at " {the Dardanelles a cruiser of the allies WASBHINGTON, Dee. 8.—There na4 been hit three times and forced to will be no delay in the delivery of retire. An allieq torpedo boat was at- 4 44 |tacked by a Turkish aeroplane after it steel for battleships Nos 43 an |had stranded on the coast of the Bay it the government undertakes their .o ' construction in navy yards. Bids| Thn, statement follows: from eleven steel companys opened | “At some points of the Dardanelles artment all of-|front there has been bombarding. Two SRR A v Y d:p {thin six|"o®tile crulsers mear Anafarta and two fered to begin delivery w {nede AR rernn. SAIIMIES Wik land months and complete it within tWo batteries tn a bombardment. Our artil- years. Prices show an apparent in-jlery replied, damaging trenches of the ! crease of from 30 to 40 per cent over |¢nemy and destroying machine gun posi RMY ENTERS BULGARIA (Continued from Page One.) | Entente Cralser Damaged, | of reports material purchased for the battleship | California over a year ago. Private bidders for the two ships indi cated there would be delay in deliveries of steel and conditioned thelr proposals cn this eircumstance. All private bids were rejected as exceeding the #7,800,000 Timit of cost fixed by congress. All navy yard estimates were well below that fig- vre. The Carnegle Steel company apparently was the lowest bidder for the majority of the stee! needed, which runs into many millions of pounds. On the biggest lots of plates the Carne- #le figures were $0.08168 and $0.1135 o gound for different classes. The same company mad w offers for high tensile steel. prices ranging from $0.0263 to $0.02645 & pound, and was the only bidder for va- rious kinds of shaped steel. The American steel Foundries of Ches- ter, Pa., was low bidder for steel cast- ngs at .08 per pound, and the Carbon Steel company of Pittsburgh was low for nickel steel plate at $0.066 per pound. KAISER ASKED TO RECALL PAIR OF ATTACHES (Continued from Page One.) The inevitabla suggestion that his con- " mection with the embassy should be term- inated. Bach time, however, the threatened action came to nothing. While the State department consistently refused to dis- cuss the captain's case, the German em- bassy Intimated that it had reason to be- lleve be had done nothing for which he should be censured. Captaln Boy-ed's first activities which attracted the attention of the government were in connection with the misuse of American passports to German reservists seeking to slip through the allied lines to join their armies. Some of the men In connection with whom the captain's name Chnrteringe Shipa, Later Captain Boy-ed's name was men- tioned in connection with the chartoring American ports to supply to German vessels, which ths of the war were hard the allfed flylng squadrons. ‘The same alleged connection came up during the trials of the Hamburg- officlals just concluded in which witnesses testified Boy-ed handled the money from Herlin for chartering the ships and furnishing them with sup- The an offense against the neutrality of the U Btates had been committed by the ships, but that the officlals Hamburg-American line had gullty knowledge of the fact that the customs houses of the United States were deo- celved and defrauded into lesulng clear- ance papers for ships on false state- ments. Name Frequently Mentioned, The inference ren broadly all through the trial that Captain Boy-ed, too, was i 2 E 2 H German Embassy Displeased. ‘The Germany embassy manifested to the Btate department its displeasure with features of the trial in New. York which upon the character of officials oharges. The State depart- turn. indicated that it could not any acticn of to' bind 1t i ’ § il i | : one where & jury #iven a verdict holding to be illegal connection with naval attache was with having been usual diplomatic pro- case i3 to regard the an officer as ended and his further presence as objectionable, In the case of minor officlals of an £g offending attache in and pothing remains but to sever his con- Slaces to Go. Boy-ed would not necessarily leave the country, aithough it is probably would. The coun. might go under exist- are limited practically South America or the : : 5 i i b , Dec. 3.—(Special Tele- ‘of $12 has been granted ©Oity, Neb, £ government did not contend that "g/ Xy tions at Arl Burnu. “Our artillery thrico hit s hostile crujser near Seddul Bahr, compelling it to retreat. One of our aeroplanes dropped bombs on & torpedo boat of the enemy, which had stranded on the northern const of the Gulf of Saros, two miles west of Cape Eridsche. Fog Delays Campaign in Tsonzo. ROME, Dec., 3.—(Via Paris, Dec. 2.)— The following official statement was la- sued today at the headquartery of the Itallan general staff “The enemy developed an intense artil lery and machine gun fire against our positions on Monte Plano at the heud of the Riens valley without making any at- tack, however The fire caused no dam- age, “Along the Isonso front persistent fog and rain hampered artillery action. The enemy tried to profit from weather con- ditions to make surprise attacks against our new positions east of Oslavia and along the northern slopes of Monte San Michels, but everywhere was repulsed immediately. Ralds by our Infantry gave us & few prisoners and on Mrzll we took & machine gun." Minor Operations on Western Front. BERLIN, Dec, 3.—~(By Wireless to Say- ville.)—Various minor operations along the western front are recorded in today's cfficlal statement by army headquarters. No infantry operations of moment are chronicled. Near Lombaertsyde. northeast ot Nieu- port, in Belgium, hostile French outposts were surprised by a German detachment end several prisoners were taken. West of Roue a French biplane was forced to land under the fire of German artillery, and its occupants, two officers, were made prisoners. Westende, on the Belglan coast, was shelled by two British monitors, but with- out effect, according to the officlal state- ment. German troops of Von Linsingen's army on the Ruasian front attacked a Russian detachment near Podesarevieze, on the Styr river in Volhynia, north of the rail- road from Kovel to Sarny. Sixty-six men were taken prisoners by the Germans. Five Navy Captains Are Detached from the War College WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Five navy captaing and one commander were de- tached today from the navy war college at Newport, R. L, and ordered by the Navy department as follows: Captain Edward Simpson as comman- dant of the Cavite and Olongapo naval H, A. Feld as commander of North Dakota, now in re- ladelphia. H. O &h::noy as commander n battieship Vermont. tain . Howard as comman- dant of the Portsmouth, N. H. navy {785t W, W. Ofimer as supervisor of the Tweifth naval district and senior member_of the board to survey vessels of the Pacific coast. Commander W, D, MacDougall to the naval observatory. Officers ordered to the college are Cap- tain J. L. Jayne, now commanding the New Jersey; Captain H. MoL. P, Huse, recently relleved as Admiral Fietcher's chief of staff, and Captain B, A. Ander- mon, recently commander of the New Hampshire, Only O rome Quinine,” To get the genuine, call for full name, Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look for sig- nature of X. W, Grove. Curc. a cold In one day. ¥c.—Advertisement. | acceptable Christmas gifts. 500 Lants Red Kidney Pills 190 360 N‘dl Buffers with n"nl‘o o s .00 60c Hinkle Cascara Pills, bottle: 100 pills . $1.00 Pinaud's Lilas Vegetal. 31.50 3-gt, Legrand's Red Rubber Hot Water Bottles .. Svc Hay's Hair Health, 500 Pebeco Tooth Past 340 76c Piver's La Trefele Sachet Pow- der, in bulk. per os . 400 o8 Bottles only. and also have a large assortment of leather cases. « | THE BEE: Berlin Says Subsea Sunk by Aircraft Not of German Navy BERLIN, Dec, 8.—(By Wireless to Say- ville.)~"In" spite of the German denial circulated by a British news agency that a British aeroplane had sunk a German submarine, a news agency now gives detalls of the alteged combat says the Overseas New agency which adds “Competent German authorities repeat that no German submarine has been de- stroyed by a British aeroplane. The Ger man newspaper point out that if the English report is correct there is no doubt that a British or a French submarine has been destroyed.” Field Marshal Sir John French in an official report given out by the press bureau in London, November 2, said: “In the afterncon (of Sunday) a Brit- ish asroplane destroyed a German sub- marine oft Middelkerke. It was seen to break in halves.” British Steamship Langton Hall is Sunk by Subsea LONDON, Dec. 3.—The British steam ship Langton Hall has been sunk. Part of the crew has roached land. PHILADBLPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3.—Agents in this city of the British steamer Lang- ton Hall, sunk in the Mediterranean war understand that the vessel was heavily londed with a general cargo, mostly of - jute, goat and other skins, burlay and cocoanut ofl. It is believed the Langton Hall's cargo was worth halt a million dollars. zone, The Langton Hall ovidently was an- other victim of the submarine campaign in the Mediterranean. It leftCalcutta October 28 for Philadelphia and New York and was reported at Suez on No- vember 23. It was owned by the iall line of Liverpool, was 377 feet lons, buflt In 1006 and of 4537 tons gross. Crude Oil Advanced Ten Cents a Barrel PITTSBURGH, Dec, 3.—~Crude olls were again advanced today, 10 cents a barrel being added to the principal grades, which made the new price as follows. Pennsyl- crude, $2.10; Cabell, $1.65; Mercer Newcastle, Corning, §1.00. Somerset was advanced 8 cents to §1.50, but there was no change in Ragland from 70 cents The last previous advance af 10 cents made several weeks ago fafled to bring out the crude ofl which the refiners need, and the opinion was expressed today that another rise would be necy start the movement. Producers are now predicting $2.60 for the early spring. Meantime the advance fs causing marked activity among drillers In the western Pennsylvania, West Virginla and Ohlo fields. LIMA, O, Deo, 3~Crude oll went up today 5 cents for cheaper grades and 10 cents for expensive wrades, as follows: Lima, $1.28; South Lima, $1.25; Indiana, $1.13; Wooster, $1.45; Illinols, §1.42; Princeton, §148 Flymouth, 113, WESTERN UNION WILL GIVE mployed by ti Western Union Telegraph company, ployes will recelve annual with pay, year will receive one wee regularly assigned, for the company the equi time for each period, Beaton Specials To Increase The Early Xmas Shopping we will give FREE SATURDAY A genuine imported Japanese Basket with every purchase of 30O¢ or more in our store, These huskets are worth 50 cents and make very Beaton Drug Co. 15th and Farnam Sts. ment, The cost to the company is estimated at $2,000,000, —_—— ' A “For Sale” ad will turn second-hand furniture into cash. §0c Bell's Podolax n“f Tooth Powd bt nitol Tooth Powder Puste..180 Bam Duplex Demonstraior Rrushes, w lh"“{l 250l§ ‘!A § h or! N t . I8g Mair Brushea . e irushes, worth 40¢c a salo Saturday, for. vr dpe ,‘f Tooth Bri o8 . ‘AI 50c our 40c and or o A 10t ‘of "ide” and "§60 " Lad Rubber Comba for —o.. ot We are now showing & very com- glgte ling of Parisian irrors, Trays, Combs, Man Goods, Pancy Hoxes, ete. $2.00 Fountain Pens, non-leakable and self-filling, guaranteed for one 890 Preferencia, Conchas - 10 to a customer, each op- “nL Clgars El Contento Boxes of 36 lkl}wq the 1V. Se Little Chancellors, box of 50, 10¢ verna. 4 for ....,.. 880 \(ul lers recelve our prompt at- ary to ITS EMPLOYES VACATIONS ‘Telegraphers all rejoicing today over the news that after the first of next year all traffic em- vacations “All regularly assigned employes who have been in the service of the company for two years or more will recelve two weeks' vacation, and those who have been continuously In the service for one " reads the also will recelve vacations. It is stipulated that the va- cations shall be employed for rest and recreation and not used in other employ- OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1915 'Burleson Consults | | Wilson About New | York Postmaster | WASHINGTON, Deo. 3. —~Postmaster General Burleson conferred with Presi- dent Wilson today over appointments of postmasters at New York and Brooklyn. | The term of E. M. Morgan, postmaster at New York, expires December 24, and W E. Kelley, postmaster of Brooklyn, re- signed to become county clerk Ropresentative Fitzgerald has recom- mened P. J. Cleary for the Brooklyn office, but it {e said at the Postoffice de | partment that he will not get the place | ‘for departmental reasons.” Mr. Fits- gerald will be asked to recommend some one else. The postmaster general is conferring with the New York City congressional delegation about the New York appointe ment. Kdltor Snes Bditor for Libel. MASON CITY, la., Deec. 3.—(Special)— According to the present scheduls Jack Dalton of the Manson Democrat and Tom Long of the Manson Journal will tranafer their activities for battiing from the jour- ralistic fleld to the district court this week. Long was getting more than he could assimilate from Dalton's battering ram, “The Democrat,” and assuming that money spoke louder than words he called upon Dalton for $10,000 damages for libel. Some great legal talent has been engaged by both plaintiff and defense and a hot legal fight is sure to follow, PRIEST WHO SHOT BISHOP IS SENT TO HOSPITAL WINONA, Minn, Dec. 8.~Rev. Father M. Lesaches this morning was sentenced to the hospital for the insane at St. Peter by Judge Granger in district court for the assault upon Bishop P. R. Hef- fon of the diocese of Winona on August 71 last. The jury's verdict acquitted Father Lesches of the charge on the ground that he was Insane and declared that he had homicidal tendencles, WILLIAM FALTIN IS RESENTENCED TO HANG PHOBNTX, Aris., Dec. $.-~Willlam Fal- tin, Peterson here three years ago, was re- sentenced today In the superior court to be hanged January 7. Faltin was or- dered returned to the penitentiary, pend- ing a decision by a jury as to his men convicted of the murder of Carl| tal condition. ber 18 TUGS SENT TO AID BIG FREIGHTER MINNESOTA SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec., 3.~The steamer Iroquois and tug Dauntless were ordered today to mo to the assistance of the Hill liner, Minvesota, which was 760 miles south of hers at midnight The Minnesota sent word Wednesday by wireless that it was putting back here because of disabled machinery, It was learned also that there was trouble with the crew. The Minnesota left Seattle, Wash., No- vember 14 with 16,000 tons of foodstuffs for London, where, it was said, the ves- sel would be sold It was the 1 freighter flying the American f! was reported from the start as having boller trouble. DEATH RECORD The jury meets Decem- B, P. Reymolds. DODGE, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Special.)-B. P. Reynolds, manager of Bolton's store, died this morning at the age of 64 years. Mr. Reynolds had been sick for about three weeks. He was president of the Dodge Commercial club and a director of the - Dodge Milling company He leaves a wife and several grown chijdren. Th funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at Gilencoe cemetery - Carpentier Wins French Military Cross as Aviator PARIS, Dec. 3. —Sergeant Georges Car- pentier, champlon heavywelght pugilist of Hurope, now attached to the French aviation corps, has been decorated with the military cross for brilliant and dar- Ing reconnolssances In an aeroplane Carpentler jolned the colors when war was declared and has been in the thick of the fighting ever since. He was first with the signal service and twice his apparatus was blown away by Ger- man shells. Later he became an auto- mobile courfer on the firing line and then was assigned to the aviation corps in May last Carpentier’s pugilistie last important achlevement was to win from Gunboat Smith on a foul in London in six rounds on July 16, 1914 \ _— Use The Bee's ''Swapper” column. HOwWA The Store For Shirtwaists Hand-embroidered Japa- nese negligees and kimonos, plain silk and crepe kimonos, both imported and domestic. Holiday blouses. Dainty petticoais, You are very welcome to inspect. We consider this sale offered, coming as it does this sale Saturday. Silks for Waists So new and pretty you'll buy them for gifts and for your- self, too. A constant procession of newness in waist silks; a score of entirely new stripes and plaids arrived yester- day, charming weaves, dain- ty colors and patterns you'll like at first sight. South Alsle—Main Floor, $5 $5 Saturday Our Thom A Christmas Sale [ Women's S An Event of Exceptional Interest owing ta existing conditions in the hosiery mills, the scarcity of dyes, and consequent scarcity of good silk hesiery, we are doubly fortunate In being able to present Sale Commences at 10 A. M., Allowing Ample Time for All to Be Here. $3, $2.50, $2 and $1.50 Silk Hose in Black and Colors Saturday, $1.19 a pair P A Whole S mas time. ing of them. Substantialit something more than a < N \ The Store o YV - f ilk Hosiery the most timely we have ever just before Christmas; and $19.50, New styles, moderate $24.50, Very chic in appearance - - $5 First Clearance Sale of Trimmed Hats This Season Saturday, Bvery Trimmed Hat That Sold up Gifts of Every Description Useful, practical, serviceable. to suit the diverse and varied needs of people at Christ- We are in instant readiness to help make the selecting ot gifts just as pleasant incidents as the giv- in every single article which offers fleeting remembrance, carryin with it a suggestion of a gift wicely chosen, that wil survive the passing of the day. the Chrishnaus T Offerings in Winter Apparel Snug Winter Coats $24.50, $28.75 Correctly tailored from fashionable fabrics Trim Winter Suits Dresses and Separate Skirts, $5 SORQSIS SHOES son-Belden & Co. AND SIXTEENTH STREETS tore Full of Plain All-Iinen Handkerchiefs, B5e, 10¢, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 5OC, Fmbroidered Initial Handker- chiefs, all-linem, 15c, 25¢, 350 and 50c, Hand-Embroidered Handker- chiefs, from 15c to $15.00. in price - - - $35, 345 - Heavy serviceable fabrics. There’s a pronounced originality in the beauti- ful lines of these shoes, The so-called Gypsy Pat- tern with the front seam shown in white on a dull leather boot is strikingly odd. The more conserva- tive style, however, is all dull leather with a leather Louis Heel as illustrated. $7 a Pair Christmas Handkerchiefs Displays that are worthy of your instant considera- tion because of their completeness and unusual charm. Glove Certificates Those wishing to send the ever welcome gift of gloves, yet who are not certain of the size needed, style and color preferred, should con- sider the ease with which glove certificates can be pur- chased. These enclosed in a suitable en- velope are offered for any desired amount, and are exchangeable for full face value at any time in this section. Bouth Aisle Main ¥Floor. Specials *Ivory” Shoe Horns..... Powder Books 10¢ Rubber Cushion Hair Brushes, double bristle ........89¢ Toilet Goods Bection, Madeira Embroidered Handker- chiefs, 85¢ to $2.25. Boxes of three All-Linen Hand. kerchiefs, 60c to $1.00, Ohildren's Handkerchiefs in colors and plain designs, 15¢; boxes of three, 250 each, ORDERS FOR HAND. MADE NOVELTIES should be placed now to in- sure sufficiently early de- livery; scores of exclusive articles from which to se. lect. NECK SCARFS in plaids, rainbow effects and com. binations of gold lace and fur finished with a gold rose in front, ROSES are very much in demand, gold, silver and satin combina. tions being especially good. Trefousse Fine French Kid Gloves Of a superior quality which makes them especially worthy of the gift shopper's attention. Trefousse are here in superb assortments, all styles and colors and vari- eties of novelty effects, par- ticularly pleasing to well- dressed women who appre- ciate the importance of fine ghoves, $1.50 to $2.25 a pair.