Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1915, Page 6

PRISON TERMS FOR STEAMER OFFICIALS| | Three Germans Convicted of Con-| spiracy Given Year and Half and Another One Year, RELEASED ON APPEAL BONDS NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Dr. Karl | Buensz, George Kotter and Adolph Hachmeister of the Hamburg-Amer- jcan line, recently convicted of con- | gpiracy to defraud the United States | government, were sentenced today to | gerve one and a half years in the fed- eral penitentiary at Atlanta. Joseph Poppinghaus was sentenced to one year. The Hamburg-American line was fined $1. All the defendants were admitted to bail pending the suing out of a writ of error in their behalf. Ball was fixed at $10,00 in each case And was accepted from a surety com- pany. Sentence was promounced after Judge Howe had averruled motions by Willlam Rand, jr, chief counsel for the defense, for dlsmissal of the verdict on the ground that it was contray to the evidence and law in-the case. In making his motion Mr. Rand said he had little hope that it would be entertained by the court. United States District Attorney H. Bnowden Marshall, in moving for sen- tence, said it was “his painfull duty to | | | | ask for substantial punishment no 0 | oo L much for its effects on the defendants, but to serve as & waming to others.” None of the defendants showed any emotion when sentence was pronounced. Prior to the opening of the court they were surrounded by & number of sym- pathizers with whom they chatted freely. Dr, Buenz told his listeners his gnly re- gret was that the American people should belleve he had done anything to injure them or had ever had anything but the kindllest feelings toward this country. Through Mr. Rand. the aged director of the Hamburg-American line asked Judge Howe to take Into consideration that his three co-defendants were his subordinntes and that If any offense was committed they were merely acting under his orders. ‘The nominaj fine tmposed un the Ham- burg-American company was explained by Judge Howe as due to his wish to free the case as far as possible “from the odor of money.” He sald that there The lighter sentence imposed on Pop- | M, Condra of the State university, and As to future development of this In- dustry, there will be a number of ad- dresses by prominent speakers. For several woeks President £, M. Pol- lard of Nehawka, Secretary J. R. Dun-| can of Lincoln, and a publicity commit- | tee comprising L. C. Chapin of uncoln,i G. A. Marshall of Arlington and others | Interested in horticultural work in the state, have been outlining the program | for the annual meeting and apple show. | The apple display will be at the audi- torfum. Modern methods of packing, spraying, marketing and advertising will be exemplified by experts. Flower lovers will be shown the best flowers that the florists ean produce at the annual flower show, During the week President Pollard will preside at the various sessions of the state horticultural soclety. One of the soclal features will be a good fellow- ship banquet, & period of relaxation from the more sedate side of the program, election of officers and other soclety business. On Tuesday, January 18, the program of the soclety will begin. In the mean- time the apple and flower show, free to the public, can be viewed at the audi- torfum. *“Horticultural Resources of Ne- braska” will be dlscussed by Dr. George will be IMustrated with views from On Tuesday afternoon co-operation in the fruit industry in Nebraska will be discussed by Benator P. A. Rodgers, a prominent frult man of Arkansas. The banquet of the Horticultural soclety will take place Tuesday evening. On Wednesday ‘‘Beautifying the Home Grounds” will be the general theme. | Prof. Tell M. Nicolet of Lincoln will out- /line plans for fmproving the grounds of | the country home. R. Timler of Benson will disouss the problems confronting the owner of the oity home. “Beautifying the School Grounds” will be the theme of Prof. B. H, Barbour. “Clean Fruit” will be an important address by Prof. R. ¥. Howard of Lin- coln. “Producing the Apple Crop, will be Alscussed by G. ¥, Beavers of Bouth | Omaha. Thursday morning will be devoted to a discussion of utilizing the waste products of Nobraska orchards, “Canning the Surplus” will be explained by Miss Hul- dah Peterson of the State farm. ‘The potato industry will receive atten- tion at a separate program on Thurs- day ofternoon when all phases pf the work will be discussed by experts. pinghaus was in recognition of the fact that he oocupled & subordinate position had merely carried out the orders superiors without having an active in the planning of the conspiracy which they were convicted. BRITISH PAY TRIBUTE TO ~ GERMANS’ WORK IN CHINA i1 the fact traders are becoming more and tolerant of forelgn commercial methods and merchandise. ‘“New firms ‘who enter Interior Chine,” he adds, “will no longer have to break through the opposition of their old-established con. nections among the Chinese, and insti- ‘tute new and unpopular methods, The bullding up of trade connections in Ching is just now easier than in any other country. Oredit is also due the Germans for up the mining fields of China forelgners. Consul Savage says: ”-'u.un prejudices, vested interests and the greed and power of the Chineso gentry have, no doubt, ralsed great dif- ficulties in the past in the way of suo- cesaful exploitation by Europeans of the mineral wealth _the province of H ‘mineral urces, i unan, %aich was one Yet these ‘The answer Lorton will be played by youngest member of the st Bellevue college. The that of Mrs. Edlynn, VIRGINIA 1S WON BY VIOLA NEYER Little Girl Collects Piotures from The Bee for Many Blocks Around Her Home, Viola Moyer collected the most pictures of her from The Bee last week. “Virginia" is a beautiful dolly with golden halr and a pretty white dress trimmed in blue and with baby blue alippers. Viola worked hard right from the be- ginning. She went to every house for blocks around her home and caked folks to save the plctures from their coples of The Bee. It didn't matter how cold the weather was, Viola went around and worked, for she just fell in love with “Virginia," and dreamed about her and thought about her, and just felt she coulds be happy without her. Bo she's a very happy little girl now with “Virginia" all her own. She's all the happler because she tried to win the of China. In that|other dolls that The Bee has given away | to little girls in previous weeks, So this is & lesson to little girls not to get dis- couraged, but to “try, try again.” Under the leadership of promindht horticulturists of the state, the Nebrksas State. Horticultural soclety will make at the midwinter apple show, at Lincoln, | January 17-8, a complete exposition of the horticultural resources of the state This week, The Bee is going to give away three dollies instead “Julia” 18 & big beautiful dolly, twenty-four inches high; *‘Gretchen” d “Mary" are smaller dollles, but just as beautiful and beauti- fully dreased . The ploture of “Julia™ wiil be in The Bee every morning and evening this week, beginning with today, and the little gir! who gets the most of her plotures and brings them to The Bee office by 4 o'clock next Saturday afternoon, will get h The little girls who have next to THE Nebfd;kfi Fruits and Flowers to Be Shown at State Horticultural Society’s Annual Meet; G.A Marshall L.C. Chapirnn Japan the Mecca For the Man Who Uses Rod and Reel (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) TOKIO, Nov. 16.—Reports just complled show that Japan is the leading fishing na- tion of the world in the number of people who make their living from fishing, in the relative importance of fisherles In domestio economy, in the ingenuity and skill of the people in devising fishing ap- paratus, In the preparation of fish and in the interest shown by the government in promoting fisheries, It 1s estimated that one person In twenty in the entire empire s more or less of a fisherman. Fish appear in some form on the table of every Japanese family daily, If not at every meal. The annual value of water products is over $30,000,000. Half a million boats are en- gaged in fishing, of which 18,000 are more than thirty feet long. Almost 1,000,000 men are professional fishermen and 1,400~ 000 more give part of their time to fish- ing and the rest to farming or other pur- suits. A thousand species of fish have already beon identified In Japanese waters and almost every one of them is edible. One OMAHA SUNDAY of the commonest, most wholesome and most sought after is the shark, which the western people have never learned Dogfish, a member of the shark family, found along the north Atlantic coast would never be permitted to go uncaught in Japan and even the Octopus 15 a table delicacy. Much fish is eaten raw. The prominence of fisheries is attribu- ted to the encouragement of officlals who have studied the fishing industries BEE DECEMB Omaha Distributing | point for the Towa and Nebraska business of the Shredded Wheat Biscuit company. ER 5, 1915. the company has opened offices here and placed Elliott Mason, general sales agent, in charge. H. G. Flint, the general sales manager from the Niagara Falls office, was in Omaha for a few days making mn—} & Council Bluffs Street Rallway com Omaha. When the new paving was completed a week ago it was conceded that to leave this strip unpaved would be a ‘“‘crime,” ar Mr, Jardine expressed it. The Omaha Center for the | Shredded Wheat distributing ments for the mew office here. He as- serts Omaha looks good to him as a cen- tral distributing point. Mr. Mason, who is to have charge of the local office, says he sees great promise here in this fleld. | agreed to pave its share; the Hugh ar- phy Construction company offered the | stone, sand and cement for the other por- | tlon of the strip; the Purington Brick | company of Galesburg, Iil., supplied two carloads of brick; Charles B. Fanning Omaha now becomes the The company has just opened an office in the Woodmen of the World bullding, from which it will handle the business of Nebraska and Towa. furnished some more brick; J. P. MeGurk, Chicago, furnished the asphaltic filler and the city of Omaha did the work. The re warehouse will be used for the larger volume of business that is to come with the taking in of the Jowa trade territory. its product and from a desire to be closer touch with jobbers in this territory, [ paving and just outside of the limits of E Jardine Explains The Pacific Storage and Warehouse sult was that the strip was paved and . . between Omaha and company of Omaha Has for nineteen Pavln OutSIde the thoroughtare years handled the distribution out of g Florence was made complete. Thirtieth Omaha for Nebraska territory. This street is now open and in its improved form provides an excellent street between city and suburb. In order to get this street completed be fore heavy frost set in crews were worked night and day. The City Limits City Commissioner Jardine wishes to explain the history of a strip of street, 10x210, north of the new Thirtleth street On account of the increased demand for in Read Them Every Day. It Will Pay! E.M.Pollard J R Duncan in the United States. The Imperial Fish- | eries institute at Toklo is one of the finest in the world, Russia and Germany Complete Plans to Exchange Prisoners (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) STOCKHOLM, 8weden, Nov. 10.—Prepa~ rations have been completed for the re- sumption of the exchange of wounded prisoners between Russia and Germany. The transfer will be carried on as before without any modification of the original plan, but several innovations have been introduced which will make the long jour- ney more comfortable for the wounded and additional sanitary precautions have been taken. One of these is a new disin- fecting station at Haparanda, where all arrivals wil] recelve a steam bath, while their clothes are washed and disinfected. Since it has been found that the locomo= tives and steam heater can only supply enough heat for two cars, the trains dur- ing the cold weather will be cut down to that length. Large numbers of blankets have been provided, and the wounded will have no difficulty in keeping warm in their excursion northward, which carries them almost Into the Arctle circle. The exchange will continue throughout November, but it will be briefly inter- rupted in December, when all the Swed- ish trains will be needed to take care of the Christmas traffic, which in Sweden is always extraordinarily heavy. The sanitary arrangements have been found to be perfectly satisfactory. The doctors in charge state that no infeotion of a serious character has occurred, and only one nurse has been taken il the most and the third most will get the other two beautiful dolls. Start right away and get all the people you can to help you by saving the ple- tures from thelr coples of Tha Bee. Ten Mo . Old Baby Blalr was third in last week's Contest, as you can see by the figures below. Baby Blair is coming right to the top even if she is only 10 months old, for she has lots of women working for her. The week before last she had only 847 plotures and last week she had over 100 more, One little girl who lives away out in the sand hills tried to win Virginia, but she didn't have enough votes. She was Lottie Wade, who lives at Arthur, Neb., and she wrote a letter when she sent in her pictures of Virginia. She said: “ARTHUR, Neb.~Dear sir: I take pen in band to drop you a few lines with as many doll pletures as ¥ can get. Im a lonesome little girl living out in the sand hills and cannot get anything to play the banguet, the door- |With. I am 8 years old, and would like to have the doll very much. Yours truly, “LOTTIE WADE.” The names of the little girls who got over 100 plctv.cs Iast week were as fol- {lows: , 144 N. 3ist, Omaha. Frances Corr, 308 Omaha. 8 B tet b Ave., Coun- in The Promotion- Good health must have its start in the Stomach, Liver and Bowels, for these organs [l are the controlling power and have direct influence on [l the entire system. i | If stomach weakness is ol NI lowed to develop, digestion becomes impaired, the appe- tite begins to wane, the liver becomes lazy and the bowels constipated. Therefore the great im- portance of establishing and [l maintaining vigor in these organs at all [l times. To this end just try HOSTETTER'S It is Nature's one best aid of Health strength and STOMACH BITTERS [ L] the promotion of health, | . Will There Be Music in Your Home on Christmas Day--The Happiest of Them All? IT IS impossible to estimate the measure of enjuymefit the piano or playem-piano brings to the home life, particularly during the long winter evenings—and es- pecially at Christmas. If you ever intend buying a piano DO IT NOW during this Special Holiday Sale of NEW and USED PIANOS It will be to your interest. We must have the room that the pianos on our floor now occupy and the best way out of it is to SELL THEM. Here is an idea of what we are offering — The saving advantages are simply wonderful. LOOK THEM UP. YOU WILL BE SURPRISED. A FEW USED PIANOS ese...$285.00 | Lindell, upright ..................$75.00 ~ Packard, upright . Knabe Bros., upright.............$225.00 | Wilson, upright .................$176.00 Sterling, upright ................$235.00 | Nelson, upright ............... .$175.00 Huntington, upright .............$175.00 | ‘Autopiano, upright ..............$175.00 Steinman & Son, upright.........$125.00 | Weaver, upright .... ..$190.00 Harvard, upright ........... ...$195.00 | Schaff, upright ............ .....$225.00 A FEW NEW PIANOS Armstrong, upright ..............$247.00 | Haines Bros., upright............$360.00 Brewster, upright ................$21150 | Armstrong; upright ..... ........$256.00 FAMOU S PIANOS FOR WHICH WE HAVE EXCLUSIVE SALE IN OMAHA AND VICINITY Chickering & Sons Behning Armstrong Burgess-Nash Haines Bros, Autopiano Brewster And Others Every Piano Sold With Burgess-Nash Guarantee You will be permitted to purchase any piano in this sale AT THE TERMS YOU MAKE. We have every inducement offered to compel you to buy—HIGHEST OF QUALITIES, LOWEST OF PRICES AND EASIEST OF TERMS. A Victor-Victrola for Christmas A A Vietrola with a few records of such timely music as ‘‘Home, Sweet Home,’’ and other old time and sacred selections, with some of the newer compositions, will double the pleasure of Christ- mas day. . | When a Vietrola can be had at $15, $25, $40, $50, $75 and up ||| y y y P to $250, at terms that make the first payment a sum convenient for you to invest, there is no reason why you should .Vietrola for Christmas Day. . it K Remember, all dealers must sell Victrolas at the same price and on the same terms. The only difference i choice and better service here, A oot ik e o Vietrols Department—rPourth Floor. GESS-NASH CoM Jhie Chiristmas Stove for Everybody