Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1915, Page 1

b i ) COUNCIL OF WAR Hour. Dev. 5a m. o ) 6 a m. F ] ' Ta = $a = 9 a. 5 10 a. % ila E 12 | ! 1p. - 2p.m » 3p.m » 4p.m. » 5p. m » §p.m 2 7p. m. » Comparative Local } rany ...’ A Highest yesterday ¢ Lowest rday . = £ Mean temperature....... 29 P2 Precipitation - 08 PART ONE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TWELVE THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE THE WEATHER. Cloudy; Colder VOL. XLV-—NO. 26. ( OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1915—SIX SECTIO} DECIDES TO KEEP UP BALKAN FIGHT Kitchener and Grey and French Chiefs Agree to Continue Cam- paign in Southern Europe, WITHDRAWING FROM SERBIA They Fix on Measures to Maintain Security of Expedionary Forces, BULGARS ASSAULT POSITIONS PARIS, Dec. 11.—France and Great Britain decided today to con- tinue the campaign in the Balkans and agreed on military measures designed to assure the security of the expeditionary forces which landed at Salonikl. A semi-official announcement is- sued this afternoon indicates that the French and British troops are being withdrawn from Serbia. Questions of an urgent character relat- ing to the conduct of the war were set- tled on the basis of a complete under- standing today at a conference of rep- resentatives of France and Great Brit- ain. Premier Briand and War Secretary Gallienl acted for France and Foreign Secretary Grey and War Becretary Kitchener for Great Britain, Tow Agreement Reached. The agreement, which has reference to concerted military action In other Zones as well as In the Balkans, was reached by Premier Briand and War Minister Gallleni, the French representatives, and Forelgn Secretary Grey and War Secre- tary Kitchener, acting for Great Britain, who have been In conference In Puris during the last two days. The semi-official announcement issued after today's conference says the prin- cipls of maintenance of French and British troops at Saloniki was approved by all the participants and that military meagures have Leen taken to assure the security of the expeditionary corps, which i retreating methodically towards its base. Retreat Easily Effected. “Simultaneous attacks from the north- west end the east on both banks of the Vardar by four Bulgarian divisions against the allled troops redoubled in violence on December $ and 10, says & Saloniki dispateh to the Tempa, “The enemy directed its efforts espécially to the, atiask an the sest uated Grade ¢, Strumitsa station and the village of Navidbvo. “To the west the allles are holding the enemy on the Petrovska, between the villages of Petrovo and Milakovo and the Vardar. ' *To the cast the Bulgarlans massed half of their forces against the British | front. They attacked furlously south o(l the city of Strumitsa. The British occu- pied new positions, where they are sup- | ported by French contingents. i “The Anglo-French line on the east bank of the Vardar is now approximately indicated by the course of the Bojimia | river, the left tributary of the Vardar, the villages of Deoéli, Causti and Doiran, the last on the southern bank of the lake of that name.” Basge Ball for “Big Nine” is Assured CHICAGO Dec. 11.—"Big Nine" base ball for the season of 1916 is practically assured, according to Albon W. Small, newly elected president of the conference faculty committee today. The veto by the senate of the Univer- sity of Illinols on the base ball abolition resolution passed by the commlittee last week, referred the matter back for the committee's reconsideration before a final vote on the proposal may be taken by the universities. The committee's next reg- ular session comes in June and final ac- | tion by the universities is not probable before the end of the base ball season. JACK SCULLY NERVOUS; HE’D JUST BEEN WEDDED Jack Scully of Omaha, Assoclated Press | telegraph operator on the Norfolk Dally | News leased wire, seemed nervous yester- day morning and mixed up & lot of his reports. | Finally he said to the Norfolk operator: | “Excuse my nervousness, 1 was married this morning.” A Norfolk girf, Miss Mary Kane, is the bride. She has been in charge of the | telephone booth at the Fontenelle hotel for some time. Scully said he was keeping his marriage a gecret from Omaha papers. The Weather at Omaha Yesterday. Temperature Temperature and precipitation depar- tures {rom the normal: o~ “of ‘the" allies to their new| Me positions was effected without great dif-|were elected by congressional ficulty To the morth the French evac-)follows: First district, Vernon G. NEW PRESIDENT OF THE STATE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. OMAHA AND LUCKEY ARE THE WINNERS Lincoln Man Elected President of the Nebraska State Teachers’ Associatios COMING HERE AGAIN NEXT YEAR Omaha again gets the convention of the Nebraska State Teachers’ as- sociation next year, and Dr. G. W. A, 1 uckey of the University of Nebraska | mcomes president. The executive committee of the association counted the ballots at the | Lindell hotel in Lincoln yesterday | morning. G. W. A. Luckey received 1,739 votes for president, as against 509 for R. V. Clark of Kearney, the m'nlyI opponent that remained in the u“i to the end. No Conmtest on Vice President, A. P. Hillyer of Beatro was re-elected vice president without opposition, fe- ' celving 2.134 votes. PRESIDENT YUAN SHI KAI ACCEPTS THRONE OF CHINA. Head of Republic R Crown Once, but He Yields to Couno Plea. | f | il's OVER PROTEST OF ENTENTE| Executive Will Act in Present c.-; pacity Till Convenient Time ! for Coronation. ! | MANCHU DYNASTY FELL IN ma} PEKING, Dec. 11.—Yuan 8hi Kai, president of the China republic, has ' accepted the thronme of China ten- dered to him by the council of state. Acting as a parliament the Council of State today canvassed the vote on | the question of a change in the form of the government of China to a monarchy and found that the votes | of 1,993 representatives out of 2,043 qualified to vote on the proposition ‘were favorable to the change. " The Councll of State immediately | sent to Yuan Shi Kal a petition urg- ing him to accept the throne.'He de- clined at first, but when the petition | was forwarded to him a second time he accepted with the proviso that he would continue to act as president until a convenient time for the coro- nation. Japan May Send Note, TOKIO, Dec. 11.—It is considered probable here that Japan, in the name of itself and its allies, will send another friendly note to China with | regard to the proposed change of | China’'s form of government to a monarchy. The entente powers have indicated they do not wish to have the change take place during the war because of disturbances of the peace which it might A After acknowledging China’s reply that it was capable of handling any outbreaks that might occur, the note probably will point out that the allies hold China responsible for the main- F. J. Matthews of rGand Teland was | : AR v sl byt o”cfl'«: :.‘:'u:"‘:::” the ’“"Q"“;‘. aistriots aa ek ¢ Mays, Lincoln; Third .district, A. H. Dixon, Tekamah; Fourth distriot, John A. Wood- ard, Beward; Fifth district, R. J. Barr, Grand Island; Sixth disttiet, H. O. Sut- ton, Kearney. K. U. Graff of Omaha s the executive member whose term holds over another | year, which sccounts for there being no election in the Second district. Omaha was at no fime In’ danger of losing the next convention. -From the beginning of the count it was evident | that the proportion,of the votes was in favor of Omaha. The final tally showed Omaha, 1,3@2; Lincoln, 82, a plurality of 4% for Omaha. Scarlet Fever Scare | At Children's Home A scarlet fever scare at Rieverview home yesterday caused county officlals to hurry three little girls, Grace, Maud and Ida Kneliper, from the hospital there to their home. Juvenile Judge Sears, who had ordered the girls held at the home ‘was asked for ‘perm|ll|on to remove them and hastily gave it The little girls' illness resembles scar- let fever, but whether it is that disease has not been difinitely determined, Fifty-three children ave at Riverview home at the pregent time, and a Sugges- tion of an epidemic of diseases that fre- | quently keeps Superintendent Thompson wake nights. and ocunty ‘official Court Fixes Date For Rate Hearing (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Dec. 1lL.—(Special)—Judge Munger today set January 24 as the time for hearing tne case brought by the Rock Island Railroad company covering a ralse in passenger rates from 2to 3 cents per mile. The case will probably be heard in the Omaha court Became Republic in 1912, CHila, for centufies under the Manchu rule; ‘became a republic on February 13, 1912, following the revolution of 1911, and after the adoption of a provisional con- stitution and. the &lection of Yuan Shi Kal as president inder its provisions on October 6, 1918, he was lnaugurated four days later, on October 10 Indications of plans to abandon the re- publican form of government and revert ! {Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Austrian Charge Says Wrote Note By Dumba's Order WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Baron Erich Zwiedinek, charge of the Austro-Hun- garian embassy, today called upon Secre- in August, 1914, in which he suggested that passports be bought for Austrian reservists. The State department has a photograph copy of the letter. The charge was understood to have in- formed Secretary Lansing that at the time the letter was written he was a subordinate in the embassy. Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, the ambas- sador, who has been recalled, was then in charge, and it was said that Baron Zwiedinek contended that he was acting not upon his own initiative, but under the instructions of the ambassador. Baron Zwiedinek remained with the secretary nearly an hour. It was belleved that the note which the United States has dispatched to! Austria-Hungary on the sinking of the Italian liner, Ancona, was also a subject mentioned. It was stated authoritatively today that Secretary Lansing has not yet reached a decision as to Alexander Von Nuber, the Austro-Hungarian consul general in New York, whose case is under consideration. ‘What effect the baron's explanation today might have upon the secretary's case was not disclosed. Baron Zwiedinek declined to discuss the subject. Why shouldn’t an invitation be extended by Josephus Daniels to Harry B. White- house, manager of the National Cash Reglster company in Omaha, to join the naval advisofy board’ with other great {nventors like Edison, Maxim and Ford? ‘Whitehouse also is an faventor. vents things right off the reel. ! go five days without sleep like Thomas A Edison. | right away he knows how to invent it, |and in a few minytes with any odd bits | he finds around the house he has it in- vented and in operation. The scene is Mr. Whitehouse's home at (08 Douglas street. Mr. Whitehouse is He In- Doesn't have to putter around in & laboratory or | Whitehouse Mentioned for Niche, in the Hall of Fame for Invention ‘Whitehouse begins inventing. Down in the cellar he goes and drags up & long coil of garden hose. Next he gets a mega- phone that had done duty in numerous foot ball games. to one end of the hose. Next he digs up a big funnel such as is used in fllling automobile tanks. He fastens this to the other end of the hose. |SOME ASKED NOT ALLOWED tary Lansing to explain a letter he wrote | He binds the megaphone | WESTERN RAIL RATE| RAISES APPROVED Interstate Commerce Board Author- izes General Increases in Passenger Fares. WASHINGTON, Dee, 11.—General increases in passenger fares on west- ern railroads were authorized today by the Interstate Commerce commis- sion. Some of the imecreases for which the roads asked were disap- proved, but such as were allowed will result in an increase in revenue. Proposed increase in Illinols, Wis- consin, the Michigan upper penin- sula, X! and fn Kansad on and north of the main line of the Union Pacific from Kansas City to the Colorado state line were disapproved, but the com- mission keld that an interestate basis of 2.4 cents per mile was justified. In Missour! south of the Missouri river and in Kansas south of the main line of the Union Pacific proposed increases ;'were disapproved, but an interstate basis | of 2.6 cents per mile were allowed. Dakota Rate Approved. Proposed inereases from points within which new rates were authorized to points on the main lines in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Akansas, Oklahoma and Texas ' were pronounced unreasonable where the | fare would be higher than that con- structed on the rate fabric existing to the | east. A basing rate of 2% cents a milo in North and South Dakota and 3 cents in the states south and west was ap-| proved. Increases on mileage tickets to make them 2 cents a mile north of the Mis-| souri river In Missouri and on and north of the Union Pacific main line in Kansas were ‘approved. A mileage ticket rate of 2 cents & mile south of the same divid- ing lines was pronounced justified. Increases in fare to the east of Mich- Tllinols, Jowa, Minnesota, Wiscon- sin, Nebraska, Missourl and iansas, based on rates newly authorized in that territory, were pronounced reasonable. Points of Ruling. The commission held that the evidence | in the case in which nearly fifty roads were involved &nd which was part of | the whole western advance rate case, | showed substantially the following: That since 190 the raliroads h substantial improvements in p vice for convenlence and s great expense. ‘That passenger service conditions do not rmit of economies possible in the freight service, and that the increased costs not offset by those economies which exist are entitled to consideration. ‘That passenger service in western ritory is less profitable than freight [ §FOI RTY-FOUR PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. | “BILLY" IS READY |GRIDIRON CIU3 10 QUIT SYRACUSE GRILLS GUESTS One More Week of Campaign Re-|Peace and Preparedness Plans mains Before Evangelist Leaves Roasted at Annual Dinner of for Trenton, Washington Correspondents. HOT WORDS FOR DETRACTORS | BRYAN LEADS CANDY TROOPS SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 11.—(8pe- WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Peace clal Telegram.)—"Billy” Sunday |and preparedness advocates allke will shake the dust .of Syracuse | came in for a raking fire of jest at from his feet just one week from to- | the winter dinner of the Gridiron morrow night, leaving on a Limited | club tonight. At the close the pre- train for his home at Winona Lake, | paredness = ranks ' appeared the Wis, where he will remain until|gtronger, but their casualties from New Year's evening when he will | verbal shrapnel were almost as again hit the trail eastward with | heavy as those of the pacifists. Trenton, N. J,, as his d tiom, - ent “Billy" will arrive at uis campaign there on Sunday, Jun nary 2, Plans for the Trentoh campalgn 860 prominent {n public lite from patts of the county were smong club's guests. to be held in New Jersey are rapldly 6 - being completed, and tonight It was an- ,The ghorae of the w‘_' dtepdug- nounced that among the features will | IDE the president follows: be periodical excursions from. Philadel- phia and Paterson where Sunday has already held forth, This week added materially to the number of tabernacle trail hitters, the total to date reading 12,24, as compared with Omaha's 4,881, We {dke our stand back of you, Mr. ag'}v?'"snéo we giv ou're the m’w.o all, Wa respond to your eall, We will ll‘l‘nfl firm with you for the red, white and blue. No or faction divides us in twain Wg’f'ju-t plain Americans, proud of e name; h‘( the world realize Naught can sever our tibs, Weo také our hats off to you. A figure representing Willlam Jenninvs Bryan was prominent in the evening's entertainment. He bobbed up In three skits, always in a stellar role, Mevan Commands Candy Soldiers. Collections Run Hehind, The tabernacle attendance here reaches 690,000, exceeding that at Omaha by 13- 900, but the Nebraska city still leads in collections, Syracusans have given $27.963.22, while for the same period in Omaha the sum was $29,086.96. President Stryker of Hamilton college ! REAR GUARD OF Fl ENTENTE ALLIES CHECKS. PURSUING FOE U ight of the Anglo-French Forces Before Teuton and Bulgar Armies Becomes More Orderly. HOLDS GIEVGELID Report Teutonic Forces Had Taken Point Commanding Railroad to Saloniki Unfounded. ALLIES’ FORCES OUTNUMBERED LONDON, Dec. 11.—The latest news from the Balkans indicates that the allles are still falling back, but without suffering the losses en- dured on the first days of the re- treat, when the pursuing Bulgarians altacked rear guards repeatedly. raris reports that in these actions the French inflicted heavy losses on the pursuers by their artillery fire. ‘The British public recelves a shock In the form of a Salonikl dispatch stating that Glevgell had been occupléd by two divisions of German troops. Later re- ports, however, state that this important position fs not yet within the range of the invadirs' guns. Gievgell is on the Greck frontier near the Vardar river and commands the rallroad north from Sa- lontki. The town first came into promi- nence during the present war as head- quarters of the typhus hospital of Dr, James F. Donnelly of New York, who dled dn Nish in February. It ia generaily conceded the present forces of the allles are inadequate to cope with Bulgaria and the central powers, Wwhose armies, according to a statement oredited to Premier Radoslavoft of Bul- garia, now number 1,000,000 men. The final day for recruiting under the vlah of the earl of Derby finds no diminu- tion In the crowds which besieged the re- cruiting stations. In the rush medical examination has become as perfunctory the slgning of the recruits’ names, and and it Is expected many of those who Russtans on Horder of Roumania. BERLIN, Dec. 11.—(By Wireless to Sayville)—Advices received today indi- cate that the Russians are hurriedly con- centrating troops along the Roumanian The Austrian forces in Buko- wina also are ‘belng New maoing Milk Shortage Due to ‘Demandu)f Europe NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The health de- partment announced today that Ne York City is facing a serious milk short- age as a resuit of the enormous pur- chasea of condensed milk by the allles for the soldiers in the trenches. The situation particularly menaces the poor, In that grade B milk, mainly used in the manufactured article, is the milk heads the list of the week's converts to Sundavism, “Billy got me; I'm for him,” noted educator today. "I would that I could copy him. 'Billy's' (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) Thirteen Schmidt Case Witnesses Tell About Explosion LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec, 11.—-Thir- teen witnesses, all of whom told of dy- namite explosions, testified at today's brief session of the trial of Mathew A. Schmidt, charged with the murder of one of the twenty vietims of the Times bomb explosion here five years ago. lee Trower, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Construction company, tes- tified that thirteen explosions occurred on work of his company after it had declared open shop in 1906, Fred Baker, a police sergeant at In- diana Harbor, told of a bomb explosion of a bridge at that place in March, 1910, stated the ice and that the existing rates are lower than those in the south, east d west. :;'n‘.l that there is some justification for at. The decision repeats the holdings of the | recent advance freight rates cases that the railroads have felt the increased cost | of living, an drecites that the public has | the right to expect adequate, comfortable | and safe service. } No Excuse for | | | 1| r | Waste, ‘The commission said: “For such services and facilities the carriers should be allowed, under reason- able fares, to earn a reasonable return upon the property used in that Nelther competition nor the unr demands of the public, however, made the excuse for waste and |gance in the passenger service." | To avold confusion of practice the com sonable must be xtrava- The other witnesses were: Harry Burns, a Chicage policeman; W. B. Fortune of Collinsville, N. J.; Hugo lLucas, a foun- dryman of Peorla, 111 Louls Rod- dewig, Davenport, Ta.: August Seiffert, Clinton, Ta., and Martin_ Morgan, Green Bay, Wis. he Baccharine Soldier,” perhaps the ¢hiefly consumed by the poorer classes. livelleat ‘of all the sketches, brought the | The shorta former secretary of state to the fore as | the leader of a band of sold'ers, armed | with marshmallows, bon bona and other | ‘candles, and exhibited as rellcs of a) barbaric age. Among the offigers were General Gumdrop, Colonel Caramel, Malow Marshmallow, Captain Candy, and others bearing namea of confections, The sd1- diers’ “weapons” were huge red, white {Continued On 'wo, Column One.) Germany Blamed for Delay of Two Cargoes of Dyes WASHINGTON, D. €, Dee. Failure to move dyestuffs from Euro) 1o the United States is due to Germany Instead of Great Britain, according to & statement issued today at the &tate de- partment. Permission by the British forelgn of- tice for the two cargoes of dyestuffs to come forward js still in effect, but the German embargo have made their move- ment impossible. Ambassador Page has been instructed to call the attention of the British for- elgn office to the vital need in this country for logwood from Jamaica and | British Honduras. | | | | | 1 | State department announced late today | the Germans retaining all their gains, a service. | bfitish Recruits Rfish to Enlist So as to Avoid Conscription Order LONDON, Deec. 11.—London, except per- | haps 1n the closing hours of heated eral elections, has never witnessed such ards calling upon men to enlist. In the parks and open squares speech- muking was In progre: In the hotels and restaurants, on the trams and busses | | 1 He Just tiinks of something, and Then he slips over to the window of the ! mission dlsmissed all the increases the patient’s room and softly inserts the mas- ! ratlroads proposed and ordered thg filing sphone end. Back he flles and runs the other end of the hose through a window of his own house. Breathless with the exertion of so much Inventing, he places Lisst's ninety-ninth Hungarian raphsody or something on the playing his Victrola, which is a perfectly all right thing to be doing, seelng it's only 9 p. m. His next-door neighbor, Miles Greenleaf, is convalescing after a six weeks' tuasle Normal temperature..... Excess for the da; Total deficienc: Normal pi Kxcess for the day. —— with bronchitis Mr. Greenleal’s own talking machine has been interned temporarfly ut the home of his father. In the buzszum of Mr. Whitehouse stirs | and get one for Mr. Whitehouse, and stop | Omaha, November 19, had bought a rail- | ally heavy showers fe & kindly thought. hear some of this musie.” The thought keeps stirring. Then Mr. machine and starts it, holding the funnel arefully close to the needle. The sick man next door, awakening (Prom a Btaff Correspondent.) {and participating in the recrulting. Among| “It should be understood eclearly by || Meaday nignt \f et ';,:m one paid | from a dose, hears strains of mu-lc.l LINCOLN, Dec. 1l.—(Special.)—Sheri(f (hem were thousands of soldiers in khaki, | every avallable man, especlally single || Jdmission. ticket. | Whence come they? He knows not. Hel|guy Hyers today recelved word from Doth new recrults and veterans, with|men, at present unattested, that the op- | by calls his wife. And then after some| A)junco that it had been discovered that | M&NY convalescent wounded men, Includ- | portunity offered carries with it an equal SUBURBAN LOTHROP search the sweet deception is discovered. | Guy Leman, the man held in Lincoln | '"§ Rumerous Australians, Canadians, | responsibility to present himself today or 24th and Lothrop | Congratulations to Mr. Whitehouse. { for the murder of Cleil D, Campbell, the | Highlanders and Indian troops. Thare | tomorrow, and so add to the volume of Boy, run down to the lawrel crown store | Lincoln contractor, which oceurred {n | Wa8 thick mud under foot and occasion- | evidence now presented to other nations— {of new tariffs, embodying such increases las were allowed to become effective. | Leman Bought Ticket Alliance to Omaha | “Miles would like to|on the way at the hall of fame and have | road ticket from that place to Omaha on | 45 Well as the streets, remained crowded, | scenes as virtually the whole clty PFe| g .q op the street corners everybody was sented this afternoon, with the earl of [ engyreq in discussing enlistment and the Derby's recruiting period extended to| question of voluntary service versus con- | close tomorrow at midnight, having little | scription was argued hotly. Reports of | more than twenty-four hours to rum. | In every section of the city recruits | came forward: in droves to be attested. | Tens of thousands of workmen, clerks |and shop girls spent their half-holiday |in the parks and the streets watching similar scenes came from prnvlncllll towns, for the recruiting plan was cheered when the newspapers spread the news, The official announcement says: allied, neutral or hostile—that the deter- mination of the country is resolute to but the parks, ‘em reserve the niche between Edison and | the day he claimed to have come to| while bands marched about playing pat- | Prosecute the war to & victorious con- Marcont Lincoln by the bux far route, rlotic airs. All the newsboys carried plac- | clusion.” Apnouncement of the extension of um.l at present amounts to 40,000 quart; day, but it is feared’ that it will be greater before the end of mext week. Lansing Asks for Safe Conduct for ' (German Attaches WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 11L.—The that it had requested the British and French embassies to grant safe conduct for Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papon, the recalled German naval and military attaches, Germans Say French Assaults Repulsed BERLIN, Dec. 11.—(Via London.)—The Frepch agaln have bombarded and then attacked the position recently taken by the Germans mortheast of Souain in the Champagne region, but were repulsed, cording to official announcements today. Week Beginning Dec, 6. Free Movie Coupon ol Coupon tles bearer to a o R T GRAND SRAUTE UL 16th and Bianey. Home of b Grade tures. Monday Good Mondays and Thursdays | This coupon weod suy