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ing is the pendu- m that keeps buying VOL. XLV—NO. 159, ILLA TURNS ON | OWN GENERALS -) © S THEY YIELD . Former Head of Rebellion Hides l“. Mountains with 400°Armed | lien Prepared to Fight Former Army. NORTHERN POWER SURRENDERS Border States and Forces to Car- | ranza in Return for Meroy to Al] but Two. evod 0 X mountaing of Chihuahua te, pre- pared to oppose hia former organi- zation. The Carranza de is in official coutrc overnment the farmer | Villa state of Chibhuahua by virtue of an agreement belweee Ceaerals Roberto Limon, Randa, | Lic ant Colo ano Paliza 2nd Colonal Edu slon, and Carranza Consul Andreas Ceoreia, by which 4,000 iroops and the organi- zation of the Villa government, in- cluding the cities of Juercz and Chi- huahuz and 21l border poinis, accept the Carrarza domnation. The agree- ment grants amnesty to all but Gen- eral Villa and his brother, Hipolito Vilta. Alore. into conference m General Villa 1o Leave The generals ecntered yesterday as Celegates ! to confer with the ( anza consul, An- rghs Q. Garc’a upon the plan to turn er the entire territory and all troops land arms, 4,06 men. and for himself to leave the capital without any following. They reported late last night the re- sult of their conference to General Villa at Chihmehue City. Late today, they had received no reply from General Villa and instead learned that after recelving their advices General Villa gathered 400 or 500 men and left the capital and that his whereabouts were unknown. Upon opening the conference with the Carranza consul today the delegates an- nounced that they would proceed upon the unrescinded authorization as given by Generai Villa. They sald they believed he feared that the delegates would not be able to secure him immunity from prose- cution should he cross the international line. Washiugton Relieved. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Gratification end ‘relief were frankly displayed by SUFFS MAKE PEACE— The election of Carrie Chap- man Catt as president is re- ported to be the signal for peace in the suffragist ranks, SAYS SCHMIDT IS LEADER. IN PLOT Star Witness for State in Los An- geles Dynamite Case Tells Story to Jury. OTHERS WANTED TO BACK OUT administration officials today when news came from Bl Paso that seven of General Villa's generals and leaders signed an agreement to turn the rebel army of the north over to the de facto government of Mexico. Confidence is felt here in the reported promise of Villa to eliminate himself and if he appears on the Ameri- can side of the International boundary line he will find a free road. Villa's withdrawal and the incorpora- tion of his army into that of the de facto government are regarded here as in- materially the strong patrol the United Btates has been obliged to maintain (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Huntington Wilson and Mrs. Lucille Powell Aie Married SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—Hunting- ton Wilson, former assistant secretary of state and Mrs. Lucille Powell, divorced wife of Frederick James Powell, New York lawyer, were married here last Tuesday and kept the fact a secret until today. They were married by a justice of the peace and the only witnesses were Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Sharon of San Fran- tisco, and John Newlands, son of Francis G. Newlands, United States senator from Nevada. | The couple are prominent socially in New York, Newport ann Washington Both recently obtained divorce decrees at Reno. with twenty men five years ago, ac- cording to the testimony of Donald Vose, the detective who was placed on kis trail five years ago and who ap- poared today as the star witness in Schmidt’'s trial on a charge of mur- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.—Mathew | A. Schmlidt was the leading, and not & subordtmate;~“figurs 14 the ton- spiracy which resulted in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building ON VICE IN STATE Commission of Inquiry Says Chil- | dren Separated from Mothers | Buried in Heaps by Wholesale. FIVE THOUSAKD IN ONE PLACE Immorality Declared to Be as Ram- pant as Before “Red Light” Zone Closed. CONDITIONS AMONG WORKERS BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.—In an ex- haustive detailed report the state- | wide vice commission, named by Governor Goldborough in January, 1913, today made public the results of its inquiry Probably the most sensational of the features dealt with in the report is the alleged traffic in babies. It is asserted that investigations found there are institutions in Baltimore to which the mother of an illegitimate child may consign her offspring upon the payment of an agreed sum and forever rid herself of legal responsi- bility for it. Burled in Heaps. Of the hundreds of children so taken in charge by the institutions the com- mission avers that 80 to % per cent die and are buried in heaps fn small plots of ground, one such plot approximately fitty-five feet square: having been the | tomb of 5000 bables since 1886, | The high death rate is attributed to the | separation of infant from its mother at depriving it of the in- | dividual attention it would have other wise received. No evidence was adduced that the bables were neglected at the institutions. Since the commission began its work the police have closed the resorts in the “red light” districts here formerly tolerated by the authorities. According to the report, however, there is no evi- dence that immorality is not practiced as extensively as ever. Much of this evil is practiced clandestinely, says the commis- slon and business places, offices, boarding places and even homes are said to have been found in great numbers where im- morality is Introduced and continued in practice. f Conditions in Weorking Places. Much attention is given to social condi- tlons in factories, stores and many in- stances are glven of immorality forced upon girls by their emplayers or their superiors at their places of employment, the pommlty of réflisal Betnk the 168 F| thelr position. The hoard belleves that a continuation of the inquiry is desirable and recom- mends creation of a permanent morals board. Threat to Close Banks in Mexico thereby der. Schmidt, Vose declared, re- AI‘OIISGS Pl‘OteSt counted at the home of Emma Goldman in New York, on Sep-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Closure of for- tember 23, 1914, his part in the| ¥ banks in Mexico City and destruction dynamite plot and asserted that he had carried it forward in spite of Anton Johannessen, a San Francisco building trades organizer, who called a meeting of labor leaders and then advised that it be called off. Vose, who admitted on the witness stand that his real name was Donald Voss Meserve, was the man who caused the arrest of Schmidt In New York in February last. He had been kept in seclusion here since the trial began. Once several weeks ago when he was found in a hotel lobby ) he was assaulted by a number of men | and was saved and taken to Riverside, a nearby city, by his bodyguard At the beginning of his testimony Vose, or. Meserve, said that he lived in San Francisco in September, before the Times plant was d) and twenty of its workmen (Continued Page Two, Col Germany Prepares to Smash “War Babies” The Weather ‘ Forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesda; For Omaha, Council Bluffs ~Fair; warmer. Temperature y: | and Vicinity | at Omdha Yeaterda Hours De 5a. m. Ga.m Ta. m. §a. m 9a. m 10a. m e m 12 m. 1p 2p. 3p ip 5p. 6p. p Comparative Local Record. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday. 15 18] Mean temperature. % % Precipitation ........ o 0 Temperature and o tures From the normal. Normal temperature Excess for the day.... Total deficiency l:‘r’u'e “March Normal precip) * Deficlency f .t inch Total rainfald since March 1....26.98 inches Deficiency gihce March 1 1.9 inches Deficiency for cor. period, .28 inches Deficiency fOr cor. period, 1913.. 5.27 inches Reports from Stations at 7 P. M. Station and State Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. 7p. est. fall heyenne, partly cloudy 00 avenport, clear...... 5 ® mver, cloudy. 0. ... 4 W ® Jes Moines. cloudy.. 3 » orth Platte, clear. 3 0 Omaha, cloudy ® o Ru;ru City, pt. cloudy. 2 " eridan, cloudy oses 0 ux City, cloudy K ® Valentine, Iy cloudy. 0 L. A. WELSH. Local Forecaster. L4 1915, 1914, 1943. 1912. | s 1 3 BERLIN (Via Leondon), Dec. a post bellum tax on all war profits, by requiring companies and corporations to lay aside a specfal reserve of W per cent of their wartime profits, promises & discussion of methods to recover for the state undue to extend itself into or exbessive profits on war contracts. gathered navy supplies have resulted i the inita countries, of a popular special taxation on war profits, tory bill, felt compelled for the war years . 1910, a month 20.—The | debate in the Reichstag of the govern- | ment's measure to prepare the way for The reports that great profits are being by contractors for army and tion in Germany, as in other belligerent movement for but the government in introducing the prepara- technical reasons to adopt the principle of general | taxation on all increases of profits during of Mexican credit are predicted in official communications today to the State de- partment from some of the Kuropean embassies, should Carranza carry out his intention of foreibly compelling the banks to redeem thelr notes in gold immediately when . presented by the government. Strong representations have been made to the State department by the embassies, Representations against closing banks unable to pay bills of exchange in gold were sent today by the State department by J. R. Silliman for transmission to Villa. The chief bank affected is the National Bank of Mexico, a concern whose stock is held chlefly by French investore, | LARGE QUANTITY OF WOOL | IN WYOMING SOLD DOUGLAS, Wyo., Dec. 20.—(Speclal.)— Two hundred and twenty-séven thous- and pounds of stored wool has been sold in Niobrara, Converse and Natrona counties during the last week at prices averaging 23 cents per pound. The clips sold as follows: Wiillams Sheep com- pany, 90,000 pounds, Converse county; Albert Rochelle, 75,000 pounds; Bonsell & Henry, 14,000 pounds; J. M. Cattle com- pany, 17,00 pbunds; all in Niobrara county; Nat Quinn, 35,00 pounds, Na- trona county. About 1000000 pounds of stored wool has been sold in this district during the last three week and very little remains in the warehouses, GAS COMPANY EMPLOYES ASPHYXIATED AT PLANT| JOWA FALLS, Ia, Dec. 20.—(Special Telegram.)—Frank Kramer and I. G. ' - | White of the lowa Gas company were | ssphyxiated here this afternoon while at work at the plant. White had gone into an oll tank to make some repairs’ and was overcome with gas. Kramer sought | to rescue him and suffered the same fate. The bodles were recovered this evening. Both were married and leave large fam- 1lfes. B Narrow Escape PARIS, Dec, 2. nd of Belgium when Germa queen are printed today by the Petit Journal The king and queen were of church from mass the congregation with the King and Queen of Belgium Have ‘ Details of the narrow | escape from death recently of the king avilators threw bombs on the fishing vil- lage where the royal couple now reside, coming out rest of says the paper's cor- respondent, when six German aeroplanes fr m Airship Bomb rapidly that few had time to comply with his Instructions before the machines were | over the village. Two bombs fell & fow | yargs from the king and queen, but| they were not hit by the flying frag- ments. The correspondent continues n TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Earl Kitchener is soon to we of England’s most beautiful dowagers. KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM AND WOMAN HE MAY WED-—English social circles are agog over rumor that 1915—TWELVE PAG ES. d the Countess of Minto, one Her daughter, Lady Eileen Elliott, is said to be the most beautiful of the younger titled set. N0 FORD MEETINGS | ALLOWED BY DANES Head of Peace Mission Learns He Cannot Hold Any of Them in Copenhagen. HE WILL MAKE VISIT THERE CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 20.—Henry Ford has received information that he will be prohibited rrqn holding meetings in Copenhagen, it was learned today. He will go there, however, to select the delegates to accompany his peace party to The Hague. Mr. Ford gxpects to go to Copenhagen In a week. The pewspapers In commenting pdl- torially on the Ford peace mission ex- pross dittle -hope fpr the success—of -ty The Verdens Gang, after saying th the expedition will lve in history, adds: “The groat industrial organizer has un- dortaken a gigantic task seemingly with- out a definite plan. His peace plans seem without shape and not worked out. The delegates appear to know nothing about it. The purpose is greatly to be admired, but it unfortunately is vague. Nevertheless it will figure in history.” The other newspapers comment In a similar vein. Steamer Eastland Sold to the Naval Reserve of Illinois CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—The steamer Kast- land, which overturned in the Chicago river July 14, causing the loss of Si2 lives, was sold to the Illinois Naval re serve today for $46,000. Alterations will be made in its hull to make it seaworthy, and it will be used as a training ship. The vessel was s0ld to satisty the salvage claims of the company which raised it The Day’s War News l BELGIUM HAS BEEN the of notable activity by both in the way of artillery fi cording to Berlin. Allled tors whelled the WBel but were driven NUMEROUS ARTILLERY actions ve taken place along th front in France, Paris reports. WITHDRAWAL OF British troops bay and Ansac lipoll pentnsula and seene of of operation’ nounced London. The signifi- cance of move is mot clearly brought out by the official an- nouncement, but it may heral the abandonment of the Gallipili enterprise. DAVGHTER LADY EILEEN ELLirs TAKE MAN FROM ANERICAN GRAFT German, Taking Out U. S. Papers, is Removed by Officers of French Cruiser, BORINQUEN VESSEL SEARCHED NEW YORK., Dec. 20.—Wilhelm Garde of Brooklyn, purser of the American steamship Borinquen, was removed from the vessel off the har- bor of S8an Juan, Porto Rico, by offi- cers of the French cruiser Descartes, according to the Borinquen skipper. The ship arrived here today. According to Captain Dow of the Borin- quen ife incident occurred ‘about 1 . m. on LQecember 16, while his ship was five milest outside San. Juan harbor. After from™ the % Wad' come abondd they sent a boat alongside and directed Furser Garbe to get in. To stop the Borinquen the Descartes threw its searchlight on it, then fired a blank shot across its bows. Garbe, It was said, was a German, but had taken out his first citizenship papers somoe time ago. He had been employed by the line about three years. Deal in Interurban Stock is On; May Build Line to Omaha Soon (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Deo, 20,~(Special Tel- egram.)—Indications today point to the sale of the stock of the Robinsons in the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrlce Interurban railroad to W, E. Sharp and other cap- italists who own the Lincoln Traction company and the new terminal company which is erecting the big building at the corner of Tenth and O streets in this elty Harvey Musser, who has had charge of the road since the death of the eclder Robinsin, is here and it {s understood will transfer the stock of his clients, amounting to about $160,000, a controlling interest, to the above mamed company and that ag soon as the deal Is made preparations will be started for com- pleting the road to Omaha. Former President Taft is Better LA CROSSE, 0 Former President ft, who arrived here sick last night, was mueh better this morning. He arose at 10 o'clock and said he thought e would be able to attend receiptions arranged for him today ani make an addresy tonight, SIN( On Trains, Noww Stands, it _Eotel oto, Sa ish Fleet Withdrew in March as Straits at Meroy | of Guns. DEFENDERS READY TO FLEE | Ramparts Crumbling and Ottoman's Ammunition Just About | Exhausted. THEN ENTENTE SHIPS RETIRED (Correspondence of The Associated Pross.) VIENNA, Nov. 20.~~Had tho| allled fleet returned to its attack upon the Dardanelles batteries on the day after the great bombard- ment of March 19 last, the waterway to Constantinople would have been surely foreced, in the opinion of a number of artillery officers of the defense works near Tachamek Kale, expressed to the Associated Press correspondent who has just come from the Dardanelles front to Vienn=, One of the principal batteries had for three of its large callbre guns just four armor plercing shells each whe nnight ended the tremendous ef- fort of the British and French fleet. it appeared. For the fourth gun five shells were left, making for the entire battery a total of seventeen projectiles of the sort which the aggressors had to fear, What this meant is best understood whon it is was the one which had to be given the widest berth by the allled fleet. Told to Pack. several artillery officers from the bat- tery in queation. “Oh, they are sure to get in tomorrow," The officer stated his reasons. He was 80 sure that the British and French would return In the morning to finish their task that there was no question in the ammunition matter. of ammunition,” he said. other shore without trouble, advice," Already to Beat It. Sweet Leaves Rock Island for Denver railroad directors in this city today. tem, out delay. Grande by the Gould interests, U. 8. Protests to Britain Upon Holding WASHINGTON, Dec. States has protested to 2.~The Great ments between this country and Sweden, Becretary Lansing annouced today. ment that parcel post shipments had beer explanation, Mr. Lafsing sald. Mexican Revolutio GERMANY IS SAID to the concentration at e begu of Au the Greek ro-f man fore The concen fon win pleted by Thursday. PARTY OF Form Premler Gour naris, wow minister of the 1 terfor in the Skouloudis eabin. secan to have been euslly au cessful in the Greek eleet be Do It Now Make Your Xmas Shopping Easy Prepare your lists of purchases and range of prices in advance ““This is the fifth air raid which was absolutely unjustified, since the village | is unfortified and inhabited only by fish- | ermen. What makes it worse is that the appeared, flylug low. Apparently they| aeroplanes came from the sectiton of were coming from Ostend. The king at|the German front <ommauded by the ! | onee told the people o scatter and take| prince @ Wurtembverg, first cousin of sbelter, but the acroplanes approached s 0| the Belgian queen. at home from the Advertisements in The Bee Shop Early B LPASO, Tex., Dee, 20 The Mexican volution, which was practically ended oday 50 far as the Villa or wtion 18 | concerned, began In 1997 with the activi |ties of Antonio Villarea) and the Magoon | brothers, looking toward the unscating of the lste Porfirle Diaz as president | Villa gained promimence ws a4 military der through assistance rendercd Fran- co Madero in the operations preceding parture of Diaz from Mexico in From the assassination of President wdero and Vige President Juarcz in Villa aligned himself with Car- za and entered the so-called plan of Guadalupe the Agua Callemtes convention in 1914, Villa renounced the Guadalupe plan and with Bmilapo Zapata, attucked Car | ranza in ‘Morelos atate | 1n the spring and summer of 1915 Villa forces were defeated at Celaya and ’\ the Carransza army under Ge ) n, falling back to Agues Calintes, which he evacuated in July A few weeks later lero, & ieneral Raoul Ma Villa commander, was defeated at Monterey. He fell back to Torreon and evacuated that place in September. Following recognition by the United ‘tates of the Carranza government the facto government of Mexico last n Engs After ' Nearly Ten Years of Violence [October, Madre mountains into Sonora. Defeated |in the battle of Agua Prieta and in sub- sequent skirmishes, | remnant of his forces | staty Fol Into wing the fall of armed men, about rolling stock of the » | suffered | ficials charge that ehureh currency, reigned in Villa coutrolled territory. considered that the battery in question During the evening of March 18 the | Arsoclated Press correspondent talked to | his mind as to the propriety of discussing “We'll hold well enough to make them think that there is no end to our supply “But It ean't be done if they go about their work In read earnest. With out heavy pleces use- less they can reduce the bateries on the The cuse looks hopeless. You had better take my Following the injunction thus gives the correspondent arose early next morning and packed his few belongings, keeping meanwhile a watchful eye on the tower (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) & Rio Grande NEW YORK, Dee. 20.—Afthur E. Sweet was elected vice president and general manager in charge of operation at a spe- clal meeting of the Denver & Rlo Grande Mr. Sweet, who at present is the chief operating offielal of the Rock Island sys- will resign from that position at once and enter upon his new duties with- He succeeds F. L. Brown, who recently resigned when Benjamin F. Bush was deo- posed from the presidency of the Rio Up Mail for Sweden United Britain ugainat interferonce with parcel post ship- Mr. Lansing said that the Swedish min- ister had complained to the State depart- held up by British warships on the high Besides filing & protest the State de- partment has asked Great Britain for an Villa 1ed a force of 13,000 men from Casas Grandes through the Slerra he retired with the | Chihuahua | Monterey Villa lost the support of the rich and powerful Madero family. Large Madero holdings in Coahulla were confiscated by the Carranza officlals. Throughout the revolution the Zapata forces have operated chiefly in the viein- fty of Mexico City. The surrender of the Villa organization includes about 4,000 per cent of the railroads of Mexico and the state of Chihuahua, the richest mining and live stock district in Mexico. According to officlals here the forelgn interests in Villa controlled territory haye loss estimated at $50,000,000, |due to oconfiscation and alleged thefts | of ore, cattle and other property and the | depreciation of Villa currency. These of- re stripped of their treasures, banks looted of coin and specie and confiscated goods given away to satisfy people ruined by lack of employment and depreciation of Villa and murder and terrorism iLE COPY TWO CF NT ALLIES GIVE 1T UP BRITONS LEAVE WHEN DARDANELLES ARE AL BUT FORCED Turk Officers Say French and Brit- TWO DISTRICTS ON DARDANELLES Official Announcement Says that Troops Have Been Withdrawn from Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay Regions. | TEUTONS ACTIVE IN FLANDERS ;’Attnck on English Trenches Near | Ypres Uner Cloud of Gas is | Repulsed. | ARTILLERY DUELS CONTINUE BULLETIN, TLLONDON, Dee, 20.—Operations in other sectors of the front on the Gallipoll peninsula than those from which troops were announced today to have been withdrawn are to be continued, it fs intimated in an of- ficlal statement lssued tonight. The withdrawal was effected without the knowledge of the movement on the part of the Turks it is declared. LONDON, Deec. 20.—Withdrawal of the British troops from the Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay regions of the Gallipoli peninsula, {8 announced in a brief communication given out here this afternoon. Beyond the statement that the movement was effected successfully with small losses, few detalls are given and no allusion {s made to the allied . forces on the Seddul Bahr front, at the tip of the peninsula. Some indication of the long expected offensive by the Germans in Flanders, where the massing of Teutonic troops is sald to have been in progress for several weeks, s contained In official British and French reports, which state that under a clovd of Germans attacked British trenches northeast of Ypres. According to these reports, the Germans falled so completely that few of them emerged from thelr own trenches, and those who did were mowed down by artillery five. Second Attack Repulsed. The attack was dellvered in the early morning. Later In the day the Germans displayed unusual activity, directing a heavy hombardment on the British lines near Ypres and on the French positions at Mensines, Mines were exploded before. the trenches at Armentieres and Ger- nian irifantry attempted unsuccesstully to oeccupy the eraters thus opened. Along the remainder of the western front the interminable artillery duels Mihiel developing an intense fire, ‘The Russian and Macedonlan fronts. so far as the public {s advised, aré in a atate of compartive quiescence, /- The position of Greece is stil) regarded with keen anxiety on both sidles. The Gournals, party is reported viciorious in the Greek elections, but the expected change In leaders is not accepted as im. plying a different military policy. Eng- land {8 Impatiently awalting the crossing of the Oreek frontier to see whether Greece will ‘leave the Saloniki area free for m struggle on which the Greeks would become impassive spectators. In Bulgaria the next step is the subject (Continued on Page Four, Column One. Father of (irl is Accused of Murder PARIS, Tex,, Dec, 20.~T. R, Walton, father of Pauline Walton, 17, who was murdered in. her home early Saturday morning, was arrested today and form- ally charged with the murder of his daughter. The arrest was made shortly after 1 m., nearly the entire sheriff's, con- ard police forces participating. done, it was sald, as a preca tlonary measure for fear of mob violence. Walton, at daylight, was taken away by officers on a southbound train, THE WANT-AD.-WAY n There great many deals Being made every dav, .‘:— who are constently ustuy result-gotting Weut Ad Way. Now I8 the time to start your business. Ana'yza Studv the wants it lie about it In your copy. Should you desire assistance in pre paring your advertising copy “The Hee | readily wive vou auy and &l the help you may need Telephone Tyler 1000 and PUT IT IN THE OMAHA BEE, P / continue, with the Freneh gune near 8t