Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1916, Page 1

| J { [ HE ' NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN. 7O s 191k w, | VOL. XLV—NO. 169, OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNI}\'(I. JANUARY 1, 1916 OMAHA DAILY BEE TWENTY PAGES. GREATER OMAHA FORGES AHEAD | AT RAPID RATE Some Remarkable Increases in Bus- | iness Activity Are Revealed by Figures Showing Business Done. WMANN'S SLORD = \9\S FEW INDUSTRIES SHOW LOSS| Packing Houses, Lumber Business Smelter, Real Estate Transfers ) All Move Ahead. il FARMERS HOLD BACK GI{AINl Shows Big Gain in All Classes of Building. AND NOW FOR THE YEAR 1916 19185, 1914, +$213,843,059 $1. . 177,191,675 Real Hst, Trans. 15,849,908 Pack Hue. output 115,434,850 Smel output. 39,113,610 982,670,880 113,464,917 27,131,148 Omaha has just closed the niost | successful year’s business it has en- | Joyed since the city was planted on the banks of the issMourl river nearly three-quarters of a century ago. The greatest gains are in real es- tate transfers, manufacturing job- Ding. buillding operations and bank | Jobbing have again been compiled by BOOST FOR OMAHA the bureau of publicity in the same painstaking way in which the bureau Campaign to Push Sale of Omaha Goods in Omaha Trade Territory has done this for the last several years, getting exact figures to the is Attended with Satisfac- tory Results, last penny from each individual manufacturer and jobber in the city GREAT BENEFIT TO NEBRASKA Last March. some sixty or more to make up an absolutely reliable total. of the leading manufacturing firms and corporations of Omaha entered upon a campaign that had for iis | purpose the education of the ypeople {of Nebraska and Omaha trade terri- tory in regard to patroniding home industry and the usg of Omaha | made goods, price and quality being jequal to those wianufactured else- where. These Omaha manufacturers, and those intimately connected with them, in the campaign, did not work By no means, however, does this new alone, nor did they hide their light system account for the whole of the in- |under a bushel. Instead, they creage recorded, for the year has been | called the newspapers to their as- especlally productive of blg deals in real | gietance and through the medium of estate. So much: has this been true that 4 the activity has on several occasions {the press, once each week during been characterized as a ‘“rich mans the balance of the year, they ex- boem."” { ploited their plans. With the end of the year those who went into the campaign cast up their ac- counts, made their estimates and decided that the experiment was attended with the best kind of results and that by reason of the work carried on, the name of Omaha and the excellent reputation of its manufacturing industries had been carried into new flelds and that trade was being drd®n from a much larger area. Big Real Estate Deals. The volume of real estate transfers al- most doubled over the amount of such business done last year. Thus the figures stand {n round numbers approximately $,600,000 last, to nearly $16,000,000 this year. One thing, of course, is to be con- midered in these figures, namely that they are more nearly representative of the @ctual volume of money represented in the transfers of the year than the ‘figures have been in past years. This Is Dbecausa the necessity of buying federal revenue stamps for the instrumentalities of real estate transfers, makes it ob- ligatory upon the parties to the contract 1o reveal the true amount represented in the transaction, insteaq of filing a deed bearing the easy phrase ‘‘considera- tion $1.” Manufacturing Gain, The manufacturing output of the gity hows the magnificent gain of $17,600,527 last year. A large percentage of this ounted for by the increase the of bullion reduced in the/smelt- | { | Money Welj Invested. The plan adopted by the Omaha manu- facturers cost them some money, but they feel that it was money well invested For the information to the public that went out weekly through the press was a constant booster, one that was working twenty-four hours every day and seven daye each week. Of the sixty or more manufacturing concerns that entered into the scheme there was not one that did not secure from five to fifteen new customers by reason of the canpalgn that was carried bnight and warnings were |On. Merchants all through Iowa, Minne- o raists to stand by to pro- | 50ts, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska and the mountain states became familiar el with the lines put out by the Omaha manufacturing concerns and it was not AMINER’S RULING {long after the inception of the plan be- N DAKOTA SET ASIDE |fore orders commenced to come in, speci- | tying the articles needed and giving ship- ping directions. The advertisements that were inserted in the Omaha papers each Tuesday soon same to be lookel upon as familiar ac- quaintances and within & couple of months they were classed among the old triends. The merchants in Omaha trade terri- tory soon became convinced that with thelr closeness to the place of produc- tion, they could order their goods and get them much sooner than dealing with manufacturers in far away cities. They Vesterdny. |too, recognized that by buying Omaha Deg. |made goods, they were getting goods 2 i equally as good as they could buy else- 35 | Where, could get them laid down in thelr *" home towns a few hours after ordering, 30 | and considering the difference in freight harges, for much less money in almost {every instance. | Boosting the Central Weat. There was still another thing that mer- chants of Omaha trade territory took into consideration when they ordered Omaha made goods. In the past when they had been buying goods manufactured in dls- tant cities they realized that they were bullding up industries that were foreisn to them and their interests. When It came to buying goods, the output of the factories of Omaha, they quickly reslized that they were helping to bulld up & bigger and & better Omaha and that meant bullding up the state of Nebraska and the adjacent territory They realized that by having a greaer it meant a better market for Jec. 3L—Orange citrus fruit re- white mantles | nowfall of yester- a bright sun today. the freezing point n some localities, but ist conditions resulting o damage was done to Ps now being gathered. reau forecasts even colder were glyen “Kable andef elo 3 RE, 8. D., Dec ~The supreme today set aside the order of State Bank Examiner J. L. Wingfield, which ordered all state banks operating in the state to deposit 10 per cent of their legal reserves in state banks within the state The Weather For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity —Unsettled, with rain; no important change in temperatu Tempernture ot Ginnhn EY 1916, 1914, 1913, 1912 ighest yesterday. 2w 2 west yesterday. » 9 v 3 Mean temperatu 0 9 2 = Precipitation . T o 0 0 ture and precipitation depar- rom the mMorma temperature for the day.... tal deficienc: '.lunee prec pltation. oy for the day. rainfall since el to sell. It meant a better market for {Continued on Page Ten—Column One.) SAY, OLD TIMER, I'LL NAVE TO MUMP SOME TO BEAT THAT FORD PEACE PARTY IS AT COPENHAGEN Delegates Met by Crowds of People Upon Their Arrival at Danish Capital, WILL LEAVE UPON WEDNESDAY COPENHAGEN (Via London), Deg¢. 31.—The Ford peace delegates arrived here today. Crowds of per- sons met the boat that brought the Americans across the water from n. e police authorities have pro- hibited the holding of any demonstration in Denmark and after the party had registered at various | was announced by the| hotels it executlve committee that strict com- plfance would be given to the order of the authorities to demonstrations, therefore it is probable that during the visit to Copenhagen the mem- bers of the mission will engage only in informal conferences with a view to obtaining Danish delegates and preparing for the trip to The Hague. When the party was leaving Stock- jholm thousands of Swedish people gathred at the station to bid it fare- well and sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee.” Leave on Wednesday. LONDON, Dec. 3lL.—A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram company from Copen- hagen says that the Ford party probably will sail next Wednesday for Rotterdam on the steamer A. P. Bernstorff. Hai Resh Conclave Elects Its Officers DENVER, Dec. 3.—The annual con- clave of the Hal Resh, a Jewish Na- tional Fraternal association, which has been in session here for four days, ad- journed late today with the election of officers and the selection of 8t. Paul for | the next meeting place. The officers elected were as follows: Council chief, Louls Council Lincoln. Council Council land Council phis. Counel historian, Joseph, Mo. Earthquake Shock Felt at St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 3L—An earth- quake shock lasting fifteen minutes was prophet, scribe, Rudolph Loeb, Atlanta. Installer, Allan Litman, Cleve- Editor, Mavurice Hirsch, Mem. Louls Schenbeck, St recorded at 6:30 o'clock this morning on | the seismograph of St. Louls university The direction apparently was southeast by south and the distance was approx!- | 1700 miles from St the selsmograph Louls. has For been mately four days restless. Free Movie Coupon By a special arrange- ment The Bee is able to give its readers each Bunday a combination coupon good for a free admission with each paid ticket to a number of the best movies. In The Sunday Bee GREEKS PROTEST | | ALLIES' ARRESTS | OF FOE CONSULS | | Fiie by Entente at Saloniki as Vio- lation of Its Sovereign Rights, {REUTERS FORWARDS REPORT |At.hem Government Terms Seizure | i | Teuton Officials Taken in Charge Because of Plane Attacks Upon City. {THIS IS REASON FOR ACTION | 1, LONDON, Dec. 31.—Greece has | | protested against the arrest of the | | consuls of the central powers and their allies at Saloniki, which it terms a violatlon of Greece's sover- | eign rights, says Reuter's Athens | correspondent. The arrest of German and other ! consuls at Saloniki reported in a dis | patch early today from that city, | was because of a German aeroplane attack on Baloniki, it was stated Létts Plfiy Trick‘Upon Germans and Mow Down Hundreds| PETROGRAD, Dec A Christmas day (Via London.)— boast by the Germans on the Riga front e by banner Merry Christmas New Year's day means of & hoisted on the trenches saying. Riga was answered by a raid of Lettish fusillers Chriatmas night fn which three companies of the Ger. mans were wiped out The Letts were able to trick the Ger. mana by a knowledge of the German After nightfall, a company of gained the rear of the German trenches and fired a rocket signal when their feat was accomplished. A Russian SEVEN STATES G0 DRY AT HIDNIGAT Sale of Liquor in Iowa, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Ar kansas, South Carolina Illegal. we will be In language. Letts OFFER 3,000 SALOONS AFFECTED CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—State prohibition of the sale and manufac- ture of intoxicating liquors will be- come effective in seven states at mid- wide motor car then approached the and opened an enfilading fire Germans. The Letts In the rear yelled out in German: “Back, back; Russians are coming.” Thereupon the Germans fell ward thelr supposed cor ox them with rifle fire. In the confusion few of the German's esoaped. Occupying the vacated trenches the Letts singing The Watch on the Rhine, waited for the approach of German reinforcements The unsuspecting German reinforcements oined in the singing and mown down from the trenches by machine guns thelr comrades had left hehind. BRITISH CRUISER NATAL GOES DOWN | Big Fighting Ship Sinks in Harbor | as Result of an Internal Explosion. on the back to- who met wer LONDON, Dee. 3 The British | armored cruiser Natal has sunk after | an explosion. Official announcement | to this effect was made here today. The Natal was sunk yesterday af- THE WEATHER. Snow or Rain IAUSTRIA AGREES T0 MEET VIEWS OF - UNITED STATES Unofficial Version of Reply to Sec ond Ancona Note Indicates that Danger of Rupture Has Passed. | PUNISH SUBMARINE COMMANDER This Amounts to Disavowal of Act and Assurance that it Will Not Be Repeated. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Ameri- 1 can demands on Austria-Hungary in | connection with the destruction of the | steamer Ancona apparently have been {met in the new note from Vienna. The | | official text of Austria’s Ancona note | was received early today at the State department. The work of transla- ting from diplomatic code will take | several hours and arrangements for | publication will be made later. It the officlal text of Austria’s reply |to the second American note comforms public ] Maurice Goldsmith, St. Melvin Schlessinger, | ihem late today. | night tonight. | SohStahhnl— 1 More than 3,000 saloons, a large |Five Negroes Shot of brewerles, wholesals | | ltquor houses and distilleries will be and Two Burned to vt out of business. | The states which are to enter the E Dea:th in Ra'ce RlOts | dry column are Iowa, Colorado, Ore- |gon, Washington, Arkansas and BLAKSLY, Gu, Dec. 3l—Excitement o o o0 M fae th ati caused throughout this section by clashes | SOuth Carolina. Many coun B &l between white possemen and negroes | of the seven states have prohibited near here yesterday, In which seven no- | the sale of liquor for a number of |SToes were killed and two whiten serl- | yoarg ynder local option law ously hurt, had not entirely dled down 2 = today. Influential white citizens ex- | In Colorado district attorneys at a re. pressed the bellef, however, that there | cent meeting agreed that technically Colo- would be no more trouble. | rado's constitutional prohibition amend- Five of the negroes were shot and | ment and the enforcing statute do mot be- killed and two others were burned 0| gome effective until midnight January 1 death, according to reports here, as @ pbut it was also decided that the expira- result of three pitched battles between | tion of all Mquor licenses at midnight to- | the negroes and various bands of whites | night will render liquor sales on New seeking to capture Grandison Goolsby, [ Year's day unlawful, A negro farmer, and his two sons, Miko | 5 and Ulysses, accused of assassinating| S*I¢ in Colorade Extensive, Henry J. Villiplgue, an overseer, who| According to one authority between had thrashed one of the younger Gools- | 32,000,000 and $3,000,000 has been expended bys. Villipigue was shot in the back for liquor in Colorado within the last Wednesday night, his wife narrowly | week. escaping death from several other shots| Arkansas will have its first experience fired after he fell. | with prohibition when the statewide law, The negroes reported dead were Grandi. | Passed by the last legislature, woes into son Goolsby, his two Kons, both of whom | ®ffect with the coming of the new year. were burned in & cabin in whith they | TH® Arkansaa department of the Anti- sought refuge; ‘‘Hosh" Jewell, Charles loon league has anwounced that the Holmes, James Burton and Early High- | 10ague will have workers in the fleld to | towes: | ses that the law is enforced. Anti-pro 1t was estimated that there were sey- | hibitlon leaders have announced that ne | number and it was sald that probably half a | aostn wei's. Wounded. glven a thorough test. Samuel Pittman and O. B. Hudspeth, | 0 Jowa “bargain day sales” in the 502 members of the sheriff's posses, were the | 88100n8 of the state are in progress today only whites known to have been wounded, | Preparatory to the final closing tonight. Pittsman's right arm was broken by « | Under the mulct law repeal passed by the shot and Hudspeth was shot in the head, | 188t legislature statutory prohibition 1s He Is expected to recover. i restored, pending the action of the next The killings took place in the western éfislature and the people on the proposed part of this (Early) county, about ten | constitutional amendment for prohibition, miles weet of here, and near the Alabama | Which s to be disposed of within the next border. | two years. President and - con e Cashier of Racine, Wis,, Bank Indicted RACINE, Wis, Dec. 3l.—Charged with responsibility for the fallure of the de- | funet Commercial and Bavings bank, Charles R. Carpenter, cashier, and B. | Hinrichs, president, are under heavy bond |here today to appear In court and an- { swer indictments returned late yesterday | by the grand jury. | In the state of Washington the initiative | 'The Indictments were kept secret, pend- | prohibition law, ratified In, November, ing arrest of the men. This took place |1913, permita residents to purchase from |late last night. Carpenter Immediately |outside the state two quarts of spirituous | furnished bail of $30,000, and Hinrichs ball [llquor or twelve quarts of beer each ‘ot $5,000, | twenty di law, at least until prohibition has been Law Drastie, Tn Oregon the manufacture or sale of any kind of intoxicating liquor is abso- | lutely prohibited by constitutional amend- ment. Drug stores are not permitted to sell liquor for any purpose, with or with- out a doctor's prescription. HBach family may import for personal use a maximum elther of two quarts of spirituous or vin- ous liquors, or twenty-four quarts of malit lquors in mny period of four successive weeks. In operation further than a com- mon carrier may make deliveries of liquor and the illegal purchaser of liquor ls made equally culpable with the seller. The South Carolina dispensary system, under which fifteen of forty-four counties operated liquor dispensaries, will | cease to exist at sundown today Under | the new prohibition law individuals may obtain through shipment one gallon of liquor & month for personal use. Cer- tain spirits are permitted for churches, |and the practice of arts and sclences cording to an opinion by the attorney general of the state. { The Commercial and Savings bank| Idaho will go dry tonlght by virtue of ! closed its doors on September 17, 1914, and ' Statutory prahibition. Most of the state at that time the deposits were given at |has been dry under local option and only $2,600,000. Bince then a total of & per cent |About 130 saloons will be forced out of of all deposits has been paid in dividends, | business. | Possession of Liguor Orime. ARMING IMPLEMENTS Idaho's prohibition law is said to be ARE NOT IMPROVEMENTS the most drastic in the union. It not only closes the saloons, but makes pos- wession of any kind of malt or spirituous WASHINGTON, Dec, $L—The Feleral|liquor a crime, excepting wine for sacra- | Reserve board ruled today that agricul-|mental purposes and pure alcohol for tural implements are not to be regarded | medical, scientific and mechanical uses, as permanent improvements to farm and | Which is procurable only on an order therefore commercial paper drawn to pay | rom the probate court. for such implements is eligible for redis | count with federal reserve banks. out | {CZAR NICHOLAS MADE | BRITISH FIELD MARSHAL LONDON, Dec. 81.—It is officlally an nounced that King George has appointed Emperor Nicholas of Russia a fleld mar- hal tn the British army. saues { Flve Munared s and Fifteen | Breweries Wikl Quit, | DES MOINES, la.. Dec, 81,—More than 50 saloons in lowa are today conducting | year will be found on pages 6 amd | thelr “closing out” sales, preparatory to |3 50 thils oosin: shutting their, doors for the last time, | | unless some unforeseen act of the courts { The Day’s War News j SINKING OF the British armored | cruiser Natal by an intermal ex-| Lat is anncunced by the ad-| | mieaity. | OPFICIAL TEXT of Austria’s rveply | to the second American mote on | the Ancona was received in W tnglon today. RTHER REPORTS of the land- | ed troops on the Greek connt Kavala, cast of 5 K, | were received today. FROM GERMAN SOURCES comes veport of the n Serbian pparently reinforced by o cental Albanis. CLOSING 00T IN IOWA i Annual Review The Bee's Annusl Review | Omaba's srowth daring the of (Continucd on Page Two, Oolumn Four.) Colored Comics The Sunday Bee eral hundred whites in the various posses | {18ht Wil bo made for the repeal of the | Al au t . tornoon while in harbor, a8 the Te- | mumication saseiesd i the com sult of an internal explosion. are about 400 survivors. Issues Formal Statement. The members of the expedition are (Continued on Page Two, ( wander ‘ronnd the eity? 4 200t look around off-handed, ‘A job you'll soon ha hll‘:‘l. Save time and work, when you are looking for a Jjob, by consulth th \WELE WANTED COLUMNE" of TO DAY'S BEE, ~d) munication announced that the gubmarine There | commander who torpedoed the steamer had been punished, virtually ounly one phase of the Incident remains to be The Natal's ainking is the most severe | cleared up. loss which the British navy has sustained Indemnity Issue to Be Met. In several months. No British naval| That would be the payment of fndem- vessels of importance have been supk | DMLY for American lives lost, for which since last May, when the Triumph and |AUStria has expressed a willingness to: Majestio were torpedoed at the Darda-|MKe reparations. Later, however, there nelles. The Keel of the Natal was laid | MY be full exchanges between the Unitea down eleven yoars ago and ita displace- | State# and Austria on the question of ment wan only about one-halt of the |®UPMarine warfare and the necessity for JATesat BN, a0 Tohiers, warning before attacking merchantmen. | The vessel's normal complement was | It Wa4 Polnted out here that ia punish- {704 men. Its displacement was 13,660 tons. | N8 the submarine commander for failure It was 480 feet long and 73 feet beam, Its | 0 U8ke into account the panie prevalling largest guns were 0.2 inches, Of these |"POATd the Ancona before torpedoing the it carried three forward and three aft,|tcoel: the Austrian government in ef- It was armed also with four 7 100k, ieYOWed e NS AW BUVE AMSES | Buns, twenty-four three-pounders b BB ol o Beedlone v Pt ot 4 | ot such an incident. The Natal brought from Portsmouth | Officials Reserve Comment. | the body of Whitelaw Reld, American| Although officlals reserved comment | ambassador at lLondon, after his death |today pending the receipt of the official in 1912, remaining at New York for two | text, there was a relaxaticn of the ten- weeks, | slon which has been evident here. Up un- til a few days 0 there was an alr of G lif . gravity in ofl circles here over the allornia solons situation and the relations between the . two countries appeared to be on the Called to Revise verge of a break, but within the last day A or two there had been Intimations of a New Prlmal‘y Ao [favorable settlement of the controversy. | The Ancona was sunk by an Austrian | submarine off the Tunislan coast on No« SBAN FRANOISCO, Cal, Dec. 3l.—Gov- | vember 7. A few days later the Ameri ornor Hirdm W. Johnson issued a state- can government dispatched a mote to the ment today announcing that he would Augtro-Hungarian government demanding call a gpeciwt ‘sexalon ‘Of the California u aisavowal of the attack, punishment of logislature to meet Wedneaday, January (he submarine commander, reparation for 5, 1916, to consider the acquisition of the lose of American lives and assurances | California bullding at the Panama-Pa- ypa¢ such acts would not ocour again. cltic exposition for state normal school A ustria's reply was rogarded as unsatis- ? ¥* | can government, and & note was four hours. sent asking for a compliance with the The primary laws of the state are gen- | oot ei™ vy a ds. The erally considered In An UBBAUATACLOTY Anetmion st o in e, i Austrian note is in answer to that com- condition because some measures in- featl: | tended to provide for non-partisan regis. | ™" U™ : | tration and elections were rejected at o | Renly Comes In Sestions, recent election, while one of the weries | The reply came in sections. Secretary | of laws to this effect was left standing. lansing said this forenoon that one sec- | Tn his statement the governor terms tion had been translated and that he ex- | the election law situation *inextricable bected the complete translation would be confusion.”” A third object of the special in his hands before night. session, the second to be called during Officlals who had read the unofficial the five years of Governor Johnson's ad- version of the reply recelved in press dis- ministration, is an act for the benefit patches from London apparently were of the Panama-California International much gratified at its nature. Danger of exposition at San Diego, Cal., which will & break of diplomatic relations with Aus- be open all through the year. | tria-Hungary was no longer considered Four days are set as the probable dura- | imminent. Officials said, however, that tion of the session and $15,000 as the cost, additional correspondence on the sub et | although the statement says fillbustering | was sure to ensue. Becretary Lansing | tactics may run this up, | declined to comment on the reply until —_— :‘c had the complete officlal text before | him, Rumors Five Are t0 |7, coussed seesest crs'tae act ' 14 . clal text would be given out for publica- | Quit British Cabinet | tier totay er tomesro. secrotary | . . . Lansing has recelved from Ambassador ‘ Again Clrculatlng Penfleld o brief resume of the contents = Y | of the note. LONDON, Dec. 3l.—All members of the cabinet attended the meeting today to consider the draft of the bill for com- pulsory military service, and it appears, consequently, there have been no resigna tions. Rumor still 1s busy, however, with the names of Reginald MkKenna, chancellor of the exchequer; Walter Runciman, president of the board of trade, and Sir John Simon, home secretary. The forelgn secretary, Sir Edward | Grey, and the war secretary, Earl Kitch- | ener, are also mentioned in connection with possible changes in the cabinet, but even If several members withdraw It i | now clear that the government will not | break up over the question. Sir Edward Grey's health s again put forward as a reason he may retire in case of any reorganization of the minis- try. The general impression 1s that opposi- tion to the plan for compulsory service on the part of labor is lessening, although the declsion of labor leaders to refer the matter to the trades union congress leaves this question still open \Trial of Lorimer | Set for January 17|« CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—Willlam Lorimer, | former United States senator and presi- dent of the defunct La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank, was formally placed on trial today on a charge of looting the institution of $3,00,000 in money and se- curities, and the case was then continued to January 17, when the selection of jurors is to begin. Indictments against Thomas McDonald, assistant cashler of the bank, were d misged today by Hayden N. Bell, as- sistant state's attorney, who sald the evi- Vfle'm- did not justify placing Mr. Me- Donald on tris Former Cash DENVER, . 8l-John 8. Cuask, a former caaHier of the Firat National bank o ol n, ., A Wi - tn federal dlatrict court A Plot court. of Emt t:{ @‘E."G:‘;::’: o no intent in connec- to with the (rregularitios.