Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 1

‘ The Sunday Bee is the only Omaha newspaper that i k gives its readers four big \pcges of colored comies. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE T e VOL. XLV--NO. HAUSER'S NERVE BREAKS AS TRIAL Bandit Weeps for First Time After Defense is Presented to Jury in Trial for Smith Murder, 4 CASE WILL GO TO JURY TODAY ,' ( Attorneys Present Arguments, Al- ternately Pleading Convie- tion and Release. HE ASKS DEATH OR ACQUITTAL Arthur Hauser, bandit and leged murderer-—whose cold nerve has upheld him, unshaken, through desperate crimes, an escape from the Colorado penitentiary, flights ! from justice with a price on his head, solitary confinement and the prospect of the death chair—broke down yesterday after his defense, on which he relies to save him from the death chair, had been presented to the jury in Judge English's dis- trict court. At noon yesterday, just twenty- four hours previous to the time ~lean it is pr(lb'.l" the jury will take his fate in its hands in his trial for the murder of W. H. Smith, lianger wept in his cell in the county ) sail, ¢ Tears ran lo his face. “Bring my } wife here, he scbbed to Sheriff Mec- Shane, referrinz to Mrs. May Hauser who had just attempted to save his life by testifying to an alibi for him, not see her many times more. I to talk to her.” 0 Wan(s Death or Acquittal It was after court had finished its after- noon session, however, before Hauser's wife and baby and his mother visited him. Then he was more cheerful. "L { | “I may want want death or acquittal,” he told Deputy Sheriff Joe Wright, quoting his attorney, Iidward F. Rooney, of Topeka, who had made the same demand of the jury. . Case to Go to Jury Today. The case will go to the jury about noon 93 today, according to last night's indica- tions. The defense rested at noon yes- terday,” Hauser pot taking the witness stand in bis owa defense. i The jury must convict Hauser of first degree murder while attempting to rob or acquit him, Covrty Attorney Magney having dismissed a second count of the informatign which would have permitted ~obviction of manslaughter, a lesser : me. If the Jury convicts him, it must decide whether” death or Ilife imprison- ment #h#ll Be the penalty for the slaying of 'W. “FL.'Smith at Thirty-first and Dodg streets October: 16, Three attorneys talked yesterday after- noon, This morning J. Bednar will surh 'up the defense, County Attorney Magney will close for the prosecution, District Judge Eanglish will instruct the jury and the case will be given to the Jury. Strong Plea for Hauwser. Attorney Rooney made a powerful plea for Hauger. ile dwelt on the testimony of the wife in the bandit's behalf and the faflure of the state to impeach her by the testimony of a laundry driver, which were the outstanding features of the morning session of court and dramatic force was sufficient to the nerve of the alleged murderer “It Is circumstantial evidence on which the sta asks you to convict Arthur Hauser,” begai the lawyer. “Many a vic- tim of circumstantial evidence lies buried under the sod. PBut it you believe it is vour duty to take Arthur Hauser from a wife and baby and aged mother and send hint to the electric chair, I say do it. u believe him guilty of the foul of W, H. Smith, send him to A verdict to the peni- prove you cowardly. you are not sure he break It rdor the electric chair. tontiary would would prove gullty and you are sworn to acquit him 8 if you are not sure. } “The law of Nebraska is asking a human lite in atongment for crime. It is ask- ing its pound of flesh o, 100, we demand the extreme, the (Continued on Page Four, Column One.) The W;}a,ther 3 Forecast till 7 p. m. Saturday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity temperature. Fair; rising Deg s -11 11 -10 —4 1 & 6 6 6 Highest yesterday Towest yesterda -12 Mean temperature -3 & Precipitation ® 00 .00 . Temperature and precipitation depar- tures from the normal: )} Normal temperature.. __ 20 pA for the day 5 U “ Total deficiency since March 1 107 Normal precipitation ... 08 inch Deficiency for the day.......... .0 inch Total rainfall since March 1...27.92 inches Deflcfency since March 1 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1914. 3.57 inches Defidlency for cor. period, 1913, 5.83 inches Réports from stations at 7 F. M fon and State Temp. High- Rain- fil&:,‘ Weather. Tp.m. est fall e, cloudy -“ » 'Oh' o = E 0 4 6 0 s » 0 12 " 0 [ § 0 ueblo, cloudy. u © tapld Cily, sNOw.........—8 —6 T Salt bake City, cloudy.. 34 % T Bants Fe, snOW........... ¥ 42 Sherldan.’ cloudy -0 -8 ® gloux City, eloudy.. i 4 0 cloudy -8 5 0 Vaientine, N e - T ipdicates trace of precipitation LA Whsou, boae buicaster APPROACHES END al- | whose ! ! 181. | DEATH CLAIMS ONE OF OMAHA'S | ’ { LEADING MERCHANTS. | THOMAS KILP THOMAS KILPATRICK IS VICTIN OF GRIPPE Answers Call of Grim Reaper Less Than Two Months After the Death of His Wife, ATRICK FUNERAL TO 7152 6N SATURDAY Thomas Kilpatrick, pioneer mer- chant of Omaha and head of the dry goods firm of Thomas Kilpatrick & | Co., died at his home, 3100 Chicago 1 o'clock Friday. Bronchi- street, at tis and grip were the cause of his death. Ilis son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mis. George Mixter of Mo- 'line, 111, were with him at the end. Mr, Kilpatrick came to Omaha twenty-eight years ago and estab- lished the great firm which bears his name. He Wwas active in the bus- iness until about eight years ago, | when ill health caused him to take 'a less active part, althoygh he al- | ways maintained his interest it end was always a worker for the welfare of his employes. A substan- | tial cash gift to a number of those who had been in his service for a long time was one of his quiet bene- ‘!a:clions which became public a few | years ago. Wife Diea in Recently, Mrs | in death by less. than two months. 1915, died November 2 1M Kilpatrick | was born in Scotland and came to the 1 | ity he came to Nebraska. | He was always onc of the foremost men | in Omaha in the upbuilding of the city and the better= | ment of the people. His benevolences | were always quiet, like his benefactions to his employes, Lut they were of wide range, and he wus o man of deep human | | sympathies anl charming, unassuming personality. H { Funeral Saturdny. | Funeral services will be held at his| {late residence, 3100 Chicago street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock, after which | [the body will be taken to Cleve-! land, O., where it will Le laid heside that of his wife in Lake View cemetery. Mrs. Mixter I8 Mr. Kilpatrick's only living child. A son and daughter died | in their youth The Thomas Kilpatrick store | closed as soon as word of Mr, Kilpat- rick’s death was received and will re- | main closed until Monday morning. WYOMING MAN LIES DOWN ! UPON PRAIRIE AND FREEZES ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., Jan. 14.—(8pe- cial.)—~Realizing the futility of attempting to reach shelter in the teeth of a fifty- {mile gale in zero weather, Jack Green of this place laid down near the Big creek trail, folded his hands across his breast jand froze to death. His body was found by searching parties within a quarter of & mile of David Bird's ranch, his destina- tion, Green's death is the second from ex- Iposure in Wyoming this winter 11 of BEarth Kills Two, BINGHAM, Utah, ‘Jan. 14.—Louis Pap- | pas and Mike Pelegirini, ‘miners, both | single, were killed by a fall of earth and {rock in the Utah-Apex mine about mid- | night last night, Kilpatrick preceded her husband | line, in order to forfend against similar | 8he | outrages." veats of age. Ile | first direct assurahos that he will com- Utited States when he was a young man, | the United States government. Upon the | | settling first n Boston and later becom- | success of the steps he takes the next | ing & merchant in Cleveland, from which . move in the Mexican situation seems to | things looking toward nia, today introduced a resolution author- Was | eously shoulder the responsibility. — SATURDAY MORNIN( 15, 1916—FOURTEEN PAGES. OMAHA, JANUARY 1] HEAD OF MOVEMENT TO ENROLL ENTIRE COUNTRY FOR PREPAREDNESS--Mrs. William Alexander of New York, president of the National Special Aid society, an organ- ization to arouse women in behalf of more adequate national - SEND AN ARMY T™WO CE! SINGLE C©OPY 'VILLA GETS MEAT; 'AUSTRIAN ARMY 10 KILL GRINGOS 'TAKES CAPITAL On Trains, at Notel w Stan oto,, Se. ACROSS, BORDER $eihs No Intention of 8g in Mexico, Say ~a"hose Close to the “ Chief. WORKS ASKS THAT IT BE DONE Ilead of Foreign Affairs Committec S8ays War Talk is Unfair and Absurd GIVE NEW REGINE A OHANCE WwWa day's SHIXGTON, Jan to- ‘eeting it nt policy 34, At was decided that would main Carranza would to punish the Villa| tie pres be ta.ned ana Geneial Le depended « handits who killed American citizens. | N was | o formai announcement made, Lut officials cloke to the president clared the administration had no inten- tion of armed intervention in de- Mexico at | present was refterated that | Carranza should be given an opportun- | The view ity to demonstrate his ability to restore order. This was encouraged by a tele- gram from Carranza to his ambassador here promising every effort to run down | the bandita The attacks on the administration in | the senate and house were gone over at |the meeting and Secretary Lansing pre- | sented reports from the border. | 1t is geverally agreed that, beyond | making the representations already sent | Carranza, with which he has promised | comply, no further steps should be taken at present. Whether each mem- ber of the cabinet agreed with that view was not disclosed The. prestdent and members of his cab- to | inet were vepresented as being deeply shocked over the murder of Americans, but as believing that the Carranza | ! authorities should be able to control the ! situation Carranen Replies. General Carranza today telegraphed his ambassador as follows from his head- quarters at Queretaro “The murderous attack on the pas- senger train near Chihuahua was made by the only remaining band of outlaws. | This band is being pursued by my troops | | with & view to insure its capture, where- | { upon punishment, which their crime de-| ! serves, will be applied to every guilty participant, “Troops of the constitutionalist govern- ment have been ordered to establish | { patrols frum end to end of the railroad | { General Carranza'f dispatch. wi the'! ply with the urgent representations of | | depend. | Senator Works, republican, of Califor- izing and directing the president to in- tervene in Mexico to establish and main- tain a government there? until it is safe to withdraw, “Up to this time,” said Senator Works, addressing the senate, ‘‘congress has per- | mitted all responsibility for conditions in Mexico to vest upon the president. It too grave a responsibility. We have sympathized with the president with the | hope that conditions would right them- ! selves without intervention. I very much doubt now that such a peaceful outcome | is possible. ! | “Congreas alone has the right to de- jelare war, and that is what interven- tion means. Congress should courag- There is no reason for dividing the responsibil- | (Continued on Page Two, Colimn Two.) {Marinell, Pioneer : Ita!ian, Is Dead J. Marinell, an Omaha pioneer Italian, died at his residence, %7 South Twenty- first street vesterday afternoon, aged o re. He had been ill about three months. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed. He is survived by his widow and four sons, Henry, John, Tony and Joseph, and a daughter, Mrs. | Procudio, Mr. Marinell had been a resident of Omaha thrity-five years and during most of that time had been engaged in the fruit jobbing and commission business. He was prominent in Jocal Italian circle and was the first treasurer of the Om-hnl Italian club, |America Has Been Made Strong ! by the Hog, Says F. D. Coburn | COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 14.—America has | been made strong by the hog miore than {any other single influence, according to |F. D. Coburn, former secretary of agri~ culture in Kansas, who last night ad- dressed the final sessjon of the Ohlo Board of Agriculture's annual meeting on {“Some Patriotic Consideration of the | Hog | *“Hogs pay the taxes, clothe the family, send the children to school, and make | possible the development of new: homes,” |said Mr. Coburn. “They have provided {the food for the Anglo-Saxon race. With- fout them Chicago would be & prairie vil- | {lage, Kansas City a barren hill, and ,Omaha a ferry crossing. Take away the {Wheels of commerce cease to turn. | "“Tne pig fs & quiet, inoffensive, Chiis- illun sort of animal, symbolic to a greater extent of the peaceful virtues for which !t'ur nation is so conspicuods than is the {roving piratical cagle. The spout invert- ing the sall is a symbol of peace and in- duetry. The plg is a thrifty animal, turn- |ing to good account everything which {comes his way, and & far hetter repre sentative of the Americas character than |the roving, robbing e | “The hog is a coadenser; he s &' manu doing quadruples the value of the grain leas than @ bushel messure and in s sow and our banks would close and the | | facturer of hams, hash and head cheese, | ard, illuminating olls, halr brushes, liver pudding, tooth brushes, glue, buttons, | bacon, bristles, fertilizers and fats, knifo | handles, whistles, soaps, side meat, saddle covers and sausage. He is a mint and the yellow com of our country is the bullion he transmutes into golden cofn. “In the American hog wWe have an auto- matlc, combined machine for reducing the bulk in corn and enhancing its value. | It puts ten bushels of corn in & space of ' 1 | 1916 A Busy Year. Keep Abreast of Current Events 3 By Reading | The Bee. [eopt | below zero. reprisal defense. IMIRS WiILLIANI ALEXANDER, WARMER WEATHER ON WAY 10 OMAHA Cold Wave Goes East to Atlantic, _While Colonel . Welsh Pre- dicts Rising Temperature. WARM IN WESTERN NEBRASKA | “‘Going up,” says the thermometer, From 12 below zero at 6:30 a. m. yestorday it crawled steadily up- ward, attaining a position of only 1| below zero at 12 o'clock and still ris- | ing, while the south wind blew and gave promise of balminess. The Omaha cold wave has gone east and' is now being felt along the Atlantic coast. | Marked rises are noted all over the! west. At North Platte and Valentine, | Neb,, the mornmng temperatures were 16 below and 12 below, being rises of 12 de grees in twenty-four hours, Some other 7 a m. temperatures were Bioux City, 14 below; Kansas City, 6 be- | low; Des Moines, 16 below; St. Paul, 15/ below; Chicago, zero. ! Prince Albert, Canada, is experiencing quite a warm spell—warm for P. A.—that | 1s. The temperature there 18 up to % The coldest place u the | U. & A. this morning was Bismarck, N. | D,, with 32 below zero, | Ralironds Report Warmer, 1t is becoming warmer throughout Ne- braskd and according to the station re ports coming to the railroads the beljef | is that the back of the cold spell, if not broken, has been considerably bent Thursday rallroad reports indicated that there was not a spot in Nebraska viier it was about zero Yesterday morn- | Ing the reports showed three spots with temperatures above. Klsewhere weather was at zoro or below, As the railroads found the conditions the three warmest spots in the state were Crawford, 19; Alliance, § and Whitman, 4 degrees below .zero. The points named are all in the cxtreme weat, or northwest portions of Nebraska and this i= taken to Indicate that warmer weather Is whrk ing this way. However, farther north and northwest the weather continues cold. All through the Big Horn basin country of Wyoming \ the this morning temperatures ofsfrom 10 1to 28 degrees were reported. It is as serted that zero is pretty cold weather for that section of the state Reprisals in Case of Bara}ong Ordered BERLIN (By Wireless to Sayville), Jan. .—~The German government has transmitted to Great Britain through the American embassy a note which declares | that as a result of Great Britaln not ful- filling Germany's demand for an expla nation of the circumstances surrounding| the sinking of a (erman narine by the British patrol boat Baralong Ger- | many will adopt suitable measures of The National Capital Friday, January 14, 1916, The Senate, Senator Cummins introduced bills 1o re organize and increase Natlonal Guard Senator Works, republican, introduced resolution for armed Intervention 'n Mexico The Hounse. Navy and military affairs committe continued hea 3 and means committee hold first on Hill bill to protect American napuinciuiers of dyestufis i Pandit Threatens Death to All Americans Found West of | Chihuahua City. | SPECIAL BEARS DEAD TO BORDER ! AL A J D—ll\ WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 Al Americans at Madora, Mexico, are reported cafe in oificial dispatchea today o the State depariment, whieh There has beon ne telegraphic communi- cation with Parral since January 19, American Consul Edwards, in Juareg, received orders from Secretary Lansing to notify Arierican ils and consular igents in Mexlco, ncluding those at Tor- veon and Chihuahua urge thelr na- tionals to leave northern Mexico and to communicate this th foreign consuls In this ety A United States officiu) sent to Juarez to report the reanlt of W was stopped the by last who rioting here A Mexican ni asted “What those gringoes Killing Mexicans over there The official replied that he nothing of it United States army patrols were with- drawn from the business district today Tranquillity prevailed where last night riotous scenes were enacted, attributed to resentment sagainst the killing of Americans at Santa Ysabel, do by mean had heard trol of the local police army patroly were sent to assist jocal officers in quelling JURY IN MENAGE i’ Y OTES AGQUITT AL' A call was circulated today for a mass meeting to protest against the “massacre of S8anta Ysabel.” Mavor Tom Lea, how- Company and Four of Its Officials ever, stopped the circulation of the call and forbgde the meating until Americans Declared . Not . Guilty Joplin Court, f ‘nn‘:.lrr‘n Mpxfoo could be brought to the MISUSE OF MAILS CHARGED 'Wadleigh, Brother Of Mrs. Fassett, JOPLIN, Mo., Jan. 14.—A verdict | of not guilty was returned today by | the jury in the case of the Menace | Publishing company of Aurora, Mo., | and four of {ts officlals who were charged in federal court here with misuse of the mails. The jury delivered its verdict at 2:30 o'clock after having had the case in its hands more than twenty lours, The individuals who, with the publishing company, were defend- ! ants in the trial. are Wilbur F, I’helps, business manager of the company; Bruce M. Phelps, superin- tendent; Marvin Brown, managing editor, and Theodore C. Walker, said to be editor of the Menace, a newspaper, »An indictment containing eight counts was returned against the publishing company and four indi- viduals by a federal grand jury sit- ting in oplin in January, 1916, The indictment charged the defendants with sending obscene matter through Churles Wadleigh, one of the Americans who January 11 was taken from a train in Mexico and shot by Mexican bandits, was a brother of Mrs. E. F. Fassett, wife of the editor of the newspaver at Arling ton, this state. His home was at Bisbe Aris, near where he had extensive min- ing interests, He also had mining in- terests in Sonora, Mexico, and it is be- lieved that he was on his way there when he was killed. Dr, Logan of Herman, who recently ac- cepted a position in a Mexican hospital In the city of Chihuahua, Mexico., and who it is learned is at this time in Bl Paro, Tex., had expected to go on the same train with Wadlelgh and the mem- bers of his party, but in some way lost 1 his baggage and rematned over in El Paso | to recover it. Aviators Bombard LONDON, Jan. 14~A squadron of ench aviators on Tuesday bombarded % the first line of Bulgarian trenches in the mails. the Strumitsa sector, wrecking several trenche: and killed and wounded a num- ber of soldiers, says a dispatch from Ath ens to the Exchange Telegraph company. 'Fate of Price Now In Han_ds of a Jury GRANT OIL RIGHTS TO OPERATORS IN WYOMING WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—In committes of the whole the house today adopted provisions of the mineral and leasing bill, which will grant leasing rights to il in- spectora in California and Wyoming fields MINNEAPOLIS, Jan, 1. The case of who were dispossessed by President Taf('s | Frederick Price, a local business man withdrawal and the supreme court's ap- | charged with murdering his wife, went proval. The veote Indicated passage of | to the jury at 5:45 p. m. Price has been the provisions of the bill on final vote, on trial in district court for ten days Pope Probably Will Deliver Allocution About War Soon ROME, Jan. 4.—There 15 a gene nuncio; at Vienna and Munich respec lief In Vatican cireles that the pe [tively, who would thus leave thelr posts, delfver another important allocation | PeINE replaced according to present re about war in the consistory at the end of |[PO'l# at Vienna by Monsignor Locatelli, et e uow internuncio at Buenos Alres and at Tt in soniidered certain that the pontife | MUnICh by Monignor Aversa, now inter will call the consistory either for the end |Unclo for Brasil The holy see did nothing up to today either directly or indirectly to solicit from |either group of belligerents any invita- tion to participate in or preside at a peace conference, gan Corriere I'ltale in an article evi- dently inspired by the Vatican. Botl, groups of belligerents, the paper adds, thus fur, intend to be completely victorious, dictating conditions of peace outside of any The aim of the pope’ Is to employ all possible means to render the conflagra- |tlon less painful to humanity #If the pope were present at a peace congress, his adhesion the treaty would bind the consclence of all Cathelic subjects of the contracting nations, making it more difficult for any government to break the | agreement. | The pope, it asserts, does not count upon the European conflict for the solu- [tion of the Roman question, which, as | Cardinal Gasparri said, will not be wettied by the force of arms. ) v of February or shortly afterwards to im- e red hats Scapanelli e upon newly inals, created card- and Fruhwith, papal Tommorrow the Be Colored Comics —with— The Sunday Bee upon storles of irvitation there | Chihuahua, | When the disorders passed beyond con- Shot in Mexico| Bulga_r Trenches says the Catholic or- ! extraneous interference. ; OF MONTENRGRO Official Statement from Vienna Announces the Occupation of Cettinje by the Teu- tonio Forces, PALACE AND CITY UNDAMAGED | London Report Says Attack of Cen- tial Empires on Saloniki Has Not Yet Begun. | ITALY'S ATTITUDE IS PECULIAR VIENNA, Jan. 14.—The capture of Cettinje, capital of Montenegro, was announced by the war office, The official announcement states: “The capital of Montenegro is in our hands. Our troops, pursuing the | beaten enemy yesterday aftermoon, entered Cettinje. The residence of | the Montengrin king and the town |are undamaged. The population {s calm.” French Blow Up Bridges, LONDON, Jan. 14.—It is authoritatively announced today that the reported of- | tensive of the Teutonic allies n Greece | did not oceur. The rumors that the at- | tack had begun against the forces of the | allles, apparently originated in the | Activity of the French in blowing up the bridges connecting Salonik! with the road | over which the attackers would normally | travel. Bridges were destroyed by the | French not only at Demir Hissar, on the Struma, near Berres, but also at Kilindir, “M\n(h of Doiran. All the bridges de- ! specifically deny the report of the Liarder of ten Americans and two Enxiish women The colony there was dttacied by bandits. Who were routed RULLETIN, Bl PA Tox Jar G General Frane Ve at Rubico lus S rod 4 he would kil an Aderienn traveling wea' of Chihuahua City, according Lo teiiak niormation socured toduy. AL the time Vila was PPIving himeelf with meat. It was rumored that Peter Keane, an English- nan, was Killed BIL PASO, Tex., Jan. 14.—A long spacial train left Chihuahua City at &30 this morning for Juarez, bearing, ‘it was sald Il forelgners to the border that could | be persimded to leave the district. They Included all sployes of (he Amerfean Swelting and Rofining chnpany. A &pe clal train left Jumiez early today for Parral, western Chihuahuna, to bring out About 200 forelgners in the camps there stroyed were in Greek territory. The rumors that Austrin and Monte- | negro have suspended hostilities for the | purpose of discussing arrangements whereby further warfare on Montenegrin soll should be stopped, may be based simply on the fact that the Austrian ad- vance in Montenegro has become so slow | that suspicion of a suspension of hos |tilities {5 naturally aroused. Miltary | critics, however, are of the opinion that | Montenegro is now in sueh a position | that some form of arrangement with its { adversary has become imperative. Ttaly's Attitude Peculinr, Speculation is rife to the attitude which Italy has adopted with regard to the invasion of Montenegro by the Aus- trians which constitutes a grave menace to Jtallan interests, The fact that Italy's super fleet did not prevent an Austrian | 8quadron from assisting in the reduction of Mount Loveen wi nated th harbor of Cattaro is ted upon, though experts there {18 net a sufficlent basis Information { | from which to draw deductions in the action In the present juncture sheuld be awaited before judgment Is passed, and that action they point out would natir- | ally be kept secret as long as possible. | All Reticent About Galicia. Nows of the developments in the mil- | itary operation in Galicia and Messarbia | 1» awalted with much fnterest here and it is observed that both sides are un- | usually reticent with regard to the opern- tlons. Austria usually sends out the first information on the military astivities in that region, but beyond a general review of the Russian offensive movement it kives today but little light on the hap- | penings on its eastern front. The Aus- trian military authorities affirm that the ole result of the Russian offensive to ate has been the pushing back of one Austrian battalion for a few hundred yards, Four A_m(}h_a.rg_ed With Trying to Ship Rubber~ tg Germans NEW YORK, Jan. 14—Four men and A woman were indicted today by a fed- eral grand jury on a charge of consplring | to violate the customs laws of the United | States by shipping contraband rubber to | Germany. , Those indicted were: Edward Weber. | & cousin of Albert Weber, an official of the Deutsche bLank in Berlin; Paul Schmidt, Weber's partner In the rubber #nd Guayule ugency of this eity; Max Jaeger, a German maker of automeobile accessories; Mrs. Annie Dekkers, a native of Holland, and Rlichard Wohlberg, & nat- uralised citizen, who operates a rubber and cement factory here. The Guayule agency i3 also made a defendant. Harold Content, assistant United States attorney, says Mrs. Dekkers was to have been the go-between. Her sex and the fact that she had been in the habit of making frequent transatlantie trips wero relied upon to protect her from suspicion. The rubber was to be carried by her as personal baggage Four and a hul® tons of rubber were obtained by the alleged conspirators, a cordin a to Mr. Content, before the at tempt at shipn:eat was imade. On Neo- vember 37 Mrs. Dlekkers took passage on | the Holland-American liner Ryndam bound for Rottercsm. She four trunks and oight packing cases fliled with rubber, bu: which was marked per- sonal baggage. Acting on information given the customs authorities by British | asents Mrs. Dekkers' baggage was held up and she was not permitted to sail, The defendants will be arraigned in the { federal district court next Monday, ;Quit Houses in Boats ; In Flg@ and Cold | BVANSVILLE, Ind. Jan. i—La lumy were busy in the Obio river this city, taking families from threatened by the rising water. Ing ta reports received here, twenty- tive families were removed from homes W the viclity of Mount Vermom, Ind. The removal wi made in below zero weathel The river was at forty-twe feat and Legan to encroach on outlying vegidence sections. o4 matter and they suggest that Ttaly's ' S, 77 i S I e o o s i AL i _!f k| » }