Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 1

The Sunday Bee is the only Omaha newspaper that gives its readers four big |pcges of colored comies. ee— VOL. XLV-—NO. NEUTRALS MUST ADMIT BRITAIN'S BLOCKADE RIGHT Ear! Grev in House of Commons Says if They Do Not it Will Be “Departure from Neu- trality.” 191, “WILL SEE THING THROUGH" French Fleet Will Hereafter Assist | in Patrolling Channel and North Sea. BOTH ALLIES TO ACT AS ONE | LONDON, Jan. 26.—8ir Edward Grey sald the country could not | abandon its right of interference with ‘eniémy trade and could not ex- ) ercise the right without consider- able interference with neutral trade. | If neutrals held the country was not | entitled to exercise the right it would be a ‘“departure from neu- trality.”” Neutrals must admit or not Britain's right to apply principles used by the American government in the civil war. The forelgn secretary concluded - by declaring: ““We shall see this thing through to the end.” Hereafter French warships will assist British vessels in blockade dutles in both the English channel and the North Sea, participating in the examination of the mail and CATgo. In the future France will be con- sulted on all questions concerning the blockade. Joint Anglo-French re- lies will be made to any protests on the subject. LONDON, Jan, 26.—The opening phrase of the speeches of Sir Bdward Grey, for- eign secretary In the House of Commons, and of the marquise of Lansdowne, min- ister without portfolio, in the House of Lords, today save the impression that the British government is not likely to resort to an absolute blockade of Ger- many. Experts and self-styled experts on the economies of war and the law of mari- time war on commerce, mobilized in the House of Commions this afternoon for the eagerly awaited debate on the meas- ures to be taken for a blockade against (jermany. Crites of the government policy and the defamders thereof were equally insistent upom the necessity of entorcing “‘a block- ade as effective as possible,” but they joined issue on the best of in some ence with neutral commerce as light as The demand was general, however, for a greater stringency fn the prevention of foodstuffs and other conditional contra- band passing by neutral countries into Germany. The debate hinged on a motion intro- duced with the object of obtaining from the government a full statement of the ‘acts and giving an opportunity to deal with most of the aspects of the recent somplaints against the foreign office. The motion follows: That this house, having noted the vol- ume of imports into neutral countries hordering on ememy territory, of goods essential to the enemy for the prosecu- tion of the war, urges the government to enforce as effective a blockade as possi- ble without interfering with the normal requirements of those meutral countries for internal consumption. Arthur Shirley Benn, unionist member for Plymouth, on Introducing the motion for an effective blockade, urged the gov- erpment, in conjuction with the entente allies to declare that the entire over- oceanie traffic with Germany shall be pfevented by a blockade. He sald he did not think America would object, as the blockade would be on the same princi- ple as was the blockade declared by Lin- coln, PN The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity —Snow; colder Thursday. Temperature wensunnbESenan PPFPPPPEFPPFPP CEEEFEEER-FEEEEE] B3 b Coraparative Loecal Record. 1918 1915. 1914 1913, Highest yesterday . Wm0 48 Lowest yesterday .. 0 5 4 2 Mean temperature . 2 4 non Precipitation . 601 00 00 Te: ture and precipitation depar- {ures From the normal: - Normal temperature deficiency for the day... ... Tota) deficiency since Marcl Normal preeipitation..... Excess for the day. Total rainfall since March Deficiency since March 1.... Deflcency for cor. period, 19i4. 278 inches Deficlency for cor. period, 1913. 6.54 inches Reports from Stations at 7 P. M. Station and State Terap. High- Rain- i | not under any circumstances be a OMAHA, THURSDAY M( 'MOREHEAD WILL NOT ENTER RACE Governor Announces Definitely that | He Cannot Become Candidate for Re-election. 'MAY GO TO BRYAN BY DEFAULT (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Jan. 26.-—(Special.)— Gloom—deep gclouds of gloom— hung over the state house today, so dark and dreary that even the storm | clouds appear like bright spots in the political canopy above. This is all caused by the announcement by Governor Morehead that he would | candidate for governor for a third nomination at the hands of the dem- ocratic party, or accept the petitions now appearing at the office of the secretary of state asking that his name be placed on the primary bal- lot. To newspapermen who called at the executive offices after the governor had returned from Omaha, he said that he could not see his way clear to accept the filings and would not be a candidate for the governorship. “How about the nomination for the United Statea senate?’ asked a reporter. Constdering Sematorship. The governor took a sidewise glance at the representative of an Omaha demo- cratic paper, who was in the group, and then, with a twinkle in one eye, winked the other at a couple of others, and said: “I am consldering that matter now.” “‘Oh, governor,” solemnly and beseech- ingly put in the Omaha reporter, “‘your announcement that you would not be a candidate for governor has taken the joy all out of life; don't make it any worse.” ‘The governor smiled and with a wink at the other fellows, announced that tomor- row he would make a written statement of his position, but did not care to say wvery much today. Democratic cohorts seem to believe now there is nothing to it but the nomination for Mayor Charles Bryan, or to let the place go by default, One heartless democrat promptly sald when the matter was mentioned that the place might go by default or Mayor Bryan fill it, “Well, it would be all the same anyway, so what's the use.” Let Someone Else Do It. Governor Morehead says that he is not refusing to become a candidate from any fear of the outcome, but simply that he does mnot belleve that he should be ex- pected to lead the party again, but that there are others who could just as suc- cessfully do so. He thinks that there is SIGN TERMS OF Delegates of King Fe: PEACE YIELDING ernment Agree to Articles Pro- viding for Laying Down of Arms. PERSONAL LETTER OF RULER Communication Asks Francis Joseph for Graceful Conditions for Nation. SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL BERLIN, Jan. ~~(By Wireless | to Sayville.)—The delegates of the Montenegrin government at 6 o'clock last night signed articles providing for the laying down of the arms of the Montenegrin forces, according to an announcement made today by the Austro-Hungarian headquarters. Austro-Hungarian troops, the | statement adds, occupied portions ' of the Italian positions near Oslavia and took prisoner 1,197 soldlers, in- | cluding forty-five officers. Come with White Flag. The Overseas News agency in an item concerning the Montenegrin situation &lven out today says the Austrians who advanced on Mount Loveen encountered among its defenders 500 Italians. On Jan- uary 10, says the item, Montenegrin offi- cers arrived at Nyegus under white flags bearing a letter from Premier Miouchko- vitch asking a day's truce and seeking to open negotiations regarding the !\llufle\ peaceful relations. The Austrian com- mander declined, insisting upon uncondi- tional surrender, On January 15, the item continues, after | the occupation of Cettinje, Montenegrin | officers arrived in that city bearing a let- ter written personally by King Nicholas. Asks for Graceful Terms. “The letter,” says the agency, “asked Emperor Francis Joseph for graceful con- ditions for the unhappy country. “On January 16 three delegates ap- pointed by the Montenegrin government signed by all the ministers, stating that the unconditional surrender of the city bad been accepted. Hostilities, conse- quently, ceased January 17. the Itallan consulate. a good chance for democratic success, but that some other democrat than himself should “hop to it.” ! When told by a Bee representative that Governor Morehead had announced that Charles ‘W, Bryan appeared pleased. ““This s the first I had heard of it,” he #ald. When asked about the patitions be- ing circulated in his bebalf and whicn yestérday he had denied knowledge of, he sald that they were being migned up merely as a testimonial of the signers’ confidence in him, but that he had not yet fully decided what he would do when the petitions of confidence were filed. Bryan Has Not Decided. “T recognize that the democratic party this year needs a man at the head of the ticket,” said the mayor, “who will take a firm stand on the,question of the liguor business, but whether I will be the man I do not yet know."” The mayor did not seem at all discon- solate over the announcement of the gov- ernor and it may be considered a pretty safe bet that when the “petitions of con- fidence" are filed that the mayor will not take any chance that the time limit for accepting the same will expire, but will ahow a great deal of confidence in him- selt by accepting. Colonel E. M. House Arrives at Berlin BERLIN (Via London), Jan 26.—Colonel B. M. House, personal representative of President Wilson, arrived in Berlin this morning from Paris. A correspondent of the Lokal Anselger interviewed Colonel House at Karlsruhe and found him ‘‘very reserved” regarding the purpose of his trip. ‘The correspondent describes him " as “making the impression of a calm, well- Intentioned observer, without any anti- German prejudices, who deplores the world war and its horrors in moving words." "% | Prosecution in Mohfiase Rests PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Jan. %.—The state rested today in the trial of Mrs, Blizabeth F. Mohr and two negroes, Cecil Brown and Henry Spellman, charged with the murder of the woman's husband, Dr. C. Franklin Mohr. By the testimony of more than fifty witnesses, | including George W. Healls, Dr. Mohr's chauffedr, who turned state's evidence, the prosecution had attempted to prove that the negroes shot the physiclan at the iustigation of Mrs. Mohr. he would not run for a third term Mayor | Jury Out in Walker Case; Chief Dunn Is GIe&rBE—_ by Judge (From a Staff Correspondent.) . Jan. %.—(Special Telegram.) ~—Judge ‘A. J, Cornish of the district court today dismissed the case against Chief of Policé Henry Dunn of Omaha brought by Mre. Sadie Walker against Dunn and Chief of Detectives Maloney for $§20,000 for false imprisonment. The case still stands against Maloney and the jury was sent out tonight after listening to arguments between counsel on both sides, with little prospect of a verdict before morning. |Forty Injured by a Powder Explosion BLUEFIELD, W, Va,, loaded with black powder exploded in the local yards of the Norfolk & West- ern raflroad tonight, injuring more than forty persons, severel probably fatally, and causing heavy dumage. Fire fol- unchecked. Three cars lcaded with dyna- mite were sald to be on a siding not far from th escene of the explosion and an from the path of the flames. Lane Orders Dakota Area Opened to Entry WABHINGTO! Jan. @6.—Secretary Lane today designated 1,5,00 acres of land in South Dakota, some already pa- tented, as open to settlement. That sub. ject to acquisition will be opened to entry March 10, President Wilson today signed an order removing 7,930 acres from the Mindoka National forest, Idaho, for agricultural purposes. It will be opened to entry | Mareh 10. Socialist Presides | Over Fedgral House WASHINGTON, Jan. %.—-A soclalist |presided over the house today for the |first time in its history. Representative London of New York was in the chair for about two minutes, being called to act for Speaker Clark when the house rose trom sitting as a committee of the whole to recelve an executive report : Scor;s Killed and Great Dc;mage Done by Aerial Bomb at Dover! BERLIN (By Wireless to Sayville) —The Hamburger ¥Fremdenblatt re- ports that one of the bombs dropped of W . 7 t E Srenas o) v '?A m[l“ by the German air squadron when it Bovehpert. b - 3| ralded Dover on Monday fell on a :::‘dmun.- :'h 1:; t‘n‘ deposit of mines which exploded and sunn")'inm. 8 & “w | caused enormous devastation in the . sleet ] i | nelghborhood. Thirty-nine persons, -4 o including one officer and twenty- 2 | four soldiers, the newspaper said, Sheridan, snow . 10 2| were killed Sloux ity, cloudy 12 - Valeatine, snow .. 4 4 o According to the Fremdenblatt's T indicates trace of precipitation account, theexplosion did not take indicates below zero. L. A WELSH, Local Forccaster. place until fifteen minutes after the | bomb had landed, so that the sol- | diers at first believed the missile was | harmless. Rallroad cars filled with provi- sions and several cottages were re- ported to have been destroyed | One transport anchored in the | harbor was damaged by th eexplo- | slon and sank immediately . Twenty severely wounded persons, says the account, were transported to a London hospital. The British aeroplanes were not ready in time for defense. arrived bringing a written declaration | “In Antivarl a mob stormed and looted | Jan. 26.—A car lowed and at 9 o'clock tonight still was | effort was belng made to move these | DRNING, JANUARY STRANDED BRITISH WARSHIP IN DARDANELLES-—This remarkable photograph of the stranded British torpedo boat destroyer, Louis, was made just as the last of its crew were in a launch sent from another ship. The Louis grounded and the Turks shelled it e land forts with such effect that it had to be abandoned. - > On Trains, at Notel Wews Stands, eto. 8o o R 8 THE WEATHER. Snow; Colder COoPY TWO CENTS. 'ENGLISH LABOR UNIONS APPROVE COMPULSORY ACT Representatives of Two Million Workmen Meet at Bristol to Define Attitude To- ward Law. | WILSON SEES HOPE |GERMANS ARREST FOR SHIPPING BILL ~BELGIAN NINISTER Insurgent Congressman Likely to | Come Back on Reservation and Vote for It. HE TALKS WITH SOME OF THEM WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Pros- pects for passage of a government ship purchase bill are belleved to be bright by administration leaders, who saw in the conference President Wilson had today with democrats who opposed such a measure last | year indications that united support for the revised proposal eventually would be won. The president continued during the day to urge leading members of congress to hasten action on import- | ant legislation. He discussed the | ship bill particularly with Majority | Leader Kitchin of the house and | Senator Clarke of Arkansas, Later -Representative Kitchin said the bill, if presented as outlined to him, would recelve his support. Senator Clarke would not discuss it, but some of his friends said they be- | lleved the measure could be sub- mitted in form to meet his approval. Matters to Be P N Senator Simmons, chairman of the sen- ate finance committee, und Representa~ tive Fitzgerald, chairman of the house appropriations committee, were among those who went to the White House for conferences. The president made it clear that matters before congress he hoped to see pushed ahead of everything else were the following: National defense measures, including army reorganization and increased naval construction Creation of a merchant marine desjgned war. Revenue leglslation, including revision of the Income tax law and creation of & non-partisan tariff board. | "The Philippine seif-government bill, which will include a provision granting independence within two to four years, | provided satistactory steps aro taken in | the meantime to establish a stable, inde- | pendent government. | Conservation bills for development of water. power and mineral bearing lands. Calls on Clarke, Among other democratic senators who fought the shipping bill last year and who have discussed it recently with the pres- |1dent are Senators Hardwick, Hitehcock, O'Gorman and - Vardaman. It became known today that one evening last week {Mr. Wilson surprised a congressional party of men and women by appearing unannounced at Senator Clarke's hotel, where he conferred for an hour and a | half with the Arkansas senator in a cor- ner of the hotel parlor. The opposition senators have expressed | satisfaction over some of the features of | the new bill, but are inclined still to op- | posc_anything that might make govern ment operation of ships probable. As | now proposed, the bill would provide for government operation In case satistactory leases to private corporations could not { be made | SHACKLEFORD GOOD ROADS BILL IS SENT TO SENATE | WASHINGTON, Jan | ford good roads bill sage by the house by a vote of 1 to 81 | went to the senate today, where it is ex- their post roads, 11916 Will be A Busy Year. || Keep Abreast of Current Events By Reading || The Bee. to serve as a naval auxillary in time of | 2.~The Shackle- following its pas- | \Cmille Huntsman, Head of Social- | ist Bureau, Detained on Return | from Peace Conference. HOUSE SEARCHED FOR muimufy | HAVRE, Jan. 26.—The Belgian| newspaper, Metropole, announces | that Camille Huntsman, secretary of the International Social Bureau, was arrested at the frontier on the way | | back from Brussels, It adds that the search of Mr. Vandervelde's house at Ixelles {s supposed to have been In connection with the arrest. | House Searchea for Documents. PARIS, Jan, 2, (4:56 a. m.)—Emlile Vun- dervelde, a member of the Belgian gove- ernment reccived news today that his house at Ixelles, one of the suburbs of Brussels, has been searched by the Ger. man military authorities, says a despatch from Havre to the Petit Journal. All the | locks were burst open, including those on the jewel boxes bolonfln:‘ " :'l‘l“fl! Vandervelde, the contents of which how- ever, were left untouched. It is supposed, the dispateh says, that the Germans were looking for documents of an International character, but found nothing. Bmile Vandervelde, who 18 a minister without portfolio in the Belglan cabinet, s president of the International So- clalist bureau. On January 6 he arrived at The Hague to take part in a disous- slon of the international situation by the executive committes of the soclalist bureau. It was reported that he opposed the suggestion made by representatives of other couhtries that the International | Boclallat bureau direct its effects to the vringing about of peace. Coal Miners Will | Not Suspend Work INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 26.— !"The United Mine Workers of America in convention today decided not to suspend work after the contracts had expired, so long as negotiations for Yn"l agreements are pending. A ris- ing vote taken after a long debate, showed that 1,000 of the 1,300 dele- gates favored the proposition of non- suspension recommended by Presi- dent John P, White. President White notified the convention today that owing to the inability of the convention to complete its work this week he would ask the bituminous coal oper- ators to postpone the joint conference iu | Mobile, Ala., from February 1 until Feb- ruary When discussion was resumed on the non-suspension policy, President White sald he believed the anthracite operators are willing to make a new agreement and that the workers would get a fair settlement. He also said e belleved most of the hard coal workers favored remain- ing at work Those who opposed the policy were of the opinion that the quickest way to get an agreement was to stop work when contracts expire. The advocates of non- suspension belleved it was a wise move to remain at work pending negotiations. Porter Charlton Reaches_ New York YORK, Jan. 2.—The steamship .. which arrived here today, had on NEW Amer ~ |pected to meet with strong opposition. | young American convicted in Ttaly of The measure carries am appropriation of | killing his wife in 10, at Lake Como. $25,000,00 to aid the states in improving | Chariton was released from prison in November, his sentence having expired | Charlton declined to discuss his case. sald he would stop in New York for a few days and them proceed to San Juan, l its passenger list list Porter Charlton, the He U.S.INSISTS ON FULL DISAVOWAL Bernstorff Cubl; Statement of the American Position After An- other Talk with Lansing. KAISER VXEW_UR!ATIS!‘ACTOEY WASHINGTON, Jan. 26,—The Lusitania agreement was re-drafted today by Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, and Secretary Lansing to represent the views of the United States, and was forwarded to the German foreign office. Word of vhether the German government will accept it in its present tentative form s expeoted in about a week, After a conference between the secre- tary and the ambassador the latter made & new tentative draft, which .ingludes all the contentions of the United States. If, as 1s intimated today, the new draft s fully acceptable to the United l(“:u; t 0 fol M owi ,OMQ&M ”’Munw ¥ 1t was madé Known in official quarters befora the confsrendo took place that the last N proposals Were unsatistac- tory, and that the United States was pressing for a full disavowal of ‘the sink- ing of the line England Makes an Interim Reply to l\_@l Protest LONDON, Jan. 2.—The forelgn office handed to the American embassy today an ad interim reply to the American pro- test against detention of mails. The note states that formal answer to the repre- sentations of the United States will be | made as soon am the French government | has signified its approval of the attitude of Great Britain. e It is understood the formal reply wili | defend the action of the British authori- ties by citing evidence that Germans have been abusing tho privileges of first-clasa mails, The British government will rely on the postal conventions adopted at The Hague for justification of its measures. WASHINGTON, Jan, 26.—Great Britain's preliminary reply to the American rep- resentations against selsures of malls reached the State department today and, with the original American note, will be made publjc in the newspapers Friday morning. Stocks Buoyant at Opening of Market NEW YORK, Jan. 26,—Stocks were al- most buoyant at today's opening, in recognition of the United States Steel common dividend and that corporation’s record breaking earnings. Steel opened with one lot of 15000 shares at 86 to 8%, compared with yes- rday’'s closing price of $4%. jains_of 1 to 2 points were made by | Mexican Petroleum. The entire llat energy. manifested renewed ' Two Milwaukee Fast killed and the engineer and three other | Porto Rico persons were bruised. Baldwin and American Locomotives and | | Trains Meet Head-On | P \ | ANDERSON LEADS OPPOSITION | Member of Parliament Fears Oom- pulsory Industrial Service Will | Be the Next Step. | SEXTON'S RESOLUTION IS !AHID BULLETIN. d BRISTOL, England, Jan. 26.—The British Labor conference adopted to- day by a vote of 1,847,000 against 206,000, a resolution entirely approv- ing the action of the Parliamentary lubor party in co-operating with other political parties in the national re- cruiting campaign. BRISTOL, Eugland, Jan. 26.—The | representatives of more than 2,000, | 000 members of trades unions met, here today to decide the attitude of organized labor toward the war and, e particular, compulsory military service, Early in the proceedings an attack on the compulsory service bill now before the House of Lords was made by the president of the conferemce, Willlam Anderson, member of Par- liament for the Attercliffe division of Sheffield. Mr. Anderson, who hed opposed the bill in Parliament, de- clared that it did not redeem the pledge of Premier Asquith regarding compulsion. Fears Forced Industrial Serviee. “No form of words can offer immunity trom danger,” sald he. ‘‘We cannot have military service without the risk of forced Industrial service, Any attempt to use this weapon to coerce trades end ists will lead to great bitterness in faflure." W Mr. Anderson said there was dangen in Great Britain attempting the impossible, by seeking to be similtaneously a great military, a great“haval and a in- @ustrial power. He sald the ‘would be different after the war, adding: labor takes %m and its allies” and pled o asdlst the government as sible to prosecute the war Mr. Sexton sald he was ftarlsm, but that the war must be won. “If Germany wins,” d “nothing else on God's earth matters.” Ramsay MacDonald, 1 parliament, appedled for t deprecated such a controversial vesolu. tion which, he said, was calculated to terfere with labor's previous comradeship and unity in fighting a common enemy. {Conainued on , Column Retake Trenches Fail,_ilg_ys Berlin “BERLIN, Jan. 2.~(Via London)—A great number of counter attacks were made by the ¥rench yesterday to recap- ture the trenches taken by the Germans east of Neuville, but they wers repulsed each time after hand-to-hand fighting, says the statement issued today by the “Western theater: The French ate tempted in a great number of counter at- tacks to recapture the trenches we took east of Neuville. They were repulsed on each occasion after hand-to-hand fight- ing. rench mine operations in the Argonne destroyed our trenches over a short dis- tance mear Hill 28, northeast of La Chalade, We oceupled the crater they made after having frustrated the attack of the enemy, “Naval aeroplanes attacked the mili- tary establishments of the enemy near | La Papne. Our army aeroplanes attacked | the raflway establishments of Loos, southwest of Dixmude, and of Bethune. “Regarding the other theaters of war, there is nothing to report.” | numerous other Industrials and special- ties, including American Emelting, Crucible Steel, Republic Iron and Steel, New York Ailr Brake, Westinghouse, | || The Day’s War News POSITION OF BRITISH government | on two matters of prime import- | anee in the conduct of the war s s & vesult of way today, The toward com. | BPOKANE., Wash, Jan —Chicago,| | Milwaukee & Bt. Pail rallway passene ger trains No. 11 and No. 15, each known as the “Columbia,” collided head-on near | Lind, Wash., today, One tramp was| ®de of Germany is befowe the House of Commons. y SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. stone from a submarine mingled with the waves which battered the Oceanle Steamship company's liner 8 W, from Sydney, N according to a eport made by the captain of the steamer, which is in port today, Captain Koughan said that & few hours before sierra during a hurricane three days out \PumiceflSht;);le‘ Abisiurb;d by Quc';k_e is Thrown on Deck of Ship at Sea %.—~Pumice |leaving Sydney on January 5, it was re- disturbance | ported to him that selsmographs there registered viclent disturbances at sea. The Blerra, he sald, have pro- ceeded over the seat of the voleanic out break. ¥or hours the ship was In a sea of pumice, pleces varylng in size from i marble to a silk bat being thrown on deck by the waves, THE BRISTOL CONFERENCE is the portant of this kind ever in England, representing more than 2,000,000 members of | trades unions. The ecompulsory service bill having passed encountered Iittle n in the House of Lords, the outcome of the long campalgn tssue will depend largely attitude of organized labor. THE AUSTRIAN DRIVE jewn the the Adrintic, hay- Montenegro bor- Is now sald to have resulted In the capture of an Albauing sex. port, Suu Glovaunl DI Medua, “It will be & hard and a bad world for’ | =20 French Attemptsto .~