Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 2

{ } ey e (] NEWELL TALKS OF | PLOOD PROBLENS Former Head of Reclamation Serv- | ice Tells Drainage Congress How to Get Results. THREE PLANS ARE PRESENTED o CAIRO, 111, Jan ~—Discussing | * Federal Legislation,” F. H. Newell, head of the engineering department of the University of Illinols and former chief of the United States re- clamation service, today ftold the Sixth National Diainage congress, in session here, that national legisla- tion for flood protection and the re- clamation of swamp and overflowed lands will come when all of the vari- ous persons interested join hande to urge it upon congress. He sald In part: “A hundred million doivars, in round numbers, have been expended by the United States In reclamation work since | the reclamation act went into effect. The | operations are confined by law to the far western states and relate primarily to needs of agriculture in the arid or drought stricken regions. Inseparably connected with this, however, has been the bullding of drainage ditches to take AwWay an excess of molsture and to regu- late the supply. United Action Gets Resw “Now the question may well be asked as to why this sct' was not made applic- able to lands which presented even Kreator needs and opportunitiss, namely, those along the principal rivers in the central part of the United States or near the eastern seaboard. “The answer is two-fold. First, the primary reason was the original intent to reciaim public lands by means of the proceeds trom the disposal of such landa, and, second, because of the tnited effort of the far-western people in standing together for a definite purpose. It s obvious that little or nothing can be accompliished except by concerted action. ‘“Condifions are now similar to thoss which led beforo the passage of the recla: fon or Newlands act. A few far-secing, carnest men were then ac- tively at work, but the great body of the so-called ‘practica) politicians’ were skep- tical regarding the Importance of the bill, Organizsation is Available. “The federal government already has in the reclamation service an effective or- ganization of engineers who have bullt some of the largest works of water con- trol in the country. Tt also has in the TonyH Annanias is Killed by Storm at Hartshorne, Okl. FORT SMITH, Ark., Jan. 27.—At least one life was lost, several per- scns injured and a dosen houses de- stroyed in a tornado that late yes- terday struck Hartshorne, Okl., about forty miles from Fort Smith. Gowen, another town several miles distant, aiso was hit, but owing to wire trouble no particulars of the damage there could be learned. Tony Annanias and a companion took refuge under a church when they saw the storm apprraching Hartshorne. When they felt the bullding moving from its foundation they tried to get out. Anna- nias was ground under the heavy tim- bers and instantly killed, while his com- panion escaped. SHOWS HUGE COST O WAR SUPPLIES Would Take Nearly Half Billion Plant, with 750,000 Men, to Man Munitions Works. CROZIER GIVES ESTIMATES WABHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The es- timates were given the senate mili- tary committes todsy by Brigadier General Crozler, chief of ordnance, showing that a plant costing $400,- 000,000 operated by a foree of 750, 000 workmen would be required to manufacture smmunition and war materials necessary to keep an army of 1,000,000 men in the field and equip an additional 1,000,000 re- eruits, General Crozier strongly disap- proved any proposal for government monopoly of the manufacture of war supplies, insisting that best re- sults could be accomplished by re- lying upon private establishments to supplement the output of govern- ment plants in time of war. Recelves Tentative Measure. ‘The committes received today from Sec- reetary Garrison a draft of a tentative measure, suggested by Senator Chamber- lain, chairman of the committee which would provide for the authorization of the proposed continental army, in general terms only, leaving the details of the proposed system to be worked out by War department regulations, The original draft of a bill submitted by the War d« partment contained an outline of the en- department of Agriculture a body of ex- pert advisors on farm drainage and on the work of dralnage organization and It would not require much the following officers for the ascond cur- | Interior. Lobingier Sentences Deserter for Killing : Ohines__g_l’olioeman (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) SHANGHAIL Jan. 20.—John Kohrer, deserter from the Fifteenth United Sta infantry at Tien-tsin, has been sentenced life imprisonment by Judge C. 8. Lob- ingler of the United States court, for t! NORTH BEND, Neb, Jan. ¥.—(Bpe- clal)=Mrs. Emma Mason Berger, a plo- neer of Nebraska and a reatdent of this county for the last forty-nine years, dled Wednesday morning at her homse north- west of town at the age of 8 years. She was married to Hiram Berger near Teka- | mas, and together they homesteaded the Caper Krenger. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at Purple Cane church. Samuel A, Stacy. ORD, Neb., Jan. 21.—(Special.)~Samuel his home In this eity. Mp. Stacy came to Valley county in 1878 and was one of the oldest citizons in point of residence in the county. He had held several im- portant official positions and was post- master for elght years under the admin- istration of McKinley, For three of four 4n Walsenburg A.mwuwm:m;n-m.m-l THE BE OMAHA FRIDAY, INEAR FAMINE IN " TURKISH CAPITAL City is Without Rice, Beef and Cheese and Mutton is High and Scarce. .Ylfl ONLY FOOD PLENTIFUL | LONDON, Jan. 27.—Under the of “Starving Constanti- the Dally Mail's correspond- ent, who has just returned from a trip through the Balkans on the new | Balkan Express, describes the condi- tions In the Turkish capital. “In Constantinople,” says the cor- respondent, ‘‘one realises the war | pressure more than in any great capi- tal In the war zone. 1 had been there | & few months ago, but today things |are much worse. The dearth of necessaries of life is now of an alarm- ing nature., The candition of sffairs approaches famine. The price of sugar is 5 shillings a pound and cof- fee is 6 ehillings a pound. “‘Clgarets are 40 per cent dearer, which Is a great hardship to the Turks, who smoke almost constantly. There is no chocolate, kerosene, choese, rice or beef in the city. Mutton s 4 per cent dearer and very searce. Fish s plentiful. The electric and sfreet car services have vir- tually ceased.' ‘The ocorrespondent Interviewed Halil Bey, president of the council, and Enver Pasha, minister of war. Halil pald an enthusiastic tribute to the work the Germans are going In the near east ““We Turks,” Halll is quoted as saying, need the German business Initiative. Look at what Germany is doing for Rou- mania, which is now rich and prospe ous and full of business enterprises A result of Germany’s teachings. So Germans will ip us to become wealthy nation. English Lacked Courage. Enver Pasha |s reported to have sald concerning the Galllpoli campaign: “If the English had only had the courage to rush more ships through the Dardanelles, they could have got to Con- stantinople, but their delay enabled us to fortify the peninsula thoroughly. We had our plans all Jald for our line of ac- tion if the allles occupled Constantinople. We intended to retire to the surrounding hills and to Asia Minor and pursue the war from there. We knew they would not destroy the city, so—thc result would have been an Impasse. Now with Ger- man help we are ready fto strike at Great Britain through the Suez canal. Our motto is ‘On to Egypt!' " CREIGHTON ORATORICAL SOCIETY NAMES OFFICERS The Creighton Oratorical soclety elected vice commlittoe, 17; Kanhe, ‘17, The fina!l oratorical contest between the colleges which are members of the Ne- Oratorical association will be held February 15, at the Creighton university auditorium. Elmer Barr, winner of the commencement of fighting between strik. | His friends, however, say he had recom- ors and militiamen near Walsenburg in | Mendation from high officlals of the April, 1914, according to testimony given American Smelting and Refining eom- today by Hiick Gseirk at the trial of | PAny. whose word with the Irtysh corpor- four former atrikers charged with killing Major P. P. Lester. Oseirk told the Jury the oath was administered at union hall BURGLARS TEAR UP HOME AMUSEMENTS. |Kills Daughter and - Wite With Hatohets | qiygg DRLEGATION | President Tells Women He Cannot Support Movement for Amend ment to Constitution. DECLINES CROSS-EXAMINATION NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-—President ‘Wilson refused today to support the movement for an amendment to the federal constitution providing for woman suffrage. He spoke briefly to 200 members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, telling them he felt the suffrage question should be dealt with by individual states. The president recelved the suffragists after they had sent him a series of notes and had walted for him for more than an hour at the Waldorf-Astoria, which he made his headquarters on his arrival here early this morning from Washing- ton. | Efforts made by Mrs, Mary Beard, wife | of & Columbia university professor, to cross-examine the president on his posi- tion met with failure. He refused court- | eously to reply to her queries Edward L. Thacker, Alleged Forger, is Found by Wireless, CHICAGO, Jyan. 2.—~When Edward | Lynn Thacker lands on the Barbadoes | Islands, whither he is bound aboard the steamer Grafton Hall, he will be arrested on a charge preferred here in connection with alleged forgeries amounting to $20,- 000, according to the local police. He is | accompanied by his wife. | Thacker, who was the eashier for Cos- den & Co., an Oklahoma oil refining concern with offices in this city, was located last night by means of wireless and his detention ordered. He is sald | to be a paroled convict | According to the police, the amount of Thacker's alleged stealings by means of spurious checks, is sald to exceed that | given by officers of the company by which he was employed, as he is be- lleved to have operated in connection with others in a widespread scheme to defraud, Thacker, who is 40 years old, had been employed for more than a year without knowledge of his record, according to Willlam 8. White, manager of the firm. Mr. White sald Thacker is the son of wealthy parents in Louisville, Ky., eand has relatives of prominence In | | NEW YORK, Jan. #1.—Police today identified the body of a man who died in & hospital shortly after jumping from the third floor of an uptown hotel as that of Nathan Pullman, a retired Chi- eago insurance agent, who Is being {sought on the charge of having mur- |dered his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Pullman, |and daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Bazel, in a Bronx apartment yesterday. Pullman was seen leaving the Bront apartment about four hours before the bodies of his Aaughter and wife were | found. The skulls of both women had | been crushed In with a small hatchet which was found under the bed. Pull- man was believed to have carried 35,000 In currency when he left the apartment Folice belleve the man had murdered the two women after suddenly going in- sane. BSeven disjointed notes were found on his body. STEWART 18 10 60 | 10 RUSSIAN ASIA| Omaha Man to Become Superin-) tendent of Smelting and Refin- ing Plant in Faraway Land. CONTRACT FOR TWO YEARS For the last six and a half years a quiet young man has been work- ing at the local plant of the Ameri- can Smelting and Refining company. He has not made much noise, nor has he been heard of as men fre- quently are heard of and from. He has been on the job every day and has “tended to his knitting." This young man is J. 8. Stewart, 210 South Thirty-seventh street. Next Tues- day he will leave Omaha for a brief visit with his folks at Mansfield, O. Then he will go to New York and February 19 will sail for London, where he will meot the comsulting engineer of the Irtysh corporation. From London he will pro- ceed with the engineer to Ekibastous, a town sixty miles from Omsk, In Russia in | Asla, where he will enter upon his new work as superintendent of a lead smelt- ing and refining plant. BDkibastous is not on the map; that is |to say, not any map of references Mr. | Stewart has beea able to find, but he is | satiafied the place is there, because he has recelved cablegrams to that effect from London. All of the final negotia- by Bob Rohe, an organ- IN HUNT FOR VALUABLES { tions have been by cablegrams. | The town that will ‘be Mr. Stewart's | home for the next two years 1s on the Irtysh river. It is a smelting and refining center and so located because of its near- ness to a coal mine. The ores are trans- ported along the Irtysh river from a point sixty miles away. This young man's nearest town of consequence will be Omsk, a city of 60,00 population and about sixty miles from Ekibastous. It Omsk is not to his liking Mr, Stewart can go to Tomsk, a city of 70,000, or to Tobolsk. of about 25,000 population. Mr. Stewart will be many miles from the sounda of the European war. He mountainous section and & stranger in a strange land. He will have new language, but he says plenty of time for that form ot education, because the soclal demands of Ekibsatous are not many. He will be sixty miles trom thé nearest nioture show, roller rink or clothes pressing establish- ment. Has Two-Yenr Contract. He takes the situation as nonchalantly as if he were going to Lincoln to attend & peace conference, He modestly told of his leave-taking of Omaha; sald he had & two-year contract with a London com- ation of Lendon was rocognized as gilt- { edged. He will receive a splendid salary for the two years of his contract, and it is understood a fine promotion awaits him if he cares to remain in the far- away fleld longer than the agreed time. He wiil have full charge of the plant ‘where he is golng. Mr. Stewart is n graduate of the Mis. sourl School of Mines and a member of the University club of this city. He is under 3 years of age. During his service in Omaha he has perfected a process in connection with the smelting and refin. Ing of ores. His present position is head of the safety and welfare department of the local smelting plant, He was a su, pervisor of the soclal centers of the Recreation board, taking up this work last fall because he liked it, rather than for the nominal pay received. He had xn‘o of the center at the Castelar 00l e ' Wanted—Some Wants-Ads in exchange ihr lots of answers, Phone The Bee. AMUSEMENTS. Arkansas. Thacker was sentenced in 1911 to serve from one to twenty years | in Jollet penitentiary for forging checks amounting to $4,000. Nebraska Delegation | Protests Snag Cut | | (From a Staff Correspéndent.) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—{(Special Tele- | #ram.)—The determination on the part of | the river and harbor committee of the house to reduce the appropriation for | snagging in the Missour{ river from Kan- €18 City to Sloux City from $30,000 to $25.00) | will not be permitted if the Nebraska dele- gation can prevent, Today the entire | delegation from the Prairie state called on Representative Booher of Missourl, a member of the committee, and protested agalnst this reduction In no uncertain way. In consequence the entire Nebraska delegation will appear before the rivers and harbors committee tomorrow morn- Ing. As there ls an unexpended balance of 3500 for snagging, Congressman | Booher belleves that that amount should be avallable. | | { WOOL TRAIN ON TOUR TO GIVE TIPS ON CULTURE BELLE FOURCHE, S. D, Jan. 2.—| (Speelal.)~A wool demonstration car, un- | der the charge of specialists in the United States Department of Agriculture and the | agricultural colleges of the states con- cerned, is mow touring Montana, Idaho, ‘Wyoming and Utah to show growers that in the end better wool means more mon: The car left Livingston, Mont., on Janu ary 19 and is expected to continue its travels until well into the epring. In addition to samples of various grades of wool, six head of live sheep are being carried in the car in order to show the various grades as they appear on the sheep. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes | Indigestion. One package | proves it. 25¢c at all druggists. | AMUSEMEN Py, i | 5 g Pposimaster Ord, and a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Burk, at Paul, ldaho. Mrs. Mary F. Jounes. UTICA, Neb., Jan. 7.—(Special)—Mrs. i i : £ 3F i et 127 89 E‘ $ 3 £ g i Will Lec- ture on HELENKELLER UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE Teachers’ Annuity = Aid Association AT THE BOYD THEATER, JAN. 29 Afternoon and Evening, HAPPINESS Mrs. Anna Suilivan Macy, Miss Keller's Life-Long Teacher, Will Tell the Story of Miss Keller's Life. PRICES FROM 25¢ TO $1.50 TICKETS ATBOYD THEATRE - The Fashion Center of "the MddleWest. —-» Lstablished 1836,/ Friday. a Final Clearance ofjralri Ready-to-Wear Apparel 10 Skirts - = -~ - - $1.95 69 Coats and Dresses - - - $2.95 Every garment is from our own regularstock : All sales are Final NoC.0.D.’s No Returns or Exchanges All sizes, 16 to 44 Sale starts at 8:30 a. m., Friday Remnants Of Flannelette, Velour Flannel and Swansdown, 27 and 36 inches wide, worth up to 25¢ a yard 2 to 5-yard lengths, 5¢ a yard, Basement. The Basement Balcony New Waists - - -95¢ Middy Blouses - -50¢ Middy Blouses --95¢ New Petticoats -69¢ New Pe&icoats- 95¢ 10 steps down from Howard St. La Grecque Undermuslins Our New Line for Spring Fresh and new, just out of the packing cases, ready for your inspection and approval, Women'’s La Grecque Gowns, Combinations, Skirts, Corset Covers and Drawers. All sizes and all prices. Women's Gowns Petticoats Slipover, short sleeves, Lace or embroidery trim- trimmed with lace or em- med; waist sizes 24 to 38, broidery; sizes 34 to 44. lengths 38 to 44 inches. N Priced $1.50, $1.75, $2.25 Priced $1.75, $2.25, $3.00, upwards, $4.50 up. Undermuslins—Third Floor. Spot Proof Foulard Silks New for the Spring Season The new spring foulards are in a class by themselves, They adapt themselves so well to. Fashion’s requjre- ments for the coming season. Our selection this year is the largest and finest we have ever shown and never have they been more beau- tiful. ¢ ‘We Believe Your Interests Will Be Best Served Now. GRAND A_LUSEMENTS. AUDITORIUM GRAND OPERA January 27, 28, 29 NEXT THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY and SATURDAY MAT. —luplmhnifl‘l'ouph Local Management Arab Patrol 4 Superb Productions by the HENSHAW CAFE Concert Dansant EVERY EVENING FROM 10:30 P. M. SPECIAL NIGHTS Monday, ¥riday and Saturday Augmented Orchestra Entertainers. D OPERA SAN c. < Y Members. Briliant Chorus. Prices: Matinee, gallery, Saturdey and Sunday), e, and Toe. 1to 11 P. M, Saturday Bvening, COAVALLERIA and PAGLIA . Pathe Offers the Foremost Scresn Bo Mtiod Mo Open ot AN Operas DOROTHY DONELLY in “MADAME X" A Gold Rooster Play in 6 Parts BOYD Theater 2 s oor-Mon. Jan. 31 FAREWELL OF FORBES ROBERTSON Monday, 8 p. m.; Wednesday, 8 p. m. “HAMLET” o R Wights: $2.00 to 800, "d..-‘t«“-lfl“lfil. ILLiON DOLLAR SoLs Einien | —and every one of them lsoks the money Company includes Lew Hilton, Lester Allen, i Moadows, Gibeon & Ranne;, Savo. Francis Si. clair, Bob Ferce, Beauty "torus of 30 Baby Dolls Week “Malds of Americe'® EMPRESS STRIVING TO PLEASE VAUDEVILLE and FOTO PLAYS ELEVEN TO ELEVEN 10c - - ADMISSION - Reser ved Seats 10c Extra Turpin’s School of Dancing Twenty-eighth & Farnam. New Classes. List your name now. Private lessons any EARNEY 5143, time TONITE NEW, RU 8:20 thers Stock e et ORANGE BLOSSOMS.~ "IAIDEIS THEATER FOUR DAYS, Beginning FSmart Set gfSe sorans TODAY, Last Freseutation Wm. S. Hart Chester Conklin W'JDA". f."n" PARAMOUNT AND FOX PHOTOPLAYS. 15th and Harney. D. 8069, CONCERT ORCHESTRA. 11, 1880, 1140, 3, 480, 5:40, 7, Present HE Ili AMUF¥I Today and Saturday Jesse _ BLANCHE SWERT iu Sunday: