Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 1

i WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bee is the Paper Jou ask for; if you plan to be Absent more than r, ? 4 *'—fhncue coal operators rejected here H 8 . } I ‘F THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA , FRIDAY \H)R\I\(x, FEBRUARY 101€ TWE I\l l\l.l\ ey SINGI at THE WEATHER. | Snow l TWO I COPY IN " HARD COAL CHIERS | REJECT DEMANDS OF THEIR WORKMEN Anthracite Openmn Refuse Grant Increase in Wages and Shorter Hours Asked by Men. THEY SUGGEST AEBITMTION They Declare Can’t Afford to Pay Toilers Any | More. WOULD con ON THE PUBLIC !0 NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The an- today the demands of their miners for a 20 per cent increase in wages, complete recognition of the United Mine Workers of America, a two- vear working agreement, an eight- hour day and changes in the meth- ods of fixing wages. The operators propose that if the differences cannot be settled by the interested parties themselves they b submitted to the board of concilia- tlon provided for in the award of the Anthracite Coal Strike commis- s'on of 1902. The miners’ demands were formulated last September at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and were ratified last week by the United Mine Work- ers' convention at Indianapolis. In reply to their employes, signed by the heads of nineteen anthracite com- panies and approved ot their meeting to- day, it 1s stated that to grant the wage increase would mean an advance to the | consumer of % cents a ton for domestic sizes of anthracite. The operators de- clate that the anthracite industry is be- igg conducted “on as low a margin of frofit ms 1s possible, if the operators are to corltinue to serve the public. The demand for recognition of the United Mine Workers is declared unres- sonable, as it would “'subject the anthra- elte region to the politics of an orgawha- tion absolutely controlled from the out- side.” The operators point out that a majority. of the members of the United Mine Workers are employed in the bitu- minous coal flelds. They hold ‘‘the rights of organized labor are fully pro- tected by the open shop principle estab- lished by the commission.” | TWO NEW ENTRIES IN THE RACE | OR GOVERNOR. MAYOR CHARLES W. BRYAN, For Democratic Nomination. CLARENCE J. MILES, For Republican Nomination. MAYOR BRYAN FILES Arguments Begin PROVIDENCE: R. l..i Feb. I—mu- sen of all th g *cuct Browh! umuhn.cnrmmm W. J. BRYAN I8 BACKING HIM t.nuu\’bdr finfiu forenoon u:‘“ lon of the asuperior ¢ourt here today. It is expeoted that the case will reach the jury some{myg¢ Mayor Charles Bryan is the time tomorrow. The greater part of the session was oo- | DOlitical Moses to lead the demo- cupled by the prosecution in,secking to |cratic party out of the wilderness is ‘ srefute parts of the testimony offered dur- | now settled. To make it.doubly as- ing the last week by the defense. A wit-|gyred he makes the announcement foe called tn behalf of the two negros |y o that one of the bullets which g Mohr emtered his chest. The | t0 the conditions in all political par- n state tvdly put on . @ physiclan who stated that both bullets entered the back, The State also sought to rebut the theory that the assault on Dr. Mohr was for the Jirpose of robbery. | | Arguments, for, the defense were then begun, Willlam H. Lewis spepiing first in Lehalf of ‘Brown. Disabled Zeppelin Afloat in North Sea LONDON, Feb, 3.—\ fishing trawler re- ported today to the naval authorities that it had seen o German Zeppelin in the North Sea 11 a sinking condition, it was stated in an official announcement given out this evening. A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam yes- terday reported that the coast guard on the Dutch Island of Ameland in the North %ea sighted a Zeppelin which was flying lew, probably having lost its bearings in the fog. The Zeppelin was bombarded by the guards, it was added, more than fifty shots being fired at it, some of which it was believed hit the airship, which ulti- v disappeared to the northward The Wedthér IPor Omaha, Covncil Bluffs and Vicinity now and colder. Pemperature st Omaka Yesterday. De, Hours. Comparative Local -.-m e lllal‘ 19!4 ®i3 Highest yesterday 1 ] i 5 % 2 19 Precipitation o M T .00 Temperature and precipitation depar- Ihum nm the normal: a ormal tem) ure . Deticlency f Jor the . .13 Total since lnn-h 5. 230 Normal )ndp tation. Excess for the day. Total rainfall since March 1....29.3 inches Deficlency since March 1.. 84 inch Deficiency for cor. period. 1914.. 1.9 inches Deficlency for ecor, period. 1913.. 5.73 inches Reports from Stations at 7 P. M. Station and State 'l'cmn High- R‘ln- of Weather. . m. est. 2 2 All H 0 3 3 H 0 H ® » o 1?2 T § o - w” 2 ol Aloux City, clear " Valentine, clear. o1 FOR GOVERNORSHIP m MOhr M“rdern 0686 Brother of Commoner Accepts Fflmg _ and Lays Emphasis on e e (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 3.-—(Special.)— He recognizes that owing ties someone must come forward and save the whole country, and the mantle of leadership has settled upon him. In answer to the question of whether he would aceept,the filing made fhis morning placing him in nomination for the democratic nom- ination for governor, the mayor sald: Tells Why He'll Run, “In view of the very important ques- tons to be considered this year by the voters of Nebraska and owing to the un- usual conditions existing in all political parties, I feel it my duty to stand as a candidate for- the demoeratic nomination for governor In respouse to the petition filed by the democrats of my.home city and the requests which have been coming from throughout the state. I will there- fore file my acceptance and inake the best fight for the race that I know how. I will give out a statement within a few days relative to some questions that I believe the voters of Nebraska will be interested in considering at the pri- maries. Ne Doabt of it Now. When the mayor issued his celebrated pronounciamento a couple of months ago, which threw consternation into the ranks of his party, to the effect that every can- didate for a state and legislative office must attach himself firmly to the water wagon or be flattened out by the Bryan roller, many of the mayor's friends sought consolation in the alleged state- ment that his statement was made with- William J. out the sanction of Brother That they erred is appare 'MILES WILL RN FOR GOVERNOR STAND HASTINGS, Neb, Feb. 3 (Spe- cfal.)—Clarence J. Miles, for several | terms mayor of the city of Hastings, now a prosperous grain dealer, and | one of the beet known of young re- publican leaders in the state, today | announced his intention of going be- | fore the voters at the coming pri-| mary, agking for the nomination for the office of governor, STATES ON " ISSUES | Mr. Miles, in his statement of his intentions, says “In_announcing my candidacy for the | republican nomination for governor, sub- | | Ject to the will of the voters at the pri- that I can and would apply ods to these meth- | the state administration. The | other motive I have is personal pride. I feel that it is a Iggitimate ambition to want to be governor of Nebraska, with the hopes of succesefully managing the | affairs of the state, so that most of the | people at the end of the term can say, can be no mistake in my position, 1 will state that 1 am for high license and tem- perance but not for prohibition. I faver high license as the best means of con- trolling the liquor traffic, but if the peo- ple of the state, by their votes, declare for prohibition, I shall abide the wil] of the majority, and shall, if elected gov- ernor, use all the power at my command under the law, to carry out the expressed will of the people. On the other hand, should the result be against prohibition, I would enforce the Slocum law and mot | favor any material change in Its provis- | fons, as I consider it the best state liquor | AUSTRIAN U- BOAT | Submarine Captures Erstwhile Ger- man Liner, Koenig Albert, Seized at Beginning of War. SAILED UNDER ITALIAN FLAG Three Hundred Serbians on Board Prize, Which is Towed to Albanian Port. BERLIN MAKES A STATEMENT nt CTIN. LONDON, Feb. 3.-—The Central | News states that a collier has \wi sunk by a Zeppelin, thirteen men bé- | maries April 13, 1916, 1 might preface my | | remarks by saying that I have two mo- | ing drowned. | tives in my ambition to be governor. I The British steamer Franz Fischer jvant to kot THE BOCRTHINGNC SE this great | of London has been sunk Or ite youn ate administered in an econom- fcal, progressive and business-like man- | CTéW only three men were saved, ner, the same as one would conduct any | Chief Engineer Birch, Steward Tay- |large private enterprise. 1 believe that | jor and Seaman Hilller. | men who work for the state should honest and capable, and that nnm-ty} BBERLIN, Feb, (By Wireless and efficiency for this particular work [to Sayville)—The _steamer Koenig |are as necessary tests for employment by the state as by the individual. I be- ‘Alhfl'l flying the Italian flag and Meve | understand business methods and | with 300 Serbian refugees on Loard, has been captured by an Austrian warcraft in the Adriatic, it was an- nounced today by the Overseas News agency The agenc; “An Austro stopped the former North G announcement says: Tungarian submarine man Lloyd ‘Well done.’ That commendation and the | sieamer Koenfg Albert in the Adriatic @atistaction from it are worth more than |qrpe gteamer had been captured by the the largest salary paid by the richest | Briptgh at the beginning of the war and business concern. | afterward put at the disposal of the Ital Position on Impor(ant Questions. |lans ““As the platform convention will not be | ‘“The steamer, which flew the Italian held for months after the primaries, it |flag, carried 30 Serblan refugees. The seems only falr that candidates should, | Submarine, after stopplng the siesmer in advance, let the people know just | called a destroyer, which towed the prize where they stand on important questions. |to Booche DI Cattaro, Albania." While the. liquor question is not a po- [ The Koenig Albert, before WAL, Was, litical issue, 1 have never tried to carry |in the North German Lioyd scrvice be. water on both shoulders, and that there |tween New York and Mediterrancan ports. She is a vessel of 10,484 tons, feet long, bullt at Stettin in 1895, Three Hundred Negro Convicts Are Saved from Flood |- LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 3.—Three hundred negro corivicts who were threat. ened with drowning for two days and threa nights on the crumbling lévees of 0 e law iy | dreds of families are homeless and the (c..nunuea on Page Three Col Updike Brothers on a Rafich f Somewhere Out in the West CHICAGO, Feb (Bpecial.)~Irving and Herbert Updike have quit these en virons. They are some place in the west, a destination sald to be known to only four persons hereabouts. The best information obtainable is that they are on a ranch, working dilligent™ to forget the troubles they heaped upon themselves by plotting to kill their father, mother and siser. It was theelr Tather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Furman D, Updike, wso made thet rip possible. The sons repented to the full satisfaction of the parents, and all is again sereve in the Osk Park family. ‘There was no loving farewejl for Nellye De Onsonne Updike, the confeased big- amous cabaret performing ‘wife of Her- bert, and the sons proi falthtully to abstain from drinking ‘intoxicatnts or indulging any further in the “fast life.” They departed just a week ago today, twenty-four hours after they were lib erated from jail on bonds signed by thelr father and Henry C. Hansen, vice presi dent of the Oak Park Trust and Savings appropriations {o keep: our State umivers sity at its present high standard of ex- cellence and in the front rank with other great oducational institutions. 1 also favor the sectional mormai schools, and realize thelr advantages. Good roads should be encouraged generally, as a bet- ter means of transportation for our farm- nd the advertising it brings through s traversing our state. Protect! tor Almiericans. “T believe In a protective taritf—protec- tion for Ameriean lite, American indus- tries and American products, The tariff should be modified to meet changed con- ditions, but shouid always be sufficient to offset the difference between the price of labor abroad and in this country. This can be best arrived at through the ap- pointment of a non-partisan commiasion, picked from among business men and sci- entific experts, and not politiclans. “I believe in reasonable preparedness against war, in which the National Guard should have a substantial part. “I believe in absolute neutrality with regard to the natlons at war; that we should be in a position to protect our na- tional honor, our freedom, our repub- lican institutions and our citizens, wherever they may be, and a protest against watchful timidity.” Eleven Lives Lost In Arkansas Floods LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 3—Eleven lives have been lost and hundreds. of thousands dollars’ damage done by the floods now devasttating Arkansas. Hun- next two days is expected to see the loss and suffering Increased. Laconia Circle, fifty miles below Helena, was flooded today and the town of Dumas, Melwood, Ferguson, Laconla and Knowlton, are inundated. Nearly 200 familles have been driven from their homes in the Laconia levee district. | Helena is not in danger, according to dispatches received here. Many refugees have sought sheiter there, The dispatches received here today from the Business Men's club of Arkansas City, says that point is not in serious dnnur | | bank. But up until last night, when in- formation of their departure was brought | to the newspapers, it was generally un- derstood they were still at the home of a Chicago friend, preparing to go away. | This information was subsequently veri- fled by George Remus, -counsel for the accused sons, and Sidney §. oGrham, counsel for the elder Updike. Mr. Updike is paying al Ithe expens of his sons, and is still laboring to have | State's Attorney Hoyne wipe the indics ments off the criminal docket. 1f he suc- ©eeds the sons will continue their absence from Chicago. If he fails the sons will be recalled for the trial and then their future will depend upon the vei of the jury. While no @irect information is forthcoming on the matter, it is hinted the sons are living under assumed names to avold further annoyance. “I cannot give the location of the ranch where they are,” said Mr. Remus. “I am pledged to sec on that. 1 douw't be lieve anyone knows expect the parents Mr. Gorham and myself et penal hrln at Cummins were rescued tolhy. Btorts to a launoch from Grady, noon today, and the situation at Gould ‘was critical. Unless boate reach that city at once grave loss of life is feared. Currents of water too strong to be braved by rowboats are surging through the streets of the town. Seventy-five negroes were reacued from a cottonseed warehouse today and awelled tho number of refugees at Gould to about A«mvflml to advioes recelved at Helena todey the loves at New Augusta on the White river went out last night, inun- dating a large section. With the crest of the Arkansas river flooding the lower reaches of the stream today continued calls for rellef from stricken and threatenel villages are belng recelved there. The crest of the waters is between Little Rock and Pine Bluff today. Bernstorff Expects Note on Lusitania Some Time Friday WASHINGTON, Feb, 3 — Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, to- day received a brie! message from the Berlin foreign office, dispatched on Jan- uary 31, informing him that his latest in- structions on the Lusitania case would go forward imriediately. The ambassador ©xpects to recelve them probably tomer- row. Suggest Interstate Quarantine on Dogs SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb, 3.— Resolutions recommending that the fed- eral government impose Interstate quar- antines upon dogs and other animals likely to carry the infection of rables and that western states appropriate funds for the eradication of the rables epidemic, will probably ve adopted at today's session of the Natlonal Health conference, being held here under the direction of the federal government Other resolutions will favor the pas- sage of a bill by congress granting sub- sidles for states in caring for the tuber- cular patients and will indorse the ef- forts of the national health bureau to stamp out Rocky mountain spotted fever, Ten states and the Distriet of Colum- bla are represented at the conference. Success Is measured in many ways, but success in trade depends on mar- keting your goods. The successful mer -~ chantis invariably the merchant who stimulates his busi- ness with judicious newspaper publicity. Advertise in The Bee Ark., to Gould hed proved futlle up to SUBMARINE LOST OFF VIRGINIA COAST—SubmarIne K-5 of the North Atlantic fleet, cruising south with t mainder of the flotilla, that was lost off the Virginia oout in || a thick fog. It was finally heard from at Key West. CUNTL. & SMITH HBLD GUILTY OF MURDER BY JURY, Defendant Convioted of Second De- gree Homicide for Killing of Mrs. Frances Campbell, PENALTY PENITENTIARY TERM Relly M. Smith, 69 years old, was convicted of second degree murder as the result of the shooting of Mra. Frances Campbell October 31 last, by the jury which heard the evidence in his trial in District Judge Sears’ court. The jury deliberated a little more than two hours, taking the case shortly before 4 o'clock and return- ing a verdict at 6:15. The verdict was a surprige to most of the persons interested in the case, according to statements made last night. The prosecution made no demand of the jury as to the degree of homicide of which Smith should be found guilty. Consequently it was anticipated that in the event the jury found Smith gullty it would fix the crime at manslaughter, which in the least of the three degrees of homicide. Peunlty 'rwo-tr Years to Life, The penalty for murder in the second degree is Imprisonment in .the peniten- tary for from twenty years to life, to be fixed by the court. Although Mrs. Smith, the gray-haired wife of the defendant, remained in the court room more than an hour after the jury retired walting for a verdlet, she had left before the jury camq In. None was present except the defendant, his attorney, A. 8, Ritchle, Judge Sears and | court attaches, Smith sat quietly in his air. The jur- ors, as is almost invariably the case when a verdiet of conviction is returned, did (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) Six Missing After 0il Plant Exposion TOLEDO, 0., Peb. Bix men are missing and are belloved to have been killed In an explosion at the Craig Ofl company's plant late today | The plant, one of the largest in this| section of the country, in said to be| [ doomed | | WASHINGTON, Feb Former Adju- tant General Pearson of the Massachu setts National Guard told the house mili- tary committee today that the only op- position te’ federalizatjon of the National Guard has come from the War depart- ment and not from the militia General Pearson viewed the continental army plan as & hopeless fullure before it started ‘If the militia, has been stated, won't respond to & cuil in time of war,"” he said, “what hope is there that this continental army would respond in time of peace” General Pearson said he personally fa- as |\ Behind Every Ballot Should Be a Bullet, Says General Pearson LAD TELLS STORY OF FATHER'S DEATH Oflpplod ndmd lolnnh mu- Tale of Shooting of Parent to Coroner’s Jury. DID IT TO PROTECT MOTHER “I saw there was no hope—so-I shot him," In the simple language of the grade school student Edward Sodonka, 18- year-old cripple, son of Mr, ahd Murs, Frank Sodonka, who Monday evening shot and killed his father at their home at 4123 South Fortieth street, following an assault by the parent on his wife told a coroner’s jury yester- day morning the stery of the tragedy My father came hoine that night about 7 o'clock and started a fight with my mother, He made his usual threats, and tinally sald he was going to bed and die. “Later about® 8 ¢'clock ‘my brother Frank came Inafter working all day long at the store, Mother laid out aupper tor him, and he had just sat down to the table anl was begirning to eat when my father came into the kitchen from the bedroom. “'H6 went over to the table and, pulling Frank around in his chafr, demanded that my brother listen to a story about how he had refused a good job because it was winter and he didn't bave to work. He was intoxicated. Hits Moth Face "My~ mother went over (0 him and asked that hoe leave brother alone, saying that Frank was tired and wanted to'gat in peace. 1 was reading the news; at the time, and locked up just soon enough to see my father tand Up and hit my mother in the Between the (Continued om Page "Three GuF.) ‘Put it There, Wilson,’ He Says to President BAST ST. LOUIS, ML, Feb, 3.—The greater part of President Wilson's five minytes' stay here was taken up in shak- Ing hands of hundreds of men, women and | children, who crowded about the train and rap after it when it started up again, The president continued to grant hand shakers until the train picked up quite a bit of speed. Even then a man spurted ahead of the rest of the crowd and yelled ‘put it there Wilson,” and the presis dent reached for his hand and shook it vored conscription b the theory that ‘‘be- hind every ballot should be a bullet.” There were just throe solutions to the national army problem, he added: first, and most effective, conscription: second, & pald national guard, and, third, the continental army, which wi totally im- practioal,” he sald. Bfforts to bulld up the National Guard on a basis of patriotism, he sald, had been a failure. Militia pay, he feared, would produce 100 many recruits Adjutant General Tillison of the Ver- mont National Guard argued that the guardsmen had a vested right in any na- tional wrmy that might be formed, | President Wilson was cheered by UNITED STATES NAVY SHOULD BE UNCONQUERABLE President Tells Cheering Crowd in St. Lonis America Should Have Largest Sea Force in World, GREAT INTERESTS TO PROTECT | Act of Single Submarine Commander Might Bring America Into the War. MIDWEST FOR PREPAREDNESS BULLETIN, TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb, 3. veveral thousand persons as he passedthrough here late today. He addressed the crowd briefly. “You know my errand,” he said, and added: ““There is no oubt about Indiana."” 8T. LOUIS, Feb. 3.~President Wilson today told an audience of 16,000 cheering tumultuously at his feet, that the United States should have the greatest navy in the world. “I belleve the navy of the United States should be unconquerable,” he sald, “‘the greatest in the world.” The president declared that sub- narine commanders abroad have in- structions which for the most part conform with International law, but that the act of one commander might set the world afire, including America. Upon the ocean there are hundreds of cargoes of American goods,” he sald, ‘cotton, grain dnd all the bountiful sup- plies America Is sending out to the world—-and any one of those cargoes, any one of those ships may be the peint of contact that will bring America into the war." For the first time during the teur the presidont told of how one set of hel- lgerents was cut oft from the world He sald this kept the United States from helping them as it would like. He made the atatement in trying to show that the United States was really meutral. Middle West for dness. The president opened with the state- ment that he had ‘‘come some- thing in the middle west and found it." He said he had been told the middle west W against preparedness, but did not helleve it. “1 did not um uuv. mhuulw you. w out thu there may lute clnflflutm of the fssues wo ln now confronting. ‘Amerioa is at peace with all the world because it Is the friend of all the world, The friendship is genuine. We are the friend of all the world because we are made up of all the world and under- d all the world. ‘It would tear the heart strings of America to be at war with any other nation, ‘Weo belleve we can show our’ friend- #hip for the world better by keeping out of thip ‘struggle than by getting Into it. 1 do not misread the spirit of America. “T have no indictment of any form of sovernment, Americans Will Not Be Led. “No man can lead America any whither that its people do not desire to be led. 1| belleve it to be my duty to subordinate my individual feelings to the conscien- tious attempt to interpret and express in these international affairs the genuine spirit of my fellow citisens. ‘8o far as America is concerned no man need go amongst us preaching peace. ‘We are disciples of peace already, and no man need preach that gospel to us. “Suppose my nelghber's house is on fire and the roof is of combustible ma- terial, 1t ia not my fault if the fire spreads. The danger s not from within, but from without, One Man May Set Werld Afive. ‘The commanders of submarines for the most part are in aceord with law of nations, but the act of one commander may set the world on tire. "There are cargoss of wheat and cotton #nd manufactured articles on the sea, and avery one of them may cause trouble be- cause they go into the zone of fire, “America has drawa no fine poluts, no new lssues in its international relations; it has merely asserted the rights of man- kind when the life of mankind is threat- ened in a world aflame with war. It has reated upon what s already written plain on the documents of international law." The president said that some day states- men of the older countries would have to admit that it was America that kept burning the flame of international law upon its altar when every other altar in { the world was swept by the windeof pas- slon, “I am ready to make every patient allowance,” he continued, ‘“for those Whose tempers are upset by war. Yields All but Vital Peints. “I am not in a critical frame of mind. I am ready to yleid everything but the vital points. YL am ready both' sides. “You know how one set of belligerents is shut off from the rest of the world. Therefore, the United States is mot able to express itself toward them as they to make allowances for would like. I belleve the United States s really neutral. “My tellow citisens, while we know our ‘oWn purpose, it does not follow that other Nations understand, Men press forward with a sort of blind recklessness “The peace of the world, including America, rests with the remainder of the world, and not with America, Oniy Twe Alternatives, “Here is the altonative: “Hither we shall sit still and wait for the necessity for immediste national de- fense to come and then call for welun- teers, who would be, for the fiset few months, impotent as against & tratned and experienced enemy. "'Or, we shall adopt the anclent Amer- ican prineiple, that ¢ho men of the com Gonttuved o Pags o, ORI 3