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

? PABT CONE NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TWELVE "VOL. XLV—NO. 37 DISCUSS WHAT IS AN ARMED CRAFT Lansing Indicates United States May Take Up Question with Germany if it is Raised, LESS EXCITEMENT AT CAPITOL | Leaders in Congress Apparently Willing to Await Outoome of Diplomatio Exchanges. PRESIDENT WILSON IS FIRM «ww WASHINGTON, Feb, 26-—The United States, Secretary Lansing in- dicated today, may discuss the ques- tion of what property may be re- garded as armament on a-merchant, £hip, if the question is raised. One of the entente allies, to which Becretary Lansing suggested disarma- ment of merchant ships, replied to- day, but the nature of the reply or the name of the government which made it will not be disclosed until all of the allies have answered, The impression prevalled that it was not Great Britain, but probably was France or Italy, WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—With the apparent quieting down of the situation In congress, the submarine crisis shifts back to the negotiations between Secretary Lansing and Count Von Bernstorff. Mr, Lansing said today there was no intention of transferring the nego- tiations to Berlin to be conducted be- tpeen Ambassador Gerard and the Berlin forelgn office, as was inti- mated in dispatches published abroad, and reiterated that the State department had heard nothing more from Germany on its request for a declaration that the new submarine campaign would not be conducted in vielation of previous assurances for the safety of Americans traveling on unresisting liners. The situation in congress apparently is being held fn check by the administra- tion leaders, while President Wilson re-| oo reminiscent of the trials of mili- mains firm in his determination to in- sist on the rights of Americans to travel on ships armed for defense only. FOR SETTLEMENTOF SI0UX CITY STRIKE Men Will Consider Terms Offered by Packers at a Conference to Be Held at Later Hour, HIGHER WAGES FOR WORKERS Cudahy and Armour Announce In- crease of Pay of Men in All Plants, Beginning Monday. EXPECTED TO SETTLE STRIKE SIOUX CITY, Ia., Feb. 26.—M. R. Murphy of Omaha, geenral manager of the Cudahy packing plants, made the statement today that the Cudahy | and Armour packing companies will | immediately advance the wages of | employes in all their packing plants. The peace conference between | packing house strikers and managers of the plants was in progress at noon. It was reported that the indications | were favorable for a settlement. Both sides seem anixous to end the | strike, | It was learned that the advance of which Mr. Murphy spoke as applying to the Armour and Cudahy plants would also apply to all of the Omaha packing houses and that the volun- tary raise would be effective Monday. BIOUX CITY, Feb, 2%.—~At 2 o'clock this afternoon when the packing house strike | peace conference adjourned it was an- nounced that the prospects of a settle- ment were very bright. The strikers will consider the terms offered at o mass meeting late this afternoon. Woman Leader of the Anti-Recruiting Movement Jailed LONDON, Feb, 26.—(:% p. m.)— Mrl! Nellie Best, secretary of the Women's, Anti-Conscriptionist league, was sen-| tenced Yoday to slx months’ imprison- | ment in the Westminster police court | for circulating literature urging men not to enlist. The scenvs in the court tant suffragists. Women sympathizers of Mrs. Best made a great outcry when sentence was LOST FURTRESS Germans Again in Gallic Hands. HAVE ADVANCED PAST THAT All Teuton Efforts to Drive Repub- lican Forces Back Are hfile. e — e OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY WASHINGTON MAY [PROSPECTS BRIGHT |FRENCH RETAKE o7 7, 1916 INVADERS' nossr.s ARE HEAVY PARIS, P'cb‘ 284——Tho official statement issued by the war office tonight ‘mentions the sanguinary struggle which has been going on round Fort Douaumont, whieh it de- scribes as ‘‘an advance element of the old defensive organization of the | fortress of Verdun and declares that |the position captured this morning |by the Germans was reached again by the French troops, who advanced beyond that point and have resisted all attempts to drive them back.” The text of the statement follows: “In Artois mine fighting has been in progress. We exploded two mines, one to the west of the road to Lille and the second to the east of Neu- ville-St. Vaast, under a tunnel occu- pied by the enemy. Rep! Attack of Ememy. “In Champagne we completely re- pulsed an attack by the enomy against a sallent carried by us to the south of Ste. Marfe-A-Py. The total number of prisoners taken by us in this affair has reached 840, of whom nine are officers and thirty-six non-commissioned officers. “Destructive fires have been carried out against the German works to the north of Ville-8ur-Tourbe and in the re- glon of Mont Tetu, “In the region to the hmorth of Verdun the bombardment continues without cessation to the east and to the west of the Meuse. ' To these attacks of the enemy our troops have replied by coun- ter attacks, carried out with vigor at the various points assalled on our front. “All the new attempts of the Germans in the region of Champneuville and on La Cote Deu Polvre, where we are sol- idly established, have been repulsed. Position Retaken. sources coms “A turious struggle has been in pro- cmmmmun:;: o.gm.mmmm::‘ .-n‘-“ u::nnm;nm:menu _motice 2 R 1 Mrs. Best an vance element of t| lefensive i 2 el Wmm.zfimm m“cmn::a "l;fll';' Lord,: who told us | organization of vuu- lofl.rou. m ers proposing of merchant | o0 position capturs ships, and the bellef ia ‘that the | wy atter N’)m allies will not 8 the American #ug- | hundreds cost 1t m, gestion. ched egain and gone heyond by From British sources come the positive government statement that the PEritish tude of the Itallan ‘mfln presence at New York of three Itallan merchantmen. Ice Goes Out of 3 Platte at Fremont Germa.n Losses in Flanders Attacks Are Reported Heavy & considerable number of | and Flood Subsides AMSTERDAY, Tob the cormare FREMONT, Neb., Feb. lowands in this vieinity. the cause of the high water here. Near Mercer the Union Pacific tracks were threatened when a gorge formed, throwing the water cut, but the use of several carloads sand prevented a washout. no delay to trains. damage. The wagon road leading from the Fre- & half mile north, was covered by water during the ‘When it subsided several big cakes of ice were It was necessary to remove them before traffic could be resumed. There is very little ice in the mont bridge to the dyke, night to a depth of over a foot. left on the roadway. main channel of the river, Bonding Clause Omitted from Bill (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. %.~(Specila Tele- | gram.)—It will be of interest to a numbe: 26.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Ice in the main channel of the Platte went out early this morning and the danger of flood is believed to be over. The river is over a foot lower than dur- ing, the night, when it overflowed the The ice from the Loup, which broke up yesterday, was The Burlington rail- road and the county bridge at Fremont withstood the high water without any | troops in Flanders and artillery reinforce- ments have been continuously arriving since December, according to the Echo Belgeu. Not less than elghteen attacks were | made recently by the Germans against the narrow front at Steenstraete on the Comines canal, south of Hill No. 150, d clares the newspaper. Only two uttacks had any success, but the German losses must have been heavy, it adds, it being estimated that the killed and wounded Aeroplane Circles Over Elevators and | Scares Watchmen | SUPERIOR, Wis., Feb. 26—Watch- | taining millions of bushels of wheat for the allles, were alarmed early today when an aeroplane, soaring 3,000 feet in the atr, circled above the docks for half an hour. Thé machine was observed just before dawn. When it became light it disap- |reared in the direction of the new plant of the Minnesota Steel company on the St. Louis river, An aeroplane recently was seen near the Dupont Powder plant at Washburn. r men guarding blg graln elevators, con- | troops, which ali the attempts of emy have not been able to push large calibre in the direction of Lune- ille and Nancy. “Today in the region of Verdun, Ad- jutant Nevarre in a monoplane beat down with a machine gun two German aeroplanes, this achievement making five ! enemy aeroplanes brought to earth by | this pilot. The enemy machines fell in our lines. Two aviators manning them were gllled while two others were made prisoners, Shell Mets Station. “On the same day one of our squad- rons composed of nine bombing areo- planes dropped 144 shells on the sablou railway station at Metz. Another of our aeroplanes squadrons bombarded the enemy establishments at Chambley, northwest of Pont-A-Mous.” The Belgian official communication reads: ““The artillerw actions were very spirited today on our front, particularly in the region to the morth of Dixmude. Our batteries carried out destructive fires on the nemy works at Mercken.” Italian Poet Wounded in Eye PARIS, Feb, %.—Gabriels ‘D'Annunsio has been injured in the right eye in an aeroplane accident and taken to a hos- pital in Venice, says the Rome corre- spondent of the Petit Parisien. There is a ! possibility that the sight of the injured eye may be preserved. The Italian poet, Gabriele I’Annunsio, took a prominent part in the popular agi- tation which preceded the declaration of war by Italy on Austria in May, 1915. He volunteered for service and was appointed lieutenant in the army. of employes of the postoffice at Omaha to know that the rules committee of the house has falled to include that section of the postoffice appropriation bliil rela- tive to the bonding of employes up to 7 At Last! Ig Dunn To Try for Senator| per cent of their salaries, made against the section tained. The Weather elightly Temperatures at Omaba Hours jons ) cial organ of the Russian army, pub-[to send to France reserves specially § dent's preparedness program. To the |)shea an account of the war council |trained for Russian warfare 3 |#enator he hands this package: “I am|yoiq n Berlin, at which the decision to er, Field M von Hinden Comparative Local Record, and conse- quently the point of order that will be will be sus- Vicinity Yesterday. Dek. | 2% democrats ot Nebraska,” telling how well After impatiently walting all this time for some one else to do the job, “Tg" Dunn has volunteered to sacrifice himsel? for his country as & candidate for the democratic nomination for United States | renator against Senator G. M. Hitcheock, | seeking re-election. | It 1s an open secret that the Dunn |candidacy is instigated and backed by the Bryan element of the party The announcement of Dunn that his Fat is in the ring for senator is accom- ipanied by a statement addressed “to the |Blue Stem Wheat Drops EEyen Cents PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 26 @April blue- stem wheat quotations on the Portland Grain exchange plunged downward 11 |cents today on receipts of rumors that iVerdun had fallen and in sympathy with drops in midwestern markets. There were mo sales, but all bid prices were afected GOMMISSION DLAN FOR WATER PROBLEM Conference Favors Creation of Body to Take Over All Features of Waterways Regulation. PROVIDES CONTINUING BUDGET WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Adop- tion of the commission plan of deal- ing with waterway problems of the country, which would include con- tinuing annual appropriations, was agreed upon today as a general pol- icy to be recommended to the presi- dent in a conference between cabi- net officlals and a committee of sen- ators. Becretaries Lane, ouston and Red- fleld, who were namnd by the president, with former Secretary Garrison, to in- vestigate the problem, and Senators New- lands, Broussard and Ransdell partici- pated In the eonference. The policy agreed upen, it is belioved, Wili be rec- ommended. to ¢ongress by m;fi-t wil- near future, ton to the Missisaippi river belaw. and that approximately $10,000,000 shall be appropriated for 1917 for this project. Provides Annual Approprintion. ‘What annual river and harbor improve- ments will be recommended was not finally' “dgreed" upon. The Newlands- Broussard . waterway measure, which would appropriate $60,000,000 annually, probably will be taken as the basis for an agreement om that. Under the plan there would be created a ‘“waterways commission” consisting of the president, the secretaries of war, interior, agriculture snd commerce and the chairman of the Board of River Regulation. Chairmen of the Interstate Commerce commission and the Isthmian | Canal commission are proposed as mem- bers ex-officlo. The commission would have direction and control over all waterway Drojects and expenditures, All features of river and inland water- way regulation would be placed In the commission's hands, including hydro- electric power development; confining the navigable rivers to their channels by means of levees: and the prevention of deforestation and sofl erosion. The recommendations will be sub- mitted to the president in time to have them enacted iInto law at the present session and to substitute them for the river'’s and harbors’ appropriation bill. It is probabie that the president will sub- | mit a special message on the subject. Man Supposed to Be Jean Crones Held at Moberly, Mo, MOBERLY, Mo., Feb. %.—The man de- tained here yesterday belleved to be Jean Crones, wanted ‘n Chicago in conneetion with an alleged polsoning plot today was held on a fugitive warrant charging hini with being Cronos. It is understood the Chicago police are sending an officer after him, American Nurses Go to the British Front LONDON, Feb. 26,—Thirty-three Amer- fcan nurses, most of them from Mercy hospital, Chicago, left London today for the British front. They have been de- talled to service for six months in field | hospitals. The nurses had been in London for nearly two weeks gathering thelr -qulnmem pleased he is with the foretsn policy of President Wilson in regard to Mexico jand ‘the belligerent nations of Europe, |and how displeased he is with the presi- cpposed to the domination of the demo- cratic party in this stat by erganized special interests, headed by the publie | corporations and Mquor interests,” | service And he straddles the wet and dry lssus 1916, m;. 1914, 1913 | by dense silence on his own attituds ex- Highest yestorday B 4% |cept that he will be dry or wet as the | fpwest yesterday o 8l B 2,8 [state votes the prohibition initiative meas- Precipitation . T 8 9 Tlure up or down. Opposed the PETROGRAD, Veb. 2.)-The Ruzzky Invalid, the offi- attack Verdun was taken. It asserts that the German and Ba rian crown princes strongly favored an attack on the French front at Verdun, but that both Field Marshal von Hin- denburg and Flefld Marshal von Macken- contending that sen opposed the plan, it would be better to develop the opel tions already planned against the Rus- Von H lndenburg and M ackensen Feb. 2%.-(Via London, (slan front, because it would be necessary GRID CLUB AGAIN ROASTS ITS GUESTS President Makers and Candidates Are Helped Aboard Trains to Chicago and St. Louis. CHAMP CLARK HAS OLD TICKET \\'ASHXNGTON. Feb, 26.—The Gridiron club tonight at its second dinner of the winter, projected Itself futo the convention activities of next June and helped a distin- guished party of president makers and candidates board trains for Chi- cago and St. Louls to meet the fates awaiting them there. In a make- Lelieve raillway station the actor members of the club satirized the foibles of some of their guests and some well known men who were no( present, President Wilson waw among those who looked on and he may have received an Intimation of the opposition he will meet later in the year, Vice President Mar- ordp e’ Bribit aebaseidon, the | [ Chinese. and Bollvian ministers, several membors of the senate and house, offioers ot the army and navy and a number of the most notable figures in the nation's financial and industrial life were present. The newly elected presidest of the club, Louls W. Strayer of the Pittsburgh Dis: patch, was inaugurated with a humorous #ketch in which all members participated, variously attired to represent the old guard, the regular army reserve, the continental army, the government ma- rines, the progressive party and war revenue tax collectors. ! Fun with Big Fellows. The most ambitious of several sketches presented by the club was the political one. Scrambles to make trains, strange traveling companions and ticket com- plexities that confounded the rallway gatomen offered extraordinary opportu- nitles for funmaking. Passing through the Chicago gate were regular and pro- gressive republicans, characters repre- senting former Senators Burton and Bev- (Continued on.Page Two, Column One.) Kugel Enforcing Rule Against Rum In the Pollce Force Pity the poor copper, as he wends his slough-footed and weary way up and down the tollsome length and breadth of his beat. No longer may he stop off, every block or so and sink a schooner of suds to slake his burning thirst. { When Sergeant Chick Ferris stepped nto a North Sixteenth street bar some time ago, he found Police Walter Nichols blessing & cold quart thus: “Here's up to the lips and over me gums—look out, old dryneck, here 't comes.” Then fol- lowed a business of gurgling. Ferris relieved Nichols of his badge and | Nichols is to be tried for unbecoming conduct. Commissioner Kugel says he will try to accomplish the officer's per- manent suspension. Another policeman, named La Page, was dismissed some | time ago for a similar offense. | THE WEATHER. Cloudy B SINGLE. [ | | ‘(DRY DEMOS OF I0WA ARE MAKING SLATE Two Full 'l‘ioh_n Probably Will Be | * Placed Before Voters at Pri- | mary on June 5. CLARKSON SELECTED TO LEAD DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 26.~—~Two full democratic state tickets may be placed before Iowa voters at the June 5 primary this year as the re- sult of a declsion early today by leaders of so-called progressive dem- ocrats to enter a slate of thelr own, After an all night meeting conference unanimously selected Senator John T. Clarkson of Albia, leader of the dry forces in the thirty- sixth general assembly, to head the new ticket as candidate for governor a2 opposition to m ulllu‘ d‘- ‘| eratic ticket. m Edward G. Dunn of I_ was selected as @ candidate for demo- wan & candidate for governor S o Hapgood Explains The Employment of Brandeis by Weekly WASHINGTON, Feb. #$.—Norman HID' good, former editor of Collier's Weekly, today told the senate judiclary sub-com- mittee investigating the nomination of Louls D. Brandels to the supreme court, that the reason Colller's had employed Mr. Brandeis in the Ballinger-Pinchot Investigation was because Colller's wanted to support L. R. Glavis whose charges against Mr, Ballinger it had pub- lllhnd and for whom Brandels ostensibly red. e had published Mr. Glavis' charges and thought he ought to be fully sup- ported by us” sald Mr. Hapgood. "We feel that If the newspaper appeared in the ltigation it would detract. from the main {ssue. We wanted to avold the pearance of desiring to get into the light.” No attempt had been made to deceive anyone about Mr. Brandels' employment, Mr. Flapgood sald, he added, at least three witnesses re- ferred to Colller's in such & way as to show they knew Mr, Brandels was rep- | resenting It. On one occasion Mr. Hap- good sald he printed an editoria] in reply to a newspaper saying In a rather satirls cal way that of course Colller's was pay- | ing Mr. Brandels, and would pay for any other contributor, who got into trouble, Willlams Youngman, testified at length about the Warren will ease, in which Mr. | Brandels was an attorney. Farmhand Given Fifteen Thousand I know it overturns a police depart ment tradition,” declared Commissioner Kugel, “but the coppers mustn't get caught drinking while on duty.” | Official Taster is | Named for Feast | Assault on Verdun| if the plan of the princes was adopted burg is reported to have sald that the chances of success on the Russian front were greater. He 18 declared to have had little hope of the operations ugainst Ver- dun and to have feared an adverse effect on the morale of the army in case of their fallure, These argumen the newspaper adds, did not prevail and the CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—An official taster | to test all dishes served to Willlam How- | ard Taft, Archbishop Mundelein and other | muests who will attend the St | day banquet of the Irish Fellowship club, was appointed today. Club officlals, mindful of the recent poisoning of soup | nervea at a banquet given in honor of | Archbishop Mundeleln, named W, Healy, & club m , taster. Two Small British Steamships Sunk LONDON, ¥eb, 2. | the sinking of the British steamer Den- ably of 2,97 tons, and the steamer Tum- mel of 531 tons. Seven members of the crows are miss- ing. Of five survivors who were picked emperor supported the crown princes. up two died, {ell and his daughter, Jennie, Patrick's | followed soon after ! Lioyd's announces ’} Back Pay by Jury DES MOINES, Feb. 26.—~Louls O, Bates, & farm hand who worked for twenty years on farms owned by the late Edward How- without sal- ary, expecting as a reward that Miss | Howell should be his wife, will reeeive | on 8t. Patrlck's Day [in the Foik eounty et court | | Bates contended he worked with an understanding that when Mr. Howell dled he would marry Miss Howell. Mr, How- ell died and the death of his daughter Bates sued the es- Late for $40,000 back pay. |Senator Norris Says Water Power Lobby WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—In an attack on the Shields' bill to provide for water private interests, braska today declared the bill was be- ing champloned by the strongest lobby that ever came to Washington. “They are representatives of the water power trust,” he sald, *Which has its general headquarters o Wall street.” During the hearing, | Backing Shields Bl]l; power grants on navigable streams to! Senator Norris of Ne-| COPY FIVE FIRST BREAK IN FORTIFICATIONS OF VERDUN CITY Fort Douaumont, the Northwesern Pillar of the Line of Strong- holds, Stormed by the Germans, CENTS. FRENCH DO NOT ADMIT LOSS Paris Report Says Battle Continues and Thousands of Teutons Have Been Slain. ATTACKS NEAR BEAUMONT FAIL NULLETIN, BERLIN, Feb., 26.-—(Via Lon- don.)-—The French forces in the | Champagne have made an attack on the German positions south of St. Marie-A-Py. The war office state- ment today says the French peue- |trated the first German tremches lover a distance of about 250 yards. Feb, 26.—(Via Lon- officially announced BERLIN, don.)—It is | that Fort Douaumont, one of the for- |tifications of Verdun, was taken by |storm yesterday afternoon and is now firmly held by the Germans. The official announcement is as follows: “The armored Fort Douaumont, the northeastern corner pillar of the permanent line fortifications of the stronghold of Verdun, was stormed yesterday afternoon by the Twenty- fourth regiment of Brandenburg in- fantry and is now firmly in German bands.” An officlal ement lssued today says that considerable advances have been made east of the Meuse in the region north of Verdun in the presence of Em- peror William. Resistance of the French broke down on the Woevre plain along the entire front to Marphoville, south of the high road from Paris to Mets. re pursuing the retreating the statement says. German Loss s Enormous. PARIS, Feb, 28.—The Germans are con- tinuing their violent attacks north of Verdun without regard to thelr sacrifices, the war office announced this afternoon. The German attacks in the reglon of Beaumont, east of the Meuse, have falled, the war office sald, notwithstanding re- peated attacks and slaughtor. mmmv mum ‘now raging betore on :wufin\- coming attack on Verdun. -tu- anxiously, owing to the recognised strat- egic importance of this fort, which is the base of solld field works on a line of hills 1,000 feet high, about six llflll northedst of Verdun. The last detalled information m the French holding lines two and & half miles beyond ;Douaumont, with this pow- erful for and its fleld works giving steady support. The Pall Mall Gazette says the French are sustaining an assault equalling in in- nsity the hottest engagements of the entire war, The Westminster Gazette expresses confidence that the main fortress is im- pregnable. It predicts that the prineipal result of the German attack will be tre- mendous losses, which will cripple the effectiveness of the Germans in subse- quent operations. ARMED ITALIAN SHIP ARRIVES AT NEW YORK NEW YORK, Feb. %.-The Napoli, the third Itallan steamer to arrive here within the last few days with guns mounted, arrived today. The Napoll carried two throe-inch guns mounted on the poop- {deck. It is & frelghter and carries no | passengers. | UNIDENTIFIED MAN FALLS DEAD IN A SALOON Shortly after 3 o'clock an unidentified |man about 60 years of age fell dead im Holtz's saloon, Twenty-second and Cum- | ing streets. The coroner has taken charge 1‘ol’ the body. Wl‘fllh. Free Movie Conpon Tals Bee Do-n- free | |