Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 5, 1916, Page 1

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XLV--NO., 241, HEAVY LOSSES IN VAIN ATTACK Powerfu] German Assault on First French Lines South of Douau- mont Repulsed and In- vaders Driven Back, VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUELS ON French Official Report Says Night Passed Without Renewal of Infantry Attacks, SHELL GERMAN SUPPLY TRAIN PAIS, April 4 A powerful Ger man attnck aguinst the first lines of the Vrench south of Dovaumont wis repulsed today, wand waore driven buek In the direction of Chuuffour northwest, The Prench artillery con ventrated thelr fire on the rotiring Germans, who, according to the of flelul statement issued by the French office Lonight, suffered consid wrable On the man sttuck agninst Haucourt falled, the Germans wood, which lles to the Wiy lows wost of the Meuse a Ger BERLIN, April 4 (Via London,) #trong Vreeneh positions southwest Doustumont and in the Callleite wood northeast of Verdun, have eon token by troops, the uffiee announced today, Hocapture by the British of a it Fiol, south of Ypres, which the Ger riang had been ocoupying Is slso re corded 1n the officlal stutement ol German war mine crater wt PARIS, April 4 tacks were made Iast night by the Germang in the Verdun region, the var office announced this afternoon, The Vrench thelr hoavy bombardment along the Dougumont Viaux front, northeast of Yerdun The response wag feeble, Thers wers violent artillery exchanges near Avocourt and Malsncourt, The text of the statement In the Argonne district hombarded ceriain of the German No Infantry at- continued follows hinve we sanizations, partioularly n the reglon of | Mont. ¥aleon and Malancourt “West of the Meuse thers has artillery fighting of considerable lenco nlong the frout frem Avocourt as far a8 Maluncourt, Vast of the Meuss the night passed relatively quiet “Phe Jermans have made no stiack against the fromt between Dolaumont ond Vaux, re-established by our counter sttacks of yemerdny ‘Prench batterion Inrly metive in firing tlons in this reglon, bean vio have heen partiey upon enemy The anemy has re powl | miles away, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE - OF VILLA OUTLAWS _TEUTONS SUFFER (STRATEGY OF CHASE |HEADS OF KANSAS | Correspondent at Front Desoribes | ’ Long Ride to Guerrero and Bat- f tle in Village Btreets, [BANDIT MAS NARROW ESCAPE 3 AT FRONT, March Aeroplane and Motor Ameriean Border, M., April 4,) wfter two weeks of pursult the Villa bund | dez troops 1 Courler (Via to N, The strategy whareby at Columbus, under Kllseo Hernan by American reveiled General was overtuken and disporsed way here toduy. The plan was to send the Ameriean column In n stralght line along the while Ville wan tuking a longer route plong | the Coupleq with thi “uiring of the bow,’ nre of the how,” maneuver was o general order Hpare nothing except horseflesh the A avalry Dodd's Under (hese Instructions men, with Colonel CGuorge pushed horder alley hrignd the van stralght wlways I from the Murin after outhward through the Hants rver Villa Grandas [ onstwnrd mountatng, elose with huge whieh border elosel of the n this Villw's positions were mennwhile paasing had of nnd polnta south of there behind 0 feat copper-green ridge high wnd i tn nice ennt g the 1o topped P rver awing to the dittieult to locate guesswork hur Iine, shoer steadily Hometimen weemed the ponthward Noveriheless onvalry ried the trusting that along shorter finally would try to turn whead of them to his old haunts nothing except horse flesh was Amerieans. Villa Liternlly apared by the Dodd's Voree On Mareh reduced Reduoed, 2 Colonel Dodd's men were by the necessity of leaving pa and by the Niness of about forty 1o total advance guard of shout They hind run completely out of pro the men und fesd for ertheless Instend of halting trols | men 0 the {slons for ‘e to wwalt food they pushed on, leaving no regulnr lines of communieation with the olumns in the rear, Vor one solld week Hved thalr witw, their sirength and such seanty food nx thay p, but alwaym following the “upmre nothing exeept horse flesh spared (he horses was thelr final dash into tha Villa tronghold Wednesday morning. | which for endurance and brilliant effort ne haw been mirpassed, Before this dnsh on Monday an avistor flying over further into Mexico than any of the asroplanes had probably | penetrated, had discovered Dodd's col- | The next day ho flew back Genoral Pershing, who had started south fron field headquarters, glving the gen-| arul the most important news of the cam- palin 1o dute, namely, that Dodd belleyed ho knew where Villa wus, The night of that sume Tuesday Dodd's tolumn, 400 strong, started for Guerrero, fifty-five where It was reported that Ville with 80 men ol captured the town from the Carranslste garrison they on renerve conld plok 1 order Ho proven h well the n mnreh oy unknown mountaing umn. to sponded but feebly “Yumt of the forest of Ta Pretre a prong reeonnaissancs by the has been dispersed by our fire. “In Alsace, Vrench batteries wers ane comstul in whelling pupply train on ths highway Thann nnd Muelhaugen,” Brandeis Object of Bystematio Attack ABHINGTON reason for enemy a German between April 4 recommending the Kenator ton's con: firmation of Louls 10, Brandeis as toduy 1o Chilton n was 1 Mr iheommitten which | Mr three democrats who reported or | prems court justice o judicinry committee nirman ! henrd charkes ngninst me of the e the of frandeis and " | waid netive the Aherman an Mr, Tipandels w0 prominently piblie Iife of of Iaw, the awakening of the states to thair| industeial combinations Much Chilton [ man enmtor at the perion nutruetion duty coneerning d the determination of the dividing line hetween Kiute national i nte nd to have been engnie 8 witter ofore the conrt fare legislative and he 14 he had I bodies more or | fond & human prodis that f Vit antagoniam f the v n to tor r Por Omaln | emperninres at Partly i Vesterday . Omahn ] ) Hopurin fram Sintions ot T 1 W Wealhe Voreed Murveh of American The Americans made fifty-five miles in soventeon hours, riding on a chilly night which cut to the of the men who had. discarded avery plece of nonfighting | equipment except blanket and moss kits, Home of them even had thrown away thelr biankets The fifty-five-milo march to (herrero wan hotly pressed in the hope that would be reached befors daylight er, o mintake In and canteens the town Howe " cont ronds an (Continued on Pagg Two, Column One,) Zeppelins Make New Raid Upon England; No Damage is Done BERLIN, April ville, )~ Another Fritish coant was made on ..onday night announesd today, The fort near were attacked alrship veturned safel | | 4 Zeppelin (Wireless rald on the admiralty tieations the statement follows the of April 84 attacked the Enkland threw the fortifications near Although they anfely Yarmouth, and e On night Giarman ithenst explosive naval alvships » onal of and Gireat shellad Yarmouth were the alrships return wan it re \i \ night's Zey fictally tod Adamage 1amt olin noed rald y, and th statement follows ppelin 14 reported to have orossed ast botwoon 3 and 8 o'olook | he been long A the Anwlian ¢ thi morning atrship oral exploal Olarence Hudson Will Be Formally Accused of Piracy [GEORGE W. EGAN'S NAME [ STRICKEN FROM STATE ROLL | | this | Thomus J | tremsurer, | at the evening sews! WIEDNESDAY MORNING, RIL 5, 1t OMAHA, AP | STATE TOWNS VOTE ON LICENSE ISSUE CITY POLICE FORCE | Commissioners Lapsley and Lamb | w “king Gaing Sentenced to Lockup by Judge ‘Dlyl Appeayd in Municipal Election | Accons@iel ’?‘“:"‘m' Made gered Cities of Dispute, Nebraska, | o THEY WOULD NOT HONOR WKITS Officials Disregarded Habeas Corpus FAIRBURY CHANGES T0 DRY Command in Case of Men | Hildreth and DeWitt Are Registered Arrested | in the Wet Column Again CHIEF ALSO SENT TO BASTILE Aflr To0s KANBAS James 8 4. | NOKTH PLATTE DRY F1KST TIME Lamb, CITY, Mo, April Lapsley and Fred A jr,, police commissioners of Kansas City, weore ordered committed to jull afterndon Judge of the elrenit refusal waer | Mormman Faplilion Bikhorn r1 Martington West Foint Cornmbiug Mrunin by Clarence Hurney of thelr habeay court because of court to honor writs corpus the In the eane of clghteen men arrested today insued by “Biloveth “Tilden Nattle Oreek DRY, Dannebrog SFalrbary Wayne Olarin Lo wville Kenounw Bargoant Cotesflela Albion TOR BUNDAY BALL Givbon early KANNAR CITY, April 4.-Municipal f City | Joat repiin Wilher Grand Island l‘xrln Clay York David City Uni fiela the onter slections Jome here today miark hitterent Kunsnn Ampalgn in In many years Henry nyor domocrnt, weeka ressisction In M, Kdwarda Within a few hours after the polls opened police men and Opponents the Anting hean opponent Goorge he hnd arrested 1% North Mide charged pr it democratic “Bruning wards Crawford that the women in of the Arrents t mayor to voles sgalnst the *Indiontes change wers made Nobraska clties voled on the wet and dry reports Indlcated adminiatra ton ispue yesterday that the drys were staging one of the flercopt battles in the of the state North Platte went dry for the first time in the history of the by n majority of 90 votes, alrbury, in Jefforson county, went dry by a ma Jority of 100 changlng 8t, Louis Man Eleoted President ~(mon e et satumn, 0f Zion Society s atter voing in the dry co umn Mo., April 4 Giltner, In Hamilton county, went At the morning sesston ' dry, making Hamilton county ens of tho mnnual convention of the ZAon's | irely gry, A mumber of close votes Religlo 1Aterary woclsty of tho reor-| Loy caut in seattering cities, where knnlzed chureh, in progress at this placs, . it Granville Trobridge of B¢, Louls, Mo, }v\l-t towns remalned in the we » was chowen pres'dent for the coming vear, | Benson, & suburh of Omaha, went Elllott, also & Mt republican by a large majority, Fred VI, RRMMAL. A1 thur A, Balley, a liberal candidate for MeKim of ¥xcelwor Springs, Mo | 5 ng the office tary, and G, A, Bocker of Columbus mayor, winning { wero re-clocted Mina Loulse Yvans of Grand Rapids Mich,, wan chosen & member of the 1 brary commission, and the following of. fluers ware ro-olected Bunt Independence, Mo, , muperintendont temperanco department; 1. 1, Wiper Chicago, superintendent of homs depart ment; Harvey Bandy of Kunway City uperintendent of the gonpel literatise commimsion; . W, Farrell of Hoslon member of the social purity board The Genernl Sunday Behool amsociation up Ita business this afternoon, A wtory-tellers’ conference was hold at 4 o'clock, with Mrs, Walter W. Smith of Philudelphia In charge. The value of the story in teaching children manners, morals and truth of all kinds is being em. phansized strongly wenslons, and the gathered teachers ure belug nstructed | n s and A Juvenils oforus of 20 voices furnished the musio n of the convention. The early Thomas 1 noting wets and to the Clreutt Captain chief of county Viahive, police Wil thin Judgs Tirney, writa of hubons corpun for relews the fo whs afternoon history for honar of tha refusing ten men arrested b police city votes, over INDEPINDENCE elal Telegram,) (Bpe Louis man, " necre ) was chowen Valrbury Switehes to Dry, PFAIRBURY ~After one of the strentous battles (n the History of Fuir bury between the woet atid dry factions | Patehury reversed its poliey and awltched to the dry columy by an estimated plu rality of 100 votes, Throo wards went dry by henvy major Ithen, rooming the one wet prodnct Twelve hundred and nineten ovies were camt In the eletion, the heaviest in ita history. No contest was mads on tho oftizens ticket, o couple of counclimen and two members of the school board being elocted Valrbury BROK KN Aink the mont Jumen of of 0y only took was dry in 1910 and 1894 BOW A, R, Humphrey republican munloipal tie v over W, W, Waters on the citizen for mayor by a comfortable mu Jority. Pool and billiard halls slso car by good major The Hauor ques ton was not an fasue BANCROTT Hancroft remained wet at the election today, Honds for s muniel pul eleotrio light plant carried, 12 for (o 0 ngainat, J, O, Copple, A, (. Burke and I". Koepnick were olectod to thempnelven on the board KINBSAW- Kenesaw went dry toduy J, Hilsabeek, T, M. Robinson and i* Armituge were elocted to the board of trustees MARU Aargent went d an on pool hialls wan alxo members of the board ure Dr, FPenshter macher, P. 1, Metealt und . Kiker HILDRETH-Hildreth changed from the dry to the wet column, Derry Me Comba, Dr. Neville and A Swartz waore elected on the town ALBION K. Pittinger mayor of Albjon alocted clark he w in these tHeket o Importance il Check for Seventy Million Dollars for (anadian Loan YORK, April 4-A than 0,708,660, ever drawn, I again. A 0d. Now NIW check for wlightly wld to he the Iargest passed through the New York Clearing house today, It| was made 1. 1. Morgan & Co on a the order of the Canadian nent in payment of § nd £ bankers Id off: wected troagurer; J Dolen, 1* mommbe I'he and § engineer and 1M onrd of local bank to . Kovar value wod | 000,000, par oltze) cont 1 antly ation yndleat rec pur . Tilden i ab helng These ere recently b o halls ¢ Bar tod to 1) CRE R ted hanking syndieate at publi cach Wi lghtly ings Anhihurn Wern re-ole HATTLY prive wder par Mrs, Waite Files " Suit for Divoree " & tod AVIDE, Miel WHRLT Borah Objects to Putting State Police Upon National Pay Roll On Traini Nows Stan N6-—-FOURTEEN PAGES, e gl SING SPANISH OROWN PRINCE AN EXPERT HORSEMAN The heir to the throne of Spain, like his father, King Alfonso, i decidedly fond of outdoor athletics, Prince Alfonso will celebrate his ninth birthday on May 10, next, and is already (| an accomplished horseman. i REYES IS READY T0 VILLA IS PROBABLY - GIVE UP STRUGGLE' FAR T0 THE SOUTH | Villa's Chief Supporter Offers to| | Surrender if He is Guaranteed Amnesty More Troops Sent Into Mexico to Guard Lengthening Line of | Communications, |WOULD END HOPES OF VILLA RAILROAD 18 NEEDED BADLY TORREON, Mex,, April 4 eral Canuto Reyes, commanding the | | Villa forces in this locality, hay sent | a letter General Trevino, Car | ranza commander, offering to sur-| | render with all his forces If glven | amnesty, This information was glven Lont today by Geperal Trevino, * Carranen wuthorities hore say that the | murvender of Reyes would break organ ized realstunce to the de factor govern- | ment and end the hopes of Villa. Thers |18 n disposition, however, to take his | offer conmervatively, an the letter says | wix weeks will be necessary for General Reyes to notify all of his followers and | there 18 & possibility that this may be (ruse to gain time for Villa i Tt hns been frequently reported Intely (that Villa was making his way fo the (north of Torreon In order to effect & Junetion with Iteyes. In the letter to General Trevine, the wlgnature of which has posltively nayn deplores the | tdentified uselens continuance of bloody and | hopelens ntruggle | In anawer Goneral Previne sald today hat was proparing proclamations | which v 14 be distributed broadeast, al lowing bandit | nnd glve up their horses and snddles. He anys that he is confident that because of | thelr knowledge of his just treatment to those who surrendered In the Chihuahus campaign the % the eampalgn of the United States iy now scouring northern Chihuaht CGieneral Reyes Is the recognized chief | Mexico, for the bandit and his followers, of all the small bands operating in the | pon what may | Laguna and Durango diatricts including | sdered as a second and broader phase | thosa of Contreras and Hilarlo Rodrigues, v troops have heen ordered to depart T m the at Columbus, gression hy M., fnto Mexico to protect the length This enfng line in he fly Gen HSAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 4 Official admission of the hellef that Villa han fled far beyond the Amer fean forces and now {s operating south of Chihuahua City was made at General Funston's headquarters today, Bineo yesterday much indicating that Villa was In nelghborhood of Satevo, moving towards Parrall, has been received, but that regarded by General Fun- ston as reliable ¢ame from Consul Letcher at Chihuanua, 1 1t in proven beyond doubt that Vila to ‘information most ral, and Torreon, the eampalgn akainst him cannot he earrled much far- | ther unless the rafironds between (hi houahiua and the border are more avall abla for the movement of troops, or enough more troops are sent Into Mexico to strengthen greatly the lines of com munleation, This wan frankly stated at General Funston's headquarters, where it also Intimated that representations to this effect would ba made to the War depnrtment oven heen Neyen ho [ I ten days to come In New Troops Orvdered Into Mexton, B PASO, 1 April 4-With Fran- elnoo Villa still fn flight and his where abouts apparently Villlstas will respond read- | s x mknown to his pur arm enterad today he con Ne ere have heen no signs lately of ag { tre military base Contreras in the Nazas din triet fn probubly to the of communieations which (rong d at Vi Carrans y now are lo-| "epIALY becoming attenugted as Three Sea Planes Which Made Attack on Ancona Taken lumn, onthward Villa ha . of American avall heen reported at many that rang y the Henlto potnts fre Tuaros J 1 wone eport waa Hnte and the ieneral Pershing's mes Lmportant elleve that as 1 Mea [llinois Towns Voting on License Perahing s Ve ta Souih A \ the 1w on his way south, perhaps toward Par- | THE WEATHER. Cloudy LI COPY TWO CENTS, B THIRTY VILLISTAS SLAINAS YANKEES INTERRUPT SIESTA Squadron of Tenth American Cav- alry Surprises Group of Out- laws in Neighborhood of Guerrero, COLONEL BROWN LEADS FOROE Troopers Pursue Assassin Clan Through Mexican Town of San Antonfo. MANY HORSES ARE CAPTURED 1 PABO, Tex., April 4, —Reliable reports reached here this afternoon that American troops had engaged the Villistas at Bachiniba, twenty- miles northeast of Guerrero, No de- talls of the fighting have reached here yet HAN GERONIMO, Chihuahua, April 4. ~(Via Aeroplane to Colonis Dublan and by Wireless to Columbus, N. M.)-=Two hundred American eav- alrymen under Colonel W. ¢, Brown, Tenth cavalry, defeated an equsl force of Villlstas in the seeond | gagement of the campaign at Aguas Callentes, thirty miles north of Guer- rero, on April 1, This report wa made to General Pershig today by two Mexicans, who said that the | Mexican forces lost thirty men and forty horses, while the Americans wuffered no canualtion, surprised During Wle BAN ANTONIO, Tex, April d-—Mup- prised during their slesta, one of the | kroups of Vili's force, driven from Guerrero, wan defeatod Haturday by a squndron of the Tenth cavalry, under Colonel W. &, Brown, according to infor mation recured by General Pershing and forwarded by him to Gensral Funston to- dny In this second engagement the Amer | tean troops have had with Villa‘s men, | the bandits’ loss was estimated at from thirty to forty killed. No mention of | American loss was made ‘olonel Brown's encounter with the Mexicana had not been reported to Gen - ernl Pershing when he made his report, Iis Information belug gafned from I'triendly Mexicans who had arrived at ! point near Rublo, whers Major Evans of tho Tenth cavalry was halted yesterday. kes Ban Major Jvans reported that BSaturday Colonel Brown had encou a band fof Vistas wnd V-"% them | through Han Antonlo, Hoon afterwards | Maxtoans who arrived from that vieinity | declared that he had overtaken the ban- | dits at the village of Aguas Callentes, twenty miles southeast of Bachinava, Vilia's men, acoording to the versfon of the encounter, appeared wholly un- | suspecting of the presence of an ensmy [ minute befors they were attacked, It wan about nbon when Colonel Brown brought his cavalry within easy range. The Mexicans were lying about the place, many of them ualeep, and all their horses were grasing, in many cases some | distance from the men. Detalls of the | actlon were not told, but the Mexicans | mald that, besides those killed, the Amer- | teans captured an equal number of horses, General Pershing added that hia reports of the engangement lacked con- firmation, though his credence of the | news wan Indicated by the fact that he | tranamitted It to General Funaton. 'Neil Crosgs Held For Killing Man With Automobile Coroner's inquiry ioto the death of Otto 1, Hchorck, who was killed by an auto driven by Nell Cross at Twenty meventh and Lake resulted in tha recom- mendation that he held for further Investigation or prosecution The following verdiet was After two hours' deliberation: We, the members of the coroner's Jury, do find that Otte J. Hehirok died on the third day of April, 1016, as the re It of belng struck by an automoblle at the Intersection of Twenty-seventh and olty of Omaha, county of of Nebraska, while sald belng driven by Nall further find that sald ae Was the result of oarelessnsss on part of Nell driver of sald omob recommend that the further investignte sald tat his discretion and return sug tone returned Lak I Automobile sroots, Wiy, stats Wi s And we Ident the Crows, Nty atlorney In being hold at the elty t Il at e untll honds for his re an tsaued George W, Egan is Formally Disharred T™he Faan way o liwys andi he epubiican at . Anytime the need arises you will find Bee Want. Ad service adequate to your require ments, Best serv. ice ut the best price