Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1916, Page 1

Advertising is the pen- | dulum that keeps buy- 4 ingand selling in motion o84 3 VoL, 203, // PARTY'S LEADERS [ > DECLARE HUGHES ~ SENTIMENT GAINS ™o et i ™ | Connecticut, Many of Republican Chiefs at Chi-({WAS PORTO RICAN GOVERNOR | cago Meeting Assert Justice in [ Oreatest Pavor in Their (From a Staff Correspondent.) XLY-NO. DEAD IN THE BAST | WABHINGTON, April 7. (8pe b Btates elal Telegram.)—Colonel George R % . | Colton, governor of Porto Rico trom ¥ MOST DELEGATES UNINSTRUCTED | |o00"' "\ 01a " Sied last night at the Walter Reed army hospital, to which he came several days ago from home in Connectient ton had been {1l for two months Colone) Reported Btatement of Roosevelt He | Will Take Nomination Arouses | [ Interest, HARDING hin Colonel Col Colton was n widower, TO BOUND KEYNOTE Two sons and two sisters are living . CHICAGO, April 7.« Plans for| The sons are Francls Colton and the republiean national convention,| Ge0rke Colton and the slsters are which will open tn Chiengo June 7,| Mra. Randall 11, Hagner and Mra wers completed here todny at a| Archibald Davie, both of this city meating of the subcommittes on ar-| Holonal Colton, who was ahout W years rangoments with the elaction of |1 A" Pty diatt el Eetinh Benator Warren G, Harding of Oho | sarvice he wan o cushior of a bank at Da for temporary chalrman Benator | vid Clty, Neb, During the Phillppine in Harding wiws chosen for the place by |surrection he served ag lleutenant colonel | of the Pirst terad the custorns wervice Nebraska regiment In the Phillp. A unanimons vote on the first formal e e bullot, after an hour's discussion of pines In August, 1500, firat an a deputy varlous men suggosted collector and then ax a collector of cum 1 Other convention officers chonen | toms st Iollo wiss In 1006 he wan aelocted o orgunize the B Etiiaty Bl S Dominion customs servies and sorved MPOrary Becrotary-——1afwy- | oovs sy tnited Mtatow recelver. In 1907 otte B, Gleason of New York he returned to the Philippines, having Chief Clerk 1), Edward | been appointed collector of customs al Monroe of Bt, Louls | Maniia. Mo returned to the United i Offiela) Reporter—Goorge L Biaten in 100 and ammlsted In the revision 4 ; of tariff laws of the Philippines £ Hart of Roanoke, Va In December, 190, he avas appointed § Hergoant-at-Armp Willlam governor of Porto Rco and held that ) ¥, Btone of Baltimore office untll November b, 1013, when he ) Chief Asuistant Sergeant-at restgnod to engage In private business in the United State Arma—Kdwin P, Thayer of In- 2 s dianapolin | Chief Hanvon of Baltimore, Many Lenders Attend, Yoday's meeting attracted (o the efty state committes chairman and | John J \Waite Gave Himself | . Typhoid Fever hy Germ Inoculation Doorkeeper numerois other party lendors, Among theso thers eenth corps have fn this way loat 17,000 | , % g ’ was much informal discussion of possible | NEW YORK, April 7.—Additional evi- | mon and lu,n Third corps has lost 2ion) HOR 6f AYATARe abandonment of presidentinl candidates and issues. Aence regarding the life history of Dr, | men acreage and average Influences on v Recent reporta that Colonel Toosevelt [Arthur Warren Walte, who has con Concerning the One Hundred and [ the erop to harvest, That compares had Indleated & willingness to accept the | fosmed the murder of his father-n-law, | Twenty-first division, which took possces with 6565.045,000 bushels, the estl prestdentinl nomination formed the basis | John K, Peck of Grand Rapids, will be | wion of North Vaux out Mareh 12, ’ A of several Impromptu confarences and in- (wought by the district attorney's offfoe mated producton fn 1916, and ferchanges of views between the poll-[in Grand Ttapids, Ann Arbor, Tansing | have precise fnformation, More than one-| €84,090,000 bushels in 1914 tioians and Kalumazoo, At was announced to- | yalf of the weventh regiment bf it ra| Conditlon of winter wheat on April 1 Hevernl atates Ieaders pointed out that night, An amsistant distriet AUOIMY | wopves was put out of action by ouy ma- was 9 per cent of a normal, against about 40 par cont of the delsgates (o the land a detective will lsave tomorrow for | chine guna in the Ineffectunl attack | B8 1ast year, 056 In 1014, and #7.3, the | convention have been chomen and snld | Michigan to begin the investigation, Jivi ngAInAL the slopes of the fort, The ix-|nverage for the Inat ten years, There that an investigation showed compara- |dence that Walite Inoculated himmelf With | (la), rogiment met similar lossen, 68| was n decrenss in condition from Decem tively few aupporters of Roosevalt amolk (Lyphold germs, which he had porchased | wyion the total reached # per cont of | ber 1 to April 1 of 0.4 pointe, compared ! ham, Other, party leaders agreed with |for the alleged purposs of causing the | (s regiment's effectives {with an average decline of 46 points be thi view, nlthough none of them would | denths of his wife's purents, WAk obtained | pye Nineteonth German fnfantey had|tween those dutes in the \Ast ten years allow his name to be used In comnection |today by Distriot Attorney Wwann. | .i.enqy wulfered similar losses in attacke| The average condition of rye on April with & statement at this time | Waite wnn trented for typhold lamt No Many of the leaders declared that what [vember, it wus lewrned foduy, shortly sontiment’ had crystalized in thelr states | after ho had purchased the baclill, This wan lnrgely In favor of Justice TTughes, | was two months after his marringe ulthough Senator Cummina, former Ben- ( Bert 1, Rich, attorney for Figens A ator Burton, Charles W, Falrbanks, Son- | Oliver Kane, the embalmer, whom White ator Bherman and other favorite sons | said he gave $0,000 to testity the fluld he | nad many supporters, | used in embalming Mr, Peck's body con Soventy Per Cont Uninstruoted, | tainod arsenic, made a formal demand It was the consensus of opinfon that |today for the return of the 87,800 which aboit 70 per cent of the delegates in the |1<ane dug up from the wpot on Long conventlon would be unimstricted | 1sland where he had hidden it and turned The subcommittes ndopted a resolution |over to the Alsteict attorney, Wieh sald declaring that seats would be provided |the money was a “gift from Dr. Waite,"” ? only for the exact number of delegates | Mins Catherine Peck, wiater of the muf | provided for In the ofticial call and that [dered man, alwo demanded the money, tates clegting double the number of [but it will be held as avidence in the / nuthorized delegates with halt a vote |case wmottle the question | cach would have to , of who i entied 1o seats wefore e | Milkk Toglers Grant The semmiitae Fuled e e sy| Domands of Farmers; Consumers Suffer | | | ontests from states electing delegitos by direct primary and that in these states the delagates certified by the secretary of state would be placed on the temporary | voll witheut question, This action will, | CHICAGO, April 7=3Milk will be ad ( 1t 1y bolleved, reduce the number of con- |Vanced to 9 centa a quart, &n iIncreass | toxts o n minimum. The only contests |Of 1 cent, by one of the three leading dis ' tar reported are from Goorgla and [tributing companies in Chicago, It waa e 34 | announced today, as a renult of the strike oulsians o decretary Reynolds will open head- |0f 10000 milk producers, The increase inrters in Chicago to receive notice of | Wil become offective Monday \ontems about May 10 The Irm J. Mix company, whaleh an he subcommittes on arrangements will ‘Hl' unced the advance, granted ;:vv-' de nanda of the farmers to pay #1.66, in ot me ain untll a few days before | p .o o ,","“‘, | stond of $1.38% per 100 pounds. Thia ae 1 o tion leaves the Worden and Wowman ense | companles alone In the fight with the pro LONDON, April 7.-The situation in |ducers. Holland apparently 1s becoming loss tonse A temporary injunction restraining Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent says | members\ of the Milk Producers’ asso n indieation of the change s thathof- [elation from interfering with the bual floe ot the military teansportation s ness of the Howman Dairy company ‘ r the wte rallways will again bo | was granted in cireuit court teda | 13 ! The Weather A e, Counell Tiutes and Vielnit Tempernty At Omana Vestordayo SgE ", of! ) | Internationa arohistlo A ' ' ¢ Kur n dia \ A fna | - ] A M f ™ toda | Loy S ' the allex I WA T3l L : sat all on W ™ . h \ [ [ f Jen B 8 var 1 f Arv " t e Camparative Lova) Reeord v . . il » \ \ l \ ™ . . { Hepnrts fram Statinns ot T 0 M i \’/ /"u'(' COLONEL COLTON |GERMANY offielal wourve, “the result of care ful fnquiry made In the highest | quartery in which the figures have Press [ Third and the Lightenth, hnve Chicago Anarchists Plot to Kill . . T All the Crowned Heads of Europe Theater in One City gyrine ramiLy of six Money P | Solutions of The OMAHA, 10 ATURDAY LOSES ‘ 200,000 MEN IN 4 MOVE ON VERDUN MORNING, APRIL 8, o s wne Yrive «ntory Tfu!un Casunlties Agnmn n m“ it urfare ESTIMATE BY PARIS OFFICE Prussian Reinforcements Practically Used Up as Fast as Put in Line CHARGES BECOME MASSACRES PARIS, April Iho Geriman losses before Verdun up to the pres ent time have reached the huge totul of 200,000 men, one of the greatest battle loseen In the whole range of necording ontimnton made public here today from a sem warfare to beon rigorously checked and ver| HTF INFANTRY CAMP AT, COLONIA fled ‘Documentary und verbal fest! mony gathered and authenticated permit the glving of precise detafls coneerning the losses suffered by the Germans and by ug on the Verdun front,” says the pemi-official munifeation given to the Associnted Foreoasted at Four Hundred and Ninety-Five Million Bushels, CONDITION ON APRIL 1 18 78.3 beon with Arawn from the front, having lost in the WABHINGTON, April 7,~~A total | first attacks at least one-third of ‘wn\;..,.:luuu.n of 490,000,000 bushels force. They have reappenred sinee and [ 0"l 5T forecast todny have again suffored 1@ losses. The German relnforcements ara praes | Uy the Depgrtment of Agriculture, teally umned up aw fant wx they are put | besing Ity estimate on the condition In uine, The total efectives of the KRN | e (he crop April e from Webruary 21 to April 1, it 1 namely the Uned Up on They ( Durtng the period when the battle began known that two army corps I and an assump I wan A8 per cent of n normal, against 806 on Aprit 1 tnst yeny, MLE In 1014 and Ing the village of Vaux on March 9, (s thirtenth company Wik surprisedand an- ntitinted, I entering (e wllnge Tounen, [ W8 the avernge for the last tan yenrs Ita fjrmt batalllon was rodood 80 per cent Acrenge v Lower, “Thre reglments of the Mleventh Ba The Department of Agriculturg In a varian division, which fod the sttack on | yeaiament analysising the report maid tha, Malancourt and Avocourt woods on! March @ and 2, were each rediced « half. Thely losses varied botwoen 60 and | # per cent, The aame dn (rue of losses of the fourth regiment of the Mecond A vislon of landwehr engnged under similnr parily reduction oent from the of mbout 11 per nerenge of the precoding condition of growth which s yont low namely 78,4 and to n per cont 6f mormal lower thun the condition on April 1, In conditions any yenr ainee 1904, It Iw 10 per cent : Current Actunl Lowses, poorer than the ten-year mverage on The forekolnk ure only lomnen during | you the actual atack and do not inelude (he | “The causé of the low condition was a lossen of regiments in the tronches or anl o o 0oy onusing poor peed beds reworve under the fire of our camnon. | g o L e Tl oring, Much of They ave wolely the current actual lowses. | (0 0 L L e, partly trom ne Wo know that certaln German unity have | o 5000 and partly o avoll bad very high current losses, that In 1oy 5y wny, loswes from artillery when no actl ") The dlemsian fly Iy reported preseut of the InfantrySwas in progress and active in many sections of the sout We cite for Instance, the thirty: (50T seventh regiment of Infantr which w Wenther Hurd on Luate Whent surprised by our fire on the mareh to the imatle conditior ere harded tronches, 1t lost about 80 men and fron : B this fact wao xo reduced that it could no 3 on. § . : winte 1 aring n lHghter thae on Mareh 10, take part in the attack on 5 i adt acking; sloet damage the village of Vaux, as was ordered, n fielda bare mow; conmlderable grain plece of the nineteenth regiment, whicn on low lands wus destroyed by flooding had been decimated by our machine ind the fnfuring from freezing and thaw uns . Ing was greater than usual, The southern Aute M ndle Gasoline L' pnrtn of Ohfo, Indlana and Illinois and PITTERURGH, Pa, April he Auto | portions of Missourl were worst affected mohi Denler ansooiation of Plittaburgh | The relative best sections are the most At a oting last night sdopted rew castern and far western states. The lotfons condemning the high cost of | season 1a late and the rea) extent- of gasoline in Plttaburgh, The associat) damage |8 problematioal i the northern outalde the city and distribute It amon il ocnl des nt cont prioe Needn't Sell Films To More Than Single Five Land Office Appointments for Nebraska Are Made rizes=-$5.00, $ $3.00, $2 Bee' 4.00, “The wmall production forecast 1s dus | Shakespeare Tercentenar 6 \I\H IN PAGES, DVBLAN | that All Cause for Alarm is Now Passed Here. BUT ONE NEW CASE THURSDAY |ARTILLERY EXCHANGES IN EAST “I ean mnnounce that the searlet fever altuntion has been checked to extent that | Ing at enne,” stated Health Commis | sloney Connell “Of conrse,'” he added “we shall net relax our vigllance over seatter ing cases which will from {ime to time, but the records for this that the danger point has heen passed.’ nr warrants me in feel Inonth show During the first six days of this month Lonly nineteen cases were reported. (ne [enmo was Thursduy, the first day for four months, when only one case was reported, Dr. Connell feals that by tho last of this month ne I conditions will have been pestored The outbreak apsumed a soriolis aspect dmtnx the school vacation last December Bineo danuary 1, 900 cases iy ported reported Large Coast State " 0f Declares Against . Against the Empire SAN FRANCIBCO, Cal Nul-Wang, a high eyl Yunn Bhi Kal government, has been ex ecuted In Kwang Tung provinee by the necording fo a cablegram Republic association hore mensage confirmed the Independence April 7.Tanl officer of ,the | ravolutionarien, to the Chinese The declaration of Lung Chi-Kuang and stated that conditions In Kwang Tung province are not unsetiled Kwang Tung Is the fitat seaconst pro mee to join forces with the revolution agalnst Yunn Shi Kal, whose res) tlon and exile has been demanded the price of hix acceptance of the en perorship, which he later renounced There are now seven provinces, all poutheastern China, which have de Inred thelv Independence of Yuan Sh Kal, but of these Kwang Tung is th most Important, in point of population and {ta strategle position on the sea coant Canton, the chief city of Kwang Tung, has n population 6f 900,000 and s by far the greatest eity dominated by the revo lutfonista, The independence of Kwang Tung s the upshot of weeks of continued mill | tary operations ther revolution ista. Fukien, directly to the north, on the coast, 18 the next provinee of impor tanos in the path of the rebel declared independer t Yunnan, whers Kwelchau, Kiang Bi, Hunan, Kwangsi PERSONS ARE MURDERED THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ELEVENTH U, 8, INFANTRY CAMP AT COLONIA DUBLAN--The photograph shows the dog tents of the soldiers encamped near this Mormon colony, now the principal base from which the chase for Villa is being directed. The Mormons have aided the soldiers in every possible way, principally with food supplies. WHEAT ESTIMATE IS SCARLET FEVER IS TEUTONS PENETRATE UNDER HALF BILLION CHECKED IN OMAHA' FRENCH PIRST LINE Total Production of Winter Crop Health Commissioner Connell Says Gain of Germans West of Meuse is | | tions of the trenches captured from Noday THE WEATHER. Fair SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. VILLISTA BAND IS DEFEATED BY DE FACTO TROOPS Ten Outlaws Are Blain and Two Ars ! Captured in Skirmish at Cienegnillas on Tuesday, VILLA WAS NOT WITH PARTY Oaptives Say Chieftain Left Town with Two Hundred Men Early that Morning, CARRANZISTAS MORE ACTIVE NULLETIN, KL PABO, April 7.—¥rancisco Villa wan dofinitely located at La Boauilla tonight in a code mossags rocelved here from Torreon, Mex, Ln Bonguilla fs fifty- miles southe cant of Hatevo and about an aqual distance north of Purral On Trains, st ln(‘l News Stands, sto, 5 BAN ANTONIO, Tex., April § .- Franciseo Villa was at Clonegulllas, ten milen south of Batevo, on April 1. nccording to General Lufs Gutier~ rez, commanding the Carranza troops In Chihuahua, General Hell res celved thin information from Chihus- hun and transmitted 1t to Generai | Funston today, American cavalry | are pushing forward along the tralls to and beyond Satevo, Gutlerrer reported that Carransa troops ongaged fifty Villa men at Olenegulling, killed ten and eaptured two, Thé prise | onera mala Villa had Jeft thers early in the morning with 20 men, leaving the fifty am & ronr guard ONTh. FM SERVICE Nearly Wiped Out by Counter Attack, Says Paris, PARIS, April 7.-The French in n ” 4 o grenade attuck have retaken por- Franes Sreepe Meving General Nell reported that information from Moxiean sources indicated that some | thousands of the dz fasts gevefnmant | troops were heing moved south of Chi- | huahua with the ostensible purposs of | ohecking the retreat of Villa Another ocolumh of Ameriean eavalry arrived at Custhuiriachio to support that of Colonel W. €', Brown, who reported April 4 them by the Germuns between Beth incourt and Hill 266, northwest of Verdun, and made progress in com- | municating in the wame | reglon, according to the French of- flelal ecommunication lssued tonight, trenches there je X or . nocording to reports ap A Germun attucl over a front of Ganersl Punston's headauarters (oday, over a mile and a quarter around | coionel Brown explained his delay fn Haveourt was repulsed rendering o report after the engngemont few days ago at Agus Call near | Bachineva, by snying he and his forces | hind exhannted thelr motiay and he had {none 1o pay the expense of getting a mossngo to a commercinl wire, BERLIN, Apri1 7 (By Wireless fo Bayville,)—Capture from the Brit Irh of mine erater positions south of Fi Elol, noar Ypres, was announced by army headquarters, The positions were defended by Canadian ‘troops, Nupply Train Areives, The arrival of the second column of troops at Cusihuiriachle, April 6, wan cal culnted to give fresh finbetus to tha foraes following Hatevo, Colonsl Brown, It was lsarned, hnd fallen back on the Custhuirischie on faccount of the eomplete exhaustion of hin supplies PARIB, April /7. German forces have penetrated a French trench of the first lime between Bethincourt o The olumm thes folleviss : him into Custhujrinchio convoyed a heavy and Chattancourt, according to an<| paoy train ana here, it {s believed prob- nouncement made ftoday by the|able that, newly provisioned, he has re- I'rench war offico. This loeality "‘ rumlml his chase of the bandit chisf, new ol L 4 ionding towards the walting forces of In the Verdun reglon west of the| o, rinsy “sosonding to reports from Chis Meuse, A French counter attack at| hushua Colonel Brown made Arrangsments to | mecure money from American mining com« | panies operating in that district onee drove them back from a large proportion of the positions thus nolzed, Tho text of the atatement follows: | . I'“"WTW"K',"; T".‘.fl:' & " A 2 pri —~Amer- West of the Meu In o night attack | joqp Conmul Letcher, at Chihushua, in delivered after a - vio PIepATRLOY | o diapatoh recelved at the War depart- bombardment against our positlons be- | ment today through Major General Fun- tween Bathincourt n:;l hill No, 206, Ger-1yion told of some of the results of the man forces made theifway Into & Fronch | ojoghen hotwesn American troops and :ywn u((v\.;- first line un‘lhr' HIghWAY | vilis forces At Asuss Callantes on Apl etwaen Hothincourt ‘gnd ""”""“' "‘ |1, and the fight botwean the bandits attack Carranga troops near Cleneguflla thres Wo at onte made a counter which drove the Germans back from the | g U0 ‘;‘:.‘y.y.‘ v“h;m‘r‘v w”'/ «|‘r\‘,».‘jlyrv:y"."u ”n‘uv\ ‘Il.m! Latohar idect@h £ Taiiblace deind BOIAST Lo eamend et |in Chihuahua that — Villa has heen i .’“v‘.. " ¢ v‘ ‘m.”:‘; ‘::: i ,: 0% [ wounded, He sald the fight at Aguas Bt tr tha Maues thaa s had b on | Cflentes resulted in the killlng of thirty ant o ouse there has be pep gl o an intermittent hombardment and w |“:“.’I:y’ |.|‘::."|!u«':\1‘"“‘.7';:,:{ lh;‘;’:’nln » . ey g have continuad to make progress in the communioating trenches of the encmy southwest of the fort of Douaumont artillery the night along the troops wers reported as living for two Weeks on beaf and corn with supplise al nt exhausted A mining company, Letoher wald, had relteved the shortage by wending n special train with sup plles and forage At the fight of Clengullla the Carranse Belgian Woman | Gontimuet on Poe T8 is Executed as Spy by the Germans “Thers have been exchanges in the Woevre, but r oof the remaine front passed quistly Column Two.) Proposes to Promote Colonel G, A, Dodd \MBETERDAM, “April Via Londor tow ade b o WASHINGTON, I, ¢, April T.~A bill Helge that Miss Gabrlelle Potit of Molen. | 10 Authorise the president to promote ) n put to . desth o G A A, who renently . f y artig) |14 the A an troops In Mexico In & s wlieged | 9880 aga Villa forces, ta the grade h ot brignd eneral, was introdiced to ! n Iy b entative Klesa of Penn . . ania. Th el will petive nest EDINBURGH PROFESSOR KILLED BY MOTOR CAR First Aeroplane, Scouting Over el i e & Mountains, is Complete Success B a1 stk L0, 4 Puz $1.00--For See Sundaw's | ad & Wi I Wish! . I owish | eondd sell that | Parniturs I wi I could sell that | wagon I wish | could sell that ol machinery Y on ean, I)’"t\‘, he e if vou stop wish the Five sl put a e sl In nlong the trail througl. e