Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1916, Page 2

By Wallam J Uasierd » ERL ] e Ape Wibgon s ML e ‘mu...- Wil . 0 TEUTON DELEGATES | NOT AT CONFERENCE German Delegates to Big Methodist Council Afraid to Cross the | Ocean | PRESIDES BISHOP CRANSTON SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., May | —(Conditions resulting from the ! uropean war caused a VACADCY yong the foreign delegations r.thered here today for the opening { the twenty-seventh general con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal ¢church, For the first time since the German East conference became part this world-wide Methodist legis- Jative body, representa tives of the ehurches in Germany an swered the roll call It was explained that, although the regular delegates had been chosen, feared to come because of pos- arrest and removal from new tral ships. Consequently their wole representative wiil he Bishop John | Amerlcan citizen, over the Ger- who no elected tiey 1le N. Nuelson, an who has supervigion mani¢ conference The slow task of the 900 delegates when Cranston of Washington, D. (., the senior bishop, convened the mession. At the beginning business was checked tem porarily, while the names of Henry w Warren, John M, Walden, Thomas Bow man, Robert McIntyre, Charles A, Bmith and Naphthall Luccook, bishops who have dled Auring the last year, were called The roll call of the 90 delakates Indl eated that virtually every nation on the five oontinents covared by the Metho- Alst activities will be represented. The conference activities were characterized as likely to be epoch-making through possible union of the churches of the north and south and settlement of the auestions of permitting the election of negro bishops, eliminating the “Amuse- ment clause” of the church diacipline, abolishing compulsory retirement of bishops over 10 years of age and com bination of the financial work of the chureh AMERICAN ARMY WILL NOT LEAVE LAND OF MEXICO (Continued from Page One) ferences Wil be concluded by the middle of the week Yro organisation faced Bishop Farl #s I Satlsfactory, WASHINGTO May 1.-After an ex- change of messag hotween CGeneral Heott and the Vwur department on his conference Maturday with Genersl Obre- kon, Mexiean minister of war, officinls #nid today the negotistions up to date have been “matisfactory.” While Gen- wral Obregon has urged that the Ameri- van troops be withdrawn, President Wil- son, they said, has no intention of grant- ing the requent at present and Is hopefu) that an agresment will be reached tgy coeoperation between Amerlcan and Mex- jenn teoops In the pursult of Villa and other bandits, Genomml Beott has been Justructed to continue to prems for such an agreement. Definite final proposals have not yet Loen reported in the border conferences. it was authoritatively stated at the War department. A long code di teh from General Moot arcived today. Hecretary Baker of the War department expected 16 send supplementary advices to General Beott to reach him, If posaible, hefore his wecond conference with General Obregon. While it was officially admitted that Genernl Obregon had “suggested’’ with drawal from Mexico of the United Btates oxpedition, officials said these overtures had not been In the form of a demand and that no peremptory or unalterabla position had been taken by elther alde, General Seott, it was explained, had made counter wsuggestions to Ceneral Obregon proposing co-operative military measures Moxioan Ambassador Arredondo will confer with Becretary Lansing this after noon. Pittsburgh Street Railway Lines Are Tied up by a Strike PITTSBURGH, May )1.—~Thousands of porsons were compelied either to walk or vide in automoblles or drays to work (oday as & result of the strike of street car men, which began shortly after mid- night today, Operations were complotely suspended on all lines of the Pittsburgh Rallway company of Pittaburgh and vi einity and President J. D. Calloy an- | nounced there would ba no attempt to operate oars today. The strike order waa lasued by T I Ward, preaident of Distriot 81, Htreet Car Men's unjon, promptly at midnight No dborder marked the start of the | sirtke &nd within twe hours after the | had been lsmied traction service | had been (ed up 1 Affects 1,3 conduotors and wiownen and abeut W other employes | Y rallway company. The men &t} anded 3 5T and 8 cents an hour | the fiest, second and | bt later yielded t The company refuses | ¥ conts a8 maNbmMN ve (e present rale than 10 order [ respectively Wird year's service waR anta al - stans out- | he of w THE FATALLY BURNED WHEN SHE LIGHTS FIRE WITH KEROSENE--Mrs, Marie Pinnisi terribly burned all over her body from the explosion dies at hospital. WOMAN WHO WAS FATALLY BUR TALLER MAN I8 HER HURBAN WILSON DECLARES ALIEN-BORN LOYAL IF SOLDIERS NEEDED (Continusd from Page One.) of the confidence of a great nation upon the instant.’ The address tollows, In part, Wa, of course, are Wing In the which we cannot yet they nre unprecedented witnessed sich w once of condition unsens Locntne The world never wir an 1a now convulaing almost every part of the world except this part, which we partieularly love and would seek to safe wuard; and the very foundations of ordinary lite heen din turhed, so deeply Alsturbed that no man can what will be. And if this war has done noth 1ng olne It has wt leant done this: 1t has made America aware of dangers which mont of us had desmed unreal, and has made un aware that the danger of our own time s nothing less than the un sottlement of the foundatlons of civiliza tlon “Have you not thought what might be the outcome of this grest struggle far us the natlons already engnged are 1he of natlons have the final prediet wettlomnent concerned? Can you not imagine the great awakening that has coms to country like France, for expmple; how much more intensely every Vrenchman and avery German fesla the national com pulsion than he ever felt it before” How much more he feels himself, not as an Individual, but a fraction In & great whole? How much more hin blood springs (o the challenge of patriotic sug kontion? He is not fighiting for his own life, He In sucrificing his own life, or willing to sacrifice i, in order that a groater life than his might persist--the life of his nation, Ketting aiready the Indirect benefit of thut @uggestion. We are beginning to renlize how a nation 8 o unit and that any individual of it who does not feel the impulse of the whole does not belong | deem to it, “We have heard a groat dea! NED I8 IN THE CENTER, WHILE THE D B0 In America we are | At cross purposer in regard 1o their pri vate Interosta and thelr public endeavors 0 thix country long before the wur came to remind us that we were u Sngle nu tion, with a single Auty and u single fden!, and the first thing that bas hap pened to us In that we have all besn pulled togethor by n great tug at th henrt in respect of our Indlvidual foter enty. We have all been reminded vith an emphaala for which 1 for ona, thank God that we first of all Americans and only after that at lberty to week our in And are atvidunl fellow citinens v Interents then of e those n little of and while been tempted to think rather 1he lands of thelr origin than of the of thelr present gllagiane minded that there in, politically unt concelyable #ible have been re spenling. one alleglance and pos Never Was Decelved You have heard a great deal about t hyphen. | for one have never been celved, The number of persons of re Givided allegiance in this country s wmall, and It 1 had been in some other I would for representations which have been made by who were the spokesmen of those for whom they pretended to speal In wugkesting a divided allegiance never had the doubt would happen when America oflled upon those i tries to come 1o the support of Why. they will come with chiers, tha wili come with a momentum which wilt malke us realize that Ameriea has once more becn eried awake out of ever country one resent the thone not slightant of Al w of fie citizens bory other con v flag wort of dlstemper and dream and distraction, | and that any man who dares tumper with the spirit of Amerfea will be cast out of the eonfidence of n great nation upon th Instant ‘God forbld that we should be drawn Into war, bt If we should be, America would seem once more to shake herself out of a dream to say, ‘Did any man | deemn that we were aslecp? DId any man doem that we had forgotten the ||rm1|tlrvm: of Amdrica” DId any man that he could tan.per with the about |6nd {n the Ereat volce of horior of Intgmity of the United Btates? nihuslasm divided alleginnce in thin country, bui Whith would be rajsed all the world before we dincuss divided allaglance in 1ts | Would sand once more thrilled to heas politionl aspect we ought to ‘let relations to ench other. Amerion bean hrought to such a point of Alveral fleation of interest, of occupation, of objects mought, that it was in danger of loning the conselonsness of ita wingleness and solidnrity, ta, Mone miasens and hriek od today by the anneuncement Allag Myers was Inat t the pamey Iies that | e Rlone e | slr de for an slght-hour day had heen wranted with ne ve Wis & Biwe The N Maondar siness Wen alwaye wene he Honee ’ L ™ ) T T debale of eight tae debared W Durey perly aealed ational Capital, | Wo ol want " The 1 gra g of the Neow Post Toasties ckage or in the dis There were men nulliag | | New Post Toasties by catin oup| the vBieo of the new world asserting the thoughts run back te what wors perhaps | MA0Ards of Justico und Wherty ! our divided ullegiance in respect to our | had | ‘Dublin Prisoners Sent to England LONDON, May 1.1t wan officially an nounced 'his evening that 480 of the Dub iin prisonars had been sent to Kngland [ 1 rolling and toa N BEE | GERMANS DEFEATED - NEAR DEADMAN HILL| nK OMAHA, TUESDAY, ‘Counter Attacks on Trenches Taken | By French Repulsed with Enormous Losses FIGHT VIOLENT SAYS BERLIN! PARIS dense German troops violent at- May | masses made a k lagt night on positions captured French north of Deadman’s Il on the front The at- was defeated by the French, the the Verdun ar office report this morning says The Germans, the announcement ates, suffered Two simultaneous counter attacks) ty the Germans on a trench captured | yesterday by the French north nf" (umieres were repulsed At hill No, 304 and In the Vaux| | reglon there was incessant bombard | “enormous losses mants A French aerial squadron harded a supply and munitions sta- tlon south of Thiaucourt and a camp | | near Spincourt The text of the communication follows: | “After a violent bombardment yester-| dny west of the Meuse the enemy at the | end of the day delivered n powerful at thek donwe formation upon the trenches captured by us north of Dead | Man's Hill, Our curtain of fire, together 1th the tire of our machine guns, cavsed | onormous losses to the enemy, and all he assaiita of the Germans were broken bom- | | I'wo Other Attacks Repolsed, North of Cumieres two German coun | ter nttacks Aelivered ot about the samo | honr upon the trench captured by us yes arday were also repulsed In the courss of the third endeavor at | this point the enemy, who had been suc canful in gaining a footing In our lines | found 1t tmpossible to maintain his po- | sittons and was ot once driven back with heavy losnes. “Ihare has been A violent bombardment f 1l No. 304, and also In the region of | Vaux The night passed quistly in the Woevre During the night of April 2-3 French aeroplane squadrens threw down numer- | projectiles the rallroad station | und the supply and munitions station at Sabastopol south of Thiaueourt; on the rallrond Mne at Ftain, on efrtain bivou # near Spincourt and on the rallway | stutions at Apremont, Grand Pre, Chal lernnge and Vouzlere During these operntions it was no ticed that numerous firew sroke out and number of were effected raliroands " axplosions on the Vighting Vielent, Says Berlin, BERLIN e, )"The made odny Western front ally In unchanged (Verdun front) tnued yestorday aorinl aquadrons conducted extonsive bomburdments of the engompment and magazines west of Ver dun A Krench biplane was shet down in an werlal fight vast of Noyen. The oc- cupants of the machine were dead.” My 1.—(By Wireloss to fay following announcement was at army headquarters The situation gener- | Near Deadman Hill, violent fighting con- “Germnn enemy’s Department Orders, MAY - 2 RANK AND FILE OF | IRISH REBELS LAY | | rled away | Mrs. 191¢ ; | ; DOWN THEIR ARMS | (Continued from Page One.) Around Trinity colles | and old Irish | retgned. The officers quartered in the college to suppress the uprising Great damage was done In street and adjacent thoroughfares, as Middle Abbey, Abbey, Mary Henry Only girders window frames of almost Aeserted the parliament training had done mu qu corp, Sncky! such ar a fow and some houses rémain Along the side of Backyille street trom Henry street ta O'Connell bridge bulldings battered heyond recog The postoffice Idering frame stone Men's Christlan Assoclation bullding, on the same side of the wa was perforated by elght shells, the Cath olfe club by two and the Blind institute by two Bodles of streots ennt are nitto ts merel " work The Wno Young sluin rebals were belng ear in groups by soldiers, many of them having been shot several times When the muthorities gave orders that | the peaple were to be nllowed to enter the streets today, some of the poor began looting. This was stopped at 2 o'clock, ! when the troops cleared the streets Again and nrrested everyone who did not move promptly In the debris was found a printed proce Inmation fasued in the name of the presl dent of the provisional government, the text of which follows “The provistonal government to the citl w of Dublin The government of Trish republic salutes the citisens of Dub Hn the of the proclamation of » soverelgn independent Trish state I course of belng es tablisned by Irishmen in arms # provisonal the on momentous oecuslon now Repub | tean forces mow hold the jines taken up At 12 noon Easter Monday, and nowhere dospite ferce and almost continuols attackn of Britiah troops, have the lines | been broken through.' DEATH RECORD William Thumpson LYONE, Neb., May 1.~(Bpeelal )—~Will fam Thompson, an old soldier and an old | sottler here, was buried (n the Lyons cometory yesterday, e was born In Hondricks county, Indiana, October ), | 1847, and was married to Miss Ruth Stan ley In 1876, To this union one son was born, Ermest Thompson of University Park, Colo, who was here for the fu neral, His wife died in 1881 and he then eame to Nabraska, locating at Tekamah, | where he remained untfl 188, when he removed to Oakland, This same year he was married to Miss Valera Bryant and to this union two msons were horn, Har rison of Crofton, Neb., and Chester, who died in 1008, Mr. Thompson enlisted In an Indiana regiment in the civil war, He was a chartar member of the A, L. Oates post, Grand Army of the Republic, at this place, and with his deatl; it leaves but a mere “handful’ of members from a once flourishing soolety, at one time estimated to have been the largest Grand | Army post in the Mrs, Pannte MolLeod, Fannie MacLeod, aged 12 vears, ‘n-nh])m( at M17 Jackson sireet, dled Sun {day at the Nicholas Senn, nfter a briet {liness, of pneumonia. "uneral services will be held at the First Baptist church and Tev, ¥, B, Taft Lot Graee Daptist churen will officlate | Interment will be at West Lawn cemé | tory. Mrs. Macleod wis o member of the | ¥irwt Daptist church for thirty-eight #he the widow of the late Samuel MacLeod and sistersin<law of M yeurs wan WASHINGTON, May 1—(8pecial Tela-| . : crumy — Nobraska pensons granted. | 0. 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