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] ‘ l Call Tyler 1000 If You Want to Talk to The Bee I or to Anyone Connected With The Bee. 7R VOL. XLV-—-NO. 278 WILSON NETTLED DANILS SPEAKS BY NOTE'S TONE: 10 SHIPS AT SEA SUBSTANGEU K | Naval Officials at Washington Talk by Wireless Telephone with Vessels Far Away. President Dilplened by Language UNEQUALED BY ANY NATION | of Note and Conditions Attached, | but Feels His Demands | Are Met, UNOFFICIAL VERSION CORRECT | Washington Probably Will Reply, but Wait to See New Pledges Kopt WASHINGTON, May 7.-—A work ing system of wire and wireless com- munication sald by army and navy experts to be unequalled by that of any other nation was effected today by the Navy department as adjunct to the preparedness program It was inaugurated by a wireless telephone conversation, the first of its kind ever held, during which Bee retary Danfels, seated &t his desk in the Navy department, gave instrue tions to a commander on the bridge of warship operating theoretical enemy far off the Virginia capes, and recelved reports from him Not LANSING BTUDIES THE TEXT WASHINGTON, May 7.~The prob- | ability that a diplomatic break with Germany has been averted, at least temporarily, was strengthened today when the official text of the German | note, lald before President Wilson | and Secretary Lansing was found to i against a Talk with All Stations, be dlmost identical with the unof-| Simultaneously, other officials of ficial verslon sent to the United | the department were in telephone Btates in press dispatches, communication with all the navy Offieials had indicated that should the officlal text bear out the unof- ficlal version they thought it fm- probable diplomatic relations would | be severed, unless there should be further attacks on merchants ships in violation of the new pledges given vards and stations in the continental United States. The plan represents more than a year fticers and lephone and ave of continued labor by naval vxperts of the American raph com who been co- operating with the depurtment on the in- vitation of Secretary Danlels, Tt was pro- Disappointment has been (ndicated, |mounced a thorough success by offi however, over certain features of the | Who Witnessed its execution this after German reply, afd some high officials | 0™ Tests of the plan will continue, ) ome high officia v et 11818 | owever, until 8 o'clock Monday morning, believe that It at least cannot be ac- | a1 pusiness between the department and cepted unconditionally. The president |stations in the United States and the bat and Becretary Lansing studied the text tleship New Hampshire od for the wireless telephone communication, belng earefully today, going very minutely over the phraseology and the shade of mean- ing that might be attached expressions, conducted either by telegraph, te or wireless until that thme ‘Bishop Says Feeling Against Americans In Mexico Weakens SPRINGS, lephone to varlous Rents with President. Opinton whether the note required an answer seems divided. Decision rests with the president, and untll he has made up his mind it is unlikely that an offielal expression of opinion would be forthcoming. 8o far he has not Indi- cated to any one his final judgment in | SARATOGO N, X., May 1, the matter. | Anti-Amerfean sentiment in Mexico 18 g | 1t is entirely possible that no reply wiil |decreasing, in the opinion of Bishop | be sent, for the present, at least, and | Francis J. McConnell of Denver, who re- that the president will maintain complete | Ported to the Methodist Episcopal gen- silence for a time, allowing Germany to | eral conference tonight the results of demonstrate on its own behalf the good | misslonary work in that country, over faith of its intention to carry out the |which he has KEpiscouar supervision policy indicated in its new orders to sub- | He visted the Mexican churches fre- marine commanders. - | auently during the trouble there and | was in Mexico City at the time of the Villa rafd on Columbus, N. M. He was | escorted to the morthern border by Al | fonzo Herrera, a Carranza leader, who | Although the president realizes that the promises given are the cardinal elements | of the note, he s understood to be dis- pleased over the language used and the conditions apparently attached. s should the note be accepted as satis- | ference. factory and a reply sent, It is expected | “Whatever may be sald of President to take the form of a notification to | Wilson's Mexican policy,” said the Germany that the United States has de- |bishop, “it fs true that this policy has | done more to convince the Mexicans that cided not to sever diplomatic relations | the United States does not want Mexico, | as long as the new submarine orders re- o $7) e Koty vhic [the Central United Presbyterian| X 35,000 damage suit case of Mrs, Estella|a letter from Dr, Kerr in which the | than have all our other policles put toe | ¥ LA main effective and.are observed. g g gkl ” |Glaze against somoe fifty saloonkeepers |former president announced that |church, SevaEl, (aNinet Mimbnmy Abipyts “The stories of outrages upon Amerl-| " ‘:;": ‘;"'“‘“i“ "‘""l'l"l‘“""l 4 “l':njl:‘:;:\ “The dle is finally cast In favor of | “e that findeth his life shall lose R, ve N L] jaze w. et no d ges, g Several, members of the cabinet were | cang s the result of antl- American | gt S by itnessnn examined n| Bellevue and Mrs, Kerr and myself | It; and He that lmw!h his life for My not in Washington today. Secretary | spirit are ver Lansing left tonight to spend the week end at Annapolls, taking with him an officlal copy of the German note. He expects to have fully digested its state ments by the time of his return Monday. The only Indication regarding the per- sonal attitude of President Wilson was obtained from persons close to affairs of the White House, He was described greatly exaggerated.” ' School Children Wage Campaign On Dandehons; Ten thousand dandelions are belng :.”:';“"f et "‘"" position where he |, ;10q out of lawns each day by the ould not question Germany's good faith | . .4 o¢ [othrop school. This Is in ac- | unless the declarations made by the cordance wRh the plan of Principal Nora H. Lemon. It is a part of the campaign gainst dandelions which has taken the form of a contest in which the Harding fce Cream company is to award 200 gal- German government should not prove of- fective. Count von Bernstorff, the Ger- man ambassador, returned to Washing- ton today from New York, He gald he had no instructions. from his govern-|yo. ' o' iie cream Miss Lerhon has the ment to discuss the situation with Sec-|.iaven conched to pull ten dandelions retary Lansing and he did not in-| gaer g each day aplece, 10,000 daily A day this week 18 to be devoted to making a total of some tend to go to the less he should be ate department 80 instructed by Ber- lin or Secretary Lansing Invite him to call. Officlals would not be sur- prised, however, If the ambassador should be Instructed to call on Mr un- A dandellon match between pupils of Frank in school, 'under the direction of Prin cipal Ann Hutchins. Heventy-five bushels of dandelion planta should Lansing next week after he and President Wilson [have been exterminated by the pupils have had sufficlent time to reach conclu- | o¢ pruid Hill school, which has but four sions rooms, Verstons Nearly Tdentleal, The official text of the German note Fl'ench PI'CSS Flays was made public today by tha Btate de partment. Ambassador Gerard, in trans R ) l t G 3" mitting the document, sald he had re (’p y 0 er rna'ny eived copies In both German and Eng lish, probably accounting for 1 W PARIS, May All the evening papers ¢lal and unofficlal ‘ versions being so |devote their principal leaders to the Ger nearly idefitical. A slight difference on Mman reply and bitterly condemn it as a the text occurs in that paragraph where '‘subterfug ! el Rous other the unofficlal verslon says that Germany milltary writers, declare ronewad has declded to make a further con. setivitien around Verdun are contem sion adapting the methods of submarine ol e warfare to the nterests of noutrals. " In adided eff the offieial text the Words “In adepting he Journal 1 Debats 1ot erine appear In place of the word “adapting.” the note & mor nt of | len Another difference ) do wht N | 4 " A proba paper 1 d by the pe ARhin transmission ] " 1 Ll The Weather : - X . " Tomperatures at Gmaha ¥oator the appeara . stion ) i WEBSTER CITY BOY IS STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE Mecurd Comparative Lucal : STUDENT AT OMANA UNI SUFFERS SEVERE ACID BURNS ' woge iy 4 . s an! { s a4 member of a Mexican Methodist come! | intoxicants to Don Glaze, OMAHA, MONDAY SUDAN REVOLTS; | HOLY WAR WAGED AGAINST THE KING Natives Reported to Have Risen| | “on British, Who Are Said to Be Fleeinf Toward the | Nile. ALl DINAR HEADS REBELLION MORNING, MAY 8, 1916—TEN PAGES, DAUGHTEP OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND BECOMES WAR NU™ . -Miss Esther Cleveland will start for Europe in the & #"Ximmer to become a war nurse. Miss Cleveland at pr @' Is with her mother, Mrs, Thomas J. Preston, Jr,, _wIprings, Va. N i Moslem Chief Has Force of Troops and Eight Thousand Camels, DARFUR IS THE ZONE AFFECTED BERLIN, May 7 (Via Wireless 1o Bayville.)~-An uprising against the British in the Sudan is reported in dispatches from Congtantinople to the Overseas News agency All Dinar, the Imam of Darfour with forée of and 8,000 camels, s sald marching against the British forces in ern Sudan, The British the advices, are retiring hastily ward the Nile, today a troops to he north according b 1o War, reports Procialms Holy The Constantinople that All Dinar has proclaimed a holy against the British pud that he intends to co-operate with the Senussi tribesmen in their operation against the British forces state wal Darfur 000 square mileg and 1;~\ of the Anglo-Egyptian The exact population is un has an area of about 160, he western most state Budan known, 000 to almost habitants are known as Fury and are a mixture of negroes and Arabs, They but estimates run from 760 4,000,000, The in profess the Mohammedan religion and are sald to be somewhat fan atical, o " i T N T ————————— Independent THL 1875, MISs EbT]’lEI? CLEVELANDA QCLINEINS T The province was independent un - Kgyptiah rule. All Dinar, the prés ent sultan, hag been chief of the province since 1599, “El-Fasher, the HEAD OF BELLEVUE SHOWN BY SPEER capital, has a pepulation of about 10,000 and is 500 miles west, south- west of Khartoum, Mrs, Glaze Loses Her | Suit Agamst Flfty ASSUMES ACTIVE CHARGE JULY 1 DOES NOT DISGUISE HARDSHIPS sa'loon Keepers president of Bellevue coljege next Mttered by Christ when He sent out PIERCE, \:h, May T7.—(8pecial Tele- | year wag definitely decided y sterday | 1ls disciples to preach the gospel gram.)—A verdict in favor of the defend-| whan Prof, Willlam K. Nichol, acting | Were used yesterday by Rev. Hugh /a8 returned t i by n jury 0 3 :?‘z:rw:. :;::;n):gurh‘?l(?t;;:lnll‘:fn:yln »u,i president of the institution, received | B. Bpeer ag the text of his sermon at Former Head of Institution Decides | Minister Uses the Seemingly Para- | to Accept Presidency of doxical Word of Christ When He | Suburban College. Sent Forth His Disciples, That Dr. David 1. Kerr will he| The soomikly paradokidal words sake ghall find It The minister used these words to show the folly of drifting, the profit- lessness of taking the easlest way, the character-enervating effects of selfishness, “In this chapter Christ 1s glving His famous message to Ko into the whole world and preach the goapol,” sald Rev have decided to go back to ”l'llv\ln- once more.”” Dr, Kerr will u',l Bellevue for the meeting of the board of trustees on Tuesday of commence: ment week and will assume active charge of the college July 1. behalf of the defense, all of them em- ployes of the defendant saloonkeepers, the mafority of them denfed ever selling the plaintiff's be husband. Here is a Chance For Someone to Be Stadents Will Return. The assumption by Dr. Kerr of the pos! tlon he held for the twelve years from |Mr, Speer. “He I8 sending forth twelve Of Use to Someonc 1590 to 1904 is expected to mean an increase | men, uneducated and poor, but twelve 1 contidiance’ 1 the coll Many sti- |men who were prepared to ‘loss thelr A new or second-hand tent of moderate | dents have announced that they will re- |lives' in order that.they might ‘find o be placed to good adwantace by |turn to school under the administration |them the Associated Charities, § retary Doane | of Dr. Kerr. Letters hav heen received | ‘Christ's message to the disciples is a explains she Is isting an elderly couple from men and women ol 11 denomina model of eandor. He does not disgulab who intend to travel 300 miles by wagon |tions all over the state expressing tho |the hardships that they will encounter to a tract of land they expect to cuiti- |opinion that the return of Dr, Kerr will | Paverty, persecution, discomfort, muffes vate. The husband is 80 years of age. mean an increase in the prestige of Belle- |ing. contempt, scorn—all these they are Lo = vue college. He will nt onee assume | feel : ‘harge of the work of ralsing the 50,000 he words of the Lord o SerOatial First Case of Hea e Ty vk L T T8 Yot Mg ave atgstun . by Financlal Beoretary Charles E. Baske They are a challonge to leave the seduc Prostnation Df Y am | ek by | e Sobaiusalionty . ey the:aafis ready been pledged lose the worldly life’ In order that they | The first case of heat prostration of To Conduet Student Canvass. may find & better spiritual life the present summer was reported yes- | 5. jeone Wil gssume charge also Yield to Expedie torday from the South Slde. Walter| . o, o on student canvass an soon as | “*Thére i too much weak yielding t Bloggy fell unconsclous at Twenty-elghth |} = 0 e 5 vans has already expedioncy, 100 much.dangerous drifting and Q streets, due to the heat. He was| .- 0 0 ' % to every | With the tide, too little etrons . taken to a host I &Y, physiclans |\ o) yohool grad 1 stute Ath- | 0f the trath, ' Truth must find expression say, will be all it A day or two. |\ e Director F. B. Renjamin and Prof, for it will wither and gle. These twelve The highe ire of the day Was . 1 pPoters will each make & tour men whamn Jesus sent out to proa 1 % degreea above zero at k the | n ot the state as y A8 ek \s kOspel becamne great Yy declarin he afternoon t the first we nd Another v | truth, T harnoters were made great . ' - vasser will probably also camy part | by privation and hardshi T ox Fall Kills Aviator of the olala, Fresnt pisua are ie maks (NN iumisale the cenluries baoat Who Loops-the-Loop Y R e T B Ml Bl that the had r il ALLAS, Tox Cecil De mv\(hmu(s The sy : tunight when s serepiane taiind la bt |- Try the (larman Note s ) ARLINGTON WOMAN HAS T Aunerican | Hlonsl suseens. , A BOX FOR THE NEEDY Mise Pauline farsman . ¥ . v f the Bpwerth leasve of Ariing " . ., w “ ary Doana of the e ’ \ssaciated . st sha has . ward . . . Detective Shoots Policeman Who Is Pulling Off a Mimic HO[dup ['hinks the Note Will Depress the Allies THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. On Trains, at Hotel Wews Btands, eto, S 'KANSAS CITY DIGS UPGOIN FORSUNDAY Over Five Thousand Dropped Milk Pans at One Meeting to Pay Expenses, SING n COMMERCIAL CLUB I8 SHAKEN KANBAS (Bpecial cITy, Telegram.) Mo., May 7 “Billy" Sun day's revival is only a week old, but it has already smashed soveral reec ords, has almost split the local Com mercial elub, and has precipitated a police cleanup and has the whole town thoroughly stirred I'ne newest achfevement was the putting of $6,276 in the milk pans for current expenses at the meeting last night I'he total of the collection wa handed to the revivalist on a #lip at the close of his sermon You have trinited $4.94 Ight anld Thin breaks the Baltimore record of #4438 taken (n at ono meeting Go Over Vive Thousn and the antount was oversubseribed §27 he Ival start l the rain A total of 31,000 peop! {nited the taher nacle torainconts and under umbrelin the Thst da Binee then the In haa never flagged o ydance for | #ix duyw In oatimated (o be 18,00, and thourands have been turned awny each mght Ko gre hinw en the manifestn tlon of Interegt that the flest enll for tendl hitter In expected LOMOITOW ol In o prayer today Sunday asid While no invitation been glhve we knoy O Lord, tha thelr enrin there are hundrads ready 1o take n stand for Christ Clennnp of Novih Side police force ever guve Kunsas City In womised Wy 1 Iammil, ehlef of ide boowters, who were insplied by the presence of the tabernaclo in thelr di triet, Ratding squads have neen Appoinied In ench district of the city and the prom 1we 1n that the chief may be hold respon sible If the job Is not thorough | A Commercinl club scandal which has left both the club and the brewers in a very uncomfortable position in a direct oulgrowth of Bunday's coming Han Throngh Club Machine, A wharp-oyed Commerclal elub director discovered that lternture attacking Bun | dny, mailed brondeast throughout the | eity by the “Liberal League,” had been run through the same sddrespograph as his notice to attend o Commercinl club meeting. e ralsed. a row about i, the Commercial dimnvowal and complete Three brewer members con. fosed to using the elub's machine. That was fIve days ako. Since then, fundny has never mentioned |t “1 will tenr into them,” In all that Sun- day has sald so far. Irish Rebels Are Not Doomed on Suspicion | DUBLIN, May 1 (Vin London,) Justice Ia being dealt out to the Sinn | Fetners on (he facts proved by in- contestiblo testimony regarding thelr ne tive participation in the recent rebellton Busplelon 18 not enough for a court mar- tial to cond any man, and venges 3 | for the killing of soldiers or the destrue tion of property does not enter the minds | of the military judges. Thera Is “dragooning to death” the rebels club made o pure mn \Calls Irish Rising Menace to America PETROGRAD, The Irish | Mny Petrograd Gazetta de rebelilon Unitod States, aoedod (Via lares London.) that the to the for had the Germans muc thelr WAs A menace in Ireland earrying ¢ plans re papers belleve Wilson's late kind of in districts thickl have Preald repiled to by u threat to start prising In Amerfen sottled by Gormans Enrico Caruso, the Singer, Off to Italy nt t note the same an in NEW YORI tdy ( he tenor, salled oy Espanae for Iin v f ¥ra He g ol Ald expected | TWO PERFECT BABIES OUT OF THREE THOUSAND REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA' IS SLOGAN IN ENGLAND THE WEATHER. Showers LE CENTS, MEXICANS CROSS . BORDER AND KILL THREE SOLDIERS Bandits Raid Three Texas Bettle- ments, Slay Child and Carry 0ff Two American Civilians. ATTACK FRIDAY AND SATURDAY CoPY TWO Scott and Funston Meet Obregon and They Discuss Latest Outrage, MORE TROOPS TO THE SCENE EL PASO, Tex., May 17 American soldlers and a Three 10-year-old thelr and two citizens been kid- naped and carried south of the inter- national boundary to almost certain death in rald of Mexican bandits that takes rank with Fran- cisco Villa's famons attack on Colum boy have lost lives Ameriean have another bus, N, M, Whether the marauders were Villistas or Carranzistas is not known The bandits’ foray, carrying them through the southern imity of Brew- ster cotunty, In the Big Bend district of and taking in three Jttla settlements near the horder-—Glenn Springs, Boquillas and Deemers took place on Friday night and Sat- urday morning, but news of it did not reach here until today I'roops Ordered Within &n hour preparations had been begin for sdequate action, Major General Froderick I that, In all, four troops of cavalry should proceed to the ralded wr smiall de tachments wiresdy on from dio, Alpine and other points. Thess got under way tonlght. 1t fa sald here thatlf the oxigenc'es of the case de mand mich they will the border in order to run down and disperss the bandits. They consist of two troops of the Bighil cavalry from Fort Blias, & Major George T. Lang horne, und two troops of the Fourtesnth envalry from Fort Clark, under Colonel F r W, Sibley, commandet of the Fourteenth, The tachments are expected to detrain tomorrow morning, Major Lang horne's at Alpine and Colonel Bibley's at Marathon. From these points they will march south ninety miles to the border. While military events were developing with sueh rapidity, the conference over the co-eperation of American and Mex| can_so\dlers In Mexico, which had been expected to reach a cvlmination point to- day, came o an abrupt halt, Discuss Bandit Rald, Genoraln Ecott and Funston met Gen- eral Obregon and Juan Amadora, Mexl- can sub-secretary of forelgn affairs, n the fmmigration station at the American end of the finternational bridge shortly after 11 o'clock this morning for what had been expected to be thelr final con- ference, It developed Inter, however, that | practically thg only matter discussed was | the bandit rald at Glenn Springa, What was sald at the meeting was not divulged. Immediately this morning Gen- eral Obregon, and Secretary Amadora vlod Juarez, where they entered weral Obregon’'s car and began a cons [ ferenco which lasted three hours, Gene eral Guvira, commander of the Junres garrison; eGneral Santos and Andreas Garela, Moxiean conaul in 1 Paso, took part in this c¢iscussion, Tonlght General Obregon was In teln- sraphic communication with Venustians Carranzn and it was understood he was Acquainting the first chief with the now developments and suggested action that would have to bo taken, Texas, 1o Seene, naton ordered tion to reinforce the moene Pre tronp notion, cross Pano, under two ‘hree Are Killed. BAN ANTONIO, Tex., May T7.~Thres soldiors, Clohn, ( and Rogers, and me civiliun, the young son of w man named Compion, wers killed In the bandit rald on Glenn Springs, according to of ficlal reports to Fort Sam Houston from Lisutenant C. R. Norton, Fourtesnth cavalry, at Appine. Two soldiers, Brick, and Defees, were wounded. In adition soldiers and two civillans whose were given as Compton and Govern, been missing the fight REPUBLICANS ELECT DELEGATES TO CHICAGO threo name have since NORTH YAKIMA, Wash, May T.~The blican state nvention here today ted delegates to the national convens tlon, chose B. A. Perkine of Tacoma for ational committesinan and adopted A platformn that contained no refersnce 1o any presidentinl candidates. The deles KAtion was not instructed te cast ite voly " andidate Nowinntes ON Davis, Warren od Binies alteh was nominated by he naw fads by oon A Barometer of Public Approval 144 Want-Ads for last ending 5.6, than in same week, last year MORE PAID weelk, Follow the trend of pubs lic approval, and put your Want-Ads in THE BEE.

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