Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1916, Page 1

AR | Call Tyler 1000 | If You Want to Talk to The Bee ‘ or to Anyone Connected With The Bee. VOL. XLV—NO. 280, BECOME ATROCITY anchester Gulrdun Protests in Strong Terms Against Military Killings of Irish Cap- tives, FOR PUBLIC SK§ TRIALS q ~ Members Heckle Premier Asquith ( in Meeting of House of Commom. CRIES FROM ALL OVER HALL LLONDON, May !L “The Dublin | military executions are becoming an atrocity,” says the Manchester Guar- dian In an wmnrlul supporting the uppeal which John Redmond, the Irish leader made in the House of Commons yesterday for clemency for the Irish rebels. were shot yesterday and there is no #ign that this Is about to stop. “We can understand that it mey have been desired in the first in« stance that swift punishment should be seen to follow the offense and an appeal should be set and a stern warning glven, but this purpose has long since been served,” The Guardian appeals for public trialg for the remaining offenders arking why this should be granted to| 8ir Roger Casement and denled the Dublin rebels, Heokle Premier, TONDON, May 9,~Executions and ar- rests in ITreland were again discussed In the House of Commons this morning m‘ the form of questions to Premier Asquith, William O'Brien, nationalist member for the city of Cork, gsked whether the pre hundreds of men been ar- mier was aware that from Cork and Tipperary hed rested without any charge and were confined In the Cork Jall, where they were treated with the utmost harsh- | ness. He also asked whother steps would Yo taken to allay the universal pubiic in dignation at the reign of terror which had been established and whether the | police and military had just raided the offices of the Cork Freo Fross, which had advoeated recruiting since the outbreak of the war. A veritable then directed au volley of questions was the premier from all parts of the house. Phiup Kdward Mor- vell, liberal member for Burnley, in- quired whethier ¥, Sheehy Skeffington, editor of the Irlsh Citizen, had shot in the barrack aquare in Dublin be- fore martial law was proclatmed, and Timothy = Mealy asked- whether prenfler knew whether the editors of the newspapers opposed to the revolt had been shot without trial at Portobello barracks without time being given them | to say their prayers. The premier promised to make careful fnquiry into all the Incidents mentioncd, Chicago Clothing Cutters Talk Strike CHICAGO, 11, May 9. cutters In clothing factories here are ready to go on strike today in accordance | with g resolution voted hy the local or ganization of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America last night. The strike, It is sald, may throw 10,00 other clothing workers out of employment he cutters are demanding shorter hours, better working conditions and reec- | ognition of the union. The employers say the men are working eight hours a day and are receiving the best pay In the garment industry In the country. State and Defense now Rest in Carlisle Case. CHBEYENNE, Wyo., May %-The tak ing of testimony in the trial of W, L, Carlisle, confessed bandit, on charges of robbing three Unlon Pacific passenger trains In - Wyoming within the last months, was concioded late today the prosecution finished ita testi mony, the defense rested without ealling ny witnesses, Presentation of instrue tions then was begun The Weather when ast LT pm day or Omaha, ¢ oll Rlufts and Vinelr showers, coole: Temperatures at Iy Omahn Yesterday 5 Lo Loy SHOWERSG i+ : ¥ Y % A 0 w An ¥ - Ao 4 \ [ st " o " " Comparative Local Hecard ’ ’ M | | Nepneis fram Statlons ot 1 W U “Four more en | being stated | | been the | More than 2,000 | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Mdvertmng Experts W\ll Be Shown Over State as Guests of Bure-u. iTO ARRIVE IN OHAHA JUNE 5 — | Nebraska is to be advertised in a | blg way and on a plan .chsolu(el\' new in the United States, The pub- { lishers of sixteen leading newspapers |and farm pulbications of Nebraska lare footing the bill which amounts | to something over $6,000, During | the first week in June twenty-five nr the most eminent advertising ex erts of New York City, Phila delphia and Boston will be brought to Nebraska and taken or a trip over the state in a special train for the purpose of showing them first-hand the prosperity of Nebraska, ite won | derful resources and its tremendous | purchasing power, The guests will leave New York City Saturday morning, June 3, and will arrive {In Omaha Monday morning, Juhe 5, Mon | day will be spent In Omaha, and Monday evening will be devoted to the Ak-Sar Ben Inlitiation, Tuesday morning the | purty will.leave Omaha in a special train for n four days' trip over the state. Among the cities to be visited are Fre- mont, Norfolk, Columbus, Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings and Lincoln, Grentest Trip of Kind, The publications comprising the Ne- braska Publishers’ Bureau are as follows | The Omaha Bee and Twentleth Century “armer, the Nebraska Farm Journal, the | Lincoln Daily Star, the Norfolk Dally News, the Deutsch Omaha Tribune, the Omaha Hospodar, the Hastings Tribune, the Fremont Tribune, the Grand lsiand | Independent, the Kearney Jimes, the Ne- braskn City News, the Beatrice Expr and the Columbus Telegram, Never | fore have the publishers of any state joined together in an advertising plan b ment of the Nebraska trip has already | created a tremendous impression In ad- vertising and manufacturing eircles in w York City, Boston and Philadelphia, Kxperts in Thelr Line. The advertlsing experts who are com ing to Nebraxka are the highest pald advertising men in the world, Collectively they place advertising throughout Amer |fea every year amounting to many mil Hons of dollars and they are enthusiastic over this trip because they realize it will #lve them an opportunity sunch as has | never before been presented to them by any state to get first hand information | regarding merchandising conditions and | the general prosperity of the middle west, | 80 vital to"them in their line of business. There I8 no thought o nthe part of the Nebraska publishers of placing these ad- vertising experts In any way under obli- gations . 1o the Nebraska publiestians. | This is obvious when it is considered that Inmpollnn the Nebraska Publishersy’ bu- | reau nre bitter competitors in their vari- | ous flelds, One of the rules already laid | shall In any way show any sort of litera= ture on this trip concerning his own pub- | lleation, The whole idea is to educate the casterners as to the state of Nebraska, Travel on “Special.” The visitors will be brought to the state in all-steel Pullmans and the train on which they will ridg through Nebraska wil be an al-steel special train of the very highest type of rallroad equipment The commercial elubs at the various towns where the trains will expected to co-operate in making it as easy as possible for the visitors to get a maximum fund of information regarding |the trade and agricultural conditions. The New York Times has been Invited by the Nebraska Publishers’ bureau to send a | representative as a guast of the publish- of such magnitude as this, and announce- | many of the newspapers and farm papers | |down for the trip Is that no publisher | stop are | OMAHA, DECLARES DUBLIN ~ EASTERN AD MEN AMERICANS FIGHT EXECUTIONS HAVE = T0 VISIT NEBRASKA WITH VILLA'S MEN OVER RI0 GRANDE of Seven Soldiers and Members Posse Do Battle with Bandits Over the River Boundnry MASSING POIKTS DESIGNATED | <o\ Fort Sam Hounton, Douglsr i Columbus Places for ‘\4\\‘ sw' e N STATES ARE MOA L4ING MEN MARATHON, Tex., May 9.—Cap taln Fox of the Teas Rangers re ported this afternoon to Colonel 8ib- ley thut seven American soldiers and three posseemen had engaged @ small band of Villistas across the Rlo Grande and had killed several 0 them, There were American losses. no SBAN ANTONIO, May 9 It was announced at headquarters thig aft- that General Funston had designated Fort Sam Houston as the mobllization point for the orgalnzed | militia of Teas, He has named Doug | lag as the mobilization point for the Arizona National Guard and the New Mexico militia will mobilized at \'.‘,nlnmbus. N. M vun's Pence Strength, ENTX, Ariz., May 9.-The strength of the Arizona National Guard, included today In orders by Secretary Baker sending more men to the border for patrol duty, is 860 men, ling to Adjutant General Charles W, Harrls. The militia_ could be recruited to fts full war strength of 1,600 men wilhin five days if ernoon be peace ncec necessary, he sald, Lquipment for the full strength of tha force is ou hand The Arizona Natlonal Guard of 500 men will be ready for service | |der by Wednesday morning, |anca with the orders of President |#on, it was announced today. on the bor- In compli- Wil | Ready v w Day, |« BANTA FE N. M., May 9.~New ico's forces, comprising approximately | 1,100 men, can be on their way to the bor der in twenty-four hours, according to a statement this morning by Adjutant | General Harry T. Herring, when in | formed of President Wilson's call for the National Guard of Texas, New Mexlco and Arizona. Will Take Two Days, ALBUQUERQUE, N, M., May 0.—Ad- | vices from General Manager Fred ¢, Fox | of the Banta Fe lines late today stated {1t would be forty-eight hours before the (road would have sufficlent equipment avallable to move the New Mexico Nl- Mex- | Placéd Near Yards, Kl PASO, Tex., May 9.-A battalion lof the Twentleth Infantry, nuribering {about men, was moved to Fort Bliss late this afternoon and stationed near the stock yards, dominating the Mexi- can section of El Paso. The stock yards.| |fire about a mile from the river and |Juarez. The battallon carried machine | gun equipment. Two companies of the Twentieth were stationed at the court house and two at| the Unlon station. All are under the command of Colonel Hasbrouck, General Obregon, Juan Amador, Mexl- | can’ mub-secretary of foreign affairs; | | General Bcott, Genergy Funston and A, J. McQuatters met in the American con feree private car shortly after » o'clock | | this afternoon for another conference. | Before coming to Kl Paso General| | Obregon told several newspapermen he | intended to make a counter proposal to| General Beott, His proposal, he said was that Mexicans and Amerlcans should ors to “cover’ the story of the trip from | unite in patrolling the border, as many {dayyte day for his newspaper. The ex- | Mexicans to be piaced on the American penses of the party will all be pald by the | side as Americans on the Mexican side Nebraska Publighers’ bureau from the | moment the guests leava thelr homes in the east until thoy erturn Nebraska publishers feel that the re. sources and wealth of Nebraska are far too little appreciated in the east and have adopted this dramatic and expensive mothod to bring the prosperity and mer handising possibilities of Nebraska to the attention of the big n advertising world men the 'Senate Votes to | Insist on Its Army Bill Amcndments WASHINGTON, D, €. aay %-0n mo tlon of Senator Chamberlain today the senate insisted upon ita amendments 1o ¢ he ariny bill. ¢ tng the nitrate V Alne ] A eaterday by he house, and the big def was AN ret it v Benate vonferees w siat " " shor ' " ' N £ ap . o ) i be expanded w achad befare . . Wilson's Reply to “Germany Does Not | Please This Paper All the T, LONDON, May . ndon even g newspapers today publish promi nently the Ame n reply to Germany note on narine warfare, but only the Westminster Gazette comments on the | document The Gazette remarka that the German | cofcession agreeing ‘o adapt method submarine warfure the Interest of neutrals, 1s not in conformity with Pre ont Wi domand, which says required the abandonm of submarin warfa againat pa nd fre polnts ) I Obregon Denies He Demanded Withdrawal of American Troops WEDNESDAY | the tional Guard. + | MORNING, MAY 10, “MINING” DISPUTE IN BLUFFS COURT Controversy in Rich “Lead Shot Fields” Leads to Gun Play and Appeal to Law, JUDGE DECIDES SOLOMON-LIKE along river Placer mining in the sand banks of the Miss ouri proved to' be such a valuable busi ness that the court has been appealed to define rights and settle a miners | dispute which threatened to result in bloodshed, The area, is limited to the Omaha Gun grounds north o the street railway bridge on the lowa side of the river, and the riches yielded by the sand are the millions of birdshot, fired in the however, |alr by club members when ghooting at bluerocks, Judge Capell of the Bluffs superior court was engaged nearly all day yes terday settling a bitter dispute over min Ing rights between James C, Brock, custodinn of the club grounds, and ‘Wi H, Bell, who claims an interest in the rich #ands by right of a verbal gontract made with the caretaker last March. The two men had been doing comfortably well | mining together, taking out in one day, according to the testimony, as much as 4 poungs of shot and easlly getting out an average of 125 pounds aplece every day they worked Tempornry Injunction. As lead {5 worth ubout $9 a hundred pounds, the business was so profitable that Bell refused to accopt verbal notice | that the contract had been dissolved, He | applied to the superior court for an in- Junction restraining Brock from abro- gating the contract and chasing him off the grounds with a shotgun, as It was alleged he had done. Late yesterday afternoon Judge Capell granted a condi- tlonal temporary Injunction in favor of Bell and set the final hearing for June 6. Had Mutual The testimony disclosed that Bell togoether the Gun club last plications for the and mutually decided that apply for the place and mine the ind and farm the grounds to wother Bell alleged the plan ely and that he had furnished of potatoes to planted of tha grounds not used purposes, and sald they big money sifting shot sand and the ¢ Agreement. Brock and an advertisement of March asking read for ap custodian, should would position of Hrock they that worked n slx bush be rilon ting earning from the Bell told vovered the were gardening. Brook that dis other day that not b tervitory mndh or 4 wrbitrarily s ead-vie enoug day ftor th me to give each man 1% | his work durin wvorked, and | contract with she brogated th tgun ompha What J olomon-lik o directed £ the n it mple tom that Hrock slould do o mining - and keeg Four Men Killed And 100 Hurt by Powder Explosion COMMANDANT AND WOMEN OFFICERS OF CHEVY CHASE CAMP-—From left to right those in the picture are: Wilson, Washington, adjutant; Mrs, Natalie Lincoln, Washington, major; Miss Elizabeth E. Poe, Washington, commandant; Miss Mary Baker, Wildwood, N. J., aide; Miss Anne Tracy, New York, major, and Mrs. H. B, Joy, Detroit, aide, ‘DI’IIVINND/INT' AND STAFF AT CHEVY CHASE CAMEP lattempted an lof the (GERMAN PLOTTER club's | | served lesg severe punishment than On Traine, at Hotel News Stands, eto, 50 1916—-TWELVE PAGES, Mrs. B. R. Russel, Washington; D. O, aide; Mrs. Vera Poe WINIL A1 SERVICE Germans Report the Taking of Trenches STEAMSHIPS R South of Haucourt KIRBY BREAKS UP BERLIN, May 9-(Via London)-The | Or¢ Carrier Goes Down in Lake capture of several French trenches on| Superior, Off Eagle Harbor, Mich,, the Vordun front, south of Haucourt, was | announced hy the war office today Durmg s Btorm, PARIS, May 0.-—After a violent bom- bardment of the French positions on | ONLY TWO OF THE CREW SAVED J141L 304 on the Verdun front, the Germans lvance at 8 o'clock thia | morning, The war office announces this afternoon that the attack was ropulsed completoly. French counter attacks Mouse drove the Germans certain positions they had captured SAULT 8T .\IAHU‘L Mich,, May 9, All save two of the twenty-two per- sons aboard were drowned when the steamer 8. R, Kirby of the North- western Transportation company of Detrolt and Cleveland, broke In two Lake Superior ennt from | during a storm on yosterday and sank curred four miles off Kagle Harbor, leEN EIGHT YEARS Mich. The ship was valued at i . $100,000, Robert Fay, Who Originated Plan| Otto lndauist, a stoker, was ploked from floating wreckage yesterday aftor noon by sallora on the steamer Joseph Block, When brought here today Lind- quist declared he saw the Kirby siuk, T™W0 ACCOMPLICES CONVICTED | Tho officers and crew totaled twenty-two persons. Joseph Mudra, second mate, of Chicago, was rescued by the steamer Harry Berwind, bound for Duluth, The Kirby Jeft Ashland Bunday evening, ore laden, for Cleveland, It ran into a territic gale on Lake Buperior early yes- terduy and at about 10:43 broke In two, Lindquist wan thrown Into the water and clambered onto floating debris, “1 paw Captain David Girardin swim- ming 100 feot away,” sald Lindquist. “I saw no other persons, The captain ralsed his hands, waved and sank, The ship's mancot, a dog named Tige, which was swimming near the captain, sank a mo- ment later,"” The Kirhy was of wood and steel and was bullt in 1800, Tt was 204 foet long, with to Disable Ships at Bea Given | Long Term at Atlanta, | NEW YORK, Mny 9,~Kobert Fay, furmer Hmm-nnnl in the German army, convieted in the federal court yesterday of conspiring to destroy munitions ships of the alltes through bomb contrivances, was today sen- tenced to serve eight years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Walter Scholz, his brother-in-law, and Paul Daeche, also convicted, were sentenced to serve four years and two years, respectively, Judge Howe holding that they did not otiginate the conspiracy and de- tonnage of 2330 ' Westinghouse Men Rush to Get Work at 0ld Conditions PITTSBURGH, May 9.~The str of 16,000 electrical workars and shell makers | of the Westinghouse Electrie and Manu- company Bast Pittaburgh | Fay. The three also were fined $2 each U. 8. Does Not Expect Reply to Its Note WASHINGTON Bocretnry Lansing the United States its to 1t for n reply May 9 ke let it oes not consider that Late today be known that 4 | tacty t response German note calls | (acturing 0 Unloss Ber 1t will accepts from Germany lin mpecifies to the contrary, imed that ( Amerfean view as wtated OMAHA-LINCOLN-DENVER ROAD ASSOCIATION MEETS (From n LNCOLN Omaha-Lineoln to regain thelr old places under the old working conditlons and salarles. President 1. M. Herr had | thetr demands and told com- mitten yesterday that unless all employes were In thelr places (his morning they would have to be re-omployed and would all the benefita accruing to them under the company’'s compensation the | rmany the strikers lose Htaft Corespondent.) May 9.~ (Rpecial.)—"The | penafon system, Automoblle ¥ 1 The strike, which was ealled April 22 v At the Lincoln [ was to enforce an elght-hour day and, tinue cording to the company, cost the work- | M men $1,997,500 In wages. um.m Y One Mllhon from Denver ation lield a sewsi hotel todny Ore and will e ern of the tamorrow Iatlon mre: ( ident Live Wand vice president Rlake of Tlastings, secretary, ar |<n|n Chnsies Miviey of the Bidie- Forms sehid (ven Suff Cause . \‘ . M , N "‘.‘ Guardsmen Are Ordered Out Under Provisions of Dick Law SINGL The disaster oc- | a beam of forty-two feet and had a gross | ended today in a mad rush of the strikers | rofused all | R THE WEATHER. Showers I COPY TWO CENTS, TROOPS OF THREE STATES CALLED 0UT BY WILSON Militia of Texas, New Mexico and | Arizona Will Assist Regula in Patrolling the Interna- tional Border. |MORE REGIMENTS GO SOUTH | Total Additional Force Availabls Amounts to About Seven Thousand Men. | SECRETARY BAKE;'S STATEMENT | WASHINGTON, May 9,--President | VVilson has called out the militia of | Texas, Arizopa and New Mexico to | deal with the border situation, Secretary Baker today (ssued the | following statement regerding the | use of the militia “The ontbreak In the Big Bend district of the Rio Grande has se far further omphasized the danger of similar ocevr- | rences along our long horder that Pres dent Wilson has called out the militia of Arizons, New Mexieo and Texas and | directed them to report to General Pun- | wton, who will assign them to stations | rlInln( the border for patrol doty, “In addition to that two regiments of regular infantry have been directed to proceed to the border and such further arrangemonts will be made an are necess #ary for the complete safety nf the peo~ | of the United SHtates against raids of | this character.” Becretary Baker sald the militla of the three horder statos would make avaflable about 4,000 men In addition three regiments of regular Infantry were today ordered to the bor- | der, These reglments were the Thirtieth | Infantry, now at Plattsburgh, N, Y.; the Third infantry at Madison barracks, divided hetween Watertown and Oswego, N. Y., the Twenty-first infantry at Van- couver barracks and two battallons of the Fourteenth Infantry, one at Fort Lawton, near Seattle, Wash,, and one at | #pokane, Wash The total additional force sent to the border under these orders, Ineluding both regulars and militia, s approximately 7000 men Fecretary Baker sald the ordars send- (ing more troops tg the border wers mads upon. the joint recommendation of botn General 8rott and General Funston and | were without sumifieance In connection | with the Beott-Obregon conferences, Te- |gard'ng the progress of these conferences, Secretary Taker sald General Scott was awalting o communieation from General Obregon, Further than this the socretary | refused to discuns the status of the con- ferencep, Cenernls Scott and Fonston adviscd tha War departmient that more tréops were urgently needed along the border as n !raiurn of the Big Pend raiders might ba |expected, They state that the regulars on patrol border were insufficlent. Becretary Baker describod {he new troop movement ay a step merely for tha proteetion of the horder, He sald he had not heard whether the American troops in the Big Bend reglon had actually |erossed the boundary in pursuit of ths | outlaws, Beerotary Baker announced also that |1eports that the raid upon Glenn Springs had been ory Ized on the American sids | of the line, according to Mexican reports. | had beeu telegraphed to General Funston {that ho might investigate. Funston Returns to San Antonto, EL PASO, Tex,, May 9-On receipt of news that President Wilson had ordered out the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona militia, General Funston announced to- day that he would return to his head- | quarters at San Antonio just as soon as he could arrange to do so. His depart- ure will'be contingent upon arrangements he can make with General Scott, reliave Ing him from participation in the cons ference with General Obregon. « General unston sald that it would be absolutely necessary for him to return to FFort Bam Houston where he would have the ald of his staff to dispose of the ad- | ditlonal troops, It was sald here that the available Texus militia totals 4,20 men, including Infantry, eavalry and artillery. [ALVIN SMITH HELD ON SHOOTING CHARGE REATRICE, Neb., May 8 —(Special Tels. &ram.)—The preliminary hearing of Alvin and LIl Smith, charged with shooting with Intent to kill in the pistol duel here A few weeks ago, when Nels Smith father of the former, was killed by Off Trude and Wheoler while reststing arrest sod thia evening Alvin Fmith " b to the listrict wrt on nd of S5 ha cousin LI waa re aaed The » 1 thowed that when Nels 0 [} i\ n A ™ d hia f rpow el For weeks and months the Want- Ad columns of The Bee have been show- ing a steady in- crease in patrons age, but last month, April, the increase was exceptionally large. 5954 MORE paid Want-Ads in April, 1816, than in the same month, 1915