Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1916, Page 1

| —— e — | PART ONE. NEWS SECTION THE OMAHA SUNDAY BE PAGES \' VOL. XLV-—NO. 4‘1 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING PERSHING PROBES AL PARADES AND "HIGH FINANCE” BROUGHT WRECK T0 DECATUR BAN Girand Smashup Promises First Real Draft on State’s Deposit Guar- anty Fund Since It Was Inaugurated. WALLPAPER HANGER CASHIER Peclares Fifty Per Cent Dividend and Converts it Into More ¥ Stock. 'XAMINERS STILL CHECKING UP (By a Staff Correspondent.) i DECATUR, Neb.,, May 13,.—(8pe ] cial.) —8Bome Interesting “high fl- |/ nancing’ took place in the Farmers' y State bank here during the last twq years, until the State Banking board 1 closed the doors a week ago and took ) it In charge as the first state bank | involved in trouble since the deposit guaranty law into effoct, counting the little savings dragged down the failure 4 national bank at Superfor, According to all Cashier John E. Elliott is the ard” the affairs into thelr He man fpulated so hard and fast that Presi dent H, D, Byram became bewlldered, could not keep pace with the move ments, thus resigned hig posi tion some months ago, so that when the state locked the doors former President PByram had long since glvea place to Viee President D. B. Watson, while Byram wag cor tent to remain at home, a wmere di- little directing at went not bank by of a slgns, Wiz outward who manipulated present mess. and hoard rector, who did that. Cashier Came Like Rocket, Caghier John E. Elliott came Into the life of this bank only two years ago. He came in suddenly like rocket ahd went up with the bank a week ago llke a bomb, The bank was not a paying institution even when this painter took the reing, In just one year after he took charge as cashier he declared a dividend of 60 per cent, a and paperhanger * |tation among the native and foreign resi- STORY VILLA NEAR ¢ BORDER IN FORCE " .u\\ m,. v ‘]ER VY i RELAND e MEETIN American Commander Investigates ) Report Bandit Chieftain Has Over Thousand e '» Sierra Madres, IN NORTHWESTERN CHIHUAHUA Scouts Announce No Knowledge of Presence of Outlaws at Cul- bertson's Ranch DE FACTO TROOPS TO THE FRONT Near 12 134.) troops FIELD Nanlquipa, HEADQUARTERS. Chihuahua, May (By Wireless to Columbus, May Detachments of American today are investigating a rumor that Francisco Villa, the fugitive bandit leader, at the head of a command of is in hiding in the moun Chihuahua, 1,100 men, taing hetween weventy Columbuy, N. M about sixty-five iMles west of Columbus, on the American side of the frontibr Ascenslon, of and Culberson's ranch, miles south Investignte Rumor, COLUMBUS, N, M, May 15,~Pross re Major W, R and Colonel 11 ports today brought to Sample, base commander, G, Mickel, ymmanding the border patrol, the firat that John J lon troops of General rehing's expedt tonary force are Villa 18 Madres of Investigating hidi the western A rumor that in in Blerra nort! Chiluahua of wecout tson's ranch wledge of the body of Mexicans in that alry statfoned near Ascension achment stationed at reported of an "o Inrge leinity, Cav it Is ane sumed here, {s on a ithng tour to in vestigate the rumor, althyugh officlal reports here sald nothing f aeh movement. With the receipt of the re port hére it was poluted out that It had been persistently rumored sinca the Cos liumbus rald two month o that Villa did not go gouth with the mafn body of his command De ¥a T'ro WABHINGTON 13, ~Btate depart- ment advices today eald Zapate were again active in the territory around Mexioo City and Morelos state, Thelr presence was sald to have increased agl- forces i the nds roaming dents ber Another dispatch & ndependent num. of | through Mexico conducting guerrilia war- |tare and plundering provreties appeared Bome of the good people of Decatur [to bo steadily growing thought that strange. though Elliott must be a great banker. A dividend of ¥ per cent in one year was certainly not to be sneezed at. Be-| sides, on the statute books rests securely the state bank guaranty law. positor could lose his money in a #tate guaranteed bank, was what the people 1 of Decatur sald, and so they slept on, Banking Board & TH Yea, even the Btate Banking hoard seemingly snoozed on, without closely Into the affairs of a bank that in one year could rise from a non-paying tnstitution to the position of a -melon- cutter declaring a dividend of 8 per cent ' But declaring a dividend and paying a dividend are two distinctly different mat- | ter Here the was is the way this worked: On top of the huge Aividend announcement thet th capital to be increased ¥ s The had been § X0 was now proposed to increase ol ot wishing to keep 0-per-cent-divic tion all t declaring the ol wa capital stock It to $25,000, 80 good & thing 1-paying institu- himeelf, Cashier Elliott offered ull the stockholders in on more he even offered to let thelr per cent dividend stand on the books nd apply on more shares. Thus, for every £ due a man in dividends he had the flege of putting in $5 more and for the combined A\ ted : ; ['he Weather . \ n /. \ Others | No_de-|the defacto’ government Zapatn Forces Agnin Actlive, General Scott advised the Wa ment late today that he had assurances | from General Obregon that orders had | been given to concentrate the forces of in the vidinity |of Parrml and on the Mexican sido of the border in the Big Bend country Bliss, acting chief of staff, sald he r depart General un | derstood the Mexican forces would be of “elean out" Villa wa In those sufficlent strength to bandits and factional out 100KINg | yootions Discharged Man Blocks Traffic on New York Central CHICAGO, May 13.-Nine passenger trains and fifteen freight trains were held up for three hours at the York Central rallroad interlocking at the Calumet river west of the cit late last night when a nonunion main tainer blocked traffic across the trestle by manipulation of the switching aj paratus. Angry because he was about to lose his position the workman blocked the traffic As a protest against his dis charge During recent differences between the rallronds and telegraphers and other branches of workmen, nonunfon main- talners have been in charge of the switch sontrol stations. The station where last night's trouble rred 15 sald to be the st in the world CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, PRIMA DONNA, IS DEAD Pageants and Political or Athletic Gatherings Forbidden Without | Receiving Authority of Police. ASQUITH CONTINUES No Information Received Legarding | Any Decision Prokably Reached TRIALS DECLARED NOT SECRET DUBLIN, May 13.—General Max- well, commanding the British foces in Ireland, tlon forbidding all parades and poli- tical or athletic meetings in Ireland without written police authority, Premier Asquith his conference with authorities who are In the closest touch with the course with the No definite infor avallable, continued of events in connection recent rebellion became mation however, an to any declsions that may have been reached, Trinls Will Be Rapld, The trials of the few remaining ren accused ax rebel leaders are to be dealt Dublin and will by court-martial with in raplaity leained from the procend It has Veen ndjutant general that several prominent men aceused of nom plieity in the were acqulite] by military judgens because direct-evidenc of such complicity was not elthough the elrcumstantial testimony 1x Ceclared to have been of the strongest character Despite the fact that the eourts-martial are press and public, the d out that the pro rebellion produced closed to botl adjutant general poin ceedings of the courts were publie prop erty, as all the documents and evidence are sent to the judge-advocats generml for examination, and should the fact war rant such a procedure sentences may be ised even after the eom manding general has confirmed them Naturally, he said, this could not he ef. fective when a death sentence was car ried out, but in virtually every instance quashed or r #0 far, he declyred, the prisoncrs sen- Commoner Says Democrats Only | Uncle S8am the Vanquished Host in Langhorne's Cavalry Expects to Long Campaign on Postal } tenced to eapital punishment had ad mitted their gullt. Snipers Are Buawy. Bnipers last night fired a few shots in the nelghborhood of Broadstone station a suburb of Bulbin, Otherw!se there wers no ineldents, Lootors, arested during the recent rising, are belug tried in batches dally by eivil magistrates, Dozens of them have been sentenced to fines or short terms of imprisonment, Rtaff of Colorado National Guard Is Request_gt_l to Resign DENVER Harr, P natio.s o May Gamble Adjutant General | requested the resigna officers of the staff depart merts and of the field and staff today In letters which stated that the resigna such tiens were requested in order that Action may be taken as will promote the welare" of the Colorade tonal Guard Abaut fifteen officers a tected hy the reque which was not addressed to the Rcfugevs from Greece and Serbia Now in New York NEW YORK, May 13.-More than 600 from Greece and Serbla were the 1,400 stecrage passengers on Ttall steamship Duea D’Aosfa today from Mediter The refugees embarked at ame to the United States i preceded the elugees the which arrived here rancan port Nuples and relat n ROBIN RABBINOWITZ, NOTED PLAYWRIGHT, IS DEAD YORK, M tobin T " n ted s old Al was his p t he wam bost kugwn as th \ strove f alm What is a Plain White Waist? Brownell Hall Wants to Know PROBE | today issued a proclama-| with | Showers ‘ PR S , MAY 14, 1016—SIX SECTIONS FOUR FORTY SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. To Mother! ey BRYAN TELLS HOW BOOKWORM ARMY WILSON AN WIN WIS A VIGTORY -Change is to Capture the Peace Vote in Republican Party. Clrdl. LAUGH WITH "WOEMIIR" GLEE Pifty thonnnd post cards are at the Omaha postoffice, ruined utterly beyond hope. They look like jigsaw puzzles or maps of the trenches in Europe, They are contained in five big wooden boxes, which just arrived from Vir- ginla, Assistant Postmaster Wood ard has sent five samples of the ruined cards to Washington and will | awalt Instructions how to dispose of the other 49,995, The cards are the old-fashioned kind, with a vertical line dividing the address alde, left-hand side of which line The has a great demand for PUTS I1SSUE UP TO PRESIDENT (From a Btaff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, May 13.— (8pecial T egram,)—Referring to an editorial | | in the Chicago Tribune of May 7, In | which republican success was pre- | dicted If a candidate was named sat- | isfactory to the whole party, W. J. Bryan thig morning issued a signed editorial which will appear in the | current number of the Commoner as follows: “It 18 Just as well to look the facts in the fuce. The republican party, if united, ean enter the campaign with a popular | majority of 1,300,000 votes on its side, As on the a portion of this majority is made up of large correspondence may be written majorities in a few republican | Omaha office \ our party's handicap is not quite but 1t states, this kind of cards, and when the depart ment at Washington not supply them it remembered that a certain Vir ginia postoffice had a big over-supply S0 these were ordered sent to Omaha. And when they were opened the deso latlon was found Bookworma! That's what it was. Mr. and Mrs. Sitodrepa Panicea, com. monly known as breaq beatles, and Mr and Mrs, Ptinus Brunneus, commonly alled spider beotles, had met up house keeping in these boxes probably about 1606 when the cards were packed Bach worm coupls was blessed wilh about 4% children, who fillsd tha boxes a8 great as It appears, n wtill eould cnough to compel merious consideration To the normal republican advantage must added the disaffection among German and Irish democrats. Without attempting to decide whether the pres| dent was wise or unwise in taking the | course that allenated them, the party is confronted with the fact that this allena tion will cost it u large number of votes enough to defeat the party in several close states, be After Peace Republicans. “From what source can we draw th 4 A G bl ety b BIVE. e :1::‘ :nrm- merry shouts and “wormish party a fighting chance? From ono | wiy nieniy of pateards to eat they source and from one source only, namely, |\ toq roi " when they had reached the the peace element of the republioan | om0 gln Kb Tt 8 monthay the DARE . arew rom the | yuarried and each of the 40 couples was H Ford in Michigst ® now number about and the braska and other states, This s the only | Sida fa ins g element to which the de PATLY | hait eaten ot been ¢ 1t ar able nur PRes ar6 Hrobe e Emaanis president they would have shown It by |, s . ek writing In his name as the o wher o Aras Tenue Lp o Wilson the pr . Fload ¥ ened in Lane - . [ " - Twenty Thousand 125,000 Men in The National Capital, FLYING SQUADRON ARMY WILL HAVE PEAGE STRENGTH - 0F 206,000 MEN | House and Benne Conference { Committee Agrees Upon a Plan for Reorganization | of Standing Army. WAR STRENTH 18 TO BE 254,000 | President is Authorized to Recrnit Army to Maximum at His Discretion, SENATE SYSTEM I8 RETAINED WASHINGTON, May 13.——A reg- ular army of 206,000 men at peace strength, capable of expansion to 264,000 men in time of war, was agreed upon today by house and sen- ate conferees on the army reorgani- zation bill, first of the big natlonal defense measures, The report will be submitted to both branches of con- gress for ratification next week. In the agreement on the regular army the senate blll system of organization was retained as A substitute for the house system, which would have recruited a maximum army of 140,000 men, | The regular line of the army, the bill now provides, can never go below 180,000, and its maximym strength in times f | peace would be 175,600 officers and mén. {in this caleulation, or, thers are excluded 6,72 Phjlippine scouts, 6409 in the quartermasters’ corps, 7,20 in the | medical department, 5,387 in the signal corps and 8,700 unassigned recruits, a total of 31,60, These, added to the regular |line of 175,000 men, give a totAl regular ariny peuce strength of 206,65, The presi- dent Is authorized to Increase the regular army divislon to maximum strength without congressional action. Under the conference agreement the regular army would consists of sixty- five regiments of infantry, twenty-five regiments of cavalry, twenty-one regl- ments of fleld artillory, a coast artillery corps of 30,00 officers and men, & signal | corpm of 8,357 men fncluding the aviation section and seven regiments of engineers | In the aviation section the number of | officers 18 Increased from a total of PURSUES BANDITS sixty to 148, Including one colonel, one ‘u«umunt colonel, elght majors, twenty- four captains and 114 first leutenants. The organization plan contemplates at- taining the full peace strength within Overtake Band w"’h,Ammun | five years ss proposed in the original Prisoners Tonight. preparedness plans. TR General officers of the line would ke VILLA REPOBTED AT CORRIZO | increased by four major genersly and | nineteen brigadier generals. The general 14~ | staff of the army would be increased Major George T. Langhorne and his | from thirty-four officers to fifty-two. he provision of the senats bill which | tlylng squadron of the Eighth '"":oummmva ':;und‘bflvo ornenis. of the alry are dashing over the White-| Nyijonal Guard in the general staft was sanded hills in Mexico today in & su- | stricken out, but provision was mads for preme effort to surprise the Mexican [ officern of the Nationa) Guard to #igned to various clvilian camps at gov- :-nldsru of Glenn Springs and Boquil- ’mm"‘t iy as, ey mak Mogy s Dander Up; 3 He Acquires Honor For Next Ten Years For the next ten years Mogy Bernstein will always have membership No, 1 in the royal order of Ak-Sar-Ben Who sald so? What's the difference who sald so, see |Ing that SBamson has the check of Mogy Bernstein to cover memberships for that period of time. Mogy has just given his check to Sam- MARATHON, To May Amerieans. 1t possible, Hewscne to rescue allve, Jeswe Deemer and two other Americans, John Woodson and ¥, Ballsworth, ae cording to information reaching here to-‘ day. | Crossing was made yesterday and mill- tary 1 here belleve that by tonight Major Langhorne should have ecoversd ifty miles In the chase after the bandits who were last reported at & polnt seventy miles south of the border from Boquillas, in an abandoned cave Lehind Major Langhorne s Col onel A. . Macomb and a detachment of the Fourteenth cavalry, whose business |,.. or $100 and aske dthat it apply to It will be to expedite supplies and forago | puy up his membership for ten years to Langhorne and to fight snipers. | This 18 new In the history of Ak- AL Heported Near Corriso. | Ben. VL PASO, Tex., May 13~With the con-| Nearly two years ago Mr. Bernstein | ” Teserve ference over, American troop dispositions ;‘:':hl'll;;‘mt”mlr {u: l‘r:fl:r:::rln o :vm In Mexico ended and with fnaotivity of | ("0 e . General Parahing's columns promised for | “yfo ¥y g crobne No. 1 for the time being, the border today hegan |, wove determined to be cheated out Irquiring s to the whereabouts of Fran- | ooy O THCETE 0 or at least. & claco Villa, the caure of all the trouble. | geonde has walked in upon Samson and Reports reached Bl Pasp toduy that the e it ohccr™oon s oold $100. Close bandit leader had been seen near Cor AR N rizgo, in western Chibuahua. This is n : Tt Anerioas Lot Yoe| HVEN: A WEEHK 15 GET o far khown no detadsments haye INTO SCHOOL HABIT ] hushua tormation was | When Probation Officer MeCauley came ' { that Pablo Lopexr, Villa louten- After l6-year-old Charles Wilhelm, 234 p . ¥ Vaabe th Twenty-second street, to bring him g 1 elghte into Juvenile rt on A charge of tru t been ex ted. He iy ™ the 1ad risked his life b Jumping <o g Skt I edom from & second story window . o McCauley cnught him and Judge Es e e, n nlle court, gave him a week 4ot into the habit of going to sehool CONSUMPTION OF COTTON CONTINUES T0 INCREASE : Detroit Patrolmen Shot by Rohbers WASHINGTON, May 12-Cotton used . itk | & Al 3 nted to 831,714 running ! A bales, oxclusiva of linters, and for the ! 4190708 bales. the cenaus . wd today. Last year M40y ales sod during April and L0000 & \he first nine months of the Women and Always ew \n‘\\ go ads come out, at the rate of about 300 a day, The Want-Ad columns of The Bee always have an assort- ment of attractive of« fors in every classifi : + | cation, put in fresh A. eachday, Read them, Preparedness Line mn, HH ad