Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1916, Page 1

The Sunday Bee is the only Omaha newspaper that R A gives its readers four'big pages of colored comics, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE.| =7 SINGLIE TWO CENTS. 10WA REPUBLICANS 'SCOTT REPORTS OPEN CAMPAIGN - RESULTS OF TALK Howard J. Clark Will Sound Key- wn‘“ OBREGON VOL. XLV—NO. MAY 1916—-FOURTEEN PAGES. CoPY PECULIAR WAY OF DOING THINGS INDECATUR BANK 286. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, GOTHAM MAN FINDS AUSTRIANS TAKE HUGHES STRENGTH POSITIONS FROM W. J. Abbot, New York Editorial | Writer, is Sounding Political L¥, LIEUTENANT IMMELMANN, often called the ‘‘Super- Hawk’' and most noted Fokker.flier of the German army, has been challenged to an air duél by Lieutenant Navarre, France's twenty-one year old air hero, Immelmann is credited with having brought down fifteen enemy aeroplanes, His challenger has a record of fourteen. note at State Convention at Situation. \ : Forces of Dual Cra TSR, 1 Cedar Rapids Today ral First 30 i Patrons Not Sure Whether They VISITS IN SEVERAL STATES eral first o 1 MAY NOT ENDORSE ANYONE Unwritten Understanding Reached W Placi D Peead - Southe yof.ont b Regarding the Patrol of ere Flacing & Deposi | Willis J. Abbot of New York, chief VWar. ;3 Cedar “Rapids, la, May 16 Northern Mexico y Making a Personal Lean editorial writer of the New York —_— | | The republican campaign in Towa, Border 4 to Cashier. American, who was head of the lit- VIENNA MAKES. A STATEMENT | £ nlhuh will ;\lm\ ulu the ‘Ifim of tlvrl g " erary bureau of the democratic na —— | § clection in November, will be openec MEXICANS WILL : p fred] & officially here tomorrow when the POLICE PARRAL SEVERAL QUEER EXPERIENCES | tional commitice in the campaign of Assault Follows Concentrated Artil- % feaders from all sections of the state ’ , 11908, is in Omaha for a day or two lery Preparation, it Is & gather for the first republican con- | General Obregon Also Orders Ten Question Now of Stockholders’ | jooing aver the political situation ’ lls orted | ] vention, the purpose of which is to | qponeonq lffen Undir Testing Double Liability and Ability He has been away from New York P 4 { & ratify the delegates clected at the re-| Moe Pay U o i e { B cent presidential preference primary, Into Big Bend District. to Pay Up. :"r':vnwam:;u:x‘:i”:.u u,xflm"r:ng information | THOUSAND OF MEN CAPTIVES| i 4“. serve as the state’s representatives u rh A o > — | at the republican national convention. | PATROL WORK BY MOT! OLES FAILURE TALK OF THE TOWN‘\" xlk ;:‘:‘x";l»’:;.(‘.lll\ e L\::‘””‘;.w\\‘i:‘ Berlin, May 16.—(By Wireless to| b4 Leaders here tonight were reticent 2 OROY s | Abbot, “making i of the mid. | Sayville)—Italian first line positions regarding the course to be taken by | wyghington, May 16.~The net (From a Staff Correspondent.) | dfe western states, in an endeavor to |in several sectors have been cap-| the steering committee of the coRe| it of ‘the milliary coktesiENs Decatur, Neb, May 16.—(Special.) | find out with some degree of cer-|tured by the Austrians after con- yanHe »“"‘\h it "'IH‘.”I‘ 8 “[". t Bl Paso 4 ted |' b —While some favored depositors in | tainty where thesk republican dele centrated artillery preparation, ' it ~-f"‘. on the }“'\“"'" ‘Wj]*' ”" ",' & aso as reported today Dby % ; gt I gates, who have been instructed for | Was announced in today’'s Austrian- temporary ‘\‘«”'”‘"" OWara A Major General Scott to Secretary the now closed Farmers 5"‘" Bank |, orite sons, are going when the in- | Hungarian report issued in Vienna, | ; o ¥ “I“ I“mll‘. f In‘l ¥ l;‘l".t""' Baker has been to convince the Car of Decatur were gettinng 5 and even | evitable hreak comes at Chicago. 1| The Austrians took more than 2,500 e e ely with nhational |fanza government that the - United others | visited Indiana, | prisoners, seven cannon and eleven | and | machine guns in these operations. Ohio. Wisconsin Kentucky, States has no other purpose in its Ilinois, 6 per cent on their money, questions, the plan being, as far as seem to have had a hard ttime to get ttheir deposits even entered on the There those who have deposited substantial the bank, and on failing to take a deposit slip as receipt, found had trouble to convinc Cashier John E. Eliott that they had anything coming to them books. were claim to sums with From one Matthew Tyndall of Thurston cous Elliott received $2,500 at the bank Later when I'yndall wanted to draw some of the money, Cashier Elliott claimed this was a personal loan and no record of Tyndall's deposit was found on the oks of the bank I'yndall, | however, pressed his claim, and is said to have received back from El liott in all some $1,100 of the $2,500 he handed over to him Deposit Appears as Note, Mrs, Lizzie Edwards Davis of De catur thought she deposited $2,000 in Elliott's bank, Elliott admitted having received the money, but claimed it was a personal loan to him for five years at 5 per cent in- terest, This item, however, now appears as a $2,500 note due the bank from Li Edwards Davis and is one of the muddles the State Banking Board will have to straighten out, to determine whether Mrs, Davis owes the bank or whether Elliott owes her $2,000 and interest. Mrs. Will Ebert left $1,500 with Cashier Elliott at th bank. accepted his verbal statement, in- | I would not attempt to predict. She | stead of a receipt or deposit slip.! Latgr she was told this is not a safe way to deposit money, and that one should always have a receipt, a cer- tificate of deposit, a pass book or some other kind of written document to prove the deposit. When she de- manded her money or a certificate she was informed there was'no credit on_the books for her, Becoming somewhat alarmed she now appealed to a substantial friend | for advice. The friend accompanied her, and together they went to the Elliott home. Here they presented their demand so vigorously that the (-I 500 was returned in cash to Mrs. Chert. Stockholders Are Worried. It is accounts like these that are keeping the state banl{ examiners busy in an effort to untangle mat- ters, Meanwhile there is whisper- ing among the stockholders, who, under the double liability law, may { day. | Michigan, | Minnesota. Primaries No Criterion “The one conclusion that I have reached is that it is highly improba {ble that any of the men who have carried the primaries in thesc state are likely to win in the convention | The Burton delegation, for example, impressed me as a mere shell, which will go to pieces after two or three | ballots, “In Ipdiana the delegates are tied to Fairbanks, not merely by formal instructions, but by personal affec tion any There is, however, no sign of Fairbanks sentiment in other would his clined to think his delegates be entirely satisfied to secure nomination. for second place, Forsees Roosevelt Demonstration. There gre Roosevelt men on every delegation, This situation naturally would make ecasy a great demonstra- tion for Roosevelt in the convention, and T do not think his nomination entirely impossible. It is quite appar ent, however, particularly in the states west of Illinois, that public sentiment is more for Hughes than for Roosevelt “To what extent this Hughes senti ment will take form in the convention But it is a very decided factor in Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, states which I have just left. My own judgment would be that at present the Roose- velt sentiment is strongest, but that the Hughes sentiment is increasing.” Unusual Honors Paid to Memory of . Jewish Mark Twain of Solomon Rabinowitz, “the Jewish Mark Twain,” was honored in un- usual fashion at his funeral here to- A procession of more 3,000 men, women and children fol- lowed the funeral cortege through the streets of the east side, which the poet had often depicted in prose and poetry. The crowd which had gathered at the synagogue was so_great that it have to make good for the bank by | sacrificing their capital stock an equal amount of cash besides There is much talk in Decatur as plus to which of the stockholders are good for the double liability, and which are not Meantime, one or tvio of the sharcholders have been reported as saying flatly they will not pay the double liability. Of course, they have never had exper- ience with bank failures and with the state law that governs th subse quent activities of sharcholders in a defunct bank Some Stockholders Insolvent. Mental inventories are being taken of the solvency of the various stock holders 4n this locality Elliott, the principal stockholder, is, of looked upon as one from whom course, lit- tle if anything in th shap of double liability could be exacted D., B. Watson, who became presi dnt, ‘upon th resignation of H. D Byram, is lookd upon as a man who could make good | certainly vith th help of his § who Isp in good financial circur share \ stances. H. D. Byram, th former president aid 1o be fully sible nd are most, if not e other especially it the have help fron wellsto«do relatives All of the good s toget though, own Iss than hali the k and 1f they were all good, 1t obahle Strike at Rock Island Arsenal Is Postponed 3", sl . . \ Chateau Frontenac Is Damaged by Fire was 1mpossible for the bier to be taken into the building and the fu- neral prayers were read by the rabbi from the steps Rabbi J. L. Magnes, in opening the funeral services, read Rabinowitz' will. In it the author pleaded that his family mention his name only with laughter and stipulated that cach year one of his “most joyons stories” was to be read at a family gathering Steamers Coliide In Thick Fog Just Outsidg New York New York, May 16.—The Swedish steamer Grekland limped n at Quar antine today with a hole in her port side above the water line under the poop, resulting from a collision off Sandy Hook with the Italian stean ship San Giovanni. The mishap oc curred about midnight in while both were bound from this port. The vanni anchored outside the apparently not badly Grekland sailed yest , Scotland a thick fog outward San Gio vessels harbor The Kirk Cargo. damaged rday for a general 1 with steamshi kewise \ about Ttalian tad t cargo-la K unde 3 GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA WRITES BAY STATE CLERK W New York, May 15.—The mrmory“ than | ‘Physician Admits Part in 8purious Heir Conspiracy Dr. 1 physician C. Emile at_the Chicago, May 19 Beroard, formerly Misericordia hospital, Ottawa, Ont., told on the stand today of perform- ing an operation on Mrs. Anna Dollie to Ledgerwood Matters, calculated make her doctor in Chicago believe she had become a mother Mat- rs. states, except Kentucky, and I'm in- | ters is on trial for conspiracy to foist | a spurious heir to the Fred Matters estate on the probate court, The op cration, she said, took place a day be- | fore the birth of the child of Mar-| garet Ryan, which Mrs. Matters is charged with having attempted to | pass as her own, An anasthetic was administered to | the Ryan girl, the doctor testified, when her baby was born, so that she would not know of the birth Dr. Beroard told of having given false testimony previously to the ef- fect that Mrs, Matters had given | birth to a child. He said he received $1,4200 through lawyers. Afterward, aid, he came to Chicago and tes- | tified again, | “And did you testify then that Mrs, | Matters had not given birth to a baby?” asked counsel, “1 did, and that was the truth,” re- plied Dr. Beroard. Moosers Will Have Opera Music During = | ~ Chicago, May 16.—The committee in charge of arrangements for the progressive national convention to be | held here in June, is planning to fill | in waits between speeches and com- | mittee reports at the convention with ‘ln!lslc, it was made known today, Fifty musicians from the Chicago symphony orchestra and the Chicago | opera band have been engaged for |'orchestral duty and a number of grand opera stars art under consider- ation, it is said Carranza Accepts Line Patro! Pact Washington, May 16.—~General Carranza has agreed to Major Gen- eral Scott's informal understanding with General Obregon, which pro- vides that Carranza forces shall en deavor to show their aBility to con- trol the situation in northern Mex- ico, while American troops remain for the time being Mexico City, May 16. varo Obregon, Mexican minister of war, returned here today from his conference with Major General Hugh Scott on the border. He was ac companied by his staff and members of his family General Al Arriving at the shortly station after 10 o'clock he left immediately for the national palace, where he was at once received by General Car ranza GOVERNOR LEASING LAND TO PROSPECTORS FCR OIL Line Neb., May 16.—(Special Telegrar \ group of well known neluding — Governor are lea large tracts of for oil pros amme at the stat Weaver, I. H. M E. H. Towle P that 1 wet of the total ‘ ) A Kas I 5 Fa ' The Mothers' Pension Law | ! How s it work * | INg out in ag~ fi | tual practise? | | The Bee starts today a cares l | ful survey made by ane of ity i | staff men that throws inters | enting light on the strength and weaknessof this reform hree Installments Watchful Waiting l | GERMAN GRENADE ~ ATTACK REPULSED French War Office Say Effort to Gain Ground on Right Bank | of Meuse Fails. |ARTILLERY DUELS CONTINUE Paris, May 16—The bombardment of the French position in the Avo- Hill 304 still to today's court wood and about continues, according French official report man attack with grenades northwest of “Thiaumont farm was repulsed. In the Woeyre shelling is proceeding along the sector at Fix and Moulain ville. On the rest of the front there is "Fui:t. he text of the statement follows: “On the left bank of the Meuse there was a lively bombardment of our positions in the woods of Avo- court and near Hill 304, On the right bank a small rman hand grenade attack northwest of Thiau mont farm was completely repulsed “Ifi the Woevre there was artillery fighting in the sectors of Eix and Moulainville, | “The night on the rest of the front | was relatively calm.” | ‘Sunset Limited Is Derailed Near Fort Hancock, Tex. El Paso, Tex., May 16.—Bandits, thought to he Mexicans from across [the Rio Grande, this morning moved the spikes from three rails on the Southern Pacific, causing the de railment of the easthound Sunset Fx press. The wreck occurred near Fort Hancock, fifty-four miles east of El' Paso. Six persons are reported hurt, three of them seriously. Texas rangers and deputy sheriffs left the wrecking train for the scene Houston May 16.--Southern | Pacific here say | gation shows the bound train re on I'ex officials an investi wrecking of east 10 at Fort Hancock accidental and not the A telegram to the vas work of raiders general offices said all negroes Nebraskans to Attend Baptist Confgrence toda pAssengers ly injured were YOUNGSTOWN RUBBER PLANT AGAIN REOPENED ' ; "LIEUT IMMELMANN. A weak Ger-| VILLA TRYING T0 - RAISE NEW ARMY Prisoner Taken by Pershing Says the Bandit Chief Has Entirely Re- covered from Wounds, | AMERICANS HUNT SMALL BANDS | | et | Field Headquarters, in Mexico, | May 15,—(Via Wireless to Columbus, N. M., May 16.)—Francisco Villa has recovered from his wounds entirely and has been busy for some weeks at- tempting to raise a new army.jn.the state of Durango, according to a story told here today by a Mexican who was captured in ths gement at Qjos Azules late in April. (‘avalrymrn are riding hard on the | trail of small bands of bandits in the | vicinity of Rubio ranch, twenty miles | from here, where three Villistas were | slain by an American fdrage detach- ment yesterday. Tt was reported that there are about fifty in the band, Julio Cardenas, one of those slain, had clothing indicating that he possibly l:amnpaml in the raid upon Colum- hus, N. M. 'Dyes and Needles ‘ Will Be Discussed By Knit Goods Men Philadelphia, Pa., May 16.—Lack gf dyestuffs, the scarcity of needles, the need for commercial preparations to meet new conditions at the close of mhe war and the doing-away with fixed prices in the knit goods lines are among subjects to be discussed at the convention of the National As sociation of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers, which opened here to day I'he convention includes allied lines, such as machine and needle manufacturers, dye firms and jobhing houses. The delegates represent an i which more than $200 000,000 is invested and with a payroll of $70,000000 a year Armenians Dying For Want of Food industry New York Ma 16, —Suffering \ K Armemans in Turkey, Persia and ria tll intense and they food AV 4 ca ram from Con \ . mmnitt Armenia an - re 1 request | . 1) K through the R0 & od One Year Ago Today in the War known, to follow the precedent set at the recent democratic convention in | Clinton_and avoid reference to any factional difference in the party Harmony is to be preserved at all was stated, and doubt expressed whether the would indorse any presidential candi | date 1t was thought certain, how | ever, that if any such endorsement is made Senator “ummins would be ac- | corded the support of hte convention The officers of the convention are Temporary chairman, Howard ] Clark, Des Moines; secretary, Ora Williams, Des Moines; assistant sec retaries, J. F Needham, Sigourney; official stenog- rapher, Alice H. Hall, Reading; sec retary, Louise Gardner, Anamosa; costs, it was doorkeeper, John Taylor, Marion; sergeant-at-arms, Col, J. E, Bartley, Tipson; chief usher, W. G. Loftus, Cedar Rapids Chicago Robber Waits for Vietims In Their Own Homes Chicago, May The Chicago police are searching for a robber who rings the front door bell, waita in the | partor until his vietim s ready to grant ! him audience and then proceeds to his work after firing a shot or two to show that he means business. Euch a robber called at the home of | Mra. Catherine Martin here yesterday and departed with $100 in ecash and Jewelry valued at about $1,700. The rob- ber was admitted by Mre, Martin's mald, to whom he sald he had an injportant message for her mistress. He calmly | smoked a clgar until Mrs. Martin ap- | penred, then drew his revolver, tore seve eral ringa from Mrs. Martin's hands, | fired a shot to pubdue the struggling women and escaped after locking them |In a closet, ‘French Airmen Drop ' Bombs o_nPulgarians Paris, May 16.—~The )Frrnc'll acroplanes which bombarded | Bulgarian camps in the region of | Xanthi, on the Macedonian front, | last Saturday night, dropped eighty bombs in all and returned undam- aged, says a Havas dispatch from Athens, dated yesterday. The raid- ers were not pursued A squadron of British aeroplanes flew over Porto Lagos, bn Bulgarian 16, toduy coast, the dispatch states, and after | dropping several bombs, returned, without having suffered any damage. Seventeen Greek corpses were ex- tricated today from the ruins of Mayada, recently shelled by the Ger- mans, adds the correspondent. Bulgarians entered the villages of Slopnichta and Altchak, carrying off some of the inhabitants to Sehovo Nothing is known as to their fate. Reynolds to Say No Thousands of Times Chicago, 1L, May 16.—~James B Reynolds, secretary of the republican national committee, began the task of answering an accumulation of 18,000 letters More than 11,000 are requests for convention tickets and will be an swered by the word ‘no,"” said Sec retary Reynolds, “Visitors from the different states will be obliged to look to the national committeeman tate lor convention y their home John W. Dwight of New York, airman of the presidential can paiRT mmittee of Elihu Root, r turned 1 York today after a tour of s Wisconsin, Minne 2 and " He expressed | la as | 0 convention | Temple, Bode; S, W. | fourteen | operations in northern Mexico than to stamp out brigandage,'and as a consequence there exists substan- Itially an unwritten understanding that the Carranza forces shall en« deavor to demonstrate their ability to handle the situation as the neces sary first step toward withdrawal of the American punitive expedition. General Scott believes General | Obregon is acting in good faith and that the border situation is less crit- {ical today | To carry out his share of the plans | General Obregon has agreed to oc- {cupy and police the Parral district, | scouring the mountainous regions | west of that town in search of the {remnants of Villa's followers, He ‘.llxu agreed to establish a strong pa- trol line along the Mexican side of the Big Bend country to prevent in |cursions such as that at Glenn | Springs. For that purpose General Obregon has ordered into those re- gions 10,000 troops under General | Trevino, said to be the most efficient ield commander in the Carranza rmy. Advices to the War and State departments indicate that the movements are being carried out | promptly Will Not Menace Pershing’s Rear, Another important element and one | which American army officers re- | garded as most vital to General | Pershing's line of communications | was cleared up by General Obregon's | agreement not to bring the fnrlc force of Carranza troops in Sonora | thrgugh Pulpit Pass into General Pershing's rear While the War de- partment is satisfied of General Pershing's equipment to care for his force in an( circumstances the possi- bility of a large Carri i bein| moved to his rear 4 witl some L'il"r(fll. On their side General Scott and General Funston assured General Obregon that precautions would be taken by American commanders not to, dispose their forces so as to em- barrass the operations of the Mexi- can troops and also that the border patrol on the American side would be strengthened. Obregon Finally Convinced. The first obstacle encountered hy the American ' conferees at El Paso was the necessity of convincing Gen- eral Obregon that the expedition after Villa was not an intervention step. he size and composition of the force aroused alarm among Mexican | officials, and it was pointed out to General Scott that it was not custo- mary for posses in pursuit of one man to go with field guns and moun |tain artillery. The American officers finally succeeded in persuading the | war “minister, however, that the United States government had no in- | tention other than its announced pur- pose A new plan for patrolling the bor | der has been rrr(»l“nll‘ndff? by Gen- | eral Funston. He proposed a corps of forty-cight motorcycles, thirty |tandem and eighteen single ma- chines. Secretary Baker said today he would probably approve the plan General Funston will make El Paso the base of operations for the motor- cycle scouts. Use of motorcycles would enable patrols to cover terri tory more quickly and also enable officers to receive reports more ex- peditiously General Pershing reported that Julio Acosta, one of Villa's aides, was killed during the engagement at Oje { Azules May 5 I'he gunboat Marietta returned yesterday to Tampico from Tuxpan Its commander advised the Navy de partment conditions there were quiet Express Drivers At Chicago Strike May 18 Five hunared wagon wlen Wtrick had dis the unlon arna and panics companies wod drivers wha Joined e e 4 Rooms ! Rooms! = anderiv ¢ thia U Peanes paine + daye Over 1009 MORE “Rooms for Rent'' ads n The Bee flest 14 dags in May (han same ried 1314 ) ¥ B