Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1916, Page 1

Call Tyler 1000 It Yon Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Connected With The Bee. VOL. EXPEDITION BACK ~ MEXICAN PURSUIT horne Have Returned from Chase of Glenn Springs Raiders, NOT FPOLLOWED BY INDIANS South Has Returned to the United States, AMEBXCAN MINES ARE RAIDED| Marathon, May 22.-Both Colonel Sibley and Major Langhorne are now on the American side of the Tex,, F. W, Sibley’s detachment, of the sec ond expeditionary column reached joquillas on the American side of the international boundary yesterday af ternoon, according to information Lrought here today Previously Colonel Sibley had been reported as turning back to get in with Major Langhorne’s de tachment, which had been rumored as in too close proximity to a hand of Yaqui Indians American Propertiés Raided, El 1P Tex., May. 22, ~American and other foreign owned mining sroperties at Cuatro Clenegas were ]n‘v!tl) by bandits on May 15, accord information received 480, to reliable today. I'he looters tacked Sierra them were who raided g here previously had at Mojada and among number of the bandits Glenn Springs and Bo- | quillas, Tex, After pillaging the of fices, houses and storehouses they carried their booty to the country be tween Cuatro Cienegas and San Pe dro, where they went into hiding According to the same information the country between Cuatro Ciene as, which is the birthplace and home district of General Carranza, Sierra Mojada and San Pedro contain in numerable bandits, Up to a week ago these had not felt the pressure of General Trevino's troop movements Advices received here say nothing regarding the presence of Yaqui In dians at Cuatro Cienegas as reported in dispatches. ew Note from Carranza, Vashington, May 22-~The State de. partment has been advised that a new note from General Carranza on the border situation probably will reach Washington today or tomorrow, Spe- cial Agent Rodgers at Mexico City| has been unable to report what Wak called forth the new communication, Mr. Rodgers lias advised the Sulc| department that Carranza officials in Mexico City feel the border situation is less critical, Some officials believe | it possible that the new note deals! with the Glenn Springs raid. Repre-| sentations were made by the State de- | !:.nhm nt at that time which have not heen answered, It is believed probable the new American expedition sent over the | line after the raid may be the cause of the coming note, I'wo motion |.utuvf photographers | who accompanied rnfnu»l Sibley's | forces brought the news of his arrival | at Boquillas I'hey said Colonel Sibley's forces | came back intact, having “not even lost a wagon wheel,” INSANITY COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST ELOPER Aurora, Neb, May 22.—(Special Telegram.) herift John F. Powell today filed an insanity complaint against Fred Farrell of this eity, Far- rell is the young man who eloped with 16-year-old Marjory Campbell | to Hastings last Saturday e e | Gold Near Yankton. | Yankton, S. D, May 22.—(Special.) | Several parties in this city who | have been prospecting on James riv er, claim to have discovered gold on the place of a farmer named Hanson, about seven miles from Yankton I'here are some high quartz cliffs at the place and quartz-bearing gold has been shown here The Weather BE Tuesda Temparature 8t Omaha Yeaterda) Deg Comparative Local Nesord Wogmets fopmm Matiuns ot 1 # Detachment Reported Again on Way | [ Arthur XLVI-NO. 291 SECOND PUNITIVE ~ ATHLETIC CLUB HAS - TALIANS DRIVEN BOUGHT ITS SITE FROM ALL POINT® Magnificgnt Structure to Be Bullt‘ on Douglas Street East of Strand, The preseng site of the Douglas between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, on the north side auditorium, of Douglas, is to be the site of the new Omaha Athletic club I'he directors of the club yester day at a meetingin the office of Pres ident W, A two decided to pur the Fraser, | ehase lots, one known as | Douglas auditorium, | the purchased from and the other, Douglas Jrandeis company, sixty-six feet adjoining the auditorium building on the east, from Jake Schlank, at a total cost of $218 000, Arthur 1), Brandeis agrees to take line after their hunt for the Glenn | $100,000 of second morigage honds in Springs bandits | payment for his lot, the bonds to il bear 6 per cent interest Marathon, Tex, May 22—Colonel Cost of Structure. The total estimated cost of the club when completed will be about as fol lows Cont_of ground 218,000 Bullding 400,000 Vurnishings 100,000 Architectn and Enginsering 26,000 | Total $248,000 It is contemplated 1o have 1,000 resident members, cach paying $100 initiation fees and $50 per annum dues; 300 life members, paying $500 with no dues, but subject to their proportionate part of any special as sessmetits should any be levied by the club, and 250 non-resident members at $25 each If it is determined that the club can be built on eighty-eight-ioot front in side lots the unused part of the lot will be sold, A committee was ap pointed to consult local architects re garding this matter I'he committee will meet again Wednesday night for the purpose of appointing committees 1o handle all details in connection with the promo tion and erection of the club Eight-8tory Building. I'he general plan still contemplates an eight-story building for the Omaha Athletic club, The building plans, however, are to be worked out finally by the committees to be pointed Wednesday Following is a statement issued by D. Brandeis concerning sale of the property to the club “In selling the sixty-six feet adjoin ing the Strand theater to the Omaha Athletic club for $100,000 | am letting ap {it go at a price much lower than its actual value, but in my travels over the country | have found out what a | great advantage an athletic club is to a city, and although at the present | time 1 am comypelled to spend a great still personally interested in every thing that is for Omaha and am al ways eager to co-operate toward the success of any movement for the ad vancement of the city. In this par ticular instance, as the Athletic club wanted a, frontage of 132 feet, | even | went 8o far as to purchase the sixty- | six feet east of my property, known | as the Maul property, for $118,000, which T am turning over to the club at exactly the price I paid for it. My | understanding is that the hustling committee is going out for more members and that plans for the build- | |ing will be drawn at once “The deal for the Maul was made through H, A Barhour Elected Head of Northern Baptists' Ass'n Minneapolis, May Dr. ( Barbour, president of Rochester The ological seminary, Rochester, N. ¥ was elected president of the Northern Baptist convention, without opposi property Tukey | 7] A | tion, at the annual mecting here today He will succeed President Shailer Mathews of Chicago, who was not a candidate for re-election E. T. Tomlinson, executive secre tary of the ministers and mission aries’ benefit board, reported to the convention that the permanent fund had been ncreased to $779,455.45. The rt told of & campaign in which $250,000 had been raised and only ar expenditure of $900 involved )r, W, C. Bitting of 5t, Louis, Mo was re-elected secretary A resolu tion calling upon the convention t nstruct its next nominating commit to consider anly a pastor la man for the office of president, ¢ cluding educators, was voted down British Forces in ' Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Defeated ple advices 1 PREPAREDNESS PARADE MAY BE HELD FLAG DAY confirm the statement that the design the | | Sayville.) | was issued today OMAHA, TUESDAY = THE OMAHA DAILY B MORNING, 2 MAY 23 1916 TWELVE - PAGES. Motel oto, S0 On Traini Nows Stand - ONTHE LAVOIunE " Colonel Sibley and Major Lang- A. D, BRANDEIS HELPS OUT DEAL\ROMI)I Forces Expelled by Aus- trians From Plateau, Accord- ing to Announcement of Vienna, SCORE OF THOUSANDS TAKEN | Monster Teuton Guns Make Inferno of Battlefield from Adige to Brenta, BERLIN ANNOUNCES SUCCESS )2 May I'he their (By Wireless Italians Berlin to Sayville,) have been driven from entir the position on Lavarone Austrian war It is Plateau, office announcement of today says that the Italian becoming more is stated defeat steadily I'he pushed serious Austrian lires have been forward rapidly, several ad ditional positions of strategic impor tance having been captured, The number of Italians taken has been increased to 23882 Battle Front Becomes Inferno, Rome May (Via Paris,)—~Aus prisoners trian artillery of all sizes and ranges | JOS-millimeter gun predominating, has transformed the battle front hetween the Adige and Brenta rivers into an inferno Notwithstanding the snow capped nountain barriers, I;u Austrian in fantry is being launched in v\.n.(-w whicl military observers say break | against the formidable resiztance of the Italians Austrian Advance Checked, I'he Italian troops have now formed their lines of defense and are holding firmly all the passes and peaks from which Italian officers say the forward movement of the Aus trians las not only been successfully arrested, but the Austrians have been dislodged from several position taken in the first rush of the offensive “There are several indications with the monster | to of the present strenuous campaign of | the Austrians on the front is to pre vent Italy from participating with its | troops in the struggle on the French front and also to paralyze any action aiming at the joining of the Avlonia and Saloniki forces for a simultan | eous effort May 22.-~(By Wireless to I'he capture of several| | lines of British positions uyer a front Berlin, Ldeal of time away from this city, 1 am :ul two kilometers (one and one-quar- ter miles), near Givenchy-En-Go-! helle, was announced today by the war office, German troops stormed French po sitions on the castern spurs of Hill front, and No. 304, on the Verdun maintained them against repeated | counter attacks, which are said to have cost the French great losses, The following official statement “Western front: The French made several attacks without success on | our lines in the region of the quarry south of Havedromont and on the| Vaux ridge (Verdun front), On the third attack the French obtained a footing in the quarry. “During the night the artillery was extraordinarily active on both sides | in the whole sector. “Our air squadrons yesterday after noon repeated their attacks, with vis ible great success on the harbor at Dunkirk, A biplane of the enemy fell into the sea after a hght., Four other aeroplanes were disabled in | aerial combats and fell within our lines, one in the vicinity of Werique, | another near Noyon, the third near Maucourt, cast of the Meuse, and the | fourth northeast of Chateau Salins. | The last named was shot down by | Licutenant Wintgens, who thus dis. abled his fourth aeroplane, In addi- tion to those mentioned, l.nrmrnunl‘ Boelke has brought down his seven- teenth and eighteenth hostile aero planes, one of Avocourt and the other south of Deadman's Hill This brilliant aviator has been pro moted by the emperor to the rank captain acknowledgement of achievement Many Killed When Fast Trains Hit Two Automobiles May 22 Jearning to ru " his Franklin automobile a ride Approaching a 1 ng at Red Wood City, he trad ' and an Francisco an other boys for in his ew oad cro a s JURY TO TRY DR, WAITE FOR MURDER COMPLETED \ o by N the . | . Aoy wimke b E IS Ad W “.p ommander R LANGHORNE AND COLONEL of the second expedition into A ico, now pursuing the remnants of the outlaw a -mnd which raided the Big Bend country in Texas. Photo made at the first stop below the border, before lho American troops had engaged the bandits. SIBLEY i EANGHORNE" AN, €00, SIBLEY, SINGLE WEATHER. Fair COPY TWO CENTS. GERMAN INFANTRY |LIFE OF LYNCH IS ATTACKS REPULSED SAVED BY ACTION Paris Reports Capture of German Block Houses Near Verdun and Other Gains. BATTLE ENTERS FOURTH MONTH May 22 —French grenadiers occupied several block houses in Av- Wood, the front, course of severe fighting last Paris, ocourt on Verdun in the night I'he Hill cial statement of this afternoon says the attacks of German infantry Dead Man's I'he war office offi- struggle west of was terrihc that were repulsed Avocourt The block houses in Wood were abandoned by the Ger mans | East of the Meuse, infantry fight ing occurred at the Haudromont | quarries, captured yesterday by the [ French, The Germans attacked these positions and, the statement asserts, | were repulsed with heavy loss Battle Enters Fourth Month, The battle of the longest and most bitterly fought individual | struggle of the war, enters on its | fourth month today, The Germans are hammering at Deadman’s Hill, where the most furious and I,Iu.uly‘ fighting of the threc months' con- flict has taken place. Clinging des perately to the trenches that they have wrested from the French on | the lower slopes of the hill, the Teu tons have hurled 60,000 men, backed | by sixty batteries of guns of all cali« bers, forward along a4 seven-mile | front from Avocourt wood to the | Verdun the coveted summit The Germans have succeeded in gaining a footing in the French first | line at a cost of severe losses, but | judging from the experience ul the last it will not be a :] vantage, Deadman's Hill Ts hey. I naturalized {of the acts for | executed Meuse in a desperate effort to seize | Americs OF THE PRESIDENT Death Sentence Commuted to Ten Years in Prison After Con- sideration of Protest of Lansing. AMBASSADOR PAGE NOTIFIED . Asquith is Prep.rin-gr Statement of Full Particulars of Uprising and Executions, WILL BE READY IN FEW DAYS London, May 22-—Jeremiah C. Lynch, the aaturalized American, who was sentenced to ten years' imprison- ment by a court-martial at Dublin last week for complicity in the Irish re- bellion, was originally sentenced to death. The British military authori- ties commuted the death sentence to ten years' imprisonment after consid- eration of a request from the State Washington that the convicted man be not executed Asquith Preparing Statement. A statement giving full particulars uhn'f‘ fiftee.. partici- pants in the Irish rebellion had been was heing prepared and would be presented shortly, Premier Asquith u.(d 1 questioner in the house | of commons today The premier added in reply to a department at | further question that he was anxious because of misunderstanding in on this subject that the statement should be presented at the earliest possible moment Ambassador Page Notified, Washington, May 22.—Ambassador ifficult task for | Page at London today cabled the the French to dislodge them before | State department that he had been of- | they are to able to follow up their ad- ‘hn 1ally advised by the British govern~ that Jeremiah C, Lynch, the American citizen, con« ment | | victed of complicity in the Dublin re- That the Germans must continue | hellion, had originally been sentenced their tremendous onslaught on Dead- | (o death, man's Hill or abandon the idea of taking Verdun seems obvious. This blood-soaked summit and its sister | eminence, Hill No. 304, form the key | of the whole system of Verdun de- fences. The fire from their batteries flanks the Douamont plateau across the nv-‘ er. Without the undisputed posses- | sion of this platean military critics | agree that no attack on Verdun has | any AUSTRIANS CAPTURE BABY LOSES LIPE IN Sioux City Pastor PEAKOF ARMENTARA SWEETWATER FIRE, Leading in Vote For ,Huch Disputed Position Along the Southern Tyrol Front is Taken By Assault, | VIENNA REPORTS OTHER GAINS )2 May 22 s to ¥} Berlin, (By Wirele Autsro-Hungarian Ar mentara Ridge, the scene of some of ayville, N troops have carried the peak of the heaviest fighting in the recently inaugurated offensive along the southern Tyrol front. This announce ment is made in the official Austrian report of May 21 More than 3,000 Italians were cap tured on Saturday by the Austrians who also obtained possession of sey eral villages. They tool cannon and eight machine twenty-five guns, the tatement says The official announcement follows “The extent of the fighting on the southern Tyrol front has been in creased as the Austro-Hungarians have begun an attack on La Fraun Highlands. The peak of Armentara ridge is in our hands. On La Fraun Highlands we entered a fire line posi tion of the enemy, which was de ended tenauciously “The troops unde Archduke Charles Francis Joseph (the Austrian crown prince), consisting of Tyrolean mperial chasseurs and the Linz in fantry division, extended their suc ess. Chimak Imachi, and to the northeast of this peak (8} addin lisole were taken he Ttalian ) were dreiven from Bercola pa South of this pass three more 28 timeter Howitzers fell into our hands We are adva g from Col Sante toward Pasubio. In the Brand val ley, Anghebeni has be aptured by us More than 3,000 [talians were cap tured yesterday luding eighty four offy We a | twent Wt mia g GOLDEN NAMED REGISTER OF O'NEIL LAND OFFICE . " { Wi ‘ | { 0 | Ex-President Eliol | poining was Missionary Bishop Child of Mr. and Mrs, N, F, Jensen | Burned to Death in Rear of Btore, BLAZE FROM OIL EXPLOSION )2 Neb,, (Special Tele- village of Sweetwater, was visited by a Three the Ravenna, gram,)—The of Ravenifa, disastrous fire this afternoon went and F. Jensen buildings were destroyed baby Mr Mrs was burned to death Jen rooms in the rear of a building used of and N The en family occupied living for a pool hall and confectionery tore I'he fire started by the ex plosion of an oil stove and flames was impossible which ‘was sleep pread so rapidly it to rescue the bhaby ing in its cab, A harness store ad- completely destroyed | with its contents, being the |||npcny of the John Olson estate I'he building of the Sweetwater State bank was completely destroyed, but the cement block building Y ented the flames from spreading further The Dierks Lumber company prop riy located directly south of the fire ad a narrow ape Harman Would Make Office Six-Year Term rrespond An will A wdment to the submitted thi uificient o the petition, to 1 food, drug (Spe nstitution fall { names | ake i vecured office of number o the dairy and muiission and appointed by 15 At present CHICAGO MAN TO PAINT POSTOFFICE IN OMAHA Writes Strong Endorsement of Brandeis | Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 22 | The possibility of the union of all | Methodism was brought two years | nearer today by action of the umrul conference, which unanimously |adopted a resolution providing for adjournment to a date to be fixed by the board of bishops This will permit a meeting of the | conference in 1918 at the same time the conference of the southern church is considering a joint proposal des | signed to effect the unity of these | and other branches of the Methodist | church, The conference voted to postpone indefinitely the election of a mis sionary hishop for Singapore I'he first ballot for missionary bishops for Africa, one of whom is to be of African descent, for super- | vision in Liberia resulted in no choice for either bhishop, For the territory outside of Liberia Eben 5. Johnson, Sioux City, la., led _with 297 th 297 votes. ;New Mail Protest to | (reat Britain Now -hanu: of success | but that the sentence had been commuted to ten years' impris- onment (oal Dealers Who Swindle Uncle Sam Denied a New Trial San May 22, = The United States circuit court of appeals # Francisco, Idenied today the rehearing of James | P, Smith, vice president and | | | | | local ‘lllvl‘l‘. eneral manager of the Western Fuel com- |pany; Frederick C. Mills, superin- tendent, and Edward H. Mayer, chief weigher, convicted two years ago of conspiracy to defraud the government of customs duties and drawbacks on imported coal. Smith was sentenced to eighteen months in San Quentin prison and fined $54000; Mills to eighteen | months in San Quentin, and Mayer to one year in the county jail. As a result of the conviction of the there is now ready for trial a civil suit by the governyment against the Western I"ur’i company for re- covery of $860,000, the value of the cargoes on which, it is alleged, the government was muleted of customs duties and drawbacks ‘Armours Spending Half Million on Adg H. R. Chapman of the advertising department of Armour & Co., is mak- ing a tour of the country in the in- terest of the institutional advertising of that company, and has been in |Omaha a few days going over the situation with Superintendent | Harris and the local sales force, Is Nearly Ready | The new king further Washington, May note 1o Great Britam 1 protest against with American mails was laid before Pres ident Wilson today and probably will be sent to London tomorrow. The general terms of the note were framed at the State department, but the president is including some of his mterference own language I'he note is understood against the British practice into British and there detaining mail going United States. The to protest of taking exnels ports examining and to and from the American note will make plain that the United States cannot consent to continuance of the policy which it al ...1\)‘. ohjecte (erman Steamship Worms is Reported Sunk in Baltic Sea . I A W LA Mrs. 8, C. Gould of Alma Dies Suddenly 1000 on | this | sults In Omaha Mr. Chapman met with |the Armour salesmen and gave them some new sidelights on the Armour campaign. He also Tound that re- in this city have been most gratifying to his department “Armour & Co, are spending $500, their mastitutional advertising year,” explained Mr. Chapman Saturday. “The entire line of qual ity products have been put under the ‘Oval Label’ and the entire sum being expended in pushing this brand, The plan is proving effective and the dis- tribution is growing rapidly. We are especially pleased with the situation in Omaha Kansas Wheat Crop Many Millions Short Kan, May 22 A I'apeka pross pective yvield of 108,000,000 bushels of winter wheat in Kansas this year was forecast in & report covering condis 1 » to May 17 issued today by | hier secretary of the state ) | of agricult Compared with eport issuec at this time at & deg N \ 'R 000,000 Som Record! For the th vons k0 Vant Ad . re than paid wids ovey the \ I for the 1. &fea MORE PAID VWant-Ads for the week fust ended 830, than same week, year ago, Lot Mee Want Ads Werk for Yo