Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1916, Page 1

- e e PART ONE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TWELVE. VOL. XLV—NO. WAITE HAS WIFE - MARKED AS ONE ~ OF HIS VICTIMS | That Prisoner 295, his wife’s parents. Karpas Testifies | Married Womar. in Order That l He Might Secure Her | Money, ’ BOUND TO ACCOMPLISH ENDS‘ Puts Ground Glass in Mnrmalldei i { and Germ Cultures in the Fish | | Served at Meals, | STICKS TO INSANITY OZII.AIM}L New' York May 26~Dr. Ar-| Iw.P‘flmr W. Waite told an alien- ist engaged for his defense in his trial | for the murder of John E. Peck, the Grand Rapids millionaire, that he llarl‘ intended to kill his wife, Clara) Peck | Waite, and that he'married her only | for her money, according to testi-| mony given by the alienist, Dr. Mor- | ris J. Karpas today. Dr. Karpas| added that Waite said he did not in-| i tend to stop at anything to gain his | ends. Cross examination, Waite .old the prosecutor he “was not sure that h(-‘ ) would not have killed his wife.” Waite | declared he did not think he was| crazy and denied that he had at any | time pretended that he was insane, de- | nied that he had ever told the prose-| cutors that “the man from Egypt” had killed Mr. Peck and swore that | he slept perfectly after the murder, Dr. Waite declined to admit that he had made himself appear worse | than he was in order to convince the | jury he was insune. The alienist. for Waite testified | that he did not appear to be men- tally well and that he was abnormal in that all his interests were centered in himself, Ground Glass In Marmalad-, Miss Catherine Peck, sister of John | E. Peck, was called. Waite testificd | yesterday that in an attempt to kgll‘ her he had placed ground glass in marmalade and germ culture in fish that she was to eat. A Miss Peck said she accepted Waite as what he appeared to be and told of entrusting her business matters to him. She smiled as she recalled her narrow escape from death. # e INTERNATIONAL again [ found it full ( like sand. I took it back to the store | - and the proprietor apologized,” Waite smiled broadly at her recital | of this incident. The witness was | then excused, Waite laughed until his shoulders shook when Abraham Bassford, jr., a tennis player with whom the de- fendant had played, testified that Waite had “blown up” in his game and had merely smiled when “called down for errors.” Dr. Menas S. Gregory, head of the |jiyje (o say in regard to the declaring paychopathic ward at Bellevue, was | o ary o their conduct, and in the :h:"d:?c.,ese, i Y [peace of the future 1abor must have First Alienist Called. Dr. Gregory ‘testified that while Waite was in Belleyue he asked the physician to intercede for him with the district attorney and also in- quired: “If I should escape the conse- quencs of this act do you_think 1| would make a useful citizen?” Dr. Gregory said ne told the pris- oner that he knew that he was doing wrong and the consequences of his acts. The physician declined to in- tercede. For Rescue of Military Forces From Control of Autocracy. bor has borne an increasing voice, Samuel G | president of the American Federation of Labor, declared in an address here which labor will work in the future, but for which labor has been contend ing through the years.” ciples, he said, are b ! dictation absolute will be rescued from the Bellevue hospital, also was called as f arbitrary autocracy and an alienist for the defense. He said | © he examined Dr. Waite in the hm-‘ pital, that he did not appear to |,,‘lhc maintenance of a higher stan mentally well and that he was ab- | dard pf morals, law and justice; a pro normal in that his entire interest was | centered upon himself. me,” testified Dr. Karpas, “that he | used by intended to kill his wife. He said |Privilege he had not intended to stop at any- thing to gain his ends.” the path of democratic STANLEY M. ROSEWATER TO |, “i¢"suuus b a program <lasic ADDRESS BARRISTER'S CLUB enough to admit of those fundamental changes that the growing life of the the in reactionary imperialistic progress Stanley M., Rosewater will address world makes inevitable Any inter the weekly noonday meeting of the | national arrangement that does not Barriste lub, which will he held at | aiford peaceful methods of securing the Comy ial club rooms tod on | the sults that now ¢ be achieved the subject The Law an e News m v ssful fig will make paper.’ litt ¢ AgAINS Labor will ANy ration I na The Weather i nal he mac - ands made in t Temperature st Omaha Yesterday interest | larger [FAIR | ¢ : Cbe'a program u ‘ ' Many Soldiers Faint Local Mocord While Waiting for gt o L Anti-Typhus Serum Comparative Losal Necord Hoport fram Matlens ot | P M DR. ARTHUR WARREN WAITE IN THE CQURT, ROOM—Smiling indifference has : surgeon-dentist on trial in New York fc This picture shows the half smile and half sneer that has marked his face since the taking of the testimony of the first witness. | WARRE | © INTL, FILM SERVICE, “I ate some of the marmalade,” | | ghe said. “When I opened the jar PROGRAM OF LABOR of something JUSTICE - FOR--$MALL - NATIONS REPORT IS | Washington, D. C., May 26.—La- most of the burdens | growing out of wars in the past, with | | lice | On-the-Main | cording to a dispatch received at The Hague. The ¥ owing to a shortage of meat in the tonight at the first annual assem-|jocal butcher shops. blage of the League to Enforce Peace. [and fifty women, who had been told Mr. Gompers outlined five princi-|there was no meat for them, marched | ples which he declared’ represent not | through the streets carrying black mpers, | These prin-| which Europe faces today far make preparedness in clares general American giver ch 3 L earanistil N WAITE, EIGHTEEN WOMEN HURT IN FOOD RIOT ‘| Gompers Says Unj;n. Will Work Frankfort Police Use Swords on Mob of Hungry Females That Raided Butcher Shop. FROM AMSTERDAM London, May 26—~An Amsterdam | dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company says that eighteen women were wounded in a fight betweer po- rioters at Frankfort- Wednesday night, and food ac- riot is said to have started Three hundred |only the international program ;.,,':u:::::v flags and singing socialistic Officers Use Swords. The women forced their way into ‘um» butcher ,I.up, although it was | L~ It must be a program under \guarded by soldiers and policemen Dr. Morris J. Karpas, formerly of | Which the military forces of the world ,\liu-rl a search they found come meat which their | secret diplomacy and dedicated to|above their heads. continued the pieces they cut march, up and holding Police attempted to take the meat from the women and a general fight| gram that will so safeguard the use |followed in which the. officers used “Waite told | of military power that it cannot be |their swords A local paper Red Cross Has Great Task. York, May Problems in caring of war sufferers need of Red Cross this country, de Bicknell, director relief of the in a statemer ew 26, the mullions plain the Ernest P, of out today at Red Cross head quarters tar f prepare CHISEL IS RUN THROUGH RED OAK BOY'S FOOT o7 2, MORNING, MAY ] CERVANTES, THE - VILLISTA BANDIT LEADER, IS DEAD Shot to Death in Brush With American Troops in Country to the South of Cruces, in Mexico, [ONE AMERICAN 1S KILLED | Engineers Are Attacked and Later Are Reinforced by Detach- ment of Infantry. AMERICANS ARE OUTNUMBERED Field Headquarters, Near Nami | quipa, May 25, Via Radio to Colum bus, N. M., May 26.—Candelario Cer | vantes, the Villista bandit leader, was { killed by | Cruces today. American troops south of | Cervantes' end came after he had | made a surprise attack south of Cru | ces on a detachment of engineers re | pairing the motor truck road. He fwvas beaten back and pursued into the [ hills by the engineers, who had been | reinforced by a detachment of the | Seventh infantry, One other Mexi can, Jose Bencorne, and one of the Americans were killed cans were wounded Battle Lasts an Hour, When the engagement began the bandits outnumbered the Americans two to one, there being twenty of | them. The engagement lasted almost |an hour with a hot interchange of |bullets, Then the reinforcements |from the Seventh came in sight | and the Villistas broks for the hills. Private George O, Hulitt was the hero of ‘the fight Jullets from his rifle laid low both of the bandits killed. The identification of Cervantes was at first, uncertain. Later, however, Mexicans who examined the body de | clared it was that of Cervantes, It was photographed for further identi- fication, Cervantes' home is in Namiquipa illr has been a thorn in the side of | the army in northern Chihuahua ever | since the expedition began. He had | succeeded hitherto in avoiding per- | | sistent cavalry searches. His death [ probably means the breaking up of | General Pershing ¥ much gratified [the Villistas in this direction, | over the latest fight, saying that there | remain only a few bands of maraud ers to be hunted down Proclamation to Mexicans. On Cervantes’ body was found a rnp{ of a proclamation, which read as follows: b - “To citizens and Jeaders of the Carranza army: We, who subsecribe ourselves members of the Mexican army and citizens loyal to the na- tional defense, set forth that in the circumstances that have befallen our country with the armed invasion by the United States of the north, the shame of our souls and the unmen- tionable affront before all the world, we desire as true sons of our saddend Mexico to no longer bear the name of traitors, “We further desire to combat the nvading enemy wilh‘.m quater, and (Continued on Page' 2, Column 4,) Tornado Sweeps DistrictrNear Ord Ord, Neb., May 26.—(Special Tele gram.)—Telephone communication was destroyed in the devastated ter ritory to the north and east of Ord by the tornado last night. The wind which re-| farm property | Rosevale and Ericson | estimated was hight about 8 o'clock, and the tornado was apparent to many people in town when two clouds came to- | gether near the city limits and moved | ;i One woman was ar-|away toward the northeast forces of | rested for shouting “Down with the | aggression, | emperor,” or dragged like a red herring across | ferred to the affair was ordered sus- | Ord, pended for two months. The worst damage was done to ten miles north of and in the neighborhood of Insurance men that $50,000 damage was done to property in Valley county There was no loss of life James Heitz tells of a fence post being pulled out of theg round and being Iriven through the bod in the pasture BANKERS FOR GOOD ROADS AT GRAND ISLAND MEET of a horse I One Year Ago Today | ? in the War I 1916—TWENTY PAGES. | the last few days. ! U. §. 1S RAPIDLY That All Their Interests Be Adequately Protected. EXPORT BUSINESS INCREASING | New York, May 26.—Declaring that the United States was rapidly be coming the leader among the nations of the world and that it was “high | time for everyone to understand that a large majority of the people of the United will the utilization of every facility to protect |and to honorably further the inter | ests of their ogn country,” Judge Elbert H. Gary ®hoke here today at | the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel institute on what he considered “momentous questions” in | volving life, liberty and happiness. “It is likely opportunity will be given to | the voters to give expression to their views in the near turwre relating to some of these questions,” he said. | “The large majority have a friendly feeling toward business success, large States insist upon | or small, so long as it is decently and | fairly conducted “We believe thoroughly in the ulation and restraint of busir | only in such a way as to prevent | and injury to the public interest, government and the business should work in harmony. Export Business Increasing. “Our export business is large and increasing. . The total exports for March of this year were ?11.476.53& in value, an increase of $114,864,786 over March, 1915, | "“The markets of the world are mul- tiplying in number and increasing in importance. We are hoping for open ports in every country. We have not | heretofore had our proportionate | share of this trade. One reason for | the limited amount of our export | business in the past is found in the |lack of ships owned, controlled and operated by Americans, | been more or | domination of foreigners having the ownership or control of ships and who are interested directly or indi rectly in business competing with us New Shipping Lines Needed. The men “When the present wars are ended | orts that Secretary these conditions will be even worse FRENCH TAKE OFFENSIVE IN VERDUN REGION —The accompanying map of the immediate neighbor- hood of Verdun shows the region in which some of the most furious fighting of the war has been going on for The arrows show the direction of the attacks, both French and German. We have | less subjected to the | ] | secretary said he had been able to do THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, SATURDAY On Trains, at Hotels, News Stands, ete., S GERMANS ADVANCE TAKING THE LEAD ON EAST OF MEUSE Two Ameri Judge Gary Sayr'iwi’eople Will Insist Berlin Of{jcillilrle;;m"t Tells of Ad- ditional Gains West of Hau- dremont Quarry. FRENCH STORY CONTRADICTORY Berlin, May 26.—(Via London.) German troops have continued suc- successfully their attacks on the east bank of the Meuse, extending their positions to the west of Hauderemont quarry and crossing the Douaumont ravine, the war office announced to- day. South of Fort Douaumont the { French were driven back further. The Germans captured an additional 600 prisoners and 12 machine guns I'he enemy aeroplane brought down south of Chateau Salins, reported on May 21, was the fifth put out of ac- tion in aerial engagements by Lieu- tenant Wintgens. French Official Report, Paris, May 26. There has been little change in the situation on the Verdu front, says the French official announcement this afternoon, The artillery bombardment was very violent about Avoecourt Wood and Le Mort Homme. At the latter place a German attack was stopped by the French in a curtain of fire at its_inception, On-the right bank of the Meuse the French succeeded in recovering part of the trenches occupied yesterday h( the Gérmans between Haudremont | Wo yod and Thiaumont Farmt, Other- | wise the battle front was calm, Dissension Sought To Be 8tirred Up in (tovernment Circles Washington) May 26.—Secretary [ansing attended (fi: cabinet meet- ing today, after having been con- fined to his home by an attack of indigestion for nearly a week, The little work during his _illncss, the cffects of which hc still showed vhen he arrived at the White House. The State department made this statement regarding published re- Lansing was contemplating resigning from the | than they have ever been before un-|cabinet because of differences with | less there are adopted laws or amend- [ments that will place our merchant | marine on an equality with that nl\gamld, the deliberate other nations. nation; not at any price, but it. We would fight any other nation, but only defensively “So anxious are our people to avoid trouble and to maintain a peace foot ing they are willing to submit tem- porarily even to sneers and insults before they will an offensive attitude and run the risk of precipi tating a war unnecessarily. This is a strong statement, but it represent the real attitude of a ple Strong Navy Important assume large majority ted States is to assume ain the important posit Brandeis Certain To Win For Judge President Wilson: “This story is part of a propa- purpose of | which is to create an appearance of “We are in favor of peace for our |dissension in the government, which | we [does not exist would, if necessary, pay liberally for|born last Februiry or March, while | The story was first the relations between the United States and Germany were somewhat strained. It was sent to Berlin by wireless in press dispatches. It was picked up in transit in an allied coun try and subsequently published there In that way the State department be- camé cogmzant of the story and in- structions were sent to Berlin to watch out for it Apparently the persons responsi ble four ut we were prepared for s it never was pub \ Germang, The ctors of propaganda have now taken ad antage of Secretary Lansing's ill ess to put out the story again,” Mr personally d that ¢ was considering resigning as he f White Hou Millionaire Miner Arrested on Charge 0f Contempt of Court la Jefet WIFE OF BRADY RANCHMAN TAKES STRYCMNINE SINGLE COPY THE WEATHER. Fair TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT MAY SOUND KEYNOTE * FOR END OF Whk jExecutive Hopes His Address Be« fore League to Enforce Peace Will Have Important Effect. {MR. TAFT OPENS CONVENTION &l m | Former President Says No New | Principles Are Inyolved in the Proposed Program, | | ARBITRATION OLD AS THE U. 8. | Washington, May 26,—President Wilson has confided to his advisers, it was learned today, that he hopes to make an before the | League to Enforce Peace here tomors row night which will be of impor- Mr, | Wilson has practically completed his | speech, working on it yesterday and again today. As a rule the president writes out very few of his speeches in advance, but officiais caid today he wanted to prepare this one carefully because he realizes the importance of | the subject The president will sit through the banquet of the league at which he will speak, instead of following his usual custom of arriving just in time for the speaking. He wants to learn as much as possible about the pur- poses of the league Former President Taft, president of the league, will sit next to Mr. | Wilson during the banquet and intro- duce him. address tance in connection with peace, Taft Presides. The object of the League to En- force Peace is not to urge President Wilson to take steps to stop the present war, former Ptesident Taft, president of the league, declared to- day in opening its two-day session here. “We are not here,” he said, “to urge the present administration to | take steps to stop the present war, Not that we are not fmpeful that such steps mak be taken, but we be- lieve that a definite purpose, a pur- pose with limitations for an associa- tion like this, is much more likely t- be realized than a general platform for the benefit of humanity,” The league hoped, Mr, Taft said, for a world agreement on a method to make war less probable. Legal Status of Move Explained. Acceptance of membership by the United States in a world court in which the joint powers would use their umet{ and economic_forces to enforce its decrees in the interest of international peace was urged today by Mr. Taft. His address was closely confined to the technical legal qu{nionc in- volved in joining by the United States in such an international tri- bunal. He denied that such action would curtail the power and author- ity of either the president or congress by limiting the constitutional discre- | tion of the latter body to declare war, Mr. Taft explained that the league's platform proposes compulsory sub- mission to the world court of all in- ternational disputes not settled by diplomatic negotiation and which are “justiciable questions.” Arbitration Is Legal. | Referring to the so-called Bryan | peace treaties, with England and France, Mr. Taft said it was argued |that the arbitration stipulation in | them was a delegation of the author- ity of the president and senate over our foreign relations. “But upon reason and authority this objection is untenable,” said Mr, Taft. Since the Jay treaty of 1794, Mr. Taft stated, some American na- | tion had been a party to eighty-four international treaties, of which the | United States was involved in twos | thirds. “In ten of these, which were boun« | dary treaties,” Mr. Taft continued, “it was never suggested that the govern« ment was delegating any power at all to the tribunal. A submission of a judicial quesfion is not a delegation of power to an agent—it is a submission of an issue to a judge, and it is a mise nomer to call such a submission a delegation.” Turning to tl question of the duty of a nation belonging to the posed would court to use its army and navy in enforcing its de- crees upon the members that war ance of the wld go to court’s « ces, Mr took issue witl for ecr of State an Mr an's cons enti amends t Wi e efore the ted ald ate itsell in respect I ventu to think that his view v foundatiop,” Mr, ferring to this nation's treaty ama, guaranteeing Panas 1 Page ¢ Columa 3.) Chicago Convention For our veaders, this big gt political evamt of the year will be coveved by two stall representatives Victor Rosewater Editor of The Dee Edgar C. Snyder Washington Correspondent Through their close personal scquaintance with many of the delegates and ol the astive party leaders they will be “nemt* 10 what s doing on the naide s well as the outside, and will give graphic reviews of the procesd ings lrom day o day Look to The Dee for Convention News ~