Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1916, Page 1

( ( | Call Tyler 1000 If Yon Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Connected With The Bee. VOL. XLV—NO. 296. OMAHA, MONDAY Labor Leader Answers Request For Statement on Workmen's Compensation Act. ADVISES A conngction with the action of the Central Labor union in March in | voting to launch a movement to force UNIVERSAL PEACE First Week of Convention of Gen-|HE eral Federation of Women's | Clubs Closes With Much to Do in Sight. POLITICS A Dark Horse Out of Race and Interest‘ the Western Laborer, wrote to Sam d | uel Gompers, president of the Ameri Centers in “‘F Contest For [can Federation of Labor, requesting President, WEST AGAINST THE EAST New York, May 28-~The first week of the thirteenth biennial convention of the general federation of Women's clubs night with GAME PLAYED‘!‘(';H"AI of the workmen's compensa tion act, Frank Kennedy, editor of a review of the law as passed by the A copy of the to Mr. Gompers, reply to Mr. Kennedy, | this statement is made by the dis [ tinguished labor leader: “I hope you will advise against such rash action and, on the other hand, urge the Central Labor ;fnlnn Nebraska legislature law was forwaded In a lengthy closed last scores | of dinners and receptions, after a day | of committee and conference meet- [and members of organized Jlabor ings at which were formulated the na- | generally throughout your state to tional policies of the organization to | 'Mmediately go to work with the | serious intention of revisng and | bringing up to date your state com pensation law, rather than permit its repeal,” be voted on next week One of the questions upon which interest is centered is the proposed | propaganda for internationalism, in | Like Other States behalf of world peace, and its corol- | f | . lary; & pan-American congress of wo- | MT Gompers adds that he finds men in 1920, Two amendments to the | the 1aw to be “an average piece of by-laws which have been offered also | COMpensation legislation ~passed in were occupying the attention of the | the first stages by several state legis delegates, They provide for the in- | 'atures. It is presumably an elective vestment of $100,000 endowment fund | 0F optional Jaw and yet an analysis and for enlarging the board of direc (of it shows that it is practically a tors from fifteen to fifty-seven mem :r”""'"l""’v law, because employers ers, so that each state may have a | who do not 4-14;(1 to come under its RbB i tVe A% Sha Board: | provisions in Part 1 are denied the The chief topic of conversation to- |14 common law defenses; and if an night, However, was the. presidential | cmploye declines to come under the clection to be held May 31. Interest | COMPensation law, he is left to the was enhanced by announcement of | M5"Y the court. with il of. the the withdrawal from the race of the old afore L gommon aw. desenses three dark horses, Mrs, John D, Sher | available against his claim, with the man, Chicago; Miss Georgie Bacon, Worcester and Mrs, B. W. Corkran, Jlr,,f_ H.ulIIun'an- The contest now is definitely between Mrs, Josiah Evans | Cowies, Los Angeles, s Mis. oone |section uel B, Sneath, Tiffin, O, Their sup porters assert personalities will not figure in the fight, The west, they fel say, will be arrayed against the east, | ™ 99¢" Claims of Mrs. Denniston: Mrs. E. O. Denniston, chairman of Mrs. Cowles’ campaign committee, | your state claims the entire vote of the delega- | clearly and com tions from the Pacific coast, north- | the aid of "'KNI west and southwestern states. Mrs, Sneath's supporters claim the south- ern and eastern states, I'he> Ohio candidate’s strength in the east and middle west is discounted by Mrs, Cowles’ adherents because at caucuses held this afternoon, the dele- gations from New York, Illinois, lowa, Maryland and Massachusetts decided to” go to the election un- pledged, > Miss Bacon, who now holds the of- fice of second vice president, has an- nounced her candidacy for the first vice presidency. She will be unop- posed, her supporters say. No candi- dates have yet appeared for the other offices, At this morning’s business meeting | prove willful negligence on the part of the employer,” The suggestion is made that sub- 137, dealing with insurance, ed the following comments: compensation prehensively, without ka a first working people of Nebra siy juries law. Commends Efforts Made. “Your fellow workers in the states of lowa, Kansas and Missouri have made splendid efforts to perfect their | laws, _In Missouri the law has been denied the workers by the figh and wrangling of designing msur- ance and damage case. agents, would be well if a conference could be called at an early date, of repre sentative labor men from the states herein mentioned, all subject to simi lar industrial conditions and all hav ing to meet problems of like nature, an ~er’m was made to bring the | 50 that you could bring ybur state .Jlnnlu }u:m)n increasing the member- compensation laws of the Missouri ship of the board of directors to a valley up to the proper standard, vote, but after a long discussion, the subject went over until Monday. All the recommendations made by Mrs, Percy V. Pennybacker, the president, in her report, were adopted. They in- clude the pan-American congress, a national survey of motion pictures; the continuation of the work of Amer- icanizing the immigrant and improve= thereby avoiding the clashes of profit | takers who have designedly misused the compensation pyinciple for their own benefits, “This subject seems to be a diffi- cult one and is frequently prepared in a confusing, difficult way expressly for the purpose of mystifying and deceiving the beneficiaries, |:::-ml‘offrural conditions: Her pro- “The principle of automatic com T '»”l Bi_ or: time and money-saving pensation requires only simelp provi- methods to bring about closer con- | gions of law, clearly and comprehen- tact between the state federations and ¢ the national officers, also were proved, For National Bird Day. A resolution advocating the estab- lishment of a national bird day, April 3, the birthday of John Burroughs, the naturalist, was adopted at a con- ference of the conservation copmit sively written Pledge Legislative Candidates. “If the workers would avoid being imposed upon and continuously mulcted, they should, of course, take hold of this problem themselves and work it out to their own satisfaction, pledge their legislative candidates to the law they have drafted and insist ap- tee. The resolution will be presente. to the convention. Rreignfed upon its enactment and administra Another resolution already adopted | 1o Preferably by a member of or- by the art committee was approved by | €41zed labor. The mystery woule the conservation commit then he dissipated and a greater tee. It me- morializes congress to stop the erec- tion of the Washington, 1), C., light measure of justice would prevail “This thought must be kept upper oy e ettt 0L e g compensation aws of the government buildings ”“f:‘,' H:l“vl,,,‘;;.:1‘”}!““‘1 h!‘f»‘\“‘l.hm“:' Governor Morehead | ihe'hen ey icdiods waiabie o o the conduct of their business in orde Speaks at the Trail fhias the lves and limhe Aidjthe anxic. Marker Dedication "%, .. ze the et North Platte, Neb,, May 28.—(Spe :\ “‘n‘w .t "‘ icker ‘!‘ "‘ cial Telegram.) everal hundred per- | undertake t anage tl te s sons from all parts of the ty ye safely and entifical t ¢ l\m‘\j“\,':‘-f i , .‘rv"' V‘u‘u fo monument 1o be placed 1" Lincon MMbers of the Morchead. Kohert Harvey and 6 5 Chinese Cabinet terson and 1. H. Hoagland of N Resign Positions Proposed Increase crence hax been diasoived wiih: In Freight Rates o o s’ .8 On Meats Suspended /vt s Shen us cils SOME CLOSE RACES DEVELOP IN SOUTH DAKOTA PRIMARY | Ministers Pay Tributes to ti REVISION Who Risked Their Lives &, | | further burden of being compelled to | should be rewritten, the compulsory | Crimean or the Fra ¢ insurance provisions of the Ohio and | The “light-hrigade” of whose charge Washington laws being referred to as | into the valley of death In his conclusion Mr. Gompers of- | men “I think you will be able to revise | in fifteen minutes; law. 86 | Pennsy! ical, 1 anc er cent; the One , political, insurance | D¢ nt; ! tricksters, that it will insure for the | New York lost 72 per cent | elass, liberal, compulsory, comprehen- | automatic compensation-for-in- | even unknown in OMEN TAKE UP SAMUEL GOMPERS CIVIL WAR VETS THE PLAN FOR ‘REVIEWS STATE LAW ARE HONORED IN SONG AND SERMON- the Call of Their Country. |POSTS ~ ATTEND IN A BODY U. 8, Grant and Custer Posts Wor- ship at Trinity Methodist with Auxiliary Corps. SONS OF VETERANS, | Tributes in sermon and song were paid at the churches yesterday to the to save T00 [men who risked their lives | their country in the stirring days of | } the Civil war. The veterans attended some of the | churches in a body. Special reser-| vations were kept tor the thin grey line of fas¢-disappearing heroes U, 8. Grant and Custer posts wor- | | shipped at Trinity Methodist church They formed at Twenty-fourth and | Binney streefs and, headed by a fife land drum corps and with flags fly- | ing gaily in the morning breeze, they | marched bravely to the church. There |were also some Sons of Veterans thege. yAnd the Ladies Relief corps occupied a special section [ | "Our Eloguent Dead,” was the title | of Rev, John F. Poucher's sermon. It bristled with stirring episodes of the | great conflict and through it was woven the philosophy of duty for duty's sake, self-sacrifice for the com | mon good and the enternal song of praise and thanks to the republic’s preservers, | American Bravery. | “The loyalty and bravery of Ameri- | can soldiers has never been surpassed, | rarely equalled,” he declared. "One | ‘hulllhrti and twenty regiments in the | Civil war suffered losses far greater than any regiment suffered in the | anco-Prussian war Tennyson | has sung, lost only 37 per cent of its But the First Minnesota regi { ment in the Civil war lost 82 per cent me Fourteenth ania lost 76 per cent; the | Twenty-sixth North Carolina lost 72 Hundred and first And so the death roster of the heroes goes “Heroes they were, upsung and hundreds of in-| stances, When the fight was on for | Little Round Top at Gettyshurg the day was all but lost to the Union | troops. The flag bearer had fallen | {and the troops were disheartened. | | Suddenly someone tan and picked up | | the flag, shouted and gan ahead: The Wing | troops rallied. The day was finally won, Then they tried to find who the {hero was. They found his body under the bodies of cighteen other | men- But he was unidentified. He is | unknown to this day.” | Remembers the Women, Addressing himself to the ladies of the relief corps, the minister paid | a high tribute to them, their patience | under the stress and strain of war's burdens and anxieties “l remember the own mother,” he heroism of said, “We my were labout the only Northern sympathizers in our town. The day aiter Lincoln was shot a man came into our house. | ‘I just came in to tell you that Lin coln was shot last night in Washing ton and I'm glad of it,’ he said. My mother, that little ninety - pound woman made one leap at him. She scratched his face, she tore his hair and finally pushed him terrified out the door and tumbled him down the steps.” The minister called attention to the fact that the war was fought chicfly by boys under 21 years of age. Only 46,000 of those enlisted were over 25 years old. There 104,908 who were 15 years of Fhirty-eight soldiers were only and twenty-five were age 11 enlisted “men” were only 10 years old, the records show Decorate the Graves. Thousands of people visited the various Omaha cemeteries yesterday decorating graves, and otherwise “fix ing up” their lots for the annual Me morial day. Supplementing the work of Jonathan Edwards who placed flags on 608 aves Friday, ma the oldier ad Law cemetery, besides de Rrave the Henry W. La the United pa Veterans, present } Lee Forby, Mr ade the speech of \ Commander W } it Gen, George Harrie ade a to the camp alse Following 1 ervice [ ¢ o varioy G A ) ts 1 the cemeterie and \ for those that have died ¢ " The f Officials Search For Grave, So Youth May Decorate It Mebrannd TWO DEMO TRAINS |Price of Western Bryan and Hitchcock Crowd Each BIG CONTEST OVER HONORS | |osure suit brought by the Equit nel W the which democrats can ride to the dem ocratic & Omaha and reports that two trains have been provided for to carry the | unterrified T the two trains, not counting baggage, cold water and grape juice cars and the other from Lincoln and the two will meet at not necessarily indicate that there will be a union of the two factions | fact been provided probably means that one faction will ride in one train and the other faction in the other. only thing left to be arranged la‘whu]l MORNING, MAY 29, 1916—TEN PAGES. On Tralns, at Wotels, News Stands, ete., Be, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SINGLE ELECTRIC CHAIR TEXAS POSSE GUARDING BORDER—This photograph shows a posse of o Te: o fia?. ) Pacific Road Set at | Eighteen Millions San Francisco, May 28 United States District Judge Mawrice ‘I Dooling fixed $18,000000 as the "up set” price for the sale of the West | ern Pacific railway today in the fore able FROM NEBRASKA Will Have Special to the Convention I'rust company of New York, METHODISTS ADOPT NEW MARRIAGE LAW Preacher Who Officiates at Marriage of Divorced Person Will Be | Called to Answer, TO DOUBLE BSOME 1NCOm§ Saratoss Sorings, N. Y., May 28, A Methodist minister who u”lt!’lllfl‘[ at the marriage of a divorced person in violation of the rules of the church, is guilty of an act of mal-administra- tion, and may be compelled to answer (From n 8taft Correspondent.) Lincoln, May 28,-(Speeial.) S. Ridgell, chief engineer of movement to charter a train in 1 { Colo- St from convention i yesterday national ouis, returned ne to the great gathering. here will be about twenty cogehes on | | One train will start from Omaha Union. This does The that two different trains have charges before his confernece, accord ing to an amendment to the discipline of the churef, adopted unanimously The ahead tha 1 . Juitizens on guard along the Mexican border, ready to repel Mexican ban- ¥ e raids by Mexicans have incensed the civilian population of Texas, New <o and Arizona, and their citizens are aiding the army. QINIL.F1ts * SERW 1B That Calls to Shake Hands and Pay Respects. Theodore Roosevelt 'ROOSEVELT PORCH IS BADLY WRECKED Collapses Under Weight of Crowd | NEW YORKERS AT SAGAMORE Oyster Bay, N. Y,, May 28.—Hun-~ dreds of persons came here yesterday in three special trains from New York and marched from the railroad sta- tion to Sagamore Hill in columns, four abreast, to pay their respects to Colo- and assure | him of their support in the event of | his nomination for the presidency. The marchers, headed by the Seventh regiment band; sang *“Lhe Army and Navy Foreyet” and other popular airs, Richard M. Hurd, who was spokes- | |man for the visitors, in addressing Colonel Roosevelt, Sai “Lincoln said this pation could not Colonel endure half slave and half free, equally true, as you have pointed out, this nation cannot half hyphenated and half Americ Roosevelt, addressing the visitors from the porch of his home, said in part now endur Colonel Makes Speech. It is e feai wils today by the general conference, The| Question of Precedure. church Qs always recognized only| "We have a right to demand of The Hitchcock crowd contends that| one ground for divorce and has per- [ €Very man who comes here and be- as they won out in the primary that [ mitted remarriage only of the = in-|COmes a citizen that he hruwe an they should be allowed to go ahead 50 | nocent party, but no penalty has ever | American and Hnlh’lu)( else e re- that they could get to St' Louis first. | existed, | gard the hy[nhn-n..u a lv’ar nxnmle; The cordial agreement to that plan by For the purpose of completing |drawn across our national coat o the Bryan fellows ha# starte fear | action on committee reports, the con- | arms and we don't intend to permit on the part of the Hitchcock crowd | ference gvas in session until late to | 1t to remain ”“I“' that the latter intend to wait until the | night, Virtually all debate was shut I'o you, both native of this coun 4 try and those born abroad, and above two trains ing W wildernesses of delegate ill run their trains inw the one ahead | be possible Monday morning The and ditch it with malicious intent consecration of the bishops who were | chosen last week will be held tomor- | get down in the bewilder this course, the Missouri and then off, and by adoptir believed adjournment would | Scrap for Honors, row loyalty from the of ol all, to you old native American natives of old stock, you cannot expect to get Americans stock, you cannot expect to get loy- | alty from the immigrant or the immi d THE WEATHER. Fair COPY TWO CENTS. IS WAITING FOR DENTIST WAITE \ Convicted Man Appears Uncone cerned at Action of Jury and is Remanded to Tombs | for Sentence. NOT A SURPRISE TO ACCUSED Wife Hears'Finding of Jurors and Remarks, “God’s Will Be Done.” AN APPEAL MAY BE TAKEN New York, May 28.—Convicted of murder in the first degree for poisone ing his father«in-law, John E. Peck, a millionaire drug manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich,, Dr, Arthur Ware ren Waite is in the Tombs prison where he will remain until Justice Clarence J. Shearn sentences him, June 1, to death in the clegtric chair, Walter R, Deuel, the young den tist's chief counsel, said tonight the verdict of guilty was a proper one, He asserted all that could be done for the defendant had been done in the trial which ended lmla{v. One of Mr, Deuel's assistants, said neverthe- less that preparations were being made to take an appeal at once, Mr. Deuel was in consultation with his client for a few minutes after Waite was remanded to his cell in the Tombs in the afternoon. District At torney Swann said tonight that if an dppeal were taken his office would be ready in ten days to argue the case in the higher courts, Waite declined to make any state- ment, from his cell, but said he might issue “some impression” later, That ile was inclined to accept the verdict as final and was resigned to his fate scemed to be indicated by his remark “this is a great relicf,” as he was led from the court room. Expected a Conviction, Waite, who admittted not only the murder of Mr, Peck, but also that of Mrs, Hanna Peck, his mother-in-law, and who admitted that he attempted to kill his wife's aunt, Miss Katherine Peck, apparently l@’:‘l no doubt that the jury would con®ct him, As the jury retired he turned to his brother, Frank and said? “The jury should not be out five minutes, It was a long drawn out proceeding.” Half an hour later he remarked, “I don’t understand this,” “You should not talk that way" said Frank, “Ther may be findmfl you not guilt “Oh! yes they wil find me guilty,” insisted Dr. Waite, The trial lasted six days, which was almost a record for brevity, for an im- portant murder trial here in recent years, Leaving the court room at 1:20 p, m,, the Jjury was out only an, hour and twenty-five minutes, After returning the verdict, the foreman asserted that the jurors had made a compact not to reveal the nature of their delibera- tions. His Nerve Holds Up. Dr. Waite preserved his nonchalant demeangr, not only while facing the jury to learn his fate, but after he was led back to the Tombs' prison, Throughout the trial he seemed un- moved by any human feeling as he recited the details of his deliberate at- tempts to kill Mr. Peck with the bacilli of various disease, of his final resort to poison, of his murder of Mrs. Peck by administering disease germs, and his attempt to kill his wife's aunt by placing ground glass | and germs in her food. Apparently unmoved Waite con- fronted the jury without displaying 2 (Continued on Page 2, Column The fight which is now on as to grant's children unless you make this who of the delegation shall have the . Must Double Income. a country to which a proud man can glory of being selected for the honor For the requirements of the foreign .7 001" And to do that you have | ary positions is beginning to get in- [ mission field, according to a report | oo IR SR 2 S country stand teresting. W. H. Thompson received | which was adopted by a rising vote, for courage and for strength the most votes for delegate-at-large | the income of the Board of Foreign “No-man -ever: yot ' wis: loyal to. 8 and therefore the Bryan fellows in- [ Missions and the Woman's lwv'm”‘\w.(khuu whose weakness was due to sist that he should be given the most | Missionary society from regular | b5 % that he would not take the | important job, that of Nebraska's | sources, must be doubled, in addition | pat B2 4N Ge SOE Sie AR | member of the resolution committee, | to the maintenance of special gifts at sary to be strong other fello ns hat the | not less than the present amount 4 . | [he other llows insist tha e ) Carried the Big Stick. | honor of placing Governor Morcheac o' UNITARIANS SELECT LOT AT Just today I was very glad to see A I wublished in the papers the letter o Hy B e e HARNEY AND THIRTY-THIRD | "\{iti ek ey descrihing an ineident ook et Sy, that took place while | was president w o Member the Unita irch When we were menaced with cont i sldauends ciety vated on a location for a new | hle | acted up to my theory that the am ought B ate:} ', ve u ; ) ’.‘" ‘jy‘v-"v‘ “ ":f, oper way of handling international i ] | [ AU 3 C UL 1 It “; '\ » . S | ' L} | and Kht ever ! . ! . . not Ihat [ ) . N v ’ [ . at I sl \ ‘ Today's War News l M the ¢ \ k g VERDUN AND THE SOUTHERN Tyl 1o He Quotes Lowell waln the sentars ol rrent ity ! aetivity Balture the Frameh In " . J i the e of bettie 1o flawing. new with ! \ "e b Loand than with the sthar . ‘ On the Avatrn Italian e ke advant o oA JURY DECIDES AGAINST 1O THE NORTMEAST of Verdus the tos . DENTIST IN SCHREIBER CASE MR She_ Vvt Selesman, b ST Removal of Mayor Mitchel Is Asked New York, May 28.—The removal of Mayor John Puroy Mitchell from office was asked in resolu~ tions adopted and sent to ( ernor Whitman by the United Inde- pendents of Kings county, New York, The technical basis for request of the mayor's removal was that he had failed in his duty A citizen to ify the district attorney of Kings NewYork counties of the knowl edge he had that clergymen were con piring criminally for illegal purposes Ihe resolution-cited that in testimony and public statements, the mayor re peated that he had such knowledge The resolutions were drafted by Wi il % ell sident of the or ganization that requested District Attorney Lewis of Kings county to " tigate the wire tapping whicl led t tment Commis f I Charities Kingshury and ) ansel, W. H. Hotchkiss Establishing a Record For the 13th con week Bee Want-Ads have shown an in crease of more than Lo PALD ADS er the same period rthe yoar previous, 1509 MORE PAID Want « Ads for the week ended 837, than same woek, yoar age. Phone YOUR Want . Ads 1o THE BEE Iyler 1 000