Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1916, Page 1

Part One NEWS SECTION Pages One to Ten. VOL. XLV—NO. 301. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WALL STREET ON TORNADO BLOWS QUIVIVETO NAME T.R. AT CHICAGO George W, Perkins and Other Adju- tants of “Big Business” Are Working in Roosevelt's Behalf. 'NO NEW ALIGNMENT IS SHOWN Much to Be Made of Preparedness Parade Which Will Come Today. DELEGATES NOT ALL ON HAND BY VICTOR ROSEWATER. Chicago, June 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—As the convention week comes closer the skirmishing between the forces marshalled in the different amps is getting sharper, but it has leveloped no new alignment. It is still a concerted effort to head off and break the Hughes sentiment, and while there is apparent co-opera tion to this end by the favorite sons, the heavy work devolves on the bat- teries set up and munitioned by George W. Perkins and his Wall street and big business adjutants on behalf of Roosevelt, T. R. Cohorts Busy. The Roosevelt sharpshooters are in continuous action, both the troops in the trenches and birdmen in the air above, and they have most of the Chicago newspapers pounding out the | big noise with all the variations | FAST PASSENGER TRAIN OFF TRACK Twenty-Six Persons Seriously In- jured in Unusual Wreck on the Wabash Railroad Near Saunemin, Il FIVE DEAD, FIFTEEN MISSING Bridge Gives Way Under a Rock Island Train Near Packurd, Towa, and Passengers Drown, M'GREGOR STOCK YARD FLOODED Bloomington, 111, June 2.—Twenty- | six persons were injured when Wa- | bash night mail train No. 17, bound from Chicago to St. Louis, traveling forty miles an hour, was blown from the track by a tornado early near Saunemin, 11 The fact that most of the coaches were of steel is believed to have pre- vented heavy loss of life. Most of the injured are believed to be not in a today serious condition, The mail car and the combination smoker baggage coach were turned over on their sides and prac- and tically demolished. Three of the Pullman cars mained on the track and some of the passengers in them did not know there had been a wreck until an hour later. Three Dead, Fifteen Missing. Waterloo, Ia. June 2.—Three bodies | re- | The Roosevelt people are also try- | have been recovered and fifteen per- ing to turn to the account of |hz-‘5,,,,s are missing in the wreck at colonel the monster preparedness pa- | Packard, according to the report of rade arranged for tomorrow. In all |the wrecking crew, received by rail- the invitations and announcements | road officials here. It is believed the this demonstration is specially 1 belled “nonpolitical and nonpartisan, but the signs are unmistakable that it is to be utilized so far as possible to influence the convention, I think the parade is timed a trifle early for this purpose because the great majority of the delegates who do the votipg are not yet here, and will not be on the ground before Mon- day and Tuesday. No Visible Factionalism, In the interval the national com- mittee is grinding on contests and without being accused of deciding them according to the presidenti preferences of the men seated. For tunately no factional alignment inside the committee is visible, such as was forced last time by the contention be- tween the supporters of the only fwo cawdidates in the field. That reminds me, too, of another thing noticeable by contrast. Four years ago, it will be remémbered, a tremendous hubbub was raised as to whether a prospective member of the committee who had received a prefer- ence vote in a direct primary should | take his seat at once and oust the sitting member, whose term had not expired. Case From South Dakota. majority of the missing are dead, of- ficials said, The bodies of two women were taken from the wreck at 9 o'clock. One was identified as Mrs. Emma Vonvliet of Traer, In. The other was not immediately identified. The wreck was due to high water, which had so undermined the bridge supports that when the train struck the bridge the entire structure col- lapsed. The engine plunged into the creek, carrying with it the baggage car, smoker and day coach. The bodies were recovered from the day coach and the missing were riding in the smoker and, it 1s feared, were drowned, When the train turned over many of the passengers succeeded in break- ing the windows of the coaches and crawling onto the sides of the cars. They were taken off by rescuers in boats. Several are under the care of physicians, due to exposure, The storm, which reached the pro- ortions of a cloudburst, nearly para- | lyzed wire communication and it was | long after daylight before the first rescue train dispatched from Water- loo reached the scene. Three Dead, Three Missing. ago, June 2—At the general o4 % N @@":;{A. SATURDAY V — | MORNI 1916—TWENTY PAGES. JUNE 3, | SERBS JOIN ALLIES AT SALONIKI — One hundred thousand Serbian soldiers were | recently landed at the allied base at Saloniki to aid in the new operations, it is presu The accompanying photograp SERBS AT SALONICA FAVORITE SONS ARE LOSING HOPE Managers of Several of Them Now Think Fight is Between Hughes and Roosevelt, |NO HUGHES HEADQUARTERS Chicago, June 2.—Republican lead- ers from all parts of the country are arriving by every train and the | erowds of politicians in the hotel lob- | bies are increasing proportionately as the time for the calling of the repub- lican national convention to order ap- proaches. While the managers of the different | “favorite son” presidential candidates insist that if they are able to keep | their delegates in line one of their number may win, they are beginning to admit that the final contest may develop into a fight to a finish bes tween Roosevelt and Hughes on the | floor of the convention, An informal poll of a number of the | states which have candidates | cates that after the first few ballots | have been taken and the “favorite sons” begin to drop out of the con- | test many of the instructed delegates | will go to Roosevelt or Hughes as | their second choice. | Penrose Delegates Uninstructed. Sengtor Boies Penrose of Pennsyl- nia, who arrived today, said: ‘T'hree quarters of the seventy-six |delegates from Pennsylvania are un | instructed, We are going to do what in our judgment is best for the inter- | | |v indi- | med. h shows the Serbe after disembarking from their transports. CYUINTe STt SERVICH V‘British Censor Holding Up Various Accounts of Batt1e5 London, June 2—The official press | of the sca battle that are being sub- | bureau at 11 o’clock tonight issued | mitted » “By tomorrow the admiralty no the following statement: doubt will possess fuller details and | Owing to lack of information we | then, if the articles are submitted, | are unable to pass various accounts [they can be properly lealt with,” DENOCRATIC SUB D FACTOS READY COMMITTEE MEETS 10 CHASE BANDITS Selection of Temporary Chairman| Funston Says Twenty Thousand | Goes Over Until After President Disposed Apparently for an Wilson is Heard From. Active Campaign, ot o s { |M'COMBS AND MACK ARRIVE LINE 500 MILES IN LENGTH St. Louis, Mo., June 2.—The selec Washington, June 2—Major Gen, tion of a temporary chairman for the leral Funston reported, today that| democratic national convention was |about 20,000 Carranzd tfoops mobi- deferred today by ‘the subcomumittee |lized in the vicinity of Chihuahua City | on arrangements of the national com- | were being disposed apparently fnr‘ mittee until tonight, an active campaign against bandits | The S|x||(n)|llm|lhvt' today began the |over a territory extending 500 miles | selection of 200 assistant sergeants-at Madera to Ojinaga. He feels | arms for the convention and fifty-two | assistant secretaries—one for each | MO uneasiness over their movements, state and territory, It was also to|Seccretary Baker said | consider the apportionment of tickets | General Trevino, commanding the and the assignment of seats in the | Chihuahua City forces, has given or- | convention hall to the various dele-|ders that all foreigners be treated gations, with consideration and that any sol- Glynn and Jones Selected. diers guilty of molesting an American | Martin Glynn, former governor of 'oF other foreigner shall be summarily [New York; William J. Jones, United |d¢alt with. . States senator from Missouri, were I'he distribution of Carranza forces among those being considered for the |13 8iven by General Fuston as fol-| temporary chairman, it was reported, | 'O%3 from On Trains, at Hotels, vews Btands, ete., do SING Losses in History's Greatest Sea Battle inelud At least eighteen raft ht torpedo swed in the battle between the Ger ware dostroyers, are reported n and British high sea fleets off the 8. veral more are re Jutland rted damaged and missing Battleships hips Lost Hritich Warsprit Battle Cruisers Indefutable Queen Mary Invineible German Cruisers Defenne Wiesbaden Black Prince Pommern / Frauenlobe Des, (British admit eight lost and two mis- sing.) LONDON SHOCKED T0 HEAR OF HEAUY LOSS IN SEA FIGHT British Public Inclined to Thing English Fleet Led Into Mine Field by the Enemy, Laugh Tomorrow. Four Pages of i Colored Comics with The Sunday Bee. LE COPY TWO CENTS. MANY WARSHIPS LOST WHEN FLEETS BATTLE OFF JUTLAND FLEVEN BRITISH WARCRAFT LOST: TEUTON SLOSE 3 German War Office Reports Victory in Great Sea Fight That Was Said to Have Lasted All Night. ONE BATTLESHIP DESTROYED British Loses Are Two Battle Cruisers, Two Armored Cruisers and Many Smaller Craft, GERMANS LOSE THREE SHIPS ) | Berlin, June Germany's high sea fleet mct the main part of the | British fleet in battle in the north- i(-;nu-ru section of the North Sea on | May 31, In the heavy engagement | which followed the German fleet, ac- cording to a report issued by the Ger« | man admiralty, sunk the British bat- tleship Warsprite, the British battle | cruisers Queen Mary and Indefatiga- ble, two armored cruisers and a large number of warships of smaller ton- nage. Several other British battle- ships are reported damaged, including the battleship Marlborough. ‘I'he German losses are announced as the battleship Pommern, the BATTLE LASTS A LONG TIME Tugboat Comes With Load of Dead, According to Dispatch From | | miralty Rotterdam, COPENHAGEN STORY OF BATTLE London, June been flying about all day that a naval | battle had occurred in the North Sea| the British public was given news by the admiralty this evening that will send a painful shock throughout the 2 After rumors had | country. According to the admiralty an- nouncement, in an engagement off Jutland on Wednesday afternoon the British battle cruiser fleet met a Ger-| man fleet with the result that three British battle cruisers were sunk, to- gether with three cruisers and sey-| eral destroyers, while sixe destroyers | were still unaccounted for, cruiser Wiesbaden, the protected ctuiser Frauenlolf and several torpedo boats. Britis' Official Report. Lo don, June 2.—~The text of the admiralty announcement on the big naval battle off Jutland, follows On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 31, a naval enrnement took place off the coast of Jutland. The British ships on which the brunt of the fighting fell, were:the battle eruis- er fleet and some cruisers and light cruisers, supported by four fast bat- tleships. Among these the losses were heavy, The German battle fleet, aided by low visibility, avoided a prolonged action with our main forces. As soon as they appeared on the scene the enemy returned to port, though not before receiving severe damage from our battleships. Ten Ships Sunk, Six Missing. Battle Is Long. “The battle cruisers Queen Mary, The battle scems to have lasted | Indefatigable and Invincible and the through the afternoon and the fol- | cruisers Defense and Black Prince lowing night. The German fleet’s | were sunk. The Warsprite was disabl- losses are stated to have been serious, | but no very definite information of these losses are afforded by the ad- announcement, One battle cruiser is declared fo have been de ed and after being towed for some time had to be abandoned by its crew. It is also known that the destroyers Tip- serary, Turbulent, Fortune, Sparrow=- | hawk and Ardent were lost and six ore i o th4e r est of the republican party. We have s Four hundred infantry at Chihua- o vy v Well, there is one such committee- | offices of the Rock Island road this {0 I_“‘h,m“{_ SR l“m(’, of the pro.| N meeting of the national commit ndred infantry at Chihua-| G000 ™04 another severely dam. | others are not yet accounted for, No » |hua City, 2,000 at Ojinaga, 2,000 south man-elect here, W, C. Cook of South | Dakota, and possibly others, in ex- | actly that same situation, but no one is setting up any claim that he should begin active service in advance of the convention that chooses the new com mittee, even though in the case of Mr. | Cook, the sitting member is holding merely by appointment to fill a v cancy created by the death of the pre- viously elected committeeman | PARIS SIBWAY HOLE MA™- BY ZEPPELINS STAYS ~“:N Paris, April 30.—~As a perpetual souvenir of the st visit of the Zep clins to Pari the hole pierced thr the vault of the Metropolitan vard Menilmon and bricked up sather The Wt Hourly Temperatures [‘i{}:\m | l - | ~— o Comparaiive J Ve wl Mecard Beparts frum Satbons ot afternoon casualties of the wreck at Packard, la., of Chicago-Minneapolis passenger train No. 19 were placed at three dead, three missing, fifteen in jured, all but two slightly. Cattle Drown at McGregor. McGregor, Ta $10,000. worth of More than was lost in June 2 stock | a storm that reached the proportions of a cloudburst here last evening. The water flooded stock pens in the rail road yards, drowning hundreds of cattle. Great damage was done in the business section of the city Ground floors and "basements of buildings were flooded, Few business houses escaped damage. Altogether the storm did about $50,000 damage here. Water was up to the tops of the tables in the dining room of the McGregor hotel Heavy Damage at Decorah, Decorah la June About by a severe last night er the upper lowa riv , two bridges near $25,000 damage was done wdstorm here wankee k Island was Thirteen Hundred Enroll for the Fort Harrison Camps yceedings. The claim made by friends |of Governor Brumbaugh that they | will have half of the Pennsylvania delegation is absolutely untrue.” Henry G. Wasson, national com mitteeman from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Brumbaugh faction, today expressed the opinion that Roosevelt is the second choice of about sixty of the seventy-six del- egates from his state He claims forty-one votes for Gov- ernor Brumbaugh on the first ballot. John W. McGrath, private secre- (Continued on Page 2 Mrs. Young Will Handle Cash of Club Federation New York, June Member. of the board of directors of the General , Column 4, Federation of Waomen's Clubs met here today and elected Mrs. William B.. Young of Jacksonville, Fla., treas irer of the federation, She received the secund largest vote the con venti ! as decided t | the next wuncil meeting of the leration at place for the next biennia 1918 wa tponed Storm Lake Man Ends Life n Lake, la, J \ Telegra | | Chicago Convention 1N notables from all over will be a gathering ol the country selusive Photos By arvangement for the sery | e the lnternational Film company will bring readers of The Bes fave o faes with ¢ the political lnaders and not ahles in ationdancs on the big wenling These phatographe will he made by sapert sam spsaking Malf tene likene era-men and " - Look to The Bee for Convention News { tee proper is scheduled until June 12, 4 ‘,“'“‘” (Ihe s‘”m“l\ e ""hy”“ of Chihuahua City, 5,000 in the vicin- " ty of Madera anc e remainde | will be taken up. Thus far the only | 'Y ladera and the remainder di } vided into smaller commands, being contests reported are from Hawaii, di e oVeritiie thr s daacsibed FPorto Rico and the District of Colum f bR e hont v, B and into the Big Bend country . Secretary Baker said General Fun Chairman McCombs and Norman | ston had secured reliable information Mack, national committeeman from . kg [ rning the Carranza troops and aged, while the belief is expressed | British battleships or light cruisers that a large number of German de-|Were sunk. - | stroyers were disposed of [he enemy's losses were serious. I'he news was flashed out in spe-| At least one battle cruiser was de- cial editions of the evening newspa pers and caused greater consternation mn the west end of London than has been witnessed on any previous occa | stroyed and one was severely dam- | a One battleship is reported to have been sunk by our destroyers. During the night attack two light cruisers were disabled and probably New York, arrived this morning ey S A r barbed | $ion since the declaration of war Tt i § f J 3 ! ) s 0 arbec . sunk. The exact number of enemy de- Wilson Will Maxe Selection. wire entanglements constructed. Led Into Mine Field. | stroyers disposed of during the action Washington, June 2.—Selection of The frankness of the admiralty an-| cannot be ascertained with any cer- the permanent chairman of the demo nouncement concerning the serious | tainty, but mu Eight Destroyers of have been large.” “[Hun national convention at St nature of the British losses i-lwl the Berlin, June (By Wireless to .ouis was expected late today at acon B 141 1 Fl L apparently small losses of the Ger-| 5q ~The Germa : Fred B. Lynch, chairman of the ¢ umption in most minds that the | high sea fleet on May 31 had encoun- ccutive committee of the national o Londor June J.—The British ad-| British vessels must have been led | tered a British fighting fleet. The ganization. Senator James is said to |miralty officially announced last night | into a mine field engagement which developed, the ad- be the most prominently considered, | that the total number of British « Following quickly upon the ad-|miralty says, was favorable to the Senator Kern of Indiana and Ator wyers lost the naval engageme miralty announcement came the Ger-| Germans, The battle continued all tone of Missouri are under consider vas eight an official version of the fight, | night ation, L'k nouneeni that hich in genéral confirms the Brit I'he German admiralty announces - ee German battle h account, but carries the claim that the large British battleship War- Austl'lans R(\u(nw i r l A8 the battleship Warsprite also | spite, the battle ‘cruisers Queen Mary 4 / Vs Se ave bee unk and r Britsh battle-| und Indefatigable and two armored Offensive With % Increased Vigor ceman' (terman Men asd ips damaged | The German Losses, [ vere destroyed ported that a small Brit- Fhs | Cliniaas " aate ) d A number of torpedo boat ey ol e k- ye ainid torpedo boats were 1) T Wesibad | : : poss ( A wdmiralty statement German Fleet Appears Guns Stand Test Motor Repair Plants Will Patrol General Pers rvation it was es- large number of flered damage & German ships torpedo boat Marlborough Hjt by Torpedo, ftate t also de- battleship a torpedo, umn | Today's Best Hunch hing’s Supply Line Never \Nidvert Withe ng 0 advertise, omething thowt tin The Om;lu.