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

People don’t like to buy from unknown merchants, or unknown goods; adver- tising makes steady cus- tomers. VOL. XLVI—NO. 25. § COOLING WINDS BRING RELIEF AT LAST T0 OMAHA 0ld Sol Starts Out to Make a | Record in the Way of Turn- THE OMAHA DAIL MANY STORIES OF MAN-EATING SHARKS Oaptains Reaching Atlap Ports Tell of 8eeing Schoo of Monsters. NUMBER OF THEM CAUGHT OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 17, " TEN MILLIONS| Four Whites and Negro Lose Lives as Result of Cloud- 1916—TEN PAGES. BEE On Traine, at H News Niands eto., HERE'S YOUR MAN-EATING SHARK—The above is a picture of one of the shoal of man- eating sharks, with which the eastern coast is alive. The shark menace has practically stopped beach bathing, because of the vast number of sharks near the coast. THE WEATHER FAIR SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. SOMME ADVANCE - OF BRITONS FREE - OF OLD BLUNDERS Present Offensive Against Gere mans Unmarked by Mistakes | | New York, July 16.—Reports of | sharks killed and captured came from | many points today. Two of the man- | burst in Western Part of North State. Turning Other Campaigns ing on Heat, But Falls Into Tragedies, i | Down in Attempt. EARLY MORNING A SIZZLER People Rush to Lakes and Swimming Pools in Effort to Cool Off. : CROPS STILL UNINJURED It was another scorcher yesterday, | It was the nineteenth day of the con- | tinuous hot spell and during the aft- 1 ¢rnoon the maximum temperature | reached 98 degrees above zero, one degree below the highest of Satur- day Along about 4 o'clock relief came when clouds rolled up in the wind| and the wind brisked up, cooling off | the heated atmosphere. From that | time the temperature went down a| couple of degrees and hour and hy~ 9 o'clock last night it was pretty comfortable. ! The day started in to be a record | hreaker for the season and at noon a | temperature of 90 degrees was re- corded. The mercury continued to| climb until 3 o'clock, when 98 de-| grees, the maximum of the day \\'as“ reached. 8 P'cople thought it was hot, and it | was, but it was not a marker to July 16, 1913, when the mercury climbed t 104 degrees. Yesterday, however, was bad enough for the humidity was there ande it made you feel likt hunting a cool place, none of which were #parent. Great Day for Bathers. Sunday was a great day for the swimmers and they took advantage of the public bathing places to cool off. During the day 8,500 took dips at the Municipal beach. Three hundred had taken baths before 6 o'clock in the morning and 800"before 8. At River- view there was a crowd of 2,500 bath- ing in the pool during the day. Downtown the streets reflected the heat and made the sidewalks seem like the entrance to a furnace. The as- phalt was soft. The heat Saturday and Sunday was so intense as to seriously damage sev- eral downtown rooms. On the roofs covered with tar or creosote roofing compositions the binder softened up to such an extent that where there was an appreciable pitch to the roof it flowed down and into the drain pipes and in several instances ran clear to the gutter for carrying off the water. The heat had considerable effect on the attendance nithe churches, it go- ing down as the temperature went up. Men dispensed with their coats, even in the congregations and church choirs. The parks were popular, many fam- ilies spending the day there sleepnig on the grass and eating their dinners and suppers under the trees. Fine for Crops. While the weather has been unusu- ally hot all over Nebraska, it is not believed that crops have been injured. The Northwestern railroad crop re- port that came in last night, covering conditions up to last Saturday indi- cated that the agricultural situation all through the state is most excel- lent, though there are a few localities where rain would be beneficial to-he corn, especially that planted late. This crop report indicates that all through the South Platte couty the small harvest is finished and that the vield will exceed that of most of the former years. North of the Platte harvest is well under way and will be completed. Some fears had been expressed that the continued hot weather was prov- ing injurious to the corn. The report of the Northwestern dispells all such fears, it indicating that during the last two weeks the weather has been idcal for this cereal and that it has made a most wonderful growth, and that while late in being planted, it has now reached normal condition. | | Western Smelting Company | Elects Officers for Year The annual meeting of the Western | Smelting and Refining company was | held July S5 and the officers rcported very favorably on the business for the “4ast year. This firm was established two years ago and has made an excellent show- | " ing. That the stockholders are well | pleased is evidenced by the re-election of the same officers for the ensuing year, as follows: A. B. Alpin, presi- dent; H. D. Farewell, vice president; . Feldman, secretary and treasurer. The Weather Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. UNC].IANG Hours, e | vepysipszeans vy 1 ; Offical record of temperature and pi itation compared yith the corresponding period of the last thres years: 1016, 1915, 1914. " R4 8 78 68 n 1913, Highest yesterday .. Lowest' vesterday ... Mean temperature 88 30 Preeipitation B I L E e Temperature and precipitation trom the norm phrmal temperature lixcess for the day . Total excess since March 1 Normal precipitation. Deficiency for the da Total Deficlency for cor. perfod, 1915. Deficlency for cor. period, 1914. eating species were caught alive, one being hooked in Princess bay, Staten island, and the other taken in a net at Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Schools of sharks were reported in | Long Island sound. Near Stepping Stone lighthouse one was killed which measured seven and one-nalf feet long. It became entangled in a net. Captain Hill of the steamship Fin- land, arriving from Liverpool today, said he sighted two enormous sharks off Fire Island. Up the Hudson river as far as Os- sining, N. Y., fishermen reported that they had seen the huge fish and three men fishing off the Larchmont break- water in the sound made for shore "when they saw what appeared to be { sharks. Burnasco Employes Looking Forward to Big Picnic Monday All aboard for the annual Burgess- Nash picnic to be held this year at Krug Park tomorrow. This is a year- ly event and is from experience look- ed forward to with keen anticipation by the employes, from the president down to the youngest Burnasco. As usual, special cars will be at the door- of the store at 5 p. m. to take the great corps of workers to the park for their annual outing. JIim- ployes upon leaving the store will be given a ticket coupon, entitling them to the entrance to the park, transpor- tation, lunch with ice cream, frolic, merry-go-round, ferris wheel and through the old mill. cold lemonade will be handy through- out the lunch. : : An unusual feature of this vear's picnic is the fact that the employes are given the privilege of inviting their outside friends and family to meet them at the park. . Another feature is that instead of | button badges, as in former years, every member will wear a turkish fez cap of maroon felt with “Burgess- Nash 1916, Krug Park” printed in gold lettering. Maroon and gold are the stores’ colors. Among the contests will be a 50- yard dash for the buyers and depart- ment managers; 25-yard dash for the ladies; 25-yard dash for girls; 50-yard | dash for, men; 25-yard dash for boys; special 50-yard dash for the winners of the first and ‘second prizes in the buyers’ and men’s races; egg and sgoon race; necktie and collar race in 1 -yard laps; ice cream eating contest for boys; ball throwing contest for girls, after which “the bunch” will or do whatever sport | dance, ride, sin they particularly fancy. Inquiry Being Made To Uncover Old Loan Made by Gov. Butler (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, July two | dances, ride on the roller coaster, Barrels of | 16.—(Special.)—In- ‘ TRAFFIC AT STANDSTILL, | Several People Reported Ma- rooned as Waters Sweep Over Country. |WIRE SERVICE ORIPPLED Ashville, N, C, July 16—Five 'known dead and property damage | estimated at $10,000,000, caused from la cloudburst over western North | Carolina today. The known Cantain J. C. Lipe, Miss | Nellie Uipe and Mrs. Leo Mulhol- ;lamL all drowned in Captian Lipe's house at Baltimore, and Lonnie Trex- ;ler and an unidentified negro | Rcports late tday were that two |dams at Hendersoville, , N. C,, and | | the big dam and Lake Toxoway had | broken: Railway traffic in this sec-| [tion is at a standstill as a result of | slides and washouts and telegraph | people are reported marooned Miss Mabel Foster and Miss Char- lotte Walker, the two nurses reported | {drowned in the Maltimore hospital, | carly dead are have been saved, according to reports | just received. Murder of Wife of . St. Joe Prosecutor Remains a Mystery St. Joseph, Mo., July 16.--Twenty hours after the murder of Mrs. Oscar D. McDaniel, wife of the prosecuting attorney, in her home and the at- | tempted assasination of McDaniel | the case tonight is as much a mystery |as ever. A dozen or more suspects were arrested in the course of the | day, but all were released. The theory has been abandoned that the murder was only one step in |a plot for wholesale jail delivery and |revenge upon the prosecuting attor- ney. A threatening letter received by | McDaniel about two weeks ago and Ithe. finding of a kit of tools today which could be used for a jail de- livery appeared to bear this out." It i8 now suspected by officers that the anonymous letter was written in- side the jail and a prisoner who was in the jail on a charge of highway robbery is believed by the police to know something about it. He and several other prisoners were ques- tioned by the police today and it is r;lmored that one of them supplied a clue. Suspend Loading of Submarine and This May Delay Its Going . Baltimore, July 16—The load- {ing of the cargo for the re- |turn trip of the German submarine vestigation is on at the capitol to un-|merchantman Deutschland was sus- cover facts concerning $5,000 loane by Governor Davvid Butler back i 1870 to J. M. Smith, from the stat educational funds. The governor too as security a mortgage on SIX lot: at the northeast intersection Eighteenth and O streets. The matte was discovered by Dr. G. O. W Farnam, who has recently closed of | d [pended late this afternoon, and al- n|though a permit was obtained for ¢ | work tomorrow it was undecided to- k | night whether it would be taken ad- s {vantage of. A sccond gang of stevedores was r!put to work today loading the rub- /. ber that is to be carried to Ger- a|many- It originally was intended to deal to purchase the rots from a Cali- [ship this commodity in bags, in which fornia man and who ran against th snag in the title. No warrant existed for such a loan, | it is said at the state house, but such | transactions were common in thos ays. It was on a charge of simila dealings that Governor Butler wa impeached a short time later. nvestigation among county record show that a payment of $3,000 ha been made. No such records wer found at the capitol by Westering of | the treasurer’s office and Willis of th auditor’s office, who have been porin, through old state files in the basement for several days. Records were found, had been made on the loan. fection. To quiet the title it will be neces- | sary to determine if the transactiol was made illegally, or if the loan is outlawed. It is possible that the state can still collect the amount due. Villa Glimpsed Again In State of Durango Eagle Pass, Tex., July 16.—Fran- , state cisco Villa was seen in Mapimi of Durango, Mexico, on June 26, ac- cording to advices recieved here to- day. Mapimi was occupied by the Villa forces without resistance, the information stated. Chihuahua City, Mexico, July 15— J. Beltran, one of Villa's chief lieu- tenants and a participant in the mas- sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was killed in the engagement at Cerro Blanco July 12, reports to General Jacinto Trevino today indicated, Nebraska Association Gives Annual Outing| (From a Staff Correspondent.) Washington, July 15.—(Special Tel- egram.—The Nebraska association gave its annual outing at Glen Echo today. It was attended by a large number of resmdent Nebraskans, in- i cluding several members of congress) however, where four payments of $250 interest It was | also found that in 1886, sixteen years | later, the matter had been put ip the hands of the attorney general for col- | ¢ it had been packed, but it was found this would take up too much space. The removal of the rubber from the bags consequently will cause an un- expected lengthening of the time for loading and it is considered improb-| able that the Deutschland could get| away with a full cargo before Mon- day night. No nickel so far has been loaded on the submarine, while ap- parently less than fifty tons of rub- ber have been placed in the hold. Boys Swimming in Loup River Drowned| Sl r s s d e e g Monroe, Neb., July 16.—(Special| Telegram.)—While bathing in the Loup river this afternoon John and Adolph Buhlmann, aged 22 and 17 n | years, were drowned., The accident occurred about two miles west of herc {and was witnessed by several who | were in the river at the time, One of | the boys attempted to rescue the elder Buhlmann, but came very near being dragged under. Neither of the vic- tims could swim. After a search for the bodies the youngest one was recovered late in the afternoon, but the older one has not been recovered and scarch is be- ing continued. \Screened Buildings For Troops on Border ! | San Antonio, Tex., July 16.—Half a million dollars will be spent by the quartermaster’s department in the erection immediately of screened buildings to be used as kitchens and dining rooms for troops on the bord- er. Notification that the War depart- | ment had authorized the expenditure was re:eived at departmental head- quarters today. The screen wire buildings will be erected along the border. Approximately 2,000 militiamen passed through San Antonio today on the way to border stations. Reports from border commanders contained no news of raids. MAN-EATING SHARK RINKAID HOPES 10 SOLVE PROBLEN Congressman From Sixth Be- lieves Water Will Be Released. HANGS ON LANE AND DAVIS (From a Statf Correspondent.) Washington, July 16.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Judge Kinkaid, who has been on a nervous tension over re- ports coming in from his district about the shortage of water in the Platte be- cause of its impounding in the Path- finder dam, said today that he believed relief would be granted by the recla- mation service just as soon as an agreement could be reached as to the amount of water needed by senior farmers along the river. ¢ Following the resolution passed by Senator Hitchcock yesterday calling upon the secretary of the interior for a report “as to what extent the waters of the Platte river would naturally be available for irrigation of crops at this season of the year in Nebraska as far east as Kearney and that have been impounded in the Pathfinder reser- voir,” Judge Kinkaid had a long con- ference with members of the reclama- tion commission today. He learned that, although without authority to act in the absence of Secretary Lane and Director Davis, they would sug- gest that the water be sold to those now in need because of the lowness of the Platte at 20 cents per second foot per acre. Whether this agreement could be consummated glepends on. the secre- tary of the interior and Director Davis, both at present away from the city. Charge of British Cavalry Staged as In Napoleonic Wars ‘British Front in France (Via Lon- don), July 16—After the breach was made in the second German line yes- terday cavalry detachments, English and Indian, for the first time had the reward of their year's wait since trench \yarfarc began, They went straight in the face of the Germans, who were forming a new defense line between the strong points of High wood and Delville wood, which the | British infantry was attacking. It was 7:30 in the evening when they rode forth from the cover where they were awaiting orders to cross the fields after their patrols had felt the way with clear going ahead, and be- hind them the demolished trenches of the first and second lines and an area of shell holes, which made diffi- | cult progress to their rendezyous. The | infantrymen could hardly believe their eyes. When some Germanss with auto- matic rifles, which are virtually port- able machine guns, blazed from a wheat field the Dragoon guards set their lances and charged, wheeled and rode back through them, as might have been done in the Napoleonic war. Thus for the first time in eight- een months of continuous warfare on the western front, with its continuous bayoneting, bombing, gasing and shelling, an enemy was immediately impaled from a horse. Germans Give Figures, Ask Allies for Some Berlin, July 16—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—The war office published today a list of the types, classes of motors and names of occupants of twenty-two French and British aero- planes captured by the Germans on the western front last month. In its statement the war office asks the French and British authorities to pub- lish details “in regard to German aeroplanes which our enemies pre- |tend they have captured.” ® CREW THAT CAUGHT IT. S e - O/NR.FILM SERVICE, Germanu Ei?fb;ts ; To Force Back the Russians Failure Petrograd, July 15.—(Via London.) —The Germans made a determined effort yesterday to force back the Russians in the region of Baranovichi, where heavy fighting has been in progress for some time. Three times the Germans launched attacks in massed formation. The war office announced today that these attacks had been broken down and that the Russians, initiating a counter attack, made further progress. The anrouncement says: “On Thursday evening the Ger- mans, under cover of a violent fire, approached our barbed wire entangle- ments in the regicn of the village of Liobanichi. They were repulsed by our artillery .fire. “Yesterday the Germans opened a violent artillery fiie against our lines castward of Gorodichtche Barano- vichi sector, after which they assumed the offensive in the region of Skro- ‘owa, but were repulsed with heavy losses. A little later, after a continua- tion of the bombardment, the enemy took the offensive in massed forma- tion, a little further north of Skro- bowa, but were ngain repulsed by our fire. After having taken breath, the Germans made a fresh attack in the region of the same village, but our troops repulsed the enemy with ma- chine gun and rifle fire. We then made a counter attack, which resulted in the capture of more ground, which we are now consolidating.” Rioting Results in * Coast Cities as the Result of Big Strike Seattle, Wash,, July 16—~Two men were shot and seriously wounded and a third, a negro longshoreman strike- breaker, was stabbed and severely beaten during a riot which started carly tonight near the heart of the downtown retail district, The negro was set upon by a gang of strike sympathizers as he was leav- ing the waterfront, was chased up- town and knocked down and kicked into unconsciousness. Tacoma, Wash.,, July 15.—Rioting prevailed on the principal business streets here tonight when crowds of striking longshoremen and strike sympathizers chased negro strikebreakers from the Milwaukee dock to the uptown district. Half a dozen negroes were assaulted but none, it is reported, were seriously hurt. The strike situation had become so acute that a citizens' committec ap- peared today before the judge of the superior court and presented a peti- tion requesting that a grand jury be called to investigate recent riots and the alleged inactivity of the city and county police officers. The petition was taken under advisement until Monday. Buffalo Democrats Adopt Resolutions Kearney, Neb., July 16.—(Special.) —In an enthusiastic convention here today the democrats of Buffalo coun- ty adopted resolutions lauding the national and state administrations. Keith Neville and Ed B. McDermott, candidate for congress, went on rec- ord for the passing and enforcing of laws should the dry amendment carry this fall. They decried the attempt to mix the political parties up in the ef- fort to force prohibition and then elected twenty-one delegates to the state convention to be held at Has- tings. Dr. A. D. Cameron was elect- ed county chairman and Frank W. Brown secretary. There was more than one hundred delegates in attendance in spite of the torrid weather and the fact that farm- ers were busy in the wheat fields. Plans . for an aggressive campaign were laid and the crowd listened to speeches by the candidates of the county, GUARDSHEN WANT RIDE ON SLEEPERS Michigan Militiamen Refusing to Go South in Day Coaches Are Pacified. THEY LEAVE MUSCATINE Muscatine, Ia, July 16.—Troops of the Thirty-second Michigan National Guard, which refused today to con- tinue farther toward the border un- less supplied sleepers, were pacified late today-and coninued on. their way. It is understood the men were proms- ised somewhat better accomsodations than they have been afforded thus far on the trip. Whether these include sleepers could not be learned tonight. Investigation Is Begun. . Washington, July 15.—An investiga- tion of the conditions under which National Guardsmen have been trans- orted to the Mexican border has been instituted by the War department in response to the Moore resolution passed by the house calling on Secre- tary Baker for the facts. Depart- mental commanders have been in- structed to make special reports. Al- though officials said tonight the regu- lar reports ‘already in hand showed that never before in the nation’s his- tory had troops been moved wunder such comfortable and favorable con- ditions, Jay Burns Declares Details of the Baking Trade Known by Few “Everyone eats bread, almost everyone buys the bread he eats, yet not one person in a thousand knows anything of the details of the baking business,” declared Jay Burns of Omaha, president of the National As- sociation of Master Bakers, who will hold their annual convention at Salt Lake City, August 7 to 11, inclusive. This is the reason, according to Mr. Burns, that the national association is about to inaugurate a change in polic?'. “The baking business has under- gone a radical change in the last couple of decades,” Mr. Burns con- tinued, “and from being a small pro- osition in which a few men were interested, it has become the concern of many, requiring the investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in many instances. The steady in- crease in the business and the acute competition has developed many problems of which the baker of a generation ago knew nothing. The present war in Europe, with its greatly enhanced cost of all food pro- ducts, has intensified the problems of the baking trade so that the lead- ing bakers of the country today feel that they desire to take the public into their confidence and work co- operatively towards the production of | the best sort of bread possible. To this end the program of the Salt Lake City convention will be di- vided almost equally between the scientific side af baking and the pos- sible form which educational work with the general public make take, “Not only are the bakers inter- ested in producing palatable and nutritous bread nngcr sanitary con- ditions, but they are concerned in many colateral matters such as standardized flour, regulations for transportation of foodstuffs, and sim- ilar problems of general interest to the public.” Man Who Wrote “Wild Man 0f Borneo” Meets Death San Francisco, July 15.—William Barton, 87 years old, who was known a generation ago as a song writer, died in a hospital here today a victim of apoplexy. Barton was a successful contractor, took up song writing as a hobby, “The Wild Man of Borneo” was oneof his produc- tions.. EVERYTHING WORKS OUT English Are Holding All Ground Gained and Are Continuing to Forge Ahead. ] TWO THOUSAND TAKEN BULLETIN. Berlin, July 16.—(Via London.)=e Four British attacks in the region of Ovillers and Bazentin Lepetit, north of the river Somme, broke down yese terday afternoon in front of the Gese man lines, says the German official statement issued today. South of the Somme, German troops occupied & portion of the Village of Biaches, the statement adds, and French attacks near Barleux and in the region of Estrees, were repulsed with heavy losses t the attackers. The French entered the German first lines southe west of Thiaumont work, wehere | fighting continues. London, July 16.—With the excepe tion of a heavy bombardment there were no events of importance on the Somme battlefront since the last re« port, says the British official state- ment issued this evening. Five heavy Howitzers and four 77-milimetre guns were captured by the British yes- terday. London, July 16—The British forces have held all the ground gained in Friday's advance and taken two or three more small sectors of trenches in the German second line. This is the gist of Saturday’'s news from the front in France. Two thousand prisoners were cape tured in the last advancé and at one point the British are four miles bes yorid the German first line, which they crossed thirteen days ago. In all 10,000 prisoners and quantities of war material have falten ‘into British hands. ‘ All tidings from the front from cor- respondents and wounded agree that the British plans have been well worked out and executed. There are no repofts of failure of the reserves to arrive, which turned the battle at Loos from victory into a costly stale- mate, or, of similar incidents, nor of strategic errors or a shortage of sup- plies, which changed the Mesopotam- 1an and Gallipoli campaigns into tragedies. Rests on Workingmen, General Sir Douglas Haig and his fellow Scotchman, Sir Will Rob- ertson, chief of the imperial staff, as fighting and planning leaders, backed by the bureau of munitions, appear to be a strong combination, while the entire organization and the fixlgtms, qualities of the new army, pittes against the oldest and most hlglgly organized modern military ‘machine in the world, have been exceeding the nation’s anticipations. Upon the work- ingmen of Great Britain rests the ulti. mate burden of the war, for all public speakers and newspapers lay stress on the need of an unlimited supply of ammunition. L The cost in Jife of the British at« tack cannot yet be estimated. The officers’ casualty list issued tonight names 113 killed, nineteen died of wounds, 156 wounded, eighteen miss- ing and believed killed and fifty-one wounded and missing. Three-fourths of the officers listed are second lieutenants and their average age is 22 years, Russ Repulse Germans. On the Russian front, the most ine tense fighting is taking place near Baranovichi, while the situation on the Stokhod river remains unchanged, The village of Skorbowa has been the scene of desperate encounters, both Petrograd and Berlin announce. The Russian war office details the repulse’ of three German attacks. The Russian war office details the repulse of three German attacks against the village, after which the Russians attacked and gained new positions. Berlin claims the recapture of parts of the positions lost to the Russians in the Skrobowa region ‘early in July, In addition Prince LeopolJ:A forces took 1,500 prisoners. Northwest of Friedrichstadt the Germans have repulsed Russian ate tacks while the Russians assert they repulsed a German offensive southeast of Riga. 1483 More Paid Want Adins The Bee for the Week Just Ended, 7-15, than in the Same Week One Year Ago An Increase of 67% Bee .Wln;-Adl are gaining by leaps and boundss +