Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1916, Page 1

- FLORENCE BANK ANALYSIS OF VT STREET RA! - Part One ~ NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 12 VOL. XLVI—NO. 8 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE OMAHA, SUNDAY ROBBED AT NOON BY AUTO BANDIT Robber Holds Up Cashier of the Bank at the Point of Gun and Gathers Up $1,000 in Cash. MAKES ESCAPE IN AN AUTO States Carri Partner Waits for Him on Out- | side and They Make Hur- ; ried Run to Omaha, [NDIGATES G. 0. P. VICTORY THIE FALL rren Says if Only Half of Progressives Vote for Hughes, His Election Is Sure. FOR ed by Republicans Two Years Ago Are Majority of the Electoral College. BASBIS PREDICTION MOOSE VOTE TCECREASE o ——yb'% o b Y X - o’ STRIKE SPrtADS AS IT PROCEEDS | Traffic on the Surface Lines in | Manhattan and on Staton ; sland Is Abandoned During Evening. COMPANY NOTIFIES POLICE | Attempt to Be Made to Opemtc‘ | Cars on Some of the Lines [ This Morning. . «POLICE ARE HUNTING THEM Detront, Aug 5 (Special) 1ol BUT LITTLE RIOTING NOW cal proguosticators of all party atiiha wo men d Bthe mers’ F'wo men drove up to the Farmers'| jons are very busy these days in niak State bank, - lorence, at noon, them Cashicer Jesse Nelson with a revolver, $1,000 in cash, walked out of the hanl ent inside, “covered” and made his escape with his com- P nion. The men were not masked. They arrived at the bank ar i2:05, nocn The machine was a Cadillac touring car, with license number 32211 One of the men, described vears old, five feet eleven inches tall and weighing 130 pounds, went into the bank, leaving the other m thel car. 1 - woman was at the cashier's win “Pardon me,” said the robber, “I just wanted to ask you about the bal ance of Mr. Mer 2 He then w bank. The woma Covers the Cashier. As soon a- he was alone he walked up to the cashier's window and, push- ing his revolver in tront of Cashier Nelson's face, he said: “How's this for credit? Hand over all the cash you've got and be quick sbout it. | don't want to muss up the floor with you.” All the cash in sight, consisting ot bank notes, gold and silver, was quickly gathered up by the robber. In the meantime W. K. Wall had come out of the rear room and he, too, W covered with the revolver ow, not a word out of you"! warned the young bandit as he back- | =d toward the door. | Came Toward Omaha. He rushed to the automobile, | jumped in and the car started north | A block north of the bank the ban-! dits changed their minds and turned ! around, speeding back past the bank and down the Florence boulevard to- ward Omaha. s By this time Motorcycle W. A G au had been notified. He took up the chase and followed the men in the car as far as Ninetcenth and Cass streets, Omaha, where he) lost them in the dense traffic. He speeded to the Omaha central police station and gave the alarm | 96 2 as 28 ke | w0 the rear of the n soon went out. ne of jing forccasts | from Democrats profess to obtain great comtort over the report that in some states the progressives are apparently not presenting a united Indeed, sanguine enough to predict front ainst democracy Some are hat tic v will obtain enough support progressive voters which, added to the normal democratic vote will insure the election of Wilsan tention is, however, flouted by careful students of the political situation who, by virtue of their ex- perience and connection with the paigns, in intimate workings to of cam- are competent judge { Charles B. Warren, Michigan mem- Inass of the individuals. ber of the republican national com- mittee, has made a comprehensive synopsis of the situation Wilson Elected by Minority. “While estimates are not altogether conving en, “they are valuable as indicating the tend ency toward one candidate or another as regards the party preference of the In twenty- seven states which gave Wilson 283 clectoral votes in 1912 the combined I'aft and Roosevelt votes in that year exceeded the vote cast for Wilson. In fifteen of these states Roosevelt's vote was greater than that of Taft and in twelve Taft's was larger than Roose- velt's. Had the combined Rooscvelt and Taft votes been cast for one can- | didate, that candidate would have re- ceived 279 electoral votes to Wilson's 152—the 152 coming almost entirely from the solid south. Wilson's total vote in 1912 wa 83,054, while the (Continy ‘wo, Column One.) o Southern Publisher And Editor Plan to Fig_hi in a Duel Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 5-—War- n a few minutes three automobiles | rants for the arrest of Victor H. Han- filled with officers armed with shot- |son, publisher of | News, and E. W guns were on the trail. Had Made Deposit. ! The Florence holdup is the first daylight bank robbery on the records of the Omaha police department. Nev- cr before has such a daring robbery been attempted in this city Just an hour or so previous to the oldup officials of the Florence bank ad removed $1,500 in cash from their safe to the State Bank of Omaha. Train Employes Vote For Strike Ninety to One New York, Aug. 5.—With five- sixths of the ballots cast by the 400,- 000 employes of 225 railroad systems throughout the country today, it was wnounced that the men stood 90 to 1 for a strike. Only a few chairmen of the trainmen's unions had not ar- rived this forenoon and it was defi nitely stated by officials of the four trainmen’s brotherhoods — that the count would be fmished on Monday, after which the final vote would be considered and joint conterences with the railroad representatives held. ;-The Wéather. Nebras ¥ tair and continued warm, lowa—FPartly change Temperntures at Omaha Yesterday. eg «—Generall cloudy today. not much i temperaturs —— llours n Records. 1915, 1814 19 Comparative Local 1018 Mean t Precip! 1 rature and precipitation dipartures rmal at Omaha since Marel | thela st two year friioithy smpared with for the oxcess it for the fall sinc March 1 ney for cor. | Reports From Stations at Station, Tompera “heyenne Pavenport. clear Denver, rain Dies Molnew, ¢l City rain { culminating in the publication of ) ! the Birmingham Barrett, editdr of the Birmingham Age-Herald, sworn out before the city recorder to- were day by Arlic Barber, commissioner of public safety, who alleged that the | two men intended to fight a ducl. The warrants are the outcome of a controversy between the two papers, i a card in yesterday morning's Age Herald, signed by W. IL Jefieries, business manager, which Mr. Hanson claimed reflected on his business honor. Mr. Hanson wired Mr. Barrett in Asheville, demanding that he ecither disavow or assume personal 1esponsi bility for the attack. The Age-Herald published the Hanson telegram this morning, together with one from Mr. Barrett, accepting full responsibility and offering to meet Mr. Hanson at any time after next Tuesday Commissioner Barber also swore ont warrants charging criminal libel against Barrett, Jefferies and C. M. Stanley, news editor ot the Age-Her- ald, alleging publication of an article that would tend to proveke a breach of the peace. Mr. Hanson's hond was fixed at $25,000. Mr. Barrett, who now is i Asheville, N. C., will be arrested on his return to Birmingham. No bond lias been fixed in his casc. Owner of Cow Killed By Auto Assessed Dollar Damages Sioux Falls, S. D, Aug. cial.)—Alleging that the cow case was trespassing on the public highway, Otto Fensterman, living near Hartford, escaped with an ad- verse verdict of $1 in a damage suit instituted against him by C. A. Berry, a tarmer and owner of the cow, which was struck and killed by Fensterman's automobile. Berry st rted the action for the purpose of securing a judg men® against Fensterman for the full valuc of the animal. At the trial of the case Fensterman's attorneys brought in a counterclaim against Berry for damage done to Fenster- man’s automobile by the collision with the alleged trespassing cow. The members of the jury must have be- licved there was some justice in the counterclaim, for after long and care- iul deliberation they returned a ver- dict awarding Berry a judgment R against Fensterman in of nes South Dakota TiroropisA Reach San Benito I'he Brownsville, Tex, Aug. $§ First South Dakota infantry toda trained at San Benito, acc vices received here. | cral Parker t two provisional brigs regnlar troog showing ma ginia the gener that the ording to ad- igadier Gen- v reviewed s of state and at Fort Br I'h he lowa and \Vir hy Ik James Wi )y the was desceribed ificent. 1 I better q state troops al as m nare months ad tramed three New York, Aug. S.-->Surface car traffic in the borough of Manhattan nd on Staten asland was suspended at 8 o'clock tomght. The New York Railways company notified the police that 1t wounll attempt to resume op- crations tomorrow mornmg, but no attempt would he to operate on Staten wland until Monday. | Progress of Strike. | New York, Aug As the day wore on it appeared that the strike | of the carmen was gaining headway Inspector Schmidtherger reported that in many cases cars that had been started from the barns in the early | morning were withdraw before the ‘noon hour, and at that time those on the New York Ralway company's! lines had been reduced to 467. The | strike, moreover, threatened to spread i | | | made cars 5 to the lines in Staten lIsland, where the police reported that 93 per cent of the employes of the Richmond Light and Power company had joined the union and presented demands to the company's officials | General Organizer Fitzgerald ap-| pealed to a mass meeting of strikers today not to use violence. After the | meeting adjourned the strikers and | their sympathizers gathered upon the lird Avenue car tracks in front of | the hall and soon stones were being | hurled at passing cars. DPolice re- serves, however, soon scattered the | crowd. Arrests up to midafternoon numbered a dozen A crowd of about 1,000 persons as- sembled around a Third Avenue car, was charged by the police and detec- tives this aftérnoon and a general melee ensued, during which — many persons were clubbed. A woman was arrested. Witnesses said that the car had been stalled by a truck and that the crowd was |]\wely a curious one and peacciul until the police ap- peared, When the police charged some one Yin the crowd began to throw stones and a number were injured. One man at least was knocked insensible. A policerian was taken to a hospital. A few minutes later the crowd be- gan hurling stones at another (ar,’Qh: conductor of which was injured. The | ks MSHE e (Continued on Paze Four, Column Four.) “Detroit Automobile Bandits Have Made Good Their Escape Detroit, Aug. After a fruitless twenty-four-hour search of all sec- tions within a hundred miles radius of Detroit, the police this afternoon | still were without a single clue a to the identity or whereabouts of the | bandits who yesterday robbed —the | paymaster of the Burroughs Adding Machite company of approximately $34,000, in daylight. [t was intimated all hopes of finding the bandits in Detroit had been abandoned. Ihe police, however, have re-| fused to discuss the holdup and all| information as to the progress of | the hunt has been withheld, Two sus-| pects were taken mto custody by de- | tectives today, but were released after | thirty minutes' questioning I'he police today declare one of 1]\{‘ dicories they are working on is the | daring holdup was an “inside job.” They point to the fact that the rob- bery was carried out in broad day- light in a crowded street, in full view of scores of persons without a hitch, as evidence that the bandits must have had a confederate in the Burroughs plant. Ofiicers of the com- pany deny any intimation that any | of their employes possibly was - volved Ernest Marquardt, superintendent ! of police, said late today that all clues | had been run down and had been | found to lead nowhere. { I'he only exception, he said, was in the case of four men arrested on sus- picion in Lansing, Mich I'he de- tectives have been sent there, the superintendent said, but he had little hope in that development | Torreofi-P—aper Says Villa Killed Self to Avoid Capture El Paso, Tex.. Aug. 5-—Francisco Villa, wounded m the right side, mm.a skirmish with the troaps of General Matias Ramos at Hacienda San Juan, Durango, July 1o, ordered his men 10 scatter to save themsclves and then committed suicide, after he had been pursued into the nearby foothills, ac- cording to a story printed in La Radi- cal. a newspaper of Torreon, July 29, a copy of which reached here today. However, the story was not credited at military headquarters or in Juarez. |Forty-One Deaths From Paralysis York Aug epidemic n i lealt] - health depa New 5 in the was sl Little change tantile paralysis bulletin of ty-four hours ending at 10 a. m there fortyv-one deaths and 108 new cases m the greater ity today were MORNING o | by ' iUST 6, 1916—SIX E SECTIONS—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. o\ Tt's Hot Thoea Niohtg for Little Tots (/1:/‘1/‘1,4 / 7 | WANNA DINK O’ WATTER 1 3 OB N AN— ) S VES N < \ ip0Lit 1LOORM. HIS TRIP TO WEST | Republican Candidate for Pres- ] ident Leaves New York | for Detroit. | RESUMES JOURNEY MONDAY NOTHING BUT COUNT VOTES | DISPUTE OVER SECRETARY | | — | —_— v York, Au “I am enter- ing upon the trip with the greatest zest," was the assertion made tonight | Charles E. Hughes, republican | candidate for president, just before he | started upon the campaign journey which will take him across the con- tinent. “It will be most gratifying to have this opportunity of meeting the people and I am anticipating a very | interesting scries meetings,” he added. The nomince, accompanied by Mrs. | Hughes, newspaper men, sccretaries and clerks, left at 9:35 o'clock tonight for Niagara Falls, where they will spend Sunday. Mr. Hughes will leave Monday morning for Detroit, Mich., where he will address two meetings in the evening. San Dicgo, Cal, was added to his itincrary today. It was announced he would speak there the afternoon of Monday, August 21, and at Los Angeles in the evening. Mr. Hughes inspected the new head- quarters of the republican national committee, in Fifth avenue, this aft ernoon. When shown the reporters’ room he remarked: “The seat of gov- crnment, ch?” Guardsmen Will Be Transferred to Reserve Washington, Aug. 5.—National guardsmen now in federal service who complete their required three years of active service will be transferred to the National Guard reserve of their respective state or territories unless they desire to continue with the col-| ors for the full six years of their en- listment and if furloughed to the re- scrve will be sent home at the ex- pense of the government. I'his announcement was made the War department today. In computing enlistments on the new basis full allowance will be made for time served under superseded en- listment contracts of by | Sixth 6ase of Infantile Paralysis at Mitchell D., Aug [he sixth case of mfan- to the Mitchell, Telegram.) tile paralysis was reported board of health this morning 5 (Special ?61 TTING A BIT 'HUGHES STARTS ON KANSAS FOR HUGHES BY IT5 SOLID VOTE Gov. Capper Says Sunflower State Will Give Oandidate 100,000 Majority. Lincoln, Aug | | | | | MINISH QUITS AS COMMITTEE HEAD Chairman of Republican State Oentral Committee Resigns After Controversy. A | 7 (Special Tele-! The resignation of Jesse (. McNish gram.)—"Hughes will carry Kansas as chairman of the republican state by 100,000, the largest majority ever|central committee adddressed to the ) i given by my state for a republican|vice chairman, Ed Beach, was placed candidate.” in the hands of the statg ticket candi- Thus spoke Governor Arthur Cap-|dates at a meeting yesterday. per of Kansas at the Lincoln hotel today the Epworth Assembly now in sion *“Hughes speech of acceptance Mon- day night struck the right chord with us Kansans,” continued Governor Capper. “Objections have heen made that he did nos come out with cnough constructive policies, that his speech was merely a criticism rather than an outline of a definite program, but | notice that the position he took on the questions of the day were a whole lot steadier than the which Wilson has handled our ior eign affairs “In my state rvepublicans and bull Mmoose ¢ pretty well united on the one big issue. William Allen White and Henry J. Allen and most of the other third party men have come back into the ranks and are doing their part for the success of the ticket. Victor ses- | Murdock is out on chautauqua work, and plans to go to China in Septem- ber, so it won't make much difference what he does.” Hundred Trousand Comg _tq Fremont Fremont, Neb, Aug. 6.—(Soecial.) —Fremont 1s prepared to entertain the biggest crowd in its history next week during the fourth annual tractor show. Itiscxpected that 100,000 peo- ple will see the demonstrations dur- g the weck Henry Ford and Lis party of twen- ty-five people will arrive in the city Sunday morning and eo directly to the Wolz camp on the Platte river, which has heen fitted up for the De troit manufacturer and his party. Mr Ford will spend the entire week at the tractor w. Three Ford tractars arrived Sat by capress from Dearborn, Mich., and will be on exhi- hition here during the week. Wedne day has been designated as Fo owners' dav, when Xl owners of Ferd automobiles will v here heasked Col. Welsh Has d Busy Time of It Trying to Produce a Good Alibi The fite of a weather predicter, prognosticator, forccaster and g phet 15, like that of the policeman m the song, "not an casy one Colonel Lucius Aleibiades Weish sat in his office, Toaded up his Jimmie pipe and mourned the waywardness rs hu might Kht Knows 1gbt But he and ¢ er showers he wht. He had Teod mdeed ed 1t everybody thunder shower to ght have sung just 1 1 plained about the had predicted for a good aliln. Oh Condition just right vesterday thunder shower felt N valleys were safe m predict an chasc t of the country.” Cclonel Welsh pomted to the ram and hail storms ot North Dakota“as a possible place where the “condi- tions up the valley” had wandered - stead of sticking to the job of mak my thunder showers in Omaha He didn’t recene hindly a suggestion of someone that there m Manitoba and in pe vesterday “We're he nostorms trons of India just in a weather rut here' fusther strengthenng his “And when this Missour: val- in weather rut t i ¢ contry that can beat he ahby lev gets no section of it's cold, . the Missouri val 1tountl something And sometl I 1 to do that s to ar ut vour finger e present wobbly way in! or | The meeting had been called by after filling a speaking date at|Judge Sutton as the nominee for gov- ernor, ostensibly make mendation for the tary which was to be filled by the chairman. Mr. McNish last evening verified the fact that he had resigned, but declined to discuss the matter further than to say he did not wish to be the campaign manager unless satis- factory to the candidates, and that friction with Judge Sutton had con- vinced him this was impossible It is understood that Mr. Sutton had been insistmg Walter 1. Minor of Lincaln be made secretary of om- mittee and had called the meeting of the candidates for the purpose of re- inforcing his demand Prime Opening Guns. Opening guns of Nebraska's repub- lican campaign will be fired from twin cavalcades of automobiles trav- ersing different parts of the state un- der the captaincy of John L. Kennedy, candidate for United States senator, and Judge A. L. Sutton, aspirant for gubernatorial honors, the automobile brigades to start from Omaha about September 1. These plans for the fall campaign, together with the se- lection of a man suitable to them for the secretaryship of the state central committee all day Saturday occupied the attention republican candi- dates assembled in oifices of Judge Sutton, 340 Bee building. The candidates adjourncd at 4:30 subject to call Candidates for the following offices were present at the conference ernor, Ju A. L. Sutton; licutenant governor, Shumway; attorney gen eral. De Voe; e superintendent of public wstruction, Thomas; land commissioner, Beckman: secretary of to recom- of the Gov- 0 (Continued on Page Four, Column Five.) Hughes Confers With Robins and Crane New York, Aug Ilughes, republican candidate president, had a long talk at quarters with Raymond Robms chairma progressive ational convention, who today in a statement issued from Chicago called upon upon progressives to support Mr. Hu The nominee expressed to Mr s s gratification over the an- nouncement Mr. Hughes had confercuces also with W. Murray Crane of Massachu setts, Preside E. J. James of the University of Ilinois and with Chair- man Willcox of the national commit- tee, with whom he spent much ume in consideri arious detai's of the campaign submitted to him proval 3.—Charles 1 head- ot the Thurstofi‘g .'Condition Is Slightly Improved The condition of Senator John M irston late last was report r in the ere ay ad sinking physicians practically gave his recovery. They an that death mght the twenty-four Thurston Mr his next unced t oceur withs hours. SINGLE position of secre- | THE WEATHER COOLER COPY FIVE CENTS. GERMAN SECOND LINE SYSTEM AT POZIERES TAKEN London Official Report Tells of the Capture of 2,000 Yards of Trenches on the Somme. GERMANS BEATEN BACK French Repulse Series of Vio- lent Assaults on Thiaumont and Fleury S-~tor. HEAVY L] Ger- TEUTON LOSSES \uy man second hine system on a front of London, main 2000 yvards north of Pozieres on the front has been captured hy the British, officiall the was an- nowcd by war oifie this after The statement North ot last might troogs of attack \ustralians and army took part stul. The Ger- secomd line system on a than 2,000 yards was hundred prisoners Pozieres a local which new in the was completely man mam front of more captured, several remaming m our hands Repeated counter attacks subsc- quently delivered agamnst t' - position captured were repulsed, with heavy loss to the enemy ‘Exe pt for some mining activity near Souchez and Loos there was no incident of importance cn the re- mainder of the British front.” Frenct: Repuls Attack:. Paris, Aug. § All German attacks on the French positions last night were repulsed, says the French of- hicial statement, 1ssued this afternoon, ans sustainimg heavy losses: | Bombardment of the most violent | character took place over the entire I sector of Thiaumont and Fleury. The | battle lasted from 9 o'clock last night [until 8 this morning, the Germans making unsuccessful (fforts, the state- ment adds, to drive the French from the Thiaumont work. I'he statement follows “The night passed in relative quiet lon the Somme front. Between the | Avre and Aisne rivers we disparsed iscvcml patrols of the enemy and tok Suce some prisoners, | “On the right bank of the Meuse | the cannonading last night was vio- |lent on the entire sector between Thi: umont and Fleury. The Germans endeavored by furious counter attacks to drive us from the.werk of Fhiau- mont, which we hold firmly. ~ This fishting lasted from Y o'clock last night to this tiorning. It resulted in heavy losscs to the enemy, and each one of their endeavors was repulscd without their heing able to obtain the slightest advantage Battle IR zes About Fleury. “The fighting continued with equal spirit in the village of Ileury, but it resulted with no appreciable change in the situaticn “Ther intermittent tillery fightir.g i other ectors, “On the r.ght bank of the river, to the east of Pont-A-Mousson, after a preparatory artillery fire, the Ger- mans delivered upon our positions in the Facq forest an attack which re- sulted in failurc under the fire of our machine guns, “On the Somme front French scout ing aeroplanes delivered seventeen at- tacks upon the enemy, during the course of which German ma i chines were seriously damaged and compelled to land precipitately within their lines. Two other German aero- iplanes w-re brought down in the region of Verdun. Oue fell near | Abaucourt and the other not far from Moranville.” has been i wo ‘British Position ' East of Port Said Attacked by Turks London, Aug British positions near Romain, cast of Port Said, are being attacked by 14,000 Turks, ac- cording to an official statement is d by the war office. The Turks are attacking along a tront of seven to ecight miles, the statement says, and have so far been repuls An othicial state Turkish war ottice that Turkish with machine about twenty-five Sucz canal cd by the v, stated had attacked runs British positions miles east of the m | airmen Ball Offers Bonus To St. Lou_is Browns 3. —President Ball nericans today of- t $5000 to the team rst place for a day of clothes to it they went lays. mto first division for tl Again and Again Ever since the first week in March BEE Want Ads have increased by more than 1,000 PAID ADS each week. 1195 MORE Paid Want-Ads last week ending 8 5 than same week year ago,