Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 10, 1916, Page 1

( Part One NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10. VOL. XLVI;NO._ 18. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1916—SIX SECTIONS—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. SING THE WEATHER SHOWERS LE COPY FIVE CENTS. BANK CLEARINGS FIGURES SHOW UP OMAHA'S GROWTH Statistics Published in Dun's Review Credit Nebraska Metropolis With Great Gain. ARE 656 PER CENT GREATER Comparisons With Other Cities Bring Out High Local Standing. MANY FALL WAY BEHIND BY A. R. GROH. Figures are tiresome things. That is their one bad point. Their good point is that they “don't lie,” though many people have expressed serious doubts about the figures on taxicab meters. However, when the figures indicate such marvelous growth of growing Omaha as the latest bank clearing figures indicate, they are not tiresome to Omahans. 4 Bank clearings in Omaha for Au- gust, this year, were 65 per cent greater than they were in August, last year. They increased from $72,248960 to $111,471,722. That's worth an excla- mation point or two. (!1) hese figures are published in Dun’s Review, and all other statistics given here are taken from the same competent authority. “Well, that's a big increase, all right,” you say, “but how does * Omaha compare with sister cities of about the same size?” We're glad you asked that question because we can give a very gratify- ing answer—gratifying to Omaha, that is. _ Taking the 1910 United States cen- sus figures, we find that the com- bined population of Omaha and South Omaha was 150,353. Minneapolis had 3 population of al- most exactly twice%hat large. Were the bank clearings of Minneapolis twice as great as those of Omaha ‘n August? They were not. They were only 10 per cent greater than Omaha’s to wit, $123,354,001. St. Paul, with a population of 214,- 000, had bank clearings of only $59,- 000,000 (we’ll drop the odd thousands and hundreds). Kansas City, with a population of 248,000, makes a good showing, Let us give her credit. Her August clearings were $452,000,000. Shows' Up. Sisters. Now let us look around the coun- try and find a few-sister cities in va- rious localities whose population is _just about the same as Omaha’s. And we'll see how their bank clearings ran in August, Here they are: ‘Population. Clearings. Omaha 150,000 $111,000,00¢ ‘Worcester, 137,000 15,000,000 Syracuse, 137,000 16,000,000 Atlanta, Gi 165 000 65,000,000 Columbus, O. 181,000 41,000,000 Toledo, O.....s 168,000 88,000,000 Oakland, Cal.. 160,000 18,000 000 Omaha can even take some cities with much larger populations, ac- cording to the 1910 census, and show them cards and spades. * Here's Denver, with 213,000 folks and clearings of $35,000,000. Los An- cles, with 319,000, has but $105,- ,000 in clearings, Milwaukee, that famous place, with 373,000 people, has only $81,000,000 in clearings. And Omaha with $111,000,000! Lobeck Leaves for Home From Washington Today {From a Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Sept. 9.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Representative Lobeck has made all arrangements to leave for Omaha tomorrow afternoon. President Wilson before adjourn- ment of congress signed the bill giv- ing $20 a month pension to civil war widows over 70 years of age. The bill also gives a pension to widows who have married since 1890 up to and including 1909. Attorneys will not be permitted to collect fees. Earnings of Steam Railroads Increase Washington, Sept. 8.—Sixty-seven of the largest steam railways earned a net revenue of $545 per mile during last July, an increase of §43 a mile over July, 1915. A summary made public today. by the Interstate Com- merce commission shows net revenues totaled $41,355,921 compared with $36,- 328,588 in July, '1915. The largest gains were made in the east. The Weather For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vieinity— For Nebraska—Unsettled, probably show- ers. Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. Hour, D PEPEPEPErFrEEER m. Comparative Local Record. 1916, 1915. 1914, 1913, 1% 191 8 [ 64 Highest yesterday... Lowest yesterday Mean temperature Precipitation .. Temperature from the normal: Normal temperature. Excess for the day. . Total «xcess since March 1, Normal precip':ation Deflclency for the da; Total rainfall since 8 Deficlency since March 1 10.20 inches ncy for cor. period, 1916, .16 inch Deflelency for cor. period, 1914. 4.73 inches “T" indlcates traco,of precipitation, L. A. WELSH, Meteorologlst, BULGARIANS FIFTY MILES IN ROUMANIA German Report Says Invaders Make Rapid Progress on Black Sea Coast. HOLD TURKS AND TEUTONS Berlin (Via Wireless to Sayville), Sept. 9.—Correspondents with Bul- garian and German forces which are invading Roumania report that along the Black Sea coast an advance of cighty kilometers (about fifty miles) beyond the frontier already has been made. They express the opinion that the progress of the invaders, who have occupied several important po- sitions on the coast and elsewhere in Dobrudja/ explains the irresolution and comparative inactivity of the Roumanian forces, which, having in- vaded Transylvania, are now merely sending out small dc’ichments to re- connoiter, Not only Roumanians, but Rus- sians, have been defeated by the Bul- garians in Dubrudja, the correspon- dents say, and this destroys the le- gend that Bulgarians will not fight Russians, Turks and Teutons Repulsed.. Petrograd, Sept. 9.—(Via London.) —German and Turkish troops are en- gaged in stubborn fighting with Rus- sian forces in Galicia, on the river Naraiuvka, in the direction of Halicz, according to an official statement is- sued today by the Russian war de- partment. A counter attack made by the Turks and Teutons, the state- ment adds, was repulsed by the Rus- stans. Russian torpedo boats, it is de- clared, bombarded the Roumanian port of Baltjik, on the Black Sea, and sank twenty-one barges in which the Bulgarians, who had occupied the seaport, were shipping bread. The statement says: “German-Turkish counter attacks on the river Naraiuvka, in the direc- tion of Halicz, were repelled by our fire. In this area stubborn fighting continues, : “In the Carpathians, south of Bar- anoff, our troops rarried a series of heights, taking more than 500 prison- ers and capturing five machine guns and a mountain battery. “Caucasian front: In the region of Ognott stubborn fighting continues. “Black Sea: Our torpedo boats bombarded the port of Baltjik, on the Roumanian coast, and sank twenty- one barges in which the Bulgarians were shipping bread from this port. Enemy seaplanes attacked our tor- pedo boats without result.” In the Carpathians, south of Bar- anoff, the Russians stormed a series of heights. They took 500 prisoners, the announcement says, and captured a.mountain battery- of several cannon which had been thrown into the rav- ines. Artillery Duel in Macedonia. London, Sept. 9.—“The artillery duel on our Doiran front continues,” says today's official account of the campaign in Macedonia. “On our Struma front Thursday evening our artillery silenced an enemy battery which was shelling Orljak bridge. Our artillery dispersed several par- ties of the enemy.” Serbians Take Offensive. Paris, Sept. 9.—The Serbians on the Macedonian front took the offensive last night in the region of Lake Ostrovo. The war office announced today that after a violent engage- ment they captured a height west of the lake. Kennedy Meeting With Favor in Talks Wolback, Neb., Sept. 8—(Special.) —John L. Kennedy of Omaha, re- publican candidate for 'United States senator, spoke here at a street meet- ing of democrats and republicans to- day at noon. He was accompanied by a party of republicans from Cush- ing, where he had spent the morning. Mr. Kennedy pleaded for American- ism of the unselfish sort and deplored the efforts of politicians to minimize the importance of the foreign-born citizens in American life, His advocacy of convict labor on the public roads and of preparedness for war and for peace after the war evoked a lively response. Congressman Moses P. Kinkaid will join Mr. Kennedy today in Greeley county and assist in the cam- paign in this congressional district. Numerous democrats are announcing that they will vote for Mr. Kennedy for United States senator and for Judge Sutton for governor. AUSTRIANS BLOW - UP HALICZ FORTS ~ ASRUSS ADVANCE | Teutons Destroy Sgveral of Stronghaldzs®zo8: 3ridge R}”: ‘,“fltl":"s terg \”‘N e i T |SLAVS UPON LEFT BANK Berlin Admits Czar’'s Forces in Oarpathians Are Pressing Nearer Hungary. FRENCH TAKE TRENCHES London, Sept. 9.—The Austrians licz, Galicia, according to dispatches published by the Petrograd Russky Slovo and forwarded by the Reuter correspondent, The Russians have oc- cupied some of them. The great bridge across the Dne- ister, the dispatch adds, has been blown up. Russians hold the left bank and are cannonading the retreat- ing Austrians, Two railway trains have been wrecked. Russ Nearer Hungary. Berlin, Sept. 9 (Via London).— Forces of the central powers in the Carpathian mountains, northwest of Kapul, says t8day’s official report, is- sued by the German general staff, yielded yesterday before the pressure exerted by the Russians. French Take Trenches. Paris, Sept. 9 (Via_London).— French troops, by a brilliant assault this afternoon, captured a section of German trenches east of the village of Fleury (Verdun- sector), according to the official communication issued by the war department, 2 German attempts to retake positions in the neighborhood of Berny, on the Somme front, were repulsed. Attorneys Prince Sue Saloon Keeper And His Bondsmen Grand Island, Neb., Sept. 9.—(Spe- cial Telegram.)—Sheriff Sievers has served® notice on Theodore Boehm, local agent of the Southern Security company, and like papers will be served on Frank Shank, Harm Shank and Tom Dwyer of. Silver Creek, Neb., as co-defendants in a suit for $5,000 damages brought by Attorneys W. A. 1Irincfc and H:{:ld P;gncc ;g the result of an, -on,_them by Harm gfinnk and’” Tom Dwyer in front of the Shank saloon at Silver Creek. While the license for this saloon is in the name of Frank Shank, it is alleged that the conspi- racy to assault was formed in the sa- loon, and it is further contended that Harm Shank is the real owner, but could not secure a license in his own name, That it is intended to fight the case vigorously is indicated by the fact that the papers show the fol- lowing lineup of local talent for Mr. Prince: Horth & Ryan, W. H. Thompson & Son, T. O. C. Harrison, F. W. Ashton, J. L. Cleary and Har- old Prince. Judge Woodrough Holds Inheritance Tax Must Be Paid That George Warren Smith of Rockport, Me., and Atlantic, N. J., sole heir of the late Francis Smith, must pay Douglas county an inheri- tance tax approximating $25,000 was the finding of Judge Woodrough in federal court Friday. The late Francis Smith and George Warren Smith owned Douglas coun- ty property totalling about $1,800,000 in value. Attorneys for Smith sought to convince the court that this joint ownership dissipated an inheritance tax until thc death of both men. County Attorney Magney contended the tax on half of the estate became due upon the death of Francis Smith. Judge Woodrough concurred with a decision made by Bryce Crawford in county court and held that no joint ownership such as was represented could exist when it clearly evaded the laws of the state, as the one in question appeared to do. Loss of Cruiser Méfi:phis Probavblyl Due to an Undersea Earthquake New York, Sept. 9.—Vivid descrip- tions of the marine phenomenon which caused the destruction of the United States armored cruiser Mem- phis, with the loss of about forty of its crew in the harbor of Santo Do- mingo on August 29, were given to- day by witnesses of the disaster, who had arrived on the steamer Iroquois. The conjecture that the disaster was the result of an undersea eruption was strenglhcne_d by assertions that nothing resembling a gale accompan- 2 |ied the sudden disturbance. The theory that the big seas which tossed the 15,000-ton warship on the rocks was caused by an undersea shock transmitted from a disturbance on the preceding day at Dominica, British West Indies, was advanced by Captain Theo De Booy of the Ameri- can Indian Heye Foundation, an eye witness of the catastrophe. This theory, said Captain De Booy, is borne out by the fact that Dominica lies east-southeast of Santo Domingo and the seas threw the Memphis in a west-northwesterly direction ashore, “The strange phenomena,” he said, of all who beheld it, including the na- tives of the island, accustomed as they are to outbursts of tropical storms. It had been blowing a hur- ricane from the southeast for two days, but on the morning of August 29, the sea was calm and there was no wind. Then the sea became sud- denly turbulent. The roadstead be- came an angry mass of foaming waves in which no small craft could live. “As the fury of the marine disturb- ance increased the Memphis was seen to be dragging its anchor and grad- ually being driven ashore. Finally a wave that seemed larger than any that had preceded it, lifted the war- ship, held it on its summit for a mo- ment and then dashed it down on a submerged reef within 200 yards of dry land. From the after ventilators of the cruiser was pouring a cloud of steam, Immense waves were still breaking over it, some of them as high as the top of its furnels, and the Memphis was shoved ashore un- til Yit was only fifty yards away. An improvised breeches buoy was put in operation and the men on the wrecked | ship were brought ashore, some of them terribly burned from explosion “was absolutely new to the experience | of its boilers.” ~ have begun to blow up forts at Ha-{ ° When Silence Doesn't Satisfy .. x - r///// MAMMA ! (:MI / PUT ON MY NEW ROLLER SKATES ®, 77, 77777/ 110/, 1)1 TEE BT g THEY OUGHT TO BE,COMING HOME ABOUT NOW ! MAMMA ! JINMY HIT ME WIV A STICK ! S BEACH 1§ PLEASED OVER THE CAMPAIGN Republican Chairman Has Been Hearing Many Favor- able Reports. DEMOS APPEAR‘ IN DUMPS (From a Staft Cnrn-;ondant.) Lincoln, Sept. 9.—(Special,)—Chair- man Beach of the republican state committee expresses himself as more than satisfied with reports brought in from all parts of the state. All day and well into the evening headquarters at the Lindell hotel were thronged with visitors, most of them bringing in reports of strong republican senti- ment in their part of the state. The state candidates especially were pleased with the situation, and, being in constant touch with repre- sentatives of the party from different arts of the state, expressed the be- ief that the whole ticket would go in by good majorities. Secretary Beebe left this”morning for a Sunday visit at his home in Osceola and will return Monday, but before going he said: “You may say as coming from me that there is nothing to it but victory all along the line. I tell you it is in the air. I have talked with hundreds of men from all over the state this week and if the things they tell are true, and I believe they would have no reason for representirig it other- wise, we are going to elect the whole ticket from top to bottom and have a working republican majority in both branches of the legislature. You can’t get away from it. The other fellows recognize it. They don’t say so, of course, but thereis an air of discour- agement about the situation which crops out in conversation with .the men who are running the campaign, They don’t appear to be able to get any ginger into the situation. ’ “Of course, Arthur Mullen reports to the fellows down in Washington that things look good. That is a part of his duties as a national committee- man, “The Mullen crowd killed off the Bryans and now that they have killed them off they are frantically trying to resurrect the remains in hopes that funeral expenses may be saved and that Bill and Charlie will forget and forgive and get out and hustle to elect the crowd which put them to the bad at the primary.” Wilson Arrives At S_h_a,ilow Lawn Long Branch, N. Sept. 9.—Presi- dent Wilson arrived at the summer capital, Shadow Lawn, here today after an uneventful trip by motor from Atlantic City, A small crowd greeted him on his arrival. The president plans to spend most of his time here until after election. Goes to the Reform School For Stealing Five Bicycles Homeless Charley Daniels, a col- ored lad of 16 years, whose father is in the state penitentiary, will be given an education at the state industrial school at Kearney. When Charley came before Judge Leslie in juvenile court, charged with stealing bicycles so that five other friends might go joy riding, the little fellow broke down and told his troubles. Proba- tion Officer Miller vouched for his former good behavior, Aaron Smith and Theodore Mitchell, both colored boys, who were also members of the joy riding party, were paroled to their parents on promise of exemp- lary fiehavior hereafter. The five bicycles were recovered. | ithc automobile repair business,” he Ad. Contest Prize Winners Full list of prize winners in The Bee’s Selection Con- test, with their choice and letters, will be found on page b. FRDERAL INQUIRY [NT0 BREAD PRICES District Attorney Olyne Says Says Plan Announced by Chicago Bakers Illegal, MAKES PRICE SIX OENTS Chicago, Sept. 9.—Federal investi- gation of the National Association of Bakers' plan to make the price of bread 6 cents instead of 5, was started here today. Charles F. Clyne, United States district attorney, said the «plan for one baker in a community to advance the price, and then have the others fol- low, would constitute a violation of the anti-trust law. Six-cent loaves of bread for Chi- cago consumers within a week was redicted today as the result of con- erences yesterday between local bakers and the wholesale bread manu- facturers " from all sections 'of the United States. A million loaves of bread are con- sumed in Chica%o every day, it is esti- mated, and the 1 cent increase would mean $10,000 more added to the household expenses every day for bread alone. Weather Next W=k Will- Be Generally Fair Washington, Sept. 9.—Weather pre- dictions for the week begirning Sun- day, issued by the weather bureau to- day, are: Upper Mississippi valley and plains states: Generally fair except showers Sunday in the upper Mississippi val- ley, and Wednesday or Thursday in north plains states. Cooler within next forty-eight hours, followed by moderate temperatures. Rocky mountain and plateau regions: Gene:.lly fair except local showers at beginning of week over southern Rocky mountain region. Temperatures ncar or below seasonal nomal, Pacifi~ states: Generally fair, tem- peratures near seasonal normal. BRITON AND FRANK TAKE AGGRESSIVE London and Paris Reports Tell of Gains Made During the Night in Western Arena., BOTH ARE OONTRADICTED London, Sept. 9.~The British caps tured a German trench in High Wood on th& Somme front, after a sharp fight last night, it was announced to- day., German troops made several attacks during the night, but none of them in force. The statement fol- hand-to-hand fighting in High Wood, where we captured a German trench, taking_two officers and nineteen Pa- varians. In this operation heavy cas- ualties were inflicted on the enemy. “There has been considerable hos- tile activity against our front north of Pozieres and in the neighborhood of Moquet farm. In this sector small hostile infantry attacks were easily repulsed. A detachment of the enemy which attempted to advance from the direction of Courcelo was stopped by our fire. “Qur troops carried out several suc- cessful enterprises in the neighbor- hood of Arras and the Hohenzollern redoubt and north of Neuve Chapelle, The enemy trenches were entered, some prisoners were taken, and other casualties were inflicted.’ French Take Prisoners, Paris, Sept. 9.—Renewing their as-|; sault on the Somme front last night the French made a further gain. The capture of a small wooded area is re- ported today by the war office. Ger- man attacks in the Verdun sector were repulsed. . Prisoners taken by the French since September, the statement says, number 7,700, .including 100 officers. After the unsuccessful German at- tacks of yesterday, a great number of German dead were found on the field and in communicating trenches. Germans Report Gains, Berlin, Sept. 9.—(Via London.)— Enemy infantry attacks “on the Somme slackened during the day,” says today’s German o?fi ment, “An English local enterprise at Foureaux Wood (High Wood), and night attacks by the French against the Berny-Deniecourt sector failed, We cleared small portions of our posi- tions which previously had remained in the hands of the enemy. A LSS atchmakers Scarce; Tl‘le_}:Are : In the Automobile Repair Business If your watch stops many more times you may- have trouble in finding a man to fix it. No, there is no strike. It is only a shortage of watchmakers in Omaha, It extends not only over the metrop- olis, but also over the entire states of Nebraska, lowa, Kansas and South Dakota, Local jewelers are beginning to feel the effects. When they need a watch- maker quickly they are having a hard time to get one, 'I‘hc{ all have their jobs, and comparatively few are float- ing around looking for a job. A. F. Smith, head of the A. F, Smith wholesale jewelry concern in Omaha, explains this shortage by the fact that mechanics of any kind can so readily find other jobs open to them in many fields. “No. watchmakers do not neces- sarily quit their benches and go into says, “but nevertheless the automobile repair business cuts into the supply of watchmakers. It is a fact that a man who has the mechanical genius to make a good careful watchmaker will just as readily, and more readily per- haps become a first class automobile repair man, _ “There is a big and steadily grow- ing demand for auto repair men, and the result is that many young fellows with a turn for machinery and wheels learn the auto repair business instesd of the watch repairing, So while the old watchmakers are not dropping out to start tinkering with automobiles, the watchmakers are not being re- cruited so rapidly as they were in past years, It is this fact which ex- plains the growing shortage here in the west, at least. Then, too, the auto repair business offers a little more action and exercise than the watch- making.” cial state-| ! GENERAL STRIKE - AUTHORIZED BY NEW YORK UNIONS | |Men in All Trades May Be | . Called Out for Day to | Aid the Striking Oar Men Win, / Head of American Federation of Labor Now in Maine Asked to Hurry to Oity. 1 |FIGHT 1S ON CONTRACT New York, Sept. 9—Union labor |leaders of national and state promi- ‘nence were called into New York's | transit situation today with the an- nouncement by local sfrike organiz- ers that within twenty-four hours a conference would be held here, the ‘outcome of which might be a twenty= | four-hour tieup of all the city’s indus- !lries employing men affiliated with Ithe American Federation of Labor. | A telegram was sent to Samuel | Gompers, president of the latter or- | ganization, who is on vacation in | Maine, asking him to hurry here, and | the Central Federated union anngunc- | ed that after an all night's session a committee had been empowered to call a general sympathetic strike in lall trades if that action .we.e com- |sidered necessary tc hulp the em- | ployes in the Rapid Transit company {and New York Railways company to | w ¢heir “ight for annulment of the |*cu “master and servants con- tracis,” binding the men not to ask wage increases for two years.' Meanwhile, it was announced on behalf of the Interborough that ap- plications would be made to the courts for injunctions to restrain labor lead- ers ‘rom interfering with men oper- mng the subway, surface and elevated es. ) Police redpnru indicated that under-- ground and elevated service was nor- mal today and that the situation om * the surface lines affected had consid- ably improved. Union leaders claimed the surface road§ were badly af- fected. % . Disorders of a minor character con- tinued throughout the day and there were cighteen arrests, Price Levelfor % Farm Crops, Rises Nearly One-Tenth Washington,” Se; ) i d ‘Km’fl ¢ cent mcrease during level of prices paid producers for the grmclpll crops, wad agnounced the Department of = Agriculture, uring the last eight years the price level decreased 21 per cent during August, S on Sep- t The index figure of prices tember 1 was about 219 per 'cent Higher than a year ago, 14.3 : Higher than two ezelu ago zndm per cent higher than the average of the last eight years on September 1. ! Prices of meat animals—hogs, cat- tle, sheep and chickens—paid to pro- ducers was one tenth of one per cent higher August 15 than a month pre- vious. The increase in that period in the last six years averaged 1.1 cent. The index figures of prices those meat animals on August 15 was about 194 per cent higher than a year ago. ! The estimated number of stock hogs on September 1 was 3.8 per cent less than a year ago. German Airmen § “Drop Bombs On . Russian | Warships Berlin, Sept. 9.—(Via London.)— The following statement was issued today by the admiralty: » On September 6 our naval aero« planes dropped bombs on hostile na- yal forces off Arensburg, on Oesel island (in the Gulf of Riga), Near Zevel a hostile aeroplane was forced down, “On the night of September 6 one of our naval aeroplanes dropped a large number of bombs with good results on the Russian aeroplane sta- tion at Runeo, on the Gul?of Riga. “On September 7 a Russian gun- boat bombarded the north Courland coast without success, It was pur- 'sued and bombed by naval aeroplanes. “On the same day the Dutch steam- Niobe, with contraband, was er brought in by our naval forces in the North Sea.” Want-Ads state in a clear and simple way just what is offered or wanted-that's why . their appeal is so uni- versal and why the are 80 popular with all classes, Make sales the Want- Ad way; few people will bother to send in & coupon for full particu- lars on anything, Call Tyler 1000 for Bee Want-Ads, J o e g