Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1916, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE HOMELESS BY BIG FLOODS IN CHINY Thousands of Omaha families read The Bee exclusively. If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. VOL. THE WEATHER _ FAIR SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. On Traias, a News Stan XLVI—NO. 88, FIGURES SHOW COST OF LIVING WILL 60 HIGHER SEPTEMBER 21, 1916—TWELVE PAGES. BRITISH ON BALKAN FRONT TURN OLD MONASTERY INTO CANTEEN—This pic- ture, taken on the Balkan front in Macedonia, shows the ruins of an old monastery which British ingenuity has converted into a first class' canteen. The foliage and earth plentifully spread over the roof, render it invisibhle to enemy airmen. t Hotels, ete. 3 | }GENERAI. STRIKE " INNEW YORKNOW SEEMS PROBABLE HE HAS HIS FATHER'S HOME ~Mrs. E. H. Harriman and her son, W. Averill Harriman, to whom she presented wonder- ful o or husband c & home in the Catskille, ., Canned Fruits and Paper Bags | and Women's Shoes, Mexn Collars More Expensive: | Chicago, Sept. 20.—The cost of liv- ng this winter will reach an unprec- | scale and will affect every | no matter what object may | be purchased, according to a table of | \parative prices compiled here to- Merchants and produters are | virtually unanimous in a forecast of | further increases in prices which have | already advanced alarmingly within | the last year | Food prices, it is said, vary accord- | ing to quality and quantity, but it | is the small purchaser at retail who | must pay most. Wholesalers say | canneries throughout the country | § have informed them that fall and | winter deliveries will be only one-| third normal, while the last vegetable crop is said te be only half the quan- | tity expected | Thirty Per Cent Higher. Canned fruitg will be thirty per| cent higher and canned vegetables | are expected by wholesalers to in-| crease twenty per cent in price, Pa-| per bags in which the housewife car- | ries home her market purchases have | increased in cost from 95 cents in wholesale lots to $1.55. This advance is typical of all paper products. 1 Cotton goods have advanced be-| tween twenty-five and thirty-five per | cent. Woolens have kept pace with cottons. The best lines of women's shoes | for fall and winter will cost twice as much as the same article lasll year, dealers say | Collars Higher in Price. Even collars, that two-for-a-quarter staple which men have known for generations, will be a thing of the | past. Collars now have been advanc-| ed to 1®cents each and the laundries | which have for years laundered col- | lars for two and a half cents, have announced that three cents each will be ‘the future cost, Cigar jobbers raised their prices this week to between four and five dollars a thowsand tb the dealer. Hundreds Killed edented person day | [. » / ( - * MRS E.H. HARRIMAN ¥ WILIJAM AVERELL HARRIMAN @aalder Gaining in Senatorship Race, : v, Whitman Wins By Breaking of Gov. Whitn New York, Sept. 20.—Returns from Dam in BOhemia yesterday's primary electiorf at noon N 3 20 — | today showed that William M. Calder (\?::Kll‘l:n?:w(}) Blo,:‘"e,{?,l:)_y h‘e :‘Z.’rh had “increased his lead over Robert ousness of Monday's flood disaster [Bacon for the republican “0“"““,‘!‘" caused by the bursting of the Tann.‘{ffif _United States senator. Wu(h wald dam, grows as the water sub-|1005 districts missing out of ,2,711. sides and investigation becomes pos-| the vote for Calder stood at 125948, sivle. In addition to the known 250 | against 117,995 for Bacon, giving dead it is feared many other lives | Calder a plurality of 7,953.' were lost. | Calder carried Greater New York, The property damage cannot yet be | all districts_completq by 33,426, the estimated with accuracy, but it is cer- | Vote being 54844 for Calder, against tain the number of buildings destroyed | 21,418 for Bacon. J"ll!.lllnl:' :';::h‘l::clrf;x‘:\""‘tl:c:;d other in-| Greater New York for 2,635 districts dustries suffered heavily. In Dessen-|out of<3,6!0 give Calder 71,104 and dorf a wood qarving shop was swept | Bacon 96,575. 5 away with its entire force of twenty | Earlier returns gave the following employes and destroyed. | results: Republican, governor, 1,388 T e lout of 5719 districts missing; Ben- Brooklyn Bakers ~ nett, 32,472; Whitman, 183,648; deto- | cratic United States senator, 1,494 dis- tricts missing: McCombs, 77,172; Want Embargo on 0., "5t s Progressive governor, is- Export Of Whea,tltricls missing: Whitman, 9,430; e Seabury, 6,389. New York, Sept. 20.—President Wilson will be asked to call a spe- cial session of congress to declare an embargo upon the exportaion of e g oh 2 wheat and federal and state investi- W aflnnmnn, Pt ,"O‘ Another ons of the increase in the price | Step in the govern.nent's attempt to yur will be demanded by teso-| dissolve the alleged anthracite coal Second Step Taken in Attack On the Hard Coa! Monopoly Returns from the state outside of | lutions adopted by .’fll(l bakers of | monopoly was taken today when the ! Brooklyn yesterday. It was asserted| o0 ient of Justice filed its brief that flour would be sold at $14 a| barrel and bread at 20 cents a loaf | next spring unless an embargo is im= posed. The Weather | Temperatures st Yesterday. in the supreme court, appealing from the decision of a New York federal court dismissing the anti-trust suit against the Lehigh Valley Railroad company, the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales company and the Lehigh Val- ley Coal company. The railroad company is charged [ with monopolizing production, trans- portation and sale of anthracite coal | Reports to Washington of Dis- aster Say Appeal for Aid Will Be Made. |COVERS EIGHT DISTRICTS Washington, Sept. 20.—Nearly a million people have been made home- less by oné of the greatest floods on record in that section of China where the American Red Cross alrcady has spent $600,000 for flood protection and where the $30,000,000 loan for reclamation work which post- | poned by the war, was to have been | spent. chorts' to the State depart- ment today ‘from the American con- sul at Nankin said the Hwai river had | inundated an area of about 7,000 square miles in Anhui province. Ap- peals for aid have been sent out. All ‘lhc autumn crops were destroyed. | Large Lake Dammed. | The flood occurred in an alluvial section, where the north-to-south passage of the Grand canal had dammed a large lake and allowed the | Hwai river too little space to carry | off the excess water. Today’s delayed |advices described conditions several weeks ago, but officials believe there has been little improvement. The State department issued the following: ; “The department hag received from the American consul at Nanking dis- patches giving detailed information regarding recent, extensive floods 'along the Hwai river, in Anhui prov- ince. The inundation is equal to, if not greater than, the one of 1909. An larea of some 2,000 square miles was | submerged under from three to fif- | teen feet of water, and from July 11 to July 21 the waters reached such a height as to submerge all except very | high ground in an area estimated at 7,000 square miles. Ten Large Cities. “The flood extended throughout| eight districts in northern Anhui. There are ten cities of considerable size in these eight districts, with a | total - population estimated at from /800,000 to 1,000,000 people. The to- !tal population of the flooded region is | approximately- 2,500,000 people. |+ “While it 18 thought that compara- tively few lives were lost, crops and | personal - property ‘have been de- |stroyed and thére are thousands of destitute people, nearly all of whom are now ohjects of charity. The sup- ply of foodstuffs on hand will be in- |adequate to feed the people and prac- | tically all of the autumn crops it the leight districts have been entirely de- stroyed. Appeals for relief have {come in from the various affected dis- | tricts.” In the flood of 1909, nearly one | million lives were lost. Soon after- ward C. D. Jameson, an American engineer, was sent to China to work out a reclamation system. In 1914 Colonel Siebert of the Panama canal headed a Red Cross commission which approved Jameson's plans, and the | Chinese government began arrange- ments for a $30,000,000 loan to put them into effect. The European war, however, made it impossible to raise the capital. Health Board Secretaries Draw Less Than $800 (From a Btaft Correspondent. Limcoln, Sept. 20.—(Special.)—Dr. Lucien Stark, treasurer of the secre- taries of the State Board of Health, flied his annual report with State Su- perintendent Thomas, indicating that a total of $3,178 was collectt(}sin fees by the board for examinations given applicants for licenses. Each member of the board secured a little less than $800 a year as a reward for their official activities. The four secretaries are H. B. Cummins of Seward, E. Arthur Carr of Lincoln, C. T. Burchard of Falls City and Lucien Stark of Hartington. More Than One Hundred For Needy of Ireland Tag day with the socialists was at- tended with what was considered pretty good results, tags netting was SESE BRITISH CAN' RUMOR CHIHUAHUA ADAMSON LAW IS IS TAKEN BY VILLA BLOW 0 ENTERPRISE Second Assault On City Said to | *Have Been Preceded by Mutiny of Garrison. GARCIA DENIES THE REPORT El Paso, Tex.; Sept. 20.—A nun\he'r} of rumors were current here today | that Chihuahua City was captured by | Villa in a second attack last night. | General Francisco Gonzales, com- mandant at Juarez, and Consul Gar- cia declared the reports were without | foundation. According to reports the attack was | preceded by mutiny of a large part of the garrison. The bandits were | said to occupy the municipal and fed- eral palaces, the penitentiary and two | fortified hills. Consul Garcia and General Gon-| zales maintained that although wire | communication had been hampered messages received early today indi- cated quict in Chihuahua City. May Cut Communications, San_Antonio, Tex., Sept. 20.—Belief that Francisco Villa will soon cut the Carranza line of communications be- tween Chihuahua City and Juarez, if he has not already done so, was sug- gested by Major General Funston to- day after he had a report on Villa's Chihuahua engagement received from Brigadier General Bell at El Paso. Stories gathered by General Bell from persons reaching El Paso from the interior indicate that General Tre- vino’s forces were driven out of Chi- huahua City in Villa's Saturday attack and that they took station on a large hill outside the city from necessity and not from choice, as previous re- ports said. From this hill they suc- ceeded Wy the use of artillery mn dis- lodging the Villistas. Funston Withholds Details. General Funston refused to give out all details of the report for publica- tion, but he said that it confirms pre- vious accounts of the battle and in- dicated even more serious conditions than were admitted by the Carran- zistas. General Bell’s report said that Vil- la’s force last Saturday was estimated at from 500 to 700 men. General Fun- ston believes that this force has grown since the Chihuahua battle. He said that in this case the logical step for Villa to take would be the sever- ing of the line of communications be- tween Chihuahua and Juarez. T would give him control of the Mexico Northwestern railroad and, the gen-| eral added, “the garrison to the north would have to look out.” Flat Denial by Trevino. Later, when wire communication was restored to normal, General Gon- zales announced he had received a message from General Jacinto Trevi- no, sent at 11 a. m.,, which said that the border rumors were absolutely without foundation, that work of clearing the wreckage created in the Hidalgo day attack was progressing Jn the public square. Mr. Hughes Says ‘‘Surrender to Force Will Lead to but One End, Oivil War, SPEAKS IN WISCONSIN Green Bay, Wis, pathway of “surrender Sept. 20.—The to force,” Charles E. Hughes told dh audience | here today, in renewing his attack on the administration’ for the Adamson law, leads to but one end, “civil war.” Mr. Hughes referred to the action of the administration as “unpardonable.” The nominee also declared that nobody could embarrass him by talk- ing about Americanism, “I am for the United States first, last and all the time, without regard to anyone or ‘to anything else,” he said, “T speak ‘with added emphasis as the friend of labor,” Mr. Hughes said in- discussing | the . Adanison * law, “when I say that the serious blow delivered recently at labor and enter: Eriae in. this country was unpardona- le, that blow being the surrender of the principle of arbitration and the yielding of reason to force. Means Uncertain Future. “We look forward in this country to a future very uncertain unless we have peaceful settlement of griev- ances by a careful examination and open-minded consideration of the facts. “When A does not agree with B they are not allowed to fight it out They have got to come into a court of law and fight it out there, not on the public square, We have had tines when railroad companies refused absolutely to arbi- tration of grievances. But we have had public sentiment develop greatly since that time. We have a new spirit in this country, I firmly believe. All we have to do 1s to stand firmly for principle and we can get justice done, “The other way simply means the rule of strength. There is only one end to that path and that end is civil war, Mr. Hughes then went into detail as to his views on the tariff. He spoke from a platform on the court house steps to an audience standing in the yard. Afterwards he held a brief public reception. Speeches at Other Points. In previous addresses today, at Sheboygan and Manitowoc, where large crows turned out with brass bands to greet him, the nominee sketched his views on the issues. of the campaign. He also talked on Americanism. His audiences were composed largely of persons of for- eign extraction. The nominee left Green Bay at 1:15 o'clock for Appleton, where his pro- gram called }ur a rear-platform ad- dress. " e A R AR TEEN IN BALKANS, O/ mrerm SERVICE ENTENTE LOSES HALF MILLION MEN Berlin 8ays Small 8lice of France is Regained at Price That is Appalling. WEST FRONT NEARLY QUIET Berlin, Sept. 20.—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—British and French losses in the battle of the Somme have reached about 500,000 men, the Over- | seas News agency estimates. “Recent local successes obtained by the_British on the Somme are her- alded by the English press as great victories and even occasioned a spe- cial message from King George to the British commander, General Sir DouY- las Haig,” says the news ngcnca. “It is said. the British occupied the vil- lafics of Flers, Martinpuich and Cour- celette in the first day’s fighting, al- though it had been planned to take them in the course of four days of battle, ! “Nevertheless, the British were en- abled to make this advance only af- ter eleven weeks of the most des- perate efforts. The result of the bat- tle of the Somme should be g_auged by considering the amount of French and Belgian territory occupied by the Germans, which amounts in all to about 50,000 square kilometers, Of this 29,000 is Belgian and 21,000 French. The cfforts made by the French and British have resulted in the recoquest of only 1,500 square kilometers, or 3 per cent. “The price paid for this territory is ‘appalling. According to a con- servative estimate the British lost 350,000 men up to September 15. This together with the French losses brings up the total to about 500,000 men. lers aver that the proposed general -4 | Table of Comparative Prices Area Estimated at & Qq.o} o“‘\u. | Men Most Directly Ooncerned of Chicago Merchants and ! sand Square ™ ;g‘\‘\‘ov- | Think Situation Has Now Producers Indicates the ince of *under | Reached an Absolute Worst Is to Come. R ; Deadlock, EVERY PERSON AFFECTED | :ALONG THE HWAI RIVER | MANY OARS ARE ATTACKED N L% o | R Windows Broken by Missiles Hurled from Roofs and Sev- cral Passengers Injured. i TWENTY MEN ARRESTED New York, Sept. 20.—Despite the attempted intervention of a commit- tee of business men, there seemed to be little pibspect today of averting a general strike in sympathy with the street railway employes. Labor lead- walk-out will involve about 700,000 workers in all trades. All other efforts having thus far fail- ed, Mayor Mitchel decided today to make a personal appeal to Theodore | P. Shonts, president of the Inter- borough Rapid Transit company, and the New York Street Rai'ways to re- cede from his reiterated intention of refusing to deal with the strikebs. Position of Mr. Shonts. Mr. Shonts' position -necessary, the traction head says, because of a threat to strike by loyal employes in the event of recognition of the unions— balked the attempt of the public ser- vice commission and a citizens’ com- mittee to bring about an amicable ad- justment. R Although there appeared little hope of a change in the traction com- pany's policy, the mayor arranged for a conference with Mr. Shonts later to- day. The mayor, it was learned from an official source, expects to propose a new basis of settlement to avert the impending general walkout. nion . leaders have promised to withhold their order for a sympathet- ic strike until after Thursday, and in the meantime the city authorities and business men will endeavor to find | some way to prevent an extension of the labor war which threatens to tie up a considerable part of the city's industries, Rioting Becomes Serious. The attempt to operate surface cars last night resulted in the worst rioting since the - strike began, but the officials of the transit companies. say the service in the daytime is im- proving steadily. Throughout the night elevated trains, together with luiway trains at points where they run on elevated structures, were sub- jected to almost ceaseless bombard- ments of bottles and bricks, car win- dows being shattered and & number of passengers injured. oday there were several attacks by strikers and sympathizers on sur- face cars and police reserves were repeatedly called out. Ask Gompers to Conference. With the arrival here tod? Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to attend the funeral of Seth Low, it was learned that the business interests of Germans Take Trench. Paris, Sept. 20.—Determined at- tacks were made by the Germans last night on the French positions at hill 76, north of the Somme. The Ger- mans gained a foothold at some ad- vanced points, the war office an- nounced toady, but subsequently were ejected. Berlin, Sept. 20.—(Via London.)— In a hand grenade attack on the Brit- ish troops near Flers on the Somme front, the Germans {cs(erday gained some success, says the official state- ment issued today by the German army headquarters. In the Verdun sector the Germans drove the French out of a small trench on the western slope of Deadman'’s hill. Small Gains by British. London, Sept. 20.—British troops south of Arras yesterday captured 200 yards of German trenches, says the official statement issued today by British army headquarters, Abanm Was Nearly Starved The baby boy, 2 months old, de- serted Tuesday night by its mother, which are endeavoring to avert a sympathetic strike had invited Mr, ompers to attend their meeting with labor. leaders tomorrow. It was in- dicated by the union men that Mr. . Gompers planned’ to take more than, ordinary interest in the situation. Mr. * Gompers hefd his acceptance of the invitation in abeyance pending talks with union leaders, Surface Cars Attacked. During the forenoon attacks on surface cars continued intermittently, The last twenty-four hours have witnessed the most extended disturb« ances of the strike, police reports to- day showins the arrests of twenty men declared to be former emploves. Fifteen of these are accused of felony in attacks on trains and cars. Two Car Barns Attacked. New York, Sept. serious rioting since the transit strike in this city began two weeks ago oc- curred tonight in various sections of Manhattan when attempts were made to run cars on the Forty-second and Fifty-ninth street crosstown surface lines. Mobs of strikers and their sympathizers stormed two car barns, overpowering the police and putting to flight all railway employes in the vicinity, 19.—The most from mines along its lines and with is hovering between life and death fe at Clarkson hospital. Authorities there say the infant abandoned was half-starved. L = The mother abandoned the baby at the Union station. She asked Mrs. Several motormen and conductors who had not joined the strike were _ beaten. Much property damage had. been done before police reserves ar- rived, At Forty-second street and Broad- To Round Off the Corner of Fortieth and Hamilton The City Planning commission | will _round off the southeast corner having attained this «command, ot | §105.09 havong been sold. The tag day through “conspicuous efficiency,” but|sales were under the direction of the by acts wrongful and unlawful in \:‘“3]‘5‘»"- _young women selling on themselves. | *he nraminent street corners, The The government asks that the dis- proceeds of the sales will go to afund trict court be reversed and that the| ..y raised by the socialists to aid quietly and that all reports in the state capital indicated that Villa’s band is still in the Sierre De La Silla, near Santa Ysabel, m m P m m . Comparatie loasl Record. 1914 “ [} " - 0 T ‘ tore and precipitation departures va temperature 1915 rd. 1914. 1913 " 8 ada 7] 5 i &9 tnc ' Rou Sayville.)—"It hes | which ‘entered eastern Roumani railroad company be separated from the coal companies, Berlin, Sept. 20.—(By Wireless to | reported Overseas Russiar from | News | army a had is the the says ency, ‘“that with it a whole brigade of officialsi SmpRoIes o Jululiouin& manian Officials Clean Bu Cities Instead of Governing Them the widows and orphans of Irish rev- “Feliahe front (Mesopotamia): We fought successfully against hostile batteries. A hostile ammunition de- pot was exploded. “An enemy detachment advancing against the Eenasye district was driv- Dan Thomas Not Strong Enough to Stand Operation Dan Thomas, 4616 North Twenty ixth street, was so badly hurt in fall down Hotel Castle’s elevator shaft Tuesday that the amputation of his right leg could not be made. Dr. F Schleier, the attending physician, s Thomas is too weak to stand the oper- ation. Amputation will have to he postponed until the strength. Ak-Sar-Ben Dates Ak-Sar-Ben Festivi man gains of Fortieth and Hamilton streets by moving the corner back thirty-three feet and establishing .a wide turn, which will improve traffic conditions, The ineide of the arc will be parked. | This corner adjoins the Walnut Hill water reservoir. E. J. Kellogg of Craig, Neb., to hold it until she could buy a ticket. When the woman did not return Mrs. Craig gave the little tot to Policeman Eng- lish, The infant was sent to the City Mission and from there transferred to the hospital. ts German Produc San Francisco, Sept. 20.-—~That Ja- Go to Japan an British Orient in Large Quantities Navigation company—the concern that is alleged to be engaged in carry- way, one of the busiest spots i the city, a great crowd bombarded a car with stones they had gathefed from a subway excavation, + & There are a few peo- ple who still look upon advertising as an ex- pense. They will cheer- ol o hack (o -its 1oy oo | pan, the Straits settlements and Brit- | ! ! il . Ci 9 1.89 taches | who were to administer conquered | “l'ersian) fron;: ]r: o8 ‘0", 1 SGPL ties, including car ish possessions in the Orient are re- |8 German products between Sweden fu]ly hand out many s ot B Lol i A Enemy reconnoi- | 9™y €8, g A v and the far east. dollars in ta; to - High. Rain. | Bulgarian cities. These officials were| tering detachments at several points * 0 nival and Nebrask: ceiving numerous articles from Ger-| " Allen is president of the Cho-Sen in postage eat [ 80 ™ o | i o 0 o 09 ) 00 talt. | captured and are now at work cleari- ng the streets of ' the same cities | which they were to govern.” Constantinople, Sept. 20.—(Via Ber- % | lin, Sept. 20; by Wireless to Sayville.) —Successes for the Turks against the Russians in Persia and the British on were repulsed. We occupied the vil- lage of Kere: eighty kilometers i, cast of Didgaryd, "According to declarations of pris- oners, confirmatory of each other, the Russians lost about 8,000 men in the recent Oct. 7 Statehood Semi-cen tennial celebration Industrial parade. Electrical Pageant. Oct. 3 Oct. 4 many, including perfumes, soap and German hops, shipped from Sweden throukh a London agency and with the knowledge of the British govern- ment wag¢ the declaration made here today by George R. Allen, a mining Minerals company at Seoul, Korea, and president of George R. Allen & Co. of New York and 1s said to con- trol large tungsten mines in Korea and Japan, “The Swedish Navigation com- ¢ have their selling mes- . sage delivered to a fews” hundred-people, yet be- grudge the expenditure a y % > man who arrived yesterday from the y,” sai 1 & g i - + e/ the Tigris in Mgsopotamia are an- Oct. 5 Historical Pageant. | Orient. i e ‘p:pjing“tf I‘;\ri:i‘sll.wr‘ss fii"‘ffi?"é"‘ nt o B v . camis, o8 & - ' o | nounced in today's Tmlkuih v office A band of rob- R 18 Coronatic According to Allen, five or six ships | Ic‘y Samuels & Samuels compar:;ru:.f Want-Ad that reaches v - = N " :xlpr')\ lc [a;v'-r{n‘\‘rlw‘x‘;'r:l\"l;T:Kli lz‘nr':'"m n:-ar‘ l!:r-‘:xi(lrhlki|'1h:|. ,‘I\u. slans: lande : Oct. 6 B (ily : oronation | . .onth are necessary to carry on this | London, a firm of high standing. One tens of thousands. 3 PRl H 0 it ACAE0; L gl nirte ¢ s an 1de ma. cfore the WWar, he said, one|other German products one wants ) “weidi 3 3‘,..’[ '1 }‘LL“‘.‘,‘:(!?.‘,.,, “4'.;‘. L “lt‘"'“]lr;:':‘[f",}:&".f"‘" The robbers | Oct. 7 Masked Court Ball. | (i " onth was sufficient to [ anywherc in the Orient at usual Call Tyler 1000 . take care of the trade of the Swedish prices,” for Bee Want-Ads.