Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1916, Page 1

Thousands of Omaha families read The Bee exclusively. If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. VOL. XLVL—NO. 86. OMAHA, TUESD AY MORNING, SEPTEMBER THE OMAHA DAILY BE 26, 1916—TWELVE PAGFS. THE WEATHER CLOUDY SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS, On Trains, at Hotels, News Stands, eto., dc. W PLANS ARE MADE BY LOCAL COMMITTEE President Will Be Entertained at Fontenelle and at the Comemrcial Club on October 6. DETAILS YET TENTATIVE Will Review Historical Pageant Dyring the Afternoon Hours. IN AUDITORIUM AT NIGHT Program Satisfactory New York, Sept. 25, 1916. Hon. John L. Webster, President State Historical So- ciety: Your program to have the presi- dent review the historical pageant in afternoon and then make a pub- lic address in the evening in the Auditorium, will be satisfactory. Vance MCormick. Arrangements for the reception to President Wilson, when he comes to Omaha on October 5, were set for- ward at a meeting of the local com- mittee yestergay. John Lee Webster, chairman of the Nebraska semi-centennial committee, sent a telegram and letter to Joseph P. Tumulty, private secretary to the president, giving an outline of the lo- | cal plans for his approval. It has been arranged subject to approval: f A committee will meet the presi- dent’s party on arrival on the morn- ing of October 5 and escort the party to the Hotel Fontelle, where break- fast will be served. The forenoon v be devoted to an automobile drive about the city. At noon the president will be entertain- ed at noonday luncheon at the Com- mercial cldb, Reviews Parade. The president will review the Ne- braska historical pageant from 2 till 5 o'clock in the afternoon. : In the evening a dinner to the presi- dent will be given at the Fontenelle, after which Mr. Wilson will speak at the Adaitorium under the auspices of the semi-centennial committee. If Mrs. Wilson accompanies the party, she will be entertained by a commit- tee of Omaha ladies. The reviewing stand dent will be erected on the north frof of the court house, with the section reserved for the president in the cen- ter of the stand. This will be ap- proached from the rear, Mr. Wilson and his party to enter from the Har- ney street front. ‘Gould Dietz is the committeeman in charge of the stand. f\nr.lhe presi- | "_S[]N PRflGRAM fMen Injured in Runaway Car, Save Motorman, Out of Danger Trolley Smashes Brakes in Hit- | ting Wagon and Races Twen- ty-Two Blocks at Speed of Mile a Minute. | The Seven Injured August Van Engel, driver of wagon, 3608 Evans street; fractured right hip and in- ternal injurles. . e : Emil Kofka, motorman of street car, The seven persons injured in the Twenty-second and 8 streets, South shmhmli ; nally . both broken, skul | street car accident yesterday morn- | fernally injured, both arms b £ 2 : O'P~ | fractured; may dle. {ing are reported as improving. Emil ("¢ "Kane, conductor of street car, 3001 | Kofka, motorman of the street car,| Myrtle avenue; concussion of brain, wrenched |is slightly better, but is still in a very | back and brulses. dangerous condition, with a fair| James Dugher, 2115 Burdette street, pas: banci SEstoiers | sener, Creighton medleal student; ab V. \ slons, bruises and shock. The accident occurred at 2 o'clock, | G s Miller, 2304 Duvenport stre when a Benson car, east bound, with |senger, elevator man at the City a crew and five passengers struck a :“rll':lk"hulhjinx; lncerated scal horse drawn vehicle at Thirty-eighth | ™agta, saekman, 2530 Blondo and Cuming streets with a force that | senger, shipping clerk for the demolished its brakes, and then dash- ompany bruises and lncerations about the : ¢ . head. ing at a speed of a mile a minute for | "Gty Jensen, 4525 Parker street, passen- twenty-two blocks, jumped the track, ger and carpenter; badly sprained back, crashing into a I Sixteenth and Cuming streets, and | turned completely( over, a shapelrss‘ == mass of junk, causing the serious and | traversed. Dozens of people on the perhaps fatal injury of two persons.|street corners held their breath as Five other persons were badly cut and | it swept down the rails at frightful bruised. i speed. With the motorman power- Gets in Way of Car. | less at his post, his car soon was Von Engel was driving a horse and,sl""‘““‘“ as fast as a mile a minute. wagon loaded with lumber, at Thir- | He was not able to reverse his car ty-eighth and Cuming streets, at 2!because the cmnrnllc}‘ was smashed o'clock Monday morning. He turned | . At Sixteenth and Cuming it jumped his vehicle in front of a Benson street | the track with its crew and four pas- car, which crashed into it head on.|$¢n8ers. So fast was it going that The street car smashed the wagon. | it never stopped \\lu-n“ll hit a pow VarEngieivas throwniiosie a(recl‘(‘"r"l telephone pole. The car, flung and seriously injured. He was taken headlong on the massive timber, to St. Joseph's hospital. The front end of the car was : smashed. Its brakes refusing to work, | t\\"li-(llman‘d( ]"“"“1 the car swung down Cuming street,| " gathering momentum at every foot| (Continued on | | eye: | snapped it off and plunged a full fif- | teen feet before it came to a pause. completely over ol Three.) HUGHES TALKST0 FAIRBANKS TALKS DAYON VETERANS HERE TWICE TODAY Nominee Says Every Genera- 'Former Vice President to Talk at Comemrcial Club at Noon tion Has Its Part in Preser- vation of Liberty. * and Auditorium at Night | | | PATRIOTISM NEEDED NOW TO MOTOR AROUND CITY Dayton, O., Sept. 25—The United ('harlcs-\\'. Fairbanks, former vice States, Charles E. Hughes today mlvl‘lc{,rjside?t and vrcscl['! republican ¢ £| an audience of civil war veterans,|ddate for vice president, is to make : 2 two speeches in Omaha today. will not endure unles each generation| " He will speak at noon to the Com- ican citiznship and the honor of the|8 o'clock at a mass meeting in the | City Auditorium. flag. 3 : | Mr. Fairbanks is due to arrive at “What I most want to see in this 8 in the morning and leave at 12:20 country,” Mr. Hughes said, “is to|tonight for Colorado, where he con- roung men, our middle-aged tinues his campaign speaking. have our young m 8 At the train he, will be met by a men, ‘l.l our men af{d‘our Wamet, t00, | reception cimmittee including State fired with the patriotic spirit of '6l. | Chairman E. D. Beach, Victor Rose- AYou veterans aided in preserving| water, K. S."Howell, Harry 8. Byrne, the union at a critical time, but in a| ;)“l l‘(;thheh:—r-.ey’ Senator Norris Brown 2 ration | e ¥ 5 :’:l:g't gr:seisgse!hce\uenriin gil‘l': at::c In an automobile he will be taken k s 1 _lat once to the Hotel Fontenelle, s::leda \:iefi;)yeg-:ui:gs cooiu;'}']? :sstc?l::t where he will probably remain until gave Allen frofn decay. “,2 cannot | "oon, when he will be taken to the ¢| Commercial club rooms to deliver an bepréxerved falone by ‘h»e, FalogHof address. Senator Norris Brown is to our ancestors, by those of an earlier telephone pole at | lacerations and brulwes, and injured right | stands firmly for the dignity of Amer- [ mercial club and in the evening at | ELECTRIC LIGHT " RATE REDUCED ~T0 SIX CENTS | | City Council Passes Ordinance Lowering the Maximum [ C'. %e Two COents a | o%a watt Hour, [ +.\.\ | b RS <IFTY CENTS MONTH | ‘:»yor Urges Passage of Street | Lighting Contract Ordinance | Filed Some Time Ago. | WANTS NO FURTHER DELAY | The city council committee of the whole recommended for passage on this morning an ordinance fixing | the maximum rate at 6 cents per kilo- | watt hour for electric lighting and power. The reduction is agreeable to | the Omaha Electric Light and Power | company, which will put the new | | schedule in operation January 1. T'his electric light rate reduction was exclusively forecasted in The | Supday Bee. | | This will chgnge the general elec- | tric lighting rate from 8 cents per kilowatt hour for the first twenty-five | hours and 6 cents for the next 125] [hours to 6 cents for the first 150 {hours. The council adopted the exist- | ing blocking system below the pri- | {mary rate as tentative, subject to| | change if the company can show at any time that the rates. below the 0- | cent rate are unfair. The ordinance, | { be in excess of 6 cents per hour. The | prosent imtial rate on alternating cur- rent for power has been reduced from 4 b 7 to 0 cents an hour and the inital | | "rmv on direct current for power was | | reduced/Arom 7.7 to 6 cents per hour | Two Vote No. | Commissioners Butler and Park | voted against the motion to recom mend the ordinance for passage, be- cause they maintain that the blocking ! below the 0-cent rate should be pro- posed by the light company and ap- | proved by the council, according to the provisions of the Butler ordinance which is to be placed on file. The operation of the 6-cent lighting | {rate! will mean that all consumers us- ing twenty-five or more k. w. hours | per month will have a reduction of 50 | cents, as the present initial quantity {rate for the first twenty-five hours at | 8 cents will be billed at the rate of 6 cents. The ordinance does not seek to | disturb the present secondary rate of | 125 hours at 6 tents, this being| thrown into the new primary rate ot | 150 hours at 6 cents. i The minimum of 50 cents a month | will be maintained. | During the committee of the whole meeting, which was punctuated by va- rious outbreaks of cross-opinions, | | Mayor Dahlman brought from the | | files a street lighting contract ordi- | nance which was considered earlier | in the year and finally placed on file | after much debate. sl | however, provides that no rate shalty AMERICAN TROOPER HELD IN MEXICO Member of Fifth Cavalry is Charged with Killing Carran- zista During a Riot, FIGHT IS IN A SALOON El Paso, Tex, Sept. y ranza sergeant of the El Valle Chi- huahua garrison was shot and killed Friday night by an American troop- er of the Fifth cavalry, who is being held prisoner, according to a report brought to Columbus, N. M., from field headquarters. The Carrdnza commander at El Valle refused to surrender the prisoner after General | J. J. Pershing sent a messenger re- | questing release of the American. According to the report, eight mem- bers of the Fifth cavalry visited a sa- loon at El Valle, Seventeen Carranza PBINCE G.EOR_GE, the fourth son of the king of England, will follow in his father’s footsteps and become an officer in the British navy. He has entered the Royal Naval college at Osborne as a cadet. The young prince is 14 years old. “PRINCE GEORGE OF ENGLAND) Those In Charge. & h day, but we can, indeed, be preserved For the breakfast and dinner ar- Y if we keep alive their spirit. preside at the Commercial club meet- mng.” Immediately after the mecting he | The mayor urged the committee to | Soldiers entered later with side arms, recommend the street lighting con- | During the drinking the Mexican ser- rangements, invitations and other de- tails, John Lee Wenster and Victor Rosewater are in charge. . AW. Wattles has been assigned th€ work of providing the automo- biles and escort for the president’s party. Colonel T. C. Byrne will look after the decorations and arrange- ments at the Auditorium. The luncheon at the Commercial club will be under the direction of the Com- mercial club authorities, 1f it is learned that Mrs. Wilson is to come with the president, a com- mittee of ladies will be named later to arrange her entertainment. Tug Boat Ordered “ ToMeet Bremen Westerly, R. I, Sept. 25—Orders to have the tug Westerly proceed to- night to Montauk Point, N. Y., 10 assist in towing a German merchant submarine to New London were re- Call for Real Patriotism. “As I look to the fulure.and great- | ly desire that we should find a solu- tion for the economic problems of | with the fact that we must have a| driving power of progress, of love for | our country. Whatever our race, whatever our creed, wherever we| spring from, wherever our father: were born, we .nust have an intense | devotion to our country, the United | | States, if we are going ahead in the tury and hold our nation where it belongs, in the front ranks of the na- tions of the world. - i “Surely, my friends, you must look | into the future with some concern as | you think of the possibilities of agita | tion and disturbances in_this land. | | We, you and I, so far as I could, bored in the past for the preservati of the union, but the union of states must be typical of a union of spirit. | We must have a sense of comradeship our country, I am deeply impressed | troubleous days of the¢ twentieth cen-| Baker announced late tod | American expeditoinary la- | eral Staff, Francis H. French of the on | Twenty-fiirst 2dwi 5 | tillery, and Charles Treat of the Gen- will be taken by the committee for a | ride about the city. Most of the aft- ernoon will be spent in motoring about town. W. F. Gurley is to preside at the tract ordinance for passage Tuesday morning, but it was deemed advisable to defer action until the committee | of the whole meeting next Monday®| morning. A majority of the council favors passage of the ordinance, Full evening meeting at the Auditorium. e discussion of the subject will be al- lowed next Monday, when improve- PerShing Will Be | ment club representatives wish to be Made Major General ", [ { Provides for New Lamps. i\ This street lighting:ordinance pro-| vides that the light company will in- | stall 1,150 additional lamps of the | ! a 400-candle power Mazda type and re- | General Pershing, commander of the | place all of the old arc lamps \vilh; forces 1n|the same type and maintain the sys- | Mexico, to be a major general, to fill | tem at an annual expenditure not o | the vacancy created by the death of | exceed the city’s annual appropriation Major General Mills. | for street lighting. It is proposed to Colonels Eben Swift of the Gen-|give the company a contract for five years, with a provision that the city may take over the equipment at the end of three years. Commissioner Kugel raised the point whether there might be any- Secretary y that the president would nominate Brigadier Washington, Sept. 25. win St. infant . Field Ar- John Greble of the Sixth eral Staff, will become Brigadier Gen- that is very real. Labor in all its A 5 i3 lerals, succeeding Brigadier General ities must feel that its work is & L 3 Pershing, who is promoted to Major thing in the proposed street lighting { contract which would be an impedi- geant is said to have proposed a toast | to the United States, which was ob- | jected to by the Americans. The shooting is reported to have followed. The troopers fled through windows and doors, but missed one of the com- rades when they reached camp, They reported having seen soldiers carrying a wounded American away. Following an investigation General Pershing sent Captain William Reed to confer with the Carranza com- mander. Unconfirmed reports say the !latter refused to release the trooper | and is holding him in communicado on a charge of murder. Funston Sends Apology. Washington ,Sept. 25.—Major Gen- eral Funston advised the War depart- ment that he had ordered an expres- sion of regret to the Mexican authori- ties for action of Corporal Rogers, Troop B, Texas cavalry, in crossing into Mexico with a patrol of seven men September 21 and had directed Colonel Gaston, commanding in the Big Bend district, to try the corporal for disobeying orders. The patrol was ceived today by Captain Frank H. Robinson of the Westerly Towhoat | uat Mect Emergencics) company. Captain Robinson said his instruz-{ “I look to the United States of the tions were obtained from the T. A.|future as a nation with governmental | Scott Wrecking company of New |policies, which will maintain general | London, which recently has had sey-| Prosperity as a nation prepar ‘_‘] for cral tugs in the service of the East-| €very emergency. We seck peace, but ern Forwarding company, agents for We are firm in the determination that he German Undersea line. | we will cnfort;e American rights a'nrl Wl / have peace with honor and security. —————— "’;7“‘—&—! “The republican party has been the > | party of national honor. In our in- The We&thel ternational relations under republican | administration the dignity and pres- For Nebraska—Partly cloudy and cooler. | tig€ of the United States has been of Temperaures at Omaha Yesterday. | the highest. Degree. | Mr. Hughes had intended to deliver - 64 four addresses here today, but the throat specialist accompanying him vetoed the arrangement. The nomince | will deliver one more address in D. | ton at the auditorium tonight. H voice seemed to have improved today. Zeppelins Again | Attack England dignified by justice. | | London, Sept. 26.—“Several hr»alilv‘ i 1016, 1916, 1914, 1933, | -O! Highest yesterday.... 83 71 74 54| airships crossed the east and north-| Lowest yesterday...(. K2 f4 48 40 east coasts of England between 10:30 | Maan temperature Lo e et il i C e e : Drocipitation S0 45 .0 o oclock and midnight,” says an of Temperature and precipitation dupartures | ficial communication issued shortly from the normal at Omaha since March 1, | after midnight. | and mpared with the last two temperature. ........ s for the day....... xcess since March 1. ars: 2| “Bombs are reported to have been | 9 dropped at scveral places in north- -266 | ern and north midland counties. precipitation. . .. O08inch | Tl iahin i e Deficiency for. the day s imen | An airship is also upnrmlA off nfall since M 3.99 inches | the south coast. No reports of i /Binee arch il - ’"“"“"h"" casualties or damage have been re- nch Deficiency for cor. peried, 19 AT Deficiency for gor. perfod 1914.. 3. Reports From Stations at 7 P. R[r Former Chief [5s#ce Fined Station_and State Temp. High- Weather. Tpom. est. fall | : : Cheyenne, cloudy a7 " For Violation of Game Law Davenport, cloudy 14 80 ~.01% 1incoln, Sept. 25.—T. O. C. Harri- Denver, cloudy 0o | T = Des Molnes, cloudy P T. | son, former chief justice of the Dol pe: Clfy, “part ‘eloudyal braska supreme court, was fined $10 v\:‘,;‘:,:rl’l:l“{.‘ :::::(:y e and costs today at Grand Island in Omaha _ clou 00| the county court for the alleged “Tl’,’{.’mf"fih‘n"‘i‘fl’.}u, 3 jgn:shooling of two Chinese pheasante, oux City, part cloudy 76 00| The offense was really committed by e e 00| Mr. Harrison's two grandsons, who * indicates trace of precipitation. L. A, WELSH, Meteorologist. i were with him at the time. ment in case the people should de-| fired on by Mexican soldiers and re- | The loss is $3,000 with $1,500 insur- cide to take over the light plant. Cor- poration Counsel Lambert assured the commissioner that the potnt he raised had been considered. Mayor Dahiman took the stand that | | the people have been clamoring for more lights for a long time and he did | not intend to put this matter off any [ longer. There are. indications that FEa Wt ARG e the street liuhling mnu"?rt \\]|ll‘ I)f'l allv: ommandations were approved by the | Proved by the commiuee of the whole g LIt y | whom had been referred the partial Storm Causes Heavy Commercil b, ol the. couci | Loss at Randolph General and Granger Adams, and F, C..«Sibley, who are to be retired. General Pershing’s promotion does not affect his assignment as com- mander of the expeditionary force in | Mexico. Announcement of thet promotion was made by Sccretary Baker upon his return from Baltimore, where he talked over the selections with Pres committee that he had examined the | report and took several exceptions to| | the same Makes Own Figures. _Randolph, Neb., Sept. 25.—(Special | «Aq analysis of the report leads me Telegram.)—A severe clectrical storm | 1 pelieve that the item of $769,000 Saturday night destroyed over $20,000 | jycluded by the auditors as ‘carly de in property, the Methodist church, built three years ago was set on fire by lightning and destroyed, the brick walls are partly standing, this church cost $17,000 and is insured for $12,500. | The library of the pastor, Rev. S. O Trump was in the church study and destroyed, the books were valued at velopment expense’ should be strick en out, leaving the total valuation of the plant at approximately $4,000,- 000,” said Mr. Lambert, “We asked the light company to| give us the amount of reduction in| carnings that a 6-ceat rate would| Y . ake, a e figures gi vere | $2,000 and the loss is total make, and ithe figurea glven were The barn of S. S. VanSlyke wa. kis $113,219.22. 1 figured that a 7 per s ANSIYKC Wa- A0 | cont return on the valuation of | struck and burned, the barn qn the E. W. Leicy pla ast of town was burned together with ecight hor hay, harness and 400 hushels of o $4,000,000 would be fair, and on that! basis, using my application of the figures of the experts, the company could stand a reduction of $150,000 a year from present earnings. Inas anuch as they say the application of the 6-cent rate would make a cut of $113,000, it is evident that in recom-| mending a 6-cent maximum rate to consumers we have still left a mar-| gin above the 7 per'cent return on the | mvestment,” Mr. Lambert explainec. | ance. Marshall Will Speak | In Omaha October 9 Sehicabornept uas Speaking dates | The corporation consel noted tha v“;r| \."} A”k"" (:L'. SRLINE T '[l““."‘ the company apparently has a perpet- anc Jvebraska were announced in| s franchise, which is something of western democratic heatlquarters as | ;11 asset follows “ 3 P f | October 6—Burlington and Muscatine, la A primary rate of more than 6| October ttumwa and riton, 1a. | cents cannot be defended on any fair| ...-;,,\w LI Columbus, - Fremont and | basis” is the position Mr. Lambert Omaha, Neb, alann " villing and able October 10—Plattsmouth, Nebraska City has taken, and he is willing and able | Auburn and Falls City, Neb, | to defend. 1 turned to the American side with a loss of one horse. No reason for the crossing has been given. Villa is Preparing Alibi. Columbus, N, M., Sept. Army intelligence agents are making an in- vestigation of a report that adherents of Villa were here to secure informa- tion to prove that Villa was not at Columbus on March 9, but that the raid was led by Pablo Lopez, who was executed in Chihuahua City because of his alleged leadership at the Santa Ysabel massacre, when eighteen Americans and other foreigners were massacred. In this connection it is reported that Villa is preparing a manifesto disclaiming responsibility for the Columbus raid and placing the | Eighth Ifiin_gis Is Orde_red Home San Antonio, Tex, Sept. 25.—The Eighth Illinois infantry, a negro reg- iment, is to be relieved from service and will be replaced i the Twelfth provisional division by the First W, oming, ordered to proceed at once 1 San Antonio. The Eighth Tllinois troops are now in Austin, having par- ticipated in the divisional hike. They will return to San Antonio before be- ing ordered north Play Supervisors Will Entertain Directors The supervisors of play in the cit parks are planning a dinner for Park Commissioner and Mrs. J Hum- mel, C. E. English, the recreation di rector, and rs. English, and the Recreation board at the Loyal hotel Thursday evening. Miss Alice Mc- Mahon, Miss Ruth Rinehart and Mrs. Atwood have the affair in charge Fifteen play supervisors will attend also. ROUMANIA WINS . IN DOBRUDJA AND ~ INTRANSYLVANIA Official Report of Bucharest Tells of Successes on the Northern and South- ern Fronts. RUSSIANS CAPTURE HILL Paris War Office Reports Gains Made by Entente Forces on Struma and Broda. BULGARS CALL IT VICTORY London, Sept. 26.—The British troops have captured the village of Morval and Lesboeufs, together with several lines of trenches on a six-mile front between Combles and Martine puich, south of the Ancre river, says the official report from British head- quarters issued about midnight. This front was penetrated to a depth of more ‘than a mile. Many prisoners were taken and heavy losses were in- flicted on the Germans, Paris (Via London),. Sept. 25.—In a violent attack launched against Ger- man positions extending from Com- bles to the Somme, the French troops today made noteworthy gains, accord- | ing to the official communication is- sued tonight. The town of Rancourt was captured and German positions were taken in the region of Fregi- coury, between the Combels road to lkmqhavcsnes and in the vicinity of the Canal Du Nord, ; m\‘.u\émw\.\fl Bucharest, Sept. 25.—(Via London,) | —Successes fc the Roumanians in / KING OF QUIVERA ;bolh Transylvania and Dobrudja are ’ | reported in an official statement is- | ENTERS GlTY TfiDAY | sued by the war office. The text of | the statement follows: “North and_northwestern fromts: Our advance in the Caliman moun- tains continues. We captured sev- enty-three prisoners and one machine gun. At Hermannstadt we attacked the enemy, capturing four officers, 300 men and five machine guns, In the Jiu valley minor actions occiirred in which we repulsed the enemy and captured two machine guns. The to- tal number of prisoners taken on this front up to the present is forty-eight officers and 6,836 men. “Sputhern front: There has been an exchange of artillery fire on the banks of the Danube ‘in Dobrudja. Our left flank made further. progress. and captured one officer and fifty- thrée men." Russfans Capture Hill. Paris, Sept. 25—(Via London.)— Russian troops on the western end of the Macedonian front took the offen- sive last night. The war office an- nounced today that they had captured Hill No. 916, west of Florina, which had been fortified strongly by the Bulgarians, A Bulgarian counter at- tack was checked by French and Rus- sian artillery and bayonets, Bulgars Call it Victory. Sofia, Sunday, Sept. 24 —(Via Lon- don, Sept. 25)—The Bulgarians have successfully defended Kaimakcalan height, on the westerly side of the Macedonian battle front, against re- peated attacks by entente forces, the war office announced today. Suc- cessive assaults were delivered yes< terday on the Bulgarian positions, but in cach case the attacking forces, al- though they closely approached the Bulgarian trenches, were unable to penetrate them and fell back with heavy losses. Entente troops which attacked vil« lages on the eastern bank of the Stru- ma were forced by the Bulgarians to retreat across the stream. The state- ment follows: “In the Moglenica valley and on both sides of the Vardar there has been weak artillery firing. [ i Orening of the Jubilee Grounds| Marks Fall Reign Over Oma- . ha by Great Monarch, OITY A BLAZE OF COLOR AK-SAR-BEN DATES. Ak-Sar-Ben jubilee, Fifteenth and Capitol Avenue, September 26 to October 7. Industrial ‘parade, 2 p. m,, Octo~ ey . & - v Shakespeare electrical pageant, 8 p. m,, October 4, ebraska semi-centennial his- torical parade, 2 p. m,, October 5. || Coronation hall at den, 8 p. m,, October 6. Masked ball at den, 8 p. m,, Oc- tober 7. National swine show, October 2 to 7. Week of Wonderful Windows, Seg(ember 27 to 30. harles W. Fairbanks in Oma- ha, September 26. 3 l;ouxln county fair, October 2 0 7. Kite-flying contest, September 30. Promptly at 1:30 this afternoon the trumpter will sound the first shrill note of a bugle call form the bands stand in the archway at Fifteenth and Capitol avenue, the gates of the | jubilee grounds will be thrown open and the ten-day reign of Samson, monarch of the City of uivera, to whom all must pay homage, will begin. 4 Already Omaha has blossomed in a blaze of color to greet the king. The tri-colored banner of Samson, intermingled with the red, white and blue at every point in the 'business section, on the buildings, inside the stores and over the streets. The| 4, thousands of little incandescent beeg’lliv:[ll; fisrg;umlsgg;l:l :2:: 'l‘a:t lamps have been strung over the L 4 tallions that advanced against the vil- lages of Nevolen, Dolno, Karajovo and Gudelt were thrown back to the right bank of the stream. 5 =t “In Dobrudja there has been artil The jubilee grounds, which will |lery and infantry fighting of minor monopolize the attention the re-|importance.” \ | )} P ‘m:xlmdvr[ of 1]11‘: \;‘cck, a;lc complete | Bucharest Bombarded from Air. and ready or the first inlow of Quiv- | Berli 2 7i =22y ¥ e Al erlin, Sept. 25.—(Via London. .]"”‘“ subjects. Tt will be a conetti- | The bombardment by a German air- ess frolic this year. The pulverized ship of Bucharest, capital of Rouma- paper has been tabooed by the board | nia, is reported A ithe: offiRiaE "R o governors_ and the - irrepressible | ;1 cement isswed here today, Field ‘youulhfs who in the past took advant- Marshal von Mackensen's forces ,affflr? “:Ef;:llii:—c':fl“'f:ll'“I"l ,"':d |')° which are invading castern Roumania 8 LU, 8 will have to be|pave won further successes, the state- content with more gentle entertain- ment says. British and Serbian at- "",']'.’]:c 4"‘;"‘\'{,5;“"(":";':‘ shows, which | tacks on the Macedonian front were el oot sonal WS, WHICH | repulsed. Following is the statement: proved so popular last year, return | “Army group of Field Marshal von with an even more pretentious array Mackensen: o entertaining features. Mr, Worthom | *'% 4 . 2 has assembled an unusual array of,‘"m‘}'::c;ggj"r'::‘f;iat_‘ F?é:"i‘:; ;‘:fggaet— talent this year, according to advance main thoroughfares and tonight will | blaze forth in the red, green and yel- |low colors of the great monarch, Confetti Is Taboo. notices, and his attroctions are ex- u'rda_). Repeatcd'sgmn.g Serbian 8t | pected to be even more satisfactor | tacks against }\alr;lakcala|1 broke hm“ Hebre & ¥ | down. . Weak English detachments 2 | advancing on a wide front in the | A thriller of the old-time sort is one of the Wortham attractions this Struma sector were repulsed. (Continued On Page Two Column Three.) 'Fire mts Clean Bill; Jury is | .11200,000 | Censured Ey Councfl_readen every Members of fire company No. 11,] Thirtieth and Saulding streets, were day' | exonerated by the city council, fol- | lowing a hearing of evidence of wit- | nesses of a fire at the home of Mrs. | | Hulda Malmberg, 3047 Evans street, tember 16, Ihe coroner’s jury brought in af verdict censuring members of fire| house No. 11 for alleged neglect in not rescuing Mrs. Malmberg as soon ‘aa they were told that she was in the The Bee has approximately The only way to talk to Bee readers is to [ advertise in The Bee. . Phone orders for Want Ads accepted at the Cash Rate of burning basement of her home. One Cent per word. The city attorney was directed hy the council to prepare a resolution exonerating the firemen and censur- | ing the corouer’s jury. \ | i Telephone Tyler 1000.