Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1916, Page 1

—— . garine factory, box factory, ham A peddler makes sales—A merchant makes customers. Customers are made by constant advertising, good values uniform courtesy. Be a merchant—not a pedler. and VOL. XLVI—-NO. 92. ;d&';;'}liuPRA,fglfifssj ISHELD T0 BE LOAY WILL BE §750,000 4z 7 s s First Starting in Sausage and | Box Departments Eats Way- Through Quarter Block Structure. SHAVE FOR ARMOUR PLANZ Big Structure on West Saved by Reason of a Strong South Wind. CAT ™. FOR THE STOCK YARDS EXTENT OF DAMAGE. | ‘* Loss $750,000, three-quarters of plant destroyed. 3 Nine departments burned as fol- lows: Salt pork, sweet pickle, p_ork' trimming, sausage, dry sausage, pigs feet, hog killing, hog coolers, pickle and sausage coolers. Departments saved: Lard refining, fertilizer, engine room (damaged), cooper shop, beef killing, oleomar- house. Seven hundred employes thrown out of work. Started at 5:30 o'clock and burned until after midnight. Watched by cvrowd of 25,000 peo- | pie, it being the most spectacular | blaze in South Omaha in years. Fires, which' apparently started | simultaneously in the cook room off the sausage department in the south | end of the building and in the storage box factory in the cast end, threat- encd to destroy the entire packing plant of Morris & Co., on the South Side early last evening. The fire started at 5:30 in both ends of the building from unknown origin. The flames began to sweep their way toward the center of the! seven-story structure until thirty min- utes later all the plant except the extreme north end was a mass of ilamnes. ‘Thie fire quickly burned its way up- rd until all of the floors from the st to the fifth were afire, About 7] o'clock the two top floors, the fourth | and fifth, fell through. Extent of the Loss. Included in the destroyed section of the plant were the lard room, the sausage department, the swegt pickle department, the box factory, the salt pork department and the hog. killing rooms. The building is valued at something over half a million dollars and vast quantities of meats stored | withint were lost, increasing. the total loss, it is estimated, to something around three quarters of a million dol- lars, The office; the beef kill and ! fertilizer in the north part of the building alone were saved. All of the fire companies in Omaha respondet! to the general alarm which was sounded, and shortly after the fire started fifteen streams .were p_la):' ing on the building, but the fire's start was too great to overcome be- fore the big loss occurred. Employes Fight Fire. In addition to the firemen, some 700 employes of Morris & Co- stationed | ,deposilors imbued with | been !mony introduced by Mr. Barrett. The 'MONEY FROM IANS Judge Day in Douglas District |STATE BANKS PRECEDENT Barriers preventing speculators and mercenary motives from tampering with the funds of state banks of Nebraska decision handed down in district court at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon by Judge George A. Day. The claims of Frank Iams, well known stock- man of St. Paul, Neb., for $12,000 were disallowed and the money de- posited regarded simply as a loan rather than a deposit. The case has prosecuted for nearly two weeks by Deputy Attorney General Dexter T. Barrett. This is the third claim against the defunct Farmers' State bank of Decatur, won by Mr. Barrett, in the face of claims pre- sented under the Nebraska state bank guarantee law. Iams the Loser, According to the decision handed down by Judge Day, Frank lams is the loser, because of the fact that he was receiving 6 per cent on his de- posits, when the state law provides for the payment of 5 per cent by state banks. The checks for certifi- cates of deposit for the 1 per cent| difference hetween 5 and 6 per cent were sent to Mr. Iams under an as- sumed name, according to the testi- name of Simeon Hollowell, aged | Winnebago Indian, has been injected into the case. According to the evidence pre- sented by the state several of the checks for the extra interest were signed by the Indian. His children declare that at the time the checks were signed their father was con- fined to his room and was unable to write his own name. “The decision of Judge Day in this bank case sets a precedent among state banks of Nebraska. It means | that hereafter no man will be allowed | to trifle with the state bank deposi- tors’ guarantee fund,” said Deputy Attorney General Barrett. “Further actions are pending in the matter, be- cause of evidence uncovered during (Contlnued on Page Two, Column One.) Aeroplane Squad of Nebraska Guard Is To Be Discontinued (From & Staft Correspondent.) Lincoln, Oct, 2—(Special.)-—There is little hope that the geroplang squad of the Nebraska Nationak Guard will be continued. With the death of Cap- tain Ralph McMillan, chief aviator, while making an exhibition flight in Kansas some itme ago, there is little left to encourge General Hall to con- tinu the aviation squad. When ‘the government called upon the National guard to muster a squad of forty men, it took but a little while to get the corps in good shape, but that was just about as far as the thing went. Many young men inter- ested in aviation quit their jobs when the chance was offered to get in as flyers, but the War department never went farther and these young men have drifted back to civil life in many cases. General Hall .is now offering the remains of the McMillan plane for have been placed in their paths by a | 0 STAGE FIRST | 'Thirty Floats Will Portray In- teresting Story of Omaha's Wonderful Business | Expansion. Loyal Subjects of Quf Kingdom Will Teacb\,v,» History. FLOATS INSTRUCTIVE ALL CARNIVAL ATTENDANCE. 1916. 1915, Tuesday ... 2,698 ‘Wednesday - 3,118 3,201 Thursday . 3,900 5,970 Friday ... . 4,629 6,949 Saturday 17,418 19,174 The first of the three big Ak-Sar- Bca parades, the industrial parade, will be held this afternoon. The industrial parade, consisting of over thirty floats and groups, will de- pict by illustration the great business enterprise of Omaha, the Gate City of L. west, The floats of the industrial parade will not, of course, attain that artistic pinnacle that Gus Renze's electrical parade creations will achieve. They will not be perfect models of the beauty craftsman's art. They will not glow with any resplendent effulgence of ornament. They will not inspire the monderment of those who see them. For beauty, ornament and em- bellishment are riot the purpose of the industrial parade. Its intention is to illustrate the extent and prosper- ity of the great city of Quivera as a Lusiness center, a center of commer: cial etnerprise. Will Portray . !.__.8, But they will, nevertheless, be in- teresting to t... .o, .. subjects 9{ King Ak-Sar-Ben, as well as to subjects of other realms, for what man or woman,| or chila is not interested iu e busi- ness enterprises of this greatest busi- ness country of the world? Following the industrial paradec to- day the electrical parade spectacle will be held Wednesday evening and the historical parade, celebrating the semi-centennial of Nebraska's state- hood, and in which President Wilson is scheduledsto take part, will be held Thursday. Brisk Dy on Grounds. Monday proved to be a_brisk day on'the jubilee grounds. Last weel the chilly weather cut heavily into the carnival attendance, but it was warm yesterday and the merrymakers promptly took -advantage of ' the weather man’s kindness to explore the mysteries of the jubileé. And judging from the appecarant gaicty taat prevaile on the jubilee grounds, King Ak-Sar-Ben's subjects were well satisfied with hisc arnival attraction. The sideshows all en- joyed good business. The monkeys raced around -their miniature spced- way in their miniature automobiles, while hundreds gleefully watched. Fearl:.s Riders. . The motordrome riders struck awe into the hearts of other hundreds who gasped at the manifest recklessness ~ WONDER PARADE AN HISTORICAL ALLEGORY OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 'KING AK-SAR-BEN 1916.—TWELVE PAGES. ==Copyright, 1016, by the Philadelphia Inquirer Co. BOTH THE GREGGS HURT IN SMASHUP Fearless Loopers of the Loop Slightly Injured in After. noon and Evening. CAR RUNS OFF PLATFORM Two large crowds of thrill-seekers which assembled just outside the Ak- Sar-Ben jubilee grounds yesterday afternoon to sce the Fearless Greggs make their combination, double “loop- the-loop, leap-the-gap” feature, were provided with additional thrills when both Mr. and Mrs. Gregg suffered ac- cidents and were hurt. At the afternoon performance the car containing Mrs, Alice Gregg turned turtle and rolled over several times when it struck the pavement at the conclusion of the act. Mrs, Gregg was.injured about ad. 20 body. She déclared after she regained consciousness that a foot ball head- gear which she wore was all that saved her, In the evening Mr. Gregg essayed the feat alone. His part of the stunt is to loop-the-loop. Mrs. Gregg did not attempt the leap-the-gap because of her afternoon injuries and the weak lights, which made it difficult to sce. Mr. Gregg completed the loop suc- cessfully, but ran off the receiving platform and plungc. into the curb, his car turning over as his wife’s had done in the afternoon. Mr. Gregg was not hurt badly, however, The accidents, it is believed, were caused by the rough pavement of Capitol avenue, where the stunt takes place. Both of the cars were badly TRAIN I cident at Detroit. |FIVE INQUIRIES ARE BEGUN | Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2.—Not one of the eight persons killed in the crash of a Grand Trunk freight train and a trolley car on the East Side last night had been identified early to- The bodies were so mutilated that identification was impossible. Of the fifty-three persons injured sev- eral are so seriously hurt that their day. recovery is doubtful, The switch engine, with freight cars ahead, was southbound and the trolley was going west on Forest avenug toward the center of the city. The end freight car caught the trolley almost in the center and swung it off the tracks until it stood the moving . In the panic that fol- lowed the impact passengers leaped from dorways and windows. Most of those who met death were killed b jumping from the windows and fall- ing under the wheels of the freight almost with parallel freight cars. cars. Five scparate investigations are ex- pected ‘to be under’ way today in an effort to place responsibility for the They will be made by the state railway commission, the coro- ner's office, the prosecuting attorney, the Grand Trunk rialroad and the accident, Detroit United railway. Conflicting stories were told by the 1§ STREET CAR, BIGHT KILLED ! Fifty-Three Other Persons In- jured in Grade Crossing Ac- 'HUNZBERGER TELLS OF HUGHES' RECORD New Yorker Makes Address to Large Crowd of Republicans at Boatrice. TELLS OF LABOR'S TRIBUTE Beatrice, Neb.,, Oct. 2.—(Special Telegram.)—Dr. W. A, Hunsberger of New York addressed a large crowd this evening at republican headquar- ters, being introduced by Dr, B, F. Gaither of the Methodist church, He based his remarks on James Russell Lowell's words, written more than half a century ago, during the civil war, and declared them to be as fit- ting now as they were then: “New times demand new men, strong and | virile men.” He congratulated’ ‘the republican pann and the, citizens of the country on the fact that a man with as clean a record as Hughes had been nomi- nated as the standard bearer of the republican party. He enlarged upon the splendid record that had been made by Justice Hughes atthe bar, as governor of New York, as a member of the highest court in the world, His record as governor, according to the official labor organization of the state federation of New oYrk, sure passed any governor who had ever occupied the exccutive chair in Al- bany or that of any other gtate in the union, The speaker said that according to the Legislative Labor News, Mr. Hughes had enacted fifty-six labor laws, the best labor measures in New York or any other state. THE WEATHER UNSETTLED %, SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. RUSSIANS GAIN GROUND IN NEW DRIVE IN GALICIA Austrian Official Report Ad- mits Success of Czar's Ar- mies in the Vicinity of Lemberg. COUNTER ATTACKS FAIL Teutons Lose Sixteen Hundred Prisoners in Attempt to Re- cover Lost Territory. BULGARS LOSE A VILLAGE Vienna, Oct. 2.—(Via London.)— Gains for the Russians in their new drive toward Lemberg are admitted by the war office today. The state- ment follows: “Front of Archduke Charles Fran- cis—Fighting in the Carpathians is slackening southwest and south of Brzezany the enemy attacked with strong forces the Turkish forces operating between the Zlota Lipa and the Potuory railway station, The Russians gamed some meters of ground. “Front of Prince Leopold—Oppo- site General Boehm-Ermolli's army the enemy attacked our positions north of the road from Brody to Zlochoff, but were repulsed, At one spot three and in another seven at- tacks were shattered. South of the road the enemy penetrated the sec- tor of one regiment. A counter at- tack began carly today is progressing favorably and has regained the greater part of the lost trenches, iy “Italian theater—The Italian artil- lery is again directing a very heavy fire against our positions on the Car- so plateau, which ha§ extended to our lines in the Vippaco valley. In the southeastern theater there is noth- ing to report.” Counter Attacks Beaten Back. Petrograd, Oct. 2—(Via London.) —The Austrians made heavy counter attacks yesterday in an attempt to regain the ground lost in‘the new Russian drive on Lemberg. The war office announced today the attacks were repulsed and that 1,600 more prisoners were taken. Paris, Oct. 2.—Following up the advantage gained over the Bulgar- ians at Kaimakcalan height, on the western end of the Macedonian front, the Serbians advanced oue and one- quarter miles north of the height and occupied the village of Kotchovie, the war office announced today. Bulgarians Lose Village, London, Oct. 2—~"“The portions of the Bulgarian line on' the~Struma front which we captured September 30 include the villages of Kara Za- koibala and Kara Zakoizir," says to- day's official report of operations on the Macendonian front. “Repeated enemy counter attacks against these places were entirely unsuccessful and were beaten off with heavy loss. All the ground won has now been cou- solidated. There is no sign of the enemy for some distance in front of our_ trenches. “In addition to the heavy casualties inflicted on the enemy the number of prisoners taken has been increased to 250, Our casualties were compar- atively small. Three machine guns were captured.” This highting occurred on the front southeast of Lemberg, where heavy \ themselves inside the burning .build-v; sale in order to help out the aged | ing and fought the flames heroically. | /oty er of the Captain McMillan, who Some apprechension was at first felt | was her sole support. The engine is that ghe fire would spread to the| ;o504 condition and originally cost smached by the accidents, Cotton Crop Will Be and daring of theautomobile and gas- bike pilots, who sped around thet iny 'drome heedless of the disastrous con- sequences which might occur, Mr. Hunsberger enlarged upon the platform of the republican party and especially upon the plapk which stands for a world’'s court of justice few persons who witnessed the crash. One was to the effect that there were no lights on the freight car that | struck the trolley and another that engagements are still in progress. The_announcement follows: “On the western front, in the re- Armour_plant, which is located just siventy-five feet east of the Morris plant, in the center of the flames. Armour’s private fire department, however, by constantly spraying streams of water on the buildings kept the fire from spreading to their prop- erty. I¥lyiug sparks xave the stock yards department considerable work and worrk and for four hours Superintend- ent Jack Walters of the stock yards’ fire fighters sprayed the yards with ten lines to keep the cattle and hog sheds from burning. About 2,000 freight cars, which were in the yards in the immediate vicinity of the Morris plant, were moved be- fore any of them caught fire. The Weather For Nebraska—Nnscttled weather, bihly ran. pro- imen stretching fifteen miles long on $2,750, but can be purchased now very reasonably. Tenth Division Will Start on 200- Mile Hike Today El Paso, Tex., Oct. 2—The Tenth provisional army division, composed of the Ohio, Kentucky and Massachu- sctts National Guard units and a de- tachment of regulars, encamped in this district, departed today on what is said by army officers to be the biggest troop movement for the dis- tance ever undertaken in the United States in time of peace. A line of a road will cover 200 miles before re- turning to El Paso. This division, commanded by Brig- adier General Charles G. Morton, is composed of four brigades of infan- try, with a full complemeat of artil- Hour. 1al record of temp { ation comparsd with the corsesponding | pesiod of the past three yoars: | Highent today . | expected to yield valuable data as to | which the division will march is so - |lies through some of the most wild | lery and cavalry and such auxiliary troops as engineers, signal corps companies and ambulance trains. Besides the test givensthe men, ich is accepted as a welcome e from camp life, the march is c transport, for the division is entirely self-contained, even to the water used L - the men and a.....ais. \ Although the country through dry that autemobile water wagons must be used, the hike, nevertheless, and picturesque bits of the southwest. It passes the Mascalero Indian reser- vation in New Mexico, which js sel- The athletic show, where half a dozen wrestlers ply their science; the giry shows, where comely young women laugh, dance and sing; the merry-go-round, the whip, the Ferris wheel, all did a rushing business. It was a good night for everybody. Paris Announces Capture of Trench Paris, Oct. 2—The was office an- nounced today that the French cap- tured a trench and prisoners on the Somme front last night in a local op- eration east of Bouchavesnes. The buildings of Eucourt L'’Abbaqge have been cleared of Germans. In the Thiepval region the British advanced last night north of Cource- lette, but were forced by a German counter attack to give up part of a trench they had captured, The statement follows: “During the night our troops south of the Ancre beat off an enemy attack on our advanced positions east of Eaucourt L'Abbaye. We have now established our front in that area and have cleared the buildings of Eau- court L'Abbaye of the enemy. “Further west, during the night we also established our lines from a point 1,200 yards north of Courcelette, in the direction of the Hessian trench. An enemy counter attack forced us to relinquish a portion of the Regina trench, which we had gained further north. This area has shown stub- born fighting during the last twenty- four hours, Less Than Twelve Million Bales Washington, Oct. 2.—The cotton crop this year will be approximately 11,637,000 equivalent 500-pound bales, the Department of Agriculture an- nounced today in its monthly fore- cast. That estimate was based on the condition of the crop on September 25, which was 56.3 per cent of a nor- mal compared with 61.2 per cent last month; 60.8 last year and 67.2 the ten- ear. average condition on Septems er 25, Cotton ginned prior to September | 25 amounted to 4,062,991 bales, in-| cluding 83,527 round bales and 31,- 260 bales of Sea Island, the census | bureau today announced in its second | ginning report of the reason. Funston Finishes Tour of Inspection | Corpus Christi, Tex., Oct. 2—Major | General Frederick Funston, accom- panied by Brigadier General James Parker, commanding the Brownsville district, were here today to inspect the camps of the Second and Third Texas infantry. General Funston will return to his headquarters at San An- tonio from here, having completed a tour of inspection of all the troops on Lorder duty in the lower Rio Grande valley. He indicated that he was well satisfied with the condition and that the men are in excellent health, the crossing gates were not lowered. Revolver Battle Fought in Road House at Chicago Chicago, Oct. 2—Seven men fought a revolver battle over the “sale” of a woman for $200 early today, with the result that one of the men was shot to death and another was so badly wounded that physicians say he will die. Fifty or sixty shots were exchanged in the battle, which was fought in a| roadhouse owned by Samuel Harris, | The slain man was identified as “Peg- gy” O’Day, a saloon keeper. Daniel was shot | Hartman, his companion, through the lungs. | for the settlement of international dis- putes after the war, which would be to the world what the supreme court is to the states of the union. He re- ferred to the timid, vacillating policy of Woodrow Wilson, its sectionalism, its extravagance, its want of real neu- trality, its fictious properity, of which the_democratic party boasts, He proved this by a long line of facts and figures and in closing made an earnest appeal for the republicans as well as the democrats to see to -it that Wilson keeps his pledge in his platform that was for one term. |Submarine Sinks Three Norse Ships In Arctic Ocean Christiania, Norway, Oct. 2.—(Via 0O'Day, Hartman and two associatcs; London.)—A German submarine has went i the roadhouse in an automo- bile. Hartman, according to the story Harris told the police, had offered to “sell” a woman to him, and the shoot- ing followed a disputz over the price to be paid. Cotton Rises Nearly Five Dollars a Bale New York, Oct. ment reports here today. The demand was stimulated by the 2—~One of the most sensational advances in the his- tory of the cotton market attended the publication of the two govern- made its way into the Arctic ocean and has torpedoed three Norse steamships there. The vessels torpedoed were the Sinsen, Ravn and Rolf Jarl. The crews were saved. Steamship traffic | over the regular route covering north- ern Norwegian towns has been stopped. Since August the Germans have sunk Norwegian boats valued at $9,- 000,000, The Sinsen's gross tonnage was 1,925, and that of the Rolf Jarl 1,265, There are listed three Norwegran steamships Ravn, all of them under 1,300 tons. The purpose of the German sub- marine operations probably is to in- gion of the river Narayuvka and on the heights on the right bank of theé river Zlota Lipa, stubborn fighting is continuing. The enemy initiated counter attacks, which were repelled. He left in our hands 1,600 of the rank and file. With the Austrian prison- ers were also Turks and Germans. “On the river Bytsritza, in the re- gion of Bogorodchan, our patrols re- moved two field sentries and defeated the enemy advance guards, taking also a number of prisoners, The to- tal number of prisoners taken by this section of General Letchitzky's army during the battle from September 19 to 29, inclusive, in the Carpathians, on the front extending to the Rou- mainian_frontier, is thirteen officers and 2,596 of the rank and file. The war booty captured during the same period amounts to four cannon, thir- teen machine guns, two mine throw- ers, one trench mortar, seventy-five shells and hand grenades, 100 cases of machine gun belts and several thousand rifles.” Motorcyclist Bowls Over Boy and Is Badly Hurt Lloyd Williams, a small boy, stepped into the roadway at Twenty- fourth and E streets to watch the fire apparatus en route to the Morris Packing house fire. The lad was howled over by a passing motorcy- clist, The rider was thrown head- long to the street and later taken to the South Omaha hospital, where his condition is considered crtical. The hoy suffered only superficial brui A Thousand More Every condition figures of 56.3, or the low- est on record, indicating a crop of only 11,637,000 bales. Within a few minutes after these figures were is- | sued January contracts sold at 17.03, or $4.60 a bale, above the closing price London, Oct. 2.—British troops on | the Somme front last night repulsed 'a German attack on their advanced | positions east of the village of Eau- court L'Abbaye, the war office an- Ak-Sar-Ben Dates Ak-Sar-Ben jubilee, Fifteenth and Capitol Avenue, will continue to October 7. Industrial parade, 2 p. m., Octo- Towest' today Mean temporat Precipitation , 0L .00 .00 .00 Temperature and precipitation departures rom the normal at Omaha ince March 1 and compared with past two years: ormal tompera 60 degrees i dom visited by tourists. Villistas Win Fight terfere with the transportation of war materials to Russia. Thomas Will Address enns, cloudy .. 8 ;| reports brought to General Bell at|of milk required by the residents of October 5. e educational matters. . clear i EI Paso by persons making their way | New York and vicinity for daily con- || * Coronation ball at Den, 8 p. m. Speed of Motor Trucks He has just received word of an last week than . cloudy ] from the interior of Mexico. | sumption was reported available to- || October 6. ' innovation by the students of the todoE 4 1 ] i _ General Bell transmitted this in- day, as a result of a deadlock between Maske * ball at Den, 8 p. m., Oc- To Be Regulated by Law/| High school at Cedar Rapids in same period o ; 1 jormation to southern _ department | dairymen and distributors over the || tober 7. Motor trucks will be regulated by | Boone county. The students have a year ago. ' 19 { headquarters today, adding that he | price for the product. National swine show, October 2 e 8 | taken up the proposition of better- 4 3 fsn;‘e.dc::]'i]a]ilhc persons divulging it | _{'rolm the heads of the principal dis-|| to 7. ordinance as follow Less than one | jnothe roads in and out of that town, 68 Zo0|to_be ble. A | tributing concerns it was learned that Douglas county fair, October 2 ||and one-half tons capacity, ten miles |and have started a movement to oil i o 5 rh\{,]’]‘?f“flge said that it avpcared’g.e supply for customers was about |{ to 7. s per hour; from one and onc-hali to[some of them as an experiment. The Be? Want:Ads £ ) I M,“E illistas, were getting all the| 350 per cent of normal, Dbut with a Omaha-Louisville post-season [|three and one-half tons, eight miles; students will do the work themselves smeget fine i ipitation. horses and food they needed and were promise of better conditions tomor- || base ball series, October 4 to 8. three and one-half to six tons, and aid in the ra ¢ of funds to pay 1‘esu]ts. i i s 3 I i i for today ¥ degress wus since 56 degrees precipitation . . .09 inch s fur the day ... .08 inch Keports from t8ations nt 7 P. M. Temp. High- Weather. . m eat. Meteorologist. At CuSihuiI‘]’.aGhiG; nounced today. | San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 2—Villis- tas were successful in their recent | fight with the de facto government | troops at Cusihuiriachig, according to moving in the direction of Satevo. Half of Milk Supply Of New York City Cut Off New York, Oct. 2.—Less than 60 per cent of the usual 2,500,000 quarts row, ber 3. Shakespeare electrical pageant, 8 g{ m.,, October 4. ebraska semi-ceritennial his- torical parade, 2 p. m., October 5. President Wilson to speak here of last week. The census report showing 4,062,- 991 bales ginned prior to September 25 established a new high record, but the trade had been looking for even larger figures, | miles; over six tons, three miles, Woman’s Federation (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, Oct. 2.—(Special.)—State Superintendent Thomas will go to Hastings Wednesday, where he will address the woman's federation on Hor the oil +Week 1058 MORE Paid Want-Ads