Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1916, Page 2

1 | POLICE SUSPECT HOLDUP IS MYTH Booneville Yout: Says He Was Gagged, Bound and Robbed of Cash. FEDERAL OFFICERS DOUBT (From a Staff Correspondent.) Des Moines, la, Nov. 20.—(Spe- cial.)—Police today are holding John G. Taylor, 20 years old, assistant postmaster at Booneville,|for federal officers, while authorities’ investigat® the Boy's story that he was bound, gagged and robbed of $300 as he was Jocking up the postoffice several nights ago. Taylor was found with his hands tied and a gag in his mouth about 18 o'clock in evening. He said that l'as he was locking the door he was ‘seized from behind. The robbers, he declares, took $300 from the post- office. According to the police, federal of- ficials believe the. holdup-story was used to cover an alleged shortage in the postoffice. Cosson Denies Wilkerson Claim. Attorney General Cosson said to- ‘day that any claim that he has writ- ten to Senator Frank F. Jones of Villisca to the effect that he would not investigate the Moore murder case any further was absolutely false. He dec{ared he had never in a letter or in any other manner indicated to Jones or anyone else that he welild not fully investigate the case. In the slander suit of W. F. Wilkerson, now being tried at Red Oak, in which Sena- tor Jones is suing Detective Wilker- son for slander, a witness b{ the name of George Winters, a stock buyer in Villisca, stated on the witness stand that at the famous meeting in the pas- ture which was addressed by Wilker- son, the detective read from: what urported to be a letter the follow- g: “Dear Senator: As far as I-am personally concerned this case will not be investigated any further. George H. Cosson.” The detective claimed that this was what the at- rmey general wrote to Senator ones. Attornfiy General Cosson said day that” Wilkerson was hired by im for a' time on the Moore case, ut hecause of his demanding an in- grease in pay and the manner he was gs,nducl'mg the investigations, he had ilkerson drop the work. Cosson as later asked to investigate Wil- ‘kerson by Senator Jones. - Liguor Cases at Fort Madison. /_ Attorney General Cosson has re- . Steer, wha has been prosecuting * liquor cases at Fort Madison, that the and jury there has returned indict- ts against sixteen defendants for ] m nuisances and againgt. two de. 4 nts for ' rmblu? nuisance *This includes all we had cases against whose names we had, except one ‘woman whose husband is serving a tence from the federal court for ing,” says the message. This dicted by the grand . “It also includes the nmhlins t the state agents found an an ent. It includes enfz place “‘}'lqw was bought by the state Exeontives to Cut The executive committee of the tic county central committee have charge of the distribution ~pie. - Apnouncement ~ pointments will not be made until ext ,‘:f"ml,{"b'bl’ t‘fi‘:‘“l;;l (‘.hbrm- €. e 8 as been 2t that the mml have a retain Frank Mahoney and W . € thei lnéne.’beingf pusly announced, M. ? new treasurer, will ap- J. Bauman as chief deput in Eall‘l.:::hbillty wz:‘lmwpolnyI i r 10 a g position. r. Elsasser formerly served as county treasurer. Boy's Body Floats . Half M_l!g_l!nder Ice ., Sioux Falls, S. D,, Nov. 20.—(Spe- ial.)—Ludwig Sveum, aged 1 n of fasmer living neéar Baltic, was the : victim of the season of skating 1 thin ice. He was drowned in the Sioux river, while skating, near father's farm. He went skating ne, and when he did not return some hours, a search was made " him. A hole in the ice, where had broken through, was found, d after some difficulty the body ;‘ recovc‘ud from the wmhenl: 4 e ice at a point about hal ] mile}dl:fim the river from the point here he broke through. ol ——— e ' his beautiful city s -omoth re Important than u diforce colony. _ “They who attack Reno with abuse of that kind are iike the tram 2 “A very dirty and dilipldated tramp was on a charge of chasing a bartender all 1 barroom with a blij h o “‘What time 4ld you say I chased you? the tramp from the dock demanded of his user. * ‘Bight o;::ocl( In the morning,' the bar- repl! gents,’ sald the tramp, scratch. his disheveled of whiskers. ‘“There, 2 18w eall & rotired horseman an J_w:“nn are very bright when they're o s el well to be 3 3 \Ign v:yl . breezy, but don't it ;"A cur who would dog an- casties are frequently bullt with player.—Boston Transcript: AT sl ook 1) New York, Nov. 20 —The record- breaking aeroplane migiii of Ruth Law, begun yesterday in Chicago, terminated at Governor's ILsland here at 9:40 a, m, today after stops at Elor- ngll and .Binghamton, N. Y. 'The final 152 miles from Binghamton to this city was covered this morning in two hours and twenty minutes and the entire journey, 832 miles in an air line, in actual fllying time of nine hours and one minute, In making their official announce- ment that the American non-stop cross-country record was won by Miss Law, as well as the world record in that classification for women and the second best world record for men and women, Aero club officers ex- pressed surprise at the difficulties with which she had to contend in making the flight. A special point was made of the fact that she fre- quently had to dip her mgchine in order to make the gasoline run down into, the carburetor from the tanks, which are placed too low to feed auto- matically when the supply ebbs past a certain point. “The airplane used to make this record-hreaking flight,” their state- ment read, “was the small loop-the- loop biplane with the propeller in the rear, which she had built especially for herself.’ She wanted this type, where the seat is in front withowt protection from the elements, she ived word from his assistant, Earl}. exploded bombs were found in the sugar cargo of the American steam- ship Sarnia tipon its arrival at Cher- bourg, France, after a voyage startin from New York on September { Fourth Mate. Wybrance of the Sarnia, who arrived here today on the Ameri- can line steamship New York from was extinguished without serious dam- age, Wybrance said, and’ the two ves- sels put in at Havre. It is nét until | to they reached Cherbourg that the sugar P".}P was unloaded. Dok Hfl;u?‘- IX::;:::" ltt‘;:m':::p.‘":na ing between Japanese and other Asia-, since being transferred to American reliltrfl was cleared from New York by J. brpieu, and was owned by the lon.iBlydcom;;:n)i: TV;.e sugar was' consigned to t t Al o R Bl £ g e French governmen sugar brokers, Ashes of Hillstrom : A Sent over WO!'ld eral manager of the Osaka Mercantile Steamship company, and the latter’s isecretary, were recentl: aving made a tour of Australia and West Australia. Ukita, who i§ acting in a special ca- pacity for the Japanese government, was not confining its attention solely to the matter of to the commonwealth. said he, “that a great export m Australia to Japan is open- The west of Australia,” he continued, “is not very well known to my countrymen, c¢hiefly for the reason that we have no direct steam- ship service to that part of the com- monwealth, but I am convinged, and my colleagues agree with me, that there are distinctly good prospects of trade between Japan and that part of tree. b M. Fizgerald, assessor-elect, v mmunm'Mant ¢ never meen m crulser fight, but -Q.t#'hfi'm-.py ting Int nto e wouldn't necessarily -fl: l.M said, because it affords a wider range of vision while flying. The machine was equipped with a 100-horse power motor and gasoline tanks. holding fifty-three gallons. These tanks, being | . much lower than the motor, feed the motor in the normal way until two- thirds of the gas has been consumed, after which it was necessary for Miss Law to dip_the machine from time to. time to fill the carburetor.” The statement quoted Miss Law as saying, that as she aproached New York her gasoline supply was getting 80" low that “even the feeding by dipping was getting less effective.” She said she was getting ready to land in the city streets if necessary. The distance by which Miss Law bettered Carlstrom’s American rec- ord was given by the club -as 138 miles, the distance covered today from Binghamton to New York at 152 miles, plus about twenty miles added by zig zags and the time was sl 5l et TAD TRADE. GROWING, and thirty-five secon Twenty Bombs - Found On Sugar +Linden Steamship New York, Nov. 20—Twenty un- uring which the vessel caught fire rom a cause unknown, accdrding to Liverpool. Sugar made up the bulk of the car- oes of the Sarnia and the barge vondale, which it had in tow upon leaving New York.™ The fire at sea Winchester & Co., |hiyiging ud- y A. H. Lamborn & Co:, New York Chicago, Nov. 20.~One hundred and fifty enyelopes conlflninfi ashes of Joseph Hillstrom, or “Joe Hill," as he usually signed himself, were dis- tributed to as many delegates to the enth annual convention of the Indus- trial Workers of the World today. The ashes will be scattered by the delegates and by locals of the Indus- trial Workers of the World, to which 450 other envelores were mailed, ac- cording to the wishes of the decedent :lho was executed in Utah for mur- er. Woman Claiming to Be One 0f Villa’s Wives Is Dead Paso, Tex, Nov. 20.—Mrs, Juana Torres de V who_claimed Villa, dieg recently in Guadalajar: ex., according to a letter receive? here. Mrs, Villa in Los An- geles, Cal, after Villa took the field as a bandit, later coming here at the time of the Carrizal affair in June. She was ordered deported, and left for Chihunahua City. Mrs. Luiz Cor- ral Villa, who claims to be Villa's first wife, is now understood to be in Ha- vana, Cuba. Bibliomania Follows in “Billy” Sunday’s Trail Omaha's demand for religious liter- ature has increased tenfold since the “Billy” Sunday reviral, according to Miss Edith Tobitt, librarian, The de- mand has been especiallly great on lit- erature relating to the “Book of Genesis.” Another great demand has cropped out on literature pertaining to the opera. The library has a large circulating library of music, but be- cause of the demand on it, patrons have been limited to the use ot cer- tain selections for three days only. a a ting aa he myPalogical ng .as & myttol Ical Tuke the ILtI6 putfer fisn, for If which has attracted the attentio: w It " ' X York uarium placed & few good-alzed scup, or Porgios, In's tank which contained & dSsen puffers about twe inches. in length, the hungry seup attacked at onc fers inflated them- “ | moré than knock them about like toy bal- loons tao large 1o be awallowod, and on which umumunu-ommruwnm tried.—Populer Sclence. 4 - THE BER: OMEHA, qz_mspw._’fiqmm_z;,fimp. |Woman Breaks All American Long ,.- Distance Records in Aeroplane MAKES NEW NON-STOP FLIGHT RECORD—Miss Ruth Law; who on Sunday flew from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y., 590 miles in an air line, and thus established a new non-stop long-distance flight record, reached New York City yesterday. NAYY OF AUSTRIA MAkING A RecoRDlf THOMPSON., BELDEN Official Report Indicates De- struction of Many Vessels of Italy, England, France. SUNK IN THE ADRIATIC (Correspondenee of The Assoctated Pross.) Vienna, Nov. 15.—While the world Vienna, Nov. 1.—While the world has watched with chiefest interest naval developments in this war be- tween Germany and England, Austria has been busily “plugging away” with its navy in the Adriatic and the Medi- terranean, and has established for it- self an enviable record. Recently there has been issued an official list of the war vessels of the Italians, the French and the English that have been destroyed by the Aus- trians, which total no less than twen- ty-eight and have—or had—a tonnage of 85,572 tons. Something over 5 per cent of the French total tonnage in May, 1914, has been destroyed by the Austrians, and about 10 per’cept of the Italian tonnage.. The activity of the Austrian navy is best shown in the following concise table, arranged according to wame and character of ship, tonnage and man- ner of destruction or serious injury: FRENCE Jean Bart, line ship, 23,470 tons, destroyed by submarine, Leon, Gambetta, armored cruiser, 12,650 " MISS RUTH LAW. —— “At present we are manufac- turing large quantities of khaki for the Russian army. At the moment this trade is largely based on war conditions, but when the conflict is ended there will be a great outlet for the same trade in China. chase from Australia how something between 80,000 and 100,000 bales of It will soon grow 150,000 and 200,000 Under the Stimulus of the War Japan is Increasing Its Freight Commerce. MAKING RUSSIAN CLOTHES wool per annum. (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Australia, Aug. 30.—The He was also convinced that there Fruspect of trade in refrig- presgnce of steamers in Sydney harbor—to say nothing of their calls at other com- wonwealth ports—attests the | foreign trade pf the Japanese empire is expanding under the stimulus of the war and how Australia is assist- ing in that greatly increase tralia mainly in the milk, cottgn yarns and other cotton | products; matches, hats, buttons, pots tery, toys and glassware; and in the way of imports there has been a de- cided advance in raw wool, raw cot- rubber, iron,/ lead, zinc and paper Christian Endeavor Rally at Woodbine Woodbine, Ia, Nov. 20.—(Special.) —One of the most spirited Christian Endeavor rallies ever son county was held when large delegations from Mis- souri Valley, Dunlap, Logan and Mo~ dale attended. Misses Lena and Bes- sic Howlette and Mable Lowe and Guy Leavitt of Council Bluffs were on the program with Miss Mary B, McPherrin of Omaha, Iowa state field its exports to Aus- shape of raw ere yesterday, pon Yusen Kaisha line of tons, destroved by submarine. Curie, submarine, 400 tons, destroyed by coast artillery. Dague, torpedo boat, 750 tons,. destroyed by_mine. Joule, submarine, 400 tons, destroyed by mine. Monge, submarine, 400 tons, destroyed by artillery. Fourche, submarine, 760 tons, destroyed by ne. Foucault, submarine, 400 tons, destroyed Y, lane. Total of eight French vessels, with a ton- nage of 39,120 tons, or 6.5 per cent of total French tonnage in May, 1914 TTALTAN. Amalfi, armored cruiser, 10,680 tons, de- stroyed by submarine. Guiseppe Garibaldl, armored cruiser, 7,350 tons, destroved by submarine, Quarto type, small cruiser, 3,400 tons, de- stroyed by submaring, Principe Umberto, auxillary cruiser, 2,952 tons, destroyed by submarine. Gitta dl Palermo, auxillary cruiser, 3,415 tons, destroyed by submarine. Turbine, forpedo boat, 330 tons, destroyed by artillery. 5 P. N., ‘torpedo boat, 120 tons, destroyed by submarine, / 17 0. S, torepdo boat, 130 tons, destroyed 90, torpedo boat, 680 tons, de- stroyed by submarine. Intrepido, torpedo boat, 630 tons, stroved by mine. Medusa, submarine, 250 tons, destroyed by mine, Nautllus, submarine, 225 tons, by_mine, ~ Neroldo; submarine, 225 tons, destroyed by submarine, Nereldo type submarine, 225 tons, de- stroyed by mine. Nereldo type submarine, 225 tons, stroyed by artillery. Nereido type submarine, 22 tons, stroyed by artillery. Jalca, submarine, 225 tons. Glacinta Pullino, submarine, 345 tons, cap- tured. Total of nineteen Ttalian ship, with a ton- ge of 41,892 tons, or 10 per cent of the tal Italian ton in May, 1914, ENGLISH. Liverpool type cruiser, 4,880 tons, de- stroyed by submarine, ' ; In addition to this list of warships, a large number of merchant marine de- destroyed de- de- tries named have been destroyed, and all three of Italy's dirigible airships, the Citta di Jesi, the Citta di Ferrara and No. 3, have been brought down by the Austrians. Bryan Again Denies He Will Leave Nebraska Chicago, Nov. 20.—They dry Chi- cago campaign opened today when as_reinforced the fleet ply- secretary, who presided. As a result of the rally, which included talks, songs and yells throughout the-aft- ernoon, a banquet, a Christian En- deavor meeting and a lantern slide lecture on the history of Endeavor— the last two attended by, over 500 people—another rally was planned to be held at Missouri Valley on Sunday, January 8. Fifty Council Bluffs young people will be invited to attend this rally, as well as the societies from Harrison' county churches. Dewey Now Wears New parkler, Gift of Office When an' employe of Count; Frank Dewey asked him for tl of his ring for a short while in order that he might purchase one of a simi- lar pattern, he was little aware that he was to receive a half carat setting for It was presented to him by the clerks of his office at his home Saturday evening, 4532 North Thirty- D. M. Haverly, former county clerk, made the presentation speech. About six! the office force an orts and Australian’' cities, and lately it has decided to extend that service to New Zealand. The Nip- on Yusen Kaisha maintains a regu- ar mail service to Australia and in addition it runs a direct cargo service to the commonwealth, Trade Commission. A trade commi podes consisting o general at Batavia; tic on to the Anti- S. . Kamiya, gen- said that the part; friends, including their wives, were Demo Takes Lead. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. democrat, took the lead from Representative W. H. Coleman, republican, in the official recount of the vote cast {n the Thirtieth congressional distriot here today. Campball, democrat, made a net gain of 146 over Representative A. J. Barchfield, re- publican, In the recount of the vots in the Thirtwsecond district. | 20.—Clyde Kelly, All the commissioners that Japanese purchases of Austral- i which are already large, would increase amazingly in th ture, and on this point to be the second wife of Francisco|ian wool, S PROOF of your good taste take her a box of Vassar Chocolates De Luxe. No finer sweets are made. Other Vassar Chocolates 65¢ per pound and up. |oOSE-WILES @mPany OMAHA W. J. Bryan addressed a meeting of the Chicago D\:ly Federation. Mr, Bryan was asked of a recurrence of the repott that he was to move his home to Ashville, N. C. “I don't mind denying it again,” said Mr. Bryan. “Why should any one leave a nice dry state like Ne- braska? We exepect to spend our winters in Florida and part of our summers at Ashvill¢, but our home will remain at Lincoln.” Furniture Roll Top Desks as low as §27.50 Typewriter Desks, Globe-Wernicke Filing Cases Orchard & Wilhelm Co. AN EXCEPTION. Life insurance is an exception (1) to the rule “Don’t buy a thing until you need it;” and (2) in that its cost has not increased along with practi- cally everything else. If one waits untilhe actually needs life insurance, he cannot then get it. Insurance com- panies insure only sound lives. Im- paired lives are denied all the stand- ard policies. The percentage which companies reject is greater than their death rate percentage. If- you have no life insurance, the time to make your application is when you are in good health. While the cost of insurance has not advanced, yet the premitm does increase with each year of added age. The younger the age at which a policy is taken, the smaller the premium. THE MIDWEST LIFE of Lincoln, Nebraska N. Z. SNELL, President. Guaranteed Cost Life Insurance. Should Come From FRELING & STEINLE | "™l80s FARNAM ST. Tuesday is the First of These Displays very artistic combinations of Georgette, with striking prlSIngly mOder' beaded and embroidered ef- ate, $8.75, $9.50, fects. We invite your viewing of these newest blouse styles. ! 514-50 vessels belonging to the three coun-|g Quality runs through | the 7 passenger 6-30 * V. Chalmers like a vein = |} of gold in a mine. That - | is one reason for its supreme ability in ! action. The most complete line in Omaha i of Office Desks, %hfln, Settees, | te. on this car---$1280 until November 30. — After that $1350. & CQMPANY The Stere for Blouses By arrangement with one of New York’s foremost designers we are to receive each week five blouses that have proven to be the best selling numbers in Fifth Ave.! shops. These newest models are The prices are sur- -$10.50, $12.50, The Store for Blouses—Second Floor. Mr.‘Robert Nicoll, Our New York representative, has returned to Omaha, bringing with him new’ fashions in women’s apparel. ; If you wish any style information consult Mr. Nicoll. Sateen Aprons For office and store wear these black sateen aprons are quite indis- pensable. Good . quality sateen. Practical styles, 50c, 60c, 65c. Third Floor. YOUR INITIAL FRE Sateen Bloomers Women’s black bloom- ers; well made of the best sateen, 75c. Children’s sateen bloom- ers, black; sizes 2 to 14 years, 50c. Third Floor. WELL MADE; ACTIVE; SEATS 7;§1280 = | f The price is very low G (All Prices f. o. b. Detroit) R. W. CRAIG, Inc. Phone Doug. 7888. 2512-14 Farnam St.