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

PART ONE NEWS SECTION Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XLVI—NO. 26. BRYAN PLANS 10 STOP WAR WHTH HELP OF CHURCH Nebraskan Has 'Scheme to Send Ecclesiastical Delega- tion to Warring Nations on Peace Mission. BARTHOLDT URGES IT, TOO Latter Suggests Ex-Secretary Head Committee to Get Men Out of Trenches. BEFORE ST. LOUIS COUNCIL St. Louis, Deq 9—A new peace movement was before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ to- night in the shape of suggestions from William J. Bryan and former Con- gressman Richard Bartholdt of St. Louis that the churches of America send delegations to Europe in an ef- fort to end the war, Mr. Brygn launched the suggestion and Mr. Bartholdt endorsed it, adding that Mr. Bryan should be sent as head of the delegation. The. council has not acted on the plan. The publicity committee of the council, it was announced tonight, plans a nation-wide publicity campaign to advertise the churches. A bugeau to handle news and advertising" is planned. Thinks It Good Thing. Mr. Bryan in his address at the fed- eral council said: ’ ‘ “If this plan to call upon the churches of Europe is thought good, T recommeny] that we invite our Catho- lic and Jewsh brethren to co-operate. “I belicve it would be a good thing to send committees from all the churches to all the capitals of Europe to show them the philosophy of love. “If the doctrine of love that Christ teaches can regenerate the individual so that the stagnant pool of his soul can be changed into a bubbling spring, it is not worth while for the churches to try it on the warring nations? “If our gowernment cannot bring about peace, then let the churches try. Let these committee that go to the warring _capitals of Europe take hounteous gifts with them that may be distributed,_among the sorrowful and suffering. Let us show our love for them in this manner. If the churches will take the lead in this way, it may be the means of stopping the war, and that would be one of the greatest achievements in history.” Denounces Bankers, Mr. Bryan in an address at the City «club rebuked bankers of St—Louis for signing a profest agaihst prohibition during the recentt campai SRz o “Shame upon you of St. s,” said Mr. Bryan, “who go'to thepolls and vote that brewers/and saloon keepers are better than your wives.” Mr. Bryan asserted that prohibition in_Kansas had been a\success, and pointed to the majority vote cast for it in Kansas City. Political Rights Given the Jewsin Poland by Teutons New York, De&~9.—A wircless statempent from Dr. Zimmerman, Ger- man secretary of foreign affairs, was received here today declaring that the new constitution granted the Jews in Poland by his government gives them far-reaching self-government and a . chance to develop their own educa- tional system, it was announced by Dr. S. M. Melamed, editor of the American Jewish Chronicle. “Compulsory conscription” for Po- lish Jews does not exist, the state- ment said. Dr. Melamed said the communica- tion satisfied him that the new order in Poland represents a step forward for the Jews in educational lines over the Russian yegime, but that the ques- tion of their political development was apparently left unsettled. United States Buys Ninety-Six High Power Hydro-Airplanes Washington, Dec. Y.—Contracts tor ninety-six high-power hydro-airplanes {nr the coast artillery stations in the Inited States, Hawaii, Philippines and the Panama canal zone, were let to- day by 5}10 War depactment: Immediate construction is to be begun on-the ninety-six machines and contracts soon will be let for fifty-two more, Companies receiving awards today were the Aero-Marine Engineer and Sales, New York City, sixteen ma- chines, $18,000 cach; the Burgess com- pany, Marblehead, Mass., thirty-two machines, $23622 each; the Curtis company, Buffalo, N. Y., sixteen ma- chines, §22,500 each, and the Standard Aeroplane corporation, Plainfield, N I., thirty-two machines, $21,000 each. Thé Weather For Nebraska—Falr; somewhat warmer to- nignt Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. FUPETYTEREEERE §5ps338: 8853 Comparative Local Record. ; 1916, 1915, 1914. 1913. Tighest yesterday 39 40" 34 48 Lowest yesterday. Mean temperatus : *recipitation .. .00 .00 .03 00 Temperature ‘and precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature Deficiency for the d: Total excess since March i. Normal precipitatl Deticlency for the fotal rainfall since M Deficleney since March 1 Defie for cor. per Deflcf 34 67 inches ologlst, = | according to the Vorwaerts, attacked .| only on short commons, but were suf- | 7 | lasts. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER WOMEN WINTHER | FIRST VICTORY Omaha Consumers’ League Knocks a Nickel from Price. of Strictly Fresh Eggs. BIG MEETING O .- W o W Omaha C its first mari arday. And it was hen fi The Excello company announced then that the; price® of strictly fresh eggs had dropped from 50 cents to 45 cents a dozen and company officials were | good enough to admit to Mrs. Vernon | C. Bennett, president of the league, that the beycott by the women was| the cause for the reduction. | Close upon the heels of this vic-| tory comes the announcement o(‘ plans for a mass meeting in the city | hall council chamber Friday after-| noon a¥ 3 o’clock. Mrs. Bennett vis- | ited Mayor Dahlman Friday and got| not only a cordial greeting as the rep- | resentative of the high price warriors, | but received also the chief executive’s | permission to use the city hall for a big pow-wow, | Indications are that yomen from | all parts of the city will be there. It was the city-wide wish of housewives | (and some husband, too) to join the movement which prompted the league's officers to drop the “North” from the name of the society and call it the “Omaha Consumers’ league.” Then came the cail for a mass meeting | in the center of the city and members of the various women's club through- out Omaha volunteered to lend their efforts to the fight against tha_high cost of living. Societies Working. The Saratoga Mothers’ club, to whose members Mrs. Bennett spoke Friday night, voted unanimously to join the ranks of the restricted buy- ers. The social center workers of all parts of the city have covertly joined | the movement, but among the most open advocates of a continued boycott are the women of the Miller Park and Central Park societies. The| Omaha Philosophical society, of | which Mrs. D. G. Craighead, a prime | mover in the war on high costs, is a member, will diseuss campaign meth- ods Sunday afternoon at ‘3 o'clock. | The meeting will be open to the pub- lic. Headquarters are in th: Lyric buitding. More than 300 people attended the community center mass meeting at Central Park school Friday night and endorsed the plans of the brotherhood of the Central Park Congregational church for lowering living costs by community buying. Membership cards | were issued Saturday and the first orders-were ‘placed.” Members for- feit their standing should they refuse toaccept what they ordered from the buying committee. Rich 0ld Man is “Sent to an Asylum Week After He Weds| Attorneys representing the rela- tives of Daniel -Reifel, 67 years old, a wealthy Red Oak, Ia., retired mer- chant, are in Omaha for the purpose of filing an application seeking to annul his marriage with Ida Blanche Doctor, 53 years old, which took place here October 12 last, according to Clyde Sundblad, clerk of the county court, One’ of the attorneys visited the county judge’s office Saturday morn- ing and told Mr. Sundblad that-the Red Oak man was incompetent and had married here about two months after his former wife died. The lowa dwyer declared that it has been nec- essary to appoint a guardian for Mr. Reifel several times. The marriage ceremony in Omaha was performed by Rev. Oliver D. Baltzly, pastor of the Kountze Me- morial church, Mr. Reifel is said to be very wealthy and to have a palatial mansion_in Red Oak, According to the Red Oak authori- ties, Mr. Reifel's eccentric actions a week after his last marriage resulted in the sheriff being called to the home. The retired merchant locked himself in the cellar of the house, it is said, and it was necessary for the sheriff to handcuff him. He was taken before the insanity board, which deferred action on his case, and Mr. Reifel is now in a pri- vite hospital at Des Moines, accord- ing to information from Red Oak. Mass of German . People Starving, Says Socialist Amsterdam (Via London), Dec. 9.| —In the course of a discussion in the| Prussian diet on the question of an increase in the salaries of minor offi-| cials the socialist deputy, Stroebel,| R \ 0. those who were receiving great war profits, while the mass of the people were starving. The deputy quoted the cases of minor railway officials who were not| fering from hunger, their incoéme not being sufficient to buy their alloted amount of food. The speaker con- cluded: “We long for and hope for any peace mediation in the interest of the official state workers whose sufferings are increasing the longer the war | Orders for Steel - | Reach New Record New York, Dec. 9.—Unfilled orders of the United States Steel corporation for the month ending November 30 last were 11,058,542 tons, an increase of 1,043,282 tons over the preceding. This establishes a new record for un- filled orders of the corporation. | to you that while religious FUNSTON TELLS WHY HE BARRED CAMP REVIVALS Yommander of Border Troops Says He Did Not Want Serv- jces Forced. on Those Not Inclined. REPLIES TO (PREACHERS Declares Criticism of Him }Jn- just and His Position Mis+ represented. SOLDIERS ARE NOT SO BAD San Aumtonio, Tex, Dec. 9 Major General Frederick Funston, commanding the Department of the South, tonight replied to Rev. J. S. Jambrelt, secretary of the executive board of the Baptist General conven- tion, explaining the general's reason for not permitting revivals in the military camps here and along the border. Numerous Baptist conven- tions had adopted resolutions con- demning what they understood to have been the general’s action and suggestions were made that President Wilson, as commander in chief of the army, be asked to take official cogntz- ance of the matter. A resolution asking for information on the con- troversy also has been introduced in congress, Gives Out Copies. General Funston gave out copies ofthe letter to the press in which he says in part: “From time to time I have been receiving copies of resolutions passed by vari(%s Baptist bodies condemn- ing my opposed stand relative to holding religious services anfong the troops on the border and also have received a number of very unjust and in some cases abusive letters from clergymen of the same denomination. Incidentially I might say that I have had more letters appfoving my and than I have criticizing it. “This whole disagreeable incdent wth all of ts annoyance to me, of ‘courte, arses fronr the statement made by you after your visit to the headquarters a couple of months ago in which you sought to obtain per= mission to conduct a series of revivals 'in the border camps. Would Have Made no Difference. “You stated your business to Colonel Barnum, chief of staff. If Colonel Barnum stated at that time what denomination yeéu belonged to, it made ‘no .impression on my -mind, and i he had it would have made no difference whatever. “I told that officer to explain fully services along the usual line were conducted in the camps by chdplains and other clergymen and were welcome, I could not give my consent to the holding of revivals therein, giving the word, as I was justified in doing, its usually accepted meaning. I told ~€olonel Barnum to explain to' you why re- vival services would be out of place in a military camp, citing the dis- graceful performance in San Antonio tast winter as an example of what revivals are apt to develop into, and drawing to a certain extent ou a gen- eral knowledge as to how revivals or ‘protracted’ meetings, as they are sometimes called, are usually con- ductyd. Resented Implication. “I further instructed Colonel Bar- num to say to you that I did not ac- cep#’in fact, resented, the implication that because a man had put on his country's uniform he was necessarily lost, or worse than other men; that I thought there were people who had stayed at Wome who needed re- vivals worse than the soldiers did. . “Under the circumstances you may imagine my astonishment when I read your statement to the effect that I had said that I would not allow the soldiers to be told that _hey were ‘los.” You must know as well as I do that the doctrine ghat should be predched to the men was never once considered or mentioned, and with all due courtesy 1 feel compelled to say that your making repeatedly the statements you are quoted as making as absolytely inexcusable and did me a great injustice, The only time the word ‘Lost’ was used by me was when I said that I did not accept the view that because a man put on his coun- try’s uniform he was necegsarily lost. (Can“nlll"d on Page Tw;l.——('al mn l‘Tour.D Cotton Market in Near Panic; Prices Drop $14 Per Bale New York, Dec. 9.—A rgnewal of kea\'y general liquidation Yollowing vesterday's big break in prices caused excitement verging upon demoraliza- tion on the cotton market here to- day. For a time prices broke ten to fifteen points between sales and be- fore there was any pause in the de- cline March contracts had sold at $18.50, or 75 points under last night’s close, and the general list was fully $14 a bale below the recent high rec- ords. Covering caused rallies of 20 to 30 points from the lowest as soon as the pressure diminished. but the market' was still extremely jnsettled and nerv- ous late in the forenoon. Assistant Secretary 0f State Resigns Washington, Dec. 9.—John E. Os- borne, assistant secretary of state, resigned today and will return within the month to his home in Rawlins, Wyo,, to devote himself to his private business. His successor has uot been named. He was appointed in 1913 and with one or two exceptions held the office longer than any predecessor, 10, 1916—FORTY-TWO PAGES—FIVE SECTIONS. Why the C hild Wonders DOESNT REALLY LooK LIHE THAT WANTTOLIVEA DAY | ON FIFTEEN CENTS? University of Omaha Suggests? Oatmeal as Ideal Menu for Diet Squad. FAVOR FEWER MIDDLEMEN The food chemistry classes of the University of Omaha devoted last week’s class time to the discussion of the high cost of living question and came to the conclusion that, oatmeal is the cheapest food to use, consider- ing digestibility, calorific value and wholesomeness. | It is digested as eas- ily as wheat products and its fuel value i§ 1,800 calories per pound, as compared with 1,600 given by a simi- lar weight of ‘Wheat flour. Even at the present price a normal human be- ing could receive the required nour- ishment for one day from 15 cents worth of the prepared oats. If he would include the cost of cooking, a reasonable amount of sugar and a quart of milk, he could live on 30 cents a day at the most. The secret of the high cost of most manufactured fodds, it was brought out, is due to the cost of manufac- turing and not to the cost of the original material. If you should buy enough cornflakes to equal a bushel of corn it would cost you from $8 to §12, whereas the original cost of | that corn was about one-fourteenth of the selling price. Oats sell for about 55 cents and-a bushel of it made into oatmeal would sell for $3.50) These relations between origi- nal cost and selling price after manu- facturing show that the consumer -is doing more than paying for the foods. The Middlgrohn, ' The students further maintained that another factor effecting the high cost of living is the middleman prob- lem. In this connection Prof. Lewis, head of the department, pointed out that a pound of coffee which cost 15 cents originally would sell at 40 cents by the time it reached the consumer. Tea in the same way goes from 20 to 50 cents a pound. In some cases an article passes through half a dozen hands before reaching the consumer. Every member of the class is strongly in favor of doing away with many middlemen, Members of the classes are Marion Pearsall, Elizabeth Berryman, Ethel Moore, Irene Wilson, Jean Berger, Floyd Woosley, William Campen and Eugene Simmons. Woman Reporter Is Given Ten Years For Man’_s Murder, Thompson Falls, Mont. Miss Edith Colby, a new porter, convicted of second degree murder for shooting A. C. Thomas, a politician, sentenced today | to serve ten years in the penitentiary. | The defense contended that Thomas | had refused to apologize to Miss| Colby for an alleged insult during an | interview, and that this so preyed on | her mind that /she was not résponsi- ble” for her actions dt the time of the shooting of Thomas. was, }_‘Wilkfiai;ldlce D:e;zie | Arthur L. | Boy Falls on Pitchfork : | landing squarely on a pitchfork. rs Charge Tip; to Special Court for Women 8peeders Columbus, O., Dec. 9.—Begin- ning Monday Judge Osborfi of the municipal court will hold a session for “ladies only” every afternoon to accommodate women violators of the new traffic code of Colum- bus. Women protested against be- ing arraigned at the regular morn- ing session of police court. BRANDEIS TEAM . SETS FAST PACE This Squad Raises Almost Nine Thousand Dollars in Brow- nell Hall Campaign. PR WA RHOADES TEAM SECOND In the $250,000 campaign for Brownell Hall, which began actively on Friday, the teamr captained by George Brandeis has established a considerable lead over the other squads-in the work of subscription getting. Figures ‘issued at campaign headquarters last night show that Mr. Brandeis’ squad has obtained thirty subscriptions, for a total of $8950. Team No. 13, of which William E. Rhoades is the head, is second in the competition, with a total raised of $2,8520. This represents nine sube scriptions. Third is Charles - C. George's team, with $1,555 in twelve pledges. Miss Marion R. Towle has the; hono of leading the woman's division, her reports showing an aggregate of $2,140. Mrs. Frank W. Judson, whose team yesterday took premier honors, is second in the total for the two days, and Mrs. Philip Potter is third. The summary ol the two days’ cam- paign shows the following figures: Woman's Division, Loufs 8. Clark, Frank W. Judson Charles 8. Marple . hPilip Potter Marion R. Towle . Mrs, Mys. Mrs, Miss Men’s Divislon, Barker ... Brandels Dodds . Joseph Grorge Joseph J Arthur H. Fetters Charles C. George Barton Millard Abraham L. Reed Willlam E. Rhoades John W. Towle Harry A. Tukey . Charles M. Wilhelm . Willtams Total .. And Will Probably Die| Mitchell, S. D., Dec. 9.—Floyd | Steckel, 13 years old, and son of al farmer north of Mitchell, while walk-| ing on a straw stack slipped and fell, | It is believed he will die, | Bible Study Class Lead"ers To Meet at “Y. M.” Monday! The regular meeting of leaders and | chairmen of neighborhood Bible | study classes will be held at the| Young Men's Christian Association Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. | Mrs. Hopkins, city chairman, will give a report of her work. FEDERAL PROBES INTO FOOD PRIGES Grand Juries at New York, Oleveland, Detroit, 8t. Louis and Minneapolis Busy. PLOTS ARE WIDESPREAD Washington, Dec. 9.—Federal grand jury investigations into the high cost of living were ordered to- day by Attorney General Gregory to begin at once in New York, and in Detroit next week. Similar investigationy in Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapalis and other points are under considera- tion, Frank M. "Swacker, an assistant attorney general for the government in the New Haven case, will be ask- ed to take charge of the New York investigation. Reports to the Department of Jus- tice from its field force of investigat- fors indicate, officials said, the wide- spread existence of combinations of brokers and dealers in foodstuffs and coal to force prices ypward. Most of these alleged combinations were said to be lucarin character. All data con- cerning them will probably be sub- |- mitted to grand juries. ~ Conspiracies Widespread. In addition to grand jury investi- gation in the east and the middle west, officials are considering the ad- visability of starting similar proceed- ings in the northwest and far western states. It is likely that this latter proposal will be held in abeyance un- til the investigations more definitely ¢ontemplated are in full swing, ' Activities of alleged food and coal speculators are said to have extended as far south as the Mexican border and to have included virtually every section of the country. Closely re- lated to their alleged activities is the shortage of freight cars, information bearing on wlich is being compiled by the Interstate Commerce commis- sion for use in the investigation. The plan of procedure, if approved by the attorney general, probably will be placed today before President Wil- son. United States Attorney Ander- son of Boston, directing the investi- s | gation, was told at the White house that if pressure of other business per- | mitted, the president would see him. Foodstuffs in Storage. Mr. Anderson held a long confer- ence today with officials of the Agri- culture department and was given a .| mass of information relative to food stuffs held in refrigerating and“other storage plants throughout the coun- try. Mr. Anderson also had an appoint- ment with Mr, Swacker today at which it probably will be determined whether Mr. Swacker will take charge of the New York end of the investi- gation. |Thousand Killed By Explosion in Munitions Plant Berlin, Dec." 9.—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—An explosion in a Russian ammunition plant has caused the death of about 1,000 persons, accord- .| ing to the Overscas News agkncy to- day, quoting the Russian ne L Wspaper ech. Cooks and Butlers Back to I’al‘ronsgyea‘rling Bull is New York, Dec. 9—Tips, per- quisites or charities distributed by large milk dealers to cooks, butlers, janitors and superintendents of apart- ment houses as expenses incidental | to obtaining customers °eventually are added to the burden of the “ulti- mate donsumer,” according to wit~’ nesses before the Wicks legislative committee today. The sap€ system of gratuities ap- plicg to the ice dealer, the baker and the mews dealer, superintendents of several apartment houses testified. One large milk | distributor ini | | Brooklyn, it was stated by counsel to the committee, pays $25,000 a year | to janitors and worth of milk annually. Thomas B. Evans, agent of a milk distributor, told of the receipt by his company of a large number of ap-’ peals from cooks, butlers and various societies to purchase ticketg lo} dances, card parties and receptions, and said the cost of the tickets was charged up on the company's books to ‘“charity.” These expenses, hel said, ultimately reach the consumer of milk. #* Sold for $21,500 Portland, Ore, Dec. 9.—Finderne junior gives away $5,000| yearling Holstein bull, consigned by Bernhard Meyer of Finderne, N. J., sold today at the sixth Pacific Inter- Mutual Fayne Valdessa, a national Live Stock show for $21,500, the highest price ever paid on the Pa- cific coast for a single animal. He was hou?ht by John voy Herberg, owner of ninety head of pure-bred Holsteins at Kent, Wash, The yearling was bid on by six breeders of high-grade dairy cattle, all of them »nassing the $10,000 mark [in their offers. THE WEATHER FAIR - SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. GREECE IS AGAIN STORM CENTER OF EURDPEAN WAR Rumor Royalist Party is Gath. ering Army to Attack the Entente Forces in the Rear. TEUTONS ARE ALSO BUSY e —— Indication Part of Victorious Army in Roumania is to Be Hurled South. BRITONS URGING ACTION (Associnted Press War Summasy.) The situation in Greece is not only again of decided political interest, but, potentially, of marked milita import, in connection with the supe posed purpose of the central powers |to turn important, sections of Field Marshal von Mackensen's huge army in Roumania upon the entente's Sas loniki army. d Correspondents in Greece report a persistently hostile attitude by King’ Constantine and the Greek royalists toward the entente and declare efforts are being made to gather a strong army in the Larissa region for an ate tack upon the entente forces from the rear, simultancously with attacks by the Teutonic allies from the north, British military writers tall atten= tion to these contingencies and de- cisive action with regard to Greece is urged in the_interest of /soun strategy and the safety of the ententq. forces in Macedonia. ! Latest reports from the Ronmanian| ' campaign -eflect the continued re< tirement of the Russo-Roumanian forces in eastern Wallachia, with the figures of cAptures of men and ma- terials by fthe invaders constantly growing. / Little of interest is occurring ‘on the Franco-Belgian front. The only happening mentioned hy either’ Lon= don or Paris is an artillery action in the region of Hill 304, on the Verdun front, where the French and Ger- mans have again been disputing pos- session of this height. Ri ns Gain Ground. Berlin, Dec. 9—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—Strong attacks were made yesterday by the Russians in the Car- pathian forests, the war office an- nounces. North of _Dorna Watra and south of the Trotus valley the Russians gained- ground at the gost® of heavy losses. B In western-Roumania several thou- sand more prisoners have been taken #s well as many cannon. The Rou- manians are retreatilg rapidly. Since December 1 the Roumanians have lost more than 70,000 men and 184 cannon. J ¢ Roumanians Are Retiring. - Petrograd, Dec. 9.—(Via London.) —In the yrovince of Wallachia, says the Russian official statement issued today, the Roumanian troops under tnceasing hostile pressure continue to retire to the eastward. In conse~ querice ° this, it adds, the Russian (Continued on Page Twe, Column Ons,) Producers Suffer From Wastage and Lack Oganization Chicago, Dec. 9.—leé‘ raisers, edonomists of the colleges 'and the government, plain farmers and mare keting experts, to the number of m e tional conference on marketing farm credits here, completed theis labors today. They took up pfoblems invol farm finance, putting the landless man on -the manless land, efficient mare keting, conservation and rural devels opment, and suggested remedial proe cedure in resolutions adopted * thig | afternoon. 3 Resolutions and speeches showed {that the actual growers of grain, cate | tle, fruits and vegetables believe they |the labor and investment, because |they are not organized and do nog work co-operatively; that the waste by present methods, or\ the lack of them, is of appalling 1gagnitude and makes it easy for the fegion of mide that Europe has much to teach about co-operative agriculture, an whole situation and apply remedies accordingly. Many Are Killed by - Explosion at Turin Turin, Friday, Dec. 8—(Via Paris, Dec. 9.)—An explosion has oc.curred (in the Alexandria explosives plant It is feared that more than fifty peo« ple have been killed. The cause of the disaster has not been established. B =y ) A consistent increase is proof of Best Re- sults. Bee Widnt Ads are maintaining a steady increase of more than 1,000 paid ads each week. - Last week 1230 Total for the year to date. ! 54,633 More than double the combined gain of the oth- er two Omaha papers. \ i b} dlemen to inflate the cost of livingyw | lwho have been holding the fourth nas : are not obtaining proper returns for that it is up to congress to stud'y the