Daily NEWSSECTION TAQES ONE TO TWELVE THE WEATHER Showers VOL. XL1V NO. 272. OMAItA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 191-TWKXTY-FoUU 1WUKK. O Train sad at ctal Steads. I SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The Omaha Bee RAIL WAGE BOARD GIYES MEN RAISE; SAY ITT00 LITTLE Award of Arbitration Body Increase! Yij i& Many ImUnoei, bat Employes Are Not ' Satisfied. TIME IS NECESSARY TO TELL Several Eeformt Regarding Work in; Condition! Are Included in Grant. WILSON TO STICK TO NAGEL CHICAGO, April 80. The award in the western railroad wage arbitration recorded her this afternoon Increases the rate to firemen and engineers in many Instances, but is believed by the men to fall short of their de mands. By reason of the many rules of operation Involved no railroad will be able to tell exactly for a month at least the amount of money tn ' volved. The surprise test remains. Ra press Disappointment. The award Includes .several re forms affecting hours and conditions of employment. Representatives of the brotherhoods expressed disap pointment at it, while the railroads in a general way considered it satis factory. The arbitration was strictly on the demands of the men; there was nothing for them to lose of ad vantages already enjoyed.' - Will Keep Navel. Washington. April .-Preident Wilson has concluded that there la no good : reason tor the withdrawal ' of Charles Nagcl, former secretary of com merce and labor, from the arbitration board handling the wag dispute be tween tha western railways and their firemen and eng-lnemen, because ot tha railway employes protest that as a trustee of tha Busch estate of Ft. Louts, he Is interested In railway securities. Tha president came to this conclusion after conferences with Federal Judge Martin A. Knapp. chairman of the fed eral board ef mediation and conciliation. He takea the position that the railroad employes knew Mr. Nagel waa a trustee of the Poach estate when he waa selected as an) arbitrator., and as no protest .waa then' made, he aeea no reason for hla withdrawal whan aa award Is about to be made. ( The limit set for the arbltra- : tlori. proceedings expires today, but the . board haa power to extend It "Puftli'ef Massacres Of Christians by the A Kurds Are Eeported JULFA, Transcaucasia. April 2. (Via, Petrograd and London; April 30, 3:05 p. m.) A renewal of the recant mas sacres of Christians In Armenia Is now In progress la the whole district of Lake Van. i ' . Conflicts between the Armenian and Hie Kurds are dally becoming more ob itlnate. An -exceptionally fierce engage ment Is occurring today at Shataach, BOSTON, April 30.-Offic.iaia of tho American board of commissioners for for eign missions on learning today of the reported renewal of massacres of Chris tians In tha Lake Van district of Ar menia said that they felt no apprehension for the safety of their missionaries there, as they were regarded a neutral and not Kkely to be attacked. The board has nine Americans at Van." two men and several women.. In adds Uon. there are several children. , The board matntains a college for boys and a high school attended by l.anp girls, and a hospital. i Plehtlng between tha Kurds' and Ar menians haa been going on fop several weeks, according to recent dispatches from Transcaucasia. In the center of the Lake Van district Is tha towa of Van. an Important seat of American missions. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Saturday: Tor Omaha. Council bluffs and Vicinity Hhowers Saturday;- cooler by Saturday night. r Temgwratar at On Oaoaha Yesterday. Hours. i a. m 6 a. m 7 a. m 5 a. m a. m 10 a. m n a. m 13 m. 1 p. m. i p. in t p. in 4 p. m t p. m 6 p. m 7 p. xa 5 p. m Dog. ....64 ....01 ....:. ....a ....S3 ....w ....67 ....67 ,...w ....67 .... ....t5 ....63 ....64 - CsaatmUv Lal Record. 191a. W14. l'Jir r Highest yesterday 64 M 6t Lowest yesterday 64 43 nH 48 Mean temperature M 8 13 64 ITeclpltaUon UO .00 .00 .00 Temperature and pret-lptUtUuu turea from tha normal: Normal temperature Kirru for the day Uipui-i 5J ...... .11 inch Total excess stnue March 1. Normal precipitation .' ret!ciencr for the day Total rainfall alnce March 1 Detk-leaey sine March 1... iincn .148 Inches Inches Kxoasa for cor. pel iod . 114 Jr. Inch F.jicess for cor. period. U1S LW inches " from Stattoas at T F. X. Station and State Temp. High- Raln of Heather. 7 o. m. mi iirjcaur, rmia-.......y us Denver, rain M Dea Moines pt. dopdy lie lH.d City, dear CO I.ander, cloudy M North Platte, rain.. M Oma.ii, cloudy to IVello. partly cloudy 2 Kapld Cfly, rain M Halt Lake City, cloudy....) anta Ke, partly cloudy... LZ tSderldan. lain it bioux City, cloudy Vsltntine, cloudy b2 60 C 70 72 0 f4 y K4 ti 44 il 2 T lutlK'ates traua of DreHnituJr.n U A. Wt-UiU. Lucal roracaatar. NOVEL FRENCH GUN FOR CUTTIN( cable. The gun fires the then reeled in, bringing the - ,v V.? REJECT DEMAND -MADE BY UNIONS Representatives of Allied Building Crafts Refuse to Grant Increase in the Wage Scale. POSSIBILITY OF A STRIKE i A building trades strike 1 immin ent' this morning, May 1, the day se: for the strike, providing the builders will not meet the requirements of the five -allied building crafts. Sity building contractos from Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs, after a long session at tho Commer cial club rooms this afternoon, Issued the following resolution: "That tomorrow morning the contrac tors notify, the .carpenters' and brick layers that the scale of wages Is to re main the sume as heretofore. Also that we do not take recognition of the agree ments made' by and between the five crafts, namely, the bricklayers, carpen ters, plaster!rs, stone outUra and hoist ing and portable engineers." This is a flat refusal to accede to any ef the demands made by tha five allied trades unions. The demand was that, be ginning May 1. wages of the bricklayers should be raised from TO cents to 71 cents per hour, that the carpenters should re ceive 56 cents per hour, and that only union men should be employed in' the work of lioiHtlng and portable engineer ing. David CoulU. secretary of the Allied Building Trades' conference, would make no statement when Informed of what tha contractors had done. "I will not mails a statement." he said, "for I have been quoted when I should not have been quoted. I am going to keep out of It." Cold Weather and High Winds Along Pacific Coast SAN FRANCISCO, April . -Record-, breaking cold weather and high winds In half a dosen far western states abated somewhat today after causing widespread damage. Thia may be increased in fruit districts by frost tonight. Scores or small craft were driven ashore along the California coast and small ves sels attempting'-to -leave Bap Francisco harbor had to put back. In San Fran cisco two boys were killed by live wires. Orchards In California and Oregon suf fered. , , . ,. From Idaho came reports of thousands of -lambs frosrn to' death. In eastern Washington. Idaho and Mon- tana the . temperature fell 2Z degTees In iweive nours. In Los - Angeles 44 degrees was regis tered at S a. m. today, the coldest since 1901. The wind took a piece of tin roofing off the California building-at the Panama Pacifie exposition and blew down sev eral big lamp posts near the palaca of machinery. Juror in Hop Field Riot Case Murdered; Wife is Also Slain nii -ai.. Aprti 3U. timll ! i'K Karl. a Juror In tha murder trials ful- Ulng tilt Wheatland. Cal.. hop field i,iuU ol wa found shot dead In hla J barn today, ills wife aa found In the House killed with a. bullet in h h.. Tl.ty live nine miles from bare. Richard Ford and Herman . Sunr; at whose trials Plckard was a Juror, re ceived long penitentiary sentences. Pick sid's life bad been threatened. PRESIDENT NAMES NEBRASKA POSTMASTERS ( From a Htaff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April SO.-tgpeolal Tel egram.) The president made the f-illow-!- appointments "bT" postmafters in Ne braska: Henry J. Dunkin. Oihbon; George A. Ilersog, Harvardr A. K. Meuu, Laurel. South DakoUAlbert Vauk, Avon. ' j Jx i BARB WIRE hook into the lidst of the wire wire with it. Frank Petitions . . Still in Demand The polioe of Atlanta may be prejudiced against Leo M. Frank, but not so the police of Omaha, for nearly all the members of the police department hare' attached their signatures to one of The Bee's petitions asking .the gOTernor of Georgia to commute the death sen tence. " ' The sentiment of the women news neper workers in Omaha is shown by the frctidn of the Omaha Woman's Press club at its last meeting, at wifh all of those present joined in subscribing their nam ei to a clem ency etition. a .- - AnotheT ' petition ' contains' the names of erery person residing in the Flatiron.. hotel... making I.ptao tieally a complete 'roster of those living there. Requests for petition blanks are still coming in from surrounding towns, and are being supplied. Plan to Reorganize Wabash Railroad Company Announced NEW TORK, April Sfc-fttocUholder of tha Wabash Railroad company received today copies of a new reorganisation plan announced by Wlnslow 8. Pierce, chair man of the board of directors, and of a Joint reorganisation committee. Tha plan provides for the organisation of a new company with a capital stock of a306.lls.000, a reduction of 117.301,171 from the stock of the existing company. It waa announced that the plan waa ap proved by Kuhn, Laoeb & -Co.. and thst thla firm haa agreed to act as reorgani sation managers. : A syndicate headed by that firm la being formed. ' It la proposed to raise $37,730,000 by an assessment of $90 a (hare on the common and preferred stock. Holders of the flret refunding and extension mortgage bonds, of which S4000,000 are outstanding,- are required by this plan to supply any part of the desired' 27.73M not' paid by tha stockholders.' " --. - All fixed charges, except those on un derlying bonds, are' eliminated, reducing' thla Item to t3.lU.91S. . This is the chief difference between the new plan and tha one withdrawn after It had been sub mitted to various state commissions last year." -.The plan must be submitted to the commissions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and Ohio. . Blast in Munitions: Factory Kills Men PETROORAD (via London), Arll 80.- A number of persons werw killed, many others Injured and much material dam age waa dona as the result of an ex plosion in an ammunition factory In. the sLburb ot Ckhta tonight. Several workshops were destroyed and many of the Inhabitants of the neighbor hodd were hurt by flying debris. The number of persons killed has not it keen ascertained. It is asserta-i that th stores of loaded shells were not af fected and that work will be resumed lo a few days. War Pictures From the Front Full Page in The Sunday Bee To the hook is attached a Ion? entanglements and tho cable i. v 4"" " 7 s AVIATORS ATTACK AMERICAN CRAFT German Airmen Drop Two Bombs On Steamship Cushing, En route to Rotterdam. FLYING UNITED - STATES FLAQ LONDON, April 30. The Reuter Telegram company hag ' received a dispatch from Its correspondent at Rotterdam aayjng that the American steamer Cushing , from Philadelphia arrived at Rotterdam today and re ports having been attacked by Ger man airmen In the North . Sea last Wednesday., v'"'". V'' -V -'Th '-airmen dropped two- bombs, but no damage was dune. The Cush ing was flying tho American flag at the time of thla attack and Its name was displayed on Itv sides in .hug letters. ' Jr The steamer Cushing left Phlladelnhla April II for Rotterdam, rla Deal.- It Is of 4.S30 tons net register and it ts 417 feet long. , Sioux City Stock Yards Object to, v Increase in Rates CHICAGO. April SO.-Proteet against increased freight tariffs on packing bouse products as they would affect Sioux City, were offered today at the western freight rate hearing by W. H. Benn, traffic man agr of tha Sioux City Btock Yards com pany. 'What we wish Is a fair basis of trans portation rates," said sir. Benn, "so that we can have a reasonable share of the competitive business with Chicago, Kt Paul and Omaha. . "Most of the stock slaughtered at Sioux City comes from the northwest, whence the average distance to Hloux City is 463 miles less than to Chicago. For that ad ditional ham Chicago pays 1S.7 cents per lflQjJounds on cuttle. 15.6 on hogs and W on sheep," or from S to 4 re, its per car mile. On .the ' packing . house product shipped from Sioux City to Chicago we pay I to IS cents per car mile. 'We contend that the proposed Increase of IM cents per 100 pounds on packing iiou.o-prguunp wnn no -corresponding In nrease Ip the live-stock rate would tmt e fair to Sioux City." The wltnss added that the proposed ad vance also, would be detrimental to Sioux City Ui competition with Omaha. and St. Paul concerns. . - '. Sunday Free. Movie Coupon' By . special arrangement - with eight of the beat high clsst moving pic Sure 'theaters la Omaha and suburb, lite Bee is able- to give tta read ers the exceptional prlHlego of free ticket for certain perforniaaoc. The only eon ditlow Is that the coupon be cut oat and prearated at the bog office when buying a regvlar ticket. The Sunday Bcc Best of All yoiJNO man for clerical pomtlon; must have neat handwriting; change for advancement certain an-i giod aalary to alart: prefer one who has received st least W to V0 or better. Answer this at once. Tte farther l&farmstlos a boot this ovportaaitr a the Waat AA aWotloa of Tha Bee today. ' s t f . " BRITISH OFFICIAL i STATEMENT DENIES DUNKIRKSHELLED i Announcement Atserti Rumor the French City Bombarded by German Warships Due to Misreading. FIRING , IS FROM A LAND GUN Paris Tells of Kaiser's Vessels Attacking; Atlantic Seaport of Foe. SEVERAL HOUSES DESTROYED t ! LONDON. April 30. A British of ftclal statement given out this even lng says It I not true that German warship have bombarded Dunkirk,' : on tbe coast of France. Another Prit'oh official statement J given out thir evening said: "The shelling of Dunkirk Is now 'j reported by atrial scouts to have been from a land gun and the reports that German warships were oft that port were due to a misapprehension." The Brit La Slatemeat. The statement, which was IsHued 1 by the British Tress bureau. Is as fol ' lews: J "The rumor that German war I ships bombarded DunklrK Is untrue. Tnisv rumor probably originated In a misreading of the French official commkplque Issued yesterday." lffkriif Shelled. AMSTERDAM (Via London), April SO.-Vf-The Telegraaf haa pub lished a dispatch aaytng the town ot Zeebrngge, on the coast of the North 8ea in Belgium, has' been heavily bombarded. Zeebrugge Is a base of the German submarine fleet. Ilaaklrk Shelled. PARIS, April 30. (Via London.) Oerman warships have been aeen off the Belgian coast, according to an official statement given out in Paris today. Large Bhella to the number of nineteen have fallen on Dunkirk. "German warships have been re ported at large on the west coast of Belgium. " - "Dunkirk yesterday received nine teen shells of large caliber. Twenty persons were killed and forty-five wounded. Some ' houses were de stroyed." There have been several dispatches la th laat weak Indicating that Oerman warships were at large In the North 8ea, evidently having evaded tha British men-of-war which for many months hava been doing patrol duty In front of the Oerman naval bases on tha eastern "side of thel North flea. Captain Pcott of a Swedish i earner reponea recently n had Seen Improvement in business conditions would th North Bua a Oerman fleet numbering so less than sixty-eight vessels. Dakota Auditor Will Not Pay. Expense to.. The Supreme Court PIERRE, 8. D., April X-8peclal Tele gram.) No more payment of SS0 a month expense to members of th supreme court, are to go unless by a court order, Is the decree of State Auditor Handltn. Th members of the court hava each been drawing SS0 a month as expense al lowance for the laat four years and the legislature allowed th same for the years more. .Handlln holds this, an .unconsti tutional allowance regardless of an opinion to the' contrary by the Mat legal department and that h will issue no more such warrant unless compelled to act by a, decision of tha court. The same ruling also affects tha gov ernor and the members of tha railway commission. Great Fire Rages In: Heart of Colon COLON. April 30.-A fir Is raging In th heart of the clty.Klx blocks, con taining many Important atorre, business houses and banks, already hava been destroyed. The damage don thus far Is estimated at ITSO.Orft. A high wind ts blowing and the re mainder of the town le threatened. JOHN HAYES HELD GULTY OF FORGERY BY JURY PIERRE. 8. P.. April Stt.fSpectal Tele-gram.)-A verdict of guilty was returned In the third complaint In whlrh th state department charged John Hayes of Tort Pierre with second degree forgery In th bank wrecking charges against him. Thla is th outcome of one of the hardest legal fights of years In this section. Ifsyes was relessed on one charge on demurrer, on another charge on a di rected verdict of not guilty, but the Jury brought In a verdict of guilty on the third charge after being out thirty-atg hours. An appeal will be taken. f " Tomorrow the Best Colored Comics with Ths Sunday Bcc TEUTONS START BIG OFFENSIVE MOVE German! Begin General Advance Into Russia on Lino from Til it to Vistula. FLEET ASSISTS LAND FORCES i PTTR.OGRAD, April 80. (Via I I n rl A aamamI n.rmin nffen- slve movement once more is under way along ihe entire Prussian border ! front Tilsit to the Vistula river. The German advance this time evidently is aimed at the Baltic prorlneea. ! which are rich in crops and other food supplies. For months the military operations on the Prussian border had been lira ited to scouting parties, isolatod ar tillery duels and aeroplane warfare. From Pollnnsin. a town In the Raltlo Itovlme of Courisnd. It ass reported to Csy that an Increased number of Oerman rrules were preps ring lo assist tha con templated advance - of the land forces. Thus far the tiermsn offensive move ment has consisted mainly of heavy ar tillery fire at Intervals along the whola front snd rapid cavalry advances without Infantry support On the Carpathian front nothing haa happened In the last two daya to alter tha curiously balanced situation, namely, Russians directing an offensive against Vssok and the Austrlans attempting movement in the direction of Stry. The Austrian force temporarily are abandon ing their attacks at other points and are being concentrated in an effort to bend bark the Russian wing with Lwow (Lam- berg) as the ultimate Austrian objective. Tha Increasing Russian menac on I'xsok pass, however, Ruaaian military observers say, has brought this mov. ment to a standstill, since with tlssok In Ruaaian hands the operations of tha Rus sian right wing deprived of most Impor tant support would automatically col lapse. Consider Care of Idle and Alien Rush Following the War PHILADELPHIA, April . SO. - Proposl. tona to solv tha present problem ot find lng work for tha unemployed and to taka care of those who ootne to tha United States alter the European war wenr ad vanced at tha first geastoa today ot the annual meeting of tha American Acad emy of Political and Qpola) Boienoe. Tha academy took for lta toplo America's In terest as affected by the war. Henry Druers, chamberlain of the city of New Tork, suggested that the presi dent of tha United States oall a confer aV.ee of leaders of Industry In labor and social welfare work to devise soma form of effective labor eaehange to fled work for tha" unemployed. Alba B. Johnson, president of tha Bald win locomotive works, who presided, said th great reouparative power of the coun try la now being fait and that the lm continue. It la estimated, he said, that the balance of trad m ' favor of th United BUtes will amount to 11,000.000.000 this year. Secretary William C. Redflald of th Department of Commerce, In a speech before th academy said both Germany and Great Britain were In danger of los ing their supremacy m th foreign trad If the war continued. - He foraoaet great commercial sxpanaloa tor the United States as a result of the war. Japanese Envoy Expains Demands On China to U. S. WASHINGTON.' April . Ttsoount Chlnda, th Japanese embassador, had another long oonsrence today wtth Secre tary Bryan, preaumably on the. Japen Chlnese negotiations being eonduoted in Peking. Both officials adhered rigidly to tha policy of secrecy, but It was assumed the conference related to the rerleed de mands presented to th Chinese foreign office early this week. Th revised list ts known to amplify th original twnty-on article with three more added. Th reappearance of ail th original demands In modified form It la thought, is bringing about explanation from the Japanese authorities. While no Inkling haa been given of the course to be followed by the United HUtes with retpect to th new demands those familiar with the previous course of American policy believe further modi fication may b urged before th demands can be construed aa not affecting the administrative Independence of China. It Is believed that on of th subject being considered I Japan's demand for th right to propogaU Buddhism in China. Zeppelin Drops Bombs Into Towns on British Coast IPSWICH. Kngland, April 80. -F.gcite." residents of this historic town speat the early hours of the morning taking stock of the damage done by tha bombi dropped from a Oerman airship, generally ' believed to have been a Zeppelin, which appeared shortly aftor midnight. 8o fai aa can b learned no one was Injured, although there were several narrow escapes and th property damage was 'small. Bombs fell helplessly In Water loo street, whl-h Is the most densely , populated district. BfRY SAINT EDMUNDS, Pngland. ! April SO. -Pollr Inspector Wilson sell! this njornlng that ast after 1 o'clock hi heard several terrific 'explosion and realized that a Zeppelin had arrived. The hells dmpped from the airship cause.', lour fires. While there ass no loss o.' l ie, the property damage was consid erable. Tlje aerial raider remnintd ovei the town ten minutes and then dlsap- ! peered la tha direction of the toast. GALLIPOLI KEY IS OCCUPIED BY ALLIES FORCES Reports to London Taper Say Nai row Neok of Peninsula is io Possession of the Land inj Party. TOILKISH ST0ET 13 DIFFERENT It Sayt French Hare Been Driren from Aaiatio Shore and Britons on Other Side Defeated. GERMAN FLEET OFF BELGIUM The Day's War News HKl.t.IlN .VKR.IHrsNT r that ' a (ieraiss attaok from Steenatraete mi repelaetf. Thla may refer te mm eatavsremewt 4erlh4 l of ficial 4vlee aa disastrous to the attarklaT party. It la aald 4,'orft Oercaeea were eJaaost annihilate1 hy the Selartaa artillery orriCIAU STATB1WBJIT trees Pari aye that Oermaa eraraale hava appear-' eft the Belgian meat aaet hare eemeardad Daaklrk. Twenty y-rasas were killed. ' BULLETIN. LONDON, April 80. Aa official statement riven out this rvsnlng bT the British war department rerard lnf the operations in the Dardanelles' ayi: "The army has been landed sue cessfully at six beaches In the Darda nelles. The casualties of th arm were heavy. The fleet casualties wer confined to destroyers. "A Turkish transport off Maidoa haa been destroyed by the battleship Queen Elisabeth." . BVLLKTIBf. PARIS, April 30. A dispatch to Athens from the Haras agency says that the city of Gallipot!, on the Eu ropean side of the Dardanelles, near the entrance to the sea of Marmora, baa been captured by the allies. .It Is also said the Turkish fort at Na are, on the Asiatic- aide of the straits, has been bombarded neavily. LONDON, April . JO. Official quarters still remain reticent con cerning the military operations on the Dardanelles, but the London pa pers this mbrnlng contain a number of special dispatches from that re gion in Which tha claims i mill. jTthat the allies are steadily advancing under over of the fire of the fleet,, but not without meeting an opposi tion which is causing them heavy losses. ' British troops are reported In occupation of the narrow neck of the peninsula to the north of the town of OalUpoll. Athens predicts that this campaign will last a lone time, as the Turks occupy exoeptlon-i ally well prepared defensive posi tions. ; Th4 east ooaat of England again ha)i ben subjected to an as rial attack, ao oompanled by th usual Infliction of ma terial damage, but without casualties ot any aort. Uk former raids, thla on of last Bight la marked by difference 0f opinion , a to th type of air machine1 uad by th Germans, but most people agre that a Zeppelin carrlad the raider.' wbo arrived In th small hours of the' morning and spent a brief tlm e Ipswich and Bury Bt Edmund. j German Pleet - Off BrlglarV. Th pre no of a Oerman fleet off the coast of Belgium and th shelling of Dun-' kirk, with th4 loss of twenty lives, re ported officially from Paris stirred uni great Interest In England. Th chief subject at present before the British mind la th question of liquor regulation In Great Britain and th fact that tha government tor th first time Mno th beginning of th war has had to meet a division In th House of Com mons. Th attitude of th House prob ably reflects the opinion ot th country, which la sharply divided on th question -f regulating the consumption of aloo- (Continued on Pag live Column Five.) Facts Not Fiction . Every Sunday newspaper contains some fiction. It also contains a large amount of. facts. Tho most interesting and largest variety of facta are found in tho Want Ad section. The Want Ad section of next Sunday's Bee prom ises to be the largest so far this spring. Have you any facts to present to Bee readers? Telephone Tyler 1000. THE OMAHA BEE, 'fcfcrjbody Beads Bw Want Ad.! i