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The Omaha Daily Bee families read The Bee exclusively. If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. VUL. ALU lJ. mi. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21. 1916 TWELVE PAGES. S'.i'&Vrr'i. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Thousands of Omaha THE WEATHER FAIR STATE ATTACKS DEFENSE SETUP BY M'DANIELS Prosecution in St. Joseph Mur der Trial Centers Fire Upon Theory Woman Slain by Robbers. EXHIBITS ARE INTRODUCED Blood-Stained Pillow Offered - as Evidence Against For mer County Attorney. BRINGS WOMAN'S NAME IN St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 20. Develop ment ui iiic siaic s case against rrose 'cotor Oscar D. McDaniel was gotten wen under way in the criminal court today with the presentation of a mass of details relative to events both be fore and after the murder of Mrs. Harriet Moss McDaniel, wife of the prosecutor, who is being tried on the charge of having been her murderer. TJie prosecution attempted its first steps in its announced effort to con vict the accused man through circum stantial evidence, and began its at tack upon McDaniel's version of how the crime was committed. The name of Mrs. Dagmar Krucker, divorced wife of a St. Joseph business man and a friend of the slain woman, was brought into the case today through the testimony of J. W. Heatherington, former chief of detec tives. She has been subpoenaed as a state's witness. Attack Robber Theory. Earlier in the day the state had at tempted to show that robbers had not entered the McDaniel home the night of the murder and killed the prose cutor's wife, one of the theories of the defense. A blood-stained pillow, its case torn and dipped, said to have( been from the bed of the slain woman, a motor car radiator, said to have been from McDaniel s automobile, and a screen eclared to have been taken from a window of the orosecutinor attorney's home, were introduced bv the state as exnimts. 1 ne wire nt the screen had been torn, the defense clarminB a robber slit it to gain entrance into the house. The motor radiator, it was said by state's attorneys, was used in an effort to' disprove Mc Daniel's story that he engaged in a revolver duel before entering his home about midnight and finding his wife had been attacked. " ' Sees Nothing Unusual. Mrs. Krucker was mentioned by Mr. Heatherington in connection with a visit to the fishing camp about a week before the murder. He told of having seen her there with her husband, from whom she was not then divorced, and Mr. and Mrs. Mc Daniel. : " He said that he had observed noth ing unusual. Mr. Heatherington was used by the defense, during cross-examination, in their efforts to show that , Mr. Mc Daiiel had been a vigorous prosecut ing attorney, as a result of which per sons inimical to him might have killed his wife for spite. Terre Haute Goes Into Coal Trade Terre Haute, Ind.. Nov. 20. The cuv ot lerre naute thrniiuh Mr Gossom entered the retail rnal hiisi- ness today and greatly reduced the cost to the consumer. Residents of the, city through the municipal mar ket were able to buy Indiana coal at $2.76 a ton. Dealers were asking $6 a ton for the same grade of coal. Mayor Gossom has leased a mine and hired 200 teamsters to haul the coal to the city. New York Suffragists Plan Great Campaign Albany, N. Y., Nov. 20. Plans for the greatest campaign for equal suf frage that this country has ever wit nessed will be perfected during the wcck, eany arrivals lor tne torty eighth annual convention of the New York state woman suffrage party an nounced today. The convention will begin tomorrow and continue until Friday. The Weather , For Nebraska Fair. Temperature! mt Omaha Tnter-tla?. Hour. c Mitfhest yfnterrtay. Leweut yesterday. Mean temperature Prr1pllBttn Temperature and preclplUtion departures from the normal: Normal temperature 33 Kxress for the day 2 Total excels fine March 1, 191. 2T0 Norm I precipitation 03 Inch Deficiency for the day 03 inch Total -rainfall alnee March I ... .15.93 Inches Deficiency aince March 1 12.19 Inchea Deficiency for eor. period 1916.. 1.38 tm-hea t)efiotncy for cor. period 1914.. 3.71 Inches Kepona irnm Ktatlona at 7 P. Button and Bute Temp, of Weather. 7 p. m. rheyenne, mow 20 fiavenport, cloudy 38 Ienver. enow z Pes MotneN, cloudy 3 Dodge t'ity. part dourly 42 lender, cloudy.... 18 North FlHtte. anow 12 Omaha, clear ar Pueblo, anow 34 Rapid City, clear 32 Hunt a Ke, Hear. ...... . 40 Sheridan, clear 23 HlKh- tafn fail. .10 .00 3 63 .28 44 3S If A. WKLSH, ileteoroklaU I Z si I 6 h.. m ,,0 : Ms&mwl u m ' Jit 4 1 m 5 - R I p. m 4 ggr p. m 45 "O 4 p. m 44 S86fe p. m 41 ' 7 P. m aa 8 p. m zf CamparailveT ions! Record. 1916. 1914. 1913. . 45 M ti4 2 36 IS 4t 3ft 4t Sri 65 .00 OFFICERS OF FARMERS IN CONVENTION TODAY. Canaiay PRESIDENT. J. W. SHORTHILL, SECRETARY. Proposed Raise in Demurrage Rates Is , Held Up by Board Washington, Nov. 20. Tariffs filed by railroads in official southern and western classification territories, pro posing increased demurrage charges to check tne treignt car snortage, were suspended by the- Interstate Commere. commission today until March 31, next. ' -The present demurrage charger' of practically all roads, is $1 per day after first time allowance Following the general complaint of acute short age of equipment in all sections of the country, the railroads began riling tar iffs providing for increased charges for demurrage to facilitate the release of cars by shippers. The shippers protested, as they did on a previous occasion, when an increased demur rage charge was proposed. The com mission has how suspended the new rates pending further investigation. The proposed tariffs would provide, after the usual free time allowance, charges of $2 for the first day or frac tion, $3 for the second day, $4 for the third day and $5 for the fourth and each succeeding day. American Freighter Siberia Is Stranded Berlin, Nov. 20.' (By Wireless to the Associated Press.) The Ameri can steamship Siberia, according to wireless reports received here, is stranded on the East Goodwin sands near Dover and is asking for help. The officers of the Siberia say it is impossible to launch boats owing to the heavy seas. The vessel reported in the fore going dispatch from Berlin as being ashore on Goodwin sands h undoubt edly the steamship Siberia of 3,347 tons gross. The Siberia sailed from Sydney No vember 7, bound tor Cherbourg with a cargo of wheat and flour. It carried a crew of fifty persons, said to be all Americans. The steamship Siberia, of 11,284 tons gross, which had operated for fifteen years under the American flag, was sold by the Pacific Mail Steamship company of New York early this year to a Japanese steamship company for service between San Francisco and the far east. This vessel is now on a voyage to Japanese and Chinese ports. Mrs. Bump is Given Judgment for $15,000 Washington, Nov. 20. Mrs. Teresa Bump of Baltimore, searching for a place to' put her pet dog, excluded from her stateroom on the steamer Rochambeau, was thrown down by a lurch of the ship and got a verdict, of $15,000 against the Compagnie Gen erate Trans-Atlantiquc. By dismissing the company's appeal, the supreme court today put the ver dict into effect. Abram I. Elkus, now ambassador to Turkey, was Mrs Bump's attorney. Grange Wants Government to Take Over Telephone Lines Washington, Nov. 20. Government operation of telephone lines and an extension of the parcel post was asked by the National Grange asa means of bringing producer and comnimer to gether in resolutions taken up at to day's meeting, for which an appar ently overwhelming sentiment devel oped. The grange also will consider state and municipal milk distribution and national prohibtion. TEUTON PLIGHT GROWS SERIOUS ASSERT ALLIES Entente Considers Capture of Monastir Great Victory With Far-Reach ing Effect. GREAT STRATEGIC VALU" Victory of Serbian, .Ml -A W A iroopa air iuuuo; ,tf .ill plete, Says Ktis. , MORE VILLAGES CAPTURED London, Nov. 20. The retreat of the German-Bulgarian force from Monastir in the direction of Prilep is a debacle, says a dispatch to the Wireless Press from Rome today. The entente troops are pursuing the flee- incr (rw and have occuniedi villages north of Monastir, taking prisoners as the advanced, the dispatch adds. The Serbians, according to these advices, are delaying entering Mona stir because of the fire and explosions which have virtually destroyed the citv, from which the population has fled. Victory Complete Says Paris. Paris, Nov. 20. Allied troops have been completely victorious on the Macedonian tront trom tne cerna river to Lake Presba, according to announcement made by the French war office this afternoon. This success reached its culmination yesterday with the entrance of French cavalry into Monastir at b:M in tne morning, v During the same day French troops moved out to the north of Monastir and captured Hill No. 821 and other villages in this vicinity. They also took 620 prisoners and a considerable quantity of war ma terial. German Reinforcements Arrive. Berlin, Nov. 20. (By Wireless to Sayville.) New German formations have reached the Macedonian front, it is announced officially. The new positions north of Monastir were taken up without pressure trom tne allies. Serbian advances in the Mog lenica region were repulsed. I he announcement follows: "The new positions north of Mona stir were occupied without pressure from the enemy. New uerman forces have arrived at the righting zon. On the Moglemca front Serbian advances near Rahavo and Tusm were repulsed by the Bulgarians." : Roumanians Are Retiring. .. Petrosrad. ,No;"20. (Via London.) TheL.fioumaoian- are --still retiring southward -before , the invading Aus-tro-German troops in the Jiul valley region, the war office announced to day. . . ' , Ber n. Nov. 2W. (By Wireless to Sayville.) The Austro-German cam paign against the Roumanians and their Russian allies has gained further successes, the war office announces. Near t-amoulung the Koumanians, whose forces are demoralized, made attacks yesterday, but were repulsed Miners' Committee Outlines Old Age Pension System Indianapolis, Nov. 20. Recommen dation that old age pensions be paid to members of the United Mine Work ers of America after they are 60 years old and to disabled miners under that age will be made by the special1 com mittee appointed by John P. White, president of the organization, to in vestigate the matter. The committee is now framing its report. 'It has been making its investigation for the last four months. The report will be sub mitted to the next biennial convention in the United States and Canada dur ing the next five years and the pay ment after 1923 of a monthy pension of $20 to all miners more than 65 years old. Incapacitated miners un der 65 owing their injuries to acci dent and having no means of support would' receive the same pension. No miner would be eligible for a pension unless he had been a mem ber of the union continuously for ten years and paid the pension tax for five years. of the organization in Indianapolis in January, 1918. The committee's report will advise against establishing a home, for old aged miners, according to a statement made at organization headquarters here. The recommendation for old age pensions will suggest a per capita tax of 25 cents a month on each of the 400,000 members of the organization Citizens' Ticket Campaign Cost Over Fifteen Hundred It cost the citizens' committee just $1,562 to elect the ctizens' ticket to the school board, according to an expense account filed with Harley G. Moorhead. election commissioner by B. A. Wilcox, treasurer. The re ceipts were given as $1,601, mostly in $10 donations. There were several $5 donations, a few of S3 and $2 and a couple of $20 ones. James H, Macomber, defeated for judge of the district court, spent $34.70. H. H. Claiborne, unsuccess ful candidate for justice of the peace, had an expense account ol fOJ.ou. Mrs. Inez Boissevain Improving Rapidly Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 20. Mrs. Inez Mulholland Boissevain, New York suffragist, who has been criti cally ill here for more than a month, was reported much improved today. She is not yet out of danger, it was said. Ten days ago Mrs. Boissevain had a similar rally of several days' duration, which was followed by se vere depression. FLIGHT OF BUSTED "GERMANSADSAGE" Australian Boy, Eye-Witness ' of Giant Zeppelin, Amuses His Auditors. SEARCHLIGHT TRAPPED IT "The Zeps have come and the Zeps are here," chanted a 4-year-old boy in ihf '"Sby of the Hotel Fontrnelle. . . bad a peculiar slow English 0'tie Zens what are the Zens?" - . asked a traveling man in the- lobby after he had heard the tiny boy chant ing these doleful sentences. "Oh the Zeps are a . German sausage," rentied the boy in the same dry, doleful, sing-song English drawl. Yet, this boy was not losing his mind. He knew- exactly what he was talking about, and the traveling men who watched the capers of this little buster in the lobby did not know half as much as he did. That is, they (fid not know half as much about Zeppe lins. A War Tragedy. Foil the little chap had only a few weeks ago been in London where he had seen a gigantic Zeppelin brought duwn by the accurate aim of the Britishers at night. He saw the gigantic sausage, as he called it, break in two in mid air, catch tire and come blazing and roaring to earth in slow, clumsy and tiery somersaults This 4-year-old chap who enter tained the whole lobby for a time was Eric Young, son of J. A. Young of Sidney, Australia. Mr. Young is as sistant manager of Lewis Berger and son, Ltd.. Sidney, Australia, a paint company. Mr. and Mrs. Young and Master Eric were on their way back to Australia from a trip to London and incidentally around the world. In Omaha Mr. Young visited w'th Frank Welch, local manager of the Sherwin-Williams raint company, and with some of Mr. Welch s friends in Omaha. They left Monday noon after spending two days here. Night of Wonder., The Youngs were in London when a big Zeppelin was brought down in the city recently, and all of them, in cluding little Eric, saw it tumble from the zenith. Mr. Young says the spec tacle at night was very remarkable. The searchlights were playing upon t even before it was struck, so strong ly that one could see it as well as he might have done in daylight. Little trie was greatly impressed with the sight, but he had been taught, alter the tashion of the bnglish, that a Zeppelin amounts to very little. and had been taught to speak of it in derision as a "German sausage." Attack Upon Doctor - A f $nA iflWUnllSa' Being Investigated Grand Island, Neb., Jov. 20. (Spe cial Telegram.) David Valentine, a barber, was arrested here on a dis orderly charge and released on light bonds today, pending thorough invest tigation of a story he told under oath in police court. He had attacked Dr. Warner, one of the soldiers' home physicians, he said, because of what he conceived to be improper actions in connection with the doctor's treat ment of Mrs. Valentine. Dr. Wag goner, head surgeon at the home, expressed the belief that the story will be found a hoax on full investi-' gation. Commandant Walsh declares the matter is not in his jurisdiction, the matter occurring outside the home boundaries. Valentine's story was that when he complained' to the commandent, and the latter refused to take action, he took the law into his own hands. Dr. Warner denies that he acted other wise than according to professional ethics. Hitchcock Studies 1 Prohibition Effect in State of Colorado Denver, Colo., Nov. 20. Gilbert M. Hitchcock. United states senator from Nebraska, spent several hours in the police court in Denver today, studying the effects of statewide pro hibition in Colorado. Several persons charged with drunkenness were fined. "I've seen police courts before," re plied Senator Hitchcock, to a sugges tion of the court attache that it was Monday morning. Nebraska adopted statewide prohibition at the recent general election and Senator Hitch cock explained he desired first-hand information concerning its operation. Dixie Flyer Wrecked and Mail Clerk Is Injured Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 20. The Louisville and Nashville's south bound Dixie Flyer, Chicago to Jack sonville, was wrecked at Wauhatchie, near here, late this afternoon. Three coaches are reported to have turned over. Ambulances have left the city for the scene of the wreck. It is reported that no one was killed. The three cars turning over were mail and baggage cars. A mail clerk is said to have been injured. Runs for Congress? No, He Just Flies Washington, Nov. 20. O. D. Bleakley of Franklin, Pa., representative-elect, made an aeroplane flight from Philadelphia to Wash ington today in his own biplane, piloted by Sergeant William C. Ocker of the United States army. Mr. Bleakley declared be was "the first man to come to congress by aeroplane." About two hours were consumed in actual flying and one stop was made in the suburbs of Baltimore. The machine circled Washington monument several times before alighting. FRANCE'S AERIAL HERO, who has downed his twenty first German battle plane. The accompanying photograph was made when General Cirold presented the colors to the French aero corps. I I lizw mi- WEUT. GUYNEMER. I ' GwTl.rtLMSK,a:. RED OAK DAMAGE CASESPEEDS UP Testimony by Marshalltown Woman That She Heard Plotting in Dark. . ONE SAID "GET JOB FIRST" Red 0iie11rfft Telegram.) Mrs, Vina Thompkins of Marshalltown, la., who was on the witness stand for the defense in the Jones-Wilkerson $60,000 damage suit today, testified that in the fall of 1911 she and her husband were camped on the banks of the East Nodaway river, near Villisca, and about a block from an old slaughter house. . She said she went to the slaughter house one eve ning to get boxes for kindling and heard three men talking there. One was an elderly man with whiskers, one a short, heavy-set man and the other a tall man. She listened to the conversation and heard the tall man ask: "How will we get the money?" The old man said: "I can't get the money all at once. I don't dare draw it out of this bank all at once, but I can from another." Continuing the witness testified that she afterward identified a photograph of F. F. Jones, shown her at her home by Detective Wilkerson, and told him it looked like the man she saw that evening at the slaughter house. Mrs. Alice Willard of Villisca tes tified that she saw two strange men pass in frorjt of the Joe Moore home the morning before the murder and that evening she saw these two men and two others meet in the lot north of the Moore home, that she knew two of them were Mr. McCaul and F. F. Jones, and that she heard one of them say: "Get Joe first, the rest will be easy." She said she afterward identified William Mansfield in Red Oak as one of this crowd. Heirs of Men on Tug Sunk by Deutschland Want $85,000 New London, Conn., Nov. 20. While officials of the Eastern For warding company today declined to make any statement regarding the Deutschland, it was understood that the damage caused by the collision with the tug T. A. Scott, jr., practi cally has been repaired. Deputy Sheriff J. H. Tubbs was waiting today, it was said, for the fil ing of a bond that would release the submarine from the $12,000 libel suit brought by the T. A. Scott company, owners of the tug T. A. Scott, jr., in order that he might serve attachments on the Deutschland in four damage suits, aggregating $85,000, brought in the interests of the families of the crew who lost their lives when the tug was sunk by the submarine. , Bonds covering the libel action against the Deutschland and also the damage suits brought against the boat on account of the lives lost were filed. They total $85,000. An additional suit for $10,000 was brought today by the death of Eugene Duzant, a deck hand on the T. A. Scottt, jr. Maxwell Talks on "After ' Prohibition What Then?" "After Prohibition What?" was the title of a paper rrad by Rev. J. A. Maxwell of the Calvary Baptist church at the Ministerial union meet ing held at the Young Men's Chris tian association Monday morning. The paper dealt with law enforce ment. A dry meeting has been called by Elmer Thomas, attorney for the Anti-Saloon league, for Thursday evening at the Young Men's Chris tian association, when further dry enforcement plans will be taken up. BIG CALIFORNIA COUNTIES NOT IN ' " i Official Returns Not Yet Re ceived From More Popu . lous Ones of State. NO CHANGE SEEN SO FAR CalTTJovVfflec1. tion returns from fifteen counties, In ... .l Ll .L. wnicn were cast more man nan mc votes of the state, are yet to be re ceived for final canvass by Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan. ' In the forty-three counties from which figures have been received and tabu lated no errors were made by the county clerks and the official canvass failed to change the votes on presi dential electors. . The counties which thus far have failed to report elec tion returns are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Alameda, Sacramento, San Diego, Butte, Fresno, Humboldt, Im perial, Lassen, Merced, Mono, Orange San Bernardino and Yuba. Should figures from some of these counties be delayed until late in the week in reaching the capital, it is tearea dif ficulty would be met in completing the count not later than Monday, November 27, as specified by law. Wagner's Music Starts Big Row at Concert in Rome Rome, Nov. 20. (Via Paris.) An attempt to introduce Wagner's music into a concert conducted by Toscanini resulted in an uproar last night which brought the performance to a prema ture conclusion. The orchestra had commenced the funeral march from Gotterdammerung when there were loud shouts of "It is for the victims of Padua." A storm of imprecations against Wagner and Germany came from all parts of the great auditorium and the concert had to be abandoned. An Austrian aviator bombarded Padua on November 11 and, accord ing to news dispatches, killed thirty two persons and injured about twice that number. All the dead were said to be non-coinbatants, mostly women and children. Pope Benedict made a strong protest to Vienna. Cass Elections Cost About Dollar a Vote Plattsmouth, Neb., Nov. 20. (Spe cial.) The expenses of the state elec tion which have just been compiled show that the cost was m the neigh' borhood of the spring election, at the primaries, or near $2,000, making both approximate $4,000, or nearly $1 for each voter, the entire vote being a little over that amount. Gretna Man Dies in Hospital at Omaha Gretna, Neb., Nov. 20. (Special.) Chris Popcnhagen died in a hos pital at Omaha yesterday, following an operation for appendicitis and gall stones. He lived in Gretna for the last two years, prior to that time liv ing in Millard. His wife died less than a year ago. He leaves two young children. The body of Will McCormick, who formerly lived in Gretna, is expected to arrive here Wednesday. He was killed in a railroad wreck in Utah. He was 33 years old and unmarried. The funeral will be held from the Catholic church. , LABOR TO IGNORE CERTAIN STRIKE DICTA OF COURTS American Federation Decides to Disregard Orders Based on Theory That Labor Is Property. TREATED AS USURPATION Ruling of Bay State Judges Against Injunction Law Cause of Action. READY FOR CONSEQUENCES Baltimore, Md Nov. 20. The or ganized labor forces of the country today avowed extreme hostility to the ' writ of injunction as a means of stop ping a strike. First, a resolution was . adopted unanimously at the morning n of the convention of the American Federation of Labor, urging organized labor everywhere to make the injunction question "the para mount issue in all of their future po litical activities." . A more radical step was taken at the afternoon session when the com mittee on the executive council's re port took up that feature of the re port dealing with the decision of the Massachusetts supreme court classify ing labor as property. Must Be Disregarded. The committee submitted and the. convention unanimously adopted a recommepdation "thati any injunction dealing with the relationship of em ployer and employe, and based on the dictum that labor is property,' be disregarded, let the consequences be miimi Micjr iiiajr, , . The committees report follows: "It seems to be a settled purposo of interests antagonistic to the freedom of men and women who labor to per suade, and then use the judiciary and misconstrue constitutional guaran tees and thereby nullify legislative en- . actments, so as, to leave but one remedy; and we therefore, recom mend that any injunction dealing with the relationship of employer and employe and based on the dictum 'labor is property,' be wholly and ab solutely regarded as usurpation and disregarded; let the consequence be what they may. Usurpation and Tyranny, i . "Such decisions as the one rend ered by the supreme court of the state of Massachusetts has its roots in class interests; it is usurpation and tyranny. Freedom came to man .because he believed that resistance to tyranny-is ,obdietic to' God. .'As'ir came, so it must be maintained. ' Kings could be and were disobeyed and sometimes deposed. In cases of this kind, judges must be disobeyed and should be impeached." J he executive council s report, the adoption of which the committee1. recommended, , the convention con curring, dealt at length ' with the Massachusetts case, attacking the courts and saying there seemed to be no remedy. Ihe council asked to be empowered to continue its aid to the Massachusetts' State Federation in the fight. y : B'nai B'rith Lodges 1 , Plan Big Meeting Nebraska lodge, No. 354, McKinley lodge and Council Bluffs lodge of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith will hold a joint meeting in Omaha Satur day and Sunday, December 2 and 3. Guests of honor will include Hiram D. -Franklin of St. Paul, second vice . president of the district, and Gustav Loevinger, director of propaganda. Saturday the delegates will visit the juvenile court and kindred institu tions with the idea of learning some thing of the manner and scope of So cial service in this city. A round-table talk at the Fontenelle in the evening will be open to all members. The Henshaw rathskeller will be the scene Sunday noon of an impres sive gathering. . Judges of the district court and probation officers will at tend the luncheon. Arnold Browar, chairman of the social service com mittee of this district, will have charge, of the speaking, Nathan Bernstein, chairman of the intellectual advancement committee, will sponsor the joint meeting Sunday afternoon in Myrtle hall. Fifteenth add Douglas streets, when the gen eral welfare of the society will be the topic of discussion. Sam Leon, chairman of the local B'nai B'rith council, has charge of the 'general arrangements. British Newspapers Vote to Raise Prices London, Nov. 20. A resolution was adopted at a meeting of representa tives of British newspaper proprietors recommending that the newspapers throughout the country raise their price by a half penny. i The Telephone for Results Tyler 1000 I If you ' have anything to buy, sell, rent or exchange, call Tyler 1000. A com petent ad-taker will help you write your ad. Your want will be quickly filled. Lowest Rate, lc per word. Best Results. Best Service. The Omaha Bee.