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The Omaha Sunday Bee NEWSl section PART ONE V PACES 1 TO 14. " THE WEATHER V Fair; Warmer VOL. XLVI NO. 41. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1917 SIX. SECTIONS FORTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE ' CENTS. GREATEST AUTO SHOW IN HISTORY COMES TO CLOSE 1 1 2nd of 1917 Exposition Harks Culmination of Greatest Week in History of In-' dnstry in Omaha. ALL RECORDS ABE BROKEN Attendance Over Twice as Large as Last Year and Sales Correspondingly Large. AK-SAR-BEN HOLDS BOARDS When at 10:30 last night the doors ' f u: :; ug .tiuiiwpi nuuuuimui were drawn together to forever hide from view the glittering array of luxurious motor cars inside and the twelfth an nual Omaha motor exposition became a mere matter of history, the biggest Week in the history of the automobile industry in Omaha came to a close. Never before since this baby indus try secured a foothold on Omaha soil have the automobile men of this city gone through siv such days of bus tling activity, unconfined enthusiasm and assiduous toil. Every record was broken, shattered and kicked along on its way to obscurity. . ' What happened to the attendance records, even Manager Clarke Powell hasn't the heart to tell. Every single day saw a much larger crowd than any previous corresponding day and the total attendance for the entire week was more than twice as srreat as the total atendance for the week of the 1916 show. Fondest Hopes Fulfilled. The business done during the six days of the show was nothing short of wonderful. Not a dealer or sales man had a complaint to make last night when it was all over, every one admitted the business he had done more than fulfilled expectations and most of them even went So far as to 'say it exceeded even their fondest hopes. -And one need not merely take the word of the auto men that the number of sales made broke all previous rec ords.; Omaha bank clearings last week were the largest in the history of tlie local clearing house and the banker! declare this record was made possible through .the motor car sales made during the week. ' , Lavish With Praise.,, Officers of" the show association were more than gratified at the suc cess of the exposition. "It was head and shoulders above any show we have ever held," declared J. T. Stew art 2d, president of the, association. "I neyer saw so much, enthusiasm in my life. If rhejshow cari'be taken as any' criterion, ii wui; db vmanas biggest automobile year. "Some show," exclaimed Lee Huff, member of the board of directors. -"Even the factory men. who have at tending shows all over the c&untry year after! year had to admit that the Omaha show is a speedy eventt I've seen more shows myself, including the nationals, but me for Omaha."; Clarke Powell, being manager of t lie -show and also modest chap, didn't delve into the superlatives. "It wasn't such a bad show at that," said Powell, whereupon Guy Smith im mediately gurgled "shrinking violet," and Phil McShane asked "What's the matter, aren't your arms long enough to pat yourself on the backr-.Ak-Sar-Ben Night. With the exception of Wednesday, Saturday was the biggest day of the show. It was something of an Omaha day as the greater part of the persons who attended were Omahans. Last ntg"ht was Ak-Sar-Ben night and the merry rollickers of oW King Ak were on the job for a little midwinter fun. They made their presence known when Charles Velie Gardner, one of Samson's chief entertainers, began to demonstrate his vocal powers for the auto men. The Ak-Sar-Ben crew is for Charles all the time and they wasted no time or efforts to let the auto men know it. It was kind of tough on Charlie, though, he had to eing a bunch of encores. No sooner had the doors closed on the show than the auto men began to wheel their exhibition cars out of their places to take them back fb the garages. They toiled until long after midnight oiling the magnificent pal aces on wheels outside where they started for the garages under their own' power. And as the auto men were removing their exhibits, a' corps of destructive wretches began to strip the Auditorium of the beautiful deco rations so that by today the municipal huiltiinff will be transformed back from the magnificent motor palace to( tne empty Darn-line nuuiwrium before. 7 The Weather r - ' . ;" Tor Nabrok Fair, rising temperature. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday; ' ' Hour. Der. Coin iterative local Record. . 117. 1919. 1111. 1114. llighfwt yesterday, 21 S3 46 lowest ytiterdajr.... ,H 1 ,, 24 tt jaenn temperature...' ZD II 1 IS Prcipttatl9a .00 . .31 .00 Temperature and precipitation departures rrorn the normal at Omaha sine March 1, and compared with the last two years: Nortiul temperature ............ XI Deficiency for the day..., ....,,. 9 Total deficiency alnce Match 12 normal preclpltaton r. .04 Inch Dt-flrl?noy for the day M .03 Inch Totaj rainfall ulnce March 1., ,01 inch eflrlency since March 1 10 inch' loficlenry for oor. period, JM. .04 loch Excess lor cor period, 116.,.. ,13 inch "- ( jn. . IB IT la. m ..., 16 & rk 7 . m. 17 kVSJ A ! m !! r a. tn 17 2b M I 10 a. m 19 Jfa I 11 s. m to o'JmwX. i J m"1i jj TriaTTn 1 1 p- ra. so mmmw t p. m. ........... it 1 1 p. m...... ....... le WOULD POSTPONE f "BONE DRY" Bill House Adopts Resolution . Make It Effective Not to Befofe July 1. WILSON Washington, M a vote of 284 to 86, the : today adopted a joint -resolution designed to post pone enforcement of the "bone dry" amendment to the postal bill which became effective today until July 1. Supporters of the resolution enter tain a faint hope that it can be rushed through the senate before adjourn ment. - Some members of congress, includ ing Representative Randall nf Tali. fornia, prohibitionist, contended that the resolution would not legally ex. ceed the effective date because the bill including the Reed amendment already had been signed bv the nresi- aeni ano its provisions could be changed only by passage of a law anicuuing u. Others said that if it passed the senate the resolution could be sitrned by the president on the legislative day of March 3, the same date as - his signature of the bill and would stand in court as a part of the bill itself. - British Advance on Ancre; Russ Capture, , Hamadan, in Persia London. March 3. Aeainkt stub born Uerman resistance British troops today advanced their line north of the Ancre, ;H France, an average of a quarter mile on a front of nearly five miles, says the official statement to night. The British advance was ratde north of Puisieux-Au-Mont and last Ul Ajuiiimctuuri. ' ' ' Hamadan, an important Persian city near the Turkish border, has been captured, by the Russians, says a Teheran dispatch, received in Petro grad and transmitted by Reuter's. The message adds that the Russians are pursuing the. Turkish troops who are in retreat. Berlin, March 3. (By Wireless to Sayville.) There have again been vio lent infantry engagements on both banks of the . Ancre in northern France, the war office announced to day. The British suffered the loss of sixty prisoner's and eight machine guns in. addition to their casualties. Stone Ridicules Plan That :'i Allies Fight U. S. Battles Washington, March 3. Declaring that "To say the entente are fighting our battles is a dream, a nightmare of disordered- brains ",. Senator Stone called attention to the allies' confer ences for commercial co-operation after the war and said this was a prob lem tha.t must be laced. . 1 "When did it come to pass that the people ofthe United States haye good reason to lean upon the strong shoul ders ot johnny Bulir asked senator fstone. "Whence came this impulse ot: dominating aneciionr mere arc senators and members of the house who somehow have been duped or persuaded or have persuaded, them selves to ally themselves with Eng land; to announce themselves as par tisans of that power. I can't share that idea" ' Elevator Hits Him and ; knocks HirnJnto Cellar Struck on the head by a descending elevator in the Avery building at Tenth and Leavenworth streets, Fred M. . Spier, machinist, - was knocked down the elevator shaft and fell fifty feet to the cellar He received severe spinal injuries which may cause paralysis for life, Police Surgeon Shook reports. , '.,' Snifr h.i been on the lob for two days when the accident occurred. He lives in Benson and is single. It is said thaf he leaned over to look down the shaft when the elevator hit mm. He was taken to Lord Lister hospi tal. - r . Governor of Texas Accused ' Of Misusing Public Funds Austin, Tex., Karch 3. Charges, which, if proven, may be made the basis of impeachment proceedings against Governor James E. Ferguson were presented in the house of repre sentatives today by Representative H. P. Davis. Action was deferred until Monday, when the investigation will be taken up. , , The proceedings allege that Gover nor Ferguson misappropriated public funds from the legislative appropria tion for maintenance of the executive mansion by purchasing items for per sonal use and charginig the same to the state. . -. '"' Sixty Memphis Stores Lock Out Union Clerks Memphis,- Tenn4' March 3 Sixty department stores and other mercan tile establishments closed their doors today as an answer to a recently or ganized union of clerks which de manded recognition and various con ditions. A minimum of $6 a week and pay for overtime are asfred. New Zeppelin Burns; Entire Crew is Killed London, March 3. A new Zeppe lin, on speed trials at Ghent, caught fire on Monday and was completely destroyed, according to reports from egraph company ir way of Copen hagen. The dispatch says that-the crew of the Zeppelin perished with their airship. Former Omaha Mailman Resigns to Bean Editor C. M.Reed, well knownto Omahans as former superintendent of railway mail service here, has resigned from his position as superintendent of the tenth division it St. Paul, Minn. He will hereafter devote his attention to his newspaper.', the Sun of Parsons, tvan. t" ,- - s BIG"' ..:0 K -"ty hdoSe DEMS ASK G O P. CHIEFS TO SAVE RMED SHIP BILL 'Made to Leaders in Belief Few Progressive Republicans ' Flan to Kill Administra on Measure. FILIBUSTER BY DEM. STOKE Handicap Tactics of Stone and La Follette May Prevent rassage mis session. hot t4lk by bbandegee Washington, 'March 3. The bill to empower President Wilson to estab lish a policy of armed neutrality de veloped such persistent opposition in the senate tonight that some of its warmest supporters began to fear it never could be passed before the ses sion ends at noon. tomorrow. , Virtually all the trouble came from a small group of progressive' repub licans, who blocked every effort to get unanimous consent for limiting de bate or setting a time for a vote. Democratic leaders -appealed to the republicans to aid them in swinging the little group into liife, pleading that in the present crisis failure of the bill would mean national disgrace.' ' Grow More Alarmed. For the most part the republlcacn leaders, showed a willingness to co operate As the debate proceeded, however, without evidence of a break in the opposition, the administration senators grew more and more dubious about the prospect. The embarrassment of-the-democrats was increased by a dramatic speech by Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign relations committee, opposing the bill as a war measure. That, however, was, the only evidence ot detection in the democratic ranks. Un behalf of the administration senators, Senator Simmons conferred with Senator Brandage of the regular republicans and Senator Kenyon, rep resenting the progressive republicans, both of whom have supported the bill, urging them to intercede with Sena tors La Follette, Norris, Gronna and Cummins, the four progressive repub licans who refused any proposal to expedite passage. Norris to Kill It If He Can. . While the negotiations were pro ceeding several senators sought to in duce friends of the bill bp refrain from discussing it in order to force the four progressive republican to take the floor. None of them had yet spoken, at length. " They would not admit that they in tended to filibuster, but they had given notice of an intention to discuss the measure fully and that was interpreted they were reserving themselves tor a final effort to talk the bill to death. Senator Norris had openly declared he "would kill the bill if he could." : Status of Ships. ; : Senator Stone told the senate today that he had heard that navy experts had advised a plan for protection of American ships whereby they would be equipped with small submarine chasing boats,, to be lowered in the danger zone to scout for hostile craft and attack them. ' "With this program earned out, said Senator Stone, "a question arises as to what would be thV status, of merchant ships so protectedV' Senator Hughes suggested it was hardly a proper subject to be dis cussed so soon after the senate had passed a bill with stringent penalties to prevent discussion of suVh secrets. Senator Stone retorted he had not said the plan had been adopted, but that it had been advised and consid ered. . Offer Amendment. Senator Stone theft offered his amendment to prevent piotection and armament of munitions ships. The course the president has pursued with Mexico and during the European war were pointed to by Senator Stone as proof of his desire to keep the nation out of war. "Despite the clamor, the intrigue. the subterfuges," he said, "to entrap him into at, act of war against a Euro pean power he has stood firm as a rock. I would therefore rather trust him than all- the official weaklings about him, vho daily fly their kites to see which way the wind blows. "If I thought this question here to day were one only of fafth and trust in him, l would nott Hesitate. But this is the first time the presi dent and I have tio been able to reconcile our differences. I believe the bill to lie not only violative of the constitution, but destructive of one of the most important powers vested in congress the war making power and that its passage would set a precedent fraught with peril to our form of gov ernment. The power to be graated is too broad, too sweeping. There is no limit whatsoever placed on other in strumentalities and methods," 1 Calls It War. ,, , Reciting the possible exercise of powers under the bill, Senator Stone said it' would authorize the president to equip ships and "drive the German submarines from commercial paths of the seas. . - - "No J doubt," he continued; "that would be a proper thing to do, but it would be war. It would not be an act of war but the very essence of war, in (ConUnwd mi Pave Two. Coin mo One.) County Superintendents Need Not Pay for Own Stamps U rom a tomn t;orrtjponuent.) Lincoln, March 3. (Special.) At torney General Reed has given an opinion that county superintendents do not have to pay for stamps and express charges incurred by their of fice, but clerk hire and traveling ex penses necessary to carry oh the work of the offices are up to the county boards to regulate. J he- inquiry comes from Charles Spcedicof .Nebraska Cityi Conditions of the Contest: For the best and cleverest answers, not ex ceeding 25 words, The Bee will give prizes as here enumerated. Address Picture Puz zle Editor, The Bee. Answers must be in by Wednesday, March 7. Awards an nounced Friday, March 9. Wife of Organist Who Kisses " Young Woman Pupil Kills Him '"-J -iV -.:::- "I'."' Mrs, . Edward - Kreisler Says Husband Laughed at Her as Caught Huggig Girl, ( WATCHES HIM. IN CHURCH Kansas City, Mo., Miych 3. Mrs. Edward .Kreiser tonight, was held without bond on a charge of baying murdered her husband, a composer, and organist of a large church here. She was remanded to jail after hav ing been arraigned ' before a justice of the peace only a few hours after she fired the shot that killed her hus band at their home here today. Mrs. Kreiser -made no attempt to deny the shooting. In statements to attaches of the county prosecutor's office and to friends she said she killed her husband because "last Monday he was guilty of infidelity and we have been quarreling all week over his con-, duct. , i "I know the woman who was with him last Monday night, but I shall never tell," she said. Then she added Prominent Student Charged With Firing Chemical Laboratory f Charlottesville, Va., March 3. S. Dabney Crenshow IV of Richmond, son of S. Dabney Crenshaw, secretary of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, was arrested here today charged witlt grand larceny and ma liciously burning the chemical labora tory of the University of Virginia January 26. He was released under $10,000 bond, furnished by his father. It is charged young Crenshaw, a fourth-year student, sold about $2,000 worth of platinum from the labora tory and that he started the fire which destroyed the laboratory to cover up the theft. A portion of the platinum, it is alleged, was found in Crenshaw's room in a fraternity house. Big Reception tor the South Dakota Soldiers A big reception is awaiting the Aberdeen, Lemon, Ipswich and Wb ster companies of the Fourth South Dakota infantry when the boys reach LAbendcen Sunday. Ttiiy are running a special to Aberdeen from fort Crook. At Aberdeen the citizens of the city-l have laid their plans tor giving the returning soldiers the glad hand. Gov ernor Norbcck of South Dakota and members of his staff will be present, and in the armory of the Aberdeen company members of all four com panies will be guests of the city. There will be speeches, music and a big feed, the latter supplied by the women of '.he city. f :. Mrs. Harrison President Of the Teachers' Annuity Mrs. C. F. Harrison, principal of Farnam school,' was1 elected president of the Teachers' Annuity association, a mutual benefit organization within the ranks of public school teachers. Other officers for the ensuing year are; Mary Fitch, first vice president; Martha L. Powell, second vice presi dent; Cora A. Anderson, treasurer; Mary GooJman. recordinc secretary; KAlice 1). Or., financial secretary . What's In the Telegram? - that other women had come into her husband's life during practically all of the eleven years they had been mar-riedV- . Her attorney said Mrs. Kreiser came to him a -week ago in regard to a divorce, but he advised against it. ' At that time she told him of her husband's attitude toward some of his young women pupils. He was per mitted to use the church organ for lessons and Mrs. Kreiser related hav ing watched him from a concealed place in the church building while giv ing one lesson.. "Kreiser took the ypung woman to his Aome," the attorney said. "They talked on the porch and Mrs. Kreiser found thm embracing. Her husband laughed at her." Mrs. Kreiser from the jail directed the arrangements for her husband's funral Monday and gave orders about the care of her home add her 9-year-old son, Ralph. He was unable to tell more of the tragedy than (hat his mother and father had been quar reling and that he heard her scream. A single shot followed. He was in an adjoining room. German Subseas . : Sink Half Million . Tons During Month London, March 3. Germany failed by slightly more than a 50 per cent margin to make good the threat to sink 1,000,000 tons of merchant ship ping during the first month of un restricted submarine warfare', accord ing to figures in' the possession of the Associated Press, the absolute re liability of which is vouched for here. Its submarines, the figures show, only succeeded in sending to the bottom during the month of February in round numbers 490,d00 tons, t , Sidney Wins Western j Nebraska Championship Sidney, Neb., , March 3. (Special Telegram.)i-Sidiiey closed the West ern Nebraska Basket Ball league scheduled last night by defeating Kimball, 54 to 11, winning the pen nant. Sidney has made a fine record this season, the team playing superb ball all the way through. Many Nebraskans Inaugural Ceremonies in Capital (Prom a Staff Correipondent.) Washington, March. 3. (Special Telegram.) Washington in a day or two will be visited by numbers o(;Ne braskans, all bent on enjoying the inauguration of the first democratic president to succeed himself since An drew Jackson's time. Among the Nebraskans or near Ne braskans here for the inaugural are Mr. and Mrs. Dave O'Brien, now of New York, well known in Omaha, and Miss Eva Mahoney, daughter of J. J. Mahoney, a student of Columbia Col lege of Journalism, who is here to write a story of the Inaugural. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Mullen of Bloomficld, Neb., are also in town. The doctor- is holding a proxy from " . Ten Prizes for Best Answers. First Prize - - .... $2.00 in Cash Second Prize - - The Original Picture Three Prizes (each) 2 Orpheum Tickets Five Prizes - (each) A Popular Novel Answers may be written in blank space in picture or on separate sheet of -paper, as preferred. MEXICANS DENY PLOT OF TEUTONS Carrania Official Says No Effort Made to Induce Gov- ernment to Join. N0:. APPROACH ON PLAN .';',',",'' .: ;"' '"..' . I ! Guadalajara,' Mexico, March 3. General Candido Aguilar, the provi sional minister of foreign relations, today formally denied that the Mexi can government had been approached by German ambassador with the ob ject of forming an alliance hostile to the United States. The statement given out bj the Mpxiran fnri(rti mittJaf "The government of Mexico has nol'J received in Denair ot tne government of Germany any proposal .'or an al liance looking toward war with the United States." Greek Ship on Way to New York for Grain Is Torpedoed London, March 3. Reuter's Tele graph company says the Greek steamer Proconnissos, of 2,769 tons gross, which has been requisitioned by the Greek royalist government to go to America for 5,000 tons of grain for the assistance of the royalist pop ulation of old Greece, has been tor pedoed and sunk by a, German sub marine. According to the latest maritime records, the Proconnissos was trans ferred from Greek registry to the French flag and renamed Verdun. No recent movements of the vessel have been published and it was last re ported at Bordeaux, France, in No vemler; 1916. The ship was 319 feet 19(Jf built " Sun1"lan1 Naval Armor Plate Board Will Meet at St. Louis Washington, March 3. The Naval Armor Plate board announced today that a hearing will be held in St. Louis, March 12 and 13, where argu ments of cities seeking award of the site along the upper Mississippi rjver and the lower Ohio valley will be presented. , The board will be unable to visit all the cities whose claims have been pre sented, but members of the board will inspect the remainder. Under this ar rangement Civil Engineer Bakenaus will visit Keokuk, la.; Quincy, JU., aim naiinmai, aio., juarcn y. Will Witness Governor Keith Neville to "represent the state in all affairs where a mem ber of the governor's staff might dis play his uniform. Chief of Police'4Henry W. Dunn of Omaha and Special United States In spector Hugh B. Mills reported for duty to the inaugural committee and the chief of police of. Washington to day. -. - , - i ., -. M. J. Greevy of Omaha is in Wash ington for the inauguration. Many of tin Nebraska delegation will remain in Washington during the coming week largely to close departmental matters which have been in abeyance on account of the work in congress and then to await the decision of the president as to a call for an extra session. , ALLEGED PLOT NO PLOT AT ALL. SAYS TEUTOJT LEADER Zimmerman Tells Hews Writer No Action Was to Be Taken Until After United States ' Had Declared War. MOVE IS PRECAUTIONARY Desired Peace With America, but Would Be Beady if ' Hostilities dome. SAYS U. S. NOT NEUTBAL Berlin, March i (Wireless to Say ville). The following was given out today by the Overseas News Agency (the official German news bureau) : ' .''Foreign. Secretary Zimmerman was asked by s staff member of the Overseas News Agency about the English report tint "a German plot had been revealed to get Mexico to' declare war against the United States and to secure Japan's aid against the United States, Secretary Zimmerman answered: , . t " 'You understand thr.t it is impos sible for me to disc-as the facta of this "revealed plot" just .. this mo ment and under these circumstances. I therefore may be allowed to limit my answer to what ii said in the English reports, which certainly are not insoired bv avmnathv with Ger ' m-ny. The English report expressly states that Germany expected and wished to remain on terms of friend ship with the United States, but that we had prepared measures of defense in case the United States declared war against Germany. I fail to see how such a "plot is inspired by unfriend liness on our part It would mean nothing but that we would use means universally admitted in war in case the United States declared war. '"The most important part of the alleged plot is Its condition and form. The whole "plot" falls flat to the ground in case the United States does not declars war against us. And if we really, as the report alleged, considered tne possibility of hostile sets of the United States sgainst us, men we reauy naa reasons to oo so. Cites Alleged Parallel . ' "'Ail Argentine newspaper s short time ago' really "revealed s plot" when it told that the United States last year suggested , to- other American re publics common action agair.st Ger many and its Vliea. This, "plot! tp-f paren'tly was i not conditions: in the least. The news as published bv; la Prensa (Buenos Airas) sgrtef welS vith the interpretaticn given, for in stance, by an American newspaper man, i Edward Price, in .Berlin and London, who said, that the. United States was . waiting only for the pro ner - moment in:'order oniiorfunlv tn assist the entente. The same American stated that Americans .from the be ginning. of the war really participated in it by putting the immense resources of; the United States st the, entente's disposal Snd that Americans had not declared, war only because: they felt sure that assistance by friendly neu trality would be during that time much more efficient for the entente than di rect participation in the war.) Whether this American newspaper : . man re- lorted the facts exactly we were at a oss to judge in sufficient. fashion since we were more or less completely cut oif from communication -with the United, States, i ' ' But there were ether facts which seemed to confirm this and similar 'as surances. ,. . Everybody i knows ''these facts and I need not repeat them. The entente propaganda services have suf ficiently heralded all these pro-en tente demonstrations in the United States. And if you link these demon strations with the actual attitude of the United States, theft it is obvious tt.at it was r.ot frivolous on our part to consider what defensive measures we should take in case we were at tacked by the United States. " ihe version of the limmermann statement cabled from London gives the name of the American newspaper correspondent referred to by the Ger man foreign secretary as' Edward frice Dell instead of bdward Price. Edward Price Bell is the name of the London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. . ' ". , , i ncrc is no rcturu 01 an American newspaper correspondent named Ed ward Price. Edward Price Bell is Tl -"- I C A London correspondent of the Chi cago Daily News. . - ' Note Declared Authentic. . London, March 3. Foreign' Secre tary Zimmermann's instructions ' to the German minister to Mexico, as published in the United States, are admitted in Berlin to have been cor rectly quoted, according to a dispatch to Keuters from the Oerman capital by way of Amsterdam. I at dispatch Quotes the followms telegram received in Amsterdam from Berlin on rriday. and which was ap parently sent by the Wolff bureau, the semi-official German ,, news agency: v ,' 'Ihe American press contains re- (CrBtutiMd oa Ff6 Two, Colon- . w ny pay more than le per - ; word? ; for your want ads when you can secure the best re sults by putting your ad in The Bee. a '. ,-. ' Call Tyler 1000 ' . You are ss close to .'' ' The Bee Want Ad Dept. ' s your phone is to you. .