Nebraska Newspapers

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D H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL._ NEBRASKA
How a machine gun Is fired through a
revolving propeller is told In a recent
Issue of Aeronautics, In an article de
scribing the more Important features of
two German Fokkers brought down be
hind the British lines In France. On
these monoplanes, according to the de
scription, the machine gun is fired
through the propeller hy means of a
•mail lever actuating a Bowden wire.
Provision is further made to throw the
machine gun mechanism momentarily
out of gear as each whirling propeller
blade moves Into line with the muzzle.
This Is done very simply by means of a
double cam fixed on the engine shaft
and acting on a system of levers. The
French Morane, after which the Fokker
type has been modeled, also fires Its
machine gun through the tractor screw.
A few weeks ago a train consisting
of two engines, a steam shovel and 12
4ump cars left the main railroad line at
lillpltas. Cal., snd started at a snail's
pace along a country road that leads to
the site of a dam In the Calaveras val
ley says Popular Mechanics. TIiIh spec
tacular feat was accomplished by lay
ing track in front of the train and then,
as It moved along, taking up the rails
and ties and relaying them In advance.
The tmln Is a part of an outfit operated
by contractors who have been engaged
to dump 800,000 cubic yards of rock Into
the great dam being erected across the
Calaveras valley to impound water
from the mountains higher up.
The California Electric Railway asso
ciation has completed a tabulation of
the losses suffered by all of the rail
roads of the state, steam and electric,
due to the competition of Jitney busses
during the year 1915, says the Electric
Railway Journal. The figures show the
estimated losses in grows receipts In
both passenger and freight service
where there was competition In both
classes. Where no freight traffic losses
are mentioned the figures refer to re
duction In Income on passenger ser
vice. The total lows suffered by the 16
companies Included in the tabulation
amounts to approximately $4,000,000.
The largest railway scale In the world
tuts recently been completed at West
Albany, N. Y. It is capable of accommo
dating a load of 1,650,000 pounds. It con
sists of six weighing Instruments, each
having a capacity of 276,000 pounds. It
Is designed for weighing locomotives
and other'heavy rolling stock. Some of
the engines used upon the Pacific coast
weigh £15 tone, but this giant would be
able to weigh four of them at once, If
necessary. The accuracy of this giant
Instrument Is remarkable. It docs not
vary 10 pounds at Its full capacity.
A new electric lemon squeezer Is de
scribed In the Electrical World. It con
slsts of a motor driven hemisphere pro
vided with ribs similar to the ordinary
hand operated glass extractor. The
lemon or orange Is halved and held
against this hemispherical part. The
Iuice Is caught In a deflector at the
beck and runs down through a epout at
the bottom. A clamp is provided for at
taching the outfit to a table or counter
and a ring Is attached below the spout
to support the glass.
Mrs. Eliza Fyffe, age 83, of Morgan
county, passed through Morehead, Ky„
on her way to visit relatives at Scloto
vllle, Ohio. This is the first time she
over saw a train or rode on one. Mrs.
Fyffe was accompanied by her son, age
*6, who was also taking his first ride
ea a train.
To eliminate the babel of tongues and
Americanize Bayonne, N. J„ the edu
cation board will establish night classes
for the teaching of English to alien
reeidents who comprise 60 per cent of
Bayonne's 70,000 inhabitants.
Natives of Porto Rico make a fairly
permanent yellow dye for textiles from
ths roots of turmeric, which grows wild
over a considerable part of the island.
Norway is to have a plant that will
use a Belgian engineer's process for
the electrical extraction of zinc from
ores heretofore regarded as worthless.
A new tent for campers has a meted
frame, from which two cots are sus
pended by heavy springs so they are
not In contact with the ground.
A New York scientist has built a
camera that can be tilted to any angle
to get desired photographs of objects
too heavy or fragile to be moved.
Switzerland protects rare plants by
law so strictly that to be found In the
possession of specimens Illegitimately
collected Is a penal offense.
The sunflower is cultivated to a con
siderable extent in central Russia,
where, every part of the plant is put to
certain economic usos.
The Argentine government Is re
ported as gradually transferring to the
Caja de Conversion the gold deposits in
Its foreign legations.
Telescopic spectacles have been In
vented for persons who are so extreme
ly near sighted that ordinary lenses do
not offset the defect.
The first word in advertising was the
script, written on papyrus 3,000 years
ago by an Egyptian gentleman who hud
lost a slave.
An English city is experimenting
with a steam driven street sprinkling
cart, the tank of which holds 1,000 gal
lons of water.
Pottsvllle and St. Clair, Pa., are now
connected by a new trolley line three
miles long, costing $1 an inch to con
struct.
Pockets for money and jewelry are
woven into the tops of women's stock
ings that a Pennsylvanian has patented.
Mrs. William Whittemore, of Pitts
ford. Mass., made pies from a hubburd
squash which was picked a year ago.
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Boer has been raised in price in Rio
de Janeiro. Foreign beers cannot com
pete because of the high tariff.
The Chinese government controls the
mining of copper because the metal is
ao largely used In currency.
Waterproof electric flash lights to be
attached, to life preservers for night
use axe a recent invention.
Russia maintains at Moscow an ex
perimfent station for the study of flax
cultivation and manufacture.
There are 1,869 building and loan as
sociations in Pennsylvania, with assets
amounting to $376,393,310.99.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the
National City bank in New York city,
is a machinist by trade.
Governor Capper, of Kansas, says
women excel men in their interest.ln
FUil.i .9.
STREET CAR UNION
GIVEN BODY BLOW
Nebraska Railway Commis- j
sion’s Decision in Lincoln
Strike Matter the Agent.
Lincoln, Neb., April 13. Voluminous
opinions were handed down today by
the state railway commission in the old
traction company strike, that flattened
oul nine months ago. One was by
Commissioners Taylor and Hall, who
take the position that the commission
has no power to direct the company
whom il may employ, while Commis
sioner Wilson says that the company
ought to lie compelled to restore the
five men it discharged for joining tho
union, which discharge caused the
strike, and also nine officers of the
union.
Mr. Wilson also takejj the ground that,
men who work for a quasi public cor
poratlon can be compelled by order of
the commission to refrain from quitting
In such numbers as to render its serv
Ivo inadequate, just as the company
hiring them can be restrained from fir
Ing an employe for a cause common to
other employes, such as joining a union.
He also takes the ground that the com
mission should, by order, protect tin
employes in their right to form a union.
The other commissioners say, that
while the commission lias the power to
direct tIre employment of a sufficient
number of persons to take care of a
carrier's service, it cannot say who
shall be hired or fired. It also sets up
the theory that the commission has sols
power to pass on working agreements
and that this power makes it unneces
sary to organize a union to secure re
dress. It also holds that the commis
sion could not have permitted the
agreement that the union demanded of
the company to be put into effect be
cause provisions inimical to proper
service.
GERMAN LUTHERANS
SEEING NEW LIGHT
Lincoln, Neb., April 13. Follow ups
on the refusal of five German Lutheran
preachers of Lincoln to attend the pa
triotic mass meeting because a Catholic
priest and a Jewish rabbi were on the
program are coming thick and fast,
ftev. George Allenbach, pastor of Trin
ity German, whose house was decorated
with yellow paint Immediately follow
ing the publication of his letter, was
removed from his pastorate on the de
mand of the war activities of the Com
mercial club. Ostensibly he resigned
and left town.
Kev. E. A. Bartusch, pastor of the
church at the suburb of Havelock, has
sent a letter to the newspapers de
claring that his nume was forged to
the letter in which the objections to
taking part were outlined. Ho says he
Is an American born citizen, always
lias supported the government and
stands for religious freedom. His
signature us given by him to Chair
man Matson of the Liberty loan com
mittee differs from that on the letter.
Mr. Bartusch says he was never con
sulted about the latter and never au
thorized anyone to sign for him. De
mands have been made on the church
boards of the other pastors to demand
resignations.
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M’KELVIE IS OUT
FOR GOVERNOR’S JOB
Lincoln, Neb., April 13.—Samuel Roy
McKelvle, former lieutenant governor,
has filed as a candidate for the re
publican nomination for governor. He
was a candidate for the nomination
two years ago, and came within a few
hundred votes of securing the plum. He
wus beaten by Judge Sutton, who was
later beaten by Keith Neville by 6,000
votes.
Senator Adnm McMullen, of Gage
county, one of the leading progressives
rtf the state, has filed as a candidate
for the republican nomination in the
Fourth district. Congressman Sloan,
who has represented the district for 12
years, is a candidate for senator. Two
others, C. H. Denny, of Fairbury, a
lawyer, and M. A. McLaughlin, a
preacher, of York, are candidates. Mr.
McMullen has served three terms in
the lecislature, was a former lawyer'
and now operates extensive farming
interests.
WOMAN SPURNED FLAG;
BEATEN BY ASSOCIATES
Omaha. Neb., April 12.—Mrs. Mar
garet Sqjby, a Lithuanian by birth, a
packing house employe, was badly
beaten by three other women employes
at the same packing plant today, when
she spurned the American flag they of
fered her to wear, and they claim made
disloyal remarks. She was afterwards
arrested and is being held for investi
gation by federal authorities.
LINCOLN—Mrs. Sarah B. Harris Dorris,
for many years identified with the Lin
coln newspapers as an editor and fea
ture writer, died at her home here to
day, after a long illness. She was a sister
of George B. Harris, chairman of the
executive board of the Chicago. Burling
ton and Quincy ronroad. She had be-n
very low for many months.
PENDER—Will E. Estlll, of Walthill,
has filed a petition with the county hoard
of commissioners to oust Sheriff Pat Dor
c«y from office, claiming Dorcey Is not
a cltixen of the 1’nited States, that he
took out his first papers in 1894 in Dixon
county and did not complete his naturalis
ation. The county board set April 18 for
hearing the matter,
DE81ILKR—'The big gasoline engine at
the pumping plant blew up, parts of it
smashing through the east brick wall of
;h« building.
RABBI HIRSCH DENIES
THAT HE’S PRO-GERMAN
Chicago. April 12.—Dr. Emil G.
Hlrsch. internationally known retorm
Jewish rabbi, met anonymous attack on
his loyalty today with the statement
that he ’’stands squarely behind Presi
dent Wilson.” Dr. Hlrech from the pul
pit in Sinai temple Sunday will make
a formal statement to his congregation
in reply to a small minority's petition
seeking his removal after 37 years of
service. “I have been a pacifist,” lie
said, "but now I am no longer one." 1
concur fully In every note the president
has written. 1 was educated in Ger
many and naturally learned to love the
German people, but 1 am unalterably
opposed to Pruesianism.”
SHIP SCHEDULES TO
BELITTLE DISARRANGED
Washington, D. t’„ April 12.—Nc
great disarrangement of schedules and
management of the four Atlantic ant
Gulf steamship lines—Clyde Mallory
Merchants and Miners, and the South
ern—to he commandeered and operated
by the railroad administration, will bo
made for a week or 10 days, officials
said today. Some vessels now operat
ing from gulf ports to New York ana
New England probably will then be au
s:g’ ed to North Atlantic- service.
NEBRASKA LAWYERS
TO NAME CANDIDATES
Will Hold Primary to Select
Men to Be Voted on For
Supreme Justices.
Lincoln, Neb., April 13. Nebraska
lawyers ore to recommend six candi
dates for supreme court justices to be
rhosen in a primary in which only resi
dent practicing attorneys will be al
lowed to vpte. A committee of the state
bar association has announced that pe
titions for nomination signed by 25
qualified attorneys will be received by
Secretary Ellick at Omaha until April
80.
On May 1 each man thus placed in
nomination, and if lie does not request
the omission of his name by May 10
It goes on the ballot. This is to be
Bent out to a list prepared by the clerk
nf the supreme court on May 15. All
ballots must be returned to Federal
Judge Munger by May 31. The fol
lowing day a board of three district
ludges are to make the canvass.
In order to avoid a second primary
the Bucklln system of preferential
voting shall be used in the ballot mark
ing. Each attorney shall mark six first
md second choices, and as many third
Ehoices as he desires. These shall be
added to first choices where necessary
to get six nominations for the primary.
Three Justices are to bo chosen at the
November general election from the six
nominated at the general primary.
The lawyers’ primary is not binding
an anyone. It is taken, Secretary El
lick announces, in accordance with a
recommendation of the bar association
at its last meeting, and In the hope
that the voters, who know little about
the qualifications of candidates, may
know whom the lawyers think are best
qualified by temperament, learning and
integrity.
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MAYOR DAHLMAN IS
AGAIN THE. HIGH MAN
Omaha, Neb.. April 13.--James C.
Dahlman, who has been mayor of Oma
ha for the last 12 years, was high man
in yesterday's city primary, leading the
second candidate, Commissioner Dan
B. Butler, by several hundred votes.
The 14 receiving the highest vote in
the primary are the candidates from
which the seven city commissioners will
be chosen at the election May 7. Six
of the present commissioners are
among the successful candidates. Com
missioner A. C. Kugel of the police de
partment being the only one eliminated.
THIS KAISER LOVER
TO BE PROSECUTED
Lincoln, Neb., April 14.—For threat
ening to kill President Wilson if the
kaiser is killed in this war and declar
ing that he would shoot, anyone who
tried to work his 900 acres to produce
food, George H. Schmidt, a wealthy
farmer of Adams county, lias been
placed under arrest and indicted by the
federal grand jury.
The language Schmidt is alleged to
have used is: "If the kaiser is killed
In this war we (meaning himself and
others) will get President Wilson. I
drove over 100 miles yesterday to assist
in perfecting an organization among my
farmer friends to prevent crops being
raised for the government of the United
States. 1 have four boys in the draft,
hut i would rather see them dead than
to have them leave this country and
fight Germany. If the government of
the United States takes my boys I will
let my 800 acres lie Idle and will not
raise anything to help the nation feed
iis soldiers. If Uncle Sam sends any
one out on my land to work It I will
shoot him. 1 would like to see anybody
stop me from making these kinds of
remarks. This is my farm and I will do
what 1 please with it.”
A
PRO-GERMAN BOLDNESS
CAUSES MOB TO FORM
Stuart, Neb., April 13.—The Stuart
home guard was called out to protect
the property of William Krotter from
a mob which threatened him damage
because of his pro-German remarks in
the auditorium, when he replied to a
patriotic address by Judge Harring
ton.
Judge Harrington gave a very pa
triotic address hero before a large audi
ence. His address was well received
and was interrupted time and again
with loud applause. At the conclusion
of his address, Krotter took the stage,
uninvited, and took exception to some
of the patriotic remarks of the speaker.
The audience took exception immedi
ately to what Krotter said, and with
shouts of disapproval he was hissed
from the platform. During the after
noon and evening the feeling against
Krotter was aroused to such a high
pitch that Sheriff Duffey and two dep
uties were sent for to prevent what
appeared to be a tar and feather party
and other violence.
RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
RESULTS FATALLY
Osmond. Neb., April 13.—Spiller
Lamle was buried here Tuesday. He
died at the Norfolk hospital Monday
from Injuries received last week. He
was working for the Butterfield com
pany here and was discing when the
horses became frightened and ran
away. He fell on the disc and one arm
was cut to the bone. He was a mar
ried man. about 30 years old, and leaves
a wife.
HIGHWAY PROMOTERS
MEET AT FREMONT
Fremont, Neb.. April 13.—The first
annual meeting of the Cornhusker high
way, which extends from Sioux City,
In., to Marysville, Kan., was held this
week at the commercial club rooms in
Fremont. Twenty-flve delegates from
half a dozen towns were present. Re
ports showed that some notable im
provements generally Improving the
condition of the road had been made.
Congressman Dan V. Stephens made a
brief address.
The congressman arrived home from
Washington early yesterday, expecting
to spend a few days in speech making
over the district, during the Liberty
loan drive.
The old officers of the association
were reelected. They are- President.
D. S. Dalby, Beatrice; vice president,
C. J. Koester, Marysville. Kan.; sec
retary-treasurer, George F. Wolz, Fre
mont; trustees, C. H. Wilson, Lincoln;
C. O. Johnson. Havelock; Andrew Frost,
Uehling.
CAR LOAD OF HOGS
FOR THE RED CROSS
Pender, Neb., April 13.—The farmers
In the vicinity of Pender, with the as
sistance of u few o' our townspeople,
shippel a carload of hogs to the South
Omahi. market, which were sold and
the pr weeds donated to the Red Cross
association. This is only o|n of the
many commendable acts on the pait
of our citizens in contributing to the
war auxiliaries. There were 6& head
of hugs in the carload and they sold
at $16.80 per 100 pounds, and netted
«i.38S.65.
STATE EMPLOYES ARE
STRANDED IN LINCOLN
Refusal of Auditor to Sign War
rants Leaves Extra Session
Men in Predicament.
IJncoln, Neb., April 11.—Eighteen
*enate employes who served during the
special session are wandering disconso
lately about the state house waiting un
til the gods soften the heart of State
Treasurer George E. Hall. The legis
lature passed ' a bill appropriating
money to pay them salaries, tho gover
nor signed the bill and the auditor has
affixed his name to warrants.
But Mr. Hall has grave doubts as to
whether the legislature had any legal
power to make appropriations to pay
Its expenses when the governor did
not include appropriation bills in the
call for the extra session. He desires to
look up the law to find out if he Is
warranted in countersigning and paying
these warrants. Some of the employes
can't get out of town without the money
as they owe board bills. Most of them
are from out in the state.
Governor Neville, after cogitating
over the matter, has decided to let the
courts say whether the legislature had
authority to pass bills appropriating
money to pay mileage and per diem
during the extra session. He signed
the two appropriation bills. He also af
fixed his signature to the sedition bill,
which 10 senators, in a statement, have
denounced as unconstitutional, as con
ferring upon the state council of de
fense, an alleged irresponsible body,
powers that no civil officers have ever
exercised, and as certain to cause trou
ble among pro-German-Americans.
The governor also signed H. R. 9,
the potash and oil leasing bill. The
constitutional amendment to be sub
mitted does not need his approval, and
therefore he merely passed it over to
the secretary of state for filing.
NEBRASKA LEGISLATORS
MAY GET NO PAY
Lincoln, Neb.. April 11.—State Aud
itor Smith refuses to issue warrants
provided for in house roll 14 appropri
ating $12,800 to pay members of the
legislature for their services in attend
ing the special session, without a de
cision from the supreme court and an
order from them to pay such bills.
It is probable that he will take the
same stand on the bill appropriat
ing $3,110.20 to pay one round trip fare
for the members.
The state constitution makes no pro
vision for pay or mileage allowance for
legislators attending a special session.
Governor Neville did not include this
bill iu his call for the special session
and the contention is that it is uncon
stitutional.
ARGUES FEDERAL LAW
DOES NOT TOUCH HIS CASE
Lincoln, Neb., April 11.—On the
ground that there is no federal law
that will reach his case, attorneys for
Louis Fellwock, wealthy land owner,
who allowed 10,000 bushels of wheat to
rot in his bins since the war began,
argued to Federal Judge Manger that
he should be discharged. The prose
cution is brought under the act that
makes hoarding an offense, and it was
insisted that this does not apply to
farmers who have a right to use their
knowledge of the markets to dictate
when they should sell. Fellwock has
200 acres in wheat at the present time
and this was urged as proof of his
loyalty.
SALESMAN TO GIVE
PROPERTY TO RED CROSS
Fremont, Neb., April 11.—Clarence
Reckmeyer, Fremont traveling sales
man, who yesterday paid $10 to the Red
Cross in order to induce Judge Dame
to dismiss a complaint against a team
ster who was charged with beating his
horse, came into tne limelight again
today when he hade a public offer to
donate most of his property to the Red
Cross. This includes a residence lot in
Lincoln and a cottage lot at a Colorado
resort. Furthermore, Reckmeyer offers
to rent his newly completed house in
Fremont for the term of the war, the
rental money to go to the Red Cross.
There is no condition attached to the
offer, other than that the money bo
paid to the Red Cross, when Reckmeyer
says he will furnish the required deeds
and leases. Reckmeyer says he asks
for no more than a bare living during
the war.
GERMAN MINISTERS
ARE STORM CENTER
Lincoln, Neb., April 11.—Because of
their Yefusul to attend the patriotic
meeting last Saturday, l{ev. George
Allenbach, Rev. W. F. V. Baeder, R. A
Bartusch, O. Braunschweig, Gorman
Luthoran ministers of Lincoln, and
Rev. Fred Moeller, of Malcolm, this
county, are the targets for barbs of all
sorts.
Mayor Dasher, of Minden, himself a
German Lutheran, has written a. let
ter to the state council of defense de
manding that Rev. Mr. Allenbachi
whose fealty to the war. he says, has
been under suspicion be proceeded
against. He says that under the thin
I veil of Christianity they have shown
an opposition to the war that ought tc
be summarily dealt with.
The war activities committee of the
Commercial club, composed of several
hundred men who are pushing the Lib
erty loan drive, have passed a reso
'ution denouncing the actions of the
ninlsters as unchristian and unpatriotic
and demanding that their congregations
insist upon their immediate resigna
tion.
Their offense was in writing a letter
:o the committee, in response to an in
vitation to sit upon the platform, that
they believed their participation in a
meeting in which prayers were to lie
jffered by a Catholic priest and a Jew
ish rabbi was equivalent to a “denial of
aur faith in Jesus Christ." They also
said a religious aspect had thereby
been given the meeting.
A gallon of yellow paint was used it*
lecorating the cottage home of Rev.
Mr. Allenbach by unknown parties
Monday night. The doors, windows,
porch and walk were smeared with
-iright golden Daint. and a sign “K. K
v„ 1918," marked on the window with
i finger.
VICIOUS DOG IS~THE
CAUSE OF CONTROVERSY
Fremont, Neb.. April 11.—A equabble
aver a dog reached the city council at
regular session last night. Hans Nel
told the council that his litt e
laughter's face had been frightfully
mutilated by the dog. Chief of Police
IVolton declared that he had been or
iered several months ago to kill this
• ame ferocious beast, but that its owner
employed a lawyer and stopped him at
he gate. Mayor Wiley instructed the
policeman to use the whole force, if
necessary, in bringing the dog to the
chloroform room at the city hoJU, where
It slioipid be jut to death promi^'v.
LOSS OF YPRES NOW MIGHT
REACT ON BRITISH MORALE
BY J. W. T. MASON,
Written for the United Press.
New York. April 13.—Creation
of u new salient before Ypres,
such as caused the evacuation of
Armentieros, is the immediate
purpose of Von Hindenburg’s
present operations in the sector
north of the Armentieres positions.
Already, an angle has begun to
ae formed In the Ypres area that
ihreatens to develop difficulties for
Marshal Haig unless the German’s
advance is checked. This is the
reason why there is such persis
tent and desperate fighting at IIol
iebeke, Wytschaete und Messines,
and to the southwest. These j«Bsi
tions dominate any operations from
the south against Ypres. Their
permanent occupation by the Ger
mans would give Hindenburg an
opportunity to swing his Attack
farther, north, where progress of
about five miles would compel the
evacuation of Ypres.
The British positions in this
sector are admirably taxed for de
fensive fighting. They can be made
into death traps for the Germans,
whose system of massed attacks
is particularly liable to' slaughter
1 before the lidge on which the Brit
ish defenses are based. If these
ridge positions should fall to Hin
denburg, however, the district Tie
yond would present less difficul
ties because it is down hill to
Y pres. .
The capture of Ypres is chiefly ^
desired by the Germans, not so
much because of any special mili
tary value, put because of the
moral effect the kaiser thinks may
be produced in Great Britain
Much glory of British arms has
been gained in the Ypres area and
the recapture of the sector by the
Germans would doubtless come as
a shock.
But the selection of Yrpres as an
abjective by Ilindenburg gives
Marshal Haig a splendid opportuni
ty to administer the second major
defeat to' the Germans in the course
of their recent drive. The first de
feat came with the abandonment
of further operations against
Amiens. If Hindenburg is soon
compelled to cease his slaughter of
German troops in the Ypres sector,
the result cannot fail to be highly
disheartening to the Germans tit
home, counting up their dead.
U. S. Marines Join Japanese and
British in Occupation of
Great Siberian Port to
Curb Anarchy.
Washington, D. C., April 13.—Both
the state anil navy departments antici
pated early today that they would be
advised before night as to the reported
landing of American marines at Vladi
vostok.
It has been known for some time—
though confidentially—that the United
States was represented in the squadron
lying off the Siberian port, but officials
suggested Americans would not land
there unless American lives as w-ell as
property, were endangered.
It is anticipated that the reported
American action will be seized upon by
Lenlne and his pro-German agents to
inflame the Russian people. This will
be offset, however, by an American
statement as to the necessity for the
action. Anarchy has been rife at Vlad
ivostok and it is assumed that Ameri
cans would join the Japanese and Brit
ish only in case of extreme necessity.
The reported landing does not mean
that this country has changed her pol
icy towards the recent proposed Jap
anese intervention in Siberia, it was
stated officially.
It was said that if the marines were
landed they were put ashore merely
to protect American lives and property
and not to interfere with the political
situation.
SNOW IN NEW YORK;
WIRE SERVICE HIT
New York, April 12.—Ninety-six
hours of wintry weather In April came
to a climax today with a storm ot al
ternating snow-, sleet and rain.
The snow did not fall heiivily en nigh
to accumulate, as it turned to slush
Immediately and traffic within the
city was not subject to much Interfer
ence, but reports from suburban dis
tricts indicated serious effects on tele
phone and telegraph service.
Sandy Hook and other towns where
government work is under way, opera
tions were suspended because employes
were unable to travel.
SWIFT COMPANY RAISES
CAPITAL TO $150,000,000
Chicago, April 12.—President Louis
F. Swift announced today that Swift &
Co.’s capitalization will be increased
from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. Half
that increase is represented by stock to
be sold shareholders at par. The other
$25,000,000 w-ill be issued as a dividend
after a meeting of the stockholders on
May 13.
BRITISH FIELD
All Lost Troops and Guns Hav^*"
Been Replaced and Fighting
Power Increased in
Some Phases.
Ottawa, Out., April 13.—The British
army in France is as well equipped to
day, as when the German offensive in
Picardy began, England having re
placed all the lost guns and having in
creased the quantity of machine guns,
according to Frederick George Kella
way, British parliamentary secretary
of the ministry of munitions. A Reuter’s
dispatch received here today from Lon
don quotes from a speech which Mr.
Kellaway made list night at Bedford,
England:
The tanks which the Germans cap
tured were being replaced by one of
superior model, the secretary asserted,
and the ammunition consumed had
more than been made good, whiie men
were steadily being released to fill the
gaps occasioned through loss of man
power. In the air Britain continued as
strong, if not stronger, he said.
HARRISON SUED FOR
DIVORCE BY HIS WIFE
San Diego, Cal., April 13.—Divorce
proceedings against Francis Burton
Harrison, former governor of the Phili
pines and former congressman from
New York, have been Instituted here
by Mrs. Harrison, it became known to
day.
The nature of the charge has not
been made public.
Mrs. Harrison arrived at Coronado
from the east last Wednesday. She
passed a considerable part of last win
ter at Coronado and at that time es
tablished legal residence in California.
MEXICANS CONSENT TO
PUT END TO SNIPING
Harris Spur, Tex.. April 12.—Sniping
lias ceased along this section of the
Big Bend border, following an agree
ment. between Col. George I. Langhorne,
commander of the Big Bend district,
and Col. Martinez Ruize, the Mexican >
federal commander of the district op- w
posite hero. The agreement was
reached at a second parley held last
night at the Santo Nino ford, where
four Mexicans were killed Wednesday,
when American troops fired across the
ford following a series of snlpings by
Mexican federal soldiers.
TO CONFIRM KEPPEL.
Washington, D. C., April 12.—Con
firming by the Senate of Frederick P.
Keppel, dean of Columbia University
to be assistant secretary of war was
recommended unanimously today by tbo
Senate military committee. The nom
ination of E. R. Stettinius as an as
sistant secretary already has been con
firmed.
Famous Educator and Wife of
Soldier Held Under Mann Act
Prof. William Isaac Thomas, of Chicago University, and Mrs,
R. M. Granger Taken in Custody in Chicago—Hotel
Clerk’s Suspicions Led to Exposure. '
Chicago. April 13.—Hinton C. Cla-,
baugh, chief of the local bureau of
the department of justice, today an
nounced that ills agents last night
took into custody Dr. William Isaac i
Thomas, of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Chicago, widely known as
an authority on sociology, and a wom
an said to he the wife of a Texas
man now in Franco with General Per
shing.
Mr. Ciabaugh said he had turned over
to United States District Attorney
Glvne evidence completely rounded out
for the Institution of charges of vio
lating the Mann act, and the act tor
bidding false registrations at hotels.
l)r. Thomas and the woman, who
-ak! she was a Mrs. It. M. Granger, of j
Washington, D. C., are said in the I
data given Mr. dyne to have registered
■it a downtown hotel last night as man
and wife from Gary, Jnd. The alleged |
expose was due to the fact that the I
notel clerk’s suspicions were aroused. |
He notified Mr. (Tabaugh and the lat- j
ter sent agents who looked through j
their luggage.
Both were taken before Mr. dyne I
last night and are quoted as having ;
attempted little if any concealment. 1
According to Mr. Ciabaugh. Dr. 1
Thomas said:
"I love her and 1 don't care If the i
whole world knows it. Mysarrcst 1s a !
tremendous injustice.”
Mr. (Tabaugh further quoted the i
woman as saying:
"Dr. Thomas was kind to me. After 1
my husband left for France. Dr. Thomas I
was most solicitous for iny comfort. I I
just liked him at first: later it grew |
into love.”
Dr. Zl: mas, a man of distinguished;
appearance, is 55 years of age, married
and lias grewn children. Mrs. Thomfts
was one of the founders of the woman s
peace party. Mrs. Granger is 24 years
old and has a 3-year-old child living
with her mother at Fort Worth, Tex.
She said, according to Mr. Clabaugh.
that she accompanied her husband from
tlie training camp at Fort Worth to
^or'c t° say goodbye when h,
sailed. Dr. Thomas was in the citv to
gather material for a book on Poland
I hey were introduced by Mrs. Gran
gers sister. The latter and Mrs. Gran
ger have been liviae at a south side
family hotel for about two weeks \r
this hostery it was said that Mrs
Granger left suddenly last night in a
taxicab to go down town. The sister's
name, according to G. W. Wayson, man
ager of the hotel, is Mrs. Rains.
Dr. Thomas for some time was much
in demand for his lectures on sociology
and the relation of sex thereunto.
Among his teachings w-ere:
"Women are better off for having
ll;ld their fling as men do. Dissipated
women often make excellent wives.
"Chivalry is the persistence of the old
race habit of contempt for women
"Any girl mentally mature has the
right to have children and the right to
limit their number.
“The morality of women is an expe
diency rather than in innate virtue
“Marriage as it exists today is rapid!-.
approaching a form of immorality
“Matrimony is often an arrangement
by which the woman trades her irre
proachable conduct for irreproachable
gowns.
"Children are not the result of mar
riage. hut marriage is the result of
ch.-d: cn.'