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T. H. MATTERS IS
SENTENCED TO SIX
YEARSJN PRISON
Judge Frank A. Youmans Overrules
Motions in Arrest of Judg
ment and for New
Trial.
SENTENCE!) ON ALL COUNTS
But Entire Nineteen Will Run Con
, currently Making Total Time to
Be Served Six Years.
WILL GO TO COURT OF APPEALS
Six years in the federal peniten
t'ary at Leavenworth,-Kan., was the
sentence Imposed upon Thomas H.
Matters in federal court Monday
afternoon, after Judge Frank A.
Youmans had overruled his motions
in arrest, of judgment and for a new
trial. Matters was recently convicted
by a jury of violation of the National j
banking laws in connection with the
First National bank of Sutton, which
afterwards failed. He will appeal the
case.
The sentence ai pronounced by the
Judge was for six years' confinement on
each of the nineteen counts on which
Matters was found guilty, a total of 114
years, but by order of the court, the
nineteen terms of alx years each will
run concurrently, so that the time
Matters must serve totals only six years.
Vnder the law, the penalty is fixed at
from' five to ten years. Matters is now
67 years of age.
By special order of the court, agreed to
by United States District Attorney F. S.
Howell, who prosecuted the case, a stay
of execution of sentence was granted
until June 1, in order to give Matters'
lawyers time to prepare their lengthy bill
of exceptions and assignment of error
and file the supersedeas bond necessary
In making appeal to the United States
circuit court of appeals.
Appearance Bond Knrnlnhnl.
An appearance bond tinder the order
staying execution of the Judgment of the
court vu immediately . furnlMied by i
Matters. It waa In the sum of .",00u,
signed by Henry M. Browning and Clin
ton J. Sutphen, both of Oniuha.- The
supersedeas bond on appeal will probably
Ik) of the same amount to be decided by
Judge Youmans, June 1, when he allows
the bill of exceptions for appeal.
Just before Matters was sentenced, his
onjy son. Attorney Thomas II. Matters,
Jr., made an appeal to the court to take
into consideration Matters' life record as
a hard worker and a true father and
husband, and to make the sentence as
liht as , possible, (n view of Matters'
affe and his famllv. cnmni-Uad nr u-ifo
three daughters and a son. "The only j Mr. AVTiItinal-.Tli rose about T o'clock j nearly all thi matters tUatame up
Member of the family present was Miss n'mi i accordance with his usual cus- had to do wlth I)laking the church
Helen Matters, a daughter who wept , ,(m went t0 thw baPm(int h.fore ,lreB8ig Lt0D,c of Omaha a more notent factor
during her brothers appeal for their'. ., , ...... . ' 1"-0P1- 01 wmana a more potent factor
father. jto tix ,he su'dMr Whitmarsh. for c)v,c upbuilding that is. making
Retrelvr. Se.te.-e. ; "Ai hr remarked. , (hem beUer an(J mofe Mt,ve voter8
The convicted man himself the stepped ' Jll,''"!"y- t'"ill-' 1 whistling. , TUu, exMmetl rea, rhr((,.
before Judge Youmans, stood erect and started down tuirs." I heaul .lilm com- tlan. foi hearance in pcaklnti. of the city
unflinching and received his so'.fvio plcte the t-isk and then for several mo- commissioners' reception of the ministers'
without a word or gesture. H then helped ' nients no sound came from below. Thenjv'ce report last Monday. "It would be
to arrange his bond.
bank, who was Indicted as principal In """ '-f However. It merely proves that our Job
Ih deals In which Matters was prose- fu, tllrr attention to the matte r until, : 8 oniy begun and that we must placs
cuted as an aider and abettor, has not I wondei Ins why he did not come upstairs, the awful facts of the vice report before
yet been tried. He was the go rnmenfs j 1 w,nt tu investlnale. Upon reacUlns the real bodies thut are working for civic
chief witness against Matterf. and Is now ' th kltc," 1 heard him groan, and hur- betterment here, such us the executive
said to be ready to plead guilty and throw I '"'" to t"'1 cellar found him lying at committees of the Commercial club and
himself on the leniency of the court. The ; tlu- foot of ,llP ,a" with a bullet wound j the Woman's club." A resolution was
offenses charged in both indtctni. nts con- I ,n ll18 l lghl u,,,lJle and a .'JS-calibrr re-j adopted directing the commltteo to pre
ccrncd unauthorized !suan e of certl-! volver 0,1 lho iio,r noHr M hand." ! cnt the report to these bodies and others.
fieates of deposit and misapplication of
the funds raised thereby.
Matters, formerly lived at Harvn ,1
.eo., and was attorney fo the Sutton
bank.
Many Allegations.
Over lirt allegations were made by .Mat
ters' counsel as grounds for a no trjal,
and they consumed moat of the day in
argument. Among the allegations were:
Irregularities in the conduct of the Jurors,
in being allowed to read newsoaDera ami
letters and to telephone home; errors of
the court In giving and refusing Instru.-' Mr' Wlllt"la""' has bee,, employed by
tions and In admitting and excluding v..i"'e !Ttmk Yar''" N"-,ln', bank of South
'a-
rlous pkecs of testimony.
Xt wa al
asserted that the Jury's verdict was con-
iConUnud on Page Three, Col. Three.)
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Iaivenport. Hear
Denver, tioiidv
Dea Moines, cloudy
Dodge lily, cloudy
lender, rain
North I'laite. snow
Omaha, cloudy
1'ucblo, cloud v
Rapid City, snow..
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S. 0. BANK TELLER (MINISTERS TO TAKE
SHOOTS HIMSELF; HAND IN ELECTION
Frank Whitmarsh Puts a Bullet
Through His Head While in
Basement at His Home.
' DIED LATER AT HOSPITAL
Frank W. Whitmarsh, aged 45
years, living at 3017 Sherman ave
nue, shot himself through the right
temple Monday morning in the .bae-
ment of his home and died yesterday
: afternoon at the Lord Lister hospital.
I a sharp ttuUe startled me.
hi thinL-iM.
i 1 a. DiHrmld was Immediately sum-
1 monod and ordered the mans removal to
' Lrd lA ter hospital. Tl0 bullet en-
tored the nghl temple. Immediately to
the rear of the eye, and came out the
left temple, practically in tho same posi
tion. The optic r-ervc was destroyed
and the bruin tissue sinabhed.
No reason for the inun's ac t ran lie as
certained, as rto note w.is left. Ills health
and spirits were of the hetft and he had
no domestic or business difficulties. He
has no chiMreii.
, "I. . f..- ,U. I..... .,1.1..
1 V.IH...KI mri .-it-Miccii jrui:, Hnti
! r0 .nuy "' capacity of cxcliuuge teller
..,,, ' 01 n. ins ai'C"iim weioi
in perfect order, accotding to J. H.
euKiiiei .11 ine naiin, w no - witn ; w aniea .aomemiiig anu called an a
' representatives of Arthur Young '' Co. 1 Catholic priest to get his assistance. Tho
went over the books of the institution prieat said. "Iil Just calj up the mayor. '
j Saturday. He wus an Kmtllshmen hy;And In two minutes the priest did 'more
j birth and the son of a minister and hadithan all the Protectant population had
ueen laarrieo two years. .
That Whitmarsh had contemplated the
25 deed ut least since Sunday evening wa
revealed by the fact that a 1 nkae .found
tJtti in. bilis In his wife's purse Monday
morning. The money had not been there
Sunday afternoon '
Battleship Alabama
PaCJOPC! Hilt n Qoo i ,lov'' K- A ,,lKh- assinnnt aupeilnten
X aOOOO UUli LU sjrJdieiit of the Nehi isk.i At li-e-'aloott leagi
'
I DKI.AWARH HRUA K WATER, March
I The battleship Akflinina. bound tor
' Hampton Roads to do neutrality dut.
passed out to hi a shortly after u o'clock
this afternoon. '
NEW PORT. Vd., Man h he Ger
man auxii.ary cruiser
man auxiliary cruiser 1'ilaz
i:itel
-. . ... .... ... ....
r nenrici .sim lay at its .loc.c t.aiay ap
parently no more prcm.ied to 1 lake u
I dash for sea then al anv orlier time diir -
. iiik ine uni wees, oui me -icuv lies all
! aroond It convinced local officials that
some definite step soon would I taken
Uhcr to intern the r, der or semi It out.
j .-.nivr man io ior-uu ooMis anj 0110
I submarine, dayllal.t disclosed 1.0 oth.-r
subiaariiie, daylight disclosed
' Amei inn .hit. in .he.. .. -.hh.,,
Aineiii an ship in there wat-ls. hlthouxh ;
battleships were reported throughout the
night gathering to protect Amerlian
Destroyed by Fire
IOl X FALLS, 8. P., March ffl. The
Majestic theater lieiia was destroyed by
fire early today. Loss, t'to.OO. A stock
company lost ail of its wardrobe.
German troopers requisition,
Polish village.
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Disappointed at Reception by Coun
cil Vice Report to Go to Com
mercial and Woman's Clubs.
NAME GOOD CITIZENSHIP DAY
The (special meeting of the Omaha
Ministerial union yesterday was
decidedly a political' meeting. Not
that the ministers would stoop to
, "petty,,, puerile party politics," as one
I of the memhr vy nron.ed ' It
but
' to way much much," remarked Rev, !
j Coori ntlaeemhlp D.
Sunday. April 11, will be observed as
"Goo.l Cititenshlp day" 'in Omaha's
churches. This was decided unanimously
by the ministers after somn tllscupaion.
On that day the ministers will preach on
the principles of good citizenship.
, One member declared himself in favir
of the day because he had heard thMt
there were S.000 men in Omaha, nearly all
of them of the element that want de
cency, who did not vote at the election
three years ago.
Rev. C. W. McC'askill declared that "the
Cathohd church has a bis imlltl. sl mill"
j'ukJ ,.l,l - r i .
1 ""w m...-. kitki ion e in asisiiug in
ine onservance of this day. 1
iii'-iuiuir u i ' nit' rianieo'iNncas
i committee in an "astern city which
; accomplished. . .
j Nollelt Other Denomination..
On motion of Mr. Md'aski!!. a i ciiimlt-
tee. was appointed to 1
Jtion uf the Catholic,
bodies In observance
! Dr. lia'tzly of the
"liiit th cn-opera-Jcwlsli
an 1 other
oi the day. Rev.'
h'ountze Memorial
, I.iitlieran church and Kv. lr. Frederick
iT. Rouse of tho First ( 'onmu.i tlonal
1 church were named kh this committee.
tend-
ue.
declared that "wet or diy" is not to be
an issue in tins spring's campaign In
spite of Mayor lahliuan'N statement
lhat he would ma'.i it so. a . High
tlioiitthl the mayor rnulil inako ' i am
paigu "wet," but was not the m.w who
cou.d mal.e It "orv." and that lh- ques-
thnl, if l.roiiiiht up. wield make him
..votes. "And I for ore: don't caie to do
anything to boost tli? Candida. of 1 a til-
",Mn - he
M'HUGH IN WASHINGTON
ON HARVESTER BUSINESS
1 1 Kiom .1 .t U f 1 "oi resi ondent 1
WASI I IM .T N. Jf.-, r. h .-t erifcl Tel
esrani.)- .1 mlue v. 1 1
one of the 1 oiinsel '
M'ilngh r f Omaha
r tiie liil-rn:it on-,;
j Harvester roiiiianv. Is In Washington en-
gaged In the pit partition of the company'
(brief in reply to the brief of the I'nltci
States seeking the dissolution . f that
corporation.
The brief of the attorney general vvai
filed today, a week being given for reply
of the company.
C J. Kmyth of Omaha, special counsel
under the Department of Justice, Is in
Washington oa business with the attor
ney general.
125 PERISH WHEN
SUBMARINESINKS
THE LINER FALABA
Admiralty Announce! that 140 Sur
vivors of Fait Steamer Picked
Up, Eight of Whom Die
Later
'CAPTAIN IS-
ICTIMS
Story r" "
N.,vv,,. By English Ship
ondersea Enemy
Is Told.
A
I DUTCH BOAT STRIKES A MINE
LONDON. March 29. About 125
; men were lost when the British
1 steamer Kalaba was sunk by a Oier-
mun submarine off Mtlford Haven
j on the coast of Wales, according to
the firm owning the vessel.
The admiralty announces that 140
I survivors of 180 passengers and
i ninety members of the crew have
been picked' up. Eight of these died
afterward.
Twenty-three of the crew and
three passenfters of the Agulla. tor
pedoed Saturday night hy a German
submarine, are missing, according to
the admiralty statement.
The ndmlrnlty statement follows:
"Twenty-three member of the crew
and three passengers are missing from
the ntcamcr Agullii.
"The steamer Falaba. which also sank,
curried a crew of about ninety persona
and about. ltW passengers. About 140 sur
vivor have been picked up, eight of
whom, InctiKlInK the captain, died after
wards". It Is feared that many persons
on the ateumer were killed by the ex
plosion of the torpedo.
'The Dutch steamer Amstel, a vessel
of bXI tons belonging to P. A. Van Es
'o. of Rotterdam, wihen on a passaga
from .Rotterdam to Goole, Kngland,
struck n .mine at 4 a. m. March 2 In a
Herman mine field off Flamborough
(Yorkshire. England). The crew has
been landed in the Humber by tho
Grimsliy trawler Ptnewold."
I iiofriclal Report Says 18.
fnofflclwl reports received from mem
bers of the crew of the Agulla were that
only thirteen members of the crew of
the stesiner hsd been lost when it was
sunk by the German submarine U-2S last
Saturday night.
Three of the Falaba's lifeboats were
swamped. Many persons oboard the ves
sel were thrown into the sea, where they
struggled, while the submarine circled
about, offering, according to stories told
by those rescued, no assistance. A fish
ing boat ppurared on the scene and
saved 140 of the passenger and erew.
CitptatM Davis -vt -the. lnr. jva picked
up dead. Kight other bodies were recov
ered. The survivors were landed at Mil
ford Haven;
Captain Isnom Order.
The survivors relate that the liner wu
seventy miles to the southwest of Mtlford
llayen when the submarine appeared. It
culled to the captain of the Falaba to
hove to, but be ignored the order and
promptly started at full speed ahead.
The liner was a fant craft and for half
bj'.'.i' the r 't-.-e was kept up before
the submarine overhauled It and com
pelled it to stop.
The naHsengers and crew were given
live minutes to leave and although this
time was very brief, ' most of the boats
were launched before the submarine fired1
its torpedo. The projectile struck the
Falaba lu the engine room and a terrlflo
(Continued on Page Three, Column Two.)
I Mexico City About
j To Fall Into Hands
Of Carranza Again
WASHINGTON. March M.-The situa
tion al Mexico City assumed another of
It: rapid changes today when Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, the Rrltlsli ambassador,
filled to Secretary Dry an's attention a
11 port he had received from the Mexican
(tl'ltal that Zapatistas forces, under Gen
eral C.arzs, were about to abandon tho
clly SK(" and that General Ohregon, the
( arransa chieftain, In the vicinity, was
moving forward to reneeupy It. The am
bassador is understood to have asked
wiiat precautions for the protection of
foreigners were contemplated by the
American govornmrnt In this event.
Secretary Hi) an said later that no re
ports of the intended evacuation had
ached the department. He characterised
koch Information as had been received
as "suggestions as to what might hap
pen." referring, apparently, to the state
ment of the Hrillsh ambassador. Earlier
tlx secretary said assurances had been
received Irom General Garxa that the
food situation In Mexico City would be
taken care of satisfactorily by the present
larrisoa.
STOP
orr
A
THE-GATfcCITYOF-THEVVEST
Omaha hag better hotels
than any city twice its size
in the country. The hotel
rates are more reasonable
than for similar accommo
dations for the traveling
public in other cities.
MAHHI.i: center table, kitchen cabi
net, china cabinet, V minors, gaso
line range, rbler pi' other articles.
Tot father ' laforwtlon about
thle opportunity, Urn tbe Want
Ad seotloa of The Bee today.
.X.
i.-f
ISM
Cruiser Dresden $unk While at
Anchor in Chilean Harbor is Claim
rtERUN, March .-(Vla Usyvllle and
Wireless.) The German government to
day gave out an oti'lclnl statement In
which It was affirmed that the German
cruiser Dresden, which vas sunk off the
Chilean Island of Juan Fernandex, March
U. by a Krltlsh squadron, was destroyed
in neutral waters. It saya In part:
' The facts are thnl the Dresden was
lying at anchor itO yards off the coast
In Cumberland hay, Juan Feinandes
Island, when it wa attacked un the
morning of March 14 by gunfire from the
llrltlsh cruisers Kent and Glasgow and
the auxihaiy cruiser Oirnia.
"The Dresden was in a tirulr.il port,
with Its engines disabled and without
coal; apparently with little ammunition
and practically unable to defend Itself.
"After the Dresden, oy the. firt volley
01' the infinitely superior enemy was hit
astern, the German commander protested
against the violation C (.'hllenn ncu
trHllty, whereupon the commander of the
British squadron de land he had order
to destroy the Dresdn whereever he
found it, and that he did not care for
SWEEP SEA FLOOR
FOR LOST SUBSEA
Diving Bell Being Built in Which
Man Will Look for F-4 Under
Waters of Pacific.
TO PHONE UP HIS FINDINGS
HONOLULU, March 29. Vessels
searching for the missing United
States submarine F-4 have recom
menced sweepiug tbe ocean floor
with cables. So far no success has
been reported.
Naval officials reiterate their con
fidence in their theory that the F-4
Is submerged close to the harbor en
trance. They base their opinion
largely on the reports of fuel oil
seen on the surface of the sea, on
the stream of air bubbles rising to
the surface and also on the recovery
of a piece of brass work brought up
by a line from the tug Navajo. This
piece of brass has been identified by
the naval authorities as from the F-4.
No Hone Men Alive.
Naval officials said today they had
abandoned hope of rescuing the twenty
one men aboard the submarine. They
say their work la one of recovering the
bodies and getting what salvage there
may be In the vessel, which they appar
ently believe la wrecked.
A diving bell, being built under the
supervision of W, C. Farks. a civil en
gineer, and expeeted to aid In the find
ing"' of the' F-4. may ' he : reedy for use
soon. The bell Is a flfty-four-lnch iron
pipe seven feet In length fitted with
glass portholes. It is planned to lower
this diving bell with on observer Inside
connected by telephone with a vessel
above. The bell will be moved as di
rected by the man below until the sub
marine Is found. The observer will then
direct the placing of hoisting cables.
No More Reports,
WASHINGTON, March .-No further
reports came to the navy department
during the day. When Admiral Moore
has made a report on the location of the
hull a board of Inquiry will be ordered
to Investigate the disaster. Thst Is the
usual course.
Court Finds Mrs,
Burkhaii Daughter
of Mr. Campbell
?T. 1.0riS. Mo.. March .Tha.appolnt
ment of John 8. I.eady as administrator
during litigation over tho estate of James
A. Campbell, was overruled In the circuit
cuurt here today on an appearance be
fore the probate court appointing Mr.
I.eady executor of the estate Instead of
the Mercantile Trust company, named In
the will.
The circuit Judge In giving the decision
! said Mrs. TjiIs Campliell Hurkham was
the daughter of James Campbell.
This decision was on an appearance
and was In a separate ease from that to
determine the validity of the . will Itself
or the parentage of Mrs. Ixils Csmpbell
Hurkham. The will ease proper is pend
ing before another division of the circuit
court and Is set for trial April 19.
Ex-Marshal for Iowa
! Is Dead at Seattle
j CLINTON, la., March W. William les
; mend, I'nlted States marshal for 'owa
I during both Cleveland administrations.
Idled last night in Seattle, Wash., aged Su.
Desmond, as sheriff of Clinton county
;ln 1S3. broke up the famous "Pan"
Ilurns burglary gang of twenty-five mem
bers, sending three to the penitentiary.
i Pueblo Bank Closes
Because of Run
j IM'I.ULo. Colo., March Tbe Mer
cantile National bank closed Its doors
j here today, following the beginning of a
run by depositors. C. C. Slaughter, the
1 cashier, resigned several days ago, and
j stii e then a national bank examiner Is
' said to iiuve hern going over the a'falis
J of the institution.
. The bank Is espitallsed at IJ-,00 and
its last statement gve deposits of $1,-
I ;iu,i6!'.
' SIXTY-SIX YEARS OLD BUT
IN SERVICE IN WAR ZONE
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.
HofLOtJNK. March :-..--The oldest man
In active service in the western war is a
Canadian. Hergeanl Oeorge Lance field,
aged He la a dispstch rider for Cana
dian Hospital No. 1 at l.e Torquet, twenty
miks from Boulogne.
other questions which diplomacy could
settle afterwards.
"l.'onecuently after ;. last effort of
hopeless resistance no alternative was
left for the Dresden tout sclf-desti uetlon.
"The attitude of th! commander of the
Krltlsh squadron Was typical of Krltlsh
contempt for the rights of neutral states
so long as the chief ..b'ect was attained
to destroy all men-of-war flying trie flag
of Great Britain's enemy.
"How brutally Chilean neutrality was
violated Is proved by the fact that the
sheila of the Krltlsh cruisers nearly lilt
a Chilean ship and that splinters fell
on Chilean territory, which practically
amounts to the bombardment of a neu
tral Chilean port by llritish crulseis, be
cause a Gorman cruiser was Inside.
"Thla la practically evidence as to what
extent Great Britain is standing up for
the weak, especially neutral nations, as
advertised by British cabinet members.
Chile Is unable to defend Itself.
"More Interesting, however, la what at
titude the t'nltei States government will
adopt In the face if auoh a violation of
the neutrality of a South American republic."
ANNEXATION BILL
UP TO THE SENATE
I House by Big Majority Refuses to
Recede from Amendment Calling
; for Special Election.
UPPER CHAMBER DELAYS ACTION
(FYom a Stsff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, March . 29. (Special
Telegram.) Passage of the Oreater
Omaha bill, S. F. 2, appeara to be up
to the senate. Conference commit
tees today reported to their respec
tive houses that they were in favor
of agreeing to the Parrlott amend
ment passed by the house and call
ing for a special election on annexa
tion. The house by a large majority,
only seven voting against, took this
view while the senate on hearing of
the action, refused to take action and
immediately adjourned.
Senator Howell says tonight that the
senate . will concur in the rarrlott
amendment and pass the bill with the
election clause.
Others aay that unless the amendment
to the Omaha charter Is passed allowing
the election to be postponed until such
time ss the annexed territory can par
tkipate the senate will not concur.
Attltade of Itepablleons.
Republicans have caucused on the mat
ter and have agreed not to vote for the
amended bill until the charier amend
ntent is assured. There are fourteen re
piibhoaas sa4 nineteen democrats. Lieu
tenant Governor Tearson has given out
thst he will rule that a constitutional
majority of twenty-two votes must be
had to pass the bill. Unless he changes,
thla allows a bare majority of nineteen
to adopt the amendment, and still the
bill cannot go. through.
Where Ultra tomes.
It la said that some of the legislative
candidates for commissioner of Omaha
are anxloua to have the election take
place without tbe annexed territory be
cause they believe they will have a bet
ter show of election If they do not have
to go up against annexed territory votes,
esieclally If they have favored annexa
tion.
Action la the lloase.
In the bouse esrly In the afternoon the
house conference committee rap.irtrd.
against receding from its referendum
smendment providing for a special 'tleo
tlon to vote upon the question of con
solidating Omaha, Houth Omaha, Flor
ence and Dundee. Messrs. rarrlott. Rich
mond and Stebblns, the house conferees,
filed a report recommending such action,
and II was unanimously adopted.
The senate conferees had requestel the
house committee to report back In favor
01 receding from the referendum amend
ment. Seaat. Balks.
When the report was read to the senate
It refused to accept the report and after
discussing the matter for an hour sent
word to the house that the senate would
like a roll call from the house on the
matter of the house action on adopting
the report of Its committee.
The matter was brought up In the house
01: a motion for a roll call, but the
speaker declared such a motion out of
order.
Norton Insisted that the only way to
e at the matter was to vote on a mo
tion to reconsider the house action In
adopting the conference committee report.
.ew Committee.
Some of the members wanted a new
committee appointed, but the matter was
finally dropped as It stood, the under
standing being that the conference com
mittee was still alive and had power to
go ahead. Later the vote was taken,
only seven house members voting no.
Former Nebraskan
Taking Part in the
Utah School Trouble
HALT LAKE CITV I'l.l, X1....1. o
The desirability of a thorough investiga
tion of the tate university trouble to
prevent an Impression that free speech
and free thought are not permitted in
I tsh waa emphasized by speakers at a
public meeting held in a local theater
tonlKht. The meeting, which was called
by the women's clubs of the city, was
largely attended and several well known
men spoke. state Henator Oeorge 11.
Dern. who presided, said that President
Kingsbury of the university had appeared
personally ss a lobbyist to prevent tho
adoption of an Investigation resolution
offered by Dern In the senate In the early
days of the trouble.
Ooerge II. Dern formerly ies4ded at
Fremont. He Is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
RUSSIANS KNOCK
AT BACK DOOR OF
CONSTANTINOPLE
Crar't Fleet Resumes Bombardment
of Turkish Forts at Black Sea
Entrance to the Bos
phorus. ALLIES BUSY IN DARDANELLES
Mine Sweepers at Work and Battle
Ships Are Shelling Forts at
Long Range.
GERMAN SUBMARINES ACTIVE
The Day's War News
SIHITISII HTKANKH r At. ABA,
of the larger merebaatmen 4 be
est In the bottom -eras torpedoed
off the raast af aoata Wales. aroH
atily with a.krarr loss af life. The
Hrltlah steamship Aernlla an sank
In the Hnatllsh rhaanel, . hat Its
, saved.
C;KF.Ht, AO KM CK who leal the
advanee of the tiermaa forrea to
the sates of Parla la the early
days af the war, has area
vioanded. Today's German offi
cial statement saya he waa tajarerl
allahtly br ahrapael and that his
poadltlon la satisfactory.
SRW C;KHM OFFBXMVB la Pa
land haa led to sharp flahtlas; In
whlrh the Raaalaas ar aald la
llerlln to have Battered heavy
losses.
fJKHMAN TROOPS la the aorta, of
Pole ad have retaaed to the attack,
centering their movemeat In the
rrgrloa af the Skwa river th
Prasalaa border. Tho claim la
made that farther to the aoath Oa
the Ptllea river Germaa farces
were pat to flalht.
PBTROt.RAD'fl YF.RS.IOX of the
flahtlag la the tarpathlaas re pre -aeats
that victories have sees waa
at several polata, grlvlac tho Itos
alaaa aeeeaa to aorthera Haaar.
ITALV II AS DBCRKBD m strict eca
aorahlp oa military new, berl a
BlagT March SI. A Parta news.
"'I bllahea aa naverlfled re
por that Aastrla haa acreri to
eede part of Teat to Italy at th
rloeo of tho war la retsr Tor
Italy's arntralltr.
OMR Tt'RKISIf fort, at the Darda.
ellea were bombarded yesterday
br ladlreet fire from tho Calf or
Saras.
LONDON, MaTcT l9.-lnugl is
rata today knocking at th back
door of ConsUrstiaopld by bo'inbarfl
in the Turkish fortg on ths Bos
phorua, but with what success ig not
yet definitely known. As to " the
front door of the Turkish capital, the
Dardanelles, the only newt th
monotonous reiteration of tbe .report
that the mine sweepers of the allies
are continuing their work and that
the weather conditions still prevent
a resumption of the bombardment by
the fleet.
Constantinople, however a-i.-.. . ...
I - - . -' . I . M
, accept the weather as an excuse for the
I lull 1m ,1. - . , 1. ......
" ana Claims that sin,
March is weather conditions have been
so good that Turklrh aeroplanes have
been flying over' the warshlpp of tho
enemy In and about the Dardanelles. Un
official reports from neutral points In trie
vicinity of the sceae of operations Indi
cate an early resumption of activity;
they set forth that a long distance shell
ing of the Inner defenses has been com-'
menced by the battleship.
Rasslaaa Rosy la Balhaas.
Reviewing naval activity In the BuWh.
Petrograd claims that the operations on
thla sea of Russian warships have re
suited In damage to several German units
and that the Germans have been com
pelled materially to restrict their move
ments. Oermsn submarines have been active
off the Kngllsh and Irish eoaats and the
liner Fslba, reported. In distress In tbe
Urlstol channel, may be one of tbe vic
tims of their raid.
Frcm a diplomatic standixilnt ohaervei s
(Continued on Page Three, Col. Four.l
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