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THK BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, lMti. GRIPPE GERMS WIN OYER THO0CT0RS Only few Physicians Able to Leave Patients to Attend Conference of Health Officers. OVER ONE HUNDRED EXPECTED If anyone doubted the existence of a creat epidemic of grippe and other illness throughout Nebraska, the doubt would "have been speedily dis pelled by a visit yesterday to the opening session of the, fourth an nual conference of state and .local health officers at Hotel Rome. Rampant germs of numerous dis eases are so malignant in. all parts of th estate that only a few of the 150 doctors and health officers ex pected to attend the convention were able to leave their patients and come to the first session. Fourteen-fif-teenths of expected convention at tendance had to stay at home to cor ral and kill the germs that had so far escaped the doctors' most strenuous efforts. At : a. ru., when registration was supposed to begin, not a single doctor had arrived. At 10 o'clock", when Mayor Dahlman was supposed to made his ad dress of welcome, only seven members of the convention were present. They en tered the convention hall, and found the cold wave had kept the temperature there down around the SO degree mark. Mayor Rend nbstltute. The mayor himpelf waa busy talking germs with the other city commissioners, so ha sent City Attorney John A. Rlne to do the welcoming act. Soon Governor J. H. Morehead hove in view. Then Dr. B. Arthur Carr of Lincoln, vice president of the State Board of Health Secretaries, Induced. Governor Morehead and City Attorney Rlne to make buttonhole talk to, several doc tors, as they paced up and down the hall, swinging their amis and with their overcoats buttoned VP tight. A few minutes later, however the mer cury In the convention , hall started up ward, and soon It was warm enough for comfort. When Dr. Carr called the con ference to order, one hour -late ten doctors .were In attendance. . . Welcome Speech Dele red. -Attorney Rlne's speech ot welcome was postponed till evening. Dr. C. F. Crowley, city chemist of Omaha, made the first address, on "Septic Tanks," to. the ac companiment of stereopticon illustrations. " Government Men is Here. Dr. A. W. Freeman of Cincinnati, epi demiologist of the United States public health service, "is at the "convention. He nays that epidemic of grippe, lnfluensa and other maladies are common- through out the country this year, but are being held In check by strenuous efforts of doc tors and health officers. Among other prominent teatures on the convention , program are tn' following: Governor Morehead, Dr. Hugo' TCrichSon, Detroit;. Dr. Paquin, health commissioner of Kansas City; Dr. A. O. Thomas,; su perintendent public instruction; Attorney General Willis '. E. Reed, Howard Ken nedy, "cBelrman "of the Board of Commis sioners' of State Institutions, Lincoln;-Dr. Ralph WV' Connell, Omaha health com-j missioner, ana a nuraim 01 oiner wen known physicians of Omaha and the state. More Doctor ArrlTe. By late, afternoon the registration for the convention had reached twenty-five, and. some of the scheduled Speakers had arrived, so afternoon and evening ses alons were possible. Today's program will include some of the chief addresses, and when the program is finished, probably about noon, the' doctors and health offi cers will adjourn to Forest Lawn ceme tery to aee-'a body cremated. . ' Board of Directors of Y.W.C.A. Elected The annnal election of the Young Women's Christian association waa held last night. Directors elected for threo-year terms are Mrs. Edward Johnson, Mrs. G. F Gilmore, Mrs. C. E. Johannes, Mrs. C. K. Smith, Mrs. J. F. Stout and Miss Helen Buck. . ' ' Directors elected to fill vacancies for two-year terms are Mrs. A. L. ' Gordon and Mlsa Dora Alexander. ' Directors elected to flit vacancies for one-year terms are Mrs. Joseph Folcar and Misa Gladya Peters. The new board will meet a week from Wednesday and elect officers for the year. Germany Trading Via First Class Mails LONDON, Jan. 25. The recently inau gurated censorship by the British gov ernment of first class malls to and from , Germany, has resulted in the discovery that Germany has been maintaining a considerable export trade with neutrals in such articles as Jewelry, chemicals, laces, picture and tops, which have been sent as first class mail matter by way ot Sweden, Denmark or Holland. Packages of this nature intercepted by the British have been marked "samples cf no value." ITALIAN MERCHANTMAN COMES WITH TWO GUNS NEW YORK, Jan. . The Italian mer chant ship Verona, from Genoa, arrived today with two 76-mllllmetor guna mounted aft. Dudley Field Malone, eollecter of the Port immediately telegraphed to Wash ington for Instructions in respect to the Verona. The Verona's guns were screened by a pile of sacks. The ship Is expected to make her return trip heavily laden with a cargo of freight and war supplies. WASHINGTON, Jan. B.-Arrlval of the Italian steamship Verona, in New Tork today, with two guna mounted at Ita ctern probably will result in the Austro Hungarian government taking up diplo matically with the t'nlted States all the broad questions involved In the arming of merchant ships for defensive purposes. It was authoritatively stated tonight that the Austro-Hungaiian government probably would inform the United States that any armed ship encountered by an Austrian submarine would be regarded aa a warship and sunk without warning, re gardlesa of who might happen to be aboard. Read Bee Want-Ada for profit. Us Uiem for results. It Might Have Been a Foot Race But ADVOCATES THREE AMERICAN FLEETS Betired Major General Gives His Ideas of What Country Needs for Defense. BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Hear ings on the administration army In crease bill may be concluded by tue senate military committee and work of Redrafting the measure begun early next week. . Major General Arthur. Murray, re tired, and Brigadier General Crozler, chief of ordnance, were before the senate and house committee, re spectively, today. General Murray said that for the actual defense of the United States territory alone, and without considering mainte nance ot the Monroe doctrine or pro tecting the Interests of Americans abroad, a regular army virtually three times its present size and three strong fleets (or the navy would be necessary. General Murray believed, he said, a Peace strength army of 270,100 regulars. 80,000 of whom would be on overseas duty, could be relied upon to protect the country until a volunteer army 'of 1,000,000 men could be formed and trained. First Defense Line. , Aa a first line of defense, General Murray-suggested a fleet of four to eight fast, powerful battleships or battle cruis ers In the Pacific, baaed at Pearl harbor, and surrounded by necessary auxiliaries. For the Atlantic, he proposed two fleeta of at least six battleships each, based at New fork and Guantanamo, . ' The mobile troops. General ' Murray said, should be grouped In three divisions for training purposes, one on the Pacific and two on the Atlantic coasts and the remainder scattered in regimental posts. In all. ha would provide five divisions for the Pacific and eight for the Atlantic General Murray proposed that the en listment period be cut to one year for Infantry ana eighteen months for other arms, with no bbllgatlon as to reserve duty thereafter. The schenu , he said, wuld turn out 200,000 well-trained men annually who could be relied upon to en list In tlms of war without the necessity of keeping in touch with them or paying them. 'Ripe for Overhauling". General Crosier said that while the government was not now manufacturing machine guns, it bad a contract with the American holder of the Vlckera gun pat ents, a British weapon, which would soon supply these In ample numbers. The whole subject , of the number of guns necessary, however, was "ripe for over hauling," he added, and he believed the European war had shown the necessity for provision of thew weapons on a scale never heretofore dreamed of. He Instanced a report that ninety Ger man s.itdlers with forty raachlno run had kept a whole French army at bay for weeks. Must Fight Foes and Profit at Same Time MILAN, Italy Via Parlsl. Jan. 26. the dedication today of a hospital pre sented by French cities to the Italian Red Cross, Slgnor Barailat, minister with out portfolio, said he desired once more to emphasise the necessity of feeling that one duty alone la imposed upon the en tente powers to tight and exhaust the enemy and at tho same time to profit as much aa possible from an incontesta ble suoremacy in financial, economic an human resources. W00DR0UGH AND THOMAS BOTH IN WASHINGTON (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S.-(Bpeclal Tele gram.) J. W. Woodrough of Omaha and J. J. Thomaa of Columbus are running neck aud neck for the vacant federal judgeship in Nebraska. Both have been Introduced to Attorney General Gregory in the last ten days, the last to see the chief of file Department ot Justice bulng Mr. Woodrough. Whatever may have been in the mind of the attorney general when he sent Samuel J. Graham, assistant attorney general, to investigate conditions in Ne braska with relation to the district Judge ship, the fact remains that the attorney general desired first-hand knowledge ot the several gentlemen mentioned for the Munger vacancy. And they have been coming most quiet ly into Washington with fingera on their lipa asking "Please ssy nothing about my presence." POST0FFICE INSPECTOR VISITS FIRST DISTRICT (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Jan. .-(Speclal Tel egramsRepresentative Reavls is ex ceedingly encouraged over the report of a postoffice Inspector recently sent into the First district to look after "individ ual" rather than "route" service. Mr. Reavls waa Informed today by the fourth assistant postmaster general that there would be a number ot modifica tions In tha line of the inspectors' report. Chicago Marvels at the Beauty of Wedding of a Former Omaha GirJ Nobody ever saw a lovelier bridal bou quet than that sent by Vaughn Spalding to his bride-to-be. Miss Florence Cudahy. It was whlto orchids and white lilacs and the laciest, freshest, loveliest thing Im aginable. And when the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Spalding came down the stairs a. the Cudahy house In Banks street in their traveling clothes, the bride wearing orchids this time, she gave the lovely bouquet such a wonderful wallop that It flew away over the heads of the ex pectsnt bridesmaids into the arms of r waiter. The waiter, unlike most of hl kind, had real presence of mind, and in stead of keeping the bouquet aa bis law ful prize, hurled It aloft, where Miss Bobsey Fuller gleefully caught It. In the excitement caused by this diver sion the bridal couple disappeared out of the .back door into a waiting machine, and nobody even had a peep at the going away gown, which must have been some thing simply chic, for Mrs. Spalding dresses like a young dream. For the rest, the Cudahy-Spalding wed ding waa aa magnificent aa the Cudahy Nlblack wedding, which Is saying a great deal, and one wonders why Edward Cudahy is not declaring a moratorium, or something like that, after two such splendid and' lavish nuptial entertain ments in' one short season.'' Mrs. Spalding waa married In white tulle with a court train of white satin yards long. The cathedral ' aisles were decked with standards of gray spring flowers, and Mr. -Spalding's ushers knew their business marvclously and were- not consulting note books to see who waa to sit in E and who waa to be planted la Z. This Witness Does Not Much Resemble Mine of Information CHICAGO, Jan. Frederick W. Elite, vice president ef the Armour Car Line company, directed by the supreme court I of the United States to reply to certain questions of the Interstate Commerce commission, did not prove a mine of In formation today. . The Inquiry, which concerns an allega tion that the car line Is monopolistic, wss resumed by - Examiner W. E. Settle where It waa Irterrupted a month ago by Mr. Ellis' refusal to anawer a number of questions. ' ' "How many cars does your company ship out of Florida each year?" asked the examiner. "I cannot tell you," replied the a itnesa. "Why can t you tell mar "I don't know that It la proper to tell you." Counsel for Mr. Ellis informed him that he might answer, and the witness said that the question would be looked up. To questions aa to the value of the car lines, operating expenses and the like he replied, "I dont know," or "I can't tell." DIPLOMATS ARE INVITED ' TO HEAR SHALLENBERGER (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.-Speolal Tele gramsRepresentative Shalienberger will have a distinguished galaxy of foreign representatives to listen to him when be addresses the foreign affairs committee of the house tomorrow on his bill to create a peace court composed of W. J. ! Bryan, W. H. Taft, Charlea El Hughes, j William J Stone, chairman of the foreign reiationa committee of the senate, and Don't Suffer Needlessly An eminent physician atatea that fully S of all diseases have their origin in stomach troubles, jso If you suffer from dyspepsia, indigestion, bad breath, belch ing, sour stomach, uncomfortable feeling of fullness after eating, sleeplessness or tired feeling, you should promptly seek to aid your stomach In performing the functions that nature intended. Delay often results in a rapid undermining of the entire system, resulting In the utter wrecking of health. However, whenever the stomach can take care of food and ( properly distribute nourishment to all pans Ol uio uuuy m utmtiiij' voiiuuiun is sure to result Stomach sufferers) should avoid harsh purgatives, which generally serve to aggravate the trouble, and promptly gie TABLER'B STOMACH TABLETS a trial. Being absolutely free from harmful and habit forming drugs and containing the best known acid neu tralises combined with pure, soothing, strengthening -and healing ingredients scientifically oomblned, their action while mild, cannot help being beneficial to anv stomach sufferer. TABLE KB STOMACH ' TABLETS are sold on a positive guaran i tee ot satisfaction or your money re- 1 A J k. . . Ml -.lt. W. 1 JL .,, .. f ruuueu vy mil m 1 1 i . m wiuKgiBi-.. 41 your druggist should happen to be out of them, be will gladly get them for you. Adver tisement. .... RRANDREIll W l0OZr PILLS. Aa Effective Laxative . . : Purely VsfetabU Constipation, Indigestion, BiliooaoMs, . Q oft O QtNirt Ohoeolate-Ooate or Plain It Won't Be Now Then there was the Paullst choir with 1st ravishing music, and altogether a most impressive ceremony. The presents were very good to look at only eighteen dosen plates how will they manage, do you think? Andnuch a splen did tea set, and chest of silver, and crys tal, sparkling Ilka diamonds, and many, many more choice thing, filling a large room. The flowers on the wedding table were done by a vral artiste, Tbey were quite wonderful, out of the usual, and not at all set. Sprays ot white lilacs, narcissus, here and there a flaming red tulip, pale roses, lavender orchids' all mingled in delicate barlequlnry, while two great white randy baskets in nests of glossy sp'in sugsr overflowed with purple hot house grape. The W-tdesraaids and their gowns, too. were original. Mrs. Austin Nlblack. Alice Cudahy. Isabel Bobbins. Elisabeth Fuller and Helen Hlnde were the chosen ones. They wore sleeveless velvet coata of pastel blue that flared at the hips, and not garnished with fur, but blue swsns down. Their sleeves and skirts were blue chiffon, their slippers sliver, their hats close silver capotes with dark Hue frulta upon them, and their bouqueta loose ones of lilacs and purple orchids. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Bpaldlng have already their summer place at Lake For est taken. They have leased Stone cot tage, near the Cyrus McCormick estate, a dear little woodsy place ilka a French cottage with gay window boxes, latticed windows, a tennla court, a vegetable garden, and their own private woods. The property belongs to Mrs. Gron.-Cln-derella in tho Chicago Tribune. Henry D. Flood, chairman of the foreign atfnlrs committee of the house. To stsge th presentation, ex-Governor Phallenberger had engraved cards of In vitation sent to all the representatives of foreign countrlea and he la hopeful that they will respond. In addition to Representative Shalien berger speeches will be made by Vyclone" Davis of Texas, Charlea F. Curry of California and William Rlker. representing the arbitration committee of the New Tork Chamber of Commerce. Ships Releed. LONDON, Jan. 26.-The American steamship Auaaule. from Galveston, De cember 13. for Lol Jerg, Denmark, whlrh . i I t. I I 1 1 rn lanuarV 14 was in Krii iiiia rv-n - ... --. has been released. The American tanker Petrollto and the Norwegian steamship Mons also have been released from Kirk One Per Cent Convicts. ALBANY, Jan. . Almost 1 per rent of the state's population waa convicted of crime In courts of special sessions and of record during the year ending October 11, J915. CHAIRMEN NAMED FOR COMMITTEES Heads of Commercial Club Com mittees Appointed by Executive Committee at First Meeting. ONE NEW COMMITTEE ON LIST Chairmen of the rous standing com mittees of the Commercial club (or the current year were named Tuesday st tbs first meeting ot the executive committee since the new organisation. Following are the heads of the committees for the years: Banking and finance, Thomas A. Fry. Kntertalnment, O. T. Eastman. Good roads, Clarke G. Powell. Grain Interests, N. B. Vpdlks. House, J. F. Frtntiss. Industrial, Pil W. Kuhns. legislative. A. W. Jefferls. Manufacturing. Fred S. Knapp. Membership, U V, Nlcholaa. Mississippi river navigation, Herbert M. Rogers. Municipal afftlra. Gould Diets. New activities, George T. Morton. Municipal heilth and hospitals. Dr. 3. P. Lord. ripe lines and tnterurbans, Henry F. Wyroan. Public and military affairs, Howard H. Baldrlge. Public welfara. C. C. George. Publicity bureau, C. C. Rosewater. Railroad extension and improvement, J. A. Sunderland. Retail trade, L. C. Nash. Live stock and agriculture, H. O. Kd wsrds. Trsde extension. T. B. Coleman. Water power development, Charlea R. Sherman. Wholesale trsde, Charles H. Tlckens. Trafflj bureau, J. Clark Colt. Fruit development and marketing, Rob art 8. Trimble. Finance, C. B. Yost. In thla list there Is one wholly rew committee, namely, that of municipal health and hospitals. Another that Is half new la the llpa lines and Interutbsns. ss tha pipe line feature has been sdde.l this year. ' - States Have Right to Condemn Land Sites WASHINGTON. Jan. .-In a decision ef wide effect to water power develop ment throughout the United' States the supreme court held today that states possess the power to enact laws author ising condemnation of power, sites and water rights, by right of eminent do main. Tha decision waa announced by Justice Holmes In upholding the constitutionality of the Alabama water power condemna tion statutes in a rase touching tha Im provement of Tallapoosa river.' 'The principal argument," ssld Justice Holmes, "is that the purpose of the con demnation Is not a publlo one. In the organic reiationa ot modern- society It may sometimes be hard to draw the Una that la supposed to limit the authority of the legislature to exercise or delegate the powVr of eminent domain. "But to gather the streams from waste and to draw from them energy, t labor without brains, and ao to save mankind from toil ia to supply what next to In telligence is the very foundation pf all our achievements. If that purpose Is not publlo we ' should ba at a loss to say what is." GIRL WHO JUMPED SIXTEEN STORIES LIKELY TO LIVE ' CHICAGO. Jan. S.-MIss Minnie E Werner, the stenogrspher who Jumped from a sixteenth-story' window today, probably will recover, It was said at tha hospital tonight. ' Her escape from death waa due to fall ing onto a truck loaded with cardboard boxes. As it was, her skull wss frac tured, arms broken and several ribs frac tured. Her condition tonight did not admit of questioning aa to the causa ol her act. SBl, m Tali 111 I 3Sft Itiiiii, m 4Wt i mi .a mm-M, , 1 II I ill Pill ill i min mi II II Those Suits and Furnishings From the CING-PECK Will Go On Sale Thursday 'All of that wonderful stock of high grade suits sac rificed in one fell swoop. Al the fine haberdashery for which the King-Peck store was famous, offered in the largest and greatest value-giving sale ever known to Omaha and neighborhood. See Wednesday evening newspapers and take a look at our windows now. In the Meantime. Remember That the Sale of Overcoats and Boys' Wear Is NOW GOING ON Mexicans Protest About ''Outrages" From Over Border KL. PASO, Tex. Jsn. aGeneral Oahilei Gavin, commandant of the Car ransa ssrr'son at Juares, presented to the military an'horltlea here today a request that a Vnlted States soldier named Har rison he punlKhed for having fired on and woundei a Mexican Chilian, Alejandro Soto, last Saturday afternoon. At tho same time representations to Z. t Cobb, fnlted States custom! collector here, were made that American eattle thieves were stealing cattle from Mexican owners south of tre border. A demand was made tl at the thieves ba apprehended and pun ished. According to the Mexicans, Soto was shot while aiding a Carranta soldier to water ome horses on the Rio Grande river. A prellrainsry Investigation already rr.ado today by army officers on this ld is said to nave shown that Boto was on American territory and armed at the time. He Is said to have defied the soldier and threatened to s'.so his own rifle when Harrison opened fire, shoot ing twelve times. A doubt was expressed also that Soto had been wounded. Gen eral Gavlra ssld that Soto's wound wa superficial. Harrison la held In confine ment. WASHINGTON, Jsn. Ji.-letermlnatlon to house his official faintly and congress where they will be free from the pro fessions! politicians and capitalists, both 1 stive and foreign, are unofficial reasoni I given here for General Carransa'a un- willingness to set up to the capital of Ma no factor government immediately at Mexico City. Mine Workers Oppose Taft for High Court INDIANAPOLIS, Tnd., Jan. -The convention of the United Mine Worker of America today unanimously sdopted a resolution declaring the union opposed to the appointment ot former Pres'dent Taft as a member of the supreme court of the t'nlted States to succeed the late Justice Lamar. Millions Use It -to Stop a Gold Tape's Cold Compound" ends severe colds or grippe in few hours. Relief cornea Instantly. A dose taken every two ' hours until three doses are taken will and grippe misery snd break up a severe cold either In the head, chest, body or limbs. 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