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VOL. XLV NO. 295.
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MARKED AS ONE
OF HIS VICTIMS
Kama. Testifies That Prisoner
Married Woman in Order That
He Might Secure Her
Money.
BOUND TO ACCOMPLISH ENDS
Puts -Ground Glass in Marmalade
and Germ Cultures in the Fish
Served at Meals.
STICKS TO INSANITY CLAIM
New York May 26. Dr. Ar
thur W. Waite told an alien
ist engaged for his defense in his trial
for the murder of John E. Peck, the
Grand Rapids millionaire, that he had
intended to kill his wife, Clara; Peck
Waite, and that he'married her only
for her money, according to testi
mony given by the alienist, Dr. Mor
ris J. Karpas today. Dr. Karpas
added that Waite said he did not in
tend to btop at anything to gain his
ends.
Cross examination, Waite .old the
prosecutor he "was not sure that he
would not have killed his wife." Waite
declared he did not think he was
crazy and denied that he had at any
time pretended that he was insane, de
nied that he had ever told the prose
cutors that "the man from Egypt"
had killed Mr. Feck and swore that
he slept perfectly after the murder.
Dr. Waite declined to admit that
he had made himself appear worse
than he was in order to convince the
jury he was insane.
The alienist- for Waite testified
that he did not appear to he men
tally well and that he was abnormal
in that all his interests were centered
in himself. s
Ground Glass In Marmalade, '
Miss Catherine Peck, sister of John
E. Peck, was called. Waite testified
yesterday that in an attempt to kill
her he had placed ground glass in
marmalade and germ culture in fish
that she was to eat.
Miss PeckSaid she accepted Waite
as what he appeared to be and told
of entrusting her business matters to
him. She smiled as she recalled her
narrow escape from death.
"I ate some of the marmalade,"
she said. "When I opened the jar
again I found it full of something
like sand. I took it back to the store
and the proprietor apologized."
Waite smiled broadly at her recital
of this incident The witness was
then excused. - .
Waite laughed until his shoulders
shook when Abraham Bassford, jr.j
a tennis player with whom the de
fendant had played, testified that
Waite had ."blown up" in his game
and had merely smiled when "called
down for errors."
Dr. Menas S. Gregory, head of the
psychopathic ward at Bellevue, was
then called as the firft alienist for
the defense.
First Alienist Called.
Dr. Gregory 'testified that while
Waite was in Bellevue he asked the
physician to intercede for him with
the district attorney and also in
quired: "If I should escape the i conse-
cjuencs of this act do you think I
would make a useful citizen?"
Dr. Gregory said lie told the pris
oner that he knew that he was doing
wrong and the consequences of his
acts. The physician declined to in
tercede. Dr. Morris J. Karpas, formerly of
Bellevue hospital, also was called as
an alienist for the defense, lie said
he examined Dr. Waite in the hos
pital, that he did not appear to be
mentally well and that he was ab
normal in that his entire interest was
centered upon himself. "Waite told
me," testified Dr. Karpas, "that he
intended to kill his wife. He said
he had not intended to stop at aiy
thing to gain his ends."
STANLEY M. ROSEWATER TO
ADDRESS BARRISTER'S CLUB
Stanley M. Rosewater will address
the weekly noonday meeting of the
Barrister's club, which will lie held at
the Commercial club rooms today, on
the subject, "The Law and the News
paper." The Weather
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INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMOF LABOR
Gompers Says Unions Will Work
For Rescue of Military Forces
From Control of Autocracy.
JUSTICE- F02 --SMALL - NATIONS
Washington, D. C, May 26. La
bor has borne most of the burdens
growing out of wars In the past, with
little to say in regard to the declaring
of wars or their conduct, and in the
peace of the future labor must have
an increasing voice, Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, declared in an address here
tonight at the first annual assem
blage of the League to Enforce Feace.
Mr. Gompers outlined five princi
ples which he. declared' represent not
only the international program for
which labor will work in the future,
but for which labor lias been contend
ing through the years." These prin
ciples, he said, are:
"1. It must be a program under
which the military forces of the world
will be rescued from the dictation
of arbitrary autocracy and absolute
secret diplomacy and dedicated to
the maintenance of a higher stan
dard pf morals, law and justice; a pro
grain that will so safeguard the use
of military power that it cannot be
used by the reactionary forces of
privilege in imperialistic aggression,
or dragged like a red herring across
the path of democratic progress.
Must Permit of Changes.
"2. It must be a program elastic
enough to admit of those fundamental
changes that the growing life of the
world makes inevitable. Any inter
national arrangement that dors not
afford peaceful methods of securing
the result that now can be achieved
only by successful fighting will make
little head May agatut war. Labor given out today at Krd truss head
will oppose any feneration of na-! quarters.
tioiH m irK4nied that the move j "1" the terrible tots nf efficiency
powerful nations tan u-c the macliin- whiih the sotirtirs tf the Red
rry to maintain the status iiio against 1 f""1 have been subjected by war
the dcniandt lor thaiiKe nude in the coiiililioiu in Europe and in the
intrreil of democracy and larger rip-! waitrful futility of um rntralurd and
portuniiy for the m"ci , umoiiliolled relief agencies as ob-
"J. It limit be a urogram under ' rned lie re at home. " a Mr . liick-
whiih the tniall nation, a well at t ! r
large nation, will hair a lire ham! in
every Jiil and individual develop,
incut; protitanl lliat will nuke it mi-
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HURT INFOOD RIOT
Frankfort Police Use Swords on
Mob of HungTy Females That
Raided Butcher Shop.
REPORT-. IS . FROM " AMSTERDAM
London, May 26. An Amsterdam
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company says that eighteen women
were wounded in a fight betweet. po
lice and food rioters at Frankfort-On-the-Main
Wednesday night, ac
cording to a dispatch received at The
Hague.
The riot is said to have started
owing to a shortage of meat in the
local butcher shops. Three hundred
and fifty women, who had been told
there was no meat for them, marched
through the streets carrying black
famine flags and singing socialistic
songs.
Officers Use Swords.
The women forced their way into
one butcher shop, although it was
guarded by soldiers and policemen.
After a search they found come meat
which they cut up and continued
their march, holding the pieces
above their heads.
Police attempted to take the meat
from the women and a general fight
followed in which the. officers used
their swords. One woman was ar
rested for shouting "Down with the
emperor." A local paper which re
ferred to the affair was ordered sus
pended for two months.
Red Cross Has Great Task.
l.'ew York, May 26, Problems
which Europe faces today in caring
for the millions of war sufferers
make plain the need of Red Cross
preparedness in this country, de
clares Ernest 1. Hitknell, director
general of civilian relief of the
American Red t'ro.n, in a statement
Itrll, t touinl a nriiiii xtaniing to
the Amrtiian Red I tn id the vital
unpin laiii r ot pi emteilne,"
Fifteen Millions Dependent.
lie ilneitor Krnr ftniute that .
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LEADER, IS DEAD
Shot to Death in Brush With
American Troops in Country
to the South of Cruces,
in Mexico.
ONE AMERICAN IS KILLED
Engineers Are Attacked and Later
Are Reinforced by Detach
ment of Infantry.
AMERICANS ARE OUTNUMBERED
Field Headquarters, Near Xami
(juiia, May 25., Via Kadio to Colum
bus, S. M., May 20. C amlclario Cer
vantes, the Villiota bandit leader, was
killed by American troops south of
Cruces today.
Cervantes' end came after he had
made a surprise attack south of Cru
ces on a detachment of engineers re
pairing the motor truck road. He
Lwas beaten back and pursued into the
hills by the enRineers, who had been
reinforced by a detachment of the
Seventh infantry. One other Mexi
can, Jose Hencorne, and one of the
Americans were killed. Two Ameri
cans were wounded.
Battle Lasts an Hour.
When the encasement began the
bandits outnumbered the Americans
two to one, there being twenty of
them. The engagement lasted almost
an hour with a hot interchange of
bullets. Then the reinforcements
front the Seventh came in sight
and the Vjllistas brede for the hills.
Private George O. Hulitt was the
hero of the fight. Ilullets front his
rifle laid low both of the bandits
killed.
The identification of Cervantes was
at first, uncertain. I.ater, however,
Mexicans who examined the body de
clared it was that of Cervantes. It
was photographed for further identi
fication. Cervantes' home is in Namiouipa.
He has been a thorn in the side of
the army in northern Chihuahua ever
since the expedition began. He had
succeeded hitherto in avoiding per
sistent cavalry searches. His death
probably means the breaking up of
the Villistas in this direction.
General Pershing m much gratified
over the latest fight, saying that there
remain only a few bands of maraud
ers to be hunted down.
Proclamation to Mexicans.
On Cervantes' body was found a
copv of a proclamation, which read
as follows:.. ,. .
"To citizens and .leaders of the
Carranza army: We, who subscribe
ourselves members of the Mexican
army and citizens loyal to the na
tional defense, set forth that in the
circumstances that have befallen our
country with the armed invasion hv
the United States of the north, the
sname ot our souls and the unmen
tionable affront before all the world,
we nesire as true sons ot our sarnlend
Mexico to no longer bear the name
of traitors.
'We further desire to combat h
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(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) "
Tornado Sweeps
District Near Ord
Ord. Neb., May Zo.-fSnccial Tele
gram.) Telephone communication
was destroyed in the devastated ter
ritory to the north and east of Ord
by the tornado last night. The wind
was hight about 8 o'clock, and the
tornado was apparent to many people
in town when two clouds came to
gether near the city limits and moved
away toward the northeast.
lhe worst damage was done to
farm property ten miles north of
Ord, and in the neighborhood of
Kosevale and hncson. Insurance men
estimated that $50,00(1 damage was
done to property in Valley county.
mere was no loss of life. James
Heitz tells of a fence post heinir
pulled out of theg round and being
driven through the body of a horse
in the pasturei
BANKERS FOR GOOD ROADS
AT GRAND ISLAND MEET
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Grand Island, Neb., May 'ti . -(Special
1 elegrain.) - The tesulutiuin nf
the grmip meeting it banker
adopted tliiiajtrriiuiiii rinlured the
tlinlt campaign waged by the a- j
tnni.ll I'.aukers' aumiatiiin; rnthii ,
Hiailitallv 8pprord the liighvvav ,
rinitiiii sit ti system as propi'ted by
the fliraika Assm latum id t nm
uien lal ilu'is; cuttiiiirmlrd the Mate
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FRENCH TAKE OFFENSIVE IN VERDUN REGION
The accompanying map of the immediate neighbor
hood of Verdun shows the region in which some of the
most furious fighting of the war has been going on for
the last few days. The arrows show the direction of
the attacks, both French and German.
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U. S. IS RAPIDLY
TAKINGTHE LEAD
Judge Gary Sayi People Will Iniiit
That All Their Interests Be
Adequately Protected,
EXPORT BUSINESS INCREASING
New York, May 26. Declaring that
the United States was rapidly be
coming the leader among the nations
of the world and that it was "high
time for everyone to understand that
a large majority of the people of the
United States will insist upon the
utilization of every facility to protect
and to honorably further the inter
ests of their o-n country," Judge
Klbert H. Gary ?poke bere today at
the annual meeting of the American
Iron and Steel institute on what he
considered "momentous questions" in
volving life, liberty and happiness. "It
is likely opportunity will be given to
the voters to give expression to their
views in the near turure relating to
some of these questions," he said.
"The large majority have a friendly
feeling toward business success, large
or small, so long as it is decently and
fairly conducted.
"We believe thoroughly in the reg
ulation and restraint of business, but
only in such a way as to prevent harm
and injury to the public interest. The
government and the business men
should work in harmony.
Export Business Increasing.
"Our export business is large and
increasing. . The. total exports for
March of this year were $411,476,638
in value, an increase of $114,864,786
over March, 1915.
"The markets of the world are mul
tiplying in number and increasing in
importance. We are hoping for open
ports in every country. We have not
heretofore had our proportionate
share of this trade. One reason for
the limited amount of our export
business in the past is found in the
lack of ships owned, controlled and
operated by Americans. We have
been more or less subjected to the
domination of foreigners having the
ownership or control of ships and
who are interested directly or indi
rectly in business competing with us.
New Shipping Lines Needed.
"When the present wars are ended
these conditions will be even worse
than they have ever been before un
less there are adopted laws or amend
ments that will place our merchant
marine on an equality with that of
other nations.
"We are in favor of peace for our
nation; not at any price, but we
would, if necessary, pay liberally for
it. We would light any other nation,
but only defensively.
"So anxious are our people to avoid
trouble and to maintain a peace fool
ing they are willing to submit tem
porarily even to snerrs and insults
before they will assume an offensive
attitude and run the risk of precipi
tating a war unneicsanly. Tins is a
strong statement, but tl represents
the real attitude of a large majority
nl our people.
Strong Navy Important.
"If the United Stale is to assume
and maintain the important position
among nations that lias been thrust
upon it, it must be possessed id the
same elements of power and itrrnutli
that other have, It must be pre
paid! to pioteit il mminerie on the
seas It numt be teady In nuppuiti
other Imliniis lit the utiistrme that
the pui ts nl atl ! t i'i Inetidly tia- !
ti.iin shall triium dee and open to1
all And eirn mote tiuput taut tn i on- .
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ON EASTJP MEUSE
Berlin Offjcial Report Telli of Ad
ditional Oaim West of Hau
dremont Quarry.
FRENCH STORY CONTRADICTORY
Berlin, May 26. (Via London.)
German troops have continued sue
successfully their attacks on the east
bank of the Meuse, extending their
positions to the west of JIauderemont
quarry and crossing the Douaumont
ravine, the war office announced to
day. South of Fort Douaumont the
French were driven back further. The
Germans captured an additional 600
prisoners and 12 tnarhine guns.
The enemy aeroplane brought down
south of ( bateau Salins, reported on
May 21, was the fifth put out of ac
tion in aerial engagements by Lieu
tenant Wintgens.
French Official Report.
Taris, May 26. There has been
little change in the situation on the
Verdu front, says the French official
announcement this afternoon.
The artillery bombardment was
verv violent about Avoecourt Wood
and Le Mort Homme. At the latter
place a German attack was stopped
by the French In a curtain of fire at
its inception,
On th right bank of the Meuse the
French succeeded in, recovering part
of the trenches occupied yesterday
by the Germans between Haudremont
Wood and Thiaumont Farrrl. Other
wise the battle front was. calm.
Dissension Sought
To Be Stirred Up in
Government Circles
Washington, May 26 Secretary
Lansing attended the cabinet meet
ing today, after having been con
fined to his home by an attack of
indigestion for nearly a week. The
secretary said he had been able to do
little work during his illness, the
effects of which he still showed
when he arrived at the White House.
The State department made this
statement regarding published re
ports that Secretary Lansing was
contemplating resigning from the
cabinet because of differences with
('resident Wilson:
"This story is part of a propa
ganda, the deliberate purpose of
which is to create an appearance of
dissension in the government, which
does not exist. The story was first
born last Fehrutry or March, while
the relations between the United
Stales and Germany were somewhat
(.trained. It was sent to Ilerlin by
wireless in press dispatches. It was
picked up in transit in an allied coun
try and subsequently published there.
In that way the State department be
came cognizant of the story and in
sttuctions were sent to licrhn to
watch out lor it.
Apparently the persons responsi
ble lound out we were prepared for
the story, because it never was pub
lished in Genitalia. The directors of
this propaganda hate now taken ad
vantage of Secretary Lansing's ill
tirss to put out the atory again."
Mr. Lansing personally denied that
he was consider mg resigning as be
left the bile House.
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SOUND KEYNOTE
FOR EHDOF WJUc
Executive Hopes His Address Be
fore League to Enforce Peace
Will Have Important M
Effect.
MR. TAFT OPENS CONVENTION
Former President Says No "Stvr
Principles Afe Involved in
the Proposed Program. '
ARBITRATION OLD AS THE V. S.
Washington, May 26. President
Wilson has confided to his advisers,
it was learned today, that he hopea
to make an address before the
League to Enforce Peace here tomor
row night which will be of impor
tance in connection with peace. Mr,
Wilson has practically completed hit
speech, working on it yesterday and
again today. As a rule the president
writes out very few of his speeches
in advance, but officials taid today he
wanted to prepare this one carefully
because he realizes the importance of
the subject.
The president will sit ihrough the
banquet of the league at which ha
will speak, instead of following hit
usual custom of arriving just in time
for the speaking. lie wants to learn
as much as possible about the pur
poses of the league.
Former President Taft, president
of the league, will sit ;iext to Mr. .
Wilson during the banquet and.intro
dure him.
Taft Presides.
The object of the League to En
force Peace is not to urge President
Wilson to take steps Jo stop the
present war, former President Taft,
president of the league, declared to
day in opening its two-day session
here.
"We are not here," he said, "to
urge the present administration to
lake steps to stop the present war.
Not that we are not hopeful that
such steps mak be taken, but we be
lieve that a definite purpose, a pur
pose with limitations for an associa
tion like this, is much more likely t'
be realized than a general platform
for the benefit of humanity."
The league hoped, Mr, Taft said,
for a world agreement on a method
to make war less probable.
Legal Status of Move Explained.
Acceptance of membership by the
United States in a world court in
which the ioint powers would use
their armed and economic fqrxes.jo ,
enforce its decrees in the interest l)f
international peace was urged today
by Mr. Taft.
His address was closely confined
to the technical legal questions in
volved in joining by the United
States in such an international tri
bunal. He denied that such action
would curtail the power and author
ity of either the president or congress
by limiting the constitutional discre
tion of the latter body to declare war.
Mr. Taft explained that the league's
platform proposes compulsory sub
mission to the world court of all in
ternational disputes not settled by
diplomatic negotiation and which are
"justiciable questions."
Arbitration Is Legal.
Referring to the so-called Bryan
peace treaties, with England and
France, Mr. Taft said it was argued
that the arbitration stipulation in
them was a delegation of the author
ity of the president and senate over
our foreign relations.
"But upon reason and authority
this objection is untenable," said MrN
Taft. Since the Jay treaty of 1794,
Mr. Taft stated, some American na
tion had been a party to eighty-four
international treaties, of which the
United States was involved in two
thirds. "In ten of these, which were boun
dary treaties," Mr. Taft continued, "it
was never suggested that the govern
ment was delegating any power at all
to the tribunal. A submission of a
judicial question is not a delegation of
power to an agent it is a submission
of an issue to a judge, and it is a mis
nomer to call auch a submission a
delegation."
Turning to the question of the
duty of a nation belonging to the
proposed would court to use its
army and navy in enforcing its de
crees upon other members that
should go to war in defiance of the
rutin's decree, Mr. 'I alt look issue
with former Sciretarv of Slate
l!ryaii tegatding Mr. Bryan's con
tention that constitutional amend
ment would be neiessary before tha
I'nilrd Males could ohliKale llelf tn
tins rrspcil.
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