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The Omaha Sunday .Bee THE WEATIIEH. PART ONE. NEWS SECTION PACES ONE TO TWELVE. Fair VOL. XLV NO. 50. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1916 SIX SECTIONS FORTY-FOUR PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. FOUR MEN LOSE' THEIR LIVES IN 0SKAL00SA FIRE Administration Building of Penn College Burns and Students and Others Trapped Beneath Falling Walls. TWO BODIES ARE RECOVERED Financial Agent of Institution and Secretary of Iowa Prohibition Party Are Victims. HUNDRED THOUSAND LOSS Oskatoosa, la., May 27. Fire which early today destroyed the adminis tration building of Venn college here took a toll of four lives, instead of two at had been supposed, it was stated tonight. City authorities late this afternoon ordered a search of the ruins for the bodies of two additional victims, trapped by falling walls while trying to carry valuable books from the col lege library. The bodies of Robert II. Williams, .15, financial agent of the college and state secretary of the prohibition party, and Harry Oakley, 22, a freshman, were recovered soon after the flames were brought under control. According to the chief of police, the two additional dead are George Kaber, a railroad fireman, and an un identified man. They were in a party of half a dozen who were carrying books from the library when the four ton bell in the cupalo fell through the building, splitting and collapsing its front wall. Rabcr and bis companion ran toward the front of the building when the wall began fo fall, while the remainder of the party ran to the rear. Tons of debris now are piled on the spot where the two were last seen. The fire broke out in the biological laboratory on the second floor of the building and reached a forty-gallon tank of alcohol, which exploded, scat tering liquid fire in all directions. In sufficient water pressure hampered the efforts of the fire department. Mincar and Kclley were cut and bruised and arc believed to have suf fered internal injuries. They were hurt while rescuing the S. II. M, Byers art collection, which was hung in the chapel hall. The collection is aid to be worth $50,000. George Mincar and Howard Kelley, students, who were injured by the fall ing wall, probably vlll recover, the physicians said tonight. The dead and injured all are residents of this city. College officials tonight assert that the loss will total approximately $100, ,"K)0. The building was only partially insured. " "-!.., The fire is thought to have been caused by defective wiring. Austrians Storm Mountain on the Trento Frontier Vienna (Via London), May 27. Twenty-five hundred Italians, four guns, four machine guns and a mian tity of war material have been captured by the Austrians, who stormed an extensive mountain ridge an the Trentino front, according to m official statement issued by the war department here. The statement follows: "We have gained a new great suc cess on the Italian front, capturing the entire mountain ridge from Cornocicampe Verde to Maata. The enemy suffered sanginary losses. We captured over 2,500 prisoners, four guns, four machine guns, 300 bicycles and much other material." Rome (via Paris), May 27. The abandonment of another Italian ad vance position on the Astico river, under the pressure of an overwhelm ing attack by the Austrians, is an nounced tonight by the war depart ment. The Austrians are stated to be making their main effort toward the Arsiego basin, in the hope of reaching the valleys which run be tween the Astico and Orolo rivers down to Vireno. The bulletin said that the Austrians have been re pulsed everywhere except at the one advance puint, which was surren dered for strategic reasons. Hnnnrnl "Rnilrl in o Strike is Called Lincoln, May J7 - Lfforn to arbi trate having failed, a general itnkc t'li all building jttbn will hemine rl tVi live here Monday, aid.i dint? t an announcement K. W. dlunu. builir agent f.r the building I lade 4 t i. until I hi will mean .Muni killed Witkrr out Mi'tiday, in addl Initt the lal'orrM nmv trikii'.g. The Ulixter at p di nun !mg an in maie li"iti t M) criu n h.mr. The Weather I I t L fe, J II f.VV '"'Vi I f ) r e t f VIMf1'? Ii fc4 t I t il.i V t . ,i . .t ' r ! i ... , i . i ., 1 1 t . .... . v..-' ,..,ii I , t. . ,-. ! ' i , . jm j i . . . i j.-.4..i i a . f i t SWIMMING SEASON IS OPENJT CARTER Woman Life Guard to Help the Girls and Women at the Municipal Beach. LOCKERS ARE SET FOR 1,500 "Come on in, boys and girls, the water is fine." says Joe Hummel, commissioner of parks and boule vards and playgrounds and bathing beaches. Municipal beach at Carter lake was formally opened yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. The particular new fea ture is the separate accommodations for men and women. Girls ami women have their Own dressing m.-iri nwtit and will enter the water from a new dock. Illanchc Swain, ex- pert swimmer, has started as lite guard for girls and women, and will have supervision over swimmers oi her sex. Thi ia il first time that a woman life guard lias been employed at the l.-af I,:, thin ir i, hires. Indications arc that! the muny beach will be more popular this season than ever hciorc. 1 Weniy-IIVC liaruy hwiiihihi- ' : dm nwirtiinir and more attended during the afternoon. Commissioner Hummel has detailed two cnecKcrs for the men and two for the women. There arc checking accommodations for about 1,500 swimmers. "I heartily approve ol Mr. Ilum mel's idea of placing a woman life ui.urd !t Carter lake." stated Super intendent Knglish of the Recreation department. N. H. Loomis Member Of New Presbyterian Educational Board Atlantic City, N. J., May 27. Com missioners to the J2".lh general as sembly of the Presbyterian church, which closed yesterday, were dis cussing today the probable location of the newly established general board of education. The new board is a consolidation of the college board and the board of education, and ia mmtiosed of thirtv members. eighteen ministers and eighteen eld ers. They were appointed at the clos ing session of the assembly and probably will hold a meeting within a few weeks to elect officers and de cide upon the location of their head quarters. The college board at present is located in New York and the board of education in Philadelphia. The board is to apply for a charter in a state yet to be determined and this may affect the choice for a perma nent location for its officers. Dr. John Willis Baer, president of Occi dental college, was prominently men tioned for secretary, the salary of which office was fixed by the as sembly at $6,000 a year. Among the members of the new board are: Ministers for one year: Louis W. Mudge, llarrisburg; Charles Lee Reynolds, Newark, N. J.; Walter R, Ferris, Syracuse, N. Y.; Ira W, Al len, Paris, III.; Stephen S. Estey, To peka, Kan.; George E. Davies, Salt Lake City. Elders: N. H. Loomis, Omaha; Archer C. Sinclair, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; James R. Martin, Des Moines. Two-year elders: Harry H. Scldomridge, Colorado Springs; Coe I. Crawford, Huron, S. I). Gen. Hall Here to Look After Rifle Range and Armory General Phil Hall of Lincoln is in the city again in regard to his pro posed new armory scheme, rifle range and aviation corp and last, but by no means least, a wireless company which may be established in the near future, the War department having signified ils approval of such a branch of the army service in Omaha if a place to house it can be found. "There are seventy-live persons with private plants probably in town," said General Hull. "They would be interested, as well as ttlc uranhers and manv others. Such a . niiiii.inv would comprise about 100 members. Many matters of this sort can he decided when 1 lind 'where I am at' in this armory proposition, t.enera la will l he in Omaha again Memorial day. Dr, Mayo Again Called to Bedside of James J, Hill St. Pant. Minn.. May .7. Drs. W. ( ami C. H. Mav "f Roihesier, Minn , at niip.tnitd by a 'ilt ol nuii't, are bring burned M M ''a.tl on 4 ntnii.tl "am I" the he-lnde ot Janm J Ui'l. wh- lu I i eit ill f-r tin- l.ti eleven iuyi Jlr. W J M ' bete r .let ! ,y ,, ...tiMih n!i l'i I l.ilii'Un, t trhdiim jiht'l. Mil Winle II ( del led tb, i. b.., Iim " .b,,ivr te. Mr H,il' (iidiii-1. 'I u iiid t.'"d the M t,. di lte be .ii I ji I m u U .;! I til ll I. i'(i i'i ..vii -('t iia PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS , ,.!'. ! . ,' I I ! IIH ' V fif.l.y 4 I 'if H Hti.l "I t 0 t t ' 1 " ,! ' I I If ' ' ! I I v ,. .,tt t '. :. I t n : I i . . i i 4t 1 : " ' 1 t v . I ( i ', .'. .. ' i ' I if i . ",,:, I I, ulirl, Mi I ' ! 1 , lt-i '''.l t-. I .. ' !.'(.''' .'t , 1 1 i t .if , ( ' I , t ' ' 1 ' I aI lt,rb..llt. I .: Ati.!'t, I 1 I ' I '-..I'' e. 1 I .('"' ! I !' ' l I. , i : i S k . i ' 1 - i1 1 1 no .' ; .'.' , 1 - I b ' DR. WAITE FOUND GUILTYOFP&n, 1 , OF FATHEk 5ni Jury in Case of Man Charged with Poisoning Wife'i Father Out Less Than an Hour and a Half. ALIENISTS SAY WAITE IS SANE Experts Called by the State Flatly Contradict Those Who Testify for the Defense Friday. KNEW HE WAS DOING WRONG New York, May 27. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite was today found guilty of the murder of his father-in-law, John E. I'eck, the Grand Rapids mil lionaire. "Guilty of murder in the first de gree," was the verdict of the jury, re turned after it had been abesent from the court room one hour and twenty five minutes. Waite was remanded to the Tombs to await imposition ot sentence on June 1. The summing up of the evidence was concluded by both defense and prosecution soon after noon today. Justice Shearn. then began his charge to the jury. , Justice Shearn completed his charge at 1:20 p. m. and the jury went out to consider its verdict. State Calls Alienists. Dr. Waite entered the court room with the same apparently resigned, nonchalant manner that has charac terized his demeanor since the be ginning of his trial. The prosccu tien promptly began its rebuttal of the testimony of the defense bearing upon Waite's alleged imbecility and idiocy, by placing on the witness stand a neutrologist, Dr. Smith J'.ly Jclliffe of New York. He testified that he had gathered from an exami nation of Waite that the prisoner showed no signs of defective intelli gence. "In my opinion, he was sane. I be lieve he knew the nature of the crime he committed and was fully aware of all the phases of it. He had sufficient mentality to appreciate his acts. He was sane when he killed 1'cck." Dr. William M abort also testified for the prosecution, saying he found no disturbance of Dr. Waite's nervous system. On some occasions when he examined Waite he found the pris oner made an effort to give false an swers. Sane When He Killed Peck. "What is your conclusion about in sanity?" asked Assistant District At torney Brothers. "That he was sane," said the wit ness. "Was he sane in your opinion when he killed Peck?" "I would say that, at the lime lie killed Feck, he was sane and knew that he was doing wrong." Dr. Menas S. Gregory of Bellevue hospital, called as a witness for the prosecution, Baid he had examined Waite in that hospital and concluded that he was sane. He said he be lieved and knew Waite was sane when he killed Mr. I'eck and that he knew he was doing wrong. General Pershing And Gavira Will Have Conference Washington, May 27. The military conference between Generals Tershing and Gavira, arranged yesterday, will not discuss in any way the question of the withdrawal of the American ex pedition into Mexico. General Fun- ston's orders to General l'crshing au thorizing the conference explicitly prohibit discussion of this subject. The conference will probably be held at General Pershing's headquar ters at Namiiuipa. Co-operation be tween Mexican and American troops in chasing bandits was the basis on which the Mexican officer sought the meeting. General Gabriel Gavira telegraphed General J. J. Pcrshiti today, suggest ing that in view of Hie new Cartana troop movement it would be advisa ble fur them to get in cmiimuiiK at ion to prevent misunderstanding or con flicts. Gavira said he thought they could conlcr by telegiaph, licntr! Prancucn Gunale, coin- matidiim 1.11 men sent to mutorte t.aiu. today movn g us men . ftard ! t iiui Gr.indi s, G.ileaii j and nthrr lnwns in priimiy tu the Altietlcan finr (ieiieial bant atd ti-tt as the; jMr. 4ii eie net tt; ing this trrtf i ..f) be tuul t nee in. K I ivii I t the Amerit .ins t tiuiuing (uvira ' i aire (t I S l uni t i 'i md t itli t t ' et r.cll, in ft.ntmn'. f l i'U i I it was i!rd t! t ' minor I'.aU.-m wire ' -I t Uttng lb 'tnd ' el l!.e t..'fdi I TWENTY-ONE ARE CHOSEN ! TO SIGMA XI FRATERNITY! I i I, Sc.. Mn .'. .'; ul- I ..J l, I . - I ,i 1M t H .'lit I ISHlU'lt Nti.taiU '' '!. ' -' ' i .., '; a !.,. s. mi- !' 1 i ... I,. If ' .1 !:. H -.. - X ' ir',i "i t.r'! it . 'i'; t tv; '... t ,t M.''i I 'I h.i t.-iutf I ' , '. ii wo i., ...I . t 'l .,... i I- ii K f Oi Dan Cupid's ort , GENERAL GALLIENI, FRENCHHERO, DIES Former Minister of War. Hailed ai Savior of Paris, is Dead After long Illness. WHX HAVE NOTABLE FU2TEHAL Paris, May 27. General Joseph S. Gallieni, former minitcr of war, died at Versailles today. The death of General Gall'eni, while not unexpected, created profound sorrow, as he was idolized by the French people, particularly the poor, who regarded him as the savior of Paris during the critical days of Au gust, 1914. His funeral will be the occasio t of a notable military and civil demonstration. Shortly before his death an opera tion for transfusion of blood was per formed, but it had little effect. The general was extremely weak and was unable to take nourishment. His son and daughter were at his bedside. After the notable part taken by General Gallieni in the battle of the Marne, when he rushed 80,000 troops of the Paris garrison to the battle line in taxicabs at the crisis of the strug gle and thereby turned the tide of victory in favor of the French, he was appointed minister ot war in the re constructed cabinet. As war minister, General Gallieni devoted himself with remarkable en ergy to the elimination of red tape in the administration of the army. He also dealt with a heavy hand with officers who had secured oosts throiiKh favoritism or political in formation. His first act was to forbid civilians to write to the generals in the field in rexard to military matters, ami his next step was to send to the front a number of able-bodied soldiers who were occupied in the rear. Like General Juifre, he was relent less in forciuK the retirement of old officers, wlime activities nr abilities were not equal to the demands of the war, Hv revision tit tin- exempt lists, he addrd HIl.tKi.) men to the army. In February of this year General Gallieni took over the dim inn of llie development of aviation, lut shortly at'lerwaids he was IfiUcii ill with kid ney trotildr and a mmprlled to ri tut M Art it f Smir thru he has been t;liliiij a b.sinn battle with .bath Heard at the Postoffice "()M Fwctn," JStruiik''' afi'l littiTtinu' Feature About tho Fi.tcrnl l!uililinir. l.-r .Hi. I u ; t. - I in It i ti i ;i r 1 'ir.lt I ., l.d.H . M I-. t . I!,. V K i ftdf iH i' d t lift I'illir t V f i , ,i I, 4I. ,. 'iff l I , H it I' i f' June Bride Preparedness Campaign "II Polly Derides Suffs And is Sent Back To theBird Store Chicago, May 27. There will be no parrot in the suffrage parade here on June 7. Polly did not behave and is back in the bird store from which he came. But ,he created a stir before being dethroned as "official barker" for the auffragists.. ,. Parade headquarters were opened yesterday and the parrot, which had been named "Polly Votes," was there, The parrot was to be taught to talk for women's votes and was to be car ried in the parade. The bird store man assured the committee that the parrot did not swear, but the day was opened by a recital of all the swear words Polly knew. The bird refused to learn his official slogan, "Polly Voles," and would only say "Votes, 1 and follow it with derisive laughter. He stole the beauty patch off of one suffragist's cheek, bit and scratched and behaved so undignifiedly that he was soon on the way back to his owner. Morgan Employes Who Stole Money For Payroll Taken New York, May 27. All but $W0 of the $10,500 stolen from J. P. Mor gan & Co. yesterday was restored to day by detectives who followed three of the firm's office boys to Philadel phia and brought back two of them under arrest this morning. The de tectives say the boys confessed the theft and accounted for the missing money bjr saying each boy mailed J.iOO to his mother. The money was handed to William McManus, aged 18, to carry to the export department. McManus disap peared, and with him William J. liaiii, aged 17, and a third office boy whoie name was not revealed. The boy were out when the detectives entered their room, but $y,(oo re ptisrd o. a table divided into three nrat piles, Wlirn tlie youngster' ic turiied and found the detectives wait ing fur them, McManus leaped froi.i a window to a rouf twenty feet be low, but was taught there. The third boy ciapi'd. McManus and 1'ain '.re iharged Willi grand larceny, but it is said their cn:plun are dijimrd ! !" lenient I fast rtf (tlVrf.l i! ,.t ' I a t I. a 4 fill ! ! i ate ,,,t.)i at f l i V. I 4 i I-' la'.,. I.. , I I'I ! ' van cupin s- in rrt h ' w ' 77? ntODnQ II' (J x A. GLm TO FILL COUNCIL YACANCY THIS WEEK Await Return of Mayor Dahlman to Appoint Successor to Com missioner Drexel. SEVERAL MENTIONED FOR PLACE With. the. return jot. Mayor, Xahl man from Kentucky this week the city council will address itself to the task of selecting a successor to the late Commissioner Drexel, superin tendent of the' department of street cleaning and maintenance. The unusual occurrence of a city commissioner dying while in office presents a situation not easily met by the six commissioners. It will require four votes to elect the successor, and it is not improbable there will be some difference of opinion at the out set as to who should be selected. Among those who have been men tioned with more or less seriousness are: P. J. Martin, Thomas McGovern, Uean Noyes, George Parks, Joseph Walker, J. A. Rine, Jeff W. Bedford, Wesley Ailkins, Thomas Iloctor, Harry Hackett, James Watkins and Thomas A. Fry. There are others in the race, but they are "impossible." A former Omaha man, now in Salt Lake City, wired Acting Mayor But ler his desire to be considered as a candidate. Executive Meeting Thursday. The commissioners repeatedly stated (luring the week to candidates and others that they would not com mit themselves until Mayor Dahlman returned. The acting mayor wired Mr. Dahlman he would reserve his decision until the council met to con sider the matter. It is probable the commissioners will hold an executive meeting next Thursday. An attempt to selei t a new com missioner on parly ilnes would result in a deadlock, because the six com missioners are evenly divided at pres ent as to partisanship. Fither the democrat or republicans will have lo yield, lnasinuth as Mr, Drexel was a democrat theie is a feeling that his sin 11111 will be of the same party alfiliation. It is likewise hinted that a South Side nun will be chosen, as a rei-ngiiitiiiti of the trrtttory which mriilly lout its municipal identity. "Divine Healers" Are Charged with Misuse of the Mails I os Ang'b-s. t al. May 27 I'm i r Anvni'l - ihra li-t, ia r ! ''King" liiifiiii V !.' i!'. t ..I Nr Yi.tk. b-l' !Ui-l ' diviHci I'.raef" H4I nil-'!' I t" Ui 'M !fdcta! uidu tmet't ilia' li'U .it ! I! tf' . .! Irani First Death from Heat at Chicago l w in I li l' t. 4 ' ' t PRESIDENT TALKS FOR PEACE THAT WILL BE LASTING Wilson Appears Before the league to Enforce Peace and Delivers Address That May Be a Feeler. ' 1 SOME PLANS ARE OUTLINED Tells What United States Might Do if Called Upon to Mediate Between Countries. DEPEND ON NEW DIPLOMACY Washington, May 27. President Wilson asserted here tonight before the League to Enforce Peace, that the United States was ready to poin in any feasible association of nations to preserve the peace of the world against "political ambition and selfish hostility" and in service of "a common order, a common justice and a com mon peace." He expressed the hope that the terms of cpeae which end the present'war would include such an arrangement. Outlining suggestions for peace wnich the president said he hoped the United States would make if it has the opportunity to do so, he included provision for absolute freedom of the seas, a contention which has been the keynote of all the diplomatic dis cussions with Germany and ' Great Britain, and virtual guarantees of ter ritorial integrity and political inde pendence. Officials interpreted the president's address as a preliminary feeler for peace m Furope. He outlined the conditions on which the I'nitcd States would move if it made a formal mediatory offer with the idea, it was understood of learning how such sug gestions would be received abroad. Makes These Suggestions. "I Bin sure," said the president," that the people of .the United States would wish their government to move along these lines: "FirstSuch a settlement with re gard to their own immediate interests as the belligerents may agree upon. We have nothing material of any Rind to ask for ourselves, and are quite aware that wcr are in no sense or degree parties to the present quarrel. Our interest is only in peace and its future guarantees. "Second An universal association of the nations to maintain the invio late security of the highway of the seas for the common and unhindered use of all the nations of the world, and to prevent any war begun either contrary to treaty covenants or with out warning and full submission of the causes to the opinion of tne world a virtual guarantee of territorial in tegrity and political independence." The fundamentals of a lasting peace President Wilson said he believed were: At to Lasting Peace. "First That every peopte has a right to choose the sovereignty un der which they shall live. Like other nations," the president said, "we have ourselves no doubt once and again offended against that principle when for a littlew hile controlled by our selfish passion, as our franker his torians have been honorable enough to admit; but it has become more and more our rule of life and action. "Second That thes mall states of the world have a right to enjoy the same respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial integrity, that great and powerful nations expect and insist upon. "Third That the world had a right to be free from every disturbance of its peace that has its origin in aggres sion and disregard of the rights of people and nations." The outstanding lesson of the world war, the president said, had been that the peace of the world must hence forth depend upon a "new and more wholesome diplomacy." "If this war has accomplished nothing else for the benefit of tho world," said the president, "it ha at leant disclosed a greut moral neces sity and set forward tho thinking; of the statesmen of the world by a whole nge, Public Right Must Prevail. "Repeated utterances of the lend ing Htiite.nieii of most of the prent nation now eiij-'uge-il in war have mn.lo it plain that their thought has come to this, tl.ut th principle of public rifht must henceforth tak prei edeme over the individual inter ests of pitrtifulur tuitions, and that tho nations of the world must in some way bun. I themselves together to seo that that ritfhl prevails agaimt any sort of tti'lfinh mrtfre-ssion ; that hence forth nHi)iiic must not be not up ! against nllmnee, but tht-re must bo a i common nt'reeinitt fr a common !olijft. mid that t tb heart of thai ' ronimi.it object must li ih in viola .!i nciiU of peoj It and of tnun ' kin I," "So s'nniidy .b W biliov lt the thiiiu'i." .i l 'ho president in rum iu..,in., "llmt t art sura that th I'lii'el tdh'es Is Vit'Vtrf tn be.'. Htm a p u iirr lit any f -.. i i.t n in uun ot rnii'. 'is f 'fttu'l o ivr Ui feuUma ji. i l ir.H i' I waka them svvUl i a, -in it y loU'im." . tl -..t"it t I I-, s hvarar ha ' h ,i t n..t vw.'it tit o . a i.-iji m, Lot of v t'. ' a ' I "( tt' j.ri - vn O-v .?! it thai lh -,f.. acif!a. I'-tiitf a ,l.y tit c In -i (., 1 t t . 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