Two full pages of News for Women r Every Day in THE OMAHA BEE. I VOL. XL VI NO. The Omaha Daily Bee THE WEATHER FAIR 24. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1916-SIXTEEN PAGES. On Tralai, nt HotoU, tlawa standi. He., tr SINGLE COPY TWO CENT'S. NAVAL COLLIER IS SUNK; 50 MARINES ON BOARD VESSEL Fate of Those and Crew Not Known as American Gov ernment Ship Sinks Off Charleston. , HECTOR NAME OF CRAFT Naval Tender, With Fifty U. S. Marines Is Lost Off Charleston. HURRICANE ALONG COAST Charleston, S. C, July 14. Captain F. R. Hunt of the tug Vigilant re ported late today that the naval' col lier .Hector, bound from Charleston for Santo Domingo with fifty marines aboard, had sunk nine miles southeast of Charleston Lightship. The fate of the crew and marines is unknown. Charleston, S. C, July 14. the naval collier Hector, bound for Santo Domingo, carrying fifty marines, is reported sinking abont sixty miles off Charleston. The lighthouse ten der Cypress went out at 10 o'clock this morning to the assistance of the Hector, but was unable to breast the heavy seas and returned. The hurricane which struck Charles Ion last night abated today. One life was lost here. Damage to ship ping and the water front was not great, and the balance of the city did not suffer severely. At 1 :30 rclocS this afternoon wire less advices were that the Hector was fourteen n.iles off Charleston and was coming in at the rate of four miles an hour. Details of its conditions were not available, but the steamer Alamo was m touch with it, ready to lend assistance. Three Reported Killed. Atlanta, Gav, July 14. Charleston, S. C, was cut off from continuous wire communication today as a result "of a hurricane that struck the Geor gia and f'outh Carolina coasts late last night, sending the wind velocity to a maximum of sixty-four miles an hour, claiming three lives and doing damage to coast resorts and cities. Fragmentary reports from Charleston indicate two lives lost there, the water front inundated by high tides and much property damage. Aid Sent to Collier. , Washington, July 14. Wireless or ders were sent to the coast guard cutter Seminole off the North Caro lina coast today to go to the rescue of the naval collier Hector, reported in distress forty miles southeast of Charleston, S. C. The tug Vigilant, which had been in Wireless communication with the Hector, reported at 12:30 p. m. that a steamer was standing by, but it was not known whether it had transferred the marines and crew. Wireless com munication is difficult.- Four Stolen Ford Cars Recovered At Grand Island Grand Island, Neb., July 14. (Spe cial Telegram.) Deputy Sheriff Cords made an important haul last night and this morning when he re covered four Ford cars which had been stolen from various points in the state and took into custody one of the thieves involved. He also has a good trace of a fifth car. Neil De vore has been arrested on the charge of acting as a fence for the thieves and will be held until further devel opments. The car first discovered was that of Mr. Eddy, a merchant of Fremont, who was here last night and identified his car. Others are in the process of identification, one be ing from Pawnee City, two from Omaha and one from Lincoln. Sinn Feiners Wreck Recruiting Station Cork, Ireland, July 14. Chagrined by the non-arrival of prisoners who recently were released after undergo ing iniprisonmensince the Dublin rebellion and -who were expected here today, 1,000 Sinn Feiners wrecked the recruiting office, hissed the military pickets and sang republican songs'. The Weather i . Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. Hour. Dejr. b a. m 70 tt a. m 70 7 a. m 71 8 a. m 73 UNCHANGH) I si ftMv It I 9 a. m. in a. in.. 11 a. m 12 m... 93 1 p. m M 2 -p. m 87 2 p. m 80 4 P. in 91 6 p. tu 90 If P. in 88 7 P. m 86 8 p. in. 83 Comparative Local Record. 1916. 1D1G.1914. Mi 3. Highest yesterday . 91 84 n 104 Lowest yesterday , . .. 70 68 69 78 .'-lean temperutuiu ... 80 76 70 91 Precipitation 00 .88 .00 .00 Temperature aud precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature ?t Kxceae for the day 3 Total excess slnco March 1 ,.67 Normal precipitation , II Inch UeflAeucy for tho da..y.... 14 Inch Tots) rainfall since March 1 1. 62 inches Uellclsncy since March 1 6.47 inches I'etlelcncy, cor. period. 1915 64 inch Deficiency, cor. period, 1114 1.60 louhes Keporte from buttons at 7 IT M. Station and Slate Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. 7 p. in.-, est. fall. Cheyenne, clear 86 86 .01 Davenport, cloudy 86 ' 94 .00 Denver, clear 88 'i 00 ijkb aoints, ciear at M ,iz Dodue Oily, clear .... 92 Noith Platte, claar,,... 9i Omaha. :lear 86 Rapid City, clear .... 96 8hridun. clear M Sioux City, clvar Kti Valentine, clear 9'i 96 94 SUPPLIES CO TO PERSHING BY RAIL Train Held at Juarez by Gen. eral Gonzales Released by Order from Chihuahua. PARRAL REGION IS QUIET El Paso, "Tex., July 14. The Mex ico Northwestern train, filled with forage and supplies consigned to Casas Graildcs merchants for the use of General Pershing's army, which was held up in Juarez last night by order of General Gonzales, was re leased today on instructions from General Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua City. No explanation of the delay in the departure of the train was given by the Mexican authorities in Juarez. They declined to talk of the sub ject. It is undersiood that the instruc tions for the release came to General Trevino from Mexico City. A telegram received here today from Parral by a mining company, states that the people of Parral be lieve that danger from Villistas has passed. Conditions are normal in that section, it was said. Three companies, the Forty-first, Sixty-ninth and One Hundred ami Third, of the coast artillery, were sent from here today to Del Rio, Texas. Shift of Regiments. Announcement foday that the Sev enth infantry was being transferred from Camp Cqtton, near the Rio Grande, to Fort Bliss, gave rise to re ports that it was being moved to make room for the Sixteenth infantry, which was said to be on its way out of Mexico. General Bell said, how ever, that the newly formed Thirty fourth infantry is to take the place of the Seventh at Camp Cotton. The Thirty-fourth is One of the new regiments now being organized here. The others art the Seventeenth cav alry and the Eighth field artillery. These regiments are being formed trom regulars ot other regiments, to be filled in later with recruits. Reports have- reached the border that part of the Thirteenth cavalry is moving northward in the rear of the Sixteenth infantry. The Sixteenth has been guarding General Pershing s line of communications. Texans Repulse Raiders. San Antonio, Tex., July 14. To C company, Second Texas infantry, commanded by Captain A. S. Horton, came the distinction today of being the first of the National Guard to ex change shots with Mexicans. They prevented a raiding party from cross ing the Rio Grande near Donna, Tex, Six armed Mexicans attempting to enter American territory at 3 o'clock in the morning were detected by the outpost. They were ordered to halt, but continued advancing. The Texans opened fire. - The fire was returned, but discontinued after a minute, the Mexicans hurrying back to their coun try. One of -the Americans was in jured and it is believed none of the Mexicans was nit. 1.21 I Neutrality Board Says Deutschland Is Peaceful. Craft Washington, July 14. An advisory report on the status of the German merchant-submarine Deutschland, submitted to Acting Secretary Polk today by the government neutrality board, is understood to hold that the vessel is a peaceful merchant craft, and entitle I to all privileges. Indications now are that the State department will make no formal an nouncement concerning the submar ine, but that the Treasury department will be advised to 'permit it to clear and sail from Baltimore whenever its captain desires to start on his return voyage. Mr. Polk received the neutrality board's report just before he went to the White House to attend the cab inet meeting. He intjmated that a formal ruling by the department would be necessary only in case the submarine had been found to be a warship, liable to be ordered from American . aters. The neutrality board gave its ad vice after considering the reports of navy and customs officers, who made a complete examination of the Deutschland and concluded that it not only was unarmed, but could not be converted for war purposes without extensive structural changes. Five Companies of ' Guards at La Salle Cement Plants La Salle, III., July 14. Five com panies, of the Sixth Illinois infantry are in camp at cement plants here and at Oglcsby today prepared to suppress any rioting that may result front the resumption of operations at the plants, 1,200 employes of which are on strike. It is expected that the operation of the cement plants will be resumed tomorrow. General Dam Bill Is Passed by the House Washington July 14. The general dam bill, amended from the form in which it passed the senate, regulating water power development in naviga ble streams, was passed by the house today 51 to 17. The bill, which provides for a sys tem of leases under government reg ulation and practices, is designed to induce investment of private capital in the development of water power. The principal issue has been over the rental imposed on -power projects un der an amendment by Representative Sherley of Kentucky, which provides that the secretary of war shall fix such rental rates as he deems advis able to apply for a period of twenty years, with the right to revise every ten years thereafter. This was op posed by Chairman Adamson of the uo Interstate Commerce committee. ANNUAL OMAHA AUTO DERBY TO BE HELD TODAY Seventeen of Fastest Oars iri$ World Will Receive Flag on Board Speedway This Afternoon. THREE MORE OARS QUALIFY DEAD BODIES OF CARRIZAL VICTIMS STARTING HOMEWARD This picture shows the shipping of the bodies of Carrizal victims, after the people of EI Paso had paid them honor in a public demonstration. Aldo Franchi, Hughie Hughes and Tommy Milton Suc- cessfully Survive. EXPECT WONDERFUL RACE HOW THEY QUALIFIED. Ml. Per Pm. Driver and Car. v Time. Hour. 1. Mulfurd. PMjarat 40 -i 111 I. Beata, luil 41 119 S. IX Palma, Hrrenln ...42 1-H 107 4. I'Aln, Pimenhtrr .43 2-6 104 5. Rlrkenbarher. MaiwcU 4 1-1 10S . Lenin, Crawford ,48 S-5 10S 7. tiable, Burman Hptrlal.44 1-5 1112 a. Htndemon, Maxwell . .44 1-5 103 . Vail, Hudson 44 S-S 101 Pranrhl, Puaun 44 4-5 1 11. niia-hea, lelae 4S l-S 8 IS. Milton, Dueaenbrrir . ...4 8-S M 13. Johnson, Crawford ...4DI-5 7 14. Chandler, Crawford ...47 1-5 S 15. Mullor, Dana J.' Ararat. 4 7 1-5 OS 18. Klein, Klelnart 47 l-S 94 17. Btrtiuw, Mercer 45 3-5 St IS. Kawllnia, Duluth ....45 BY FRED S. HUNTER. At 2:30 this afternoon Starter Fred Wagner will wave his red .flage and seventeen of the fastest racing auto mobiles in the world will start on their purusit of the prize njpney and glory which will go to the winner of the) second annual Omaha champion ship automobile derby. That the classic this afternoon will Le the most desperately fought and the most sensational race meet of the 1916 season is the universal opinion of the officials, the drivers and the rail birds .who follow the racing game. Te field is unquestionably as any ever assembled and the track ranks as the fastest in the world. The full number of seventeen cars permitted by the American Automo bile association, under whose auspices the race will be run, will go to the post in the main event, the J50-mile race, this afternoon. Eighteen cars Qualified, but Ed Rawlings was pushed out because he could only do ninety miles an hour, wane the otner seventeen did better. Rawlings, how ever, will get into the 50-mile race, which follows the big event. . Three More Qualify, Three more cars qualified, in the eliminations held yesterday after, oonn. Aldo Franchi, Hughie Hughes and Tommy Milton are the fortunate pilots. Franchi made the best mark of the three. He sent his powerful Pusun around in 44 4-5, a clip of a little better than 100 miles an hour. He will receive tenth position at the start by virtue of this mark. Hughie Hughes was right beliifld Franchi. He qualified at ninety-nine miles an hour and gets eleventh posi tion. Hughes was originally sched uled to drive a Duesenberg here, but he could not get his machine in shape following mechanical mishaps at Sioux City, and he was signed yes terday to drive the Delage car which Jules Devigne intended to drive. It was joyful news tor the speed enthusiasts when it became known Hughie would pilot the speedy De lage because Hughie is absolutely a master at the wheel and he can be counted upon to make a fast and furious pace. Milton Makes First Sart. Tommy Milton, who did not arrive until Thursday, went upon the track for the first time yesterday and quali fied his Duesenberg for twelfth place ni the start at ninety-eight miles an hour; ' Wilbur D'Alene, Mihon's Duesen berg teammate, startled the rail birds yesterday by beating Eddie Ricken bacher and Dave Lewis in the fight for starting positions.' Wilbur quali fied at 104 miles m hour and catches fourth position as a result while Rick and Lewis fall to fifth and sixth. Wilbur had the old Duesy popping yesterday and if it works as nicely today trouble is in store for some body because D'Alene will give the car all she can hold. Jack Gable, -who drives the Burman Special, also bettered his mark yes- ConOnaed on Pane Four. Column Vive.) Would Issue Beer On Bread Tickets To Save Barley Amsterdam, July 14. (Via Lon don.) A protest against' the con sumption of barley for the making of beer is made iii a letter sent to Chan cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, signed by 80,000 members of Gooi'. Templar lodges in Oermany. The letter points out "the gigantic waste of bread-material" ir. the use of large quantities of barley for the production ot beer. It urges that hereafter beer ie only supplied on bread tickets. Subsea Freighter Will Be Loaded by Saturday Evening Baltimore, Md., July 14. Th work offloading the German ubmarine Deutschland with its return cargo of nickel and rubber was begun this aft ternoon and proceeded- With a speed that promised to have it completed l.y tomorrow night. No hint could be obtained from any source as to the date of departure of the vessel. HUGHES TO SPEAK AT DETROIT AUG. 7 Republican Candidate Will Go from Straits City to Chicago and the Twin Cities. TWO WEEKS IN ROCKIES Bridgeport, N. Y., July 14. Charles E. Hughes will open his campaign with a speech at Detroit on the night of August 7. He will then go to Chi cago, then to St. 1'aul or Minne apolis for his third speech. In announcing this program today Mr. Hughes said he would adhere to his plan to make only ten or twelve set speeches on the trip, which would take him to the Pacific coast, and will return cast in time to go into Maine before the September elections. Plans for the other speeches he will make on the transcontinental trip have not matured, but lie will spend the', two weeks . originally contem plated in the Rocky mountains. Deutschland Crew Member in Wilson's Chair at Washington Washington, July 14. Six seamen from the German submarine mer chantman Deutschland came oyer from Baltimore today and were en tertained at the White House and the Navy department. A White House attache showed them through the east, blue and red rooms, the cabinet room and President Wilson's private office. One of the youngster? asked per mission to sit in the president's chair at the head or the cabinet table, and he did it while his comrades grinned appreciation. All were much inter ested in the war maps showing the positions of the armies in Europe, and they pointed with pride to the names of their home towns in Ger many. Orpet Case May Go to Jury Today Waukegan, III, July 14. At the noon recess there was said to be every prospect that the case of Will H. Orpet, charged with the murder of Marion Lambert, would te in the hands of the jury Saturday, a day earlier than had been expected. James H. Wilkcrson, chief of Or pet's counsel, made the final argu ment for his client, asserting that the element of reasonable doubt loomed large in every circumstance of the case except where they had been ab solutely removed by the defense, o'clock. CLARKE NAMED FOR SUPREME BENCH Judge of Federal District Court at Cleveland Nominated for Seat in Highest Court. SUCCEEDS JUSTICE HUGHES Washington, July 14. J. H. Clarke, United States district judge at Cleve land, O., was nominated by President Wilson today as an associate justice of the supreme court to succeed for mer Justice Hughes, the republican nominee for the presidency. ' The president discussed his (elec tion at today'a cabinet meeting and sent the nomination to the senate im mediately afterward. Judge Clarke was appointed federal district judge about two years ag6 by President Wilson., He is a bach elor and-.has devoted most .of leisuse hours of his life to reading. He was born at Lisbon, 0., and will be fifty-nine ye,rt old in September. In politics he has been a life-long democrat and ran against Mark Haiuia for the United States lenate in 1903. A sketch of his life, given out at the White House today, tays: "He has been conspicuous in pro gressive movements in Ohio and in the nation at large." , Since becoming district judge in Cleveland, he has taken especial in terest in the naturalization and Americanization of foreign-born citi zens. Particular attention is directed in the White House sketch to the fact that despite his service as general counsel for a railropd before going on the bench, Judge Clarke, in his campaign for the senate, advocated a 2-cent railroad passenger law. In Cleveland Judge Clarke, for a long time, was associated in politics with the late Mayor Johnson and Secretary Baker. He has been classed as a progressive democrat and has taken part in several reform move ment!. Strikes and Lockouts Show Big Increase Washington, July 14. There were rti ore strikes aud lockouts in the United States in the six months end ing June 1 than in the entire year of 1915, figures compiled by the bureau of labor statistics showed today. Be tween December 1 and June 1 1,432 labor disputes, were reported, while during 1915 the number was 1,405. Wool Crop Worth About Seventy-Five Millions Washington, July 14. American sheep raisers will realize about $75, 000,000 for this year's wool crop, the Department of Agriculture announced today. Average prices during June were 287 cents a pound, higher than for many years. Medical Expert Gives Advice On Checking Deadly Child Plague "Keep the hands and mouth clean," is the advice laid down by Dr. Thomas Darlington as the best means of preventing the spread of infantile paralysis. " Dr. Darlington was commissioner of health in New York City for six years. At the solicitation of the sol diers' wclfacc committee and by ar rangements with Secretary of War Baker, Dr. Darlington left for the Mexican border to make a scientific study of sanitation there. He will spend his "vacation" in that work. Rodgers Will Look Into Seizure of the Hearst Ranch Washington, July 14. Special Afccnt Uodgers, at Mexico City, was instructed by the State department today to investigate a complaint made by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst that her ranch in Mexico had hern confiscated by the dc facto government. BRITISH ATTACKS FAIL, SAYS BERLIN German War Office Says First Rushes Were Repulsed and New Battles Are On. RUSSIANS BEATEN BACK Berlin, July l4. (By Wireless to Sayville.) New and violent battles are being fought on both sirjes of the Somme river this morning, says the official statement, given out today by the German army headquarters staff. Early this morning, the statement says, British troops attacked in the sector of Mametz Wood and Longue val and made repeated effort! to cap ture Tronej Woods'. The first British attacks were beaten back and new battlea are in progress. , - : East of Hie Meus river',; itV ; ' the, region of Verdun,' the French" at tempted to reconquer1 territory cap tured by the Germans, the official statement lays. Near fhe fortress of Soiiville, the' French attack was im peded1 by a curtain of fire, it is de clared, and in the vicinity of Laufee work, the attack was completely re pulsed.' i ' - Russian forces, which had again entered the first line of the German trenches defended by troops of Gen eral Count von Bothmer, were eject ed, the German official statement says, with considerable losset by a counter attack. . The text of the statement says: "On both sides of the Somme new and violent combats are in progress, The British early in the morning at tacked in the sector of Mametz wood and Longucval, and they made re peated effort in Trones woods, where, yesterday evening the British already were sensibly hit by the rapid ad vance of our reserves. , . "After the first attempts of the enemy had been beaten back, the Brit ish engaged in new attacks. : . "The French, after numerous fail ures in the last few days, met with another setback yesterday, when they attacked, without success, in the vi cinity of Barleux and to the east of Estrees. Neither the French nor their black friends gained one yard of Terrain. "East of the Mause, French at tempts at reconquest failed. , Near the fortess of Souville our curtain of fire impeded the attack. . Near the Laufee works, the attack was flatly repulsed. . "On the rest of the front numer ous enemy patrols, reconnoitering de tachments, were repulsed, German patrols brought in prisotieri from Oulches, Beaulne and from a point west of Markirch. "Eastern theater: Army of General Von' Linsingen: On the Stokhod a German counter attack near Zarecz drove back the Russians, who had ad vanced. We took 160 prisoners and captured some machine guns. "German squadrons successfully re peated their attacks on the east bank of the Stokhod. "Army group of General Count von Bothmer: The enemy. again entered our first line, but was ejected with considerable josses by a counter at tack." , , Meteor Big as House Falls in Arkansas Hot Springs, Ark., July 14. X me teor, the unburied part of which is as large as a five-room house, fell last night on the farm pf J, W. Skipes. twenty miles west of Hot Springs. Farmers of the vicinity today were afraid to aproach the meteor because of. gases and smoke which still were arising from it. A party of local sci entists and newspaper men left Hot Springs to view the meteor. Wilson Goes for Short Cruise on Mayflower Washington, July 14. President Wilson plans to spend the week-end on board the naval yacht Mayflower down the Potomac river and Chesa peake Bay. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, he will leave late today to cruise until late Sunday night or Monday morning. . i , GERMAN SECOND LINE TO NORTH OF SOMMEBROKEN British Resume Offensive and Penetrate Teuton Defenses Along; Front of Some Four Miles. THREE TOWNS CAPTURED Rush Oivcs Britons Possession of Roads Used in Supplying; Part of German Army. ENTHUSIASM IN LONDON BULLETIN. Paris, July 14. The bombardment along the Belgian front has reached a point of the greatest intensity, ac cording to the official statement is sued by the French war office tonight. London, July 14. Fierce counter attacks made by the Germans, in an effort to reconquer some of the, ground captured by the British iiv-4o-day's drive, were completely crushed by the Britisii force, according to the official (statement issued by the war office tonight. British Front in France. lulv 14. (Via London.) The British have now taken both Basentin-Le-Petit and Basentine-Le-Grande, as well as Lon gueval. ' The struggle it continuing in the wood beyond Longueval and on the high points of the ridge. London, July 14. At daylight this morning the British, resuming the of fensive north pf the Somme, attacked the Germa.t second line defenses and, according to the report of their com mander, General Sir Douglas Haig, succeeded in penetrating them on a front of four miles. Press dispatches from the front add that the villages of Baientin-Le-Grand and Longueval, north ot Moutauban, and the remain ing portion of Trone's woods were taken by the British. While it was expected the British would not allow any great length of time to elapseWore continuing their operations, it was hardly believed the second German line would1 4" tacked after only one day of artillery preparation; for it was only the day before yesterday that they completed capture of the first line in the region between Hardecourt and Ovll lers.y The direction of the attack, too, was something of a surprise, for in stead of pushing op toward .uombUa, Genetartfaig chose'to attack ' "'Hit ' flank of the Germans who faced Con talmaison and Ovillers and those who still occupy Pozieres. , ' Cuts OH Oerratn Supplies. ' The advance to Longueval and Ba-zentin-Le-Grand, if , accomplished, gifts the British possession of other important roads running in various directions, which have been a great help to the Germanu in supplying their army directly . south of the Ancre river." ' News of the British Success was re ceived tn London with the greatest enthusiasm. It has .given added . (Oontljiuad on Vasa Two. Column Two.) Summer Chateau of King of Greece is Destroyed by Fire London, July 14. The Royal "cha teau at Tatoi, Greece, occupied as the summer residence of King Constan tine, has been destroyed by fire, says a Reuter dispatch from Athens. The king, Queen Sophia and members of the royal family escaped and took ref uge with Prince Nicholas at his home in Kephisia. The fire started in the forest near the chateau and spread to that building and to the adjoining barracks of the rnral police, which were destroyed. Several lives, in cluding those of officers, were lost in the burning of the barracks. . Kin of Emperor of Austria Are Called Zurich (Via Paris), July 14. Mem bers of the Austrian imperial family have been summoned to Schoenbrunn owing to the illness Of the emperor, Francis Joseph, according to news dis patches from Innsbruck. Several spe cialists are attending the aged king emperor and the news of the war is being withheld from him. . f. , Man Who Foiled Plot . to Strip Arsenal is Dead Pittsburgh, Pa., July 14. John M. Larimer, aged 96, who foiled the. plot in I860 to strip the Allegheny arsenal of ammunition and cannon in order to arm ports in confederate territory, the exposure of which led to the resignation of John B. Floyd, secre tary of wacin the cabinet of Presi dent James Buchanan, is dead at his home here. He was born here. Death was due to old age. , They're not all big opportunities. Only a few of the ads in the "Business Chance" columns are what might be turned into a big 05. tunities, but each ad is an opening which can be turned into a big op portunity by the right - man. v V - "You may be the man.'