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Part One NEWS SECTION v PAGES 1 TO 12. The Omaha Sunday Bee THE WEATHER COOLER !-;'. VOL. XLVI NO. 7. OMAHA. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY SO, 1916 SIX SECTIONS THIRTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. RAM IS FALLING OVER WESTERN PARTJF STATE Cooling Winds on Outer Border 1 of Nebraska Run Down Meroury to 64 in Half an Hour's Time. WET BREAKS HOT SPELL Precipitation Through Consid erable Portion Brings Crops Relief. CHANGE IS VERY SUDDEN Am.rlUo, Tex SvlOkUhom Cltf.... M BMtoa 76IOmb M Buffalo MPmH IK Chloio 8 l'bonU 10 Chqrma. 2iFltMburgh SS Il.v.nport lMIPu.hl. 9t Dnr SlIRopid air 1 Dm MoIbm 100l8.lt Lok. Cltr-... M Dodo City SSlKo.lo Fo U Dubuque ....100gu fiudie) 19 Huron 100 Hon Diet. 74 Kum. Cltr S48hrMn TS Keokuk ....KXmiou illy M MomphU ,. iS'Ht. Loul M MlBBOopelhl MIVoktntuM M Knr York WlWoehUictea North riotto MWlnlpo( K , Rain in western Nebraska. Thut did the first chapter of the weather man's prediction come to pa'si. .'.-; Cooler for eastern Nebraska today. It is devoutly hoped that this, the second section, will be fulfilled also. Omaha had another rather unpleas ant day on Saturday, but not as bad as it might have been. The maximum was only 95, and while the humidity was some annoying, a steady 'breeze kept discomfort down to a minimum. Special telegrams from towns in the west end of the state came early in the evening with news of rain. This condition is' traveling east and is due along the Missouri river today. Rain in Western Counties. Hemingford, Neb, Jury 29. (Spe cial Tejegtam.) General rain fell over the north half of Box Butte and south half of Dawes, one-half to one and one-half inches and comes in time to save the corn and potatoes and help spring wheat and oats which are late. this year. Ellsworth, Neb., July 29. (Special Telegram.) The intense heat that has prevailed here for the last few weeks wS. broken this 'evening by a splendid rain followed by cooling winds mat ran we thermometer down l th to 64 above in less than' thirty min utes. ' :, ;! A gentle rsiri is 'now falling with indications of its Continuance through, out the night. The heated spell just closed bore a close resemblance to the drouthy conditions of the early mine' tits in" the sand-hills, The surplus rains Of the last year Or two aided' greatly in overcoming the damaging influence of tWsoutheast hot wind that has blown constantly throughout the heated spell. The cooling breezes conies a a blessing to both, humans and stock as. conditions were Decani' mg very depressing. Crop Conditions Fine. Northwestern-agents reporting on crop conditions find the corn as "good," with the exception of Gen eva and Harvard, where they termed it "fair." Soil conditions are generally fair and estimates of the time before corn will be materially injured Vary from two to ten days. ; ' ' The tone of the entire report is optimistic but almost every station qualifies the corn crop statement with the provision, "If we get rain soon." Creighton says, "Cooler weather and rain needed to make record crop of corn." Lehigh reports that corn will stand ten days of hot weather with out rain. Exeter says that the corn is tasseling and needs cooler weather and rain to insure crop which is not yet materially damaged. Most of the agents report alfalfa cut for the second time, with good yield and fine bright color unspoiled by moisture. If the dry spell con tinues the fields which have been left coo , (Continued o Page Tin, Column Two.) The Weather rbrtiika: Generally fair, illvhtly cooler '"xtnai portion and cut and aouth-centrat por tion!! Sunday. Y low. Oenerally fair with Sunday partly 'kmdy; lightly cooler west and north-central portions. "'- Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday t 6 a. m. 71 a. m............. 77 . 7 a. m 71 . 11 a. m It 11 ai tl 1 p. m t! i p. m. 1 I p. m. .... tS 4 p. m ... t " I p. m.. ........... 2 6 p. ra., ..,,,..... tl T p. m..., to . I p. nu 87 ComparatlT Leeal Keosrd. 11. IMS. 1M. ltlt. Highest yesterday ... tfi II tt 100 Lowett yesterday ... 7T 9 '71 76 Mean temperaturs .. - 71 II II Precipitation 09 .of T .00 Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature .. 77 Excess for the day... ,. t Total excess since March I..,..., 1F Normal precipitation .13 Inch Deficiency for the day. ,11 Inch -Total rainfall stnee March U M7 Inches Deficiency since March 1 ....... I.ll Inches Excess for cor. period, ltlt, ... l.W inches Deficiency for cor. period. 1114 S.24 Inches Reports FroM Btotloew Mil. IL Station and Stats . Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. '. ? p. m. est Cheyenne, cloudy ....J..IS tl Davenport, part cloudy, .It 104 Qenver, cloudy 71 ' 14 Dee Moines, clear. ......... 14 100 Dodge City, clear It . . irsndet. clear : North Platte, clear..... .3 tt ,i Omaha, clear ...,..t0 tfi ' .1 Pueblo, cloudy 14 tl Rapid City, raining 61 - 7 .1 Halt Lake City, clear.,.. II 14 Suite Fe, part cloudy. .44 74 Sheridan, cloudy 44 71 Bloui City clear ......,.t 14 . Valentine, part cloudy , .11 91 .1 T Indicates trace of precipitation. - JU WBL8H, Mstsoroloflst. fall. L '.00 .09 . .HO HEADS 0. 0, P.. COUNTY 0EN-f:TEAL-COJIIiITTlS. i limn iiiHNiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiii1 F.;S. HOWELL. FRANK HOWELL IS COMMITTEE HEAD T. J. MoOnire and William E. Rhodes Vice Chairman and Treasurer. MEET IN COURT BOOM Frank S. Howell, former United States attorney in this district, was elected chairman of the Douglas county republican central committee. T. J. McGuire, assistant city attor ney, was elected vice chairman and William E. Rhodes of the United States National bank was made treas urer. This was the business transacted at the organization meeting of the new county committee ejected at the county convention last Saturday. The meeting was held shortly after 2 o'clock in Court Room No. 1 in the court house. Byron Burbank pre sided over the organization meeting and Guy Kiddoo was secretary. Under the resolution passed last Saturday at the county convention thej chairman ot the new committee is authorized to appoint a secretary and an executive committee of seven. This will be done later. Suspect in Bomb , Case Is Charged r ' ; With Murder .i '...-,)"- - . San . Francisco,; . July 29. Israel JVeinburg, a Jitney bus driver, one of nine suspects held ih connection with the investigation of the preparedness parade., bomb explosion which oc curred' Week ago, was charged with murder today,, this being the first formal complaint to be filed in the case.. The warrant alleges complicity in the death ot Oeorge t. Lawlor, one of nine killed by the explosion. Wife of Senator Healy Killed in ; Auto Accident Billings, Mont., July 29 Mrs. John A'.' Healy of Hibbing, Minn., wife of State Senator John A. Healy, was killed yesterday when an automotive driven by her husband went over an embankment at Elbo creel;, about thirty miles southwest ot here and, turning a complete somersault, pinned the woman's body beneath it. Sena tor Healy was not seriously injured. Their 16-year-old daughter was slight ly hurt., Troops on Border In Fine Condition New York, July 29. Troops along the border and in Mexican territory are in excellent condition in so far as health and sanitation are con cerned, according to a report made public today by Dr. Richard Pearson Strong of Harvard university. Dr. Strong made an extended tour of all the border camps at the request of Acting Surgeon General Birming ham of the War department. He was accompanied by Robert Bacotv for merly secretary of state. "In only a few of the camps'was there any room for improvement," says. Dr. Strong's report, "and con ditions there were being speedily rec tified." Council Votes Money .For Hummers Trip The city council, by a vote of four to three, voted to approprite $300 from the miscellanto. s fund for ex penses to cover a trip to be made by Commissioner Hummel of the park department in October The proposed trip is to attend the an nual meeting of the American Asso ciation of Park Superintendents. Notwithstanding that four members of the council voted for the appro priation, it is believed Mr. Hummel will stay home, because he fears the legality "of setting aside money for this purpose. . July Building Record to Show Gain Over. Last Year Chief-Clerk Isitt of -the' city build ing department estimates that July building operations will exceed the same month of last year by $50,000. This month will not be closed until Monday, but the increase is assured. The Omaha Electric Light and Power company has applied for . a permit for an addition to its power plant, at a cost of $117,500. The San ford hotel addition permit will be issued on Monday. .. v ' v o BERLIN RFF ...... .,;. ,. PLAN t...iH FOR POLE RELIEF Vacation Time Germany Assojtg English Scheme for Aid of People of Conquered Territory Not Accepted. MOTIVE IS ATTACKED Asserts Proposition Proposed by Viscount Grey Trans parent Hypocrisy. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT Berlin. July 29. (By Wireless to Sayvillej) At the German foreign office today the following official statement regarding Great Britain's reply to President Wilson's appeal for the feeding of occupied territories was given out: "Viscount Grey (iaejih secretary for foreign affairs) answered the American president's appeal to all the belligerent nations to establish an understanding with regard to re lief work in Poland and issued a declaration which is no more or less than an attempt to include the terri tories occupied by Germany and Aus-tro-Hungary in the system for the starvation of Germany which has been proclaimed by the British govern ment contrary to all international law. "Viscount Grey tries to make the German government responsible for the consequences vwhich this incredir ble plan has for the inhabitants of the occupied territories. This is British hypocrisy which in this case is es pecially transparent." Strike of Street Car Men Spreads To Manhattan New York, July 29. The street car strike spread to Manhattan today. Two hundred conductors and motor men of the Third Avenue railway quit at 10 o'clock this morning, and labor leaders declared that unless some un forseen compromise was effected the remainder of the 1,200 .Thirt) avenue carmen operating in Manhattan would strike within twnty-f our hours., ;. Additional policemen' Were sent to the Bronx today and there was little disorder. . t - Mitchell Disarms 600I,W.W.'sand ; Arrests Leaders Mitchell, S. D July ,29.-The Mitchell Committee of vigilants re sponded to the riot call again this1 morning at 4:30 to meet a train load of 600 harvest hands, said to be' members of the Industrial Workers erf ithe World, and disarm them. The 'army" of hoboes was then marched it) to town, guarded by the citizens with weapons drawn, and was later herded on to a north bound train. A half dozen of the leaders, upon whom were found Industrial Workers of the World literature and membership cards, were placed in jail here. Deutschland Will Get Away Today Washington, July 29. Apparently authentic reports that the German Underwater liner Deutschland would leave Baltimore tomorrow reached of ficial quarters late today and officials conferred on what measures, if any, should be taken to protect American neutrality. There was no evidence of any effort to afford any special pro tection to the submarine. ,1 . . . .. i A""" - - I ( Something tcUa jlg MRS. THIEL KILLED IN ADTOACCIDENT Wife of Omaha Business Man Meets Death When. Car Overturns Near Fremont. OTHER CAB TURNS WRONG v"vfl'.Jt!viiii! "'. tt, , Fremont, ,"Neb., jiilrSpecil Telegram.) In an automobile accf dent five miles north of Fremont at 91 o'clock this morning Mrs. "idwird Thiel, residing at! $10 South Thirty fifth street, Omaha,' was instantly killed. '' -. ; . ; ' ; ?,.: ;'- Accompanied by her husband and children, Helen and Harry, the was bound for Tilden , to visit 'relatives. The family left Omaha this morning. North of Fremont Title! tried to pass another cat that turned In the wrong direction, forcing him into the ditch. His automobile turned turtle. Mrs. Thiel was crushed' under, the front seat. TKe children escaped. Thiel was painfully bruised. Thiel conducts a tailoring estab lishment at 719 South Sixteenth street, in Omaha. , , Andover Of f icer , Killed hy Bandits Aberdeen, S. D., July 29. Den A. Passage, night patrolman of Andover, S. D., died in a hospital here today as the result of a fight last night with two holdup men. Passage found the two highwaymen in the act of hold ing up three Andover citizens. He attacked them and succeeded in dis arming one, but the other freed him self and shot Passage twice through the abdomen. The murderers made good their escape. LESLIE SCORES THE LAWYER WHO GOUGES Says It is Not Province of At torney to Get Everything . ;,.y.v-.:inSi.v;;.-.',;:. SHOULD NOT ESCAPE LAW An attorney's duty to hit client ft a responsibility and a trust,, not an op portunity to get everything in sight, in the opinion of Judge Charles Les lie,' who believes that several Doug las county attorneys have been over stepping the bounds of propriety re cently. "There are many cases which come before the district court in which the actions of counsel is reprehensible," says Judge Leslie. "The Douglas County Bar association should take notice of some of them and discour age sharp practices and the extortion of exorbitant fees. - "When the attorney it found guilty of extortion, as has been the case in at least one recent action in court, he should not go free with merely re storing property or disgorging his gains, but should be severely disci plined by the bar, not only as a pun ishment, but as a deterrent to others." Referring to the recent litigation over the Boob estate in Sarpy county. Judge Leslie says that he believes the Douglas County Bar association should investigate, and that he plans to call attention of the organization to the matter. Two Municipal Band Concerts This Afternoon Municipal concerts will be held Sun day afternoon in Fontenelle and Spring Lake parks, beginning at 2:30. J. M. Finn will be director at Fonte nelle and C. B. Jones 'at the South Side concert. Second Year of the Great War in Review; Resume of Changes Wrought by Battles The second year of the world war closes with the "battle of Europe," a concerted effort of the allies on three fronts to crush the central powers. Which has developed into a titanic struggle before which superlatives, already exhausted, are completely beggared. ' France and Great Britain in the west, Russia in the east, Italy in the south are hurling wave after wave of armed men on the Teutonic lines, together with an avalanche of shells and bombs such as the world has not known up to the present time. For the first time the Teutons are, tem porarily at least, on the defensive on the thousands of miles of the exist ing battle front. A year ago the Germans, continu ing their great drive against the Rus sians, pushed the Slavs back along the entire eastern front, captured Warsaw, the great fortresses' of Kovno, Novo Georgievsk and Brest Litovsk and established lines far in Side Russian territory, which thev maintained virtually unbroken until within the last three months. They seized all Poland, a great slice of Russia to the south, of that coun try, and expelled the invaders from Galicia and Bukowina. Field Mar shals von Hindenburg and von Mack ensen were the heroes of these great successes. . 1 Little Change on West Front. . On the western front the changes in position during the year were com paratively small, but the twelve months were marked by three event's of interest: The battles of Cham pagne and Verdun and the opening of the great Franco-British offensive on the Somme took place in this period. The battle of Champagne opened on September 25, after a week's ter rific bombardment of the German lines by the French, British and Bel- flians. In a week of the bloodiest ighting that had been known up to that time the allies announced that they had taken twenty miles of trenches, six towns and 23,000 pris oners. But there they halted. They could not break through the mighty German wall, and the grim deadlock which marked the western front for so many months was resumed. The battle of Champagne marked the re moval of Sir John French, the Brit ish commander-in-chief from the be- ? inning of the war up to that time, n December, 1915, it was announced that he had resigned to take a home command, and Sir Douglas Haig was appointed his successor. Battle of Verdun, In theer human interest the battle of Verdun probably surpasses all other individual events of the war. On February 23 the German crown prince began his assault of the his toric French fortress, known through out many centuries as the gateway to France. For five months the de fenders have withstood a storm at the fury of which the world has stood aghast. Foot by foot, almost inch by inch, the Germans forged forward, with a reckless disregard of their lives, a tenacity and cool courage which wat only equaled by the heroic determination of the French. On June 3 an unofficial es timate of the German losses at Ver dun placed the total at the appalling figure of 450,000. The assailants fought their way to within about three and a half miles of the fortress, but for several weeks have reporteJ no further progress and the force of their attacks appears to have les sened. Operations on the Somme. The Franco-British offensive on the Somme opened July 1, 1916. It was preceded by a bombardment of unparalleled duration and intensity, featured by the appearance of new and gigantic British howitzers. Under this awful hurricane of big gun fire the German first line de fenses crumbled. When .the British and French troops advanced they re ported that they found trenches in which there was not a single sur vivor, only the dead guarded the silent rifles and machine guns. Ger man first lines were carried over an extent of twenty-five miles and the second positions pierced at certain points, but up to the present the fighting has been indecisive in so far as the forcing of 'the Germans to withdraw their main lines is con cerned. The. fighting has been of the bitterest possible description and the reports of press correspondents at the front teem with accounts of the most amazing heroism and devotion on both sides. Instances have been recorded, of the sole survivor of a company, wounded and without hope, who manned a machine gun and fought to the last amid the bodies of his comrades; of isolated detach ments who stood off their foes for days until succor reached them or (CoatliiMd mi tmt TwoIto, Celnma Om.) BLACKLIST JEANS OKLYJRINCIPALS Not Intended to Extend Be yond Those Firms Named in the Notice. - ,: RUSSIAN DRIVE IS OPEUITiG THE WAY ON TOWARD KOVEL "i v Germans Being1 Pressed Back and Direct Blow at Armies Defending Vladimir Is Expected Soon. - GAIN SIXTY-MILE FRONT SPRINO.RICE EXPLAINS THIS Washington July 29. The British blacklist it not intended to go beyond the principals named in ht list and there can be no direct Injury to Amer ican firms, as explained to the Statt department today by Sir Cecil Spring' Rice, the British ambassador. ' ' Jt was represented that there it no idea of blacklisting a neutral firm merely because it continued to do business with a firm that is black listed, but if a neutral firm habitually and systematically acted as cover for the blacklisted firm and so caused di rect trading between British firms and blacklisted firms, the case would be rtiffronr Regarding payments to blacklisted hrms, tne British action was declared not to affect oayment bv neutrals, as the British government habitually grants licenses to the British firms to pay current aeots to blacklisted firms unless it is clear beyond doubt that such payments would be passed on to or create a credit for enemy firms in enemy territory. The department was informed that many licenses already have been granted to British firms to receive from and pay to Knauth, Nachod & Kunns and Zimmerman & Forshay. and that there is no objection to the Goodyear Tire comnanv filling out standing orders and that it would be well to obtain a statement of the amount unfilled. Man About to Start For Electric Chair Granted Eeprieve Ossining, N. Y., July 29. As Charles F. Stielow wat about to ttart for the electric chair at the state pris on this morning the prison authori ties received word by telephone that Supreme Court Justice Charles L. Guy had granted a stay of execution until 1 1 o'clock tonight. Stielow is condemned to die for the murder of Charles Phelps, a farmer, and his housekeeper, Margaret Wol cott, at Medina, N. Y in July, 1915. Stielow's friends contend that men tally he is scarcely the equal of a 7-vear-old child and that also an al leged confession was wrung from him by third degree methods. Armed British Ship Taken by Germans Berlin, July 29. (By Wireless to Sayville.) A . German ' auxiliary cruiser at 1 o'clock on the morning of July 27, after an engagement with the armed British steamship Eskimo, captured the vessel and brought it into port, according to a statement given out today by the German ad miralty. The encounter took place at a point fifteen miles southeast of Arendal, a Norwegian aeaport on the Skagerak. . ' j t Fined for Working Girls Longer Than the Law Allows Edward Costello, superintendent of the Iten Biscuit company plant, was fined $10 and costs in municipal court of Judge Robert W. Patrick Friday on a charge of violating the law es tablishing fifty-four hours per week as the maximum for working women. Costello admitted the charge, say ing that rush orders for biscuits to be supplied soldiers on the Mexican border was responsible. ' " Estimate of the Results of the First Half of Summer Cam . paign Hade. " TAKE MANY PRISONERS Petrograd, July 29-After being compelled to halt their advance for several weeks before combined Aus trian and German reaistance on the northern wing of General Brussiloffs front, the Russians have again scored an important success and are press, ing the Germans back along the etw tire front from the Kovel-Lutsk rail, way as far south as Brody. Although the , official war office statement gives no particulars of this new penetration of the Teutonic lines. it apparently took place south of Kiselin on the Vladimir-VolynalrJ highway and wat a direct blow at the Austro-German army defending Vladimir-Volynski. ' The unexpected widening of th breach, begun at Lutsk in the early day of the summer campaign, that has thus been effected is considered more significant than the occupation of Brodv. which was a foregone con clusion some days ago. . 1 he fate ot Brody was sealed when General Sak haroff won his brilliant victory on the river Solnevka. Opens Way to Kovel The new Russian attack south ol Lutsk net only threatens Vladimir Volynski, but opens the possibility of a successful attack on Kovel from the south, I since an important rail way line connects these points. The proximity of the Russians to Sokol likewise constitutes a' definite threat at Lemberg 'from that direc tion. I he chief significance ol the new advance, however, is the fact that it is the first decisive success scored by the. Russians against Ger man force, in in prevent campaign. Since the first breach of the Lutsk front,. -the Germans, taking over the defense' of1 Kovel,.. had been able to hold the Russians on the line of the Stokhod. The comhfned effeet of the two Russian advances toward Vladimir Volynski and toward Brody now hat been to drive the Austro-German ar mies back along a sixty-mile front. The fall of Brody, however, has not as yet seriously awakened expecta tions of an immediate pressing on to Lemberg by the Russians. By Rush of Infantry. ' Military critics call attention to the strong natural and artificial defenses protecting the Galician capital. It is expected that the Austrians will make their first stand in the forest imme diately west of Brody, along the bend in the Styr. . According to some confidential in formation, Brody wat taken without artillery preparation by an irresistible rush of the infantry. The onslaught was so sudden and unexpected that the Austrians had no time to remove their enormous depots of munitions and provisions which they en deavored to destroy, but a large part l I ' I l 1 1 '. . . Tl 1 I oi wnicn icu into fiussian nanus. The latest computation of prison' ers taken during the first half of the summer campaign gives a total of 350.000, according to Russian officers, who estimate also that the total Austro-German losses, including: killed and wounded, are close to 100, 000. On the basis of these figures. Colonel Shumsky, military critic of the Bourse gazette, argues that the Austro-German losses since the be ginning of the war have been fully half 'the total of their available forces. Germans Defeated on Somme Paris, July 29. Two strong Ger man detachment! wnicn attempted to reach the French lines at a point west of Vermandovillers, on the Somme front, yesterday were repulsed, it was officially announced by the French War department today. In the region of the French for tress ot Verdun two German attacks on a redoubt in the ravine south of Fleury were checked. The French, the official statement says, made some progress in the region ot Thiaumont Britons Advance Near Highwood. London, July 29. British troops yesterday made progress to the north and northeast of Pozieries and near Highwood, it was officially announced toda. General Sir Douglas Haig also reported that two desperate Ger man counter attacks against Delville Wood were repulsed. Germans Yield Ground. Berlin, July 29. (Via London.) 4 After repeated futile attacks north west of Lutsk, tays the German of ficial statement issued today, the Russians succeeded in penetrating the Herman nncs in we region ox iristyn, and caused the Germans to give up their advanced positions which they nad previously nem beyond the Mok- h aH riw.r. . West of Lutsk, the statement adds, the Russian attack has been brought to a standstill by a German counter attack. Habeas Corpus Case of : Leo Angus Up Monday Habeas corpus proceeding! in the ease of JLeo Angus against Sheriff McShane will be heard Monday morning by Judge Sears. Angus attacks the legality of the police court informations signed with a rubber stamp. He is nuw serving a thirty-day sentence on a vagrant charge. " .- .