A peddler makes sales A
merchant make customer.
Customer! r made by constant
advertising, good values and uni
form courtesy.
Do a merchantnot a peddler.
The Omaha Daily Bee
THE WEATHER
FAIR
VOL. XLVI NO. 45.
OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1916 TEN PAGES.
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DETROIT PEOPLE
WELCOME HUGHES
TO THEIR CITY
Republican Presidential Nom
inee Met by Great Throngs
of Citizens and Escorted
to His Hotel.
RECEPTION AN OVATION
One Hundred Thousand Per
sons Listen to Addresses
of the Candidate.
WISHES SUCCESS TO ALL
Detroit. Mich., Aug. 7. Charles E.
Hughes, speaking today to forty man
ufacturers of Detroit and vicinity, em
ploying nearly 100,000 men, congrat
ulated them upon what they had done
for the welfare of their employes and
told them that' the democracy of
the United States would not stand for
a continuation of "this alleged strife
between capital and labor," and de
clared that American workmen should
not be regarded as a mere economic
unit, but as "a fellow worker, a human
being."
Mr. Hughes' address was impromp
tu and followed a brief speech by J.
M. Eaton, spokesman for the manu
facturers, who outlined the welfare
measure for emploves taken by indus
trial concerns here, and suggested
that the nominee endorse a movement
looking to the formation of a pational
welfare association of manufacturers.
Mr. Hughes said he regarded the sug
gestion very favorably.
Parade to Hotel.
Upon his arrival here Mr. Hughes
headed a long automobile parade from
the station to his hotel, a mile and
a half away. A brass band played
popular tunes and giant firecrackers
were exploded along the line of
march. Thousands oi persons wit
nessed the parade.
With Mr. Hughes' arrival, it became
known that an advisory committee of
five or nine members probably would
be named during the week by Chair
man Willcox to assist him in the man
agement of the campaign. It was
said that three of the members will
be William Loeb, Charles D. Hilles
and George B. Cortelyou.
Men Not Mechanical Units.
In his address to the manufacturers
Mr. Hughes said in part:
"It is a mistake to think of the men
through whose activity production is
possible, as mere economic units.
They are human beings. We are all
working men in this country. We
are .in .different spheres of activity,
but we ought to have a sense of co
operation so that every man takes
pride in what he is doing and in doing
it to the best of his ability, because
he is working alongside of every
other man for the good of the
country.
;Tn your welfare work you are but
tressing democracy. The human fac
tor is, after all, the important factor.
You may develop your physical
plants, your physical instrumentali
ties, distribution and everything that
goes to make up the material side of
prosperity, but you are absolutely
hopeless without the human factor,
and in America, the land of free men,
the man who is at work for a living
must; feel that the country is doing
the right thing by him. He is en
titled to be safe in his work, to have
every precaution taken against every
sort of accident that can be pre
vented. Must Protect Workmen's Lives.
"A man is put at work. How can
he refuse the iob which stands be
tween him and starvation? It is per
fectly idle to say in our industrial
conditions that he can take or refuse
the work, according to his idea of
the salety appliances, which may be
provided to protect him. You have
not to protect him. No man can work
in any position where his life, his
limb or his health are suoject to any
unnecessary risks. That is good
Americanism and that is good business.
"We are not materialists in this
country; we are all idealists, but the
one thing that appeals to the -working
man is the idea that he is equal
to some job in a first-class way. That
is what makes him proud: that
what makes him satisfied, and when
you consider our great industrial
manufactures and the enormous ex
tension of our industrial markets, the
hope is that in all this there will be
right through it the spirit ot human
(Continued on Pare Two, Column One.)
The Weather
For Omaha, Council Bluffs and vicinity:
Fair tonight nd Tuesday; somewhat warm
er Tueiday.
Temperatures
J! i a. in ii
y 8 a. m 72
7 J 9 a. m 73
11 a. m 73
12 m 74
1 p. m 75
2 p. m 76
JLecal Weather Record.
1B16. Itli, 1814. 191!.
Low eat la it ntsnt .... 71 65 73 70
Freclpu&tlon oi . t.
Normal temperature for today, 78 denreea.
peflclvncy In precipitation alnca March
1, s.31 Inches.
Excess corresponding period, 1916, 0.73
Inches.
Deficiency corresponding period, 1914, y
Meat.
Weather Conditions,
Ttmperatures continued high east of tha
Rockies during Saturday and Sunday. They
war well tip in tne nineties In Nebraska
on both days, and maximum of 100 to 103
occurred In the southern portion of ths
slate. Scattered showers occurred In Ne
uresks, the upper valleys, and upper Lake
region, being generally light, except they
liraeka anJ northwestern Iowa. The show-
ure were followed by no me what cooler
weather In the upper Missouri valley and
west to the mountains. The outlook Is
for fair weatner tn tut vicinity tonight and
TuMu&y. ana souiewaui warmer Tuesday.
NEW CITIZENS TAKE
OUT FINAL PAPERS
Judge Wakeley's Naturaliza-
tion Mill Grinds All Day, Turn
ing Out New U. S. Subjects.
GUS RENZE TAKES OATH
NATURALIZATION QUIZ.
'Who li the governor of Nebrmak. ? Mr.
Da hi nun."
"Who are candidate, for the presidency?"
"Ford and Roosevelt."
"What I, the difference between the king
of the land from which you came and the
presldcntf" "The king ha, a steady Job."
"Who would take President Wilson's place
In case of his deatbf" "Somebody else."
"What Is the constitution?" "The biggest,
law of the Totted States."
"The constitution Is the fundamental law
of the nation. What do you mean by 'funda
mental 7 ten veis mcnt. '
Who makes the law, of tho United
States?" "Congress." Where does congress
meet?" "At Washington." "Why not In
Omaha?" "Because they haven't got a
building big enough."
Fifteen dollars for a fish peddler's
license expended in his behalf by Max
Y. Faier, fish dealer, 2430 Franklin
yesterday opened the way to citizen
ship for Benjamin Schlanger, 2420
Charles street and transformed him
from a subject of Czar Nicholas of
Russia to a patriot who lias pledged
his powers to the defense of the na
tional honor of the United States
against all comers.
Schlanger appeared before Judge
Arther C. Wakeley for final citizen
ship papers, but when questioned by
United States Naturalization Exam
iner J. W. Gurnett admitted that he
had been peddling fish in the city
since July 1, 1915, without a license.
A worthless permit from a so-called
political friend convinced Schlanger
that he was within the law.
"I'm too poor to buy a license,"
complained the fishmonger, but the
examiner refused to allow Schlanger's
final papers until he had secured a six
months peddler's license. The $15 re
quired by the city was produced by
Max Faier ,one of Schlanger's wit
nesses. Schlanger, on the witness
stand, promised to repay the amount
and the former Russian Jew, erstwhile
of Antwerp, left the court house a
regular revamped American .
Mill Grinds All Day.
All day long Judge Wakeley's
naturalization mill was kept grinding,
the applicants hurrying to and from
the court room to the offices of Clerk
of the Court Robert Smith in steady
streams from 9:30 in the morning un
til closing time in the afternoon. The
work will be continued today until all
of the 112 cases have been passed
upon. The law requires that each ap
plicant shall have two witnesses and
in addition to witnesses there is the
quota of curious friends. Preliminary
examinations in the federal building
before Examiner Gurnett have light
ened the labors of the final question
ing. . v.- ;:'!. t
,,..--rRenxe Takes Oath.
' Gu stave Adolph Renze of Alc-Sar-Ben
fame,- who declares in his applica
tion that he is a designer and artificer,
appeared in midafternooft to take the
final step toward citizenship. Clerk
Robert Smith of the district court and
Deputy Clerk Ansel Steers vouched
for the character of Renze, both con
fessing that they have known him for
more than twenty years. Renze has
been a resident of the United States
since April 2, 1872, and a Nebraska
resident since June 17, 1889. He was
born in Germany in 1861, coming to
this country on the steamer Abys
sinia from Havre. His father neglected
to take out final papers and it was
but recently that Renze discovered he
was not a real citizen. Despite efforts
of a photographer to secure action
pictures of Renze taking the oath of
allegiance, he foiled all attempts.
Friends who have been associated
with Fritz Detlof Henry Moeller,
farmer of Florence, for more than
fifty years were his witnesses when
he secured his final papers after re
siding in the United States since 1873.
Mr. Moeller was the oldest applicant
examined. He was born in Germany
in 1851. Clan J. Schmidt testified that
he had known Moeller for forty
years, while Carsten D. Hamann de
clared that he had been a neighbor
for more than fifty years. Moeller
is the father of nine children.
Wants Passport for Wife.
Naturalization papers were required
in the case of Soren Kristian Lund,
714 North Sixteenth street, in order
that his wife, who is now visiting in
Scotland, may get a passport to re
turn to this country. Lund is a por
ter in his brother's saloon, a Dane
by birth and since 1910 a resident of
this1 country, coming " here on the
Lusitania.
.John Divornicki, 4130 N street,
tripe man at a South Side packing
house, came to the United States from
Bremen in 1901 and does not yet
know the difference between a court
room and a base ball park, if his an
swers to questions of Examiner Gur
nett may be taken at face value. After
much struggling Divornicki explained
that the czar of Russia, his former
master, does not dictate the laws of
the United States.
"Who would take President Wil
son'sp lace in case of his death?" was
asked Jan Wajda, a sturdy Pole from
a South Side packing house. "Bryan,"
came back the answer without-hesitation.
His illusion was rectified.
Wajda is the father of nine children
and came to the United States from
Antwerp in 1905.
Delay in Final Papers.
More than 90 per cent of the foreign-born
residents of Nebraska have
not taken out their final naturaliza
tion papers, according to. Federal Ex
aminer Gurnett.
"Nebraska's laws give aliens the
fight of franchise after they have
taken out their first papers and lived
in the state six months, he explained.
"Only five states allow foreigners to
vote under these conditions, and it
will not be many years until this
matter is remedied. Good effects of
the work of night schools is shown
in the majority of examinations.
Practically every Russian Jew who
applies for papers has learned the
smattering of the English language
with the three, R's in night schools
conducted by charitable institulions,
the Young Men's Christian associa
tion and other organizations.
STREET RAILWAY
STRIKE IN NEW
YORK NEARS END
Matters of Difference Left to
Committee of Representa
tives from Company ar
from Employes' a
AGREEMENT
Submitted A '"o Have
Been Accepy Both Sides
to Labor Controversy.
MEN TO GO BACK TO WORK
New York, Aug. 7. After a confer
ence late today between a committee
of four, presenting the New York
Railways company and officials of the
union, at the office of Mayor Michel,
it was announced by Theodore Rous
seau, secretary to the mayor, that the
tentative agreement submitted for the
settlement of the strike had been ac
cepted by both sides.
President Mahon of the Amal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric railway employes, announced
at thee lose of the employes' meeting
that the tentative agreement had been
ratified and that the men were ready
to go back to work if the agreement
was also ratified by the directors of
the New York Railways company.
DRAWING WATER FOR UNITED STATES OUTPOST AT POINT ISABEL The barrels are
filled at the water tank on the railroad and then drawn to the men by the mule. This
photograph was made at Point Isabel on the Mexican frontier.
Car Magnates Ask
Changes in Plan
To End Strike
New York, Aug. 7. George W. W.
Hanger of the United States board of
mediation and conciliation, announced
here today that as a result of a con
ference between representatives of the
Switchmen's Union of North America
and the railroads, bot!. sides had
agreed to settle their differences by
arbitration.
After conferences with representatives-
of several of the big eastern
railroads and the Switchmen's Union
of North America, G. W. W. Hanger,
of the United States board of media
tion and conciliation, reporter to
headquarters here today that he ex
pected an agreement to be signed be
fore night submitting to arbitration
difficulties between the carriers and
the union ove.- overtime pay and hours
of service.
The differences between the switch
men and the railroads are in no way
connected with those pending be
tween the four railroad brotherhoods
of firemen, engineers, conductors and
trainmen. The demands, presented
last March, are, however,
the Same as those of the brother'
hoods, an eight-hour day and time-and-a-half
for overtime. Eastern and
middlewest roads are involved. The
members of the union number 30,000.
The questions at issue will be set
tled by arbitration, Mr. Hunger said,
under the Newlands' act, which re
quires a board of six arbitrators, two
to be selected by each side and the
remainder two. to be chosen by the
arbitrators already selected or by the
fedral board.
Suff Amendment
Dropped for This
Session by Thomas
Washington, Aug. 7. Senator
Thomas of Colorado, chairman of the
woman suffrage committee, said to
day he had given up hope of getting
a vote on the :uffrage constitutional
amendment at this session of con
gress, because it could not be done
without precipitating prolonged de
bate. "I recently addressed a letter to
each senator," said Mr. Thomas,
"asking if he would consent to the
taking up of this amendment and sub
mitting it to a vote without argu
ment. The responses I received were
about equal in number in consenting
and objecting. Consequently I have
done nothing further about it."
Six Per Cent Tax
On Estates Over
Million Proposed
Washington, Aug. 7. An amend
ment to the inheritance section of the
pending revenue bill which would levy
a tax of 6 per cent on estates aggre
gating $1,000,000 or more, was agreed
upon today by democratic members
of the senate finance committee.
As the section now stands, the pro
posed taxes on other inheritances
would be: One per cent on estates
not in excess of $50,000 ; 2 per cent on
$50,000 to $150,000; 3 per cent on
$150,000 to $250,000 ; 4 per cent on
$250,000 to $450,000, and 5 per cent on
$450,000 to $1,000,000.
Submarine Sighted
Off Maine Coast
Machies Port, Me., Aug. 7. Cap
tain Small of the Cross Island Coast
Guard station reported this morning
that his station had sighted a large
submarine west bound. Its national
ity could not be determined, but the
captain said he had no doubt that it
was an undersea craft. The submarine
was coming to the surface when it
was sighted, and after running awash
fifteen minutes, again submerged. It
was thought that the vessel might be
the German submarine Bremen. So
far as can be learned there are no
United States submarines on the
Maine coast
Washington, Aug. 7. Navy officers
said today no American submarines
were known to be anywhere in the
vicinity of Cross island. They
thought the boat sighed there might
be the German merchant submersible
Deutschland on its homeward voy
age or its sister ship, the Bremen,
bound in lor tne United btatcs.
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ONE MAN PERFORMS
FLORENCE HOLDUP
Taxi Driver Who Piloted Bold
Bandit Tells Story of Inci
dent to Police.
DROVE TO SPRINGFIELD
The first indication that but one
man negotiated the daylight robbery
of the Farmers State bank at Florence
was learned by the police when Harry
Daywalt, a taxi driver, appeared be
fore the authorities and told the
story of having piloted the automo
bile used by the daring robber.
Daywalt informed the police he
received a call from Fifteenth and
Douglas streets. He picked up a
well-appearing young chap, who
asked to be driven to Florence. Day
wait did so.
His fare went to the Farmers
bank and told Daywalt to wait. When
the man appeared again he thrust a
revolver in the taxi driver's face and
ordered him to "travel some."
Following the bandit's directions
Daywalt drove the car around the
north end of town for an hour, after
which he struck off for Springfield,
Neb. There the bandit gave the taxi
pilot $25 and dismissed him.
As to the Florence motorcycle
policeman who said he gave chase to
the bandit, Daywalt laughed. He said
he saw the cop in pursuit and ex
pressed a fear of arrest, but the rob
ber laughed and said, "I shoved a
gun under sis nose a minute ago and
he's still paralyzed from fright."
Visits Bank Before.
Daywalt told Maloney Of his trips,
interspersed with some of the re
marks of the bandit. He said:
"I went out to that bank two days
aim and saw $2,000. hut tlier wpre
ictua41jttoV many punks around for me to
glue it, remarked the thiet as he ac
cepted a cigarette from Daywalt
which he had forced the latter to roll
for him. "If I had known this is all
they had I'd have taken a crack at
that other bank, too. I wouldn't walk
across the street for this much jack."
Just before leaving the territory
north of Benson the bandit leaned
over the edge of the car and fired two
shots into the dust. "She's working
on two cylinders, anyway," he
laughed, and pushed fresh cartridges
in the place of the empty shells.
Throughout the drive toward
Springfield the fugitive seemed to
take delight in informing Daywalt
what "a bad guy" he was. "Me and
a few pals" took a crack at the hick
bank of some time back, and after
we'd given the box five drinks of soup
the hicks swooped down on us and
we had to fight. I got plugged in the
leg, and five years besides. They
had me anchored and in stripes the
most of the time, but I left in 1903."
"Once me and a partner got
through with $40,000 that is, I got
away, but they clamped him and give
him a year for every $1,000 we took."
Knew His Business.
Along toward sundown Daywalt
said, "Can't you let me go now? I've
been pretty white with you and I
want to get back home."
"You're all right, old man, but I've
been at this game too long to take
any chances. Wait until the sun gets
a little lower, then drive slowly to
ward the town and before you know
it I'll be on my way." This is exactly
what happened, according to the
chauffeur, who doesn't know exactly
when his companion left the ma
chine. Daywalt says they left Flor
ence by the road going west, north
of the fort, and zigzagged south and
west, avoiding all towns.
"How old do you think I am?" put
the bandit during the trip. Daywalt
replied, "About 26." "All wrong, kid;
I'm 32, and I'll be 132 by the time the
bulls catch sight of me." That the
robber was a stranger in Omaha was
indicated by the fact that he not once
mentioned the name of any street,
and continually asked on what thor
oughfare they were riding. Although
the officials of the Florence bank do
not recall the man's presence in their
establishment two days before the
robbery, Captain Maloney is ecrtain
that he was there.
Daywalt spent the morning at
headquarters in going carefully over
the Rogues' Gallery, but his search
was unsucessful. The police have
wired to Chicago for pictures and de
scriptions of offenders that tally with
his account of the man.
The taxi driver came to Omaha im
mediately and notified the authorities.
RUSS CAPTURE
MORE FORTIFIED
GALICIAN TOWNS
Petrograd Announces Further
Successes in Drive Along
the Sereth and Graberka
Rivers.
FIGHTING NEAR VERDUN
Paris Report Tells of Repulse
of Assaults by Germans at
Three Points.
GERMAN3 RETAKE TRENOF
Storm Does Heavy
Damages to Stores
At Sioux City, la.
Sioux City, la., Aug. 7. Thousands
of dollars' damage was done by a
severe electrical and thunder storm
which struck this city last night.
Small outbuildings were wrecked,
plate glass windows wrecked and
thousands of trees damaged by the
wind. Hundreds of wires were
broken.
Breaking of store windows and the
consequent fear of looting resulted
in the calling out of all police re
serves. According to reports the
storm was general
BIG TRACTOR SHOW
OPENS AT FREMONT
Thousands Witness Oponing
Exhibition of Giant Steam
Horses at Annual Display.
HENR FORD BIG ATTRACTION
The Fourth Annual National Power
Farming Demonstration opened at
Fremont yesterday with a large crowd
in attendance. The Weather was ideal
and scores of people motored to Fre
mont to see the giant iron horses
which were on display in the tent city.
Today the plowing demonstrations
begin and everything is in readiness
to show the farmers of Nebraska and
adjoining the many advantages of
power farming.
Henry Ford, the king of motor car
manufacturers, was the center of at
traction and the huge tent where the
Henry Ford & Son tractor is on dis-
filay was taxed to capacity all day
ong. Mr. Ford seemed very greatly
interested in the various makes of
tractors and spent the entire day visit
ing from one exhibit to another and
making inquiries about the different
machines. It was not until nearly 6
o'clock that he and the rest of the
Ford party departed for their Fre
mont abode at the George Wolz camp
on the Platte river, where they will
be, entertained through the evening
hours to the tune of soiUouulc .fur
nished by an Hawaiian orchestra
which came from Detroit with the
Ford party.
Man Killed in
Strike Riot of
Mill Workers
Worcester, Mass., Aug. 7. One
man was injured so seriously that he
died, and several othrs were wound
ed during a riot at the mills of the
Barre Wool Combing company and
the Norway Worsted company this
afternoon, when special officers who
were guarding the plants fired upon
o mob of strikers and sympathizers.
The riot developed when an attempt
was made to reopen -he mills, where
there has been trouble with the Pol
ish employes for three weeks, with
Portunguese strike-breakers. It was
reported that half a dozen persons
were shot, four of them being seri
ously wounded.
One victim of the shooting died as
he was being taken to a hospital.
Early in the afternoon the rioters
were still beyond control.
Bomb Exploded
Under Big Taxi
Garage at Chicago
Chicago. Aug. 7. A . .les of as
saults on drivers of the Shaw Taxicab
company's automobiles, representing
efforts to unionize the chauffeurs, ac
cording to John W. Hertz, manager
of the company, culminated today in
the explosion of a bomb at the rear of
the Shaw company's building. Al
though 150 auto "lobiles were in the
building, little damage was done to
them. Guests in several nearby ho
tels were frightened by the detonations.
NORRIS NAMED AS
LOAN COMMISSIONER
Philadelphia Banker Desig
nated as Head of New Farm
System by President,
BOARD HOLDS MEETING
Washington, Aug. 7. George Nor
ris of Philadelphia was designated by
President Wilson today as farm loan
commissioner, executive head of the
farm loan bank system created by the
rural credits act.
Mr. Norris is one of the two demo
cratic members ot the farm loan
board.
His designation as commissioner
was prepared for announcement to
day on the first meeting of the board
to organize and discuss preliminary
plans for its work.
Secretary McAdoo, ex-officio mem
ber of the board, presided over its
meetings, as he does over those of
the federal reserve board, but the law
provides that the member appointed
commissioner shall be executive head
of the system.
Switchmen's Demand
For Eight-Hour Day
To Be Arbitrated
New York, Aug. 7. The efforts of
Mayor Mitchel and of Public Service
Commissioner Strauss to settle the
street railway strike in New York
failed today. After a protracted meet
ing tne directors ot the New York
Railway company declined at this
time to ratify the tentative agree
ment proposed by the two public
officials as a basis for a settlement..
A committee of New York Railway
company directors, neaded by August
Belmont, left the meeting to report
to Mayor Mitchel. It was said tha
the directors desired certain amend
ments to the agreement before giving
it their approval. It was believed
that the action of the directors would
lead to further negotiations with the
strike leaders.
The striking employes today rstified
the tentative agreement proposed by
Mayor Mitchel and Public Service
Commissioner Straus. In substance
the agreement provides, it was
learned:
First, that the company shall con
cede the men's rlgnt to organize: sec
ond, the company shall agree to meet
and deal with any men whom the em
ployes might select as a committee
in the event of differences arising;
third, the questions of wages and
hours of labor shall be placed in the
hands of committees representing
both sides for settlement if possible
by August 20: fourth, that if no
agreement is reached by August 20
the ditlcrcnces snail be referred to an
impartial board of three citizens for
arbitration.
Dr. John, Lecturer and
Educator, is Dead
Greencastle, Ind., Aug. 7. Dr.
John P. D. John, aged 73, former
president of Depaum university and
one of the best known Methodist
lecturers and educators in the coun
try, died here today of hardening of
the arteries. He had been ill for
somoe time.
Pope Will Protest
Deportation of
Women and Girls
Paris, Aug. 7. The pope, after a
careful study of the protest against
the deportation of inhabitants of
northern France has decided to make
a protest to Germany, according to
a news dispatch from Rome received
here.
The protest was sent to the pope by
the bishop of Lille and the archbishop
of Rheims. It is stated that the pope
will ask Berlin that at least women
and young girls be sent back to their
homes and that he will publicly ex
press his reprobation of the action of
the German military authorities if his
protest is ignored.
Petrograd, Aug. 7. (Via London.)
Further successes for the Russians
along the Scfeth and Graberka rivets
in northern Galicia south of Brody,
were announced by the war olice to
day. The Russians captured strong
ly fortified positions in the region
of the villages of Zvyjin, Kostiniec
and Reniuv.
French Repulse Germans.
Paris, Aug. 7. The repulse of Ger
man attacks at Thiaumont and in the
Vaux and Chapitre woods, in the Ver
dun sector, is announced in the offi
cial statement issued by the French
war office this afternoon.
The statement records a vigorous
artillery duel north of the Somme and
in the region of Chaulnes. The French
screen fire checked the German at
tack at Thiaumont. In the . Vaux
Chapitre woods the Germans pre
ceded thei- attack by a heavy bom
barrmeut, but .their efforts to ad
vance were frustrated by the machine
gun fire ond rifle fire of the French.-
Three German aeroplanes are said
to have been brought down on the
Somme front and two captive bal
loons destroyed. - '
Germans Retake Trench.
Berlin, Aug. 7. (Via London)
German troops have recaptured por
tions of the trench which had been
taken by the British near Poziera, on
the Somme front, it was officially an
nounced today by the Germany army
headquarters.
In the Carpathians, the German
statement adds. German troops have
gained the Plaik and Deskowata
heights on the Cheremoch river.
German Counter Attack Fail. -
London, Aug. 7. Several small
counter attacks by the Germans east
of Pozieres last night were repulsed,
the war office announced today. The
Germans are bombarding British posi
tions between the Anc.re and the
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Tram tmployes
. Will . Resubmit ,
Demands to Road
New York,- AugV 7. The task of '
Counting' the votes of about 400,000
railroad employes on the question of
event that their demands fpr an eight
hour day, and time and a half pay,
for overtime are finally denied, was
completed just before -noon today, it
was announced at headquarters here'
of the four railroad brotherhoods. Al
though no official statement could be
obtained as to the result, it was learn
ed that the vote was overwhelmingly
in favor of a strike. '
The full returns will be known at '
10 a. m. tomorrow, when the leaders -of
the men, President Garretson of
the Railway Conductors, W. S. Stone,
president of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers; W. S. Carter,
president of the Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers, and W. G. Lee, presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, will resubmit their de
mands to the railroad manaffers.
Mr. Garretson, the official spokes
man of the men, said today that the
order for the general strike would not
be given until all efforts to reach an
amicable agreement failed. While re
iterating that the men will not con
sider the railroads' plan of arbitra
tion under present conditions, lie
hinted that if a different form of ar
bitration is proposed than under the
Newlands act, the men will meet the ,
railroads half way in avoiding a gen
eral strike. :
Republican State j
Committee Will
Meet Saturday
(From a Staff Corrsspondsnt)
Lincoln, Neb, Aug. 7. (Special.)
Vice Chairman E. D. Beach of the
republican state central committee to
day issued a call for a meeting of the
committee in this city next Saturday
at 2 o'clock to fill the office of chair
man of the committee, made vacant
by the resignation of Jesse McNish
Saturday. A meeting of the republi
can candidates who-reside in or near
Lincoln was held here today, but no
matters of great importance were
taeken up. , . -.
Child Labor Law Would End Police
Power of States, Says Overman
Washington, Aug. 7. An attack on
the constitutionality of the pending
child labor bill was made in the sen
ate today by Senator Overman of
North Carolina. He insisted that the
issue should be submitted to the
states as a constitutional amendment.
"If this legislation is constitu
tional," declared the senator, "there
will be nothing left of the rights of
states, but there will be an absolute
absorption of the police powers of
the forty-eight sovereign common
wealths, and there will be no barrier
in the way of centralization of all
power in Washington, to which goal
we are now rapidly drifting.
"This bill is not for the purpose of
rcgu'ating child labor, but its main
purpose its ultimate purpose is un
der the guise of regulating com
merce, to regulate production in the
manufactories and mills of the coun
try. It is to put a slate under duress
and compel it to do that which some
states have done in order, as has been
stated in this debate, to have uni
formity." Senator Overman submitted statis
tics designed to sho, a benehcia! ef
fect upon society of child labor. Rec
ords for 1910, he said, showed that
only fifteen children in 100,000 be
tween 14 and 16 years of age in North
Carolina were committed to jails or
work houses as compared with 29
in Massachusetts, 199 in Rhode Is
land and 122 in Missouri. .
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and
Again
Ever since the first
week in March
BEE Want Ads,
have increased by
more than -1.000
PAID ADS each
week. '
1195 MORE
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weak ending 8 5 than -same
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