A peddler make sales A merchant make customer. Custosaars arc mad by conatan dTortiaiaf, good valuoa aad uni forta eourtoay. Bo a atorckaal not a paddle. The Omaha Daily Bee THE WEATHER FAIR' VOL. XL VI NO. 5 OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1916 TWELVE PAGES. On Tmtnf, at Hotelis. Svw bland, etc.. 5c. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. DEMOS RESORT TO REPUBLICAN ACT TO AID IN STRESS Charles E. Hughes Tells Ta coma Citizens How Vree land Law Carried Them Over Thin Ice. TAKE UP G. 0. P. POLICY Party Under Wilson Compelled in Part to Change Position - To Protect Citizens, Taroma, Wash., Aug. IS. Charles E. Hughes, republican presidential nominee, told an audience in the Ta coma stadium today that he would not shring from war in enforcing American rights "abroad. Mr. Hughes read the democratic program of 1912, declaring for the protection of American rights abroad. "I wanf that made real," the nominee said. "I do not think in making that real that we encounter the danger of war. I would not shrink from it if we did in performing the obvious duty." Mr. Hughes confined his remarks almost wholly to what he termed the need for a protective tariff. "I pro pose a wise tariff without abuses, ' he said, "but frankly a tariff to build up and maintain American industries." Mr. Hughes reviewed democratic tariff legislation and the democratic platform plank of 1912 relating to the tariff. As to Cost of Living. "Our opponents said they would re duce the cost of living," he said. "Be hold the result. "Through an unfortunate develop ment in the republican party, which is now happily healed, our opponents got into power, and they did not re duce the cost of living. We don't propose that the short-comings of the administration with respect to the protection of American industries shall be forgotten. They want to for get them. They think that the. European war, like charity, covers a multitude of sins." Mr. Hughes referred to a statement issued by Secretary McAdoo soon after the war started in 1914, in which it was announced that $500,000,000 in emergency currency was available to relieve financial stress. To Still the Fear. "Our oponents. had to resort, to a republican measure of precaution, the Vreeland law," he said, "to still the fear that their policy had engendered among the people of this country. It was that republican measure that took us through a critical period." . Reverting to the tariff, Mr. Hughes asked-, why . the democratic . party wanted a tariff commission. -"Do they want a commission to frame a tariff for revenue only?" he asked. "I want a tariff commission for the purpose of carrying outthe protective principle, not block it." The antidumping provision of the pending revenue bill was discussed by Mr. Hughes. "I have had some ex perience with statutes," he said, "and if that statute works it will be a tre menduous surprise to me." Mr. Hughes left at 4:40 this after noon for Seattle to fill a speaking en gagement there. Watertown Auditor Given Prison Term Watertown, S. D., Aug. IS. O. M. Lane, formerly city auditor of Water town, pleaded guilty in district court here today, to embezzlement, and was sentenced by Judge Sherwood to four vears in the .penitentiary at Sioux Falls. Lane was charged with having embezzled more than $13,000 of municipal funds while in office. Representative Hastings Has Print Paper Resolution Washington, Aug. 15. Proposals to authorize President Wilson to lay an embargo upon exports of print pa per, to relieve present shortage, until the federal trade commission reports on the paper situation are conttaned in a resolution introduced today by Representative Hastings of Oklahoma which was referred to the foreign af fairs committee. The Weather For Nebraska Fair. Temperature! at Omaha Yesterday. nuur. ijog. UNCHAN6H) m. . 65 7 a. m 67 8 a. m 68 9 a. m 6ft 10 a. m 71 11 a. m 73 12 m 75 1 p, m 77 2 p. m 81 3 p. m M 5 p. m 84 6 p. m A3 7 p. m 82 8 p. m 79 Comparative ocal Record. 1916. 1915. 1914. 1911. I III Highest yesterday Lowest yertterday Mean temperature Precipitation 65 76 68 66 78 75 .21 .00 .00 Temuernture and Drectoitation deDartures from the normal: Norma) temperature 7G Excess for the day 1 Total exctss nlnce March 1 225 Normal precipitation 11 inch Deficiency for the day 11 inch Total rainfall since March 1. ...11.32 inches Deficiency ln,ce March 1 8.76 Inches Excess for cor. period, 1915 01 Inch Deficiency for cor,, period, 1914.. 4.69 Inches Be ports from Stations mt 1 P. M. Station and State - Temp. High- Kaln- of weather. 7 p.m. Cheyenne, cloudy 66 Davenport, clear 76 Denver, part cloudy..,. 74 Des Moines, clear 80 Dodge City, cloudy .... 86 Lander, part cloudy,.,. 70 North Platte, clear .... 86 Omaha, ulear 82 Pueblo, cloudy 74 flapld City, clear 88 Sal: Lake City, clear., 86 Kanta Fe, cloudy Y" ' Sheridan, part cloudy. . 82 Hloux City, cloudy , 83 Valentine, part cloudy.. 82 T Indicates trace of pm;t!ttttlon. , I. A. WKL8H, Meteorologist. est. fall. 80 .64 80 .01 86 .00 84 .00 n .02 86 .0!) 94 .00 8 T 84 . T 90 00 It .01 78 .08 92 .01 84 .00 94 .'id War Summary EMPEROR W1I.MM I again on the eastern front, where the Anstro-German armies are struggling deaperately to withstand the heavy strokes of the Russians In ia llcla and Volhynla. In the latter region the opposing- forces apparently are at a standstill, but In Oallcla the rapid on ward sweep of General Brosslloff Is con tinuing. PKTROURAD TODAY REPORTS the Has slans croaslng to the west banks of the Zlota Llpa river at some points. .Further south General Letehltslcy Is continuing his advance below Hallos. BRITISH WAR OFFICE today reports the clearing of the Germans from nearly all the trenches In the Poileres region, In whlett they gained a footing Sunday. The French 1b the Verdan region, aceordlns; t Paris, haw recaptured German trenches In the Vanx-Fleury sector. BOMB ANNOUNCES FURTHER advances for the Italians In their campaign on the Carso plateau, southeast of Gorilla. ITALIAN NAVY HAS LOST one of Its big dreadnaughts, according to a Turin dis patch, which tells of the blowing up of the 23,000-ton Leonardo Da Vinci In Ta rauto harbor as the result of a fire. Of the crew 300 were drowned. TWO MEN DROWNED IN SEWER OUTLET Employes of Carter Lake Club Lose Their Lives Near River Monday. ILL LUCE IN ONE FAMILY Two employes of the Carter Lake club were drowned Monday in the sewer pumping station. One was Frank Nusco and the other was the gate keeper, E. P. Griggs. These two men were sent Monday morning to open up the sewer which runs from the Carter Lake club to the Missouri river. When they did not return their friends arid the di rectors of the club became apprehen sive and a search was instituted with the result that their clothes were found yesterday morning on the edge of the sewer pit, in East Omaha. Concrete Tower. The circumstances of the drowning were most revolting and horrible. The pumping house is a square con crete tower standing just north of the railroad right-of-way in East Omaha. The lower part is a collect ing and settling tank for the sewage which is then lifted about fifteen feet and allowed to run through a pipe to the Missouri river. Above the tank is a pump room with an electric dyna mo, mounted on a platform. A trap door leads down to the tank below. It is supposed that the men found it necessary to go down into the tank to make some repairs and they changed from their street clothes to old overalls, leaving their better clothes outside. It is supposed that while working in the tank they were overcome, falling in and drowning. Ho search was made until they had been in the tank for more than twelve hours, and when Jack Murray, Six teenth and Corby streets, who went out with Fred Flodman, superinten dent of dock and boats at the Carter Lake club, went down into the tank he Iwas nearly overcome by the fumes and had to stop work. Officers Go Into Water. Murray and Officers Joe Baughman and Charles Plotts stripped off and went down into the foul water reek ing with poisonous sewer gas to hunt for the bodies with grappling hooks. The body of Nusco was recovered by Murray, while Baughman and Plotts were away and when they re turned with the oxygen helmet and could endure the fumes for more than a moment at a time the body of Grigg was brought up. The pump house is in a peculiarly inaccessible location, entirely sur rounded with the stagnant waters of the marsh at the lower end of Car ter lake and can be reached only by way of the railroad embankment. When the bodies were recovered it was necessary to bring them in on a railroad handcar for a distance of half a mile before they could be transferred to an automobile ambu lance and taken to the coroner's mor gue. Series of Misfortunes. Much misfortune has befallen the Griggs family in the last few weeks. The Griggs came here from Nash ville, Tenn., several months ago. Dur ing the summer Mr. Griggs had been gatekeeper at the Carter Lake club, and his wife, secretary. While standing in front of the club grounds' entrance three weeks ago a laundry wagon struck her. She was thrown against the running board of an automobile an suffered a com pound fracture of the leg, her condi tion being serious. The shock result ing from her husband's tragic death served to add to the seriousness of her condition. About a week ago Mr. Griggs re ceived word from Nashville that one of his sisters was seriously injured in an accident. A sad feature of the case was that Mr. Griggs was ixpecting a visit from his mother in the near future. A spei cial delivery letter was received a couple of days ago telling of the in tended visit. Later another letter came saying that .the trip had been post poned for the time being. Frank Nusco, or Frank Mias, as the police reported his name, worked for the Rod and Gun club and lived at 2624 North Sixteenth street. He was 25 years old. Photo Engravers Asked Not to Demand for Higher Wages Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 15. Mem bers of the International Photo En gravers' union, in annual convention here, were asked today not to press newspaper publishers for increased wages because of threatening print paper situation. This was done by H. N. Kellogg, Indianapolis, chair man of a special standing committee nf the American Newspaper Publish as' association. . . BILL FOR GREATER NAVY IS APPROVED BY HOUSE MEMBERS All the Disputed Points Agreed Upon and Big Feature of Present Congress J, Out of Wf' .,,' ;n VK MILLIONS V ENSE Army Bill 1 .0 yVrofison for Bringing Uj. 'Peace Strength of the United States. SOME OF APPROPRIATIONS Washington, Aug. 15. After two hours' debate the house today adapt ed all of the naval bill agreed upon by the house and senate conferees and proceeded to a vote on the build ing program and the increase in per sonnel, the only two disputed points. Their passage was predicted by ad ministration leaders. The defense program, with the approval of the naval bill by the house virtually completed, lias been the most important achievement of the session and has involved appro priations aggregating $661,418,000. In addition to the navy bill it in cluded reorganization of the regular army and National Guard, bringing the enlisted peace strength of the armv to 187.000 men. capable of ex pansion to 220,000 men in time of strees and providing a federalized National Guard which at tun strengin will number 450,000 men. For maintenance of the reorgan ized army and militia and supplies and equipment, congress appropriated $267,597,000. More than $13,000,000 of this is for development, of aeron autics, and $11,000,000 is for govern ment plants tor the manutacture ot armor plate. The army bill also carried an ap oroDriation of $20,000,000 for a gov ernment plant to produce nitrate for use in manufacturing munitions. Provision wa9 made for extension and improvement ot the coast de fenses with appropriation aggregat ing $25,748,050. f For More Officers. , To furnish needed officers in the army and thejiavy, the personnel of the naval and military academies were enlarged, the former to 1,760 and the latter to 1,152. For the military academy a special appropriation of $1,225,000 was made, the fund for An napolis being carried in the naval ap propriation bill. Congress also provided for the creation of a council of national de fense, .composed of cabinet, official and citizen experts to co-ordinate the military, industrial and natural re sources of the country in time of war. Four Big Packers Held for Violating Anti-Trust Laws Washington, Aug. 15. Formal complaint charging Swift & Co., Ar mour & Lo., Ludahy & Co., Morris & Co. and other meat packers with violating the anti-trust laws and en gaging in unfair business methods and omnopolistic practices was filed today with the tederal trade commission by Representative Doolittle of Kansas. A prompt and thorough investigation of the live stock industry was asked. Representative Doolittle filed the complaint, he said, on his own re sponsibility, in an ettort to have at least a preliminary investigation by the commission. Supporting his charges, he filed a copy of testimony taken by the house judiciary Com mittee on the1 Borland resolution pro posing investigation by the commission. BAKING BREAD FOR MEXICAN BORDER GUARD Here is a battery of field ovens at Nogales, Ariir, where 5,000 loaves of bread are baked daily to supply the hungry lads of the border guard. Jersey City Is To Take Its Case 1 Before Congress Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 15. The injunction granted by Federal Judge Rellstab to the Central railroad of New Jersey, restraining the city of Jersey Cjty from interfering with shipments of war munitions on that railroad, caused the Jersey City com missioners to decide tonight to go to Washington tomorrow in an effect to obtain legislation which will safe guard Jersey City against high ex plosives. iJie commissioners announced they will call on Senator Martine and Representative Hamill to urge them to push the bill introduced in the senate and the house after the Black Tom explosion for the protection of the city. it is the intenUon o appeal to the Interstate Commerce commis sion and Secretary of War Baker, it was said. "This is a case of putting collars above the lives of men. Women and children," Mayor Mark M. Fagan said tonignt. - vve are up against the powder trust." Gardner billed in Wyoming When Automobile Overturns Deadwood. S. D.. Aug. 15. While coming toward the Black Hills in his automobile, Asa Gardner of New Eng land, in. D., was instantly killed near Beaulah, Wyo., thi$ morning, when the car overturned 6n a steep curve and pinned him under. With other members of the Dartv who were unin jured, Gardner's body was brought to Beletourciie. Volunteers Sail on Battleship Illinois Norfolk, Va., Aug. 15. Trie battle ship Illinois sailed today with between lyu and lUO civilian volunteers on board from Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin for a month's practice cruise. It will pro ceed to Fort Pond Bay, L. 1 1 ,V V-"" '" : --., i? ' VV,.,,,,, V i CRISIS IS NEAR . IN THE RAILROAD WAGE QUESTION Conference of Managers and' Men With President Wilson Today Expected to Bring Developments. NO ONE PREDICTS OUTCOME Feeling of Oloom That Had Possession of All Tester day Disappears. NEITHER SIDE GIVES IK ITALIAN FORCES ARE NEAR TRIESTE Greater Part of Austrian Fleet Said to Have Left Port for Unannounced Destination. TOLMINO IS UNDER FIRE Geneva, Aug. 15. (Via Taris.) The Italian advance guard, moving southeast from Gorizia, is within thirteen miles of Trieste, whence the greater part of the Austrian fleet has sailed for an unknown destination, according to a telegram from Buchs, Switzerland, today. ., According t a message from Buchs today, the southern and western sub urbs of Tolmino are burning and the fall of the city is expected at any moment Italians Storming Tolmino. Paris, Aug. 12. Italian troops have entered the suburbs of Tolmino, which is under continuous s'hell fire, according to a dispatch to La Li berte from Turin today. The Aus trians, says the dispatch, are evacuat ing the city. Austrian Trenches Captured. Rome, Aug. 15. (Via London.) On the Carso plateau and to the east of Gorizia, along the Isonzo front the Austrians have suffered further reverses at the hands of the Italians, today's official statement says. Aus trian entrenchments in both these re gions were captured. Wheat Jumps Up Eight Cents Near Close of Market Chicago, Aug. 15. The wheat mar ket made another sensational advance on crop damage reports today. De cember options, forty minutes before the close, had advanced an extreme 8 cents, from $1.38 to $1.46 per bushel. September, less active, rose from $1.35, where it sold early to $1.42. Later December sold at $1.46 and closed at $1,455. September closed at $1.42. The net advance, com pared with yesterday's close, was 4$ cents for September and 4J4 cents for December. Wilson Not to Go On Speaking Tour Washington, Aug. 15. After a con ference today between President Wil son and the members of the democrat ic campaign committee, Vance C. Mc Cormick, chairman of the national committeeAannounced that the presi dent would make no speaking tour, but probably would accept invitations to speak at different places. Mr. McCormick explained the presi dent's decision by saying Mr. Wilson considered a stumping tour incompati ble with the dignity of office of presi dent. Last week congressional callers at the White House gained the distinct impression that Mr. Wilson would make a trip to the Pacific coast. So far the president's only speaking en gagements arc Hodgensville, Ky., September 4, and St. Louis, Septem ber 20. Mr. Wilson Will Be Notified Sept. 2 Washington, Aug. lS.-'-Formal no tification to President Wilson of his nomination will take place Seotember 2. That day was definitely settled to day, when arrangements were made for the president to go to Long Branch,' N. J., for the ceremony. The president has already completed his speech of acceptance. The notifica tion sn:ech will be made by Senator i Tames ' ORDER FOR TROOPS TO MOVESUSPENDED Guards Will he Held in State Camps Pending Result of Railroad Wage Crisis. IS MEASURE OF CAUTION Washington,' Aug. 15. Orders for the remaining mobilized units of the National Guard to proceed to the border liavt.. been suspended by the War department. No official expla nation has been made, but it is known that the delicacy of the railroad strike situation has been the moving consid ration. , -- The suspension of the orders to the troops, which would havt moved some 25,000 men to the border, should not be taken as an indication that the president's negotiations with the railroad brotherhoods and the rail road managers have taken an un favorable turn, but is a measure of caution. It is considered highly un desirable that all the remaining guardsmen should be moved to the border while there was a possibility of a railroad strike in which they might be called upon to preserve or der throughout some of the states. The suspension of the orders pre vents the immediate movement of the troops from Kentucky, Ohio and Ver mont, and the movement of all other mobilized units which were to have gone forward as soon as they were equipped. It is clear the suspension is not a revocation of the orders, and that if the strike situation clears up the troops will be moved to the border. The official explanation of the change at the War department is that difficulties of transportation and equipment developed and made a de-J lay necessary. Suggested by Funston. A telegram from Major General Funston, made public by the War de partment,, disclosed that the general recommended the suspension of the orders. His telegram follows: "In view of the possibility of a gen eral railroad strike, I desire to call the attention of the War department to difficulties that will follow in main taining food supplies, not only of troops in this department, but of the civilian population as well. These border states produce but little food stuff except cattle. "In view of foregoing, I recommend that the National Guard organizations which are about to start for border stations be retained in their mobiliza tion camps until such time as the question of a general strike shall have been determined." Trainmen Killed in Head-On Collision Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 15. Threj trainmen were killed, three injured and four slightly hurt when two heavy freight trains, each drawn by two engines, came together in a head on collision on the Pittsburgh & Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Vance, Pa., today. All traffic was tied up for several hours. The dead are f. W. Eustice, engineer; C, D. Hutchinson and C. R. Wright, firemen, all of Pittsburgh. Telegraphers of Northern Pacific Vote on Strike St. Paul, Minn., Aiig. 15. Teleg raphers of the Northern Pacific rail road are taking a strike vote, it was learned here todav. relative to their demands for increased ,wages and changes in working rules. Efforts to reach an agreement in conferences btween representatives of the men and railway officials have failed. 1 lie main demands or the telegraph ers are for shorter hours, increase in wages amounting to nearly 10 per cent and two weeks' vacation annu ally with pay. WARSHIP BLOWN DP; THREE HUNDRED DIE Italian Dreadnaught Catches Fire in Kitchen and One of Its Magazines Explodes. SHIP TURNS OVER ON SIDE Paris, Aug. 5. The Italian dreadnaught, Leonardi Da Vinci, caught fire and blew up in the harbor of Taranto, Italy, and 300 of its crew were drowned, says a , Turin dispatch to the Petit Journal. The date of the disaster is given only as a day in August. e The 'fire, says 'he . dispatch, was discovered in the dreadnaught'! kitchen and spread rapidly. The cap tain immediately ordered the maga zines flooded and tried to beach the battleship, but one magazine exploded before this could be done. The vessel was turned over on its side and a large number of the. crew thrown into the sea. It was believed tin battleship can be righted arid refloated. The Leonardi Da Vinci was a sister ship of the Contedi Cavour. and of the Giulio Czar and was launched in October, 1911. Its displacement was 22,000 tons and it was 575H feet long, 91)4 feet beam and carried a total of 957 men. Its main battery consisted of thirteen twelve-inch guns and its secondary battery, to stand off tor pedo attacks, was composed of eigh teen 47-inch guns. Its engines were of 24,000-horsepowcr, designed to de velop a speed of 22.5 knots. Hoosier Mike Drops $15,000 on Race Bet Detroit, Mich.. Aug. 15. One man has been detained by the Detroit po lice as ine result oi a cnarge mane Dy Don M. Kelly of Lafayette, Ind., that he lost $15,000 in a race horse swin dle. Two other men accused by Kel ly are being sought. He alleges that he met the men in a local hotel and allowed them to place several small bets for him. His money and "win nings" were returned, he said. Then, he declares, he was induced to give the men $15,000 to bet. This time Kelly told the police he did not get any money back. Stone Prepares to Push Danish Treaty Washington, Aug. 15. Ratification yesterday by the Danish lower house of parliament of the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West In dies to the United States has served to hasten consideration of the treaty in the senate here. Chairman Stone today called a meeting of the foreign relations com mittee for tomorrow morning and he hopes to report a recommendation for its ratification to the senate by to morrow night. License of Insurance Agent is Cancelled i (From a Staff Correnpondlnt.) Lincoln, Aug 15. (Special Tele gram.) After considering the evi dence in the complaint against Perry and Ted Anthony, charged with mis representing policies on insurance, the insurance board this morning can celled the license of Perry Anthony and has taken under consideration the charges against Ted Anthony. Hughes Will Speak At Topeka August 31 Topeka, Kan., Aug. 15. Charles V.. Hutrhea. rpnuhliran. nrcMnttal nominee, will speak in Topeka August 31 instead of September 1, according to a telegram received here from Wil liam R. Willcox, who is in charge of Mr, Hughes' itinerary. .. j Washington, Aug. 15. Another day of conferences between President Wilson, the railroad managers' com mittee and the brotherhood leaders brought no settlement of the situation which threatens a country-wide strike, but paved the way for further conferences tomorrow. After the managers had seen the president this morning the situation was described by those in touch with ' it as very precarious. The men went into their conference at 3 o'clock this afternoon feeling rather gloomy. When they left the president nearly two hours later, with the, prospect of meeting him again tomorrow, the leaders were more hopeful. It was said there was a pos sibility of a direct settlement be-' tween the two sides without resort to arbitration. It was asserted at this aftrnoon's conference that neither side had giveri in so faron any material points and that the crisis probably would be reached tomorrow. "Nothing is done and nothing is un done. We will see the president again, possibly tomorrow," said A. B. Gar-' retson. snokesman for th railwav employes, as the men's representa tives left their conference with Presi dent Wilson this afternoon. ' . No form of arbitration now Is un der consideration, members of the employes' committee declare. They said there was a possibility that an agreement would be reached on one of the several compromise proposals under consideration. ..-' mittee, said that both the workmen and the employers had jeveral pro posals and counter proposals before them, and that both probably would see President Wilson tomorrow and give their decision. "I am very hopeful," said Mr. Let. This dispelled the ait of pessimism which had prevailed when the con ference began. . President Wilson gave but the fol lowing statement after his confer ence with the employes this after noon: ;' "There is ho change) there is an earnest effort being made to .work out a settlement." May Accept Eight-hour Day. After the committee of railroad managers had a conference with Presi dent Wilson early today it became known that a proposal was under con sideration by which the railroads (Continued oa Tag Two, Column Two.) v Roger Sullivan Will Not Help Manage j' Wilson's Campaign Chicago, Aug. 15. Roger C Sulli van, former democratic national com mitteeman from Illinois, will not take an active part in the management of the western democratic campaign headquarters in Chicago this fall, ac cording to a report in circulation here today. One report is that friends of President Wilson are inclined to blame Sullivan for Raymond Robins' support of Charles E.vHughes. According to report, the principal assistants to Senator Thomas J. i .. u c n .. . .v. VV UII Ul JMUIIIAU, 111 II1C UIOIIMHC- ment of the western democratic cam paign headquarters are Senator Owen . of Oklahoma, and Irving Shuman,' Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, and Morgan Davies of Illinois. , ' ' uunuuqi niuaim cam paign will be conducted from the Chi cago headquarters by Senator Sauls- bury of Delaware, Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator Stone of Missouri. Postoff ice at t ! Oakdale Robbed Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 15. The post office at Oakdale, thirty miles west of here, was robbed early today by two men. A citizen discovered them at work and tried to alarm the town. The robbers fired one shot at him and made their escape with $65. Many business men aura " able to enlist the aid of additional capital be cause they locate willing ' ' investors in the "Business Chance" columns of The '. Bee. . ... ,. : Call Tyler 1000 For Bee Want-Ads f