The Omaha Daily Bee THE WEATHER FAIR VOL. XLVI NO. 88. OMAA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1916 TWELVE PAGES. Or TrmlBa, at Hot I a. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. FIGURES SHOW C9ST OF LIVING WILL GO HIGHER Table of Comparative Prloet r.f Chicago Merchant! and Producers Indicates the Worst Is to Come. EVZBY PERSON AFFECTED NEARLY MILLION HOMELESS BY BIG FLOODS IN CHINA GENERAL STRIKE IN NEW YORK NOW SEEMSPROBABLE Men Most Directly Concerned Think Situation Hat Now Reached an Absolute Deadlock. HE HAS HIS FATHER'S HOME Mm. E. H. Harriman and bar torn, W. Arcriil Harriman, la whom sh praaantad tha woadar lul atlata bar husband created for a homa la tha CaukilU. ., BRITISH ON BALKAN FRONT TURN OLD MONASTERY INTO CANTEEN This pic ture, taken on the Balkan front in Macedonia, shows the ruins of an old monastery which British ingenuity has converted into a first class' canteen. The foliage and earth plentifully spread over the roof, render it invisible to enemy airmen. Area Estimated at ? sand Square ' jpx.ov ince of Sunder ft' ALONG. THE HWAI RIVER MANY OARS ARE ATTACKED Tbout and of Omaha families read The Bee excluairely. If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. 0 t Canned Fruits and Paper Bags and Worien's Shoes, Mea's Collars Mora Expensive: COTTON AND WOOL ABE UP Chicago. Sept. 20. The cost of liv ing this winter will reach an unprec edented tcale and will affect every neron. no matter what object may he purchased, according to a table of comparative prices compiled here to day. Merchant and producer! are virtually unanimous in a forecast of further increases fn pricea which have already advanced alarmingly within the last year, i Food pricea, "it i aairl, vary accord-, in I to quality and quantity, but .it ia the (mail purchaser at retail who mutt pay mot. Wholesalers say canneriet throughout the country have informed 4icm that fall and h inter deliveries will be only one third normal, while the last vegetable crop it aid to be only half the quan tity expected. Thirty Per Cent Higher. Canned fruits .will be thirty per cent higher and canned vegetables are expected by wholesalers to in crease twenty per cent in price. Pa per bags in which the housewife car ries home her market purchases have increased in cost from 95 cents in wholesale Iota to $1.55. This advance it typical of all paper products. Cotton goods have advanced be tween twenty-five and thirty-five per ceil. Woolens have kept pace with Cut tons. The best lines of women's shoes for fall and winter will cost twice as much as the same article last year, dealers say. Collar Higher In Price. F.ven collars, that two-for-a-quarter staple which men have known for generations, will be a thing of the past. Collars now have been advanc ed to 1. cents each and the laundries which have for years laundered col lars for two and a half cents, have announced that three cents each will he 'the future cost. Cigar jobbers raised their prices lhi week to between four and five dollars a thonund tb the dealer. ' Hundreds KilleoV By Breaking of Dam in Bohemia Keielienherg, Bohemia, Sept. 20. (Via Berlin to London.) The seri ousness of Monday's flood disaster canned by the bursting of the Tann wald dam, grows as the water sub sides and investigation becomes pos sible. In addition to the known 250 dead it it (eared many other lives were lost. The property damage cannot yet be estimated with accuracy, but it is cer tain the number of buildings destroyed will run into the hundreds. Glaaa establishments' and other in dustries suffered heavily. In Dessen dorf a wood carving shop was swept away with its entire force of twenty employes and destroyed. Brooklyn Bakers Want Embargo on Export of Wheat New York. Sept. 20. President Wilson will be asked to call a spe cial session of congress to declare an embargo upon the exportation of wheat and federal and state investi gations of the increase in the price of flour will be demanded by reso lution adopted by 200 bakers of Brooklyn yesterday. It was asserted that flour would be sold at $14 a barrel and bread at 20 cents a loaf next spring unless an embargo is inv ito d. The Weather rr rr: cooler. Tsh-jsss.it Chaafca VlrsJar. I i. m a a. m . 1 T . m l I a. m...... ' 7 71 it; ins. Ttr1at eMtfar ..... :.Vft text 7 .. ... JMralara , 41 47 M 47 71 12 ?4 IS .M T T .W Y tf aasl precipitation d part urn iaratw 14 ,m M in str 10 I.W att M4-t I, 111 lit ,'V.mI ra'lliatta . f7 .rich lurjv f f IN 4r .47 tnrh r frit ttsK Mrrh l....,Ultncha it1 Msm March 1 1A.D5 Inch w iw.rV-4 la Itll... .Etlneh t. tv Mr ssiM In 1114... J t Inch a trm MssIIsnm T r. M. is n4 utata Tern Blah- Raln f Kikr t . m. aal. 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With 1,005 districts missing out of 5,719, the vote for Calder stood at 125,948, asrainst 117,995 ior Bacon, giving Calder a plurality of 7,953, Calder carried Greater New York, alt districts complete; by 33,426, the vote being 54,844 for Calder, against 21.418 for Bacon. Returns from the state outside of Greater New York for 2,635 districts out ol'W'O give Calder 71,104 and Bacon 96,575. Earlier returns gave the following results: Republican, governor, 1,388 out of 5,719 districts missing; Ben nett. 32,472; Whitman, 183,648; demo cratic United States senator, 1,494 dis tricts missing: McCombs, -77,172; Conway, 38,372. Progressive governor, 1724 dis tricts missing: Whitman, 9,430; Scabury, 6,389. Second Step Taken in Attack On the Hard Coal Monopoly Washington, Sept. 20. Another step in the government's attempt to dissolve the alleged anthracite coal monopoly was taken today when the Department of Justice filed its brief in the supreme court, appealing from the decision of a New York federal court dismissing the anti-trust suit against the Lehigh Valley Railroad company, the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales company and the Lehigh Val ley Coal company. The railroad company is charged with monopolizing production, trans portation and sale of anthracite coal from mines along its lines and with having attained this .command, trot through "conspicuous efficiency," but by acts wrongful and unlawful in themselves. The government asks that the dis trict court be reversed and that the railroad company be separated from the coal companies. Roumanian Officials Clean Bulgar Cities Instead Berlin, Sept. 20. (By Wireless to Sayville.) "It is reported from Sofia," says the Overseas News Agency, "that the Russia! army which entered eastern Roumania had with it a whole brigade of officials who were to administer conquered Bulgarian cities. These officials were caotured and are now at work clean ing the streets of ' the same cities ; which they were to govern. Constantinople. Sept. 20 (Via Ber lin. Sept. 20; by Wireless to Sayville.) Successes for the Turks against the Russians in Persia and the British on the Tigris in .ij.'Sopntamia are" an nounced in today s Turkish war office report. It is estimated.that the Rus sians lost approximately 8,000 men in tne recent tigntmg in the neighbor-. hood of Hamadan on the Persian i front. The statement reads: Reports to Washington of Dis aster Say Appeal for Aid Will Be Made. COVERS EIGHT DISTRICTS Washington, Sept. 20. Nearly a million people have been made home less by on of the greatest floods on record in that section of China where the American Red Cross already has spent $600,000 for flood protection and where the $30,000,000 loan for reclamation work which was post poned by the war, was to have been spent. Reports' to the State depart ment today from the American con sul at Nankin said the Hwai river had inundated an area of about 7.000 square miles in Anhui province. Ap peals for aid have been sent out. All the autumn crops were destroyed. Large Lake Dammed. The flood occurred in an alluvial section, where the north-to-south passage of the Grand canal had dammed a large lane ana anowea me Hwai river too little space to carry off the excess water. Today's delayed advices described conditions several weeks ago, but officials believe there has been little improvement. The State department issued the following: "The department has received from the American consul at Nanking dis patches giving detailed information regarding recent extensive floods along the Hwai river, m Anhui prov ince. The inundation is equal to, if not greater than, the one of 1909. An area of some 2,000 square miles was submerged under from three to fif teen feet of water, and from July 11 to July 21 the waters reached such a height as to submerge all except very high ground in an area estimated at 7,000 square miles. Ten Large Cities. "The flood extended throughout eight districts in northern Anhui. There are ten cities of considerable size in these eight, districts, with a total - population estimated at from 800.000 to 1,000,000 people. The to tal population of the flooded region is approximately- 2,500,000 people. "While it is thought that compara tively few lives were lost, crops and personal property have been de stroyed and there are thousands of destitute people, nearly all ot whom are now objects of charity. The sup ply of foodstuffs on hand will be in adequate to feed the people and prac tically all of the autumn crops it the eight districts have been entirely de stroyed. Appeals for relief have come in from the various affected dis tricts." In the flood of 1909, -nearly one million lives were lost., Soon after ward C. D. Jameson, an American engineer, was sent to China to work out a reclamation system. In 1914 Colonel Siebert of the Panama canal headed a Red Cross commission which approved Jameson's plans, and the Chinese government began arrange ments for a $30,000,000 loan to put them into effect. The European war, however, made it impossible to raise the capital- Health Board Secretaries Draw Less Than $800 (From a Buff Correspondent Lincoln. Sent. 20. (SDecial.1 Dr. Lucien Stark, treasurer of the secre taries of the State Board of Health, flied his annual report with State Su perintendent Thomas, indicating that a total of $3,178 was collected in fees by the board for examinations given applicants for licenses Each member of the board secured a little less than $800 a year as a reward for their official activities. The four secretaries are H. B. Cummins of Seward, E. Arthur Carr of Lincoln, C. T. Burchard of Falls City and Lucien Stark of Hartington. More Than One Hundred For Needy of Ireland Tag day with the socialists was at tended with what was considered pretty good results, tags netting $105.09 havong been sold. The tag day sales were under the direction of the socialists, young women selling on '- n-omincit street corners. The proceeds of the sales will go to afund . ..iK raised by the socialists to aid the widows and orphans of Irish rev olutionists. of Governing Them "Feliahe front (Mesopotamia): We fought successfully against hostile batteries. A hostile ammunition de pot was exploded. "An enemy detachment advancing against the Eenasye district was driv en back to its fornier position. "Persian front: Enemy reconnoi tcring detachments at several points were repulsed. We occupied the vil lage of Kereszi, eighty kilometers east of Didgaryd. "According to declarations of pris oners, confirmatory of each other, tile Russians lost about, 8.000 men in the recent engagements of Essabaat and Hamadan. "Caucasus front: A band of roll ers formed by the Russians landed near Ken ike, killed five women and thirteen male civilians and wounded several other civilians. The robbers were driven back." vfcv DxJTISH CANTEEN IN BALKANS. RUMOR CHIHUAHUA IS.TAKENBY VILLA Second Assault On City Said to Have Been- Preceded by ' Mutiny of Garrison. GARCIA DENIES THE REPORT El Paso, Tex.; Sept. 20. A number of rumors were current here today that Chihuahua City was captured by Villa in a second attack last night. General Francisco Gonzales, com mandant at Juarez, and Consul Gar cia declared the reports were without foundation. - According to reports the attack was preceded by mutiny of a large part of the garrison. The bandits were said to occupy the municipal and fed eral palaces, the penitentiary and two fortified hills. Consul Garcia and General Gon zales maintained that although wire communication had been hampered messages received early today indi cated quiet in Chihuahua City., May Cut Communications, San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 20. Belief that l'.rancisco Villa will soon cut the Carranza line of communications be tween Chihuahua City and Juarez, if he has not already done so, was sug gested by Major General Funston to day after he had a report on Villa's Chihuahua engagement received from Brigadier General Bell at F.I Paso. Stories gathered by General Bell from persons reaching El Paso from the interior indicate that General Tre vino's forces were driven out of Chi huahua City in Villa's Saturday attack and that they took station on a large hill outside the city from necessity and not from choice, as previous re ports said. From this hill they suc ceeded Wy the use of artillery m dis lodging the Villistas. , Funston Withholds Details. General Funston refused to give out all details of the report for publica tion, but he said that if confirms pre vious accounts of the battle and in-1 dicated even more serious conditions than were admitted by the Carran zistas. General Bell report said that Vil la's force last Saturday was estimated at from 500 to 700 men. General Fun ston believes that this force has grown since the Chihuahua battle. He said that in this case the logical step for Villa to take would be the sever ing of the line of communications be tween Chihuahua and Juarez. This would give him control of the Mexico Northwestern railroad and, the gen eral added, "the garrison to the north would have to look out." Flat Denial by Trevino. Later, when wire communication was restored to normal, General Gon zales announced he had received a message from General Jacinto Trevi no, sent at 11 a. m., which said that the border rumors were absolutely without foundation, that work of clearing the wreckage created in the Hidalgo day attack was progressing quietly and that all reports in the state capital indicated that Villa's band is still in the Sierre De La Silla, near Santa Ysabcl. Dan Thomas Not Strong Enough to Stand Operation Dan Thomas, 4616 North Twenty sixth street, was so badly hurt in his fall down Hotel Castle's elevator shaft Tuesday that the amputation of his right leg could not be made. Dr. F: J. Schleier, the attending physician, says Thomas is too weak to stand the oper ation. Amputation will have to be postponed until the man gains strength. Ak-Sar-Ben Dales Sept 26 to Oct 7 Ak-Sar-Ben Festivi ties, including car nival and Nebrask: Statehood Semi-cen tennial celebration Oct. 3 Industrial parade. Oct 4 Electrical Pageant. Oct 5 Historical Pageant. Oct 6 Royal Coronation BalL Oct 7 Masked Court Ball. ) - . MiMiii Ylii.il j ADAMSON LAW IS BLOW TO ENTERPRISE Mr. Hughes Says "Surrender to Force" Will Lead to but One End, Civil War. SPEAKS IN WISCONSIN Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 20. The pathway of "surrender - to force," Charles E. Hughes told all audience here today, in renewing his attack on the administration' for the Adam son law, leads to but one end, "civil war." Mr.- Hughes referred to the action of the administration at "unpardonable. The nominee ; also declared that nobody could embarrass him by talk-1 ing about Americanism, "I am for the United States first, last and all the time, without regard to anyone or to anything else," he' said,-' -. "I speak 'with' added tmphsiii si the friend of labor," Mr. Hughes, said in- ditcuising . the .-. Adamson - law, "when I say that the serious blow delivered recently at labor and enter' prise in this country was unpardona ble, that blow being the surrender of the principle of arbitration and the .yielding of reason to force. -Means Uncertain Future.' "We look forward in this country to a future very uncertain unless we have peaceful settlement of griev ances by a careful examination and open-minded consideration of the facts. "When A does not agree with B they are not allowed to fight it out jn the public square. They have got to come into a court of law and fight it out there, not on the public square. We have had times when railroad companies refused absolutely to arbi tration ot grievances. Hut we have had public sentiment develop greatly since that time. We have a new spirit in this country, I firmly believe. All we have to do is to stand firmly for principle and we can get justice done. "The other way simply means the rule of strength. There is only one end to that path and that end is civil war." Mr. Hughes then went into detail as to his views on the tariff. He spoke from s platform on the court house steps to an audience standing in the yard. Afterwards he held a brief public reception. ' Speeches at Other Points. . In previous addresses today, at Sheboygan and Manitowoc, where large crows turned . out with brass bands to greet him., the nominee sketched his views on the issues of the campaign. He also talked, on Americanism. His audiences were composed largely of persons of for eign extraction. The nominee left Green Bay at 1:15 o'clock for Appleton, where his pro gram called for a rear-platform ad dress, i To Round Off the Corner of Fortieth and Hamilton The City Planning commission will round off-'the southeast corner of Fortieth and Hamilton streets by moving the corner back thirty-three feet and establishing wide turn, which will improve traffic conditions. The ineide of the arc will be parked. This corner adjoins the Walnut Hill water reservoir. German Products British Orient San Francisco, Sept. 20. That Ja pan, the Straits settlements and Brit ish possessions in the Orient are re ceiving numerous articles f,rom Ger many, including perfumes, soap and German hops, shipped from Sweden through a London agency and with the knowledge of the British govern ment was' the declaration made here today by George R. Allen, a mining man who arrived yesterday from the Orient. , According to Allen, five or six snips a month are necessary to carry on this trade between Sweden and Yokoha ma. Before the War, he said, one steamer a month was sufficient to take care of the trade of the Swedish ENTENTE LOSES HALF MILLION MEN Berlin Says Small Slice of France is Regained at Price That is Appalling. WEST FRONT NEARLY QUIET Berlin, Sept. 20. (By Wirelest to Sayville.) British and French losses in the battle of the Somme have reached about 500,000 men, the Over seas News agency estimates. "Recent local successes obtained by theGritish on the Somme are her alded by the English press as great victories and even occasioned a spe cial message from King George to the cruisn commanacr, ucncrai oir ioug las Haig," says the news agency. "It is said, tne British occupied the vil lages ot riers, Martinpuicn ana sour ce lette in the first day's fighting, al though it had been planned to take them in the course of . four days of battle.- '-"'- i'." -t-'u- "Nevertheless, the British were en abled to piake this advance only af ter eleven weeks of thq most des perate efforts. The result of the bat tle of the Somme should be gauged by considering the amount of French and Belgian territory occupied bv the Germans, which amounts in all to about 50,000 square kilometers. Of this 29,000 is Belgian . and 21,000 rrench. lhe efforts made by the French and British have resulted in the recoilquest of only 1,500 square kilometers, or 3 per cent. "The price paid for this territory is appalling. According to a con servative estimate the British lost 350,000 men up to September 15. This together with the French losses brings up tne total to about 500.0UU men. Germans Take Trench. Paris, Sept. 20. Determined at tacks were made by the Germans last night on the French positions at hill 76, north of the Somme. The Ger mans gained foothold at some ad vanced points, the war office an nounced toady, but subsequently were ejected. Berlin, Sept. 20. (Via London.) In a hand grenade attack on the Brit ish troops near Flers on the Somme front, the Germans yesterday gained some success, says tne official state ment issued today by the German army headquarters. In the Verdun sector the Germans drove the French out of a small trench on the western slope of Dcadman s hill. Small Gains by British. London, Sept. 20. British trooos south of Arras yesterday captured 200 yards of German trenches, says the official statement issued today by oruisn army neauquarters. Abandoned Baby Was Nearly Starved The baby boy, 2 months old, de serted Tuesday night by its mother, is hovering between lite and death at Clarkson hospital. Authorities there say the infant abandoned was half-starved. The mother abandoned the baby at tne union station. , She asked Mrs. E. J. Kellogg of Craig, Neb., to hold it until she could buv a ticket. When the woman did not return Mrs. Craig gave the little tot to Policeman Eng lish. The infant was sent to the City mission ana irom tncre transferred to the hospital. Go to Japan and in Large Quantities Navigation company the concern that is alleired to be eneaccd in carrv- ing German products between Sweden ana tne tar east. Allen is Dresident of the Chn-Sen Minerals company at Seoul, Korea, and president of George R. Allen & Co. of New York and is said to con trol large tungsten mines in Korea and Japan. "The Swedish Navigation com pany, said Allen, is controlled, ac cording to Britishers, in the Orient, by Samuels & Samuels comnanv ol London, a firm of high standing. One can Duy all the eau de cologne and other German products one wants anywhere in the Orient at usual prices. . Windows Broken by Missiles Hurled from Roofs and Sev eral Passengers Injured.;- TWENTY MEN ARRESTED New York, Sept. 20. Despite the attempted intervention of a commit tee of business men, there seemed to be little prfespect today of averting a general strike in sympathy with the street railway employes.. Labor lead ers aver that the proposed general walk-out will involve about 700,000 workers in all trades. All other efforts having thus far fail-. ed, -fayor Mitchel decided today to make a personal appeal to Theodore Shontt, president of the Inter- borough Rapid Transit company, and the New York Street Rai'wsys to re-., cede from his reiterated intention of . refusing to deal with the striker's. Position of Mr. Shonts. Mr. Shonts' position -necessary, the : traction head says, because of a threat to strike by Joyal employes in the event of recognition of the unions balked the attempt of the public ser vice commission and s citizens' com mittee to bring about an amicable ad justment. ' Although there appeared little hope of a change in the traction com pany's policy, the mayor arranged for a conference with Mr. Shonts later to day. The mayor, it was learned irom an official source, expects to propose a new basis of settlement to avert the impending general walkout. . , union .leaders have promised to withhold their order for a sympathet ic strike until after Thursday, and in the meantime the city authorities and business men will endeavor to find , some way to prevent an extension of the labor war which threatens to tie up s considerable part of the city's industries, . , t Rioting Becomes . Serious. . The attempt to operate- surface cars last night resulted in the worst rioting since the strike began, but the officials of the -transit companies.' say the service in the daytime is im- ' proving steadily. . Throughout the night elevated trains, together with subway trains at point:, where they run on elevated structures, were sub jected to almost ceaseless bombard ments of bottles and bricks, car win dows being shattered and a number of passengers injured. Today there were several attacks by strikers and sympathisers on sur face cars and police reserves were repeatedly called out. Ask Gompers to Conference. With the arrival here today of ' Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to attend the funeral of Seth Low, it was , learned that the business interests which are endeavoring to avert a sympathetic strike had invited Mr. Gompers to attend their meeting with labor, leaders tomorrow. It was in dicated by the union men that. Mr. Gompers planned1 to take more than.. ordinary interest in the situation. Mr. Gompers herd his acceptance of the invitation in abeyance pending talks with union leaders. Surface Cars Attacked. - ' . During the forenoon attacks on surface cars continued intermittently. The. last twenty-four' hours have' witnessed the most extended disturb ances of the strike, police reports to day showing the arrests of twenty' men declared to be former emploves. Fifteen of these are accused of felony in attacks on trains and cars. Two Car Barns Attacked. ', New York, Sept'. 19. The most serious rioting since the transit strike in this city began two weeks ago oc curred tonight In various sections of Manhattan when attempts were made to run cars on the Forty-second and : Fifty-ninth street crosstown surface lines. Mobs of strikers and their sympathizers stormed two car barns, overpowering the police and putting to flight all railway employes in the vicinity. , '- . Several motormen and conductors who had not joined the strike were . beaten., Much property damaee had been done before police reserves ar-v rived. ' -5 - - At Forty-second street and Broad way, one of the busiest spots in the city, a great crowd bombarded a car with stones they had gathered from a subway excavation. & - ml i ' inere are a lew, peo ple who still look upon advertising as an ex pense. They will cheer fully hand out many dollars in postage to have their selling mes- js sage aeuverea 10 a iewr hundred people, yet be grudge the expenditure of a few dimes on a Want-Ad that reaches tens of thousands. :' Call Tyler 1000 '. for Bee Want-Ads.