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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 12, 1916, LODGE ROOM NEWS BRITISH GENERAL'S NERYE WINS ROMANI Sand Dune Trap Leads Thou sands of Turks and Camels to Death. Bay State Democrats Sidestep Suffrage Springfield, Mass., Oct. 7. The "night before" developments of the democratic state convention here, found the platform committee strug gling with woman suffrage as the main issue. At midnight, with the committee still behind locked doors and with suffrage and anti-suffrage workers waiting in the hotel corri dors, the committee gave every evi dence of referring the question to the constitutional convention. NEW YORK GUARDSMEN VOTE IN ARMORIES National Guardsmen, whose trip pre vented them from registering, were permitted to vote in their armories. The accompanying photograph shows a polling place in the armor of the First field artillery. OF GREATER OMAHA Father Knew Him. Batrfr Harvey, th heiress, had at lat consented to marry a young nobleman, who waa financially embarrassed. 1 "Of course," said the young man, In a lofty manner, "I can never b very intimate with youV father, my dear Beatrice, he being- In trade. Tou could aoarcely expact that, but he will not be surprised to find me with some Insular prejudices, will he?" "Oh, no," replied the girl, sarcastically, "nothing foolish or ill-bred that you can do will iurprls him In the least." Nw York Times. Fraternal Organizations Lay ing Plan ,for Entertaining Members DuringWinter. BOOST THE MEMBERSHIP GERMAN LEADERS BLUNDER 12 A Omaha Seymour camp No. 16, Woodmen of the World, will enter tain its members Tuesday evening, November 21, in Woodmen of the World hall, Sixteenth street and Capi tol avenue, at an invitation dance. Commercial camp's annual banquet will be held at Hotel Fontenelle Tues day evening, December 5. Notices are now being sent to the member ship, detailing the good things to be offered and outlining a general pro- , Marconi camp No. 421 will hold its regular meeting for the month Wednesday evening in Columbia hall, The enthusiasm created over t!.e re cent celebration of Columbus day by this camp still adds interest to the meeting. A real revival it started for new members. Pappio camp No. 221, on the west Dodge road, has completed painting and decorating its hall and is pre paring for a jollification meeting. Druid camp No. 24 will hold an open meeting Monday evening in Druid hall. The special committee which has the program in hand is - maintaining strict silence, but prom ises something out of the ordinary. W. A. Fraser camp No. 499 will meet Tuesday evening in Muller hall, Seventeenth and Vinton streets, for work. Matters of great importance to the camp will be considered. Thomas camp No. 52J" will meet Thursday evening in Lyck's hall. A special committee has been appointed to prepare a plan for the erection or purchase of a new home. This camp is enthusiastic over its affairs. It now has a membership of fifty. - Odd Fellowa. , Hesperian encampment No, 2 will confer the Patriarchal degree at its meeting Thursday evening. At the meeting of Triansle encamo- ment No. 70 next Wednesday evenir irusader encampment No. 37 of bouth Omaha will confer the Golden Rule degree. Knights and Ladisa of Security. Omaha council No. 2295 will give card party and dance Monday even ing in the Swedish auditorium. Knights of Pythias. Nebraska lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias, will hold the regular weekly meeting Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the new Crounse hall, Crounse , block, opposite tht postoffice. There will probably be work in the - first rank. Arrangements will be made at this meeting for a big open meeting tor the following Monday. , ;. " , EasTiur. Fontenelle chapter, Eastern Star, will hold a keruington, preceded by light luncheon, at 12:30 on Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. D. Goodwin, 1325 South Thirty-third street y 1 Woodmen Circle. ) Welcome grove No. 154 will enter tain its members at the home of Mrs. Kate Remington, 2807 Spautding street, Friday evening at 8 to 10. A musical program will be rendeftd, fol lowed by social games. ,-..- Last Friday W. A. Fraser grove en tertained its members with an old fashioned Hallowe'en party. The pro gram was in charge of Daisy Blinn. Many supreme officers, both of the Woodmen of the World and Wood' men Circle, were present. The pro gram was followed by dancing. The entertainment given by Alpha grove No. 2 election night was a success..- -. Welcome grove No. 154 will enter tain Druid camp members and friends Monday evening, November 20, at a dance. , , Welcome Grove Bowling team will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 in Druid hall to arrange contest pro grams. Myrtle Grange lias charse of the team and contests. Odd Fellows. Omaha lodge No. 2 was agreeably surprised Friday evening by having Grand Master W. V. Hoagland n a visitor. ... On Wednesday evening, November 29, Omaha lodge No. 2 and Ruth Rebeka lodge No. 1, Independent Or der of Odd Fellows, will hold a re ceyxa and entertainment in honor of Past Grand Master Brother S. K Greenleaf, and Past President of the Assembly Sister Florence Wagner, at 8 o'clock, in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall. Fourteenth and Dodge streets. Spanish War Veterans. uTih ?u,ar meeting of the General H. W. Lawton auxiliary to Camp Lee orby. Spsmsh War Veterans, will be held in Memorial hall next Wednes day afternoon at 2. ,. Knights and Ladies of Security. Harmony No. 1480 will meet in their new hall at Twenty-fourth and Charles streets Wednesday evening. Java3ittenby - Commercial Bug U.'erresponenra ef TheaUaoelated Freee.) The Hague, Nei trlands, Sept. 24 Java is turning its gate on the enor mous modern industrial development mrifeUiV nd "ki.n why,with its 30.000,000 industrious people, it should not emulate Japan. The Dutch minister for thr colonies charged Henri Hubert Van Kol. socialist member of the First Chamber of Par liament, with an inquiry into Japan's industrial evolution, and Mr. Van Kill's report strongly urges that the Japanese government's many-sided activities in encouraging and fostering Hie large industries shall be adopted and improved upon by the Dutch au thorities in Java. J!irv.Van o1 hows'thst while in 1890 Japan's export of industrial oroducts formed 18 per cent of the whole; in 1902 this had risen to 38 percent and in I9M to 45 per cent, whereas agricultural exports declined from 51.6 per cent to 37.8 and ,35.7. jj " r" . Ut I .1 Tl XAy I SCftOJERi VOTING IN ARMORY.. ANXIOUS LONDON AWAITSjEPPELINS Darkness Hangs Over Pioadilly and Trafalgar Square While Crowds Jostle. SPECTRAL POLICEMEN (Correspondenea of Th Aaeoclated Frees.) London, Sept. 26. Recent success es against' -Zeppelin raiders have by no means convinced the authorities that Germany will abandon them in the near future. On the contrary London is still preparing for the long, dark nights growing dimme: and dimmer, while some of the . sub urbs, which recently have caught most of the falling bombs, have aban doned street lighting altogether. In lieu of lights the authorities have adopted the policy of painting all strret obstructions white. This ap plies to the safety isles in the city streets, letter boxes, street bins, fir. alarms,, ambulances posts, etc. In some sections traffic is guided in thr dark by white lines painted along the curbs. - v ' Mishaps Grow Less. When the lighting restrictions first went into effect there were hundreds of street accidents, but these have gradually decreased until the number is no longer alarming. Streets of the West End Piccadilly, the Strand, Trafalgar Square all are crowdec nightly with promenaders and theater crowds. People jostle along on the darkened sidewalks in the best o good humor. There is seldom an) disorder and the petty criminals o the past either have been transformed into first-class fighting men or effec tually "put away." Of course, a Tommy will sometimes take advan tage of the dark to kiss his sweet heart, and generally all the soMiers have their arms securely about theh best girl's waist as they stroll along the footways. The bishop of London has denounced this promiscuous pub lic love-making as all wrong, but the Tommies don't appear to have read the bishop's sermon and no one else has the heart to stop them. In that section of London known as the city the home of finance and wholesale trade the nights are par ticularly dark and mystic. Along to ward midnight about the only moving object visible is a policeman. In their night-blue uniforms and black hel mets the Bobbies appear almost sepulchral. They lurk in dark al coves as a rule and the pedestrian often is startled to find himself face to face with a silent guardian of the law whose presence was not the least suspected." Darkness Baffles. The further dimming' of the e-ity lights since autumn began has un doubtedly baffled the Zeppelin pilots. On the raid of September 23 they were successful, however, in follow ing certain thoroughfares in the out lying districts upon which trolley cars were running. These cars were darkened, of course, but the suges tion has been made that the trolley flashes possibly served as a guide. "Raid night?" always, are followed by many humorous stories. A good old-fashioned American poker game was in progress in a West End club during the last raid. One of the club attendants came into the card room and announced that the "Zepps have come, gentlemen." A Poker Story. "I thought I heard the guns going five minutes or so ago," remarked one of the English players. "Why didn't you say something about it?" remarked a somewhat ex cited American, "Well, why should I?"-retorted the Englishman, "I've been winning right along,; haven't 1?" The story is recalled of one of the earlier raids when a little messenger boy on a bicycle was icdaling along toward the cable office when he look ed around and saw a big Z.-ppelin ap parently right behind him. The plucky little fellow put on more steam, but when he looked around the second time the Zepp was still there and. if anything, was gaining on him. He spurted forward (hen with all the might in his slim little legs, but the hum of the airship's motors grew louder and louder in his ears. Then a great thought struck the boy. He hopped off his wheel, blew out the light, and at the very first turning darted down a darkened side street. To his great relief the Zepp jave up its terrifying personal pursuit and kept straight to its course over the main highway. Triumphantly the messenger delivered his dispatches and his hair-raising story of escape at the cable station. " Big City Prepared. The raids this autumn are wholly different affairs from those of a year 1 and more ago. Then the defenses of London and other 'cities were scarce ly developed at all and the monster airships could loiter over their victims for hours with little or no regard for their own safety. Now they get a very hot reception soon after they cross the coast line and every foot of their aerial progress is challenged with bursting shrapnel and blazing in cendiary shells. As to the effective ness of the defenses in the vicinity of London, it is known that of the five or six Zeppelins which reached this district in the raids of September 2 and 23 three were brought down in a mass of-wreckage from the skies. Press comment upon the latter raid is generally in agreement that the de fenses must be so strengthened that every enemy airship which crosses from Germany must be destroyed: The Daily Mail says the raids "will be abandoned only when they are made too risky tor the leppcltns and when the enemy airships are attacked not only after reaching the British, coast, but when crossing the sea.'4""'"" As to terrifying Londoners, it can truthfully be said that the most com mon comment heard upon the streets the day after the last raid was this: "Yes, I heard the guns, but I didn't get up. - - - ' American Minister , Protests Attorney General of Panama icorreepondenca of The Aaaoelated Prem.V Panama, Oct. 2. Protests by Wil liam Jennings Price, American minis ter to Panama, against the appoint ment of Judge Demosthenes Arose mena as attorney general of the re public, have caused considerable comment here. Mr. Price's objections to Judge Ar osemena's appointment are based on the latter's alleged anti-American acts, dating back to the time when, as su perior judge of the criminal court, he dealt with the cases of Panama police men who shot unarmed American soldiers on the streets of Panama on July 4, 1912, and on two occasions in the spring of 1915. In these cases there was no doubt, to the foreign element, at least, that the policemen had shot with malice or in a degree of excitement which bordered on criminal unfitness. , In the case of the' Fourth of July riots, Judge Arosemena delivered an opinion in which he denounced the conduct of the American soliders and found that only one of the score of policemen arraigned was guilty of misconduct. This one had been dead about a month at the time the opinion was delivered. In subsequent cases' the American minister insisted that Judge Arosemena be not allowed on the bench. Further venting his alleged griev ances against the Americans, Judge Arosemena last year published, under the nom de plume of "Leo Franck," an arraignment of the American con duct of affairs on the . Isthmus, in which he made caustic comments on Governor Goethals and other Amer ican officials and the commissary stores of the canal, which he claimed were ruining the economic independ ence of Panama. He has published other less virulent anti-American notes over his own name. Recentlv Judse Arosemena nuh. lished a letter in which he disclaimed- any an M-American feejing, saying the opposition to mm was purely a mat ter of personal spite. A year ago he went to the United States to study penal institutions and at the instance of the secretary ,of foreign affairs, Mr. Price gave him a letter of intro duction, in which he spoke of him in complimentary terms. It is reported that Arosemena is using this letter to prove that Price once thought highly of him and has changed his mind for personal reasons. Mr. Price denies this, and says he has no objection to Judge Arosemena's appointment to any s post other than that of chief prosecuting officer. A Traffle Tragedy.. The panlckr prt..lrln hoiluttd It tin lnuraectlon of two buay atrM. A motor car waa ruahlni upon him from on. direc tion; from another point a motorcycle waa approaching- rapidly; an auto truck wraa coming from behind, and a taxlcab waa apeedlly bearing down upon him. He gave a hopeleaa glance upward. T. rectly above him a runaway aeroplane was in rapid deecent. There remained for him but one reaoaree. He waa atandlng upon a manhole cover. Quickly aelalng It. he lifted the lid. jumped Into the holi and wan run .... . aubway tralnl New Tork Times. , , Nation Building Alaskan-ftailroad Without Hindrance (Correapondence of The -Aaaoclatfld Freaa.) Seward, Alaska, Nov. 4.-rWilliam C. Edes, chairman of the Alaskan En gineering commission, who recently returned from Anchorage, reports ex cellent progress on the construction of the United States railroad. Fifty-nine miles of track have been laid from Anchotage. With the seventy-one miles of the old Alaskan Northern railway, that are now in operation to Kearn Creek, there have been completed 120 miles of the 470 that will connect Seward and Fair banks. ; The track so far laid from Anchorage consists of six miles south tuivard Seward; thirty-eight miles; of main line northward to Fairbanks, and fifteen miles on the Matanuska branch into the Matanuska coal fields. - The right-of-way has been cleared from Potter Creek, on Turnagain Ann, to Kings River, in the Matan uska coal .field, a distance of seventy seven miles, and on the main line from Matanuska to the Little Susitna river.- Rait will tie laid this -fall as far as Kings River,-on the Matanuska branch, distance pf sxty-two m,ile,s. from Anchorage, and to Wassilla on the main line, approximately fifteen miles from Matanuska.- On the main line in the Susitna valley, between I Montana Creek and Indian P.iver, a instance 01 nuy-iive mnes, ine rignt-of-way is 70 per cent cleared, and a number of grading contracts have been let. Grading of the right-of-way will proceed in this section from Tal keetna to Willow Creek, and north to Broad Pass. At Willow Creek it will connect with the work under the Matanuska district, and at Broad Pass with the work from the Montana di vision. Rail will be laid in the near future as far as Potter Creek, which is fifteen miles southeast of Anchorage or. Turnagain Arm, and from which point the rock work on Turnagain Arm will be attacked during the winter. , For the week ending September 9, 3,568 men were employed on the An chorage division, which includes com mission employes, stationmen and la borers, the August payroll being $258,330,X)Ov The population of Anchorage, which is the main construction base on the railroad, is between 4,000 and 5,000. At Matanuska, the junction of the Matanuska branch with the main line, a townsite was recently surveved by the government and a town is now in course of development. There is also a small town at Moose creek, about fifty miles from Anchorage, where the first mine on ihe railroad is in operation. At Wassilla, the name of the town where the railroad crosses Knik-Willow Creek wagon road, sev eral people are gathering. Wassilla will be the distributing point for the freight and supplies for the Willow Creek mining district. The govern ment is taking immediate steps to sur vey small townsites at these places. The railroad north and south from Anchorage passes through and de velops, a large agricultural country. There are now between 500 and 1,000 homesteaders along the line of the railroad in this section, and the agri cultural land is being rapidly de veloped. The homesteaders are sup- f 'lying a considerable portion of the oodstuffs for the railroad vnoloyes and other people in that section of the country. .Recently the Alaskan Engi neering .commission contracted for 400 tons, or over 13,000 bushels of po tatoes with the Matanuska farmers. Products are being hauled by the farmers to Matanuska and shipped over the railroad to Anchorage and other, points along the ,line. There is still room for a large number of homesteaders in the vicinity of the railroad, and the government hopes to encourage farmers from the states to come to Alaska and take up home steads in the territory tributary to the railroad, in order to develop the-agri-cultural land so that the country may some day in-the near future be self supporting Government Has. Mystery in Case of Hiding Chimney Swift (Oorreepondence of The Aaeoclated Preaa ) Washington. Oct. 31. An unsolved mystery which is puzzling govern ment biologists is the hiding place of the chimmey swift during the five months they are absent from the United States during their winter migration. The flocks of these birds drift slowly south, until on the north ern coast of the Gulf of Mexico they become an innumerable host. Then I , i , ri mi live mu;iin their haunt is a mystery. . ' (Correai-ondcnce of The Aaeoclated Preaa.) Romani, Egypt, Sept. 30. Unique features of warfare were developed, according to military men, in the re cent battle of Romani, in which the British defeated the Turks, the invad ers losing some 9,000 in dead, wounU ed and prisoners out of their total of approximately 14,000 men. as has been told in cable advices. The crossing of the Sinai desert with big guns and other war equipment during the heat of summer was an unprecedented achievement. A representative of The Associated Press, who was -permittee; to travel over the entire battle ground after the conflict, had been told pre viously by high military authorities that the feat could not be accom plished and that any force sitting along the Suez canal would be safe from attack throughout the summer. One of the few dissentants, however, was Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Murray, commander-in-chief of the British forces in Egypt. Immediately uopn his assumption of command here last January he began to prepare for just such an attack, and the victory at Romani was due to his foresight. The Turkish expedition undoubt edly was engineered by German offi cers who laid elaborate plans for the advance from the direction of El Arish, a Turkish post on the northern coast, ninety miles from the canal. About half this distance is through a waterless desert and at this time of year the heat is intolerable. It would he impossible for men to march, for in these sands one sinks to the ankles at every step, and horses are not fit ted for work of this kind. The only means of transporting troops and sup plies was on camels and this was the method employed. About 14,000 of these beasts were used. Unique Roads. Unable to drag the heavy gun car riages through the loose, deep sands, the Turks constructed roads by dig ging smalt parallel trenches which would fit the carriage wheels, and filling these, tracks with the scrubby plants which ' represented the only vegetable life outsidethe oases. These wiry plants formed a cushion over which -sand was thrown, making a very practicable road for the guns. In some places where the sand was too loose and deep for this track, planks were laid lengthwise under the wheels. . Progress was necessarily slow and long before the Turks reached the watered positions which they took up some miles in front of Romani the. British were ready and waiting for them. The defenders did not at tack, for it was the plan to draw the invaders on to an assault if possible. General Murray decided that he would wait a certain length of time and then force the issue if the Turks had not advanced It seemed almost like a forlorn hope that the Turks, with their astute German leadership, would ,be led to. an attack on the Romani position,1 fo"r all the country in this section is covered with great steep dunes, some of which cannot be climbed, in places because of the sliding sands. All these dunes were well protected by the British. How ever, as had been hoped, at midnight on August 3 the Turks began an at tack which ended in complete disaster tor tnem pn August S. . Military Mastery. Just what persuaded the Turks to try to take this apparently impregna ble position is a matter of consider able speculation.-Some express the opinion that they were misinformed as to the nature of the battleground. Others think they misjudged the Brit ish strength and hoped, despite the difficulties presented, to take the posi tion and establish a base from which they could work against the canal. However that may be, they were cleverly drawn into the sand dune trap. They fought bravely and their ar tillery shooting was very accurate and effective in places, but no body of attacking troops could hope to fight their way through these dunes when opposed by artillery, machine guns, cavalry and entrenched infantry. Terrible Onslaught. The Turks suffered from lack of water, since they had to advance from their base laden as lightly as possible. Both sides undoubtedly underwent al most the limit of human endurance from the great heat. The climax of the battle was the charge of the An sae light horse, who arrayed them selves on a ridge some two miles and a half in length and hurled them selves down upon the Turks, who were straggling forward in the sandy trap, and were defenseless against the terrihle onslaught. The fifeneral onininn i that Turks must have,provcd to their own satisfaction that while they might bring troops across the desert, yet they could hope for no success dur ing the hot season unless they had communication railwavs established back of them. For this reason, it is believed that they will not venture to attack again in force during the sum mer. An Explanation. A Turkish prisoner of war, a major, who was captured at Romani, gave the correspondent an explanation of the Turkish expedition. The major declared that it was merely a recon noitering force sent out to pave the way for a real advance which would take place shortly. 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