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.A The OuAm Daily Bee Want-ad Service Night or Day Tyler 1000 THE WEATHER UNSETTLED VOL. XLVI. NO. 188. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY, 24, 1917 TEN PAGES. On Trains, tt Htlili, Nrvt fttiidi, ate., fit SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. SENATORS ASK FEDERAL CHANGE IN LIQUOR LAW Memoralize Congress to Deny Government Liquor Licenses in Dry States of the Nation. MAY COURT-MARTIAL AVIA-1 TORS LOST IN MEXICO. ! BRITISH FLOTILLA Blocking the Road STONE OBJECTS TO DISCUSSION OF WILSON SPEECH Democratic Leader Blocks Res olution by Cummins Pro viding for full and Free Debate, NINETEEN TO THIRTEEN j Some Members Regard Debate as Entirely Futile in Results. ATTITUDE ON DRY LAW (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, Jan. 12. (Special.) A resolution was passed in the senate today memoralizing congress to deny federal liquor licenses in the twenty three dry states. McAllister of Antelope, McMullen of Gage and Judge Albert of Colum bus all qualified as orators in a two hour discussion. The final vote on roll call was as follows: For Real. Buheo. Chappoll. rtouthett. Doty, OatFS. Haase, ItaKpr, Hammond. Howell Lahnora. McAllister, Mullen. N'eal. Oberllea. Robertson, SamUll, Sawyer ana Bplrk. Total. 1, Against Adama. Albert. Dennett. Buhr nian, Henry. Kohl. Mattes. Morlarly. Kamuelson. Koost. Strehlow, Tanner and Willis W ilson. Total, 13. Memoralizing a Fad. Moriarty of Douglas, declared that the "license" was only a tax, and fail ure to pay only resulted in a civil ac tion. Mattes of Otoe went a step fur ther and called memoralizing "a harm less fad and pleasant pastime," unless it was carried too far, as the senate was doing. Removing this tax, he pointed out, was removing the best source of in formation on bootlegging. Senator Sandall of York arose to recognize Senator Mattes "as an authority on such questions, and he ought to know." Senator Mullen of Gage remarked that most resolutions were a waste of time, but this one was necessary. Senator Albert characterized the reso lution as an attempt to compel action on a small collateral question of a big issue. It is presumptous, he said, for the legislature to petition congress, which is itself responsible to its con stituents. He pointed to danger in al lowing the government to dip its finger in the state's enforcement of the dry law. .Aid to the Police.. CUnr unA Haavr rlemorrflts. said if the license were denied the 1 government would co-operate with the state in searching for bootleggers. "Why would that me, when there j would be no federal tax in dry states?" j asked Mattes' and Moriarty. Beal declared the vole on the reso-1 lution indicated the attitude of the j senate on dry law enforcement. Howell of Douglas very modestly ac cepted the "charge" of being the "20; per cent pure ot tne uougias county delegation, and appealed to the con science to pass the resolution, not withstanding the fact, he said, that he came from Omaha. After being in the senate a few days, McMullen said he favored a "bone dry" law, which he did not favor when he came to the legislature. He did not explain his altered senti ment further. Bethlehem Pays 200 Per Cent Stock Dividend New York, Jan. 23. The Bethlehem Steel corporation today declared quarterly dividend of 10 per cont, or an increase of 2'i per cent over the disbursement; and a stock dividend of 200 per cent. The directors recommended an in crease of the capital stock from $15, 000.000, the existing authorized amount, to $60,000,000. Of this sum $30,000,000, or 200 per cent, will be given to stockholders as a bonus, the basis of two shares for each share now held, and the addi tional $15,000,000, or 100 per cent in crease, will be offered to stockholders at par. The Weather Highest yeiterday. Lowest yesterday.. Mean temperature. Precipitation Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature 20 Deficiency for the day 5 Total excess since March 1 218 Normal precipitation 01 Inch Deficiency for the day 01 Inch Total rainfall since March 1. . . . 17.:' tnr he Deficiency since March 1... 12.4inche Deficiency for cor. period, 116.. 1.76 Inchon Deficiency for cor. period. 1114.. 2.73 inches Report From SUtloiu at 7 P. M. Station and Stale Temp, of Weather. 7 p. in. fhpyenne. cloudy lfi Davenport, cloudy 28 Denver, pt. cloudy 2i Deit Molnea, cloudy 2S DodKC City, cloudy 3" Lander, pt. cloudy 1? North Platte, clear 20 Omaha, clear 2fi Pueblo, clear "ft Salt Lake City. enow... ?4 Santa Ke, cloudy I'll Sheridan, cloudy 21! Sioux City, clear ri Valentine, clear 18 Hlsh eat. Italn-fall. For Nebraska Unsettled and colder. ' Temperature., at Omaha Yesterday. I fD Hour. De. j 6 a. m 10 j rr 10 a. m in ! Comparative Local Record. I 117. 1!6. 1915. 1H. 28 61 S 40 1 2 3S 7 23 15 431 3H 00 .00 .00 T M 9 .ABOVE i- IIEUT. ROBEE.T30M, EKfW:-lIEtra.-CCU. EJS-HoR. Lieutenant Colonel H. G. Bishop and Lieutenant W. A. Robertson, the army aviators who were lost for ten days in the wilds of Sonora, Mexico, thirty-two miles south of the Cali fornia border, arc to be subjected to a court-martial for having attempted a flight from San Diego, Cal., to the Imperial valley without authority. The propeller of their airplane broke, compelling them to land. When found they were, near death from lack of food and water. Two sand wiches and two oranges was all the food or drink the ilten had, except water taken from their airplane tank during the ten days in which they wandered in the desert. Ministerial Crisis In Japan Will Be Fought Out in Diet Tokio, Jan. 23. Japan is confronted with an internal crisis. The oppo sition to the administration of Count Terauchi has opened a vigorous cam paign on the ground that the Ter auchi nonpartisan cabinet was formed in violation of the spirit of the constitution. The constitutional party, wheh has a majority in the House of Peers and is under the lead ership of Viscount Kato, former min ister of foreign affairs, has joined hands with the nationalist group in the lower house for war against the premier. The battle will be fought out in the Diet, which reconvenes to day. Count Terauchi and Viscount Motono, foreign minister, will de liver addresses in defense of 'he ad ministration. The press expects the outcome of the crisis to be dissolu tion and a new election. Field Marshal Count Terauchi took office in October, 1916. The emper or's action in summoning him to form a cabinet was a surprise both in Japan and abroad and was vigorously criticised by the Japanese political leaders, who contended that the new premier did not command public sup port. Count Terauchi was formerly gov ernor of Korea and is supposed to represent the radical militarist fac tion in Japan, Have Old Shoes Repaired Instead Of Discarding Them Chicago, Jan. 23. A nation-wide campaign to induce people to have their shoes repaired instead of throw ing them away for new ones was an nounced today following a meeting of members of the National Leather and Shoe Finders' association. "The cost of living in the United States can be cut down many thous ands of dollars daily by this simple expedient," said J. H. Martin of Min neapolis, president of the organiza tion. "With the increasing price of leather, shoes have gone almost be yond the means of men in moderate circumstances." The meeting here was preparatory to the annual convention of the or ganization to be held in Milwaukee in July, President Has Sown Wheat and Tares Together, Says W. J. Bryan Madison, Wis., Jan. -'3. "The president's message is a wonderfully eloquent appeal to the nations at war," declared William Jennings Bryan in an interview here today be fore leaving on a train for Springfield, III., where he speaks this afternoon. "Insofar as the president's message suggests terms of agreement, it is on tirely sound and reflects what I Be lieve to be an almost unanimous sen timent. But I dissent entirely from the proposition that this nation should join in a movement to effect peare in Europe. "If 1 know the sentiment of the SCATTERS TEUTON ; DESTROYER FLEET Fourteen German Torpedo , Boats Attacked by English Light Warcraft in North Sea Monday Might. KAISER LOSES ONE VESSEL In Another Engagement London Admits Loss of Fighting Ship With Nearly Fifty Lives. DARKNESS HALTS FRAY London, Jan. -'.V -lr an cngagc j i, 'cut between British ' light naval J forces and German torpedo boat dc I slroycrs in the North Sea last night j a German destroyer was sunk and the utiicr torpeao crari scaucreo, n was officially announced toniglit. The sinking of a British torpedo j boat destroyer in another engagement with German torpedo boat destroyers in the vicinity of Schouwen Bank last night, with the loss of three officers and forty-four of its crew, also was announced. Text of Announcement. The text of the official announce ment says: "Last night while our light forces were patrolling the North Sea not far from the Dutch coast, they met a til vision of enemy torpedo boat destroy ers. A short engagement took place, during which one of the enemy tor pedo boat destroyers was sunk and the rest scattered, having suffered considerable punishment. Darkness prevented the full results of the ac tion from being observed. "During last night there was a sharp engagement between enemy tor pedo boat destroyers and our own destroyers, in the vicinity of Schou wen Bank. During this engagement one of our torpedo boat destroyers was struck by a torpedo, the explosion killing three officers and forty-four of the crew. She subsequently was smit hy our own ships. .'Relatives of the victims have been informed. Our ships suffered no other casualties." Ymuiden, Holland (Via The Hague to London), Jan. 23. An encounter occurred Tuesday morning in the North sea between fourteen German torpedo boat destroyers and a British flotilla. Sixteen severely wounded Germans have been landed here by a Dutch trawler, which took them off the badly damaged German torpedo Iboat, V-69. The torpedo boat was afterwards towed here with twenty dead aboard. The commander died before reaching port; both of his legs being shot off in the engagement. New York Bar Gives Dinner of Welcome To Charles E, Hughes New York, Jan. 23. Charles E. Hughes was welcomed back to the practice of law in New York at a dinner given in his honor last night by the Association of the Bar of New York. Elihii Root, in bis address of welcome, declared: "I am glad he is here, but I wish he were somewhere else." Other speakers were George L. In graham, John P. Clarke and Francis Lydjie Stetson. Mr. Hughes replied: "I have no desire to evoke sympathy or any sug gestion of misfortune. 1 did not wish to resign from the supreme court, but I did resign because I thought It was my duty to resign and I do not regret that which I did with that pur pose. "I was glad of the opportunity to serve a term in a judicial office. 1 do not think that many, lawyers ap preciate fully the constant burden that is borne by members of the high appelate. 1 do not believe that the people at large have any conception of the magnitude of the service that is performed by those entrusted with judicial responsibilities." Working Women Of Chicago to Wear Jeans and Overalls Chicago, Jan. 23. Overalls will be worn by numbers of Chicago women at their work hereafter if the judg ment announced today, of buyers for a leading department store is sus tained. A feature offering this spring, it was said, will be jeans, similar to those designed for men, but made especially for women. "The step is the direct result of the popularity of working breeches for the women working in overseas munitions factories." it was asserted. "They lessen the danger and enable women to move more quickly. We expect not only fa .tor y women, but housekeepers also, to wear the gar ments." American people it is inconceivable that they should be willing to put the American army and navy at the command of an international council which would necessarily be controlled by European nations and allow that council to decide for us when we would go to war. "In the president's appeal he pre sents the philosophy of brotherhood and co-operation and this is inconsis tent with the proposition that it be hacked U) by a larger display of force. In other words, the- president has sown wheat and tares together. I hope that the senate will approve of the wheat. and reject the tares." GALLS FOR FACTS ABOUT SHORT DEALS "Leak" Committee Asks Stock Exchange for Sales Record, Dec. 10 to 23, NOBLE IS FIRST WITNESS New York, Jan. 23. Searchi'.ghts of the house rules committee in the leak inquiry are to be turned immediately on all the "short" deals which took place on the stock exchange between December 10 and December 23. It was on such speculation, if any, that profits were made on advance infor mation regarding th. president's re cent peace note, it is averred. That this featme of the inquiry may be expedited the committee at its first session today ordered H. G. S. Noble, president of the stock ex change, to "request" the governing board of the exchange to ask ,ts mem bers to supply the committee forth with with a list of all of their trans actions between December 10 and De cember 23, designating all customers by their real names and not by niim; bers or appellations. The statements requested also arc to show the numbers of stocks bor rowed, by whom and to whom loaned and the date returned. With this information in hand the committee believes it soon can deter mine if there is any basis to the charges of immense profit taking through "short" selling by those in possession of leak information. Noble was the first witness called after Sherman L. Whipple, counsel for the committee, had made his open ing statement. It was featured by an outline of the immediate plans ot the committee contemplating inquiry into nothing save the leak said to have occurred in connection with the presi dent's peace note. Noble was ques tioned particularly as to the opera tions of "short" pools and the pro priety of speculators accentuating un favorable news by selling stocks in order to depress the price and cover at a profit. He said he saw no im propriety in such operations. He was told that if the board of governors did not obtain the records desired, the committee would be compelled to make its own search. Noble agreed to place the matter before the gov ernors this afternoon. Samuel F. Streit, chairman of the stock exchange clearing house, the second witness, explained its opera tions. Exponent of Low Cost of Living Dies Of Slow Starvation Dover. O., Jan. 23. The death here today of David Hartman, 63 years old, was said by attending physicians to have 'csultcd from insufficient nourishment. Hartman, who is said to have won a prize fbr an article on how to live c eaply, incrcpscd his daily allow ance lor food from 3 to 10 cents a day recently when physicians told him he was starving to death. He conferred with an undertaker a few days ago, arranging for a ci.skct and other funeral details as chus-ply as possible. He was fore man of a paint shop in Dover. Bill for Statue of Buffalo Bill at Cody Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 23. (Spe cial.) An appropriation of $10,000 as the foundation of a fund to be ex pended in the erection of a memorial statue of Colonel W. F. Cody at Cody, Wyo., is provided for in House Hill No. 50, introduced in the stale legis lature by Representative H. II. Schwoob of Park county, which was Colonel Cody's home. TRIAL OF BIG OIL LANDSDIT BEGINS Government Seeks to Recover Half Million Acres Held by Southern Pacific. MILLIONS ARE INVOLVED New York, Jan. 23. Nearly half a million acres of oil land in the San Joaquin Valley,, -Califorjiia,..va.lud. it (32,000,000, is at stake in the govern ment's suit against the Southern Pa cific railroad on trial here before Judge Bledsoe of the federal court of Los Angeles. From this land, the testimony shows, the railroad com pany has been taking about 900,000 barrels-of oil a month. If the gov ernment wins its suit for possession of the property, it is said that these oil fields will be used, to supply fuel for the navy. Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific, one of the first witnesses called here for the defense, declared that when his company first obtained title to the land in dispute he "never dreamed" that they contained oil. Tho government holds that the Southern Pacific company obtained land grants from the government knowing that ! oil was present, while the government ' officials understood the property was ; to he used for agricultural dcvelop j ment. The-suit is brought on grounds of fraud Examination of witnesses representing the defendant railroad ' company continued today. j Danish Ship With ! Food for Raider is Held at Rio Janeiro i Kto Janicro, Brazil, Jan. 23. TbeJ I Danish steamer rtammcrsnus was I fired on last night by the guns of the j fort at Santa Cruz and halted while trying to put to sea secretly after re ; ceiving a quantity of provisions and, I according to report, a large quantity i of explosives from the German ships i anchored in the harbor, j The Hammershus entered the port at 10 o'clock last night and dropped anchor close to the German ships. It took on board a large number of cases and then attempted to leave the har bjr. The movements of the ship were observed from the fort and it was signalled ti. stop. The signals were ' ignored until two cannon shots were i fired, when the Hammershus halted and was boarded by the port police. ' The police compelled the steamer to anchor in the neigiiDornoort ot some Brazilian- warships, where it is be ing kept under surveillance pending an investigation. Children of Omaha to Have Chance To See Movie as Guests of The Bee The children of Omaha will be treated to a delightful party next Sat urday morning at the Strand theater when The Omaha Bee will give a free sow to all the little folks of the city. Following along the lines of the ef forts of the club women of Omaha, who are promoting the idea of special children's movie programs The Bee has arranged to support this move ment and invite all the children under 15 to be its guests. On this occasion the attraction will he a notable comedian, Douglas Fairbanks, in "The Tabit of Happiness." Douglas Fanbanks, let it be known, has never appeared hi a problem play DATE OF RETURN OF FIFTOEBRASKA Husker Guards Returning in First of Three Groups From Border. MONTH IN ALL REQUIRED San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 23. The return movement of Nation) Guard organizations, ' making . up the J25JXX) troops ordered home from the border, should begin January 26 or 27, accord ing to announcement made at Gen eral Funston's headquarters today. It was estimated a month will be re quired to complete the movement. To facilitate the use of rolling stock, the troops ordered home ave been divided into three groups. Organiza tions in group number one will go first. The first group includes the following units: Batteries A and C, Alabama field artillery: two battalions Delaware in fantry; Battery B. District of Co lumbia field artillery; Second Ken tucky infantry; Massachusetts am bulance company and field hospital; First New Hampshire infantry. First North Carolina infantry; Second Pennsylvania field artillery; Second Virginia infantry; Illinios brigade headquarters and Third infantry; Fourth Missouri infantry; Fifth Ne braska infantry and signal company; Fourth Ohio infantry; Iowa brigade headquarters and Third infantry; Indiana brigade headquarters and Second infantry; Troop A, Montana cavalry, Troop A, Oklahoma cavalry; field hospital and Company A, en gineers; Second squadron Utah cav alrv. Second Group. Listed in the second group are: Sixth Pennsylvania infantry and headquarters Third brigade; Fifth Maryland infantry; Seventy-fourth New York infantry; Troop A. South Carolina cavalry; Company A, engi neers and held hospital; lennessee ambulance company No. 1 and field hospital No. I ; Second Wisconsin in fantry; First Minnesota field artillery; Fourth South Dakota infantry; Ne braska field hospital No. 1; Ohio brigade headquarters and Fifth in fantry; Squadron A, Iowa cavalry; ambulance company and field hospital No. I; squadron Ohio cavalry; In diana ambulance company No. 2; First Arkansas infantry. Third Group. The following organizations com pose the third group: Eighth Pennsylvania infantry and Company C, engineers: New York field supply train and ambulance com pany No. 4; First Minnesota infantry; First Oklahoma infantry; First bat talion Louisiana field artillery, and field hospital No. 1. The First North Dakota infantry left Llano Grande today for Fort Snclling to be mustered out of the federal service. and never resorts to suggestive pro ductions for his success. He is funny, but not silly, and is an athlete who does the seemingly impossible in such a way as to be instructive as well as entertaining. Next Thursday and Friday there will be a coupon in The Bee which will admit any child to the Strand theater at 9:30 Saturday. In addition to "The Habit of Happiness," with Douglas Fairbanks, there will also be a corking Keystone comedy and music on the Strand pipe organ to roun j out the performance. If too manv children come for the first show there will be another show, so don't be afraid you won't get in. GOES OVER FOR ONE DAY Pressure of Business Too Great to Allow Time for Talk Now, Says the Missourian. NEW SEA CODE PROPOSED Washington, Jan. 23. Senator Cummins of Iowa submitted a resolu tion to the senate today which would devote the senate, beginning next Monday, to a full and free discussion of the president's world peace policy expressed in his message of yesterday. All other business would be excluded until every senator had an opportu nity to speak not more than an hour. Chairman Stone of the foreign rela tions committee objected to immedi ate consideration and action was de ferred until tomorrow. , The resolution cited inasmuch that as the president's address called for no official legislative action and that the president had invited free and . frank expression of opinion for guid ance in the matter involving the it -tegrity of the nation and peace of the world is was the bounden duty of the senate to thoroughly consider the proposals and to advise the president regarding them. Mr. Stone's Objection. "In the present pressure of public business," said Senator Stone, "I shall have to object to setting aside a whole week, for that's what it would take, merely to hear speeches or opinions regarding the president's address made yesterday. Such a thing is wholly out of the question at this time. Senator Cummins insisted that his resolution had a right to lie over for a day without reference and said he would object to its going to the com mittee. Senator Stone then withdrew his objection and the question will come up tomorrow and probably will precipitate general debate of all the issues involved. New Sea Code Proposed. Discussion in all American nations of the underlying principles embodied,. : ts... - .jj : pectcd to come about through the ac tion of the American Institute of In ternational Law, now meeting in Ha vana, in taking up a code of maritime neutrality prepared at. the suggestion -of Secretary Lansing, The code is to he taken up within the next year by the Societies of International Law in each of the twenty-one American re publics. In this code the principle is laid down that if neutrals are unable to prevent a conflict they must do every thing possible to end it, on the ground that one of the . obligations of neu trality is "a duty . of pacification to ward mankind." The code also dwells on the freedom of the seas. . Under the proposed code neutrals may utilize "an international force" to punish violations of neutrality. No Word from Germany. It was stated officially today that President Wilson has received no word from Germany that it and its allies were willing to lay their terms of peace, even confidentially, before him. The statement was made in re sponse to recently published intiroa- . tions that the German terms had al ready been placed in the president's hands. Violence and Fire Feature General Strike at Saragossa Paris. Jan. 23. A general strike, reported to be accompanied by vio lence and incendiarism, has broken out in Saragossa, says a Havas dis patch today from that Spanish city. "The police are in charge of the workshops and the factories," adds the message, 'and the soldiers are running the street cars. The local newspapers have suspended publica tion. Fairbury Hotel Promoters Buy Lot for. Edifice Fairbury, Neb., Jan. 23 (Special Telegram) A deal has been made with C. E. Snyder by the promoters of Fairbury's new $100,000 hotel for possession of a lot within a block of the public square. Mr. Snyder sold the lot for $9,000. Several architects have been in the city conferring with capitalists who will build the new hotel. The new building will cost double that of the Marietta erected nine years ago. Work will commence in the early spring on the new structure and it will be in operation before the close of the summer. f A small ad in the Do mestic column of The Bee will secure the maid or cook you have been seeking. You are as close to Tha Be Waat Ad Dept. as your phone is to you. Call Tyler 1000 Today.