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The Omaha Daily Bee Want-ad Night Service to 10 p. m. Tyler 1000 VOL. XL VI NO. 228. OMAHA,. MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1917. On IrtlM. it Detail, Newt Stand. Etc.. M. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. i THE WEATHER j Snow; Colder COUNCIL BLUFFS BUSINESS CENTER SWEPT BY FIRE Two Hundred Thousand Dol lars Estimated Loss Early Sunday Morning Before Blaze Controlled. ORIGIN REMAINS MYSTERY Burned District Covers Sapp, Maurer and Wickham Blocks. OMAHA RESPONDS TO CALL Fire losses estimated at $200,000 oc curred when the Sapp block, corner of Broadway and Scott street, the Maurer building and the Wickham block were swept by flames that were discovered at 3:30 o'clock Sunday morning, were not extinguished un til nearly noon. Assistance in fight ing the fire was given by the Omaha lire department, when two engines furnished streams many times more efficient than the hydrant pressure made possible. The Commercial National bank, the Northwestern-Union Pacific ticket of fices; the Kresge Ten-Cent store and the Gunnoude & Zurmuehlen whole sale and retail cigar store, occupied the ground floor rooms of the build ings, and with the exception of the bank, hte loss was complete. Nothing but the walls remained of the Wickham block and the Mauer building. Only the first and fourth floors of the Sapp block were burned! The fire did not get into the second and third floors, but swept up the elevator shaft from the basement to the roof and only water and smake damage was inflicted upon the middle floors. The fire was fanned by a stiff north west wind and burned until it was stopped by the solid fire walls of the Beno building. The intense heat drove the smake through the wall and filled the Beno department store, dam aging the goods on all of the five floors. Starts Under Stairway. The fire started in the basement of the Sapp block underneath the stairway and elevator in the north west corner. It was discovered at 3 :20 o'clock by Harry Larsen, a news paper carrier, who turned in the first alarm. When the firemen arrived the fire was blazing up the elevator shaft and had eaten its way underneath the roofs of the adjoining Mauer building and on into the Wickham block. After . the firemen had apparently checked the flames at the source of .origin there came an outburst from beneath the cornice on the Mauer and the Wickham buildings. No fire was vis ible on the ground floors of these buildings, but a moment later accumu lated gases and heated air in the Ten Cent store caused a terriffic expolsion that blew out the street' front with such violence that plate class windows on the opposite side of the street were smashed. A heavy penny-in-the-)lot weighing machine standing in the foutunda of the store was hurled Icross.the street against the curb. It was then that Chief Hitchock; called upon the Omaha department nd Assistant Chief Simpson respond ed with two pumpers and a ladder truck. Eight or ten hydrant streams tapping the twenty-four-inch water main had reduced the pressure until the streams lacked power to be ef ficient. The flames were climbing skyward and ending showers of brands over adjacent blocks when the streams fro mthe pumps were turnedon. The fight was then not won until after hours of stubborn re - sistence. Escape In Night Clothes. Many persons occupied living part mcnts in the Maurer and the Wick ham buildings, and several had to descend fire escapes. On the third floor of the Wickham block Mrs. Gieson. mother of Mrs. J. . Evans, aged am) infirm, was found unconscious and had to be carried out. Several others escaped nly.in their night clothes. Miss Chester and Miss Stratton got out wearing rain coats .over their pajamas.' Following is a complete list of the tenants: Sapp Block First floor, Commer cial Kationa'. bank. Second floor, Prudential Insurance company; J. N. ; I'asady, realty; B. L. Lemen, realty; J. D. Johnson, realty; Dr. R. O. Will iams, dentist. Third floor, Dr. Bower, city physician; Dr. Harry Boyne, dentist; Dr. Stahl, chiropractor; Dr. Woodbury, dentist. Fourth floor, W. F. Sapp, Mr. Brown, realty; Dr. "lamilton, dentist; Dr. Harriet Hamil ion, physician: Visiting Nurse -association. Dr. O'Hanlon, chiropractor. Wickham Block First floor, rresgc Ten-Cent, Gunnoude & Zur- T'tnllnaed on Fair- Two, Column One.) : The Weather i Temperature at Omaha Yenterday. Hour. De-. 4 S a. m . ff7w 8 " 3 viucr 7 ..v a 10 a. m , H6 i.h P VOJr i p- m ii 1 ,p.rn 3E?! P. m..... 38 J 6 u. m .18 7 p. m att Comparative Local Record. ' ' ltll. 1910. 191S. 1M. JdgheKt yesterday.... 39 60 34 XI Lowest yesterday 32 24 26 is Mean temperature.... 36 42 30 28 FrerlpltaMon 00 .00 ,00 .00 Temperature and precipitation (departures from -the normal st Omaha since March f, nrid compared wlfh the last two years: Normal temperature 33 Excess for the day X T'Ual exttM since March 1 1C Normal precipitation 04 Inch Iflelenoy for thn day V .04 Inch Total rainfall since March if... .02 inch lcfti-lency nre March 1 41 inch .ir'-.iry fnr cor, prWd. 131G. .3D Inch Kxcfu for i'or. pt-iiod, 19J5.,.. l.itinrhv PERMIT NO DEVIL TO INVADE JHE HOUSE Rev. W. T. Kahse Tells How Best to Preserve the Home and Church. PEOPLE MUST BE UNITED Rev. W. T. Kahse, pastor of the Lutheran church of Our Redeemer, Twenty-sixth and Ames avenue, preached yesterday morning on "How Best to Guard Our House?" Using as his text the castinsr out of a devS by Christ, he warned against the many devils, which to day are .in people individually and collectively. "A house divided within itself can not stand," he said. "This is true not only of a house, but of a nation, and of the individual. There are many lamines wnere dissention reigns. Often it starts from some little thing, but it is fanned by the devil until it lias grown big. An unkind word may lean to many unkind words and then to actual lighting in some cases and sometimes we have the pitiful end of it in the courts. Dissention in Churches. "Churches often have dissention within themselves. It is a particularly sad thing then for it shows that the evil one is at work there and that he is opposing the spirit of Christ, "In the individual the devil's work is deplorable. It causes him. per haps, to be neglectful of his duties. It makes him lukewarm. It causes him to try to adopt a middle course. Neutrality is all right in some places, indeed, but it is impossible to be neutral where Christ is concerned. A man can't take a middle course and say, 'Christ is all right and the world is all right, too.' He must be either tor Christ or against Him. "At the bottom of most of this evil which invades nations, churches, individuals, like weeds in a garden, are selfishness and pride. Some, wise in their own conceit and with an ex aggerated idea of their iniDortance. want to dictate. And when there is any opposition to their plans they fall back on duplicity and backbiting. Then their small souls seek satisfac tion and thev fall back on various evil experiments which only make matters worse. "Unselfishness and an humble spirit would do away with all such things. In a word, the spirit of Christ is needed. , Seek Good Motive. 1 "It is also notable that some of the people who saw Christ cast out the devils, declared, 'He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of devils.' This is characteristic of many people today. They refuse, to see any good in any action. Thev seak some evil motive behind every noble aeca or seeic to discredit the doer. There are others who are always looking for the good in everything they see. Such can usually find good. They are happier and certainly more commendable than the others. "Let us be united in the familv th- church, the nation. Let us strive for inn understanding ot others and thereby work together for the great est goon to an. The Church of Our Redeemer was organized only last December by Rev. Mr. Kahse, but has already a larsc congregation. Fourteen new members were received in the Sunday school yesterday. Services ate being held temporarily in Prairie Park hall. Walks Forty-Five Miles To Enlist in the Army Aberdeen, S. D., March 11. (Spe cial.) That patriotism is a very living thing in South Dakota was demon strated by Albert Bass, a young farm hand near Tulare, S. D., who enlisted in the regular army at the local re cruiting station. When the interna tional situation became critical, Bass concluded the best place for an able bodied young man like himself was in the army, so he walked the forty five miles from Tulare to Aberdeen, over snowy or ice-covered roads, and appeared at the recruiting station to eniist. He compjained of feeling slightly tired upon reaching here, but was unable to account for his fatigue. Though a little under weight, the re cruiting office concluded he was of the type of hikers Uncle Sam needs and accepted him. Orphan Girl Dies on Train Enroute to Omaha Alliance, Neb., March 11.) (Spe cial.) Helen Jenkins, 10 years of age, en rounte from Provo, S. D., to Omaha on Burlington train No. 44, died just as the train reached Alli ance today. The little girl, an orphan from the Nebraska Children's home in Omaha, had been making her home with a family in Provo, was taken sick and the family physician advised her re moval to Omaha for treatment. After taking the train she suddenly grew worse and died before a doctor who was called to meet the train at Alliance, could render any assistance. The body is ebing held at a local undertaker, awaiting advice from the officers of the children's home. Count Tarnowski Evidently Intends to Stick Around Washington, March 11. The fact that Count Tarnowski. the newlv ap pointed ambassador from Austria Hungary, is arranging to obtain a new embassy building is taken to in dicate that his government does not expect diplomatic relations to be sev ered in the near future. The count has not yet presented his credentials to the president. Lincoln Man Charged ' With Killing His Wife Lincoln, Neb., March 11. Arlowe Sutter, a contractor, was arrested late tonight, charged with killing his wife. The woman was found dead in their home, shot through the lungs. The man would make no statement. TO SETTLE 8 HOUR FIGHT NO MATTER Adjustment of Rail Wage, ,,:r: ret, irrespective 01 how Adamson Law Decided, Forecast at Cleveland. ASSURANCE SENT WILSON Brotherhoods Say Strike Won't Be Permitted to Embarrass U. S. in Case of War. CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY Chicago, March 11. A conference between the heads of the railway brotherhoods and the national confer ence committee of the railroads has been billed for next Thursday,. March 15, in New York. The cause of the conference was not revealed. Settlement Forecast. Cleveland, O.. March 11. Settle ment of the railroad eight-hour .con troversy, irrespective of whether the supreme court holds the Adamsonl law constitutional or unconstitutional, was forecast in Cleveland by1 action of a conference of brotherhood leadcrs.i Announcement of the four unions' compromise plan to be threshed out at a meeting witn railroad officials in New York next Thursday, came simultaneously with the revelation that the brotherhood chiefs had noti fied President Wilson that a strike would not be permitted to embarrass the government, in case the United states was drawn into war. Plan Drafted. A statement was given out, signed by Warren S. Stone, grand chief of tlie engineers;. L. E. Sheppard, act ing president of the conductors; W. 5. Carter, president of the firemen and cnginemen, and W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen, announcing that a plan for settlement of the controversy had been drafted by the brotherhood heads and submitted to and approved by the chairmen. While the details of the settlement plan were hot divulged, it was stated that the union representatives would lay before railroad officials 'a com promise plan based on the employes' fight for an eight-hour day. Independent of Court Action. "It was decided to renew efforts to obtain a settlement," the official statement said, "and a meeting has been arranged with the national con ferenec, committee of the xairwayji.-to dc neiu in icw jurit on juursuay, March 15." "The settlement conference with the railroad officials will have noth ing to do with whatever action the supreme court takes in the present test of the Adamson law," President Lee said. "An effort will be made to reach an agreement that will bring peace be tween the railroads and the men if the law is held constitutional. An effort also will be made to work out a plan that will effectively take the place of the Adamson law in case it is held unconstitutional." Statement of Chiefs. The four chief executives issued the following statement: "A meeting was held at Cleveland, March 10; by representatives of tlu four train and engine organizations, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, in response to a call issued by the chief executives, for the purpose of concurring as to the situation regarding a settlement of the eight-hour proposition, "It was decided to renew efforts to obtain a settlement, and a meeting had been arranged with the national conference committee of the railways, to be held in New York on Thursday, March 15. "The 400 chairmen of the four transportation organizations attending the meeting, reported the conditions existing on their various systems as even worse than on September 2, 1916, when the Adamson eight-hour law was enacted. "They complained bitterly because the men they represent are working for the same rates of pay, and longer hours and worse conditions, than prior to the enactment of such law, and called attention to the fact that nearly all other classes of labor had been given substantial increases dur ing the last year, which in a measure offset the increased cost of living. "They authorized the chief execu tives to press the matter to an early conclusion and while the situation is grave, the chief executives feel hope ful of effecting a peaceful settlement when they meet the managers' com mittee. "The men feel, and their officers' support them in the opinion that the railway companies should have ap plied the law, as intended by congress and the president of the United States, thus giving the men the benefit from January 1, instead of resorting to the courts." Sir Sam Hughes Confers With U. S. Army Officers New York, March 11. The belief that in the event of war between the United States and Germany, Ameri can officers fighting with the forces of Canada should have no difficulty in obtaining their release to aid in train ing American troops, was expressed here today by Major General Sir Sam Hughes, formerly Canadian minister of militia. "I do not see why there should not be reciprocity," Sir Sam declared. "There should be no legal steps in the way. But your Yankees would mighty soon get into shape." SiSam came to New York Friday to confer, according to reports, as a representative of the British army wiih United States army officers. WHAT COURT SA)f WKIWJ Smith To MY V flNft WYBObT EliE POIAS WT A6 1SB00T BEING Sick ANO STW Hone - fiRt 'trt . the MEI1 ARE F0 To WORK. HOW LET "THAT ENt (T BAGDAD TAKEN BY BRITISH FORCES Chief Turkish City of Mesopo tamia and Once Capital of the Caliphs Falls. n r LINKS ANCIENT LAND NOW London, March 11. Bagdad, the chief Turkish city ;n Mesopotamia, andjformerly the capitol of thf em- Sire of the caliphs", has been captured y the British forces. Announcements of the capitulation of the city was made this evening by the.Btitish of ficial press bureau, on receipts of a telegram from General Maude, saying the British forces had occupied Bag day early Saturday morning. No de tails were contained in General Maude's dispatch. During the day the following of ficial report was received concerning the operations at Bagdad, carrying them up to Saturday morning, when the Turks had been forced back to within three miles west and south west o fthe city. Fight In Moonlight. "Our forces engaged with the Turks on the Diala line the night of the eighth, succeeded, despite the bright moonlight in effecting a sur prise crossing of the Diala and estab lishing a strong post on the right bank thereof. Steanwhile on the morning of the eighth the Tigris hav ing been bridged at some distance down stream, a British detachment marched up the right hank and found the enemy holding a position about six miles southwest of Bagdad. "The enemy was driven from this position to another position two miles in the rear. During the night of the ninth, the passage of the Diala was forced and our troops advanced some four miles toward Bagdad. Turks Pushed Back. "During the ninth our forces on tjie right bank (Tigris) drove the enemy from their second position, bivouacking on the ground gained. This advantage, notiwthstanding a blinding dust storm and a violent gale, was pressed on the morning of the tenth, the Turks being pushed back to within three miles west and south west of Bagdad." Bagdad's capture marks the climax to one of the most dramatic and pic turesque phases of the wprld war. The city, which has fallen to British ars, links the present to the past so distant that it is semi-fabulous. The known history of Bagdad reaches (Continued on Paso Xlu-eo, Column Hlx ) 01 Omahan Drinks Cup of Hoi Coffee And Wins a Wife in Record Time Fred M. Kodgcrs, an Omaha man, in St. Louis, drank hot coffee, burned his mouth, groaned on account of the pain, a girl laughed and thereby he won a wife, the wife being the girl who did the laughing. Kodgcrs had occasion to go to St. Louis and while there, went into a restaurant to cat. At the table, oppo site him sat a girl, but he didn't think anything about that. He was hungry and ordered a quick lunch, consisting of a small steak, potatoes and cottee. The girl noting the fact that he or dered potatoes and meat, concluded that he was a millionaire, but that has nothing to with the story. During the course of the meal, Rodgers, who was in a hurry, gulped down a big swallow of coffee. It was scalding hot and as it passed down his throat, burned him severely. He n.ade wry faces and howled with pain. The girl opposite laughed. Instead of getting mad and expressing his opin ion ot such things,-Rodgers looked "Oh, Well, That Squares 'MX RlS-HT-FlRt Him rttio SIT So MS BoM ease HE I HOME VERY SICK we'll flit, tfwe pNEuMow e fore LONG- f TOO DON'T MX Tuft WINDOW AND DKAlN PIP6S" Pon'T Tfeu, WHAT To BO -Too Cx X SiVf- 1 vwwT fNO v CENT ON THl ISU1L6IN4 Fund To improvi The snmmnt OsndiTiok or TRt rtHiMrU T The 2oo. WILL YOU 5oBeRw- . ' Germany Starving and Wants Peace New York, March 11. Briga dier General Joseph E. Kuhn, president of the army war college, who until recently wai the Ameri can military attache at Berlin, de clared in an address here tonight, at the annual dinner of the alumni of West Point, that "the German people are on the edge of starvation," and "Germany is pre pared to entertain terms of peace and to go a long way to get them," ' .;:'! : i i i -' i' i i i 'I ,. CARRAHZA ELECTED MEXIC07RESIDEHT Wins Chief Office by Largest Vote Ever Oast in the Republic. POLLING ON SABBATH OAT Mexico City, March 11. General Venustiano Carranza, was today elected president of Mexico by what is believed to have been the largest vote ever cast in the republic. Charles Martin to Recite His Woes to Real Estaters Charles VV. Martin is to address the Omaha Real Estate board next Wed nesday on the success and failure, the trials and joys of platting subdi visions. He. will have especial refer ence to his experience in the platting he has done in the northern part of the city. He will have something to say about the trials and hardships he en countered in getting his public serv ice utilities installed, his experiences with the water board, the street car company and others. Oldest Insurance Company Celebrates at Banquet Philadelphia, March 11. The oldest stock insurance company in the Unit ed States the Insurance Company of North America last night celebrated its century and a quarter of existence with a banquet given by its officers and directors at the historic Union League, where many of the country's most notable men, including United States presidents, have gathered and dined. Many prominent citizens rep resentative of the bench and bar, the manufacturing, banking and mercan tile interests of the city were among the invited guests. across the tabic and noted that the girl was pretty. Rodgers forgot his aches and pains and his burned mouth as he looked. She apologized and said that she was sorry that she laughed and that she would never do so again if he would pardon the first offense. Being an Omaha man and of the forgiving kind, Rodgers remarked; "That's all right, but what's your name?" ' The girl confided that her name was Miss Eva Galloway, but it is no longer, for now it is Mrs. Fred Rodgers. Before the two yourfg people had departed from the restaurant table they concluded that they were made for each other. Fred told the girl that ery thing and she agreed to it. The next day the license was se cured and the same afternoon they were wed at the home of the bride's parents, 3917 West Pine Boulevard, They are expected in Omaha in the near future It" 'he it A vewfiooe fVn - A MRS VWRKtB. - I HAVt To M Thl PM c? Trte BM-lN-n MMP UNO pfWUSKW CTAiW-Y-You HW OWNT o- fitfl (OrtOUNT too uW WANINMF POWER They Tear Next Legislature of Nebraska Will Be Re publican. THET LACK LEADERSHIP 1 (From a fluff Corrtapondent-) -' Lincoln,;MKh 11 (Special.) The next .session of the Nebraska legisla ture will, be. .republican without the shadow of t ddubt. ' This is the .opinio, of. ttianjf prom indnt Beiriocrats. some of them mem bers of the present session, who have watched the girations of the present democratic majority and have come to the conclusion that this is the legis lative straw which will break the camel's back. "We - lack leadership," said one democrat this morning. "This legis lature is simply going along without any idea but the one of saving money. They do not look to the efficiency part. As our state grows it naturally takes more money to run it, just as it takes more money for the individual as he grows, but this bunch cannot appear to see anything but the econ omy end. I don't know what the end will be, but it looks to me as if the democratic party in Nebraska had been in office just about long enough." Lack of Leadership. The lack of leadership and the ap parent jealousy which exists between certain members is causing this ses sion to lack much of the working power which proper leadership should give it. Take the whole bunch of over eleven hundred bills which have been introduced in both houses, and out side of the appropriation bills, very few of state-wide importance have been considered, and in fact there are not many of state-wide importance which ought to be considered. Passage of personal bills or bills in which the individual is personally interested appears to- have had the right of way. The machine, as it has been 'charged on the floor of the house, which controls legislation has been able to get across some of the measures of the members who, it is claimed, belong to it, but outside of that the legislative garbage can has got the rest or they have not been considered. The appointment of a sifting com mittee is being watched with much interest. Should the "machine" con trol the committee, there is liable to be a pretty scrap before the thing is ended. It is already being noised around that a number of the demo cratic members who have fallen under the wheels of the machine steam roller more or less during the session will ask the republican majority in the house to join with them in an ef fort to save the state from the power of the machine. Just how far the proposition will get is not known, but it is understood that republicans are holding back letting the democrats fight their little battles and scrap among themselves to the end if they want to. Demos Need no Help. Of course, if it comes to a proposi tion of saving the state from being (Contlued on Fnao Two, Column Two.) Makeup of the Senate Committees Completed Washington, March 11. The make up of the committees of the senate for the Sixty-fifth congress was com pleted by the democratic and re publican committees in charge of the work. Party caucuses will be held Monday to ratify the selections. Reports that an effort might be made to remove Senator Stone from the chairmanship of the foreign rela tions committee because of his stand on the armed neutrality bill proved unfounded and he will remain in that position. There were no important chairmanships vacant and no impor tant shifts were made. J (mm INDIANA TORNADO KILLS SEVENTEEN; INJURES HUNDRED Sunday Storm Strikes New castle, Cutting Path Two Blocks Wide and Nearly Score in Length. LOSS IS CLOSE TO MILLION About Hundred Houses Leveled and More Than Three Hun dred Are Damaged. ' COMES IN THE AFTERNOON Newcastle, Ind., March 11. Seven teen persons arc known to be dead and more than a hundred injured in a tornado which struck Newcastle this afternoon doing damage estimated to night at close to $1,000,000. The storm swept a path through the city, about two blocks wide, extending from Sixth street to Twenty-fifth strect.'About 100 houses were levelled and more than 300 damaged. Report it Indianapolis. IndianaDolirf" March 11. Several persons were killed, hundreds injured and more than uu nouses were oc stroyed by a tornado at Newcastle, Ind., late today, according to meager information received here. Newcastle Date: The identified dead: ORAY I1AVIB. MRS. JOHN R. PA VIS. MRS. ARCHIE FLETCHER. KUWARD HUNLAP. JAMBS NEIL1S. ELIZABETH PAT. MRS. AiUE WELLIAMSON AND DAUOlI TKR, Ol AL. i HAZER. mill. HAYER, (Irl. The storm passed through the long est way of the city, striking the south and west sides. The south side school building was destroyed as were the rolling mills and shovel plant. The residence district was not damaged as severely as the neighborhood of the Maxwell Automobile factory. Newcastle has population of 15, 000. . . - Thirty-Nine Killed. . Muncie, Ind., March 11. A report , reaching here tonight from Newcastle " stated that thirty-nine persons were known to have been killed by the tornado which struck Newcastle late this afternoon. Mayor Bunch re ceived a message from Mayor Wat kins of Newcastle early tonight, say in it: ' ' .. ;., "The town is gone. Send all the help you can." f" i- twe- Children" Killed. ! fwv Rlchthond. Ind.. March II. Twn children were killed and a man prob ably fatally injured in a tornado here late today. Hiram Johnson Give Up His Senatorship? Better Guess Again Sacramento, Cat., March 11. Con jectural reports emanating from Sacramento today that Hiram John son was . planning to relinquish his United States senatorship-elect in favor of Chester H. Rowell of Fresno, nationat republican committeeman, and to retain his present post as gov ernor, brought forth a shower of de nials today. The governor personally issued a statement that the report was "wholly and absolutely false." By mid-afternoon his secretary's desk was piled with telegrams from all parts of the country, demanding whether there was truth in the rumor. One Washington dispatch indicated that the report had been accepted as fact, and that history was being searched for precedents of a senator- elect preferring to remain governor, j 1 Effort to Create Trouble : ' Among G. 0. P.'s Failure (From SHU Correnpondent.) Lincoln, March 11. (Special.) At tempts in certain sources to create dissatisfaction among the republican minority in the senate by stating that senator a, K. Btisnee, iloor leader of the minority, was not proving a success as a leader and that he did not have the backing. of the minority party, is not getting very far for ev- eryone who lias watched the work of the Kimball county senator through two sessions of the house and three of the senate, know that the short grass country ot Nebraska never has sent to the Nebraska legislature a more conscientious member than Senator Bushce. Conservation Congress . Has Been Postponed Lincoln, Neb., March 11. Prof. George E. Condra of the University of Nebraska, president of the Na tional Conservation congress, today announced that on account of the war situation the seventh national con gress, which Was to have been held at New Orleans, La., April 3, 4 and S next, has been postponed. The date for the meeting has not yet been determined. . ;; President Recovers From ' Cold, But in Need of Rest Washington, March 11. President Wilson had recovered tonight from the cold that kept him in bed for the last four days. He was said to be weakened, however, and greatly in need of rest. He sat up today and attended to official business, con ferring briefly with Attorney General Gregory. , , Neville Signs Measure Applying to Greater Omaha (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, March 11. (Special.) Governor Neville has signed the Omaha bill which gives that city the authority to vote a limit of 35 mills for school purposes instead of 25 mills as heretofore. This applies to Greater Omaha,
