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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY MARCH 22. 1917. FLEE JAIL TO DIE BEFORE POSSE Alabama Convict Sentenced to Death for Murder Orercome Guards and JSscape. TWO DEAD, ONE WOUNDED Birmingham, Ala., March 21. David D. Overton, the former county court clerk, under death sentence for the murder of Judge W. T. Lawler, was shot to death in a Birmingham . suburb tonight by a sheriff's posse sent out to capture him and six other prisoners who had escaped from the county jail early in the day. In the battle between the posse and the prisoners, Tony Malino, another con victed murderer, also was killed, and J. L. Lathem, held on a forgery charge, was seriously wounded. The other convicts escaped. I About fifty shotswere exchanged during he fight, which took place in a briar thicket near Birmingham col lege. The posse, notified by a negro that the prisoners were hiding there, sent six deputies to round them up. Overton and his companions at first , attempted to escape apd then at a ' command to halt, began fire. The first shot, the deputies say, came from Overton's rifle. Overpower Jail Guards. The posse replied with a volley and several minutes of firing followed be fore the convicts retreated into the darkness, leaving the three wounded behind. The battle was scarcely more sen sational or dramatic than the jail de livery to which it was the sequence. The seven men, three of them under death sentences for murder, and three others held on murder charges in a concerted revolt overpowered and disarmed the jail guards, tumbled into an automobile waiting nearby and were gone before an alarm could be given. Within a few minutes armed posses were sent out in all directions anil an all nav man hunt thivtito-h the city and the surrounding country fol lowed. Officials predicted that by morning the last of the fugitives would be ac counted for. Overton was the central figure in a murder case which Jias been account ed one of the mos sensational in the history of Alabama. He was a candi date for probate judge at an election f last summer and was defeated by Lawler. Victim's Body Found. A few das later Lawler's body was found weighted down in the Tennes see river and Overton disappeared. , Weeks later he was captured in Ten nessee and brought to Huntsville. At the trial he testified that Lawler, in a night conference on the river bank regarding alleged election frauds, had attacked him. He killed the judge, he said, in self-defense, "But the jury refused to accept the story. The suicides of two Huntsville men, a lawyer and the county sheriff, were attributed to ramifications of the po litical feud. , Apparently none of the shots fired by the convicts tonight in their des perate stand against the sheriff's posse took effect. Overton was the only one armed with a rifle, but sev eral of the others had revolvers taken from the jail guards. Union League Club Wants Country to; Get Ready for War . New York, March 21. With a warning that the United States if un prepared for war with any first class power, a committee of the Union League club, headed by Robert Bacon, former ambassador to France, and in cluding in its membership, many men of prominence, presented at a special meeting tonight, a report calling upon the country to get ready for action. Charles . Hughes presided. "If we go to war with Germany." said the report, "our Only protection will be the ships of the French and British navies, and our own navy, which is undermanned, i In opening the meeting Mr. Hughes said : "I regard these attacks, the method of their conduct, as an onslaught on liberty and on civilization itself. It is time that the American people under stood it." 1 Elihu Root declared Germany is making war upon the United States. "The president," he said, "wants to hear whether the people of the United States want him to go on and act He has said so many times. Let us an swer him and tell him that the Amer ican people do not want him to dis ' cuss, to plan, or to talk about what is going to be done, but to act" Theodore Roosevelt insistently urged action. He charged Germany with murder and asserted that the United States was hiding at present in safety behind an English fleet Colonel Roosevelt said: "We want to prepare at once a great army; I should hope for a couple of million men, so that if the war lasts for a year we will be able to be the decisive and controlling ele ment in it. "But do not wait for that great army. We can send an expeditionary army force abroad now to fight in the trenches or fight in the Balkan penin sula, wherever it is desired. We can get that expeditionary force, if we choose to within four or five months into the trenches." Stories of tUe War Berlin and Vienna Agree Chancel lor von Bethmann-Hollweg spent two days in conference with official: at Vienna, discuslng questions pertaining to foreign affairs, other political mat ters, and the military situation. "In all points," says the Oversea News Agency of Berlin, "absolute conform ity of views on both sides became ap parent" ' Germans Capture Vessel The cap ture by German sea forces as a prise of the Norwegian steamer Advance 1 reported. The Advance, which was carrying 200 tons of foodstuffs to Lon don from Rotterdam, was taken to Zeebrugge. Given Duty at Berne Two of the American consuls lately in Germany have been assigned to duty with the rnnsul general in Berne, Switzerland. They are A W. Donegan, formerly stationed at Magdeburg, and William P. Kent, who is at Lelpsig. WAY IS OPEN FOR RUSS-DJ. TREATY Milukoff Says No Obstacles in Removing Disabilities Gov-, erning Jews. RECOGNITION GIVEN SOON Petrograd, March 20.(Via Lon don, March 2,1.) "Nothing now stands in the way of the new commer cial treaty between Russia and the United States," said the new foreign minister, Prof. Paul Milukoff, in an exclusive interview that he gave to The Associated Press today. "I think I am right in saying that the United States is eager for the resumption of old commercial relations and for the removal of all the disabilities govern ing Jews here. There now appears to be no obstacles to such an event. "The details of such an arrange ment, however, cannot at present be stated; they will have to be left to the future. "This," continued the minister, "will only be one manifestation of the closer relations into which the new Russia hopes to enter with the demo cratic world. The old government in its monarchial form was in close sym pathy with Germany and Prussian ideas. The new regime will find an in spiration in the ideas of the western world." Recognized By U. S. Soon. Washington, March 20. Early recognition by the United States of the new government set up by revolu tion in Russia was forecast here to day in the belief that, with good or der now prevailing the plans being made for a permanent constitutional government, call for the moral sup port of this country. All reports to the State department indicate the army and navy are supporting the provisional government. Ambassador Francis at Petrograd summarized the situation today in the following cablegram: "The last week has seen the most astonishing revolution. Two hundred million people who have lived under absolute monarchyfor 1,000 years and who are engaged in the greatest war in history, have forced their emperor to abdicate for himself and his son and induce the brother to whom was transferred imperial authority to ac cept only if the people wish. Quiet Everywhere. "No opposition to provisional gov ernment which is council of ministers appointed by committee of twelve named by Duma Absolute quiet here and throughout all Russia. Rodzianko and Milukoff assure me whole army and navy in support. Everything learned from unofficial sources con firms. "Plan of provisional government is to call constituent assembly or con vention whose members be elected by whole people and who be empowered to organize good government. Whether republic or constitutional monarchy undecided, but conclusions of assembly will be accepted by the people and enforced by army and navy." Retiring Germans Carry Off French Young Women Paris, March 21. The French war office officially announces that in evac uating Noyon, the Germans carried away by force fifty young girls rang ing in age from 15 to 25 years. Genraa Gunboat Blown Up. London, March SI. A German gunboat In the harbor of Tains Tan, China, has been blown up and sunk, aaya a Reuter dispatch from Hongkong. ' MORALS SQUAD IN THREE RAIDS Barkeeper Arrested for Send ing Drinks to Patrons by Dumb Waiter. TWO MOKE PLACES PULLED The reconstructed , police morals squad, headed by Sergeant Russell, arrested Fred Mason in the basement of the Paxton hotel Tuesday. He was found, according to Sergeant Russell, in a little room stocked with liquor. From the room, the oificer said, a dumb waiter runs to the third floor of the hotel The sergeant says Officer Cunningham of the squad saw the dumb waiter in action. He followed it to the basement, where he found Mason. Mason was charged with running a disorderly house. "We intend to keep a close watch on all the bars in hotels," Captain Dempsey said, following the arrest of Mason. Says Lid Will Stay On. "The lid is on and it's going to say on. If hotel keepers violate the law by selling drinks to their patrons from their bars, we're going to raid the places as fast as we can get the evidence." Given orders to clamp the lid down and see that it remains so, Sergeant Russell and his men, in two automo biles, scoured the city for violators of the lid tilting law. Isaac Grossman's saloon, S24 North Sixteenth street, was raided shortly after the "regular closing hours" and C. A. Lager, booked as running a dis orderly house and two inmates were arrested. The California hotel, Sixteenth and California streets, was raided for the fourth time in three weeks and the proprietor, Sam Houston and four in mates, taken to jail. Houston was charged with running a disorderly house. The proprietor was refused bail. "It's no use leaving him eo." said ! Captain Dempsey after several per sons had called at tne station to secure Houston's release." "We'll just hold him and see what the judge will do to him. That's the fourth time in three weeks we've ar rested him." Women Arrested on Street Four women were taken off the streets. All were released on bonds. In regard to certain organizations posing as private clubs, one of which was raided Saturday night, Captain Dempsey said that even if the judge does release the inmates and pro prietors, his men would continue to raid the places. "We know that they are violating the law. If the judge releases them on one charge, we will book them under another one." Houston -was fined $25 and costs. The four inmates were released. The Paxton hotel case was post poned for hearing until Friday. "Biz" Wilson, bartender at 211 South . Thirteenth street was fined $12.50 and costs for catering the thirsts after 8 p. m. on the night of March 17. ' German Price, Lower. Berlin, March IS. (By Wireless te Bay vllle, March IM Somewhat lower prlcaa for certain cereala and generally docreaaad prices (or meats have beea fixed by the aermen Federal council In new Hat Juat leaned, the Overaeae Newe agency announced today. The price of wheat, the announcement atates, la Increaaed to 390 marka per ton, aa compared with 360 formerly. The average price o( potatoes If Inoreaeed from e marka SO pfennigs per centner 4110 pounds) to I marka per oentnar. Jin Advertisement by The Pullman company Coast to Coast Jj reaching service of the Pullman Company it is often possible to. arrange a railroad journey so that the night may be spent on the train, thus effecting a saving in hotel accommodations and the hours unnecessarily used. lor day time travel. x The Pullman car includes in its construction not only the asset of increased safety, but every convenience afforded by the most modern hotel that can possibly be adapted to the limitations of car construction. And the service further includes the personal attention of employes trained to anticipate the individual requirements of the traveling public. In the deserts of the Southwest; in the western mountains; in rural communities throughout the country, everywhere, regardless of local conditions, the traveler today can obtain, wherever he may board Pullman, the same high standard of service that he would find in a Pullman car leaving the terminal of the great metropolis. Standardized and extended to serve in equal measure travelers in practically every community, the facilities which the Pullman Company affords for convenience, safety and comfort are equalled by no other similar organization in the world. N . Romanoff will Quit Former Realm Petrocrad, March 21. (Via Lon don.) The former Dowager Em press Marie Fedoiovna, who was at Kiev, went to meet her son, for mer Emperor Nicholas, at be was returning after his abdication. She had long resented the influence over Nicholas wielded by the Em press Alexandra, Gregory Raspu tin, tne mystic monk and Mada snoiaelle Virubava, lady-in-waiting to the empress and Alexandra's best friend, who bad introduced Rasputin to the empress. Her meeting with Nicholas was said to havt been very affecting. It is re- Sorted that she intends to go to lenmark, her native country. It is expected that Nicholas Ro manoff, as the former emperor is now known, will eventually go to Switzerland, or France, his stay in the Crimea being temporary. Moat of the members of his suite have acknowledged the new government Culls From the Wire MUiterr author! tt t Corpu Chiiitt, Tax., rMtTd order sje tupend work of dta mantllntT taUaUncs t Camp .Scurry, which wo begun Mverat Aaya ao preparatory to l home mvwment of Ttu Ghiftrditmen. Chart A. Sutssar, tfeaaocrat, aad brother of former Gave or William Huliar of New York, win lectd tfalfgat to consji-oas from Alaska laat November, by a majority of nineteen otea, aerordtnr to a doclaton of United States Judgo Robert W. Jennlnso. handed down at Juneau. The canvwutng board had declared Jamea Wlrkenham, In dependent republican, elected, but aa appeal waa taken to the federal court. Wtckershana aerve four terms aa delesate from Alaaka. In a telearam Bent to President WUton, J. Bllaa Harrta, president of the Negro Na tional Education conareaa, meeting at Kan aaa City, pledged support of tta M.000 mem bers of a call for volunteers Is made. Naval officials at Beaton said that plana were under consideration for a squadron of sea aled ambulance to carry Injured and sick members of the power boat patrol fleet from exposed stations oft the New Ens; land coast to a base hospital on ahore. Ellhu Root will preside at a patriotic maaa meeting' at Uadtson Square Garden Thursday night, for which elaborate prepa rations have been made by oommttteea rep resenting all the patriotic organizations In New York. Other speakers will be Presi dent John 0. Hlbben of Princeton university; George Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia, and Charles 8. Fall-child- Seats on the platform have been reserved for Thedore Roosevelt. Charles K. Hughes and James W, Gerard. The gnprocedented prosperity attending operations of the United States Steel eor po ratios for 111 I. are set forth In tbs an nul report. Total earnings of t341,97,0l, exceeded those of Ifll by 1101,747, 0U; net Income of $214,026,6116, showed an Increase of llvf.tfMQl and surplus net Income for the year aggregated I0,8l6.t6, as com- Need a Tonic This Spring? Are You Weak and Run-down? Is the Appetite Poor, the Liver Lazy or the Bowel Constipated? I TRY HOSTETTElTS Stomach Bitters GERMAN RETREAT FULLY JXPLAINED Military Officer Says It Is De signed to Crumple Planned Offensive of Foe. J ASKING ALLIES LOOSE Berlin, Mrch 20. (By Wireless to The Associated Press From a Start Correspondent, Via Turkertoti, N. J.) The German evacuation of Ba paume, Rove, Noyon and Peronne is but part of a great strategic under taking which promises to rcvolution ire warfare on the entire western front and constitute one of the most decisive moves in the war. Just as a month ago the Germans evacuated an important sector on the Ancre. but kept the fact secret for a week, while the British bomharded the empty trenches, so today's report shows the most important develop ments of 1917 on any front. Covers Somme, Front. The sector including the evacuated cities virtually covers the great Somme battle front.. Reports from this section of the front tell of effecr live work of destruction carried out before the occupied land was given back to the French and the British, so that, it will avail them nothing as captured soil, according to views expressed here. With clanging blow and punch and pound, the "Wreckers" soon bring it down to ! Ill 1 The CLOSING OUT SALE Has Given a New Meaning to the Word "Bargain" Buying has been at "Fever Heat" during the first days of the Sale Unchallenged Values will keep it so Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth Suits worth $19.50 at $13.75 $25.00 at $16.75 $29.50 at $18.75 $35.00 at $21.75 $39.50 at $23.75 $42.50 at...... $26.75 $45.00 at $28.75 $47.50 at $31.75 $49.50 at $34.75 $55.00 at $36.75 "Wreckers" Create a New Price Era for You Never think ill of a "Wrecker." The "Wreckers" that will soon take posses sion here are rendering YOU a real ser vice for it is because of THEIR coming that you are offered such startlingly un usual reductions on ALL wearables. Dresses worth Dresses worth Dresses worth Dresses worth Dresses worth Dresses worth Dresses worth Dresses worth $15.00 at. $17.50 at. $19.50 at. $22.50 at. $25.00 at. $29.50 at. $35.00 at. $39.50 at. y4, y3 and y2 off Are Formidable Reductions Nothing half way or low spirited about the reductions HERE. They were made thorough so as to effect their purpose WITHOUT loss of time. Petticoats worth $2.95 Petticoats worth$3.95 RMBI "With the fronts as long as they are in this war, and with the enor mous amount of enemy territory held by our troops," said a high German military authority today, "there is no particular military significance at tached to any special section of the enemy's territory. Therefore we can give up a portion of the western front, secure our troops more freedom of movement needed, and end trench warfare. That is what this really amounts to. We are now getting the enemy out of their trenches. Ends Offensive Plans. "The giving up of this portion of our front puts an end to all their finely laid spring offensive plans. Ever since Noveonber hundreds of thousands of men have been at work building trenches, nrunitions depots, railroads and cable lines to prepare for the biggest sprint offensive of the war. Now at o.e blow all that is gone for nothing. In tlie face of our withdrawal a 13 this is useless. Four months' work in value has been rend ered value lessTwfiilc more important still, all the enenev plans are likewise of no worth." Believe Two of' Interned German Sailors Escaped Philadelphia. March 21. Notwith standing the Msvy department's an nouncement that all the sailors on the German auxiliary cruisers in terned at the Philadelphia navy yard had been accounted for after their dash for liberty last night, the police tonight were working on the theory that at least two had escaped. ground. ! he building housing the Parisian Cloak Co. is soon to be torn down. WCHB8 Women of- Omaha Can you Resist This? This IS a SALE ! Its cause is a perfectly NATURAL one. The dominant purpose is' to close out a stock, empty a building, and dispose of a line of wearables that must be disposed of just before the WEARING season, or not at all. Coats Coats Coats Coats Coats Coats Coats Coats Coats Coats worth worth worth worth worth worth worth1 worth worth worth ..$ 8.75 ..$11.75 ..$13.75 . .$16.75 ..$18.75 ..$21.75 ..$26.75 . .$28.75 Every Garment Bears the Charm of Spring The Parisian cannot repeat it too often! Every garment in this stock is NEW bought for THIS Spring's wear jaunty spicy ultra stylish. at $1.88 at. ... . .$2.88 Petticoats worth $4.95 at. "Klosfits" worth $5.95 at. 3IMI CLOAK CO. v 3I8-30 S9. 1 6 IS Grand Duke Nicholas Is Yet Commander-m-Chief London,, March 21. The Russian troops at field headquarter wel comed the revolution with a remark able demonstration, according to a Petrograd dispatch to Reuter's Quot ing a telegram received there from field headquarters. The telegram says that the troops marched in detach ments t the public square waving red flans and singing the Russian Marseillaise to the music of th:ar hands. At the request of Grand Duke , Kic-holas. Grneral Alexietf, chiet of SUIT, read the abdication proclama- . tion nf the rmperor and exorted the troops to serve loyally the nef government. Since the opening of the revolution, reports have teMi received in regard' to the whereabouts of the Grand Duke Nicholas, who, previous to th?.t time, had been supposed to be ia command in the Caucasus. The fore going dispatch would indicate that he is on the eastern front aud is also confirmatory of reports that lie is agaTn commander-in-chief. llniikfr and Hon Held. -Chiiweo. Mar. 21. dtnlwrt J'IM. the aged banker, wbo rkl -twimult eutelele r I 41tnmty Civil eWvioe mmmiani-.u. were held me:i and prt'Hpnt aecretnry of the Conk i Couwty civil elervtee mmiaabin, were ni'Kl ! to Dm frth'ml grand Jury today on rharKea growing out or the .failure of their banK. , Whlak; Uran Trial May -Slid. Healths Wean.. Marrh Jl Wllh the failure of the ih.frfiee to uluce Mayor Otll on the aland tfee eoe.a d of (he ao-ealled wnlalty graft trial waa foreseen here to night. It la earected that the cuae wilt lo the Jury during the ureaont week. Buy Attire NOW! 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