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V MAHA D THE WEATHER Unsettled M toil m LL VOL. XL VII. NO. 66. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1917. On Train, il Hotili. Hni SttMi. Etc., to SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. 0 CABORNA'S TROOPS ADVANCE ON TRIEST; KELLY IS NOW READY FOR MURDER TRIAL 0 Bee v. MINISTER RECOVERS FROM ORDEAL OF ALLEGED "THIRD DEGREE" IN JAIL AT LOGAN Attorneys Hold Conference With Client in Harrison Coun ty and AnnounceThat He Will Be in Condition To Proceed Tomorrow; Insist On Charge That Guilt Admission Was Forced. Mrs. Kelly Says Confession Was Wrung From Kelly hy "Torture" Logan, la., Sept. 2. (Special Telegram.) Mrs. Lyn G. -J. Kelly says it is true that Kelly signed a confession, but he did so as a result of an all night struggle with the state and court officials and others who showed him papers purporting to be testimony to be given against him in his coming trial for murder. - When Kelly called for his attorneys, Mrs. Kelly says he was told his at torneys could do him no good, but if he would sign a confession he would not be tried for murder and then would be sent to the state hospital for treatment. , , . - Mrs. Kelly says she left her husband early in the evening Thursday, but on going to the jail at 8 o'clock the following morning, she was shocked to see the officials bring Kelly from the court house where he had been with out a friend all night. Further Mrs. Kelly says that when her husband saw the automobiles on the street going to and from the Old Settlers' picnic at Magnolia, saw the people go to and from the court house, he thought the day of trial was at hand, and became greatly excited and asked for his attorneys, as he was afraid that he was "giving away," and that he might say or do something that he should not. , She denounces as unfair and unjust the alleged advantage taken by the officers of Kelly's physical and mental condition to secure a confession. READY TO FACE JURY. Q Rev. Lyn George J. Klly, who will starfd trial Tuesday for complicity in the "Villisca murders," is Said by his attorneys to be in fine condition for the proceedings which will begin to morrow. " "We went to Logan to find what physical condition Kelly is really in. We found hira in the best of spirits and anxious to have the proceedings begin so he could clear himself," said T. A. McKenzie, of the firm of Sutton, McKenzie & Cox, attorneys for Kelly, who returned from Logan Sunday evening. Insist Confession Formed. "When the state agent faced Kelly Thursday night he told the prisoner that he wanted a confession so he could go to Red Oak and place it before the grand jury, clearing Jones," McKenzie said. 'A --paper'iad ieerrtoU W.:.for Kelly to sign which stated that he did not want his attorneys myself and Mr. Sutton) allowed admission to his cell. He was also told that Detective Wilkerson was a dangerous person and that he should have nothing to do with him. , "The Logan people are much in censed over the third degree proceed ings and say that nothing like that will ever happen again in their town. "The Red Oak people also stated that majority of the citizens thought our client innocent and wanted to see him given a just trial. Strong Circumstantial Evidence. There u some strong circumstantial evidence pointing to Kelly's guilt. Several witnesses have told of his ar rival at Macedonia on the early train Monday morning and relating the full details of the Villisca tragedy nearly two hours before the crime was dis covered at Villisca. A few days after the murders, Kelly went to Council Bluffs and left a package of laundry at the office of the Bluff City laundry on North Main street. It was late in the eve ning, long after the laundry office had closed. He thrust the package through an opening in the door. He enclosed a note directing'the laundry to be sent to Macedonia and signed it with part of his initials. " v When the package was opened the next morning, the witnesses said it was t'ound to contain axblood-stained shirt with Kelly's initials on the band. The laundry has an 'agency at Macedonia. Kel!y acted strangely when he called for the laundry Saturday-evening. He isked numer6us question, indicating (toiiti'--a on i'aKe Two, Column Russian Engineers Strike; Begged to Reconsider Petrograd, Sept. 2,-aCertain of their demands not having been grant ed, the Union of Railroad Engineers decided to stop work this evening, ex cept on military and Red Cross trains. Various railroad societies lve ap pealed to the union to reconsider its decision on patriotic grounds. The Weather Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday M Hour. Deg. 5 a. m. 60 59 62 65 67 69 70 3 7 a m. . E 8 e. m. . Q a m T 10 a! m'.. kf 11 a. m. . r 12 m 71 lj 1 p. m f" 2 p. m 73 76 ..... 78 76 75 75 74 D o p. ni 4 p. m 5 p. m 6 p. m 7 p. m -Comparative Loral Record. 1917. 191. 191S. 1914. Highest yesterday... 78 85 ' 76 Lowest yesterday.... 69 63 68 49 Mean temperature... CS 74 69 62 Precipitation 00 .00 .00 .80 Temperature and precipitation departure! from the normal at Omaha yesterday; Normal temperature.... 70 Deficiency for tho day 1 Total deficiency since March 1 121 Normal precipitation .08 inch Excess for the day OS Inch Total rainfall since March 1. . . .19.78-inches Deficiency since March 1 2.25 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1916. .66irlchea " for cor. period. 1915 11 Inch L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist. PEACE TALKERS ACT, TOO QUICK FOR SOLDIERS Given Authority by Mayor Thompson of Chicago, Ad journ Before State Troops Arrive to Stop Them. . .(By Auodated Pre.)- - - Chicago, Sept. V 2- After being driven from three states, the People's Council of America for Democracy and the1 Terms of Peace perfected a formal organization at a. public meet ing in Chicago today. The session was held under pro tection of the police acting on orders from Mayor William Hale Thompson, which were in defiance of Governor Frank O. Lowden. Four companies of National Guardsmen rushed from the state capital on a special train to prevent the meeting, arrived after it had adjourned, its purpose accom plished. REASON FOR CLASH. The clash in authority between Mayor Thompson and Governor Lowden came as the result of the action of the police in breaking up the pacifists meeting yesterday on orders from the governor. When the mayor who was at his summer home at Lake Forest heard of this he declared that the governor had exceeded his authority and imme diately instructed Chief Schuttlerito permit the meeting and to give the delegates every protection. . ' When the pacifists heard of the mayor's action immediate prepara tions were made to hold the meeting which had been prevented in Min nesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin and had been forbidden as unpatriotic and disloyal by the governor of Illinois. Assured of the protection of the (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) Women Selected as Cashiers for Nurse Tag Day, Wednesday "Tag Day," Wednesday, for the Visiting Nurse association is just an other name for "Mother Adams" day. On this annual subscription day all Omaha passes approval on the work so faithfully carried on for many years by Mrs. W. R. Adams. Though old and bereft of her strength, her eyesight failing, Mr Adams is always brought to tag day headquarters in the United States Bank buildingeach year to see the generous response of the Omaha pub lic to the appeal for help for Omaha's favorite charity. Though many contributions have been asked for war relief, this appeal is made for a home charity. The work of the Visiting Nurse associa tion will be increasingly heavy this winter because of the additional care of the families of soldiers serving at the front. "Weather Will Not Interfere." ' Rain or shine, well known Omaha maids and matrons will be on the streets selling tags, stations having been established in all office build ings and at all Busy street corners and intersections. - Mrs. Albert Noe, chairman of the tag day committee, assisted by Miss Alice Buchanan, Mrs. Adams and Mrs. R. AV. Connell, will be at head quarters. Mrs. Barton Millard, Mrs. Luther Kountze, Mrs. Ben Gallagher, Mrs. Victor B. Caldwell and Miss Daphne Peters will relieve the fair taggers of the coyi they collect President Wilson Asks Workers at Home THelp In Throttling Disloyalty pvhile Armies cattle reaction fitfulR EXPERTS PLAN FLIGHT IN A ' BIG KITE BALLOON Captain Davidson and Lieuten ant Goodale to Try-Experiment of Sailing Away in Contrivance. Fate and the elements being will ing, a "stunt" worth more than pass ing attention will be given at Fort Omaha, Monday morning. Lieutenant Goodale and Captain Davidson have undertaken to take a flight in a kite balloon. The kite bal loon, as the public now generally knows, is not meant for tree Hying. It is usually safely attached to the earth by strong ropes and no one knows just what may happen when the ropes are cut and the balloon goes sailing away. ' But Lieutenant Goodale is a fa mous New York balloonist of years standing, and Captain Davidson, who recently received promotion at Fort Omaha for unusual ability in the bal loon work there, is noted for his dar ing. These two have volunteered to try this unusual feat. "The purpose of it is to see what they would be able to do at the front, if the balloon in which they were ob serving, should break loose, or the ropes be severed," said Leo Stevens, chief instructor in balloon manage ment at the fort. v Novel, Untried Situation. "I cannot tell just what they may be called upon to do," added Mr. Stevens. 'The kite balloon, when adrift, may act in any one of ten dif ferent ways, depending upon the at mospheric and other conditions that morning." If it becomes necessary, the two balloonists will jump. Alj passengers in both the free and kite balloons, at Fort Omaha, have always their parachuttes attached to their backs. These open automatically when the man jumps. -, . v These; parachutes, "which were in vented by Leo Stevens, are perfectly safe. They have never been known to fail in opening. They have been tested often this summer at the fort by sending them down with sand bags attached. I Major Hersey, acting commander of the post, has so far forbidden para chute leaps, though the students are clamoring to try. "There is no danger of the para chutes not opening," said Major Her sey yesterday, "but the ground around here is not open enough. There are too, many trees and telegraph 'wires. A man might descend safely till he neared the ground, then get caught on a telegraph pole and injure himself badly." Nearly Cost Life. The most unpleasant night ever spent by Leo Stevens was several years ago when he paddled about all night in Lake Erie, hanging on to the basket of a big balloon which had landed in the middle of the lake. "Fortunately, I had h'ought a life preserver along," said Mr. Stevens. "I had set out to cross Lake Erie, but I almost found a watery grave instead. Near morning I was rescued by a passing steamer. I spent the fol lowing three months in a hospital." All of which is but an incident of a balloonist's life. After years of bal looning Mr. Stevens is glad that bal looning, the hobby of a few sports men, has now become a serious mat ter to the nation and that his long ex perience will aid his country in time of need. MRS' W. R- ADAMS. s- .....; Executive Approves of Con ference of American Alli ance for Labor and De mocracy Soon to Open. Washington, Sept. 2. Hearty ap proval of the conference of the Ameri can Alliance for Labor and democracy to be held at Minneapolis, next Tues day and thetask it will undertake of suppressing disloyalty has been given by President Wilson in a letter to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and chairman of the alliance. The letter made public here today, denounces those "who seek to ignore America's grievance against Germany and insists "That a nation whose citi zens have been foully murdered under their own flag, whose neighbors have been invited to join in making conquest of its territory and whose patience in pressing the claims ot jus tice and humanity lias been met with the most .shameful policy of truculence and treachery, docs not know its own mind and has no comprehensible rea son for defending itself. Must Fight Disloyalty. "While our soldiers and sailors are doing their manful work to hold back reaction in its most brutal and ag gressive form," the president wrote, 'we must oppose at home the organ ized and individual efforts of those dangerous elements who hide dis loyalty behind a screen of specious and evasive phrases." The letter follows: "My Dear Mr. Gompers: I am sure that you understand that my inability to accept the invitation to address the Minneapolis conference of the American Alliance for Labor and De mocracy is due only to official neces sity and not in any degree to lack of appreciation of the importance of the occasion. The cause you and your fellow patriots uphold is one with the cause we are defending with arms. While our soldiers and sailors are doing tfreir manful work to hold back reaction in its most brutal and ag gressive form, we must oppose at home the organized and individual ef forts of those dangerous elements who hide disloyalty behind a screen 01 specious ana evasive pnrases. "I have read with real pride the names' of the mcfl and -women who are to take part in the Minneapolis conference. Not one but has a record of devoted service to . fundamental democracy; not one but has fought the long, hard fight for equal justice, braving every bitterness that the ham blest life might know a larger meas ure of happiness. v Workers Hold Gains. "With all my heart I want them to feel that their devotion to country is in no wise a betrayal of principle and that in serving America today they arc serving thejr cause no less faithfully than in the past. I myself have had sympathy with the fears of the work ers of the United States; for 'the tend ency of war is toward reaction and too often military necessities have, been made an excuse for the destruc tion of labor erected industrial and social standards. These fears, happily, have proved to be baseless. With quickened sympathies and apprecia tion, with a new sense of the invasive and insidious dangers of oppression, our people have not only held every inch of ground that has been won by years of struggle, but have added to the gains of the twentieth century along every tirre of human betterment. Questions of wages and hours of labor and industrial- readjustment have found a solution which gives the toil er a new dignity and a new sense of social and economic security. I beg you to feel that my support has not been lacking and that the government has not failed at any point in grant ing every just request advanced by you and your assistants in the name of the American worker. "No one who is not blind can fail o see that the battle line. of democ racy for America stretches today from the fields of Flanders to every home and workshop where toiling, upward striving men and women are count ing the treasures of right and justice and liberty which are being threat ened by our present enemies. Specious Arguments of Autocrats. 'It has not been' a matter of sur prise to me mat tne leaders in cer tain "groups have sought to ignore our grievances against the men who have equally misled the German peo ple. Their, insistance that a nation whose rights have been grossly vio- (Continued on I'age Two, Column One;) Vernon Castle Teacher In Texas Aviation Camp Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 2. Cap tain Denton, of the Canadian Royal Flying corps, is expected to r.each here tonight to take charge of the three Canadian aviation camps under construction here. Sunervising En gineer Bowes, of the Toronto camp arrived this morning. He said one of the Canadian instructors coming here is Vernon Castle and another is Lord Wellesley. Bernhardt on Last TourPo8-i'tive-ly New York, Sept. 2.Sarah Bern hardt resumed her last tour of America tonight, and appeared in a double bill, acting the role of Portia inji portion of Shakespeare's "Mer chant of Venice" and that of Jane De Maudi in "L'Etoile Dans La Nuit" (The Star in -the Night), a one-act play, based on the war. JEFF W.BEDFORD, PIONEER OF CITY AND STATE, DEAD Death due to Weakening of Heart, Caused by Overexer tion While in Colorado Two Weeks Ago. Jefferson W. Bedford, county com missioner of Douglas, died at the resi dence of his son, E. W. Bedford, 3220 Lafayette avenue, at 9:10 o'clock Sat urday night, aged 72 years. Death was due to weakening of the heart, caused by overexertion on a trip in Colorado two weeks ago. . Mr. Bedford was born in Lexing ton, Mo in 184S, and located in Ne braska .City m 1862, engaging in freighting for the government be tween Nebraska, City and Denver and Fort Laramie. In 1864 Mr. Bedford enlisted, in the Third Colorado cavalry and was in the Sand Creek battle with Indians, being wounded by arrows three times. In 1865 he engaged in business in Lexington and Joplin, Mo., from whence he went to Litchfield, Kas., and operated a coal mine and supply store. Mr. Bedford came into Omaha on the first engine run over the Missouwi Pacific in 1S81 and had resided here since, with the exception of four year spent in Kirksville, Mo. Always a Democrat. A lifelong democrat, Mr. Bedford was elected to the city council of JEFF W.. BEDFORD. Omaha in 1887, and in 1893 ran for mayor. Ii190S he was again elected to the city council and in 1908 a coun ty commissioner. He was chairman of the committee on construction of the, new $1,000,000 court house. " Mr. Bedford was One of the organ izers of and was president of the German-American Savings bank, the only savings bank that paid 100 cents on the dollar in the panic of 1893. He has been president of the Rich Hill Coal company, Omaha Barb Wire company, Bedford Cement company, Omaha Portland Cement company, American Fuel company, Alaska Gold Mining company and Oak Block Coal company. In addition he was a di- (Continued on I'e Two, Column Three.) Flour Comes Tumbling In Northwest Markets Fortland, Ore., Sept. 2. Flour in nohhwest markets will drop 40 cents 1 a barrel next Tuesday. An agreement looking to that result was reached tonight by representative Pacific coast millers here. This will bring the price to $11.20 for old-crop patent flour. As soon as the government price of $2.20 a bushel, Chicago base for wheat, takes practical effect, there will be a further and more consid erable drop in flour, the millers said. mmf war wtimytiM J A. Deep Sleep Attacks Ritchie After Dip Into "Spirits" City R. F. Ritchie, who gave his address as 1918 North Twenty-sixth street, loves to sleep. Yesterday afternoon he fulfilled his desire on his return journey from St. Joseph, the city of "spirits." He fell into a deep sleep, on the Burlington train, due to the effects of Kentucky spirits on his nerves. In fact, when the train had arrived in Omaha, insomnia had taken such a tight and charming grip on Ritchie that the conductor on the train spent much time and patience trying to drive away the spirits so the "sleeping beauty" would wake up. But Ritchie could not be awakened at that par ticular time. Officer Chaddock was called to "work out" cn Ritchie, with the result that, in the finals, whisky ITALIANS LINES AS GERMANS PVSH SLAVS BACK Additional Pruoners and War Material Taken in Bresto vizza Valley and On the Carso; Teutont Move t Ahead in Drive On Riga and Attack British and French Violently. , Italy Thrills at Prospect of Early Capture ofTriest From Austrians Washington, Sept. 2. In the Italian offensive counter attacks are being beaten back at all points, according to late dispatches received at the Italian embassy today, and General Cadorna, who is said to be conserva tive, declares that the battle is the greatest of the war. For the last eleven days the Italians have progressed steadily oa a seventy-mile front. The report that the Italians destroyed the airplane sheds at Pola seemt to be confirmed by the fact that butone enemy airplane, has appear ed in five days and that was shot down, According to the dispatches the Italian troops are wildly enthusiastic since it seems certain that Triest will be taken. After the Isonio was crossed on fourteen bridges, put up under fire of the enemy, the soldiers have been eager to overtake the Austrians and the plans of General Ca dorna have been carried out without a disarrangement. DUTCH GRAIN HELD BY ODDER EXPORTBOhRD U. S. Starts Strictest Ration ing of Neutrals Until Assured ' That Home and Allies v Have Plenty. (Br AnaoeUted rr.) Washington, Sept. .--Indications that the United States intends to ra tion the northern European " neutral countries in the strictest fashbu were seen today in the admissjpn that tlic expbrts adiitjfsttiye! froard had dis approved ofn arrangement suggest edy the Dutch minister here and the Belgian- relief commission fbr division between H6lland and Bel gium of the nearly 100 Dutch grain cargoes held in American ports. The first news that permission for the ships to sail had been denied came today in a dispatch from Rotterdam. The general understanding had been that the arrangement would be ap proved and that some of the vessels would 6ail immediately. Look Out for United States First. The exports board, it was learned, will let no food cargoes go to Euro pean neutrals for atjeast two months, or until the American government has a-scertained its own food requirements! for the year and the size of crops to be harvested. All of the neutrals, it is held, can feed themselves without difficulty until this information is available. The United States wishes to know also the size of the 1917 crops in the neutral countries. It was made clear that the United States has no intention of letting neu trals go hungry, but emphasis was laid on the fact that the government feels its first obligation is to the American people and to the allies. Counter Proposal Made. A counter proposal that has been made to the Dutch, which the other neutrals are invited to accept, is that all neutral vessels now in American ports loaded with foodstuffs discharge their cargoes and proceed tt Aus tralia and Java for wheat and sugar. These cargoes would be brought back to the United States and divided be tween the United States and the neu trals. x American government officials feel that in asking the United States to supply them with foodstuffs the neu trals should be willing to increase the general food supply. This they would do in transporting food cargoes from Australia and Java, where large sup plies canuot be moved because of the general lack rf shipping. The neu tral ships would have returned within two months and by that time the United States would be in a better position also to say how much it can spare from its own food stores. Most of the Dutch ships in Amer ican ports are loaded with corn, wjiich has spoiled and is fit now only for cattle feed. was discovered on Ritchie's person and also in his grip. When Officer Chaddock arrived on the scene, a whisky-soaked breath greeted his presence. He awakened Ritchie, who only responded with a yawn. That yawn ca-used Chaddock to enter into some investigation, with the result that twenty-two half pints of whisky and a hollow base ball bat were found ii Ritchie's grip, neatly packed. Evidently, the bat was to be used to convey the liquor secretly to some of his friends in "need." Ritchie was taken to the police sta tion and booked as drunk, with illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. He has an appointment with Police Judge Fitzgerald Tuesday morninz EXTEND (Bjr Amorlated Prrsi.) ITALIANS EXTEND LINES. Rome, Sept. 2. Italian troops have , extended the positions they occupied on Thursday, and Friday last In the Brestovizxa Valley and on the Carso the war office announced. Additional prisoners and much war material, in cluding nine machine guns and five trench mortars, were captured. Aus trian counter attacks at various points were repulsed. In the Steelvio region detachments ' of Alpini reoccupied the advanced posts that was abandoned on August 27, at an altitude of 3,500 meters, and captured the entire Austrian garrison there. . Germans Cross Dvina. Petrograd. Sept. 2. German troops have crossed the Dvina southeast of Riga andare advancing in a northerly direction, successfully repelling Rus sian counter attacks, the war office aiAiounced today. A German offen sive has been opened in the northern ' sector of the Russian front in the region of Mitau, southwest of Riga. tThe battla here is tUii in progress. " On the Roumanian front several sharp attacks were made by the Ams-tro-German forces, but all these were rendered fruitless by the Russo-Rou-manian resistance. One of these at- ' tacks was in the vicinity of Braila, on the Danube. Berlin Sends News, Berlin, Sept. 2. German military activities are increasing along the narjhern Russian front and success ful enterprises have been carried out by German forces in the region south east of Riga, the army headquarters announced today. , Northwest of Fokshani. on the Roumanian front, Russo-Roumanian counter attack was repulsed. Heavy artillery fire is being directed day and night upon the German cen- tcr on the Flanders front, says to day s army headquarters statement. In the Aisne region the, French re tained possession at the end of the fighting at Hurtebise farm of a small , portion of the German front line. Germans Attack on West. London, Sept. 2 Yesterday evening the enemy made a heavy bombing at tack against the advanced posts south west of Havrencourt, which he failed to reach the previous night, the war office announces. British Iroops were compelled to withdraw, but later they recaptured the posts with slight loss. French Break Attacks. Tan's, Sept. 2. Additional attempts were made by the Germans last night to retake tne positions captured by the French northwest of Hurtebise on the Aisne front. French gun 6re broke tip the effort, the war rffiic an nounced today. v . ' 1 Italian Airmen Drop Copies-;; Of Peace Reply to Austrians Udine, Italy, Sept. 2. Austrian sol- , diers on this fighting frdnt will have' an opportunity to read President Wit son's reply to the pope's peace pro posal. Plans have been completed for Italian air men to distribute thou sands of translations of the reply along the entire fighting front. British. Nab Four German Mine Sweepers Off Denmark London, Sept. 2. Four German mine sweepers were destroyed today off the coast pf Jutland by British"' light forces, according to an an . nouncement issued tonight by the ad miralty. 6,596jr MORE v INCHES' V -of , --'.A. Paid Display Advertising in THE DEE During August, 1917 Than in August, 1916 , Your Eye on The Bee Improving Every Dj Keep