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1 AK-SAR-BEN DATES Carnival .... .September 26 to Octoher 6 Electrical Parade, Evening ....Octobar 3 Daylifht Parade.,.,...... (...October 4 Military Fireworke October 4 Coronation Ball .....October 5 Omaha Bah; Bee THE WEATHER Cloudy : v; e ' VOL. XLVII NO. 85. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1917. TEN PAGES. Oa Train, at Hotel. Ntwt Staaai. tta Se. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.' TO STOP- TO NAME ADMINISTRATOR WHO WILL LICENSE SOUTH SIDE COMMISSION FIRMS ":y ' . .... , ' Livestock to Be Handled on the Same Basis as Wheat in the General Campaign to Break Down Specula tion in Food Supplies and Fuel, Accord ing to G. W. Wattles. II S. SEIZED ALL PAPERS; ION IN FOOJySPECULAl iaii II OMAHA All Live Stock and Cattle ' Records Broken Here Monday AH 'records for the total number of cars of live stock and also for the number of cars of cattle were broken Monday on the South Omaha market. The highest previous day's receipt was on October 16, 1916. :' In the yards were 1,146 cars of live stock and of this number 950 cars 'were cattle, establishing a new cattle record. It is estimated that there are 24,000 head of cattle on the market. UThe previous record was 854 cars of cattle and a total of 1,051 cars of live stock. - - - Speculation in live stock at , the Union stock yards in Omaha is soon to be cut short. " , ' . --. Many speculators on the South Omaha tnarket have made fortunes- speculating in hogs and cattle. , In the general cam paign of conservation under the food administration all this is to be stopped short, as has been the speculation in wheat. iaVE SiUvJK ADMIM5TKATOK.Y - . State Food Administrator Wattles, who has just returned from Washing- . n. ' r--i tf, . mt .V-1 r m .tin., tim. Vi m ivi oajro uuh n4uiui . puvt & 4v will appoint a live stoA administrator. "Do you mean that speculation in live stock will be stopped at the yards as speculation in wheat has been stopped at the Grain exchange?" Mr. Wattles was asfted. "Absolutely," he replied. "The pol icy of the administration, both state and national, is not to interfere with the legitimate business of those en gaged in the business of handling food products, tut. to shut out en tirely the ruinous speculation in food and. fuel during the war. Will License dealers. ' . ; "It will mean that we will license alt live . stock dealers," coal, dealers, packers ;. and people '-handling meats and 'food-products generally,-in rder idod,Tuef, arid the necessities-it life which has been going on for years" Besides somethinVover fifty com mUsjon firms which' deal in live stock on a strictly commission basis on the South Omaha exchange, there are a great many companies orhcing in the .Exchange budding which .never sell a consignment "of Jive stock on com mission, but thrive frQm year to year merely on the business of "scalping," or in other words, buying stock cheap in th mnrninor. and spllinc it tiiorh at .- . 1 i - J -. i noon, or Duymg cneap one aay aija selling high the next. . .,... I Speculator Makes Fortune. One hog speculator on the. South Side has built up a fortune variously estimated " at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 by 'merely buying hogs low and selling theru high. He has been in the business for many years at the yards. He maintains an office in the , Exchange building, and employs a- string of yard men and salesmen to carry or his-business of speculating hljjve stock. . ' . - Ftt manv vears the nackinc houses have fought him. They have tried : toluninate him from the yards, but lie has built up a fortune so large that 1 his credit is unlimited at the banks and there are days when he buys most nf fhi hoei offered on the market and leaves practically none for the packers. -There are days when he buys as many as thirty or fifty -carloads of hogs. Often he sorts these, throws the JUU pounders together, making several carloads of fine looking heavies, then throws the :200-pounders- together, making other carloads of fine even herds, and then reserves a few car loads of culls. The finest, ones he often ships to eastern markets and " AtUava lie ratio sta 4-liaa r1 O flre ' the tiext day. i ' Packers Fight Speculator. ' So ham ave the packers tought . U!. Tna tf fa rtt rr htl 1IJIU 1UI Jtata Mv wS tVVWIa impossible for him to, sell (lis hogs to the local packers personally.' He has found it necessary to turn them over, to a .commission man, who-will yard them in his pens and then offer them to the packers the next day, rep- : resenting them as fresh loads from the country.' He accomplishes "this very successfully, however, and succeeds in ........ l.:'hAie osiIH Hqv. nav to local packers. . -.yhen they crowded him hardest at times, solidly refusing to buy any of his offerings anoVkeeping track .of his herds in order t refuse them persis i tentjy, he has been known to ship them out as far as Millard, only to have them shipped in the next day, freshly consigned to a commission company to be sold to the packers- as the consignments 01 tarmers at iuu lard. . . . Nebraska Wins ' y Soil Products Peoria, 111., sept 24. Nebraska wotf tne nrsi prize at me lniernationai Soil' Products exposition today.. Out of a possible 1,500 points, Nebraska led all other exhibits of agricultural nroducts with 1,236 points. Kansas was second, with 1,148 points; Ari zona, third, with 1,084 points; Minne sota, fourth, with 1,005 points; Sas katchewan, Canada, , fifth, , with 922 points, and Wisconsin sixth, with 920 points. I. V. W. PLANNED TO BURN CITIES AND LOOT BANKS Oklahoma Trial Reveals Mon strous Plot Backed by Labor Organizations; Appropriated Money for Dynamite. ' Enid, Okl., Sept. 24, A revolution of 2,000,000 malcontents, nation-wide in scope,-backed- by the Industrial Workers of the' Worid andL. forty eight affiliatcci organizations,, includ ing the Working Class union, in which it was planned to apply the torch to strraJl. cities, shoot officers of the government and. demoralize dom munication was plannjed for July 27 last, according to the. testimony to day of Will Hoover, state witness in the trial of eleven alleged anti-draft agitatbrs from central Oklahoma. The Industrial Workers of Uu; World were) to . laundh. the uprising, Hoover said, "Rube" Munson, alleged state organizjof the Working Class union, told a meeting of the Friend ship local, in an open cornfield near Sasakawa. At a pre-arranged time the Working Class union was to cap ture small towns, take charge of banks, burn bridges and cutxtelegraph wires, while the IndustrjaPWorkers of the World cared Jot .the larger cities in a like manner. - President Wilson and Governor Williams of Oklahoma, Hoover said Munson declared, would have such a large force of soldiers f ofjpersonal protection and on the Mexicair bor der that none would be available to send against the rebels. ,'-3,r Members were told by H. C. Spence, accused statetary of the Working Class union, that two car loads of rifles would be available when needed and that the Working Class union had as much right to conscript recruits for a revolution 'as the gov ernment had to draft men. for the trenches in France. At this meeting, early in July, appropriations' were made for the purchase of 100 pounds of dynamite, Hoover declared. Bill Puts Lumber Mills " , On Eight-Nour Basis Washington, Sept 24. A bill to put the lumber industry on an eight-hour day basis was , introduced today by Senator Jones of Washington and re ferred to , the commerce committee. It would prohibit intetstate shipments of lumber productsnipon which there has been labor of more than eight hours a day. - , f y Huge Fire in Oklahoma Destroys Entire Block Lawton,. OkL Sept.- 24. Twenty buildings, all but two of which were of wooden construction, were de stroyed by" a fire which broke out shortly after oon today and swept through an entire block of "E'' ave nue and a half block of "D" avenue. entailing an estimated loss of $135, Mvitioning Any Names could ttaitte ( 73 or' H members m we two r&xcAes of, congress mo Aave acted suspictousjy 1 "s 1 fzM s COAL SHORTAGE TO BE REMEDIED BY GOVERNMENT If Necessary Uncle Sam.; Commandeer Coal-at Mines and xSee that Nebraska Folks Are Kept Warm. Coal will be commandeered by the federal V fuel administration and shipped to Nebraska and other non-coal-producing states to supply any emergency shortage during the fall or winter, according to Randall K. Brown, head : of the Coal Hill ,Coal company of Omaha, who received this information while in Washington. Mr. Brown has just returned from the east. Power to Commandeer. Together with Dr. Webber of Wa- hoo, chairman of the fuel committee of the State Council 6f Defense, Mr. Brown called on the fuel administra tion while in Washington. On his return Mr. Brown said: "Dr. Webber asked Assistant Fuel Admin istrator Nims if it would be possible for the administration to commandeer coal at the mines and see that it was distributed in Nebraska or other states where coal is not mined exten sively, if such states were facing a sewous shortage. Retail Prices Not Fixed. "Mr. Nims replied that the admin istration would certainly do this if it became necessary, and would see that all, sections were supplied with neces sary coal. "When we asked him 'about the fix ing of coal prices, he said he could give no definite assurance as yet just when the prices would be fixt&it the retail yards. He said he had no posi tive information that it would be re duced as early as October 1." Administrator Named Soon. ' State Food Administrator Wattles has a letter from Washington stat ing that fuel administrators in each state will soon be appointed. These will be separate and distinct from the food administration in the state, and will be appointed by Fuel Adminis trator Garfield at Washington. - , Hoover's Department Cost $50,606-forAugu$t Washington, Sept. 24. Expenses of conducting the food administration': from August 10 to August SI were $50,606, as shown in the first report made to the senate today by Adminis trator Hoover. The law requires a monthly statement American Surgeons - Wield Knife Amid Explosion of German Shells , (By Aaaaelftted Preaa.) " . . British Front in France and Bel gium, Sept. 24. American . surgical teams have again been doing magnifi cent work in advanced casualty clear ing sttions since tse latest, offensive began," a number of surgeons and helpers being under a heavy shell fire at times. ... .. - At one station out in the neighbor hood of the Ypres-Menin road several surgeons and assistants have been laboring steadily since Thursday morning. .Those who have seen them at the. operating5 table,""Vhile shells were breaking - about : themv declare that; they have never witnessed a demonstration of ' greater coolness than was shown by these men who wielded the knife to save life during those nerve racking times. Those who are acquainted with the prdinnary hospital operafhg tables and know how much care is taken to prevent noise and interruption can well realize what it means to carry on a delicate operation while great shells are exploding nearby. , . , Another American surgioal team has been working in a German prisoners'-camp, -where wounded captives are taken. There are stKlothers scat tered about at varkuis points. - U. S. IS FIGHTING GERMAN PEOPLE DECLARES T. R. Until Teutons Cease to Identify . -Themselves With Autpc cracy America Must Opose Them and Kaiser. Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 24. The at titude of the German-American press and the German Alliance in this coun try "in their hearty support of the German government" and the attitude f the Germans at home toward their government snows that they are back of it, Colonel Roosevelt said, in a speech at the Old Glory week festival here tonight, in commenting on the theory that the United States is fight ing the German government, but not the people. "For no nation does Germany feel and express such bitter and contemp tuous hostility as for the United States." he said. "There is no nation on the face of the globe which they would be more delighted to ruin and kIunder. Under such circumstances the public men and newspapers en gaged in ' defending Germany or as sailing England and our other allies or in protesting against the vwar and demanding an inconclusive pace are guilty of moral treason to this coun try, and while the German-American papers have achieved an evil promin ence "in this mater the professional anti-English Irish x papers are as bad and the purely sensational demagogic and unpatriotic section of the native Americas press is tne worst ot an. German Alliance Antagonistic. "Germanyembodies the principles of successful militaristic autocracy. Much has been said about our being against the German government, but not against the German people. The attitude of ' the German-American press and the German Alliance in this country in their hearty support of the German gove.nment, and the practi cally unanimous support of that gov ernment heretofore by the Germans at home, shows that at present the Germans are back of the German gov ernment. "They have cnthuiastically support ed its policy of brutal disregard of the rights of others. Until they reverse themselves,, until, they cast off the yoke of militaristic autocracy they identify themselves with it and force us to be against them. It is for the German people themselves to differ entiate themselves from their govern ment. Until they do this they force us to be against the German people as a necessary incident of being against the German government. Autocracy German Ideal. "The Germans govern from above down. The ; people of this republic, like the people of France, like the peo ple of England, believe in government from below up.- In other words- we believe in government by ourselves The Germans believe in being gov erned by an autocratic dynasty which rests primarily on a great militaristic class and a great bureaucratic class No man who supports Germany at LAWYERS TO TALK TODAY IN KELLY CASE Evidence in Sensational " Vil-1 lisca Ax Murder Trial All In; Juroors Will Get Case Wednesday. (BY EDWARD BLACK.) (Staff Correnponjrut for The Bea.) Red Oak, la., Sept. 24. (Special Telegram.) Did Kelly kill the Moore family? That question will be pufTip to twelve jurors probably by Wednes day night. The mass of evidence for and against the little clergyman will have been presented by that time and arguments completed. Today at 4:05 p. m. the state rested on its rebuttal. The defense took t few moments to finish examination of witnesses in sur-rebuttal and. the an nouncement was made that arguments will begin tomorrow morning at 9. Attorney Hess of Council Bluffs will open arguments for the state and Attorney General Havner will close. JAdge Mitchell and Judge Sutton will snake the arguments for Kelly, no time limit being fixed on the closing. CAUTION TO JURY. Tudee Boies tonight admonished the jurors to abstain from discussing the matter among-themselves or irom forming any opinions until they had heard the closing arguments and in structions of court Four alienists testified today as to the peculiarities of a paranoiac, with which mental aberration the defense claims Kelly has become afflicted. The defense questioned to show a man with paranoia might, following continued accusations, become ob sessed with the idea he had commit ted a crime, even, to the extent of adJ mitting it. - . . Evidence of the Day. The state showed through itsSpe cialists that a paranoiac resists sug gestion, rather than following it. The prosecution, in opening rebut tal testimony this morning called Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones, Mrs. F. F. Jones, Mr. and, Mrs. H. A. Glocke rrteyer and Jake Bartlett of Villisca to establish the presence of Albert Jones at home on the Sunday night of the murder. ( Albert Jones is the son of former Senator F. F. Jones and is a native of Villisca. His mother testified in his behalf. The alibi testimony, was offered to show that on Sunday eve ning when the murders were commit ted" Albert Jones was home with his wife from 6:20 o'clock until he retired. Albert Jones, after leaving the wit ness stand, said: "There is noJLounda tion for statements that ill-feeling existed between Joe Moore and my self. On that Sunday evening when I met him at the rear of my lot we passed the time of day. He joked me about having been away, to Cla rinda. The week before he died he borrowed a cultivator from our stock for one of his customers. We were not enemies." - Joe Moore, before he started in business for himself in Villisca, was employed many years in the hardware and implement store established by e, F. Jones. Jones on Witness Stand. , Jones, who is 31 years of age and has lived in Villisca all his lite, toi lowed his wife on the stand. "Where were you on Sunday, June 9, 1912, the day of the Villisca ax murders? asked Faville. "I was at Clarinda and returned home about 6 o'clock in the evening." "Did you and your wife see some ladies at your kome that evening?" "Yes, my mother, sister and Mrs. Glockemeyer." "Was anyone at your house that ' (Continued oil Fata Six, Column Two.) New Peruvian Minister '. Comes to Washington Lima, Peru, Sept., 24. Manuel- De Freyre VvSantender. charee d'affaires of the Peruvian legation at Washing ton since March, 1916, when Federico A. Pezet. "the Peruvian representa tive, was recalled, has been appointed minister to the. United btates. x (Continued on Page Two. Column Two.) t No Paper in Germany; News Partially Stopped 1 London, Sept. 24. The shortage of print paper in Berlin is so serious that many of the city's important newspapers were unable to appear on Saturday, according to Berlin advices to the Exclange Telegraph's Am sterdam correspondent. Explosion. Kills Many ' . In German CoaJ Mine Amsterdam, Sept. ' 24. Budapest dispatches printed in German news papers arriving tell of .an explosion in the'Lubenz coal mines. Fifty-nine persons were killedand fifty-five Jn.j jurcu. WASHINGTON HAS DAMNING PROOF PLOT WIDESPREAD State Department Has List of Men, Who Received German Money for Passport Frauds and Destruction of Muni- , tion Plants, Together With' Evidence to Counteract Denials of Those Implicated. 1 S FftRMERS NOT TO BHXEMPTED; BOARD'S RULING No Class Exemptions Will Be lade from Service An Na tional Army is Latest Ad vice from Washington. "There can be no class exemption," said members of the district exemp tion board when approached on the subject of exempting farmers. "This is the sentiment of Washington." In spite of the bombardment of tele grams to Hoover, President Wilson and everyone else, with influence in Washington, it has been decided to make no class distinction, . and the farmers as a class will get no more favors than merchants or manufactur ers pr any other set of workers. It is feared that if farmers were-exempted, even though their work is vi tally, necessary ,to' the. war, at once many other classes would arise, de manding1 the same exemption, and the government seems to think the wisest course to pursue now is to make , no distinction-. , - , . Still Hearing Claims. . The district exemption s board is continuing its work hearing 'claims for exemption. The local boards meanwhile are waiting for the results of this-hearing to know if they have their full quoia for. the contingent to leave October i or if they must call in more men. .. . ' , F. ; "We are twenty-three to the good so far," said Clyde Sundblad of the Fourth district board. . "Unless the district exemption board jcxempts . a large number between now jind Oc tober 3 we will not call in more men." "We are waiting till the district board acts," said Dr. Reed of the Sixth district. "We have our quota and a few over. Unless the district board exempts too many married men we will not have to call in more. , We will know in a few days where we stand." ' ' Cotton Reaches Record ' Price, is Texas Claim Clarksville, Tex., Sept. 25 One bale of long staple cotton .was sold by B. G. Lewis, farmer, today for 40 cents a pound. The claim is made here that this is the highest price everpaid for cotton in Texas. Engineer Stops Train and Saves Baby from Death Under Wheels By exercising rare presence of mind Engineer Eshelman, on the North Elatte-Haig branch of the Union' Pa cificsaved the life of' Baby Pionio Saturday afternoon. Engineer Eshleman was a couple of miles out of Fin ley wfth No. 97, when on the track; some 200 feet ahead, he noticed a-little child playing-in, the center of the track. . Going at thirty miles an hour, he applied the' brakes and reversed his engine,' stopping' if just as -the i-axle of the first set of trucks had passed over, the little one. Qimbing off his engine and expecting to find the child crushed 'to death -he found it ;under the machine with the only injuries i slight bump on its head.- ; ,. f , Had bis ..machine gone six Heet farther the child would have been caught by the bottorn of the fire box and crushed to death'. The parents of Baby Pionio live aboutr 500 feet from the track. They were iPotified and they, with their child,' ere : taken 'on' the train to Broadwater, the next station, where the, little one was turned over to a doctor,. who pronounced-the injuries slight. . " " (Br Aaaoelated Preaa.) Washington, Sept. 24. While there is no indication of what will be the State Apartment's next disclosure of German intrigue In America or else where, it is known that disclosures M sensational asiany yet published are being held in reserve and may be made at any time. One of the things the State de-, partment has is a list of persons who received German money in the pass port frauds, the munitions plots and practically all the other activities of German intrigue here which took place between the beginning of the war in August, 1914, and the entry of the United States into . the con flict. The list is said to contain scores of names and the amounts of money represented run very high. . From time to time the department also probably will make public cer tain evidence to dispose of the de nials of those who have been involved in the disclosures already made. WILD SESSION IN HOUSE. , The house had a wild and noisy ses sion today over the disclosure that Count von Bernstorff, while German ambassador here, asked his govern-'. ment to authorize the expenditure of 350,000 to influence congress. ' Representative , Norton of North Dakota attacked - Representative He flin of Alabama, who was quoted in a local newspaper as saying he could -name a dozen congressmen who "had been acting suspiciously." ; j ' Heflin denied that the interview at tributed to him was correct i Representative Heflin then made an ', explanation, amia a nooa ot interrup tions, ranging from groans to parlia mentary objections, complaining to the last that he was 'denied, a full1 hearing, xr"'"'' '"""'sirtr-'i , .; "I havent said that any member got any money from the Von Bern storff fund," ha sail' "What I did say was that there were rumors that : there was a gambling house in Wash-; ington, run by a German, where pact fits and slackers and others in sym pathy with the German cause won easily. ' -v . "If the house decides to name an investigating committee 'and asks me To name the men that I think have not been loyal, and have not been and are not now standing by the com mander-in-chief, 111 name them. Iv can't prove anything. The intrigues of the German government cannot be found out easily; but a tree is known by its fruit- A resolution by Representative Fordney, republican, of Michigan, de signed to provide for a house inves ligation of Heflin's remarks was re ferred to the rules committee by Speaker Clark.1 What action , will be taken on it is problematical - BERLIN IS WORRIED. London, Sept. 24. In commenting on the latest Washington disclosures concerning the activities of Count von Bernstorff, forme;- German ambassa dor to the United States, the Koel nsche Volks Zeitung, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to Reuter s Ltd says: ''This affair, If true, has a very dis- fgreeable character and it is highly egrettable. The American govern ment, God knows how, was able to get hold apparently of the whole collec tion of German diplomatic documents which it is now exploiting against as and Sweden. . .' , ; vx vWhat . the . State" department re marks about the relation between Von Bernstorff 's policy . and the U-boat war can be recognized as a misleading , invention by everyone who knows the history preceding the U-boat campaign.! v , ; ': Count von Bernstorff, former Ger man ambassadocto ths United States, who has been exposed by Secretary Of State; Lansing as one of the plotters against the United States at a time when this country was neutral and Von Bernstorff was at Washington representing a supposedly friendly , power, is becoming more, deeply in volved. . , '". .".; : V - .''.' According to 'the Lansing state ment, Von Bernstorff sent , a mes sage to bis government, in which he sought permission to employ a "slush (Contlnnrd oa race Two, Colnmn One.) ' ' On the BulPa-eye ' I The Sunday Score . . Advertising In The Bee (Wa?Tie'.d Afaacjr Meeatirementa.) , Again First in Gains SUNDAY,: SEFTv 23 IN INCHES Local Display. . v.'. . . . 1,324 1 Foreign Display. .... ... 315"., Automobile '.". . . . . 7".', . .' 598 ! Classified vV . . . '. i . . " 783 .Tota."..:.. .3,020 SAME SUNDAY. LAST YEAR - Local Display. .... .. .. . 775 Vs Foreign Display. I . . .. . . 191 ' Automobile . . . . ...... . ' 450 ' ' Classified ... . . ; . .... . 757 v;.v.i,,;t.,-. , : i - Total ..... . . . . .2,174 ' ; GAINS--846H INCHES. Keep Your Eye On The Bee i IMPROVING EVERY DAY