The Omaha .Daily B
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VOL. SLVII.NO. 195.
OMAHA,
THURSDAY
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MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1918. TWELVE PAGES.
On Trains, at HottliM
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KAISER AND EMPEROR FEAR
DOWNFALL OF MONARCHIES
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THE WEATHER
Severe Cold
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AUTO THIEVES LOOT JEWELRY
STORE OF $20,000 AND ESCAPE
Detective Frank Rooney Fatally Shot by Robbers in Battle Tht Ensues
When Police Posse Locates. Gang in House at 3207 North J4th Ave
nue; Bandits Meet Officers With Volley and Four Desperadoes
And Two Women Are Taken; Fifth Battles on House Top;
Store of Harry Malashock Robbed in Mid-Afternoon.
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Detective Frank Rooney was wounded, perhaps
tween a squad of detectives
to have been the principals in the $20,000 jewelry robbery yesterday.
Rooney was taken to St. Joseph hospital, where a gunshot wound was found
in his side. Three of the four bandits were wounded.
MET WITH FUSILLADE. 1
Learning that five men and two women had arrived a!J
3207 North Fourteenth avenue, Sergeant Madsen and Defec
tives Rooney, Holden, Dolan and Murphy, and Chauffeur Arm
strong rushed out and surrounded" the house. "They were met
with a fusillade of shots from the house.
After a battle lasting fifteen minutes four of the bandits
and two girls were arrested. The fifth man was not arrested
at this time but put up a battle from the top of the house.
All Men Masked.
The men, all wearing masks, en
tered the jewelry store of Harry
Malashock, 1514 Dodge street, lined
the proprietor and clerks up against
j; wall at the point of -revolvers and
rifled the safe and showcases. -t '-"i
Quantities -of - diamonds, both
mounted nd unmounted, were stolen.
Nathan HofWtch. a clerk. attemtekL : II T II , lII IM II4T II
to lower his "hands and was. knocked
unconscious' by one of the robbers.
After warring Malashock and his
elerksxthat tbejr, would kill ;the first
nan who maofe-nt false move the ban
dits gathered their loot into sacks,
ran v to the' sidewalk and leaped into
an automoCile; , . ' . . .
Hjundre 's, of people were -.passing
line jjewelry store .'at!. the time, . . . ;
Tfie robbery was the most daring
n the history of Omaha and was
similar to the-raids in Chicago and
the Twin Cities.
Find Hat as Clue.
The car used" by the . bandits was
found by,detectives at Twenty-second
and ( Miami streets at 3;30. A pearl
gray fedora hat with the name of a
Kansas City firm on the band, and a
pair of diamond cuff links was in it.
The' police regard the hat as a valu
able1 clue.
The automobile is the property of
W. H. Gibson, 4120 North Nineteenth
street, and. was stolen from in front
bi .the Qrpheum : theater Tuesday
night The diamond cuff links found
in the car have been identified as the
property of a holdup victim. '
'! All Force on Job.
Acting Chief of Police Dempsey or
dered every detective on the forctf to
"get on the job" jn ihesearch for the.
daylight robbers, Every town and
city within a radius of several hun
dred miles was notified by telephone
or telegraph to be on the lookout.
"We have the whole department
looking for these men and are doing
everything we can thinlfof," stated
the acting chief. ."It appears as if the
gang may have been the same men or
part of a gang reported in Chicago,
Minneapolis and Denver recently. It
was bold work and accomplished by
men who understood, their business.
We' have the railroad bridges and all
roads watched closely and rooming
houses and cheap hotels wil be-exam-ined.
It is the kind of a job that could
be p.ulled'off in any large city, and I
(Continued on Pace Two, Column Two.)
RAIL OFFICIALS STEP OUT OF
, . . On Suggestion of McAdoo They Dispense 1
, With Custom of Entertaining Visitors.
LIMELIGHT AS 'GOOD FELLOWS'
Railroad xifficials are no longer
"good fellows" when it comes to en
tertaining.. .Due to a suggestion from
'Director General McAdoo of the rail
roads of the United States, they have
stepped over - into a class along with
the ordinary citizens and are pinching
the railroad dollars in much the same
manner as other people.
In other years and in the years of
not stflong ago, the railroads set aside
a fund that was used for entertaining
purposes. For instance, when a man
who cojld control a considerable vol
ume of business came to town, or
vvhen some outside newspaper men
blew in, this entertainment fund was
drawn upon and, in spending it. the
visitors were shown a good time All
that has passed, for Mr. McAdoo has
put a tnmp in spending money for
, inv such purpose.
in other days and ever since the
payment of rebates was eliminated, it
from the Central station and five bandits said by police
U.S. AMBASSADOR
IS HOSTAGE FOR
flFII UniOHIlLlaC
IlsY.I1 IllUVIIkllV
Notifies Government That Rus
sia Anarchists Will Hold
Him Responsible for
Emma Goldman.
Washington, Jan. 30. Ambassador
Francis at Petrograd cabled.the State
department today that a group of
Russian anarchists had notified him
he would be held personally respon
sible for the safety of Alexander Berk
man and Emma Goldman.
A Petrograd anarchist newspaper,
advices to the State department say,
has recently published an inflam
matory article proposing that Amer
ican Ambassador Francis be held per
sonally responsible for the safety and
freedom of Alexander Berkman, who
with Emma Goldman is about to be
gin serving two years in a federal
penitentiary for conspiring against
the draft law. ,
Impress Sea Gulls
To Combat U -Boats
Boston, Jan. 30. A -plea for the
protection of sea gulls, described
as the best submarine, detectors in
the world, was made today bv Ed
ward H. Forbush, state ornitholo
gist, at an executive hearing on a
bill providing" for the extension'of
the closed season on water fowl.
'.'Airplanes see. the gulls and signal
for the destroyers to come and take
care of the submarines," Mr..For
. bush .said. 'The gulls follow sub
' mersibles to pick up refuse, and so
- they are sure to detect the presence
of such craft."
Mr. Forbush defended the gulls
' when asked if they should "hot be
killed because they destroy scal
lops. He said the scallop supply
had not been reduced and that the
advance in prices was no greater
than that of other shell fish. ,
has been the custom with a number of
the railroads to turn visitors of the
favored class over to the official en
tertainers. These entertainers saw to
it that the visitors had seats at the
theaters, that they vvere well fed and.
prior to the adoption of the prohibition
amendment to the Nebraska constitu
tion. that they had something stronger
than wafer to drink, providing they
were thirsty. Now there is no more
of that.
The order that comes from Mr
McAdoo provides that a strict ac
count shall be kep. of all expendi
tures and in the accounting no ex
penditure of money for purposes other
than maintaining the property of the
road will be permitted. Special at
tention is directed to the fact tha'
transportation and money shall not be
given to parties outside of the com
pany employ for services that thev
may perform under the guise of work
ing for the railroad.
fatally, in a pitched battle be
nun
ItlHNd UAb
2600 TEUTONS
ON ASIAGO
Two Austrian Army Divisions
Wiped Out in Italian Moun-
LtainIiicusl j Berlin Ad
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K Rome, . Jan. 30. More . than. "2,600
prisoners have been taken, by' the
Italian; in' .-their ' successful attacks
upon the Austrian lines on the Asiago
plateau, the war office announced to
day. -
Six guns and 100 machine guns also
have been captured. ,
The Austrians have been bombard
ing with extreme violence the posi
tions captured by the -Italians. .The
Italian fire has been powerfully cen
tered on points behind the enemy
lines.
) Extremely, heavy losses were suf
fered by the Austrians, two of their
divisions being almost completely
wiped out.
Italy, is following up energetically
its victory over the Austrians on the
Asiago plateau. Its troops scored
new successes yesterday in capturing
and holding the important peaks of
Col Del Rosso and Monte Di Val
Bella.
Both Berlin and Vienna admit the
Italian victory on this front, conced
ing the loss of these valuable emi
nences and the holding of them by the
Ital.anS after they had resisted heavy
counterattacks. ...
Omaha's
nnRAAMP
HUI
AUSTRIAN TROUBLES MAY
Bk BEGINNING OF THE END
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. Dispatches leave no room for doubt
that Austria-Hungary is now in the shadow of a great crisis.
On ail sides the question is: "And is this the beginning of the end?
"Is the great polyglot empire of central Europe, the proudest aris
tocracy of the century, the bulwark of monarchy and the stronghold of
the towering house of Hapsburg, doomed to go down at last under the
onslaughts of its own people?"
DIFFERENCES .CAUSE OF RACIAL TROUBLE.
In the present crisis facing the dual monarchy the old saying is ful
filled that a country of many races always tends toward revolution. Its
composite character, even more than the conditions arising from the war,
is the secret of the empire's troubles.
In race, language and religion the empire is equally complex. Roughly
speaking, the inhabitants include about 17,500,000 Slavs of various kinds,
embracing Croats, Slavonians, Czechs, Serbs, Poles, etc.; 9,000,000 Ger
mans, 6,000,000 Magyars, several million Roumanians, 1,000,000 Jews, 500,
000 Italians and minor contingents of Armenians, Bulgars, Greeks, Alba
nians and Turks, each with its own language, literature, manners and
customs.
Religious creeds also vary. About two-thirds are Roman Catholics.
Something more than one-half of the Magyars are Evangelical Protes
tants, while Greek Catholics make up about one-tenth of the whole.
. BOHEMIA IS STORM CENTER.
Bohemia appears to be the present storm center. The Bohemians
have long cherished a desire for independence and from all accounts they
see in the present crisis an opportunity to get a few steps nearer their
goal. -.
The Czechs never have entered into the present war with enthusiasm.
It is a German-made war and the Czech has no love for the German.
While in the minority numerically, the Germans are the dominant race
in the Austro-Hungarian empire and they have unceasingly worked to
reserve this supremacy by throttling every attempt of the Czechs, the
lagyars and the other elements of the polyglot nation to extend their
political influence.
Despite these efforts, the Czech spirit has grown and expanded mar
velously in recent years. Czech books and newspapers have multiplied. A
Czech university was founded at Prague. In 1897, after a long and furi
ous agitation, Czech was made an official language of Bohemia and the
Germans were politically driven to the wall.
WHITE ELEPHANT
SALE IS PACKED
BY EAGER BUYERS
Hurry Call for Police to Help
Handle th& Crowds; Pathetic
Scenes at Cjtuldran'jXloth?
ingBOothi;
iivo jio.urs octore te.vYnue tie
pliant Bile, opened yesterday in the
lobby of the Auditorium was paoked
B . . . . mm J wd
by prospective purchasers at the
"glorifiea rummage sale" promoted
by local society women for the bene
fit of the National League for Wo
man's Service. '
When the doors opened at 10
o'clocWMhe crowd surged in and as
if by intuition made .its way, to the
children's clothing booth in charge
of Mts. N. P. Dodge.
"The crowd around thisvbooth all
morning is the most pathetic thing I
have seen. It is a silent testimonial
of the high cost of living," remarked
an observer.
'Many Eagor Buyers.'
The men's and women's clothing
booths of Mrs.' Clement Chase and
Mrs. M'lton Barlow were also
crowded and the picture booth of
Mrs. C. T. ' Kountze. drew crowds.
There was no time for wrapping ar
ticles and it was hard for the cash
iers even to manage the cash, so im
portunate were the buyers.
Mrs. Victor Rosewater's furniture
(Continued on Pape Two, Column Six.)
Busy Day
CHARGE GERMAN
MINISTER WITH
CORRUPT WORK
Mexicans Demand Investiga
. tion of Teuton Propaganda
r at Capital; Deputies' Un-
" der Suspicion.
Mexico, . City,' Jan.- 35.Germa
propaganda ' at last lias reached -the
stage where the Mexican government
has taken official notice of it.
The legislative committee has di-;
rected the attorney general to inves
tigatecharges that Heinrich von Eck
hardt, the, German minister to Mexi
co, lias been responsible for alleged
corruption in the Mexican Chamber
of Deputies.
These charges were published . by
EI Universal, a pro-entente and pro
American newspaper, together with
a demand that You Eckhardt should
receive his passports as minister.
It is asserted bv opponents of El
Universal that even il the charge of
corruption in . me cnamDer snouia
be proved against one or more deou
ties, the'paper is liable to prosecution
under Mexican law by every member
ot the chamber.
Men Married After May 18
Not Slackers, Says Baker
New York. Jan. 30. Secretary of
War Baker, in a letter to Charles
Evans Hughes, head of the local dis
tricf drift appeal board, upset the
ruling established by the. board that
all marriages contracted since May
18 last by young men of draft age.
should be regarded as slacker mar
riages" and emphasized the need for
local boards considering all such
cases on their merits.
The district board's ruling was
based, it was announced, on draft rul
ing No. 4, which was issued shortly
after the epidemic of marriages to
avoid the draft.
"The ruling was carried over into
the new regulations with the express
statement that the effect of the selec
tive service lav was not to suspend
the institution of marriage." the secre
tary of war said in his letter.
Wilson Names Receivers
Of the Public Moneys
Washington, Jan. 30. President
Wilson today appointed the following
receivers of public moneys:
Uurre H. Lien, at EI Centro, Cal.
George II. Weaver, Durango, Colo.,1
reappointment.
John W. Cloyd, Sterling. Colo.,
reappointment.
Cuba Needs Food.
An Atlantic Port, Jan. 30. Reports
that the food scarcity in Havana and
other parts of Cuba is still acute were
brougit here today by passengers anl
officers of an American-vessel whicn
arived from the island. '
Keep Girls Away From
, Fort, Officers Plead
An appeal to mothers to keep
their daughters away from Fort
Omaha was made by officers at the
post Tuesday to Mrs. Nancy J.
Moort, Red Cross civilian relict
worker
One ot the officers furnished Mrs
Moore a list of names of girls who
had been refused admission to the
post, but who still persisr in com
ing to the gates of the fort and
waiting there for the soldiers. The
names will be turned over to the
welfare board.
500,000 WORKERS
STRIKE IN BERLIN;
SHIPYARDS IDLE
Tremendous Labor Agitation Spreads ' to Provincial
Towns; Grain Warehouses in Vienna Ablaze; Revo
lutionaries Suspected of Starting Fires; Form
Workmen's Council and Demand Rights.
London, Jan. 30. Nearly 500,000 persons aire- y are ton
strike in Berlin and the number is being added to hourly, the
Exchange' Telegraph correspondent at Copenhagen telegraphs
under Tuesday's date. . , '
The movement is being extended to the provincial town.
The Berlin correspondent -of the Politiken at Copenhagen
reports that the strikers have formed a workmen! council of
500, with an "action commission" of 10 men and women, hv
eluding Hugo Haase, the independent socialist leader, and
Philipp Scheidemann, the majority socialist leader.
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COLD WAVE
HITS WEST
AND OMAHA
Kniiclike North Wind Rides
on Frigid Weathsr; Mercury
Drops to 14 Below
Zero.
' No; hope of any break in the cold
is held out by the weather bureau.'
"Continued severe cold" is the Omaha,
forecast. ( "Continued severe cold for
several days," with snow Thursday,
is tne state prediction. ,
A 'strong north wind blew through
tne night and Wednesday, so sharp
that it cut the face like a knife. The
temperature fell from 14 above 2cro
at 8 o'clock Tuesday night to 14 be
low ero at 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning. In spite of sunshine the
mercury, did not rise materially durine
the day. Colonel Welsh says tonight
will fie colder than Tuesday night.
He doesn't venture to say how low
the temperature may go by Thursday
morning.
High Barometer Prevails.
A threatening high barometer in
the northwest Wednesday, with as
high as 30.86 inches at Havre, Mont.,
presages the continuance of the frigid
wave with- still more severe cold.'
Zero temperatures extended as far
south" as the northern part of Okla
homa Wednesday morning. Dodge
City, Kan., reported 6 below. Valen
tine, Neb., had, 26 below zero at 7
o'clock Wednesday, morning, and
North Platte had 20 belovi South
Dakota had temperatures as low as
26 below, and North Dakota as low as
30 below. Through eastern Iowa zero
temperatures prevailed.
There were light snowsover most
of the area between the Mississippi
river and Rocky mountains.
Taking Nebraska as a whole, the
railroads are finding that this is the
coldest spell of the winter, but they
arc managing tv keep their trains
moving, though generally they are
running late. Those from the north
and west are coming id 30 minutes to
three hour's late, while those from
the east are running a little closer to
schedules.
Snow is General.
According to the reports to the
railroads, snow was general over all
Nebraska Tuesday night. All through
the eastern, northern, western and
central sections, the fall was from one
to three inches, with three to six
inches over the South Platte country
and far down into Kansas.
Tuesday night there were IiikIi
winds out in the state and the snow
drifted badly, filling the cuts. How
ever, it wa light weight and was eas-
ly lifted out by snow plows, so that
JraIic was not seriously impeded.
Rosalie Doctor Ordered to
Colors at San Antonio, Texas
Rosalie, Neb., Jan. 30. (Special.)
Dr. J. J. McCarl. of this place, who
received a commission as a first lieu
tenant several months ago, received
orders today to leave for San Antonio,
Tex.
Cohnell Urges Ice Man to Keep
Men Busy Wliile He Can
Health Commissioner Connell is '
urging Umaha ice dealers to make
hay 'whjle the sun shines." because
he has received information from
Washington that the manufacture of
artificial ice next summer will be cur
tailed on account of the use of am
monia in the process.
Eight samples of ice cut at Carter
lake tested free of colon bacili and
the doctor states he has reports of
nu wuismcn in xne juei shipyards
snd in the Vulcan works at Hambarg
snd thousands - of miners in the
Rhenish Westphalian districts struck
on Monday, according to the Berliner
Vossische Zeitung.
The steel-making district of Essen
has been affected and at Kiel work.
era in torpedo factories and in dock
yards have been out since Friday. .
The grain warehouses of the city
of Vienna are afire ' snd enormous
damage has been caused, according to
a Vienna dispatch forwarded from
Amsterdam by the Exchange Tele
g"ch. Revolutionaries - are sifspected of
having started the fires.
Other members of the commission
included Count Ledebour and William
Dittrnann,Undependent socialistand
Fnederich &bert snd Herr Brtun,
majority socialists the dispatch adds.
TMi,Cr0mn1i8lon' " ' stated. sked
Hetf Wallraf, the minister of the m
tenor, to grant permission fof the
holding -of meetings, JIfr Wallraf,
it is added, declared he would hht n.
gotiate with the workmen, but would
receive socialist members of the par
liament. ",, i
Herr; Scliefdema'nn, - Hrr JIaase
and two workmen went to the min
ister of the interior and informed riira
of the action of the commission, de
manding unanimously thai the nego
tiations take place in the presence of
the workmen. .v
The result of Herr Wallraf s delib.
erations is not yet known, the di.
natc
kal
atch reports, but it ouotes the Ijw
Anzeiger as stating that imoor-.
tant negotiations are proceeding be
tween him and General von Stein, th
Prussian minister of war. , ?
SOCIALISTS AT WORK.
Meetings in thesindustrial centers
have been prohibited. The strike agi
tation has leen fostered by the in- x
dependent socialists and not by trsde
unions. ?v .
In addition toordering the arrest
of the independent socialist leaders,
the authorities are said to have im
prisoned Adolph Hoffman, editor of
Vorwaerts, the socialist organ, and
independent socialist leader in the
Prussian Diet. . ' " y
The strike movement is said to be
directed against delay in passing the
Prussian reform bill and the annexa
tionist propaganda conducted by. the ,
tatneriand party, which has assailed
bitterly the condifct of the German
emissaries at Brest-Litovsk
The strikei started Monday,- the
day .after the fmperor's birthday. .
Swedish Troops iti Finland. ., -
In Finland the revolutionists have
set up a government of their own. v"
Late reports are to the effect that
(Contlnurd on Page Two, Column Oaf.)
GERMANY GUTS
Breweries Quit On
Account of Shortage.
BEER OUTPUT
Zurich, Jan. 30. The 'AHgemeine
Zeitung Fur Brauerein, (General Ga
zette for' Breweries), says that ,-fhe
supply of barley to German breweries
will be stopped. Uius bringing the
brewing industry to a standstill-
Not even beer fo the army will be
produced, the periodical declares.
The measure is said by the publica
tion to be due Ic the exceedingly bad
harvest of oats, necessitating the use
of barley for fodder for the army
horses. 1 . ,
government experts which show that
natural ice kills bacut -within a stor
age period of, a few-weeks, 31 daySs
being shown in a series of tests u
the time necessary for the bacili to
become harmless. - v ,,; ,r
The health office icceived informa
tion that two companies at Carter
lake has already cut approximately
150,000 tons, of which 35.000 tons were
shipped in cars to packers and others.
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