C ' 7 1893 THIS: IS. OUR SPECIAL, QUARTER CENTENNIAL' TESTIMONIAL NUMBER 191)8. v The OmMa Sonday Bee A L L THE NEWS THE WEATHERx - K Nebraska: Cloudy warmer; unsettled west portion. Tbarmbmeter retdlnis: . '. .' ' ,. Dtg.it ' m. ,......;..W S a. m (( 1 p. ro. ...,,.-.'.tt - 65 3 p. m. .7! " a. I" 57 3 p. m. .......... .74 a- m. , a ,..69 4 p. m. It a. in 5 p.'m .....7 10 a. m 7 6 p. m. 77 12 a. m 68 7 p. m. 7 VERY BEST FEATURES HARRY LAUDER'S STORY CLEVEREST OF COMICS I N THE BEE VOL. XLVIII NO. 2. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 23. 1918. 8 SECTIONS. 80 PAGES. JIVE CENTS. ... . i ! . rrnnnr?1 I VJ I I I 1 1 1 I I - V 60 KILLED, 1 29 HURT IN WRECK Victims Wallace Hagenback Circus Folk in Cars Smashed ' by .Troop Train; Crash Followed by Fire. (By Associated Vrtsn.i Gary. Ind., June 22.-rSixty persons are known to be dead and 129 are in hospitals in ) , Gary and Hammond tonight as ! a result of a rear-end collision v at dawn today between an ! empty troop train composed of Pullman cars and a Wallace Hagenback circus train on the , Michigan Central railroad, five miles west of Gary. Virtually all victims were members- of the circus. Th'irty-fTgrt bodies, all except one charred beyond recognition, have , been placed in Gary undertaking es tablishments tonight. Twenty-one bodies have been taken to Hammond. Identification of all except a few bod ies was not attempted today. Those who died of injuries ii. hospitals were known, but the effort of giving names to the burned, mutilated bits of hu manity taken from the wreck was re served for tomorrow. Three Coaches Demolished. The empty troop train, traveling down a straight stretch of track, to tally demolished three of the flimsy circus coaches and badly damaged a fourth. According to reports to local au thorities, the circus train which car ried four sleepers, five stock cars, 15. flat cars and a caboose, pulled part way into a switch and stalled there. A flagman set fuses as a warning: The circus train was in this position when the troop train plowed into the sleepers, reducing them to a pile of tangled steel and timbers. Fire, en gendered by the gas lighting system of the circus train, broke out almost! immediately, and when rescuer's reached the scene the entire wreck age was in flames. Clowns, bareback -mdwsr 4apeze performers and .acrobats, many of them veterans in the circus world, perished in the first great crash, Other victims were suffocated arid burned. , Clown -Loses Wife and Babies, Attempts of the Gary fire depart ment to curb the flames and make possible quick access to the impris oned victims were unsuccessful be cause of lack of water supply in that outlying district. Survivors struggled about the wreck, screaming for rela tives or friends and only force pre vented two or three men from rush ing" into the blazing wreckage. Hours after the crash bodies " charred black were still being recov ered as the derricks of wrecking trains thinned out the pile of debris There were many pitiful scenes at the wreck and later in the hospitals. Joe Coyle, a clown, cried as he lay on a stretcher and told how his wife and two babies had joined him only recently after months of absence and how all three had been crushed tfi death at his very side. ' XThe -kiddies ha 1 been so glad to (Continued on rage Eleven Column Three.) Mayor Will Permit No City Employe to n i t- r s rf Make Kace tor Utnce 'Mayor Smith has announced that he will not permit any city employe within the jurisdiction of the public " affairs department, over which he has ' charge, to be a candidate for a pub lic office and at the same time remain 'on the public payroll. He had ncrticular reference to I. L., Beisel or the city clerk's office, who has filed for the republican '. nomination of county treasurer, and ' he made his policy to apply to any others who mayi be contemplating filing for office. Until the Butler referendum has been disposed of by the voters, the mayor will have charge of the city( clerk's office and he wishes to be un ' derstood 'as saying that he will run . the city clerk's office according to Ws ideas until he is relieved of the . refponsibility of that department, Beisel, formerly deputy treasurer, ''is an appointee of Commissioner Ure Dean T. Greg - of the city purchas ing department, also under the mayor, has been thinking of filing for county commissioner, but in view of the mayor's announcement, he will recon sider his political ambitions. Mr. Beisel said he had not been advised tof the mayor's ruling and, therefore, had no comment to offer. Ex-Emperor Nicholas Removed to Moscow From Ekaterinburg Berne, Switzerland, June 22. Ex Emperor Nicholas has been trans ferred to Moscow from Ekaterin burg, which was no longer safe, ow ing to the movement among the Czecho-Slovaks, according to the Zei- tung Am Mittag ot Berlin. Germans Set Thirty Long-Range Guns to . Bombard Paris, Report Paris, June 22. Premier Clemen ceau and Leon A. Brami, under secretary for effectives and pensions at the war office, had a lengthy hear ing before the senate army com mittee today on the question of ef fectives. It has been widely ru mored that the Germans have placed a number, varying from eight to 30, of long range cannon for the bom bardment of Paris. Several ques tions were put to Premier Clemen ceau, most of them concerning this rumor, but he treated it as idle gossip. SEE MYSTERY IN ARREST OF EARL BEAVER Man Seized at St. Joseph Thought to Be Brother of Logan Billingsley, Okla homa Bootlegger. An element of mystery surrounds the arrest of Earl Beaver, alleged bootlegger, by federal authorities at St. Joseph, Mo., Saturday, Beaver, it is alleged'was arrested on information given by a woman from a roadhouse near St. Joseph, and when he was seized by the officers he was in a big Cadillac car, which was loaded with liquor. Earl Beaver is alleged to be none other than Earl Billingsley, a brother of Logan Billingsley, king of the Oklahoma bootleggers, arid who, with other members of the gang, arc now serving sentences in federal prisons for sellirjg liquor to Indians. Beaver, as he is called, came to Omaha last fall about the time that Logan Billingsley arrived here. Billingsley was arrested by police on complaint of Rome Miller, who al leged the Oklahoma man was using the rooms he occupied in the. Rome. hotej tor the illegal sale of liquor. - 38illujgsif y TJjnjitenl Suit. Billingsley threatened to file suit for $50,000 damages against the . hotel keeper, for causing his arrest. Later Billingsley was again; 'arrested and was being held in central statibn fof the authorities of the state of Wash fngton, ' but, was . released on a $500 bond, which he forfeited. After his departure from Omaha the accident which occurred to Jess Eckford, in which May Nace, -an Omaha girl, was hurt by the over turning of a bootlegging car, January 12, near Shenandoah, la., developed the fact that there was a regular fleet of bootlegging automobiles plying be tween St. Joseph and Omaha and it was alleged that Beaver was the prin cipal of the gang. He was sought by local officials and some months ago former Special Prosecutor McGuire received a card purporting to be from Earl Beaver, and which was sent from a Canadian city, stating that he had enlisted in the Canadian forces and would soon be on his way to France. Several Trips to Omaha. Since that time the man known lo cally as Earl Beaver nas made several trips to Omaha and has been recog nized by acquaintances. Un June 11 Brvan Van Dvkp and wife, with James Cosgrove, were ar rested and held at the central station for the wife on a charge of "investiga tion." Van Dyke, it is alleged, was known to James Cosgrove as Earl Beaver. The latter had on his person, it is alleged at the time of his arrest a registration card giving his descrip tion, his registry number and all the requirements of the draft law, under the name of Van Dyke. ine question now arises. Is there a man serving in France under the name of Earl Beaver, who is really Bryan Van Dvke. and with wlmm Van Dyke traded registration cards, or was the man arrested here reaiiv Rrv Van Dyke and is Earl Beaver serving in r-rance? There was no evidence which could prove that Jess Eckford or Earl Beaver sold whiskey in Omaha at the time the cases against the two men were brought up last winter, and the federal authorities who arrested Earl Beaver at St. Toseoh will cive out no information as to the charges filed against him nor will they permit the prisoner to be interviewed. What is True Americanism? What does it mean to you to be an American? For the best answers The Bee is offering 12 prize! For the best answer' the prize will be $5, and for the next 11 best, each z good book. Observe these rules: 1. Subject, "True Americanism and What It Means to Be an American." 2. Limit answers to 300 words or less. 3. Contest open to all, but ages of competitors will be taken into consideration, so state your age if you are under 21. 4. Every answer must be signed with full name and address. 5. AddressAmcricanism Contest, The Omaha Bee. so as to reach this office on or before June 30. The judges will be announced later. Hot AUSTRIANS KILL CZECHS-SLOVAKS TAKEN PRISONER Legioners From U. S. Serving Under Arms for Italy Shot by Firing Squads When Captured. . . (By AiMclated Frein.) Venna, June 22. The Austrian of ficial war statement tonight says that amqng 40,000 prisoners taken in Italy werj fti f ew .CzechO'Slovalf legioners who were immediately subjected to the treatmen..precnbed by martial law-." . ( -.( The "treatment prescribed by mar tial law" referred. to in, the Austrian official report', isf dath at the hands of a, firing squad. - There are many thousands of Czecho-Slovak soldiers in the Italian army. The newspaper Roma, pub lished in Rome, declared in May that 20,000 Czecho-Slovaks who formerly lived in the United States were now serving ander arms for Italy. Many Bohemian troops, according to the London Daily Mail, have joined the Italian colors against Austria. These detachments belonged to a Czecho-Slovak army which is being formed in 'many centers from for mer subjects of Emperor Charles. Their defection to Italy has caused much anxiety among the Austro Hungarian commanders, who fear the effect on their Slav troops. Former Government Man Impersonates U. S. Officer; Fined $1 W. O. Banks, 19 years old, of Bal timore, was fined $1 in federal court Saturday by Judge Woodrough on the charge of impersonating a United States officer and obtaining money under false pretenses from Manager Kitchen of the Paxton hotel. Banks said that he had just left the federal employ at Baltimore and was on his way to Portland, Ore., to obtain a similar position there, when he became stranded in Omaha without any money. He told the judge that Manager Kitchen had refused to cash a check for him, but had given him $10 on his representing himself as a government employe, when he had really ceased to be one several days before. Harry Pearce Shows His Office Has More Business Henry Pearce, register of deeds, shows 106 deeds and 273 instruments were filed inhis office, total consid erations of $397,812.84. During the corresponding week last year there were 141 deeds and 317 instruments filed whose considerations amounted to $214,548. Weather Pastime in Omaha MCA LEADERS IN CITY ON TRIP THROUGH WEST George W. Perkins and Others Explain Program for Raising New War Fund of Hun dred Million Dollars. John R. Mott, general secretary of the Young Mcns Christian associa tion, and George' W. Perkins, chajr- man of the campaign I committee, ' passed through Omaha Saturday aft ernoon en route to San Jfrancisco and the west for conferences with busi ness men in these sections of the country to prepare, for the second Young Men's Christian association war fund, which has for its goal a total of $100,000,000. "America's best nien, composing the cleanest army ever known in his tory, are being rushed over in the world's greatest ships, some of which carry 13,000 or 14,000 persons," said Dr. Mott, who is rated as one of the world's best known?mcn, traveling on every continent and having -visited the front five times. "It is a critical hour of the human race. The ball is in German's hands on the firing line, but we will win. "At night time the boats start out of the ports loaded to the limit with fighting men. They sleep the men in relays in the bnnks in order to get more men aboard. During my varied trips to the front I have never seen j an American soldier under the influ ! ence of liquor. i Gives Nebraska's Quota. -Nineteen Nebraskans, with over 500 other men from the 14 states com prising the central United States army department, Friday heard why this country must raise, some time next fall, at least $100,000,000 for the Young Men's Christian association work among the soldiers and sailors of this country and our allies. Before the close of the meeting these Ne braskans joined with others in say ing the amount needed is at least $112,000,000. "Nebraska's quota, based on the percentage set by the last Liberty loan quota, will be, in round numbers, about $1,112,000. Omaha's share is ex pected to be between $250,000 and $500,000. Iowa's share will be about $2,800,000; $340,000 for South Dakota, and $300,000 for North Dakota. These (Continued on Page Thirteen Column Six.) Mail Carriers Form Twenty War Saving Sfamp Societies "Charity begins at home" is the motto that the Omaha mail carriers have adopted in their War Savings stamp drive. Twenty War Savings societies have been formed by em ployes of the different' departments. J An outdoor meeting will be held Fri- uay on me norm siue or me renerai building as a big windup for the drive. It is hoped that by Friday every per son in Omaha will have become a member of some War Savings society. It is said that Nebraska must have 10,000 War Savings societies by Fri day in order that it may maintain its record made in former war drives. i The public is invited to be present at the meeting by the postoffice Fri day. The postoffice band will play and prominent speakers will speak. Stanton County Is First Over Top in Stamp Drive Stanton countv. Nebraska, already i lias gone "over the top" on its War I Savings stamp drive without waiting i for tha national campaign to begin. Stanton county has passed the 100 per cent mark. Reports have conie from other counties that the drive is proceeding nicely. Cheyenne county j hopes to be 100 per cent by Friday. PLAN TO LAUNCH 89 VESSELS ON FOURTHJDF JULY American Ship Yards Will Cele brate Independence Day in Way That Will Help Win War. (By Amoclnted FreM.) Washington, June 22. -Celebration of July 4 this year will be made no- table for all time by the launching from American ship yards of the largest number of ships of the great est aggregate tonnage ever put into the water in one day. Independence day's contribution to the merchant fleet will be at least 89 vessels with a capacity of 439,886 deadweight tons. Workmen are straining to complete six other hulls in, time, which would make the total tonnage 470,886. The conservative estimate of launching to take place on the day Americans venerate more than any other, is one-third more than the en tire production of sea-going tonnage in United States yards in the fiscal year of 1915-1916 and exceeds by 42, 050 tons the launchings of 1901, the record pre-war year in American shipbuilding. The shipping board's banner construction month of May will be eclipsed in one day both in number of ships and in tonnage. Thirty-seven of the hulls expected to be launched will be steel, with a tonnage of 254,686. Vessel Built in 78 Days. Washington, June 22. Completion of the 8,800-ton cargo ship, West Apam in 78 days by the Skinner in: Eddy company of Seattle, giving that company the honor of having turned out six of the ten fastest built ves sels of the shipbuilding program, was announced today by the shipping board. Chairman Hurley telegraphed the company: "You are splendidly maintaining your characteristic pace and I trust that your July launching and deliv eries will set new records for your organization. Again accept congrat ulations from Mr. Schwab and my self and kindly let your employes know that we deeply appreciate their achievements in the shipping pro gram." National League to Use . Amateurs, Says Heydler New York, June 22. That the Na tional league would complete the pre sent season's playing schedule even though it became necessary to secure smateurs to fill the depleted ranks, was the assertion made today by Sec retary John J. Heydler. Secretary Heydler stated that despite handicaps caused by the draft owners were a unit in the opinion that there was no reason for cancelling or curtailing the schedule. Germany Urged to Clothing of Br Aiwoclated London, June 22. Clothing in Ger many has now become almost as scarce as food. Perhaps nothing could more graphically reveal the clothing plight of Germany than a proposal just put forward by Justizrat Otto Fcig, a prominent Berlin law yer, that the government should forthwith enact' a law making it com pulsory for the heirs of dead people or the administrators of their estates to turn over to the state all the cloth ing left by, the deceased persons. . He points out that the German death rate, owing both to casualties Sugar Restrictions Drawn Much Tighter By Xew Regulations Washington, June 22. Restric tions on the use of sugar by manu , facturers will be drawn much tight i er by new regulations, effective i July 1. announced today by Food j Administrator Hoover. The new i measures are expected to prevent any serious scarcity of sugar for ! home consumption, and at the same : time to put the nation as a whole ; on a three-pound per capita month- ly ration. Sugar allowed ice cream manu ! facturers after July 1 will be de creased to. 75 per cent of the nor ' mal consumption. " SENATORIAL CANDIDATES GUMSHOEING Editorial Association Meeting Causes Candidates for Senate to Visit in Gate City Dur ing Conclave. The Nebraska editors were in Oma ha this week, purely on pleasure bent, but there was a lot of political medi cine mixing on the outskirts, just the same. , Ross Hammond and Edgar Howard were in attendance, of course, as members of the press association without a thought of their ambitions to capture their respective party nom inations for United States senator, and ex-Governor Morchead dropped in wholly by accident, in complete ignorance of the prospect of bump ing into his competitors for that same job. Sloan and Norrls Absent. On the republican side neither Sloan nor Norris happened to be ed itors, but they too, were represented by trustworthy emissaries carefully spying out the land. One question which remained unanswered was, why had Senator Norris been so slow to file re-election? Speculation, per haps bcViic of the hope, turned on what might happen if he should fin ally flunk and leave Hammond arid Sloan, Jo fight it out among tbem ' selves Will there be other entries in the republican primary Contest for the scnatorship, was still anbther question, asked more than once, and left unanswered. This democratic senatorial melee resolves itself largely into a contest between the Hitchcock-Mullen forces and the Bryan mourners. Lieutenant Governor Howard took occasion to read into the records a positive state ment that he would rather go down to an ignominious defeat than to sit in the councils of the mighty at Wash ington and wear a brass collar bear ing "G. M. H." thereon. He cata logued Morehead, Reed and Price as "personal and political" friends of Hitchcock, with the cards running in favor of Morehead for the Hitchcock blessing. Bill Price got into the democratic senatorial free-for-all with patriotic motives, according to a confession he made at Lincoln a few days ago. He proceeded to explain that Morehead, KeeU'and Howard arc wasting good time and money, while he, the new Moses, entered at the psychological moment. Morehead Optimistic. Mr. "Morehead, formerly governor and now charged with being the Hitchcock-Mullen senatorial candi date, although he denies the allega tion, was optimistic, but agreed that the votes would have to be counted before the nominee could be deter mined. "I really believe that I Iiavc a good chance, but it is hard to tell this year, when the people seem to be a great mass of independent thinkers," he said. "I recall that in 1912. when Reed was making a senatorial primary race, he met me in the Rome hotel, called me into a back room and con fidentially imparted to me the infor mation that he had the best little or ganization that ever was organized, and that there would be nothing to it. When the votes were counted, there was nothing to it is far as Reed was concerned. So you see, you can't always tell by the looks of a frog which way he is going to jump." As for Willis Reed, the debonair little attorney general of the Antelope state, he keeps milling around, shak ing hands and smiling and talking about Washington, D. C, with a fa miliarity that makes some of his democratic brethren sit up and look twice. Commandeer Deceased Persons Preiu.) in the battlefield and to the mortality caused by the desperate food condi tions at home, is rising by leaps aryl bound s. "What becomes of the clothes left behind by all these people?" he asks. "Why should they not be given to the living? The dead no longer need tlrm." After July 15 it will be illegal for any hotel, restaurant or other public house to serve meals on tablecloths. Such tablecloths and napkins as these establishments now possess will be confiscated and utilized primarily for baby linen. GERMANS RUSH m TO ITALY Second Phase of Offensive Is Expected to Begirt Any 1 Day; Americans Keep Up Intense Activity. . Blocked in - their advance across the Piave river by! the Italians and B-itish and .with their line of communications ! threatened by the rising waters C iL.l XI : A .J. ui mat on cam, tuc nusuv Hungarians apparently have' closed the first phase of their ' offensive against Italy. . Viewed after a week of " fighting, the offensive has been little more than a demonstra , tion in force over avbattle line more than 90 miles in length. It has gained none of its objeiv . tives and has cost the Austrians very dearly. Frnm ill firet Anv nt tti a fartr Vila HI Jl 4BT V 1UV I IB V tW . was seen that the Italians were not " called upon to meet a tremendous on slaught on some strategic key (o their position, such as was launched at Ca poretto last October. They had rather to defend their lines voveVa wide front against attacks which wre launched seemingly without suf ncicnt poweivio penetrate more ,tnan. some of the : advanced posts of the Italians and their allies. .Troops Massed in Mountains. ' The second phase of the offensive is expected to begin at any time. It' is not believed that the Austrians will be willing, nor will they be permitted by Germany, to enq their . drive against Italy with the results indicat ing an almost total failure. ' There have been intimations that Germany , , . .. . . ... . wouid assist in tne auacic wnicn is coming, and which may be launched against the , mountain sector f the r front. . Larcra : hodien . of , tntn liavik- been assembled there ' , 1 Austria Torn .Bv Riots. ' , The serious food shortage in Aus tria-Hungary has given rise to sen sational rumors. One'of these, from Amsterdam, says ah attempt has been made on the life of Emperor Charles, ; This rumor lacks confirmation. There, is little doubt conditions in -Austria are near a crisis. Little of the true status of . affairs can be learned, but the little news that filters through ' neutral countries shows that the Aus trian people are on shbrt rations, that serious rioting has occurred and that general strikes are feared. In a clash between police and strikers at Buda- . pest, 45 persons are reported to have been killed or wounded. J Bulgaria War Weary. f ; . jjuiii iau luiiAiuisaiuii liaa a i - , . i i . vu ,11 . ivi.im, .b,uiuiii5 ,v v. a patches from The Hague, for the pur- pose of negotiating with the Austrian ; government concerning a change in relations with Germany. . This, , coupled with the fact that the present j premier of Bulgaria was opposed to in 1 1 (!...in.. tt.fn.. P.,l , ai aiiiainc win, wiuiaiij ueiui g uiii- ' i garia entered the war, and the known- war-tiredness of the I'ulgarian people . may be significant. ' Since the abortive attack on the': Rheims front early in the week the western front has been quiet. There have been patrol encounters and the usual operations along the fronts where great battles were beingr. waged during the recent past, but! nothing resembling a new drive by the Germans at the allied line , has -bren reported. Berlin officially re ports the presence of Italian troops in the Rheims sector. ', ' Americans Push Lines Forward. ' American forces have continued their intense activity on the fronts ' . where they are holding positions IT .1 . f r rrr . iNonnwest 01 vnaieau i merry mey have pushed their lines forward once more and east of the city have bom barded bodies of German troops. . It is reported that Nicolai T.enine, ' the bolshevik premier of Russia, has' decided to resign, in spite of a vote ot confidence given him by the soviet ' committee. The Czecho-Slovak movement has become so menacing east of the Ural mountains that Nich- 1 t ir . i. r : uias jvuuiaiiuii, me luriucr xvussidu emoeror. has been removed to Mos ' cow. , . .: . First American "Ace" v ' ; Recovers' From Iniurv San Jose, Cal., June 22. Lt. Doug las Campbell, son of Dr. W.: W. , Campbell, director of Lick Observ-, ; atory, is out of the hospital in France, ' where he was confined after an. in jury sustained just after he became' the first American ace. " 7 This news was contained in a cable gram to his parents received today V and vas taken by his father to mean that he is flying again. Wheaton Is Nominated. 1 : St Paul. Minn.. Tun ?1 VrA V ' Wheaton of Minneapolis was nomi; nated tor governor on the democratic ticket at the primary election ,'Mon- Hav hv a ma rein nf shntit 4ffi ai over Judge W. L. Comstock of Man-: Karo. j ,, Practicaftv comolete return.' Mn-' cllldinc official mrrrrtinna ' wairiw j Wheaton 15,743 and Comstock 15,330,. . i