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Evening star., 1916-01-24
ODESSA IS IMPORTANT
POINT FOR MUSCONTES
Shortens Road to Constantinople
and Is Center for Trade in
the Black Sea.
City Is Modern and More European
or American Than Any in the
Cars Realm.

Odessa. RussiaS first naval base on
the Black sea and the starting point
for over-the- water attacks on Bulgaria
European Turkey and Asia Minor. is
the most imposing milestone on the
Muscovite's shortening road to Con-
stantinople and the warm waters of the
Mediterranean. begins war seos
raphy sketch recently issued by the
National Geographic Society. The great
and iourishing port is one of the
youngest cities of the east. for 1t was
founded by Catherine IL. after her war
o. conquest against the Turk had end
ed in the treaty of Jassy. in 1871. and
its foundation was largely due to the
desire to have a strong city just as
near to Constantinople as possible, as
a we'll equipped point of departure FOR
Slav armies of future generations. 1t is
said that the Russian is the dreamlest
and the ongest-memoried of all the
races of Europe. and il has been on its
way toward the world-city OF the Bos-
porus where its national faith was
Graded. ever since Arab invaders broke
the communication betw cen Sancta SO
phia and the Russian Church In the
ninth century.
THE only un-American things about
Odessa. Mark Twain said. are the cut
of its droshkis and the stupendous
girth of their drivers. The city is mod :
erns new, and more European or Amer
lean than any other city in the tsar S
empire, with the exception of Petro-
grad Odessa has only recently passed
ITS Tooth year. vet. at the outbreak of
the war it was ranked by but three
other cities in the empire for size and
CONNIE ercial Importance - Petrograd,
Moscow and Warsaw.
Evening star., 1916-01-24
A Hundred Thousand

that's the size of
the army that passes every
year through the factory at
Niagara Falls in which
Shredded Wheat is made -
an army that inspects every
detail In the manufacture of
the cleanest, purest and best
Of all cereal foods. These
crisp, brown, delicious little
loaves of baked whole wheat
have everything in them the
human body needs. Try
them for breakfast with hot
milk or cream. Made at
Niagara Falls, NY. @
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Evening star., 1916-01-24
Wanted to Get It Over.

We want to hurry up and have il
ever, said Bernardo. in growJ, an
sWering the question of an American.
here is nothing to say. except that
killed the American and am willing to
die. We thought the Americans were
trying to rob US and that they were
armed The peace officer with them
had no warrant to search our place,
But hurry up and have il over
Capt. Alfredo Ortiz. commanding the
hFins squad. offered Bernardo a band
age Sor his eyes. He refused
y want to see. he said
want to die as my brother dies,
sara FEDERICO. who braced himself
against his brother. and said:
We are bad men. We kill III. Amer
lean: we should die"
Capt. Ortiz shook hands with the
prisoners and embraced them Then
he stepped back and gave the orders to
aim and fire.
IT,. captain stepped to the bodies and
bred one shot through Bernardo's head
shot also was fired into the head of
Federico.
Evening star., 1916-01-24
MEXICAN BANDITS
ARE PUT TO DEATH
Slayers of Bert Akers, Ameri-
can RanChman, Executed
at Juarez.
DURAN BROTHERS DIE.
CURSlNG AMERICANS
One Pleads for Life of Other. Taking
All Blame for the Shooting.
Women See Men Shot.

Ell PASO. Tex. January 24.-Bernardo
and Federico Duran, the Mexican cattle
thieves condemned to die by the Car
rama authorities for the killing OF
Eert Akers, at San Lorenzo. few
miles below the international boun-
Diary. FRIDAY. were executed at day
light in the cemetery at Juarez yes
terday. The Duran brothers died ours
ing Americans Bernardo appealed for
mercy on behalf of his brother,
Federico
1t is unjust to kill two of us for
one American" he said. 1t is giving
two eyes for one tooth. | am willing
10 die. because l killed the srinso. but
my brother ought TO be allowed TO
live"
The bullets of the firing squad killed
Federico but Bernardo was still con-
scious after he fell. and the officer com
handing the firing squad gave him the
mercy shot" through the head.
The bodies of both Mexicans were
buried Immediately. but that OF Ber-
nardo. who confessed to having fired
the shots that killed Akers. was ex-
humed to satisfy a doubt concerning
the identity of the slayer.
The execution was attended by fifty
Americans, of whom number were
women. The first automobile carrying
spectators reached the cemetery short
lv after am. 1t was greeted by a
lone sentry who growled that The
prisoners had been shot and buried"
The machine raced back to military
headquarters. where a drowsy corporal.
reused from slumber on the floor. de-
clared the Durans were TO be shot at
. o CLOCK by the provost guard.
Evening star., 1916-01-24
See How Mexicans Die"

Eugles were sounding reveille and
dawa was just breaking when the
Prisoners. carefully bound, appeared to
take their place before the abode wall
where hundreds have fallen since civil
Va" began in MeXicon nearly six years
a1c. AS the prisoners faced the rifles
-, the firing squad. with eyes unba nd :
aSeu. Bernardo shouted:
watch and see how MeXicans die. If
! had a rife" he added. some of YOU
would go with us
There were no MeXicans present ex-
cept the soldiers and officers in charge.
Bernardo. the elder of the Mexicans,
Was t"entY-four years old, and Fed J.
ERGO twenty-five. The latter gave a
tintype picture of himself to a soldier
to be SEM to his parents at Santa Rita,
y NJ. Bernardo gave his hat as Il pres
ent to a policeman who embraced both
prisoners as they left the Jail for the
execution ground. Just inside the GEM
etery gate the party halted for mo-
ment
Evening star., 1916-01-24
Silent on Two Points.

But if the convention just closed
was bold and frank on the subject of
conscription. it was silent on two other
important aspects of preparedness. II
had nothing to say about the govern
ment manufacture Of armaments, the
elimination of kruppism from the
whole question of national defense. 1t
will be hard for the ordinary man to
understand how such conference
could ignore SO vital an aspect Of the
problem. He will be driven to assume
that the National Security League is
we'll satisfied with the private manu-
facture of armaments.
Furthermore, the convention passed
no resolutions in favor OF the adoption
OF income and inheritance taxes as the
best means Of raising the huge budgets
so cheerfully proposed. In fact, It ig-
nored the revenue aspects of the prob
lem altogether But somebody must
pay the bills. That the country fully
realizes this is indicated by the tele-
grams and resolutions pouring into
Congress from oranges and labor
unions opposed to preparedness. But
the league lost an opportunity to con-
vince the public that preparedness is
not, as many suspect. doctrine sd
vanced for the profit of the few at the
expense Of the many
Evening star., 1916-01-24
Anti-Preparedness Committee
Comments on Work of
the Congress.
THE RESOLUTIONS GIVE
"ENTIRE SATISFACTION"
Calls Universal Military Service
the Oldest Instrument of Tyranny
of Organized Society.

| Expressing entire satisfaction with
| the results of the convention of the Ma :
tional Security League, which ended in
| Washington Saturday night, the anti
preparedness committee today made
public a statement attacking the reso-
lutions adopted by the league which
urge universal compulsory military
service and training This. the anti
preparedness committee declares, "is
| what the ordinary man rightly calls
| conscrption.'
| The statement is issued on behalf Of
| the committee by Miss Lillian d. Wald,
Paul L. Kellogg. John Haynes Holmes,
Ra bbi Stephen S. Wise, Mrs. Florence
Kelley. l.. Hollingsworth Wood. DR..
! James T. Warbasse and others.
1t is declared that the sessions Of
the league removed the last doubt as
to the determination of the militarists
TO bring about universal military con-
scription If they can
The Committees Statement.
The statement was as follows:
We view with entire satisfaction
the conference of mlitarists which has
just been held in Washington under
the auspices of the National Security
League. What some of us had suspect
ed is now made perfectly clear. We
believe that the convention will have
a vast educational influence upon the
public, and while we lack the funds
which the preparedness organiza-
tons enjoy, we shall do our best to
circulate as widely as possible some of
the illuminating speeches which the
militarists. lulled to security by the
atmosphere of Washington, have per-
mitted themselves to make.
Universal military service, what the
ordinary man rightly calls 'conscrip-
tion,' is now put forth boldly as the
goal of the Roosevelt and Leonard
Wood school of preparedness 1t is
put forth piously as the latest inven-
tion of democracy, but it is really the
oldest instrument of tyranny in the
history of organized society, and the
instincts of every fundamental dem-
ocrat are against it. 1t would place
our entire democracy in the hands of
a military caste and make our civil
life as helpless to correct the blunders
of diplomacy as the civil life of Eu-
rope proved to be in August. 1914. The
peace societies which in the past have
amably consorted with preparedness
pacifists of the type of Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Hobson now realize, from the
experience in Europe, how irreconcil-
ably opposed are preparedness and
lasting international peace. Now that
MFR. Roosevelt has embraced conscrjp-
ton, with all which that implies, the
pacif1sts may be trusted to recover an
they have been keeping.
Evening star., 1916-01-24
Gayer Than Paris or Vienna.

"Novorossia. or New Russia. which
includes the governments of Bessarabia
and Kherson. has its intellectual and
commercial capital at Odessa. The So
ciaI capital is also there, and the life
of the metropolis has been described as
much more gay than the life of Paris
or Vienna. The nights in the Odessa of
pre-war days were giddy and irrespon-
sible, the avenues filled with people and
ablaze with cafes until early morning
hours. The merrymaking Of Odessa did
not really begin in the cafes chantants
until midnight. when its gayities last
ed until between three and five in the
morning.
There was a dark side to the picture.
the usual one to contrast with the
bright in every great city. A miserab BILE
army of poor. whose ranks were large
" filed by the tides of transient labor
that washed the greatest trading city
of southern Russia. lived from hand to
mouth on stray crumbs of the place 8
prosperity. The number of the very
poor was estimated at $4,000. and many
of them lived in the extensive cata- :
combs beneath the city, which were
formed by the quarrying of sandstone
for building"
Evening star., 1916-01-24
= Was Founded in 1902.

A few huts of mud and reeds and a
Turkish fort were all that marked the
site when Catherine the Great COM
manded city here. In 1902. eight
years after it's foundation. it mum bered
5000 Greeks, Italians. Russians and Al
barians. 1t enjoyed. however, unusual
imperial patronage for stra tegical rea-
sons; even the Emperor Paul. who de-
lighted to make vain all that owed its
title to his mother, continued her favor
to the young town. statue of Cath
rine, the tsarina. represented tram
pling the Turkish flag under foot
stands on ore of the finest squares To-
day. the city. wealthy and important
among world ports. houses more than
half million people.
The city lies on a semi icircular bay.
about midway between the mouths of
the great Russian rivers, Dniester and
Dnieper. 1t is l,011 miles south south
west from Moscow by rail and 610
miles south from Kief. Varna, the
nearest Bulgarian port, and one re-
Gently bombarded by the Russians, lies
go miles across the Black sea to the
southwest
"Odessa is builded in the midst of a
dreary steppe. II is regularly laid out
in broad streets, faced with substantial
modern buildings. and wears it's COM
mercial prosperity patent to the most
casual visitor. Its port is equipped
with six good harbors-the quarantine
harbor. coal harbor. petroleum harbor.
new harbor, practical harbor and the
harbor of the Russian Company for
Navigation and Commerce. the prnci
pal shipping company of the port. The
freezing of the harbors and the bay
interrupts navigation for an average
of sixteen days each year.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Each limp a Style His DUN Doth
claim to Boost Himself Into Fame

pose. II guess it does you a lot OF
g0pd to call fellow out that way"
"You had better keep quiet,
Mister D-o-y-l-e," the umpire
cried in warning.
Get out with that stuff" retorted
Doyle. They tell me you are driving
off tees with your iron--are you
scared of the woods9"
Get off the groundsw screamed
Klein, unable to stand this reflection
on his golf game. (For the non-golfer
it might be explained that the use Of
an iron instead Of driver is a sign
of lost conhdence-a golf weakness)
To refer to it is an insult.
Next came the inimitable Lord
Byron, whose eccentricities are per-
haps the most amusing of all. In call
ing strike he adopted motion that
is perfect imitation OF man crank
ing an auto. With sharp turn he
calls Strike" and his arm makes a
half circle and stops, as if awaiting
the start Of the motor.
Another Of Byron's amusing man.
nerisms is singing while the players
are protesting over his decisions.
When they become too obstreperous
he huns little ditty running like
this: ITO the club house you must
go, to the club house you must go
oh, fair lady" 1t is to the tune of
London Bridge is Falling Down"
And he keeps perfect time with his
whisk broom as he brushes off the
plate, the final flip emphasizing the
late note.
Byron is already famous for a line
he pulled off on Fred Merkle one day
when the latter had been called out on
strikes without making any swing at
the ball.
You'll never get them base hits
with that bat on your shoulder" said
Byron in reply to Merkle's glare, and
there was nothing to do but laugh and
walk away.
Now comes Quigley with new mo-
ton that is wonder. Overnight he
has stepped in the limelight. As he
calls off the fatal Strike" Quigley
shoots his right arm straight up in
the air, and when it has reached the
height limit he starts it off at right
angles, lifting his body on his right
foot
Umpires of the old school like Bob
Emslie and Hank O'Day merely lift
their right hands shoulder high in
calling a strike.
Billy Evans is the Adonis of all the
arbiters. Every move he makes is
one of grace. He has no spectacular
motions, but the mere grace of his
body has made him known through
out the country. His pleasant smile
wards off many scowl from the
players.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
AMERICAN LEAD IN
RING Is DISPUTED
Supremacy of United States is
Threatened by Welsh, Wilde,
Darcy and Others.
WILLARD H0LS U. s. UP

=, =,
New York, Nov. il.-American su-
premacy in boxing is being seriously
threatened these days by Messrs.
Welsh, Darcy and Wilde: Welsh is
the acknowledged king OF the light
weight division, while Les Darcy has
made show OF many top notchers
in the middleweight ranks: Then, IN
little johnny Wide, England has a
strong contender tor the bantam
weight crown, Johnny is lighting IN
the flyweight division at present, but
short period should bring him to
the bantam ranks;
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
NORTH PLATTE IS
PUTTING FIGHT
Western School Upsets Dope
and May Be In Running for
State Championship.
VALLEY BATTLE STARTS
By KARL LEE.

An upset in the eleventh hour of the
state high school foot ball campaign
has placed North Platte in position
to contend for leadership. By de-
feating Lexington by score of 81
to 7 the western team becomes one
Of the powerful teams of the state.
Coach Baskin has improved his eleven
from weak combination into one OF
the dangerous competitors for the
title.
The Is to IL score against the Cur
tbs Aggies and corresponding small
victory over Cozad, by a score of Is
TO 0, indicated that Baskin did not
have strong team. Late develop
ments, however, have shown turn
| ing point in the prospects and there
| is a fair possibility that this team will
defeat Lincoln when they meet No
vember rs. II such occurs North
Platte will either be the state cham
pions or on par with Central High
Tor first honors. The team boasts
of two stars of all-state caliber in
Baker at tackle and Christ at half
back.
With the Central-Lincoln game
gone, this North Platte-Lincoln game
IS the only big one of the conference
for the rest OF the season. The game
will be played at Lincoln.
Fight for Valley Title.
The contest for the Missouri val
| lev championship will soon be in
force. Lincoln opened the deck with
a decisive victory over Sioux Falls,
South Dakota's leading team. Cen
trail High plays the second game with
Sioux City next Saturday. The
Iowans are touted as the best in the
valley, so Coach Mulligan has his
work mapped out to win. The fol-
lowing week Central again plays a
valley game with Sioux Falls, which
will undoubtedly result in an easy vic
tory. -.
Thanksgiving day will find Lincoln,
Beatrice and Central High competing
in valley games. Central meets St.
Joseph on Missouri ground, Lincoln
meets Sioux City on Iowa ground,
while Beatrice plays Lawrence, the
leading Kansas contender, on Gage
county soil. South High makes a
trip to Denison, Ia, where an un-
even battle against the local team is
expected to be staged.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Annual Luxus Feed
Will Be Held Today
At the Paxton Hotel

The annual Luxus banquet, the
event par excellence in amateur base
ball social circles, will be held Sum
day evening at the Paxton hotel.
Johnny Dennison, who manages
banquets just as we'll as he does ball
clubs, promises the 1916 spread will
surpass even the one last year, and
those who attended the 1915 feed will
admit that is going some. Johnny
declares the eats will beat anything
any gilded Broadway palace turned
out for an extravagant millionaire and
that Harry Lauder, Gaby Deslys,
Weber and Field and Mrs. Castle
have nothing on the entertainers he
has arranged to turn loose for the
amusement of his athletes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Old st. Louis Browns
Carried Only Twelve Men

Talk about player limit, remember
the old St. Louis Browns when they
were winning championships with
such regularity it became tiresome
The club at that time only carried
twelve men, and its three pitchers
were Foutz, Carruthers and Hudson,
the first mentioned two playing right
field when not twirling, and Car
ruthers also led the American asso-
citation in hitting at the time. Arson
had only twelve players when he was
winning championships with his Chi
cago White Stockings. This carrying
two dozen men is habit, nothing more.
Sixteen real ball players are as good
as sixty toward the success OF the
team
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Former Fighter
Dies in Battle

Percy Cove, tall, slim feather
weight who fought from coast to
coast a few years ago and was noted
for his gameness in the ring, has
proved his gameness in greater field
OF battle. He is dead at the Somme
picked up when the fighting was
ending for the day, the foremost in
the fallen ranks, and with forty-six
bullets in his riddled frame. Accord
ing to a report from the rcgimental
surgeon, Coye's vitality must have
been excelled only by his courage, as
he had dragged himself forward many
yards after receiving enough bullets
to kill three or four ordinary men.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Seats On Sale in
Omaha for Kansas
Game on Saturday

A block of $50 seats for the Ne
braska-Kansas foot bali game at Lin
coin next Saturday have been placed
on sale at the Beaton Drug company.
So good was the attendance OF
Omaha foot ball fans at the Huskcr-
Amcs attraction a week ago that Guy
Reed, director OF athletics at the uni
versity, sent $50 seats in one block in
the very center OF the grand stand TO
the Omaha alumni for the Kansas
game. Next Saturday will be home
coming day at the university and it
is expected that fully half a thousand
Omahans will go to Lincoln for the
event.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12

that none Of his opponents were ever
able to hit him hard enough to even
i've him headache.
Above you see some of Les Darcy's
victims. Here are some others that
he has put finishing touches to, or Mas
beaten on points:
Bill Murray lasted 20 rounds once
and later knocked out in 6.
Mick King, knocked out in 10
rounds. Z
Frank Loughrey was slammed
around the ring for 20 rounds.
George Chip, the American, who
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12

Every Australian will admit it, and
Les Darcy will concede the poin
himself if you put it to him. What
Why, the fact that Les Darcy is the
greatest middleweight since Bob Fitz-
simmons. In the land of the Bush
man and the Kangaroo they call Les
the Ever Smiling Champion" and it
is a fact that he does smile most OF
the time, whether fighting or not.
Darcy has great record back Of
him, and yet, to this day, he has
never had a BLACK eye" He says
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
BueChner Made Acting
CAPTAIN of Purdue Team

Buechner, left tackle on the Purdue
university foot ball eleven, has been
ramed acting captain of the team, re-
placing RED" Hake, who was injured
in the game against Illinois. Hake is
in hospital suffering with broken
collar bone, and it may be two or
three weeks before he will be able to
leave his bed
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
White Sox Lead Cubs in
The CITY Series Debates

The Chicago city series was started
in 1908. The two Windy City teams
did not meet in 1907, 1908 and 1910
because in those years the Cubs were
in the worlds series, while the 1906
series between them was a worlds
series as well. In all the two Chicago
teams have met in sixty-five games.
OF these the White Sox have won
thirty-seven and the Cubs twenty
eight. The 1908 series was draw,
the Cubs won in 1905, 1909 and 1912
and in the other years. including 1906,
the White Sox were victors.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
AID Wolgast Signs
To Battle Welsh

Ad Wolgast, former worlds light
weight champion, announced that he
has signed with Tia Juana promoters
for twenty-round bout with Freddie
Welsh on New Years day.
Wolgast stated that he would re-
cciyc $4,000 for his end Of the purse,
and his lip didn't tremble bit when
he said it.
sAlI that remains to make the
match certainty is for Welsh to
sign articles" added Ad. naively.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
New Pitcher Arrives in
"Reb' RuSSelpS Family

There's new pitcher in the family
OF "Reb" Russell, star left-hander OF
the Chicago American league club.
The newcomer is son, weighing
nine and quarter pounds. "Reb"
says the youngster, who has been
named Billy, is going to be south
paw.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Northwestern Looks for
New Coach for linemer

Negotiations are under way to bring
an eastern foot ball star to North
western university to replace Line
Coach McDevitt, who recently was
called to the border for military ser
vice. McDevitt is captain in the
Minnesota National Guard, and his
absence at Northwestern is being felt.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12

gave Darcy the worst scrap Of all.
George Marchand, of France,
knocked out in S rounds.
Dave Smith, knocked out in IL
rounds. ,..
Henri Semlen, Belgian middle
weight, knocked out in S rounds.
When Darcy boxed McGoorty, the
Oshkosh terror swung his deadly left
hook flush on the Australians jaw six
times in one round; each time it
landed Darcy smiled. The entire au-
dience finally caught the smile fe-
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