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Spreckels' Charges Small
 TdIk" Declares Earl Bdbst

during October. when the price to be paid the planters was nNed. Babs' today sad he was at the conference but withdrew hefare prices were dis cuSsed. Later, he added. a committed Of planters called at his hotel and he purchased s0.OS0 short tons of raw sugar and agreed tO take up tO an aggregate Of l0O. 900 tons at 6,S5 cents a pound. tho price the committee had Set.
 Babst stated that he informed the planters that he had ships chartered to carry half of the purchase to east ern refnerieS. Chairman Reed asked if he or any member of the American company had an understanding with gcvernmen, officials that these ships would not be reQuisitiOned by the government. The witness said he had not and did not know that any mem Der of his company had.
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 WASHINGTON. Dec. l9.-A recital ty Secretary Daniels of how the navy prepared for war by adding several hundred ships 10 the fleet and letting contracts for hundreds Of others. in Ciuding dTeadnOughts. battle cruisers. destrOyers and auxiliarieS and an eN- TlEnaiiOn of the operation Of the navy sdppk department by Rear Admiral McCOwan. paymaster general. marked the opening today Of the inquiry by a house subcommittee into the navy's var activities.
 The subcommittee adjourned to- night without fixing any time for re sumins tho hearing and probably will net meet again until after Christmas
 Questioned About Sims
 Representative Britten of Illinois asked Secretary Daniels whether the derartment had received any com plaints from Vice Admiral Sims. com handing American naval forces in the war zone The secretary said the
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PROPAGANDA GOES ON.
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CHICAGO, Dec. l9.-Arrest of the leaders and vigorous government pro secutiOn has failed to stop the sabot- age propaganda charged against the Industrial Workers of the World. ac- cording to officials who have been studying evidence gathered in a raid
 on the local headquarters this week. The chief purpose of the raid. said
 Special Assistant District Attorney Nebeker. was to discover any mem bers of the l. w. W. who were indict- ed but have not yet been apprehended.
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Boston. Dec. 1S.-The United States is not only fighting the kaiser and the PrusSian military system. but the German people. said former President Taft in addressing a gathering of manufacturers at the annual banquet of the Associated Industries of Mas sachuetttS here tonight. And the only way We can win" hs added. 'iS by hitting the German people on the head with a club"
 "tI is not true" said Mir. Taft. that we are not fighting the German peo pie. We are. We are not fighting the kaiser and PrusSian military system alone. We are fighting the German people. a people obsessed with megal- Omania and the only way We can win
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AUSTRIAN GIRL LEADS NObOF HER
 PEOPLE ID JAIL
Girl Who Claims to Have Been Assaulted Heads Mob Which Attempts to Take Negro Prisoners From Po- lice.
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PUEBLO. Colo, Dec. 1S.-Led by the girl who charged she was assault cd by a negro soldier Monday night. e mob Of Austrians estimate al z5, fully armed. made a second attempt tonight to obtain the negro, Lewis Smith. who is charged with the crime. and lynch him. Only after permitting members of the mob to pass through the corridors Of the city jail, and as certain for themselves that the negro was not there, was the mob finally dispersed by the police officials.
 Tuesday night the mob attempted to obtain the nego, but was ''bluffed out'' by the police. who declared that Smith had been taken 10 anothe rtOwn for safekeeping.
 Taken to Springs
 After last nights mob dispersed the police took the prisoner to Colorado Springs, where he remained until late this afternoon. when he was snug eled into the city about , o'clock and secretly taken before a justice of the peace for arraignment- The date of the preliminary trial was ser for December 2S. Later this evening the Austrians learned that the negro had been brought to Pueblo and a mob quickly formed. On hearing of the impending danger Smith was taken from the county jail. where he was taken af- CT the arraignment
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HOLY SEPULCHRE ISDESECRATED BY
 TURKISH TROOPS
Catholic Priests In Charge of the Church Also Mistreat- ed. Edifice Has Been Un- disturbed Heretofore.

WASHINGTON. Dec. l9.-An Officf al dispatch received here from France says that the Turks before surrender, ing Jerusalem tO the British brutally mistreSted Christian priests, carried off the famous treasure of the Ch2rch Of the Holy Sepulchre. vaiUed at mih lions Cf dollars and sent tO Berlin the church'S celebrated ostenSOry ot bril- Eauts.
 NonsiSnor CamasSei. the patriarch of Jerusalem. is said to have been de posed from his office and Father Pic carGo. an Italian priest. Go have died from the effects of Turkish hrutalities.
 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre nad remained UnmOleSted heretofore during all the centuries of MOSlem Oc- cup3siOn Of Jerusalem.
 The same diSptacA told of indigna. ton among the MOhammedanS of Asia Minor over the action Of German general in establishing staff head quarters in the great mosque of the city of Aleppo, near the Syrian border.
 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was cOnSeCrated in the year SS6 on the traditional spot where Christ arose rom the dead. In the year 6l4 the buildings comprising the church were destroyed by the perSians. The original building was in the form ot a rOtuE6a, the shape of which sur wives in the existing complex strUc- turs, which assumed various forms in the course oG rebuilding during the middle ages. The edifice was badly damaged by fire lS0S. The Greeks contrived to secure Co themselves the principal right tO the buildings. and with the ArmenianS contributed most of the money for the erection Of the new church. The dilapidated dome. beneath which the Sepulshre is situat- ed. Was restored by architects of var iOuS nationalities in lS6S as the re suit Of an agreement made with Turkey by France and Russia.
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General Improvement Is Noted
 In Guard HeaHh Conditions

Those three divisions are the thir- tieth. thirty-fourth and thirty -nith. Meningitis has increased in only the thIrtieth and thirtyfifth divisions.
 Measles Increase.
 Marked increases in measles is re- ported iu the eighty-seventh and nine ueth national army divisions with a slight increase in the eighty-ninth. Pneumonia conditions in all divisions except the ninetieth improved. During u.s week hut seventy-seven new cases were reported in that division. an in- erase of thirty-siX over last weeS- There has been a marked increase m meningitis in the eighty-first division. hut the epidemic in the eighty-ninth
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 WASHINGTON. Dec. l9.-General improvement in health conditions in tEe national guard divisions for the week ending December 14th, was re ported today by the division of fields sanitation In the national army there WGs an increase in the total casualties of pnemnsnia. measles and meningitis dUe to renewed outbreaks in a few Of tie divisions
 With the exception of the thirty fourth and fOrtieth divisions" said the report, ~but few new cases Of measles are reported from the national guard camps. Pneumonia following measles is also rapidly decreasing in all of the divisions in which measles has been epidemic"
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FoRBIDs PATRONAGE.

JUNCTION CITY. Kas-. Dec. 19- Colonel Rodgers. cOmmandant at Fort Riley. today issued an order forbid ding members of the garrison to pa u1nize any business houses here which have not been inspected and approved by a public health officer. The businesses affected include hotels. restaurants. barber shops, manicure shops and soda fountains
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kTAIEIE ENLIsTs.

DENVER. Colo. Dec. l9.-Fred Ley of Denver. who twice won the trophy as rest all-arOund athlete of Colorado and for a time last spring was center fielder for the Philadelphia Americans. enlisted in the army here today.
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PRODUCTION OF
 ORDNANCE WAS
 DELAYED EARLY
Evidence Submitted Which Shows That Production of Rifles and Machine Guns
 Was Delayed Early in War.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 19-HOw pro ducti0n of rifles and machine guns for the army was delayed during the early days of the nation entrance into war. hut is now being speeded up. was recOun1ed today in the senate mili- tary committees war inquiry by heads of large private munitions plants.
 The manufacturers enthusiastically praised both new types of American weapons. They told of private enter prise in anticipating the nations war necessities. and one Of them criticised the ordnance burear for alleged in difference to the probability of war. He said the department heads brus- quely declined to consider ordering machine guns immediately after the German ambassador had been dismiss ed.
 Ahead of Contracts.
 Orders for rifles placed several months after war was declared. the manufacturers agreed, are far ahead of contracted deliveries, without yet reaching maximum factory capacity. Virtually ell of the contracts for rifles, machine guns and cartridges, they tes tified. are on the cost plus" a per cent Of profit basis. with machinery in their plants owned by the government
 Odrnance Prohe Closes
 With the testimony of the largest private munitions makers. the commit tee virtually concluded its inquiry in to the ordnance situation. One more arms manufacturer will be heard to- morrow and then the committee plans to open a new branch of it's investiga- ton, probably tomorrow afternoon, by questioning Quartermaster General Sharpe regarding shortage and produc- ton delays in clothing and other equipment and construction and loca- ton ct the national army cantOnments.
 Qusrtermaster Next.
 Chairman Chamberlain today prom ISed a searching inquiry into the Quartermaster generals department. of which Major General GOethals soon will take charge. The question of disease epidemics in the cantOnments in their relation to clothing shortage. and poor sanitation which Surgeon General GOrgas has disclosed in his reports, will be developed.
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EMBARGO ON TICKETS.

WICHITA. Kas-. Dec. 1s--Z- F. Brooks of the passenger department of the Rock Island railroad today placed Q ticket embarCo on all passenger traf- fic to Camp DOniphan and Fort sill. Okla, due to the reported quarantine of the camp for a serious measles epidemic
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kAlEpINEs WINS.

LONDON, Dec. l9.-A PeuOsrad dis patch to The Post says that the cos sacks nnally occupied ROStovOn IOn- cay The infantry joined the cOSsackS, tho rear guard surrendering.
 General Kaledines. hejman of the ccsssckS. has proposed 10 the BolShe- wiki government that civil strife cease. sIirulatins the independence of the Don territory and nOn-intervention by the MaNimaliStS.
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Ship Losses
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LONDON, Dec. l9. - Fourteen British merchantmen of more than 1.500 tons and three under that tor mage were sunk by mine or sub marine during the last week. ac- cOrGing 10 the admiralty statement tonight One fishing vessel also was sunk
 The shipping losses by mine or submarine last week are slightly under those Of the previous week when If Of more than 1.e00 tons and seven under tha tonnage were destroyed
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STATE OF SIEGE.

PETROGRAD. Dec. l9.-The eNecu- tive council of wOrkmen's and sol diers' derutieS has proclaimed a state Of siege in PetroSrad in an effort 70 rerreSs disorders due 10 the footing of Nine cellars and shops.
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Tdf Declares United States Is
 Fighting the German People NOlU

is by hitting the German people with 8 club"
 Germans Praised.
 When the attempt Co form a con stitutional monarchy in Germany fail ed. Mir. Taft continued, the freedom loving Germans came to this country and now are counted among our best citizens. Those who remained in Ger many through the BiSmarCkian rule saw the success of this rule Of blood and Iron until" Mir. Taft said. they became ObSessei with the idea that success in conquest had made them a chosen people of God and that there was a German god. represented by the German state-which state could do
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cONTRoL OF FLEETS.

LONDON, Dec. I9.-A Reuter- dis patch from Petrograd says that a decree has been issued turning over the entire administration of the fleets e centra; committees.
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PART OF TOWN DESTROYED.
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 WHITESBURG. Ky. Dec 19.-Fire believed to have been the work of German agents destroyed part of the town Of Wayland. north of here today. causing a loss off S1O0,0O0. Among the buildings destroyed was the store house of the Elkhorn Mining corpora tiOn
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COMMISSIONERS FOR CAUCASUS

PETROGRAD. Dec. 19.-A govern rent of commissioners for the Cauca- suS has been formed at Tifis. F. r. GeSeOhkOri of kutais. leader of the Social Democrats, has been chosen president of the commissioners.
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WEATHER.

ARIZONA; Thursday and Friday fair; not much change jn tenn perature.
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Threatens Mother

T refused before I went after the
 I've and said: Johnny. I can't do this. and he went to the closet and eo, a
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-11
Seventy-Five Mays
Entered for the
Kentucky Derby

Jor;s,;,,e kv Feb 1oEr,ries RI
tho fortv.th;rd K.ntuckv derhv The
fo.,rre of ,bs snr;rg MEETING At
Ghrrch;,I Down. PIT I ou;sy;lle
made nmb,;c tod,y run,her seventy,
Eve uh;ch ;s IN sxcess of .rv ~.
rent nrevious wear TIE stale i for
,ve,r'olds at :, distance If one nile
,nd ou,rter and c,rr;es an ,dded
MONEY valve ~ S1s 00O + nrohahlv
vii +. the richest tmrf nr;zc of ne
se.so, WV ~ ' 'N "
Tbe nou;,,tors embrace rsorss.,-
t,tiye st,hIn nwnets 81 The cpuntrv
A K M,comhsr le,ds the ,;st w;ih
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-11
Nebraska Wrestling Champ
Won Title 80 Years Ago Today

Just thirty years ago today a
wrestling match for the champion
ship of the world was staged in
Omaha.
Thirty years ago Graeco-Roman
was the recognized style of wrestling.
The catch-as-catch-can style, preva-
lent in these modern days, was then
considered to be rough-and- tumble
graphing, permissible in a barroom,
but not in ring.
Charles Moth was the champion
Graeco-Roman wrestler of the world.
He wandered out to Omaha in search
Of little easy money. Upon his ar
rival here he presented himself to a
number of local sport enthusiasts and
invited them to find an opponent for
him. They agreed and the match was
arranged
Moth did not know who his op.
poncnt would be. Neither did the pub
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-11
0mahans Win Large
Sums When Peters
Stays 80 Minutes

Hundreds OF dollars, it was learned
yesterday. changed hands on the
StcchcY- Peters match Friday night at
the Auditorium Inquiries at various
places where the sporting gentleman
who mas 4 propensity for risking a
little coin on athletic events in order
to add to his interest in them revealed
the fact that many large wagers had
been made on the time it would take
otcchcr to throw Peters.
Most of the bets were made on
twenty and thirty minutes. The IA
voritc bets we're that Stecher would
throw Peters once in twenty minutes
or that he would throw him twice in
thirty minutes. There was also con-
siderable betting on thirty minutes for
a single fall and some on forty min
utcs for both falls. The betting
stopped at forty minutes.
Peters men reaped veritable har-
vest Al Hastings is said to have won
$1,000. Pete Loeb, one report says
won $500, and others make the sum
even larger. Peters brother and a
number of Papillion friends are known
to have won considerable change
while scores of other Omahans won
sums varying from SIS to $500 Prac-
tcaly all of those who took the
Peters end we're from Omaha or
Sarpy county, while those who had
the odds on Stechcr were from up
state.
Two years ago bunch of Oma-
hans went to Fremont and put lot
Of money on Adolph Ernst against
Stecher. Quite a wad of Omaha
money was dropped. But the Oma-
hans more than got their revenge Fri
dav night.
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lie Moths foe was advertised as an
unknown" When the night of the
mattel came, just thirty years ago this
evening, Moths opponent was identi-
fed as Adolph Boyce, an Omaha
photographer. Moth thought he would
win in walk Boyce was really an
Omaha photographer, not a ringer,
and it looked pretty soft for the
champ.
But Boyee upset all the dope and
pinned Moths shoulders to the mat
and won the worlds championship.
The Omaha sports collected a lot OF
coin, too,
George Barnes was referee OF the
match. Jack Prince, who used to pro-
mote bicycle races in the Coliseum
and recently built the Omaha auto
speedway, was the timekeeper.
So Joe Stecher isn't the first
wrestling champion OF whom Ne
braska could boast
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-11
OMAHA SEALS HOLD
AQUATIC TOURNEY
First Monthly Swimming Tour
nament to Be Held at Y. M.
G.. A. Thursday.
FANCY STUNTS PLANNED

The Omaha Seals, an organization
Of local aquatic sharks, will hold its
first monthly swimming meet at the
Young Mems Christian association
natatorium Thursday evening at s
o'clock.
The feature OF the meet will be a
forty-yard swim, which is to be the
first of series Of four championship
events for the all-around swimming
championship OF Omaha. Entered in
this event are Swedc Anderson, Ne
braska state champion; Lloyd Nef,
formerly OF the Chicago Athletic club
swimming team; Hart jerks, Z. Z.
Benson and other local cracks.
There will also be a Twenty-Five
yard swim, forty-yard back stroke
swim and plunge for distance, all
events to be run in three classes,
namely, championship, secondary and
novice. This system OF classification
was originated by Pete Wendell,
coach Of the Seals, who is in charge
OF the meet.
Among the swimmers entered in
the various events arc Raymond Tai
bot, Z. p, Woodcock, Z. T. Noel,
Basil Cummins, Jack Yates, Douglas
Melchcr, Z. H. Eiberger, r. ]. Bru-
ner, Eugene Field, C. w. Wolfe, c. H.
Gustason and Bill Bechtel
Some novelty stunts will also be
held. Coach Wendell has originated
some stunts which are said to be
great laugh getters.' Douglas MeIch-
er, Neptune's clown, will be be on
hand with his trained "Funiduk.' A
/ water tug-of-war will also be held,
and the diving team will perform
some thrillcrs.
Jake lsaacson, recreation director,
will referee; Gus Miller will be start
er, Arthur Palmer will be announcer
and M. J. Hedelund clerk of course.
Judges and timers will consist of Carl
Weigle, George Whitmore, F. H. Gar
win and John Hedelund.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-11
MANY NEW RACING
CARS ARE BUILT
Fred Duesenberg Said to Be
Constructing Fifteen Mo-
tors On Orders.
HUDSON is BUILDING FIVE

That at least score of brand new
racing automobiles will campaign the
American speedways this year is the
gist OF joyful tidings for speed enthu-
siasts brought to Omaha by Phil Nc
Shane, director of contests of the
Omaha speedway. McShane picked up
his information while in Chicago at
tending the annual banquet of the Chi
cago Auto club.
Fred Duesenberg is building the
largest number Of cars. 1t is said
Duesenberg is constructing fifteen
racing motors and cars on orders.
These are all said to be of the latest
sixteen-valve type, capable of speed
Of well over 100 miles an hour.
The Hudson company is laying the
foundation for one of the most ex-
tensivc racing campaigns ever at
tempted by an American factory. Five
cars, it is said. and twelve motors are
in the course of construction. Arthur
Hill. who in 1915 and 1915 was mana
ger of Dario Resta and, as member
of the Pcugeot Importing company
was one or Inc owners OF Dario S
mount, has been made contest director
and will have charge OF the Hudson
campaign. Ralph Milford and Ira
Vail, yho drove Hudsons last year,
have been re-engaged to drive this
year Three other drivers, one OF
whom it is expected will be A. H. Pat
terson, will be signed.
1t is said the twelve new Hudson
motors are much faster than those
campaigned last year and the wise
ones declare this decision of the Hud-
son people to conduct such an ex-
tensive racing campaign means they
have built a motor which will hit
around the ITO mark.
Hoosiers are Busy.
Three new cars are being built by
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Gun Club Raising Fund
To Paw Off Indebtedness

To raise funds to cover an indcbt-
edness of 81 400, the Omaha Gun club
has divided the membership into two
calsses, namely, nonparticipating
memberships of S., the sum Of the
regular dues, and participating mem
berships of $40. When the club sells
enough participating memberships to
cover the Indebtedness. the excess,
which is SIS, will be returned with in
terest just as soon as there is enough
money in the treasury to do so. Over
thirty marksmen have taken out par
ticipating memberships, so it is be-
leved the Indebtedness will soon be
Inundated
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MOGULS MEET IN
OMAHA THIS WEEK
Western League Owners to
Gather Thursday to Draft
Schedule for Year.
RoURKE SIGNS ONE MAN

Western league magnates will
gather in Omaha Thursday for their
second meeting of the year in this
city
The 1917 schedule is the issue re-
sponsible for the calling of this meet
ing by President Zehrung Jack
Holland OF St. Joseph and John Saw
age, formerly of Topeka and now
probably OF Joplin, constitute the
schedule committee and they will sub
nit to their brother moguls sched-
ulc for the current year. Then the
magnates will furiously fuss, fume and
fight over holiday dates, opening
dates, closing dates, and in between
dates until the nearest solution of the
problem of giving four possible July
dates to eight cities is discovered.
1t is expected the transferal of the
Topeka franchise to Joplin will be
formally ratified, as will he sale OF
the Isbell holdings i'll Des Moines to
Tom Fairweather No other business,
so far as is known, is due to come up.
Rourke Delays Again.
Pa Rourke will not send out any
players contracts until after the
meeting Pa originally was determined
to send them out the first part of
this month, but thought he would de-
lay the move bit so as TO give the
athletes less time to throw fits about
the lack OF size OF figures contained
within said contracts.
No matter what Davy Futz docs
Pa has one athlete signed He is
Johnny Watkins, the Kansas City
Semi-pro Mig Perrinc dug up for the
Omaha owner. Mig also obtained
Watkins signature to a contract. SO
no matter how much war Davy de-
clares Pa will have one athlete to rep
resent him.
No Bother to Omaha.
The new rulings Of the league that
each club must carry six young play
ers will not bother Rourke. The new
rulings provides that each club must
carry at least six players who are of
B classification or less, In the case OF
inGelders or outhelders this means
players who have not played in over
thirty games in Class A or better. In
the case of catchers it is fifteen games
and in the case of pitchers ten games.
OF the players belonging to Rourke,
Pitchers Benton, Currie and Barhan,
lnhelders Holderman and Watkins,
Outhelders Brokaw and Smith and
Catcher Brottem will be classified as
young players under this ruling All
of the other Rourkes are veterans,
having seen service in Class a or
better.
Rourke has booked four exhibition
games for his charges before the sea-
son opens. Two games will be played
with Kansas City and two with Mil
waukee the first part Of April.