THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1917.
MISS RANKIN PLEADS
FOR MONTANA MINER
Declares Conditions in Copper
Fields Are Unbearable and
Asks Government to
Take Stern Hand.
Washington, Aug. 7. Responsibil
ity for the labor troubles among
metalliferous mine workers in Mon
tana, which has curtailed the output
of copper and contributed to rioting
and other disturbances, was charged
to John D. Ryan of New York, pres
ident of the Amalgamated Copper
company, today by Representative
Jannette Rankin, in an address to
the house.
Abolition of the "rustling card"
system, a plan by which the amalga
mated companies decide what miners
shall be permitted to seek work in
its properties would restore peace,
Miss Rankin asserted, and added that
it was within the power of Mr. Ryan
to take this step if he desired. Her
efforts to convince him of this fact
by telegraph had produced no results,
she said.
Presents Bill to House.
Miss Rankin was speaking on a
re$6lution to give the president power
to take over and operate metallifer
ous mines, which she offered today.
It was referred to a committee.
Miss Rankin declared she had made
many futile efforts to interest federal
officials in the Montant situation.
After the Bisbee deportations, she
said, Butte people appealed to her for
help and on the night before Frank
IJttle was lynched in Butte she re
ceived a particularly urgent appeal
which caused her to call the secretary
of labor by telephone after midnight.
He asked her to see him the following
day.
Tried to See Wilson.
'. "1 tried all the next day until late
in the evening and was still trying to
see the secretary the following day
when I received word that a man had
been lynched," she declared.
"This rustling card system," she
said, "has effectively discouraged the
men from organizing. It has pre
vented them from obtaining the en
forcement of laws requiring safety de
vices in the mines. It has caused
them to hesitate to discuss their griev
ances on the outside. Conditions in
the mines have grown more and more
unsafe. I have had heartbreaking let
ters from the wives of some of the
miners saying that when their hus
bands went to work in the morning
they never knew whether they would
ever return and that they lived in
constant anxiety. On June 8, 160
men were burned to death in a fire in
one mine. This was the climax. The
men stopped work.
Deprived of Free Speech.
"The workers knew that they would
never be safe as long as the rustling
card system existed. For under that
system every man who complained of
conditions or reported dangers or en
deavored to form an organization was
laid off for one reason or another and
it would be possible for him to ob
tain work again in any mine in Mon
tana or elsewhere. It is easy to see
the necessity of abolishing the rust
ling card system."
"Miss Rankin also declared that the
.yii(jjnicu wppcr companies nave
refused to accept the 16.67 cents a
pound for copper at which the gov
ernment has been purchasing and is
awaiting action by the committee on
war purchases.
Representative Johnson of Wash
ington interrupted Miss Rankin to
remark that members of the Industrial
Workeri of the World should not
"squeal" when one of their members is
hanged "by decent citizens now and
then," inasmuch as they had murdered
a governor of Idaho and planned the
murder of the go.vernor of Utah.
SENATE TO VOTE
ON FOOD CONTROL
BILL AT FOUR P.M.
be a piece of clever legislative strate
gy, but I say in view of the promised
word of the government it was a
breaking of good faith with the peo
ple of this country."
eH added that the impression has
gone out that there was more insin
cerity back of the food propaganda
than patriotism in order to let some
body in Washington achieve art am
bition. ' ,
Congress it in Dark.'
Deploring what he termed the
present atmosphere of criticism1
that prevailed in cities and through
out the country, Senator Wadsworth
declared it was due to the fact that
congress is in he dark regarding
how the $14,000,000,000 or $17,000,000,-
. wy u to, be spent . m connection with
the war.
"Not only is congress in the dark
regarding the expenditures But the
public is in the dark, he said. "It
is an impossible condition under
wjiich to v.-age war. This is the, pea
f iv tt. u is u wi an uuiuiiair'
tion war. it is not a government
war. But it cannot be a peoples' war
unite uic pcopic are lateen into con
fidence regarding expenditures."
Tobacco Shinned to France
For Sammies is Lost
j Washington, Aug. 7. The ,Young
Men's Christian association's ship
ment of tobacco for the American
troops in France has been lost Word
came from Paris today from the Red
Cross commission to France saying
no suitable tobacco to replace the
lost' shipment was obtainable there
and urged that ten tons of tobacco
be sent at once.
The Red Cross war council imme
diately accepted, an offer of the Lis
gett Afeyers Tobacco company to
donate i,JW,wu cigarets, pack
ages of smoking tobacco and 10,000
cuts of chewing tobacco, which wil
be forwarded to the American troops
at once. France has agreed to admit
the tobacco free of duty as well at
all other articles for the American
soldiers. ...
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Chicago Exemption Board
, Figures Show Good Progress
Chicago, Aug. 7. Reports of for
ty-seven of the eighty-six draft ex
emption boards in Chicago showed
ibat.-S.994 registrants had been ex
amined up to today, of whom 6,558
were regarded as physically fit. In
the forty-seven: district 4,507 regis
trants jiave made exemption claims.
MRS. BIANCA DE SAULLES SLAYS MILLIONAIRE HUS
BAND Beautiful Chilean heiress and her husband, former
Yale athlete and wealthy real ettate operator, whom she
shot dead at hit home in Hempstead, Long Island. She sought
to take back her 4-year-old son, who, under her decree of
divorce, was to spend part of his time with the father.
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Teeth Knocked Out
To Keep Out of War
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Down south dey done took me in de
front doah of one an' I went out de
back befoh night."
The Fifth it working fast and ex
pects to have about all of their men
finished with by tonight. Tests will
start at 7 sharp in the Army building.
Ure is Disgusted.
A most disgusted man was Chair
man Ure of the exemption board of
the Fifth district. Bright and early
appeared the applicants for examina
tion, ana just as promptly came the
requests for exemption. -
it nas taken Chairman Ure a loner
time to really give ud hone, but even
his hopeful disposition has taken on
depths of gloom.
Oh. yes. we're gcttinir a few who
do want to fight," he said. "But the
most of them are mollycoddles bah I
You ought to hear them hem and
haw over the first three questions.
inese ask it the applicant consid
ers himself physically sound, if his
health interferes with his earning
power, and if he has ever been in a
hospital.
"They want to be let out if thev
ever have the stomach ache or be
cause they once were in 'a hospital to
see a friend."
Mr. Ure aiave another crunt and
left for the examining room, still in
disgust. The examiners out at the fire
house, Twenty-second and Ames, are
getting their quota of work done rapidly.-
They expect to be through by
Thursday.
Switchman Fine Specimen.
The finest specimen of manhood ex-
amined by the Fourth district board
was a railroad switchman.
He is six feet tall and weighs 190
pounds.
'He is one of the finest rhvsical
marvels I have ever seen," said Act
ing Judge sundblad, "and when he
said he would not claim exemption
the members of the board nearly
keeled over.
"It has been the rule in the Fourth
district for practically every man who
would make a good soldier to claim
exemption.
"The only drafted men who seem
eager to fight for their country arc
the ones we don't want."
Looks for Appeal Board.
A drafted man, who had taken his
examination, asked countv court offi
cials where he would find the appeal
ooara.
"Have your claims for exemption
been passed on yet by the local
board, he was asked.
"No," he replied, "but I'm sure my
claims for exemption will be rejected.
The fellow who took my claim tfor
exemption said he didn't think I had
very good grounds. So I'm getting
ready to appeal I'm not very anx
ious to fight."
"So I see," remarked a clerk, who
turned his back on the slacker.
Hat a Weak Stomach.
A man who came into the Sixth
district office for examination was be
ing quizzed.
"Do you find your health or habits
to interfere in any way with your
ousinessr tne doctor asked.
"Yes, I have a weak stomach and
cannot work," the man replied.
"You are a farmer, aren't you?" the
examiner asked. t
"Yes, I have about sixty-five acres
of com and twenty of oats under cul
tivation." "How much help have you?"
"Oh, none. I do. all the work my
self." "Well, if you tend to all of that
yourself and still are unable to work,
I think they need your kind in
Europe, the examiner told him.
Another man in the Fifth district
when asked if he had anv physical
disabilities, replied, "Yes, I'haveweak
knees.
"What hard luck," the doctor re
plied. ,
When You Eat Too Much.
Distress in the stomach after eat
ing is relieved by taking one of
Chamberlain't Tablets, fry it the
next time you cat more than you
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Rock Island Telegraphers
Reach Agreement With Road
Chicago, Aug. 7. G. VV. W. Hanger
of the federal board of mediation hav
ing composed differences between the
Rock Island road and 2,800 of its
telegraphers, left here today for San
Francisco to take up questions at is
sue htween the Southern Pacific and
its train and enginemen.
As a result of the Rock Island me
diation it was agreed to arbitrate
within a month requests for the eight
hour day, Sunday and vacation pay
and an increase of wages.
Similar demands have been made by
telegraphers, of the Burlington and the
St. Paul roads.
The situation on the Southern Pa
cific is said to be similar to that which
was composed by the board of media
tion on the Denver & Rio Grande
two months ago.
United Butchers Would Have
Two Meatless Days a Week
" Minneapolis, Aug. 7. A recommen
dation that the sale of meat be pro
hibited throughout the United States
on Tuesdays and Fridays was adopted
and forwarded to Herbert Hoover,
food administrator, by the United
Master Butchers of America, meeting
in annual convention.
The recommendation also suggested
that the government make an investi
gation into the prices of fresh and
frozen fish which were declared to be
unreasonably high. A law prohibit
ing slaughter of young animals and
fowl also was urged.
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The electric needle is not required
for the removal of hair or fuiz, for
with the use of plain delatone the
most stubborn growth can be quickly
banished. A paste is made with water
and a little of the powder, then
spread over the surface. In about
2 minutes it is rubbed off and the
skin washed. This simple treatment
not only removes the hair, but leaves
the skin free from blemish. Be sura
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COLONEL MACK OF
'DANDY SIXTH' HERE
Will Go to Fort Sill, Okl., to
Take Course in Musketry and
Machin eGun Tactics; Ma
jor to Fort Snelling.
Colonel Mack was in Omaha-yesterday,
slopping over on his way
to Lincoln to take the oath in the
Sixth Nebraska.
The colonel was in Florida when he
was notified of his appointment and
made a quick trip back to Nebraska.
He was appointed colonel ot the
"Dandy Sixth," Nebraska National
Guard, the office that friends of Gov
ernor Neville wanted him to fill had
it been possible for him to get out
of the governor's chair.
After he takes his oath Colonel
Mack will leave for Fort Sill, Okl.,
where he will take a course in mus
ketry and machine gun tactics as the
work is being done in the present war.
The course will last for two months,
after which the colonel will join his
regiment at Demmg and convey his
knowledge to the men under him.
Major to Take Course.
A major of the Sixth will also be
appointed to Fcrt Snelling, where
he will take a course in hand grenade
work, the throwing of bombs and
digging of trenches. When the men
of the Sixth have acquired the knowl
edge that their superiors can give
them, they will then be ready for the
western front.
It is expected that as soon as the
companies are organized that three
machine companies will be assigned to
each regiment. 1 his is the policy of
the French army and is considered the
right proportionment.
Express Companies Losing
Profits, Statistics Show
Washington, Aug. 7. Continued
decrease in profits of express com
panies is shown in statistics covering
operations for April. Operating in
come for all companies for April was
$460,950, a falling off of more than 60
per cent from the figures of April,
mo.
This showing was made in the face
of increased gross revenues of ap
proximately K600.000. The total for
last April reached $18,322,708. An
increase of approximately 30 per cent
in operating expenses within the year,
or from $7,000,000 to nearly $9,000,
000, accounts for the reduction in
profits.
Only two companies, the Northern
and Southern, show increases in prof
its for last April over April, 1916.
One company, the Adams, operated
at a deficit.
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BUYERS FROM ALL
OVER WORLD VIEW
TRACTORS AT SHOW
to get tractors to help their countries
overpower the central powers.
Vincente Milian and Ernest Brewer,
Cubans, are visiting the show. Milian
f is the distributor for the Avery com
pany in Havana. He is also president
of the Havana Fruit company. He is
a native Cuban.
Popular in Cuba.
Ernest Brewer is head of the engi
neering department of the Colonial
Sugar company of Constancia, Cuba.
Brewer has ten Avery tractors work
ing on his plantation, and expects to
take back as many more this time.
The tractor is becoming popular in
Cuba.
J. J. Marshall, European manager
for the Emcrson-Brantingham Im
plement company, is another
European, who is spending the week
at the show.
Treasurer Earl of the Farm Power
company of Salisbury, N. C, has come
all the way from the Atlantic coast to
see the big Fremont tractor show.
F. H. Poss, president of the Cali
fornia Avery company, came all the
way from Los Angeles.
Captain Bradford Brinton, head of
the United States Motor Transporta
tion, Marfa. Texas, made a three-day
trip to get to the show.
Some forty or eighty acres are al
ready plowed. This plowing was
done in private demonstrations Mon
day and Tuesday, when the great ma
jority of tractors did not get into the
field. This morning, however, trac
tors are to be in the field by 10 o'clock
if further rains do not set in.
Fields Are Drying!
The fields were drying rapidly all
day yesterday, for the sun was out
most of the day. The roads, too, were
dry by evening, and even in the fore
noon, many visitors drove to Fre
mont in automobiles, both, by the
high roads and by the bottom roads.
Thousands of people were on the
grounds Tuesday. . The great acces
sory tent was crowded with persons
who wanted information on certain
engines, on particular types of bear
ings, of transmitters and a hundred
and one sidelights on the tractor
business. The lack of large activity
in the field gave the accessory men
an especially fine opportunity to
show their wares and to explain
some of the detailed features" of
their equipment. :
At the same time the tractors in
the tents were shown off to good ad
vantage in little maneuvers, such as
the short turn, the backings, square
turning, and other activities. In
many of the tents the tractors were
fairly dancing mad quadrilles in their
demonstrations. Tractor men and
visitors alike are in a good mood, ex
pecting big days ahead for the re
mainder of the week.
H. J. HUGHES CO., Wholesale Distributor, Omaha, Neb. Tel. Douglas 1334.
"This is a fine crowd of people to
day," said Manager A. E. Hildebrand.
"Wedriesday will be a big day, Thurs
day will be a big one, and Friday
will be another. It looks now as
though the rain was over, and by all
means we will be plowing full lorce
by 10 o'clock this morning. The
bovs are under contract to plow 3,
00d acres of ground and they arc go
ing to do it. Watch them.
Visitors Are Entertained.
Last night the Fremont Ad club
gave a stag entertainment at Hub
hall, in which ath-letic events were
featured. Band concerts are held
every evening and bands play on the
streets of Fremont during the day.
The engineers' banquet is to be held
at Hotel Pathfinder this evening.
A. E. Hildebrand, manager, and J.
B. Grinnell, assistant, are among the
busy men on the grounds. The bur
den of the show rests on their
shoulders. "Say, why don't I get
some sawdust?" roars one, and "Say,
Hildebrand," shouts another, "I
thought that fellow said he would
have a load of straw out here for may
tent."
When the public demonstrations
begin this morning, fuel tanks of the
tractors will be officially sealed.
Gravity tests of fuel in tractor tanks
will be made from time to time by
the state oil inspector and his as
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COMPANY
Summer Dresses
At Small Prices
Wash dresses, attractive mater
ials, pleasing styles, are priced,
$6.95, $9.75.
White dresses are $9.75, $15.00
and $17.50. Second Floor.
Children's Hose
White silk lisle, 50c.
White fibre, small, 65c.
Large size. 75c.
Also white silk ribbed or
plain.
sistants. Any oujfit attempting to
violate fuel provisions will be or
dered from the field. Before the first
official filling, each fuel tank must be
entirely drained unless it can be
measured and tested to the tis
faction of the official sealer.
Knights of Columbus Open
Convention at Chicago Today
-Chicago, Aug. 7. The general con
vention of the Knights of Columbus
opened here today. It has before it
the important proposition of raising
$10,000,000 with which to build and
maintain helpful institutions, some
what along lines of the Young Men's
Christian association, at each of the
sixteen cantonments in the United
States, and welfare work among sol
diers generally.
Although the organization is a Ro
man Catholic one, the benefits of its
work in the army are intended for
men of any creed. Catholics all over
the country will be asked to contri
bute. Originally the Knights planned to
raise ?1, 000,000 for recreation centers
at the mobilization camps. This sum
was quickly oversubscribed and at a
meeting of the supreme council of the
order it was voted to submit to the
convention an , expanded program
calling for $10,000,000.
Fall Apparel
New Suits
New Dresses
Now on Display
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