THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1918
SOUTH SIDE
GROUND BROKEN
FOR SKINNER'S
PACKING HOUSE
Work to Be Rushed and Plant
k Ready This Fall for Han
dling Up to Partial
,t v Capacity. )
Representative Omaha businessmen
V Friday afternoon saw ground broken
for the new $1,000,000 Jjkinner pack
. ing plant, to be built on the south side
; of the 33-acre tract lying a short dis
tance south and west of the Swift
plant Among those" present were:
FJoyd M. Skinner.'president and treas
urer; Paul F. Skinner, chairman of the
r i J t j: t. - I T3 al
more, secretary; E. Buckingham, vice
president and general manager of the
Union Stock Yards company; William
Schellberg, superintendent; A. F.
Stryker, secretary and traffic manager
of the Omaha Live Stok exchange;
W. B. Tagg, president of both the
Omaha Live Stock exchange and the
National Live Stock exchange; C. C.
George, president of the Omaha Com
mercial club; Arthur C. Thomas, pub
licity manager, and J. M. Gillen, in
. dustrial manager.
Officials of the company assert. that4
the plant is expected to be in operation,-
though not to full capacity, late
in the fall. The daily saughtering ca
pacity, when completed, will be 2,000
. to 2,500 hogs, 500 cattle and 1,000
sheep per day.
The new packing house will be one
of the most modern in the country,
and will have more sunlight than any
-of the other big plants here. The lo
cation is conceded to be of the best
nd the drainage facilities excellent.
-' Commission men are enthusiastic
over the prospects for a greater stock
market, which the addition of an
other, big packing plant is sure to
create. The four packing plants in
'operation have not had the capacity
to handle all of the stock properly
belonging to the Omaha market, and
consequently have lost considerable
rraae to at. josepn ana Kansas City.
,A fifth plant will be able to take care
of a large amount of this business,
stockmen state.
STRYKER BACK
FROM SOUTHERN
. - RATE HEARING
South Omaha Boy Details
Vivid Scenes "Over There"
"People can come over here after
the war and see what happened, but
they will miss the glory of taking
part in it."
A red-blooded South Omaha boy,
E. M Baker, Company A, 23d engi
neers, "somewhere over there," sends
this message from the front to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George S.
Baker, 4829 South Twenty-first
street.
Night scenes, according to young 1
Br.ker, remind one of an old-fash-ionec
Omaha Fourth of July cele
bration. "Our trenches are bright as day
when the-' heavy barrage fire illumi
nates the battlefield." Baker related.
"Star shells illuminate the heavens
at frequent intervals, and, when the
artillery isn't too ponderous in its
boom, the rat-a-tat-tat of machine
gurs is distinctly audible.
"It's worth $100 a minute to see
the airplanes flying across the sky,
big shrapnel bombs bursting all
around them. Explosions? Holy
smoke! These airplane bombs nearly
knock a fellow out of bed."
Baker told of looking over No
Man's land.
"It Is just one shell-hole after an-
Wnthor
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Briej City News
A. F. Stryker, secretary and traffic
manager of the Omaha Live Stock
exchange, returned Friday from New
Orleans, where he attended a hearing
before the Inter . State Commerce
commission on the question of live
stock rates for southern markets. He
led a successful fight against what was
considered an unfair freight rate sys-
tern in the middle west.
' Members of the National Live
Stock exchange and the Live Stock
Shippers' Protective league from a
number of states attended the hear
ing. Their contention was that the
southern markets were unable to
compete with the stock centers of the
. north and west because of excessive
rates and the lack of a uniform sys
tem of rates. An effort was made to
establish an equitable rate system in
. the south, and upon the success of the
effort depends the entire future of the
south as a live stock center, accord
ing to stockmen.
"No one can say what the outcome
of the hearing will be," said Stryker.
"It is entirely problematical, as yet,
but we feel confident that a exeat
deal was accomplished.
Red Cross Funds Benefit
By Ball at Academy
More than $200 was donated to the
surgical division of the Omaha Red
Cross representing the profits of a
Red Cross ball at the DeLuxe danc
ing academy Friday night. The dance
was arranged by the women patrons
of the dance hall, assisted by Man-
agerTWnite and Mrs. Ohaus of the
Welfare Board.
Refreshments were served free to
. the dancers by the Paxton-Gallagher
company, Loose-Wiles company and
Alamito creamery. The hall was es
pecially decorated for the occasion
by Mr. See.
William Redick Funeral in
Omaha Saturday Afternoon
Funeral services for William
Redick, 6-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Redick, 5206 Chicago
street, and grandson of Judge W: A.
Redick, who died in New York City
Wednesday night, will be held in
Omaha Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock at the family home. Rev.
T. J.. Mackay officiating.
The body will arrive from New
York City this morning at 8 o'clock,
and will be taken to the family home.
Interment will be in Forest Lawn
cemetery. The funeral will be private.
Young Woman Injured. y
Mary Mahoney, 5907 South Fif
teenth street, was badly cut and
bruised about the head and arms
when she was struck by an automo
bile driven by J. C. Christ, 4211 South
Twenty-fourth street, at 11 O'clock
last night. She had just stepped from
the curb at Twenty-fourth and Q
streets when the auto struck her.
She was taken to the South Omaha
hospital.
Fire Does $500 Damage.
Fire completely gutted the dry
kiln, of the Omaha Woodworking
company, 1501 Marcy street, about
:30 o'clock last night. The building
was empty at the time. It is thought
the fire was started by tramps. The
loss is estimated at $500.
. -, Two Men Robbed.
Sylvester Silverstein and Alfred
Menconi, both living in 715 Leaven
worth street, were held up and robbed
of $40.65 by two masked bandits on
the high school grounds about 9:30 1
Have Boot Print tt New Ben cob Preea
Elec. Tans, $8, Burgess-Granden Co.
Spanish Club to Tleet Omaha
Spanish club meets Monday night at
8:15 at 504 Kar,bach block.
J'ruilent saving In war times is a
hostage for opportunities ol peace.
Play safe by starting: an account with
Nebraska Savings & Loan Ass n, zu
S. 18th St $1 to $5,000 received.
Flnod on Booze Charge Joe Amito,
who conducts a barber shop at St.
Mary's avenue and Eighteenth street,
was fined Jiou and costs m police
court Friday for illegal possession of
iquor. M. V. Connett, a bell boy at
the Castel hotel, testified that the Ami
to shop was his source of supply.
Rail Omee Changes With the clos
ing of the Minneapolis offices of the
Union Pacific, H. K. Carter, who has
been district agent, is transferred to
Cheyenne, Wyo., where he will take
the title of district passenger agent. D.
M. Collins, who heretofore had been
division freight agent ic the Union
Pacifio and located in Minneapolis.
goes to Cheyenne, where witn tne
same company he will be given the
title of division freight agent.
Seeks Dahlman's Photo A reader
of The Bee. living in Schyler, has writ
ten to this office for Mayor Dahlman's
photograph, but failed to give the
name of the writer. The letter reads:
"I feel very sorry about Mr. Dahlman.
I wish you would ask him through
your paper, as he is, leaving, to send
me one of his pictures, one of the i
painted kind. I want it to keep.
HEADER OF THE BEE." The mayor
would like to have the name of his
Schuyler admirer.
JHne fireplace goods at Sunderlands.
Bird Songs Imitated
Cleverly by Mrs. Button
As an accompaniment to a bird
lecture at the joint meeting of the
Nebraska Ornithological union and
the Nebraska Audubon society, held
last night at the Unitarian . church,
Mrs. Lily R. Button, wife of District
Judge Button of D6dge county, clev
erly imitated the songs of Nebraska
birds. Prof. Clarence Mickel of the
University of Nebraska delivered the
lecture on "Warblers" and showed a
number of colored slides of the Ne
braska feathered singers. As each
bird was shown on the slide Mrs.
Button imitated the song until the
church building rang with the trills
and warblings of the little fellows.
The meeting was the annual af
fair of the Nebraska Ornithological
union and the Nebraska Audubon so
ciety and was preceded by a ban
quet served by the women of the
church. Two hundred guests were
served.
Officers elected for the coming year
by the Nebraska Ornithological union
were: A. M. Brookings, Hastings,
president; Miss Jeanette McDonald,
Omaha, vice president, and Prof. ,
Myron Swenk, University of Nebras- :
ka, Lincoln, secretary and treasurer.
The annual trip to Fontenelle for- I
est will be made today. j
Field Club Directors !
Favor Corporation Plan
At a meeting of Omaha Field club,
last night, the directors ratified the
idea of making the club a stock cor
poration ard giving to each member
in good standing one share of stock
at a par value of $50.
A proposal to limit the number of
shares to 400 and to make them trans
ferable is being considered and the
club expects to increase its member
ship to 400 before the closing of the
present campaign and the opening of
ED W. BAKER,
with ugly barbed Vire entan
glements on either side," he de
scribed. "When a barrage fire is raging, one
can't sleep for the roar of the artillery-
Our helmets protect us from
the railing shrapnel of anti-aircraft
guns. N
"The boches have been raising
Ciiii for two weeks, but they haven't
gained, an inch in our sector.
"We are camped in a swampy
coun-.ry and it certainly is muddy.
We change shoes and socks every day
to avoid getting 'trench feet.' Wish
you would send me a mosquito bar,
tnouj;h to cover my bunk. They Say
mosquitoes are bad here in the sum
mer. "The red signs of the Young Men's
Christian association and the Red
Cross are everywhere. They certain
ly.are some organizations. You make
no mistake by helping them. If I
ever get back to Omaha I'm going
tc take a 10-year membership in the
Young Men's Christian association."
The Omaha lad said he was learn
ing bits of French from the Slav
fighters. One wouldn't know he was
L a strange country, he explained,
except for the quaint old houses.
FEDERAL AGENTS
RAID SOUTH SIDE;
22 MEN ARE HELD
Slacker Hunt on in Earnest as
Authorities Start Nightly
Roundups, Filling Jail
With Suspects,
In a series of raids on the South
Side, federal agents have corralled 22
men who will be prosecuted by the
United States Department of Justice
on charges of evading draft regula
tions. ,
"There are too many 'Reds' on the
South Side," Chief Eberstein, of the
federal department, declared Friday
in giving out the wholesale arrests !
made this week.
"Lot of fellows over there who
have been in this country about three
years think they can act in any man
ner tjiey choose about summons for
draft "
Wives and families of the alleged
slackers filled the corridors of the
federal building Friday, seeking in-!
formation s to the disposition of the
prisoners.
Those arrested principally are for
eigners and'negroes. Federal officers
say those arrested boldly attested that
they had fully intended to evade the
drafr law and appeared indifferent
about the matter.
Joseph Bredin, bellboy in the Fax
ton hotel, was arrested by an army
lieutenant from Camp Dodge, la.
The majority of those arrested as
slackers are married and have been
residing in a colony of foreigners on
the South Side.
The names of seven arrested Thurs
day night include J. T. Hamilton,
negroj Michael Palok, Joseph Pad
winski, Adolph Skibinski, John Pcg
rawski, Roman Podrinski and Joseph
Bredin.
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Competition
GOOD clothing is made of wool. Wool is at
the highest price ever known; consequent
ly, clothing is going to be
Still Higher in Price
The clothing we have now was bought at a lower
market price that will be reached for a long time to
come.
And our clothing "The lama old raliabl all-wool
oualttiaa" is bpinc unlit tnrlmr of nrartfloallw fVi a i.ma
r" old prices.
ine styles and varieties for young men and mature
men are bigger than ever before, in spite of wool short
ages. We are prepared to help you meet the season
successfully in genuine .
ALL-WOOL SUITS
At a Moderate Price
$!50o $1800 . $2000 $25?
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L. System and Hirsch-Wickwire
Boost for Editorship.
So fast and furious is the race for
the editorship of the Central High
School Register that all sorts of
means are being employed by com
peting candidates. Last night an
auto loaded with young men with
loud voices, paraded where it was
thought most good would be done in
the interest of Thomas Findley.
Bell-ans
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. Druggists
refund money if it fails. 25c
PARKER'S I
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
Helps to eradicate dandruff.
For Rettorinc Color and
Beauty toGray and Faded HalrJ
60o. and 11.00 at drmrrltg. J
fi.au rine
Madras
Sbirts
$1.15
New patterns
in soft and
starched cuff
styles; wash
colors.
Hosiery
Sale
Cotton Lisle
and Fiber Silk
Hose in cham
pagne, tan,
white and
gray,
25c
Regular 35c
Superb Garments for Spring and Summer
$2055 to $500
Skelton Vi and Full Lined Models
Neckwear
95c
Silk Shirts
In all the new
weaves and
colorings.
Without a
doubt the
choicest as
sortment i n
town. $5,
$6.50, $7.50,
$8.50, $10 and
$12.
Athletic
Underwear
Fine Mull,
N a i n s o oks,
Long Cloths,
Fancy Madras,
Silk and Silk
Mixtures,
75c $5.50
All sizes.
nun
Underwear
A 1 1 lengths,
legs and
sleeves, sev
eral weights,
$1.00 to
$3.50
Hundreds of
beautiful Ties,
broad, wide
end, choice
silk in figure
and stripes;
wonderful val
ues for 95c :
Spring Hats
You won't have to think long over which Hat you want when you see the new black and colors -we
shown now. They have style and quality throughout. V
None but the best makes find room here.
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Farnam
$3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00 and up to $10.00
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SALESMAN
WANTED
A llvi-wir uleiman to handla a well
established line of oil storafe equip
ment. An experienced and reliable
man capable of handlinr a state prop
osition. Give reference end selling
experience.
American Oil Pump &
Tank Co.,
CINCINNATI, OHIO. '
Warning Don't fail to at- n J flfi B ft f ff
tend this final Suit Sale it ' mJ m mm
will mean a great savin? for If MM B ml El Mil
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come and get the greatest
bargain offer this season.
1519-21 DouglasSouth Side of Street
GREATEST MM A I'
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SALE
HI TP P Vf 14 1 T P P V! Jusl a Few Day Left fore We Movc and we are 8acrif icin thousand, of dollars worth of High .
nUIXiV. 1 11 Ull I . Class Ladies' Wearing Apparel at less than manufacturers' prices for a complete clean-up of all
our present stock (as we have placed orders for, a complete new stock for the opening of our new store), so have planned to make the
Final Wind-up of
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The Most Sensational Sacrifice Event Featured During Our Removal Sale
Take Your Unrestricted Choice o Any High Class Suit Worth to $55
In All the Season's Latest Models at Far Less Than Wholesale Prices
BE HERE EARLY SATURDAY AND GET THE GREATEST BARGAIN OF A LIFETIME
HIGH CLASS TAILORED SUITS
Worth $35.00 to $40.00 '
Suits in fine serges, gabar
dines, wool poplins, smart
checks, Poiret twills, etc.;
beautiful exclusive models in
all the latest colors, as well
as black and the much want
ed navy. You will pay else
where from $15.00 to $20.00
more for these same quality
suits. Our Final Removal
sale price, at .v
FINEST TAILORED SUITS
Worth Up to $55.00 at
In this group of Suits are
the finest tailored and fancy
modeled that will please the
most fastidious dressers, in
navy, black, rookie, tans,
Pekin blues and taupes, etc.
The materials are all this
season's highest quality;
many suits worth double the
price of our Final Removal
Sale price of
Although we have featured Friday and Saturday as Final Suit Days, every Cor.t, Brcss, Fur, Skirt and Blouse goes at Removal Sale Prices '
ORKIN BROTHERS, 1519-21 Douglas Street-South Side of Street