THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918.
FEDERAL MAN TO
MEET WITH OMAHA
RIVERJLEADERS
Government Takes First Defi
nite Step Toward Estab
lishing Navigation on the
Missouri River.
The first definite step on the part
of the federal government looking to
ward establishing navigation on the
Missouri river is the appointment of
A. VV. Mackie by the Inland Water
ways commission to report on the
feasibility of using the river for
freight transportation to and from
Omaha.
Mr. Mackie, who was formerly in
charge of the municipal dpcks at
Kansas City for the Kansas City Mis
souri River Navigation, company, will
be in Omaha Friday to confer with
Commissioner Manley of the Cham
ber of Commerce, Chairman J. W.
Gamble of the executive committee
and the directors and officers of the
Missouri River Navigation league.
His object will be to find out what
has been done and is being done on
this section of the river and what
those interested believe the govern
ment should do in the way of build
ing terminals and leasing boat-
"There is a large government ap
propriation available now, at the dis
cretion of the president, for improv
ing inland waterways and establishing
freight service on the rivers to re
lieve the railroad congestion," said
Secretary Ellis of the Missouri River
Navigation league. "We believe that
the Missouri river has tremendous
advantages. We have proved it to
be navigable. We sent hoats between
here and Kansas City and we have
maintained a freight service between
here and Decatur for three years.
"The one thing needed is terminals.
Terminals are more necessary than
boats. Betweei- here and Decatur
there are no terminals worth men
tioning. Even at Omaha and Decatur
the terminals are of the crudest type
with no machinery for loading and
unloading. This causes the boats to
remain idle in port too much of the
time.
"We need facilities for quick load
ing and unloading, so that the boats
will keep on the move, i There is
plenty of freight simply begping 'to
be shipped. Last year we could have
moved hundreds of thousands of
bushels of grain from towns between
here and Decatur. Farmers wrote
and asked us to handle it. But we
had no docks of any kind at those
towns. . ,
'The federal government is build
in sr 2i hoats and barges for use on
the MississiDDU and we hope it will
lease some of these for navigating
this part of the Missouri. The build
ing of adequate terminals so that the
boats can keep moving will provide
quick transport of freight. There is
no end to the possibilities of this
great river. An engineer will be
sent here within a short tune by the
government to make a report on the
navigable condition of the river."
The Omaha-Decatur Missouri River
Navigation company which operates
the Elk and the Julius Silber between
here and Decatur has just bought two
barges from the Benton Packet com
pany of Bismarck, N. D. Th$y are be
ing brought down the river and are
expected to arrive at Decatur this
week.
These are to be towed by the Julius
Silber, one on each trip, the other be
ing left in port for unloading and load
ing. The Silber already has one barge.
The addition of the other two will
make it possible to have one always
enroute, one in Omaha unloading and
loading and one in Decatur unloading
and loading. Including its deck load
this will make the Silber's capacity on
each trip about 200 tons.
Brandeis Stores President s
Precedes Buyers East
George Brandeis, president of the
Brandeis stores, left Thursday night
for Chicago and New York. As has
been his custom in former years, he
precedes the arrival of the first group
of buyers from this store in the New
York market.
Just before leaving Mr. Brandeis
stated that because of the unusual
conditions-pevailing in eastern mar
kets,1 the Brandeis stores buyers will
go to New York from a month and a
half to two months ahead of their
usual schedule.
Mr. Brandeis also stated that it
would be impossible to give any cor
rect opinion of conditions at this
time, as everything is in-xa proble
metical state.
Mrs. Lyela Brandeis Turner
iles Suit on $76,877 Note
Mrs. Lyela Brandeis Turner of New
York City, formerly of Omaha, has
filed suit in the New York supreme
court for $76,877.50 against Mrs. Ella
Turner Dunn and Mrs. Edith Turner
Meserve, both of New York City.
According to Mrs. Lyela Brandeis
Turner'. complaint, the amount
claimed represents two notes, one for
$25,000, the other for $50,000, executed
by Charles Wesley Turner, brother
of the 'defendants, on July 19, 1917,
three months after his aged father's
death. The extra amount includes in
terest and protest fees on the two
notes.
Lester D. Ladd Enlists.
Lester D. Ladd of the American
Letter company, 612 Bee building,
has given up his Omaha business and
has enlisted in the coast artillery.
Mr. Ladd will go to Fort Logan, Colo.
He is 34 year old.
In the Silent Drama
Blalto Dorothy Pal ton in The Malting
of Uarcella" U offered In a comedy drama
In which dramatic situation! are ao tklU
fully mixed with humorous onea that the
audience Is kept on the aulvlve continuously.
The story telle the love tale ot a aoolety
sir! and as Miss Palton superintended the
costuming of the play as In a great many
ot the ones la which she has been seen this
year the effect ot the arrangement has been
one In which the women folk enjoy a style
show along with the drama. Everyone In
the cast has been taken In their best. In
cluded In the bill for the day are current
events and a comedy. a
Eroprr. .1 Abel can make the funniest
faces while he is singing a coon song of any
man In vaudeville. "The Garden Bellea"
scored a hit with their clever elnglng and
dancing. Edith Storey, Is beling shown oa
the screen at the Empress thearter In her
latest photoplay. "The Treasure of the
Sea." a modern dramatic tale concerning
buried treasure and a mistaken grievance.
Brandeis The first United States offlotal
war film "Pershlngs's Crusadere' is now
showing at the Brandeis theater where It
remains over Sunday. It gives piotured evi
dence that America has girded on the
armour ot war in a suprlslngly short space
ana is now an ally to have confidence in.
and depend upon, and an enemy to respect
and fear. Follow the flag to France and see
now Americans fight!
Strand Jack Plckford In "Hla Majesty
Bunker-Bean" Is portrayed In a comedy that
Is meant to raise laughter and In his antica
the youthful star certainly proves that he Is
a humortstt He has been given an opportun
ity to frolic to the utmost. A feature of the
play Is the fact that pratlcally all of the
cast aie nearly as youthful as the star.
t
Sun Margarita Fischer, Is featured on
Friday and Saturday In "A Square Deal,"
which pictures a young wife's determination
to have a career of her own and how a
resourceful husband turned domestic tragedy
to happiness. Miss Fischer has another one
of those rollicking fly-by-nlght roles filled
with real humor and genuine laughter. The
story and production are by Lloyd Ingram,
well-known to Omaha theater goers as stag
director and actor of the Burwood Stock
company. Completing the program Is a new
Hillle Rhodes comedy and Sun screen tele
gram. ,
Hipp Prlscilla Dean will appear at the
Hipp for two days In "The Two-6ouled
Woman," a character play of many dra
matic situations. The story depicts the
actions of a girl, at one time attempting to
do good for everyone with whom she comes
in contact and In the other character the
opposite. A love drama runs throughout
the play and a number of surprising turns
of the play finally bring happiness at the
end.
Muse Virginia Pearson's new play 'The
Firebrand" here today and tomorrow la a
thrilling description of the revolutionary
dnya in Russia. As a Russian princess she
hates all the revolutionists but when she
learns that her own brother has been
killed by her aristocratic relatives who have
betrayed Russia to the Kaiser she turns
and joins the reds. It tells the story ot
Russia's downfall in a vivid manner.
Suburban Edna Goodrich, starring In
"Her Second Husband" will be at the
Suburban today only. A comedy drama
with lots of humor In It has been built tor
and Is well played by Miss Goodrich. To
morrow will be shown Dorothy Phillips In
"The Grand Passion."
T.othrop Charlie Chaplin in a Dog's
Life" will be seen here today and Satur
day. Charlie and his dog hava evolved a
scries of evolutions of actions that would
bring from a grudging miser more than a
smile. The play Is a great one for the
children, having kept audiences composed
of children and grownups In an uproar
wherever shown.
Hamilton Julian Eltlnge playing In "The
O'BRIEN AWARDED
ARMY CONTRACT
FOR CONTAINERS
Omaha Manufacturer to Fur
nish Water Thermos for
Pershing, With Delivery .
on July 1.
Washington Bureau ef
1'be Omaha Bee, 1311 O Street.
Washington, June 6.--(Specia!
Telegram.) D. J. O'Brien of the
O'Brien-Hicks company, Omaha, who
has labored zealously for 10 months
to introduce the container known as
"Thermo-Fak" made by his Omaha
firm, as part of the equipment of the
overseas forces, has finally been
awarded a contract for 2,500 five
gallon water thermos to be delivered
t. p. b., Omaha, July 6.
The Omaha invention stood second
in heat retention and first in adapta
bility for trench uses and in weight.
The government, it is expected, will
order 100,000 containers for Persh
ing's army during the year. They are
to be used to keep food and soup hot
between army kitchens and front line
trenches.
Mr. O'Brien left last night for
Cleveland, where the metal for the
containers will be fabricated, the
Omaha factory being called upon to
assemble the various parts and de
liver the completed article to the
quartermaster general for shipment
abroad.
Nebraskans at Luncheon.
Representative Dan Stephens to
day entertained at luncheon in the
house restaurant Privates Ross E.
Hammond, Fremont; John A. Welch,
Umaha; Moyd h. Wright, Aurora,
and Norman W, Stevens, Beatrice,
members of Company E, Eighth divi
sion motor supply train, which had
been engaged in moving the emer
gency fleet corporation from Wash
ington to Philadelphia. To meet these
sturdy young soldiers from Nebraska
Mr. Stephens included as his guests
Congressmen Lobeck and Reavis.
Schooner Crew Lands
An Atlantic Port. Tune 6. Cantain
R. R.' Couldman and the crew of the
schooner Edward R. Baird, Jackson
ville to New York, sunk by a Ger
man submarine, eighteen miles off
Cape Charles Tuesday, were landed
nere toaay.
Clever Mrs. Carfax" will be here Friday
only. Tha Impersonation work of Eltlnge
defies even the bright lights of the picture
studio to find any flaws In his makeup as
the heroine. In addition to the feature
there la a Billy Rhodes comedy and the
Paths News.
Just Where
do You
Get Off?
(Thanh Graham, who hat just finished a emfbrtailt dinhg-tar breakfast, sights
along tht barret of his agar and discovers that tht man at thi nvash-stand it
M other than his abli and sensible friend, Arthur Edwards, salesman,)
Graham: Hello, Edwards! You on
this trip what's that bottle of
yours on the window-sill ?
Edwards: That HI tell you by
asking yon a question.
( A muted)
-go ahead
That', fair
Graham:
enough-
Edwards: What was the first thing
'you ordered in the dining car this
morning?
Graham: Why, lefs see I needed
a little mineral water, and
Edwards: That's it ! Mineral
water 1 Well, this bottle here has
made me see my last drop of min-
- eral waterl That's NujoL You've
seen it advertised, I guess.
Graham: Sure. You troubled with
constipation much ?
' Edwards: I'm not troubled with
it at all, but I would be if k
weren't for that bottle. '
Graham: Good, eh? ,
Edwards: Life insurance. Pve
been on the road a long time. You -know,
taking orders from a time
table. Well, I've got a good sys
tem, 'but it wrecked me. The
hours, the fifty-seven different
varieties of drinking water, the
small-hotel food, all combined to
make me careless about keeping ..
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For your own protection Insist that the druggist give you the genuine
Nujol, in a sealed and capped bottle, bearing the Nujol trademark in
red never otherwise. Nujol is absolutely pun and harmless. Inferior
substitutes may give unpleasant results. Genuine Nujol told by alt
druggists in the U. S. and Canada. , .
Send 50 cents and we will ship new kit size bottle to U. S soldiers aad
sailors anywhere. Write for attractive free booklet on the Nujol
treatment Section 5, Nujol Dept. Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey),
Bayonne, N. J. , - ,
clean inside. Then whenever my
bowels didn't act regularly I
took a pill or some salts, and pret
ty soon I had the habit
Graham: The habit ?;2
Edwards Yes. You know the
"gimme-something- for-constipa-tjon"
habit; the druggist shoots
you a glass of soda with some salts
or a hox of powerful laxatives.
You get action, all right, you feel
weak for a day, and next time
you need a stronger dose. That
habit cost me a three -months
layoff.
Graham: As serious as that, eh?
Edwards: Yes sir. The company
had just taken on an examining
doctor for the sales staff, and
when my turn came for examin
ation the doctor said. Too quit,
right now, until you're well." Tm
not exactly sick, Doc," I said.
"You're going to be txaeify sick."
he said, f you don't do as I tell
you. You've got a residue ot
food-waste in your large intestine;
it's getting harder to dislodge
every day, and whaf s more its
decaying and breeding disease
germs that spread all through
your system. You're sick on your
feet right now the third case
I've found today. You fellows on
the road are just inviting serious
disease through constipation.
Graham: Did vou tell him about
the cathartics r
Edwards: Yes, and he said "More
poison draws all the natural
water out of your system makes
it harder to get rid of the waste."
He put me on NujoL And Nujol
put me on my feet And since
then if s been keeping me on my
feet v
Graham: How do you account
for it?
Edwards: Just this: Nujol is harm
less has no effect on the system
except a mechanical one softens
and lubricates so your body goes
right on building while the Nujol
works. It works slowly and gent
lynot like a drug. The more
regularly you take it the better
you fed. I'd no more be without
: it than my toothbrush. I'm
through with drugs. (He pourt eut
. tablespoonful) Well, Graham
here's your health I '
Graham: JW health, I should say!
But it's going to be my health in
the future. Let me take a good
look at that bottle so that I can
get some when we get ia I guess
you've tajked mt into insuring my
health in a common-sensible way.
Federal Valuation Expert
Returns From Kansas City
R. C Thompson, valuation expert
of the Colorado and Southern rail
road, whorecently came to Omaha to
direct the government valuation work
here, returned from a business trip to
Kansas City and Denver Wednesday
morning. vfr. Thompson's headquar
ters are at Denver, but he expects to
remain in Omaha for several months
to complete the valuation appraisals:
in compliance with federal require
ments. ' .
The Bee Want Ads Are the Best
Business Boosters.
Important Piano Announcement!
Never before in the history of our Piano busi
ness have we been in a position to offer you such
bargains as at the present time.
All Pianos that have been returned from rent,
from schools, music conservatories, hotels, thea
ters, private families; in fact every slightly used
Piano on our floors will be placed on sale Monday
morning and must be closed out regardless of cost.
We need the room for large shipments of Pianos
now in transit.
Here Are a Few of Rare Bargains That Must Go In This Sale
;Yuiiiiiiiii in iifiii I', 'in: , 1 i
$300' Practice Piano 8 50
$300 Kohler & Chase Upr.S 85
$325 Kimball Upright 8138
$350 Krakhauer Upright. .$150
$350 Schmollcr & Mueller 8195
$375 Price & Tceple Upr. .$225
$400 Marshall Wendell U.$245
$400 Chickering Upright. .82-18
$500 Stepr & Sons Upr.. $250
odu iiaruman uprignt. . .$255
$500 Knabe Upright.. i.. $275
$400 J. & C. Fischer Upr. $290
$500 Everett Upright $325
$425 Emersotl Upright. .. .$335
$1,000 Steinway Grand... $375
Terms Can Be Arranged As Low As $5.00 Per Month
On our regular line of new Steinway, Hardmnn, Emerson, Steger & Sons, McPhail, Schmoller & Mueller
and Aeolian Player Pianos we are quoting prices and terms to appeal to the shrewdest purchaser.
Fifty Pianos for rent, $4. $5 and up per month. Rent allowed if purchased. Pianos tuned, moved and re
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Write for catalogue, prices and terms about this money-saving sale er pay ua a visit of Inspection.
Wo can and will save you money. ' .
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ueller Piano Co.
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Dancing Contests
Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday Nights.
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Virginia Pearson
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"FIREBRAND"
A love that survived the
fires of hate.
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EDNA GOODRICH,
in "HER SECOND HUSBAND."
Today and Tomorrow,
CHARLIE CHAfLIN
in "A DOG'S LIFE."
HAMILTON:
! i JULIAN ELTINGE,
in "THE CLEVER MRS. CARFAX."
The Yanks Are Here!
UL THIS WEEK 1:30 aad 8i30.
Last Two Times
v Next Sunday. '
fcl U. 5 ' Government.
S,! Pershing's
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"0f HsrsT "Owr Thsrs."
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Corst and Ntvy Photosrtphtrt. -
Special
Children's Perform an eta
Saturday Morning, 10:30.
Children, 15c-2Sc.
Soldltrt snd Sailors la UnHoria admltttd
frtt at tht Sunosy Mttlntt. No War Tax,
Prlctt: 25a, SO). Rturvtd Stati.
Thlt Ssats Contribute by Rotary Clal
mu .iftenee-'He'W'ee im t use a
nnitnsiu
MARGARITA
FISCHER
in .
"A Square Deal"
Admission 10 Cente.
Today and Saturday,
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