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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1921. 6 A Strikers Must I Be Back on Joljs Monday, Threat Packer! Iiue Ultimatum to Workmen Declare Strike. Breaker! Will Be Ira-. ported Next Week. The wheel of the "Big- Five" packing houses in Omaha were turn mg more rapirly yesterday than on any day since the strike last Monday morning. " " ' Manager were extremely optimis lie and made open statement that if the strikers do not return by next Monday their places will be taken by other worker. -... It is known that the Armour, Mor ris aiii Cudahy plants killed more unheals yesterday than mi any since the urike started. The Cudahy plant announced the probable day's kill at ;ioon at 200 cattle, 650 hogs and 250 shoe p. Forty-five more workers were on the job than Friday and the I'lling Moor lacked only seven men of a full force. From the Cudahy and Armour plants came warnings that the strik ers must return quickly or rule loss of their jobs. Workers Imported. Al. U. Murphy, manager of the Cudahy plant, said skilled men will i:o:ne ln're from Cleveland. Detroit and Cincinnati by next Wednesday Mulcts .the men are buck at work Monday. It is known that skilled men have been brought here Iron St. Louis and are at work in the plants. Yester day the wives of three of these tn-n were srnt hack to St. Louis to avoid jio&sible violence to them., A letter in the Armour Weekly Oval, a' plant publication, yesterday was addressed to the strikers. It ad vises those workers "forced to quit by self-appointed leaders" to come back, It expresses sympathy lor those who have been threatened and stales that Armour's plant "has de cided that it will gradually recruit forces and even if the so-called lead ers recover their senses and call off '.he strike, there will be no change in this." . Men arc busy from the Cudahy and Armour pTants taking affidavits from threatened non-strikers in in effort to trace the threatening lit ELD RIDGE 1313 Farnam G Reading Lamps Special 4a illustrated, in. Bronze with ad justable parchment shade or with bronze reflector, A $25.00 lamp 192 e tm. with adjustable parch- XI J) went shade, at i Polychromed cand.tsueks In the fruit design with candle as Illus trated; 14 inches high. Complete $100 ers. Many ef these hive tern re ceived, some by mail, om slipped under doors and others ituchcd to bricks hurled through windows. Union officials said the situation Is satisfactory. They reported "posi tive information" tht Morri'& Co. imported 3S strike-breakers, but de ctsred they were all unskilled men. Superintendent Schaefer of he Morris plant declared he knew noth ing about this alleged .importation. "We are sitting better every day," he remarked. v. "Can't Break Morale". J. V. Burns, district secretary of the union, declared in a statement at noon yesterday that "the packers can't frighten or break down the morale of the striking workers with threats that they will lose their posi tions unless they return to work by Monday. When it has come to the point where the parkrrs threaten to employ outside skilled workers we can see that things are not pro gressing in the plants as the mana gers would wish. They cannot have the assistance of the workers until they meet their demands." Temporary officers of the Dold Qual'ty Fifty-Fifty club were elected this morning at a meeting which or ganized the club. About ISO were present. J. ,1. Culf. president of the rltib in the Dold plant, UurTulo. N. V.. presided. . Officers Eelected. H. D. Hunt was elected president; R. J.- Robertson, vice president; George Gibson, secretary; A. J. Sawatski, treasurer; Frank I'erina, nside guard; Henry Keller, outside guard; George Schubert- serjeant-at-arms; and Cornelius Dyke, chairman of the entertainment committee. An enrollment fee of SO cents is charged and dues are 25 cents a month. The club niakc9 "contented smnloyes and satisfied employers," Kalph Hold, vice president of the company, said. Gricvancts take a regular course, arriving finally before a jury composed of six employes and six rmployers. ' - Part of the pledge given by mem bers is: "Not to be a member of any organization, society or bc.dy of men that will cause any violation of '.he club rules." Foreman Warned. Louis Kulawik, foreman i'.t the Armour packing plant, living -it 44.53 South Thirty-second street, reported to -police today a group of men ap peared at his home last night and warned him that if he did not keep the men out of the plant they "would do a lot of damage." 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Special , vi-.UU An especially fine Quill Pen la offered in ruby, royal blue, yellow or emerald with glass shot-holder. The Q- nr whole daintily boxed. Special, at tpl.D II but was rtetated shortly af:r tic cau.e Kulawik failed to identity him positively. Matt Palmer, 2524 Washington treet, was arrested near the Armour plant at i this morning. A loaded revolver- wa found in his possession. He is held at the South Side station under ?500 bond. Fremont Mayor Pays Fine in Police Court Fremont, Neb., Dee. 10 (Special Telegram.) Fremont traffic olricer believe in obeying Instructions to the letter, even when their duty forces them to bring their "boss. Mayor Oarles Green, into police court. Mayor Green ecently instituted a campaign against all headlight aw violators and the first two evenings of the drive to exterminate the ol fenders brought in 11 citizens, in cluding one pretty high school miss. The third evening brought out ut one violator who was driving a truck belonging to the mayor himself. II. f honor received notice to appear in police court where he pleaded guilty to the charge that his truck was operated with only one headlight burning. Judge A. K. Dame levied the usual tine of $1. The mayor awaited his turn with the rest of the preceding night's haul by the police. Insurance Company Files Record Suit in Boone County Albion. Neb.. Dec. 10. (Special.) One of the largest law suits in the history of Boone county in the number of defendants was the one brought a few days ago by the Trav elers Insurance company against West Keynoldson and the other heirs of Charles Reynoldson. The insurance company is seeking fore closure on four of the Reynoldson farms in this county. The company alleges it loaned Reynoldson $40,000 about two years ago and for security took first mort gages on four farms totaling 1,120 acres. - " There are fouf ruits and each of them contains the names of 65 to "0 defendants, the heirs of Charles Reynoldson. . , U. S. Steel Orders. New York, Dec. 10. The monthly tonnage report of .the United States Steel corporation, made public to day, showed 4,250,542 tons of unfilled orders, which totaled 4,286,829 tons, is a decrease from October's unfilled orders, which totaled 4,226,829 tons. Importing Co. : 1313 Farnam Christmas Cards A splendid assortment of Tucks & Hall's cards including hand-painted kinds. Prices from . 5c to $1.00 per $10.00 , At Special Prices Moves to End Strike Made in Chicago bv U. S. Federal and State Officials Try to Settle Differences Packers Report ''Nearly, Normal" Operation. Chicago, Dec. 10. Federal and state officials were working today in an efiort to settle the strike of packing house workers, which has caused a week of disorder in live stock centers, while Chicago packers announced that they were operating at "nearly normal" and union lead ers were endeavoring to extend the strike by appeal for a sympathetic walkout bv other trades in the stock yards. Reports that 8,000 imported workers had been Drought into me Chicago yards were denied by the "JUg Five" packers. Strike l.'iiiliTB here are using ut most efforts to prevent further dis orders. An appeal for a sympathetic strike of other union men within the pli.nts was issued by union leaders of the local union of the striking meat cutters. 1 jJornclius J. flayes, president of the union proposed submission of the differences "to any fair form of arbitration." Hundreds of new employes were a:,ul in ha vi- been hired . bv the packers here yesterday, and plant of ficials declared operations were on a "nearly normal basis." -Fremont Youth Held on Worthless Check Charge Fcrmout, Neb., Dec. 10. (Spe cialsJacob Rentier, 20, charged with passing a number of worthless checks in Fremont, wag brought back to this city from Lincoln where he had been held following his ar rest at Ravenna. Young Benner was sentenced to the state reform school in March; 1919, but leaped from a moving train and escaped while being taken to Kearney. Ben ner was arrested at Ravenna with a suspicious automobile in his pos session. New clothes, which he wore at the time of his arrest with the trade mark of Fremont stores, led to the discovery that he was the same man who passed $35 in worthless checks. Hand - made, hand - dripped an band-colored and gilded candles ia mahogany candlesticks. 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Funds to finance the celebration were raised at a banquet held at Hord hall. Albion Man Pleads Guilty To Charge of Shooting Officer Albion, Nb., Dec. l0.-(Specul.) Earl Kincannon was arraigned be fore Judg Button in district court and pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting t. M. Wait, marshal of St. F.dward. He was sentenced lo the state penitentiary at Lincoln for not less than one or more than five years. Kincannon had been arrested and fined at one time for gambling and also had served a six months sen tence in the Douglas county jail upon a bootlegging charge. Kincannon was arrested at his home near here on the charge of kid raping Miss Opal Killion, teacher of the Bradish school. When Officer Wait attempted to arrest him at St. F.dward a fight ensured in which Wait was slightly injured by a bullet from Kincannon's revolver. UP Pay Nothing Do wn Victrola In Your Home on Christmas Morn There is a model suited for your home be it modest or elaborate. Prices range from $25 to $750. 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The statement follows; 1 "The Mexican consulate at San Diego, Cat., on December 3, report ed that the fishing schooners Mabel i.nd Yukon had left for Mexican wat ers without fishing permits u con sular clearance papers, saying pub licly that they were Koing to San Guroninio and San Martin, Lower California, for the purpose of fishing. They stated the ywere not dispo3ed to pay the corresponding harbor fees, but that they had armed themselves with rirles and a large number of cartridges in order to protect them selves against the fishing patrol boat Tecate. This conduct has been fol lowed by other boats and, besides it is suspicioned that while fishing they carried contraband armsv Captured in Mexican Waters. "On December 7, the same San Diego consul reported that the schooner Mabel had been captured in- Mexican waters because of the P PAY NOTHING DOWN! 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The foreign office' statement fs the first official mention of the Mabel incident, which It it known has been the subject within the last few days of several inquiries ky George T. I Suinmerlin, American charge d'af faires here. Fishing off the tower California coast is carried on under conces sions, and vessels operating iu these waters, it is said; customarily arm their crews as protection against other fishing schooners. - Mrs. Jake L. Hamon Engaged to Banker Chicago, Dec. 10. William Louis r i i : ............ i. 1 . .. f 1 ivuurcr. rciircu uivouiicui uivnti ui Chicago, last nisht announced his engagement to marry Mrs. Jake L. 11 anion, widow ot the Uklahoma political leader. No date has been set for the wedding, Mr. Kohrer Said, but plans have been made for a honeymoon trip to the l'anania canal zone. Mrs. Hamon with her son and daughter has made her home in Chi sago since the death last year of her husband, who was shot by Clara Smith ilamon. New Stella Postmaster. Pawnee City. K'eh., Dec. 10. (Special.) William Pearson of Stel la has been appointed postmaster to succeed . H. T. Wilsou. enutne- Brunswick Illinois Woman Sues For Title to Land in Two Nebraska Counties Geneva, Neb., Dee. 10 (Special. A taw suit lus been filed simultsne ouOv in Fillmore and Clay cjHiniks by Clara B. Fort, an aged woman, who maintains residences in Wash ington, New York, Chicago and Lacon, III. Mrs. Fort is the widow of Greenhiiry L. Fort, who 'owned over U.IXK) acres of Nebraska land. There are also several thousand acres of land in Marshall county, Illinois, belonging to the estate. Since the death of her son, Robert Fort, mem ber of the Illinois senate, the estate was retained in the name of Mrs. Fort, until she conveyed the title to all the Nebraska and Illinois land , to George W. Cowan, During the summer of 1921. Goorge W. Cowan was killed in an automobile accident in Illinois, and on her return from Switzerland, Mrs. Fort began action to set aside the deeds which she had executed in hit favor. George Cowan left a widow wl was appointed guardian of his two cli Mrn mil. t.t. hie m.trnafffi ivillt his first wife, and the other by his widow, who resides at Lacon. Ill, At the request of the mother of the other child, Edward J. Demp ter of Geneva, was appointed guardian of Robert Fort Cowan, one of the three heirs to the GeorRe W. Cowan estate and to the land con troversy. Erbstein Withdraws From Obenchain Case Chicafto, Dec. 10.- Charles Erb stein, Chicago attorney, today an nounced he .had withdrawn from the defense of Mrs. Madalynnc Oben- cnain, under inaiciment at j,os Angeles in connection with the mur der of J. Belton Kennedy. Eldridge Importin 1313 Farnam Street g Co. W'l