New Low Price
Announced in
Gasoline War
Peopled Station Will Sell
Fuel at 8 3-4 Cents, Start
ing Saturday
Morning.
Gas: 8*4 cents per gallon.
This sign will hang today in
front of the People's Gas station. 1016
North Sixteenth street, and will re
main there until Christmas, at least,
according to H. O. Churchill, pro
prietor.
Churchill’s new price is s cut of
1*4 rents from his recent price of
in cents per gallon, which is still
the lowest price in Omaha.
Churchill announced his latest offen
sive In the ‘gasoline war, which has
waged for six months, as he signed
a contract for a supply of gasoline
which, he says, will supply his trade
until Christmas.
Hopes to Continue.
The price will continue at 8*4 cents
as long as his supply lasts. Churchill
announced. When it Is exhausted he
hopes to renew his contract. Church
ill's station has a capacity of 8,000
gallons per day and he claims to have
heen running near capacity for weeks.
Other independent gasoline dealers
are not planning to meet Churchills
cut, they said Friday. Many of then,
have not met his recent price of 13
cents per gallon, and the price asked
bv independent dealers varies from
10 to 15 cents.
Oil 15 Cents Quart.
Churchill also announced Friday
that he had contracted for a suppiv
of triple-filtered oil to he sold at 13
cents per quart.
Churchill’s cut in Omaha came si
multaneously with the announcement
that independent dealers in Sioux
Falls, S. D., will meet the state price
s of 15 cents per gallon for gas “with5
out service,” beginning Saturday.
Sioux Falls retailers have charged
IS cents per gallon, but believe that
they can make a profit at 15 cents by
eliminating the various free services
for motorists.
The "old line’’ companies in Sioux
Falls are making no attempt to meet
the state’s 15-cent price.
Two Women Injured
in Crash at Beatrice
Beatrice, Sept. 26.—Mrs. .lames
Stone of Nehawka, Neb., suffered a
broken shoulder fracture and other
injuries and Mr* Charles Green of
this city was severely cut and bruised
when the car In which they were rid
ing collided with one driven by C. L.
Bothell at Tenth and Grant street*.
Both women are in a hospital. The
ears were badly damaged.
WO AW Program
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Saturday. September ll>
* p m pnpular bait h#ur
S 31!, dinner program
e P m . Deluxe prnrrtm
12 o. m. midnight, wowl frolle by Frank
Hodek, Jr. end hie Omaha Nightingales,
tranemltted from Wowl Rooet at Roaeland
’ Gardens. _
KFNF Program
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Shenandoah. la.. 266 meters. Saturday,
September 27: 12;S0 to 1:0ft p. m, noon
dav concert; 7:30 P m.t concert bv Stra
han. Ia.. u^dfr direction Zeno Baan. Jr ;
10:30 p. m.. old time barn dance by Smith
B»’Hingw and other*.
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Spooks to Raid
Ad-Sell
Meet
"Spooks" will he the renter of at
tentlon at the next regular meeting of
the Ad Sell league Monday evening.
The "spooke" may not be there. In
person, but they will he as real as
though they were because Arthur
Delroy, "spook" expert, will he the
speaker of the evening.
Delroy Is known as the "Spook
Man" because of his avocation. He
Investigates psychic fakers, mediums,
spiritualists, hypnotists, mind readers
and others of their Ilk for eastern
newspapers.
His long association with these per
sons has given Delroy the ability to
perform tricks whirh are their stork
in trade. He will demonstrate his
ability to emphasize parts of his talk.
Farm Land Values
Under Scrutiny
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Tax Commipiionrr Gathering
Data to Confute Conten
tion of Railroads.
Fairbury, Neb., Sept. 20.—State
Tax Commissioner William H. Smith
of Lincoln attended a speotal session
of county commissioners in Fairbury
Wednesday to lay before the hoard
the situation with reference to rail
road taxation. The railroads have
claimed their property Is valued too
high, especially in proportion to the
valuation of farm lands. The Rock
Island partially won a case in the su
preme court of Nebraska on this
basis, satisfying the court that the
value of farm lands was really higher
than the assessed valuation while the
value of the railroads is not above
that fixed for purpose of taxation.
This situation grew out of the
land boom which collapsed in 1921.
Commissioner Smith argues that the
selling value of land during the boom
period should not be taken as the real
value for taxation purposes. Had
there been a boom in railroads be
contends, they would have also sold
high for a time, only to find later
that the boom had collapsed and that
the real value was less than some
of the figures at which the sales were
made.
Commissioner Smith also argues
that the actual figures In many deeds
placed on record do not always rep
resent the value of the land but usu
ally more than the land would actual
ly sell for or be appraiRed at. He, In
tends to show that a farm will some
times sell at a high figure because of
its location, the owner of a neighbor
ing farm being willing to pay above
the market price to get this partlcu
lar land because It adjoin* hi*.
Mr. Smith seeks affidavits and
copies of real estate transfer* in the
office of the register of deed* so that
he can make It clear to the court that
the valuation of farm lands which the
railroads have used as a basis for
their contention is not the true value.
The railroads contend that they
were assessed at 100 per rent of their
true valuation while farm land was
assessed at only 00 per rent. The su
preme court In ihe Rock Island case
upheld this contention in part only,
granting the railroad relief to a cer
tain extent.
Shipping Board
Seeks Friends
for U. S. Ships
Appeal Made to Large Ship
pers for Aid in Reduc
ing Ocean Freight
Rates.
Washington, Sept. 26.—An appeal
to American shippers to assist in
the fight for lower ocean freight
rates by building up the American
merchant marine is contained in let
ters which are being sent out by the
United Stales shipping hoard to
large shippers throughout the coun
try.
After outlining the government
policy to develop American vessels
sufficient to carry the greater portion
of the national ocean commerce, the
hoard asks the shippers to reply to
four questions.
These are:
"If foreign flag vesels are used by
you. what advantage. If any, do you
derive from their use as against
American flag vessels? ,
"Is It your policy to direct the
method by which your raw or manu
factured materials from foreign
sources shall be transported, and
could you designate American ves
sels for such importations?
"Could you advise that you will in
sist that at least 51 per cent of the
Import or export business under your
control be transported In American
vessels?
"May we count upon your co-opera
tion in directing your foreign ship
ments b y American vesels?"
In explainnig the development of
the mercantile marine under the
shipping board's administration, the
letter says:
The shipping board operates no
ll
vessels In the coastwise trade and it
operates no vessels in the foreign
trade in competition with privately
owned American vessels. Excluding
the AVcst. Indies services and certain
industrial carriers of the 300 odd ves
sels now engaged in overseas foreign
trade under the American flag only
26 are privately owned, and more
than 273 are operated by tho govern
ment under the direction of the ship
ping board. It having proven lm
posible to transfer the vessels to
private American capital, under pres
ent world conditions, the situation Is
this: Government operation or no
operation at all under the American
flag.
"Transportation charges. when
domestic, can be regulated by oon
gress through government egerry.
Discriminatory charges against
American commerce on the ocean ran
bo prevented only bv the operation of
ships under the flag of the nation
therefore, but for these vessels the
American Importers and exporter:*
would be without voice in the deter
mination of ocean freight charges
that insure protection to those #le
i
men?* in our Industrial Ufa from ih#
farmer to the consumer.
These farts arc submitted for your
Information so that you will ha'*
them before vou should those eeekfpp
to disturb this protection to Am*r
lean commerce present the matter tc
you In a different light.”
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