The Omaha Sunday Bee
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PART ONE
NEWS SECTION
Pages 1 to 12
VOL. XLVI NO. 26.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1916 FORTY-TWO PAGES FIVE SECTIONS.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
THE1 WEATHER
FAIR-
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BRYAN PLANS TO
StOP WAR WITH
HELP OF CHURCH
Nebraskan Has Scheme to
Send Ecclesiastical Delega
tion to Warring Nations
, on Peace Mission.
BARTHOLDT URGES IT, TOO
Latter Suggests Ex-Secretary
Head Committee to Get Men
Out of Trenches.
BEFORE ST. LOUIS COUN'
St. Louis, Dea, 9. A new peace
movement was before the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ to
- hiffht in the shane nf sucro-estinnfl from
William J. Bryan and former Con
gressman Kichard Bartholdt ot bt.
Louis that the churches of America
send delegations to Europe in an ef
fort to end the war.
Mr. Bryan launched the suggestion
and Mr. Bartholdt endorsed it, adding
that Mr. Bryan should fie sent as head
, of the delegation. The council has
not acted on the plan.
The publicity committee of the
council, it was announced tonight,
plans a uation-wide publicity campaign
to advertise the churches. A bureau
to handle news and advertising is
planned. '
Thinks It Good Thing.
Mr. Bryan in his address at the fed
eral council said: ,
"If this plan to call upon the
churches of Europe is thought good, I
lecommend that we invite our Catho
lic and Jewish brethren to co-operate.
"I believe it would be a good thing
to send committees from all the
churches to all the capitals of Europe
to show them the philosophy of love.
"If the doctrine of love tjiat Christ
teaches can regenerate the individual
so that the stagnant poo'l of his soul
can be changed into a bubbling spring,
it is not worth while for the churches
to try it on the warring nations?
"If our government cannot bring
about peace, then let the churches try.
Let these committee that go to the
warring -capitals of Europe take
bounteous gifts with them that may be
distributed, among the sorrowful and
suffering. Let us show our love for
them in this manner. If the churches
will take the lead in- this way, it may
be the means of stopping the war, and
that would be one of the greatest
achievements in history."
'Denounces Bankers.
Mr. Bryan in an address at the City
' .cluh rebuked bankers-of StpLouis for
signing a' pTrotest against prohibition,
:. daring the recent campaign.
"Shame upon you of St. Mwis," said
Mr. Bryan, "who ga to the1 polls and
vole that brewers, and saloon keepers
are better than your wives." -
Mr. Bryan asserted that prohibition
in Kansas had been asuccess, and
pointed to the majority vote cast ipt
it in Kansas City. , .-
Political Rights
' Given the Jewsin
Poland by Teutons
New York, Dcc7-9, A wireless
stateipcnt from Dr. Zimmerman, Ger
man secretary of foreign affairs, was
receded here today declaring that the
new constitution granted the Jews in
' Poland by his government gives them
far-reacliing self-government and a
v chance to develop their o.wn educa
tional system, it was announced by
Dr. S. M. Melamed, editor of the
American Jewish Chronicle.'
"Compulsory conscription" for Po
lish Jews does not exist, the state
ment said.
Dr. Melamed said the conimunica
- tion satisfied him that the new order
in Poland represents a step forward
for the Jews in educational lines over
the Russian regime, but that the ques
tion of their political development
was apparently left unsettled.
United States Buys Ninety-Six
High Power Hydro-Airplanes
Washington, Dec. y. Contracts tor
ninety-six high-power hydro-airplanes
for the coast artillery stations in the
United Stales, Hawaii, Philippines and
the Panama canal zone, were let to
day by the War department; 1
immediate construction is to be
begun on-the ninety-six machines and
contracts soon will be let for fifty-two
more.
Companies receiving awards today
were the Aero-Marine Engineer and
Sales, New York City, sixteen ma
chines, $18,000 each; the Burgess com
pany, Marblehead, Mass., thirty-two
machines, $23622 each; the Curtis
company, Buffalo, N. Y., sixteen ma
chines, $22,500 each, and the Standard
Aeroplane corporation, Plainfield, N
J., thirty-two machines, $21,000 each.
The Weather
For Nebraska. Fair; somewhat warmer to-
ifmporatnros at umaha Westerday.
Hour. Deir
fi a. m 17
J a. m K
' a. m 17
(i a. m
9 a, m
10 -a. m 2n
11 a. m 2D
12 m 31
1 P. m 35
2 p. m 3
3 p. m 8ft
P. m 31
& P. m 38
P m 17
J p. ra 86
Comparative Local Record.
116. 1815. 1814. 11S.
llffhost yesterday... . as 40 34 4S
ycatcru jr.. . . , in . 2s 18
Mean temperature.... 28 34 24 1
?rerlDltatlon 00 .no nt
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal : i ,
Normnl temperature ( 10
Total excess since Marclt I..
i 'iiiiency lor irto nay 2
.425
Normal precipitation..
Pendency for the day,
03 Inch
13 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1 .... 16.07 Inches
Deficiency since March 1.
12.53 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1915.
Deficiency lorTor. period. 1014.
l.nb Inches
L. A. WELSH. Meteoroloflst.
3.67 inchei
WOMEN WIN THEIR
FIRST VICTORY
li V
Omaha Consumers' League
Knocks a Nickel from Price
of Strictly Fresh Eggs.
BIG MEETING 0
Omaha C
its first mark
urday. And
it was hen fi o. The Excello
company announced then that the
price' of strictly fresh eggs had
dropped from 50 cents to 45 cents a
dozen and company officials were
good enough to admit to Mrs. Vernon
C. Bennett, president of the league,
that the boycott by the women was
the cause for the reduction.
Close upon the heels of this vic
tory conies the announcement of
plans for a mass meeting in the city
hall council chamber Friday after
noon at, 3 o'clock. lrs. Bennett vis
ited Mayor Dahlman Friday and got
not only a cordial greeting as the rep
resentative of the high price warriors,
but received also the chief executive's
permission to use the city hall for a
big pow-wow.
Indications are that omen from
all parts of the city will be there. It
was the city-wide wish of housewives
(and some husband, too) to jpin the
movement which prompted the
league's officers to drop the "North"
from the name of the society and call
it the "Omaha Consumers league."
Then came the call for a mass meeting
m the center of the city and members
of the various women's club through
out Omaha volunteered to lend their
fforts to the fight against the. high
ost of living. '
Societies Working.
The Saratoga Mothers' club, to
whose members Mrs. Bennett spoke
Friday night, voted unanimously to
join the ranks of the restricted buy
ers. The social center workers of all
parts of the city have covertly joined
the movement, but among the most
open advocates of a continued boycott
are the women ot tne Miller rarK
and Central Park societies. The
Omaha Philosophical society, of
which Mrs. D. G. Craighead, a prime
mover in the war on high costs, is a
member, will dienss campaign meth
ods Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The meeting will be Open to the pub
lic. Headquarters are in tru Lyric
building.
More than-300 people attended the
community center mass meeting at
Central Park school Friday night and
endorsed the plans of the brotherhood
of the Central Park Consreeational
church for lowering Hying costs by
community buying. Membership cards
were issued Saturday and the first
ordersr-were placed. Members tor
feit their standing should they refuse
teacoept what they ordered from the
buying committee.
Rich Old Man is
ISentto an Asylum
Week After He Weds
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Attorneys representing the rela
tives of Daniel -Reifel, 67 years old,
a wealthy Red Oak, la., retired mer
chant, are in Omaha for the purpose
of filing an application seeking to
annul his marriage with Ida Blanche
Doctor, 53 years old, which took plate
here October 12 last, according to
Clyde Sundblad, clerk of the county
court.
One' of the attorneys visited the
county judge's office Saturday morn
ing and told Mr. Sundblad that- the
Red Oak man was incompetent and
had married here about two months
after his former wife died. The Iowa
sawyer declared that it has been nec
essary to appoint a guardian tor Mr.
Reifel several times.
The marriage ceremony in Omaha
was performed by Rev. Oliver D.
Baltzly, pastor of the Kountze Me
morial church.
Mr. Reifel is said to be very wealthy
and to have a palatial mansion.in Red
Oak.
According to the Red Oak authori
ties, Mr. Reifel's eccentric actions a
week after his last marriage resulted
in the sheriff being called to the
home. The retired merchant1 locked
himself in the cellar of the house, it
is said, and it was necessary for the
sheriff to handcuff him.
He was taken before the insanity
board, which deferred action on his
case, and Mr. Reifel is now in a pri
vate hospital at Des Moines, accord'
ing to information from Red Oak.
Mass of German
, People -Starving,
- Says Socialist
Amsterdam (Via Londonl. Dec. 9.
In the course of a discussion in the
Prussian diet on the question of an
increase in the salaries of minor offi
cials the socialist deputy, Stroebel,
according to the Vorwaerts, attacked
those who were receiving great war
profits, while the mass of the people
were starving.
The deputy quoted the cases of
minor railway officials who were not
only on short commons, but were suf
fering from hunger, their income not
being sufficient to buy their alloted
amount of food. I he speaker con
eluded:
"We long for and hope for any
peace mediation in the interest of the
official state workers whose sufferings
are increasing the longer the war
lasts..
Orders for Steel '
Reach New Record
New York, Dec. 9. Unfilled orders
of the United States Steel corporation
for the month ending November 30
last were 11,058,542 tons, an increase
of 1,043,282 tons over the preceding.
This establishes a new record for un
filled orders of the corporation.
FUNSTON TELLS
WHY HE BARRED
CAMPJEVIVALS
lommander of Border Troops
Says He Did Not Want Serv
ices Porceekon Those
Not Inclined.
REPLIES TO . PREACHERS
Declares Criticism of Him Un
just and His Position Mia-y
represented.
SOLDIERS ARE NOT SO BAD
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 9.-
Major General Frederick Funston,
commanding the Department of the
South, tonight replied to Rev. J. S.
Jambrelt, secretary of the executive
board of the Baptist General conven-.
tion, explaining the general's reason
for not permitting revivals in the
military camps here and along the
border. Numerous Baptist conven
tions had adopted resolutions con
demning what they understood to
have been the general's action and
suggestions were made that President
Wilson, as commander in chief of the
army, be asked to take official cogniz
ance of the matter. A resolution
asking for information on the con
troversy also lias Dccn introaucea in
congress.
Gives Out Copies.
General Funston gave out copies
ofthe letter to the press in which he
says in part: t
"From time to time I have been
receiving. copies of resolutions passed
by various Baptist bodies condemn
ing my opposed stand relative to
holding religious service) arrfbng the
troops on the border and also have
received a number of very unjust and
in some cases ahusive letters from
clergymen of the same denomination.
Incidentally 1 might say that i nave
had more letters approving my and
than I have criticizing it.
"This whole disagreeable incdent
wth all of ts annoyance to me, of
"course, arses from" the statement
made by you after your visit to the
headquarters a couple of months ago
in which you sought to obtain per
mission to conduct a series of revivals
in the border camps.
Would Have Made no Difference.
"You stated your business to
Colonel Barnum, chief of staff. If
Colonel Barnum stated at that time
what denomination you belonged to,
it made -no impression on my mind,
and jt he had it would have made no
difference whatever. ' ..
"I told that officer to explain fully
to you that while religious services
along the usual line1 were conducted
in the camps by chaplains and other
clergymen and were welcome, I could
not give my consent to the holding of
revivals therein, giving the word, as
I was justified in doing, its usually
accepted meaning. I .told ' Colonel
Barnum to. explain to ' you why re
vival services would be out of place
in a military camp, Citing the dis
graceful performance in San Antonio
last winter as an example of what
revivals are apt to develop into, and
drawing to a certain extent on a gen
eral knowledge as to how revivals or
'protracted' meetings, as they are
sometimes called, are usually con
ducted.' Resented Implication.
"I further instructed Colonel Bar
num to say to you that I did not ac
cepin fact, resented, the implication
that because a man had put on his
country's uniform he was necessarily
lost, or worse than other men; that
I thought there were people who
had stayed at home who needed re
vivals worse than the soldiers sdid.
"Under the circumstances you may
imagine my astonishment when 1 read
your, statement to the effect that I
had said that I would not allow the
soldiers to be told that Jiey were
'los.' You must know as well as I
do that the doctrine fhat should be
preached to the men was never once
considered or mentioned, and with
all due courtesy I feel compelled to
say that your making repeatedly the
statements you are quoted as making
as absolutely inexcusable and did me
a great injustice, t ne oniy Time me
word 'Lost' was used by me was when
I said that 1 did not accept the view
that because a man put on his coun
try's uniform he was necessarily lost.
-(Continued on Fane Two, Column Four.)
Cotton Market in
Near Panic; Prices
Drop $14 Per Bale
,New York, Dec. 9. A renewal of
heavy general liquidation following
yesterday's big break ill prices caused
excitement verging upon demoraliza
tion on the cotton market here to
day. For a time prices broke ten to
fifteen points between sales and be
fore there was any pause in the de
cline March contracts had sold at
$18.50, or 75 points under last night's
close, and tne general list was fully
$14 a bale belowk,the recent high rec
ords. Covering caused rallies of 20 to 30
points from the lowest as soon as the
pressure diminished, but the market
was still extremely jinsettled and nerv
ous laic in tne lorcnoon.
Assistant Secretary
Of State Resigns
Washington, Dec. 9. John E. Os
borne, assistant secretary of state,
resigned today and will return within
the month to his home in Rawlins,
Wyo., to devote himself to his private
business. His successor has uot been
named. He was appointed in 1913 and
with one or two exceptions held the
office longer than any predecessor.
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WANT TO LIVES DAY
ON FIFTEE CENTS?
University of Omaha Suggests
Oatmeal as Ideal Menu for
Diet Squad. ;
FAVOS FEWER MIDDLEMEN
The food chemistry classes of the
University of Omaha devoted last
week's class time to the discussion of
the high cost of living question and
came to the conclusion that oatmeal
is the cheapest food to use, consider
ing digestibility, calorific value and
wholesomeness. , It is digested as eas
ily as wheat products and its fuel
value is 1,800 "calorics per pound, as
compared with 1,600 given by a simi
lar wejght of -Wheat flour. Even at
the present price a normal human be
ing could receive the required nour
ishment for one day from 15 cents
worth of the prepared oats. If he
would include the cost of cooking, a
reasonable amount of sugar and a
quart of milk,, he could live on 30
cents a day at the most.
The secret of the high cost of most
manufactured fodds, it was brought
out, is due to the cost of manufac
turing and not to the cost of the
original material. If you should buy
enough cornflakes to equal a bushel
of corn it would cost you from $8
to $12, whereas the original cost of
that corn was about One-fourteenth
of the selling price. Oats sell for
about 55 cents and - a bushel of it
made into oatmeal would sell for
$3.5$ These relations between origi
nal cost and selling price after manu
facturing show that the consumer -is
doing more than paying .for the foods.
The Middlemkn. .
The students further maintained
that another factor effecting the high
cost of living is the middleman prob
lem. In this connection Prof. Lewis,
head of the department, pointed out
that a pound of coffee which cost 15
cents originally would sell at 40 cents
by the time it reached the consumer.
Tea in the same way goes from 20
to 50 cents a pound. In some cases
an article passes through half a dozen
hands before reaching the consumer.
Every member of the class is
strongly in favor of doing away with
many middlemen.
Members of the classes are Marion
Pearsall, Elizabeth Berryman, Ethel
Moore, Irene Wilson, Jean Berger,
Floyd Woosley, William Campcn and
Eugene Simmons.
Woman Reporter
Is Given Ten Years
For Man's Murder
Thompson Falls, Mont., Dec-9.
Miss Edith Colby, a newspaper re
porter, convicted of second degree
murder for shooting A. C. Thomas,
a politician, was sentenced today
to serve ten years in the penitentiary.
The defense contended that Thomas
had refused to apologize to Miss
Colby for an alleged insult during an
interview, and that this so preyed on
her mind that she was not responsi
ble'' for her actions at the time of
the shooting of Thomas.
Milk and tee Dealer 's Charge Tips to
Cooks and Butlers Back to' Patrons
New' York, Dec. 9. Tips, per
quisites or charities distributed by
large milk dealers to cooks, butlers,
janitors and superintendents of apart
ment houses as expenses, incidental
to obtaining customers eventually
are added to the burden'of the "ulti
mate c'onsumer," according 'to wit
nesses before the Wicks legislative
committee today.
The sanrt system of gratuities ap
plies, to (lie ice dealer, the baker and
the news dealer, superintendents of
several apartment houses testified.
One large milk i distributor in
Why the Child ponders
Special Court for
Women Speeders
' Columbus, O., Dee. 9. Begin,
ning Monday Judge Osborn of the
municipal court will hold a session
for "ladies only" every afternoon
to accommodate women violators
of the new traffic code of Colum
bus. Women protested against be
ing arraigned at the regular morn
ing session of police court.
BRANDEIS TEAM v
SET&FAST, PACE
This Squad Raises Almost Nine
Thousand Dollars in Brow
ne!! Hall Campaign.
RHOADES TEAM SECOND
In the $250,000 campaign for
Brownell Hall, which began actively
on Friday, the team- captained by
George Brandeis has established a
considerable lead over the other
squads -in the work of subscription
getting. Figures issued at campaign
headquarters last night show that Mr.
Brandeis' squad has obtained thirty
subscriptions, for a total of $8,950.
Team No. 13, of which William E.
Rhoades is the head, is second in
the competition, with a total raised
of $2,8520. This represents nine sub
scriptions. Third is Charles - C
George's team, with $1,555 in twelve
pledges.
, Miss Marion R. Towle has the
hono of leading the woman's division,
her reports showing an aggregate of
$2,140. Mrs. Frank W. Judson, whose
team yesterday took premier honors,
is second in the total for the two
days, and Mrs. Philip Potter is third.
The. summary of the two days' cam
paign shows the following figures:
Woman's Division,
Mrs. Louis H. Clark ,. I 136
hta-s. Frank W. JudsoM 1,140
Mrs. Charles S. Marple 880
Mrs. hPIMp Potter 1,880
Miss Marlon R. Towle 3,140
Total 7,015
Men's Division,
Joseph Barker I 94S
Gt-orge Brandeis 8.960
Joseph J. Dodds 80S
Arthur H. Fetters 425
Charles C. Oeorge 1,555
Barton Millard 026
Abraham L. Reed 260
William E. Rhoades 2.S20
John W. Towle let)
Harry A. Tukey 860
Charies M. Wllhelm .7 776
Arthur I,. Williams 820
' Total 117.880
Boy Falls on Pitchfork
And Will Probably Die
Mitchell, S. D., Dec. 9. Floyd
Steckcl, 13 years old. and son of a
farmer north of Mitchell, while walk
ing on a straw stack sliDDed and fell.
landing squarely on a pitchfork. It
is believed he will die.
Bible Study Class Leaders.
To Meet at "Y. M." Monday
The regular meeting of leaders and
chairmen of neighborhood Bible
study classes will be held at the
Young Men's Christian Association
Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Hopkins, city chairman, will irive
I a report of her work.
Brooklyn, it was stated by counsel
to the committee, pays $25,000 a vear
to janitors and gives away $5,000
worth ot milk annually.
Thomas B. Evans, agent of a milk
distributor, told of the receipt by his
company ot a large number ot ap
peals from cooks, butlers and various
societies to purchase tickets to
dances, card parties and receptions,
and said the cost of the tickets was
charged up on the company's books
to "charity." These expenses, he
said, ultimately reach the consumer
of milk.
FEDERAL PROBES
INTO FOOD PRICES
Grand Juries at New York,
Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis
and Minneapolis Busy.
PLOTS ABE WIDESPREAD
Washington, Dec. 9. Federal
grand jury ' investigations into the
high cost of living were ordered to
day by Attorney General Gregory to
begin- at once in New York, and in
Detroit next week.
Similar investigations, in Cleveland,
Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis
and other points are under considera
tion. Jy v .
Frank M. Swacker, an assistant
attorney general, for the government
in the New Haven cue, will be ask
ed to take charge of the New York
investigation. . . ,
Report! to the Department of Jus
tice from its field force of investigat
ors indicate, officials said, the wide-
P i . i
sprcau existence or comDinauoiiB ut
brokers and dealers in foodstuffs and
coal to force prices upward Most of
these alleged combinations were said
to be local in character. AllNdata con
cerning them wilt probably be sub
mitted to grand juries.
Conspiracies Widespread.
In .addition to grand jury investi
gation in the east and the middle
west, officials are considering the ad
visability of starting similar proceed
ings in the northwest and far western
states. ' It is likely that this latter
proposal will be held in abeyance un
til the investigations more definitely
contemplated are in full swing. v
Activities of alleged food and coal
speculators are said to have extended
as far south as the Mexican border
and to have included virtually every
section of the country. Closely re
lated to their alleged activities is the
shortage of freight cars, information
bearing on which is being compiled
by the Interstate Commerce commis
sion for use in the investigation.
The plan of procedure, if approved
by the attorney general, probably will
be placed today before President Wil
son. United Stares Attorney Ander
son of Boston, directing the investi
gation, was told at the White house
that if pressure of other business per
mitted, the president would see him.
Foodstuffs in Storage.
Mr. Anderson held a long confer
ence today with officials of the Agri
culture department and was given a
mass of information relative to food
stuffs held in refrigerating aiirKother
storage plants throughout the coun
try. Mr. Anderson also had an appoint
ment with Mr. Swacker today at
which it probably will be determined
whether Mr. Swacker will take charge
of the New York end of the investi
gation. .
Thousand Killed
Explosion in
Munitions Plant
Berlin, Dec9. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) An explosion in a Russian
ammunition plant has caused the
death of abouf 1,000 persons, accord
ing to the Overseas News aijfcncy to
day, quoting the Russian newspaper
Rech. '
Yearling Bull is
Sold for $21,500
-.Portland, Ore., Dec. 9. Finderne
Mutual Fayne Valdessa, a junior
yearling Holstein bull, consigned by
Bernhard Meyer of Finderne, N. J.,
sold today at the sixth Pacific Inter
national Live Stock show for $21,500,
the highest price ever paid on the Pa
cific coast for a single animal. He
was Doukht by John vol Herberg,
owner ol ninety head ol pure-bred
Holsteins at Kent, Wash.
The yearling was bid on by six
breeders of high-grade dairy cattle,
all of them passing the $10,000 mark
in their otters.
GREECE IS AGAIN
STORM CENTER OF
EUROPEAN WAR
Rumor Royalist Party is Gath
ering Army to Attack the
x . Entente Forces in
the Rear. '
TEUTONS ARE ALSO BUSY
Indication Part of Victorious
Army in Roumania is to Be
Hurled South.
BRITONS URGING ACTION
(Astoelftttd Pros War fiamtnsss) y
The situation in Greece is not only
again of decided political interest,
but, potentially, of marked military
import, in connection with the sup
posed purpose of the central powers
to turn important sections of Field
Marshal von Mackcnsen's huge army
in Roumania upon the entente's Sa
lonika army.
Correspondents in Greece report .,
persistently hostile attitude by Kins
Constantine and the Greek royalists
toward the entente and declare efforts
are being made to gather a strong
army in the Larissa region, for an at
tack upon the entente forces from the
rear, simultaneously with attacks by
the Teutonic allies from the north.
British military writers call atten
tion to these contingencies and de
cisive action with regard to ureece
is urged in theinterest of sounf
strategy and the safety of the ententJ
forces in Macedonia.
Latest reports from the Roumanian
campaign reflect the continued re
tirement of the Russo-Roumanian
forces in eastern Wallachia. with the
figures of cptures of men and ma
terials by the invaders constantly1
growing. : '
Little of interest is occurring 'on
the Franco-Belgian front The only
happening mentioned, by either Lon
don or Paris is an artillery action in
the region of Hill 304, on the Verdun
front, where the French and Ger
mans have again been disputing pos
session ot this Height. .
Russians Gain Ground.
Berlin, Dec. 9. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) Strong attacks were made
yesterday by the Russians in the Car
pathian forests, . (the war office an
nounces. North of Dorna Watra
and south of the Trotus valley the '
Russians gained ground at the cost
of heavy Tosses.
In western-Roumania several thou
sand more prisoners have been taken
ts well as many cannon. The Rou
manians are retreating rapidly.
Since December 1 the Roumanians
have lost more .than 70,000 men and
184 cannon. . . ' ( , 4
' Roumanians Are Retiring.
Petrograd, Dec, 9. (Via London.)
In the province of Wallachia, says
the Russian official statement issued
today,, the Roumanian troops under
Unceasing hostile pressure continue :
to retire to the eastward. In conse
quence ' this, it adds, the Russian
(Coatlntsftd mi Pas Two, Colama Oms.)
Producers Suffer . :
Prom Wastage and
Lack Oganization
f .1 ..
Chicago, Dee. 9. Cattle raisers,
economists of the colleges and th
government, plain farmers and mar
keting experts, to the number of 800, '
who have been holding the fourth na
tional conference on marketing anil '
farm credits here, completed their ,
labors today. . 4 '
They took up problems invohrinsf - .
farm finance, putting the landless man
on the manlesa land, efficient mar ;
keting, conservation and rural devel- ''
opment, and suggested remedial pro- 1
cedure in resolutions adopted this
afternoon. ' ,
Resolutions and speeches shoireet
that the actual growers of grain, eatV
tie, fruits and vegetables believe they
are not obtaining proper returns fo?
the labor and investment, because
they are not organized and do not .
work co-operatively; that the waste
by present methods, orl the lack of
them, is of appalling magnitude and
makes it easy for the region of mid
dlemen to inflate the cost of living
that Europe has much to teach u
about co-operative agriculture, and
that it is up to congress to study the
whole situation and apply remedies
accordingly. , ' .
Many Are Killed by
Explosion at Turin
Turin, Friday, Dec. 8. (Via Paris,
Dec. 9.) An explosion has occurred
in the Alexandria explosives plant
It is feared that more than fifty peo
ple have been killed. The. -cause ol
the disaster has not been established.
A consistent increase , .r
is proof of Best Re
sults. W!
Bee Wnt Ads are .
maintaining; a steady ;t
increase of more than - ;'
1,000 paid ads each
' week. I ' '
Last week 1230 .
Total for the year to
date. ' - - k
54,633
. More than double the
'combined gain of the oth-
er two Omaha papers. .