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BRINGING UP FATHER I VHM HAVE I YOU THERE - NATIONAL MOGULS NOT THROUGH YET Probable That Annual Meeting Wifl Not Be Finished Before Tomorrow. MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE New Vork, Dec. 14. Wliile the Na tional league club owners spent al most eight hours discussing league business at their session today. Secre tary Heydlcr said tonight that a great deal remained to be done and it is probable that the annual meeting may not be finished until Friday. To Change Release Rule. A great part of today's session of the league yas taken up in discussing a proposition made today by Secre tary Baker of the Philadelphia club to amend the constitution so that no player should be released after August 1 each year unless all the clubs in the league were asked for waivers. This was to prevent trades of players which might strengthen leading clubs in the pennant race, but it was pointed out that it might also work against clubs in the second division which might de sire to make trades. The question was referred to a commission which is to report back to the schedule meet ing next February. By unanimous vote the league will take adequate care of John B. Day. former owner and one of the founders of the New York club, during the re mainder of his life. This veteran re cently suffered from a paralytic stroke and it was understood that he lost almost his entire fortune during the brotherhood fight. S tailings or Cubs. George Stallings, manager of the Boston Nationals for the last four years, tonight was regarded here as the leading candidate for the vacant position of manager of the Chicago Nationals. Pennsylvania Team Begins Practice for Oregon Game Philadelphia, Dec. 14. Practice in preparation for the foot ball game with the University of Oregon at Pasadena, Cal., on New Year's day was started by the University of Pennsylvania squad yesterday. It was the first workout the Red and Blue players have had since the Cornell contest on Thanksgiving day and the coaches instructed the men to take it easy. Nine of the 'varsity eleven and one substitute were sent through a basket ball game in the gymnasium to "develop their wind." Later the squad was put through a light scrim mage on Franklin field. Signal practice was planned for to day and tomorrow, while the 'varsity will line up against the second eleven in a regular game on Saturday. Sev eral scrimmage practices probably will be held next week before the team leaves for the coast Friday aft ernoon. Doubt as to whether Berry, the tar fullback, would be able to accom pany the squad was set at rest today by the announcement that he had caught up in his studies and would Mircly make the trip. Genoa Has Fast Five, Out After More Games Genoa, Neb., Dec. 14. (Special.) The Genoa High School basket ball team has played four games and won three, having been defeated by New man Grove by only eight points. They are trying to arrange games with . Commercial and South High schools of Omaha. Following are the scores: Silver i'rci'k at Qpnna 4 1 -2 ." . (fenoa at Silver (rek .:i2-l;i ienoa at Newman (irovt l-;:T t;enoa at StroniHburg 33-It Dean Kerr, Link Boxer, In Omaha After Trouble Dean Kerr, welterweight boxer iron; Lincoln, breezed into Omaha yesterday looking for trouble. Kerr is a well setup youngster who is either a skillful chap or hasn't been in tiic game a long time, as he hasn't a mark on him. not even a symptom of a bud ding cauliflower ear. Kerr would like to tangle up with some of the local welterweights and even is willing to give away a few pounds if there aren't any welters ready to meet him. Noted Violinist Hurt In Automobile Accident New York. Dec. 14. Mischa El nian, noted violinist, was injured, al though not seriously, today, when a taxicab in which he was riding col lided with a street car. His scalp w;ts cut in two places by flying glass ami he was taken to a hospital to have the wounds dressed. Elman's hands escaped injury, but his brother aid he feared the accident would compel th violinist to cancel engage ments fur perhaps a month. I'VE FILLEO Dl JOST HCrr-VATE COTTLE WITH NICE COLO FEU O0 Sport Calendar Today 1 RDM Bull Animal minting of lilwtom of Southern Iranii?, at NaNliTlUr. Horke? Openlwr of oraton of American National tlorkry league. Sn-lmmlnK I'emiH.vlvania against College ' of City of .New York, at New York. ! lloxlng Klt. lile Hltrhell agalnat Joe YYell i ing, ten miimln. at Kaelne, Win. Johnny ; Krtle against Hutch Itramlt, ten round, at , St. I'atil. Jack Savage agalDKt Johnny vvtl I Hon, fifteen muniK at Newport, K. I. Mel ! f'ongan againt Young Murphy, twelve ! rounil. ta f.reenfield, MaNa. Joe Connolly ; against ttilriie H nn, twelve rounds, at Bos i ton. Hill Casey against f.loaeester Joe Klver, eight rounds, at lloslon. Beach shows All-lireed show of Brockton Kennel eluli, Itrocklon, Mass. ! Magic City Basket ! Ball Schedule for Season Given Out The South High school basket hall schedule lor the season has been given out. Games with, Lincoln, Cen tral High, University Place and Ne braska City are considered top-notch-ers. Kearney comes to Omaha Feb ruary 3. The first game will be played Sat urday evening on the South gym. floor at Twenty-fourth and J streets, with the Plattsmouth five. The local team has improved 100 per cent in a week's time, despite the raw ma terial that has faced the coach. A victory is expected. The schedule: Deeemhpr 1 r. Plattsnioiith nl South Side. December 19 Commercial High at Oma ha ' "Y." December 29. Manilla. Id., at South Side. January fi Alumni at South Side. January 12 Council Bluff at South Side. January 19 Central High at Omaha "T." January 2ti Auburn at Auburn. . January 27 University Place at TJnaolo. February 3 Kearney at Soulh Side. February 10 West Point at South Side. February 17 Lincoln at Lincoln. February 18 Central High at South Sid-. February 23 Nebraska City at South Side. March 2 Commercial High at South Side. Basket Ball Starts 1 In Earnest at Omaha Basket ball at the University of Omaha has reached a high pitch of enthusiasm. Three games have been scheduled for this week end. The most important of these is that be tween the regular five and the Dana team of Blair. The game will be played Saturday evening at the local gymnasium at 8 o'clock. While the student body believes the local flippers will have no hard task in getting the big end of the count, Coach DcLamatre intimates that he will be satisfied if his boys hold the Blairites to a small score. And he has cause for worrying for already the university has a hospital list. Most of the men have not yet recovered from the first work out and some of them received bad knocks at practices. Teddy Korbmaker, one of De Lainatre's indespensable guards, has a sore back and William Thompson, the speedy right forward, is suffering from a sprained ankle. As a preliminary game the Sopho mores will play the Freshmen. Friday afternoon the girls' tourna ment will be started at 3 o'clock, when the Seniors play the Freshmen. The second team of the university will play in a league this season which includes Bellevue, South Side High and Council Bluffs. Persistence is the Cardinal Virtue in Advertising. Bowling Results Neb. Telephone Co. KNOINBKKS 1st. 2d. 3d. Tot Ifii 2fl4 Ifil f.i!7 ! GENERAL ! 1st. i R. Johnson. 169 Hall Cronland Friend . . Srlplf . Handicap '( 1 Whltlork ..173 146 132 4tn Zlmnipr . ..ICt I2r, I0X 292 Lambert ..167 160 1X2 497 Kent 167 120 167 444 Total Slfi 742 744 Mill COMMERCIAL. Int. 2d. 3d. Tot. MX 117 167 A27 142 172 ISO fi04 13.'i i:il 133 397 191 M3 . 17 17 Totals 7S0 Nl" Sfil! 2441 Afl.TTINU PEPT. 1st. 2d. 3d. Tot d.oii .143 17 M? 4M i.lliir . .177 19fl 124 4ftl amlbrrii . 1 H0 K15 ITK 493 Kolxo lr TraMtFifad I a Marshall ..10 Patergon Mowry Handlmp 'ntby . . . . 144 154 4ti" 1M9 163 493 Tula If .MO r;m 7H4 A! WM'NTINi;. Int. 2d. 3d. 242S Tnlain 730 R12 722262 Carter Lake Club. f,nn 1M. 2d Tot. 370 Rirnifi t 92 ISO 49ft H-Btlln Ht 136 55R 41 s i farpfnter 100 100 X00 I Ufjjflslrom M 17 2314 ! Hackctt HO 16 376 Prlmeau Stra wn Fell man Sratifif II Bosky . 17K 194 1HN 144 I, '7 I: 112 152 14 i:if. .134 Mr. 139 Total." 703 7fi4 Nl7 WIRE 47HIKF. Ut. 2d. 3d. Durham . . .122 12S 112 WHnon lfil Hi. 109 D. Hearty. 124 120 125 M. Heffarty.113 150 II'. Huff 130 UK 14S Handicap .. 2ft 25 25 Totalo 675 KM 4 f.04 INSTALLERS. Total 617 CARTER. i Brg ! Dim Irk l levering1 1 Roffpro i Straw 1st. 2d. 3d. Tot. 1 486 443 548 412 Gould i'lrlrh . Kan per Mad. "en Phillip .131 1M 171 .1 47 169 127 .159 173 216 .148 127 137 .147 176 132 Gould . . Jtn . . . . Straw Totals, TotalK 732 S49 783 2 W KST ELECTRIC CO. 1st d. 3d. ' Brue 139 l9 lOii lini 139 !:; 143 Wt-bt-r 164 14K 13t B:i.'htnan .154 135 119 Zadlna 144 141 156 Handl'-up . ' 7 Tou.l.- . 717 .:.! .!: : ; .lohneori THK RKK : OMAHA. FRIDAY. DKCKMP.KK CopyriEht, 1916. International Newn Srrvicr. COAT AN' XOOLL T in THE HOO-bE "WITH SUWCION- PLAYERS MUSTN'T WRITEOF GAMES Johnson Doesn't Want Them to Use Names in Connection With Series Yarns. BOSTON SALE IS RATIFIED Chicago, Dec. 14. Ratification of the sale of the lloston club, curtail ment of players' salaries and adoption of legislation providing for punish ment to players who permit the use of their name in writing newspaper stories on world's series games are the important questions to be con sidered at a meeting of the American league which opens here tomorrow. F.conomy will be urged by President Johnson, who asserted tonight that the game has been conducted on an extravagant basis and every expense, including salaries, must be curtailed. Players offered high salaried contracts to retain them during the war with the Federal league must expect a reduc tion, Johnson said. In the event that Carrigan could not be induced to return, Frazee said that "there are one or two players on the Boston club who might make good managers. Jack Rarry, second baseman, and Outfielder Hooper were mentioned in this connection. Practically every club owner in the league was here tonight for the meet ing. Fourth Nebraska Regiment May Be Home by Christmas The soldiers boys of the Fourth Nebraska regiment will cat their Christmas dinners, not among the mesquite and sage brush along the Mexican border, out right in Omaha, according to preparations being made today by Colonel Bingham, quarter master of the United States army in the Omaha district. The colonel is negotiating now with local bread makers to deliver consign ments of their goods to Fort Crook. Although the contracts have not yet be$n signed, it is understood by Jay Burns that the bread is to be at the fort several days before Christmas. The bakers have gleaned the informa tion that the' Fourth Nebraska is go ing to entrain for home December 18. Conformity to that schedule would bring the boys in Omaha De cember 21. Refrigerator Car Burns, Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 14. (Special Telegram.) Fire today at the plant of the Beatrice Cold Storage com pany destroyed a refrigerator car with ninety cases of eggs and fifteen barrels of dressed poultry. The plant also was damaged. The loss is placed at $3,000, covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the beater in the car exploding. Commits Suicide on Street. North Platte. Neb.. Dec, 14. (Spe cial Telegram.) J. P. Smith, 40, dishwasher, committed suicide on the street here this afternoon by swal lowing carbolic acid. The cause of the suicide is unknown. Smith leaves a sister in Ohio. on Omaha Alleys OFFICE. 2d. 3d. Tot. 202 l5 &3 . O. V. w. NO. 173. Int. 2d. 3d Tot. 469 . . 162 166 141 . 120 125 135 .111 120 N9 .135 121 123 .121 140 127 . . 629 672 615 1 NO. 1H Int. 2d, 3d ' .Ion1 Doynp 143 12 43 Kuu Potron Df-a n 151 121 163 11) 120 144 173 13Jt 124 130 124 H9 ir.l mi ur in I 131 t f.3 144 W. Smith 144 1J1 lfifl 129 R Hmith Handicap 134 lfil 139 60 tiO 60 12 I 2 Total? 666 479 68 2022 NO. 17 Int. 2d, 3d, Tft . . lf.t J 7: lf.t 40 ...131 17 124 4::4 lift 1 46 165 466 ..136 169 14) 452 ..167 124 21 1 492 Griffith Simpson Lundsrrn Holly . . Schlndkr Totitli .734 71 332. lt 2d. .147 125 ..171 140 800 2321 9 1016 2d. Tot. 71 216 9 155 13 153 1 f'f 200 100 200 3d Tot 132 404 Nir.hnla Rockford Swanwori Uttrnandt 137 170 100 100 92 J or. . 1 1 H 99 112 Ruchrr 132 15ft 140 i.U Handtf:ai . . 27 27 Totals 688 656 NO. St 73 551 1124 nt Jd Tot. 11 171 282 04 114 218 05 113 321 Lit 2d. 3d Tot 119 II 138 34 A 122 122 133 377 .133 13 Ml 410 .146 160 191 496 182 178 U 499 O. K .r. Rfimn . C. c.huf , Ptrrnwn Handicap . Totals . . .78 694 741 21M r.d. TdV , 178 f.4:n ;:13 1lMhrif-r .197 IS 147 1 i r-i r ' 4Lr0 MR. JKKiS- I M SLr0 To JEE QO O W. THERE OURE ALLOW ME TO PN THI ROiE THE WATER ( HOME! J ON YOUR COAT FOR HELPING O-b I I k 7 COTTLE ! . JERRY YOORE A LIFE. AVER ; t Jit - .a Xmas Gifts for a Man Something for Personal Use Ktnblem charms and scarf piu. Cordial sets. Klcctric vihraioi Card tables and mauanit stand. Military bruhc, silver back. Desk clocks. Cigaret caso Something different, Klectrically heatedv shaving mug. Fireplace tut nihing. Bronzes, marbles or antique Platinum watch chains Gazing globes. Navajo blanket. Cocktail mixer. Something inexpensive. - Laundry bags. .Shaving mirrors. Folding coat hanger cl.v Leather pillows. Stripe shirting silks. Full dress protect m v Cravats LONG PROFITS IN BREAKFAST FOODS Chancellor Avery, Before Farmers' Congress, Takes Whirl at the H. C. L. STORY OF LOAF OF BREAD "In certain breakfast foods we get 2.8 cents' worth of wheat for 25 cents when it is done up in a neal sanitary package and delivered to the door by the grocer's automobile de livery. "In certain other nreaklast foods which are also essentially wheat, we get 275 cents worth of wheat for 20 cents. "When a woman buys wet hominy delivered at her door she pays for 5 cents worth of com when she buys 30 cents worth of hominy." The foregoing were some of the statements made by Chancellor Samuel Avery of the University ol Nebraska in his talk Wednesday at the Hotel Castle to the Nebraska Farmers' congress. 1 he chancellor is a specialized chemist, besides being chancellor of the university, for he studied abroad many years, and for years was head of the chemistry department of the University of Nebraska. Being a chemist then, he took one of the ablest and most careful stu dents in the department of chemistry at the university and set this student the task of determining the amount of Krain actually contained in certain j well known breakfast foods, with the result given above. ! "Now." said the chancellor, "while I do not advocate that we make our own breakfast foods by pounding up grain in primitive methods, I give these facts merely to show that in a pinch, under siege conditions, we could save a grea part of the ex pense of our food." Cause of High Cost. The speaker refrained from men- ! tiouing brands of breakfast foods, as he said, I do not wish to engage in a controversy which I always dis like." Chancellor Avery look for his sub ject, "The i .or of a Loaf uf liread." lie charged the high cost oi living to three principal causes, supply, possi ble manipulation, an.! the psychology of the situation. The psychology he ilustrated by the tact that wheat im mediately tumbled in price several cents when it was flashed through the world that Germany was coming forth with a peace proposal, fie said that the best thinkers, however, look for a generally high level of prices for a few years units, some phenomenally large crops .should be raised. Ik added that doubtless the landlord, the tenant, the miller and the lukt . Miarc in the prolit from the increased cost of a loai of bit ail. lm( he did not ac cuse any one ol ihcni ul makiim luiif profits. I he miller, said the hiiiicclloi , "it would appear frcm staiistics, is making about the same prola he did when both wheat and flout were , cheaper," anil he a.-o.ei ied the miller is doing no better now than he could i do tn any one of a number of line of business in which he might engage, j While the chaucelloi took the post ' tion that the American baker has i always made much greater profits j than the Kuropcan b;ker. he .said it ! did not appear now that the batter is j greatly pVotttin; mJcr the present i conditions. The chancellor declared himself in favor of a definite and standard size of the loaf, even if the price had to rise, for lie believed it best to have f.e public understand how mm h it was getting for its mney all the time. A memorial rrsohn inn was adopted for the late Isaac I'ollard. a life mem ber of the congress, ami the late W. S. Delano, a former secctary. ou Will t.H lntnnt It H Iff Or IMff I'ln-Tnr-Miri:, aoolhrn your roiitfh. iillayf I nil a ininw t 'un, limsfnn (hi- nl h Im 1 1 IS. 1916. Drawn for TRAPPER COULDN'T SNARE WILD HORSES Edmund Priest, Arizona Hunter, Tries His Hand at Capturing Nags. BUT THEY GOT AWAY I low 150 wild horses of the I'nited Slates Live Stock company increased to 1.100 in a little more than a month I was the testimony presented by gnv I eminent attorneys before the "wild I horse" jury yesterday afternoon. ! John Sinclair, cattleman of Flag ! staff, Ariz., testified that he sold half of his .100 wild range horses to the l;nited Slates Live Stock company in 1I0 for $1,000. "J. S. Smith of the company told me to make out the bill of sale covering 1,100 head," the cattleman added. "Why didn't you?" he was asked. "Because I didn't have them." The fact that the bill of sale cov ered but 150 animals made little dif ference to J. S. Smith, president of the I'nited States ''Live Stock com pany, the evidence showed. In a deal with A. O. Perry he raised the number to 1,100, the bill of sale specifying the same brands that he had purchased from Sinclair. This latter bill of sale was read to the jury by Tom S. Allen. United States district attorney. Veteran Trapper Fails. That it was impossible to even trp the animals, let alone run them down, was told by Edmund Priest, trapper and hunter of Flagstaff, Ariz., for twenty years. "I was offered $5 a head and I thought I could go out and make a little easy money." "You was sort of a failure as a trapper, then?" asked Attorney Fle harty of the defense. "I was that time," the trapper re marked. Hen Fidler, real cetate dealer of Sioux City, la., is just out approxi mately $14,000 of real estate. He was to get a large number of horses, but he never got anything, according to his testimony. M. K. Silvius, Sioux Falls. S. D., manager of the Silvius Investment company, had equally had luck. His losses, he said, were about $10,000 in real estate. Sheriff Grabs Herd. He went to Coconino county, Ari zona in quest of the horses promised him, he said, but he had had luck. After days of toil he related that he gathered twenty-nine horses, and as he rode proudly into Flagstaff with the bunch, the sheriff came out and' replevincd the lot. "1 wired the I'nited Stales Live Stock company about the matter and they wired back that they wanted fair play for everyone and that they would insist upon it." "Hut they never helped me," he added reflectively. Finally, after a great deal of litiga tion I succeeded in getting five horses, all that I have to show for my prop erty and work." He said he shipped the live to Los Los Angeles. Although there never were more than 3,500 wild range horses on the Coconino reserve, testimony brought out by government attorneys in the "wild horse" case showed that the I'nited Stages Live Stock company and individual members of that or ganization had mde out bills of sale covering approximately 10,855 head. Although this was the actual num ber recorded by Dan J. Croniu. re corder of Coconino county. Arizona, he testified that many more horses must have been sold which were not on his records. lie told of many per sons coming to Flagstaff to have their bills of sale recorded, but that lie was not able to put them on record be cause they were not made out prop erly. I hoiuas J Kukius. live stock in spector and county ranger of Coco nino county, was then called upon to fell oi 1 he number of wild range lnjfses shipped out of Flagstaff. Me said that n l 510 had lett Flagstaff in W and 1910 and of this number only 2.V bore the I'nited States Live Mock company anil Smith brands. Me ti-tifird that the United States I ,ive Stock company never owned over ,100 horses on the range. 1 Tell-Tale Taxes. It the I'nited States Live Stock1 .oiiipaiiy owned anywhere near the number ol horses it claimed, it never paid its proportion of taxes, was the testimony of S. S. Acker, county treasurer and tax collector. Taxes were assessed against the company but they were never paid, he said. J I', Doyle, assessor, corroborated I ( ' d m m m nt l Ml 1 ''1 I i4kv JARVIS 1877 The Leading American Brandy At All Dealers The Bee by George McManus (lie lestimouy of the Coconino county I treasurer. "All 1 was ever able to as ; sens he tn as on lour imilcv forty saddle horses, a wagon and 7(H) wild ! horses." That the wild horses were as elu sie to catch .t for laving purposes I was told by lbei l Chisholnib, ranch i er of hlagstaff. Ariz. "1 have been able to straddle a horse ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper, but I was never able to straddle one of the wild ones." "1 was offered as high as $25 a head to gather the horses, but I turned ii down." "Why. the only way to catch them was lo use strategy sneak up behind them with a swift pony and lasso them." He said that after they were caught they were not worth over $12. C. H. Bardwell, oil man of Chanute I Kan., testified as to the speed of the wuci nurses. "I went to Arizona after some horses my brother had traded for, but I soon gave it up," he said. "It was hard enough to locate them with field glasses, let alone capture Ihem." Mr, and Mrs. Wilson Buy Christmas Gifts j Washington, Dec. 14. The presi dent and Mrs. Wilson went ( hrist nias shopping together today for the first time. Leaving the White House unexpectedly, they walked in front of the grounds and stood for a time look ing at the presidential flag flying frutn a flag pole erected on the White House yesterday. Then they strolled slowly through the business section of the city, stopping here and there to look in shop windows. During their walk they wtire recognized by many shoppers and Mr. Wilson was kept busy returning greetings. Shows How He Hid Dynamite in Coat San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 14. Louis J. Smith, the government's chief wit ness in the trial of Franz Bopp, Ger man consul general, and other de fendants, charged with violation of neutrality laws of the United States, was cross-examined today. Smith was taken back to the attempt made in I'M 5 to dynamite ships at Tacoma, Wash., loaded with munitions destined for the allies. Smith had testified that in place of dynamite he had placed stove wood in the bombs and that he carried the dynamite and fuse away with him under his coat, lie was asked today to show how this was dorr and dem onstrated how the dynamite could have been carried away as he de scribed. Persistence is the Cardinal Virtue in Advertising. Suggestions for the Christmas Shopper Our stock is the most comprehensive in variety to be found in the city. It will be our pleasure to show you the many beautiful and serviceable gifts that we, are offering and to quote you prices, which, quality consid ered, are always the lowest. . A complete line. What would be more acceptable than a nice pocket knife? We have a fine selection of pearl and stag handles. Scissors, Manicure Sets, Safety Razors, all makes; Tool Cabinets, Manual Training Tools and Benches, Scroll Saws and Turning Lathes. DO YOUR SHOPPING EARLY James Morton & Son Co. 1511-13 Dodge Street. I New Yorker Libeled In Novel is Given a $35,000 Judgment: Now Vork, Dec. 14. A verdict of $.15,(101) was given by a jury here to-'1' l;iy in (avur of Police Magistrate -Joseph K. Corrigan, in his suit against the Uolibs-Merrill company of In dianapolis, Intl., publishers of George Urnnson Howard's novel. "God''' Man," in which he alleged he wan" libelled. He sued for $2110,000 dam- ' ages. 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