The Omaha Daily Bee
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OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1917 FOURTEEN PAGES.
THE WEATHER
' Fair
VOL XLVII NO. 2.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
XUGEL SAYS 'SEE LYNCH-UNGER;
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OURT STOPSSTRIKE IN OMAHA
SWEARS CITY COMMISSIONER
TOLD HIM TO REPORT THERE
AND HE OBEYED THESE ORDERS
Bomb Launched In Maloney Trial Hits In High Place
Despite Close Questioning of Lawyers; Witness
Says Kugel Told Him Certain Places Need
- i " Not Be Disturbed In His Rounds.
John A. linger, detective,
iviaioney nearing Deiore tiie city council. The missile struck
amidships against Superintendent Kugel of the police department.
Unger testified that during June of last year Mr. Kugel
aireciea mm to see jonnny Lyncn ana take a kindly interest
in Mr. Lynch's wishes.
He related having gone to the home of Mrs. Margaret
Melson, 514 South Nineteenth street, with Detective Paul Sut
ton, supposedly to investigate the place at Suton's suggestion,
the latter at the tjme directing Unger's movements.
The witness testified it was understood that he and Sut
ton were to have made a report on the place as detectives
usually do, but when he discovered Sutton and "Elsie" having
a good time, he suspected all was not right, reported to Mr.
Kukel at the Loch saloon and was told by Kugel that Sutton
would attend to the matter.
Tells Ahnil 0ot Tliih !!
Unger offered further damaging
testimony against Kugel in connection
with the Owl club. He said a captain
at the police station directed him to
go the the Owl club and meet Kugel,
who, according to the testimony, told
the detective to go easy on a certain
saloon because the proprietor was all
right.,
"While I and Kugel were at the
Owl club I observed card games and
bootleeeinc" testified Uncer.
The witness declared he was posi
tive he saw Sutton and Mrs. Phelps
at the Melson home, because be had
the occasion fixed in his mind on ac
count of Sutton paying him a debt
of $4.
To Discredit Sutton.
The witness discredited testimony
of Sutton last week, that on various
occasions Unger and Harvey Wolf
appeared during times of raids. Unger
declared that only on one occasion
was Wolf with him and that was ac
cidentally and because Wolf's automo
bile happened to serve the occasion.
The witness added that his wife and
Mrs. Wolf bad been close friends for
years.
In the testimony he reiterated re
porting the Melson place to Kugel
and that on occasion he reported to
Kugel at the Owl club and at Fete
Loch's place.
" Unger charged Paul Sutto.i with
disinclination to raid certain places.
Mrs. Melson, in her testimony, stated
that her place never had been raided,
probably because she wore a horse
shoe around her neck.
New Maloney Charges.
Another feature of the afternoon
was offered by City Attorney Rine,
who presented new charges against
Captain Maloney, prepared at the re
quest of Superintendent Kugel and
based on the public reference to Kugel
as "a dirty rat" by Captain Maloney
last week. Those charges will be con
sidered b ythe city counicl next week.
The defense offered considerable
evidence to refute charges made by
Detective Sutton in connection with
alleged neglect by Captain Maloney's
department to bring criminals to jus
tice. Dunn and Kennelly Testify.
' Detectives Dunn and Kennelly testi
fied that in the case of burglary at
the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. Charles
Gille an earnest effort was made to
apprehend the thief and neither of
them pointed out a prisoner as the
man who committed the crime. De
tective Rich testified that in the Smith
drug store murder case a suspect was
held for identification, but was re
leased after witnesses failed to identify
the prisoner.
Interested In Feed Yard.
George Urbach, garbage hauler, of
fered hhearsay evidence that Maloney
is interested with Henry Pollock in
a hog-feeding ranch, received 8 per
cent of the profits of sale of hogs,
and was instrumental in prevailing
4ipon certain downtown persons to
give their garbage to Pollock instead
of to the witness. He charged ir
regularity in alloting districts of the
city to three individuals without ad
vertising for bids and giving all haul
ers an equal opportunity.
Catherine Sheehan, , 1145 North
Nineteenth street, related that when
her purse was snatched last January
she and others pursued the thief who
was arrested and later released on a
cash bond of $50 which lie forfeited
and thus escaped punishment. She
s?'1 identified the prisoner at the
eiey jail.
-Word From Florence.
Mrs. Margaret Rohr of Florence,
mentioned in the testimony of Mrs.
Margaret Melson. went into her ac-
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More Money Loaned to
Great Britain and1 Belgium
Washington, June 19. Another loan
of $.55,000,000 was made today to
Great Britain by the treasury.
The Belgian minister also received
today $7,500,000, the second monthly
installment of the $45,000,000 credit
given to Belgium.
Loans to Great Britain brings the
total advanced to the allies ud to
$983,000,000, of Which Great Britain
has received $535,000,000.
launched a torpedo at the
WHOLESALE CUTS
IN FITZGERALD'S
FIGURESOR TAX
Hundreds of Thousands of Dol
lars Are Stricken from the
" Lists by the County
( Equalization Board.
Reductions totaling hundreds of
thousands of dollars have been made
by the county board of equalization
on tax schedules raised by County
Assessor Fitzgerald.
In many instances the, board cut
down assessments to the figures re
turned by taxpayers over protests by
the county assessor, who sent out
more than 5,000 notices of wholesale
and enormous boosts, running into
the millions.
While only a mall per cent of the
whole number of taxpayers notified
of raises have appeared before the
board to protest up to ttiij time, the
reductions are in some cases as start
ling as were the boosts.
Only a Tew 'Raises Stand.
Only a few raises as originally
made by the county assessor these
generally involving small amounts
have stood, the board in the maioritv
of instances reducing assessments as
returned.
For the most part the county as
sessor alone has voted to raise taxes
to the figures set out by him in the
notices sent to thousands of business
houses, factories, corporations and in
dividuals. Equalization board sessions the last
couple of days have been marked by
verbal tilts between the county as
sessor and other members of the
body. It is plain from current hap
penings that all is not harmony on
the board.
Firm's Figures Stand.
Adams & Kelly company, mill work,
which returned a schedule of $15.3,200,
$33,000 more than last vear. and was
raised to $300,000 by the county as-'
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Two Thousand Americans
Marooned in Palestine
Washington, June 19. Henry Mor
genthau, former ambassador to Tur
key, and Felix Frankfurter, now at
tached to the War department, will
go to Egypt to care for about 2,000
Americans still marooned in Palestine
and to look after other American in
terests in that section. ANlarge
amount of supplies sent on the cruiser
Des Moines and the naval collier
Caesar have been waiting at Alexan
dria ever since the United States en
tered the war, for distribution to
refugees. '
Sims Takes Command of
The Allied Fleets Off Ireland
London, June 19. Vice Admiral
William S. Sims, U. S. N., has been
appointed to take general charge of
the operations of the allied naval
forces in Irish waters.
Admiral Sims will act in this ca
pacity while the British naval commander-in-chief
is absent from his
post for a period, the official an
nouncement of his ap-ointment ex
plains. The American admiral's flag mean
while has been hoisted as the alliei'
senior officer in these wa'ers.
Broker Who Tried to Bear
Liberty Bonds Repents
New York, Jmu 19. A stock ex
change broker, who sold Liberty
loan bonds below par on the floor of
the exchange last Saturday is repent
ant and has repurchased them at par,
it was announced here todav bv an ex
change committee which investigated
the action ot the broker whose name
has been withheld: Furthermore it
Kvas stated, he has contributed $100,000
to the Red Cross fund.
Aliened Slauer nf Bn
Keet h Unde
Hutchinson, Kan.,-- JuneXAn
nouncement was made by thrpolice
today that they had arrested Dick
Carter of Springfield, Mo., against
whom a warrant charging first de
gree murder has been issued in con
nection with the mysterious disap-
Searance and death of Baby Lloyd
et.
FOOD GAMBLERS
TAKING TOLL OF
MANY MILLIONS
Hoover Tells Senators Specu
lation Has Cost People a
Quarter Billion Dollars
in Five Months.
Washington, June 19. Food spec
ulators have been taking $50,000,000
a month for the last live months a
total of a quarter of a billion dollars
from the Amcrjcan people, Herbert
C. Hoover today told senators in ex
plaining the purposes of the food
control bill now before congress,
the government's food control bill
Disclaiming entirely that the bill
sets up i. food dictatorship, Mr.
Hoover told senators its purposes
were entirely to organize the re
sources of the country and the people
themselveslinto a food administration
to limit middlemen's commissions -iiJ
prevent extortion.
"The price of flour should not have
been over $9 a barrel," he said, "yet
it averages $14, In the last five
months $250,000,000 has been ex
tracted from the American consumer
in excess of normal profits of manu
facturers and distributors."
Address Made to Senators.
Not a single national trade asso
ciation, Hoover told the senators, is
opposed to the food control bill. The
prospective food administrator went
to the capitol early today to explain
the bill informally to senators in the
hope that a full understanding of its
objects and purposes may allay some
of the opposition.
An informal conference in the
senate agricultural committee room
arranged by administration leaders m
the hope of removing senatorial oppo
sition iu inc legislation.
Opposition in Senate.
Opposition to the bill in the sen
ate is determined and it is feared un
less this can be overcome the measure
will not be enacted by July 1, as
urged by President Wilson. It is con
fidently believed that the bill will go
through the house by the end of the
week.
The bill was the unfinished business
before the house and senate today and
will be pressed for final disposition.
Fears of a senate filibuster led ad
ministration leaders to prepare to em
ploy the rule to limite debate if neces
sary.
Address of Mr. Hoover.
Mr. Hoover outlined broadly the
question of prospective food supplies.
"The real question," he. said in a
prepared statement preliminary to
senatorial questioning, "is whether
the shortage will continue next year
anu wnat win Dc tne needs ot the
allies and America. Despite the re
duced consumption of the allies, they
will require larger amount of cereals
next year than ever before. The allies
are more isolated in food sources. It
takes three times the tonnage and
double the trouble to get Australian
wheat. , Crop failures in the Argen
tine give no hope of relief from there
before next spring.
Must Feed Allies, v
Korthrica for the'vast majority
The allies are dependent upon
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Army Surgeon Charged
With Marder of Student
New Brunswick, N. J., June 19.
A warrant for the arrest of Dr. Wil
liam J.Condon, a captain in the
United States army medical corps at
Chattanooga, Tenn., was issued here
today in connection with the murder
of John V. Piper, a University of
Vermont graduate, whose body was
found with a bullet wound in the
breast near Spotswood, ' N. J., last
Saturday.
Whisky, Beer and
Revenue Receipts
Washington, June 19. High tide
of whisky and beer revenue receipts
and presumably consumption in
the United States was reached dur
ing the fiscal year now closing. The
cigaret smokers of the nation, fig
ures show, also smoked more than
they have ever smoked before.
Ordinary internal revenue receipts,
composed chiefly of taxes on whisky,
beer and tobacco, were $424,327,463
so far this year, compared with $365,
126,544 last year.
Gauged by revenue receipts, the
present year will probably go down
in history as the banner year of the
liquor traffic.
Revenue collected on whisky so
far in the fiscal year is approximately
$178,000,000. a record for any year,
although the current fiscal year still
has eleven days. Ordinary receipts
still are pouring in, more thansl.
000.000 a day. At the tax rate1 of
$1.10 per gallon, these figures mean
that taxs have been paid on about
154,000.000 gallons. This exceeds by
Within
SUNDAY SCHOOL
GOLDEN JUBILEE
-fiETS UNDERWAY
Fiftieth Annual Convention of
State Association Opens With
Large Attendance; 2,270
Delegates Register.
Up to last night delegates from out
in the state, who had reached Omaha
to attend the Golden Jubilee, or fif
tieth annual convention of the Ne
braska State Sunday School associa
tion, numbered 2,270. In addition.
there were nearly 1,000 more delegates
from Sunday schools of Omaha. Sev
eral hundred are expected to arrive
this morning.
The first session of the convention
was held yesterday afternoon and was
cut short on account of an automobile
tour of the city, which started at 1
o clock, continuing two hours and
covering thirty miles of streets and
boulevards. About 400 cars made the
trip.
This is the first convention of the
association held in Omaha since 1912.
In point of attendance it promises to
be a record-breaker. Sunady school
workers and puipls have come from
every county in the state, and there
is hardly a Nebraska city or town
that has not sent a delegation. Cass
county has the target delegation, ap
proximately 500 people, most who
came in automobiles. Richardson,
Otoe, Lancaster, Dodge, Washington
nd Burt counties are represented by
delegations of from 200 to 400 each;
while many of the farther away coun
ties have twenty to titty delegates.
Omahans have thrown their homes
open to the delegates.
Meetings at Auditorium.
Business headquarters of the asso
ciation are at the Hotel Cstle. All
principal meetings are being held in
the auditorium.
The convention was opened by the
audience singing "America," after
which the Rainbow chorus, consisting
of six-hundred boys and girls, train-
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Tobacco Internal
Are at High Tide
11,000,000 gallons the record of the
next highest year, 1913.
Part of these heavy receipts is ac
counted for, however, by heavy with
drawals from bonded warehouses in
the face of the 100 per cent increase
in taxes contemplated in the war rev
enue bill. More than $6,000,000 in
crease in April is attributed to this
cause. Withdrawals have not been so
hdavy since April. '
Revenue from beer is about $94,
000,000, a little less than the record
of 1914, when approximately 66,000,
000 barrels taxable at $1.50 per bar
rel were consumed. V is expected
that when the fiscal year closes June
30, the 1914 record will have been
surpassed.
Tobacco yielded more than $100,
000,000 revenue this year. The near
est approach to this figure was last
year's revenue of approximately $88,
000,000. A large part of the 15 per
cent increase is believed doe to the
growing popularity of cigarets among
women.
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HEAT AND DROUTH
ARE DESTROYING
GERMAN CROPS
Unprecedented Torrid Wave is
Burning Up Growing Grain;
. Sunday Hottest Day in
' Seventy Years.
Copenhagen, June 19. (Via Lon
don.) Throughout Germany, accord
ing let' reports here, all valuable grain
crops are burning up as they did in
1915 in an unprecedented heat wave,
wave.
The prolonged drouth has not been
broken since early in May. Berlin on
Sunday experienced the hottest June
17 on record in seventy years, says
the weather bureau. Tropical tem
peratures were also reported every
whercvwest of the Oder river.
Many horses were scratched on
the opening day of the Hamburg
derby week, because the track, built
on a low moor, was baked too hard
for safety.
The effect of the drouth on grain
crops around Berlin, where only eight
millimeters of rain have fallen since
May 1, is described by a neutral, who
arrived here on Friday, as almost
catastrophal.
I he Sunday sermon writer in the
Berlin Kreuse Zeitung, who recently
indulged in a startling blending of
religion and politics, declared on Sun.
day that the drouth was sent as a
punishment for the sins of the people
tor listening to the editors ot irreligi
ous newspapers and -sked how long
it would be betore this divine chas
tisement would bring the people to a
sense ot their inquities.
Deputy State Superintendent
Observes Wedding Anniversarj
'(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, June 19. (Special.) Dep
uty State Superintendent Woodard
celebrated his fifteenth wedding an
niversary yesterday. Just how he
celebrated with the state dry since the
first of May does not appear in the
proceedings, but anyhow the office
force recognizing that there should
be some sort of a celebration gathered
themselves together in a body and
surprised Mr. and Mrs. Woodard at
their home during the evening and
took along a bunch of cut glass furni
ture of some sort as a reminder that
time flies and fifteen years was at
hand.
Madison County to Aid
With Sixth Regiment
Norfolk, Neb., June 19. (Special
Telegram) During a first meeting
of officers and heads of committees
the Madison County Defense league
adopted resolutions here backing the
organization of a unit for the bat
talion of the proposed Sixth regiment
of the Nebraska national guard which
is now in course of organization.
The council also made plans for
boosting-Red Cross subscriptions.
The Red Cross campaign here Tues
day yielded $3,300 and was growing
steadily.
Pro-German talk was denounced
during thee ouncil meeting and plans
are under way to give the United
States attorney prompt notice of un
patriotic acts in this county.
STATE INTERVENES UNDER
JUNKIN LAW PROHIBITING
ACTS IN TRADE RESTRAINT
Judge Leslie Grants Restraining Order Against Business
Men's Association and Fifteen Labor Unions
Out on Strike; Court Forbids Boycotts,
Picketing and Intimidation.
Judge Charles Leslie of the district court yesterday
granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Busi
ness Men' association of Omaha and fifteen labor union out
on strike from committing any act in restraint of trade.
ine ttaie or neorasKa, tnrougn Attorney venerai win is .
E. Reed, intervened to atop the strike. The petition praying'
for an injunction was filed before Judge Leslie sitting in chajrf
bert late at night. The order was issued at 1 o'clock in the rrtorn
ing. After granting the temporary relief sought by the state,
Judge Leslie said he would hear the case on its merits June 27.
MEDIATORS HAVE
LIVELY SESSION
AND RECONVENE
Had Adjourned Until After In
junction Hearing; Discuss
Effect of Restraining
Order on Strike.
The strike hearing before the state
board of mediation and investigation
Tuesday afternoon, took an unusual
turn of affairs. In less than an hour
the board had voted to adjourn until
after, the injunction hearing before
Judge Leslie, had reconvened to settle
a point or order as to the legality
of adjourning and then finally post
poned the strike investigation until
Chairman Cowell could get in touch
with Governor Neville, to see if he
desired that the investigation be dis
continued for the time being. The
board will convene at ten o'clock this
morning to hear Chairman Cowell s
report.
1 he afternoon session was bv far
the liveliest of the hearing. Soon af
ter the board convened, F. A. Brogan,
representing the employers, declined
to go turtner until alter tne injunction
hearing before Judge Leslie had been
heard.
Would Violate Spirit of Law.
"To go ahead at this time would be
violation of the spirit and the law
of the restraining order. On behalf
of the persons 1 represent, I have
been instructed not to proceed with
our side of the affair until after that
now before Judge Leslie.
Attorney Brogan s statement
brought a storm of protest from An
son A. Bigelow, representing the em
ploves.
Jt the business men to do not want
to have their side of the controversy
investigated, perhaps it would be best
to leave thrm out , he shouted.
"No injuiivtion ever settled a strike
The people of the state of Nebraska
should know what caused the con'
troversy."
It was at this point that Jerrv
Howard, who had been present since
the hearing began, asked to say
few words.
Governor Wishes Postponment.
After listening to the arguments of
both attorneys, Chairman Cowell said
that he had been in consultation with
Attorney General Reed, and that the
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Alleged Slackers at
Fremont Under Ag
Fremont, Neb., June 18. Charles
Roman and John Warner, two Fre
mout boys, members of a bridge
gang at work near Winnebago, are
in the Dodge county jail, on a charge
of being slackers. Roman's mother
declared her son is only 17 years of
age and tins is yenned by Dr. A. t.
Stuart of Cedar Bluffs. Warner is
not yet twenty years of age, accord
ing to the evidence Sheriff Condit has.
Norwegian Steamship
Bissy Is Sunk by Mine
London. June 19. The Norwegian
steamer Bissy, bound from Chile with
coal, has been sunk by a mine, ac
cording to a Norwegian foreign office
report transmitted by the Central
News correspondent at Copenhagen.
The crew of the steamer was saved.
Parties to the Suit
Filed by the State
Seventeen organizations are
made defendants in the suit, in
cluding the Business Men's Asso
ciation of Omaha, Farmers' Lum
ber company, C. W. Hull company
and fifteen unions represented in
the Building Trades' council. These
include the unions of bricklayers,
painters, sheet metal workers, iron
workers, steam and operating engi
neers, plasterers (two unions),
electrical workers, lathers, team
sters, tile layers and helpers, hod
carriers, boilermakers and carpen
ters and jojners.
The Junkln anti-trust law of Ne
braska is invoked and state and na- .
tional constitutional provisions are
cited which the two parties to
the present labor strife in Omaha are
alleged to be violating.
The court order prohibits boycotts,
picketing and intimidating any per
son, whether a member of union or
not. 1 prohibits violence (o force
membership in any union and orders
the question of union or nonunion
shops, whether advocated or opposed
by any of the parties to the Omaha
labor trouble, held in abeyance until
the close of the present w.r in which
the United States is now engaged.
REASON FOR INTERVL. -j.
Investment of half a million dol
lars in Libert;' bonds by the state of
Nebraska, the petition alleges, gives
Nebraska eavse to Interne:. j because
the natural progress of a labor di-
"riot, bloodshed and destruction of
property," declared to be "in viola
lon of law and clearly in restraint of
trade and commerce." , f
The petition recites the continued
violence of members of the team
sters' union when it gained knowl
edge that the state might intervene
as ground for an injunction. It em
phasizes the danger to the nation at
this time of war if industrial strife
is permitted to continue unchecked.
Affidavits in support of the petition
are submitted from John Warren,
Louis Knox, Edward Keane, C.
Robinnet, J. E. Morgan, John Lof
gren, Henry J. Bruhing, Arthur
Rafferty, Oscar Bassett, William
Lebs, William D. Lebs and W. B.
Cronk.
Position of the State.
One paragraph of the voluminous
petition tells the position of the state
when it says: the effect of the de
mand on the part of labor organiza
tions for a full and complete recogni
tion of their unions at this- time be.
fore the close of the war, and the fail
ure of the employers of labor, some
of whom are and others are not now
members of the Business Men' asso
ciation of Omaha, to supply the
necessary needs and demands of the
general public outside of those who
are striking or who claim to be locked i
out, and the act of each of the several
individuals of the several local unions,
defendants, and the said acts of the
several business men, and the con
tinuance of the acts of the labor or
ganizations and the business men,
which are in effect a combination in
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Requirements for Nurses'
Certificates More Strict
(Krora a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, June 19. (Special.) That
requirements for a certificate for
nurses are more strict is evidenced by
tne iact tnat ot iuu applications and
examinations taken two weeks ago
before the examination board for
certificates, twenty-nine failed to pass.
Some of these as well as the seven
ty-one who did secure certificates,
were for the purpose of entering Red
Cross work, and it is probable that
those who failed will be greatly dis
appointed. Effort to Clog Flag Pulley
Foiled by Fire Laddies
Beaver Citv. Neb.. June 19 (Soe-
cial Telegram) Several hundred peo
ple were present today when the
municipal flag was raised on a pole
erected in the public square. Delega
tions were here from McLook. Cam
bridge, Holbrook, Edison and Oxford.
W. E. Andrews of Hastings delivered
the address and short talks were made
by Judee W. O. Butler and C. E. V.
Smith. During the night someone had
run some rags up the flagpole which
caught in the pulley. It was neces
sary to get out the fire department
with ladders to get the obstruction
loose.
Eight Thousand Bushels
Of Wheat and Oats Burned
Letcher. S. D.. June 19. (Special.)
Fire of an unknown origin, discov
ered at 4:30 o'clock in the morning,
destroyed the South Dakota Grain
company's elevator at Letcher, caus
ing a loss of about $10,000. About
6.000 bushels of oats and 2,000 bush
els of wheat were, destroyed. -