Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 30, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 80," 191T. . V Nebraska LIQUOR SLEUTHS : -BUSY ON BORDER Governor's Special Agents Be gin. to Nab Men Who Try to Import Boose From Neigh : boring States. of (Fram Steff Correspondent Lincoln, Neb;; June . ?9.-r(Speciil Telegram.) Special agents employed by Governor Neville to 'secure convifr tiom for illegal transportation liquor into the state and other viola tiom of the law have been successful in securing the arrest of about two dozen different men in Scettsblutt, Cedar and Dakota counties, who have been bringing in liquor from wyom ini and South Dakota. ' Jn the governor's home town this week a trunk was confiscated contain ing 120 quarts of whisky which had been shipped in over the union Pa cific at baggage, the railroad company reporting trie incident. Sixty gallons were taken with ten persons in tharge in Dakota county being brought across from South Da kota m automobile while four or five men were taken in Cedar county who were bringing it across the river in boats. .' '. i ! ' In Scottsbluff county It was brought trom utternsey, wyo., in-suiomoDiics and it took much maneuvering on the part of the governor's deputies to get the men and nooze. Crowds at North Platte. V For the Semicentennial JS'orth Platte, ."Neb., .June (Special Telegram.) Kearney, ChcV- cnee and flortjj Fiatte: day .at . toe semi-centennial "celebration brought visitors here, exceeded 15.000. , 4 The principal feature of the day was tire historical parade in which boosters and bands from neighborhood coun ties took part and the history and prpgresa of this city was shown in the fourteen floats designed by George . A." Mooney. The Cinderella ball, in which )00 children took part was held in. a large-tent, Which was crowded tt ctparity. 1 his feature was in charge of Miss Marie Massey of Omaha. ;. , j-' - ?::t: i A wild west nsrforsnce. end-battle of Summit Springs was staged, dur ing the evening and, was followed by a display of fireworks. ' V, Miss Janet McDonald will be crowned as queen at the ball this evening. Twenty or more people were slightly injured last evening, when the large tent on the semi centennial grounds gave way 'and the occupants -.were' buried under the boards, Mrs. Alfred Samuelsoiv sus lained a compound fracture of the leg, Mts. ' .Lipptncott suffered a broken ankle and are in serious con- diition in a local hospital. '. Platte County to Form iJVevv Council of Defense V;frm3Rt(fr C6TrAaiDtiMJ; Lincoln,'" June " 29. (Special.) At Columbus, Sunday.afterrioon, big patriotic mass meeting is to be held in the tabernacle, at which a County Council of Defense is to be organized. This organization in Platte county has been deferred until,.PIatte county is the only big county in the state yet unorganized. ' i v- Chancellor Avery of the -university and C. J. Ernst, a well known German-American citizen of .Omaha, and others will deliver addresses. . Vice i Chairman George Coupland and' Sec retary Henry C. Richmon, will rep resent the State Council of Defense. , Former Table Rock Boy ' 1 '.; Dies at Honolulu, H. T. Table Rock, Neb., June 29. (Spe cial.) Gujr it 'Gere, 'nephew of the founder of tjte Lincoln State Journal, whose death afHunomta was an nounced yesterday, was born in Table Hocli in 1867. His grandparents on both' sides of the house are buried here.' Elder Charles V.- GirMings and wife and Horatio N. Gere nd wife. AJso his father, who was killed by the Indians on the Solomon river in Kan sas in May, 1670. His mother, Mrs. l.ydia A. Holmes, formerly Lydia A. (iere. left, for Honolulu arriving in San Francisco Sunday, just two days after the death of her son in Hono lulu.. District Epworth League . Institute at Valley Valley, Neb., June- 29.-(Special.)-Omaha District Epworth League in stitute is in session at Ferree lake. About 100 delegates are in attendance. The following are members of the fa culty! Revv.W. Hi Underwood, Rev. L. V. SlocumK, Rev! Oliver Kevc, Miss Efie Ryan, Miss IVida Hager, Mrs. W. F. Schilder and L. W. Hoffman. Addresses are to be given during the week and Sunday by the follow ing Methodistpastoras , F.'M. Sisson, C W.Ray, J. F. Voucher, Titiut Lowe, I. B.Schreckengist and Bishop-Homer C. Stuntz. , V ' , Omaha Firm Will Build Large Hotel at York York, Neb., June 29. (Special Telejram.)The general contract for the oonstruction-of York's new hotel was let this morning to Peter Kie- wtt ft Sons, Umaha, forSlOH.m This does not include heating, plumbing, sewerage, electrical work, elevator and excavation, which will cost ac. cording to -bids .now n file and which have considered -about $40,000. work is to commence, it once. Body of Child.Supposed' V Killed. Found in Creek V (From a Staff CorrMpofident.) '- Lincoln, June 29. (SpeciaL) Tbe body of a tVmonths-old ; boy was found this morning by a man fishing in sail ireKK near, up worm iake park.: - - "i; .j ., Th child Vat" well dressed, 'wear ing a light-face Cap, embroidered dress and silk boots. On one side of the ehild's face was a bad bruise, indicating that H must have pern killed and the Body thrown in, the water. ' -;.. .?:.. Popular Young Woman V . ' Of Ord 'Weds College Man Ord, Keb June 28. (Special.) The wedding of Miss Ethel Eileen Newbecker to Earl Dudley Ross, took place at 10 a. BLiJtme 27, at-the home Bridge Over Elkhorn on New Million-Dollar Branch of Burlington Railroad from Chalco to Yutan, Fourteen Miles The first train has been run over the new railroad which the Burling ton is building from Chalco to Yutan, The line is fourteen and a half miles long and cost almost a million dollars. Work was started in 1913, but was suspendedaone year and stopped sev eral times. , It will be completed this fall. The line was run through rough country and heavy excavations were necessary. Summit Cut, fifty feet deep, was full of springs. This caused land slides and other troubles. Tiling was laid to carry off the water.-' The track was laid during freezing weather through the cut on jce and many carload .of rock were- hauled in and dumped on the ice, then cin ders were placed on top of the rock. Spring thaws caused dirt slides and the track was buried in digging the cut. , , The line connects with the main line at Chalco Junction, half, way between Gretna and Chalco, and with the Ashland-Sioux City line at Yutan. , The road gives Omaha commercial men an opening to Sioux City ter ritory. A big sand pit in the chan nel of the Platte near Allis is load ing commercial sand, some of the best in the state. The line, taps a good territory in the Platte bottoms. Virgin Allis already has stock yards and elevators soon will be built. The steam shovel work was done by Robert Bros, of Chicago. Edward Peterson of Omaha had the contract for 'grading the line. Labor conditions were unfavorable. About 400 men were employed on the line last summer. It might be said there were three shifts, one go ing, one on the job, one coming. The camps were about eight miles from a railroad and hauling the men and provisions and coal was a tremendous task, especially last winter when the roads were almost impassable. Two big concrete bridges were built, one over tire Platte and one over the Elkhorn river. Concrete piers and steel girders were used. The pneumatic system of sinking piers was used in putting in the Platte river bridge. This required the men to work under water at a depth of about fifty feet. The road bed in the Platte bottom was built of sand and the. railroad company proposes putting in a steam shovel and hauling clay to widen the sand fills,- which were too narrow. Thry believe the clay will hold the sand down and keep it from blowing. A dike was built for a mile and a half on the east bank of the- Platte river east of Yutan. This will protect the farms on the Platte bottom land. Most of the work on the Elkhorn river bridge was done in winter under trying conditions. Open concrete cas ings were use! in building the piers. The false work was completed when the ice came along this spring and knocked it out. But after some de lays the bridge was completed. It is one of the finest railroad brvdges in the state. .. Two towns along the line are Allis and Root. Allis is named after a mis sionary of early times. At the Yutan end the line runs through an old In dian village. The Otoes used to have a reservation here. Many Indian relics were found. of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Haldeman, Ord, Neb. Rev. F. O. Winslow, pas tor of the First Methodist Episcopal church officiated. The bridegroom was , attended by Keene Oliver Haldeman. The bride groom was Berriice M. Newbecker, sister of the bride. A three-course wedding breakfast was servedv'-' '". .- . - Thee cown worn bv the bride was a Chicago creation ot white (jeorgette crepe over white satin with white silk embroidered apd pearl headed design on the bodice. The bride wore the groom s gift: a diamond set lavalliere ana carried a snower bouquet ot white roses. , ' . Mr. and Mrs. Ross after a trio to Denver and Estes park, will make an extended eastern trip. They will be at home after September IS at Cam eron, Mo., Mrs. Koss was graduated trom the Nebraska Wesleyan univer sity and University of Chicago. Pro fessor Ross is at present brofessor of history and social science in Missouri Wesleyan i university. RAISE ASKED BY ROADS IS WITHHELD (Continued from Flril Paso.), time into the situation."' It was the rising cost of necessities. i Coal Prices 6oared. Coaf prices' tort'-'iri Tidiiie' cases more than 100 per cent.. Steel rails, steel cars, structural steel, everything of iron and steel that entered into the operation ot railroad went up in price. Oil, used by .'some western roads ae fuel, went ud. suonlies and equipment of all sorts mounted to new high price levels. Unskilled labor threatened to go Into other markets where pay wis better and the roads claimed they had to advance wages in order to Veep men. Operating costs continued to go up. The vision of a day of prosperity faded. - ',,. In its place there soon came a time when the roads, though taking more money than ever before, said they were not receiving as. large a net re turn as they had received twelve months before. The increase in oper ating costs, they contended grew out of al proportion to the increased busi ness. Instead of making money,- the "roads claimed they were On the verge or losing millions at a day when they were operating at maximum capacity. The new monies paid out under the Adamson law were but a small per centage,- the railroads claimed, of the totals paid out in higher operating costs. A general movement looking toward relief was begun. Ask for Lift at Once. Within 48 hours after the sum-erne court upheld the Adamson law, the machinery for a rate increase was put in motion. Relief, the railroads claimed, was imperatively necessary and as time was of the essence of the situation they sought to obtain it with all .possible speed. Dividing into trhce territorial groups, the railroads sought the Interstate Commerce Com mission's aid in meeting their diffi culties. The eastern roads, hit harder than those of any other section, they claimed, were the first to act. Their representatives met quietly and in formally with the commission one night and the proceedings of that meeting, made public the next day by the commission, showed that general increase in rates was discussed. Presi dent Rea of the Pennsylvania and other executives told the commission that the time had come when, the rail roads faced increased rates or heavy financial losses. Say Emergency Great. Proceedings of the conference were hardly published before telegrams were received from western railroad interests saying their emergency also was great and asking the commission to meet their representatives. A con ference was held with the western roads. A conference with the south ern roads followed and out of these and other conferences few the formal proceedings looking to a general ad vance. The percentage of the advance had not been determined upon at the first conference. Fnally all three groups decided that a 15 per cent ad vance was needed to enable them to meet new conditions. This, it was variously estimated, would yield from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual revenue. . Meanwhile the shipping interests of the country met at Chicago and made plans to fight the increase. When the hearings , opened, here Jn May, before the Interstate Commerce commission, -the National - Shippers' conference was represented by a num ber of attorneys, chief among them Clifford Thome of Iowa, an expert on rates and. transportation. - ' ' Shippers. '. ' . The attitude Of the shippers was to some extent divided. Some thought, and so testified to the com mission, that the railroads should I have the increase, while others fav ored some increase, and others con tended that if the railroads were en titled to any rate advance at all, it was much less than the 15 per cent they asked, lhe railroads contended that instead of being a 15 per cent advance,- what they were asking would really net them a much smaller return. The portion of shippers, which opposed the increase most vigorously. was headed ,by Mr, Thome. Early in the hearing the shippers made united attacks on the realign ment of preferential rates that would result from a horizontal advance. The railroads met this protest with assurances that the present rate dif ferences would be restored as soon as possible. Persistent Advertising is the Road to Success. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. ALLIED POWERS WILL STAND BY . FIRST WAR AIMS (Continued from Pnco Ont.) , - - up the push fiere and there on the immediate environments of the city. Notable Address by Lloyd George. Glasgow, June 29. Premier Lloyd George; speaking at Glasgow today on the question of peace said that in his judgment the war would come to an end when the entente armies had reached the aims which they had set out to attain when they accepted Germany's challenge. If the war ended a single minute before, he said. it would be the- greatest disaster in the history of mankind. - The premier said, textually: : "In my judgment the -war will com to an end lien the allied armies have reached the aims which they set out to attain when they accepted the challenge thrown down by Germany. As soon as these objectives have been reached and guaranteed this war will come to an end, but if tiie. war cornea to an end a single minute before it will be the greatest disaster that has ever befallen mankind. "No doubt we can have peace now at a price.. Germany wants peace even Prusssia ardently desires it They say give us some indemnity for the wrongs we have. done,. just a little territory here and a little there and just A few privileges in other -direc tions and we will clear out. We are told if we are prepared to make peace now Germany will restore the inde pendence of Belgium. But who has said so? 1 German Terms Not Stated. "No German statesman has ever said he would restore the independ ence of Belgium. The German chan cellor came very near to it, but all the junkers fell on him and he receiv ed a sound box on the ears from the mailed fist.. . - "The only terms on which Germany has suggested restoring Belgium arc not those of independence, but of vas salage. Then came the doctrine of the status quo and no annexation and no indemnities. No German statesman has accepted even that. "No one wishes to dictate to the German people the form of govern ment under which they should choose to live. But it is right we should say that we will enter into negotiations with a free government of Germany with a different attitude of mind and a different temper and different spirit and with less suspicion and more con fidence than we should with a govern ment with whom we feel today to be dominated by the aggressive and ar rogant spirit of Pruasian militarism. "All the allied, governments will, in my judgment, be acting wisely if they draw that distinction in their general attitude toward the discussion of peace terms." ' Tnree Nebraskans Qualify For Aviation Officers' Corps Minneapolis, Minn., June 29. (Spe cial Telegram.) Three Nebraskans, all from Lincoln; two Iowans, one South Dakotan and five Minnesotans have passed the rigid examination for the officers' aviation course at Co lumbus, O. They are: Theodore Hayes and R. D. Gracie. Minneapolis; Dudley Mudge, St. Paul, who is state golf champion; W. H. Carpenter and D. K. Winton, Du luth; W. D. Kennedy, Cedar Rapids, la.; H. F. Holz and M. L. Merrill, Lincoln, Neb.; L. J. Stevens, Brook ings, S. D., and M. S. Dickinson, Sioux City, la. Other students who are reported to have passed the physical tests for aviation are M. K. Guthrie and R. C. W. Blessley, Minneapolis; J. E. Les lie. Churches Ferry, N. D., and O. A. Ralston, Lincoln, Neb. Examinations continue at the Uni versity of Minnesota. . Three Lid Lifters Fined $100 Each by Minden Court .M linden. Neb., June 28. (Special.) Joseph Nelson,, Christ Benson and John A. Jensen, were fined $100 and costs on charge . of giving away liquor in county court here. A woman who was a member of a -party which had been having a hilarious time at the home of one of the men was fined $20. Her fine-was remitted because she testified against the men. Appetite Finicky and Fussy? Tempt it with a light, nutritious food that helps you to shake off the shackels of a Winter diet Eat Shredded Wheat Biscuit with berries and cream or milk. Two or three of these Biscuits with fruits and green vegetables make a nourishing, satisfy ing meal at a cost of a few cents. Ready-to-eat no cookery, no kitchen worry. Made at Niagant Fi N. Y. Do You Believe In Me? H. M. THOMAS, Manager Strand Stolen Car Recovered. Fullerton, Neb., June 29. (Spe cial.) Sheriff Charles Peterson of Nance county located the Ford car which was stolen lass week from D. D. Miller of Fullerton at Broken Bow Tuesday. The thief has not been apprehended yet, but the car was restored to the owner. The fenders. windshield and tires had been changed. Straw Hat Headquarters TIfE HAVE v . surpassed every previous effort in assem bling our display of Straw Hats for men and young men. Ex clusive models are shown in Leghorns, Bangkoks, Balileks and the staple Straws in all a mammoth display. Dunlaps, Stetsons, Borsalinos Prices $3.00 to $20.00 611 South 18th Street. Tier Grands Building. ZERO PRICES For Warm Weather Footwear 'Save One-Half on Your Shoes "PUR WINDOWS TELL THE STORY" , T i ..... i on f line ana t convinced that wo . aro gWing th SjroaUit values in the city. Wsntni UHBI. fttru oiumnat. anal fttru Imam. high boots, la hut of tb UtMt color. U httWi and all la th Uu.t tym. 5 Ma low ihooi for trummor r. Low anJ hlf a a boo from tht boat bmuu lacturora la tfao country. Thooo oamplo boo oro ttronf, woll mod itylos and you can't lot bottor valuoo at our bar uh aswsM raiiiH Hp IV 0. up 5m taw ho bfor j,otl our. VaJiM a blEk aa SS.OO. At aur hwHla aricM. Work Shoos, largo stock, ot .$1.05 , I ?' Mail Orders Still Filled at These Prices. .; Every pair of shoes in our stores b now on sale. LOYAL SHOE STORES "At the Sign of the Electric Shoe. 18tk ana Capitol Avenue. . . 2418 N St., South Side. Men's Outing Clothes of Character and Comfort A NEAT, dapper, well made an'd durable out ing suit looks summery and feels cool always. But an ill-fitting, poorly made ' garment qnickly gets ont of shape, hangs like a rag, and i anything but a pleasure for eifier the weawr or anyone who sees him. Our cool cloth suits are made as well and as carefully as any of the other garments we sell. Made of genjMae Eureka Cool Cloth, hand shrunk and well fitting And when you try one of the smart light weight wool suits that we offer Saturday, you've got something that's going to be a pleasure to you, not only this season but next season as1 well. All styles $10 $1 Indispensable Outing Accessories for Men Bathing' Suits, cotton and wool, fl.OO to $3.50. Duck Hats, all white or white with green facing, SQe. Golf Hose," fancy patterns in wool, fl.50. Helmets Madagascar, $1.00. Silk Cool Cloth, $2.50. Caps White flannel, silks and fancy weave, $l-$3.50. Gym Shirts' and Running Pants, 50o. New Sport Shirts, long point, ' button down collar, special, $1.50. v ' Soft Collars, 50 styles, 15c, 25c, 50c. Wash Neckwear, guaranteed fast colors,. 35c to $1.00. Straw Hats for every summer requirement, dress or outing, $2.00 to $10.00. Coatless Suspenders, 50c and 65c. Belts of all kinds, 50c to $4.00. Hose in white, Palm Beach and all cool colors, 25c-$2. Golf Stick, Golf Balls, Tennis Racquets, Tennis Balls. . Farnam and Sixteenth Streets