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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1917)
THE fcEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST S. 11)17. CITY TAXES TO BE 6REATLYINCREASED Commissioners Approve Tax Levy Which is Larger on an Increased Assessed Valuation. An increase of thirteen mills in the municipal and school district tax levies for 191S will yield $750,000 more than was available this year. , This increase will be for general purposes and will be distributed, in the case of the city, on the first of the new year when the annual budget is "determined. The "city council yesterday ap proved the following tax levy for next year: General fund, 31 mills; sinking fund, 9 mills; bond redemption fund, 2 mills. Previously approved were: Fire department equipment, 1.47 mills; hydrant rentals, i mills, making a total of 46.47 mills for the five funds, a against a total of 43.68 in the former levy. This difference of 2.79 mill in the city levy docs not repre sent all of the increase, inasmuch as 'the assessed valuation was increased 5 per cent. The city comptroller'esti mates, that the city general fund will be increased nearly $250,000, based on the following application of figures. To Produce More Money. In 1917. 43.68 mills applied to val nation of $47,564,581 produced $2,077.- 620. For 1918. 46.47 mills applied to valuation of $49,887,000 will produce $2,318,238. The Board of Education a week ago approved a levy pf 35 mills, as against 25 mills in the last levy. The chool general fund will be increased $537,555T Total taxei 1o be raised next year for city and achol purposes will be $4,000,000. Added to this amount will be various revenue received in the form of miscellaneous collections, such as occupation and subway taxes, license fees and police court fines. When the city council meets next January .o distribute its general fund Jt'wilt work under a new law,, which removes the mininlum and maximum amounts of the funds. In the past the fire, police and a few other funds were limited to maximum amounts as prescribed by the city charter. Fifteen-Year-Old Lad is - Missing; Mother Prostrated -, The police have been asked to lo cate John Goss, 15 years old, 3433 South Fifteenth street, who left home July 26. : He is five feet, eleven inches tall; weighs 115 pounds; has bjue eyes, me dium complexion and brown hair. At tbe time of his disappearance he was wearing dark trousers, blue shirt and a gray cap. His mother is nearly prostrated with grief.' Woe Continues to Pile ,- Up on This Bridegroom The troubles of Hyman I. Good win, salesman for a coffee house in Chicago, are becoming more in volved each day. Sunday night he was married in Lincoln to Miss Sarah Fogelson. Monday afternoon Officer Jolly ar rested him as a fugitive from justice on a complaint from the Chicago police, who charge him with embez zling $350 from the Craig Coffee company. Yesterday he was ar raigned before" Police Judge Fitz gerald for a hearing and was about to be released on a $750 bond, when he was confronter. by another com plaining witness, Arthur Zwieback, clerk tt the Victoria hotel. Zwieback asserted Goodwin had taken a diamond stud valued at $140 from him six weeks ago in Kansas City and had not returned it. Consequently, Goodwin and wife are still spending their honeymoon apart. Last of Rawitzer Insurance Suits is Settled Out of Court The last of the suits aaainst the Mutual Benefit Health and Accident association arising cut of the death of the Jate A. H. Rawitzer, wealthy rent and awning manufacturer, in 1914, has been settled out of court. The final suit for $5,000 brought by the heirs of-Mr. Rawitzer against the accident insurance company is under stood to have been settled for $3,200. Interest in the case was revived a few days ago, wh;n attorneys for the accident insurarce company filed an affidavit in district court saying Mrs. Nona Rawitzer-Cannon-LeCompte, second wife of the manufacturer, would make a deposition to the effect her former husband sought to .enter into a suicide pact with her on the night betore his death. Mr. Rawitzer died from carbolic acid poisoning. Mrs. Rawitzer-Cannon-LeCompte, who has jecn married twice since the Omahan's death at their summer cot tage near Carter lake, said sh: would also swear her former husband pur chased carbolic acid with suicidal in tent, according to the affidavit. 'The deposition was to have been introduced in connection with the suit against the accident insurance company. Accident insurance litigation in volving $15,000 is now at an end. Paint in the Stomach and Bowels. Owing to the great distress which this disease occasions every family should keep at hand the proper medi cine for its relief. Mrs. L. E. Sinks, t.entraiia, in., writes, "My father has kept Chamberlain's Colic and Diar rhoea Remedy in the house as Ions as 1 an remember a.id when he has ltaken- it, to my knowledge it has given the des.'red relief." Adv. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. PAPERS TO SECOND' BATCH OF ALIENS ! j Nearly 200 Omahans of For eign Birth Admitted to Citi zenship; Three-Score Germans Refused. The bulk f hum in Am j Judge Wakelcy, sitting in naturali- the oath to another batch of aliens. Nearly 200 Omahans of foreign birth who had taken our their first papers have been admitted to citizen ship the last two days iiieni were jjoiicmians, i iria. ' Eighty-eight Germans, who obtain ed their first papers before the United States declared a state of war with the Teutons, will have to watt until peace is declared before they can be come citizens. While the United States is vir tually at war with Austria as a part of the central powers, aliens born in the dual monarchy are being admitted to citizenship along with the former subjects of other European nations, with the exception of Gernlany. One of the Germans who will have to wait until the war is over to get his final papers is Christian John Josef Hurbert Korbmacker, former saloon keeper on the South Side. He is widely known on the South Side as Christ Korbmacker. Two women took the oath of alle giance to the United States and re nounced European rulers. They were Margaret Anderson, born in Denmark, and Emma Chris tine Edling, a Swede. Miss Anderson is telephone opera tor in the South Side city hall. Frederick Martin Hansen, a re cruiting sergeant in the United States army, was, given his final citizenship papers. He was born in Denmark. City Passenger Men Have Outing Saturday The fourth annual outing of the Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway Passenger association will be held at Carter lake the afternoon of Saturday, August 18. The city passenger of fices will be closed during the after noon and supper will be served in the club house at 6:30 o'clock. .The big crowd will go to the lake at 4 o'clock. .During the afternoon there will be an athletic tournament, bowl ing, swimming and probably a ball game. .An attendance of 200 is ex pected. Bond Sale Ordinances Passed by City Council The city council passed ordinances which provide for sale of bonds as follows: Sewer. $200,000: Dtiblic com fort station. $50,000: nark. $50,000: ponce station, $iuu,uwu. M The Bell Telephone System Mast Provide Service for the Ration's Military Forces First Immediately upon the declaration of war, the whole Bell Tel ephone System was placed unreservedly at the disposal of the government. At once the government's calls were given right-of-way over private messages the government's requirements for switch boards, wire, telephones andother equipment were served ahead of all private requests. The long distance lines of the Bell System link the training camps, the aviation fields, the coast defenses, the navy yards and even the remote military forces of the nation, with the great bu reaus at Washington a'nd with each other. As the nation's military establishment grows, the govern ments need for telephone service will increase. Since the' war began the demands upon our local and long dis tance service, due to industrial and commercial activities, have been unprecedented. However, every private requirement for serv- ice musi, oi necessity, oe suooramated to the government's need. vUeJ Wm'' jjL ir" Won't yeu co-operate with ut by using tho local and long distance lines, or re questing additional equipment, only when absolutely necessary. We can perform our full measure of service te the nation only when wo handle the government's business ahead of all private requirements. NEBRASKA TELEPHONE CO. Northwestern Has Own Way Of Speeding Up War Work While working hand in hand with the National Council of Defense and all the local war boards, the North western has inaugurated a campaign of its own in the matter of speeding up cars and shipments of freight of all kinds and classifications. Instructions have gone out to all Northwestern employes connected with the operating and traffic depart ments, urging them to do everything in their power to facilitate the rapid movement and quick handling of freight They are told that never in the history of the country was there a time when the demand for railroad equipment would be so great as dur ing the coming fall and wintedThey are informed that unless the railroad ; officials and employes do their bit j entertainment while on board. Anna i-tliere will not be suthcient freight cars 1 Held and Bruce McRae were a couple hi the country to meet the demands tor government and commercial business. Perfect Floating Palace Becomes Hospital Ship The "France IV," on which Miss Jessie Millard crossed the Atlantic four years ago this month, is now a hospital ship, plying its mission of mercy in the waters of the Mediter ranean. Miss Millard recalls the lux urious furnishings of the ship and the delightful entertainment furnished the passengers in those days of peaceful pursuits. "The 'France IV" was a perfect floating palace," said Miss Millard. "We were given the most delightful of the . artists who made the hour$ pass pleasantly. Now the Red Cross adorns the great funnels of the France IV" and the gayety of four years ago has given place to long rows of hospital cots and the stillness of a sick ward." Haunted by Fear of Being Shot, Starting on June 5 Greeley, Neb., Aug. 5. (Special.) Joseph Steanczyk, who worked on a farm near Greeley, is now in the asy lum for the insane at Hastings. Since June 5 he has been haunted by the fear of being shot. His home is in Omaha, according to advices received by Sheriff Gallagher. The records there show that he did not register until June 14. Soldier Boys at the Auditorium Want Phonograph Will some one loan a phonograph to. while away time for the soldier boys at the Auditorium? Mrs. George B. Prinz, Miss Jessie Millard, Mrs. Howard H. Baldrige and others have made an appeal for the loan of the instrument. They will furnish records. "Magazines, books or games too would be appreciated by the men who have a lot of time on their hands. If the phonograph or books are left at Red Cross headquarters in the Baird building, marked 'For Auditor ium,' we will see that they are de livered," said Mrs. Prinz. Mrs. Baldrige brought down a large number of magazines Monday. 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Great strides have been made in perfecting engines to create power, but it was left for Bailey to solve the problem of intelligent direction of this power. If one driving wheel sinks in slippery mud, the Bailey sends the power to the other wheel that has traction. Without .. the Bailey the power would be taken away from the wheel with the firm grip and delivered to the helpless wheel, spinning it in the tractionless mud. The Bailey Non-Stall Differential Corpora tion is building differentials for the largest trucks in the world ten-ton trucks. These trucks weigh about 17 tons with full ca pacity load and, until Bailey was sought, the engineers could find no, gears that this giant did not strip?"; Headquarters Fontenelle Hotel Bailey Non-Stall Differential Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, 1124 Michigan Ave.