THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1917.
SPECULATORS IN
. WHEAT SIGH FOR
'GOOD OLD DAYS'
Commission Firms Still Do Good
Business from Regular Com
mission Charged for
Handling Wheat.
Sighing for the "good old days" is
one of the activities on thefloo'r of
Hie Omaha Grain exchange every
morning when the wheat is changing
hands.
These sighs came from those deal
ers who in the past made wheat
speculation their principal "business.
Of course they are still permitted to
deal in futures on corn, oats, rye and
grains other than wheat, but wheat
was the great commodity of specula
tion for years, and the fellows feel
lost without the privilege of gambling
on its future market prospects.
Neal Fixes Prices.
k In the grain pit in the morning one
may see Charles T. Neal, food ad
ministration agent, in charge of the
grain situation for this zone, walking
about, sniffing at handfulls of wheat,
and fixing prices on the consignments
according to the schedule fixed by
the government.
Here and here on the benches one
may see several grain men, with legs
crossed, .smokinr 15-cent cigars
heads together, - talking of - those
"good old days." They are talking of
the old days when they made
$1,000 a minute on wheat. Nq, not
I exactly when they made $1,000, for
they did not make it, nor earn it,
they simply gotit, by buying low and
' selling high. .
Buys All Wheat.
Today while these men smoke and
talk of the "good old days," Charles
T. Neal. for the government, buys up
all the wheat and consigns it out to
the various mills needing it for im
, 1 mediate milling. . ' -
This does not mean that there is
nothing left for the grain dealer, to
do, nor does it .mean that he no
longer conducts a profitable busi
ness. He is stijl permitted his comrois
. sion for handling the consignments.
This is a straight commission of 1 per
cent for. handlingwheat It makes
him a good thing; when the wheat
run is heav'y, and in fact none of the
grain men are in danger of being
pushed out of-business because their
speculation in wheat has been
stopped. Their legitimate profit, the
commission they get for maintaining
an office here to handle consignments,
is still a source of good revenue (to
them.
Get One.Commigfeion.
But now theyfget one commission
-for sailing a consignment, where for
merly it was sometimes possible for
six or eight commissions to be paid
1 out pf one load of grain, aslt changed
hands "that often on the market here
in the morning before it finally got
. . into the hands of the mill.
Today the wheat transactions ate
simplified by the functions of Mr.
Neal, '
' The Omaha basic wheat schedule
as fixed bv the government is Mr.
Neal's guide. The price ranges from
$2.11 to $2J9, according to grade and
kind. These grades are quickly es
tablished; Neal draws a check on
Uncle Sam, pays for the wheat of-
Jring, and quickly ships it out to the
mills, where Uncle Sam expects his
check to be forthcoming as readily.
A little gambling, of course, is still
in progress on corn, rye, oats and
othef grains, but these never were the
object of heavy gambling in future
prices as wheat was.
GERMAN AIR RAID
- RESULTS IN TOLL
OF 15 CIVILIANS
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Kerensky and Korniloff, Russ
Leaders About Whom Storm Rages
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sociatjon,although the suburbs, have
not yet been heard from? :
The latest reports indicate that the
Germans camc in three squadrons.
The first. warning was given;inLhe
outlyingsdjstricts at 7:20 o'clock and
the police announced "all clear',
' about 10:20 o'clock.
- There were unusual scenes in the
underground railway stations. Women
in evening clothes rubbed shoulders
with workmen ' homeward bound
carrying kits of tools. Mpy persons
sat down on the stairways and read
newspapers while waiting for the sig
nal that all was clear. Others sang
and some danced.
Mothers Fear For Children.
But there was another side to the
picture. Mothers unable to get home
were distressed about the safety of
their children and Wounded soldiers
hobbled to places of safety on
crutches, attended by their nurses.
After the raiders had gone the
"streets where bombs had fallen were
crowded with many thousands of
sightseers. It was well after midnight
before London returned to normal.
Between 8 and 9 o'clock the noise
v " of battle was heard throughout the
city. Anti-aircraft -guns were being
fired from numerous points and
bombs could be heard dropping.
Searchlights played over the city and
the rocket-like bursts of shrapnel fur
nished an interesting spectacle. "
Would Slaughter Civilians.
Ttii niirnnc rf th (rfrmatu annar.
JL f ently was the indiscriminate slaughter
of the civilian ponulation. As far as
investigations of the Associated Press
up to 2 o'clock this morning were able
.o discover, the casualties were few.
The- Germans did not attack any
point of military importance, but
dropped their bombs as usual on the
residential districts, mqstly upon the
dwellings of the poorer classes. -
German "'Zeppelins also appeared
across the coast of Yorkshire and Lin
colnshire. Police Discover Hypodermio .!
; Needle in Sleeve Lining
Officer Creal arrested Mr. and Mrs.
William Crawford, who gave Jtheir ad
dress as the Windsor hotel," at 1:30
this morning, charged yvith being
. dope fiends. A small quantity of
cocaine, together with a' hypodermic
needle, was found in a special made
. pocket in the lining of Mr. Craw
ford's coat sleeves. They are held at
the station-for further investigation.
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"FT? EM: 32 KEJeCNSKY
Women and the War Work
The Happy Hollow Red Cross aux
iliary will hold its last meeting at the
Happy Hollow club next Wednesday.
The'auxiliary has nof1een dissolved,
but will resume its meetings in the
spring. Meantime the Dundee Com
munity Red Cros auxiliary will carry
on the,, work at the Presbyterian
church in Dundee. This auxiliary,
which has jtrst been organized, is one
of the largest andjpromises to bt oe
of the most effective organizations of
its kind in the city. It includes the
members who were active in the
Happy Hollow auxiliary and the
women of the Dundee Presbyterjan
church and will meet every Wednes
day from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. to make
surgical dressings and knit.
One of the most remarkable Red
Cross reports received from out
state chapters is that of Randolph,
Neb., which has just sent a list of
680 members, accompanied by a draft
for $3,192.
,Mrs. Tholnas Qrr has been ap
pointed chairman of the housewife
committee by President Gould Dictz
of the Omaha chapter. Mrs. Orr will
name her-committee at once and they
will beein work on 600 housewives,
which will be given to the Omaha men
as they leave with the national army.
Miss Myra Nourse, who has acted
as office secretary at the Red Cross
headquarters since the organization of
the Omaha chapter, was forced to
resign her position because of ill
health. Miss Gladys Peters is filling
her place temporarily. .
Mrs. F. A. Klinke, the knitting in
structor tt the Red Cross Knitting
school, is one of the busiest women
at the headquarters. She instructs an
average of thirty-five or forty women
eacn day, with a larger proportion on
Saturdays.
A new first-aid class under the. in
struction of Dr. John Hyde will meet
the. first time Saturday morning at
11 o'clock in room 211"Baird building.
Seventeen women have registered for
the class, a large number of whom
will come from out in the state.
A large .box containing more than
100 fracture pillows and bandages and
two smaller boxes containing knitted
sponges were received at the Red
Cross work shop from the chapter
at Springfield, Neb.
The Coleridge branch chapter in
Coleridge, Neb., which has a popu
lation of 535 people, has sent a mem
bership report of 468 to the state
headquarters, representing for the
most part higher class memberships.
The following pew auxiliaries have
recently been organized under the su
pervision of the Omaha chapter: The
Woman's club of Waterloo, Neb., of
which Mrs. Etta P. Lowell is chair
man; Elkhorn auxiliary, Mrs. J. A.
Gibbons, chairman; Hanscom Park
Methodist Church auxiliary, Mrs. A.
H. Fetters, chairman; Prettiest Mile
auxiliary, Mrs. Charles Granden,
chairman, and the North Side Moth
ers' circle, with Mrs. George R. Gil
bert as chairman.
s- Plans are now underway for an in
stitute foihome service', workers of
the Red Cross under the supervision
of the civilian relief committee, of
which Mrs. C. M. Wilhelm is chair
man. At the conclusion of a conference
in Washington last week manuals of
instruction were mailed to the chair
men of afl Omaha relief committees,
instructing them to present the facili
ties of their respective cities for work
along these lines. Thirteen divisional
schools for this work are to be estab
lished by the national Red Cross, but
should Omaha not receive one of
these an extension school will be
established. The course will include
training of volunteers for social work
among families of soldiers' depend
ents. Mrs. Wilhelm will submit Omaha's
facilities "within a few days.
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Campfire girls' headquarters has
been swamped with voluntary offer
ings of candles and newspapers since
the appeal made in Thursday's Bee
for such donations to be used in
making of trench torches or ration
heaters for the soldiers.
"Besides large quantities of news
papers and personal offerings of can
dles, the Brandeis stores sent a large
package of candles," :aid Miss Nell
Kyan, guaidian ot the lamphre orris.
A trench torch section was estab
lished at the board meeting of the
girls Saturday morning and will be
gin work vat once. .
Eleven business women have reg
istered for the evening motor me
chanfes class which will begin the
first week in October under the aus
pices of the Woman's Service league.
It will be held at the Nebraska Auto
mobile school and will be conducted
along the same lines as the day
classes.
the yjor k.. the censor's room at the
Red Cruts workshop. Mrs. L L.
Bridges and Mrs. C L. Burdick are
the official censors and state that ab
solute quiet is requisite in the count
ing and : pcrvision of the work.
The Woman's Service league has
sent 1,000 garments to the Navy
league, whic witl be distributed
among aviators and sailors, and has
300 articles ready to deliver to the
Red Cross.
Miss Marjorie Bryant will arrive
this week from California to resume
her clerical work in the Woman's
Sen-ice league headquarters.
The Association of Collegiate Alum
nae organized a new Red Cross de
partment at the opening meeting last
Saturday. Mrs. Stephen Davies wa's
chosen leader1 of the section, which
will meet for the first time Tuesday
afternoon at her home at 4 o'clock.
The general meetings will also be de
voted to war work and the members
will knit fpr, the Rfed Cross.
Antelope county members, whose
chapter is at Neligh, sent word that
they would pledge themselves to
make 375 sets of knitted garments
instead of 250 , which is their
quota. Branch chapters, which will as
sist in the work are Oakdale, Bruns
wick, Clearwater, Elgin, Midway, Or
chard and Royal.
There are now 102 Red Cross
chapters in the ninety-three counties
of the state. Every county is repre
sented by one and in some cases sev
eral, chapters, according to Director
Judson's latest records.
Mrs. Nora Riley is chairman of
the L. D. D. Red Cross auxiliary,
which wil' meet for the first time
Wednesday afternoon at the Red
Cross workshop.
A placard bearing he words, "Pos
itively No Admittance," is hung on
Toluene 'From Coal Gas to
Blow Up Germans Abroad
New York, Sept. 25. Thousands
xof chemists throughout the country
now are awaiting word from those
in charge of the munitions of our
fighting men at the front to under
take the task of removing from
every foot of coal gat its content of
toluene, one of the mosjt powerful
explosives, so that our troons may
be protected by the most lavish use
of high explosives, according to,
statement made tonight at the open
ing of the convention of the na
tional exposition of chemical indus
tries. DrC. H. Herty,. chairman of the
exposition advisory committee, said:
"Our men should be protected,
and' every possible pound of high
explosives that this country can
produce shcul . be manufactured
and transported to the European
battlefields. Trench warfare has
met its master in high explosives."
Celebrate Hindenburg's
Birthday; May Be Prince
London, Sept. 25. Empreor Wil
liam has decided that on October 2,
the seventieth birthday of "Field Mar
shal von Hindenburg, addresses shall
be delivered in all the schools in Ger
many by the teachers who will point
out to their pimils the value of the
field marshal to the fatherland,
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam. Money is to be
collected from the scholars on that
day for the Hindenburg fund for the
sick and wounded.
- It is said, adds the correspondent,
that Emperor William will grant Field
Marshal von Hindenburg the title of
prince.
Foreign Language Editors
Join to Aid Liberty Loan
Chicago, Sept. 25. Editors of twenty-five
foreign language newspapers
joined today to originate a smashing
campaign to make an unrivaled suc
cess of the floating of the second Lib
erty loan. A committee representing
practically every nationality among
the foreign citizens of Chicago was
appointed to . co-operate with the
Liberty loJn executive, committee
Louis M. Hammerling announced that
fifty papers representing the foreign
language press In this city had
pledged $50,000 with which to buy Lib
erty bonds of the new issue.
VISIONS OF NIGHT
RAID jTIR OMAHA
Sunderland Yard Operations in
Removing Concrete Platform.
Arouse Some to Consider
able Apprehension.
"Boom, boom, bo-omb," and then
"boom, boom, bo-omb," s o m e
where in Omaha.
Householders suffered various va
rieties of cold chills, when the cus
todians of public life and property at
the police station and newspaper
writers foi a time were unable to ex
plain the six explosions which rever
berated over tht city about 7 o'clock
in 'the evening.
Having read that London has taken
to cover wSth the coming-of the new
moon which incidentally provides
ideal conditions for night air raids,
many were disturbed by the appre
hension that the Germans might be
here. -' -
Others though; that the Industrial
Workers of the World-had broken
loose with an actual execution of on
of their dastardly plots, or that for
eign battleships were steaming up the
"Big Muddy' and were bombarding
the Woodmen oi the World building.
Some ascribed the unknown can
nonading to armv test of big guns,
which for a time were believed to be
in progress at the government corral.
Investigation piove.i that workmen,
engaged in removing a concrete plat
form in the Sunderland Coal and
Building Material yard at Twentieth
and Hickory streets were responsible
for the big racket.
A. G. Given, manager of the yard,
when questioned about the blasts,,
said:
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Use more corn and save Wheat!
Corn bread in various styles has been used by the white
man from Pilgrim Father days, and by the Red Man for
untold ages. Corn is America's greatest grain crop.
Of late years ingenious Americans have found that corn
can be transformed from common, ipto an uncommonly
delightful food by cooking, rolling and toasting.' And of
all torn flakes the most delicious, the most palatable, most
richly flavored, are
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An AH-The-Year-Round Food
All the goodness of white Indian corn!
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A delicious, nourishing dish, usually eaten with cream,
milk, or fruits and juices in season!
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These bubbled flakes have a substance that gets them away
from old style corn flales-rthin and wispy.
They are a substantial food not a soggy confection.
Eat
TOASTE
and save Wheat!
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age of genuine Aspirin bears
the Bayer-Cross."; It is there
for your protection. Refuse
substitutes.
"Tho
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of the reliable Bayer manufacture.
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VALUES
FOR THE
Dining
Room
In assembling our two stocks, it develops a large
number of odd pieces from broken suites, comprising
Tables, China Cabinets, Buffets and part1 sets of
Chairs. These we are combining and marking at
prices that will move themirom our floor at once.
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This Table and these four Chain, in golden or
famed oak. ....
$21.00
Odd Dining Tablet, from 42-Jncb.
tops to 54-inch top
$100, $12.76, f IMOt $21.71, 2S.7S
Ptea Dlalac
lata, with Uathar
aeat ebalra
$32.50
. rtao Mats
Roaaa lata Bf.
UU tabic 4S-fnch
top tad Uath.r
llp eat : ebalra, .
fum.d oak. '
$52.51)
Odd Dining Oiairt In rnrnj style
"part sat" of 2. S and 4
cbaira in soma loata&cae at leas
than H thalr raJua.
( We offer all week your biggett
dining room furniture buying
opportunity.) ;
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the Nation's Military Fcrcsi
Tha government is using
tha Bell Telephone to Unto
the army training camps,
the snpjjly depots and tha .
coast defepsea with each
other and with the great
military bureaus at Wash
ington. . -, ' ' ' .
New COngMf7Hftn nm.
V "T to meat the Increased
7 demands for, service tad
equipment has been held
back by the shortage of
both labor and materials.'
You. can ?do your bit" by askh only
for telephone equipment yoq must have
and making only such local and long dls
tance cans as are absolutely necessary.
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