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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMbu-A 6, lai. ..
LEAGUE FORMED
TO SELECT LIST
FOR CITYPRIMARY
Organizers Say They Represent
14,000 Men in 57 Dif
ferent Labor Organizations.
"The Vorkingmen'8 ' and farmers'
Nonpartisan league at a meeting held
Sunday in Labor Jemple agreed to
elect permanent officers next Sunday
afternoon.
This ntw organization has adopted
the plan of selecting a different chair
man for eacj) meeting, ratner man to
have a permanent presiding officer,
The election of an executive com
mittee next Sunday will be the princi
pal business before the. meeting. This
committee wil have charge of select
In a fist of names which will be
submitted in the form of a referen
dum vote to the members of the con
stituent organizations, to decide on
a sUte for the city primaries, next
April
CJaim Large Membership.
There are 57 labor organizations
represented in this centra) organiza
tion and it is asserted that the total
membership is 14,000. ach of the
57 organizations will be asked to sub
1 mit names of prospective candidates
for the city commission. From those
lists the executive committee will se
lect 25 to 30 for the referendum vote
which will decide the final slate to be
supported at the primaries. This
slate will have from five to1 seven
names,, the number not having ba
' determined. . y
The .platform committee of the
league expects to report four week
from next Sunday, All Qrganjzitpns
represented In the league will submit
platform suggestions to the central
executive eommlttee for consideration
in the final work of preparing a
platform. C L, Shamp js chairman
of the platform committee.
FIRST AMERICAN
CASUALTY LIST
Mexican Beaten and
Robbed of $19,000 in
Gold by Border Thugs
Douglas, Ariz., "Nov. 5. Antonio
Peralta, Mexican federal stamp
agent, was held up and robbed on the
American side of the international
boundary'tine near here early today,
Mexican consular officials reported to
the local police, the robbers securing
$19,000 in gold. The robbers escaped.
According to the story told the po
lice, Peralta and Carlos Galvez, an
aged Mexican, were driving from
Agua prieta to an express office here
when they were stopped by an Amer
ican and a Mexican, who beat Peralta
into tnsenybility with a revolver and
inflicted several wounds on Galvez
with a similar weapon.
Sammies 'Marking Ballots
On Foreign Soil Today
With the American Army in France,
Nov. 5- American soldiers, sailors
and marines statipned in Paris, in
other French cities and at the Ameri
can general headquarters, wpo are
Iffoal rrsiritnri nl Mfw York state.
voted today for state, county and city
offices. New York voters with units
fn other pajts pf prance fast their
ballots last wek. '
The voting in Paris was done at
the Hotel Sainte Anne, which is now
used tor American barracks and of
fice. The, polls opened at $;30
o'clock this inorning and will close at
5 tonicrht. Tha hotel office is being
used for the polling booth.
Inquest in the Noel Case at
Albia Goes Over Till Today
' Albia. Ia.. Nov. 5. (Soecial Tele-
gram.WThe inquest into the death of
J. W. Noel, Villisca protographer. who
died here last Thursday after being
shot through the head at the Burling
ton depot, was pegun at J" o ciock
this morning. 1
An nr!imirnmnt ull taken until
Tuesday morning because of tke ab
sence from town of Pr, T. E, Gutch,
head of the Miners- Hospital, where
Noel died. Pr, Gutch performed the
autopsy to establish the cause of
death.
RAILROADS MAKE
STRONG PLEA FOR
ADVANCED RATES
Demand 15 Per Cent Increase
Because of Wartime
Prices of Labor and'
Materials.
Washington, Nov. 5. The reopen
ing of the IS per cent rate advance
case before the Interstate Commerce
commission today was marked by
claims of counsel of eastern railroads
that transportation facilities and finan
cial stability of the roads are menaced
by prevailing rates.
"We cannot afford to make mis
takes," declared Samuel Rea, president
of the Pennsylvania railroad, in open
ing the case. "It is not a time for
panic, but neither is it a time for dis
regarding me jacie pi unreaMiig tr
penses, of diminishing net operating
income ,of deferred maintenance, of
lack of present facilities and inability
to provide future ones."
When in May the eastern carriers
asked for a 1$ per cent rate increase
they estimated that war-time prices of
labor and materials would increase
their operating charges by $235,000,
000. Later compilations, presented to
day, indicate an increase of $270,000.
000, based on the 1916 volume of busi
ness, while increased revenues from
rate advances since the first of the
year total $97,000,000,
President Rea predicated his plea
for an advance on the following exist
ing difficulties of the roads;
Advanced Costs Explained.
"Continuous increases in the cost ol
labor, fuel, supplies, taxes and of ob
taining new capital.
"Jnabality to secure and retain effi
cient labor.
"Curtailment of maintenance x
penses, which curtailment is due In
part to inability to secure necessary
labor and materials.
"Pecrease in net operating: income,
notwithstanding large increase in op
erating revenues ' in property invest
ment, in carload and in trainload.
"Rfductipn in surplus, with conse
quent effect upon the credit of the car
riers.
"Inability to secure newVeapita! by
the issue ot stock, wit! consequent
weakening effict upon the financial
structure.
"Inability to provide improvements
ana facilities, not oniy essential ioi
the traffic of today, but equally essen
tial for the traffic of the future.
No" prospect of lower coal costs is
,to be round m the government a price
fixing' program oa fuel, continued Mr,
Rea. ....... . '
"The tentative price of $2.45 per
ion nxea py tnugovernment, ne
said, "is over 100 per cent higher than
the price paid by the Pennsylvania
system in 1916; 3 cents more than the
average price paid April 1 to beo
tembcr30, antl-ZO cents more than the
price now paw unuer existing con
tracts. . -In
addition-to the wage advances
granted trainmen under the terms of
the Adatnson law, Mr. Rea pointed
out that the increased cost of labor
had swollen the pay rolls of the Penn
sylvania .$13,900,000 a year, exclusive
of increases given the trainmen.
Pispussing tlje question pf deferred
maintenance made necessary by war
time conditions, Mr. Rea declared
that if the prone maintenance
charges are not' included in the op
erating expenses, "the net operating
income and the net corporate income
are tp that extent overstated." This
condition, he added, is leading to
heavy wear and tear on track and
rolling stock "without making proper
charges to operating expenses.'
Gunmen Were to Frighten
' Hylan Voters in New York
New York, Nov. 5.-Pistrict Attor
ney Edward Swann issued a state
ment today declaring that he had ob
tained the confession of a "gunman"
alleging that an organized effort was
to be made during tomorrow's mijr
nieipal election to prevent voters for
John f. Hylan, the democratic candi
date for mayor, from reaching th
polls by intimidation and assault. i
SWINE EXPERT SAYS
FEED ANIMALS WELL
Government Cracjc Advises
Farmers That It Will Pay
Them to Fees! Hogs High
Priced Grain.
Auburn, Neb., Nov. 5.t-(Special.)-
The Nemaha County Hog Cholera as
SQciatjpn held a meeting last week in
Pr. Grau's office at the court hquse
in AuL n and bejd election pf offi
cers. Welton Barnes was . elected
president) J5. P. Hughes, vict presi
dent; A. L. Keedy, secretarytreas
urer. i '
Pr. Grau, the government veterina
rian in charge of the prevention work
In Richardson a.id Nemaha counties,
stated that in the period intervening
between his arrival ere and the dose
of the last year, he had investigated 66
herds ai.d found cholera in 42 of them.
Thus far this year he has inspected for
cholera in 170 herds, of which cholera
was found in 45 herds.
In other wordi fest year he found
Cholera in pne qu of every
two herds examined, and this year
one in four, which indicates that
progress is being made jn, stamping
pt the disease.
Pr. Grau impressed upar) the farm
ers present that his services are free,
and that it is hi duty tp make in?
3estfgatjoi. whenever he is called to
a so, He urged the farmers npt to
wait until disease had developed in
their herds before doing so, .
Pr. Hurst, a government veterina-
i : . t . 1 , t i
nan m enarge pi ine wortc in jonuson
county, In his address at the meet
ing, declared the country faces a meat
shortage, In his opinion farmers will
do well not to hesitate to fepd high
priced (train to hoes, Contagious
disease fn swine, hf'said, is 4 com
munity problem.
Some farmen who had teen skepti
cal at tba beginning of the campaign
for vaccination, declared themselves
to have ben converted by experience.
In their own herds.
Tinr-m-rr. r-
.
ISANNOuNCED
Coatian4 freai Feet Oh,)
GALLAGHER, private Daniel B,
) Blockton, Ala.
LESTER, Private John P., Tut
wiler, Miss.
LANQHMAN, Private Harry, Chi
cago. KERN, Private Dewey D. mother,
Mrs. Eva Tilton, Collins, la.
RECKON, Private cannot
be identified. . , ',.
The list wai accompanied by the
following announcement;
"The War department hal received
dispatch from the commanding gen
eral of the American expeditionary
forces, which states that before day
light November 3 a salient occupied
for instruction by a .company of
American infantry wai raided by Ger
mans, The enemy put down a heavy
barrage fire, cutting. off the salient
from the rest of the line. Our losses
were, three killed, five wounded and
12 captured or missing. The enemy's
losses are not known. One wounded
German was taken prisoner,"
Whether the men kilted an'
woun ed received their Injuries in
hand to hand fighting with the raid
ing German infantrymen or were
struck down by shrapnel is not
known. A single shell, scoring a di
rect hit in the trench, might have
caused all the casualties. That would
.not explain, however, the surrender
of the remaining men, ,
. Two From Iowa,
' (From BUM Correspondent)
Des Moines, Nov. 5. (Special Tel
egram.) Two Iowa men are in the
list announced from (Washington as
among the killed or missing in the
trench raid made by the Germans No
vember 3. Private Merle D. Hay, son
of Harry D. Hay of Glidden, la., was
killed. He was a young farmer near
Glidden and enlisted in Des Moines,
May 10. He was 21 years old July
21.
Dewey Kern of Collins is reported
missing. His mother received a tel
egram from Washington at 2 a. m.,
Monday inorning, apprising her as
follow: "Regret to inform you that
Dewey D: Kern is among missiHg or
captured," .
American Is Wounded.
' Ottawa, Ont., Nov, , S. W, J.
Wright. Outlook, Mont., was listed at
wounded in today's Canadian casualty
list., . - . , ';- 4-
STATE STOCK.
MEN PLEDGE
. 'TO GIVE AID
(CoQtUiJtd from Tmg On.)
anteed the farmers 15J4 cents a
pound for farrowed pigs,", declared
O. G. Smith in a statement given
out before the committee meeting.
"That's all right, but why worry
about anything six or eight months
off. What the farmer demands is a
price guarantee for the pigs he has on
his farm right now. If the govern
ment does not act juick this pork is
going to the market half fed, because
the farmer absolutely will not and
cannot compete with the gamblers,
who hold him at their mercy.
. "Guarantee the farmers a good
price for pork, and it is my belief that
the pork market will have all it can
take care of despite the farmer's heavy
cost of vaccination, insurance of his
stock and possible chances of cholera
wr-; out his year's work at a
total loss.
"Farmers will not throw $1.50 corn
over the fence when they are taking
a chance of the bottom dropping out
of the market between the time they
load their stock in the wagon and
when they reach the packers.
The consumers see in the paper
that packers are paying $17.50 for cer
tain kinds of beef, and immediately
gain the impression that farmers are
reaping a harvest How many of
them ever take the trouble to see how
many head were sold at that price?
"The price is up simply because
there are very few choice beef on
band, the great bulk of. beef going to
slaughter tor just half that amount"
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Cream cheese end chopped olive sandwiches (on
brown bread), Dill pickles, Shrimp salad, Ice cold
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Itself a nutritive drink, Hero makes an appetizing
and delightful addition, to ny meal hot or cold,
light cr heavy.
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