14 THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, -DECEMBER 8, 1917. : i 1 1 -I" 'ftl A r,& HOUR TO l FEW WOMEN I " s " "v I " . I PA.RDON MP 1 BRINGING $ -I THOME:WHEcNVoV LOTAND & SAY-WILL A ' ' U FOR v I M; TTHHOONwS enTtJ,nk0' .VOO STOP - fTTl ' NTW f RfeiV ERe vqu with Shutup-' fT?n1 talking 0 ,N& Yoa' ' FATHER i.- Jy Ljfy "T" ' LEEP ? jJt ' AI IP lit f ik tMniV I1Im?W m fear " - "! 3 :" Tnh a I 1 L-, 1 , I II H M Drawn for The Bee by George McManus BASKET BALL MEN LINE UP FOR PLAY Creighton to Have a Bunch of Possible Champions in the Field During Coming , Winter. Cage practice at the Creighton gym nasium wat called Thursday night by Coach Mills and in the initial tryout 16 aspirants for basket ball honors pot in an appearance. The number of hopefuls this year is far more numer ous than last winter, when the Creigh ton live coach whipped into shape a team of championship caliber, and this in the first' year that basket ball was instituted at Creighton. With -his regular varsity quintet of last winter intact, and 13 men out striving to gain a position on the five, Mills expect to haVe a team that will easily be the class of the writ. Coach Mills says that he is willing to ar range t game with any squad in this part of the country that thowt any class at all. , c The five men who made the varsity quintet last winter and who have sig- iuiicu uicir micnuon 01 playing mil season are "Chuck" Kearney, Ed Haley, forwards; Vic Spittler, center; v.ayiaiu cuuic iviuinioiianu ana van dever, guards. The new men who have showil marked ability so far in chasinar the ball are "Bill" Coyne, Tom Berry, iwacAiesier ana r.mery. Coach Mills evidently hold a good opinion of the qualities of the other men. They are Carroll, Martin, Kan dolph, Camel, Mcjonan, Gartland, Prieshoff and Shevlin. "Strangler" Lewis Throws f Leavitt in 12 Minutes i New York, Dec. 7, In the interna tional wrestling tournament tonight two finish matches' were staged, in the first of which Joe Rogers of Roche' ter, N. Y., threw John , Heracle of Wilmington, Del., in 16 "minutes and 35 seconds, with a body scissors hold. In the other match Ed ("Strangler") Lewis of Lexington, Ky., easily threw Frank Leavitt of the United States army in 12 minutes with an arm and wrist lock. , I I I SPa a Pt'aa. uenirai mgn root ban Men ATe Awarded Their "O's" The following members of the Cen tral High grid team were Swarded "0"s for foot bail yesterday; Smith, Noble, Rockwell, A. Logan, T. Lo gan, Maxwell, Scott Paynter, Crowell, Eaton, ' Russell, Moser, Shafer, and Carson. The boys wilt be feted to night at the Young Men's Christian Association. Everett Buckingham will feast them next week at the South Omaha stock exchange. ' ; Hans Lobert Instructor At West Point Academy Hans Lobert, soon after his release by' the New York Giants; was ap pointed base ball coach for the Army academy at West Point. He succeeds Sammy Strang, former ball player, who r.ow is a captain In the army. U. S. Engineers Will Be ' , Armed for the Future With the American Army in France, Dec 7. Engineer organizations In the American army hereafter, it was recommended today, shall be armed and ready for battle on all occasions when they are anywhere near the fighting line. The recommendationj which is certain to be adopted, was made as a result of the predicament in which engineers found themselves when they became involved in a Ger man attack on the British front last week. At that time they were forced to take up veapong abandoned by dead and wounded soldiers. It is felt certain that a number of the J8 railway engineers reported missing in the casualty list fell dur ing the engagement with the Germans, but there is no way of ascertaining how many. Report $333,000,000 ' Postoffice Measure Washington. Dec. 7. Brtikinar all regular speed records for the prep aration of supply bills, the house postoffice committee today reported the annual oostOffice anorooriation bill, aggregating $333,000,000, includ ing a new item of $1,200,000 to cen sor foreign mails. The bill carries no appropriation for pneumatic tube service. - , t i ; -, i Maximalists Expel r Election Committee London. Dec. 7. An armed maxl malist force has occupied the Marie palace, according to a Keuter dis v patch from Petrotrrad. and has ex. pelled the all-Russian commission in charge of the elections for the consti tuent assembly. Today's Sport Calendar juomob square tinm, firm xwk, Atbletle Xam Eulaaa AmnUam Atk ; ,Dzla-4ohBD7 Daadca va. Baka ricato, i nou, m rniiiiiHpnia. . Attorney General Rebuke to (From a Buff Correspondent.) Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 7. (Special.) Attorney General Reed has given a sharp rebuke to Charles Glee, jr., of Thornburg, Neb., who wanted the Assistance of the state legal depart ment in collecting a claim of $109 for three months' work and $5.85 for ex penses which he claimed to be owing from his father covering a period of time since the Son reached the age of 21, last June. Here is Attorney General Reed's reply: You complain that you have had some difficulty with your father, that he owes you for about three months' work, that you remained at his home three months alter you were Zl years of age, and that lie offered to settle with you and whei you told him how mucn ii was ne saia it was too mucn. "Answering will say in the first place this is not one of the questions that becomes any part of my duty as attorney general to answer. Am do ing this, however, because I believe that it is one of the requirements of any government for a public official, when hi can do so, to say something to assist in some manner in making CONGRESS MAY SUSPEND ANTI TRUST LAW TO AID RAILROADS President Confer With War Newlandi on Interstate Commerce Commission; Rec- , ommendations That All Lines in U. S. be Uni fied; Need Billion for Terminals. Washington, Dec. 7. Means of uni fying the railroads, as declared nec- siar for the war by the Interstate Commerce commission, were dis cussed today at conferences between President Wifton' and three mem bers of the commission. Secretary Mc Adoo and Senator Newlands and heads Of the railroad war board. The first definite steps in congress to follow the Interstate Commerce commission s suggestions were taken in the- senate, when the judiciary Com mittee decided to report favorably Senator Overman's bill to suspend operation of the Clayton . anti-trust act as it affects railroads until Janu ary 1, 1919, or beyond next January 15, the date to which operation was deferred at the last session. Another conference with the rail road, war hoard will be held bv Sen ator Newlands before his visit to the White House Monday. The board agreed .today to submit a definite estimate of the money needed by all the roads of the country to.equip them wito facilities for meeting demands due to the war. . - Roads Need Billion. The only apparent result of today's discussion was to confirm the uni versal belief that further consolidation of railroad operation mUst be effected speedily either through government operation or government support The railroad heads, in a two-hour talk with Senator Newlands, who is chairman of the congressional com mittee inquiring into transportation problems, are understood to have de clared $1,000,000,000 necessary for ad- dttional terminal facilities and rolling stock to meet expected demands next vear. lacy pointed out the difficulty of effective unification unless anti-trust and anti-riooling law- are suspended, as suggested by the Interstate Com With the brain Kirhtei NYB-80JINEIPKR. lit id. id. Tot mow n Morrli . ...113 Underwood ..146 Col . 171 lt 13S.4U Zimmerman 144 144 US 431 Carer ......158 U'S HI 435 Handicap ... I Total.... (( 83 75 2324 TRANS-MISSISSIPH CO. Int. 2d. 8d. Tot. Schonenman.168 191 HI (14 Allen 181 147 14 474 Hoover 141 170 130 441 Brvln 126 111 HI 411 Deaman ..,.11 18 18 S3 Totala....7"7 134 77 131 MANET MILL CO. Int. 2d. Id. Tt Alvord Ill 144 117 S8S Tholl 137 127 147 411 Hay 141 147 110 411 Hay 135 111 14 401 Hathaway ..14 141 111 431 Handicap .. IS II II II Total!.... ITS TU 7!0I114 I ,W. O. A. Lea n. NICHOLAS OIL. Int. id. Id. Tot. Hughea ....121 175 II 470 Nevlll II 114 HI 111 Roth 10 180 14 48 Hoffman ... IS 111 II 101 Kracklo ....10111101 II Total.... 57 9( (It 111 BURGESS NASH. rlat id. Id. Tot. Coleman ....111 111 1TI 14 Ftemlnt- ....145 111 114 4(7 Rowland ., 14 111 14 431 Johnaoa ...ill 11 147 477 Brta-aara ...167 16 164 447 T0U1....TTT T 104 237 tnloa Pavlflo Laatue. ; VtB. DIVISION. lat Id. Id. Tot. MeQuade ...II 140 110 41 Diamond ...15 111 10 401 Uarach ....1(4 li li( 42 Koran 14 171 111 444 BerghOfl . ..133 134 18 461 Ktrr . 177 14J :ii SI4 Tot1i....7M I4 S3I ItOI UPDIKE'S GRAIN CO. 1st 3d. 3d. Tot .ID 16 141 477 .111 17S 1(4 104 .154 174 US 4U Smith . , Mnfli!d Horbard AH 141 111 Willi . ., .144 174 144 Ttali....814 140 T4I 1403 ALBBRS COM. CO. lt. Id. Id. Tot. Bri-hoft . ..14) tit lt( 411 Kuhl 101 IIS 17 141 Albari , ,...101 ill (it 141 I Eradtr ..111 110 11 41 R. tender ..111 117 HI 101 TOtala.. ..( (41 711 lot CROWEU, ELEVATOR. lit. Id. Id. Tot. tladtrholm .171 us 174 191 Schnhatt ....141 141 170 III PomrajF . ..134 1(1 144 44 Straw . ....Ill 121 141 405 Kay.. ......144 134 111 407 Handicap S S 10 Total. .. .134 71 787 1)73 GRAIN IMPORTERS. lat. Id. Id. Tot Otto . ......Ill 171 111 401 Cahlll Ill 11 1(1 411 Hlllmar , ..ISI lit 1(7 411 rkkaoa ....141 IIS 144 430 Pro bat 17S 1S 11 121 Handicap ., II II SI 14 Totat, ...T I0T Ul 111 uppiku a uivu co. lit. Id. Id. Tot. Archibald . .111 10 lit 41 relay IS ll It 41 Gives Sharp Thornburg Youth better citizens, even though it is not a part of his specific duties. You owe a duty to your father, notwith standing you are past 21 years of age. "To my mind it is incomprehensible fqr you to make any claim whatever figainst your father. There was no agreement that he was to pay you anything. You were about tne place no doubt, as most children are, after you became of age and possibly earn ed your board, but probably you did not I infer from the character of your letter you did not. To make, a scene by asking now that youp'father be required to pay you anything is not indicative of the kind, class and character of citizens that the state of Nebraska had' suspected it was educating for the purpose of ulti mately taking a part in its civil gov ernment. "If you are an upright) honorable, straightforward young man, your father will undoubtedly do what is right and proper with and for you, and the sooner you get that idea Into your head, the better citizen you will be and the less likely you are to be a troublesome citizen of this state. Board Heads and Senator merce commission in its special report to congress. s To acquaint himself with the pre cise ideas of the commission, it is understood the president called in Chairman Hall and Clark and Meyers, whose view is believed to be that the railroads might operate successfully as a unit if legal restrictions are re moved and government aid were given in the form of a big loan or government guaranty of railroad se curities. An absolute embargo upon carload shipments of corn and oats into east ern territory, effective at theclose of business next Saturday night,' was issued by the railroads' (car service commission at the request of the food administration. : The administration says there is a i plentiful supply of these products in! the east for domestic consumption and the embargo is designed to divert a large volume of the traffic in sup plies for the allies to Gulf and South Atlantic ports to relieve congestion oit eastern roads and permit the re turn of, cars belonging to western lines. ' '- Germans Capture and Hold -Belgian Relief Steamer London, Lec. 7. The Belgian re lief steamer Haelen, loaded with grain, which was captured by a Ger man, submarine on November 3, and taken into Swinemuende, is still de tained there, according to Reuters Limited, the German authorities ig noring all protests. Berlin explained the detention of the Haelen on the ground that it had entered forbidden waters. The com mission for relief In Belgium on No vember 14 asked the Dutch govern ment to endeavor to obtain the re lease of the steamer. Bowlers ii ui 4 Norg-ard ...lit 1T1 111 lit Totala....77 74 7I till 121 147 387 101 10 4(5 I 21 fg SIGNAL. Tarnow ....1 148 Humphrey .122 13 131 Llllet-ren ..148 1(8 183 Toft 125 1(1 101 Wtbe .......147 114 134 Handicap ,. It 11 It 441 j 39S I 48 897 405 ; 84 I Totals. ...711 7 181 DIV. ENGINEERS, lat Id. 3d. Coulter ....HI 11 lU Uudd Ill US lit McBrlda ... 113 ll Runt .....141 lit 1 Roth lt lit 114 Handicap .. 17 17 IT tilt ! Tot. I 471 871 ! 10 421 481 , 111 Total... .498 ttl 741 1113, ENGINEERS. lat. Id. Id. Tot. 47 14 m 488 ,11 Patoraon Straw .. Rfdfield Millar . Strauaa . ..187 141 ttl ... t 111 (1 ...180 181 131 ...114 111 171 ...111 111 111 , Total.. BUPT. Ratchford Long .... Uartunc . Logston . Straw Handicap .478 741 711 lilt Ot TRANS. lat Id. Id. Tot. .118 lit 7 ..144 14S 111 ,.11 141 111 .140 111 141 3(1 446 40 424 4i 111 ,.180 166 It .. 41 41 44 Total.. . CAR Stafford ,7811 701 1111 RECORDS. lat Id. Id. Tot. ...171 111 11 804 Straw . Muffley Domet Bttne ... ...111 180 110 ...147 121 141 ...tit 111 181 ...11 174 147 410 410 114 Total.... 711 714 Tit 110 RETAIL GROCERS AGREED ON WHAT PRpFITSHOULDfiE Conference Held With Food Administrator Wattles, and Co-operation With 'Gov ernment Promised. Retail grocers of Nebraska, who came to Omaha for a conference with State Food Administrator Wattles, at a meeting Friday afternoon, tentative ly agreed k.a the following precentage of profit they consider fair for them to make on the principal staples: Sugar, 2'j per cent. , Cornmeal, 12'A per cent. Flour, M'i per cent. Potatoes, 33 1-3 per cent. Butter, 12J4 per cent. Eggs, 2li per tent. This does not mean that these profits will immediately, obtain, but it means mat tnis is tne recommenda tion to Mr. Wattles, who will in turn take the '.natter up with the federal fsod administrator. Will Co-operate With Government. i'When Mr. Wattles left the reftil ers committee to atten4 the meeting of , the wholesalers, E. E. Wise, Oma ha, was elected chairman of the re tailers; W, H. King, Lincoln, secre tary. . A resolutions committee was ap pointed consisting of F. L. Langhorst, Elm wood: E. D. Mallory. Alliance and Elmer Johnson, Omaha. The res-J olutions pledge the support of the re tailers to the federal and state food administration, ant promised the co operation of the retail grocers in all the efforts of the administration to have its regulations regarding food conservation Carried out. The sugar question occupied much ot the time ot the grocers. ' Charles Pickens, head of.Paxton & Gallagher company, wholesale gro cers, said 4rom the best information he can gather, the country is going to be 60 per cent short of its normal supply of sugar. "Someone will have t6 go short," he said. E. E. Wise, Omaha, illustrated the sugar famine in the east by saying that he recently sent worth ol sugar to Rochester, N. Y., on the or der of a woman living there, who said she could not buy a single pound of sugar in that city. "That woman paid 98 cents parcel post charges," he said, to get tl.at $1 worth of sugar. Would Limit Purchases. L. F. Langhorst, Elmwood, said he felt sure the limiting of the sale of sugar wo.ld never be accomplished until it' was put on a card asis. "When one comes to buy sugar of us," he said, "we cannot know how much sugar he or she may have bought at another store, but if the customer is on a card basis, we can ask to see the card before we sell him more sugar." To the wholesalers and retailers as sembled, Mr. Wittles said: JWe want to begin some prosecu tions at once. We have now delayed since August 10, giving people a chance to become acquainted with the laws. We don't want to go out with the vindictive purpose of putting somebody in the penitentiary. But we must realize always that we are officers of the United States govern ment, that government is at war, and that drastic measures are neces sary at times." All but four members of the whole We Carry a Full Line COLUMBIA GRAFONOLAS ' and the Celebrated COLUMBIA RECORDS December Records Now Out Brodegaard Bros. Co. 16th and (We Specialize AMCSEMEMW. DnANDEIS T?dy Mat, 2:30 Ev'ni.. 8:20 LAST TWO TIMES Mat Oc, 75c, 1.0Oi Nijhta, Me ts S1.50. salers' committee of the state were present at the meeting. The whole salers present were: W. H. McCord, chairman, McCord Brady company, Omaha; Chas. H. Pickens, Paxton & Gallagher com pany, Omaha; W. W. Bingham, R. Bingham & Son, Omaha; H. B.Grain ger, Grainger Bros., Lincoln; John A. Donald, president Donald company, Grand Island; E. K. Bradley, Brad-ley-Hughey company, Nebraska City; J. W. Spirk, Neligh Mills, Neligh; John D. Fuller, Blackman & Fuller, Hastings; Chauncey Abbott, Wells-Abbott-Nieman company, Schuyler; H. W. Abts, Columbus; L. J. Rasse, Fairbury; H. Booker, Crawford. Warned Against Hoarding. Talking to the grocers yesterday morning, Mr. Wattles issued a warn ing against hoarding foodstuffs. This warning came when some of the retailers from various parts of the state complained that the Farmers' union and the 'catalogue houses were still shipping sugar in 100-pound lots to customers in various parts of the state contrary to law. "All I want is the definite testi mony on the subject," said Mr. Wat tles. "We have one or two individ uals in this state on the way to the penitentiary now, and due publicity will be given to these cases when the time, comes. 1 Asks for Evidence. "If any of you have definite evi dence in specific cases of such viola tions," said Mr. Wattles, "let me have that evidence." "Mr. Wattles," said E. D. Mallory of Alliance, "I will be glad to furnish you definite evidence within a few days-after I get home that a certain house has shipped 100-pound bags of sugar recently to certain consumers in our locality who do not need that much within 60 days, as the law pro vides." I W. H. McCord of the McCord- Brady wholesale grocery concern of Omaha told the assembled retailers that he has just returned from Chi- caco.xr here he had a conference with Mr. Wheeler, the food administrator of Illinois. Mr. Wheeler told Mr. McCord that the mail order houses of Chicago definitely assured him they had stopped shipping sugar in exces sive quantities to consumers. Confer With Wattles. The newly appointed retailers' com mittee trom all over the state was called to Omaha to -confer with Mr. Wattles to get instructions as to how to proceed. Mr. Wattles told them he hoped they would see that grocers everywhere stopped the practice of selling sugar below .market price or below cost on tne condition that the customer buy a certain quantity of other goods. "It isn't fair and it isn't business," said the food administra tor. This statement was greeted with applause by the retailers. The statehood administrator told the retailers of the importance of hav ing the retailers' pledge card hung in a conspicuous place in the window or somewhere in the store, so that all customers may know what grocers are members of the food administra tion and are co-operating to conserve food to help win the war. "Those who haven't this pledge card in their windows I believe will soon find their customers going elsewhere," said Mr. Wattles. He also urged that Ihe grocers es tablish the system whereby they would charge for deliveries to cover the cost of that delivery and give Ihe customer who carries his own gro ceries the benefit of the difference. He urged also that those who ask for credit be given to understand what it costs to carry accounts, and that they be charged for that service, while those who pay cash should be given the benefit of that. of Douglas Sts. in Danish Records) AMrSKMEXTS. OMAHA'S FUN CENTER. tfirtf irrtji D,u MaU- is-25-soc y-2f'W'7 Evening. 2S-S0-75c-$l Aattftar ot Dwaadabla "Blatch" CoaeWa Slwwt so RD Roseland Girls BMr. All brand now; nothing of laat acason't ahow lft lut ttl tltl. Harry Cakaua. Harmony 1 an 1 Miaar att. Bataty ekarn f Rowbutt. 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USE IV3USE 5c Children' Performance Se Saturday Morning at 10 , O'Clock. The Little Chevalier' 40th and Hamilton Today VALES K A SURATT, in "SHE" SUBURBAN co?0, Today MARGERY WlLSON, in "MOUNTAIN DEW" AMI SEMRNTS. Entira Receipt Go to RED CROSS BENEFIT TODAY'S MATINEE. TOM LINDSAY AND LADY BUGS Miniature Musical Comedy. i HOWARD & GRAF COLUMBIA CITY FOUR MAIDIE DE LONG ..; BABY MARIE OSBORNE in "THE LITTLE PATRIOT" Sunday NORMA TALMADGE in "THE MOTH? mm'maiMU mmmmmujHi;.vm ., BMMtMJJLL I BOYD SUNDAY SHOWS L" 1, 3:30, 6 and 8:30 WEEK DAYS sS,'" lV 1 V ' , ' " l 0vN' Smashing Reel Z" STUPENDOUS , Z AMAZING J0' THRILLING wi Malinaea, All Soata, 25c Nights, lat Floor, 50c; Balcony, 25c M- Clira Riakall 1 YOUNG ..'S FHOTOPLAY9. Geraldine Farrar m "The Woman God Forgot" Mack Sennett Comedy "An International Sneak" With Chester Conklin STRAND Special Children's Performance Saturday Morning at 10 o'Clock Thoma Jefferion Morgan, P. J. G. The atoy of the "Ten CJub" Last TimesToday BROWNIE VERNON in "FEAR NOT" 24th and LothroD Today Jane and Katherine Lee, in "TVO LITTLE IMPS" HI P POD ROUES? Today Matinee and Night I "TANKS AT THE BATTLE OF ANCRE" First Tim at Adulta 20c Kida 10c AMUSEMENTS. Phone Doug. 494. SUPERIOR VAUDEVILLE LAST TWO TIMES George Marck'a Junjla Playere. Mr, trfne Hughea and other current feature. MATINEE TODAY, 2ilS , EARLY CURTAIN . TONIGHT 8:15 OY IV Tonight I H Laat Tim. v Mat. Today, 25c Busby's Celebrated Colored Minstrels . Sunday "CIVILIZATION" That extra room will nav vmir mal bill. Rent it through a Bee Want Ad.