Brief City News
Have K.h.i Irinl It New Hoaron Hrt-aa
For Xnm Everything electrical
Burgess-Groden Co.
Persons witnessing auto accident,
corner of Georgia avenue and Leaven
worth, 6:30 Wednesday evening, De
cember 19, please call Harney 6232 or
Mrs. Harry Steele, Harney 6079.
State Rank of Omaha, cornur Six.
teenth and Harney streets, pays 4 per
cent on time deposits. Three per cent
on savings accounts. All dep.wits In
this bank are protected by the de
positors guarantee fund of the state
of Nebraska. Adv.
Two Couples Wed Two couples
were married by Rev. C. W. Savidge
yesterday. Miss Genevieve Coffev of
Logan, la., and Herbert K. MoCnl-
lough of Minneapolis, and Miss Hattie
Lease and Harry E. Carter, both of
Norfolk, are the young people.
Reports Theft of Purse Mrs. W.
D. Sullivan, 2009 Cass street, reported
to the police that when she reached
the corner of Eighteenth ai.d Chicago
streets on her way home last night,
an unrecognized man jumped out
from behind a tree and snatched her
purse. The purse contained little
money.
Checks Received The Bee ack
nowledges receipts of checks for $2
and f 1 from H. H. Story of the Butte
Cash Clothing company, Butte, Neb.,
the former amount for the Armenian i
relief fund and the latter for the
Christmas relief work of The Bee and
Associated Charities. Also a check
for $5 from F. H. Cole for Associated
charity relief.
Coal Mines Busy Union Pacific an
nounces that the Rock Springs coal
mines are being worked to capacity
and that the presen toutput is in ex
cess of 100 carloads daily. The aver
age daily output during November
was 90 carloads. But little of the
Rock Springs coal is getting as far
east as Nebraska. Most of it is con
sumed in Utah, Nevada, Idaho and
"Wyoming. ,
Fine Fireplace Goods at Sunderland'!. I
POSTAL CLERKS
FALL AS RUSH OF
MAIL INCREASES
Hard Work and Long Hours
Cares for Outbound Mail,
But Incoming is Prob
lem Still Unsolved.
TH BEE: OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26, J917.
OLD FATHER SLACKER
SOUTH SIDE
SOOTH SIDE SWELLS
RED CROSS GOFFERS
Total Subscribed in Magic City
May Reach $9,500; Pack
ers Are Big Contributors.
The South Side Red Cross fund
may reach $9,500, according to Mrs.
W. B. Tagg, chairman. There was
$9,154 on hand early Monday after
noon and more coming in so fast
that Mrs. Tagg could scarcely hand
out cards fast enough.
The Omaha Live Stock Exchange
gave $1,673. Approximate returns
from the big packing houses are
Cudahv's. $2,200; Armour's, $1,800
Swift's, $1,500; Morris's, $700; miscel
laneous memberships, nearly $1,UUU.
Many South Side High
School Boys in Service
The former students of the bouth
Side High school now in actual war
service of the United States are:
Isadore Mushkin, U. S. S. Lenape
George J. Bevington, U. S. S. Mc-
Dougal; Robert Holgerson, machine
aviation corps, rort Logan, LolO.:
Shirley Menefeowas at Camp Sheri-
'Jan but has been ordered elsewhere,
present address unknown; Louis
Hines. address unknown: Ferdinand
Menefee, captain, engineering corps
Alberniarle bldg., New York City;
Lester Robinson, twentieth aero
squad, signal corps, concentration
camp. Garden City, L. I.; Clare
Noting, commissioned second lieuten
int at Fort Snelling, present address
unknown; John Harding, commis
sioned first lieutenant at Fort Snel
ling, present address unknown; Dana
van Dusen, commissioned first lieu
tenant at Fort Snelling, present ad
dress unknown; Dr. Ralph Curti, first
lieutenant, medical corps, rort Iravis,
an Antonio, lex.
Mrs. Rosewicki Appointed
Polish Red Cross Head
Gould Dietz, chairman of the Oma
ha Red Cross, has appointed Mrs. R.
A. Rosewicki, 4319 South Twenty
fourth street, chairman of the Polish
Red Cross Auxiliary, and has author
ized her to take Red Cross member
ships. Within the last two days Mrs.
Rosewicki has obtained 75 members.
She is also active in a knitting club
of Polish women which meets at her
home twice each week and which has
already given many garments to the
Polish soldiers.
iouth Omaha Brevities
Yuletlde greetings from Besse. Today we
serve you Miss Ethel Barrymore In "Life's
Whirlpool." Besse.
Joe Klengowla, Thirty-second and Q
streets, was fined $100 and costs by Judge
Fitzgerald In South Side police court lion
day morning for Illegal possession of liquor.
Tom Berger, 4513 South Thlrty-third
street, was arrested Monday afternoon oh
complaint of his landlady, Mrs. ..Nettie
Shirley, charged with defrauding an inn
keeper. Mrs. Shirley alleges that Berger
owes her $35.50 for board.
Congestion at the Omaha postof-
nce is greater this year than ever be
fore. Hundreds upon hundreds of
mail sacks filled to overflowing were
piled up almost ceiling high last
night, and the overworked employes
said they had by hard work and long
hours managed to get the outbound
mail in some semblance of shape,
but they waved their hands in despair
when questioned what disposal would
be made of the incoming 'mail, and
frankly admitted that they did not
know how they would take care of it,
but it would be taken care of in some
manner.
Force Long Short Handed.
For three months the force in the
postofiice has been shorthanded. The
employes have been compelled to
work 12. 1 b and even 16 hours dav
in and day out. Seme of the employes
nave been unable to stand e strain.
It is estimated that fully 75 clerks have
resigned within the last three months
many of them enlisting in the army
and navy. As a result the force has
been short.
A halfhearted attempt has been
made to replace those who resigned
with high school students, but these
boys can do only what they are told
to do, and about all the good they
render is to cancel stamps and work
under the direction of older men. If
they are told to put a certain piece of
mail in a certain sack they can do
it, but if they were turned loose to
make up the outbound mail for the
different trains they would be grap
pling with a herculean task, and out-of-town
patrons would wait a long
time tor their mail.
Adverse Comment.
there is much adverse comment
heard among the clerks who are
compelled to labor long hours behind
closed doors marked "private," and
little does the outsider know how
long and hard the clerks have
worked in that he might get his mail
on the regular deliveries.
The working of long hours by
civil service employes is expressly
forbidden by law, but there are more
ways than one of killing a feline
other than choking it to death on 50
per cent butter.
When the postofiice is crowded
with mail and the force is compelled
ij work long hours the "emergency
plea" is rung in, and the protests of
the weary employes have no effect
on department heads. Men who
have labored hard and faithfully for
many years to learn the shortcuts
how to expedite the movements of
mail have thrown up their hands in
disgust and asked to be separated
from the payroll.
"Man Failure" Cause of
' Wreck Which Killed Forty
Louisville, Ky Dec. 25. "Man
failure" caused the disaster which
cost more than two score lives when
two Louisville and Nashville pas
senger trains came together in a
rear-end collision last Thursday night
at Sheperdsville, according to a state
ment issued tonight by B. M. Starks,
general manage.- of the Louisville and
Nashville.
In hit statement which summarizes
the findings of a board of inquiry
made up of railroad officials, he says
"the first negligence" was the failure
of the flagmen and conductor ot the
train ahead to protect the rear ot
their train while it was standing on
the main line near Sheperdsville."
The engineer of the fast train
which followed is also charged with
negligence in that "he failed to have
his train under control as he ap
proached Sheperdsville, so that if
need be he could stop before passing
the station.
Police Make Big Find
In Strause Murder Case
Brandeis Employes Wire
Loyalty to Sergeant Brandeis
Employes of the Brandeis Stores
yesterday sent to Sergeant E. John
Brandeis at Camp Tunston the fol
lowing telegraphic Christinas greet
ings: "At this season of the ' ear when
all hearts are filled with that most
glorious spirit of giving, you have
been in the minds and hearts of every
employe, and after many individual
suggestions and discussing a suitable
gift collectively, we were unable to
decide on anything good enough until
i. was suggested and most heartily
approved by all to send a gift that
is priceless; one that vc are sure will
please you above all else, nnmely, the
positive assurance of our loyalty to
you and your interests and that our
prayers will be continued for your
safety, and speedy return to our
midst, bringing with you distinction
and honor for your services to our
flag and for a continued prosperity
lure at home. Twelve hundred em
ployes wish you a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year."
Julia Fowler, With U. S. War
Department, Home For Xmas
Julia M. Fowler, formerly em
ployed in the business office of The
Omaha Bee, is at home for an 11-day
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Fowler and her grandfather, W.
II. Gteveiij.
Miss Fowler is employed in the
general signal office of the War de-
i partment at Washington, and recently
received an oner to go to I ranee in
government service there. She de
clined the offer, however, and will re
main in Washington for the present
Dawfion Well Represented.
The village of Dawson has reported
that every family is represented in
the Red Cross. Nintey-five per cent
of the families in the place were regis
tered 100 per cent.
You can secure a maid, stenogra
pher or bookkeeper by usinc a Bee
I Want Ad
SPEAKERS TO TELL
OF WAR CONDITIONS
i
Nebraskans to Learn First
Hand of Food Conditions In
Europe From Food Admin
istration Investigators.
Franklin Mann Presented
With $200 Loving Cup
Franklin Mann found a $200 loving
cup in his stocking this morning. The
employes of Omaha agency of the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company made him a present of it. At
first the employes had planned to cele
brate the 1917 success of the agency
by giving Mr. Mann a big dinner. Be
cause the members of the force living
out in the state would not have been
able to attend such a dinner, this idea
was given up. The money raised for
the dinner was spent for a loving cup.
Mr. Fricke, leading agent of the
Omaha agency of the company, has
already written more than $750,000
worth f insurance this year, which
is one of .he 'best records ever made
by one agent in the life insurance
game in Nebraska.
Tobacco Goes Up in Smoke.
Reidsville, N. C. Dec. 25. The eld
N'orth State Tobacco company's to
bacco and cigar factory here was de
stroyed today by fire. The plant had
shut down for the holidays. The ori
gin of the fire i unknown. The re
drying and storage plants, nearby,
vere saved.
Pneumonia Attacks Cliiaese.
Peking, Dec. 25. Thre has been
:: serious outbreak of piKumonia
, 'ong the Shansi-Mongolia 'horde
More than 100 deaths have alrea i'
been reported.
Peoria, 111., Dec. 25.- County and
city authorities indicated tonight
that they had obtained evidence
which they termed important in con
nection with the slaying yesterday of
Berne M. Mead, cashier of the. Mate
Trust and Savings Bank, by E. A.
Strause, its president.
None o the police officials would
comment on the discoveries they said
they had made. It was learned from
the authorities, however, that the re
volver which was used by Strause
was his own property and not the one
which belonged t the bank as had
teen supposed at first.
finger print experts are at work
on elements ot the case in an enort
to obtain evide ice that might tend
either to confirm or to contradict
Strause's' version of the slaying.
Nebraska will have an opportunity,
first hand, to learn of food conditions
n the warring countries, and to hear
the stories of food, and its applica
tions in all phases, by eye witnesses.
The federal food administration has
sent six men of national reputation
to Europe to observe ,., conditions
Ihere. Immediately upon their re
turn they will speak in the great food
producing centers of the United
States.
Nebraska, through the activity of
Gurdon W. Wattles, federal food ad
ministrator, will be one of the first
states to have the opportunity of
these personal messages from these
men.'
Six speakers, four men and two
women, will speak in cities in Ne
braska, the cities being selected ac
cording to geographical location so
that all Nebraskans as far as possible
with the least effort and incon
venience will be permitted to hear
these messages direct from the war
ring countries.
The visit of the distinguished
speakers will not be announced until
later, pending their return from
across the water. However, they
will visit Nebraska as soon as possi
ble after their return.
Their itineraries in Nebraska will
be under the direction of Mr. Wat
tles. Local arrangements in the dif
ferent communities for the addresses
will be made through the county
food administrators of the state.
The speakers will return to this
country about the middle of January.
At present they arc in France, col
lecting data. Those visiting the Eu
ropean countries are:
Daniel A. Reed, Dr. Julius Lincoln,
Edward F. Trefz, John B. Lord,
Everett Colby, and Roscoe Mitchell,
all of national prominence in various
lines of activity.
Others who are included in the list
and from whom some will be chosen
to visit Nebraska in addition to those
in the warring countries are:
Hugh Gibson, secretary American
legation at Brussels; Major W. L.
Brown, publicist from Kansas; Dr!
Paul M. Pearson, editor "The
Speaker;" Carl Vrooman, assistant
secretary agriculture; James T.
Dubois, recently United States min
ister to Columbia; Miss Kate Bar
nard, juvenile court, Denver; Mrs.
Raymond Robbins, president Na-
tional Women's Trade Union league;
Mrs. Cordelia Pfwell Odenheimer.
president general Daughters of Con
federacy; Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, well known international
orator; Mrs. Frances Gordon Smith,
daughter late General John B, Gor
don, and Joseph C. Crew, diplomatist.
Bride Comes From East to
Marry Lieut, at Fort Omaha
Lieutenant A. I. Burgess of Fort
Omaha and Miss Marguerite Baker of
Boston were married last night at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pobert W
Adams, 3310 D venport street, by Rev.
Anderson of Calvary Baptist church.
The groom wa. a young business man
of Boston before he entered military
service. His bride came from the
east for the we lding.
You can secure a maid, stenogra
u.'er or bookkeeper by using a Bee
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TREATMENT
YEAR'S GIFT
FREE
South Dakota Cavalrymen
To Machine Gun Battalion
mom. IV
nOM Health Sm Lust Smoukt h
Camp Cody, N. M., Dec. 25. (Spe
cial '.telegram.) Today the Second
squadron of the old First South Da
kota cavalry was "dug out" of the
Minnesota infantry regiments and
other units where the Dakotans had
been distributed in the breaking up
of the cavalry regimei.. commanded
by Colonel C. H. Englesby, and all
four troops put into the 127th Ma
chine Gun battalion.
Tiis is one result of the appeal to
the War department by Governor
Peter Norbeck and other officials of
South Dakota, who were anxious that
the state should not lose close touc'.i
with its men in army service here.
American "Jackies" in Naples
Attract Admiring Crowds
Rome, Dec. 25. Several hundred
American naval officers and men are
on a visit to Naples on a Christmas
leave They have attracted great at
tention from the Italians crowds
of whom follow them about the
streets.
Ree Want Ada Bring Results
American Seamen Lost
Overboard From Transport
Washington, Dec. 25. I.eo B. Mur
i iy, a seaman, of Oroville, Cal., and
leorpe O. K. Vidahi. a seaman of
Arlington. X. J., were lost overboard
from a transport on December 17
Reader, are you growing- deaf T If you are,
here is the pladdest message of 1918 for you.
A Deafness Socialist has arisen who hat
perfected a scientific constitutional method
of treatment which has cured scores and
hundreds of people of Deafness.
From all over the country people are ask
ing for consultation and advice. Every mail
brings grateful testimony from cured pa
t'entB. Listen to this from our capital city:
"IK I CAN ONLY SOUND THB NOTES OF
MY PERFECT CURE IN DEAF EARS UN
TIL I HEAR THE ECHO OF RESPONSE."
Go down Jouth to Georgia and hear this:
"I CAN HEAR NOW JUST LIKE I USED
TO IN MY YOUTH. I CAN HEAR MY
CLOCK TICK ANYWHERE IN MY ROOM.'1
Go across the continent to the Pacific Ocean,
and listen to the grateful testimony from the
state of Washington: "I CAN HEAR ALL
RIGHT. I CAN TAKE ORDERS OVER THE
TELEPHONE OR I CAN GO TO CHURCH
AND HEAR THJ5 SERMON. r
It may seem to you too good to be true.
You may have become so discouraged by re
peated failures that yon felt that you must
suffer the terrible lonely misery of Deafness.
But remember this is the age of seeming
miracles. We talk across space without wires,
we fly like birds, we do things in every line,
whirh five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago
we would have said were "impossible."
Medical science has progressed too, and
iiw, in me Deginn.ng oi mm, many eases
of Deafness, which had been thought incur
able, are no longer so.
Here is a wonderful opportunity for you to
ce this famous treatment for yourself. Deaf
ness Specialist Sproule makes this offer for
the month of January: "EVERY DEAFNESS
SUFFERER WHO SENDS FOR A TREAT
WENT in JANUARY WILL BE SENT ONE
FREE. AS A NEW YEAR'S GIFT."
DO IT NOW
Jurt txcsu" It Is tair for ou In ntn.tn thi.
.anious trUiiit. rtoo'i rut the nrnter off but art
:r ul ix-m-ii mil ik for it before vf,u ,V the
Pir down. A wit cird request mil cnub'e ynu to
see rigl't In your own lwn;e this method of treatment
which ha restored lurmn nd the Jot of liilnit to
hundred, of suffrrern in mi-l your condition. I'm the
'aril m The next toai'.
DEAFNESS SPECIAL JST SPROULE
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uunuini. uotion. mast, i
Omaha Has a Wonderful
Fire Department
NICHOLAS OIL fire was bad, but
thanks to them we are still doing
businessour large stocks and tanks
were ALL SAVED-the loss of three
of our automobile trucks is most
serious handicap.
Until new equipment can . be provided, deli
veries may be slow, but we will keep going
as usual.
Yes we are fully covered
we still smile and say:
by insurance and
"Business is Good Thank You"
V.
NICHOLAS OIL CO.
President