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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1918)
12 GRAFT RUMORS AT CITY HALL OVER HEW FIRE TRUCKS Butler Charges That Some One . Got a "Bit" on the Last Bids; Watkins Says He Plays Politics. A debate on fire apparatus caused a verbal conflagration in the city council chamber Tuesday morning. , "There's graft. There was graft a year ago, and there was graft vo yean ago. Someoody's gettingi a split out of it I am not saying who, . but I am going to find out, I am in favor of this new apparatus, but I insist that Jhese people hall come clean. There have been secret meet ings. I haven't xbeen asleep," were statements made by Commissioner Butler. The subject was brought up when South Side business men sent a com mitre and presented many signed pe titions urging the commissioners to reconsider: their action of indefinite postponement of purchase of this year s quota of motor lire apparatus. Had Heard Rumors. C , Commissioners Parks and Withneil demanded that Butler show where the alleged graft Jiad been, whereupon Butler averred he had heard rumors of gaft and suggested that the city council have an investigation of pur case ot fire apparatus last year and the year before. He said the bidders might be grafters, as much as any body else. , , V "I kicked a man out of my office when he offered money to induce me to favor his line of automobile trucks," said Commissioner Parks. "You should have kicked him down the stairs," added Butler. J. B. Watkins, speaking for South Side business interests, sid: "The South Side -needs more fire appara tus and it should be provided as a matter of conservation. You will re call that a few months ago in the stock yards of Kansas City there was a fire, which caused a loss of $1,750,-. 000. The 40 per cent increase of the cost of fire apparatus over a year ago is not excessive'when you con sider the increase of materials which enter into the manufacture of these machines." x False Economy. "You city commissioners are assum ing a great responsibility if you fail to give the South Side the needed 1 Are ' protection," exclaimed Henry Murphy, who charged that it is ill advised economy to allow a few dol lars to block necessary fire protec tion for one of the greatest food-pro ducing centers of the world.' Mr, Watkins charged Butler with being a political opportunist by mak ing the present fight against the fire apparatus purchase,, Recent advertisement by the city brought only two bids, from the La France and Seagrave companies. The city purchased from the LaFrance company last year and the year be fore, as Superintendent Withneil an nounced a policy of standardizing the motorization of the fire department. Commissioner Butler contends that the recent bid of the LaFrance com pany is $16,000 in excess of what it should reasonably be, and be attrib utes the lack of bids from other com panies to the policy of standardizing the apparatus. He read 4 teleeram 1 r-nrm Nebraskan Asks For . New Draft Order On Claim ''lie's an Inventor" "Farming by Wireless" "was the unique claim made by one Ne braskan for deferred classification in the selective draft. He alleges in his request -for de ferred classification that he is one of the principal owners of a pat ented plan for increasing crop production by electricity and that his services are indispensable in erecting plants to increase the na tion's food supply. On a farm in Illinois he alleges electrified ccrn and sugar beets gave an increased production ' val ued at from $52 to $65 per acre more than adjoining land where nature was allowed free rein. A further claim was asked on the J grounds that ai? a member of a Chi cago election board he was a fed eral officer. The registrant passed the last summer on a Nebraska farm,-where he alleges he has been making a study of Nebraska crop conditions preparatory to establish ing an experiment, statjon. He expects to start bis experi ment farm and service station on a farm near Omaha, he says. If granted deferred classification he stated he would start erecting a plant near Omaha in the spring. from Beaumont, Tex., stating that the LaFrance company recently told a fire truck for $9,750, and made a bid of $1P,500 to Omaha a few weeks ago on the Same type of truck. Mayor-Danlman favored standard ization and Commissioner Kugel op posed that policy. The commissioners agreed to re advertise for bids and will require that the city purchasing department ' fur nish bidders with detailed specifica tions of what the city needs. The council 1s authorized by law to expend nearly $70,000 , this -year for completion of motorization of the fire department. , . Lutherans to 'Participate In Raising of Big Fund Omaha Lutherans will participate in the'raising of a $750,000 wartime service fund by the Lutherans of the United States. This is the largest bud get for wartime service 'to be raised by any Protestant church. It was de cided upon at a meeting of leading Lutherans at Pittsburgh, January 30. The date for the campign is Febru ary 18 to 26. President Wilson and Secretaries Daniels and Baker have endorsed the fundN It is estimated that 165,000 com municant Lutheran, men are wijh the colors., If the basis of reckoning vis baptized members the figure is raised to 300,000. The French Lutheran churches have sentan appeal for funds tO aid in ministering to the 30,000 to 50,000 Lutheran men already with United States army in France. M. Gladstone, a prominent French Lutheran, his written: "The French Lutheran church will be glad to put at the disposal of the Amercianl brethren all of its facilities for this work with special headquarters in Paris and other cities." Druggist Says Wife Made Him Do All the Housework Raymond Miles, answering Edna Miles' divorce suit in supreme -court, alleges he had to do, the housework, cook and serve the meals and tern the baby. ... He says MrSy Miles in sisted on Irving beyond their means and doted on fair raiment and. the movie shows and constantly up braided him because he was unable to rise, above his position as a drug gist. V : . ' , ' - ...... f 1 Ik Omaha Bee's New Want-Ad Shop - - THE BEE:-OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1918. Newsboys Proud of the Warm Given Them for Selling I V -Ml "k J - ffwlf A- . - Ji JV-w Vf , v 4 f&w fl c-AAy, J t ' " it til ! s Says Police Interfere . With Maloney Agency That local police interfered with the inner workings of 'Steve Ma loncy's detective agency was the as sertion of a representative of that agency in police court Tuesday morn ing. It was testified that A. C. Stone, who was arrested Monday by Detec tives Kcnnelfy and Cunningham, was on his way to the office of vSteve Ma loney to interview-him ' With regard to filing charges against his common law wife, who was said to have elope1 from Minneapolis, their home, witha man named Duncan. Stone stated that he was to go with Maloney to file charges in federal court when ar rested. In consequence of this, he said, his case was dismissed by the federal authorities. Stone made a similar complaint to the police a short time ago, but refused to prose cute when Duncan was arrested'. Man Born in Germany Wants to Fipht for U. S. Vlot air appeals coming to the at tention of the district exemption board ask deferred classification. One Nebraska man pf draft age appealed from classification as an alien enemy and requests that he be put in the first class. i He was born in Germany and his father and mother were both French. He resided in Germany until Z4years imrrTir-iir- n in-wnrrTTT-V i ir-r - old when he was deported at the be ginning of the war. He has never be come a citizen, of Germany and.has filed his declaration of, intention in the United States. His father and four brothers were killed in the French army during the present war. He is anxious to avenge their death and has been rejected by the army and navy as an alien on the charge that he has been a resident of Germany. His local board gave him a , similar standing in his question naire. He appealed from the decision and will attempt to secure admittance in the national army in the next draft. His contention that he is not an alien enemy is upheld by Election Commissioner Harley Moorhead and tie expects a similar ruling by the district board. v Mrs. McLaughlin Says Hubby Is Sulky and Finds Fault Hazel G. McLaughlin, 316 Lincoln apartments, is suing J. F. McLaughlin for divorce in district court on grounds of alleged cruelty and non support. She alleges McLaughlin is wealthy. She declares her husband is sour tem pered and sulkx, a fault-findeivand has exposed her to ridicule: They were married in 1907 and have one child 8 years old. She says she started di vorce action three years ago, but dis missed it when McLaughlin promised to reform. t r- ; , . , f Sweaters ; Omaha Bees People Walk in Middle Of Street in Washington "If you think the weather has been bad in Nebraska, 'you should have been in Washington during the last week," said N. H. Loomis, general solicitor for the Union Pa cific, why is back from the national - capital, where he went to look aftef some company legal business before the United States supreme court. The cases in which the Union Pa cific was interested1 and which were on the calendar were ready for argu ment and one of them would have been the next case called. Just be fore it was Teached the court ad journed and the hearing was put over until March. Speaking of Washington weather Mr. Loomis says there is more snow on the streejs and out in the country around the national capital than was ever seen before, even by the oldest inhabitant. ,It is estimated that the snow; is two feet deep on he level and more falling nearly every day. Pennsylvania avenue, one of the main thoroughfares of the city, is blocked with snow from one end to the other. No attempt is made to clear even the sidewalk. Mr. Loomi. says that along the sidewalks of this street there is simoly 'A foot nath worn down into the snow, and people trav eling the street go in single file, step ping out into tne jdeep snow when one passes anotner. . 1 ' RED CROSS WORK CONGESTED FOR LACK OFHELPERS Sixty Boxes a Day Come to . Headquarters, While Only Forty Are Shipped -Out. Red Cross work in Omaha will suf fer seriously unless '.more women workers are supplied. All Red Cross officials in the city have joined in is suing an appeal to patriotic women, not only to relieve the tieup in the state inspection warehouse in the Haubens building, but to increase the amount of surgical dressings. Gould Dietz, Omaha chapter head, is greatly concerned over the seem ing lack of patriotism on the part of Omaha women. "Card clubs and study clubs of which there are dozens in Omaha, should give up thei. meeting time to Red Cross work," he said. "There will be plenty of time to play cards after the war is over and, as tor study ing Greek and Roman history and such tcpics, that knowledge won't do our woui.Jed soldiers any good when they need bandages, he said. "There are 80,000 Red Cross mem bers but only 4,000 workeis in this citJ-" -Sixty boxes arrive at the warehouse everv Uay, but with the prevent force of 30 women, only 40vboxes at most can be shipped each day. One hun dred and fifty can work there. Doz ens of boxes, accumulated while the warehouse was, being prepared, are also piled up awaiting inspection. After fruitless appeals made by Mrs. Howard H. Baldrige. state cen sor. Mrss. T. O. Goodwin, state. surgi cal dressings chairman, made an ap peal for all auxiliariess to work in tne warehorse this week instead of work ing at their regular places; mostly at the Bair-d building. The women responded to the ap pealbut it, left the Baird btiiilding workerless. , Mrs. Walter Silver, local surgical dressings chairman, is in despair. Need More Helpers, "It is absolutely impossible for Omaha to .fill its February quota un- hess the women 4'eep to their work attd get more helpers. We have l.uuo split irrigation pads to .make, one of which requires one woman's work for a half day; 200 many-tail bandages. 150 five-yard rolls and other dress ings in this month's quota." Mr. Silver said many" boxes rilled with dressings were" standing in the Baird building. These cannot be shipped because of the tie-up in the warehouse, where tn.ey must go in order to be cnecked. Ma Call on Soldiers. There is talk of asking the com manding officer at Fort Omaha to de tail jpldiers to the warehouse to re lieve the congestion of work. The public workshop, too, is appeal ing for more workers now that it has increased space. 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