THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14. 1918.
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WORK ON WATER
PUMP FOR OMAHA
STOPPED BY U. S.
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Holds Up Delivery of Equip
ment to Plant in This
City.
The . Emergency Fleet corporation
has stopped the completion of a 30,
006,000 gallon centrifugal pump under
construction at the plant of the De
Vaval Steam Turbine company, Tren
ton, N. J., and promised for delivery
in April for the Omaha water works
system.
General Manager Howell of the wa
ter plant will go to Washington to
mak$ a personal appeal before ths
national . shipbuilding board on the
grounds that , the completion of this
pump is neressary and even vital.
The contract was let a year aco on
a bid of $76r000 and the pump wa? 70 i
per cent toward completion when
work was suspended on a verbal order
of J.- E. Tull of the Emergency Fleet
corporation. ,
Face Water- Shortage.
There are two large pumps at
Minne Lusa pumping station at Flor
ence, one having a capacity of 18,
000,000 gallons and the other 20,000,
000 gallons. The average daily oump
age is now 19,000,000 gallons, and
during the summer months it will be
' greatly increased.
Howell explains that the city would
face a water shortage during the
summer months if rne of these Dumps
should break down.
The water plant officials were so
confident in having the new oump
here in April, that they wrecked an
old pump and prepared its foundation
for the new machinery.
Armenian Fund Drive Nets
$5,000 In One Day
More than $5,000 was raised Tues
day toward Omaha's remaining share
of $45,000 for Armenian and Syrian
relief. The first soliciting on an or
ganized and widespread scope will be
gin Wednesday afternoon.
In every instance the plea- is being
made to save lives, and subscriptions
in multiples of $60, which is sufficient
to save one life for a year, are being
made.
Captains Charles Harding and Rob
ert Trimble report these large sub
scriptions from districts No. 9 and 10:
Byrne & Hammer Dry Goods com
pany, $500; Carpenter Paper company,
$420; David Cole, $300; Wright &
Wilhelmy company, $200.
Judge W. A. Redick started a
court house subscription list with a
check for $250.
Mrs. E. W. Nash sent the commit
tee a check for $200.
The Sun, Muse, Dundee, Brandeis
and Empress theaters granted tlit
privilege of addressing their aud
iences to the four-minute speakers:
Speakers R. M. Switzler, S. O. Cot
ner, Tames O'Hara, D. W. Swarr, P.
E. Koran and R. F. Leavens ad
dressed the crowds in these theaters
on Monday and Tuesday nights, and
will appeaf again Wednesday night.
Nebraska Congratulated ,
On Sale of Thrift Stamps
'State War Savings Director Bur
gess has received a letter from Fred
W. Fleming, federal director at the
national capital, again congratulating
him on the splendid showing Ne
braska is making in the sale of thrift
stamps.
In January and February Nebraska
made more than double the showing
per capita of any state in the middle
west This state's cash sales in the
postoffice during those two months
were $205 per capita. Missouri was
next of .he western states with 90
cents per capita and Kansas third with
70 cents.
Eggs Due to Advance in
Price Again, Dealers Say
With eggs selling .at 35 cents a
dozen at retail Wednesday, some of
the best informed dealers express the
belief that they have reached the bot
tom ,and that from now on there is
likely to be a rise in the price of eggs.
Hens are laying nicely now and the
time to begin storage is hear at hand.
As soon as this gets fully under way
much of the available supply of eggs
will be used, dealers say, and this will
tend to bring the price up again. Eggs
" have dropped 25 cents per dozen in
a little more than three weeks.
Woman Overcome Wheri Fire
Destroys Rooming House
'Fire, started by the explosion of a
newly installed oil burning furnace,
gutted the rooming house of Mrs. E.
Pruss, 701 Park avenue, at 11 o cluck
" Wednesday morning. The damare is
estimated at $5,000.
Miss- Beatrice Brinckman, a maid,
was overcome in the basement, where
she was working, and was carried out
by firemen. Mrs. F. C. Runyon and
baby and Mrs. Fred Sweat, ronin'ng
on the second floor, escaped before
the flames reached them.
Howell Back From Conference
With National Chairman Hays
R.. B. Howell, republican national
committeeman for Nebraska, has re
turned from Chicago, where he met
Chairman Hays of the national com
mittee. ' '
Mr. Howell stated that the new
chairman is planning a tour of west
ern states, will visit the middle west
and c6nfer with Nebraska leaders of
the party. ; .
William D. Kierstead Sues
For Divorce; Alleges 'Nagging'
William D. Kierstead, son of Billy
Kierstead, Wednesday filed s'lit for
divorce against Lena.
The couple were married in Coui.cil
Bluffs March 14, 1913.
The petition alleges that the
"nagged" him. '.
' Mail Clerks Organize in
Omaha; Ask Pay Increase
An Omahi chapter of the newly or
ganized National Brotherhood of
w Railway Mai! Clerks has been or-
janized and delegates are expected to
attend the next meeting of the Cen
tral Labor union. The railway clerks
say they will seek a big increase in
pay, which, they say, is long overdue, j
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Fritzi Scheff Passes Spare j
Time Knitting for Red Cross
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NEBRASKA CATTLE
MEN ASK PROFIT
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Assurance of Reasonable Net
Proceeds Sought by Com
mittee of Growers From
West in Washington.
Washington, March 13. Assurances
of a reasonable profit, and representa
tion in the food administration for the
cattle growers were asked today of
president Wilson and of Food Ad
ministrator Hoover, by a commi tee
of the Missouri Live Stock association
and representatives of the State C'-r.tle
Raisers' association of Illinois and
Nebraska.
President Wilson was told that the
cattle growers are losing money be
cause the price of cattle does : ot
cover, the cost of feeding at present
prices of corn. The cattle men said
that if they were to keep their breed
ing cattle and endeavor to increase the
meat supply as requested by the food
administration, they must be assumed
the return at least would not be a
loss.
Mr. Hoover was asked to add a
practical cattle grower to his staff of
advisors.
THREE JACK1ES
KILLED WHEN
SHELL EXPLODES
Washington, March 13. A shell ex
plosion on the United States steam
ship Von Steuben, which killed three
men, was announced late today by the
Navy department. The shell exploded
while being fired. (
The dead are:
EMMETTE JOSEPH SHIELDS,
seaman, Hannibal, Mo.
VALENTINE PRZYBYLSKI, fire
man, 150 Rother avenue, Buffalo,
N. Y.
ERCELL WILLIAM MARTIN,
mess attendant, Philadelphia, Pa.
The date of the explosion was not
given, nor were there any details in
the department's statement further
than that the men were killed by
fragments of a shd)l which burst
while being fired.
Strike Out Rail Clause
Limiting State Taxation
"Washington, March 13. On a point
of order that the conferees on the ad
ministration railroad bill had violated
a new senate rule prohibiting the in
sertion of new provisions, the senate
today returned the bill to conference
for elimination of the section to limit
the power of the states to increase
railroad taxes. Vice President Mar
shall sustained the point of order.
On an appeal by Senator Robinson
from the vice president's decision the
senate sustained the ruling, 51 to 23.
Although technically the action of
the senate would permit the confer
ees to reopen all differences which
had been adjusted it was not expected
that any other parts of the bill would
be changed. A meeting of the con
ferees later today was planned and
it was believed the return of the
measure would not cause more than
another day's delay.
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Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, is, after
all, a typical American woman.
Saddened because of the war, in
which her father was killed, her pretty
fingers pass every spare moment knit
ting for the soldiers.
She recently presented six sweaters
to the Camp- Dodge Red Cross chap
ter. The sweaters were sold at auc
tion and netted hundreds of dollars
for the Red Cross. Miss Scheff has
promised to knit a garment for. the
"Omaha Red Cross.
She has not heard anything of her
mother, who lives in Austria, for
more than two years.
Doing Red Cross vork and keep
ing trig and trim, petite and pretty,
does not take all of Miss Scheffs
time. She also is an enthusiastic gar
dener and hopes some day to own a
big farm where she can "really raise
crops and chickens and all that sort
of thing."
She passed several hours Tuesday
shopping for "seeds that grow." A
friend who called on her at the Ho
tel Foatenelle found her poring over
a seen catalogue containing pitcures
of violets and onions and roses and
cabbages.
SLIGHT INCREASE
IN SOLDIER DEATHS
Reports From Cantonments in
United States Indicate Three
More Dead Than Reportd
Week Ago. i
Washington, Marcli 13. Deaths
among the troops in the United
States regular army, national guard
and national army totalled 156 during
the we"ek ending March 8, an increase
of three over the proceeding week.
Seventy-one of the deaths were from
pneumonia.
The regular army had the highest
total of deaths, with 60; the national
army had 54 and the national guard 42.
The detailed report of the division
of field sanitation, made public to
night, says the health of the troops
continues satisfactory with the num
ber of cases of pneumonia decreasing
in the national guard ajjd regular army
and increasing slightly in the national
army.
Meningitis is rapdily declining in
all camps, but in the' national army
measles is increasing in some camps,
.due to an influx of new men
Reduce Ship Timber Sizes
To Speed War Construction
Washington, March 13. Reduction
in ship timber sizes used in wood con
struction in the south was authorized
by the shipping 1oard to expedite con
struction. John H. Kirby of Houston, Tex.,
vice president of the Southern Pine
association, has been named to take
a survey of pine forests to determine
the amount of material jvailable for
wooden ships as a further step to in
crease the output. ,
Under the old specifications few
trees could be found in southern for
ests sufficiently large to cut the heav
ier pieces and 2,300 cars of fir were
ordered fiorii the Pacific coast for
southern yards.
Kill Proposed Extra
, Pay to U. S. Aviators
Washington, March 13. Legisla
tion to abolish the extra allowance
of 50 per cent in pay to men In the
aviation service was approved by
General Crowder, who detailed the
reasons given by General Pershing,
Secretary Baker and the general staff
that aviation is not more hazardous
than other branches of the service,
according to the oerceutaee of fa
talities, and that there is now no dif
ficulty in securing men for av.--.tion
work without attraction of extra
pay.
Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sluices of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.
Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold,
foul toneue. nasty breath, acid stom
ach, lame back. can. instead, both
look and feel as fresh as a daisy al
ways . by washing the poisons and
toxins from the body with phosphat-
ed hot water each morning:.
We should drink, before breakfast,
a class of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it
to flush from the stomach, liver, kid
neys and ten yards of bowels the pre.
vious day's indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
ing, sweeteninjr and purifying the
entire alimentary tract before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is . wonderfully invigorating. It
cleans out all the sour fermentations,
gases, waste and acidity and gives one
a splendid appetite for breakfast. A
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
will cost very little at the drug store,
but'is sufficient to make anyone who
is bothered with biliousness, consti
pation, stomach trouble or rheuma
tism .a real enthusiast on the subject
of internal sanitation. Adv.
Cured His RUPTURE
1 was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk
several years ago. Doctors said my only hope
of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no
good. Finally I got hold of something thst
quickly and completely cured me. Years have
passed and the rupture has never returned,
although I am doing hard work as a carpen
ter. There was no operation, no lost time, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give
full information about bow you may find a
complete cure without operation, if you
write to rae, Eugene M. Pullen, Carpenter,
244-D Hareellus Avenue, Manasquan, N. J.
Better cut out this notice and show it to
any others who are ruptured you may save
a life or at least stop the misery of rupture
and the worry and danger of an -operation.
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AMERICAN LABOR
SENDS RUSS NOTE
OF SYMPATHY
Gompers Forwards Message
Declaring U. S. Desires to
Safeguard Slav Freedom '
As Its Own Liberty.
Washington, March 13. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, on behalf of the
American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, today forwarded to the
Russian soviet congress at Moscow
a message of sympathy to the Russian
people "in their struggle to safeguard
freedom."
Mr. Gompers' message said:
"We address you in the name of
world liberty. We assure you that
the people of the United States are
pained by every blow at Russian free
dom as they would 6e by a blow at
their own. rbe American people de
sire to be of service to the Russian
people in their struggle to safeguard
freedom and realize its opportunities.
We desire to be informed as to how
we may help.
"We speak for a great organized
movement of working people who are
devoted tothe cause of freedom and
the ideals of democracy. We assure
you also that the whole American na
tion ardently desires to be helpful to
Kussia and awaits with eagerness an
indication from Russi . as to how help
may most effectively be extended.
"To all those who strive for free
dom we say: Courage; justice must
triumph if all free people stand united
against autocracy. We ;.wait your
suggestions."
Peace Manifesto Submitted
To Austrian Reichsrat
Washington, March 13. Copies of
a manifesto submitted to the Aus
trian Reichsrat by Dr. Anton Kbro
slietz, signed by 35 Jugoslav depu
ties, demandingimmediate peace on
the oasis ot the right of peoples to
self-determination, and the creation
of an independent Jugoslav, state,
were made public here Tuesday . night
by the official Serbian press bureau.
The document, suppressed in Aus
tria, is said to have been brought to
Washington by "indirect means." ' It
opens with a protest against the rt
fusal of the government to permit
representatives of the oppressed na
tionalities of the dual monarchy tq
participate in the Brest-Litovsk peace
conferences, and a denunciation of the
persecution of Jugoslavs, who are de
clared to have been slain by tens of
thousands without provocation.
"The so-called, constitutions of
fered by the monarchy as affording
the possibility of further development
of the peoples are a farce," the mani
festo says. "In reality these very
constitutions entrench the German
and the Magyar in their organized
oppression of the proletariat peoples."
Music Conductor Dead.
Petrograd, March 13. Wassili Sa
fonoff, the orchestral conductor
(formerly conductor of the philhar
monic orchestra of New York) js dead
at Kislovodsk, the Caucasus watering
place.
First
Ado
Just a Quarter of
a Century ago, an
nouncing our Open
ing Day, March 13,
1893. ;
DESTROYER SINKS
GERMAN U-BOAT
British Vessel Takes Eight of
Crew After Hot Tight; Sub
Officers Make Abject
Surrender. ,
"London, March 13. The, British
destroyer Ariel recently overpowered
and destroyed a German submarine
and captured eight of the crew. The
Ariel was oa patrol duty when it
got a report of a submarine in north
ern waters.
Sighting the periscope of the sub
marine at a distance of nearly a mile,
the Ariel made for the enemy craft,
firing as it approached. The gun
ners made good practice' . and the
periscope of the submarine was struck
fairly. Going at full speed the Ariel
attempted to ram the German and
passed right over it.. The submarine
was damaged and came to the surface.
Faced with destruction, the crew of
the' submarine attempted to use the
guns on the destroyer. After two or
three shots from the bow gun of the
warship, however, the crew of the U
boat began to appear on deck with
their hands above their heads in token
of surrender. Several boats'were low
ered and eight men of the submarine
crew were rescued. .
Near Blacksod bav. on the western
coast of Ireland, an armored patrol
steamer was victorious m a fight with
a German submarine in British
coastal waters..
Sub Fires' on Ship.
While the armed steamer, was in
Blacksod bay word was brought that
a German submarine was firing on a
merchant ship just outside Achillhead.
The patrol steamer went out ana an
hour later sighted a submarine painted
black about two miles off.
When the patrol steamer was about
800 yards off . it began to use its
guns. All the -shots were effective
and the submarine attempted to get
away, but. the patrol steamer main
tamed its fire.
Suddenly smoke was seen coming
from the the aft side of the conning
tower of the U-boat, and it stopped.
Its. stern then1 began-to sink. Soon
the . conning tower disappeared and
only the forepart of the U-boat was
above iwater. . After a moment the
submarine disappeared entirely,' leav
ing a-, large cloud of tnoke. The
patrol steamer waited for two hours,
but saw no trace of the U-boat.
Urge President Take Over
Coal, Iron, Oil and Timber
Washington,' March 13. Legisla
tion empowering the president to
take over c6al, oil, irpn and timber
lands and water power and to sell
products . from them . at cost was
urged !" before .. the house , interstate
commerce committee today .by former
United States Senator James E. Mar-
tme of New York, Representative M.
Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania, Benja
min C. Marsh of New York, chajrman
of the executive , committee of the
high cost of living, and others.
Cyclone Raze Several
Towns in Australia
Vancouver, B. C, March 13. Sev
eral , Queensland. Australia, villages
were destroyed by a cyclone Monday,
according to a cable received from
Sydney,-N. S. W., today by the Van
couver World. The casualties were
reported heavy.
JUST twenty-five years ago' the Orchard & WilKelm Co. acquire'd
the business, of -S. A. Orchard, whose premises had been de
stroyed by fire,. and re:incorporated as the; Orchard & Wilhelm
Carpet Co., obtaining temporary quarters where the Calumet Res
taurant now: stands. The Continental Building was built to ac
commodate .the new business and became our first permanent lo
cation; but as time went on this building proved too small, and the
business was moved to -its present address on' Sixteenth Street.
Omaha's rapidly; growing ; population,1 and the f act tfiat ideas
and ideals ' with . regard to the home and ' its embellishment have
greatly advanced, improved and elaborated,, has ; AGAIN" made it
necessary to, expand ; THIS TIME it will be tne reinforced con
crete structure now being added to the rear of our present estab
lishment, giving -us 100 more floor space. This enlargement has
become a pressing need by the. persistent growth of every depart
ment in the house, bott TO
Orchard & Wilhelm Company
Republican Chairman tq
Capital in Stiffs' Interest
New York, March 13. Will H.
Mays, chairman of the republican na
tional committee, held a conference
today with party leaders and tonight
he will meet republican committeemen
from New England.
Mr. Hays expects to go to Wash
ington, it was said,, in the interests of
the federal suffrage amendment. The
new chairman expressed himself as
thoroughly in favor of the full suffrage
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faolurere, . Not aa old earpel, not aaold patternlbs fare took thea
II. II youwmUmplaU redecorating or relurnisilng It will pay jrea
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Our stock el Wiltons, Aamiaeters. Uoqaette Velvet
Body Brussels Is made op from deaigns bow used la highly arUety
tnlealor deooratlons.
Temporary quarter dlreeny opposite th ruin ot eia nqraj
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A ntrrk frw World-Herald March
for women, saying that in thijTage v:
of representative government justice
required that every adult person.'
should have a voice in it
Big Steamer Aground.
An Atlantic Port, March 13.The :
steamer Kershaw, of the Merchants
and Miners' line, with-more than, 100
passengers aboard, sent out a call for
help today and reported that it . was
aground off the southern New Eng
land coast. Tugs were sent to "its
assistance. . -
We will be in Our New
Home, 16th and Harney,
before Easter. 1
Note We are offering thousands
of good reliably made shoes, at 1
$1.95 and $2.95
outing Oxfords, While they
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