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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1918)
4 HOOVER WILL ADD MIDDLE WEST MAN TO MEAT BOARD Outcome of Agreement Be tween Representatives of Live Stock Producers ar.J Feed ers With Food Dictator. (By Associated Prwi.) Washington, March 14. UndV an agreement announced today between the food administration and repre sentatives of the live stock producers and feeders of the western corn belt, the administration will add to the staff of its meat division a practical production man to be selected from a list submitted by the corn belt men and will undertake to relieve th- di fictilties surrounding the cattle feed ine industry bv increasing the pro portion of government purchases of the higher grades of beet. The administration records its rec ognition of the principle that pro ducers of necessary food should have a fair and reasonable profit in rddi tion to cost of production and sug gests that for the guidance of th government an independent tribunal should determine the cost of produo in meat. . The corn belt representatives have been here for several days conferring with officials. They complained par ticularly that the food administra tion's meat division was in the hards of men unfamiliar with the produc;ng end of the business. Missouri, Ne braska, Illinois and Iowa associations were represented in the conferences. The representatives of the live stock interests in Nebraska, appoint ed by Governor Neville to represent the state were: Messrs. Z. T. Left mich of St. Paul: A. N. Mathers. Ger ing; Ed Hickey. Gretna: W. J. Farley, Aurora; H. Hord, Central City; Bert Richfield and W. A. Dunlavy, Bloom ington. Governor May Not Fill : : Vacancies in Legislature (From a Staff Corespondent.) Lincoln, March 14. (Special.) The official song of the special session of the legislature will be We shall meet, but we shall miss him; there will be a vacant chair," for it has been searching the statutes that, vacancies now appearing in the legislature can not be filled by the executive, con sequently those chairs will stand as silent sentinels and reminder of those who have "gone up higher" to other political offices. The stautes read that "if any va cancy occurs during any session of the legislature, the governor thai fill the same by appointment." If the vacancy occurs before a ses ion is held a special election thai! be called to fill the same. It has been determined that mem bers 1 who are holding government positions which do not carry a salary may continue as members of the legislature. (. . - v . Lancaster Commissioner . Strikes Murphy in Face . (From a Staff Correspondent.) . Lincoln, March 14. (Special Tele' gram.)John Murphy, an Omaha tractor salesman, received a blow on the nose and few marks at the hands of County Commissioner C J. Mitcneii today. Murphy had called at the court house to get witness fees for his an pearance before the grand jury, which naa indicted two Lancaster county commissioners for misappropriation of . iunds, and evidence given there was not liked by Mitchell, who followed Murphy out of the commissioner's office. An epithet hurled at the coaimis sioner as Murphy slid out the door, caused Mitchell to rush out and strike the Omaha man two or three times. Murphy made no attempt to retaliate, Omaha Women Check 1 Anti-Suff Petitions (from a staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, March 14. (Special.) i.necKing up names on petitions filed in the office of the secretary of state for the purpose of recalling the law giving women partial suffrage is ceing tnorougniy done by Mrs. H. C. Stumney and Mrs. James Richardson of Omaha. They say the work is interesting and at times amusing. They have called attention to The Bee to peti tions which appear to have been writ ten bv the same party. The charac ter of the writing is similar, while it would seem that people in Omaha must have adopted the unique plan of ftipnaoeiicaj residence. Many times the petitions show residence of certain localities ,m alphabetical form. 0. N. Magee of Lincoln V Dead; III Three Weeks Lincoln, March 14. (Special Tele gram.) 0. N. Magee, head of the Magee chain of stores covering Lin , coin, Aurora and also several towns m jowa, died this afternoon at a lo- cal hospital after a three weeks' ill ness Three operations were per formed in an effort to save his life. Mr. Magee was a native of Ne braska, born on a farm near Val paraiso. He is survived by a wife and six children. Skinners Get Permission ' To Issue Two Million Stock Lincoln, March 14. (Special Tele gramsThe Skinner Packing com pany of Omaha has been granted per mission to issue $2,000,000 in stock to establish a packing company in that city. The company is incorporated under the laws of another state and desired to se" non-voting stock. Will Begin billing or Oil in Table Rock District Table Rock, Neb March 14.-tSpe- worn win soon Degin on the new oil well three miles southwest of Table Rock. The machinery is bt;ng moved to the new location from the old well. , Several new leases have been ob-rtinecM-Hhe vicinity of the new rell S:ased on the old on THOUSAND CARS ALL AVAILABLE FOR NEBRASKA (From ft Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, March 14. (Special.)- the Mate Kailway commission re ceived notice today that it will be im possible to get cars to ship grain, as there is such a congestion in eastern terminals that the cars cannot be moved in time to save the Nebraska corn lying on the ground. However, in an attempt to relieve the situation the information is given from Chicago headquarters that !, 000 cars are on the way from Texas to be distributed in Nebraska and Kansas and this is expected to relieve the situation a little. More will be forthcoming as soon as they can be obtained. OMAHA RAIL MEN EXPECT ORDER TO MERGEJDFHGES Saving of More Than $25,000 a Year Would Be Made by Combining City Ticket Offices. In the interest of economy, Direc tor General McAdoo has ordered the merging of the railroad ticket offices in a number of cities east ot the Mis sissippi river, is information from Washington. Although the order of the director general has not hit Oma ha, railroad men would not be sur prised to receive a similar one any day, While the city ticket offices of the nine railroads operating in and out of Umaha may not become one office, operated under the direction of one Has Been Accepted by Military "?an- mst. of .the officials expect that . they will be brought undei one roof aii airs vommiuee ana oirong Effort Made to Secure NEBRASKA SOLON HAS HEW DRAFT LAW Support. Washington, March 14. A compro mise plan to base the army draft quota on registration and liability to service, instead of the present basis of state population or of Frovost Mar shal Crowder's plan to base it on class one. has been formed by Representa tive Shallenbercer of Nebraska and is acceptable to Chairman Dent of the pies rooms in the Cohn block and its house military committee, and will be rent is $400 a month. The lease ex- and taken into a building where there will be a considerable saving in rent. At the present time the Burlington ticket office is in the United States National building and the comoanv is paying a rental of $900 a mcnth on a lease that has seven years to run. Five-Year Lease. The Northwestern is in the Paxton hotel block. Its lease extend? over a period of five years and is at $450 a month. The Union Pacific ticket office occu Eressed in the house and an effort will e made to secure President Wilson's sunnort. Meantime Chairman Dent Announced today that he would not unnecessar ily delay the quota bill, but would pires in one year and a half Ihe Illinois Central is in the Citv National bank building and pays $300 a month. Expiration of the lease is June 1, this year. Ihe Missouri Pacific ha recently hold up the army appropriation bill entered into a five-year lease with the ..: C....1 n .1 i I I?:.... xt.i.v i i i. : rm .. The compromise proposes the fol lowing plan: "Quotas shall hereafter be determined in proportion to the total number of persons registered and lia Die tor military service (in a state) and credit shall be given for the number of men who have en tered the military service of the United States from any such state, territory, district or subdivision there of since April, 1917. John Trindle, Crushed on Endless Chain, Is Recovering Kearney, Neb., March 14. (Sne cial ) John Trindle, former chief of police, is able to be out again after his narrow escape. While engaged at the Lake Kearney ice plant he was caught in an endless chain, at the summit of which is a large knife which shaves the ice blocks of frozen snow. Trindle was carried up to this blade, the machinery being stop ped just as the knife descended. One nrsc muonai oariK. paying 5ou a month. The Wabash pays $135 for an allev room in the Woodmen of the World building. Its lease has but two months to run. The Milwaukee, the Great Western and the Rock Island offices are in the Railway Exchange buildinjr. and there the rent is $100 a month for each or the roads, Thus, at this time, six of the Omaha lines are paying a monthly rental of for their city ticket offices, while three other lines are oavine $100 each, or a total of $300 a month. Banish High Rents. Railroad men argue that if Mr. Mc Adoo does not order a merger of the city offices, he is very likely to issue an order to cut out some of the high priced locations. They assert that with the government practically oper ating the roads, all competition has been removed and that as the proceeds of the business are to be pooled it makes little difference whet line is used by the public. 1 here are a good many things that of his teeth was- knocked out by the 00?"c ZnZ J : blade That he did not have hi.Vad ?, VuVto Ralay cut off nothing short of miraculous. x;u-- ru.. 'ri His legs, caught inthe belt, were bad- floor fof at, the oflkes gd ,t J j viua.icu. ga d that ther an nnt nn fnr 1 ..j- " v. aniwi the space at $800 a month, if taken by shows, by its statement just issued, the railroads. This would mean a ha it carries a deposit greater than savjng of $2,23S a month or $26,820 a that of any other national bank in vr Nebraska, other then those of ha and Lincoln. Deposits at the time what would be the plan of operating this statement was made totaled th ; $2,575,007.29 and placed the Kearney should be ordered. However, they are me iiwu yi iiic iiur large ot the opinion that some one of the national banks of interior Nebraska, the First National of Grand Island with $2,443,000.27; the First National of Hastings, with $2,168,203.08. and the Commercial National of Fremont with $1,885,287.19, city ticket men would be put at the head of' the department and that a sufficient number of men to carry on the business would be selected from the forces of the nine offices. While it is admitted that this merger would All of the banks In this countv of necessity release a number of mn snow steaoy gams, tnus retiecting the it is said that it is more Itkely employ prosperity of this locality. Frank Stockdale Talks To York County Merchants ment would be found for them in other lines of railroad work in the event they desired to accept the posi' tions. a passing freight en gine started a fire which destroved the Wilson elevator at Murray Mon York, Neb.. March 14. (Special - Fire DeStfOVS Elevator LThinst . And Grain at Murray wve a lecture to the business . at voc.a- Neb., March, 14.-(Special.) 12:30. Fridav niaht his talk will he of special interest to clerks and busi .."a J.. .fi Tt. i inn t..t. Mr. Stockdale is retailing counsel "? "Jl"V" "V5 0,c'T?usn; c.nr TI..K. I c,a " weal mu ousneis 01 corn, and the building, will total about $1J,000. The grain was fully insured, and a partial insurance on the building. Henry Albers. Avoca. and Alma Seimers, Dunbar, were married this for the Associated Advertising Clubs ot the world. . The following candidates have filed for office: Perry Reed. Hamilton county, state senate, Seventeenth sen atorial district; Oden S. Gilmore, county attorney; J. C. Miller, sheriff; H. L. Propst, county treasurer; John Muir, county clerk. week at the home of the bride's par ents. A marriage license was trranted Charles Freide and Nora A. Bremer, Doth ot Dunbar Beatrice Man Injured in Corn Shredder on Farm i Beatrice, Neb., March 14. iSpe The right hand of Arthur arm Two More Men Pay Fines For Having Liquor on Hand (From t BUff Correspondent) Lincoln. Neb.. Mar. 14. (Special The governor's prohibition sleuths are making: the wav of the trantrre. I ii sor hard, according to reports from Menke of this city was mangle-t in the special agents. ch.... ...h;u . . Delbert Rudy at Sidney paid $100 near here Wednesday. He was taken aim vwsis mr naving m nis possession to a hospital. n nun oi wnisKy wnue jacK Benedict of the same place paid a similar fine. Council of Defense Is . Reorganizes at Imperial Imperial. Neb.. March. 12 fSne. iai.i a meeiintr was lie d in Im perial March 12 to reorganize the bounty Council of Defense. W. C. mil was elected chairman, S. D. Kil- patrick, vice chairman; O. E. Mc Callum, secretary, and Allen Grant. I treasurer. --Following the reorganiia- non Kicnard L. Metcalfe, Omaha, acnverea an address. VOTERS' REGISTRATION Special rccittutioa bu htm pro. lded for South Omaha. March 2 lit and 22d. afternoon and arming, at Sooth Bid City HalL Tor Bemon. March 20th. 9 A. M. tl 840 P. M. Tha office at Court Hoaia ii optn tvary day from S A. M. till t P. M. On Saturdays, March ISth and !8d. till 9 P. M., and on every evening from March 25th till 29th. lncluie. till P. M. March 29th ii the laet day of registration before Primary Election on April 9th. Eery one who haa moved hit resi dence since his last registration mast re-register in order to be qualified to vote. There are several thousand vot er in Omaha who moat re-register Do it today. HARLEY G. MOOKHEAD, Election Commissioner. Kidney Trouble Disappears When that sensitive instru ment, the backbone, with its twenty-four movable parts, becomes out of alignment at a point in the small of the back, kidney trouble follows. The slipping of the Joints of the spine from normal condition, causes pressure on the spinal nerve at its point of exit between the joints. This nerve pressure destroys the natural vigor of the kid neys and they fail to filter the blood of Impurities. Kidney weakness causes skin eruptions, boils, iheu matism, diabetes and Bright's disease. All of these troubles disappear under ad justments. FREE Get an analysis of your spine. It is free and does not obligate you. DR JOSEPH C.LSVRENCE S Established as a CER0PRACT0R imW. RW.Cor,i2fiiXx!as its oma novo CCft SWNMV TrTimMi orwr-eoMu.s ti r.r-Mu.ivr toe German Sub Attacks British ILspital Ship London, March 14.The hos pital ship, Guilford Castle, was attacked unsuccessfully by a fub marine in the Bristol chanpv on arch 10, it was announced of ficially today. This is the second submarine at tack on British hospital shi.s re cently. A fortnight ago the G'rr.art Castle was sunk in the Bristol channel, about 150 lives being lost The sinking, an official an nouncement said, was a violation of the German pledge as t? the immunity of hospital ships in that area. The Guilford Castle is a steam ship of 8,036 tons gross. ihe Bristol channel, in which the at tack was made, is an arm ot the Atlantic, extending into the south western part of Great Britain be tween Wales and England. Sheridan Assists Potash Highway Construction Ellsworth, Neb., March 14. (Spe cial.) Sheridan county commission ers met in special session at Antioch Wednesday to consider the Potash highway construction. It was de cided to furnish grading machinery and equipment as soon as the county engineer makes survey. The commissioners appropriated $5,000 for preliminary work, to be used by the committee assisting in locating the most advantageous route. LEADING BANKER OF SCOTTSBLUFF IS TAKEN BY U. S. Walter Siebert Arrested on Presidential Warrant and Held Without Bail; May Be In terned During War. Walter Siebert, cashier of a bank at bcottsbluff. reb.. was brought to Omaha yesterday and placed in the Uoustlas county laii. He is one of the leading citizens of Scottsbluff and his arrest and trans portation to Omaha was surrounded with great secrecy. Federal officials here say he was ar rested on a presidential warrant on the charge of making disloyal utterances. Several prominent Omaha bankers tried to have him released on bond, but this was refused, as a person ar rested on a warrant of this kind can not be bailed out. It is presumed that the government will order Siebert interned. HYMENEAL Marsh-Moore. ' Miss Ruby H. Moore and Wi'';am t. Marsh were married by Rev. Charles W. Savidge Wednesday. Every package ewy tablet of Genuine Aspirin bears "Th Gayer There b and has been Only One Tree Aspirin ba$er I A .Xjttatt j , . itaasg mj 1 SUTTEE ' W 'The tre-marli iAapirta,,(Ref.U.ak fat Off.) it a guar antee that the mono, aceticacideater of alicylicacid in these tablets and capsules M of the reliable, Bayer manufacture. GUND'S Beverage is the selling sensation among soft drinks. Everywhere people remark how remarkably fine it is then demand it They're not satisfied with a substitute for (SUMP BEVERAGE THE EIEIT BAY SOFT IBIRX Possesses exceptional excellence a delidousness a smoothness of body a zest of flavor that cannot be duplicated. Today you try the beverage that is so good all agree it ii best Then order a case for home use. A To be had wherever soft drinks are sold and that's everywhere. THE CUND COMPANY, La Cross, Wits ' Katske Brokerage Co., Omaha.. Neb.. Distributors. Fourteenth and Leavenworth. Phone Douglas 4625. House Cleaning Time When you clean house this Spring it is likely your floors may need brightening up. If so try liquid Granite. This produces a smooth lustre that not only pleases the eye, but is waterproof, wear resisting and no more trouble to keep fresh and clean than oilcloth.. Because of its durability Liquid Granite is a perfect general purpose finish. You will need no other varnish . for your woodwork.; v If you should decide to have any white interiors Luxeberry White Enamel will satisfy you com pletely. It makes a rich, permanent, snow white finish in either dull or gloss effects that will not crack or chip. A gentle washing with soap and water when necessary keeps the finish spotless. Color can be modified to shades of ivory and gray when desired. For the front door nse Luxeberry Spar; made .especially for durability under outside exposure. NELSON-ZARP PAINT CO. Manufacturers of Tel. Doug. 9049 Distributors 209-11 South 11th St. Omaha $ Pure Chewing Gum $ a Stick a dav ileartb urn away (236) Hers! Here's Something New For Group and Cold Troubles An External Treatment That Renlaces Internal "Dosing." You Can Let the Children Run Out- j doors In All Weathers and Get Their Needed Fresh Air and Exercise. SMS 8 B Growls,; Children need plenty of rresn air ana outdoor exercise and this exposure la bound to cause some colds. These colds should not be neg lected, and yet. .mothers know that constant "dosing" Is bad for the deli cate stomachs of children. The best protection is plenty of fresh air in the bedroom, and at the first signs of trouble a prompt appli cation of the Southern external "rapor treatment, Vlck's VapoRub, Tou Bimply rub it well over the throat and chest, and corer with a warm flannel cloth. Leave the coverlnr Ioom amund the neck, as the body heat releases medicated vapors that are inhaled all night long, loosening the phlegm and opening the air passages. In addition, VapoRub is absorbed through and stimulates the skin, taking out that tightness and soreness in the chest Usually croup is relieved within IS minutes and colds over night The local druggists realize the value of an external treatment es pecially in the case of small children. and in toe interest of their customers, are offering VapoRub in any of the three sties 25c, 50c or $1.00 on 80 days' trial If yon are not delighted with the results, the purchase price wux do reiunaed, us Miisiraie anHinakeGiis lPi)Iifical CamDfikn J O THE EE E6R4VSWG DEPARTMENT OMAHA SSBSJ llf A Representative il nxf? uom our inee will be cjlad io talk ii over with You, 2 II as