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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1918)
Lhiu B&L: OMAHA, SAiUKDAY, JUiNri 1, iyi8. 15 PAHA BECOMES ONE OF NATION'S FLOURCENTERS Opening of New Mill Places . Gate City Upon Plane With , St. Louis, Duluth and Toledo. When the burrs started to grind wheat in the Omaha Flour Mills com pany plant today, for the first time . as a commercial proposition, Omaha passed Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia .and Indian ipolis as a flour milling center, And - became a close rival to St. Louis, Du luth and Toledo in daily output of ' Rour and mill feeds, -, The daily capacity of the flour mills of Omaha is now 5,000 barrels. Ths new mill, the model flouring mill of America, representing an in vestment of $500,000, and having a daily milling capacity of 2,500 barrels, doubles the milling facilities of the :ity and places Omaha on the map is one of th big centers of flour pro duction, of the United States. The mill will have an annual pay roll of $60,000 and will mean some thing substantial to the financial re sources of Omaha. Officers of Experience. The Omaha Flour Mills company is headed by W. J. Coad, vice president of the Packers National bank, presi dent Chauncy Abbott, jr., formerly of the Wells, Abbott & Niemann Co., of Schuyler, Vice president and gen- : eral manager; H. V. Nye, formerly sales manager for the Southwestern Milling company, Kansas City, sales manager, and Leo Ismert, who held the same position with the Southwest ern Milling company of Kansas City, milling superintendent. 4fy Each of the executive officers of he company is well fitted for the position which he holds, by past ex perience. Mr. Abbott built up, in a Nebraska country town a milling plant with an international reputation. Nye and Ismert were connected ' with a plan, that had a daily output of 3,500 barrels of flour and for the success of which they were largely responsible. j , Model Plant. i The plart of the Gate City Malt ing company was taken over by the new corporation and remodeled so as to be ideally adapted to the flour milling business. The plant, as now equipped, has been the dream and ideal of General .Manager Abbott for the last 10 years. He made an'intensive study of flour milling in order to be able to put his ideals into effect when the time came. During the last decade he has taken samples of the flours produced by every new mill of importance in theUnited States and has studied the conditions that obtained to improve ment in quality and efficiency in oper ation and submitted those to the Nor-' dyke & Marmon company, builders of fiour mill machinery, with instruc tions to incorporate every dominant feature of excellence in the equipment of the Omaha mill. This has been done. . Thursday the plant was visited by H. C. Malsness, the engineering ex pert of the Nordyke & Marmon com pany, and he pronounced the plant and its output the best that he has ever seen in all of his years of ex perience. The plant of the Omaha Flour Mills company has been made the i standard of engineering and equipment by the Nordyke & Marmon company, and will be the model on which all new plants are constructed. 300,000 Bushel Elevator. The company has an elevator capa city of 300,000 bushels, filled with wheat purchased by the government. It has its allotment of two-thirds, its normal capacity to go on, and start ed out on full full time today. The mill day for employes, is eight hours. Instead of devoting their first ef forts to building up a trade for the establishment, the company, with al truistic patriotism, turned its entire output over to the federal government and shipments of its flour to the al . lies has already begun. The company, on a return to nor mal business conditions, will place on the market its leading brand, known , as Omar, and it is guaranteed to be the most perfect flour in America. To safeguard its product, the com pany, has equipped the plant with a complete experimental mill, chemical laboratory and bake shop. Bread will be baked from sample taken from every car of flour made, and also from the output of the mill each hour in the day. Iowa Governor Says Lord Deaf to Prayers in German (From a Staff Correspondent.) Des, Moines, May 31. (Special.) . "I'm glad to be. able to report that most people in the state are now be ginning to see that English is the right language for this country and . that neither federal or state, constitu tions guarantee to them the right to ,' speak or pray in any other language," said Governor Harding, in addressing members of . the Chamber of Com- merce at noon today. "I am also tell ing those whfj insist upon praying in 'some other language that they are wasting their time, for the good Lord up above is now listening for voice of English," he added. Fails to Get Name on Ballot; Figured in Ax Murder Trials Red Oak, la., May 31. (Special.) The; printing of the Montgomery county ballots for the primary elec tion next Monday has been completed and the name pf J. N. Wilkerson, who figured in the Villisca ax murder trials, and republican candidate for . county attorney, has been left off. A hlank space is left for those who wish to vote for him to write his name on . the ballot. . " Wilkerson filed the necessary nomi- nation papers with the5 county auditor, bu the petition which he filed did not - conform strictly to the form required by law. Danish Churches Aid Iowa V English Language Propaganda i Cedar FalU, la., May 31. Trustees the Danish churches of Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Fredshville voted today to close their churches Sunday in a loyal movement to observe the proc lamation of Governor Harding that 500 VISIT CENTRAL HIGH CADET CAMP Boys Eeturn Saturday After Successful Week of Inten sive Military Training at Encampment. During a morning of pouring rain and an afternoon of Neapolitan sun shine, the 500 visitors who invadetl the Central High school cadet camp at Valley, Neb., Friday, spent a delight ful day with their cadet friends, who are training as reserves for the great army of Uncle Sam. Although intermittent showers promised a gloomy day at Camp Reed, the retun of the sun and a heavy wind quickly dried the camp for the after noon's fun. After one of the most successful en campments for several years, the cadets return after mess Saturday on army trucks from Fort Crook. . Credit for the "clean camp" which was striven for is given to the com mandant, Lieutenant Porter Wiggins, U. S. A., and to the camp sanitary en gineer, Louis N. Bexten, Mr. Bexten, assisted by his corps of young engin eers from the regiment, set the camp up and installed the various con veniences. A special train leaving Omaha at 9 o'clock and returning at 6:30 bore the relatives and friends of the em bryo soldiers who have been under going intensive training week at their annual encampment. The well filled baskets which the visitors, took were joyously received. Papa straightway complimented John on his fine coat of tan acquired while swimimng Thursday, while mamma proceeded to set her boy's tent in order and to be sure that John had been using that extra blanket she had sent. Little Willie exhibited great interest in his soldier brother's real gun, while the girl-next-door ad mired the clean white duck trousers and the shiny belt buckles. The visitors speijt the great part of the morning in the tents talking of the week's events. Only a few unfor tunate cadets responded to the mess call, for all were engaged in sampling and inspecting the contents of the visitors' bundles. The cadet band gave a brief con cert. The full dress regimental parade was held at 3 o'clock to the admiration of those assembled. A ball game was staged between two nines of the cadets. Dispite the bad roads a long line of autos arrived at the encampment shortly after noon. BALLOON BREAKS AWAY AT FORT AND LIGHTS IN IOWA A large "orderly" balloon broke from its moorings at Fort Omalja Fri day afternoon during a strong wind and sailed northeast and northward for 140 miles to Spencer, Clay county Iowa, before it finally came to earth. "rhe balloon was of the old M-type arid was sent up and moored at the end of an 1,800-foot cable as a watch guard balloon to test the velocity of the wind. "The wind' was too strong for regular balloon work at the fort," said Colonel Hersey of Fort Omaha, but the balloon was kept in the air in order to indicate when the wind had slowed down sufficiently to permit active work again." Colonel Hersey at once communi cated with the Nebraska Telephone company. Company officials immedi ately called all of the town exchanges in the path of the balloon and these called farmers and villages within their circuit. Sheriff John Lidman of Clay county, Iowa, sent in word late in the after noon that the bag had alighted near Spencer, near the Minnesota line. Officers from Fort Omaha will be sent up to Spencer today to reclaim the balloon and pack it for shipment back to the fort. The balloon is equipped with an anemometer, connected with a tele phone wire leading to the ground, where a buzzer is attached. The buzzer is so regulated that it buzzes once for every mile of velocity of the wind. OMAHA'S ANNUAL DEATH RATE NOT . OVER 12 PER 1,000 The United States Bureau of the Census is publishing death statistics of the larger cities of the United States weekly. They show that in Omaha, for the week ending May 25, there were 50 deaths. The bureau makes an estimate of the annual death rate per thousand population. How ever, as the bureau hasn't awakened to the fa.ct that Greater Omaha now has more than 200,000 population and as it uses the 1910 census figures of 167,000 population, the estimate of 15 deaths per thousand in Omaha is quite a long way from correct. Using the 200,000 population figure, Om aha's death rate per thousand would be about 12 annually which is among the lowest in the land. The highest death rate is that of Baltimore, with 21.8 per thousand. New Orleans has 21.4 per thousand. The lowest is that of Spokane, Wash., 7.6 per thousand. But the inflated population figures of Spokane, Port land, Seattle and Oakland are prob ably responsible for the low estimate of deaths per thousand there. Chicago "Makes Good." Chicago, May 31. the city of Chi cago, the straggler in the Red Cross campaign, passed over its quota of $6, 000,000 tonight, it was announced. only the English language be used in low. Many of the older members of the congregations do not understand English. Welcome Arch Will Be Removed; "Small Town" Stuff, Says Councilman The welcome arch at Eighteenth and Farnam streets, will cease to have official life after Saturday. City council adopted Commis sioner Zimman't resolution for the removal of this structure, which was referred to by Zimman as "small town stuff." Mayor Smith agreed that it should be taken down and kept down, ENEMY SHELLS U. S. HOSPITALS; BABIES KILLED Germans Deliberately Attempt to Wreck Red Cross Build ing Containing American and French Wounded; Ambulance Blown to Bits; Four Women Slain. With the American Army airmen late Wednesday night wreck the lareest Red Cross hospital behind the American lines in Picardy. This attack upon wounded American and French soldiers was carried out upon a wholesale scale, the Hun, aviators at tacking the Red Cross area in wave formations, hurling high explosive bombs upon all sides of the great hospital in a town many miles to the rear of the front.- - ' An American field hospital was shelled by another squad ron of airmen while long range guns poured a shower of deadly missiles into a village a few hundred yards away. HEROIC RED CROSS NURSES. Wounded American and French soldiers, helpless on their cots, were carried to caves and cellars by American nurses and attaches of the American Red Cross. Three American ambulances were caught in the raid. Ser geant Ethan Wells of San Francisco, who was driving the first ambulance, said: "Our three ambulances were hurrying to hospitals with patients, when a bomb wrecked a building directly in front of us, in a narrow street. Our ambulance was perforated by flying missiles. We were all hurled out, but escaped with a tew scartches." Private Robert A. Bowman of Galveston, Tex., who was in the same car, said: AMBULANCE SHOT TO PIECES. "There was a terrific explosion. The next thing I knew I was lying on the ground. I looked around and heard the pa tients groaning. I pulled myself together and found the pa rents uninjured except for the shock. Our ambulance was shot to pieces." The second car apparently received the full force of the explosion and was wrecked completely. Private Roscoe Wiley of Madisonville. Tex., was driving the third car. Sergeant J. W. Nolder of Altoona, Pa., and three patients were with him. "There was wreckage all around us," said Sergeant Nol der. "Injured civilians in the shattered houses near by were begging for help. We all pitched in as soon as we had recov ered frcm the shock and assisted in the. work of rescue. We had to dig many persons from the debris by te light of small pocket lamps. Meanwhile enemy aircraft were buzzing over head. "The barrage was deafening. Bombs continued to fall. It was worse than anything in the trenches; I would rather have been in No Man's Land." FOUR WOMEN ARE KILLED. A French nurse, her mother and two little jsisters were killed in a house a short distance from a hospital. Another nurse was st.anHinir nn trip nnrtpr flnnr nf t.hft hnsnifnl mlni'stor. ing to patients when a piece of her lung. Five American nurses were WPffi Misa Nnfnlio ffrrf rf Maw of Brooklyn, Miss Mary McCadlish of Atlanta, Miss Blanche 1 1 i C -if l i 1 n r t i r i m ri .Tiiueri oi weveiana ana miss Constance uook oi san rran cisco. Only a few persons were injured by flying glass, as most of the windows in the hospital had been shattered by bombs dropped the previous night. EVEN BABIES ARE SLAIN. Private houses were wrecked and a number of civilians, including several babies, were killed and injured. That the raid was planned on a much larger scale than recent ones over this territory is evidenced from reports made by many Ameicans in villages over which the raiders passed. The first alarm was sounded at 11 o'clock. The dropping of bombs and the firing of many anti-aircraft guns began almost immediately. Later there was a brief pause, after which the raiders returned to remain almost until dawn. UNDERTAKER'S SHOP BOMBED. In one village a large funeral establishment opposite a hospital was bombed and wrecked. Although the patients in the hospitals Were hurriedly covered with blankets and car ried to cellars, there was no panic. The Americans and French joked and laughed. One American who participated in the capture of Cantigny said: "We've got Fritz's goat. We licked the tar out of him when we took Cantiernv. Now that jured and helpless, he wants wounded, detenseless women and old men and children is his idea of 'kultur,' we must destroy 'kultur' if it takes us 100 years. McAdoo Asks Retraction Of Press Lobby Charge Washington, May 31. Secretary McAdoo has called upon Representa tive Kitchin of North Carolina, dem ocratic floor leader in the house, to retract his assertion in a recent speech that a publishers' lobby working for repeal of the zone system of increased "postage rates influenced the direction of the administration to insist upon revenue legislation at this session of congress. Mr. Kitchin told the house in the speech he did not believe Secretary McAdoo thought about the newspa Made on the banks of the Hudson Bayer-Tablets and Capsules of Aspirin contain genuine Aspirin Demand them in the original packages. For your protection ever) package and every tablet is plainly and invariably marked witr the Bayer Cross your Guarantee of Purity. The trade-mark "Aspirin" (Repr. U. S. Pat Off.) it a guarantee that the monoaceticacideatCT of ealicylicacid in these tablets and cap sule is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. iyer-Ta blets of Aspiri n in France, May 31. German made a deliberate attempt to the bomb struck her, piercing in the same hospital. They Hrlaona Mi'oo TTaIati CnoUini revenge. If murdering sick and pers and magazines one way or the other, but believed a lobby had made itself felt with some in whose judg ment the secretary had great faith. French Officials Declare Allied Outlook Brightens Paris, May 31. "We return with the impression that as the day ad vanced the situation became more favorable," ' Rene Renoult, president of the army committee of the Cham ber of Deputies, who accompanied Premier Clemenceau to the front yes terday, said to Marcel Hutin of the Echo de Pans on his arrival in i'aris For Your Protection "Hi , A A Tonr Gurute NfcycCiwf- jH ofPsritj" Aspirin For the past 14 years TWELVE BILLION ARMY MEASURE PASSES HOUSE Act Authorizes President to Call Men as Fast as They Can Be Trained and Equipped. Washingto'n, May 31. The largest annual army appropriation bill in his tory, carrying $12,041,682,000 and au thorizing the president to call into military service all men who can be trained and equipped, was passed late today by the house and sent to the senate. The house broke its record for speed on an army bill by taking the final vote after three days of debate. Provides for 3,000,000 Men. The measure is framed to provide for an army of 3,000,000 men during the, coming year, in accordance with the government's revised program for rushing soldiers to France. Some of its big items are $6,315,135,000 for the quartermaster corps, $3396,000,000 for ordnance. $1,028,000,000 for the engi neers, $990,250,812 for aviation and $267,000,000 for the medical corps. A provision prohibiting the use of stop watches or other speeding up de vices in plants where money provided in the bill is spent was adopted by a vote of 63 to 59. The house also adopted an amendment by Reprei seniative Anthony of Kansas for bidding "cost plus" contracts except in emergencies. Deprecates Over-Optimism. During the debate Representative Longworth of Ohio and others con demned what they called over-optimistic statements concerning the num ber of American soldiers sent over seas and the amount of arms and equipment provided for them. Mr. Longworth referred particularly to a statement by Senator Lewis of Illinois at Chicago that there now are a mil lion American soldiers in Europe, Representative Caldwell of New York predicted that the nillion mark will be reached by July 4. i Defendants Deny Blame For Lynching of Prager Edvvardsville, 111., May 31. The 11 men who are charged with the murder of Robert Paul Prager, enemy alien, who was lynched by a mob at Collins ville on April 5, testified in their own behalf today and each in turn dis claimed any responsibility for the act. Joseph Riegel, young coal miner and cobbler, who was reported to have made a confession at the coroner's in quest that he was the leader of the mob, and who prior to his appear ance before that jury was quoted as having made complete confession to a St. Louis newspaper man, flatly re pudiated all statements previously at tributed to him and described himself as one person in the crowd who coun seled calmness. Judge Bermerceter excluded, testi mony concerning disloyal remarks al leged to have been made by Prager. He declared that even though it was shown conclusively that Prager was a spy this would not afford provocation for lynching him. The Slow But Sure Hoiiie A few years ago two Omaha workmen were rent ing houses at $25 per month. One decided to "Own a Home." He therefore made arrange ments to purchase a $2,500 home and pay for it at $25 a month. The other decided , that this method was too slow. He would wait till he could buy a home outright. Today the one man "owns his home", free of incumbrance and the other 'h as a drawer with 120 $25 rent . receipts in it. s But the party of the first part also has 120 $25 receipts just as negotiable as the rent receipts and worth just as much per pound for paper rags. He also has another document and it has a notary seal and two witnesses' hands on it and some style around the edges? It is call a warranty deed and is negotiable for $2,500. Do you own your home? Get the habit of watching the Real Estate offerings in the Want-ad colums of The Bee. These offerings are changed daily and one of them is the door to your opportun ity. Your-careful reading and watching is the key that will fit. When you find it act without delay. "Own Your Home" and "Keep Your Eye on The Bee" Improving Every Day LUSK ATTORNEYS AGAIN PRESENT INSANITYTHEORY Waukesha, Wis., May 31. Grace Lusk, convicted slayer of Mrs. Mary N'ewman Roberts, is still in a serious condition at the county jail here. Her condition is such that her at torneys have decided to make one more effort to prove her insane and have her removed to an aslyuin in stead of prison. Huns Seize and Fortify Some of Kronstadt Forts London, June 1. The Daily Mail's Copenhagen correspondent says that according to the Petrograd newspa per, Pravo, the Germans have seized and fortified some of the forts at Kronstadt. Howard Street CENTRAL Val Lies in Hundreds of Beautiful I 8-3x10 6 Seamless Fringed Wilton Velvet,' attractive "All over" design $37.50 8-3x10-8 Seamless Extra Axmlnater, Oriental design, ror i $32.50 7-6x9 Seamless Wilton Rug, unusually good deslgn.$27.50 Fancy Rag Rug, Chintz border, up from $1.50 9x12 Heavy prussels Seamless .$21.00 36x60 Axmlnster Rug ., .-$3,75 I . hTr. BOWEN, Pres. 1 ' HUGHES BEGINS TAKING EVIDENCE IN AERO INQUIRY Washington, May 31. Officers oJ the signal corps in charge of award ing of contracts for aimlanes were cauea Derore uiaries nugnes, in charge of Department of Justice's in vestigation into aero production, and. questioned today. Attorney Genera! Gregory and Assistant Attorney Gen eral Frierson participated in the ex animation. Mr. Hughes explained that much ol his work hereafter will be the ques tioning of witnesses to supplement in formation obtained from War depart ment and aircraft board records. The identities of the witnesses-will not be made known, but it is understood a number of prominent men connected with the air program are to be called within a few weeks. - Bet. 15th and 16th Particular , Buyer