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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
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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
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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
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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
