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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1918)
THE BEE; OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918 SOUTH SIDE OMAHA PACKERS WILL HELP FILL HUGE CONTRACT Gigantic Order Placed for Mea to Feed Amerisan Sol diers Fighting Across the Seas. Omaha is to have a large part in filling the largest meat contract ever let in history, according to word re ceived at the South Side packing plants from Chicago. The' contract is for 99,560,000 . pounds of bacon and 134,000,000 pounds of canned meats. This order has rust been placed by the quarter master's department of the United States army for the use of the army now overseas. An idea of the size of this order may be obtained from the comment of Louis F. Swift upon it. "The order will take the bacon from approximately 1,900,004 hogs," he said, "and it would be equal to the total bacon production of the five largest packers for five weeks. How ever, the rilling of this contract cov ers a period of six months. "At the current prices of the day, last week, when the purchase was made, the packers would pay the live stock producers about $80,000,000 for the necessary hogs and over $50,000,- OUU for about 900.000 cattle' required, "The cattle will . cost us twice as much, and the hoes two and one half times as much as in the pre-war period. "The whole order will be made up before the first of the year, despite the fact that, even before this pur chase, one-fourth of the packers' fa cilities have been devoted to filling military demands. "In order to get out the canned goods the packers will find it neces sary to employ night and day shifts of canners. Notwithstanding the fact that the products are being rushed forward thus hurriedly, not a single complaint has been received on meats delivered to the armies abroad. "The packers are now killing about 360,000 hogs weekly to keep abreast ot martial and domestic needs. Lithuanian Leader Will Talk on War Relief Work Dr. John Szlupas, Lithuanian lead er ot bcranton, ra., who recently re turned from studying conditions in Lithuania, will speak Thursday night at 7:jU at the bouth Side Lithuanian settlement, Thirty-sixth and U streets. He will speak on war relief and topics of interest to his compatri' ots. Dr. Szlupas was part of a year in Lithuania where he assisted in the re lief work. He also traveled in Rus sta and Siberia. After a visit to Sweden, Dr. Szlupas directed the re lief work among Lithuanian prisoners in Germany. He is now spreading the message of independence in America and relating the atrocities of (he Germans. Red Cross Units Will Take Month's Vacation Red Cross units working in the South Side public library will take a month s vacation. Work will begin again September 2. During the last three weeks the women have com pleted alterations on 500 army shirts. South Side Brevities W hava a limited supply of Illinois coal, with no possible chance to get any more. Phone ua your order for next winter's sup ply before too late. Phone South 33, Hard ing Coal company. Telephone South 100 and order ease of Oma or Lacatonade the healthful, refreshing Home Beverage, delivered to your residence. Omaha Beverage Co. The savings department of the Live Htock National bank, 24th and N, regard a sav ings account as a aaored trust to be lealously safeguarded. Government protection, 4 per cent Inter est, and uniform courtesy to all, are at tracting careful depositors to the savings department of the Live Stock National Bank. Circus Has Its Own Big Electric Light Plant Today electricity is one of the re markable features of the Ringling brothers' circus. It is not "billed" as part of the program yet it is here, there and everywhere about the grounds. The great tents that are to be pitched here Wednesday, August 7 at Twentieth and Paul streets, are equipped with their own power plant, self-contained and portable, and each night they are a revelation in resplen dent electric illumination. Six 25-ampere spotlights are used for the great stage on which the mammoth circus spectacle and ballet 'In Days of Old" is presented, and rows of incandescent lamps are op srated by the plant, supplementing the 36 arc lamps in the biggest tent. The system makes it possible to para phrase the old simile, "and the lion md the lamb shall lie down together" into "the lion and the lamp shall lie down together," for in each of the :ircus cages that 'contains wild ani mals there are two clusters of 32 :andle power lamps, three to a :luster. Instead of the dimly lighted cage in which the wild beast was seen in i shadowy outline, asleep, in former days, the animal now is observed awake, alert and in every detail and action identical as by day, a real uuon to inose wnom necessity or in jiinauon causes to visit the circus night by Burgess-Nash Employes Picnic at K"ug Park Employes of Burgess-Nash com pany enjoyed a picnic at Krug park last night. Five special streeet cars and 150 autns wero naA tr !. happy throng to the pleasure re sort near Benson. A program of athletic events was arranged The lollowinar were winners of prizes Men's 60-yard race, M. 3. Copeland. Burnasco girls' race. Gladys Stanley Sack race, Harold Welckenant. , Ladles' rr race. Ansruata Miner Cock fight (between men In make-up iwBicig), narry tjnaaer. Ladies' quiet contest, Mary Thomas, first; Eva Cheano. second t.ushefs contest, Alex Brlx. first; Har old Welckenant, second, . -. . . of Bnej City News .Elec Fans, $8. Burgeaa-Grm.nden Co. Have Root Print It New Beacon Press. Republican Voters at the primary, August J 0 th, vote for N. P. Podge for congress. Office, for Dunn Thomas F. Dunn has been appointed as assistant In spector of weights and measures for the city. Telephone Ruling City council formally ordered that Omaha and South Omaha telephone subscribers shall be printed in-a consolidated list. Purse Missing A purse containing $14.25, was lost by Carroll Corliss, 8139 Mason street, somewhere be tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets on Harney, Tuesday afternoon. Sidney Powell at Camp Johnson Sidney Powell, Omaha boy, is now at Camp Johnson, Fla., where he has been assigned to duties in the quar termaster's department T?otlirrta frnm TVIn I? a vtnnra general secretary of the Omaha Younsr Men's Christian inrlatlnn. has returned from his vacation. He visited in New York City and other eastern points. has been awarded a divorce from Charles J. Fltzpatriek by Judge Red- ick. sne received her maiden name of Helen Kellv. She had alleered cruelty and nonsupport Seeks Divorce Wil la M. Parker alleges nonsupport as the basis of her suit for divorce against Louis Parker. She asks the custody of their three children, $13.60 per week alimony, the furniture and ha;- maid en name of Willa King. Sues for Divorce Ruzena Kocenda has filed suit for divorce against Ja cob Kocenda on the grounds that he has treated her with extreme cruel ty, that he has threatened her and her children with bodily harm and that he has ordered them to leave the house. Lieutenant Enjrelnmn in Omaha Lt. Morton Engelmun Is in Omaha on a leave of 10 days from Camp Dodge, where he underwent an appendicitis operation at the base hospital. He Is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Engelman, 2815 Jackson street. The operation was successful. Farmer Taken Sick J. B. Sully, a farmer living near De Soto, Neb., was found by a police officer to be serious ly ill when he alighted from a North western train at the Webster street station Tuesday afternoon. A physi clan was called and ordered the man taken to Lister hospital, where it was said he was suffering from a nervous disorder. His condition is said to be serious. Fine fireplace goods at Sunderlands' Judge Scores Procedure Of Police Department "Very informal" was the charac terization of the methods of the city police department in confining women in the city detention home, made Tuesday afternoon by Judge Redick in denying the application for the release of Lena Heaton under a writ of habeas corpus. Although Judge Redick upheld the city police department in holding the Heaton woman for medical treat ment, he scored the methods of pro cedure us,e"d by the city in such cases. He advised the city, represented by City Attorney Weaver, to see that written records of commitments to the home are kept. He said that since the health commissioner was held to be within his rights in order ing a person confined for treatment f he had smallpox, a similar pro cedure should be followed in social diseases, and the city should not pro ceed under the cumbersome method of arresting a woman for prostitu tion and sending her to the deten tion home for treatment when she had. been sentenced to a term in jail. Judge Redick reserved until Wednesday morning his decision in the habeas corpus proceedings brought on behalf of Carma Lynn. Merchants' Outing to Be Held at Lakeview Tday The Omaha Merchants' outing will be held at Lakeview park Wednesday. Street car service has been promised to surpass that of the rush hours of Sunday. several attractions will be staged throughout the evening for the pleas ure of the merchants and their friends. Carl Lamp and his harmonists will serve the music for the hop at the dance palace. 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Miss Jessie Millard entertained at noon luncheon ZOO ladies compos ing the Red Cross circle that meets in the oarish house, the cruets nf hi n, being Countess de Bryas and her sister, Mile, de Bryas, after which the countess snoke tn th laHi of the work being done among the rrcnen reiugees in the devastated districts. "When I was living near the front line trenches," said the countess, "I noticed loaves ot bread one morn ing following a German retreat. They were scattered all along the ground. 'Don't touch them,' a French soldier exclaimed, as I was about to pi;!r one up. He told me that one hungry man had taken one of the loaves home to his starving wife and children and as soon a thpv startH tn mt the loaf exploded destroying the nouse ana killing all the little family. Pencils, helmets and other artie'es also concealed explosives. Babies Gather Bombs. The pitiful condition of mere babies, forced by the German officers to gather unexploded shells from the battlefield, children whose food con sists of soup made of water and a little bread placed in it and who are so poor and undernourished that they could scarcely move; little, frightened babes who have experienced nothing but brutality for so long that they shrink in terror from those who are trying to bring them aid, believing in nothing but cruelty. Stories of these little ones told in the countess' sym pathetic tones, moved, the audience to tears. At the close of the luncheon Coun tess de Bryas chatted in French with Henri Hendoe. Relorian r,1H came to this country after being too seriously wounded to continue fight incr and who is at nrccpnt iriin houseman for Miss Millard. Before leaving Omaha Countess de Bryas expects to appoint a chairman and a permanent committee to aid in the relief work for the people in the devastated districts of France. German Letters Barred! Washington, July 23. The censor ship board today ruled that no out going communication written in Ger man would be passed hereafter, with the exception of communications to prisoners of war. War Platform Submitted to N. Y. Democratic Convention Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 23. The resolutions committee of the democratic state convention in ses sion here tonight presented a plat form which among other things en dorsed the war policies of President Wilson and declared trongly in fa vor of equal suffrage for women. ine piattorm urged United States senators from New York to support the federal suffrage amendment and enumerated IS issues upon which the democratic campaign this fall will be waged. The agents of William Randolph Hearst were active and claimed that the publisher's chances of success in the primaries were increasing hourly. They did not, however, predict that Mr. Heart would be the convention choice. McAdoo City Ticket Office Will Have No New Furniture A survey of furniture for the con solidated ticket office is being made and when the new office is opened in the Union Pacific building about Sep tember 1 there will be a conglomera tion of counters, desks and cases. The new consolidated ticket office is to be one of Uncle Sam's adjunct to the railroad business, and at this time it is said that he does not feel disposed to buy a lot of new furniture and equipment, at least while he has a lot of the old material on hand. As a result, it is proposed to use as many of the old desks, counters, cases and tables as may be necessary, match them up as near as possible and make them do during the continuance ol the war. Surgess-Mash GoNBuiY EVERYBODY STORE" Tuesday, July 23, 1918- STORE NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY- -Phone Douglas 2100 FOR SALE Modern, fully equipped Dental Office Best county seat town in Western Nebraska; center of winter wheat district. Established 5 years. 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