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12 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1918. rAX LEV YOF 35 MILLS APPROVED BY SCHOOL BOARD Deficit of $420,000 is Pros pect; Board to Appeal to Legislature to Increase -Maximum. The Board of Education, at a spe cial meeting, approved a school dis trict tax levy of 35 mills for the ensu ing fiscal year. . pplied to an assessed valuation ot S49.957.603. this levy will produce 51,748,516 in tax collections. These tax collections, plus various esti mated collections from other sources will make an estimated total of $1,883, 266, according to Secretary Bourke. Estimated .expenditures were re ported at $1,900,215, which will in crease a deficitof $420,000 at the close of this year. Levy Too Small. The board has been convinced that it is impossible to maintain the grow ing public school system on a maxi mum' tax levy of 35 mills without pil ing up a deficit. The finance and judiciary committees will go before the legislature next winter with a hill to increase the maximum from 35 to 45 mills. Secretary Bourke, in a communica tion to the finance committee, wrote,: "A tax levy of 39 3-10 mills would provide sufficient funds for the esti mated expenditures of the ensuing year, but would not provide any ex cess to apply on the present deficit. A levy of 42 3-10 mills would enable us to pay current expenses and wipe out the deficit in three years." The secretary adds that for six years the incomes of the school dis trict have been' insufficient to meet the necessary expenditures. Rains Help Corn Crop in All Sections of the State According to the weekly crop re port of the Burlington railroad show ing conditions up to last Friday night, the outlook for a big corn crop over practically all of Nebraska con tinues good. The condition of the soil varies to a considerable extent on tk. t,teintf r( thm rnaH Kilt on the whole there is no cause for alarm, i On the Wympre division, in the vi cinity of Table Rock, the precipita tion last week aggregated close to nine inches, while at Salem. Hickman, Wilbur and several of the other sta tions there was scarcely any rainfall , Taking the state as a whole, corn just about held its own last week, as the following como-native condi tion report shows. The estimate is on the basis of 100 per cent for a per fect crop and is by divisions: Last Previous Divisions. Week. Omaha 98 " i nw , Lincoln 70 Wymore 91 McCook ....98, Practically1 everywhere i , : ii j urasKa corn is biiiuiih ana ims 19 rc garded as the critical period. With rains from now on. railroad crop ex perts are of the opinion that the crop will be fully up to, if not better than an average. The threshina of small train con tinues and from all portions of the state are reports that the yield is fully up to expectations, with fields turning out an average of 12 to 16 bushels to the acre, with some locali ties averaging as high as 25 bushels. - Generally oats are Rood and the yield is running from 25 to 40 bushela to the acre. v In the eastern portion of the state potatoes are not more than halt a crop, but all through the western counties where the acreage is large. there is every indication of an enorm ous yield with the quality fully up to the average ot tormer rears, Recent rains have improved the Week, 98 97 94 95 the Ne- DOPE SMUGGLED TO PRISONERS IN OMAHACITY JAIL Search of Trusty Reveals Fact that Inmates of Institution Are Regularly Supplied . with Drugs. That narcotic drugs are being smug gled into the city jail in large quan tities became known to Omaha police when a prisoner at the jail was sud denly seized and searched by officers. A secret investigation to uncover the source of the dope and the method employed in smuggling it in to prison ers confined in the institution is being made. First knowledge that dope was be ing provided to prisoners in the city jail came when officers observed sus picious actions of Warren Hanley, a trusty. Hanley was seized and searched and a large quantity of drugs found in his possession. He has been placed in solitary confinement pend ing the investigation. Puzzled Over System. Police are puzzled over the system employed by the dope smugglers. The quantity of the stuff found on Hanley would indicate that the jail is a point within the operation of a gang and that prisoners are regularly supplied with heir favorite brand of "coke, "snow," "morph" and the like by underground channels of considerable extent The problem facing the omcers is the source of the supply and the method by which trusties' are supplied with the drugs. Trusties are given the freedom of the station and the adjoining garage while at work, but they are constantly uncier guara ana are not permitted to visit with friends from the outside. ' Search of the premises have failed to reveal any cache where outsiders might store the dope for trusties to pick it up later. , File Answer to Charges in Fifty Thousand Dollar Suit Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Barkworth in district court Monday morning filed answers to the $50,000 alienation suit brought by their son-in-law, Lloyd D. Willis, and at the same time filed a oetition asking that the ease be removed to the United States dis trict court. In the answers, both deny that they were in any way responsible for the estrangement of the daughter, Caro lyn, and her husband. They made lengthy denials of ever holding any "grudge" against Willis. In counter accusations, they allege that Willis is accustomed to "fits of temper and vio lent actions" and allege that ne car ried such actions to such an extent as to endanger his wife's health. The answers were sworn to at Jackson, Mich, where the defendants live. Bold. Bad Burglar Takes Fall Out of Herb Hoover Pace Mr. Hoover! . . . a . 4 And tell him that a uoia Durgiar with a sweet tooth and a carnivor ous taste for other food scarci ties violated all food conservation rules in Omaha Sunday night. ' According to a report made by C. E. Nelson, proprietor of a grocery store and meat market at 3026 Hamil ton itreet, some one gained entrance to his place by prying open a cellar door and stole 300 pounds of sugar, 25 pounds of bacon and 20 pound 1 of boneless ham. une dozen douics of grape juice and two boxes of chewing gum were also reported as missing. , Chauffeur Arrested on Charge of Stealing Tire Wallace Case, a chauffeur living Life Story 0 EDWARD A. RUMELY Man Who Bought the New York Mall for the Kaiser (Copyrlfat. 1111. V. a a4 Cauda, ta J. T. Herald Oe. A series of articles sketching the eareer of Dr. Edward A. Rumeiy, who hai born arrested on a charge of ha Inr bought tbo New VorU Evenln Mull with money furnished by the German government and of having uwd It for German propaganda.) By FRANK STOCKBRIDGE. (Former Managing Editor of the Evening Mall.) As I was supposed to have nothing to do with the financial affairs of the paper I paid little attention to the complicated arrangements that were made for the transfer of the stock and the establishment of Dr. Kumeiy in financial control. A plan was agreed upon for the organization ot two news corporations, .he S. S. Mc- Clure newspaper corporation ana me Evening Mail syndicate. The first named was to be the holding com- . ( a .1 ' 1 pany. It was to nave an auinuriicu capitalization of $3,000,000 and was to own the stock ot the Aiau ana ex press company and of the syndicate. Articles of incorporation were drawn up in the offices of Dr. Rumely's per sonal attorneys, and there were also drawn up voluminous sets of by-laws for both of the new companies and for the Mail and Express company. After these documents had all been put into shape satisfactory to Dr. Rumeiy they had to be all revised and done over again. They were not satisfactory to S. Walter Kauffmann' Neither Lambin, myself nor Mr. McClure had heard of Mr. Kauffmann until within a dav or two of the tak ing over of the Evening Mail, it was evident, however, from the first time we met him, that he exercised great, f not control ine authority over the entire situation, and that Dr. Rumeiy, for same reason, felt i necessary to defer to Mr. Kauffmann s wishes in every respect. I was to see a good deal of Mr. Kauffmann later, and to learn a preat dea about his influence in the affairs of the Evening Mail. He was a lawyer, and the client for whom All rlsata MOT.) impending transfer of the Mail should ! ofticial of the bank as a deposit to leak out: indeed. I was surprised that the credit of the S. S. McClure News- . ' . .. .. . 1 f "k.N th. various it did not become known earner man it did, so many people were by this time in the secret. On May 20 a morning newspaper' published an article from which the following is an extract: "It was reported yesterday that the New York Evening Mail had been sold or was about to be sold and that Dr. Edward Rumeiy, of La Porte. Ind., representing German capitalists, was the purchaser. It was also said that S. S. McClure, the publisher, would be identified with the new management. Dispatches received last night from La Porte said that nego tiations for the purchase of the Mail had been in progress several weeks and that it was understood that the policy of the paper under the new owners would be decidedly pro-German." I tried to find Dr. Rumeiy; he was not at any of the numerous places in which I had at previous times seen him. I found Mr. McClure, who was greatly disturbed. We looked up Lambin, and the three of us set out to find Dr. Rumeiy. "Why don't you issue a statement denying this?" I asked of Mr. Mc Clure. "I want that statement to come from Dr. Rumeiy," he said. "If he does not represent German capitalists it is up to him to say so. Tl would like some further assurances from him myself." Spend Night Hunting Rumeiy. We spent the entire afternoon and evening hunting for Dr. Rumeiy. He was not to be found. We camped in the lobby of the Manhattan until the sweepers drove us out at 2 o'clock in the morning. Then Mr. McClure and I went to a Turkish bath for the re mainder of the night When Dr. Rumeiy returned next day he had taken a trip to the country, he said he renewed his positive assurances he was acting wa Walter Lyon, then that no German money was to be in at Thirteenth and Jackson streets, was Pastures, which are now in Kood con- arrested Sunday night by Detectives tlitton. Pszynowski and Lepmski and is be ing held on a petit larceny charge. The officers allege that Case stole an automobile tire from a car at six teenth and Dodge streets and was walking down the street with" the Director of the Bed Cross Praises Omaha School Work A letter of commendation from J, .W. Studebaker, assistant director of tire on his shoulder when arrested. the Red Cross bureau of junior mem bership, has been received by J. H, Ueveridge, superintendent of public in struction in Omaha. A few weeks aeo a nackase of manuscript was turned in to the junior NO More Globes tO Replace the Umaha schools had been doing Upon returning the can had disap peared and police are unable to tell to whom the tire belongs, as no re port of the theft has been made. Broken Electric Lights The Nebraska Power company is experiencing difficulty in securing globes for street lights to replace breakage, as the manufacturers say it is impossible to furnish materia) for nonessentials. The company has taken the matter up with Washington to try to show that street lighting is an essential in helping police the city. A plea is made to parents to assist in protecting these globes from boys with sling shots, as it might be impossible to get the globes from 'manufacturers to replace them. Omahan Will Be Instructor in Harvard Radio School .u. v r . .f . .1 vuiua miiau, oun ui wis, u. 1. : I.'. "e! Arnall, 2810 Jackson street, is home nr,rr o nf nreH. iH .,h:, plough from the GreaktLakes no portion of the proceeds paid under 1- .;: ,tat;nn H u onT8uThalienPv " K brT acting as radio' instructor for 10 any sucn alien enemy. , n. v In settling losses on policies writ- thc lt six weeks. W hen he again ten prior tthe United States entering SKSLH', iiaiTAiu uuivt.i3.ijr, nut-it. u w u for the "Red Cross. The letter re ceived from Mr. Studebaker said: Hurrah tor Omaha. I want you to know that I have not only been pleassd but wonderfully inspired by reading through the excellent lot of material which you aeht. ' I km looking forward to the time when we can' have thli aama spirited t?D of school work In every otty, hamlet and rural community in the United States, and a few samples such as you are presenting there In Omaha will do much to assist others In the realisation of this Ideal. Again let me thank you and congratulate you. When our Manual appears you will aee that we have profited very much from your assistance. Alien Enemies No Longer May Get Insurance Claims ; The war has. brought about a new rule in the hre. life and accident in surance business. New policies now contain a clause that in case of loss . . i 1 ji a memoer ot a stock exenange nrm that has since gone out of business, Renskorff, Lyon & Co. It has taken the United State.-, Departmtnt of Jus tice investigators nearly three years to discover that Walter Lyon was merely a "front" for Capt. Heinrich Albert, the paymaster of the imperial German embassy! Rumeiy Becomes Impressive. While all these legal preliminaries were under way and accountants, with Lambin, were working on the books of the Mail and Express com pany, Mr. McClure, Dr. Rumeiy and myself Lad freauent conferences con cerning the editorial policy of the paper. The Evening Mail as it was was an excellent foundation to build on. Mr. McClure and I were for making the best newspaper we knew how; Dr. Rumeiy was -concerned, even before we acquired possession of the orooertv. with having the dead inar voice as to certain classes of features and articles. 1 One day he brought to his rooms at the Manhattan Koger r. tsabson He had arranged with Mr. Babson, he said, for a series of 50 articles. These were to discuss the economic aspects of the war. I was familiar with Mr. Babson's reputation as a statistician, but I could not see the public interest in 50 ferticles, even from his facile pen. especially after Dr. Rumeiy named the price he had promsied to pay for them. I pro tested against the reckless expendi ture of money, for one thing, and against the purchase of articles with out consulting inc men who were, he had promised, to be in sole charge of the editorial departments of the paper. "I'll take care of this with a spe cial appropriation," he said. "It will not be charged to editorial expense." He insisted, however, that Mr. cab son's demand that the articles be set four columns wide in lsrge type be complied with. Complicated Course to Steer, This was only one of many inci dents preliminary to the transfer of the newspaper that made me realize that I had let myself in for an ex tremely difficult game to play. There was a complication of obligations and loyalties, and failure to observe any one of them might make it impossible to serve the others; yet at any time a sitaation might arise in which it would be impossible to determine on the spur of the moment exactly where- the correct course lay. It was inevitable that news of the paper Corporation. Then the various holders of stock in the Mail and Ex press company were called upon to produce their certificates. These were mostly officials of other banks, and they were very eager to see their money first As checks, were drawn against the newly deposited $735,000 and certified by an officer of the bank, stock certificates were reluc tantly pulled out of brief cases and placed on the table. Wanted, a Thousand Shares. "Come on," said Dr. Rumely's at torney. "Who has that thousand shares? Where is it?" "It" was on the table, with a bank messenger clutching the package tightly. The lawyer held a check in his hand. The bank messenger scru tinized it carefully, the lawyer retain ing his hold on the other end of the paper. Slowly the package of certi ficates was pushed across the table. The lawyer put his hand on them. The bank man reached for the check. As they stood there, each waiting for the other to let go, it made a scene for the "movies!" Slowly and in this fashion the stock of the Mail and Express company came out of bags and packages and was handed across the table in ex change for certified checks. Once the holders of the stock fully grasped the I fact that it was real money, the trans . actions moved a little faster and the ' look of doubt and suspicion that had 1 been worn by most of them gave i place to expressions of delight. Lambin counted me certincates as they were gathered in. Then the count was checked up. The total was a thousand shares short 1 "Who's got that thousand shares?" demanded the lawyer. One of the bank messengers produced them from his bag. Every one reached for his hat and all began talking at once. At last the big game was on! (Mr. Stockbridge's next article will tell how Dr. Rumeiy began at once to impose a pro-German policy upon the Evening Mail.) (To be Continued.) Welfare Board Postpones 'Meeting Untii Tuesday The meeting of the beard of pub lic welfare, appointed for Monday morning, has been postponed until 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, owing to the fact that Chairman Frank A. Kennedy was forced to be absent from the city on exmption board business and Dr. Jennie Callfas. an other member, is one ot the board of registration for nurses en duty Mon day in the court house. Robbed by Trio of Holdups. Edward Schutt. 1240 South Six teenth street, reported :o police that he was held up at the ooint of a gun and robbed of $4 at Twenty-third and Leavenworth streets early Monday morning. Three men were described as the holdups and one ts alleged to have been wearing a uclice badge. The holdups were all wi.ite men. Automobile Thieves Get v Two More Omaha Machines Two automobiles were reported stolen Sunday night Both were ol the low price type of car which has proven so popular with auto thieves, Thomas McShane. 141 North Forty first street, reported to r&e police that his car was stolen from Twenty-fifth: and California streets. Adolf Storz, 6425 West Dodge road, leported that his machine was stolen from Twenty fourth and Blondo stress. Elects Delegates to State Federation of Labor Meet Omaha Typographical union at its regular monthly meeting held Sunday afternoon elected three delegates to the Nebraska State Federation oi Labor convention to be held at Ne braska City commencing September 9. The delegates are R. G. Hinman, I. J. Copenharve and Frank Seymour. The union also decided to hold a family picnic at Elmwood park Sun day, August 18. Three Burglars Attempt to Rob Home of T. J. O'Brien Three burglars attempted to break into the home of T. J. O'Brien, 3910 Farnam street, early Monday morn ing. They were frightened away when members of the ncusehold be came alarmed. An unknown negro broke into the Grand hotel. 520 South Thirteenth street, Sunday night and stole seven mirrors. .The hotel has been closed for some time. vested in the Mail, and promised that when the transfer was actually con cluded he would make a public state ment to that effect. So far as I know he never made such a statement over his signature except to the United States enemy property custodian. I have said that up to the day when the property was transferred Mr. Stoddard did not believe the money would be forthcoming. I think he was still skeptical when he was no tified, on June 1, to bring his ac counts and the stock certificates of the Mail and Express company to the offices of the Merchant Exchange Na tional bank. It took nearly all the forenoon to gather into the directors' room on an upper floor of the bank building the numerous individuals whose presence was deemed neces sary before the deal could be closed. There were Dr. Rumeiy and his law yer. Mr. Stoddard and his attorney and accountant, Mr. Kauffman and his secretary, officials of the bank and clerks ad messengers from various other banks and trust companies. Twenty persons or more were crowded into the room. Lambin and I, as officers and directors of the new corporations (I had been elected president of both and Lambin secre taiy and treasurer) sat at one end of the "long table and thoroughly en joyed ourselves. The one fact most clearly apparent was that nobody present seemed to trust anyone else. Mr. Kauffmann produced a certified check for $735,000 payable to and indorsed by Walter Lyon. Dr. Rumeiy indorsed this check and it was accepted by an To Help Make Strong,Keen Red-Blooded Americans L Inn HSfc. 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Ihere! hav f been 992 acceptances of the invi- fati m of Paxton & Gallagher com- far v to the picnic at KruaT Park Tues- . ca r night, July 30, and more to come. Seven Registrants Fail to Sign Their Questionnaires The following 1918 registrants; of kcal board JCo. 3 have failed to sub v ir'.t questionnaires, and will be re ported as defaulters if not head from immediately: Leo A. Snyder, Floyd Aiikney, Nel N. Swanson, Bennie : f'loir'i W'pltc f nn C Ar-tlr Hi. radio instructor. While in Omaha Mr. Arnall was operator on the base ball wire of the Associated Press and has had wide experience in commer cial telegraphy. HYMENEAL. Griffith-Stone. Vfeaa T s-1 CrAH isrvV. far rt Stone, and Frank J. Griffith, both of Wayne, Neb., were married by Rev Charles W. Savidge Saturday. Eczema Wash , ' Atoockaf D.D.D.toaarEcmasor ar itchlsc eruption and rou'U be sbls ta rest and sleep ooca more. Tbink-jtut a tracb! Is it worth tirinP Oct a trial bottle today, sic, me and $1.0. 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