THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918.
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SOUTH SIDE
LIVE STOCK MEN
WILL ASK RAISE
IN COMMISSION
Demands Will Probably Be
- Presented Administrator
Following Meeting
Friday.
" Thunder clouds overhang the
South Side stock yards, with indica-
- tions of another storm to break soon
over the live stock commission rates,
in which South Side live stock men
-and the United States Department of
Agriculture will be the principal per
sons concerned. Low ru.iiblings are
at present being heard in the yards of
the high cost of everything and the
" refusal of the local food administra
tion to allow commission men to raise
their rates.
Local commission men maintain
that the cost of upkeep has increased
from 30 to 100 per cent of what it
was a year or so ago. Eastern mar
kets, they point out, are getting dou
ble the commissions allowed in Oma
ha. At present they are receiving
less than one-third of 1 per cent of
sales as their commission, which, it
is said, is not sufficient to allow
them to make a fair profit. During
the slack season one prominent com
mission man says he was just making
expenses.
Refused Increase Last Year.
Last October Food Administrator
Wattles refused to allow the stock
men to increase their rates 25 per
cent and in acordance with a set
scale. The present demand is for a
JO per cent increase.
Operating at Cost.
Heads of several commission firms
state that they are operating at cost.
One firm that does a large business
has made no profits for the last eight
months. Several of the firms report
no earnings for the last two months.
One firm that handles $1,500,000
worth of stock annually has made
only $200 during the last year, ac
cording to its president.
The general feeling at the exchange
is that if it were not for the increased
production of stock due to the war,
all but the longest established com
mission firms would have been driven
out of business long ago. One prom
inent dealer stated that if some im
mediate change was not made, half
of the firms doing business at present
would be forced to close. "Starving"
h the condition that some of the
firms are said to be in.
Upkeep Is High.
The cost of upkeep for horses was
raised $5 a head yesterday, making
the cost of the upkeep of one horse
now at least $350 a year.
Some firms face cutting down their
service to meet conditions. This
would mean shrinkage in the cattle,
i loss in the yards and general harm
to the stock, with poorer service to
the, shippers. It is suggested that
shippers would rather pay higher
commissions than to suffer losses
through poor service.
Alleged Auto Thief Is
Held to District Court
Arthur Barrett Crawford, of several
aliases, who, police allege, was caught
Tuesday while attempting to take an
auto belonging to Ray L. Honey, 141
Exchange building, from the stock
yards, was bound over to the district
court on a grand larceny charge un
der $2,000 bonds by Judge Holmes in
the South Side police court Thursday.
Crawford, it is alleged, was caught
starting the caf by members of the
Omaha Live Stock Commission com
pany, but when asked bv the owner
where he was going, said he was tak
ing it "uptown for a friend," who has
not yet appeared. Duckinar around
the side of the auto he ran and led
witnesses a chase until caught in the
yards.
Held to District Court.
Sebastino Scataalato, employed by
a local packing company, was bound
over to the district court Thursday
by Police Judge Holmes on a charge
of stabbing Fred Cedia with an ice
i pick with intent to wound. The de
fendant beafne angry at an Italian
dance on July 21 and meeting Cedia
the next day attacked him, police say.
, The bonds were fixed at $500.
Life
Story
of
EDWARD A. RUMELY
Man Who Bought the New York Mail for the Kaiser
'(Cocjrrito..mS, v. a 4
(A sertr or articles sketching the
rirwr of Dr. Kdward A. Rumely, who
has horn arretted on a charge of hav
ing bought the New Vork Evening Mall
nlth money furnished by lh German
government and of having ued It for
German propaganda.)
By FRANK STOCKBRIDGE.
(Former Managing Editor of the Evening
Mall.)
(Copyright, 19H, The New York Herald
Co. All Rights Reserved.)
Copyright. Canada, by The New York
Herald Co.)
If the atmosphere in the offices of
the Evening Mail was rapidly becom
ing one of suspicion, there was an
even greater mass of suspicion from
the outside centering about Dr.
Rumely and to a lesser extent about
everyone else in a responsible posi
tion in the management of the news
paper. As a matter of fact, I never had
any evidence of any actual spying or
intrigue inside the office; such dif
ferences as arose between Dr. Rume
ly on the one hand and the other di
rectors and department heads were
sought out in the open at least
so far as the rest of us were
concerned. Dr. Rumely had said he
wanted to be checked up when he was
wrong. We took him at his word, and
there were many lively encounters.
Doctor Rumely, so far as I can re
call, never acknowledged or admit
ted openly a pro-German policy;
rather than avow, even to those
closely associated with him, an intent
to serve the German cause, he would
frequently yield his point when it was
pointed out to him that to pursue a
course he had determined upon would
intensify the suspicion that already
surrounded the paper.
Either the Mail was owned by the
German government or it was not;
nobody in the organization except
Dr. Rumely and Mr. Kauffmann was
in a position to know; it took the
United States government three years
to get proof that the money came
from the hands of Captain Boy-Ed.
But the effort to ascertain the
source of the money that bought the
paper and the influences behind it be
gan almost with the transfer of the
property; perhaps even earlier.
Forced to Deny Hun Ownership.
Dr. Rumely had assured Mr. Mc
Clure and myself that there was no
German money in the property, when
challenged from outside sources.
More than once the positive asser
tion that the Mail vas German
owned got into print. Dr. Rumely
either got Mr. McClure to sign the
denial, or worded his own denial in
such a way that it did not actually
deny the main charge, when he did
not ignore it altogether.
We had been in possession of the
paper barely two weeks when a cir
cumstantial statement charging Dr.
Rumely with being the head of the
German secret service in America and
asserting that the transter of the
Evening Mail to its new owners was
dictated and planned by the German
ambassador, was widely published.
Dr. Rumely denied both allegations.
So far as I know his denial was
technically a correct statement. I do
rot believe he was ever head of the
German secret service, and the Mail
quite probably was neither "dic
tated" nor "planned" by the German
ambassador. But his letter 'of denial
elicited from the editor of the news
paper that originally published the!
Canada, the X. T. Herald Ok.
charge a letter that the doctor never
answered.
Questioned In Detail.
This letter was sent to Dr. Rumely
cn June 18, 1915. Four copies were
sent, each registered. One was ad
cressed to him in care of the German
ambassador, one in care of the Hamburg-American
Steamship line, one
to Captain Boy-Ed's New York office
and one to the Evening Mail. So far
as the sender of it knows, he received
all four. I have a copy of the letter
before me. It asked Dr. Rumely five
categorical questions:
First: By denial do you intend the
public to believe that you have not
during the past six months had many
conferences with Captain Boy-Ed,
that you have not given suggestions
or advice or been in any way ap
proached by or have yourself con
ferred with Captain Boy-Ed or the
German ambassador or any represen
tatives of the German government in
this country with regard to matters
ox policy or questions of publicity?
Second: Do you deny that even
since the sinking of the Lusitania
you have engaged in a personal in
vestigation in behalf of official Ger
man representatives?
Third: Do you declare that no
representative of the German govern
ment in this country has ever con
ferred with you or talked with you in
regard to the purchase by German
interests or German-American inter
ests of a daily newspaper, or that the
purchase of the Evening Mail has not
been the subject of conversation be
tween Captain Boy-Ed and yourself
ot the German ambassador and your
stlf? Fourth: Do you affirm that none
of the money used in acquiring the
Evening Mail property has come di
rectly or indirectly from pro-German
sources and that there has never been
pny suggestion or intimation that the
Evening Mail should favor the Ger
man cause in the present war or that
it should attack or seek to embarrass
the Wilson administration?
Fifth: Do you deny that you have
many times during the present year
been in conference with representa
tivs of the German government in
this country in regard to the subject
of the purchase of ammunition in the
United States by and for the allies, or
the purchase of ammunition in this
country by and for Germany?
Dr. Rumely brought this letter to
my desk.
"I have been trying to draft a reply
to this," he said, "but I do not get ex
actly the force in my reply that I
want. Who is the best person to write
a voluminous reply? The man who
wrote this says here that he will print
whatever reply I want to make. I
want to send him a letter that will
take up several columns of his news
paper. "What do you want to say as to
the point he raises?" I inquired.
"1 want to come back at him with
the most forceful kind of questions
and allegations concerning his own
activities," said the doctor. "I know
all about this man, and he and his
paper are entirely irresponsible."
Rumely Refuses to Be Pinned.
I tried to pin the doctor down to
categorical denials, but he refused to
be pinned. He wanted a letter writ
ten, I gathered, that would befog the
real issue and commit him to no posi-
U rights reaerre.)
tive assertions. 1 suggested a man
who might write such a document,
and he asked me to have it done.
A voluminous letter was produced
it would have taken several columns
of newspaper space, had it ever been
printed. But it didn't suit the doc
tor. He made several changes and
had it typed again. These had disap
peared when it was finally revised. It
jay on his desk a few days, then van
ished. I asked him about it several
days later; I was curious to know
whether it had been published.
"I've decided to ignore attacks from
that iource," said Doctor Rumely.
"These fellows are trying to trap me
into admissions that they can distort.
The man who wrote this letter is an
Englishman. The British have bought
up the Pinkertons and they have their
men following me everywhere. I can't
go up to the Bronx to see my wife's
relatives without being followed.
They spy on me at my club. I'm go
ing to ignore them I"
Busy Dodging Detectives.
There were others besides Pinker
tons who were curious about Dr.
Rumely's movements, however. Some
of us who had suspicions as to the ac
tivities of the United States Secret
IS. milk and cook lea from hi home
Wednesday night.
Private Jullua SUnico ) reooverlng In
Franca from a gaa attack.
"The Bank of Courtesy" The Live Stock
National, Junction 24th and N.
Lottie M. Bchroeder li In Beatrice, Neb.,
where she went by auto Tuesday.
Mils Mildred Brtgge returned from a two
weeks' outing at Kansas City on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George McCormlck are en
joying vacation and rest at Lake Oko
boJU Mr. and Mr. Cecil Bsrryman leave next
Monday for s month's visit In New York
City.
Mrs. Lavllla Behlndet went to Chicago
last Tuesday to visit her son, Cromble, and
his wife.
Elmer L. Young of Fort Byron, 111., Is
the guest of his alster, Mrs. O. H. Brewer,
and family
Murray Taylor of Montana la visiting In
the city. He le contemplating enlistment In
the artillery.
Bergeant-Major Charles Mahl Is reported
to be In the quartermaster's department
somewhere In England.
Louis Morn arrived recently from a
Texas cantonment, where he has served as
assistant librarian, and la now with his
South Side Brevities
Mrs. Walter Hill Is visiting In Olympla.
Wash.
Forest M. Oakes and family are motoring
to Onleaburev 111. - - r .
R. E. Greener. 3540 South Twenty-seventh
:-r:t, has. reported to police the theft of
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Languor of
Body and Mind
proceeding from ex
, haustion of strength by
overexertion; by turbu
lent nights; by loss of
appetite; by digestive
disorders, combined with
. the summer heat, quickly
disappears with the use of
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The Great General Tonic
B, Alt Kttmbh Drwtiwt
Sol Manufacturers: . .
LYKO MEDICINE COMPANY
New York Earns City. Mo-
wife at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs, W. B. Home, awaiting the call of
Uncle Sara,
J. L. Hartsook, Fifty-first and K streets,
Is minus four tires as the result ot visit
by thieves Wednesday night.
Mrs. Mary Jane McRanne, a sliter-ln-law
tit Mrs. J. A. Bradley, Is visiting at the
home of the latter. She comes from South
Dakota.
Miss Fern Ends has returned from a post
graduate course at the Kearney Normal
school, where she haa completed her work
for the A. B. degree.
Mrs. F. A. VanSant and Mrs. Charles D.
Eada and their husbands went on an auto
trip to LaPlatte last Saturday, where they
called on Mrs. Cads' sister.
Telephone South (00 and order a case of
Oma or Lacatonade the healthful, refreshing
Home Beverage, delivered to your residence.
Omaha Beverage Co.
Grayson C Oerner has notified his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Qerner, 4612 South
Twenty-third street, of his safe arrival over
seas. He Is a member ot Battery E, 62d
coast artillery.
Peruvian Cabinet Resigns.
Lima, Peru, Auir. 1. The Peruvian
cabinet has resigned.
The New
UGHTS1X
The remarkable ease with which it holds the road and travels
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You can drive it all day without fatigue. And so can your wife
or daughter. Its sure starter, the responsiveness of the motor,
the convenient controls, the short turning radius, the irreversible
steering gear and the quick-acting brakes all contribute to make
this a delightful car to drive.
Its mechanism is simple, accessible, practically trouble-proof,
easily cared-for. It's t beautiful car to look at; a most satis
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Price, $1585
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Service took pains not to obtain defi
nite knowledge of what was going
on. Once in a while, however, bits
of information that were illuminating,
would come to our attention.
"I never saw a man who was so ob
viously trying to throw anyone who
might be following off his trail." one
of the men who had a good deal to
do with tracing Doctor Rumely's
movements told me. "I have known
him to go as far north as Seventy
second street and double back by an
other route, to keep what would oth
erwise have passed unnoticed as an
ordinary business engagement."
I think I am well within the limits
To Help Make
Strong.Keen
Red-blooded
Americans
Now
Being nsed by over three million
people annually. It will increase the
strength of weak, nervous, run.
down folks in two weeks' time in
many instances. Ask your Doctor
or druggist about it.
of accuracy when I say that every
person Dr. Rumely saw, every trip
that he took, almost every telephone
call that he made, was under scrutiny
from a very early period in the ca
reer of the Mail under his manage
ment. And there was never any ques
tion that, up to the breaking off of
relations between the United States
and Germany, he was in closie and
continuous contact with the repre
sentatives of the German government
in America.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Dram
Extra Specials in Men's and Women's Low Shoes
for FRIDAY and SATURDAY
For the ladies, we call attention to the White Lace
High Shoes this season's best AC and r JT
styles and wonderful values, atj4.flJ pj.4D
One lot of White Buck and Nubuck Button M AC
Shoes, worth to $8.00, for pl.7J
One lot of Odds and Ends Pumps, the greatest d1 if
values we have ever offered for pl4j
Men's Black and Tan Calf Low Shoes, mostly (JO A r
small sizes, values to $7.00, for $LAo
Men's Patent Leather and Black Calf Low (PI QC
Shoes, small sizes, great values, for pl.D
No Refunds, Exchanges or Delivery on These Shoes
at Sale Prices.
Itrol Slee fk
1419 Farnam Street.
SEMI-ANNUAL SALE
BIG VALUES IN
MEN'S CLOTHING
Arrow and Wilson Bros.' Shirts at big reductions.
All 75c Neckwear.... 25c
Bif assortment of Palm Beach Suits, values
from $12 and $15; Friday and Saturday
at $6.00 and $7.50
$25 and $30 Young- Men's Tailored Suits, in
newest models, from $12.50 to $20.00
Men's Business Suits, values from $25 to $30;
now $12.50 to $20.00
Biggest values in Suit Cases and Hand Bags
at one-half price.
Big variety of Rain Coats at one-half price.
Spring and Fall Overcoats, in all sizes, silk
lined, at lowest prices.
Take advantage of these low prices and pur
chase your Fall needs now.
DRASTIC REDUCTIONS IN
WOMEN'S WEAR
a $12.00
$12.50 Silk Poplin JC Cfi
Dresses l)OeOU
$12 Silk Skirts All colors and sizes; d O C A
up-to-date models; finest novelties vOwU
$9 Serge Skirts; all extra sizes d yl CA
included aPHtsOU
$4.00 White Wash (JjO OP
Skirts Pa&es&U
Silk and Taffeta Petticoats at Just PRICE
$1.25 White Wash
Waists
$2.50 Silk Wash Skirts;
all colors
Black Satin Coats; extra large
sizes; formerly $25; only
New Stock of Silk Dresses, all shades and sizes;
values to $25. Now $10 and
Taffeta Suits and Coats, worth up
$25, now
Exceptional values in French Serge and Wool Poplin tf 1 A Q C
Suits, all colors; $9.98 and JlTe0
$7.50 values in Georgette Crepe Waists, sizes from 38 to J,
John feldimn
109 North Sixteenth St. opposite Postoffice
85c
..$1.25
$12.50
$14.50
. ..$9e98
"
I 'H'l I I
August
Clearing
Sales Now On
in Every
Department
MAYDEN
THE CASH STORE
All
Departments
Contribute to
the August
Clearing Sales
New
any
Featuring
lr alii
Mats
Velvet Crown
With
Illusion Brims
Four Styles Pictured at a Special Price of
$4.95 and
FRIDAY ONLY-
Any Summer Trimmed Hat
in our Stock. Hats worth
to $15. Nothing reserved
Hats JL
$3
Read the Big Special August Cash Price Grocery Sale
10 bars Diamond C or Swift's Pride
. Soap 38c
4 lbs. best Rolled White Breakfast
Oatmeal 23c
5 lbs. best White or Yellow Corn
meal 38c
( lbs. Corn Flour 38c
Washington Crisp Cora Flakes,
Pk 7V,e
Pickles, assorted kinds, bottle.... 8c
16-os. cans Condensed Milk ...... 10c
l-oi. cant Condensed Milk Be
No. 1 cans Pork and Beans 6VC
The best Domestic Macaroni. Ver
micelli or Spaghetti, pk 'vac
Gallon cans Goden Table Syrup.... 69c
Lux Washing Compound, per pkg.: 11c
Schepp's Cocoanut, lb. pkg 35c
4 lba. choice Japan Rice...... 38c
The best Hand-Picked Navy Beans.
lb. 12;t
No. 2 cans Fancy Sweet Sugar
Corn 12V,c
cans Sunbrifrht Cleanser 25c
The best Mixed Chick Feed. 10 lbs. 45c
EAT MORE DRIED FRUITS and SAVE
THE WHEAT. NOTHING FINER
FOR PUDDINGS. PIES.
SAUCES OR CAKES.
Fancy Evaporated Apples, lb 15c
Fancy Murr Peaches, lb. 15C
Fancy Muscatel Raisins, lb 15C
Fancy Muscatel Seedless Raisins,
lb. 15c
Seeded Raisins, pkg. ioc
Fancy Bartlett Pears, lb 20c
Fancy Murr Park Apricots, lb..... 25c
Choice California Prunes, lb '.lie
Choice California Prunes, lb 15c
FISH, FISH, FISH, lor FRIDAY
Very best of Canned Salmon
t 20c, 25c, 30c
Bullheads, lb 25c
Fresh Herring, lb ise
Large Whitefish, lb 25c
Small Whitefish. lb 16c
White Perch, lb 16c
Pickerel, lb. " " 20c
Pike, lb 25c
Trout, lb 29c
Crappies. lb 25c
Halibut, lb " , 27c
Red Salmon, 111 !!!!!!.'! 28c
Fresh Codfish, lb. . . ......
Eels. lh. .' JSc
Smoked and Salt Fish of' all' kinds at
low prices: piokled as well.
BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE and
OLEO.
Fresh Eggs, per doaen 32c
Fancy No. 1 Tub Butter, lb 42c
Gem Nut Margarine, lb 29c
Snowflake and Premium Oleo, lb.. . 33e
Wisconsin Cream and Brick Cheese,
lb 30c
Fancy New York Sharp Cheese, lb. 35c
Fancy Bulk Sweet Pickles, qt 35c
Dill Pickles, per doien 25c
Heint's Baked Beans.
each ISC. 20c and 35c
Everything in bulk and bottled Pickles
in our Pickle Dept.
OMAHA'S GREATEST TEA and
COFFEE MARKET.
Our famous GcVen Santos Coffee.
the talk of Omaha, per lb. 20c
Fancy Maricaibo Blend Coffee, lb. 25c
Fancy Porto Rico Coffee, lb 28c
Moca and Java Blend, excellent cup
Quality: very aromatic flavor, per
lb.. 35c: S lbs. for $1.00 ,
Choice Basket Fired or Sun Dried !
Japan Tea, per lb 38c I
The best Tea Siftines. per lb 20c I
Breakfast Cocoa, per lb 25c I
OMAHA'S GREATEST VEGETABLE
MARKET.
FRESHEST, LARGEST VARIETY AND
HALF THE PRICE YOU CAN
RAISE IT FOR.
On account of so many of our em
ployes gone to war, these prices are
made for cash-and-carry:
15 lbs. best New Potatoes to
peck 38c
Fancy Sweet Sugar Corn, dozen. . . .15c
4 bunches Fresh Beets, Carrots or
Turnips 5c
3 heads Fresh Leaf Lettuce 5c
Fancy Head Lettuce, head 7Vse
Fancy Wax or Green Beans, lb..7'jc
New Cabbage, per lb 5c
3 large Green Peppers 5c
2 Stalks Fresh Celery 5c
6 bunches Fresh Green Onions 5c
Fancy Ripe Tomatoes, lb 5c
Fancy Larsre Cucumbers .... 2 for 5c
Fancy Medium Cucumbers.... 4 for 5c
Egg Plant, each 5c
3 Summer Squash 10c
Large Market Basket Fancy Ripe
Tomatoes 50c
Large, Juicy Lemons, dozen 30c
;It Pays TRY HAYDENS FIRST It Pays