Nebraska Newspapers

    tKt BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918
NO SLACKENING
IN LOAN DRIVE
TO BESLOGAN
Secrgtary Rowe Sends Word
to Liberty Loan Chairman
Urging Pushing of
Campaign.
Liberty loan workers every where
are expected to go into the cam
paign with renewed energy today
with a view to pushing their re
spective localities over the top at
the earliest possible date. Their
, own patriotism has inspired them
to do this and added interest has
been given to the work by reason
of a 1 telegram received from Ex
rrutivc Secretary Rowe, Kansas
:it''
In his official capacity, Secretary
Rowe has sent the following tele
jram to every Liberty loan chair
nan in the Teith disyict:
We cannot too strongly impress
upon you and your people the
fact that there must be no slack
ening of efforts in the Liberty
loan campaign on account of the
publication of the news of Ger
many's acceptance of peace terms.
It .would be nothing short of a
tragedy in American history if the
loan should fail. Our task is not
by any means finished and Ger
many is watching the results of
our loan just as closely as ever.
The facts are that the money
which is being subscribed to this
loan has already been contracted
Y and actually spent by the govern
ment Furthermore, our government
has enormous outstanding obliga
tions yet to be met and unless
every unit in the loan organiza
tion of the Tenth district meets
Nits full obligation we may proper
ly be classed as quitters. Give this
- telegram widest possible publicity
and wire me immediately to the
effect that there are no quitters
in your county. ,
County Chairmen Notified.
T. C. Byrne, state chairman, has
sent telegrams to all county chair
men in Nebraska who have not yet
raised their quotas, urging them to
pay no attention to peace notes, and
explaining the necessity of subscrib
ing the loan, even if peace were
signed at once.
O. T. Eastman, Douglas county
chairman, issued the following state
ment: '.'Every Liberty loan worker in
Douglas county is urged to keep
uppermost in his or her mind the
one thought, that Omaha is still
51,000,000 short of its quota and this
money must be raised this week.
Forget war news and peace notes
in til our task is accomplished."
Workers Will Check Up.
'Sam Burns, chairman of the men's
gelling force, will issue orders to
'his workers early this morning to
check over their districts carefully,
especially firms not displaying Lib
erty loan emblems, for possible extra
subscriptions.
In cases where men have taken
certain amounts, with the under
standing they would take more if
necessary, salesmen will be asked
to secure the additional subscrip
tion promised.
All bond purchasers in Omaha are
urged to wear their buttons ana dis
play their emblems, particularly in
homes, 8,0 that bond slackers may
o& smoked out.
Sunday telegrams were sent to
, about 100 business men who have
been out of the city during the cam
paign, to wire the amount of their
subscriptions.
The outdoor vaudeville shows at
Sixteenth and Douglas streets will
be continued until the campaign is
over.
Taps to be Sounced in
Webster City Each Day
Webster City, la., Oct. 13. (Spe
cial.) Starting Monday and lasting
until the end of the war, "taps" will
,be sounded from the steps of the
city hall in Webster City every af
ternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
When it is 4:30 o'clock in Web
ster City it is 9:30 p. m. in France
the hour when "taps" is sounded
as a signal for all soldiers not on
duty toetire. The idea inflowing
this call here is to remind the peo
" pie here of the boys "over there."
This custom was started by Gov
ernor Cox of Ohio. The call select
ed is the sweetest and most beauti
ful of all the bugle calls. It sug
gests, not the roar of battle, but the
peaceful rest that comes at the end
of a well-spent day.
The Webster City council has
adopted a resolution recognizing the
- custom here and has designated Geo.
Yaus and Wesley Schaub as the
official buglers for the city.
Dubuque's Crack Halfback
Scores Double Touchdown
Grinnell. la.. Oct. 13. Sol Butler,
crack halfback, scored both touch
downs of Dubuque's 13 to 0 victory
over Grinnell college here today.
Iowa City, Oct. 12. Held score
less in the first period, the Univer
. sity of Iowa crushed aside its
lighter opponents at the opening of
the second period and defeated Coe
college of Cedar Rapids bere today,
27 to 0. It was decided today to
play the contest, which had been
cancelled because of influenza.
Laborer Attempts Suicide
Shooting Self in Head
German Prisoners Gorging on British 'Bully Beef,
U '. f ,n I, xrif . Jfcra . ill, 1
WOMEN ARE OVER
THEIR GOAL SET
BY MEN IN DRIVE
and Half of Fourth
Liberty Bonds Sold by
Various Women's
Teams.
OTJOVXra BRITOSK 'UW!T BEEF." &vn mtocn
1918 Draft Men Called
Third District for
Calif
1 T
omia and 1 exas
Men called to report for assign
ment to Camp Bowie, Texas, and
Camp Kearny, California, between
October 21 and October 25, by local
board for division No. 3:
By
'".Mired Walter, laborer, living at
6C8 North Twenty-third steret, at
tempted to commit suicide Satur
day night by firing a Bullet into his
head with a $2. calibre revolver.
- He was discovered by the police
lying in a pool of blood in the alley
at Seventeenth and Cuming streets,
and taken to the station where' his
wound was attended. He was later
removed to the Swedish Mission
hospital. ,
Nurse Adds Fourth Star
: ' to Woodbine Home Flag
Woodbine, la, Oct 13. (Special.)
Four stars may now be seen on
the service flag at the J. J. Weiss
home in Woodbine. The last star
to be added is for the daughter,
Frances, graduate nurse who has
gone to care for the sick at Camp
Podge, low
Lynn M. Colnon.
Glenn A. Humbert.
Ron L. Foster.
S4u J. fturn.
Harry W. Conklln.
Joseph R. De Witt.
J. Van Orden.
J&mea Chipman.
Harrf Eisenstatt.
H. J. Ehrhorn.
l A. McCarthy.
N. O. Humphrey.
Fred Henderson.
Kalph E. Walter.
Joneph D. Bohm.
W. H. Anderson.
Charles O. Wright.
C. F. Chrtstlanson.
John A. Larson.
Charles W. Harden
P. A. Aniselsberg.
Walter Grow.
Norman C. Cary.
Kay H. Martin.
Roland Caughey.
R. K. Reinlllard.
Robert D. Spooner.
Corland Bergman.
Roy Croxler.
P. Damrovkat.
Ira. R. Valentin.
Isadora RImerman.
Phil Monsky.
F. O. SIcQulre.
Frank C. Bagby.
Frank Holowka.
C. A. Allman.
Leo Pap.
F. A. Mitchell.
John Jones.
Jim Prohaska.
Kay Queen.
Fred J. Ralney.
Morris White.
R. M. Anderson.
Alex Le Blanc.
Edward Thlesson.
H. C. RasmusKen.
W. F. Granville.
Charles C. Long.
Merl W. Reese.
E. J. Moehrle.
Howard Gruden.
Arnold Wert.
Tony Wagrayn.
H. Grlndstaff.
Merele Dolan.
Roger J. Walcott.
Richard Morley.
E. D. La Craft.
F. S. Hudson.
Ralph W. Toeinan.
Salvatore Nlgro.
Lynden N. Davy.
Mike Lakata.
P. K. Mcculloch.
Loula Feltman.
Harry N. Keller.
Floyd W. Heskett.
M. A. Walawltx.
Wm. L. Keep.
3. O. Smith.
R. M. Mahaffy.
J. P. Garrett.
Fred H. Rfggert.
B. McNulty.
Jack Jacobs.
Leong Kim.
Gotfrfed Stuckl.
P. Klebena.
A. Dean Hale.
A. R. Darrah.
Dan Branagan.
F. A. Ludlow.
C. E. Weldy. i
M. B. Mahaffy.
Frank Koaom.
Frank Ahart.
T. F. Fern ley.
Harold Haaa.
I T. Jacob.
O. J. Peterson.
A. J. Crulchank.
C. S. Mulligan.
Nicholas Ludwig.
Arthur C Wolter.
John Julln.
A. F. Hagan.
R. A. Batten.
O. W. Lang
Edward Ray.
K. C. McDermoti.
ftart Scanlon.
John McCoole.
.1. M. Dagrrs.
F, Landers.
E. McPherson.
E. Wllklns.
M. Chapman.
Arthur Johnson.
?nleh Mohamed.
llr.rry Manos.
J. G. Cooke.
11. Oakley, Jr.
J. P. Connell.
' F. M. Michael.
II. B. Shackelford.
.1. L. Schlosser.
H. Thompson.
J. L. Kellcy.
E. H. Krans.
M. Nalhanson.
F. E. Oarey.
JV. E. Rieseberg.
A. Nekancuhk.
.. A. Slderis.
B. F. Kroechnke.
A. Mazlotto.
. Wong Nam.
Carl A. Hoeg.
E. A Loughrey.
IT. Bunting.
V. H. Hodge.
D. W. Kllng.
Lewis T. Moran.
II. V. Miller.
V. Callaghan.
Tred Norman.
P. Pappadupulos
Bryan Maroney.
W. Nicholas.
L. E Endicott.
Ira B. Merrick.
Jack Dally
Gulspeppe Bosco.
G. A. Jader
Peter Finn.
Edgar Pagwlst.
O. Tooley.
G. Flnnatrom.
W. H. Allison.
Martin L. Bogar
R. M. Jones.
Roy D. Hart.
Ii. E. Gormalnn.
W. F. Gronan.
E. J. Varn.
Harry A. McCoy.
Emll Gustafson.
R. A. Rivett
Percy P. Porter.
K. H. Messerean.
Harold Burns.
Oscar Ostenson.
H. Cochran.
Simon Lvin.
T. Browley.
Fred Wymore.
V. Woodruff.
R. D. Schnoor.
Paul Meek.
Roy Smith.
V. Hrlsta Rafia
T. O'Dohetty.
M. Margolin.
T. C. bussing.
B. Kieffer.
" A. Eaaton.
T. L. 2aharopo;oi
H. E. Widfeldt
Jee Jones.
P. Mandas.
Harry Young.
O. F. Johnson.
P. S. Whitefleld.
J'aul Harris.
F. F. D. Thompson. J. A. Barrett.
Victor Lopei.
H. D. Macarltea.
Rufus Z. Huff.
Albert fl. Falk.
F. W. Grotmark.
Ray E. Burns.
E. A. Westerllnr.
P. S. Blotcky.
J. H. Calvert.
Clifton LeFleur.
Joseph Callaghan
Paris Kutspades.
D. E. Marietta.
C. O. Staley.
Andrew M. O'Kane.
W'm. R. Learn.
G. Trepanis.
Fred L. Dawson.
W. A. Ramsey.
C. T. Hlghtower.
Dr. R. s. Johnston.
Quid Marconclni.
W alker C. Davla,
R. J. Johnson.
Carl Casterllne.
A. L. Welnstein.
Leon Calello.
G. J. Frederick.
Jane, ltlg,
Harry Ba bender.
E, Rasmussen.
C. J. Coleman.
N. L. Schnee.
O. W. Roos.
M. J. Norton.
J. B. Lau'gjahr.
Carl Rlekes.
W. L. King.
M. Crofton.
C, Mocar.
Charles Cohen.
F. Odorlslo.
H. F. Davla.
F. P. Sullivan.
L. C. Peterson.
Aba Welnstein.'
A. E. Nelson.
L. R, Harske.
Aj J. Suttla. ir.
H. A. Scogglna.
Jamea, Byron.
Clarence Irey.
Leo Waienberg.
A. P. Auda.
R. S. Buckner,
R. A. Jacobsn.
r Antony Slmcik.
J. a Williamson.
Fred Gritaan.
C. H. Malone.
Irfiuls Vanous.
Morris F. Mann.
Harry PaDnas
R. Inch.awlaga.
I. A. Browne.
W. Himelhorn.
W. P. Downey, jr.
Wm. Herbert
C- J. W-igton.
A. M. Harris.
Warner.
H. G. Moy.
Joa Gomes.
J. L. Howard
John Ware.
Ernest Lowing
C O. Long.
O. W. Murphy.
J. R. Beltia.
O. H. Vyanos.
H. Theodorapoulas.
A. M. Qealy.
Roy G. Marr.
Jacob Sagen
B. Bolser.
i""b Zeldman.
Fidel R. Caatro.
Wm. Malone.
Carl E. Green.
.-Registration.
Walter J. Crows.
J. J. Malone.
C. Hamilton.
F. Pederson.
D. Sullivan.
G. F. McDermott.
Morrla Flrsht.
J. B. Brown.
T. Huber.
H. T. MacDonald.
John E. Peti.
Otta Fisher.
R- A. Camp.
r. Gartland.
C. Anderson.
Greenberg.
f. L. Ruback.
Aloia Skorupa.
Jonea.
5- Gilder.
5- . Pulllson:
g- c- Bauer.
C. A. Newman.
W. Hatfield.
E. Melura.
Gorge Ally.
J- B. Napoii.
o. Aldrldge
M. C. Archr
August, 181S, BeglotratloiO
C. A. Williams.
Emery Miller.
Geo. A. Warsop.
K. E. Nash.
D. Nelson.
W. Haggedorn
Fred Nua.
C. J. Doherty.
P. R. Albrtght.
T. Mastoraa.
G. S. Keley.
P. lushmann.
Emil J. DeOrave.
I. Roy Johnson.
Wm. Kline. -G.
G. Rlcharda. '
A. J. Veverka.
B. VT. Wiiaey.
E. E. Styskal.
E. H. Jirak.
MOTORTRUCKS
COMING INTO
USE IN
OWA
Transportation Bureau Organ
ized and State Divided Into
Districts for Carrying
On Work.
Bee Want Ads Are the Best Bus
iness Boosters, v
Des Moines, la., Oct. 13. The
State Council of National Defense
is interesting itself in the matter
of -motor truck transportation for
hauling freight in Iowa. J. D. Eg
gleston of Mason City, who has
been active in the establishment of
motor truck lines, has been named
secretary of the recently created
transport committee of the council.
The state has been divided into
five districts, with an organization
that will approximate 500 members.
Each member of the transportation
bureau will devote much time and
energy in carrying out the work as
may be deemed necessary. The
chairmen of the five districts are:
C. C. Virgil, Mason City, District
Xo. 1; Max McGraer, Sioux City,
Xo. 2; if D. Empkie, ' Council
Bluffs, Xo. 3: H. C. White, Conroy,
Xo. 4; F. D. Raffensberger, Des
Moines, Xo. S. There are also five
members in each county who are
held responsible for the direct ap
plication of transportation methods
in their respective localities.
"The whole country will soon be
using the motor truck fleets for
short hauls," Mr. Eggleston says
"It is an economic necessity to use
more motor trucks and has the en
dorsement of the railroads, the food
administration, the Wdr department,
all agricultural societies and the Na
tional Council of Defense. From
the standpoint of economy statistics
show that it costs $6.85 to stop and
start a train at any given point and
in the small towns adjacent to job
bing centers the usual amount of
revenue in freight charges would be
about 60 cents.
"With a fleet of trucks prompt,
efficient service for distances up to
50 miles will be rendered at a cost
no greater than that chaVged by the
railroads."
It is announced that Mr. Eggle
ston's work is to prepare routes and
to assist in the organization of truck
units. Interest shown in motor
truck transportation by the jobbers
and shippers prompted the Council
of Defensejto take it up.
Donald Batterson of Des Moines,
Company B, 168th infantry, who
reached Fort Des Moines Saturday,
told of the adventure of one of his
pals, Corp. Louis G. -Gonzales, as
follows:
"Our company was going forward
the first night at Chateau Thierry.
.A machine gun nest barred the way.
Volunteers were called for. Gon
zales was selected from the large
number of men who offered to go.
Half way across No Man's Land
Gonzales was struck by machine
bullets. He turned around, facing
his comrades, evidently trying to
tell them he had done his best.
Then he turned his face toward
Berlin and dropped dead."
Patterson stated the machine gun
nest was cleaned out and Gonzales'
death avenged. When the young
man's body was picked up, it was
found riddled with bullets. His
companion was Vernon Rodgers,
Lacona, la. He was so badly
wounded that he soon died. Pat
terson himself was peppered with
shrapnel sustaining 23 wounds. All
but four are now healed.
Why Wear Underwear.
New York, Oct. 13. Without the
formality of openings some of the
knitters of underwear are letting
out goods for spring. This has re
sulted from the fact that they are
virtually through with work for the
military authorities. They are dol
ing out their supplies by allotment,
and customers are being supplied
gradually with a portion of their
orders. Prices are high. A typical
instance was given yesterday by
a jobber, who said he was paying
$5.50 per dozen for goods which-in
pre-war time came,to him at .62'2.
The Women's committee is well
over the $1,500,000 goal "that the
Men's committee had set for them.
The Creighton Student Army
Training camp subscription of $35,
000 raised by the students, making
their college 100 per cent, was turn
ed into the Women's committee
through Mrs. Joseph Duffy, chair
man of the Third ward.
The Brandeis store outpost and
the outpost at Fifteenth and Far
nam streets, ran a close race 11
week. At noon Saturday the Bran
deis store outpost had sold 74 bonds
with a total of- $10,550. The Fif
teenth street outpost had 65 bonds
and a total of $9,450.
Mrs. Charles Hubbard, major of
the store outposts submitted the fol
lowing ,repbrt:
Name. Amount
Benson & Thome, Miss Hambright,
capt., 2 bonda ...t 150
Burgess Nash, Mrs. Frank Nortan,
capt., 35 bonds S.t'0
Burlington Station, Mrs. N. J. Moors,
capt., 15 bonds 1.60O
HayUen Bros., Mrs. W. H. Sherdon,
capt. 36 bonds ?.905
Kilpatrlck Store, Mrs. E. L. Bridges,
capt. 1 bond 300
Orchard & Wllhelm, Mrs. G. L. Brad
ley, Mrs. Chas. Scott Smith, capts.
21 bond 2. 150
Thompson & Belden, Miss Marjorle
Howland. tapt., 6 bond 2,400
Union Station, Mrs. Bert Fowler,
capt., 24 bond v l.S'O
Nebraska Clothing Co., Mrs. W. L.
Holzman, Mrs. Llljonstoujhe, capts,
i bonds '00
Sold In Hotels.
The hotel outposts, Mrs. A. S. Ritchie,
major, report as follows:
Conant, Mrs. M. J. Coakley, Mrs. M.
V. Porter, enpts., 14 bonds 2,400
Castle Mrs! F. A. Castle, capt., 39
bonds 5'1J0
Henshaw. Mrs. A. J. Slstek, capt.,
15 bonds .1E0
Her Grand, Mrs. H. A. Wagoner,
capt., 44 bonds i 4,000
Merchants. Mrs. Alma Bollyn, capt.
2 bonds
Paxton, Mrs. Origcij Williams, capt.
11 bonds
Home. Mrs. H. A. Waggener, capt.
23 bonds
700
700
8,450
Russians and Finns
Naked and Starving in
German Prison Camps
Dreamland
Adventures
By DADDY.
A complete new adventure each week, be
ginning Monday and ending Saturday.
R
Correspondence of Associated Press.
The Hague,' Oct. 13. Thousands
of Russians and Finnish red guards
imprisoned in a secret cSmp at
Friednort, near Konigsberg, Ger
many, are living and dying amid
terrible conditions, according to a
neutral who has just arrived here
after a long visit in Germany. Many
of them, he said, are virtually naked,
and the remainder are clad in rags.
Deaths are common, and he pre
dicted that with the coming of win
ter most of these still alive would
perish from exposure.
Food conditions in West Prus
sia, this informant sawl, are by no
means as good as in Eist Prussia,
the home of the Junkers. Ample
food was obtainable at fairly rea
sonable prices in the east, in conse
quence of which the population was
comparatively cheerful. To this sit
uation he ascribed the continued re
sistance of the Junkers to the desire
for a quick peace, which, he stated,
was growing rapidly in other parts
of the country, ' .
The wreckage caused by the Rus
sian invasion of 1914 was still evi
dent, according to the traveler, who
found the streets of Gumbinnen in a
ruined conditions. . Reconstruction
of military works, -however, was go
ing forward steadily by the forced
labor of many Russian and Italian
prisoners, who were being worked
on railways, bridges, barracks and
fortifications.
"THE WITCH OF THE NIGHT."
(In a prevlou adventure that ot the
Birds' Harvest Carnival Peggy haa mas
queraded as the Witch ot the Night.)
CHAPTER I '
The Call from the Lake.
UMBLESX of distant .thunder
broke upon reggy s slumber.
Through the window of the
lakeside cottage where her family
was enjoying an early fall outing
she could see the flare of lighting
among the dark, clouds banked up
on the horizon. A fitful breze shook
the trees with sharp puffs. There
was a feeling of tenserfefs ihn te air.
"We're going to have a storm,"
thought Peggy, "and my new ham
mock is outdoors."
It would never do to let that new
hammock get wet. So Peggy slip
ped out of bed. Opening the door
she paused, awed by the strangeness
sky was a brilliant full moon. Mount
of the night. Swinging high in the
ing up toward it from the west were
heavy black clouds. The sight was
beautiful, yet threatening. Soon the
menacing clouds would blot out the
glory of the moon, the sparkling lake
would be lashed into a fury and the
whispering trees would roar in an
a4i gry tumult
All this Peggy felt in the moment
that she stood there before unfasten
ing the hammock.
"I wonder what my birds will do
when the storm breaks," she
thought. "I wish they were here
with me in our snug cottage.
Peggy threw the hammock inside
the door, then turned again to watch
the coming storm. The first of the
black clouds raced across the moon,
casting' a heavy shadow upon the
earth.
Suddenly a strange, weird cry
came from far out across the lake.
It was a peculiar call one that Peg
gy had heard before, but never un
der such scary circumstances. It
Seemed to set her shivering, her
knees shaking in spite of her ef
fort to be brave.
Now Peggy became aware that
there was something with her on the
porch. A large bird had come up
without her hearing or seeing him.
After the first flash of alarm she
greeted him warmly, thinking that
she recognized him.
"Why, Blue Heron, how you
scared me!" she cried, stepping for
ward. As she did so the bird stalked
between her and the door. Then
she saw that she had made a mis-
-jTake. It wasn't Blue Heron at all.
The stranger was a Heron, it is true,
but a kind Peggy had never seen.
With his green-black crown and
back, his white underparts and his
brilliant eyes he looked odd but
Handsome, in nis beak ne neki a
iarge water-lilly bud
fered to her.
"Welcome," she said politely to
the stranger. "I don't believe I
have ever met you before."
The Heron dropped the water lilly
at her feet before answering.
"I am a Night Heroty, sometimes
called the Black Crcrwned," he re
plied in a squawky wake. "I bring
to you a message, but first I am to
present this flower and bid you in-
haie its delicious perfume.
Uncle Sam's Wonder City'
At Nitro Nears Completion
Mexican Platform.
Nogales, Mex., ,Oct. 13.
Free schools and orphanages, pro
hibition on penalty of death and
peace are the three planks in Gen
eral Plutarco Elias Calles' platform
as military governor of the state
of Sonora. General Calles consid
ers his school system the biggest
project he has undertaken, adding
that both prohibition and peace were
necessary to the fulfillment of his
plan to make better Mexican men
and women of the boys and girls
of his native stat. In is Cruz Gal
vez orphanage for war orphans at
Hermosillo J00 boys and 200 girls
are attending school at the expense
of the state.
WAR. PUZZLES
which he of-
"Oh; thank you!" cried Peggy,
picking up the lilly. Had she known
Coal Miners Well Paid.
Muundsville, W. Va.. Oct. 11
Digging coal is profitable work in
these war days. The last pay check
handed Charles Fogle was for 11
days work and amounted to IF169.89.
On one of these days he loaded 30
tons and 1.700 pounds of coal, there
by earning $18.20 for eight hours
labor. N -
Serum Prevents Fneamonia.
Minneapolis, Oct. 13. Dr. vii
Ham J. Mayo has announced to the
board of regents at the University
of Minnesota that a new serum has
been perfected that thus far has pre
vented the development of a single
case of pneumonia following Span
ish influenza. $ .
PANCHOAILLA
Instantly she felt a change come
over her
cf its evil effects and of the evil plot
in which it was playing a part she
would have flung it far from her
and have fled in a panic to the safety
of the cottage, instead, she inno
cently put it to her nose and drank
deeply of its beautiful aroma.
Instantly she flelt a change come
over her. She had been towering
over the Heron. -Now she was look
ing up at him.- The water lily had
affected her the same as grass from
a fairy ring. It had made heft- tiny.
Before she could wonder over
this unexpected transformation the
weird cry came again from the lake.
"It is the voice of my queen. The
Witch of the Night summons you
to her court," squawked the Heron.
Peggy now was really alarmed.
She felt that something was wrong.
She had been tricked into smelling
the lily which had made her small.
And who was this "Witch of the
Night?" When at the Harvest Car
nival she had pretended to be the
Witch, all the Birds had been affaid
of her. Why?
Again came the strange cry. Night
Heron trembled as he heard it.
"The Witch of the Night is im
patient. Come!"'
"No," cried Peggy. "I'm going
back into the house."
She ran toward the door, Night
Heron made a quick grab at her, and
before she recalled what had hap
pened he had seized her pajamas in
his powerful bill. Another-moment
and he had flopped clumsily into
the air, carrying .her out over the
lake. i
Where does my money go that I
put into Liberty bonds?
Jrtis question, while it can be
answered by the majority of peo
ple in a general way, is given a
meaning answer in photographs
of Nitro, W. Va., "Uncle Sam's
Wonder City," which are being ex
hibited over the country by Harvey
Holleman, special representative of
construction division, War depart
ment. Mr. Holleman's exhibit, while he
was in Omaha Saturday, made those
who saw it gasp at the magnitude
of the war work and at the rapidity
in which Uncle Sam gets his work
going. Nitro, situated in the
picturesque hills of West Virginia,
IS miles from Charleston, was but
a field of corn stubbles on January
18, 1918. In less than ninewonths
it has grown to a city of 20,000 pop
ulation a city where there are
schools, libraries, theaters and every
modern necessity.
Nitro is under absolute govern
ment supervision. It's sole purpose
is to produce smokeless powder for
Uncle Sam's army "over there" and
when it begins its big activi
ties, next January, will give General
Pershing and his boys each day
625,000 pounds of smokeless powder.
At present it is just growing but
there are 12,000 laborers there with
their families and before the new
year starts it is expected that 10,
000 additional laborers will be
brought to the city. The families are
supplied with furnished homes, new.
ly erected and with all modern con
veniences, even including maid serv
ice, for which 75 cents a week for
each bedroom cared for is charged
and constitutes the only expendi
ture of rent.
Out of the 10,000 laborers now
wanted at Nitro, a quota of 500 has
been sent for Nebraska. "It is gov
ernment work and of great import
ance in this war; the wages paid
are surprisingly high, so why
shouldn't vre fill our quota in 'jig'
time," Cohn told Hollerman, after
the latter had expressed his warm
appreciation of what Nebraska has
already done towards sending its
share of workers to Nitro.
(In the next chapter reggy meets the
Wltoh of the Night.)
Dies at Military Hospital.
Fremont, Neb., Oct. 13. (Special
Telegram.) Charles Earl Porter,
24 years old. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Porter of Fremont, died
at a military hospital at Fort Wayne,
Ind., following an attack of pneu-
i monta. A brother. Harrv. is crit-
j ically ill- at Camp Mills, New York.
t wo other brothers are in the ser
vice, Edwin at Camp Fremont, Cal.,
and William at Forf Warden.
VILLA LEVIED A $50,000 TAX
On an American Cattle Co. In Chi
huahua, three year$ ago today, Oe
tober 14, 1915.
Find an American.
SATURDAY'S ANSWER
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In the present as in the past
our dealing is 'Unsurpassed
cXrevs
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TAILORS GATHER
FOR DISCUSSION
OF PROBLEMS
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Chicago Biennial Convcintion
Opens Today With Many
Questions to be
Settled.
Brie) City News
Lighting Fixtures. Burgeas-Granden
Have Root Print It Beacon Press.
Dr. Frank Simon, suite 71S, Oma
ha National Bank Bldg.
Fine fireplace good at Sunderland's.
Cleveland, O., Oct. 13. Ameri
can union tailordom's vanguard,
more than 200 delegates of the
United Garment Workers of Amer
ica representing 68,000 members of
the craft in the United States and
Canada, have arrived for the bi-
'ennial convention which opens here
today and will continue until Oc
tober 19.
"We now have the eight-hour day
and are in perfect harmony with
the majority of the employers," said
B. A. Larger, secretary of the or
ganization, which is affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor
"There is no fixed program for the
convention but the delegates will
bring up for discussion and settle
ment such problems as have arisen
in the past four years, the 1916 bi
ennial having been omitted."
Among the questions expected to
be discussed, according to Mr. Larg
er, will be that of holding the con
vention every four years instead of
biennially. Wage increases, use of
apprentices, and working conditions
also -may be on the program.
Clothing cutters are now being
paid $33 to $45 a week and tailors
on war piece work receive from $40
to $50 and $60 a week, it is said.
Wage conditions for these workers
are said to be satisfactory but civil
ian, overall makers are expected to
req'uest an increase of 10 per cent
in December at the annual confer
ence with the manufacturers, a sim
ilar raise having been granted them
about a year ago. No controversy
is anticipated, however, but the
agreement may be shortened to six
months to enable the workers to
share in rising prices.
The convention wi!l take no ac
tion, it was said, regarding the Jew
ish tailors, variously estimated at
from 38,000 to 125,000, who seceded
from the Garment Workers' union
in 1914 and later formed the or
ganization known as the Amalga
mated Clothing Workers.
American Federation of Labor of
ficials who will speak will include
Frank Morrison of Washington,
D. C.f secretary of the federation;
T. A. Rickert and Henry Waxmarf.
president and treasurer, respectively,
of the United Garment Workers;
Anthony McAndrews of Louisville.
Ky., of the Tobacco Workers, and
John Maiming of Washington, sec
retary of the Label Trades of the
United States.
obituaryT
ANNA RAT, 20 years of age, died
at the family residence, 616 North
Fifty-flfth street, Friday, of influen
za. Funeral services will be held at
he Duffy and Johnson parlors Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 o clock, 'ine
services will be private.
AUGUSTA -KRAUSE died Satur
day at the home of her parents, 1914
Oak street, age 24 years. Funeral
services will be held in the Hulse
and Riepen parlors Monday after
noon at 2 o'clock. Interment will
be In Laurel Hill cemetery.
Cabby Comes to Life With
Gasless Day on Broadway
New York, Oct 13. There is no
need to "watch your step" on Broad
way these gasless Sunday nights.
Without the steady flow of motor
vehicles that formerly kept the traf
fic squad as busy on the "day of
rest" as any other, the asphalt seems
all but deserted.
" 'ansom, sir 1"
The once familiar situation, all
but forgotten during a generation of
automobile supremacy, smites the
ear. The cabby has come into his
own again. Horses that had been
demoted to common equine labor
have been recalled to their former
places between the curved shafts.
Vehicles of the eighties and nine
ties two-wheeled and four-wheeled
have been resurrected from the
dust and cobwebs of livery stables
which, once a week, have taken on
some of their ancient activity.
Hansoms, coupes, barouches and
even a few victoras, shabby, genteel
in faded and time-worn upholstery,
rattle over the pavements and line
the curbs, to the delight of the oid
Knickerbockers and to the amuse
ment of the younger throngs wh
have never known the metropolis
except in its present regime of
horseless locomotion.
Between Thirty-third and Fifty
ninth streets tonight traffic police
men stood listleslly at their posts.
Whistles that usually signaled "Go"
and "Stop" was stilled. Cabbies cut
corners and no imperious hand
bade them halft. Pedestrians
dodged diagonally across the street,
and the bluecoats did not interfere.
Traffic without automobile, was not
traffic in their eyes.
An antiquated open barouche rum
bled past light-flooded Times square,
its passengers a pair of majors
whose rotund, khaki-clad figures
bulged over the ends of its tiny seat.
In closed cabs rode the inevitable
couples man and maid. Million
aires were abroad, too, some of them
enjoying the novelty induced by the
locking of garage doors upon luxur
ious limousines.
From 'the outset the metropolis
has complied in every particular
with the government request to con
serve gasoline, and though many
lines of activity have been curtailed,
predictions of a "bfue Sabbath" have
not been fufilled. New York has been
slowed up, but hardly sobered by
the gasless Sundays.
JTT is youri pa trioric duty to buy Liberty
tTvV fM Bnils and W. S. S.; also to wear only
'Jr I Vu ; pj corsets that conserve your health and i,
m save 'our money- N ' . !
I 1 v 'j ffl Hygienic Nemo Corsets outwear all
I ' 1 1 oierai seconom:!' BeafFist Woman
1 sff .Tf Nemo HjgienteFuhtai tilltuu. New Yark '
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SPANISH "FLU"
SHOWS FEWER
OF NEW GASES
Visiting Nurse Association
Reports an Abatement of
Epidemic jn This
'City.
Superintendent McCahe of the
Visiting Nurse association of Omaha
reports that her observations indi
cate an abatement of new Spanish
"flu" cases.
"We are noj having as many new
cases reported to us," she explained.
"Many of the cases we are attending
are severe We are going through
the criii-. Patients are recovering
or are dying, which explains the
many deaths being reported to the
health office.
Miss McCabe expects the situation
will contintrgVi improve. ,
The health office reported 16
deaths from Spanish "flu" during th
24-hour period ending at 10 a. m,
Sunday. In addition to those deaths,
a 2-year-old child died of bronchial
pneumonia and two othe'r fatalities
from influenza were of Omahani
who died in other cities.
No attempt was made during Suite
day to make an estimate of the num
ber of-new cases since Saturday,
but Health Commissioner Manning
will have a report this morning on
the 48-hour period.
Rose and Rita Purpura, 21 and 2
years old respectively, died at 2806
Binney stret. Royce H. Voider, ac
companied by Mrs. Voider and
her sister, came to Omaha from, Al
bion a few weeks ago and were vis
iting at 3022 Lafayette street, where
Mr. Voider died Saturday afternoon.
Frank E. Mead of 4332 Grant street
died in Fort Sheridan. He was 26
years old- Mary L. Herron, 25 years
old, died in Denver.
Memorial Services at
Webster City-Sunday
Webster City, U., Oct. 13. (Spe"
ciat.) A public 1 memorial service
will be held at the Baptist church
in this city Sunday afternoon for
Sergt. Mark A. Pooley, killed in
acton in France, Hon. Weslet Mar
tin, Dr. R. T. Chipperfield and Rev.
L.- E. Viets will deliver eulogies.
He is survived by a widowed mother.
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I'M NOW FEELING
20 YEARS YOUNGER
mm WOMAN
Can Walk a Mile Now, Where -Before
Taking Tanlac
Couldn't Go Two
Blocks.
"Since Tanlac has relieved me am
built me up so much I feel twenty
years younger," said Mrs. W. B.
Lanslev. who resides at West 2115
Eleventh Ave., Spokane, Wash., re
cently.
"I had suffered from stomach
trouble." she continued, "until I
had become almost a nervous wreck
and unable to do my housework and
look after my children. My stomach
was so weak and upset that I could
hardly retain a thing I would eat.
I lived for days at a time on nothing
but boiled milk and poached eggs,'
and half the time they failed to
agree with me. I was kept on a
diet all the time, and my stomach
was pumped out nearly every day,
but this nor anything else did me .
any good. I was advised that a.
higher altitude might help me, so
I took a trip to the mountains in -
Canada, but came back home just
as bad off as when I left. What I
ate would sour on my stomach, and
the gas formed by it would bloat me -up
terribly. Sometimes my heart
would palpitate like some one beat
ing with a hammer, and then Vtop
suddenly and keep still so long that
I thought I would never draw an- . .
other breath. My back, over my kid
neys, hurt me dreadfully and at
times my left side pained me until
I could hardly stand it. I was con
stantly taking something to relieve
constipation and was almost frantie
at times with headache, and was so
nervous that sleep was almost im
possible for me.
"Now, this is just the condition '
I was in when I began taking Tan- '
lac and 1 commenced to ' pick up
with my first bottle. It was only a
short time until I was eating most
anything I wanted. I can now eat
all kinds of vegetables, or anything
else I want, without the least bit
of trouble from it. My headaches
and pain Is all gone and I have al
ready gained ten pounds in weight. .
I sleep like a child every night and '
have so much more strength and
energy that I can walk a mile,
where before I took Tanlac I could
n't walk two blocks without being
all tired out Tanlac has not only
helped me, but my husband, who has
been troubled with his stomach for
a good many years, is now taking it
with, just as good results. Some of
my neighbors are also taking it on
my recommendation, so you can see
what I think of it. I am thankful
enough for w"hat it has done for me -t
to tell everybody about it." f
Tanlac is sold in Omaha by Sher
man & McOunnell Drug Co., cor
ner 16th and Dodge streets; 16th
and Harney streets; Owl Drug Co.,
16th and Farnam streets; Harvard
Pharmacy, 24th -and' Farnam
streets; northeast corner 19th and"
Farnam streets; West End Phar
macy, 40th and Dodge streets,
under the personal direction of a-'
Special Tanlac Representative, and
in South Omaha by Forrest &
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