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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1919. FEDERAL TRADE CHARGE DEED BY LOUIS SWIFT Legislation Proposed Would Cripple Meat Packing - Industry, He . Tells " House Committee. -! i . 0 , Washington, Jam. 2J. Testify ing before the houie com' nfittee on interstate and foreign commerce today, Louis F. Swift, president of Swift & Co., entered a series of denials of statements con cerning the ' packing industry em anating from the federal trade com mixtion. Mr. .Swift asserted that such leg islation as is proposed in the Sims and Kendrick bills would cripple the packing house industry. He as sailed the report of the federal trade commission as grossly unfair. He said that the hearings conducted for the commission by Francis J. Heney were one-suled in that the packers were not allowed to answer any of the allegations made against them. - Packers' Profits Small. The witness charged that after more than a year of investigation the commission was unable to deny that the profits 'of the packers are so small that they could be wiped out without affecting the price of live stock 6r the price of meat by more than a fraction of a cent per pound. The .witness denied with vigor that there was any combination of packers and asserted that if there was it could not prevent losses. , "Tha only thing that is wrong with the . packifig business is the public impression thatt something is wrong," said Mr. Swift "If that im pression, which has been created by misstatements and the inflaming of miblic predjudice, could be remedied, the need of ill this legislation also would be remedied." The witness said that his company built refrigerator cars because the railroads would not, and that 7,000 of these cars owned by Swift & Co., were 20 per cent below their require ments. They were operated at a loss, he said. He had no objection to government purchase of them if adequate service were guaranteed. "It looks to me very much as if the government were conducting the experimental operation with the packing industry as the patient. If the patient survives, it can be tried on other industries. We object to pro viding the clinic. There is just as much sense in a railroad building hotels to take care of the passen gers during a several days' stopover as there is in their building packing house branch houses. The branch house is not a freight terminal; it is merely a market house where food products are sold." ' . , 4 mi I 'I Stock Dividends Held i v Exempt from Income Tax New York, Jan. 23. United States Judge Julius- H. Mayer decided in a test case today that stock divi dends are not subject to federal in t ome tax under the income tax law. THE LAST VORD IN BARGAINS WILL BE SAID SATUR. ,; OUR" SURPRISE DAY v j BY THE SHOPPERS v , -: ; II V A ' In 0 S ., ; I; i 1 ' N T D. :fU3;-:SALE. :, ' -V- 0? i! Vc6ats SUITS Is ; ai;d DRESSES i: THE HOUSE 0? Mrs. Cudahy 's Chow Dog Blamed for $49,451.99 Suit Jack Has $100,000 to Fight It 6ne-Time Omaha Girl Tells of Ultimatum Granting "Little Doggie" Just Three Days; Jack Talks of $3.50 Steaks and Threatens Libel Suit; Whole Affair Just a "Most Brutal Revenge." (By Special Correspondence to The Bee.) -. Los Angeles,-Cal., Jan. 23. Jack Cudahy, who has just been sued by the California Hotel company for a $10,000 board bill which the management of the Hotel Maryland at Pasadena alleges he ran up while living at a Maryland bungalow during the last two years, denies that he owes the hotel company a penny in an interview to a Bee correspond dent.. He expresses the opinion that D. M. Linnard, presi dent of 1,he company, is trying to impose upon him because he has been a good fellow in times past. The case is of unusual interest in Omaha because Mrs. Cudahy is a former Omaha woman, daughter of the late Gen. John C. Co win. ' '. "If you want the truth about that suit I'll give it to you," remarked Jack, when seen at his new home, No. 7263 Hollywood boulevard, where Douglas Fairbanks .lived be fore his wife divorced" him. "I lent Linnard $30,000 with whichf to rebuild the Maryland hotel afte the old structure burned down and I have lent him a good bit of money since then $5,000 at one time and $1,000 at another. I won t say I lent him that much money, because I refused to lend money to him. I simply let him have it and told him my family would occupy a ' bungalow at the hotel until we were even. We stayed there about four years and when we came to the conclusion that we weren't enjoying ourselves there we pulled up and moved." Jack lolled back tn a den chair and crammed the tobacco down into his pipe bowl. He - fingered the match boyishly and looked out to ward the sea with unborn dreams in his blue eyes. Young Michael rode past the open window on his bicycle. No Tennis Court , "We left the Maryland on account of the kids," he resumed. "The management promised us that there would always be a tennis court for the kiddies.. Then they built bunga lows on the tennis court. They ob jected if the children rode bicycles in the paths. They tiollered because we harbored a couple of little chow dogs." There was a silken rustle some where and the portieres parted. A beautifully gowned woman stood there. She elevated her jet-black eyebrows just a trifle and bowed slightly in acknowledgement of the introduction. She sank into 'a chair near the door, where vagrant breezes began to frolic with her hair. Choij. Dogs Caused "War." "Such a disgusting topic," she put in when she louna wnicn way tne conversation was drifting. "All so absurd," she continued. "Mr. Moore (E. C Moore, the hotel manager) acted so childish. I had a little chow dog. It never harmed a soul nor made noise at night. He politely told me we'd have to get rid of it or leave. He said it was driving away patrons who were paying $30 per day. Imagine I" Mrs. Cudahy wobs Milady Nico tine so artfully that one is scarcely aware that she is lifting her cigaret to her lips. She flicked the ashes from it with a, prettily tape ed, finger nail and continued: ' . I S "And then Mr. Linnard did such a boyish thing. He told me I would have to dispose of the' dog. I re fused to do so. Then he wrote me a letter and said that they would try the little dpggie three days more, and that if its behavior was not obnoxious during that time it could remain, and ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, and a lot of other things." And she ran her pretty tongue out mocking ly. "Oh, how I hate Mr. Linnard," she added. Wanted to Go to Honolulu. Jack had been fingering a volume of "All On the Irish Shore." He broke into the conversation long enough to say that Linnard visited him at the officers' training camp at the Presidio in order to .secure money with which to make a trip to Honolulu. "God knows we paid enough money at the Maryland," he re marked, and Mrs. Cudahy tilted her chin scornfully. "It was agreed that we should pay410,000 a year at intervals of six months," he con tinued. Every time we'd" settle up Linnard, would try to raise the rates. Our extras at the hotel were fully as much as our. ordinary living. Meals were served at the bungalow. If we had wine it was $S per bottle. Steaks were $3 each and sometimes they were charged up at the rate of $3.50. ' $3.50 for Steak and "Beef Trust" . The walls of Jack's dea. are liter ally covered with framed pictures of Cudahy ranch steers which have won grand championships at the inter national livestock ahow. His gaze was fixed upon one of the finest steers in the bunch. Finally, he be gan chuckling" away down, deep in his throat, and in a moment he pointed a finger at the steer in ques tion, remarking: "And rhe, the son of a great meat packer, with such fat cattle as those, paying $3.50 apiece for steaks. Still the American' people talk about the beef trust!". Mrs. Cudahy lighted a' ifresh cigaret and drew her. chair a little closer.. Her lip curled scornfully. "Why, I even bought loads of firewood1 with which to keep our bungalow fireplace going," sjie con tinued. "There was a lattice fence between our Bungalow and the ho tetVbut they took it down. ;I went and put up "a canvas curtain in, its place." and she swept out of the room, declining to discuss the sub ject further. - ' .' ; Jack says he and Manager Moore fell out many months ago, and that when he moved on the first of No vember Moore offered no opposition, and even invited him to remain .at the hotel. . ' " 30 Bottles of Champagne at Time. It is claimed that the Cudahys were good livers while they were at the Maryland. , Mrs. M. A. Con don, 100 Green street, Pasadena, who was formerly employed in their household, says she has'been as many as 30 bottles of champagne on their table at once, "and all of thcnS open, too." Mrs. Cudahy admits that they entertained lavishly, frequently hav ing from 15 to 20 friends at dinner several times a wete- since they moved to Hollywood: The California Hotels' company is suing Jack for $9,451.99, said to be due for rent, service, meals, valets, telephone service, laundry and ex: tras during the past two years. It is also alleged that the Maryland ho tel advanced money to the Cudahys. This Jack vigorously denies, saying fliat such a thing could not be un less they connt the purchase of cigars and newspapers for the family as money advanced. i ' ; tlOO.OOO to Fight Suit When asked if he thought the suit would ever come to trial. Tack re plied: "Well, it had better come to. trial, I wouldn t give one cent to settle it, but I will spend $100,000 to prove that I didn't jump our board bill, and if the case doesn't go tp trial I'll file one of the biggest libel suits you ever heard of." Officers of the California Hotel company declined to discuss the suit. Manager Moore of the Maryland referred inquiries to Secretary A. J. Bertonneau. The latter stated that the hotel management, did not desire to give Mr. and Mrs. Cudahy any undesirable publicity, but had filed the suit simply in the course of or dinary business affairs. Member of U. S. Military. Police is Killed in Paris Paris.. Ian. 23.-The bodv of an American policeman was found yes terday near the railroad at lournus, in the department of Saone-Et- Loire. Wounds on the head indi cated he had been murdered. American policeman" probably means a member of the military police of the American army. Boston Jeachef to Teach f French In-High School: Mrs.; Jeanette Drake, a graduate Of Smithy ccfllege -and a teacher in BoBton. schools for four years, Tias been engaged j to.- teach French in Central High1 school. The Great Irish Tenor Who appears . in . Concert Friday evening, January 24th, at the Omaha Audi torium,' has ; expressed his preference for and is using, the . Si The greatest Piano pro duced in the present age. Tb.8 , Stela-way; 'is- the chosen instrument of about all the world-famous mu sicians of the present1 and past, generation. ' " - - You'are cordki invited to visit our ST2nn7AY Parlors and inspect these celebrated Tianos." Moder ate monthly payments ar ranged to suit the conveni ence of the purchaser, if desired. Art Eooklet Free. i 'v 'Visitors.' to ; aii Uprights4 ...... ."?CS5Up Grands $375 Up 1 FIAl'O CO. 1211-13 Farnam t. Home cf the Eteinway 11 REGULATION OF ACKERS URGED 4 BY. STOCK, LIEN Early Return of Railroads to Private Control Favored in . r - Resolutions Adopted by .National Convention. ; Denver, Jan. 23. Reso'lutins op posing government ownership of the railroads and urging early return of the railroads to. private control un der adequate federal t-egufationj fa voring federal licensing and regula tion of packers and stock yards, but opposing government ownership of marketing facilities; advocating uni versal military training and endors ing the federal , woman .suffrage amendment, were adopted today at tne closinir session of the 22A annual convention of the American National Live Stock association. The convention adopted many resolutions urging- changes in the method of administering the public lands and the national forests, ad vocating a protective tariff on live stock and meat products, and regu lation x( imports of cattle and hides from Mexico so as to detect those which have been stolen from Amer ican ranches. Larger appropria tions for state agricultural colleges and for the bureau of markets also were urged. , The resolution favoring universal miltary training not only advocated training of all young men in their 19th year, . but also urged es tablishment of military instruction in high schools. "The following officers were elect ed: President, Senator John B. Kendrick, Sheridan Wyo.; first vice president; C M. O'Donel, Bell Ranch, N. M.J second vice presidents, M. ft. Parsons Salt Lake City, Utah; Wallis Huidekoper, Wallis, Mont.: Isaac Baer, Meeker, Colo.; W. T. Tod, Maple Hill, Kan.; E. L. Burke, Omaha.' Box Butte Delegation r Brings Its Own Potatoes The Alliance band, and a party of Alliance boosters, arrived in Omaha last night for a 24-hours stay. They will be given a lunch this noon by the Chamber of Commerce. All for mer residents of Box Butte county now in Omaha are invited as guests, and may obtain tickets from the bureau of publicity. - The delegation is headed by John W. Gutherle, a director of . the Alli ance Community club. The potatoes served by the Chamber of Commerce this noon will be Box Butte county spuds furnished by the Alliance Community club. Springlik e B u t Seas o n able Millinery, a Special for $10 There is a hint of spring in these new hats - just enough to liven up your costume and make-the dull days brighter. . " In exquisite colors, rough braids and straws, Georgette Crepes, in combination. A collec tion to delight and inspire. See, Them Friday, $1Q ; o Hon c mot , full Dress Accessories ' Hav you the correct attire for, evening wear? ' What, with con certs, theaters and the like, men , should be prepared. ..This shop has correct fashions in Full Dress . Shirts, Ties, Mufflers, Shirt Studs and Cuff Links, white and gray Gloves, linen and silk Handker chiefs, Silk Hose. Prices to suit. . the Best Shoe Sale of All .'for it Includes our Finest Styles $14 and $15 Shoes Friday only $ 11.85 AirKid Dress. Shoes with high heels, in lace styles. Field mouse brown kid, 'golden oak . brown kid, silver gray kid,' m the most fash ionable lasts of the season. ' The finest shoes .. in our whole stock,-sold for $14 arid' $15. :' Friday,.$11.85v'--V- ' 'v . ',' Shoes Sold up to $13, Friday $9.85 Our very best Walking Shoes in battleship ' ' gray, field mouse brown kid and brown calf-, ' - skin, . ; " '; , ; . ; ., .. ' ' ' ' ' ! - ' ' . ; - " ' ' " ' " : , ' ' ' Shoes Sold up to $12, Friday $8.85 Field mouse l brown " kid with cloth tops ' to match, dark and light gray and -black kid., Smartest of new styles. Sold all season up :,to$12.t f : ' ';... ' : Bettervalues were never off ered. . I ' All Sales are Final RELIEF FUriD IS GOOD BUSINESS, SAYS HITCHCOCK (Continued From Fat On.) counoil had agreed that $300,000, 000 should be spent in relief work and fixed $100,000,000 as America's share and that "to deny it would repudiate our obligation." 1 "I haven' any use for the packers' combine," the Nebraska senator said. "I would be glad to vote for any bill that would put them under gov ernment supervision and I know Hoover would." Congress, Senator Hitchcock said, enacted legislation guaranteeing the price of wheat to farmers not to enrich them, but to win the war by stimulating wheat production. What congress did for the farmers, he add ed, was only analogous to what Mr. Hoover did for the hog and cattle sunnlv. Senator- Uoran asked if the sen ator thought Mr. Hoover nd those under his supervision were carrying out these powers when they put in dependents out of business." ' Declares Hoover Vindicated. "I deny that he did that." rejoined Senator Hitchcock. He added that Mr. Hoover had been completely vindicated of any charge in every way, adding: "In my opinion, Mr. Hoover stands in the hearts of the American people equal to any toian in the United States." Senator Borah denied that he was making any attack upon . Mr. Hoove. Senator "Hitchcock read a letter dated February 19, last, from President Wilson , to Mr. Hoover, instructing him to impress upon the packers that they were government agencies and should do everything possible to assist in, relieving food conditions abroad. "The congress did not entrust Mr. Hoover with power to control packing hous'e products," Senator Hitchcock said. "All he could do. was through his power of purchas ing agent to say what he would pay. Mr. Hoover did say -what profits the packers could make by fixing them at 9 per cent on their capital stock. ' "Mr. Hoover 'is about' through with the packers and when congress attempts to handle the packers it will find it a difficult task and will desire as much sympathy as should be extended to Mr. Hoover. "No man in the United States has rendered greater service, than Mr. noover, saia xiucututii in conclusion. "It is outrageous to make these attacks in his absence, attacks which reflect on his honor and character." - " Senator Cummins of Iowa, crit icising the bill, asked Democratic Leader Martin whether the appro- .TTht"ffih-cf 1 1 V Better take advantage oi present reductions for only a few days remain. Man hattan, Eagle and Arrow makes, in silk and madras, are being offered at much . less than regular prices. To th Left A You Enter ; : j ; Attorney General Is Possessor of Etching of Colonel Roosevelt (From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, Jan. 23.' An original autographed etching of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, for which "a fortune" is said to have been offered,. hanga above the pri vate office desk of Attorney Gen eral Davis at the itate capitol. Colonel Roosevelt, whose two sons, Captain Archie and the late Lieutenant Quentin, were Harvard college chums of the Nebraska at torney general, signed the portrait and addressed the signature per sonally to Mr. Davis March 20, .1917. priation was designed to make a market, as senators have charged, for packers' products. Senator Martin replied that the appropria tion was designed primarily to al leviate starvation and suffering "among our friends" in ." Europe; and that only incidentally would it make a market for some American products. The fund will be expend ed. Senator Martin said, by the inter-allied food council composed of "eight of the most distinguished men in the world. Japanese Who Fought for' U. S. Given Citizenship Honqlulu, Jan. 22. Seventeen Japanese, who enlisted in the Ameri can, army, told United States Dis trict judge Horace W. Vaughn they would be loyal to the United States if this nation was at war with their jiative country, when they were admitted to citizenship today. In submitting the question Judge Vaughn added: "Of course, we hope there never will be any controversy between this country and Japan. . i United States District Attorney S. C. Huber announced he would appeal each case. Judge Vaughn recently has granted citizenship to other Japanese and Filipino enlisted men. . ' . Claims Denied. ' Washington, Jan. 23. Cla'ms ag gregating $2,000,000 against trans continental railroads by shippers of Spokane, Wash., and vicinity were denied yesterday by the interstate commerce commission. The suits were filed after the commission had decided that the general system of transcontinental rates had discrimin ated against Spokane and other in termountain points. Transport Sails. Washington, Jan. 23.-The trans port Martha Washington' has sailed from France with 2,400 troops, in cluding 250 sick and wounded. She s expected to reach Newport News January 28. . i Bee Want Ads are the Best Busi ness Boosters. ; 1 Spring Fabrics ' ' Nw Silks you Can't help but .t admire for they are so entirely ! different and distinctive in pat- j ' terns and colors from any you , are t accustomed to seeing. ; , Cheney's Shower' Proof Foul- ards are ready in exceptional1 - variety.. The nfew blues are par-; ticularly attractive! Numerous other spring materials await : your early visit. .: Nw ' Wool. Skirtings; stylish . plaids atyl stripes in- light i ' weights for separate skirts. : : . Corset Savings We have many models which i ' cannot be duplicated. These are .. sold at reductions of a most in teresting character.-; Friday we . offer several RAG styles at ; .. than usual prices. . ... , . . A few odd Brassieres are also . reduced in price. , ? v,. . Every Reduction is honesl-rso you can't' be disappointed ' Fpidayils.t f Many Sai3ng8 WANT CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (Continued From Fw On.) 1 i greatest gambling institution in this or any other country. Not only have the Omaha trade territory people asked for legisla tion that will curb and eliminate the powers of the Chicago board of trade, but a convention of farmers and grain men from a mfmber of the states in the central west, assembled in Cedar Rapids, la., have unani mously asked for action looking to this end. Grain Men In Arms.. Omaha grain men are up in arms over the statement attributed to Stream. Emil Rothschild of Fisher & Rothschild, dealers in cash grain, said: " I think Sass was perfectly right in calling the attention of congress to the statement made by Stream when he was in Chicago. Being an official of the food administration, the market could not , help being in fluenced by any statement he might give out. "I don't say that Stream was. in terested in corn, or any other kind f grain, but the position that he took looks peculiar. "We have all admitted that grain prices would be lower than those maintaining during the continuance of the war, but there was no logical reason for the break that immedi ately followed the statement made by Stream when he was in Chicago. We all knew that there would be a readjustment and that it would con tinue until the level was reached where prices would be governed by the supply and demand." Statement By Roberts. George A. Roberts of the George A. Roberts Grain company said: "I don't accuse Mr. Stream of hav ing any interest in the grain market, either financially, or otherwise, but it is strange that he should give out the interview while he was in Chi cago. No doubt but that interview not only broke, but knocked the bot tom out of the grain market. "The whole situation is bad and the Chicago Board of Trade should be abolished. An institution in which half a dozen, or so men con trol the gram market of the world and perhaf s none of them the own ers of a bushel of grain, should not exist. It is simply a gambling prop osition and instead of being a bene fit, is an injury to the cash grain dealer, the producer and the con sumer. "It has been argued that we could not get along without the Chicago Board of Irade. tor more than a A Real Bargain Day in The Store for Blouses ; ' We clear our blouse' stock just as thor- . oughly ..as any other for we do not ' carry "blouses'over from one season to ' ..another. (- Friday Every Blouse Reduced .. . . tailored Styles and Georgettes Blouses sold to $9.50, Friday.;. . . . . ! $3.95 : Blouses sold $10 to $15, Friday i $5. J35 Blouses-sold $16.50 to $22.50, Friday $9.75 Blouses sold $25 to $39.50, Friday. . .$16.50 ; . " A'l Sfdes are Final Higher Linen Prices Next Year are Indicatedby Extraordinary Conditions The British government, to stabilize the linen market, has established a fixed price for many months to come. ' This fact alone precludes early possibility of obtaining linens at anywhere near the present prices. It is not expected that the Belgian and French weay ers will resume production within a year. John S. Brown's Fine Irish Unen Table Cloths and Napkins . " , $20 Cloths (2x2 yards), Friday, $13 ' . V .$25 Cloths'(2x2i4 yards), Friday, $20 . - " : $25 Cloths (214x244 yds.) , Friday, $20 . $20 "Napkins (22-inch), $16 a dozen '.$27.50 Napkins (26-in.), $22.50 dozen. Tea Ntapkins Plain with lockstitched scallop on round thread Irish linen, f 5 Napkins for $4.89 a dozen. Linen iiuck Towels Fine hemstitched Linen Huck. Towels -at splendid savings Friday: $1.25 II. S. Hucks. $1 $1.60 JI.-S.. Hucks, $1.25 $1.85 H. S. Hucks, $1.33 , $2 II. S. Hucks, $1.50 $2.50 H. S. Hucks, $1.75 TO DECIDE FOUR POINTS OF PEACE MBIT SATURDAY (Continued From F( On.) of the supreme peoples' council of German Poland and formerly a dep uty in the German reichstag. Russian plan in Balance. Whether the effort of the great powers to tranqtiilize Russia was to succeed or fail was still in the bal- ? inrr fnnioht Nn renlv had come from the bolshevik! and as the wire less message emnonying ine propos al of the" assocation powers was .' not sent until 2 o'clock this morning .mme dav mav ' intervene before . anything' definite is known. In the meantime prominent antl- ooisneviK icaaers in x ans are nm(. clear on their course, and the first reports that they were favorable to the plan have been followed bv a statement by such leaders, as Ser-. gius Sazonoff that they would not Sil at tne raoic wuu assassins. Sazonoff, the former Russian for eign minister under the old regime md now representing the govern ment of Yekaterinodar and the Si berian government at Omsk, has de clared in a statement that he would ... . .i - t not participate in me comcrence hrAnm.d Iw nnrm rnnnr.il IV'UlbU .Y . J f . . . ... - with bolshevik representatives. that the supreme council's 'proposal . "permits traitors, who withdrew Russia from the war and turned the entire German strength against r. ... J r ranee, to De receivea on ine same footing at' the faithful." The American and British dele gates feed the proposal was the only course open. One Yank Remains Prisoner in Germany; Too III to Move Berlin, Jan. 23. (By Associated Press.) Of the American soldiers ', taken prisoner by the Germanson the western front only a single one now remains in Germany, the Asso-j ciated Press correspondent has learned. He is at Sjuttgart, too. ill ... to be removed at present. year since the government abolished the trading in wheat features we have gotten along very nicely. If the government today would or-; der the discontinuance of future, trading in corn, oats, rye and bar , . , j , ..... j . , , icy tne supply ana aemana wouia quickly bring about a readjustment of prices and business would move along in a most satisfactory man ner. "Today, if a vote could be taken,. I feel safe in saying that 95 per cent of the grain and elevator men the country over would say abolish the; Chicago Board of Trade. Crash Toweling Checked Glass Toweling, all linen, 75c quality for 60c a yard. , Extra heavy Irish Linen Crash, 75c quality, (JOc. a yard. Unbleached -Crash, all linen, extra heavy, 50 quality, 39c a yard
