THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1919.
110 HELP GIVEN
TRANSPORT VIIIEII
llUriS'-' ATTACKED
Failure of Cruiser Galveston
to Protect Ticonderoga
Explained in Report
of Commander.
Washington, Jan. 26 Published
reports that the cruiser Galveston
had failed to give adequate protec
tion to the American transport Ti
conderoga, sunk by a German sub
marine September 30, last, caused
Secretary Daniels to issue a state
ment tonight discribing how the
ships was destroyed as reported by
the commanding officer of the crui
ser, and stating that a court of in
quiry was investigating.
The statement set forth that the
Galveston, acting as escort for 14
vessels, 1,400 miles off the British
coast, was ahead and on the rizht
flank, and that the cargo carrier
Feltors was known to be two miles
south of the convoy. Shortly before
daylight the Galveston, seeing a gun
flash on the starboard side five or
six miles away, and thinking the
Feltors was being attacked, changed
her course, ran toward the flash and
opened fire with the five inch eun
The commanding officer reported
that a tew minutes later the ualves
ton saw a second set of gun flashes
which were very close together "and
made it dangerous to continue firing
clue to the possibility of hitting a
friendly vessel." Immediately the
cessation of gun flashes the cruiser
:juit firing.
Returned to Convov.
Not knowing the Ticonderoga had
fallen out of the convoy, the state
ment continued, the Galveston re
turned to her jiosition, and in check
ing up the slips later it was found
thetransport was missing.
"The commanding office states
that due to the large number of
men in the engineers' force who
are sick with influenza," Secretary
Daniels said, "it had been necessary
to reduce his boiler power and if
he remained absent from the convoy
any great length of time he would
be unable :to rejoin and the sub
marine would therefore have good
opportunity of attacking the other
vessels of the convoy. That he did
not know the ship attacked was
from his convoy and that it was his
first duty to remain with the large
number of ships in the convoy rath
er than to remain longer with the
ship being attacked and that he
thought she had a chance to escape.
"The commanding officer 3tates.
that his general instructions were
that 'if one or more ships in convoy
ire torpedoed or mined the ocean
escort is to proceed with her con
voy.' " ' ' ' .
Survivors of the Ticonderoga re-'
ported that during the night of
September 29-30 the vessel had
dropped out of her position be
cause of difficulty in maintaining
steam and speed.
Many Civilians Enjoy
Farewell Dance Given
by Army Post Officers
Nearly 2,000 Omahans danced
with the officers and soldiers of
Fort Omaha at the Municipal audi
toriuh Saturday. It was a fare
well dance and entertainment given
by the officers of the army post in
recognition of the attentions of
Omaha people to the boys at the
tort and of the co-operation given
the army officials in various im
portant matters.
To the lively tunes of a jazz
orchestra, majors, captains, lieu
tenants and privates stepped lightly
over a waxed floor. All were in
smilesi
The Auditorium was decorated
fcayly and refreshments were served.
Eleven young pupils of Processor
Chambers entertained the crowd in
dancing. They were: Martha Doty,
5. years old; Loretta Boroff. Jose
phine and Norma Mach, Bernice
McGimpsey, Martha McAuley,
Charlotte Brant, Georgia and Eva
Wilron, Ruth Rigdon, and Virginia
Brillhart. Miss Agnes Britton was
accompanist to the exhibition
dances.
The committee in charge con
;isted of Major Crockett, chairman;
Captains Townsend, Wiedemeier,
Alexander, Pierce, Goodale and
Wise, and Lieutenants Powell and
Harrison. Gus Renze assisted the
officers in the decoration of the
Auditorium.
Prospect Good for
Abundance of Wbeat,
Opinion of Houston
St. Louis, Jan. 26. Dvid B.
Houston, secretary of agriculture,
today in explaining why the govern
ment is not urging farmers to plant
larger crops of wheat next spring,
pointed out that the crops planted
in the spring will not be available for
the market until next fall, when food
conditions will be changed.
"The farmers planted last fall
7,000,000 more acres of wheat than
they did at any previous time, and
the indications .are that the spring
plant will be on a very large scale,"
he said. "The question is, can the
crop be disposed of at the guaran
teed price of $2.26 a bushel on No.
I winter wheat?
"The prospects are that the yield
will be at-lcast 1,000,000,000 bushels,
of which amount about 650,000,000
bushels will be needed at home. Will
Europe take the surplus after a
season of producing on her own ac
count, and with Australia and Ar
gentina in the market?
Commercial Stock of Wheat
Twice as Large as Year Ago
Washington, Jan. 26. Commercial
stocks of wheat, 191.775,417 bushels
held by 9,303 firms, January 1, were
more than twice as large as reported
a year ago. There was a reduction
in the amount of corn and oats and
an increase in rye and barley.
The figures refer to stock actually
reported and do not represent the
total commercial stock of the coun
try or stocks on farms.
Americans Losing Heavily
Because of Depreciation
of French Paper Currency
Purchasing Power of Yankee Gold Is Cut in Half by Re
duced "Value of Foreign Money. Problem May Be
Solved by Supplying Europe With Foodstuffs. .
By ROBERT L. OWEN,
United States Senator from Okla--:
homa.
(Written Especially for Universal
Service.) . " .
(Special Cable Dispatch.)
Paris, Jan. 26. American interests
are profoundly affected by the con
ditions in Europe.
The purchasing power of Amer
ican gold and dollars does not func
tion if exchanged for paper that
cannot be redeemed in gold. The
purchasing power of gold is seri
ously reduced by excess issue of
paper money.
If the pay of American soldiers'
is exchanged to French francs at the
normal exchange, the purchasing
power of that, monthly wage has
become so impaired that the soldiers
are unable with this currency to buy
two good pears each day in France,
because pears cost 80 cents apiece.
The prices of other foods and all
commodities likewise are very high.
The abnormal prices are due to
numerous causes , including high
freight rates, deficient freight accom
modations, and defective methods
of distribution.
' $150 Per Capita.
But at least half of this loss is due
to the inflation of the paper cur
rency. France has issued 31,000,000
francs in paper currency with a gold
cover of less than 20" per cent. This
means a circulation of over $150 per
capita, being nearly four times the
amount per capita circulation in the
United States.
Therefore, if we spend $200,000,000
monthly for our soldiers in France,
or for other other American puM
poses, the net loss would result ap
proximately to one-half of the ex
penditure, on account of the infla
tion of French currency.
This inflicts a very heavy loss up
on America. The injury to France,
itlelf, caused by the inflation is seri
ous. IHias the. .effect 'of diminishing
the purchasing power,pf salaries and
fixed incomes by one-half of what
it was before the inflation occurred.,
The French statesmen feel the
matter very keenly. . They are now
contemplating a readjustment. M.
Du Bost in his recent inaugural
speech as president of the senate,
emphasized the importance of this
task, calling attention to the neces
sity of providing means for with
drawing from' circulation the excess
currency which causes the abnor
mally high prices of commodities. He
suggested that this could be done by
bond issues receiving currency out
standing in payment for bonds.
Indeed, eurrency has been largely
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ADMIRATION FOB
WORK OF WOEN
(Continued From Paga One.)
nations have felt for them. They
think of us in America, for example,
as a long way off. And we are in
space, but we are not in thought.
You must remember that the United
States is made up of nations of
Europe; that French sympathies run
straight across the seas, not merely
by historic association, but by blood
connection and that these nerves. of
sympathy are quick. to transmit the
impulses 'df one nation to the other.
"We have followed your suffer
ings with :a feeling that we were
witnessing one of the most heroic,
and, may I add, at the same time,
satisfactory things in the world
satisfaction because it showed the
strength of the human spirit, the in
domitable power of womenand men
alike to sustain any burden if the
cause was great enough.
. Strain Not in Vain.
"In an 6rdinary war there might
have been some shrinking, some
sinking of effort; but this was nof
an ordinary war. This was a war
not only to reedem France from an
enemy, but to redeem the world
from an enemy. And France, there
fore, and the women of France
strained their hearts to sustain the
world. I hope that the strain has
not been in vain. I know that it has
not been in vain.
"This war has been popular and
unlike other wars, in that it seemed
sometimes as if the chief strain was
behind the lines and not at the lines.
It took so many men to conduct the
war that the older men and the wom
en at home had to carry the nation.
Not only so, but the industries of
the nation were almost as much a
part of the fighting--as the things
that took place at the fronts. -
"So it is for that reason that I
have said to those with whom I am
at present associated that this must
be a people's peace, because this was
a people's war. The people won
this war, not the governments: and
the people must reap the benefits ot
the war. At every turn we must see
to it that it is not an adjustment
between governments merely, - but
an agreement for the peace and se
curity of men and women- every
where. ' - ;. -t - '
"The little obscure sufferings: and
the daily unknown, privation?, the
unspoken sufferings of the heart, are
the tragical things of this war. They
have been borne at home, and the
center of the home is the woman.
My heart goes out to you, therefore,
ladies, in a very unusual degree; and
I welcome this opportunity to bring
you this message, not, from myself
merely, but from the great?- people
whom I represent."
Bolshevik Minister Objects
to Meeting" Place Proposed
Taris, Jan. 26. M. Tchitcherin,
the bolshevik foreign minister, has
sent a wireless message to the so
viet representative in Sweden ask
ing confirmation of the decision of
the supreme council of the peace
conference to send a mission to con
fer with representatives of different
nations in Russia in Princes Islands.
issued against bonds which were put
in the Bank of France as a basis for
currency issued. In the meantime
however, the enormous loans have
been made to JFrance by the United
States, and the enormous loans made
to Great Britain by the United
States have practically petered the
rate of exchange while preserving
artificially a rate of exchange which
inflicts great loss upon the United
States and its merchant buying in
France. ." 'J . ":. '
The French authorities appreciate
that it is against France s inter
national interests to have currency
inflated, because foreigners cannot
afford to buy French goods where
French currency has not the pur
chasing power on a gold basis and
foreigners actually, buy rrench
francs on a gold par basis..
The condition necessarily results
in preventing foreigners from buy
ing freely in the French markets,
thus hindering France in explaining
its foreign commerce and meeting its
obligations to other nations through
an exchange of commodities-.
It may be anticipated, therefore,
that the French statesmen will take
steps necessary to bring the per capi
ta circulation of money down to a
basis fairly comparing with the per
capita circulation in Great Britain
and the United States.
Boys Want to Come Home.
In the meantime, as the United
States is suffering a probable loss of
$100,000,000 monthly due to this
condition, it is obvious that this fur
nishes another reason to redouble
our efforts to bring the soldier boy's
of America back home. These boys
willingly endured every hardship,
thousands making the supreme sac
rifices for the liberties 'and the hap
piness of mankind.
The one great thing the Ameri
can boys now desire, particularly
the enlisted men, is to get back
home. They are homesick. They
say so frankly.
And it is better for America to
furnish food, suffering part of the
loss as its contribution, than not to
furnish at all.
If we do not sell to Europe, we
shall engorge our own markets,
breaking the market prices and in
flicting heavy loss upon the pro-
ducers awaiting shipment of their
goods to Europe. We would suf
fer smaHer national loss selling on
possible terms lhan not selling at
all.
Certain it is that both human and
commercial instincts move the Unit
ed States to furnish the food now
required.
LEAGUE IS NOW
ASSURED, SAYS
FRENCH LEADER
(Continued From Pace One.)
will be an agreement on a common
plan."
Preparing Data on Reparation. -
Speaking of claims for reparation,
M. Pichon said that France and all
the other countries interested were
preparing data, but it would ' take
some time to arrive at exact figures.
The published reports concerning
the amount of the claims varied, and
it was impossible, the minister
added, to give the exact figures at
present. "
Territorial questions,he went on,
were beginning to be considered
now in connection with the various
questions before the council. As to
the possibility of the discussion of
the -league of nations delaying ter
ritorial adjustments, he said:
"Not at all, as the examination of
the two questions proceeds along
parallel lines."
Relative to the French attitude
towarf the holding. of the left bank
of the Rhine, M. Pichon declared
that various published reports were
premature and more or less incor
rect When his attention was called
to remarks which Marshal Foch re
cently made on the subject, M.
Pichon said:
"Marshal Foch spoke in his per
sonal capacity on this subject, and
it has not yet been considered here."
Jews in Buenos Aires
Mistreated During Riots
Buenos Aires, -Jan. 26. A large
group of representative Israelites
visited President Irogoyen to protest
against the treatment of Jews and
grand rabbi, in an address to the
president, said:,
"During the recent: disturbance
Jews were the victims of unjust
atrocities and '.inexcusable insults.
Under the suspicion that some Rus
sians were among the, agitators the
entire Jewish population, without
distinction as to age or sex, were
persecuted and maltreated, without
the slightest respect even toward
women, children or the aged, leaving
an adverse and hostile atmosphere
against the entire Jewish population
throughout the republic,- which still
exposes us to hew attacks and 're
prisals at any moment, under any
pretext." J
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1ARSI1AL FOGII
ASKS FOR POWER
TO IMPOSE PEACE
Calls for Maintenance of Mob
ilized Military Forces to
Prevent Germany From
Renewing War.
Paris, Jan. 26. Marshal Foch ren
dered the allied powers valuable ser
vice when he placed "before ihe su
preme council his report on his ne
gotiations with the German repre
sentatives at the time of the renewal
of the armistice,, says the Echo De
Paris in commenting upon the plans
for the demobilization of the various
armies on the basis of mutual un
derstanding. -
His report, the newspaper de
clares, pointed the way toward a
proper and wise method, for he laid
emphasis on the fact that coming
peace must not merely be a written
one, but one in actuality in other
words, that it must be a peace im
posed on the enemy, and that suffi
cient mobilized military power
should be maintained to enforce it.
"Germany," continues the article,
"has not yet completely surrender
ed. She is seeking for accomplices
and cannot fail ultimately to find a
few such. The governments there
fore should not demobilize their
forces without a common under
Standing. This course, if persisted
in, would rapidly lessen the value
of the peace treaty.
"The powers should come to an
understanding as to the forces which
they intend maintaining in Germany,
Such an understanding is essential
to the preservation of a proper state
of things both in Europe as a whole
and in France in particular, as
France cannot go on bearing indefi
nitely the mortgage, of dispropor
tionate military responsibilities.
Ample Forces Assured.
London, Jan. 26. Anticipating an
announcement to be made Thursday
Dy a conference of bir trie Ueddes,
former first lord of the admiralty,
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ricm iviarauai naig ana waj. uen.
Henrv L. Wilson, chief of the sen-
eral staff of the British armv. now
meeting in Paris, a statement issued
by the war office tonight' savs:
ihe proposals of the conference
will make sure that we have in ev
ery theater of the war sufficient
forces during the present year to see
that we are not robbed of our vic
tories, and the Germans and their
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tuiiicucidtcs will uc iiiciue 10 execute
faithfully and punctually the condi
tior.s not only of the armistice, but
the treaty of peace, when that is
signed, and they will also enable us
to discharge our own duties towards
our allies and those dependent upon
us. ,
"It must be clearly understood."
the statement continues, "that while
Great Britain is prepared to do her
share of the work still to be done,
that the United States, France and
Italy will act with her in maintain
ing the common interests and se
curing the advantages gained to
gether" London-Paris Airplanes
Equipped With Wireless
London, Jan. 26. The airplanes
which are carrying the peace confer
ence delegates and important docu
ments between London and Paris
are equipped with wireless telephone
apparatus, enabling the pilots to
speak to one another while in the
air and also to receive frequent
weather reports and instructions
from the ground.
Bee Want Ads are the Test Busi
ness Boosters.
Announcement of
FREE LECTURE
ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
By William W. Porter, C. S. B.
of New York.
At the Church Edifice, St. Marys
' Avenue and 24th St.
Tonight and Tuesday Eve,
January 27th and 28th,
at 8 o'Clock.
' The Public is Cordially
Invited.
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end Tubes at the Mill, Nine
Blocks North of the Fontenelle
Hotel.
18th and Izard Street.
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prices below those of other
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From the standpoint of dollars
and cents and in the matter
of quality It will pay you to
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BE PROTECTED,
SAYS HOOVER
(Continued From Pafe One.)
November this problem was already
facing me as one among many
others for which assistance had to
be found, in the protection of our
American farmers, lest from failure
to find a market for his products
during the armistice and pending the
wider market, of peace his prices
might fall' below his cost of produc
tion, entailing great waste of sur
plus commodities.
"We have found it possible to pfo
tect the American farmer in the two
and one-half months since the ar
mistice. This we havedone by co
operating with the allies, in opening
wider markets to neutral countries
and by relief shipments into the lib
erated territories. The next and
last six weeks of the high fat pro
duction season will be still more dif
ficult to manage, as price cannot be
expected in that time, restoring ex
tended markets.
"On the other hand, five-sixths of
this problem is already completed
and by next May, if we have peac;
and freedom, any surplus that ac
cumulates now will be turned into
another world shortage of fats- In
deed, if the entire consuming popu
lations of the world were able to ob
tain fats today, there would be a
shortage at this momenty even with
our great surplus production.
"Practically all restrictions on'
American food exports have been re
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The Mississippi-Warrior Waterways
has announced a new freight tariff on
the shipment of goods between New Or
leans and Mississippi Valley points in
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri. This
new tariff went into effect January 21st
and reduced the old freight charges to a
very considerable extent.
For instance, the savings in cents per
100 pounds on carload lots from Omaha
to New Orleans are on: ,
First-Class Freight 22.5
Agricultural Implements. . 8.0
Packing House Products. 8.5
Stoves and Ranges ...... 9.'5
Canned Goods 7.5
In the other direction material sav
ings can be made on all commodities.
Some of the differential under the rates
via rail routes are on:
First-Class Freight ......22.5
Molasses 6.0
Coffee 6.0
Rice 7.5
Sugar ...w......... 9.0
Canned Goods 7.0
moved. Progress hai been made in
lifting neutral blocade restrictions.
"It is, however, no more possible
to demobilize in a week the whole
of these intricate forces set up dur
ing the war than it is to demobolize
our army by dismissing it on the
field. Pending the solutions, tht:
American farmers, merchants, pack
crs and banks simply must stand to
gether for two or three months to
carry our -excess surplus over until
the markets of the world have been
extended and finally liberated by
peace. The meeting of farmers and
packers' representatives called at
Chicago on Tuesday if to consider
these problems."
Husband Attempts
to End Life Because of
rvrr tir-.i iitt
uirterences witn wire
Shortly after Harry Richardson.
electrician, rooming at-1722 Cum
ing street, had .dinner with his wile,
Grace, to renew their conjugal love
fter a separation of two months, he
swallowed an ounce of poison, lie
then walked to his room and the
police were called. Police surgeons
administered remedies and saved his
life.
The couple1 had been separated
since November 26 because of reli
gious cruples.
In a letter written before going
to his wife's, apartment, 201 South
Twenty-fourth street, Richardson
expressed love for his wife and ab
solved her of blame.
Mrs. Richardson told police that
her husband left her after she had
taken personal care of him during
his three month's illness last sum
mer. "I always cared for him," she said. I
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Lower Freight Rates
to arid from the . South
Hibernia Bank
; ' New Orleans
Resources . $40,000,000
PACKING PROFIT
LESS DURING WAR
THAN FORMER
Morris and Company's Rate of
Earnings Decreases While
Volume of Business
, Increases.
Chicago, Jan.' 1 26. Morris and
Company, packers, in their financial
report for the year ended November
2, 1918, made public today, show net
earnings of $4,217,858.84, tipon a
capital investment of $53,864,934, or
7.83 per cent. This is less than ls
cents on each do iar of sales, in
cluding by-products.
The volume of sales show an in
crease of $100,000,000, while the pro
fits show a decrease of more than
$1,000,000.
Cash in bank shows a gain of over
$3,000,000, while total liabilities in
creased slightly above this amount.
President Edward Morris says, in
a statement to stockholders: i
"This was accomplished by paying
only a small portion of the earnings
in dividends to the stockholders, al
lowing the balance to remain iu the
business, and also by keeping the
company's products closelysold.'We
were therefore able to go through
the year without any refinancing."
Only $300,000 of the firm's profits
were paid to stockholders in divi
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Full information may be obtainea
from . the Traffic Manager, Omaha
Chamber of Commerce or from Mr
Theodore Brent, Traffic Manager, Mis-'
sissippi-Warrior Waterways, 905 Whitney-Central
Bank Bldg., New Orleans.
This change in the freight tariff is a
tardy recognition of the elemental prin
ciple that waterways are an economical -method
of transportation.
This also means that an unusual de
velopment in interstate commerce be
tween the different states of the Missis
sippi Valley,' and particularly between
the Mississippi Valley cities and the .
Port of New Orleans, will now be
brought about. Crude products from
other countries " can, be brought in
through the Port of New Orleans and
shipped to cities in the Valley, manufac
tured into goods and shipped back down
the great Mississippi river to be sent by
steamers to countries all 'around the
world.
. The Hibernia. Bank & Trust Com
pany, through both its domestic and for
eign departments, is equipped to handle
the. financing of shipments and invites
shippers to make use of its facilities.
C& Trust Company
dends. Thirty per cent of t!; firm's i
products were used in 'ecdniK Ihe
anvy and navy and aJliev Voi'
han 1(1.0 employes -eitlur volun
teered or were drafted for war serv
ice of which i ven wer? killed. it
action.' All employes who returned"
from army and navy duty will be
given their old positions.
In commenting on thr net pro'iM
for the year. President Morris said:
"This profit is very small, espe
cially considering the fact that we
are handling a perishable product
and is considerably less than we
have made in previous years. M,
though we have operated under ffie
federal food license, we have not
made the profit which was consid
ered fair and allowed under their
rulings."
Thousands of Hun Seamen -
Lost on Submarines Sunk
Loiidoif. Jan. 26. Of the 203 Gci-"
man submarines lost during the war,
it is estimated here semi-officially,,
that 120 were sunk with al on board,'
and that in the others an average of ,
half the crew perished. ..
Prospect Hill Cemetery
Oldest Burial Ground. in
the city. Many of the first
families own lots in it. A
location of rare natural at
tractiveness, well cared
for. Readily accessible
from all parts of the city.
Lots or single interments
may be had on reasonable
terms. See the superin
;endent. Phone Web. 2404.
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