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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1919)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 19X9. CARNIVAL TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER mm nnTAnrn 1 ZtlUUblUDCItt Ak-Sar-Ben Governors Ex tpnH Mflmhershio Time Limit IVIIM iBfVl.irww- " - - l - ; Until Aiinust 15: Bia Crowd Enjoys Show, j. . The Ak-Sar-Ben carnival will be held this year from September 24 to October 4 on the grounds where it has been held in previous years, Fifteenth street and Capitol avenue. This announcement was made at the "den" last night by the board of governors. "Dad" Weaver has re- - turned from Michigan where he closed a contract with the Kennedy Shows to bring an aggregation of . attractions, including Jolly Nelly, a giddy young girl of 742 pounds, of whom "Dad" brought a photograph. The new Ak-Sar-Ben field at Sixty-second and Center streets, will not be readv for the carnival this year but will be ready by the fall of 1920. Iowans Attend Show. Extreme heat had no effect on the attendance at "The Wandering Juice." The big crowd of last night came from Carson, Elliott, Hender son, Griswold. Traynor and Lewis, Iowa towns. They came in automo biles and by train and the Elliott people brought a brass band with them which did some eood work in tUm ntrfainmrnt. The membership reached 3,752 and 'the board of governors announced . that the time limit has been extend ed to August 15. AnyDociy wun a good reputation and ten bucks can become a knight of Ak-Sar-Ben up to that date and a cordial welcome is extended to all. In fact, the wel come is more than cordial. . The show of last night was up to its usual lofty -standard in spite of the heat. Charles Gardener took the part of "Satan," while Henry Dunn, the usual interpreter of that ' role, sat in the audience and ap plauded. Oscar Lieben tried his hand at "John Barleycorn," and n;- AfilW tnnt Oscar' recular place a the charming "Terpsi- cnore. To Entertain Editors. Next Monday night there is to be "something doing" for the Nebraska editors who will be in Omaha. The show is billed to outdo itself on this sala occasion. Delegations are also to come from Walt Hill, Neb., and other towns. Col. H. C. Osterman of the Lin coln Highway commission, was one of the speakers of last night. He boosted for the great highway of which Omaha is the center and said the Ak-Sar-Ben show was as good a show as the Lincoln highway is highway. He has made 18 round trips across the United States by au- , tomobile. S 1 I T - n.. ..am. m rl At the transcontinenal motor trans port train of the United States army, which reached Omaha today, was . 1 - -I 7 U Vf f anoiiier spcancr. jvuii Carson, la., a prominent Ak-Sar-Ben booster, also spoke. Robert Clayton of Honolulu, H. I., . was one of the visitors. National C. of C. Votes for rnvate Ownership of Country's Railroads Denver, July 28. Commercial and industrial organizations of the United States are overwhelmingly in favor of private ownership and op eration of railroads under govern mental supervision, according to an nouncement here Monday of results of a referendum vote taken by the United States Chamber of Com merce. Officials of the chamber, who are touring the west, made the announcement at a banquet tendered them by Denver business men. AH but one of 10 recommenda tions for remedial legislation, draft ed by the railroad committee of the thamber were approved by a two-thirds vote. The rejected leiislatinn Halt with navmMif v0'-- ...... f J into a fund of a share of the excess earned by any railroad over an equitable return upon fair value of Arnlurlii WHEN BRAIN WEARY ' Tik Horaford' Arid Phoaphat tnd relieve the headache due to mental train, worry or over-work. Adv. i ii ii if ii Buy Your Hartmann Wardrobe Trunk NOW! The rising market is making trunks cost more. The labor shortage makes it very doubtful if you can buy these trunks at all later on. Freling & Steinle Omaha's Best B-fgege Builders 1803 Farnam Straw Vote of Bee Shows Peace Treaty. in Present Form Opposed by Six to One Of a Total of 619 Persons Filling Out Bee Coupons, 535 Are Against Ratification of Pact in Present Form, While But 84 Favor It One-fourth of Coupons Sent in by Women. Favoring ratification of peace treaty without reser vations 84 Favoring ratification of peace treaty with cer tain reservations 164 Against the league of nations as a whole 371 Total against peace treaty in present form 535 Total for ratification of peace treaty in its present form . . . , 84 For peace treaty 84 Against treaty 535 Plurality against treaty 451 Above figures show the result of a three days' straw vote of The Bee on the peace treaty and the league of nations issue. As the league of nations is a part of the peace treaty in its present form, 535 people oppose the treaty as it now stands against, but 84 fa vor it and urge a speedy ratification by the senate. The straw vote, as conducted by The Bee, shows an opposition to the peace treaty of better than six to one. About one-fourth of the signers of coupons are women, a sure sign that the 20th century woman is well acquainted with political issues and takes great interest in national and international- affairs pertaining to the safety and national integrity of the country. All Walks of Life Men and women of all walks of life are the signers of the coupons with farmers, lawyers and phy sicians predominating. A great many petitioners enclosed letters with the coupons explaining their stand on the two issues. Many of the letters opposing the league of nations come from dyed-in-the-wood democrats, who do not fail to ex press their opposition to the ad ministration's issues. Only one of the 84 persons favoring the ratifica tion of the peace treaty in its pres ent form expressed his opinion on the subject. He wrote as follows: "I favor ratification of the peace treaty without reservations. I also favor abolishment of the senate; the way some of the senators are talking. Joseph Perk"rh, Maywood, Neb." From the great mass of letters op posing the peace treaty or the league of nations issue, we quote the following: Says Sold Our Birthright. Moses Bradford, 6912 South Twenty-eighth street, city: "As it looks to a descendant of the Pil grims of the famous Mayflower we have sold our birthright and soldiers to Europe and cancelled our Decla ration of Independence. We are big enough to attend to our own business without the consent of eith er Europe or Japan." Prof. Henry Olerich, 2219 Lari- more avenue, city: "I am heartily in favor of a just peace treaty and a real democratic league of nations, but am uncompromisingly opposed to the Versailles peace treaty of In justice and its autocratic league of nations. With its numerous man datories, it is not a league of na tions but a league of grasping dip lomats bent on militarism, navalism, imperialism and plutocracy appar ently aiming to dominate over the weaker nations and the real wealth producers of the world. I can not discern a grain of real justice and genuine democracy in either the peace treaty or the league of nations covenant. The adoption of them in their present form will be an ever lasting disgrace to modern civiliza tion. They should not be merely amended, but be entirely rewritten by competent delegates at a new world peace conference held at some neutral place." Emil Cosart, South Omaha, signs his letter a Belgian-American and writes: "I am agains the peace treaty for many reasons. One of them is the secrecy with which President Wilson tries to keep the truth about the pact away from the American people and even con gress." John W. Yeager of the Hatrford Fire insurance company, Omaha branch, writes in part as follows: "I freely admit that the idea of a league of nations is good, but from a study of the peoples of the na tions, coupled with their traditions, racial sentiments ond geographical locations, I am forced to the con clusion that the league under the present draft at least is impractica ble and will mean that a large and unnecessary burden shall rest upon our shoulders with no benefit to be derived therefrom for us." Peter H. Lubisher, Forty-eighth avenue and R street, South Side, ex presses the belief that at least eight tenths of the thinking people of America are opposed to the league. From time to time The Bee will continue to publish extracts from letters from readers, expressing their opinion on the peace treaty and the league of nations issue, and also publish the status of the popular voting contest on these issues. Say "Big Five" Packers Fix Price Level at (Continued from P On.) operation of a private and very complex business. It enacted those would be to the great injury of not only the packer but the live stock producer and the consumer as well. Refused Federal Hearing;. "The Cudahy interests have fre quently requested the Federal Trade commission to give us a hearing or to exhibit any evidence which they may have to justify their charges against us, and no such opportunity has been allowed us. j "Most of the statements of the federal commission are unfair and erroneous. For example, in their present report we understand that they class the Wichita Union Stock yards as being one of those con trolled by the big five. They are not so controlled and never have been. Many years ago our company was solicited by the stock yards com pany to take over a small plant at Wichita, and to aid in establishing the market there. We received a bonus of stock in the company as was usual at the time and entirely legal. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing the plant and the market, and we believe that no citizen of Wichita, nor any live stock shipper to that market will take any other position than that our interests there have been largely to the benefit of the town and the live stock shipper. Of course ,it has been successful. That is what we are in business for. Neither Armour, Morris, .Wilson nor Swift have any stock interests in the Wichita yards. In all the re maining list of stock yards markets our company has no interest at all with the exception of a few shares in one locality, but the charge is made that the big five control them all. This shows how figures may be juggled and false impressions cre ated. Ownership of stock in a stock yards company gives no control over the market price or the com mission men there." Repeat Same Charges. Louis F. Swift, president of Swift and company, referring to the re port of the Federal Trade commis sion said: "The Federal Trade commissfon is issuing its report piece-meal, ap parently with the idea of keeping up a continuous agitation against the packing industry. This latest bcoad side, according to such report as I have seen, repeats the same old charges, contains the same misrepre sentation, and does our industry the same injustice, as in previous re ports." "In the ownership of stock yards we arc proud of the fact that we have improved marketing methods and thereby encouraged greater live stock production, as ev. impar tial student of the problem knows. Ownership of yards gives a packer no control of prices or trading methods. "The whole contention of the commission that we control and manipulate prices is simply not based on facts. Our fluctuating prof its, averaging only a fraction of a cent per pound of meats, and often becomuig losses for weeks at a time, alone refute this contention. "We have proved conclusively in congressional hearings at Washing ton that the trade commission can support its conclusions only by stooping to distortion of fact, and suppression of vital evidence. It is a shame that we should have to sub mit to this sort of indignity from a department of the government." Nebraska Congressman To Be Seen in "Movie" Washington, July 28. (Special Telegram.) Representative Mc Laughlin of the Fourth Nebraska district will soon be seen in a "movie," the representative of one of the largest graphic companies having filmed the congressman as he walked up the steps of the house office, building, because the states man from York has introduced a bill repealing all the so-called lux ury taxes and providing additional taxation on incomes to offset the loss. BLACK BELT IN CHICAGO SCENE OF FIERCE FIGHTS Seven Killed and Many Wounded in Race War That Holds- Part of Windy City in Its Grasp. .4 1 (Continued from Fajre One.) a street car by a negro. He was soon lying unconscious against the curb. The angry whites had left him for dead. Groups of blacks formed in foot ball fashion and charged against whites with razors and clubs. On one corner the scene was like a miniature battle ground. Uncon scious negroes and whites dotted the street. As they regained con sciousness they were arrested or permitted to leave the neighbor hood. Women Battle in Yard. While the main battles were in progress, women blacks and whites battled away in front yards with brooms and missiles. In one of these fights a white woman was knocked unconscious and taken to a hcpital. ' In one battle on Thirty-fourth street, negroes knocked two police men unconscious and were drawing guns when a group of discharged negro soldiers came to the rescue of the whites. In another battle soon after, three policemen were shot. One may die. In an effort to prevent quick transportation of rifle-bearing po licemen from one section to another, the negroes began cutting telephone and telegraph wires. The blacks began firing on street car conductors and motormen when they refused to allow negro passen gers to board their cars because of threats made by white passengers. One conductor was reported shot in the leg. Ambulances and patrol wagons threaded their way through the black belt throughout the early hours of the night. Creep Into Alleys. A number of wounded negroes crept into alleys and other dark places. When they were found they were hurried to the Provident hospital for colored, which for sev eral hours received a virtual proces sion of injured men and terror stricken women. The more seriously wounded ne groes participated in a battle with whites near Thirty-fifth and State streets. Several thousand of the blacks congregated at this point within a period of 10 minutes. It was an orderly gathering for a time. Suddenly four maddened negroes raced up State street surrounding the home of a white man. In a twinkling shots began to fly in all directions. More than a score of negroes fell. Some were carried off by companions. For more than two blocks along one street negro snipers fired from house tops and windows. Not a single death resulted from this method of warfare however. Cars Stop Running. After a motorman had been dragged from his car and killed by a group of maddened blacks, shortly before midnight and a dozen street cars wrecked, the street car com pany ordered that no more cars be taken into the troubled area. The elevated trains also quit running in dangerous territory. Troops continued to move to a centralized point on the couth side throughout the night, but up to mid night they bad not been ordered to begin patrolling the streets. This was explained by the statement that the outbreaks had slackened to such an extent that the police could afford as much protection as the the troops. Hundreds of stenographers, clerks and other loop employes who must pass through the black belt to reach their homes remained in the busi ness district hotels and at north side lodging places. Pool rooms, moving picture houses and other gathering places in the black belt were ordered clostd. While the black belt was seething with strife, negro educators and churchmen sent out appeal after ap peal that the negroes go to their homes and keep peace. essrB3aMaiM33Bgl 1 1 wwaacl n 1 1 n i n it ii, i i.ijKacas I POSTUM instead of coffee? Every reason worth while . Price! . Health! Satisfaction! Think it oven "There's a Reason? Omaha Will Welcome Army Transport Today - (Continued from Fa. One.) tion of "pontoon bridge" in real ity a large scow to the city of Omaha by Colonel McClure, and the ascension of a balloon at Fort Omaha, which will be located in the sky this evening by the signal corps' powerful 3,000,000-candle. power searchlight. Colonel McClure and his staff of twenty-five officers were entertained at dinner last evening by Gould Dietz and a welcoming committee of Omahans at the latter's apartments at the HoteJ Fontenelle. The colonel delighted his guests with stories of his trip across country and the ob servations made. "The time will come," he said, "when trans-continental cross-country trips willbe an every day mat ter." At Council Bluffs the convoy's personnel was tendered a royal re ception last night. The mayor and a committee of citizens motored to Missouri Valley and greeted the train, accompanying them into the city. The entire convoy was parked for the night on the blocks sur rounding Eaylin park. Immediately on arrival every man repaired to Lake Manawa for a "plunge." Iowa Towns Decorate. At Honey Creek and Loveland, small towns along the 'Lincoln Highway into Council Bluffs, stores and homes were gayly decorated with numerous flags and bunting. Large crowds of people gathered at both places. At Council Bluffs Red Cross girls served refresh ments. Barring, what might be called a small "riot" at Denison, Sunday night, when a "conscientious nh. jector" saw fit to ridicule members ot tne convoy s personnel and was at once "effectively silenced," the trin across Iowa nrnrfcrli-H with. out incident. The men were wel comed at Cedar Rapids, la., Satur day. The Omaha committee. heaHrvl bv T. B. Lionbercer. rf the Dnuhi Automobile Trades commission, re quests that all automobiles ex pecting to participate in the parade todav be on hand at Ni nth an A Douglas streets at 8 o'clock. At least 50 Omaha cars are expected to take part in the parade. L. B. Johnson, good roads expert, who is making the tour with the convoy, will speak at 12:30 o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce on "The Transcontinental Transport." H. L. Osterman, vice president and field secretary of the Lincoln High way association, will attend the meeting. The bill now before con gress requesting that the govern ment officially recognize and main tain the Lincoln Highway will be discussed. Dead Body Located In Thicket by Posse , After Long Search Lightning Destroys Hangar Housing Big Bombing Planes Mineola, N. Y.," July 28. Three bombing planes, including the Mar tin machine in which Capt. Roy N. Francis planned to leav next Fri day on a transcontinental flight, were wrecked by a terrific1 electrical storm, which, sweeping over Long Island Monday afternoon, struck a steel, hangar at Hazlehurst field. Berkeley, Cal.. July 28. The body of Mrs. Ethel S. MacGregor, who disappeared from her home here 10 days ago. was found in some brush t a few miles north of Berkeley, hy J her husband, who headed a search ing party composed of approximate-" ly i, ww persons yesterday. Ueath had been caused by a bullet wound. A revolver lay near the body. Mrs. MacGregor was in poor health. She was the mother of a two months' old baby. fl 3 Germans Obtain Loan of $100,000,000 in America London, July 28. An American loan of $100,000,000 has been ob tained by Martin Nordegg, repre senting the Deutschbank of Berlin, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin. It was said 10 per cent of the loan would be de posited in foreign bonds to the Ger man bank's credit. IThelThomDson T3elden Store A "Month-End Tumult" Sale 2 Specials from Th Men's SEiop 75c Handker chiefs, 59c. A pure Irish linen handkerchief in any width hem, or with cord or tape borders. Tuesday only. $2 Ties for $1.65 Any $2 tie in stock goes at this price Tuesday. ' To the Left A You Enter Silk Hosiery In Out Sizes White silk hose with lisle top and sole, $2 a pair. Vhite silk boot hose with lisle top and sole, $1.50. White lisle hose, 85c. Silk lisle hose, very sheer and fine, with garter top and double sole, $1.25 a pair. Woolen Fabrics The azsortment of Fall Tooolcn materials is very complete. An early selection might be wise, as the prices are to be much higher this Winter. Taffetas for Much Less Belding's taffeta in many shades, 36 Inches wide, $3 quality, for $2.19. Black, taffeta, 36 -inch, $2.50 quality, Tuesday, $1.95. $2 quality, Tues day, $1.69. A Disposal of Every Cotton Gabardine Skirt For $4.89 Fine white gabardines, well tailored, with becoming wide belts and novel tjes in the line of pockets. Oj Interest to Stout Women There are plenty of larger sizes, any woman whose waist measure is be tween 30 and 36 may feel sure of being fitted in this sale. Skirts Formerly up to $15 Tuesday, only $.89 . . . , Waist Measures 24 to 36 . . . ALL SALES FINAL. NO ALTERATIONS. Sale of Gowns and Pajamas A number of very fine nainsook and batiste gowns in pale pink and white, have been underpriced for Tuesday. A pink batiste gown for stout women, size 20, is hemstitched around the neck and short sleeves, $1.69. A white nainsook in smaller sizes has a pointed neck and either or ki mono sleeves, $1.69. PAJA A one-piece suit of flower ed crepe, lavender flowers on a pale pink ground, is $2.25. A lavender soisette suit, made in a coat and trouser style, but in one piece, is trimmed with white silk frogs, $2.98. A very pretty white one with a square neck and no sleeves, has shirring at the waistline, $1.69. There are others at $2.25 and $3.75 in varying styles. MAS A white soisette, trimmed with Roman striped rib bon, is $1.69. These are merely ex amples, there are other styles and shades at these prices. On the Third Floor A Bargain Table The Art Department goes through the stock each day' and clears out the odd pieces. These are placed on the counter and greatly un derpriced. Art Dept. Third Floor Neckwear A great variety of dis tinctive collars, vestees, collar and cuff sets, coat collars, ties,, and vest ings by the yard, may be had in this department at very reasonable prices.