THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919.
NEW MARK SET
BY RUN OF SHEEP
AT STOCK YARDS
Omaha . Leads Chicago and
Kansas City, With Striking
. Railroad Men Back On
Job.
The biggest ran of sheep this
lesson wis received Monday at the
stock yards when the usual order
of business was resumed following
the return to work of the striking
railroad shopmen.
Omaha stood in a class by itself
in total receipts, outstripping Kan-
PHOTOPLAYS.
sas City and Chicago by 32,500
head.
A total of 816 cars were un
loaded, including 39,000 sheep, 5,500
hogs and 15,500 cattle. A total of
60,000 head was recorded, as com
pared with 27,500 at Kansas City
and 27,000 at Chicago.
This is the third time during the
last two weeks the local market has
surpassed Chicago and set the
world's high mark for the day.
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Lothrop
VIDUA DANA In "A PARISIAN TIGRESS."
RBUCKtE COMEDY n a CHESTr.l OUTIN8
SCENIC "OUT COLUMBUSINQ COLUMBUS."
Wholesale Grocers
Report Unusual Big
Demand for Sugar
Salesmen for wholesale grocery
houses report a growing tendency
on the part of householders to hoard
sugar and place the Maine for the
present shortage on the consumer.
The Paxton & Gallagher Co. re
port sales during July double the
sire of the same month in previous
years. The firm sold 25,000 sacks
and the usual consumption is 12,000
sacks.
Refineries made allotments in
March to the various wholesale
firms covering a period until Sep
tember 1. The unusual demand ex
hausted the supply and wholesalers
are now unable to secure enough to
supply the demand.
Retailers are now being sold only
limited quantities and are requested
to sell only limited quantities. Few
grocers will sell sugar in sack lots
and a 10-pound maximum has been
ordered in several of the larger
stores.
Little can sugar is on the market
and many retailers have none Sugar
is selling for $10.75 and $12 retail.
In Switzerland men of 14 and
women of 12 years of age are al
lowed to marry.
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START SALE OF
SURPLUS FOOD
SUPPLIES HERE
Local Army Office Prepares
Circulars Giving Informa
tion On Prices, Quality
and Quantities.
Col. G. S. Bingham and his staff
in the army building are preparing
to handle the sale and distribution
of surplus food stocks which started
yesterday. This food is stored in the
local quartermaster depot. The sale
was authorized by the War depart
ment and the price list was received
yesterday.
Capt. A. J. Hofmann will have
charge of the details of the sale and
is preparing circulars giving com
plete detailed information regarding
the prices, quantities of foodstuff on
hand, and where it may be obtained.
Distributed by Zones.
The goods will be distributed ac
cording to the zone system, and for
the past two weeks the Omaha de
pot has been shipping some of the
surplus to other centers to equalize
the distribution. The Omaha zone
includes Nebraska, Iowa, North and
South Dakota, Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming.
The postoffice will only participate
in the sale by having charge of the
parcel post shipments. The public
can either buy the goods direct or
purchase through the postmasters,
who will buy them as agent for the
parcel post system.
In addition to the foodstuff sale,
the War department has authorized
the sale of new and reclaimed army
blankets. The Omaha zone will be
allowed about 50,000 blankets, which
will be divided into three classes, all
wool, Cotton and wool and cotton.
This classification is the same in
both the new and reclaimed lots.
Limit Customers' Purchase$.
Not more than 10.000 blankets will
be sold to one person. The right to
decline or accept an order is optional
with the zone surplus property
officer.
"This regulation was included to
prevent unscrupulous merchants
from buying the entire lot and thus
prevent the public from participating
in the sale" said Colonel Bingham.
Municipalities Get Discounts.
All sales will be cash except in the
case of municipalities buying for re
sale at cost. The cities will be al
lowed 10 days to make payment.
Purchasers must pay parcel post
charges where goods are shipped.
The samples a now on display in
the office of the surplus property
officer in the army building. The
pale of blankets will start August
15.
The following prices for blankets
have been anno'inced:
Quantity.
l to in
11 to 5T.
2ii to 110
101 to 500
501 to l.ono. , . .
,tlOl to 5,000
5.001 to ' 10.000. . .
2. Cotton and wopl mixed commercial
blankets:
Quantity. New.
1 to 10 a.ut
11 to 25 4.50
2r, to 100 4.00
102 to 5')0 3.80
501 to l.oDo 3. t;o
001 to 5.000 3.40
001 to in.000 3.20
3. All cotton commercial
Quantity. New.
1 to 10 M.on
11 to 25 2-75
2f, to 100 2.50
101 to 1.000 2.25
.001 to 5.000 2.13
5.001 to 10.OU0 2.00
Europe Deeply Interested
in Success of Lawson Plane's
Trans -continental Flight
Editor of the (London) Aeroplane Gives His Opinion
as to Future of Airplane Industry Says Trip From
England to India, for Example, Can Be Shortened
by 18 Days in Travel by Plane.
New.
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. 5.00
5.00
4.R9
4 60
4.40
4.20
Reclaimed
$5.00
4.50
4.00
3.80
3.60
3.40
3.20
Reclaimed
13.50
3.25
3.00
2.SS
2.75
2.H3
2 ,60
blankets:
Reclaimed
$1.25
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Highwaymen Keep 4
Persons at Bay While
They Rob Drug Store
Although two highwaymen succeed
ed late Sunday night in robbing the
Freggcr-Fox Drug Co.. 1848 North
Sixteenth street, of $75, they over
looked more than $600 in a safe be
low the cash register which they
looted.
At the point of revolvers the two
highwaymen forced Max Fregger,
one of the proprietors, and three
clerks to the rear of the store. One
of the highwaymen then removed
all the money from the cash register,
while the other guarded the four
men.
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Complete Change Every
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Not alone the new world, but the
old world is deeply interested in the
proposed transcontinental air line
of the Lawson Airplane company,
which expects to make Omaha the
center of operation basis for the
New York-San Francisco route.
Alfred W. Lawson, builder of
the huge transcontinetntal airplane,
which can carry 26 passengers at a
rate of 100 miles an hour, announced
recently, that, should the New
York-Omaha-San Francisco line
prove a success, his company ex
pects to build more than 100 planes
English See Success.
English, and especially London
sportsmen, follow with great inter
est the developments of the Lawson
plane and are sure of lis success. As
The Bee recently reported, several
English firms preparing to send
passenger airplanes to all parts of
the globe and a regular England-Africa-Austrailia
. line is to be es
tablished soon.
C. G. Grey, editor of the Aero
plane, London, recently made the
following statements as to the de
velopments of the airplane industry:
Where Speed Counts.
"It will be obvious to anybody
who thinks over the matter that the
airplane or airship as a means of
conveyance of either mails or pas
sengers cannot compete on a com
mercial basis with high-speed direct
lines of railway. It hardly appears
that the airplane at its best can ever
be quite as reliable as a railway
train. It is true that it is possible to
fly in any sort of wind in these days,
and that even heavy rain does not
make flying altogether impossible,
but there are certain circumstances,
such as snow storms and thick foes,
in which it is utterly impossible for
an airplane to fly, though in similar
weather a train will start off ac
cording to time table and will stick
to its schedule time throughout its
journey.
'Where the airplane is really go
ing to score on the world's air
routes is in giving direct straight
line communication between places
so far apart that the speed of the
airplane has a distinct advantage
ever the speed of the best possible
train, and where the main railway
lines run in such a direction that the
direct air line is very much shorter
than the nearest railway iine.
There is, then, a very distinct op
portunity for an aeroplane service
across America and Europe between
big cities. And it is very likely that
everv bier town will have its own
airdrome and air-garage from which
a person who wishes to fly across
country can hire an airplane at a
reasonable price on a suitable day.
In an interview with Alfred W.
Lawson, builder of the plane, the
veteran aviator' said he expects to
put four or live repair shops and one
plane factory on his air route be
tween New York and San Francisco.
He will come to Omaha soon to in
spect sites for the possible erection
of a factory and repair shop here.
Should Mr. Lawson decide to build
a plant here 1,000 persons will be
given employment.
While America is deeply interest
ed in the bridging of the continent
by airplane, the old world, most
naturally, is more interested in the
establishment of routes crossing the
European continent and reaching to
Africa and other parts of the world.
London Editor's Comment.
The (London) Aeorplane's editor
comments on this subject as follows:
"When one conies to consider the
air lines of certain main routes at
once come to one's mind. First of
all probably arises the idea of Lon
don to Pans; then comes London to
New York; next one thinks of Lon
don to India, and afterwards a con
tinuation of the Indian route to Aus
tralia naturally suggests itself. Prob
ably the next one that occurs to ev
erybody's mind is London to Cairo,
and Cairo to the Cape.
"So far as the old world is con
cerned, those are actually the main
air lines, but as a matter of fact it
seems highly probable that there
will be more flying done ultimately
on the American continents than in
the old world. However, for the
better understanding of the running
of air lines it may perhaps be ad
visable to discuss those of the old
world, simply because people as a
rule are more familiar with the
geography of our hemisphere.
"Everything turns in favor of the
airplane. For example, the through
journey on the main line from Calais
to Constantinople via Germany and
Austria was, even before the war, an
extraordinarily slow trip. The dis
tance can be covered quite comfor
tably in two days by any respectable
modern airplane, even stopping for
fuel every 500 miles or so, and if the
passenger elected to fly by day and
night the journey could be done
quite well in 24 hours.
Can Save Eighteen Days.
"When one comes to consider the
journey from England to India one
is still more impressed with the pos
sibilities of the aeroplane. At pres
ent the only way of getting to India
is by boat, either through the Suez
canal or round the Cape of Good
Hope. By the fastest route the
journey takes, one believes, 21 days,
yet with a properly organized serv
ice of modern airplanes taking the
shortest route the journey could be
done from London to Calcutta in
two and a half days. With such a
margin it is obvious that the air
plane could afford to wait for sev
eral days if detained by bad weather
at this end and could still beat the
mail boats and trains to Calcutta by
weeks. The Cape-to-Cairo line will
be a natural extension cf the line to
India.
Across the Continent.
"While these lines are being de
veloped in Europe there should be
an equally great amount of develop
ment in America. Although the
United States claims to have some
of the fastest trains in the world,
the average speed of the American
train on a transcontinental journey
is by no means high, and there
should be air lines for the transport
of mails right across the American
continent and to the bigger cities in
the west before many years have
passed. Even the famous New
York-to-Chicago express could be
beaten by a properly organized air
line provided it were equipped with
real aeroplanes fitted with reliable
engines.
"There will also be quite important
flying-boat services up and down
the coast of the United States and
between the United States and
parts of British Columbia and Can
ada. Already the Canadian govern
ment is taking up the question of air
lines seriously, and the great Ca
nadian railway lines are taking Par
liamentary powers to run air lines as
tributaries to the railways, for in
Canada, as to a very great extent in
the United States, the main lines
run almost straight between east
and west and the cross-communication
from south to north is bad or
indiffetent. Hherefore there is quite
an opening, both in the United
States and Canada, for tributary air
lines to feed the railways."
BAREFOOT BANDIT
DRIVEN FROM HOME
AT POINT OF GUN
A. J. Blakely Routs Intruder
When He Thinks of $700
On Lower Floor.
Many Other Clean
Amusements.
FREE!
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Performing
Hair-Raiaing
Stunts on
Pole 100
Feet High
SEASON OPENS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 17.
Seat Sal Thursday, August 14.
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IMPERIAL PEKINESE TROUPE: THREE
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REEVES a YOUNGER. Photoplay Attn.,
ttos EMMY WHELEN I "BELLE OF THE
SEASON." FATTY ARBUCKLE COMEDY.
F ATHE WEEKLY.
BASEBALL
ROURKE PARK
Omaha vs. Wichita
August 12-13-14
Came Called 3:30 P. M.
Box Seats en Sale, Barkalow Bros. Cigar
Store, 16ta and Farnam.
A barefoot burglar Sunday at
tempted to rob the home of A. J.
Blakely, 132 North Forty-second
street, but was frightenec away by
Mr. Blakely after the upstairs rooms
had .been ransacked and nothing
taken.
Mr. Blakely chased the burglar
from the house with a revolver.
He told police he woke up when
he heard someone creeping up the
stairs.
"I watched him search the dresser
drawers in my room," he said.
"When he started downstairs
again I remembered I had hidden
$700, the Sunday receipts from our
filling stations, in the dining room.
I was afraid he'd get it. I ran after
him with a revolver, bu he got
away. He was barefooted."
Two other robberies, attributed by
the police to the "Gentleman" bur
glar, and a davlight holdup at 6
o'clock yesterday morning also were
reported.
The home of F. T. Ransom, at
torney, 120 Soujh Thirty-fourth
street, was robbed of a gold watch
and $53 in bills by a burglar who
cut the screen on the back door and
lifted the hook. The family was
sleeping on a porch. They were
Ignorant of the robbery until yes
terday -morning.
The residence of Frank A. Camp
bell, a block from the Ransom home,
was entered by a burglar who un
locked the rear door and escaped
with a ladies watch and $40.
A. Hickman, 2515 Jones street,
was held up by a bandit who he de
scribed as resembling a tramp, at
Twenty-fourth and California streets
westerday morning at 6 The ban
dit took $40 from Hickman. The
robber was described as short, dress
ed in a blue shirt and trousers,
slouch hat, and with a heavy growth
of whiskers.
Divorce
Courts
Everybody's Doing It.
If there is a nation big or little,
old or new that has not protested
something; it must be one that
didn't know anything about the re-,
cent war. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Charging that his wife refused to
cook, and went to dances with other
men, against his wishes, Harry A.
Patch has asked the district court
for a divorce from Theresa B.
Patch. There are two children.
They were married on November 19,
1910.
Hedwig C. Crook says Walter F.
Crook was cruel in a petition for
divorce filed in district court. They
wen, married in Carroll, la., on May
22, 1907.
Druggist Is Sentenced
To 90 Days In Jail for
Jamaica Ginger Sale
Fred Danielson, proprietor of the
Drexel pharmacy, Sixteenth and
Webster streets, was sentenced to
90 days in the county jail by Judge
Foster in police court yesterday
for the unlawful sale of intoxicating
liquor.
Danielson was accused of selling
Jamaica ginger to George Neiby,
Twenty-fourth and N streets.
His arrest was made on informa
tion filed with the court by Neiby's
mother, Mrs. Cora Kelly.
Neiby appeared in court yester
day and corroborated testi
mony given Saturday by Mrs. Cora
Barnhart, a friend of Mrs. Kelly,
who said she had taken a bottle of
ginger from Neiby's pocket im
mediately after he bought it from
Danielson.
The two women testified they
trailed Neiby to the Danielson drug
store, and struggled with him for
possession of the liquid after he had
bought it.
Danielson signified his intention
of appealing from the decision.
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RELL-ANS
rOR INDIGESTION
CARLOADS OF
FRUIT ALLOWED
TO SPOIL HERE
Testimony Before City Council
Shows Perishable Goods
Rotted for Lack of
Attention-
Corroborative testimony offered
before city cottncil yesterday showed
that during the last few weeks car
loads of potatoes, watermelons,
peaches, lemons, grapes and canta
loupes were allowed to spoil on local
railroad tracks, because of delays
in unloading and lack of protection
by icing.
The investigation being held by
the council refers to 19 cars. The
council adjourned at noon, subject
to call by the mayor, for further
examination of witnesses.
County Attorney A. V. Shotwell
and Assistant United States At
torney F. A. Peterson are attending
the investigation. They will receive
complete transcripts of the testi
mony and it is expected that grand
juries will be summoned to consider
the local situation in connection with
wanton spoliation of fruits and
vegetables.
"We are holding this investigation
to ascertain whether or not food
stuffs are being allowed to go to
waste on the railroad tracks, or else
where," said Mayor Smith, when he
called the meeting to order. "If we
find that these conditions have ex
isted, we are going to find out why,
and we are going to determine
whether the, railroads, consignors or
consignees-' are to blame. We are
after the facts and we are going to
have them.
Spoiled After Arrival.
Evidence offered Monday by Detec
tive Paul B. Sutton and railroad
yardmen went to show that the bulk
of the fruit and vegetables in ques
tion were spoiled after arrival in
Omaha. Cars were allowed to re
main for a week or more, without
ice and out in the sun.
Mayor Smith, City Attorney
Weaver and the city commissioners
quizzed witnesses on the disposition
of cars of decayed fruits and vege
tables of which the city legal de
partment holds detailed information.
The police reported that six cars
disappeared early yesterday. The
disposition of these cars will be
made a matter of special inquiry
when the investigation shall have
been resumed.
Carl F. Sinclair, Missouri Pacific
yard clerk, testified that he observed
three cars of watermelons last week,
shipped to Kansas City as empties.
"I recall that the train conductor
had the cars placed in the middle of
the train because he could not stand
the smell of the fruit next to the
waycar," Sinclair testified. Witness
added that cars of potatoes were al
lowed to remain on track seven or
eight days before sorted.
"I know of a car of lemons on
track No. 10, consigned to the local
agent of the California Fruit Grow
ers' association, and it was on track
eight days before being opened," he
testified.
Sinclair also referred to a car of
peaches on track for a week.
Otto W. Nuckolls, Missouri Pa
cific engine foreman, observed five
cars of watermelons, two of which
were sent to a local hog yard and
the others to Kansas City.
"The melons smelled so bad that
we could not bear the stench around
the yards, so we shipped the cars
out as empties to Kansas City,"
Nuckolls testified. These melons
had been shipped in box and cattle
cars.
Unfit for Food.
Mr. Sinclair explained that the
railroads assumed the responsibility
of icing cars until they were turned
over to consignees. Testimony in
dicated that most of the fruits and
vegetables became unfit for food
after the shipments had been turned
over by the railroads.
"All cars have some bad contents,
but I believe that if the bad were
picked out immediately on arrival
much of the loss would have been
avoided," Sinclair added.
Testimony of Sutton.
Detective Sutton testified to find
ing a car df spoiled peaches. The
car was "A. R. T. 10,500," shipped
from Mulberry, Ark., July Z8. 1 he
car arrived in Omaha July 31, on
Missouri Pacific tram No. 165, billed
to Trimble Bros.
"I saw the car August 8 at Four
teenth and California streets," tes
tified Sutton. "There was about
100 pounds of ice in the boxes. The
car was set on the unloading track
August 1. The shipper was notified
on the day the car arrived. These
peaches were rotten.
"On track No. 6 we foun,d two
cars of potatoes. I would say that
about one-fifth were fit for food.
"These potatoes had been shipped
in live stock cars.
"We went to track No. 6 to in
vestigate six cars of spoiled fruit,
but we were told that the cars had
been moved out. We could not lo
cate the cars. That was on Au
gust 6."
The citv council will endeavor to
trace 'the six cars from original
point of shipment to final disposition.
Sutton went into details of seven
cars of watermelons on th Burlinf-
ton tracks.
"These melons were mushy and
unf.t for food. They were in stock
cars, without refrigeration, nd not
sheltered," the detective testified.
Railroad reports for five of the
seven cars of mel J bore notations,
"finished unloading August 8,"
which Sutton explained to mean
that the cars had been "unloaded"
so far as the records were con
cerned. As a matter of fact, these
were the cars referred to by Witness
Nuckolls, who testified that two
cars were fed to" hogs and three
cars were shipped back to Kansas
City as empties. j
For Several Firms.
Records offered in evidence
showed that the seven cars of water
melons were consigned to Zipfel &
S., C. O. Graham, B. Blatchy, J.
Robinson and Trimble Bros.
Sutton also referred to a car of
cantaloupes set on track August 2,
and he observed the car on August
8, in the sun. The railroad records
show this car as "unloaded August
7."
"A car of peaches stood on the
three at Thirteenth and Cass streets
three or four weeks," testified
Charls L. Lewis, switchman. "These
peaches were on the road 60 days.
They were first consigned to some
other city and then sent to Omaha
for a better price. The., were near
ly all rotten when we iced the car
the second time."
B. B. Jones, Inspector of fruits
and vegetables for the Departmnet
of Agriculture, will testify during
the investigation.
"Battle Scenes" Shot for
Movie," East Meets West"
Scenes of airplanes in action on
the Omaha flying field, Sixtieth and
Center streets, were taken yester
day for the Chamber of Commerce
motion picture, tast Meets west.
The planes flew in battle formation
to film the scenes that represent the
hero aviator in France.
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BAGGAGE BUILDERS
1803 FARNAM STREET -:- OMAHA
New
Street Car
Fares
On and after SUNDAY, AUGUST 10th, the
following rates of fare will be in effect in Omaha:
CASH FARE - - - 7c
TICKET FARE - - 4 for 25c
. (Adults)
CHILDREN'S TICKETS 10 for 30c
(5 to 12 Years)
CHILDREN'S TICKETS 10 for 50c
(School Tickets)
Adult and children's tickets may be had of conductors
or at Company's offices. School tickets at Company's offices
only.
Passengers will deposit cash fares (nickels, dimes and
pennies) in fare box and hand tickets or transfers to con
ductors. Above rates are in conformity with the order of Nebras
ka State Railway Commission.
Omaha & Council Bluffs St. Ry. Co.