THE BEE: OMAHA: -TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1919.
MILK DEALERS
RAISE PRICE TO
1 0 CENTS A PINT
Activities of City, Federal and
. County Fail to Bring Relief
From H. C. L.
Here.
So material results hive been ob
tained in Omaha from the activities
of federal, state, county or munici
pal officials in connection with the
high cost of living and profiteering.
Mayor Smith announced yesterday
that he will resume his probe Tues
day or Wednesday, when he expects
to obtain through City Attorney
Weaver information referring'to the
time cars of fruits and vegetables
were held on tracks here.
- Reports from cities all over the
country during the last few days
tell of seizures of eggs, butter,
cheese, beans, canned goods and
other food products. Reductions of
prices in various cities have re
sulted from the pressure brought to
bear by the officials. Cold storage
and warehouses are being exam
ined, j
' In the face of the investigations
that are being held, the Alamito
Dairy Co., has announced another
increase in the price of milk, the
raise being from seven qu?rts to 6'i
quarts for $1, even when cash is paid
in advance by householders. The
new rate figures 15.4 cents per quart,
as against the old rate of 14.3, an in
crease of a fraction more than one
cent a quart.
The price of milk was raised only
about six weeks ago.
. President LeRoy J. Corliss of the
company stated:
"Our expenses have been increas
ing. We have to go after every bit
of milk we obtain from the pro
ducers." , The Alamito company has been
selling 12 pint tickets for $1, or
charging nine cents a pint when
$ash is paid. The new rates on pints
are 11 pint tickets for $1, or 10 cents
a pint when sold for cash.
Eight-Hour Working
Promised Britishers
(Continued from Page One.)
cost Great Britain $40,000,000,000
nd an outstanding fact of the pres
ent situation was an alarming ad
verse trade balance of 800,000,000
pounds. The national debt, he point
ed out, had grown from 600,000,000
pounds to 7,800,000,000 pounds.
"We cannot prosper,' said Mr.
JLloyd George, "we cannot even
exist, without recovering and main
taining our international trade. We
must bring up the trade balance,
adding to our exports and lessening
our imports. In every direction we
are spending more and are earning
less. These are facts. It cannot
:Ufit."
The premier declared that Great
Britain would never improve eco
nomic matters until there came an
Increase in production. "There is
no other alternative," he exclaimed,
"eixcept quitting the country for
which we .fought for four years."
Speech Really Apology.
. The occasion for the speech of the
premier was the closing of the sum
mer session of the house of com
mons. While Mr. Lloyd George
spoke with his oldtime fire, held
the attention of the house and fre
quently gained its applause, he
really was speaking on the defen
aive, for his government is under a
remarkable bombardment from a
large majority of the newspapers,
which are charging it with enor
mous extravagance under headlines '
such as "the road to ruin".
Fight Against Profiteers,
In Other Cities and Here
Here are some of the things that have been taking
place during the last few days in other cities, as the result
of activities by federal, city and county officials, to com
bat profiteers:
Detroit 10,460,000 eggs and 300,000 pounds of but
ter seized.
Chicago $50,000 worth of butter seized and war
rants issued for sugar profiteers.
Chattanooga More than 1,000,T)00 eggs seized.
Jacksonville 1,000,000 eggs, 27,500 pounds of sugar
and thousands of tins of canned goods seized.
Tampa 326,000 tins of canned goods, 4,000 cases of
eggs, and quantities of sugar and flour seized.
St. Louis 16,569,360 eggs seized; also sugar and
butter.
Nashville 1,000,000 eggs seized.
Canton, O. 200,000 pounds of sugar seized.
San Diego $250,000 worth of eggs, butter and cheese
seized.
Kansas City 75,000 pounds of beans seized.
Toledo Eggs, sugar and butter seized.
New York Mayor Hylan ordered all cold storage and
warehouses inspected by firemen for hoarding of food
supplies.
Ohio 100 indicted under storage and anti-trust
laws; federal authorities asked to seize 2,420,000 pounds
of meat. Material reductions of prices noted in various
cities and towns. Governor Cox asked railroad adminis
tration to impose time limit on cars kept on track.
Birmingham, Ala. Grocer fined $500; profiteering.
Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Fresno and
Bakersfield Butter, eggs and cheese seized.
Denver Ten tons of fish seized; apples rot in
farmers orchards.
OMAHA
No changes except a slight boost in the price of bread
and milk during the last few days.
GRETNA "WILD
OVER GAMBLING,"
SAYS BOY, HELD
Town Will Bet On Anything
From Habits of Hen to the
Weather, Avers Alleged
Robber.
Alleged open gambling in Gretna,
Neb., was the reason given by
Frank Grady, 16-year-old son of
George Grady of that city, for his
robbing the postoffice there on sev
eral occasions, which he confessed
to Postoffice Inspector W. M. Coble
The youth alleges he lost all oi
his loot from the postoffice "shoot
ing craps" in a game to which young
boys of the town were invited, lie
says it is nothing uncommon for
men cn the street to bet ?20 on the
future actions of a hen walking
down the road.
Grady confessed he first entered
the postoffice on May 30, when he
climbed to the roof of the building
and lowered himself through the
skylight He says he secured about
$5 in money and a check for $8
which he cashed at a local bank.
After cashing t!he check he says
he feared detection and came to
Omaha where he was employed un
til July 2. On his return he says
he lost the money he earned work
ing in the harvest fields and made
several other visits to the post
office and took what money he
could find, usually about $5. All the
money ne says ne lost gamoung.
He was caught by the postmaster
Sunday while in the act of lower
ing himself from the skylight. He
was brought to Central police sta
tion here to await trial.
THE SHREDDED WHEAT
FAMILY
now consists of millions
of men, women and child
ren. You cant go into
a. hotel, restaurant or
dining car without see
ing some one eating
Shredded Wheaf
Biscuit. It is the uni
versal breakfast cereal
eaten all over the world
by all kinds of people
by grown-ups and young
sters . It is the whole
wheat in a digestible
form- c!ean,nourishing
wholesome .satisfying.
Combines deliciously
with fruits . Its crisp
and tasty goodness is
a joy to tfie palate.
OMAHANS RUSH
TO BUY FEDERAL
FOOD SUPPL1ES
Indications Are That the Sup
plies on Hand Will Not
Last Until Wednes
day Night.
The Postoffice department late
yesterday joined hands with the
War department to combat the high
cost of living in a substantial way.
Parcels post rates for surplus army
food stocks were reduced almost 50
per cent by the department's com
plete instructions for the conduct of
the salt-.
Under the present ruling local
shipments will be delivered for S
cents for the first pound and 1 cent
for each additional two pounds. The
old rite was 1 cent for each addi
tional pound.
Nearly 300 individual orders were
filled out at the postoffice for sur
plus army food. A loi.g line of
customers were on hand when the
office opened and the rush continued
all day until the office closed at 6
o'clock.
Basing an estimate of the first
day's sales officials at the postoffice
were of the opinion that the auota
allotted to Omaha would be exhaust
ed before the sale closes Wednesday
night.
Employ All Men Needed.
Capt. A. J. Hofmann, zone surplus
property officer, has been ordered
by Col. G. S. Bingham to employ as
many men as he can use to speed
up the moving of the surplus stocks.
Deliveries on all orders are being
made as rapidly as possible and the
space vacated is being filled by new
supplies.
Six carloads of foodstuffs ar
rived yesterday and seventy-five
more cars are enroute to Omaha.
Orders are being delivered in the
order in which they are received to
assure all cities in this zone an equal
share.
Mayor Smith is one of the most
determined men with whom army
officers have to deal. "The mayor
is selling too fast for us," said Cap
tain Hofmann yesterday. "He in
sists on immediate deliveries and
when we were forced to make him
wait his turn he offered to purchase
our entire surplus stock to relieve
conditions in Omaha.' '
$5 Smallest Order.
The majority of orders placed for
food supplies were laree. the our-
chasers buying the winter's supply.
Few orders of less than $5 were
given and $105 was the largest. Sev
eral orders totaling $150 were filled
out, but not filed for delivery.
furtner reductions in the bargain
rates were announced by Mr. Mo
Govern yesterday. Cans of baked
beans were reduced 1 cent per can
and now sell for 4 cents. Sweet com
was also reduced 1 cents per can
selling for 9 cents. The upply of
two-pound cans of tomatoes were
exhausted early. Larger cans of
tomatoes are plentiful.
Col. G. S. Bingham, zone supply
officer, received orders from the
War department to release for
lease for sale additional surplus
food supplies. These supplies will
be fold to municipalities and through
the postoffice.
The New List
The new list contains:
Sweet potatoes, 24 2-lb. cans,
$1.68; 24 2-lb. cans, $2.88; 24 3-lb,
cans, $3.84.
Pumpkin, 24 2-lb. cans, 72 cents;
24 3-lb. cans, $1.44; six 10-lb. cans,
84c.
Squash, six 10-lb. cans, $1.74
Syrup, 32 gallon barrel, $58.45.
Tomatoes 48 Mb. cans, $3.84.
Asparagus, 24 25-Mb. cans, $4.80.
Jam, assorted, 24 2-lb. cans, $5.76.
Pineapple, 24 2-lb. cans, $3.60.
Retired Fanner Dies
Francia Mohatt. 77 yeara old, a
retired farmer, died Sunday in an
Omaha hospital. He is survived by
has wife, Mrs. Margaret Mohatt,
and six children, William of Sidney,
Neb., John C. of Chadron, Neb.,
Clement G. of Dalton, Neb., Edward
. of Neola, la., and Mrs. Mary
enevieve Buggy and Mrs. Ella
Louise (jillen of Omaha, funeral
services will be held in the home,
2631 Bristol street, at 8:30 Wednes
day morning and at Sacred Heart
chuicb at 2 o'clock. '
THINK PACKERS
GOING BEYOND
THEIR PROVINCE
Entering Lines of Business
Not Related .Jo Meat
Industry, Witness .
Says.
Washington, Aug. 18 The danger
as seen by the Federal Trade com
mission in the entrance of the pack
ing industry into lines of business
beyond the packing of meat was de
scribed by William B. Colver, mem
ber of the commission, Monday to
the senate agriculture committee. In
its opening hearing on the Kenyou
bill to divorce Ownership of the
stock yards and refrigerator cars
from the packing concerns, of the
country and to regulate by license
their operation the committee was
taken over much of the ground trav
eled by the commission in its inves
tigation of the packing industry.
"The refrigerator car and their
use of it," said Commissioner Col
ver, referring to the "five big pack
ers," was not in itself a bad thing.
But they have turned the refrigera
tor car into a traveling wholesale
grocery, peddling at every city in
the country every day almost every
thing that people eat
"When the packers," he continued,
"have found their customers buy
ing something else besides the meat
they have to sell, or its by-products,
they have gradually commenced to
get into the business of supplying
the other things. When they have
themselves been large buyers of a
given commodity they have gotten
into the production of that article
and gone into competition with
their former purveyors. When they
have found a substance which has
become to some extent a substitute
for meat products they have gone
into the business of making and sell
ing that substance."
Extreme instances of the tenden
cy, the commissioner asserted, had
turned meat packers to hotel operat
ing; when they had started only to
sell soap, to making tennis racquets
because gut strings went into such
articles, and to selling soda foun
tains because beef tea was there
served.
Drive Bolsheviki From Odessa
London, Aug. 18. The bolsheviki
have been driven from Odessa by
the populace of the city, according
to reports received by the British
war office. It is reported also that
the soviet forces are evacuating
Kiev and the entire Ukraine.
Liberation Gold
Sent for Aviators
(Continued from Fr OM.)
most of the day at the capitol be
fore a senate military affairs sub
committee giving his views on the
nation's permanent military policy,
there were several conferences at
the War department at -which the
situation resulting from the indigni
ties upon American military officers
were understood to have been dis
cussed. Returning to the depart
ment late in the day, Mr. Baker re
fused to divulge the contents of late
department dispatches. He also re
fused to discuss the situation be
yond saying:
"As soon as it is safe to do so, I
will issue a statement."
w Remarks Significant
The" secretary'a remark, made as
he passed out the door of his of
fice on his way to play tennis, was
regarded in some quarters as signifi
cant, especially his emphasis on a
statement being forthcoming only
after it was "safe" to make one.
Another Kidnaped.
Only an hour or two after the
authorities issued its statement in
the case of the two avjators it made
public dispatches telling of the kid
napping of Dr. A. 'Goeaaga, an
American citizen and a native of
Porto Rico, by Mexican bandits
under Valentine Reyes. The dis
patches said that Doctor Goenaga
was being held for ransom in the
vicinity of Mexico City. A letter
received by an American in Mexico
City from the doctor under date of
July 22, said that the rebels threat
ened to kill him unless a ransom of
several thousand pesos was paid by
August 15. The department said it
had- no further Information except
that the Mexican foreign office ad
vised the American embassy at
Mexico City yesterday that troops
has been sent to rescue the Ameri
can. Two other attacks on American
life and property in Mexico came to
light during the day. One was an
attack on a truck train of the' Al
varda Mining and Milling company
in the vicinity of Jiminez with slight
injuries to Leslie Webb, an Ameri
can employe of the company. Last
Thursday bandits raided, the Tux
pam office of the Pennsylvania
Mexico Fuel company, an Ameri
can corporation, and made away
with 25,000 pesos.
Request Cession of Lands
Salt Lake City, Aug. 18. Adop
tion of a resolution requesting con
gress to cede the public lands to the
states and the formation of an or
ganization to urge this action in
Washington were two important
moves made by the governors of
western states, who concluded a
two days' conference on the public
domain question Monday.
BOY CONFESSES
HAVING STOLEN
6 AUTOMOBILES
Thefts "Only for Joy Rides,"
He Tells Police; Gang's
Doings Disclosed by
. Lad of Ten. ,
" George Swodeck, 15 years old, 607
North Twenty-first street, confessed
yesterday, according to the police,
to the theft of sixautomobiles dur
ing the last 10 dayt and the rob
bery of one grocery store and a
private, residence.
The auto thefts were "only for
joy rides," he said.
Sam Levine, 10 years old, 1915
Webster street, who, on being ar
rested late Sunday night, told the
police of the workings of an al
leged gang of grown-ups who fos
tered the thefti, will not be prose
cuted as a party to the thefts, the
police say. The boy is said merely
to have been a joy-rider.
The boy's confession resulted in
stantly in the recovery of two stolen
automobiles at points where the
youth said they would be found,
and the arrest of George Swodeck,
15 years old, 607 North Twenty
eighth street.
The Levine boy, who told the po
lice he lived at 1915 Webster street,
said that the gang had been operat
ing in the city for several months.
It was the aim of the young bandits
to make off with every automobile
they could, he confessed. They suc
ceeded in getting away with several,
he said.
One of the stolen cars was found,
on the tip of the Levine boy, at
Nineteenth and Douglas streets. It
had been missing for several days.
The other recovered car belonged
to J. H. Bulla, living at Twenty
second and N streets, and was found
abandoned at Twentieth and Dodge
Streets.
The Swodeck boy, whose arrest
followed young Levine's confession,
refused absolutely to speak when
the police questioned him and un
derwent a severe grilling without
betraying anything of the gang's
movements. He will be reques
tioned later in the day. In the mean
time the police, armed with war
rants for other boys, are making a
thorough investigation.
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Canada to Pay Farmers
$2.15 for Wheat Crop
Ottawa, Aug. 18. An initial pay
ment of $2.15 per bushel to farmers
for wheat on the basis of No. 1
Northern, Fort William has been
recommended by the wheat board of
control and approved by the govern
ment, according to an announcement
this afternoon by Sir George Foster,
acting prime minister.-
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AVIATOR WILL
STOP HERE SOON
Alfred W. Lawson, Builder of
Huge Passenger Plane,
Due in Omaha in ,
Short Time.
4
Alfred W. Lawson, builder of the
huge 26-passenger t-awson plane,
which is expected to fly from Mil
waukee to Chicago tomorrow and,
after a brief stop, continue its east
ward flight to New York, in a letter,
notified the Omaha Chamber of
Commerce that he expects to land
in Omaha in about two or three
weeks on the first transcontinental
passenger air( flight.. "
The -Omaha Chamber of Corrt
mcrce is arranging for an official
welcome to be given the passengers
in the plane when it lands on tho
West Center street aviation field.
Edward C. Croft, The Bee's rep
resentative, will be one of the pas
sengers to accompany Mr. LavJson
on his coast-to-coast trip.
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In spite of rumors of
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coats, the straight
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For Men
$1.50 athletic . union
suits Tuesday for $1.25.
Delpark's 50c wash
neckwear, Tuesday 3
for $1.
All Eagle, Arrow and
Earl & Wilson shirts
are greatly reduced.'
To the Left at You Enter.
Children's
School Hose
Pony hose in white,
brown and black, with
triple knees, heels and
toes. Small sizes, 55c.
Large sizes, 65c.
Wayne knit, fine ribbed
hose in black or white.
Small sizes, 40c. Large
sizes, 50c.
"A B C" Brassiere
Combinations
A brassiere or ban
deaux, a pair of step
in drawers, and a short
skirt combined in one jj
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less expensive to laun- j!
der than the original
three.
$2.50 and Up.
Sale of Parasols
Every parasol, both
women's and children's
from $2 up is selling
for exactly
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