THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919. RAILWAY MEN'S VICTORY FETE ENDS TONIGHT Today's Program of Conven Jion Includes Fireworks at Manawa Park U. P. Manager to Speak. Fireworks at :30 o'clock tonight will close the three-day Victory cele bration' which the brotherhoods of railway engineers, firemen, conduc tors and trainmen of Omaha and Council Bluffs and connected di vision points, are holding at Manawa park. Today, with games and con tests for prizes, music, Speeches, dancing, picnic parties and the fire works display, will be the biggest of the three. At least 5.000 people are expected at the, celebration this aft ernoon. Yesterday's crowd totaled more than 2.500 during the evening. The Rev. Titus Lowe of Omaha told of his experiences as a Y. M. C. A. worker in France. The Union Pa cific band played afternoon and eve ning concerts, while the crowd joined in community singing. Besides the speaking' and musical program today a series of games, races and other contests for prizes will be staged. The contests begin promptly at 2 o'clock. There will be races and games for men, women, boys and girls. The celebration will close with an elaborate display of fireworks at 9:30 this evening. Gus Miller of Omaha will touch off the fireworks. W. M. Jeffers, vice president and general manager of the Union Pa cific, will be cftic of the speakers this afternoon. Y A. Hammell, general manager of tne Union Pacific; A. T. Wright, general chairman of the Burlington Railroad Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, and the Rev. Michael Stagno of Omaha are also scheduled to speak. Kidnap Suspect Turned Over to California Authorities: Lawrence Rogers, who has been I held in the countv rail for several days on a kidnaping charge, was turned over to California authorities yesterday by Sheriff Clark. It is said Rogers is an escaped convict from the western state, hav ing gained his freedom by a spec tacular dash while on his way to the penitentiary to serve a sentence for robbery. . Rogers was said by officers to have aided in the escape of two other prisoners at that time. "PHOTO PlAV OFFERING J FOR. TODAY South Side SSHI While he is not a bit more Italian than his name indicates, it is whispered about that Doug las MacLean, leading man in Para mount films, knows how to cook spaghetti in a fashion that would make an Italian chef turn green with envy. He also knows 47 ways of eating it properly vand is think ing of publishing them in a book to be called "Spaghettiquette." Muse "The Man Who Turned White," with II. B. Warner, is on its last day's run today. The desert is a terrible place to be an outlaw in, but this English officer was cash iered. He met an English beauty and gloated over her. She shrank in terror from his embrace, and told him he was black. He became white again, covered up the woman with a cloak, and led her out of the tent and gave her her freedom. The Orkin Bros.' contest has been a suc cess, and many good criticisms have been sent in. Strand Etljel Holt, in "A Spot Clayton and Jack Sporting Chance." The girl was in a ticklish predicament. V hen the escaped convict was un der her car, helping her to change her tire, the prison guard came past, and she. told them she hadn't seen anyone pass. She took him home, gave him a job as chauffeur, they she thought she had reformed him, and then She found out that he wasn't an escaped convict at all. Rialto Elsie Ferguson, in "A So ciety Idol," is very pleasing in the role of an American heiress, who A t Neighborhood Houses LOTHRAF Twenty-fourth and Loth rpp. Two Bi'cclRl features. Charlie I haplin in nett In 'hunnyaUle." Kntd llen- 'Happy. Though Married." I)IAMOM Twenty-fourth and I.ulic I.ant chapter of "Cyclone Smith." First chapter of "Masked Riders." Also a five-reel feature. GRAND Sixteenth and Binney. John Barrymore, in "Here Comeg the Bride." APOLLO Twenty-ninth and Leaven worth. A World feature, "Dust of Desire. does not want to marry a lord. The story is well constructed. It is from the play of Henry Arthur Jones, and is worthy of him. The settings are beautiful. , English country life and the streets" of Venice, the canal city, are produced in every detail some of the most picturesque set tings ever shown on the screen. Sun "Love is Love," with Albert Ray and Elinor Fair, is a comedy drama that shows how love, coupled with strength of character, can pull e youth up and away from evil in fluences, and how woman's faith and belief persist despite greatest odds against them. , Empress The story of an inno cent peasant girl, wronged by a no bleman, who turns against all men and squares accounts through the nobleman's- son such is the inter esting theme of the Theda Bara production, "The Serpent," which will be. shown at the Empress for the last times todav. SOUTH SIDlRS URGE CAMPAIGN OF ADVANCEMENT GLOOMS GET PAUL WHEN "WASH OUT' HITS BOOZE LINE 'No More Whisky, No More Gin" and No More 6 3-4 Per Cent Brew. Suburbanites Call Their Com munity "Dry Rot" v and Want Closer Association . With Omaha. Traffic Tied Up in California by rainmen s Strike LosaAngeles, Cal., Aug. 22. A general and almost complete par alysis of transportation in southern California existed today. Strikes in progress on the Pacifiic Electric and Los Angeles railway systems were supplemented by a walkout of mem bers of the four great railroad brotherhoods, who quit their jobs on the Southern Pacific. Santa Fe and Salt Lake lines. A meeting of ubout 500 striking trainmen and electric railway men adjourned shortly before noon to permit committees to complete a general strike organization. The steam roadmen who struck yesterday without stating their de mands said freely that "we won't f,o back until they all go back? and no nonunion men are left," but re fused to give out an official statement. P0ST0FFICE SALE OF SURPLUS FOOD STOCKS STOPPED Thousands of Orders Still Un filled Present Supply Is Exhausted. M s Pending the arrival from Wash ington of foodstuffs requisitioned by army officials, sales of surplus foods. have stopped, as the present supply is exhausted and thousands of orders are unfilled. Peaches, prunes and evaporated apples can still be purchased from the army. Postmaster Fanning stated yes terday that purchase of the food by mail has been stopped because no more food is to be obtained from the army. He was unable to say when the sale of the surplus stocks will be resumed. Although the Omaha quota has been overdrawn, Col. G. S. Bingham, in charge of the local quartermas ter's depot, has placed a requisition with the government for 70 carloads of the surplus foods. Orders on file at the present time will account for 10 of these cars, it was said at the army building, where the orders are recorded. A large supply of bacon has also been ordered. MP- IMiiumim' (astDkeax j jOW much more godd you'll get . out of it if onlyyouhaveasparkly, icy bottle of Gund's Peerless Beverage to go with it! What an edge it puts on your appetite I k How much better everything tasss There's no use talking, you've sirri' ply got to get a taste acquaintance with Gund's Peerless Beverage to get even an inkling of its goodness. Nobody can tell you how good it is. It's some thing that can't be expressed in words. Gund's Peerless Beverage "The Everyday Soft Drink" is different. It has a rich, creamy flavor all its own a goodness of qu?Jity that is abso lutely indescribable and inimitable. You'll say so after trying it. Everybody does. Everybody likes it. By the glass or by the case for home use at your dealer's. THE-GROCERS' SPECIALTIES CO. MAX OLSEN & COMPANY. Wholesale Distributors. Poles Administer Crushing Defeat On Bolshevik Forces Copenhagen, Aug. 22. Polish troops have administered a crush ing defeat on the bolsheviki and the soviet forces are being pursued ev erywhere, the Polish general staff at Warsaw announces. The fortress of Rovno, in Vol hynia, northeast of Dubno, has been captured by the Poles after hard fighting. East of Minsk the Poles have reached the line of Ihumen-Dortyn. London, Aug. -22. Ukrainian troops have captured Odessa, it is announced by the Ukrainian mission. The capture was effected after se vere fighting. Bolshevik naval de tacshments from the Black Sea fleet, who were dispatched in great haste to oppose the Ukrainians, deserted. The soviet army on the right bank of the Dnieper river, the announce ment said, was fleeing before the forces of General Simon Petlura, Ukrainian commander-in-chief. British authorities here said they tiad not received confirmation of these successes but that they regard ed the Ukrainian report as trust- The South Side is suffering from "dry rot," while it should bear the same relation to Omaha as South Chicago does to the Illinois metro polis, according to an uptown real estate dealer. This statement has spurred local business men to action to make the South Side bear its true relation to Omaha, which, according to bank clearings, is about 50 per cent. Lack of a real railroad depot is given as the basic reason for the slow progress. Although the South Side has a population of 13,000 and is expected to reach the 20,000 mark when the new packing plants are in operation and the arrival of relatives of foreigners begins, it has only one station. This is located at Twenty seventh and N streets. The Burlington has a passenger station at Thirty-ninth and L, street. Because of its inconvenient location it is seldom used. Women passen- j gers prefer the Omaha station, it is ! said because of the lack of street lighting and depot lights. Only about a dozen passengers use the South Omaha station, the agent de clares. ' The station is under a viaduct and is of frame construction. It was built abut 18 years ago. ' No Modern Hotel. Because of lack of passenger facil ities there is not a single modem, first-class hotel on the South Side. As a result much business is taken uptown that belongs to the South Side, business men say. The passenger station at Twenty seventh and N streets is open onlv between the hours of 8 and 6 o'clock. An iron fence separates it froni the tracks at other times. A difference of 11 cents is made in the fare to the west. This, however, does not stim ulate the use of the South Side sta tions. "We would ship to South Omaha, only we can t get in, stated a Rals ton manufacturer. "Most of Twenty-fourth street businenss property belongs to non residents and widows,' stated Judge T. J. Breen. "If we had better rail road facilities a real passenger depot and a first-class hotel we couldn't Gloom is reigning in the home J of Paul Voznvic, 2510 Adams street, ior ine proaucis ot ms nome Drew ery are no more. Friday morning South Side po lice stepped in, filled a washtub with 38 pateHt-corked bottles of home brew and drove off. What a sigh would have risen had he been present at the destruc tion of the results of his efforts a few minutes after his arrest when Jimmy McEneney, the jail janitor, ingloriously emptied the foaming 6J4 per cent suds into the sink.. A glass jar half full of whisky also was taken in the raid. Vozn vic was convicted, and fined $100 and costs for illegal possession of intoxicating liquor in police cojirt 1-nday. ' FARMERS OPPOSE U. S, CONTROL OF MEAT INDUSTRY Witnesses at Washington Ai Views on Reasons for High Prices of Food. AT THE THEATERS South Side Brevities worthy. Judge Lobingier of U. S. Court for China Visiting in Omaha Charles Sumner Lobingier, former Omaha attorney but now judge1 of the United States district court for China with headquarters in Shang hai, is in Omaha visiting old ac quaintances. He' has not been in the United States for two years. Judge Lobingier started the prac tice of law in Omaha in 1892 and continued until 1902, when he was named on the state supreme court commission for two years. He then spent ten years in the government service in the Philippines, bein transferred to China in 1914. He reports business conditions in China excellent, but foreigners liv ing in China complain of the high cost of living. He says the prices of necessities have not vet reached Lthe American standard. 0 Crowd Attends Picnic The largest evening crowd thft Krug park has been called upon to handle this season attended the water carnival and fall fashion show given by the Union Outfitting Co. to friends, customers and employes Thursday. An exhibition swim by a 4;-year-old girl, swimming con tests and fancy diving in the bath ing pool were witnessed by hun dreds of spectators. A revue of fall and winter faNjions -on living models completed the program. O'Dowd Defeats Britton. Newark, N. J., Aug. 22. Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul, world's middle weight champion, outfought Jack Britton, world's welterweight cham pion, in a no-decision eight-rounl bout al the First Regiment Armory here Friday, having the better in five of the rounds. Britton had the honors in the other three. For sale, modern 8-roora home. 3717 South 24Wi St. Mrs. J. R. McPall has recovered from a serious illness. Miss LejlR Tckman and T.eo Irkman are the Kuests of the C. W. Wright family this weeK. Miss Mary McRann has returned from month s vacation with hsjr parents near London, Ont, Mrs. Frank P. Hart is spending a month In Willis, N. D., visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gil bert Johnson. SALESLADIES WANTED. Apply manager Wils Brothers, Twenty fourth and N streets. v Mr. and Mrs. .lack TIazelton announce the birth of a son. Mrs. Hazclton before her marriage was Irene Donovan. Mrs. W. J. Grother and children, who have gone to Cedar Rapids for two weeks, wore joined by Mr. Grother Thursday. Tha Emvorth league of the Grace Meth odist church will give a social Monday evening at the chunit, Twenty-fifth and E streets. The public is. Invited. Sam Noble, 2747 South Tenth street, re ported to police that two Iron wheelbar rows were stolen from a tool house at Gil more and Washington avenues Wednesday night. Rev. S. H. Yertan of St. Luke's Lutheran church will preach at the unlrm vesper services Sunday night in Syndicate park. Mr. Campbell of the Y. M. C. A. will lead the choir. The Holy Ghost church at Fifty-sixth and Q streets will give a three-day lawn ocial at Forty-cightn ami j streets, be ginning Saturday evening. Dancing will start at 8 o clock. Frank M. Coffey of Lincoln, secretary I r usurer of the Nebraska State Federation if Labor, will vdellver the annual Labor lny address in the Wheeler Memorial church Sunday morning, August 31, at lU:.'r o'clock. Kerst X: Co., 4751 South Eighteenth street. Steam, hot water and vapor heat ing. Distributor and salesman for Wnsea Garage Heating System. Agent for Cole HKin iUkk light gasoline lumps. Special attention given to plumbing repairs. Phone South 25sti. We know that you ned our kitchen cabinet. We are placing our fourth car load on sale and have arranged the terms and prices to be within reach of all. $1 down and Jl per week brings It to your home. Come in and make your selection today. Koutsky Pavllk Co. RAGS BRASS IRON Do not give your Junk away to the rag peddler. Call our house and get all that's coming to you. We pay 3 cents per Ite. for rags. Top price for all other junk. We also buy second-hand furniture. CHICAGO METAL & IRON CO. TEL. SO. 16o8. 27TH AND J ST. WE CALL FOR ANY AND ALL ORDERS. Rail Director Denies Roads Are to Blame for Losses That the exigencies of war times and not negligence on the part of the railroads was responsible for many losses of live stock in transit during the last few months, is the assertion of Walker D. Hines, di rector general of railroads, in an swers to jjumerous suits in district court filed yesterday. In all cases where shippers have brought suit for damages for loss of live stock the railroad, director as serts the carriers are not to blame fpr delays resulting from congested conditions dua to transportation of war material and troops. In all cases the dismissal of the suit is asked on these grounds. Pershing in Milan. Milan, Aug. 22. Gen. John J. Pershing arrived here Thursday from Verona. He was warmly wel comed by the military and civil au thorities of t4je city and the Amer ican, British and French colonies. THIS IS change day at the Gay cty. Not only will the change mcluile the opening performance of "The Beauty Trust," but the show hunger prevailing in Omaha indicates that there will be much change shoved through the box of fice window. This attraction was considered as being one of the very nest on the Lolumbia circuit last season, but unfortunately the "flu" shut-down kept the "Trust" from playing here. All of last season's favorites have been retained and some new names added to the cast. Tomorrow's matinee starts at 3:00. Never has an opening week equaled the .current one in attend ance at the Orpheum. The demand for seats has greatly exceeded the supply. Today, matinee and night, will afford the last two opportunities to hear the United States Jazz band and the other features that delighted the great crowds. For next week the Orpheum proclaims one of its biggest and most important attrac tions, the Marion Morgan dancers. This classic is presented by Martin Beck, who takes particular pleasure ir. offering it to patrons of the Or pheum circuit. Miss Morgan has prepared a new vehicle this season and reviewers have pronounced it one of her very best efforts. It is a dance drama in the time of Attilla and the Huns. It has a story and it is graphically told, so arranged and so told that it can be followed without drawing upon. the imagina tion to a degree of inconvenience that detracts from the pleasure of descriptive dancing. Final performances will be given today of the bill at the Empress, which has been attracting capacity houses. The feature act, "Days of Long Ago," shows artistry and ability. The comedy hit of the bill is scored by Anderson and Goines, colored comedians. Dancing, sing ing or talking, they are highly diverting. Washington, Aug. 22. Federa regulation of the packing industry proposed in the Kenyon and Ken drick bills now on hearing before the senate agriculture committee, found neither friends nor advocates in the long list of witnesses who aired their views Frtday. Though those testi fying came' fron points all the way between Missouri and Georgia and their occupations ran the gamut trom farmer, through feeders, stock ers, retail butchers and dealers in produce, and while their opinions as to the reasons and responsibility of high cost of living were diverse and occasionally most forcefully put, the packers, all insisted, should be left alone. Interference with them, the tenor of the statements ran, would be dangerous to the consumer and everybody else. Tired of Control. "We've had governmental control of railroads and telephones and tele graphs, until we are plumb worn out and we don't want any more," W. P. Carpenter, stock feeder of Tarliio, Mo., assured the committee. Tm in favor of the man who can produce the cheapest going ahead as far as he can. That is the way to cut down the cost of living. I nomas Dunn, a St. Louis meat dealer, aired an unusual view of the situation when he said "people want to pay high prices, because they think they are getting better stuff." "These hearings will heln get the fool ideas out of their heads." he :.dded, while the committee laughed. 'That is the onlv good thev will do. But . I'm paying $70 more a beef carcass than I did three or four Years ago and I'd like to ask whose getting that $70 now." J. 1'. Lynn, another larkio stock feeder, told him, "I'm getting it," he said, "but I'm not keeping it. Everything else costs twice as much. ' In answer to Senator Capper of Kansas. Mr. Lynn, and a group of other feeders, said they, had lost some money on cattle this sprincr. But that is ' not the packers' fault," J. A. Christianson, a third man from the same district, said. "Any man can make a mistake and pay too much." All of the feeders insisted that competition was keen in stock yards, said they spoke from long experience in selling there, and were inclined to scoff at assertions that the packers dominated the markets. Proposals in the bills to take away the packers' refrigerator cars, Lynn added, "were as reason able as proposals to take away packers' butcher knives." So magnetic are the mountains of Iorto Kico that they attract survey ors' plumblines, and it has been found that some of the old surveys are Incorrect by a mile or more. Funeral Services Held For Mrs. John L Webster Funeral services for Mrs. Jose phine Webster, wife of John L. Webster, who died Wednesday night at the home, 518 South Twentyififth avenue, were ' held Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the residence. Father Blakely of St. Bariiabas officiated. Burial was private in Forest Lawn cemetery. The pallbearers were W. H. Wheeler. O. C. Redick, Dr. W. N. Anderson, L. L. Kountze, W. M. Burton and J. E. George. Mrs. A. S. Carter Dies Mrs.- Leta May Carter, 36 vears old, 565 South Twenty-eighh-street, died early Friday of heart disease. She is survived bv her husband. A. S. Carter, and two brothers, George and Clinton Rhone of Chino. Cal. Mrs. Carter had lived in Omaha for 12 years. The funeral will ne held Saturday afternoon at 2 from the home, with burial in Forest Lawn cemetery. Three Persons Killed ; And Two Injured When Train Hits. Automobile Des Moines. In., Aug. 22. r(Spc cial Telegram.) Three persons were killed and two seriously injured at Lakeview, la., when, an automobile in which they were riding, was struck by a Northwestern train. The dead are Mrs. Frank Kies, 30 yean old, wife of a farmer living near Carnovan, la., her 8-year-old daugh ter and Gertrude Arns of Ackley, 25 years old. Miss Arns was driving the auto and failed to note the train ktintil it was too late. She brought' the car to a stop directly in front of the train. Civil Service Examinations. examinations Washington. T. C, Aug-. Telegram.) Civil Hervlcu will be held September 24 for presidential postmaster at the following places: Emery, S P., salary 11,100; Emerson, Neb., salary 11, CM; Oeddes. S. P., salary, 11,700; Leola S D salsry. $1,400. , Bertfs ik ,63 Berg's Wo men s Shop 1621 Farn am Street IR9T Bert, Women's I fiii i v iM U H ww 1IIM DM Mnr n M I- v s'"" arnam Smart New Suits Of irresistible smartness are these superb new fall suits with their considerably lengthened jackets smart ripples, snug shoulders and new wide skirts. Tlioy reveal strikingly new treatments in ornamentation of silk and wool embroid-ery-stitchery i and multitudes of buttons. Each model is tailored and finished with irreproachable correctness. 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