THE BEE: OMAHA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1919.
FLAT TENANTS
HIRE ATTORNEY
TO PROBE RENTS
Committee Representing Oc
cupants of Angelus Apart
i ments May Appeal to
Courts for Relief.
Preparatory to instigating an In
vestigation of an alleged conspiracy
among Omaha real estate peculat
or! and landlords to subject - their,
tenants to profiteering rates of rent,
committee representing the occu
pants of the Angelus apartments,
Twenty-fifth avenue and Farnatn
street, employed an attorney yesrer
Hav and instructed him to ascertain
and advise them immediately just
what relief they could obtain by an
appeal to the courts.
Tenants in the Angelus apart
ments declare their landlord pro
poses to charge them- extortionate
rents. Following a meeting on the
roof of the apartment house Satur
day night, which was attended by
nearly every occupant of the house,
it was agreed to resist to the bitter
end the proposed increases, which
' are said to range from 25 to 4S
per cent.
Hardship on Thousands.
' "This simultaneous and extor
tionate raise in rents all over the
city seems to me to be the most
outrageous affliction visited upon
the Omaha public in years," said
one of the leaders of the revolt in
the Angelus apartments. "It not
only is an unjust hardship on thou
sands, of Omaha tenants, but it is
giving the city itself a black eye. The
outside world will regard this city
as a place to be avoided. In my
opinion the real estate men and
apartment house owneYj are aiming
a. blow at the city in a business
way, which will be felt for years
to come. ,
? "I do not believe any court will
permit this particular clique of men
to get by with such a selfish propo
sition. They are willing to sacri
fice the interests of the entire com
munity for their own personal gain.
Aside from this feature of the situa
tion, I believe any jury or judge
will call these profiteers to account
for no other reason but that there
is an agreement among them to
oppress the thousands of persons
here who are compelled to rent
their homes. - .- --"
i 'Fear Public Opinion,
"Omaha will continue to grow
and prosper, andits residents will
continue to thrive and be happy in
spite of the selfish plans of some
real estate men and flat building
owners. - If all other means fail,
public opinion will force an issue.'
flA half dozen women quietly were
.circulating a petition calling upon
(the occupants of the 216 apartments
;in the Drake Court flats to lend
active opposition to their landlord's
fplan to charge unjust and unreason
able rents. The occupants of. this
apartment house, like the residents
pf 'Score of othex apartment houses
.-wf the city, also have retained the
'services of an attorney to resist
the - demands of their landlord.
J "If it is possible to prosecute per
sons guilty of conspiracy to control
the cost of foodstuffs, I do not see
why it is not just as fair to apply
the same rule to those who get to
gether to oppress the tenants of
rented properties." declared an oc
cupant of a North Side apartment
.house. "In my opinion some of the
real estate men of this city are more
guilty than the profiteers in food
stuffs. The high cost of foodstuffs
affects the individual residents,
while the profiteers in rents not only
attacks the pocketbooks of the citi
zens, but it obstructs the growth of
the community."
Council Will Probe. . t
On motion of Commissioner Butler
yesterday the city council resolved
to resume the rent probe next Fri
day at a public meeting. The coun
cil began an investigation of Omaha
rents last Friday night Without
accomplishing anything, for some
reason they adjourned after holding
single meeting.
Commissioner Butler declared he
was in possession of information
that apartment house owners and
gents held a secret meeting last
June and agreed to increase their
rates 20 per cent. Mr. Butler is ex
pected to reveal some startling in
formation in this regard at the coun
cil meeting Friday night.
. Mr. Butler declared he was in re
ceipt of a letter from C. W. Kraft,
Confirming the statement printed
Monday in The Bee to the effect
that J. A. Aulabaugh, former owner
f an apartment house on South
Twenty-sixth avenue, refused to
raise his rent rates to an unreason
able amount at the instance of the
.real estate men, and later sold his
property to the Calkins Co.,. real
estate investors. Immediately fol
lowing the sale, the rents were raised
from $30 to $55 a month.
Nationalization of Coal
; Mines Being Planned
rfWashington, Aug. 26. National
ization of the coal mines is sought
by -many mine workers and a bill
to 'that end has been prepared,
Harry N. Taylor, president of the
National Coal association, testified
today before a senate committee in
vestigating the coal situation.
: The plan is for the government to
fcuy the mines and turn them over
to the men for operation, Mr. Tay
i lor-, said. Already many of the
miners are demanding a six-hour
day; and a five-day week, he added.
-a Referring to strikes of miners in
Illinois, Kansas and Missouri, Mr.
Taylor said a serious labor difficulty
presented itself and must be met un
less the country is to suffer a severe
Shortage of coal during the coming
winter. These strikes, he declared,
were in violation of the agreement
between the men and the fuel ad
ministration. , '. ,
Officer and Chauffeur
. " Bum to Death in Plane
" Belleville, 111., Aug. 26. Second
Lieut Floyd Meisenheimer of De
troit and Chauffeur Harold Ice of
St. Mary's, O.. were killed at Scott
field, near here, late Tuesday,
when their airplane fell from an al
titude of 200 feet and caught fere
after crashing to the erouad
This Rent Raise Notice Isn't
Grammatical, But It's Blunt
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Advance to Sixty Five Dollar ($65.00 per mountb,
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WOULD ENABLE
SERVICE MEN TO
ACQUIRE FARMS
Moridell Explains to' House
His Soldier Settle
ment Measure.
Washington, Aug. 26. (Special
Telegram). Floor Leader Mondell
of Wyoming Tuesday delivered his
long-anticipated spech in support
of his soldier settlement bill, at the
same time commenting upon many
criticisms heard against it. Entirely
aside from the fact that to give
every returning soldier a cash bonus,
as proposed by some, would require
a sum equalling the . total cost of
United States participation in the
war, Congressman Mondell assert
ed that a mere gift of money would
not in any sense measure the na
tion's appreciation of this service,
and gave it as his opinion that the
average soldier neither wanted nor
expected a gratuity of this kind.
Just what funds the soldier needs
under the Mondell plan, and how he
could meet the various payments
contemplated by the bill, was ex
plained in deail. Projects would re
quire from two or five years, Mr.
Mondell told- the house, depending
on their size and character, during
which time the prospective purchas
er would be given remunerative em
ployment on the project. The 5 per
cent first payment would, on tne
basis of a $5,000 farm unit, amount
to. $250, which he believed 4he aver
age soldier would find no difficulty
in saving.
Panic In Theater as
Grand Opera Singer
Clashes With Rival
Exclusive Cubic by Universal Service and
the London Dally Express.
Rome, Aug. 26. Scenes of wild
panic broke out among the audience
witnessing a performance of "II
Traviata". at. Serind, during a duet
between the baritone, Guiseppe Mu
rialti, impersonating the father, and
the leading tenor.
In the midst of singing, Munalti,
a powerful man, suddenly seized the
tenor by the neck and nung him
across the footlights. The. tenor
landed on the head of the trom
bonist, knocking the latter uncon
scious. In the panic that ensued a
number of persons were injured.
One woman died later at a hospital.
It was subsequently learned that
Murialti recognized in the tenor a
man who had supplanted him in the
affections of a young woman at
Piacenga. .
Secret Correspondence
To Bela Kun Is Unearthed
Basle, Aug. 26. Roumanian mili
tary authorities have discovered in
the archives of the Hungarian for
eign ministry a telegram from Otto
Bauer, former Austrian state secre
tary entrusted with the management
of the state bureau of foreign affairs,
to Bela Kun, former head of the
Hungarian communist government,
asking him to destroy all documents
relative to the delivery ot arms, by
Austria to Hupgary, according to a
Budapest dispatch received here.
'Other Woman' Named in Suit
for Separate Maintenance
Myrtle Fitzsimons, in a petition
for separate maintenance, filed yes
terday in district court, charges that
her husband, Jess M. Fitzsimons,
sent her and their small child away
from their home at times in order
that he might be with Pauline O.
Grotemark and other women. The
Fitzsimons home is at 1337 South
Thirty-first street. They were mar
ried in 1917 in Hebron, Neb.
WILD SCRAMBLE
FOR SPECULATIVE
STOCKS IN U. S.
People Unearth Surplus Funds
and Eagerly Take a
Chance at Wealth.
By Charles W. Storm.
Universal Service Staff Correspondent.
New York, Aug. 26. The high
cost of living is being held respon
sible for the mania being manifested
by the public for the preferred and
common shares of the new and old
corporatons. Bankers declare that
the enormous increase in the cost of
necessities is causing many thou
sands of people with surplus funds
to desert the bond market and seek
a larger income through investments
in preferred stocks. Thousands of
others are trying to enlarge their
incomes through speculation in the
common stocks of old as well as
new corporations, particularly in the
shares of new concerns that have
oil bearing lands.
The deluge of new oil stocks has
been so large that one cannot tell
when hanging on a strap in a trolley
car whether the person pushing him
is the owner of an oil company
stock certificate or not, but the
chances are that he is, for persons
in all walks of life from office boys
to bankers have been buyng oil
stocks with their savings.
Large brokerage houses say they
are holding more oil shares for spec
ulators and investors than ever be
fore in the bstory of the country
and that the word "oil" acts like
magic in drawing surplus funds
from savings banks, tin boxes and
mattresses. Persons who were never
suspected of having money that they
could be induced to put into securi
ties have had their savings lured
from hiding places and used for the
purchase of oil shares.
While the speculative merry-go-round
in the stock market continues
investment bankers sit at their desks
doing nothing but complaining about
the dullness of business. They de
clare that the public does not want
high grade bonds but wants to spec
ulate, adding that if speculation is
offered in one hand and good in
vestment in another, the chances are
10 to 1 that the prospective pur
chaser will take the speculative
stock.
International Justice
To Guide Serbia's Policy
Belgrade, Aug. 26. Announcing in
the Chamber of Deputies today the
government's policy, Liouba Devido
vitch, the new premier, said among
other things, that "Serbia in the im
pending reorganization of the Bal
kans would not seek special privi
leges but would base her claims
upon the principles of international
justice."
"Serbia, nevertheless, must defend
to the utmost her just demands
wherever they are threatened," he
said. "When peace is concluded,
Serbia should pursue a policy of re
ciprocal confidence with her neigh
bors and cultivate intimate friend
ships. Czecho-Slovakia and Poland
seek good relations with us as do
Greece and Roumania."
Japan Sends Diplomatic
Representative to Riga
Paris, Aug. 26. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The Japanese gov
ernment has sent a diplomatic agent
to Riga to take charge of Japanese
interests there until the arrival of a
permanent representative. It is re
ported the United States con
templates similar action.
Plane Service In Italy
Rome, Aug. 26. (Havas.) An
nouncement is made here of the in
auguration -of passenger airplane
service between this city and Naples.
Danger Lurks In Summer
Foods For Babies
FT1 VERY mother knows the evil effects of summer heat on
cow's milk. This danger is equally great to all foods unless
carefully kept in a cool place away from insects.
Bad food lose its nourishing value.
It cauie comtipatioa and diarrhea.
These are at best always prevalent in
- the summer tune. They depress the
, mind and weaken the body, and may
came more serious illness.
' The first precaution is to see that
the stools are regular and normal. In
the) ease of babies and children, if
less thaa twice a day yon may suspect
constipation; if . more thaa three times
a day, diarrhea. A remedy is then"
needed that will regulate and tone the
bowels, and you will find none safer
and better than Dr. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. It is a combination el simple
laxative herbs with pepsin that millions
of mothers constantly nave in the house
for just such purposes. '
A bottle of Syrup Pepsin can be
bought at any drug store tor 50c and
$1, the latter the family size. A free
trial bottle can be had by sending your
address to Dr. W. B.. Caldwell, 460
Washington St, Moobcello, I1L "
T DP. CALDWELL'S "T" , .
Syr up Pepsin
JhQ Jerect JaxativQ
ICE CAR TRUST
IS SUBJECT OF
INVESTIGATION
Federal Trade Commission
Recommends Government
Take Over' Refrig
erator Cars. -
Washington, Aug. 26. Declaring
that the step is necessary to control
the business of the five largest pack
ing companies, the federal trade
commission in a special report to
President Wilson recommends that
operation of refrigerator cars and of
cars used for transportation of meat
animals be declared a government
monopoly.
It recommends further that the
property concerned, including icing
stations and other facilities as well
as the cars be acquired by the gov
ernment, and railroads thereafter be
licensed to own and operate them.
The big packers, the report says,
now own 90 per cent of all the re
frigerator equipment in the country
suitable for the transport of fresh
meat.
Packers Monopolize Cars.
'The present country-wide system
of distribution by the five big pack
ers has grown up from their control
of refrigerator car lines in conjunc
tion with various pools," the report
says in part.
"In turn, the volume of traffic of
the five packers has enabled them to
secure from the railroads advantages
over competing shippers. Formerly
in the shape of direct rebates, these
advantages are now usually in ex
pedited service to the big packers
cars; in favorable mixing rules which
include alrtheir diversified products
and even many articles not related
to the packing industry; by allow
ances paid to some of the big pack
ers by carriers for a part of the
transportation service; by favorable
arrangements and lease of stock
yards by the railroads to some of the
big packers; and by the sale to the
railroads of bumping posts manu
factured by a subsidiary of one of
the big five.
Small Packers' Cars Diverted. :
"The small Independent packers'
cars are misused and diverted, fre
quently being out of his service for
extended periods, in several in
stances as long as six months. In
1917, the cars of the "big five" and
their subsidiary companies maintain
ed an average of 80.8 miles per car
per day, while the average for cars
of their competitors, the independent
packing companies, was only 54.5
miles."
The commission's investigation of
the private car ownership has devel
oped the fact that while packers
claim losses, the report says "a prop
er revision of their car accounts"
shows the car operation has netted
some profit. This amounted to 6.8
per cent in 1912, 3.4 per cent in 1914,
and 4.3 per cent in 1917.
"The prompt and efficient handling
of the traffic in meats and other per
ishable foods is of great public con
cern," the report says in making
the recommendations, "and it is also
important that all shippers should
have equal and adequate service.
The recommendations are made to
correct present inequalities of serv
ice and rates as well as to prevent
the dangers of monopolistic advan
tages." Wilson Scores Report.
Thomas E. Wilson, oresident of
Wilson & Co., and chairman of the
Institute of American Meat Packers,
in a statement here today said tne
packers were willine to submit the
justice of the commission's demands
in us report on private car lines to
the common sense of the American
public."
The trade commission presented
report diametrically opposed to
that handed down by the interstate
commerce commission composed of
men trained in railroad work," said
Mr. Wilson. "After a six-year study
of the question the interstate com
merce commission report said:
"'An important part of the inter
state commerce of the country is
transported in privately owned cars.
It is to the interest of the owners,
carriers and public that their opera
tion should be continued under such
rules and regulations as will insure
their efficient handling without dis
crimination agaist any shipper of
particular description of trafhe. '
Pullman Oil Co. Strikes
Oil Near Desdemona, Tex.
El Paso, Tex., Aug. 26. (Special
Telegram.) The Pullman Oil and
Refining company's well No. 1,
called the F. M. Daniel well, which
is in the town of Desdemona, Tex.,
was standing 2,000 feet in oil this
morning with the well uncompleted,
according to announcement made by
the home office here. The exact
estimate of the size of the well can
not be made at this time, but it
looks like one of the biggest wells
in the field. The drillers on this
well telegraphed for $700 worth of
stock in the company. The com
pany's well No. 2, is drilling around
500 feet on the five acre tract north
of Desdemona. This well is located
about 300 yards north of the Lucy
well now reported to be making
2,500 barrels per day.
Only Two Men Unaccounted
For Who Went Into Battle
Washington, Aug. 26. Only two
men of the thousands of the Amer
ican expeditionary force, who went
into battle against the Germans re
main unaccounted for, according to
a casualty list issued today by the
War department. The previous list
showed more than 100 missing in
action.
Total casualties now are placed at
291,732, with 77,422 deaths from all
causes.
Alleged War Thief
Stands Mute When
Arraigned in Court
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 26. Maj.
Leslie Waterbury, formerly salvage
nffirer in the American exnerlitinn-
ary forces and indicted by a federal
grand jury on tne cnarge pt com
nlirirv in an alletred consniracv tn
defraud the government in the sale
of $30,000,000 worth of ordnance
supplies, was arraigned in federal
court Tuesday and stood mute.
TnHcre Tuttle ordered a nlea of
not guilty not entered. Waterbury
furnished a cash bond of $7,500 and
will probably be brought to trial
September 8.
m
Prohibition of Wina
Cause ot Concern to
Italian Commander
Boston, Aug. 26. Admiral Hugo
Conz, in expressing appreciation to
day of the welcome extended the
Italian battleship Conte di Cavour
and its crew, told Acting Mayor
Ford that he had only one cause for
concern in connection with his visit
to the United States prohibition.
The daily ration of the dread-
naught s crew included a small
quantity of light wine, he said, and
with the probablity of a cruise along
the Atlantic coast, he faced the
prospect of exhausting the ship's
wine supply.
Chamberlain's Colic
and Diarrhoea Remedy
is prompt and effectual.
Only 35 cents per bottle.
LOCUST UNE FREEZE,
A NEW SHERBET, IS
SERVED FREE AT THE
UNION OUTFITTING GO.
A Great August Furniture
Sale at This Store Brings
a Saving of Thousands .
of Dollars.
Furniture for Every Room
in the Home in Single
Pieces and Suites.
It isn't often that one has an
opportunity to secure values of
such a substantial nature as the
Union Outfitting Company is of
fering during its big August
Furniture Sale.
In fact, such savings would be
impossible, were it not for the
fact that for many months past,
their buyers have been visiting
the leading, makers of Grand
Rapids and. other furniture
centers for the furniture offered
in this Annual event.
If you are one of those home-
makers who delight in surprising
the family with something "dif
ferent" now and then in desserts,
you will be interested in "Locust
Lane Freeze" which the company
is serving FREE to all visitors.
Locust Lane Freeze is a nour
ishing, healthful and refreshing
frozen dainty made of Locust
Lane Buttermilk from the Ala-
mito Dairy and ; is surprisingly
"good." Every one who tastes it
is anxious to make it. .
At the Union Outfitting Com
pany no transaction is evef con
sidered complete until the custo
mer is satisfied.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
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EFORE embarking on what seems to be an
orgy of "storage food seizure," it is proper
that the public and officials look beyond the
immediate present !
Agents of the Government, attempting to quickly reduce living costs, are seizing
stored food stuffs in various sections of the country, and announcing their inten
tion to force immediate marketing of the food, some of which is in process of
cure, the balance for use in winter or the season of short production.
Foods That Are Stored
The Surplus Egg Production of March, April, May and June.
The Surplus Butter Production of May, June and July.
The Surplus Beef from Range Cattle as Marketed in the Fall.
The Surplus Pork Production (Most of It To Be Cured.)
Unless the surplus of the season's production is available for
gradual distribution there is bound to be a scarcity. v
The present movement may be likened to the
cutting down of a tree in order to obtain its fruit.
That is one way to get the fruit in a hurry, but
it has a disastrous effect upon next year's crop.
There can be no defense for the withholding of
food in order to increase the price.- .We do not
do this. The use of cold storage for speculation
deserves the severest condemnation, and every
good citizen will endorse common sense inspec
tion of food reserves. v
A line must be drawn, however, between specu
lation and prudent laying away of food; for the
season of non-productivity. If the course of un
checked seizure is pursued, it will mean shortage
next winter.
Most of the meat in storage is owned by firms
which perform a real function in the process. of
distribution, and which have regular customers,
whose neeas they supply. The success of these
firms depends largely on the ability of their
managers to estimate market demands and to
buy, store and sell accordingly.
The fact that there is more food of various kinds
in storage at this time than was the case a year
ago is really beneficial when consideration is given
to the fact that 100,000,000 people in the U.S.A.
are to be supplied and foreign countries as well.
Our business experience for a period of years has
had to do with problems incident to the storage
of food and we believe that if food supplies now
in storage be prematurely forced on the mar
ket HUNGER may join our ranks this winter.
Institute of American Meat Packers
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