RIEF
RIGHT
REEZY
BITS OF NEWS
SHILLING A QUART ...
MILK PREDICTED. X
London, Aug. 29. C. A. McCur
dy, parliamentary secretary for the
food ministry, predicts that milk
will cost a shilling a quart next win
ter. He said powers will be grant
ed the local authorities x to supply
subsidized milk to poor British chil
dren at less than cost or free.
Tribunals will be established im
mediately to adjudicate cases of
food profiteering.
AGGRIEVED AT LOSING
LETTER TO PRINCE.
Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 29. Col. W.
G. Barker, foremost aviator of Can
ada, is aggrieved over his experience
in the Toronto-New York aerial en
durance race.N He says that he en
tered for the express purpose of
tarrying a letter from the Prince
of Wales to President Wilson and
that when he reached Mineola the
letter was not in his mail bag.
Col. Barker has informed the
prince and is consulting his lawyers.
BELGIANS ACCEPT
HOOVER'S PROPOSAL
Brussels, Aug. 29. The Belgian
government has accepted the pro
posal of Herbert Hoover, director
general of the interallied relief or
ganization, that the final assets ; of
the Belgian relief commission,
itniountingvto about $16,000,000, be
devoted to the creation of a founda
tion for the higher education of
children of the workers and people
of limited means.
PRUSSIANS STILL IN
CONTROL IN GERMANY.
Berlin, Aug. 29. The Vorwaerts
announce the composition of the
new imperial council as follows:
Prussia, 25 votes; Bavaria, 7;
Saxony, 5; Wuerttemburg, 3: all
other states 1, while the two Keuss
principalities, coupled receive one
vote.
BELGIAN CARDINAL
TO VISIT GIBBONS.
Washington, Aug. 29. Because
of the absence of President Wilson'
from "Washington next month, it is
understood that the first, visit to be
,,wa4e" in. this country by Cardinal
Mercier, the veteran Belgian prelate,
will be to Cardinal Gibbons at Bal
timore. Cardinal Mercier will spend
several days resting in New York
niter his arrivals on the transport
Agamemnon on which he will sail
from Brest early in September.
VANDERBILT GETS JOB
AS A "CUB" REPORTER.
New York, Aug. 29 Cornelius
Vanderbilt, jr.;. son of Brig. tJen.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, has forsaken
Newport .society life to accept a
job' as "cub" reporter on the N3w
York Herald -.at $25 a week, it was
..mA Viei-n Frwlsv " nielit. Ihe
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. vonng millionaire obtained the posi
tion by a letter ne wrote to mc
editor of the paper.
, "I wanted to be a reporter, he
aid. "beciuse L have always found
ntwspaper men to be the brightest
and most alert people I know."
FOCH PAYS TRIBUTE
TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
London,vAug. ,29. Marshal Foch
in a letter of thanks to the British
parliament says: -
"If,! was able to bring the war to
a speedy conclusion, it was due to
the sustained-diermination of - the
British government to reinforce and
keep up in 1918 sufficient effectives
mid give powerful assistance to the
transport of American divisions."
HOSPITAL HEALTH RESORT
FOR AVIATION OFFICERS.
Washington, Aug. 29.-,(By Uni
versal Service.) The aviation hos
pital at Cooperstown, N.. Y., is be-,
ing used as a "health resort" for
aviation officers, who are waited
upon by large corps of privates who
ate unable to obtain their discharge
from the army.
This charge was made by Repre
sentative .Tincher- of Kansas in a
speech in the house. Mr. Tincher
said: - . , ,
"Nobody is sick at the hospital.
-A number of officers are there
'goldbricking' it for a fine summer
vacation, iu the mountains. Boys
from my own district tell me each
officer has three or four privates to
wait on him, and that there is even
a wealthy civilian quartered there
whom rhe privates also have to
serve. r-
"Two of these men are farmers
who will be unable to plant fall
crops unless they are released. The
War department ignored my at
tempts to help them out."
Mr. Tincher made the charge
during deoate on xne war uqpan
nient's bill providing for 18,000 of
ficers during ' the fiscal year of
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SENATOR LA FOLLETTE
ATTACKS NEWSPAPERS.
Washington, Aug. 29. Discussion
,by Senator La Follette. republican,
"Wisconsin, of the oil land leasing
bill Friday, prevented final action
on the measure. The Wisconsin sen
ator yielded) the floor late in the day
after speaking 12 hours in three days
against the measure, but announced
that about two' hours would be re
quired to conclude his speech.
Senator Smoot, republican, Utah,
in charge of the bill, gave notice
when the senate recessed that if a
final vote was not-reached by 6
o'clock Saturday evening he- would
ask for a night session.
The leasing bill, ( even as now
framed, Senator La Follette said,
was not satisfactory to the Navy and
Justice departments.. He read to the
senate a letter written by Secretary
Daniels to-the house public lands
committee recommending that the
California' and Wyoming naval re
serves be struck from the provision
of the bill. ,
. The Wisconsin senator also at
tacked the newspapers of the coun
try, saying they were "controlled."
After having made the charge sev
eral years ago. he said, the news
papers "damned me for it and for
a -time they kept me out of their
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PROVS
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CURTAIL 3
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OF TREATY
Senate Committee Stoutly As
sails Peace Covenant, Knox
Suggesting Only Safe Way
Is to Reject it Altogether.
DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS
AGAINST AMENDMENTS
Would Limit Power of Ameri
can Representatives on Rep
arations Commission, Which
Is to Collect Bill From Huns.
PROFITEERING
ON DINING CARS,
SAYS JEFFERIS
Quotes ' Exorbitant Prices
Charged in Letter to Di-.
rector General Hines.
Washington, Aug. 2.-By The
Associated Press.) rhe treaty of
peace was aggressively assailed by
its senate foes again today, the for
eign relations committee approving
three more textual amendments to
its provisions and Senator Knox,
of Pennsylvania, a republican menr
ber'of the committee and former
secretary of state, advising the sen
ate that the only safe way to deal
with it was to reject it altogether.
Acting by a vote of nine to eight
in each case, the committee adopt
ed without extending debate amend;
ments designed to equalize British
and American representatioflin the
league of nations, to prevent the
British dominions from participat
ing in a league decision affecting
any one of them, and to curtail the
power ' of the American represen
tative on the reparations commis
sion which is to collect Germany's
reparation bill.
, . Democrats Fight Hard.
Democratic committee " members
presented a solid front against all
of the proposals and were joined
by Senator McCumber, republican.
North Dakota, -who also had voted
against the two. amendments adopt
ed prior to today's session. Only
one proposed amendment now re
mains on the committee's calendar,
though others may be presented
when consideration of the subject
is resumed early next year.
In his senate address Senator
Knox declared the full purpose of
American participation in the war
had been, accomplished with the
armistice, and that fhere had been
no reason for projecting the nation
into the European settlements. He
said a complete peace basis could
be established bv action cr con.
gress as soon as three of the other
principal powers had ratified the
treaty and that such course would
free the country from many danger
ous probabilities of foreign encangle
ments. Terms Too Harsh. v
The peace terms imposed upon
Germany, said the Pennsylvania
senator, went beyond the pale of
international law and would be im
possible of enforcement. . He char
acterized them as constituting "not
the treaty but the truce of Ver
sailes" and as laying foundation
"for centuries of blood-letting."
During" the day another of the
treaties negotiated at Versailles
was sent to the senate by President
"Wilson. It was the treaty made
with Poland by the principal pow
ers and signed June 28. With it
the president sent an'agreement for
"occupation of the Rhine signed by
the United States and other 'pow
ers on the same day."
Make Letter Public.
Submission of the Polish treaty,
the Rhine agreement and other data
, (Continard en Page Six, Column Six.)
By E. C. SNYDER,
Staff Correspondent Omaha Be.
Washington, Aug. 29. (Special
Telegram.) In - a letter to Walker
Hines, director general of railroads.
Representative Jefferis pointed out
that "while congress and the vari
ous governmental agencies were
hard at work in their endeavors to
discover,,tneans of lowering the high
cost of living, it my be pertinent
to suggest that you turn your at
tention to the food prices prevail
ing on the dining cars of the vari
ous railroads under your jurisdic
tion. "I have before me a menu card
of the Wabash dining car service,"
says the letter, and will quote you
several prices therefrom. Sliced
peaches, 3ft, cents, -whipped cream
40 cents. This dish consists of two
sliced peaches that cost S cents in
the market and I amreliably in
formed that there is a plentiful sup
ply on the market at that price.
Poached eggs are quoted at 20 cents
each. This represents a profit of
more than 75 per cent. Half portion
of bacon wti fried egg, 50 cents,
with two eggs, 65 cents. To my
mind it would be difficult to dis
cover a more flagrant example of
profiteering than this. It wpuld be
well at this crisis for a government
department to set a good example
in the matter of price" fixing and
then command others to follow. It
would seem reasonable for us to
say 'do as I do, rather than do as
I say."'
These charges were suggested to
Mr. Jefferis by a businessman of
Omaha who thought Mr. Hines
should be advised of conditions on
the dining cars in view of the fatt
that he has invited suggestions
from the patrons of the railroads.
Bee Editor Shows How
Westerners Can Hustle
Washington, Aug. 29. (Special
Telegram.) Victor Rosewater in
his first day in Washington t as
chairman off the committee of' the
American Publisher's association
urging the repeal of the zone system
as applied to. newspapers, showed
what a hustling westerner could do
when there was something to work
f6r onjhe carpet. . He saw senators
and representatives and gave them
postal intelligence of a character
that bids fair to bear good results
when the repeal bill gets before
congress. He will continue his mis
sion of education Saturday and go
over to Baltimore to spend Sunday
with relative. He will be back on
the job Monday.
Letter Received From
Bandit Reported Killed
Douglas, Ariz,, Aug. 29. A letter
purporting to have been written by
Jesus Renteria, bandit -captor of
Lieuts. Harold G. Peterson and Paul
H. Davis of the United States army,
who held them for ransom has been
received by the Douglas Daily Dis
patch The writer claims the bandits
evaded the expeditionary force sent
to effect their capture. The letter
was turned oyer to civil and mili
tary authorities who are investigating-
though they said they' be
haved it fake.
GOVERNORS OFFER
ASSISTANCE IN
SOLVING'H. C L
AIR CAN
Result .of Washington Confer
ence Assures Close Federal
and State po-Operation.
Washington, Aug. 29. New im
petus was given the government's
campaign to reduce the cost of liv
ing at conferences Friday which as
sured, the closest co-operation be
tween federal and state authorities.
Governors of Missouri, Maine,
Minnesota, Arizona, Pennsylvania
VLnd South L-arolina and Lieutenant
"TGovernor McDowell of Montana,
representing the National Confer
ence of Governors, spent several
hours studying the situation with
Attorney General Palmer and then
called at the White House to offer
President Wilson the full machinery
of the states in the effort to re
store a normal price "revel.
As a result there is greater opti
mism in the Capital over the out
look than has been evident in many
days. , t
Aftr meeting with the president
and the attorney general, the com
mittee of governors announced
these facts: , t
Thar all the people of the nation
and all organizations should imme
fiately co-operate for the purpose
of increasing the production of the
necessaries of life.
That economy in consumption and
care in purchasing the necessaries
of life are equally important with
production.
That every agency of the federal
and state governments should co
operate forthwith to prevent profi
teering. Wilson and Gompers
Hold White House
Labor Conference
Washington, Aug. 29. After two
days of conferences with other of
ficials of the American Federation of
Labor, President Samuel Gompers,
who returned from Europe this
week rather unexpectedly, discussed
the disturbed labor situation over
the country with President Wilson
Friday at the White House.
No announcement was made on
behalf of the president and Mr.
Gompers and the union officials who
accompanied him, including repre
sentatives of the steel workers,
steadfastly refused to discuss what
had transpired.
-It is known, however, that the
president was asked to intervene in
the- dispute between the steel work
ers and the United States Steel cor
poration over wages, hours, working
conditions and the right of collective
bargaining..
Before going to the White House
the committee of steel workers made
public a telegram to the council at
Gary. Ind, in which they charged
that the -steel corporation was dis
charging union men at a number of
its plants in an effort to force the
strike issue before the president
could avct. The men were urged not
to strike until all efforts at a peace
ful settlement had been made,
SITUATION
IS CRITICAL
Widely Variant Emotions Agi
tating People of Union and
Long Smouldering Crisis Is
Brought to a Head.
REPUBLIC INDEPENDENT
OF BRITAIN, DEMANDED
Jan 'Smuts Looms JJp as Pos
sible Savior of. Country From
Bloody War Provided He
Becomes Premier.
Pretoria, S. A., Aug. 29. (By Uni
versal Service.) In the death of
Louis Botha, prime minister of the
Union of South Africa, one of the
pillars of the British empire has
beenjelled.
Widely variant emotions "are agi
tating the people of the Union. The
premier's death brings to a head a
long smouldering crisis. The inde
pendence movement has gained by
leaps and bounds of late, and the
people are now divided as sharply
as are the Sinn Feiners and Ulster
ites in Ireland, one side clamoring
for complete separation from Brit
ain and the creation of an independ
ent republic, the other , working
tooth and nail for the retention and
cementing of the union with the
empire. Fully 1,000,000 negroes,
with no interest in this, as yet blood
less struggle, stand by sullenly, their
racial consciousness fanned by mani
fold causes, and making trouble
wherever and whenever they can.
Will Smuts Succeed Him.
Who will succeed Botha is the
question on all lips and all eyes
indeed, the eyes of Britishers every
where turn toward Jan Christian
Smuts, Botha's right hand man, con
queror of German East Africa and
long Botha's rival in the affections
of the South African people.
Smuts is looked upon as the logi
cal second premier of the Union.
Like Bt5tha. he was one of the Boer
leaders in that terrible struggle two
decades ago, and like Botha he later
became one of Britain's strong men
in creating and maintaining the
Union as a loyal part of the empire,
fhit for some time Smuts has been
regarded as thes tronger. of the twq
stronger in the sense ot greater in
itiative, fearlessness and vision. On
his first visit to England he carried
the people there by storm with his
eloquence and statesmanship. He
sprung his first international sensa
tion when Lloyd George sent him to
Switzerland so he might listen to
what an Austrian peace emissary
had to say".
Puts Blunt Question
He met that emissary and pift
this-blunt question to him:
"Is it true that Austria-Hungary
is readty to make a separate peace?"
The perplexed imperial messenger
stuttered some evasive reply. The
Afrikander's way of calling a spade
a spade had taken him off his feet.
"Yes or no?" asked Smuts.
The emissary kept maneuvering
for a "diplomatic" conversation, but
Smut ended the business with:
"Well, then good night." -
And Smuts went back to London.
That was Smut's way throughout
the war aggressive, direct, uncom
promising. "The world must be rid
of the Teutonic autocracy," was his
watchword. "Until then, nothing
else matters."
i Startled Great Britain.
But as soon as the war was over
and the autocracy crushed Smuts
startled Britain and the world in
a different way He began a cam
paign for appeasement of Germany
on the theory that only a policy of
conciliation1 could bring lasting
peace. He signed the peace at '.Ver
sailles under protest, submitting a
sensational memorandum setting
forth his views.
Since that day sentiment in Bri
tain toward him has cooled steadily
until now it has becomealmost hos
tile. From this change arises some
doubt if Britain will "stand for"
Smuts as successor to Botha. Yet
to hrush him aside and prefer a fig
urehead, it is felt here, would in
evitably lead td grave trouble, for
the people of South Afica by vir
tue of their very nature need a
leader who is a strong man and
who commands the eChfidence of
the majority, since the struggle be
tween the unionists and republicans
the latter Jed -by General Hertzog
is. becoming daily more intensive.
It is for these reasons that the
death of Botha opens up a new and
iperhaps 'stormy era in the history
of South Atrica ana or me onusn
empire.
Mexican Intervention
Urged by Governor
El Paso, Aug. 29. Intervention
in fvirn JinA the adootibn of the
league of Nations "to make the world
safe for American citizens" .were
urged by Govt W. P. Hobby of
Texas in a speech made Friday night
at a pinner given in nis nonor Dy
friends here, '
W. W.' "I don't think it'sgoingto bemuch 6f astorm"
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RAIL STRIKERS
AT LOS ANGELES
VOTE TO GO BACK
Decision Reached by Slight
Majority at Mass Meeting
of Yardmen and
Switchmen.
Los Angeles,, Aug. 29. By
slight majority, 2,000 switchmen and
yardmen who have been on a ttrike
here voted to return to work Sat
urday morning at 7 o'clock.
The vote was taken at a mass
meeting Friday night which was-ad-dressed
by A. F. Whitney, inter
national vice president of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen.
Following the vote those who
balloted not to return to work de
lared that despite the result they
would not return to work. A meetr
ing of those opposed to rturning
was called. ' .
The four local brootherhoods,
trainmen, conductors, engineers and
firemen, after a meeting here Friday
..night voted by a two-thirds major
ity to return to work at 7 a. m.
Saturday.
The members of the four railway
brotherhoods had been on strike
hej for more than a' week, follow
ing a walkout of yardmen in sym
pathy with a strike of trainmen of
the Pacific Electric Urban system.
The action of the men will bring
to, end a railroad tieup without pre
cedent in the history of the west.
It caused cancellation of transcon
tinental trains, left many points in
California .without mails for days
and threatened a water famine at
desert points dependent on railroad
tank cars for their supplies of that
fluid.
Negroes Appeal to Wilson
, for Protection of Race
New York, ..Aug. 29. The Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in a tele
gram sent to President Wilson and
made public here asks the immediate
appointment of a commission to "in
vestigate the failure of the states to
protect American citizens," and calls
attention to the recent attack in
Texas o Secretary Shillady of the
association. v
Thirty-eight persons have been
"brutally done to death by mobs in
this country since last January," the
telegram asserts, "36 of the victims
being negroes."
Pittsburgh Carmen Back.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 29. Street
car service was resumed here today
for the first time in two weeks when
3,000 striking motormen and con
ductors of the Pittsburgh Street
Railway company returned to work,
following a vote of the carmen late
yesterday to abandon the strike.
The men went back to work at
the wage increase 5 cents an hour
granted them by the national war
labor board recently, against which
they .struck two weeks ago-' i
WHOLESALE MEAT
PRICES GO DOWN,
BUT NOT RETAIL
Chicago ConsumeTs Gain 'No
Apparent Benefit From Slump
Live Stock Market.'
on
Chicago, Aug. 29. Although live
hogs have declined slightly more
'than $3 a hundred pounds in three
days and dressed' beef was down $2
a hundred pounds in the wholesale
markets Friday, with general bear
ish sentiment prevailing, consumed
in Chicago have gained no apparent
benefit.
The retail price of beef, pork and
mutton continued tiigh, though mut
ton was down with beef and pork
in the wholes&le markets. The drop
in live hog prices at the stock yards
today was about SO cents below
Thursday's general average.
"Whoie6ale beef prices have shown
an almost steady decline for almost
four months." according to a state
ment from H. H. Swift, vice presi
dent of Swift & Co. "Our com
pany's average1 wholesale price of
beef sold in Chicago the week end
ing May 3 was $20.91. The week
ending August 16 it was $17.54, as
against $16.63 for M week ending
August 23. '-'
"Mutton and lamb wholesale
prices also ; are off. considerably,
there having been al'drop of about
$1.20 a hundred pounds in the last
week, and these- lowered prices are
also, no doubt, being reflected to
the consumer by the retailer."
Contretemps, in
French Chamber
ieeds Ratification
Spe
Paris, Aug. 29. The general dis
cussion of the ratification of the
peace treaty came to a dramatic con
clusion Friday afternoon in the
chamber of. deputies, when, after a
stirring speech by Albert Thomas,
former member of the war council,
more than 20 deputies ' announced
their decision to refrain from speak
ing, i
The government was plainly em
barrassed, all the ministers gather
ing around Premier Clemenceau.
They conferred for several minutes
apd finally AndVe Tardieu said the
government had anticipated a dis
cussion lasting well into next week,
but was ready to proceed and would
require an hour and a half. -
Jean Bon, socialist and extremist,
came to the rescue of the govern
ment by the bitterness jof h!s attack,
refusing to hear Captam Tardieu or
any subordinate and calling upon
Premier Clemenceau himself.
This made it a question of confi
dence and all the government's sup
porters rallied to the premier. The
sitting was '. then adjourned until
Tuesday.
Rene Viviani, former premier, told
The Associated Press that he ex
pected the treaty would be ratified
Thursday or Friday, next
PRESIDENT AND
PERSHING MAY
MEET IN OMAHA
Civic Bodies Suggest Wilson
Greet Yankee Chieftain
- Here After Speaking
Trip in West.
If the plans of Omaha's largest
business organizations work out,
Omaha will, in the near future, be
the scene of a most important his
torical event, the first meeting of
.President Wilson and Gen. Jdhn J.
Pershing on American soil since the
close of the world war.
It has been suggested that Gen
eraL Pershing, in his contemplated
western trio may meet President
Wilson here on about September 26,
when the president is scheduled to
speak at Wichita, Kan., on his re
turn trip from the coast.
Word was received in Omaha
Thursday that General Pershing
would sail for the United States on
September 1, on the transport Levi
athan. He is expected to arrive in
this country on September 8.
Although the : general has an
nounced, no plans after his arrival
in America, it is believed that he
will remain, in New York for a
three-day welcome-home celebration
there and then go to Washington,
where he is expected to appear be
fore 'the senate.
It has been reported that he con
templates making a western trip to
his home town, Lincoln, the last of
September.
Invitation to Pershing.
F. A. Brogan, chairman of the
executive committee of the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce-yesterday
sent a cablegram to General Per
shing asking that he come to
Omaha as soon after his arrival in
America as possible.
He also sent a telegram to the
president's secretary, requesting that
the president meet the general in
Omaha if possible.
The president i scheduled to
speak in Omaha on the morning of
September 8, the day General Per
shing is to arrive in America. It is
hoped, however, that a meeting can
be effected in Omaha when the pres
ident returns from his western
speaking tour.
Buckingham Lends Hand.
Everetr Buckingham, chairman of
the Ak-Sar-Ben board of governors,
has promised to bring every possible
influence to bear to bring President
Wilson and General Pershing to
gether in Omaha.
"It would be the greatest event in
the history of the city," declared Mr.
Buckingham. "The eyes of all the
world would be focused on the
meeting .
"We hope to have the general
here during the Ak-Sar-Ben week
this fall, but if we can brine both
wn here at the same time it would
be so much the better."
O. S. Goodrich, president of the
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Angelus Apartment Agent
Oonohoe Refuses to Attend
City Council vRent Probe
-Until Police Appear.
BUTLER WANTS EXPERT
TO DETERMINE PROFITS
Increases Admitted by Owners,
But No Reason Is Advanced
Why Tenants Should Pay
Excessive Prices Demanded
The rent profiteering probe which
was resumed in the city council
chamber last night developed
enough spirit and interest to satisfy
the most expectant attendant.
T. A. Donohoe, agent for the An
gelus apartments, whose tenant
have been the storm center of the
high rent opposition, failed to ap
pear in response to .summons served
by the city clerk. y '
When Mr. Donohoe did not re
spond to the call of his name
Beecher Higby, leader of the An- "
gelus protestants, arose and said:'
"I would have thought that Mr. .
Donohoe should have come forward
like a man and stated his case. I
want him here."
"I move that arr officer be sent for
Mr. Donohoe," suggested Commis
sioner Butler. '
R. L. Mossman, assistant city at
torney, replied: "I think he has a'
technical objection for not appear
ing, on account of not having been',
paid a witness fee. The only man,
who was summoned and demanded
a witness fee was Ernest Sweet.";"
Zimman Pays $2 Fee. . '
Commissioner Ringer, who wa
presiding in the absence of Mayor s
Smith, ordered the city clerk to calf .;
upon the police department to bring
Mr. Donohoe before the council.
Detective C. H,. Van Deusen ap--peared
in the council chamber and
obtained the order for the absent
witness. A telphone call from the;
officer resulted in the early appear'
ance of Mr. Donohoe. Commis
sioner Zimman advanced the $2 wit-'
ness' fee for ihe manager of thrf
Angelus apartments.
The absence of Mayor Smith
caused some comment by the com
missioners. He was called during
the early evening by the city Clerk
and told that the commissioners de-
sired his presence, but that impor-J
tunity did not move the chief ex
ecutive of the city to leave his horfW!
Butler to Present Plan.
At the conclusion of the hearing?
Commissioner Butler .announced,
that at' the council . meeting r nextji
Tuesday -morning he will offer a res4
olution asking that the council ap;
point a special committee of three,",
with power to engage an expert tx-i
aminer to go into the books of thoscj
in the rental business; also to exam
ine the assessors' books for correct'
valuations. - ,
The council adjourned shortly be
fore the midnight hour without tak
ing any action on the rent situa- -tion.
'
First Protest Heard.
The first clash of Ae evening be
tween tenants and apartment man
agers involved the Raleigh apart
ments at Thirtieth and Jackson
streets. J. A. Shopen appeared as.
manager and B. F. Boyd and Mrs;
L. Butts appeared for a delegation,
of tenants. . .
Mrs. Butts said: "I was the first
tenant in the Raleigh. They have
been paying a Mr. .Schneider'$7S a
month to do the decorating work
they have been talking so much'
about. Two small colored boya,d
the janitor work. They borrowr
matches every day from the tenants
and burn the rubbish in the. back
yard. The screen doors don't fit and;
the result is that there are many
roaches, crickets and flies. Our rent
has been raised from $35 to $50."
' Mr. Boyd came forward with facts
and figures. He said: "As near as
I cn figure it, this apartment is.
earning 12 per cent, allowing for de-'.
preciation and figuring the valuation!'
at $50,000, which is twice what it i
worth. We have complained of lh '
rubbish in the backyard." "
Admits Rent Increase ,
Mr. Shopen, as'agent for the Ra' '
leigh. testified that the increased
rent had been ordered by the owner,"
Gordon Roth, who asserted he was)
not receiving reasonable returns on"'
his investment. He admitted that"'
the rents will be raised October H
from $32.50 and $37.50 to $47.50.
and $50.
"We pa the janitor $40 mr
month, but it is hard to keep him-"
at that figure." he said. , -I
He was unable to Kive fieureffon '
which the rent increases had been
based, but believed that the law of. '
supply and demand had somcthl. g i
to do' with it. He was unable to j
slate whether his lease blanks con
tained any reference to children. "
He presented to Mr. Mossman fig- "
ure purporting to show that tl V
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