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THE OMAHA" SUNDAY BEE;
NOVEMBER 9, 1919.-
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CRAMER IS MADE
PUBLICITY MAN
OF BRANDEIS FIRM
Executive Work in Recent Ak-Sar-Ben
Fund Campaign
Won Him New Position
With Omaha Store.
Guy Ha Cramer was so successful
as chairman of the executive com
mittee of the sales organization of
the Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition Co.,
during the recent stock-selling cam
paign, that he has been given the
position of advertising and publicity
manager of the Brandeis Stores.
The remarkable work of this or
ganization, under the able leader
ship of ifr. Cramer, attracted the
attention of George Brandeis, who
announced Mr. Cramer's appoint'
ment yesterday afternoon.
"It was Mr. Cramer's work dur
ing that campaign that won him this
new position which we have
created," said Mr. Brandeis. "His
ability as a publicity man was dem
onstrated. We have confidence
that he will develop into a strong
man along the lines of our busi
ness.
Mr. Cramer has been with the
Foster-Barker Co. six years. He
will go to Excelsior Springs Mon
day for a week --and will begin his
new work with the Brandeis Stores
Monday, November 17.
Mr. Cramer's recent achievement,
which won the admiration of many
business men, " was the selling of
$1,000,000 stock in the Ak-Sar-Ben
Exposition Co. The plans were
carefully laid and the work was as
carefully executed according to
those plans. It was conceded to be
a notable business feat, particularly
under present conditions.
Reavis Prepared To Expose
War Department Waste, In
Purchase of Automobiles
Congressman From Nebraska Creates Sensation in
Washington by Disclosures Regarding"Investiga
tion Into Enormous Surplus of Motor Trucks and
Passenger Cars Neglected by Government Au-
Anyone who realizes the necessity
thorities Now Preparing Report and Resolution
'Compelling Sale of These Cars.
been standing- minus their bodies,
so that all their parts have been ex
posed to the weather.
Mr. Reavis in examining Brigadier
J General Drake, chief of the motor
transport corps, tried to nx tne re
sponsibility foe this criminal condi
tion as. isshown by the following'
testimony
Absolute Criminal Waste.
Mr. Reavis I am not trying to fix
responsibility on you any more than
I am on anyone else, but I am going
to firjd out who is responsible.
There has been absolute criminal
waste with reference to this thing,
MAN ARRESTED -CHARGED
WITH
.. RIOT ASSAULT
George Davis Indicted, on Testi
mony of Mayor Smith for
1 ' Aftemplfon His Life.
George Davis, arrested in Lincoln
yesterday, was brought to Omaha
and lodged in the county jail to
await trial on three charges upon
which the grand jury indicted him I Congressman
' in connection wnn me court nouse
riots, and the assault upon Mayor
Smith.
Davis is charged In one indict
ment with assault to murder Mayor
Smith and assault to do great bod
ily injury to Mayor Smith. In an
other indictment he is charged with,
onspiracy to commit tht murder
of Will Brown, the negro- lynched
the night of the riot.
"I wasn't even near the court
house the night of the riot." said
Davis in the county jail. "We had
some, guests to dinner at my home,
- 1512 North Twenty-eighth street,
' and I can prove an alibi. I can
show by the taxicab company's re
cords that I came home before
7 o'clock."
' Davis says his business is buying
and selling apples and other fruit.
He: said he went to Lincoln , just
twoweeks ago. " N
, The police say he disappeared
- from Omaha the day after the riot.
Mayor Smith was the principal wit
ness against him before the grand
jury.
"I am positive he is the man,"
said the mayor, s ,
Mayor Smith picked out what is
said to be Davis' photograph from
the "rogues' gallery" at Central po-
lice station. George Davis went to
bed at 7 on the evening of the riot
"' ing and did not leave his lic-fr until
. the next morning, according to his
brother, William Davis, of 1512
North Twenty-eighth street,. There
were five persons at the Davis home
on the night of the rioting who will
testify to this statement, William
Davis said, ,.
Business Man Dies
At Age of 69 After
33 Years In Omaha
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Richard R. Evans died Friday
night at his home, 303 South Fifty
sixth street. He was born in Wales
69 years ago, came to the United
States at the age of 14 and lived in
Omaha 33 years.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the Evans home Monday aft
ernoon at 2, by Rev. Edwin H.
Jenks, pastor of the First Presbyte
rian church, of which Mr. Evans was
an elder. Burial will be at Forest
Lawn cemetery. v
Mr. Erans was president ef the
Nelson-Evans Paint company, vice
president of the Beard Wall Paper
company, and was interested in the
Evans Model Laundry. He platted
au addition to the city of Omaha,
known as Evanston.
He was a Mason and Shriner and
: member of the Chamber of Com
" merce and Happy Hollow club.
He is survived by five children:
Mijses Beulah and Cora. Evans,
Mrs. E. E. Gilmore, Mrs. H. H.
Harper and John D. Evans. Mrs.
Evans died a year ago. - .
Say Man Captured
In Bluffs Stole Gold
t ' From Omaha Dentists
An enterprising burglar was a,r
rested in Council Bluffs yesterday
v charged with the theft of $709 worth
of j gold from 'the McKenney den
tists, 1324 Farnam street, Omaha,
according to Chief of Detectives
Dunn. The burglary was commit
ted Friday night, police say.
Entrance to the place was gained
through a transom over the main
entrance. The loot consisted prin
cipally of dentaj bridge work made
recently, according to the police re
port. - - 1
All the gold that was taken was
found in the inside coat pocket of
the man who . was arrested police
have learned. "
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By EDGAR C. SNYDER. )
Staff. Corrupoodent for The Bee.
(Editor's note: Illustrations fot1
the following article,. will be found
in tlve Kotogravure section of to
day's Bee.)
Washington, Nov. 8. (Special)
Ordinarily a congressional investi
gation is looked upon as a good deal
of a farce, due to the failure of con
gress to take cognizance of the find
ings of the commission or commit
tee empowered to make such inves
tigation, and the evils sought to be
remedied continue, most generally,
along the same old lines. '
But now and then a committee is
appointed v to investigate certain
phases of our complex governmen
tal lite that tunctions in a manner
that attracts the unstinted praise
of the entire body of our citizen
ship and out of incomes infinite
good to the country as a whole.
One sufch committee was created
at the beginning of the Sixty-sixth
congress and known as the special
committee to investigate the expen
ditures in the War department with
especial reference to the money
paid out by this branch of the gov
ernment during the world war. And
as members of this special commit
tee two representatives from Ne1
braska were selected for the work
in hand, C. Frank Reavis of Falls
City, and Albert W. Jefferis of
Omaha. v ,
Both Well Equipped..
Well f equipped, both by training
and experience in legal procedure,
and with a natural bent toward un
raveling abstruse problems, these
two Nebraskans have been dominat
ing factors on the sub-committees
of which they are- members, and
cne of them. Congressman Reavis
chairman of the sub-committee deal
ing with the purchase of food sup
plies, automobiles, etcV. has already
established himself inNhe eyes of
the house as well as in the coun
try, as a fearless investigator and
a champion of an unorganized and
long-suffering public.
letteris, equally
tireless in running down reckless
expenditures in the purchase of
ordnance ahd other munitions, is
waiting-his opportunity to show the
house that its confidence in him
has not been misplaced
Shortlv after the siaming of the
armistice a department of sales was
organized in the War department,
whose business it was to dispose of
all surplus army stores, which in
value ran into the billions. The per
sonnel of this sales department, as
selected by the War department,
was made up in large measure, by
the representatives of the different
-business activities handling the
products to be sold. 1
In many instances the surplus
army supplies, if sold on the open
market, would come in direct com
petition with the products of the
man, the War department had se
lected to sell the army supplies. This
most astonishinsr situation was fully
developed in the speech of Congress
man Reavis on burplus Food and
the War Department," made in the
house several weeks ago and which
is still the subject of much comment
in the newspapers and magazines of
the country.
Because of the personal interest
of these"men the sales department,
as soon as organized last January,
determined upon the policy of dis
posing of the surplus army supplies
"so as npt to disturb industrial con
ditions. As might have been ex
pected this policy resulted in keep
ing army supplies off the. market,
until perishable stuff had spoiled,
and supplies of all character had de
teriorated greatly in value.
- Saved Over $300,000,000.
Congressman Reavis, whose search
ing investigations and whose dis
closures on the floor of the house
have so aroused public sentiment
that the War department, after
months of delay and inaction, was
pcomielled to act, has within the past
two months been personally respon
sible for 1 putting over $300,000,000
into the treasury that would other
wise have been lost, as well as to
give the people an opportunity to
buy food and other necessities at
less than market price.
Having forced the War depart
ment, to dispose or its surplus food
for the benefit of the public and
help a bit in pulling down the high
cost of living, Mr. Reavis-looked
about for "some other field of en
deavor in which he might be useful
within the limitations of his sub
committee and hit upon the pur
chase of automobiles by the War
department as the especial theater
for his investigation, with the result
that he has recently begun action
on the surplus motor cars owned by
the, department. "
His investigation has disclosed
that there are 47,000 surplus motor
vehicles, largely made up of Mack,
Garford, Liberty and . Packard
trucks, and White, Packard, Cadil
lac, Dodge and other standard
makes of passeager cars. These
cars, by the thousands, have been
standing without , shelter of any
kind, exposed to the snows of win
ter and the rains ot summer, since
last December, in camps and can
tonments. They are covered with
rust, the tops and upholstery rotted
and the Jglass broken in- the
limousines, while the trucks have
of; his government for money and
the burdens that taxation have
placed oq our people makes. 'this
condition of loss appalling 1 am
not claiming that you had authority
to sell these automobiles, but the
director of sales did have, did he
not?
General Drake Yes, sir.
On September 4 Genera) Drake,
when asked by Mr. Reavis what he
had done to secure the permission
to make the sale, testified as ol-i War department what activity were
lows;
General Drake In all we sent 470
communications to the office of the
director of sales regarding touring
cars, trucks, etc.
Mr. Reavis And granting author
ity to sell? -
General Drake Yes, sir; abso
lutely. Mr. Reavis How many reports
have you sent him? .
General Drake Four hundred and
seventy. f
, Mr. Reavis And not an automo
bile sold?
General Drake No, sir.
Mr. Reavis Who is responsible
for that?
General Drake The director of
sales. . ' -,
j It appears further along in ' the
testimony before Mr, Reavis' sub
committee that the man selected by
the secretary of war to dispose of
these surplus automobiles was Guy
Hutchinson, who on September 4
testified as follows:
Mr. Reavis Before entering the
vou engaged in?
Mr. Hutchinson I was in the au
tomobile business. '
Mr. Reavis Where?
Mr. Hutchinson I was "general
manager for the Willys-Overland
company in New York.
General Drake during the course
of the hearing admitted that the best
way not to "disturb industrial condi
tions," so far as .the automobile in
dustry was concerned, was to con
tinue the policy of permitting the
surplus cars to rot in the weather,
notwithstanding , the War depart
ment had thousands of cars in ex
cess of the needs of the army thai
were standing in the open, and the
d'rtment has permitted the auto
mobile factories to complete their
contracts with the government made
before the signing of the armistice
so that 70,130 new motor driven ve
hicles have been delivered and ac
cepteTl since the armistice.
Some of these vehicles have been
accepted .within the past 60 days
These new cars have never been
taken from their crates but are piled
on the ground, one on top of the
other, five crates yhigh and cover
acres of ground.
Representative Reavis, who has
devoted much of the summer to a
careful, painstaking investigation of
these, mpnstrous conditions, is now
preparing a report and resolution
compelling the sale of these cars.
A tremendous sensation has been
created here by these disclosures
and tKa picture of the First district
congressman has appeared in th:
pages of the eastern press for
weeks. Already the War depart
ment is signalling to Reavis not to
shoot that they will come Wown.
But Reavis intends to shoot.
Schools of Des Moines
. , Close for Lack of Coal
Des. Moines, Nov. 8. (Special
Telegram.) Des Moines schools
will not reopen Monday for lack of
ccal. Many of the smaller towns of
the state closed then schools earlier
in the week.
Roosevelt Memorial
Drive, Held Up for ,
Red Cross, to Reopet
The Roosevelt Memorial associa
tion of Nebraska will resume iti
drive Monday morning for a per
iod of 10 days. The drive in thii
state was stopped before the quoti
had been reached, on account of th
Rej Cross campaign, and in Omahi
the right-of-way was given to thi
Ak-Sar-Ben exposition drive.
JohnO'AV. Towle, campaiga
manager for Nebraska received, a
telegram from headquarters inJNjn
York City, permitting the lu-aay
extension, Mr. Towle said:
"The big idea in this drive is to
perpepuat the. memory of Theo
dore Roosevelt in establishing a
foundation for the teaching of
Americanism. Certificates. of mem
bership will be sent to donors." ,
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