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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1920)
!. THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MARCH 2 1920.. South Side SWIFT TO SELL NEW EMPLOYES STOCK IN FIRM . . 4 Head of Big Packing Com pany Urges Workers to Buy Securities With Savings. MelTand women who go to work for- Swift & Co. during the year 1920 will have the opportunity of. becoming more than mere em ployes, according to plans an nounced Monday by Louis F. Swift, president of the eiompany. A certain portion of the stock of the company has been set aside to be sold to new employes at par on a time payment plan and at present is selling about 20 per cent above par. "We believe that the man who owns his home is a, better citizen than the man who rents," siid Mr. Swift, "and on the same principle, the man who is a part owner of Swift & Co. will take a greater pride in the performance of the company. Under this plan it is provided that after six months' service the new employe may purchase stock on- a graduated plan based on salary. The maximum will be five shares. Two years are given the employes topay for the shares. The announcement is in line with advice to employes recently 'uttered by Mr. Swift in his annual address to shareholders. Mr. Swift urged employes to "get in debt" not for clothing or for luxuries, but for some investment worth saving for. Many employes who were share holders had told Jiim, said Mr. Swift, that "getting in debt" in this way had turned out to be the best thing that they ever did financially. A report presented at the annual meeting of shareholders of Swift & Company showed that the company, at the end of its fiscal year, had 10,- V O G U E SPRING MILLINERY MJMBER Dated February 15 Now Ready At Your Newsdealer's The Maibohm factory is just that. There is no surplus labor, no dead wood in the management personnel. Every workman on the payroll is on his toes. This spirit builds good tars. It builds more value into the car by cutting down the waste. The net result is a car of unusual worth. MaiboVn is the i lightest good six made. Phaeton, John M. Robbins Motor Company 2054 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. Tel. Tyler 218 Maibohm Motors Company v Sandusky f Ohio . S : i v Booth 22, Omaha Auto Show. 000 employes as shareholders. Over HOOO other employes have sub scribed for shares under the 1919 employes' stock savings plan, mak- mg a loiai oi u.uuu employes, wno are, or soon will become, sharehold ers of record. Federal Bureau and Stock Yards Heads in Row Over Daily Report A controversy has arisen between officials of the South Side bureau of markets at the stock yards and of ficials of the stock yards company relating to tne action of the com pany in furnishing dealers with an estimate of the daily receipts of live stock. , Last Thursday the bureau of mar kets' officers announced that they alone would assume the duties of furnishing information as to live stock receipts, which action was said to have aroused the ire of the stock yard's management, which has ever since the market was established furnished the trade early in the morning an estimate of the day's re ceipts. Representatives of the live stock industry Monday issued a protest to the bureau of markets against their plan of handling the information relative to live stock receipts and pointed out that the trade has rights that the government must respect and that every packer, trader and newspaper is entitled to all informa tion concerning stock and market conditions. War Officially Declared On Licenseless Canines All'Rovers, Carlos and Fidos, of the South Side, that do not carry a license .tag, will be escorted to the city pound by the dog catchers, after March 1, and a special dog patrol wagon has been provided. An en-' ergetic' campaign is to be waged acrainst unlicensed dozs. according to an announcement "give out Mon day, and 'every dog found running loose on the South Side without a license tag will be taken up. Armours Keep Open House For Auto Show Visitors Armour & Co., are keeping open house this week for visitors to , the Auto show. Special arrangements A Workshop $1495; Sedan $2,395; . First Auto Sold at 1920 Show Honors for completing the first sale after the' doors of the annual auto show opened went -to the Mid City Motor & Supply company, yes- have been mads to show visitors through the plant on each day of the show, and guides are on (hand to ex plain the different processes. People wishing to go through the plant should get off the car at Twenty-fifth and O streets, and go to the main entrance where guides are in attendance to receive them. Pitcher of Raisin Whisky Leads to Man's Arrest A squad of officers under the di rection of Officer Samardick, ar rested Louis Clernt Sunday night at his home, 3211 W street, on a charge of illegal possession of intoxicating liquors. The officers claim they found a pitcher of raisin whisky. The case will be tried in the South Side police court Tuesday. j- Reports Theft of 30 Fancy " Chickens and Two Roosters Victor Bautin, 3604 South Thirty third street, reports to the South Side police Monday that Sunday night 30 fancy chickens and two roosters, valued at $100, were stolen, from him. He asked the police to round up his chickens and return them to their roosts. South Side Brevities L.ost A garnet breaatpln on O street, between Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth streets, Sunday afternoon. Reward, Tele phone South 436. Ernest L. Ryan, chauffeur, 150S Harney street, charged with being drunk by South Side police, failed to show up in court Monday and bis bend of 125 was ordered forfeited. ' Food worth $10 up to tlfto will be de livered to your relatives In Warsaw Budapest,- Prague, Vienna or Hamburg;. You can maka the arrangements at Packers' National bank. Twenty-fourth and O streets. , C. H. Madison of Fremont and Frank Long of Arnold, . celebrated Sunday In South Omaha and awoke In Jail Monday charged with betas drunk. Judge Foster assessed a line of 10 each in South Side police court. O. J. Curts, 4912 South Twenty-fourth street, admitted his guilt on a charge of stealing three pair of sox from Morris Alolanko. an N street merchant, in tne South. Side police court, Monday. He was fined 125 and costs. Mr. Z Klrstlch, merchant tailor, has located at 4925 . Sonth Twenty-fourth xtreet. He baa just arrived from the east with the latest fashions la all sorts of Goods. Call South 1325. . J. C. Hercules, who said he was . a strong man from Topeka, Kan., and o. 6. Detroit, ffirTfttiwffl iiiiiiiiiMTMownnfihimimiJ jg terday. when L. B. Clough, 3236 Lafayette avenue, general superin tendent for M. E. Smith Co., bought a Stephens Salient "6." The sale was complotec just six minutes after $1,000 Added to 'Near - East Relief Fund by . Brandeis Store Mead ' George Brandeis yesterday wired $l,000as a personal subscription in the drive for relief in the Near East and also sanctioned a canvass of all employes of the Brandeis Stores. Mr. Holzman, Mr. Lepke and Mr. Sterner of the Nebraska Clothing company are handling the campaign among their employes and also 'for the entire block in which the store is situated, and Herbert Rogers, T. L. Combs and A. Hospe are doing the same in their block, while A. V. Dresher head? the cleaners and dyers. E. M. Reynolds and Miss Mary Sturgeon are taking care of the Benson & Thorne Specialty Shops; W. F. Baxter of Thomas Kilpatrick company, John J. O'Herren and T. P. Redmond have organized Bur-gess-Nash and Mr. Thompson the Thompson-Belden company. Or chard & Wilhelm are being lined up under J. L. Doane. H. R. Walkin and E. Buckle and H. R. Bowen is looking after his institution. ' W. S. Stoker and E. L. Holland are organizing a cleanup campaign to solicit these missed by the other teams. machinist, was arrested Sunday night by South Side police on a charge or Deins drunk. Ho was fined $10 and costs in the South Bide police court Monday. .Tnhn Hernandez. 3011 South -Third street, Gibson, engaged in an altercation with Waflcly KarzmisKi, uu w sireoi. Sat urday night. Hernandez was charged with assault and battery In the South Side po lice court Monday, ana was nnea iu ana costs Hrnest Schneider was arrested Sunday afternoon at Twenty-fourth and Ci streets on a charge of carrying concealed wea pons. He pleaded guilty in tne oouin Side police court Monday, to having a pair of steel knuckles on Ills person and was lined 2 ana costs. Vincent Malv. 8 rears old. died sud denly Sunday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank West, 2519 South Thirty-third street. Besides his daughter he Is survived Dy tnreo gr&nacnuureu tnu ftur great grandchildren. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 9 from the home of his daughter. Ralph Piper, Twenty-second and I. streets, 17-year-old waiter, was turned over to juvenile court by Judge Foster In the South Side police court Monday morning. Piper admitted taking a number of automobile accessories from the car of Dr. William Berry. John Swoboda, who conducts a soft drink parlor at 6133 South Thirty-third street, was fined $50 and costs in the South Side police court after conviction on a charge of conducting a disorderly house. The officers claim Swoboda permitted gambling in his place and they found a glass, of alleged raisin whisky on a table In the place. V. J. Kubat. 84 years old, died Sunday afternoon at the horn, of his son, Joseph I... Kubat, 4429 South Nineteenth street. He Is the father of Charles Kubat, deputy county attorney. Besides his sons he Is survived by a daughter and a sister of Cedar Rapids, la. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon from Korlsko's chafcel. 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Enclosed find $ . . . ; for which send me The Omaha Bee (Daily and Sunday) for one full year. . Name Street or R. F. D. No. Town Personal checks accepted. the doors o;;or...'. C. J. Pray, west ern sales manager of the Stephens company, witnessed the deal, which was verified by Clarke G. Powell, manager, of the show. Kansas City Man Now In Charge of Federal Reserve Bank Here L. H. Earhart of Kansas City, Mo., yesterdXy took charge of the Oma ha branch of the Kansas City Fed eral reserve bank here as acting manager. The board of directors of the Kansas City Federal Reserve bank have taken no' formal action regarding the appointment of a per manent successor to O. T. Eastman, former managing director of the Omaha branch, who is now with the Merchants National bank of ' this city, Mr. Earhart said. - Mr. Earhart was assistant cash ier of the Federal Reserve bank at Kansas City before coming here. He joined the federal reserve staff three years ago, leaving the Stock Yards National bank of Kansas City. Concerning the policy of the Omaha branch in collecting on checks at par from out-of-town non niembcr banks, which resulted in a stringent protest from nonmember state banks at a recent meeting in Omaha, Mr. Earhart declared that checks on these banks would con tinue to be collected at par. and that whatever ' methods were necessary to collect them would be used. Nebraska Celebrates 53d Anniversary of Its Statehood Nebraska wasiade a state by a proclamation issued by President Andrew Johnson 5$ years ago yester day. . In 1864 congress passed an act permitting Nebraska to become a state when the people here were ready. In 1866 the question was voted upon a hfly-contested elec tion and carried by a majority of about 100. The proclamation was issued by the president upon March 1 of the following year. Nebraska was named and made into a territory 13 years before by the Douglas bill, which was passed by congress and signed by President Pierce on May 30, 1854. Francis Burt democrat, of South Carolina, was the first governor of Nebraska. David Butler was gover nor of Nebraska when it became a state in 1867. He was re-elected in 1868 and again in 1870 Poor Health Gets Woman Freedom From Penitentiary Oakland, Cal., March 1. Miss Anita Whitney, social worker, con victed of crminal syndicalism and sentenced to one to fourteen years. was admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000, following the report of three physicians to the effect that Miss Whitney's health would be im paired by her continued incarcera tion in the county jail. Auto Show Section J State... ALTERNATE FOR REV. TITUS LOWE DOOMS JERSHING Car! E. Herring Comes Out Strong for Minister Because He Fayors Pershing tor Nomination. Carl E. Herring, well known (Oma ha attorney, who vill be voted for at the April primary for alternate delcgate-at-large to the national Carl E. Herring. republican convention, favors, the e'ection of Rev. Titus Lowe for del cgate-at-large and the nomination )Of General Pershing for president. the fact that Dr. Lowe so un qualifiedly endorses General Per shing is of more than passing in terest and significance," said Mr. Herring. "Those who know Dr. Lowe sand who does not? know that he combines the qualities of an ail-American and of a humanitarian without limit of territory. General ly an idealist lacks some of the stuff lhat goes to make up a red-blooded American. Generally a 1UU per cent American is a little lacking in vision for world-wide betterment. "The Omaha minister is not onlv a 100 per cent American; he is also a man of world-wide vision; and, in view of the fact that he has made a painstaking study of the life of General Pershing, has had excep tional opportunities for knowing the man, and vouches for his fitness tor the high office of president of the United States, Dr. Lowe's comfng ott in favor of the great soldier's nomination by the Chicago conven tion cannot fail to have a compelling influence with all of us when we come to vote at the April primaries. "A man who stood in the limelight of the terrible months of the last Turn Models $1795 THERE'S an incomparable beauty of design in the Auburn Beauty-SIX and a beauty of power in the motor that is irresistibly appealing The i?wrt'-3challenges comparison with any car built in America for comfort and control on the road. 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"We should not divide on the ques tion -oi whether we want a soldier or do not want a solJIc-r. A soldier may, and probablj',1 does hate war, wtulft . a civilian may not want to wade in gore. The final solution is in the man himself, anl a man who has proven himself temperamentally able to stand the strain as head of our armies in France, has the dis cipline which will keep our ship of state off the rocks for the next four years. "The republican camp is rich ir. material for president. This stattk is justly proud of the fact that John J. Pershing is ine of our sons. We ought to give expression to thai pride" at the polls. Surely no one will claim that there is such a disparity between the candidates who will ap pear upon our ballot for presidential preference s ought to weigh against our honoring ourselves by sendim; such a man as Titus Lowe to Chi cago, instructed by the people to vote for the really great name that was born of this war, that of our neighbor, John J. Pershing." J. H. HANSEN OMAHA . Saw $rU. Type 59 CotUBacomaMhibitkmat f AmtomoHlm Show 0 A M X, 6-39 H Five-Passenger Touring 6-39 K FourPasseneer Smart Toartter umbinatiini , "Highjackers" Steal ,1 JlD,WWorthotKare , Wine in Sunday Raid - . j Choice Rhine wine, Hermitag champagne and imported sherry valued at $15,000 was stolen -"Highjackers" from the home of Vic- - tor Gladstone, 3408 Dewey avenue, Sunday night. The thieves ut th ' telephone wires about the house and : broke into the tjasement. Mr Glad stone discovered his loss yesterday. i The family was asleep during the 'highjackers' " visit. "" "I wouldn't care so much, but that J liquor cannot be duplicated ny , where in the country," Mr. .Glad-" j stone said. The thieves took every j drop of liquor 'Mr. Gladstone had. This was the third time , he found k the telephone wires cut about hii Ti' place, he said. v ? ! 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