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-v THE BEE:" OMAHA, FRIDAY, 'MAY 14, J920. NATION FEELING SERIOUS FAMINE OF FREIGHT CARS . ' ... . Hundreds of Appeals, for Relief PouHng. Into Commerce Com : mission and Railway ' .'Administration. i Washington. May l"3 Congestion of freight in the principal railroad terminals, probably the worst since the winter of 1917, is beginning to be felt in business and commerce all over the country. '.Appeals f6r refief pouring into .Washington to the Interstate Com merce commission the railroad ad - ministration and congress, picture the big railroad gateways choked with thousands of loaded freight cars unable to' move because of shortage of men an motive power. Although the situation has been showing local effects for . the last two weeks it now is- being shown in its nationwide aspects and the ap peals for relief coming to Washing toft contain predictions' that unless the jam is broken it will be re flected more than ever in decreased production, slowing down of indus try and probably a tremendous labor turnover. Latest reports compiled here by the committee on car service, Ameri can Railroad association, whose principal duty if is to see that the cars are supplied .to sections in greatest need of them show 235,000 cars tied up or delayed in transit. Of this number' 85,000 ire at junc tions, with no labor to transfer them. On April 16, the total number of cars tied up was 288.000. Much of this, was attributed by railroad peo ple to the recent Strike. There, is pressing need today for 82,411 cars to take care of the. most urgent demand, railroad men de clare, although they Say this shows a reduction of approximately 10, 000 over April reports. Wheat Situation To Considered at : Conference May 19 AVashington, May 13. Whether measures can be. taken by govern ment ' agencies to prevent chaotic conditions following the termination of the control of wheat prices and distribution by the United States grain corporation June 1 will beA considered at a conference to be ; held May 19. Telegrams asking that ' such a conference be held were re ceived by a number of government officials and chairmen of Congres sional committees today from Julius H., Barnes, United States wheat di rector, who is-in New York. The conference will be held, in Mr. Barnes' Washington office. The conference follows a' meeting of grain men called by Mr. Barn.es in Chicago recently. In his telegram Mr. Barnes said that the grain mar keting machinery in the United States and its credit needs formerly- depended on the secunty afforded ' by "hedging" transactions, but that these would not be reinstated be cause of present hazards. Secondhand Man Involved V In Charges of Swindling 'Accused of connection with an al leged swijidle syndicate in Omaha, said to be operated by Charles Ter rell, 303 North Sixteenth , street, through., fhe medium of his second hand store, George Colwell, 2119 Sherman avenue, was 'arrested Wednesday and bookedfor investi gation. ', . ' i Pilot Held Blameless In . . Death of Omaha Air, Chief Exonerate Johnston " in Iowa Plane Crash Fatal ToW.J. McCanoMess. H. W. Johnston, pilot of the air mail plane .which Wednesday after noon crashed fnto a tree near Oska loosa, la., killing William J. Mc- CandlesS, superintendent ofthe Omaha-Chicago division of the aerial mail service, was held blameless of negligence, folldwing an investiga-f tlon yesterday by W. I. Votaw, man ager of the Omaha air-mail station. , The accident was due to bad weather conditions, making flying difficult and hazardous, Manager Vo taw reported. . Pilot Johnston at Oskaloosa yes-. terday told a story of a losing battle Wednesday with strong headwinds and air pockets which threw him off his course and finally resulted ftrhis becoming completely lost. It was with the consent of his passenger, Superintendent McCandless. that he attempted to make a forced lauding to get his bearings, he said. y , Decided to Land. "We had at last located ourselves as siuth of Des Moines' and knew we were far off our course," he. stated. "We were able to get a line on some railroad tracks, though, that we thought would guide us northward. We finally were con vinced we were not progressing to wards Chicago and decided io land. "I had picked out a good snot and wa,s making the landing Suc cessfully when - a gust of wind caught the-ehip 'just as we were vol planing over a tree. The plane turned over completely and crashed On its back into the branches of the tree. Mr. McCandless was caught under the gasoline tank and his skull was crashed." Escapes With Bruises. "Tilot Johnston escaped with, se vere bruises and several cuts across his face. He was to proceed from Oskaloosa to his statio at Iowa City yesterday. . Superintendent McCandless had been connected, with the aerial mart service since shortly after' it was established two years ago. He was sent from Washington, D. G, to take charge of the new Omaha-Chicago division. ... He was 40 years old and leaves a m 1 ' I J . J....L... T Wlte ana one cniia; uaugnici, i years old. They have been living in Washington. . .- . Manager Votaw was awaiting m- ' i ' ' 1 .'.Ta wif.naa wwF msSmm 'structions at Oskaloosa yesterday regarding whether to send the body of Superintendent McCandless . to Washington or to his home in Meriden, Conn. He will accompany the body. V : Delay Service Start, r According to Mr. Votaw's an nouncement yesterday, thcac'cident yesterday will further delay inaugu ration of regular air mail service be tween Qmaha and Chicago. Super intendent McCandkss, he reported Was on his way to Chicago yesterday to complete final arrangements for opening of fegular service next Sat urday. . ' - "The accident leaves us short one plane and probably will delay, reg ular service for a week or more," Manager Votaw said. The accident i the first on the Omaha-Chicago division. . Mr. Votaw will assume charge of the division temporarily. He . said yesterday it was unlikely a successor to Superintendent McCandless would be appointed since present plans of the Postoffice department ' contem plate combining the Omaha-Chicago division with the Cleveland divisjon July 1, under supervision of officials with headquarters in Cleveland. MANUFACTURERS URGED TO ADJUST WAGES TO PRICES Michigan Governor Urges Pref erence Be Given to Men , With Families. AIVErtTI8KMEKT V FORCED TO LAY OFF HALF TIME STATES SMITH i ' t t St. Joseph Man Was So Run Down He Could. Hardly Work Before jte Took Tanlac. '"5 . . . "I have been taking Tanlac just a little more than a month, but al ready I have gained sixteen pounds in -weight and can now do twice as much work as I could before," said Jesse Smith, 3012 North Tenth St., St. Joseph, Missouri, a valued em plove of the Larabee Milling Co. v . "For nearly fourteen years now I have been in' constant suffering from the worst sort of stomach trouble and constipation. I had no appetite to speak of and everything I ate tasted alike and seemed to - form into a lump right in the pit of my stomach. I suffered terrihly ' , from heartburn and had a full, dis- . agreeable feeling most op the tune. Every few days I had to be taking laxatives, as I was badlv constinated. At night I could sleep but little and . raturally that pulled me down and I commenced to lose weight. Fi-. nally I got so weak and out of sorts I felt that I was playing out alto gether and wasn't able to go to work more than hair the time. "But today I am a well, strong and healthy man and four bottles of Tanlac did it all. Why, in twelve days after I started taking Tanlac I had actually gained eight pounds in weight. I have-the very finest kind , of appetite, and enjoy . everything I eat, for I neverhave a sign of stom i-v. ach trouble. I .don't have to take laxatives now, because I have been ompletely relieved of constipation. fA sleep like a log and get up of morn insrs feelimr treat and readv for i "good -day's work. Tanlac is the only thing that has ever helped me during all these fourteen years, and I can certainly give it a hearty recommen dation." ' - " i Tanlac is sold in Omaha at all Sherman & McConnell Drug Com' ' pany's stores, Harvard Pharmacy aBdJWertrEndPhrmacyrAl80-Por-- , rest and Meany Drug Company in South Omaha and the leading drug gist tneach city1 and town through out 'the atate vf Nebraska. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Dec Leaned Wire. Lansing, Mich., May 13 Reply ing to a request from citizens of De troit that he issue a call for a special session of tlie legislatures in order that rent profiteering, be stopped, Governor Sleeper called on uetroii manufacturers, especially those en gaged in the automobile industry, to adjust wages as a means of lowering the cost of living and abolishing rentar increases. The governor de clared that thisvaction would go fur ther toward restoring normal eco nomic conditions in Detroit and other industrial centers- than any measure that could be passed by, the legislature. , , Governor Sleeoer bases his argu ment, on a special inquiry he has been conducting and is sincere in his conviction that, such a move would gain greater and quicker relief. "If in the. adjustment of jthese wages" the governor said, "prefer- cice was given men wun lanmics and a halt made to paying boys is to 20 years old between $7 and $11 a day. a greater good could be ac complished than any thought of leg- slation. "I have found in my inquiry that few. if any, of these young men have any bank account, despite oi ineir high wages, and they are spending their money more or less foolishly as they go along. . . They are forming an expensive habit Vrhich is orovine a detriment to the moral and physical standards cf young America. Perhaps the time is not far ott when tnere win oe a general reduction in wages, with the lowering of living costs, and these boys for really they are nothing more than boys will be accustomed to this easy spending, and untold Killing of Her Negro . . Husband justifiable, Coroner's Jury Holds ( . Claiming that she heard the' voice ot her dead, son 'urging her to use the revolver he had sent her while in service overseas, Mrs. Mattie Lowe, .Council Bluffs, was rexr onerated by a coroner's jury Wednes day for the shooting of her negro husband, John Lowe, at their'home, 1601 Avenue D, last Saturday night. Le.ss than three minutes after she completed a thrilling tale of the negro's impassioned wooing, .- her sons death, at .St Mihiel, and the final .shooting, the jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Harvester Firm Suffers $100,000 Damage by Fire Spokane, Wash., May 13 Fire in the warehouse of the International Harvester Co. here ' did damage estimated by -officials of the com pany at $100,000. Half the amount J'-was due to the destruction or a shioment of canvas valued at $50.- fOOO, and. the remainder to machin ery aim uuiiuuig. Boy, Page Adam and Eve; A Want 20,000 Fig Leaves ' Boston, May 13 Boy, page Adam and Eve. The city of Boston , is in the mar ket to learn what the fig leaf cos tume costs. An adverlisement ap pears in this week's .City Record asking for' bids for 20,000 "fig leaves." AMERICAN TRADE CONFERENCE TO SPEND BUSY DAY Foreign 'fyisiness Policies of US. and Assistance Avail able to Importers and Ex porters Discussed. San Franciscoj May 13. Foreign trade policies of the United States and the assistance available to im porters arid i exporters through federal-government: agencies and Amer ican trade and commercial organi zations abroad were under consid eration today by delegates to the seventh annual convention of the National Foreign Trade council which opened its four days' sessions here yesterday. Seven group meetings along vir tually the same lines as those which fle.eld attention during the main ses sions today were announced for to night. Topics for these sessions were: , V I "Direct Selling Abroad," "Bank ing Service to Foreign Trade," "Trade With the Orient." "Foreign Trade and the Press," "Foreign Credits unA Credit Information," "American Trade With Russia," and "Foreikjn Trade Information." Many Prominent Speakers. ' Speakers and their topics at to day's -.general session included .Dr. Henry-i Suzzalo, " president of the University of Washington, "Ameri can Organization for Foreign trade"; C. C. 1 Whitmore or the American Chamber of Commerce at Buenos Aires, "The Work and Service tf American Chambers of Commerce Abroad'; A. R. Hagef of Shanghai, "FederaJ Incorporation for Foreign Trade";. Robert H. Patchin of the AV R. Grace & Co.. New York, "The. Need of a Bargaining Tariff," and W. W.. Nicho.ls of the Allis Chalmers company. "Reorganization Bowen's Will Offer i , Large Quantities of Lace Curtains Af . Value-Giving . Prices ... SATURDAY 1 Voile Curtains White, cream and ecru; attractive for mer curtains. ' $195 LP air Filet Net Curtains V-k yards long and 38 Inches wide; small dotted tfQ QC figures, pair, at P O Others i. $3.25,: $3.75, $3.95. $4.25 and $t.85 per pair. See our Friday's advertisement for full particulars. of the Government Service of Trade Promotion and Information." R. M. Calkins, vie: president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, of Chicago, chairman of the group session .on transportation and communication, spoke on the "De velopment of Export and Import Transportation." . . Should Operate Fleet - He declared the government cither should continue operation of the merchant marine built up dur ing the war under the United States hipping board or sell the fleet to Americans- at prices they could af ford to pay. At no time should the government permit the ships to pass beyond the control of this govern ment, he said. He remarked that 9.1 per cent of the commerce to the Far East was carried in ships fting foreign flags and1 that practically the only service received by the Philippine Islands was furnished by government trans port, "while business ncn -of the territory were clamoring for in creased shipping facilities with' the mainland." . . Veterans of South Riled At Memorial Commission Washington, May ' 13. Confed erate veterans and the Daughters of the Confederacy will decline to at tend the dedicatory exercises of the Memorial amiptheater. at Arlington Memorial cemetery Saturday be cause the names of Jackson, Lee And other confederate military leaders have been omitted from the list of hero dead carved uoon its coftonns. A long controversy has been waged over tjiis question. The Ar lington memorial ampitheater com mission, created by a resolution of tongress, decided last November that the names of- confederate generals .should not-be included.. Secretary of War Baker, the chairman, and Secretary Daniels, also a member, were present. Secretary Daniels de clined to discuss the proceedings or decision "-'of the. commission and Secretary Baker , could not be reached. PRICE LEVELS ' FAIL TO FALL; PEAK REACHED ' Bradstreet's Shows Slight In crease Due to Unforeseen Rail Strike See Drop In June. At first sight bradstreet's prices iepo(t of' May 1 is not a satisfac tory oue from the standpoint of seekers after lowej prices, an ad vance being shown in the index number as of May 1 instead of the decline that was hoped for. But the increase is a very slight one, indeed and when it is remembered that the railway strike and the resulting con- freistion "of movement of all grain.' live food producing animals, coal and other merchandise caused these commodities to be pushed up at great consuming centers, the nfore or less temporary character of the present advance, following two suc cessive declines, is rather clearly to be seen.' Drop My Com: In June. It is also to be noted that the full effects of the quieting down of trade and the going' lower of some products which were affected by these and other causes, such as credit contraction, were not seen un til after May 1, but may be reflected j possibly in the June 1 number. Thcl fact is thatj to. judge from the small ! declines in February and March ' and the very small advance in April, j prices, considered as a whole, are and for some time past have been, about at the peak, and . the next logical step, given that the increase of the quieting down in trade con tinues and that seasonable influences n:le, as, for instance, in cron, mat ters, something , like a reaction downward is to , be expected, a movement, by the way, that was initiated by the food groups a good many months ago at wholesale. What Rail Strike Did. An example of the effect upon prices of the railroad strike upon the country's grain and flour, and of course bread, is furnished in the rise to new high records of the bread stuffs groups. Textile and building materialsialso moved up to new high levels, but. the gains hrc were slight and may be said to have marked the peak fi. demand just before the re cent slowing down. In all, 35 products advanced, 23 declined and 43 remained unchanged as the result of the April movement. Bradstreet's approximate index number of staple prices as of May 1, 1920. was $207,341, an increase of 1-10 of 1 per cent cent over April 1, but a decline of , about 3-10 of 1 per cent fromMarch 1 and of 6-10 of 1 per, cent from the record high point touched on February 1, 1920. Cpropared with the number on May 1, 1919, a year ago, the 'rise is 20 per cent; the advance from the peak of August 1, 1919, was 3.6 per cent, and the gain over the 'number rul ing on August 1, 1914, Was .138 per cent. - ' Reach High-Levels. Breadstuffs, building materials and textiles, as already observed, reached new, high levels- on May 1. In addition to them, live stock, pro visions and fruits rose; all four food groups, in fact, moved up, as did hides and leather, coal and coke, oils, and chemicals and drugs. Groups going lower were metals, naval stores and miscellaneous prod ucts. The four food groups com-, bincd rose in April 49 per cent, but are still 6.6 per cent below the high point on December 1, 1918. , The groups that make up the in dex number are as fallows Mrs. Daniels Supports : Bill Providing tare For MotKerBe f Washington, May 113. Senator Shepprd's bill proposing; an annual appropriatioiii of $4,0OC,0O0 to be spent througjh the statej in the care, nursing and education of expectant mothers, was supported before the senate public health,' committee by Mrs. Josephus Daiu:s, wife of thi secretary of the nay, and other wit nesses, i ' Mrs. Daniels tofd the committee that Jack of care ar id lack of educa tion Vere causing the unnecessary death of hundred, of mothers and infants. ; Miss Anne Martin, candidate for the senate fromS.'cvada, said 250.000 babies and 23,00(i mothers died last yiar "ajid out government spent to prevent it about one-fourth of $1, 000,000." ' . ;-' ' - 120 Omahans Entrain f Bredtuff I.lv Ktock- , Provision . . Fruit , Mny 1, ' 11. . (.21 43 . .745 . 4,742 . .S250N Myl. USD. so.ms 4.3725 .4256 Jobs Jn the Beet Fields ' All aboard ft r sweet jobs." About 35 Od uha families, includ ing mote thin 120 persons, an swered the call during the day a1 the Bnrlingtoj i depot, where they entrained for Lincoln, to become nfembers of a. special party going to western Ncbtiaska to work in sugar, beet fields during the summen - A special train w assembled at Lincoln to transport the workers, of whom about 500 w;re recruited in eastern Nebraska. Several large de tachments njf workers have left for the beet country in the past month. liidr and leather.... Tf xllle . . . .,..-. Mtl Coal and coko. . Oils Naval ntnrai Building materials ... Ch-mlrnli and drui. Miscellaneous Total., '. . e.2r.4 4.6m 1.M&3 .01 1 5 .1640 .I41D .15 1.11-83 .860S 7.:7M 1 0943 .0170 3. 1041 .S11 .!J7 1.I2H ,1.0650 ..17.237S .'H.7J4J. hardships will be felt." General Motors Plans Big Plant in England London, May 13. A big experi ment in mass production ot motor cars 'shortly will be attempted in England by the general Motors cor ncration. Negotiations are being conducted by them with' the view of securing in this country a site for extensive new works from which it is proposed to turn out an enormous number ot cars on tne same scaic . .. . , r . ' - - as in tne corporation s lactones m America: Two well-known men in British commercial circles are inter ested in the project: Sir Harry Mc- Gowan, chairman of the Jtxpiosive Trades, Ltd.." and managing director of the Nobels comjiny, who has just completed the purchase ot 5,000,000 pounds "worth of the cor poration's stock, and Arthur Cham berlain, chairman of Kynochs, Ltd., and nephew of the chanceiier ot tne exchequer. - ; , Eighteen -Men and Seven : ' Women Executed by Reds Warsaw, May 13. Eighteen men and seven women were executed by crder of a bolshevist extraordinary commission in Jitomir, just before the capture of that town in the Pol ish driv on Kiev, according to cor respondents' dispatches. 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