THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. JULY 10, 1920.
Ay
FEARS OF ACUTE
GOAL SHORTAGE
UNWARRANTED
Director of Wholesale Associ
ation Says Agitation Has
Caused Big Increase
In Price.
hlriif Trlhanr-Omah lire t.raurd W ire.
Washington. July 9. Govern
mental agitation of the coal situation
Vu caused a scare which has boosted
res sky high, George H. Cushing,
managing director of the American
Wholesale Coal association, said to
day in a itatement, declaring that
fears of a serious shortage are en
tirely unwarranted.
"In the matter of both coal sup
ply and prices, the people are in real
need of protection from their
friends," said Mr. Cushing. "The
people have been told practically
every day for eight months that the
worst shortage of coal in history is
imminent. Those who need coal
have been thrown into a panic. To
day they are frantically bidding
against each other in every market.
Of course, prices have risen in the
open market to the highest level in
peace timej in history.
"However, there is no shortage of
coal., There is no danger of any
such shortage. Therefore, there is
a reason, but no excuse, for the cur
rent high prices in the open market.
The reason is that we have had too
much governmental agitation of the
clanger of a famine. The fact is that
since November 1, 1919, there has
not been a day or even an hour when
some governmental agency was not
agitating about coal and predicting a
coal famine."
PROHIBITIONISTS
MAY PUT NOMINEE
IN FIELD THIS FALL
Final Decision Will Be Made
In Convention at Lincoln
July 21.
Decide to Continue
Interchurch World
On Modified Scale
New York, July 9. The general
committee of the Interchurch
World Movement, meeting lure to
cay to consider the future of the or
ganization, voted to continue (he
movement "on a greatly modified
scale." Appointment of a commit
tee of 15 to confer with representa
tives of the denominations co-operating
in the movement and to recom
mend a plan of reorganiz?tion was
authorized.
The decision of the general com
mittee which includes representa
tives of the 30 Protestant- denomina
tions in the movement was reached
by adoption of a repo-t of a sub
committee of 11, headed by Bishop
Thomas Nicholson of Chicago.
Eisliop Nicholson, in urg!nR con
tinuance of the movement, dcclaied
"reactionary" tendencies which, he
said, were shown in th two nation
al political conventions, will be
' manifest in the churches if we per
mit the movement to end."
Death for Failuie to
Salute Meted Out by
An English General?
Paris, July 9. Amazing allega
tions, almost defying credence, of
the "reign of terror" instituted by
the entente Archangel government,
headed by the English general, Mil
lc.rj are made in an announcement by
I'oris Sokoloff, formerly of the
northern government, in a socialist
newspaper, Le Populaire.
Condemnations to death for failure
to return or give the military salute
other minor offenses, shameful
i crowding of prison camps, hun
dreds of military assassinations
daily, brutal treatment of civilians,
seizure of supplies and a throttled
press are among the charges, which
are printed by the editor of Le Popu
laire without reservation.
"Never under the old regime,"
states Sokoloff, "have I witnessed ac
tions so monstrous as those for
which the government of Miller was
responsible.
Luther League Has Annual
Picnic at Elmwood Park
Miss Bertha ' Grapengiser, 14S4
South Thirteenth street, was
unanimously chosen at the annual
picnic of the Kountze Memorial
Luther league at Elmwood park
Thursday as delegate to the national
convention in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
July 12-13-14.
Qne hundred members of the
league attended the picnic, at which
supper was served at 6:30 p. m.
Women played volley ball and men
various other sports.
Rev. George Dorn won the pie
eating contest by a close margin
over Hans Engle. Rev. Fred Weertz
was master of ceremonies.
Newsboys Get $100 Bills for
Papers; They Are Worthless
Nogales, Ariz.. July 9. Newsboys
here think nothing of getting $100
in Mexican currency issued by Car
ranza for a copy of the regular edi
tion of the evening newspaper. They
languidly settle arguments and
wagers with $1,000 bets in bank
notes. Newsboys have their pockets
stuffed with the crisp paper money
and throw it about like overnight
rili'lionaires.
The notes are a part of the billion
Carranza issued in paper money and
then repudiated.
Negroes Demand Probe
Into Recent Lynchings
New York, July 9. The National
Association for Advancement of
Colored People today telegraphed
Postmaster General Burleson, re
questing him to order an investiga
tion of the lynching of James Spen
ter, a negro postal clerk at Enter
prise, Miss., on July S. The asso
ciation also wired to Gov. W. P.
Hobby of Texas, asking that he
bring to justice the members of
the mob which took Irving and Her
man Arthur, negroes, from the
county jail at Paris, Tex., on July 6
and burned them at the stake.
Silverware Is Stolen
When Mrs. George L.De Lacy,
Harney street, returned to her
home about 5:30 Thursday evening,
she found the house ransacked from
cellar to garret, and $1,000 worth of
valuable silverware stolcr
Chicago, July 9. Prohibitionists
are not satisfied with the attitude of
either of the two great parties and
they are disgusted with the lack of
enforctment of the prohibition laws,
so they are seriously considering
putting a presidential ticket ot their
own in the field this vear. Final'
otcision on this point wlil be
reached at the party's regular presi
dential convention to be held at Lin
coln, Neb., July 21.
"Both the old parties, bv omitting
a plank endorsing the 18th amei.d
mcnt, have dismally fiileii in liv
ing up to the standards demanded
by the American people," sr id Virgil
C. Hinshaw, chairman of the prohi
bition national committee, today.
"We of the prohibition party con
sider it incumbent upon us to mum
tain a party organization to give ex
pression to the millions of dry vot
ers in this country."
Indications now are that the con
vention at Lincoln will be given
over to a law enforcement mectmg
and the matter of worli prohibition
t'ill come in for unusual attention.
Women are expected to take a most
prominent part in the deliberations.
Had the prohibition hw been en
forced, the prohibition j-arty would
undoubtedly be fading out by this
time, but it is a matter of notorious
ricord that in all the large cities
the 18th amendment is being treated
as a joke by the liquor de;.lcis and
niiny of the federal, st.'te and mu
nicipal officers.
Attorney General
Files Suit Against
Kansas Grocery Firms
Topeka, July 9. Receiverships,
fines and ouster from the state ars
;iskcd in proceedings filed in the
Kansas supreme court today against
38 wholesale grocery concerns. The
proceedings are brought by Richard
.1. Hopkins, attorney general, un
der the Kansas antitrust law. The
supreme court immediately issued
an order restraining the companies,
officials and employes from remov
ing or obliterating records or cor
respondence that might substantiate
the charges made.
Technically the grocers aie
charged with entering a combina
tion in restraint of trade. The com
panies are largely the same as those
r.anied in proceedings brought in
May by Attorney General Hopkins
and the county attorney of Doug
las county. Mr. Hopkins chargss
that the alleged agreements and
combinations were made through
the Missouri-Kansas Wholesale
Grocers' association, of which the
(iefendants are alleged to be meni-Lers.
Microscope Shortage;
American Science Is
Badly Handicapped
Chicago, July 9 The United
States has had a shortage of sugar,
a shortage of flour, a shortage of
ships and all kinds of shortages.
Now one more shortage has about
arrived a shortage of microscopes.
The "eye of science," as the mi
croscope is known, is becoming very
essential and a shortage in the in
struments will be a serious trouble,
for they are used to give the once
over to everything from potato bugs
to battleships.
The lack of the instruments and
their importance in evcry-day life
was recently made known by Dr. V.
A. Lamar, recording secretary of the
Illinois State Microscopical society.
Bought False Teeth,
Then Fed Him "Lots"
Tulsa, Okl.. July 9. "Honest,
judge, she hasn't cooked me a square
meal in a year. She even made me
trim my own hair," L. Matthews,
seeking a divorce from his "better
half," declared in the district court
here the other day.
Then Mrs., Matthews had "some
thing" to say. "Why, judge, that's
ridiculous," she shrieked. "The first
thing I did after marrying that man
was to buy him a set of false teeth
so he could eat. Ever since then
I've worked overtime keeping his
stomach full."
The case was taken under advisement.
Bandits Who Robbed Boys
Of Auto May Live Here
Omaha is now named by Sheriff
Gronewcg of Pottawattamie county
as the home of the bandits who
stopped Tom Culver, 13 years old,
and "Red" Cumings, 16 years old,
of Woodbine on the Lincoln High
way Wednesday, beat the boys and
stole their auto.
Sheriff Milliman of Logan believes
he has a clue to the identity of the
bandits and that the two cars in
which they were traveling were both
stolen.
'Rent Angel" Given
Prison Sentence on
Charges of Fraud
Chicago Tribune-Omaha ttr IKd Wire.
New York, July --Characterizing
Mrs. Alice Cavanagh as a
"scheming, cold-blooded, calculat
ing thief," Judge Louis D. Gibbs
today imposed a sentence upon
her of not more than 10 years
and not less than five years in
Auburn state prison. .
Mrs. Cavanagh was charged
specifically with defrauding ten
ants of $2,197.50 entrusted to her
by Morton Behr. There were
three indictments against Mrs.
Cavanagh at the time. Assistant
District Attorney Israel J. P. Ad
lerman conducted the prosecution.
Mrs. Cavanaugh, who bore
the cognomen of "Rent Angel of
the Bronx," obtained the money
from tenants oppressed by profi
teering landlords on the plea 1hat
she would prevent their eviction
and secure the old rata of rental.
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