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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1920)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, lmu. $200,000 Damage " Done When Fire Hits Swift Plant I; f r. 250 Tons of Cured Meat De stroyed In Early Night Fire; Three Men In jured. Fire, believed t5 have been caused If, by grease dripping iirto the wood tftfire in the basement, destroyed the J . smokehouse of the Swift Packing if company. Twenty-sixth and (J ii, streets, Monday night. Damage is es I ; timatcd at $200,000 including 250 tons l of cured meat. This loss is covered i by insurance, according to E. L. J Phipps, general superintendent The fire was discovered in Section 9 ot the building about 9 p. ni. by I one of the night watchmen who f turned in the A. D. T. -fire alarm ;' summoning the company fire fight :. rrs and one company of the city fre department. At 9:30 a general ' alarm was spread. t Meat is Burned, j, The fire started in the basement 'y The flames spread through the 15 compartments of the smokehouse , and at 10:30 broke through the walls i of the third floor into the flourtn ! and fifth. . ' The flames were Kppt from spread- mg to other buildings ot the plant. The smokehouse is separated from the ham house on the south by a fireproof wall, and also from the of fices and dUfssmg rooms on the north. These walls ajded in re straining the flames. About 500.000 pounds of meat are ' rmoked in the building each week. Each compartment was filled at the ' time of the fire. Two hundred men are employed at the building but rone of them were at work at the time of the fire. Smoking of neat will he resumed within 24 hours, ac cording to Mr. Phipps and none of the men will be thrown out ot worK. Thousands Watch Fire. Charles Jackson, night superin tendent, suffered a fractured, left shoulder when he fell to the ground from a ladder. ., Others injured were: Jo Lock wood, fireman fire house No. 19, left wrist cut by falling timber, and Ed ' Peterson, Armour fire department, . toes of right fooft smashed by falling r timber. This is the first large fire at the : plant in 20 years, according to Mr. ; Phipps. Thousands of spectators i lined the street viaduct to watch the battle with . the flames. The last ' large fire, on the South Sid,e was five ; years ago when the Morris & Co. hog house, across the street from . last night's fire scene, was destroyed. Small fires in the basement of the G. & W. garage, Twenty-fourth and ,0 streets, and the pens of the Union Stock Yards at Thirtieth and J. L streets, also were put out by the department while the Swift fire was raging. . ; Wives and Daughters ; On Junket Trip Cosb f China Over $100,000 i By J. B. POWELL. . ! ' Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. : Pekin, Sept. 21. The American v congressional junket to China cost i the Chinese people and the Chinese government considerably in excess ; of $100,000. . . With the exception of hotel bills in Pekin, which were borne by the iif " dividual members and which did not ,' cost the members of the party much in "'excess of $100 apiece, everything v else in China for a period of 18 days was free to the American "parlia !' mcntarians" and their wives and ' daughters. , '. The unusually large number of "wives and daughters" in propor ' tion to congressmen and senators, : caused considerable comment and some questioning. N When the party arrived in Shang hai there were about 95 injhe ag- trrAtrmtinn Tlipn thp nnrtv roased tt ' be "official" and several went home, j ? leaving 55 to be entertained Dy China oil a tour of some 2,000 miles over China's railroad system, which covers but 6,000 miles in all. ' Girl, 17, Heir to Fortune, J Picked Up hy Cops Again i' For the fourth time within six "''months, Hazel Bender, 17, 2416, South Nineteenth street, tas taken into custody by police Monday night. Hazel, who. her mother says, will inherit $25,000 from an Iowa uncle when she is 18 if she is good, disap , peared from her home September 11. She was picked up at the Ak-Sar- Ben carnival by Detectives Burns and Rogers. She was taken home, to be turned over to the juvenile authorities today, according to po lice. Funeral for Beatrice Auto Accident Victim Is Held Beatrice, . Neb., Sept. 21. (Spe cial.) Funeral services for Ray W. McFillen, traveling man, who lost his life in an auto accident south of the citv Saturday evening when : Paul Jensen, traveling salesman, also was killed, were held yesterday afternaon from Scott's chapel, con ducted by Rev. J. Franklin Haas of the Methodist chprch. The body was ; taken to Omaha for -burial, ac companied by Mrs. McFillen and s " . little daughter. , Pair Accused of Theft From State JJome Freed on Bond Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 21. (Spe-cial.)--Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Smith, :" recently arrested here in connection Y with the disappearance of several boxes of articles from the feeble "' r.iindcd institute where they were employed, were releasd on bonds of $2,000 and $1,000. respectively. Their preliminary hearing is set for Oc tober 18. When arraigned last week ,v cn the charge of larceny they plead not guilty. Beatrice Legion Plans Carnival and Barbecue - Beatrice. Neb., Sept. 21. ((Spe ' ! ial.) Bitting-Norman post,. Ameri- can Legion, Is planning to observe . Armistice day in Beatrice with a . ' carnival and barbecue. As planned, Mievaffair will be held during the n tire day and will consist of stunts f all kinds with a barbecue at noon. " athletic evints in the afternoon and - a minstte! show in the evening. A Seeking His Fortune :-: - Japanese Army Is Withdrawn From i Siberia Recalling of Troops Follows Directly Plan Incorporated In Agreement Last July. New York Tlmrs-f liloajto Tribune Cable, Copyright. 1920. Tokio, Sept. 21. The Japanese war office announced today the text of a proclamation just issued by the commander bf Japanese "troops in Siberia which told of the evacuation of Khabarovsk. This action' removes the last Japa nese garrison from Siberia with the exception of a few troops along the Ussuri railway and at Vladivostok. The war office took advantage of the opportunity to state that "the necessity for maintaing the garrison at Khabarovsk happily is past owing to general political improvement," and to express "a sincere desire for unification of Eastern Russia to en hance the welfare of the Russians and to solidify Russo-Japanese re lations." While the statement has not been made officially, it is the general be lief that the recalling 'of troops from Siberia follows directly the plan in corporated in an . agreement con cluded last July between Japanese and Asiatic Russia. This. plan contemplated the crea tion in Siberia of a buffer state as a safeguard against the menace of communism. According to news paper comment at the time. East Russia agreed to preserve peace; to maintain triendly relations with Japan, and abolish communism. Ja pan agreed to withdraw herjroops from the buffer territory ien it became evident that the zone was not menaced by European bolshevik armies. Beatrice Girls Injured . When Auto Turnajurtle- Beatrice, Neb., Sept. M(Spe cial.) Neva Banker. Pansy;-. Busey and Mildred Johnson were severely cut and bruised Sunday evening when a pr in which they were riding struck a stump at the edge of the road near the Buss farm northwest of Beatrice and turned over. Wayne Roberts, yrho was driving the machine, escaped un injured. ADVKRTISEM EXT. "CORNS" M'ft Right Off Without Pain Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little rcezone-on an aching corn, in- --wi'v uu an dining turn, in stantly that corn stops hurting, tUen shortly you lift it right off with fin gers. . Tmly! Your druggist sellsa tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, suffi cient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn. between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation re (Copyright, Life Pub. Co. Martens Deportation Hearing Adjourned New York, Sept. 21. Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, unrecognized "am bassador" from soviet Russia, ap peared before immigration officials at Ellis 'Island for a final hearing as to whether he should be deported to Russia. The hearing was suddenly ad journed this afternoon subject to the call of the government. 'It was announced that the government had rested and the case is closed, unless Martens and his lawyers bring- in further testimony, which may re quire evidence in - rebuttal. The hearing was behind closed doors. "I can only say," John Hoover, government counsel, said, "that we believe that we have made out a strong case against Martens and that he is easily subject to deportation under the anti-radical act of Octob ber 16. 1918.".. Truck Tire Explodes and Chauffeur Is Killed McAllen, Tex.. Sept. 21. Peter Roe was instantly killed at San Juan, near here, when a motor truck tire exploded while he was inflating it with air. The top of his head was blown off and nearbv brick wall .blown in. THE Aeolian - A Phonograph of Superior Quality At Moderate Cost ) THE VOCALION illustrated is the' famous Style 430' and its price is only $165. (In monthly pay ments of $7 if desired.) 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Dinner was served to more than 100 before the formal proceedings. Congressman M. O. McLaughlin of York, G.'L. DeLacey, T. J. McGuire, Anan Raymond and Harry S. Byrne, state director of republican clubs, were the speakers. In a new gas water heater the gas in both the main burner and pilot light is automatically shut off should the pilot light be extinguished acci dentally. - Vocalion OMAHA. NEB. Cox Will Accept Reservations Offfitchcock Defends Position Taken by President Charges Plot to Deceive People on Wil . son's Stand. By R. B. SMITH. Chicago Trlbune-Qmaha Bee leaned Wire. Los Angeles, Sept. 21. Gov. James M. Cox, addressing audiences in San Diego and Los Angeles, de fended the position taken by Presi dent Wilson, in the peace treaty con troversy, atra announced that he would accept Hitchcock reservations to which the president gave his ap proval just before the Versailles pact was rejected by the senate. The governor declared that "the senatorial oligarchy" and reaction ary newspapers were engaged in a plot to deceive the people by telling them. President Wilson insisted on ratification without the dotting of an "I" or the crossing of a "t." He took up the various objections set forth against the treaty, includ ing article 10, British voting power, failure to give the Irish cause a hearing, and insisted every point was met by the reservations spon sored by Senator Hitchcock, who led the administration fight in behalf of the treaty in the senate. The can- c.idate then read President Wilson s letter to Senator Hitchcock aonrov- ing the Hitchcock reservations. I read what he says," the gov ernor continued, "in order that you can understand that he was willing to accept any. If the senate had ac cepted the reservations, which met every objection that, they have urged, this thing would have been closed a long time ago.' Here is what President Wilson said and I am willing to hazard the guess that it has not been published in more than 10 per cent of the newsoaoers of California: "'I am happy to be able to add. therefore, that I have once more gone over the reservations pro posed by yourself, and I am glad to say that I can accept them as the stand.' "And so do I accx pt them. Their conditions are met, everyone of them." LlKhtlnc Fixtures -Burgess-Gran- den Co. Adv. the What Ready lb Eat Cereal Should You Buy? If it's flavor you want ;xif it's moderate cost, or full nour . ishment without waste; if. it's quickness of service By all means try a package of that Sugar -Saving Cereal s Tfiis famous wheat and malted barley food has every good feature a prepar ed cereal xnan ixiudl iuuud; Grocers Everywhere Sell GrapefNuts "There's Hade by Postum' Cereal CoJne.Battk CreeKMich. 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