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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1920)
2 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 3. 1920. Advise Bankers To Ask Relief In Car Shortage w State Rail Body Tells Omaha Financiers Their Efforts to Obtain Sufficient Cars Were Unavailing., The Nebraska Railway commis sion, following receipt of a tele gram from Omaha bankers urging the necessity of prompter movement of the 1920 grain crop to relieve Stressing financial conditions, in a etter to the bankers, told of efforts they hav made to relieve the situa tion. The letter, signed by Com missioner Brown, in part said: "The car supply in Nebraska is, so far as we have been able to as certain by vigorous endeavor, being utilized to better advantage than for several years past Further relief, if any is secured, must come, as you intimate, from an influx of cars for grain-loading from other points. On that we have worker tirelessly for several months. As a result of endeavors at Washington by joint presentation from several state commissions and shippers' organi sations in May, there have come into grain states west of the Missis sippi, better than 100,000 boxcars fcs an empty tide in addition to the gular trade movement Only ?art of these cars were in condition o load grain. Our investigations indicate that every endeavor has been made to make the remaining tars fit for grain-loading. There has been the handicap of lack ' of labor and rules governing labor on (ear repairing, which have at least kemporarily prevented full working iforces. Shippers are generally coop jeiing cars, making fit for grain (Cars otherwise not available. Co operation between shipper and the Railroad has been above criticism, fr. Less Grain To Omaha. IF'In spite of all endeavors to get high efficiency, the movement is &ery unsatisfactory. In 10 days sue Iceeding September IS, there came Into Omaha 1,469 cars of grain, as (opposed to 1,863 on the same days a year ago. In addition to that there has moved out of Nebraska the ferain which went to Sicux City and Kansas City, of which we do not have an accurate record. This is Wholly insufficient to relieve the Strain in the light of financial con ditions and a very heavy crop. "Now as to the possibility of get ting an additional supply of cars from other sections of the country: "The supply of cars on railroads serving Nebraska, as compared with their ownership, was, on September 1, as follows: Northwestern 101.9 Omaha Road 78.4 Burlington 91.0 Rock Island 70.6 St. Joe & G. 1 100.0 Union Pajcific 86.7 Missouri Pacific 103.8 Cars on Coast " At the same time the Nehraska roads were as short of equipment as the figures above indicate, the fol- m . 9 t k .lowing roaas naa a surplus in per centage, as compared with owner ship, as follows: "Eastern Seaboard points: ' Boston and Maine 147.8 Delaware & Hudson 128.6 New York Central 112.9 Long Island 249.6 Penn 117.1 Western Maryland 224.5 Virginia 144.7 "Lake points: Ann Arbor .i 132.9 Pere Marquette 126.8 "Gulf territory; Florida, east coast 179.6 Georgia and Florida 148.8 New Orleans Great North ern 156.0 Kansas City Southern ....139.1 Kan. Okla. & Gulf 105.5 La. River & Navigation Co. 166.7 Ask for Relief. "The largest roads in the east do Jjot show much surpluses. How ever, if these roads could be re lieved of the surplus, it would help good deal. The trouble is that ur grain for export moves loaded tn to these lines and a constant Congestion results. "The Nebraska commission has been constantly at work on this problem of moving the big crop, knowing full well the difficulties v "which would result from failure to inove promptly. I suggest that the bankers of Nebraska unite in pre senting the financial situation to the Interstate Commerce commission by appropriate petition." Sons of Veteran Will Give Reception for Commander Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2. (Special.) Reception for Pelham A. Bar rows, newly chosen national com-mander-in-rhief of the Sons of Vet erans, and lieutenant governor of Nebraska, will be held in the Lindell hotel here next Wdnesday. Frank Mills, division commander, will pre side. J. H. Presson, department commander of the G. A. R., will speak on the "G. A. R." Mrs. W. S. Cleaver, past president of the Women's Relief corps, will speak on "Our Faithful Auxiliaries." Gov ernor McKelvie will give a talk on "The State," F. P. Corrick will tell of the national encampment, and Commander Barrows will .speak on "The Commandery-in-Chief.' Poles Ready to Give Reds : Their Answer on Peace Riga, Oct 2. Polish delegates to the peace conference prepared today to submit the Polish answer to the Russian peace tt-rms. It was under stood this answer bad been received from Prince Sapieha, Polish foreign minister. Adolph Joffc, chief of the soviet delegation, and M. Dombski, head of the Polish mission, conferred for two hours last night relative to the legotiations. No Gold Coined by Mints' Daring Last Month, Report Washington, D. C Oct. 2. Unit Id States mints during September oined 780,000 pieces of silver money lor Cuba and 640,000 pieces of sil ver for Peru, Director of Mint Baker innounced today. No gold coins were executed for the United States Inring the month, but coinage from pther metals amounted to 61,615,000 pieces, aggregating $2,780,930. lighting Fixtures Grandt-n Elec Mo Co., femerly Burgess-Grandeo fiov Adr, i Ex-Senator Murray Crane Dies After Long , Illness CBtlan4 From Pac. On.) He recovered quickly, however, and it was announced that he was over come by the heat A few weeks ago his condition be came so serious that he was confined to his bed. He failed rapidly last night and death occurred at 4 o'clock this morning. The former senator's wife, his son, Winthrop Murray Crane, jr., and his twe sisters, Miss Clara L. Crane and Mrs. Harry O. Bates, were at his bedside when the end came. At the republican national conven tion last June Mr. Crane participated in the league of nations fight against the advice of friends, who realized his health had been seriously im paired by overwork. The immediate cause of his death was given by Mr. Crane's secretary as sleeping sickness. He had been sleeping, the secretary said, for four or five flays. About midnignt it was realized that the end was near and four hours later he oassed away. An outstanding characteristic of Winthrop Murray Crane, former governor of Massachusetts and for two terms a United States senator from that state, was the fact -that he attained eminence rapublic lite without beine an orator. Although he served eight years in the senate it was said of him that he never made what really could be called a "speech" in that body. The successor of Senator Hoar, whose wit and eloquence rang through the halls of congress, Crane s chief claim to distinction was that of silent lead ership and of a party mediator. Was Sort of Mediator. Senator Crane on more than one occasion in the interval from 1904 to 1913, when republican differences developed and party measures were endangered, demonstrated his abil ity as a harmonizer and by using his persuasive powers in personal inter views with other senators, with whom he was popular, restored peace. On one occasion the fate of an important bill appeared to de pend upon the vote of one senator. His colleagues had tried in vain, by many methods, to learn the prob able attitude of this man. Crane, who had been talking the matter ever with a group or republican senators, remarked: "Watt a min ute. He crossed the floor of the senate chamber to the recalcitrants desk and conversed with him in a low tone .for a few moments. Re turning to his friends he announced with a smile: "He'll vote for the bill." "How did you find out?" was the astonished injuiry. "I asked him," was Crane s reply. Born in 1853. Born in Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1S53, the son of Zenas M. Crane, a paper manufacturer, young Crane was educated in the public schools and at Williston seminary. He never attended college but, after leaving the seminary, entered the paper mills founded by his grandfather at Dalton and in them he maintained an interest throughout his life. For many years these mills produced the paner used by the United States government in engraving its cur rency, bonds and notes. Because of his interest in this industry and his desire to continue with it, Mr. Crane, at the beginning of President Roose velt's administration, declined an in vitation to enter his cabinet as secre tary of the treasury. President Roosevelt held the "si lent" Massachusetts man in high es teem. Crane had been unusually successful in averting strikes and disagreements a' the Dalton mills. In 1902, when he was governor ot Massachusetts, he was instrumental in adjusting by arbitration a serious strike of teamsters and freight han dlers in Boston Later, it is said, he suggested to President Rooseve't the method by which the strike of several hundred thousand coal miners in the anthracite fields was settled. Succeeds Senator Hoar. Three years as lieutenant governor and three years as governor of Mas sachusetts preceded Crane's entrance into the senate to fill the vacancy in 1904 caused by the death of George F. Hoar. Appointed to the senate on October 12, 1904, he was elected the following January for the term end ing in 1907 and re-elected for the term ending in 1913. At the expira tion of his second term he declined to seek renomination. Mr. Crane had been a member of the republican national committee from 1892 to 1900 and from 1904 to 1916 had been a delegate-at-large to five national conventions. He was always interested in scien tific agriculture. By the application of business methods he developed 2, 700 acres of neglected land in Dalton into a successfu farm. Mr. Crane made many important gifts to his home town and cave largely to char itable objects He was credited with having saved many individuals and small companies in the Berkshires from bankruptcy when they were overcome by business difficulties. Williams college bestowed upon him the honorary degree of master of arts in 1897 and in 1903 Harvard made him a doctor of laws. Mr. Crane married Mary, the daughter of Robert Benner, of As toria, L. I7 in 1880. Bereft by the death of his young wife four years later he remained a widower until 1906 when he married Josephine Porter, a daughter of William J. Boardman of Washington. YOU can ilnir If yon would read .orrectlr. Study for If-improvement ii not for th profefiicB. Volt bearing by appointment only. PALMER VOICE 3913 Farnantj STUDIOS Humey 2544. Cox Takes Fight For League Into Anti Stronghold Winds Up "Western Tour by Invading Home of Arch Foes to Treaty at Kansas City. By ROBERT B. SMITH. Ckloago Trlbun.-Om.lia Bra Leased Wire, " Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 2. Gov ernor Cox brought his 10,000-mile western stumping tour to a close here tonight by marching boldly into the home town of Senator Reed and Frank P. Walsh, arch foes of the Versailles peace treaty, and waiving the league of nations issue defiantly in their faces. The eovernor made little effort to pour oil on the troubled waters of Missouri democracy. He lined up squarely on the side of the pro league faction, which means the anti Reed faction. He defnded the league from beginning to end with more than his ordinary fevor. Anticipating heckling about the Irish question, he brought that issue to the fore himself by telling Irish-American voters to support article 10 as the best means Ol preserving jrcwuus independence, which he predicted would soon be achieved. The democratic nominee found treaty "irreconcilability" in the JsTth degree of intensity here. While he has been stumping for the league through these parts during the last three days, Senator Reed has been enuallv denouncing the treaty with or without reservations, and Frank Walsh has been telling the friends of Irish freedom that adoption of tne league covenant meant me per petuation of British rule over Ire land. Prepared In Advance. That portion of Governor Cox's Kansas City address dealing with the Irish question was a deliberate and studied, eftort, carefully pre pared in advance. The governor in tended ,it to stand for the remainder of the campaign as a frank exposi tion of his views on the Irish ques tion. "Nothing could be farther from the truth," ha said, "than that the statement that America's entry into the league would require her to aid England in suppressing an Irish re bellion. "The deception," he said, "is based on false construction of article 10 either through ignorance or intent to deceive. Ireland, under this provi sion of the league, has the right to separate from Great Britain and es tablish its own government of any form pleasing to itself. "However, article 10 does have a very direct bearing on the Irish question, but exactly opposite sig nificance. If Ireland achieves self determination and becomes free and independent, as I believe it will, and that before long, then the United States along with other members of the league, will be obliged by the terms of the covenant to mutually guarantee the sovengnty of the new Irish republic. Regards Trip Success. Moving eastward, with election day exactly one month off. Governor Cox was brimful of confidence. He regards his western tour as a big sug- QCSS. "I think you will agree with me that four or five months ago, many people subscribed to the idea that this was to be .a reactionary year," he announced at Joplin. "The tide has turned. It has been an uphill fight until now, but we're going back a rj " T'S from Haas Brothers" speaks vol-J-umes in expressing the source from whence a particular style creation has gono forth to' take its place in the aristocracy of fashion. "TTiROM Haas Brothers" is emphatically " significant of originality, personality and the unusual a trio of virtues directly associated with all Haas Brothers' individu alized fashion achievements. ACCLAIMED by a critical clientele as the last word in, superlative styling, it is ap propriate to mention this early in the season that nowhere in the city or elsewhere can one expect to see the same high type modes as are now on view at Haas Brothers. THEY emphasize the final note of unusual fashioning at a moderateness of price, that is a pleasurable surprise. Haas Brothers1 Personality Dresses$25 to $100 Haas Brothers' Personality Suits - - $40 to $150 Haas Brothers' Personality Coats ---$35 to $200 Haas Brothers Second Floor Brown Block 16th and Douglas Take Elevator to the Second Floor Veteran South Side Policeman Promoted Charles Morton, veteran member of the Omaha police department, pa trolman at bouth bide station and former sergeant 'of South Omaha police pnof to annexation to Cen tral headquarters, who was promot ed last week to the rank of sergeant by Police Commissioner Kinger, Morton has been on the Omaha po lice force for 17 years. east and were going to coast the rest of the way. At Joplin he endorsed the four fold plan adopted by the American Legion at its Cleveland convention. "I have been very much gratified," he said, "to see the American Legion, in its session at Cleveland, has adopt ed what is called the four-fold plan. It seems to be practical, it seems to be sensible, and it seems to be fair. and I am very happy to give it my endorsement. Decrease Shown By Mississippi Southern State is First to Show Less Populaion in 1920 Census. Washington, Oct. 2. Mississippi is the first state to show a decrease in population in the 1920 census. Its population ot 1,78,18, announced today by the census bureau, is 7,932, or 0.4 per cent less than that fo 10 years ago. s Ihe JiU population ot Uklahoma, Wisconsin and South Dakota also were announced and showed a sub stantial increase. Oklahoma had the greatest increase, its population of 2,027,564 being 370,409, or 22.4 per cent greater than that in 1910. This, however, was the smallest numerical and relative increase shown by Oklahoma since its or ganization as a territory in 1890. Wisconsin s population is 1$S, S39, an increase of 297,979, or 12.8 per cent as compared with that of 1910. The state retains its present rank as 13th most populous state. South Dakota with a population of 635,839r an increase of 51,951, or 3.8 per cent, falls info 37th place, having been passed by North Dako ta. The state showed both its low est numerical and relative increases since its admission as a state in 1889. Seek Income Tax Dodgers. In order to discover income tax dodgers in Iowa and Nebraska, a squad of 60 government investi gators are working in the two states under the direction of Revenue Agent John Gillin. Thirty federal agents arrived here Friday. The Finality Haas Brothers' Authentic Fashion Achievements it Family of Omaha Man Held by U.S. Port Officials Despite Insistent Telegrams and Money Sent to Ellis Island, No Reply Received. Congestion of immigration Ellis Island, port of entry to at the United States, is emphasized in the detention of five relatives of Angelo Caccamo? 1511 Castelar street, fac tory foreman at the Skinner Macaro ni plant, Fourteenth and Jackson streets. Mr. Caccamo has not received word from his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Carmelo Vinciguerra and their three children, Anna, Josephine and Nancy, all under 5 years of age, since they disembarked from the "Patrica" on September 21. Numerous telegrams to the immi gration authorities at tins Island, includine two transfers of $200 and $300 respectively to the authorities, have brought no response, Mr. Cac camo declared. Not Even a Reply. His anxiety for the welfare of his relatives is manifest in his plea to immigration authorities in this city to assist him. "I wire to Ellis Island and get no reply," Angelo declared in brok en English. "What am I to do next?" And in his snug little home that he has made since his arrival in this country from Italy in 1908, his olive-skinned wife also is waiting anxiously for word from their rela tives. Tames C. Cross, traffic manager at the Skinner Macaroni plant, is as sisting Carmelo in his plight. Since 1908 Angelo has been labor ing ceaselessly to provide for the transportation of his relatives to this country. Sends Them Funds. Three months ago he took out the necessary papers and forwarded them to the American consul in Italy. A month ago Angelo re ceived word that his relatives set sail on the "Patrica." On Septem ber 21 he received a telegram via wireless from Mr. Vinciguerra, on board the Patrica, asking for $200 immediately. Aneelo wired the money addressed to Ellis Island. Receiving no turther wora irom his relatives! Angelo wired the com missioner of immigration at Ellis Island on September 25 to ascertain if they landed. He received no re ply. A cousin in New York was then reached, who investigated, An gelo said, and learned that the Vin ciguerra family was being detained m FfJJl Recruiting Ran Away to Join Army Wilmer R. Blackett, on Duty Here for 18 Years, Is Given Merited Promotion. The prohiotion of Sergeant Wil mer R. Blackett, 831 South Fiftieth street, who has served on the Omaha recruiting party for the last 18 years, to first sergeant, recalls the follow ing story of an Omaha boy who ran from home to join the army back in 1898. When a lad of 17, Sergeant Black ett ran away from his home in Omaha and joined the Sixteenth in fantry at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to fight in Cuba during the Spanish American war. But, before his regi ment was moved, the Cuban troubles had been settled and "Aguinaldo in stigated the insurrection in the Phil ippines. Thus the Omaha lad with hundreds 'of other American troopers em barked at San Francisco on March 4, 1899, for the Island of Luzon. Helped Take Block Houses He was in the battle that ended in the capture of the water works, which were regarded as the key to the city of Manila; saw fighting at Caloocan, and was one of the Ameri cans who captured the series of block houses beyond the town. Later he was with xhis regiment at Mateo, where General Lawton was killed. Appari was the next move, and it was here Terona, an insurgent lead er, surrendered with 2,200 men and 1,400 guns. After this Sergeant Blackett was in the fighting that spread over the three provinces of Cagayan, Neuva-Viscaya and Isa bella. The old Sixteenth was at Pal enan when the late General Funston on the. island for more affidavits as to their relationship to Angelo. Sends $300 More. Mr. Cross then assisted in taking up the matter with immigration au thorities in Omaha and the neces sary affidavits were sent to the com missioner of immigration at Ellis Island the following day. A request for $300 "to cover entry expenses" was contained in a wire that Angelo received last Tuesday from the immigration authorities. Th money was immediately for warded with an urgent request to reply as to the welfare of the de tained Vinciguerra family. And 'up to yesterday Angelo had not received a reply. He feels con fident that further telegrams to the immigration authorities will be in vain. "When will they come? he wonders. Local immigration authorities de . From the bewildering array of new fall fashions, how is one to lnow which to select? t Will it be basque, bustle, flounce, circular or pleats? Much is shown, little will endure. t . Our experience and training in these matters enable us to say, "This and this and this will be good." t In a word, if you would avoid expensive and unhappy mistakes, come tous. t t t i You will find all the good things at popular prices some of the very exclusive ones none of the atrocities You are invited to call and see' our showing. THOMPSON, BELDEN COMPANY Sergeant came up from Manila and captured Aguinaldo. On March 20 Sergeant Blackett started home on he transport War ren. After being held up on account of quarantine at Manila, Nagasaki, for more than three weeeks, the Omaha lad arrived home.. During the last year Sergeant Blackett was recommended for a captain in the infantry, but failed to pass physical examinations on ac count of disability contracted while in the Philippines. Sergeant Blackett has but six more years to do before he will be eligible for retirement with a pension. He still is a young man. The sergeant is married and says that the army is the only life for young men who want to get ahead. cline to take up the case unless by "higher authority," Mr. Cross de clared. None of the Vinciguerra family is' required to pass a test as to reading or writing the English language, according to the immigra tion laws, as Mr. and Mrs. Vinci guerra are both over 55 years of age and their children are under 15 years. Galveston Police Called Out to Guard Waterfront Austin, Tex., Oct. 2. Ranger Capt. H. B. Brooks in command of police at Galveston, was ordered today by Governor Hobby to fur nish adequate police protection to guard the entire waterfront in such manner as will prevent disastrous fires, if it takes the entire national guard and every man in Texas to do so. $179,000,00(1 Is Importe Inlo U. S. During Year $339,636 In Gold From "Rug. sia In Europe" Is Received During Last Teu Davs. Washington, Oct 2. The regular periodical statement of the federal reserve board, covering imports and exports of gold and silver last night, contained notice of the importation of $339,636 in gold from 'Kusia in Europe." the first gold to come from Russia since late in 1916. Officials were puzzled by the item which showed the metal had been received in New York several days ago. Inquiry failed to identify the shipment, although reserve board of ficials believed it must have conic from soviet territory. The unexplained shipment was in cluded in imports aeereiratinir $10. 350,000 for the 10 days covered by the btatement. Of this sum France sent $4,000,000 and Great Britain $5,950,000. South American nations sent $1,835,000. Ihe shipments from France and England were believed to reflect payment on the Anglo-French loan of $500,000,000. England has sent $91,000X00 since January 1, while Frances exnorts to the United States have totaled $6,000,000 this year. Imports of gold from all countries for the 10 days brought total imports for the year up to $179,000,000. Exports for the period amounted to $7,085,000, of which $6,540,000 went to Asiatic countries. Silver exports exceeded imports $2,007,000 coming in against $3,011, 0C0 sent out in the 10 days reported. Retired New York Banker Kills Self In Cincinnati Cincinnati, Oct. 2. Stephen Leib er, 64 years old, retired New York banker, died in a Cincinnati hospital at mdinight last night from a bullet wound in the head, said by the cor oner to have been self inflicted. Mr. Lieber has been in ill health, ac cording to his wife, who found her husband lying upon the floor of their apartment with a pistol in his hand on her return from shopping. Cold Snap Worries Burglar So He Steals au Overcoat This burglar was a little bit late. Now that Omaha's first cold snap has been broken, he went out and got himself an overcoat. It was stolen from the home of II. Barnes, 1741 South Twenty-seventh . street Friday night. I WAS
