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Retailers Say
Prices Bein?: Ciit
Fast As Possible
Rcfule Charge That Thcv
Have Not Responded to
Reductions by Wholesal
ers; Cite Lower Costs.
Omaha reUil merchants state that
reduction made to them by whole
salers and manufacturers have been
and are reflected promptly hi their
retail selling prices and they also
insist that the average reduction on
merchandise dnriiiR the last year
will range from 33 1-3 to SO per
cent.
Thiy refute the statement made
by . .some that they have not re
sponded to the reductions made to
them and, in explanation say that
competition, fof one thing, would
regulate that situation.
The consensus of opinion anions
the retailers is that prices have
reached what may be considered as
a near-normal stage. In some lines
further' reductions may be expected
and in othr lines slight increases
are anticipated. They further
explain that the retailer is the
last man to handle the goods
and he is anxious to mave his stocks
and kceo them as fresh as possible.
Selling Average Lower.
5. f. Reynolds of Eldredgc-Rey-nolds
company has given this mat
ter close attention.
"The general selling average at
this time is 33 1-3 to 50 per cent
lower than it was a year ago and
I wish to state that there never was
a tinie'when there were closer mar
gins in the retail merchandise bus
iness," said Mr. Reynolds. "It is
also a fact that there is a greater
volume of business now than when
goods were at the peak prices about
a year ago. I will illustrate this by
referring to Jersey sweaters, for in
stance. We are now selling this
line of sweaters at $14.50 each, and
we received $29.50 a year ago, but
we are selling hundreds of them now
to dozens a year ago. That makes
a difference.
"We are practically down to 1H
prices now. There has been an aver
age reduction of 50 per cent in men's
and boys' clothing and about 'the
same reduction in underwear and
infants' ami children's clothing. We
have just had a sale of men's suits
at $33 and we had similar lines on
sale last year at $55. Last year,
men's suits sold from $45 to $100,
as against $25 to $60 now. Our rec
ords show there has been a reduc
tion from 33 '1-3 to 40 per cent in
shirts ami hats. Shoes which cost
$14, $16 and $18 a paid a year ago
are now being sold for $8 to $12
per pair. The $8 and $ shoes now
being offered are substantial and
stylish, mrc so than the higher
priced goods of a year ago.
Producing More Goods.
"It is also a fact that the manufac
turers are now endeavoring to pro
duce more goods at moderate prices
than they did at the peak prices.
"In the case of' women's dresses, a
yar ago they were made more for
style than for quality, in some in
stances at least, under the- high pnee
regime. Today better lines are being
offered at prices which are 33 1-3 to
50 per cent less." ,
J. J. Haslcy, merchandise manager
for Purge: Nash company, stated
Jh.it- there is no hesitation among re
tailers to buy at this time, because
they believe the bottom has been
reached in pr'ces. He also notes an
increased demand because the public
realizes that prices have reached new
levels.
Some Increases Lately.
"There have been some expected
increases in certain lines during the
last few weeks," said Mr. Hasley.
"Our quotations received during the
last week from manufacturers of do
mestics show an increase of 8 to 10
per cent, the explanation being that
the manufacturers and concerters
have been selling these goods below
cost of production.
"I will state that much merchan
dise is now being sold for less than
it could be replaced for. Hosiery
which sold for $3 a pair last year is
now being sold for $2 and the reduc
tion in underwear is about the same.
"We have been advised to place
ea"rly orders for fall stocks in men's
clothing on account of a prospective
shortage of materials."
Other retailers who did not wish
to be quoted expressed similar opin
ions and gave similar facts.
Judge Blames Low Wages
.uavvii) Jo., mj
ing 41 men, 36 of whom were found
)4ah f-4 Alow l in crmrrir-
guilty ana live- vi wnom picaucu
tuiltv to charges of conspiracy to
rob the American Railway Express
company of $1,000,000, Federal Judge
Evans declared that" the conspiracy
was brought about because "the ex
press company did not pay the mes
senger sufficient wages."
judge Evans declined to hear pleas
for leniency from lawyers. He called
the defendants before him separately
and in many cases, talked to them
for a few minutes. He gave peni
tentiary sentences to 13.
Man Never "Out' Unless He
Admits It, Harding Says
Xew York. May 1. Commening
on the Salvation Army slogan: "A
man may ht down, but never out,"
President Harding, in a letter read at
a mass meeting' of the organization
wrotei "
"It is mv firm opinion that a man
is never "out" unless he himself con
fesses that he is.
' ' Xo organization has done more
to prove this than the Salvation
Army." .
Steamships
Arrival.
April 50. Megantic,
Liverpool,
Tor.;.
JCitw
Glasgow, April Zi. West Katan Ta-
coms.
New TorfcApril SO. Frtrport Sulphur
io. 5. Tacoma.
Melbourne, April it. Las Vegas. SealO".
Vokohoma, April 28. Seine Maru San
Francisco: Went Kader, Portland Ore.
Shanghai, April 27. Algonquin, San
Francisco; Sow Maru, Tacoma; IStli
Keaudore. San Franetaco.
Kobe. April II. West Jester, Portland,
Or-
Departure.
Nen- Yii'c, April CO. Mesaba. London;
Jj l.jnvf.v l,rvo: Carunia, LUrpui;
Caitie Liverpool; .Nieuw Amsterdam,
Kotte tlaii.
Kotst. April li Venesiwla. San Fran-
II U Arabia Slaru, team. ,
American Engineer
Condemned To Prison
By Soviet Government
! bicai a Tribune t'ahlr. Copyright. 10'M.
Riga, May 1. Frank Kcclcy. an
American engineer who was invited
by M. Lcninc to attempt the reorgani
zation of Russian industry under the
soviet regime, has been dondcnincd
to two years in prison for making
reports unfavorable to boUhcvism.
Mr. Kecley worked six months in
an attempt to reorganize industry,
but finally gave it up, saying it was
impossible to do anything under
Lcninc's plan.
He talked freely with American
correspondents on Russian industry,
showing how production in the
spring of 1920 was only five per cent
of that before the war. He wis
credited with the creation of the
scheme for employing labor armies
as the only possible solution for the
problem faced by the bolshevist re
gime. State U. Students
To Revel Here
Jazzy Entertainment Booked
For University Crowd
May 6.
Jazz, confetti, toe tickling 'music,
t y balloons, paper caps and every
thing to make a party a real success
have been provided for the entertain
ment of the university of Nebraska
students who will visit Omaha May
6. They will be guests at a dance
that evening at the M. E. Smith &
company roof garden.
During the day 1,000 students will
be taken through the business and in
dustrial centers of the city and at
noon will be entertained at luncheon
by various organizations.
Word comes from the students at
' Lincoln that the evening party will be
I turned into a regular Mardi Gras
- i . : r t i J ...
I ana mat joy win reign, inc uaucc
f ! 1 - A . 1 XT.I 1.
nail win lie uccoraien in
colors and one of the snappiest
orchestras in Omaha has been en
gaaed for the occasion.
Omaha day at the state university
has been observed every spring for
i years with the exception of last year.
! This year the event will be sponsored
! by the Omaha Chamber of Com
merce; the Nebraska Alumni associa
tion and business men of Omaha.
Peggy Joyce to Rest
After Labor of Filing
Reply to Divorce Suit
(hliaeo Tribune-Omaha lire Lensed Wire,
Chicago, May 1. Having com
pleted her reply to the divorce bill
filed by her third millionaire husband,
Peggy Joyce left for New York this
afternoon.
"I will be back whem this suit
comes up for trial," she told a report
er at the station. "Right now, I am
going back east and rest for a while.
This whole thing has me so nervous
that all I wish to do is to go away
somewhere and forget it."
A question was asked about the
cross bill asking $20,000 a month ali
mony which the attorneys for Mrs.
Joyce are said to be intending to file.
"Oh," said Peggy, "I am tired of
talking about that. Of course, I will
need a lot of money my husband
taught me to expect it. But there
isn't anything more to say about the
divorce. It brings up so many things'
I would rather forget."'
Child Three Weeks Old Is
Plaintiff in Divorce Suit
North Adams, Mass., May 1.
A ' child bom three weeks ago is
made one of the plaintiffs in a di
vorce case entered in the local
court against , Dominik Jammello.
The case against Jammello ha
been before the court for some
time, and the new child, who was
born in March, has now been
added to one of the children the
complaint alleges he failed to sup
port. Woman in Car Strangled
To Death hy Fetor, Bandits
South Orange, N." J., May 1.
Four masked bandits held up an
auomobile in which Mrs. Celeste
Casssese, of Orange, was returning
from a visit to a sick friend. When
she screamed, one of the men leaped
into the tonneau and choked her to
death. Meanwhile the others covered
her chauffeur, Michael Selito, with re
volvers. '
Soldier Returned to Post
On Charge of Suit Theft
Roland Hanhan, private at Fort
Crook, was arrested Saturday night
at Sixty-eighth street and Popplcton
avenue, by city police and later re
leased to military officers. Hanhan,
according to military reports, is
wanted at Fort Crook, where he -'s
charged with stealing a suit of cloth
ing from Frank . Seward of the air
service, and -being absent from the
fort without leave.
Tll
cigarette
pawl
Patrons Sec End
Of Bloomfield's
Telephone Strike
30-Day Ultimatum . Issued
Officers to Ask That Com
mission Ruling Be
, Rescinded.
Cloomficld, Xeb., May 1. (.Spe
cial.) "Striking" patrons of the
Union Telephone company here see
visions of winning their demand that
a 23 per rent rate indrcasc be can
celed. The increased rate was sanc
tioned by the state railway commis
sion. An ultimatum was issued to the
telephone company at a mass meeting
attended by over 400 former sub
scribers. Under the ultimatum th?
company was permitted 30 days m
which to put rate? back to the old
schedule. Free telephone service to
Center and no charge for reconnect
ing telephones was also included in
the ultimatum.
T. A. Anthony, 'president of the
company and J. H. Haggs'trom. gen
eral manager, were, present and ad
dressed the meeting. The officers
agreed to appear before the stale rail
way comniission and endeavor to get
them to rescind their action grant
ing the company the right to raise
rates.
The alternative issued the company
was that telephone users would or
ganize a mutual company after 30
days unless the old rate was restored.
It is estimated that over 100 citi
zens were unable to gain entrance
to the meeting place, which was
packed to capacity. There was no in
dication of a break in the ranks of
the "strikers," who have maintained
their stand for more than a month.
Father Wants Full
Investigation Into
Death of Daughter
Chlrag o Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, May 1. Dr. W. W.
Vance, prominent 'Glcncoe dentist,
requested Coroner Pete M. Hoffman
to make the fullest investigation of
the death of his daughter, Marie
Vance, whose body was shipped to
Chicago recently from Los Angeles,
where, according to a death cer
tificate which accompanied the body,
she died of diphtheria.
The father's request came when
Coroner Hoffman told him that the,
coroner's chemist who examined the
vital, organs of the young woman
found two grains of poison in her
stomach. '
At the same time. Dr. Vance as
serted, he will aid the authorities in
every way possible in finding Robert
S. Lockhart. wealthy merchant of
Covington, Va., who lived with Miss
Vance in a "love bungalow" for
some time in the Pacific coast city
and who left there shortly before air
operation, which was given as a con
tributing cause for her death.
Mystery Surrounds
Murder of Student
t'hirago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire.
Detroit, May 1. Bertram A. Levy,
18, at sophomore a the Uni
versity of Michigan, was fatally shot
in the fashionable Boston boulevard
district, at midnight Friday, dying
on the way to Providence hospital
in a police station flyer. A watch,
a gold knife and a small amount of
money were found untouched in the
pockets.
Information regarding the killing
was supplied by Miss Ida Niemitana
who, while on her way home, wit
nessed the slaying.
Two men in a limousine drove
rapidly along the boulevard and
when a short distance from young
Levy the machine drew up to the
curb. One of the men alighted, Miss
Niemitana asserted, ran in front of
Levy, shot him and fled.
France Announces
Premiums for Bab ies
Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright 19" I.
Paris, May 1. The French gov
ernment announced that after May 1
a premium will be paid on all babies
born in France.
In the provinces 300 francs (nor
mally about $60) will be paid for
third infants, the scale being gradu
ally increased to 650 francs for the
tenth child or over. In Paris these
premiums will be increased 50 per
cent, due to the higher cost of liv
ing. The first payment of 150 francs
will be made 30 days after the birth
of the child.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
A Skilled
A Machine Politician
Roy M. Towl
is a skilled civil engineer and has con
ducted Omaha's department of pub
lic works efficiently for the past three
years. Why gamble 'that a machine
politician can give Omaha service, such
as Towl has rendered?
VOTE for T0WL
" The Man Who
Disabled Soldiers'
League Scored by
House Republican
! Washington. May 1. Suggesting
that a congressional investigation
; might he neccssarv as to the tinanc-
ing and conduct of the National Dis
' abled Soldiers' league, whose execu
j live council, he said, has included at
; one time or another, Secretary Hoo-
: ver. Rabbi Wise, Prof. Irving Fisher
i and other prominent men, Represen
tative Koyal Johnson, republican,
South Dakota, a former service man,
rose in the house today for what he
said was the "unpleasant duty of un
sparing criticism."
Organized "purely for political
purposes during the last campaign,"
lie said, the league had a "set of
self-elected officers into whose pock
ets go 90 cents out of every $1
milked from wounded men of the
late war," as well as money col
lected from the public. Most of
the -more prominent members 'of ils
advistory council, he added, had re
signed and he declared he did not
hold them responsible tor its activi
ties. Potash Finn Is
Sued for $247,000
Officers Seek Judgments in
Order to Ohtain Control .
Of Company.
Alliance, Neb., May 1. (Special.)
Three of the largest civil suits ever
recorded in the district court here
have "been filed against the Alliance
Potash company by Herman T.
Krause, president of the company, j
and R. M. Hampton, vice president, :
for the aggregate amount ot
833.63. Mr. Hampton. is mayor of
Alliance and president of the First
National bank.
Mr. Krause has filed two separate !
. . f . . . . i
petitions, m one ot wincii lie asks lor
$84,833.63, and in the other for $100,
000. Mr. Hampton's claim is for
$63,000. t
In Mr. Krause's first petition he
alleges that the company conveyed
to him a promissory note for $25,000
in March, 1920, no part of which has
been paid. As a second cause of ac
tion he asserts that in April, 1920,
the company became, indebted to
Newberry's Hardware company of j
Ainance m tlie sum ot $ay,JJ.0J tor
goods, ware and merchandise and
that the deed was transferred to the
plaintiff. No part of this indebted
ness has been paid, he asserts. In
his second petition Mr. Krause is
suing for pavmcnt of a promissory
note for $100,000, dated March 25,
1919, with accrued interest.
Mr. Hampton's action is for pay
ment of three notes given by the
company, one for $5,000, one for
$25,000 and another for $33,000.
The sums asked for by the two
officers of (the company represent the
amounts they placed in the corpora
tion after It had been organized with
a capitalization of $500,000. The ob
ject, of the petitioners is to secure
judgments for the amounts named in
order that they may secure control
of the company, since it was their
money which financed the organiza
tion. The cases will be heard at the
June term of district court.
Two Americans Held
By Mexican Officials
Laredo, Tex., May 1 Manuel
Trejo and his son, Jesus, American
citizens of San Antonio, arrested in
Nuevo , Laredo Thursday night,
charged with . being revolutionary
emissaries, were secretly se;i to Tam
pico under heavy guard Saurday.
General Cabanas, military com
mander at Nuevo Laredo, who last
night promised American Consul
Robertson he would permit' him to
see the prisoners, today, informed
Mr. Robertson of their removal when
he appeared at the jail.
The commander was understood to
have told the American consul that
he was "under no obligation to in
form American authorities as to the
disposition of prisoners of the Mexi
can government."
Rum Running Airplane
To Be Sold By Government
Savannah, Ga., May 1. The
mysterious bootlegging ' airplane
found by police recently, abandoned
but liquor laden, in the municipal
landing field, is to be sold by the
federal government under the pro
hibition enforcement act. The ma
chine was taken over by the United
States district attorney's office.
A paltrcn for a hand bag that also
can be worn as a hat has been pat
ented by a woman inventor.
rOMTICAI. ADVERTISE! ENT
Engineer
Knows How
' Beet Farmers at Oshkosh
Forced to Replant Crop i
ohkosh. Neb., Mav 1 . (Spc-'Nevv Classification for
cial.)-. large acreage of beet, is ! , Express Asked in Iowa
being replanted on account ot the; . 1 .
tirst crop being frozen during the : Des Moines, May 1. Petitions
cold ' weather of last week, tier- asking new classifications for com
inan grown seed is being used and ! modities shipped by express in Iowa
I'OI.ITH l. AUVK.RTISKMKNT 1 OI.ITU U. AOVBHTIsr.MKNT POLITIC M. !VKKTISKMKT rOMTICAI. AIM KHTISKMENT
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The man or woman who doesn't vote next Tuesday for what he or she hon
estly believes will be for the best interests of Omaha, should never be al
lowed to vote
The paramount issue is NOT the election of the Ringer
ticket, nor the Dahlman ticket
The Paramount Issue Is Omaha
the election of men that will serve Omaha best,
the election of men that will spend our money honestly,
the election of men whose chief aim is not political,
the election of men capable of handling a business such
as the "City of Omaha."
the election of men that will keep your tax rate down,
the election of men that will develop Omaha's parks,
streets, boulevards, along civil engineering lines,
the election of men that will fight vice and crime to the
last ditch.
-the election of men who abhor the thought of protected
vice.
the election of men you'll be proud of.
the election of men that will not tolerate the operation
of bawdy houses or other disorderly places where your
boys and girls may associate with underworld life.
the election of men that will make you proud of Omaha.
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Which Ticket Do You Want? Which Ticket
Will Be of Most Benefit to Omaha?
What's the difference if you don't like Fred Wead and Elmer. Thomas,
They are not running the city, and wo n't run it.
Don't vote for incompetence just because you don't happen to like Wead
and Thomas.
THE RINGER TICKET:
A.L.Sutton J. Dean Ringer Thomas Falconer
W. G. Ure John F. Murphy Roy N. Towl
Charles A. Grimmel
the first crop, before being frozen.
Miowcd iiii exceptionally good stand.
again.
Supporters of the
Ringer Ticket
teachers of 30,000 Omaha
school children. t ,
-friends of parks and boule
vards. those who. want a civil en
gineer to lay out streets, pave
them, build sewers, etc.
those who want a fearless and
honest man heading the polico
. department. ,
those who want a trained fi
nancieQheading the city's fi
nancial department.
those who want union labor
; represented .on the council.
Catholics and Protestants who
want the principles of Christi
anity applied to government.
men who will keep your taxes
down.
such men as Dr. (Jiff ord,
Mayor Smith, W. P. Baxter.
A few business men have endorsed
them would have a single man on th
WHY DO THESE BUSINESS ME
Every man on the Dahlman ticked is pledged to Dahlmanism. No busi
ness man, or professional man, or teacher, would permit for one minute,
the application of Dahlmanism to his business or profession.,
Signed: Good Government League,
was filed by the State railroad coni-
mission yesterday. It asks the same
classification as that for interstate
shipments.
Daughters of Confederacy
To Hold Meeting in St. Louis
St. Louis. Mo.. May 1. The I
Supporters of the
Dahlman Ticket
the political bosses.
the service corporations.
bootleggers.
Tom Dennison.
business men who say: "We
own this city."
women bawdy house inmates
whom Candidate (J udge)
Dunn releases when police ar-
' rest them.
the World-Herald, which in
1914, during a Dahlman ad
ministration, said the Hazel
McVey resort was a "protect
ed house of commercialized,
vice."
men who want to see $7,000
garbage contracts given away.
those who want the health de
partment back in politics.
those who are willing to have
an incompetent man at the
head of the parks and playgrounds.
Dahlman and his ticket. Not one of
e Dahlman ticket in his business.
N WANT DAHLMAN?
E. Mf SLATER,
twenty-eighth annual convention of
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy will be held here November
8 to 1-, it was announced by Mrs. f.
P. Higgins. president of the Mis
souri division of the organization.
Though France produces little
nrtrnteiim it h had a relinei v in
oneration for 180 year
Chairman.
