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McKelvic Price
Probe Findings
Arc Announced
IitcreiKe in Value of Flour
Over Wheat 48 Centi a
Biubd, or 57 Per
Out.
Lincoln, Neb., Dti. 9. SyuopiU
ci findings of the xate board of in
vcktigation into- the tubjeett of
whrat, corn, poultry and tigs, to
gether with labor and rent atfecting
tbHr distribution, conducted by di
rection of Governor McKelvic, wa
unnouncrd today. No recommenda
tion are made. By tubjeett, the
finding briefly follow;
Wheat Farm labor reduced in the
Parly part of 120 nearly SO per
cent, but rent of farm lands re
mained uniform during period of
1919 to 1120, inclusive. During 1520
wheat sold by the producer netted
mm an average of about $i.2) a
bukhel; during the early part of
marketing season of 1921, wheat re
tailed at about $1 per bushel, bavins
oince been reduced to an average of
10 cents v(T buhcl.
"flour Considering millers are
Me to buy their mixture of wheat
at an average price oi $1.10 per
bushel, we find they can dispose oi
their by-products for approximately
26 cents fur each bushel milled. It
is shown that the increase in value
of flour over wheat is about cents
per bushel of wheat, or about 57 per
cent advance. Flour being sold to
the retailer at $1.85 per sack is be
ing sold by the retailer to the con
sumer at from $2 to $2.30.
Bakers' Profits Large.
"Dread Fifty-six so-called pound
loaves of bread are obtained from
one bushel oi wheat, the latter cost
ing $1.32. Adding ingredients, these
So loaves are being sold to retailers
at 6 cents per loaf, which realizes a
total of $3.36 for the baker, or an
increase of 155 per cent ' over the
price he paid for the flour and an
increase of 124 per cent ovfr the
amount the housewife pays for the
amount of flour used.
'fC'orn The1 farmer receives about
25 to 30 cents per busel for corn
in selling to the miller, feed yard
and elevators. A bushel of corn is
milled into about 20 pounds of hom
iny feed and ' about 36 pounds of
cornmeal or a net to miller of about
50 cents for' cornmeal from each
bushel milled. That part of a bu- j
shel of corn going into cornmeal
nets the farmer 20 cents, the miller
50 cents, the packer, in five pound
bags, 72 cents and the retailer $1.08,
paid by the consumer.
"Poultry Spring variety which
net the farmer 16 cents a pound is
sold by the wholesale dealer at about
50 per cent over the price paid the
producer after accounting for the
shrink in dressing, which increase
is about equally divided. "
i 45 Per Cent Increase.
"Eggs Fresh eggs are being sold
for an average of about 50 cents
per dozen by the producer and most
ly disposed by the retailer at about
60 i cents. -The -average '' consumer
pays about 45 per cent more tor eggs
the year around than the average
producer receives.
"Restaurants Lincoln restaurants
arrange a business basis so that food
or raw material shall cost bout 50
per cent of the service price, labor
20 per cent, other expense 15 per
cenr.leavia silirs taoin taommnnooo
cent, leaving a profit of trom 1U
to 15 per cent."
The Lincoln bearings have been
completed and the board announces
similar investigations may be con
ducted in other cities of the stale
in the near future.
State Board to Hold
Hearing at Hospital
Kearney, Neb.. Dec. 9. (Special
Telegram.) Without a complaining
witness on hand to press any specific
charges, members of the state bosrd
.f rr.nirrl met at Kearney yesterday
to Investigate conditions at the state
lUDCrCUIOSlS nosP'u". yc """"
treatment of ex-service men.
It was announced at the conclusion
oi their inspection, during the
course of which Ralph Krause, voca
tional director in this district and
several ex-service men, patients, were
questioned, that the board will meet
agam and everyone having a griev
ance will be heard.
The hearing will be held December
21.
None of the board members will
make a statement on what progress,
if any, was made during course of
their visit. v
Blunder Blamed for
Sinking of Submarine
Bridgeport. Conn., Dec.9. One of
the men rescued from the submarine
S-48, which sank Wednesday night in
Long Island sound, about five miles
from here, charged last night that
some person or persons at the plant
of the Lake Torpedo Boat company
blundered in not properly clamping
the lid of a manhole and that the sub
merging of the boat was followed by
an inrush of water. As a result, 51
men faced death for 11 hours.
The submarine was to hare been
delivered Wednesday to the govern
ment at New London. It was passed
on as being mechanically perfect
when it left the plant.
Simon Lake, consulting engineer
of the Lake company, said tonight
the accident might have resulted from
some mechanical defect or a blunder
by some human agency.
Vould-Be Thief Released
On Promise to Leave City
Thomas Murphy, charged witn
petit larceny, pleaded guilty before
Judge Foster in Central police court
this morning. Murphy was arrested
Thursday night while attempting to
steal an overcoat from an automobile
at Fourteenth, and Douglas streets.
"You see judge, I just got out of
the county jail yesterday afternoon
after serving 45 day for vagrancy. I
tried to get work during the after
noon but failed. I was hungry and
I tried to get the coat but was
caught If yoa will give me a
chance I will get out of town.
"How long will it take yoar
asked the judge. -
I can get out in an nonr.
"Agreed," said the conrt an J
Murphy was discharged.
(Ctntlnti.tl t rm Vntrfdar.)
So the bridge of kisses had fallen,
as the Fortune Hunter had known it
was bound to fall. What was the
use of going on struggling to make
some sort of happiness, when the
only foundation on which he could
build it was a lie?
He took his hat and went down
into the village, wandering on rest
Icssly through the straggling street,
unconscious of his surroundings.
It was only when be was cross
ing the bridge where he had stood
in the rain that wet afternoon with
Anne that lie saw Fernic coming
towards him. The Fortune Hunter
face hardened; he had not seen this
man since the meeting on the sta
tion platform, and, as Fernie drew
nearer, he deliberately turned his
back and on him, leaning his el
bows on the low wall of the bridge
and staring down at the river.
But Fernie was not so easily
snubbed, and he sauntered up to
the Fortune Hunter, his hands
stuck into the pockets of his shab
by cordoury brveches,
"Nice morning, Mr. Smith."
The Fortune Hunter looked
around, bus made no answer.
"Not tired of Soinerton yet,
then?" the elder man went on, still
in the same insinuating voice.
The Fortune Hunter stood up
right, his eyes very fierce.
"Not yet, Mr. Feruie," he said
slowlv.
"Humph." The old man grinned
Saturday-A Gigantic Sale of
Boys9 SuitsandOvercoats
Entire Stock Divided Into
Four Huge Groups
2,280 Boys' Suits-
2 to 19 Years
1,260 Boys' Overcoats
2 to 19. Years Come Early.
Many suits with an extra pair of full cut knickers. All
wrool material' in checks, plaids, stripes, mixtures and
plain colors. ' The overcoats are all wool materials in
chinchilla imported cassimeres and other wanted ma
terials. Every suit and overcoat is included in this won
derful sale. Come, outfit your boy and save nearly half
of regular prices. It's the biggest event in the Boys'
Department we have had in years.
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and nodded bis bead slowly. "Going
to give it another day or two. eh?
Well, I'm not sure that I don't
rather admire your pluck, after .11
, , , Good morning." And lie
sauntered off again whistling soft
ly. The Fortune Hunter stood look
ing after him, his hands clenched,
then he laughed and shrugged his
shoulders; he was not afraid of
Fernie; he was not afraid of any
one in the world except the woman
who loved him.
And during the next few days
the rift between Jhem grew to al
most terrifying proportions. There
were moments when, half-driven
mad witn his own despair, we ror
tune Hunter nearly threw up the
sponge and walked back to the road
again; moments when he felt it
would be easier never to see her
again than to go on meeting the
distrust of her eyes, and see the
struggle she was making against
her love for him.
When they were together, which
was not very often, she always kept
the conversation to generalities; she
never spoke of the past or of the
future, and only when Tommy or
Mr. Harding were present did she
soitcn a little towards him in a des
perate effort, to make things appear
all right.
The strain was telling on them
both, more especially on him, and
but for one thing nothing could have
persuaded the Fortune Hunter to
stay in the house a day longer, and1
Look
Prices:
Buy
that was hi passionate jealousy of
UeoHry hoster.
Foster bad been to the house on
several occasions since that night
in the study, but he bad aUy
treated the Fortune Hunter with
frigid politeness, and had made 09
other allusion to the past It was
bis veiled sort of proprietorship to
wards Anne that drove the Fortune
Hunter to such a pitch of Jealousy
that sometimes he could hardly con
trol himself, and it was the knowl
edge that Ooetfrey Foster was ouly
wailing his opportunity that kept
him obstinately where he was. Fear
would never have driven the For
tune Hunter away; only the desper
ate conviction that he could bear no
more. And then one evening the
climax came. Things had been
more or less strained with Anne
during the day, and when dinner
time came her place was not laid at
the table.
The Fortune Hunter, entering the
room, stopped dead in the doorway
when be saw the omission, and
asked a sharp question:
"Anne where is she?"
Mr. Harding looked up in sur
prise.
"blic scut word that sue woulJ
not be in to dinner that she had
gone up the river. I naturally
thought you were with her, John. '
"No I. . . lommy uroke in
glibly.
"She's gone with Foster I saw
them go under the bridge in his
launch when I was coming home
just now."
J here was a pamiul silence; tne
Fortune Hunter's face was livid as
he took his seat without another
at the
Group 1
12.50 Boys' Suits
and Overcoats
Group 2
16.50 Boys' Suits
and Overcoats
Group 3
22.50 Boys' Suits
and Overcoats
Group 4
35.00 Boys' Suits
and Overcoats
Your Boy a Suit and Overcoat for Christmas
and save money.
Fourth Floor.
word, and Mr. Harding plunged
into haphazard conversation, It was
impossible not to fee) sorry (or the
man opposite Mm, and when Tom
my hsd departed Mr. Hardin
Jin
aid
leandrd over the table and
awkirdly:
Jf there has been a little niituu
derstanding. John. 1 am sure ou
can put things rignt, just a lovers
quarrel eh? . , . Anne is very sen
sitive, and perhaps you ..."
"There bat been no misunder
standing," the Fortune Hunter said
in a voice of flint, and .here was
something about him as he rose from
the table that prevented Mr. Harding
from saying more.
He went out into the garden and
walked up and down in the warm
darkness, bis teeth clenched on the
stem of his pipe, bis bands knotted
together behind hit back.
The beginning of the end that i:;
what it meant, be knew, and be felt
himself to be utterly incapable of
meeting and fighting it.
He could kill her love for him
let her weary of him, and the would
turn tn her trouble to Geoffry rot
ter. It would be the easiest way
out for her, even if it broke his own
heart.
I'riile would come to her rescue
and help her to forget him, and one
day she would come to him and tell
him that she wanted him no more,
and then he could go back to the
road and his old wandering life.
But the Fortune Hunter could be
strong when he chose, and so, when
Anne came in about an hour later,
pale and heavy-eyed and coldly dc
fiant, he greeted her as if there had
been nothing extraordinary in her
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lining on the river with Geoffry
Foster,
Anne stated at him at first with
amated ryes and Darted bps. before
she laughed cynically and turned
away,
"I was unite m arm. think you.1
she said coldly. Geoffry alwtyt
looks alter me. I'm rather tired to
i it say gooa fiigm.
"G o o il nicht and uleasam
dreamt I" be said. He made no at
tempt to kiss her, dd not even touch
her baud, and Anne led on to Iter
room and shut and locked the door
before the burst into a storm of bit
ter sobbing,
"He doesn't even tniiull He rant
reallv care! . . . Oh. Joho, Jobnl"
(Cooilnu.4 la lit Ut tiMtiurrasr.)
Fire of Uiulttcriniiicd Origin
Damages K. C Packing Plant
Kansas City, Dec. 9. Fire of un-
determined origin which broke out in
the Fowler racking plant in Kan-
S3S Cltv Kan.. last moVit ,.rjn.,t
damage estimated at several thous-
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anus oi mmars. ine lire started tn ,
the shipping department and the '
flames spread rapidly before the fire I
was placed under control.
The Clothing Sensation of 192JL
i Barker's Entire Stock of
Slits and QWts
In Three Mighty Sale Groups
Standing head and shoulders a&ove every
other clothing event being offered Omaha
men today this wonderful sale is affording
the greatest values of the year.
Barker's Regular
$25 Suits
and Overcoats
that cost $35
to duplicate
elsewhere
Choice Now,
Barker's Regular
$35 Suits
and Overcoats
that cost $45
to duplicate
elsewhere
Choice Now,
Barker's Regular
$45 and $50 Suits
and Overcoats
that cost $55 and $65
to duplicate
elsewhere
Choice Now,
No matter how exacting
matter how nature has
ion ue suieu nere Wlui
Choose Without
Reserve
Any Boy's
Suit, 0'coat
OR
Mackinaw
in the house at
a discount of .
25
Majority of Suits
Have 2 Pants
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Second Floor Securities Building
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Hotel Rome
DANCING
Informal
Thursday and Saturday
Nights Only
The Bee Want Ads are the best
Businejs Boosters.
Sims Praises Harding
For Calling Arms Meet
Springfield, III., Pec. 9. Boldness
of president Harding in calling the
arint conference wat characteriid
as "a stroke of policy the like of
which hat never been known before,"
by Hear Admiral Sims, in an ad
dress tontuht.
Reduction of armament, he said,
would not mean reduction of the
possibility of war, for the reduction
will be liv ratio, anil rich n.nimi uill
remain at able to withstand another!
nation as before reduction.
Finma Goldmuu Seeks
PcrmUtum to Kelurji to 11. S.
Riga. Let via, 'Dec. 9.- (By A. ?.)
Emma Goldman, who was deported'
to Russia from the United States in
December, W19, at a result of herfl
alleged anarchistic activities has leit
Moscow, it was learned here today.
She is believed to be in Riga with
the intention of seeking permission
to return to the United States.
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developed your figure you
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20 of America's
Foremost Clothes
Builders are Repre
sented in This Store
wide Clearance.
Barker's prices are always $10 un
der other clothing stores, and these
sensational reductions are based
on Barker's low cash-selling prices.
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PrnniiT Turn Attrution
To (rVriuuti Kqianihon
Loudon, Dee. S.-U'y A. P )--With
the Iri-.li agreement reached,
1'ieniier Lloyd i;rge turned his at
tention today to German !riarati.. "
Me held a conference tonRht villi
l.ouis Loiicheur, French minister of
devastated regions, who arrived to-
day tn discus Germany's payment of
war indemnities.
Today M. Loiicheur conferred
with Mr Kobert llortie chancellor .
of the exchequer, Sir John Brad
bury, joint permanent aeeretary A
the treasury, and other treasury oi
licials. It was untlcrstod, he ex
plained, the French tint ti, view,
concerning the Lnncveur-It rtlicnaii
agreement, under whitfli Gcylnany is
to make reparation! in Kind t
Fiance over a i rioJ of ''yean.
Congress to Authorize Tje
Of War Sujiltcg in itushia
Washington. Dec. 9. Tlf War
department will ! authiizd by
coiigifss, it was Indicated "yesterday,
to turn over to 'the American Belief
administration its surplus medical
supplies for use in the famine dis
trict of Russia.
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