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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
SENATOR THOMAS
SAYS HANG EVERY
FOOD SPECTATOR
Borah Declares the Best Way
to Deal With Offenders is
to Put Them in
Prison.
NO SHORTAGE OF STAPLES
Members From Farming States
Insist No Reason to Fear
a Scarcity.
PACKERS ARE ATTACKED
PACKERS ARE ATTACKED

Washington, May 2.-Rising senti-
ment in congress for legislation to
meet the nations food problems
broke out in the senate today in de-
bate that. started over the high price
Of seeds, but developed into denunci-
ations of food SPECTATORS with asser-
tions that the best way to deal with
them was. to string them to lamp
posts or put them behind prison bars.
Senators from farming states de-
MED that there is any real shortage
of staple foods in the United States.
Senator Williams declared there had
been hysteria throughout the coun-
try and that the cause Of high prices
was largely psychological.
He said he believed the German
corruption fund recently unearthed in
federal court in New York may
have been responsible. Word should
go from the senate, Senator Williams
said. that there is no shortage of food.
Senators Nelson and McCumber
agreed that there is no reason to fear
shortage.
Thomas and Borah Lead Attack.
The attack on the Spectators was
led by Senators Thomas and Boarh.
The Colorado senator declared they
were the real enemies of the nation,
expressed tn hop that congress would
not adjourn without legislation that
you'd remedy the evil, and said the
lamp post is the thing to cure such
speculation.
He introduced an amendment to the
espionage bill empowering the presi-
dent by proclamation to suspend dur
ing the war the operation OF boards
Of trade and chambers of commerce
which deal in futures.
Senator Borah predicted world
famine if the war lasts two years and
if extraordinary and sustained efforts
are not made here to meet the food
problem. He attacked the packers,
declaring they made enormous profits,
and said speculation and monopoly
i'll foodstuffs made millions for those
who were responsible and made
poems OF the people"
He favored conscription Of food and
government possession of the packing
companies. Food speculation, he said,
would not be ended until the specula-
tors "are put in stripes behind the
bars"
Farmers Profit Also.
Senator Kenyon said: "These
speeches will be used by food specula-
tors as an excuse for raising prices
still higher. The packers are getting
big profits, but we farmers and stock
raisers, too, are getting them. | sold
an old, superannuated, toothless COW
for $50 or $50, for which would have
been glad to have gotten So"
Senator Kenyon introduced a bill
today to make it a prison offense to
buy futures on any article pertaining
to the necessities of life" or storing
them, "cornering the market or affect
ing the market price"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
NO EXCUSE FOR
IDLE MEN IN The
STATE TODAY
War Situation Being Reflected
Stronger in Omaha Each
Day in Demand for
Laborers.
HOTELS ARE HARDEST HIT
More Women Than Men Are
Daily Being Provided
With Jobs.
FARMER NEEDS HELP, TOO
HOTELS ARE HARDEST HI
FARMER NEEDS HELP, TOO

The war situation is being reflected
in the continually increasing calls for
workers, particularly from the rural
districts and quite generally from
other fields of industry,
The situation is shifting so rapidly
that it is growing complex. For illus
tration: In the hotel business many
employees are finding more remunera-
tive places. Manager Letton of the
Fontenelle said: "We lose from ten
to fifteen day, some going to better
positions and others entering military
service. 1t is impossible for us to
keep our staff filled. Hotels lost near
ly 50 pei cent of employees at the be-
ginning of the war because most
American hotel workers are foreign
born. .
"A national meeting of hotel men is
being held today in Muncie. Ind, to
establish a training school for hotel
employees. The labor question in
hotels is nationwide and is a seri-
Gus problem"
No Excuse tor Idle Men.
"There is no excuse for an able
bodied man to plead lack of employ
ment at this time" said City Com
missioner Jardine, who is in close
touch with labor affairs.
Secretary Stryker of the Live Stock
exchange maintains farm employ
ment bureau in connection with his
office. He is sending FIVE to ten men
to the farms every day and has more
calls for farm workers than he can
fill.
Local dairy men are experiencing
the greatest difficulty in keeping men
to drive their wagons.
81 will not be surprised to see
women serving as conductors on the
street cars and taking other places
usually filled by men," was COM
ment by Superintendent Schneider of
the Board of Public Welfare.
Prof. Pugsley offered this state
ment:
"The most important single limit
ing factor in increasing production is
the farm labor supply. Six million
men have already been killed in the
European war and there are now d.
100000 men in prison camps. Fifteen
million men have been wounded, of
which number 100000 have been
permanently incapacitated, and there
are yet 100000 in the hospitals.
portion of whom will not recover and
n norton will he caoaritated for life
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
GERMANY WILL
NOT SUBMIT ITS
PROPOSALS NOW
Address by Imperial Chancel-
lor Won Bethmann- Hollweg
Slated for Thursday is
Postponed.
REGARDED AS A FEELER
British Mission Says Number of
Attempts to Sound Senti-
ment of Entente Expected.
MANY UNDER CURRENTS
REGARDED AS A FEELER
MANY UNDER CURRENTS

Copenhagen, May 2 (Via London).
The speech which was to have been
made in the Reichstag by DR.. Won
Bethmann-Hollweg, the German im-
national relations has been postponed
to a more fitting occasion, according
to word received here.
The situation, as reported in a dis
patch from Berlin, appears to be as
follows:
At caucus of the majority social
ists in the Reichstag, the group that
supports the policy of not embarrass-
ing the chancellor and the govern
ment, it was decided to defer an in
terpellation that had been proposed
regarding Germany's peace plans un-
til a more suitable occasion.
Series of Feelers Expected.
Washington, May 2.-Repcrts Of
fresh peace offers from Berlin
brought forth the statement from the
British mission today that series Of
feelers were expected during the next
few months as an immense amount
of quiet peace efforts has been under
way by Teutonic emissaries, but no
credencc is being placed in their ac-
ceptabihty.
Germany was stated to have made
advances proposing surrendering its
conquests i'll the east and west on con-
dition of retaining its Balkan way to
Bagdad and Mesopotamia, but the al
lies have been more united against
that plan than against any other pro-
posal.
German System Failure.
Amsterdam Via London), May 2.
The Hamburger .Fremdenblatt has
come to the conclusion that the Ger
man political system is failure and
must be changed. The paper says:
There is no use theorizing.
There is something wrong. with
our governmental system, as is
clearly proved by Germany's
political failures and in fact by
the whole war
Fresh blood must be infused in
the government"
The ~ emdenblatt advocates the re-
moval u the bureaucratic barriers in
orler 70 allow the parliament and
government 10 work i'll harmony.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Accused as Boot|egger,
Fugitive Leaps Off Train

Fremont, Neb., May 2.-(Special
Telegram. )-William Roberts, col
ored, accused at Valentine of boot
logging, opened the vestibule door of
a sleeper and leaped from North
western train near Hooper as it was
travelling at high speed. He was
caught two hours later by Marshal
Bryant OF Hooper in strawstack
near Hooper and brought to Fremont
by Sheriff Condit He will be taken
to Valentine. Roberts was recognized
by former County Attorney J. c.
Quigley
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
South Bend Minister
Will Marry Ohio Girl

Cincinnati, O., May 2.-(Special
Teiegram.) - Announcement was
made here yesterday, OF the coming
marriage Of Rev. c. G. Lunan of South
Bend, Neb., to Miss Nina Bull OF
Xcnia, o. Rev. c. G. Lunan will
graduate May 9~from the Xenia
Theological seminary and the we'd
ding will take place the day follow
ing his graduation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Slayer Pleads He Saw
His Victim Kissing Wife

Christiansburg, Va, May 2.--Prof.
c. L. Vawter, on trial here on a
charge of numbering Stockton Heth,
jr, today took the stand and pleaded
the unwritten law and self-defcnse as
his Justification He told Of seeing
Hcth kissing Mrs. Vawter and de-
clarcd he only shot Heth after the
latter attacked him. The tragedy
took place at night In the Vawter
home, where lleth was guest,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Aged Couple "Run Away"
To Omaha for Weddinu

Eli Vickery, II, and Mrs. Sara II.
Scott, 81, iran away" from their re-
spective homes, in Council Bluffs late
Tuesday afternoon and were married
in Omaha. Sure, we're running
away" chucked the old couple, when
they obtained a marriage license at
the court house. Judge Crawford OF
county court performed the ccre-
mony. The old people will make their
home in the Iowa city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Utah Mines Ask Lower
Rates Into Nebraska

Washington, May Goal opera
tors of'the Helper, Utah, mining dis
trict, one Of the chief sources OF pro-
ducton i'll the west today, petitioned
the Interstate Commerce commission
for reduction in freight rates OH
coal from their mines to California,
Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana,
Nebraska, Oregon and Washington.
Present rates, they charged, discrimi-
nate against the Utah operators and
favor operators in New Mexico and
Wyoming.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Thirteenth Turkish Army
Corps Is Put to FIiqht

London, May 2.-The Thirteenth
Turkish army corps has been driven
by the British from its position in
Mesopotamia on both banks of the
: hiatt -El-Adhcm, General Maude re-
ported today. The British cavalry is
pursuing the Turks into the Jebel
Hamrin hills and making many cap.
tures
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Joffre-viviani Party
Leave for the West TODAY

Washington. May 2.-Vice Premier
Viviani, Marshal Joffre and other
members of Frances war mission will
leave Washington for their western
trip tomorrow afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. They go direct to Chicago,
where they are due at noon Friday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Marshal Joffrel
Has Long Talk
With President

Washington, May 2.-Marshal
Joffre held long conference with
President Wilson late today on the
question of sending American troops
to France. He was accompanied only
by Colonel Spencer Cosby OF the
American army, who acted as inter-
Dreter
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Famous Monument
Recast Into Shells

New York. May 2.-The famous
monument erected in Petrograd in
honor of Catherine II of Russia,
has been demolished and 'recast
into shells at the request Of the
committee of soldiers, according
to a dispatch received here today
from Petrograd by the Jewish
Daily Forward.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
First Bond Offering
Two Billion Dollars

Washington, May 2.-Tonight
Secretary McAdoo announced that
the first offering of bonds under
the Liberty loan would amount to
S2,000,o00,0o0.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
Chinese Minister Leaves
Germany for Denmark

Peking, May 2.-The foreign office
has received information that the
Chinese minister to Germany has left
Berlin for Denmark.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
LANE PREDICTS
WAR WILL LAST
SEVERAL YEARS
Secretary of Interior Tells
Governors Conference the
United States Has Gi.
gantic Task.
MUST BUILD VESSELS
Four Hundred Thousand Tons
of Shipping Destroyed
Last Week.
SAYS GERMANY HAS FOOD
MUST BUILD VESSELS
SAYS GERMANY HAS FOOD

BULLETIN.
Washington, May 2.-Secrctary
of State Lansing, in response to
inquiries about the submarine
situation, said:
ut may as we'll be recognized
that the submarine situation is
very serious"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03
The Weather

For Nebra aska-Rain. East; rain or snow
west portion; continued cold
Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-03

Enjoy the warm days
coming soon by get
ting out into the coun-
try for a ride.
To the man who can
not afford a new car,
THE USED AUTO
MOBILE COLUMNS
of today's paper Of
fers many fine bar
gains.
Find yours there row.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
"Twin Beds Next Tuesday.

When A. s. Stern & Selwyn and COM
pany, sponsors for within the Law.
Under Cover" Under Fire" Rolling
Stones The Show SHOP and The
Lie" present Twin Beds" the laugh
festival, by Margaret Mayo and Sails
bury Field. at the opera house on Tues
day, Nov. l3, they bring with it the en-
dorsement of a run of precisely fifty
two weeks in New York, where the roll
licking farce of apartment house life
kept crowded houses in gales Of laugh
ter in the record run of last season.
Twin Beds" i. first, a clean farce. sec
ond. an Overwhelmingly amusing one, and
last, a farce with more than mere sit
uation TO recommend il, thick-set as il
is with the best. of these II has char
Of the sort that made Mar
Caret MAYO famous in BABY Mine, and
before that. in Polly OF the Circus and
its group OF amusing people. entangling
themselves on calamity on calamity in
their misguided efforts to escape each
OF her and all future mention Of neighbor-
illness, are all finely drawn types which
exist in every community. and are recog-
nized by all their fellows.
Selwyn and Co. are sending the pre-
rise duplicate Of the original highly sue-
oessful. New York production for the
presentation Of Twin Beds" here. and
! finely balanced cast which includes that
EVER clever little artist Lois Bolton, sup
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
IT'S YOUR LIVER!
YOU'RE BILIOUS,
HEADACHY, SICK!
Don't Stay Constipated with Breath Bad,
Stomach Sour or
Cold.
Enjoy Life Liven Your Liver and Bow.
els Tonight and Feel
Fine.

Tonight sure Remove the liver and
bowel poison which is keeping your head
dizzy, your tongue coated, breath often
sive and stomach sour Don't stay bill
ious, sick, headschy, constipated and full
of cold Why don't you get a box of
Cascarets from the drug store now! Eat
one or two tonight and enjoy the ME
est, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing
you ever experienced. You viii wake
up feeling fit and fine Cascarets never
grippe or bother YOU all the next day like
calomel salts and pills They act gent
w but thoroughly. Mothers should give
cross. sick. bilious or feverish children a
whole Cascaret any time. They are
harmless and children love them-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
AMUSEMENT NOTES
arms and the Man" at Barre Opera
House Saturday.

Arms and the Mani" The most i'm
portant subject chat concerns the world
to-day Militarism, the bugbear of our
age, could not find a more worthy OPP
ponent than the redoubtable Bernard
Shaw No matter what subject he tack
les he smashes the conventionalism to
smithereens and in way that is al
ways original.
Whoever would think that militarism
the mighty could be knocked out" with
anything so seemingly innocent as a
clever comedy. Yet Shaw does it and in
a manner that brings up the best laugh
ing artillery of that master of testers.
A most extraordinary soldier is the
prosaic Swiss captain, who succeeds in
cutting better figure than the spectac-
uar and romantic hero, and defeats him
in the end
The story is very skillfully worked
out, and is one of the most amusing
things Shaw has yet done
Mr.. Clifford Devereux, long associated
with the drama and his specially select
ed company are giving an unusually mer-
itorious production of this comedy mas
terpiece which should prove of interest
to all those seeking entertainment well
above the ordinary at the opera house,
matinee and night, Saturday, Nov. To-
adv,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
M1RSHFIELD

] w Mears has recently been appoint
ed chairman of the Y NJ c. A. move
ment for this town and there will be a
meeting next Saturday evening, Nov TO-
at the bandroom for the purpose of or
ganizing the work here. A committee is
to be appointed in each school district
for the purpose of canvassing the town.
This Is matter in which everyone
should be interested. as it is solely for
the benefit of our bows who have been
called to the front Show your patriot
ism by being present at the meeting and
doing your part in carrying on the work.
Mrs. Louise SanbOrn returned Wednes-
day night from New Hampshire. where
she has been working during the fall
George r. NAV has sold his farm to
II. R. Davis and is to move his family
into the hotel next week
Mrs. o. l.. Barnard Of Waits River IS
assisting Mrs. Nelson in the care Of her
father. A. L. Preston.
Miss Dorothy Wooster was called to
Cabot Monday on a surgical ease
a. r. Davis was a business visitor in
Groton and Wells River the first Of the
week
Letters were received the first Of the
week from Carroll Goodridge, Elery
Lyndes and Lewis Lunge, stating that
thew were somewhere in England and
we're all we'll They had a successful
voyage and were all in a comfortable
condition.
The ladies Of the Congregational
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
Human Organs
Made Into Pictures
X-RAY OUTDONE
by L. w. Bower, NJ. d.

A recent issue of the British Medical
Journal explains remarkable discovery
of DR., James Scherer, and describes a
new process of photography by which
an abscess of the liver or the Kidneys
can be photographed from living pa
TENTS. This win be invaluable because
so many people suffer from kidney dis
ease, and if it can be recognized in time
they, no doubt, can be saved and life pro
longed. Such photographs as can be OBJ
tanned by this. new process will show
whether there is blockade in the mites.
tines or not, whether the kidneys are
normal and able to do the great burden
put upon them.
Unfortunately, what the liver can't
take care of passes on to the kidneys.
and the intimate relation between the
two often causes a disease of the kid
neys. One of the poisons retained with
in the system is uric acid in excess.
Death would occur if the kidneys did
not work day and night in separating
poisons and uric acid from the blood
The danger signals are backache, de-
pressions, aches and pains, heaviness.
irritability, headaches, chill.
mess, rheumatic twinges, swollen Joints
or govt.
This can be avoided by stimulating
the kidneys TO increased action, and be.
cause of its tonic effect on this organ
| would advise any one to purchase An
uric (which is to be had nowadays at al
most any drug storel, and take it three
times a day, together with pint of hot
water an hour before meals. By get
ting rid of the uric acid you can prevent
and cure rheumatism, govt, and the pains
and aches due TO this uric acid stored
within the system.
| have found in practice that Anuric
(double strength is more potent than
ithia and in most cases it will dissolve
he uric acid as hot water does sugar
Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
W4ITSFIELD
Hugh Baird's Funeral Largest Attended
in Many Years.

Funeral services for Hugh Baird were
held at his late residence in the village
on mill hill Tuesday, Nov. 8, at l p. m.
The officiating clergyman was Rev. Will
| liam A. Remee, pastor of the Congrega
tional church, of which Mr.. Baird was a
member. The funeral was attended by
the largest number of people ever gath
cred in recent years in this vicinity, the
ch-Irish population being present
from this and surrounding towns There
was a great profusion of beautiful flow
ers. lnterment was in the family lot in
the village cemetery, the pail bearers
being Samuel Baird, brother of the de-
ceased; Willis Baird, a nephew; John L,
Baird, a cousin, and Stephen p. Joslyn,
his son-in-law.
Hugh Baird was born in Fayston on
April Is, lS4s. of Scotch Irish descent,
his parents being William and Isabel
(McLennonl Baird. In family of sew
en- children, Hugh was the sixth Mr.
Baird is survived by one brother, Samuel
Baird of Waterbury. His wife, whom he
married Nov. 7. 1888, and whose maiden
name was Elizabeth Patterson, survives
him, also his only daughter, Lena, wife
of Stephen p. Joslin, and there are two
grandsons, Ryford and Fletcher Joslin.
Among those present from ont of town
were Mr. and Mrs Samuel Baird. Water
bury; Willis Baird New York City |
James Thompson and daughter. Bea
rice, Montpelier; ]. u. Thompson and
wife, Norwich; Mrs Martha Kew, Nor
wich Mr.. and Mrs. +. f. Nell. Ran
dolnb. Mr. and NfrS W n ATcCsla Hip |
Mortified; Mrs. Eta Ramsdell. Barre;
Mrs. Sarah Maxwell, Waterbury, also
large attendance from Warren and Fays-
ton.
On Oct Mr.. Baird attended the flu
neral of Mrs. Ellen Baird in Waterbury
A few days later he was taken sick with
what seemed grip, later developing into
a shock. with loss of coherent speech,
and pneumonia set in The end came
Nov. 3, at ) p. m.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09

ties in Manitoba after spending month
at his home in East Montpelier.
Mrs. Walter Curtis is spending the
week in Barre, visiting friends.
f. w. Bailey & Co.'S mill and stone
sheds are shut down while repairs are
being made on the dam to damage caused
by the heavy rain Of week ago.
Mrs Edith Willard and Miss Lillian
Simonds are visiting in Bennington, n. Y.
Sadie Curtis is spending the week at
the home of her parents before taking up
her work in Montpelier.
II. G. Townsend was in Barre Saturday
TO attend a meeting of B. of NJ. w. +,
John Gallison has moved his family to
Barre for the winter,
William Prescott of Plainfeld visited
his son, Arthur, the first of the week
Word has been received by Mrs Dolly
Mason that her son, Gerald, who was the
first to enlist in Co c of Barre from this
town, has reached England without mis-
hap.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
Who Will Claim Them?

Letters remaining uncaled for at the
Barre postoffice for the week ending Nov.
s were:
Men,. r. Brown, Henry Baldwin,
c. L. Croyle, Mr. Chapman, A. NJ. Holden,
A. Lee Henson, sr., Arthur LaBarte,
Archie Mcleod, Giuseppe Franarello,
Charles McRobbie, Norma p. Ray.
Women-Mrs Carl White, Mrs. Thorn
as Young.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-09
BETHEL

| Last Tuesday several of the neighbors
of Mrs. Cynthia Hoisington gave her q
surprise party at her home, carrying
materials for boiled dinner which was
enjoyed by all. Recently Mrs. Marion
Bowen and her granddaughter, Ruth
Bowen, visited Mrs. Hoisington.
The selectmen are repairing the stone
wall which supported the sideAalk near
DR.. o. ID. Greene's residence, of which
about so cubic yards collapsed last week
after the heavy rains Traffic on the
street at that point is suspended tempo
rarily, but pedestrians may pass. Only
one home, that of Charles E. Bartlett,
is situated beyond the break
Samuel J. Jebb has moved from the
farm he sold recently, into the Glukey
house on North Main street
Mrs. l. Allen Rogers and her son.
Burnham, OF South Randolph, visited
here Wednesday and Thursday. Mr.
Rogers, who did farm work all summer,
has gone TO Springfield, Mass, to work
in machine shop.
Under the new arrangement regarding
mail addressed to Barnard, local mail
posted here before a. m. will reach Bar
nard postoffiee shortly after noon and
mail posted before 1915 a. m. will 60
by way of White River junction and
Woodstock, arriving late in the after
noon.
Mrs c. f. Hepburn went yesterday
for a visit in New Haven, Conn. Miss
Beryl KittelI is here from Sheldon to
stay with Miss Honsinger during Mrs.
absence.
Mrs. NJ. j. Vail of Rochester, who has
been in northern New York for an eight |
weeks visit, returned yesterday and was
here with friends until to-day.
Loran II. Washburn went Yesterday |
to Canterbury, \. H.. where he has EN-
ployment for the winter.