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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
POTATO PRICES UP;
STRAWBERRIES DROP
United States Department Of
Agriculture Gives Movement
and Cost Of Vegetables
and Berries.

Despite the fact that total ship.
ments of new potatoes now are abou,
twice as heavy as they were at thi:
time year ago, potato prices are
still advancing on a strong market
according to the United States De.
partment of Agriculture.
During the last week an average Of
over forty cars of potatoes per day
have been shipped from Texas, and
seventy-fve cars per day from South
Carolina. Shipments also have been
increasing from Alabama and Louisi.
ana, but decreasing from Florida,
Total shipments were 1851 cars.
Shipments of Texas onions have
been continuing at the rate of more
than eighty-fve cars per day. For
the week, Oil cars were shipped, SIC
more than during the corresponding
week of 1916. Total onion shipments
from Texas TO date this year, as re.
ported to the United States office Of
markets, are 4,4s9 cars, only sixty-nine
cars less than to the same date last
year.
Onions closed firm at 81 per crate.
Owing to unusually heavy supplies,
however. onions were reported from
Chicago at $l.90 per crate.
Strawberry Shipments Decrease.
Total shipments of strawberries
were l,384 cars, or an average of near.
1y 200 cars per day, about 100 cars
less per day than were shipped DUR
ing the comparable week of 1916.
The strawberry season has practical
ly closed in Louisiana and the heavy
movement is reported over from Ar.
kansas. Rain and snow have inter
ferred with picking in southwestern
Missouri and northern Arkansas.
Shipments from Arkansas and west
Tennessee have averaged about fifty
cars per day during the last week,
east Tennessee and Virginia about
TWEEN y-five cars per day.
There has been a decline of from
Is to 50 cents per crate in the price
of Strawberries in most of the import
ait piOuhSliiS ulotl lltos
Tomatoes Lower. y,
There has been decrease OF about
rs cents in the price of tomatoes.
Jobbing prices for Florida tomatoes
In the markets have shown consider
able variation, due to differences in
quality and condition. Opening prices
were $225-$2.75 per carrier, or Is
cents less than opening prices last
week, and about 81 per carrier less
than prevailing prices last year.
Early Cabbage and Lettuce.
About sixty cars of cabbage have
been shipped daily, or an average Of
seven cars per day more than during
the corresponding week of last year.
California and Texas shipped 206 cars,
or about half of the total shipment
of Az cars.
Nearly 80 per cent of lettuce ship
ments came from California, which
shipped 100 out Of 206 cars. During
the corresponding week last year only
thirty cars of lettuce were reported.
Florida celery shipments were l67
cars, two-thirds more than the COM
parable week of 1916.
A total of sixty-four cars of as
paragus were shipped, fifty-four of
which were from New Jersey. During
the corresponding week last year a
total of seventy cars of asparagus were
shipped, sixty-two of which were
from New Jersey.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
TELLS OF HORRORS
OF WAR IN TURKEY
DR.. G. E. White, President OF
Anatolia College, Recites
Atrocities of Turks 70
ward Armenians.

An interesting narrative OF war
atrocities and conditions in Turkey
was given yesterday morning by Rev.
DR.. George E. White, president Of
Anatolia college, Marsovan, Turkey,
at the First Congregational church
| DIR. White has been in Turkey
twenty-seven years and left there, by
order of the Turkish government,
last May, after the thirteen buildings
of the college and its food supplies
had been Communicated by the
Turks.
an April, 1914, sealed orders were
/ received by high Turkish officers"
said DR.. White. Some Of the Turk
ish officers have much curiosity and
they peeped into these orders. And
some even told what they saw. The
orders stated that war was coming
soon and gave almost the date when
it actually did come.
Mobilize Before War.
Mobilization in. Turkey of the
Turkish soldiers under their German
leaders actually began in June 1914
though the war did not come until
August. That shows whether Ger
many knew war was coming.
when mobilization began eleven
of our faculty members were sum-
moned as soldiers. In all $500 men
marched away from Marsovan. You
sometimes hear OF Turkish volunteers.
There are no Turkish volunteers. If
they depended on volunteers there
would be no Turkish army
DR.. White was an eyewitness Of
many of the Armenian atrocities in
Turkey.
"All that has been printed in Amer
lean newspapers about the Armenian
atrocities is true and the newspapers
have not stated the whole horror Of
it," he declared. "The government
had determined to eliminate the
Armenian question and they de-
termined to do this by eliminating
the Armenians.
Marched to Their Graves.
an our town were about 10000
Armenians. All the men from 20 to
SO years old. were imprisoned. Then,
each night, they were taken in groups
of 100 or 200 and marched off into
the mountains where the graves had
been dug beforehand
1.-THE women were taken away in
OK carts. Where? Nowhere. No
destination was stated. No more was
heard of them. We gathered our
own Armenians and their families on
our own grounds. They left them till
the last. But one day we found the
police and soldiers at all our gates
They told me l must give them up. !
refused. They said refusal might
mean execution. | still refused.
"Then they broke down the doors
and entered. Sixty-one carts were
used. Our friends were loaded on.
offered a prayer. They were driven
off. They went about fifty miles in
safety. Then the men were taken
from their families and their hands
bound behind them and they were
marched off into the dark, not to be
heard OF again"
When the Russians began to sweep
down past Erzerum and menace that
part of Asia Minor, where Marsovan
is located 1850 miles east OF Con-
stantinople) DR.. White was visited
one day by the governor of the city,
chief of police, commander Of the
gendarmerie and the military colonel.
Must Give Up College.
They told him that, because of the
approach of the Russians, Marsovan
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29

lhc Russians after the war. We were
surprised at the large numbers OF
Russians who came across the
frontier in order to become students
in our college. The Armenians, l
believe, will not be to&fally wiped out.
And even the poor Turks will be call
ing for enlightenment We have now
the great goodwill * 80 per cent OF
the Turkish people"
DR.. White and others OF the college
faculty returned to the United States
by way of Constantinopie.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
Clark Says Lynch Smiled
As He Walked Past Him

Sheriff Clark and Johnny Lynch
passed each other in the corridors of
the court house yesterday.
Hello, Mike" said Lynch.
why, hello, Johnny responded
the sheriff.
He smiled at me-" said Sheriff
Clark afterwards, "but he had hard
time doing it."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Lee Goldsbery and wife to John Be-
jan and wife, II street, 1875 feet
west Of Forty-first street, south side.
fUxlgO .ss..s ....s...s.s..,,'.... .si,Vz
Clarence c. Van Kuren and wife to
william c. Bailey, Thirty-sixth
street, 202 feet south of Dodge .
street, east side, 40x122. ............ 3.4t
Charles Grotte and wife to Esther
Milder, Thirty-ninth street, north
Of Chicago street, west side, 4sx
13U
John T. Blanchard and wife to HUI
bert W. Anderson, northeast cor
ner Thirty-ninth and Marcy street,
165xlS ...... ...................,
William B. Drake and wife to James
L. Conley, Leavenworth street. $40
feet east of Twenty second street,
north side. 60xssh ....;...........
W. II. Sigear to Delaphine Benson.
undivided one-half Twenty-seventh
street, 1870 feet north Of NJ street.,
south side. 60xl6o.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
Stocks and Bonds.

TO MEET the increased cost Of
living you must place your
money where 1t will yield a
greater income A z per cent
participating cumulative pre-
ferred stock with the highest
grade Of security means an ex-
ceptional investment. This
stock will not yield less than
7 per cent and participate in
the profits Of the company
over that amount making a
very attractive, secure invest
ment. For particulars regard
ing this investment address
Box 3StS. Bee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
FARM AND RANCH LANDS


IMPROVED l00-acre farm. is miles from
Minneapolis; 40 acres cultivated. balance
meadow and timber: $4,000 worth Of
buildings. will sell for 5000; easy terms.
Schwab Bros. 1923 Plymouth Bldg. Min.
neapolis MINI.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29

Where Will the Bride OF
Mystery" have her box party
the night of her wedding?
Somebody guess.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
Montana Lands.

FOR SALE-Big bargain in Montana lands.
Investors, spectators and land agents.
please take notice.: The following land
10 offered subject to prior sale: Section
=, township 6 N. range IT E.; Sweet
Grass county, near Shawmut Only $3.50
per acre. Sections 3 and II, township
10 NJ; section II. township II N. all
range IS, East Rosebud county, near In
gomar, Only IS per acre. Terms, one
fourth cash, balance in four equal yearly
payments with interest at per cent H.
c. johnson. care Fred'k H. Bartlett & Co,
50 W. Washington St, Chicago, ILL.,
owners
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
Missouri Lands.

GREAT bargain, IS down, IS monthly buys
40 acres good fruit and poultry land near
town, southern Missouri. Price only $500.
Address BOZ sos. Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
REAL ESTATE--To Exchange
ZEAL ESTATE-Unimproved

North.
: TER looking at MINNA LUsA 900 dif.
ferent buyers decided that It was the best
proposition on the market and they
backed their judgment BY buying lots.
If YOU will come out today you will
understand why the Others are buying.
CHARLES w. MARTIN & CO..
AZ Omaha Nat. Bank Bldg. Tyler 1877.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-29
DANDY LOT.

soxis5. two street frontages; easy
terms. Call Douglas 1854 or evenings
Harney 416a --..-
BEAUTIFUL 50.foot lots. Price $3.50, only
So cash and so cents per week Doug $500
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
ATTORNEYS FIGHTING
TO GET THAW''S MONEY
If they Can Get Him to New
York 1t Will Be Like I'M
porting Gold Mine

Philadelphia, March 30.-That Har.
ry X. Thaw who has been adjudged in
sane by a Pennsylvania sanity com.
mission personally conducted his own
sanity proceeding was the claim of As.
sistant District Attorney Black of New
York, here today. He made appeal be-
fore Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown to have Thaw extradited to New
York to stand trial for assault on Fred
Gump, Jr. a Kansas City youth, in the
Hotel McAlpin, in January.
Insanity has never been held as q
cause to prohibit extradition," Black
added.
No decision is anticipated on the
hearing this afternoon, as indications
were that arguments will continue very
late. 1t is thought a decision will be
temporarily withheld.
Scathing attacks were made on the
Thaw family for using vast sums to de.
feat the ends of justice, included in the
arguments of Assistant District Attor.
ney Black.
"The justice of two states is on trial
in this case,'' said Black. "There is a
question in the public mind as to which
is stronger in Pennsylvania, the laws
or the Thaws.N
"The history Of Thaw - Black con
tinued, "shows that he can come to
life 'civilly' whenever it suits. When
it suits him to die, he become a very
dead man."
GA jury at the second trial of Thav
4 \
Deputy Attorney General Alfred L
Becker of New York, who also argued
the case today, twas asked to believe
that Thaw was insane. Another high
priced group Of ahenists testified at
three subsequent habeas corpus pro.
ceedings that Thaw was sane and sue
ceeded in convincing the jury of it.
"And now,'i he shouted, ga lunacy
commission decides he is insane after
ALL"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
LAY FOUNDATION
JUMPING PRICES
Spectators Cry Food Short
age Preparatory to CinCh-
ing Public

Chicago, March 3O.-The food supply
Of the ration is in danger was the cry
in Chicago meat and grain markets to.
day.
Alarming reports poured into the
market today from the great winter
wheat fields of Kansas and Nebraska,
They told of drought and the plowing
up of thousands of acres of winter
wheat.
May wheat opened at $l.9s on the
board of trade today, slight recession
from yesterday, but with that excep-
tion the highest in history. Cash wheat
of high grade was quoted at $2l5 to
1925 with not enough offered TO estab-
lish a market.
May corn opened at S1.l9 rs. Cash
corn was running well with the May
futures. May oats were selling at GO
and rs with cash oats ranging TO 65
cents.
Live hogs on the hoof at the stock
yards today sold as high as 1855 per
hundred pounds, a jump of 25 cents
over yesterday and an advance of 40
cents in the past two days, the record
of all time.
Wholesale and retail prices are fol-
lowing hogs. Dollar eighteen corn
means $3.50 pork, dealers said. Choice
beef steers today sold at 1920 per
hundred pounds. Sheep were firm at
1925 per hundred
Say Labor Is Short.
Reports received by the United
Press from its bureaus in Kansas City,
Mo-, and Lincoln, Neb. confirmed
statements in the Chicago pit.
Another grave menace to the nation s
food was the fact that the labor short
age, already acute, is made critical by
the calling out of the national guard in
the agricultural states. A conserva-
tive estimate today was that the pres
ent national guard call would take 30,-
900 men from the strictly agricultural
states, in addition to those joining the
regular army and navy. This figures
the regiments called at war strength.
These men are the cream of the able
bodied workers. Farmers hesitate to
increase acreage in the face of certain
labor famine.
The high price Of all seeds is also
threatening disaster. State agricul-
tural societies and officials are co.
operating on the seed question and ad-
vancing seed to farmers unable to buy
on the market. The demand still is
greater than the visible supply.
No way has so far been devised to
meet the farm labor problem. The
great packing houses and steel mills
around Chicago are bringing tens of
thousands of negroes from the south to
meet the labor shortage, which in turn
is injuring the labor supply of the
southern states.
Tentative suggestions from the west
have been made of importing Chinese
laborers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
Will Take Over Danish
Islands Saturday

Washington, Mar. 29--The Danish
West Indies viii be formally taken over
by the United States Saturday when
the Danish flag will be hauled down
and the American flag raised over st.
Thomas. simultaneously the s25,OO0,0
purchase price will be paid to the Dan
ish minister at Washington.
!. Admiral james H. Oliver will be the
first governor of the islands. The is
lands are being taken over under the
name of the Virgin Islands of the
United States" This, however, is but
a tentative name pending congressional
designation.
The navy department has despatched
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
NOTED FLAX EXPERT
TALKS ON THE SUBJECT
Told Of the Many Things
Made Of Flax and Showed
Lantern Slides

Mattresses, comforts and all sorts Of
home comforts will soon be manufac-
tured from the products of flax, ac-
cording to J. Sidney Starting, presi-
dent and treasurer of the Flaxen Fibre
Down Co. Of North Tonawanda, n. T.,
who addressed the Commercial CLUB
last evening
In making his statements as to the
various articles that can be made from
flax, which also included several kinds
of paper, twines, coarse yarns, duck
and substitutes for cotton batting, Mr..
Starting was just telling of what his
New York factory had been doing.
His factory is somewhat different
from others from the fact that he has
a process of retting flax green, by spe-
Icial machinery and not by the water
process. In other words, the flax IS
not retted at all but the fiber is sep
arated from the stem by machinery
and it is the flax from this process
that Mr.. Starling's factory has been
manufacturing into commercial com
imodities.
For the finers yarns and linens, he
Thought the water retting process bet
ter. but for the manufacture of the av.
erage staples such as towels, crash and
coarser linens, the machinery retting
was entirely ample.
Machinery has lately been invented,
he said, by which the green flax, ret
ted by machinery, could be made into
naper wherein strength was essential,
such as paper flour sacks,
He thought the climatic conditions
for flax raising very satisfactory in
this valley, but the conditions not
quite right for the water retting.
The lecture was illustrated by slides
showing scenes of flax fields in Bel
Ipium. ireland and Canada.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
AMERICA

Lincoln high school after taking
part in the farewell ceremonies of
Company Nj on the way home favored
the Capital journal office by an cx-
hibition drill in the street in front of
it. that had but one bad feature. 1t
was too short. After marching by with
flags flying the pupils with flags wav-
ing did pretty serpentine march, see
tions in front forming letters one after
the other until the word A-M-ER1-
CA was spelled out in the brightest
letters that ever formed word-Amer-
lea s boys and girls. Thanks, kiddies.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
GRAND JURY REPORTS
FIVE TRUE BILLS
Two Arraigned Plead Guilty
IF. A. Schubnlger
Fined $50

Five true bills were brought in by
the grand jury in its first report to
the court this morning. The bills are
as follows:
State of Oregon against Adolph Rey'
nolds and Frank fisher, charged with
burglary in breaking into the store of
A. +. Austin, and wrongfully and fe.
loniously carrying away personal prop
erty. They were arraigned counsel ap.
pointed for both, and they are to plead
March 81, at 10 'clock.
State of Oregon against F. A. Schu.
binger, charged with selling intoxicat,
ing liquor in that he sold to AT. Bal.
ley one gallon of hard cider. He was
arraigned, pleaded guilty, waived time
for sentence, and was fined $50. The
state is to recover costs and disburse-
ments.
State of Oregon against Frank White
charged with assault with intent to
kill in that he attacked on January
10, 1917, John Walton, cutting and
istabbing him with a pointed and sharp
ened piece of steel with a wood handle
He was arraigned and Robin Day ap,
pointed counsel. He is to plead March
81, at 10 O'Clock.
State of Oregon against J. G. Davis
charged with selling mortgaged prop
erty without the consent Of the mort
gagee. Davis is declared to have mort
gagged six Jersey and Durham cows tt
the value of 800 and on February
1915, sold them to +. 4. Libby. He was
arraigned, pleaded guilty, and on Apri
5 will be sentenced.
State of Oregon against Pres Nc
Pherson, charged with rape on the per
son of Elsie Smith, minor under the
age of 10 years, He is in Jail awaiting
arraignment.
1t is expected that a second report
will he returned late this afternoon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
JURY SAYS MRS. SMITH
WAS JUSTIFIED IN ACT
NaIneIess Horrors Convinced
jury Husband Deserved
Death

Denver, Col, Mar. 3O.-Mrs, Stella
Newton Moore Smith, slayer of her
chauffeur husband, John Lawrence
Smith, was freed Of a charge of murder
by jury in exactly one Ind one-half
minutes this afternoon, as the termina-
tion of Colorado's most sensational
murder tril, which lasted 2l days.
The public was excluded from the
court room when Mrs. Smith testified.
Her sordid story of love, hate, jealousy,
passion and criminal degeneracy con.
vinced the IL men who judged her that
she was justified in killing the man
who, according to her testimony, had
ruined her life.
Mrs. Smith, former society leader.
was divorced from her first husband,
William A, Moore, Denver attorney,
four years ago. She did not contest his
application for divorce, charging deser-
tiou. Shortly afterward she married
Smith, who had been her stepfather IS
chauffeur, at Yreka, Cal. Then began
q four year period of debauchery and
sordidness, which extended across the
continent from California to Detroit
finally ending in Denver.
Mrs Smith, who is wealthy, left
Smith and came to her home here il
January. Smith followed, when he at
tempted to force her to nameless de
generate acts, and threatened to de
baueh her IL year old daughter by her
former husband, she testified she shot
and killed him.
Officers who went to the home after
the killing found Smith s dead body
ON the floor, while Mrs. Smith, her body
covered with bruises, sat in chair and
over and over expressed her happiness
that Smith was dead.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
WILL MEET GERMANY
CONTINUED from page one.l

doubt in the eyes of the world that the
United States is prepared to face any
challenge to her rights, personal and
property.
The president has practically com
pleted his ''war message to be deliv-
cred to the forthcoming congress.
The tentative draft was discussed in
detail today by the cabinet. 1t met
with unanimous approval.
No cabinet member would say specif-
ically what the president would recom-
mend, but the intimation was carried
generally that congress will be asked
by the president to declare a state Of
war exists despite this government IS
efforts along opposite lines, and to
prepare to meet acts of aggression by
Germany in such a manner that a last
ing peace may be brought about-and
soon.
Nearly an hour after the cabinet adj
iourned. white house authorities let it
be known that the war situation is en-
tirely "shaped. y
President Wilson has reached his full
decision-and this decision means
state of war.
In fact, so completely were the pres
ident and his cabinet agreed that they
even found time to dispose of matters
of strictly routine nature; after de-
Gliding the international question.
The white house also let it be known
that matters are entirely "satisfac-
tory" and this means that the decis
ion is as stated, that the president $
mind is made up, that it is firm against
Germany, and that u state Of war will
be the next step in the international
situation. d
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30

the Hancock and Olympia to conduct
the formal ceremonies in st. Thomas
harbor Saturday. Commander d. r.
Pollock of the Hancock and Commander
B. B. Bierer of the Olympia will be in
charge of the transfer.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30

X 4 * x X x X * * x y = = : y i
X NEW TODAY ADS WILL BE X
X read in the Journal in all live X
K Marion county honestly 'em. X
y y X X X X X X X X X X X X
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30
HOLIDAY FOR LAUNCHING

Portland, Ore, Mar. 29.-Mayor Al
bee today proclaimed Saturday after
noon half holiday so the city can cele
brate the launching of the steel steamer
Vesterline at the Northwest Steel com
pany's plant.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30

FOR RENT single bed rooms, l
suite of housekeeping rooms, with
modern conveniences, very reason
able. Call in afternoon us Center.
AZ
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30

sell or exchange, nice
acre home, well located, ON main
thoroughfare, close in, fruit, berries
etc, in live. saw mill town Falls City
valued $500, for unimproved land,
acreage near Salem, or Salem city
property, near equal value. What
have you. P. 0. Box 1876, Falls City,
Oregon. AZ
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30

AUCTIONEER-Do you want the best,
then get Col E. G. Snider. He dyna-
mite in the sale ring. Res. 1905 Mis-
sion St., Salem. Phone 142SM. Terms
right. II
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-30

.WANTED-Man to care for ten acre
orchard tract, for season. Must furn-
ish team and material. About SIX
miles from Salem. Address 3. T.
Clark, 25 E. Main st. Waila Walla.
Wash. 5-5U