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Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05
GRAND LODGE OF
MASONS BEGINS
STATE MEETING
Sixty.First Annual Communi.
cation Opens at Masonic
Temple; Sessions Con-
tinue for Three DAYS.

The 6lst annual communication OF
the grand lodge of the Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons of Nebraska
opened Tuesday morning in the Ma
sonic temple. 1t will continue in ses-
sion until Thursday afternoon. Three
hundred representatives of the Ma
sonic lodges of the state already are
present. It is expected that more
than $50 will be here by Wednesday.
The grand lodge opened with pa
triotic session at 10 O'Clock. Reports
OF officers were read and general
business transacted. John R. Web
ster, grand orator, delivered the prin-
cipal address.
The Nebraska Veteran Freemasons'
association held its annual dinner at
1880 o'clock Tuesday in the banquet
hall at the temple. This association
is limited to Masons who have been
members of the order for 2l years.
Louis Berka. second vice president,
presided.
KeSpoud to ToastS.
After the report of the secretary of
the Veterans association, George H.
Thummel, past president, delivered a
eulogy to Past President Frank H.
Young. Frederick L. Temple, Grand
Master, responded to the toast,
"Ancient Craft Masonry" The toast,
Our Country" was responded to by
John R. Webster of Omaha, grand
orator Of the Grand lodge. Veteran
Brother Matthew A. Hall responded
to the toast "Our Cause and Our Al
lies"
At 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
the business session of the grand
lodge was resumed. Business matters
will occupy the three sessions We'd
nesday.
1t is expected that the officers of
the grand lodge for the ensuing year
will be elected either Wednesday
night or Thursday morning. install
lation of the new officers is scheduled
for the Thursday afternoon session.
Two hundred Masters-elect Masons
were given the degree of past master
at session Monday night.
Nebraska Masonic lodges number
270. Each lodge is entitled to send
three representatives to the grand
lodge. In addition, all grand mas
tiers are entitled to attend.
Officers of the grand lodge are as
follows:'
Frederic L. Temple. Lexington. grand
master.
Ambrose c. Epperson. Clay Center. deputy
grand master
John ]. Tooley. Lincoln, grand senior
warden.
Joseph B. Fradenburg. Omaha, grand
Junior warden.
Francis e. White, Omaha, grand secre-
tary.
Walter W. Wells. Valentine. acting grand
chaplain.
John r. Webster, Omaha, grand orator.
Robert e. French, Kearney, grand Gus
todian.
Lewis e. Smith. Long Pine. grand mar
shall
Edward NJ. wellman, Omaha, grand
senior deacon. /
Charles A. chappell. Minden, grand Junior
deacon.
Alexander e. Porter. Lincoln. grand tyler
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05
Council Approves Plans
For Internment HOSPITAL

City council formally approved the
plans of Health Commissioner Man
ming for the establishment of an in
ternment hospital for women and girls
at Twenty-second street and St.
Mary's avenue.
A resolution, which was adopted,
states that an emergency exists and
lthat this new municipal project is
necessary in connection with war
activities.
The new hospital will incur an es-
timated expense of $500 per month
and will be partially self-supporting.
The capacity will be 60, with the pos
sibility OF increasing that number.
Operation of this institution will be
started this week.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05
Abramovitz, Son of Abrams,
To Wed Anna AbrahamSOn

Abe "A. Abramovitz in obtaining a
marriage license Monday stated that
hit fathers name was David Abrams,
his mothers name was Libbie
Abramovitz and that the girl he, is
to marry is Anna. Abrahamson. The
discrepancy in the names of the
young mans parents was explained
by the fact that his father, through
legal proceedings, changed is name
after the son had become of age, and
that legality did not affect his moth
ers name. abrams" is an all
around fixture in this family. he ex-
plained.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05
Former Soldier in French
Army EnIists in U. S. Infantry

Baptiste Benazet, who served in the
French regular army in 1900, enlisted
Tuesday in the United States infantry.
He was born in Konimak, France,
and his parents and two younger sis
tiers were still living there when he
came to America l8 years ago. He
has not heard from any of his peo-
pla for several years and does not
know where they are, but he says
that he is sure he will find them when
he ins over there"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05
TWO SERIOUSLY
BURNED IN FIRE
IN NEGRO'S HOME

William Church and Carl Lee, ne
groes, were seriously burned in an
early morning fire Tuesday at the
home of the former, 2Ol3 Pierce
street. They were taken to Lord
Lister hospital.
According to fremen, Church had
endeavored to light fire in the kit
chen of his small home by using ker-
osene, which famed up to such an ex-
tent that the room was soon in flames.
The men were burned while attempt
ing to extinguish the flames.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05

Porch Swings, in plain khaki and fancy
stripe, cretonne covered, at
$3.50, SIS, $22.5O, $50 and $42.50
Mating Covered Utility Boxes, at Sc to $12
Cedar Chests, moth proof, $3.50 to $27.50
Third Floor
Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-05
Also These Special Drapery Offerin

Porch Cushions, moss-filled, covered with
cretonnes, large assortment of colors;
worth Soc, now.. w................... .49c
Hammocks-A hot weather comfort, large
assortment of colors and styles, at
each $1.5O to SIS
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Unsinkable Ship
To Be Discussed

WASHINGTON. Feb. l5.-Thc Naval
Consulting Board Will meet here to-
morrow TO discuss, among other sub
Jects. experiments made with the for
to make her unsinkablc Vice Chair
man Saunders OF the board announced
last Saturday at New York that the
effort had been successful by "honey-
combing" the ships interior with buoy
ant separate compartments.
The plan was proposed by William
r. Donnclly and work has been pro-
crossing several months on the ship,
5,000-ton craft. Naval opinion gcncr-
ally, as far as can be learned, does not
agree with Mr.. Saunders as TO the
practicability of the plan.
Reduction of cargo space, time nee
essary for construction of this char
acter and several other factors arc re
garded as working against general
adoption for the transport service.
Rear Admirals Taylor and Griffin, re-
spectively chief constructor and chief
engineer of the navy, are member of
the consulting board, and will be pres
cnt tomorrow.
There appears to be no doubt that a
virtually non-sinkablc ship could be
built in any of several ways. Neither
the Allied powers nor the United States
have a S yet found. however, any scheme,
so far as known. that would justify its
general use. Time and cargo space arc
vital elements in the war that must
govern whatever is done
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Insane Overcrowd
Hospitals of State,
Commission Finds

ALBANY, Feb. 15.-The state hosp.
tails for the insane are crowded &c per
cent beyond capacity, the congestion
being greatest in the vicinity of New
York City
This fact is brought out in the repor.
of the State Hospital Commission which
is to be submitted to the Legislature
Tomorrow The commission recon-
mends vigorous efforts to prevent the
spread of mental diseases, and calls
for large sums for necessary new con-
struction.
AS one means Of taking the patients
minds off their maladics, many institu-
tions are giving their charges war work
to do, it is reported. The service flags
of the state hospitals now bear 245
stars. and many of the staff physicians
are in the medical service Of the army
The greatest problem OF the moment
is to provide adequate accommodations
for the insane. This need is most
acute in the hospitals III and near New
York City. The institutions in the
metropolitan district ARE overcrowded
by approximately three thousand pa
tients, or about half Of the total over
crowding in the state, and constant
transfers from New York to Upstate
hospitals also crowd those institutions
far beyond the limits.
The thirteen civil state hospitals con-
tain 31,O69 patients, or 5,S07 more than
they arc built to accommodate. The
care of the insane in the state last
year cost $S,382.6l6, but the commits
sion estimates the total yearly eco
nomic loss to the state on account of
mental disease is more than S35, 900, 900
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Reports Show Jefferson
Barracks Overcrowded

WASHINGTON, Feb. l5.--Investiga-
ton by the inspector general Of COM
plants regarding conditions at Jetfcr-
son Barracks, Missouri, Secretary
Baker announced to-day, showed that
overcrowding with attendant evils oc-
CURED between December l and Jan
uary IS. as result of the notice that
voluntary enlistment Of men of dra it
age would end December Is, but that
extra accommodation were obtained
and there was no evidence of lack of
sufficient care for the sick
The enlisted strength increased from,
4.033 on December | to 16,l43 on De-
cember 10, at a camp with capacity for
about 1882 men.
This the Secretary said, made it
necessary to shelter men for time in
every possible place. All available
space at the depot was used, and facil-
ties of the central Y. NJ. G.. A., the
railroad Y. NJ. G. A. and the armory of
the 1st Missouri Regiment at st. Louis.
The supply OF blankets, according t.
the report was sufficient to allow the
issue Of at leas. two per man, and com
plants regarding food were found only
in isolated cases. Bathing facilities
were inadequate during the rush. as in
q number of the cantonment lavatories
the hot water system had not been in
CT IloI
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
P. S. C.. Announces Action
Following "Vigorous
Insistence"
To Improve Service
$50 Other Cars To Be Con-
vertcd to Relieve Con.
gested Lines

In statement issued by the Public
Service Commission yesterday it was
declared that, as result of that body's
vigorous insistence" that action be
taken to obtain new cars needed for
adequate service on the B. r. r. lines,
the Brooklyn company within the next
few days will place orders for "the
largest purchase Of new equipment
which has ever been the outcome of a
regulatory proceeding before a Public
Service Commission in this or any
other state"
The commissions original order
called for the purchase Of $50 cars for
the Brooklyn surface lines. The
B. r. T. officials assured the commits
sion yesterday at the hearing on the
order that the company will imme-
dately spend more than S" 100000 for
new cars, of which 100 will be big steel
CATS for rapid transit lines and fifty
will be surface car "trailers of the
largest practicable seating capacity"
The company will also start at once
to convert 100 Of its centre-entrance
surface cars for multiple unit operation
and fifty-four motor cars to serve as
leaders" for the "trailers;" the mul.
train operation on congested surface
lines.
William L. Ransom. chief counsel fol-
the Public Service Commission, made
the announcement of what the company
had agreed to do, and George D. Yeo.
mans. counsel for the B. r. T., con.
firmed the announcement. The com.
pany's representatives asked that the
rights Of both sides be maintained il
status quo under the original order
and the hearings be adjourned unit
next October in view of the present
action Of the company.
Chairman Oscar S. Straus of the
commission granted the company's re
quest, declaring that he thought "sucl
course Of action by the companies
pending the return Of normal con
ditions, might we'll be made the basi:
for an adjournment of this proceeding
and a deferring of our decision on any
taspect of the rehearing"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Where Volunteer
w ar w orkers
Are N G e d e d

10 you who are staying at home
wont to help Win the war? The
Tribune aciN publish from time to
time requests for voluuteer work, as
'0eN as appeals for aoorkers from
patriotic organizations. Drop q line
to The Tribune, ISL Nassau Street,
or telephone Beekmon 5000.
Follo'oimg are requests for help
ers:
Volunteer clerical help is needed i'm
mediately in connection with the work
entailed in the physical examinations
Of the men to be called in the coming
draft. Volunteers must give at least
two hours in the morning or afternoon
daily to this WORK, whicn WI probably
last several weeks They will be re-
quired to copy in duplicate the forms
filled out by the examining physician.
The prime requisite, therefore. for
Limited space at the Offices of the
board, which are situated in West
Fifty ninth Street. makes it impos-
sible for more than four assistants to
work at the same time, so volunteers
are requested to communicate with the
Clearing House for War Work Nolun-
teers, Miss Judith 3ernaxs, East
Thirty-ninth Street, in person or by
letter. in order that a specific day and
hour Of service may be assigned
A newly created agency, whose aim
is the rehabilitation Of crippled and
otherwise incapacitated soldiers and
sailors, is very anxious to obtain the
volunteer services of capable and en-
ergetic woman to undertake a survey
of the industrial opportunities open to
such men. The volunteer would work
under the direction of trained leader
and would have an excellent chance to
obtain valuable experience with So
biological problems connected with the
after-care of manned soldiers and
sailors Applicants should apply to
Miss Judith Bernavs. Clearing House
for War Work Volunteers, 4 East
Thirty-ninth Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Germans Here Assail
Friends of Democracy

Al last nights meeting Of II New
York branch of the German-A .rican
Alliance, which was held at the M9n-
nercher Hall, Fifty-sixth Street near
Third Avenue. the Friends Of German
Democracy were severely assailed be-
cause of the mass meeting which will
take place under their auspices to-
night at the Grand Central Palace.
Delegate ]. Letkemann, chairman of
the committee en- German American
history, said it was an insolencc to try
to tell d foreign people what form Of
government they should adopt.
Other delegates were even moro bit
ter in their attacks on the Friends Of
German Democracy, who intend to send
a message Of democracy to the German
nation and to ask the Germans to over
throw their autocratic government.
Franz Sigel, who will talk tonight, was
derlded as the "son Of a noble father.'
Chairman Haas put stop to the de
bate by saying: During the last three
years we should have learned to main
tain discreet silence"
Rev DR.. Popke, chairman of the COM
mittee on schools, declared he was
sorry that the German born don't mani
fest interest for the teaching of Ger
man. He mentioned the fact that the
Eastern District Turnvercin, of Brook
lyn, recently decided to discontinue it's
German school because the number of
pupils had decreased from SO to %
within one year.
In reply to a question, he said there
are i'll greater New York sixty church
and other private schools where Ger
man is taught.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Abolition of Civilian
Parole Board Assailed
Committee Named to Garry
Fight Against Foley Bill
to ALBANY

Judges, social workers and prison re-
formers met yesterday afternoon at
the McApin Hotel to protest against
the Foley bill, which proposes to sub
stitutc for the lay mmissioners now
on the larole board commission Of
Judges. Mrs. Louise D. Spear, chair
man Of the prison reform committee
Of the Women's Municipal League, who
presided over the meeting, declared
that Mayor IIylan had told her he was
in favor Of the bill. The chief objec-
ton the committee has to it is that
the Mayor has the power to designate
and remove commissioners at will, and
they fear that it would become a politi-
cal tool
DR.. George W. Kirchwey, former
warden Of Sing Sing, declared that i.
would be impossible for judges with
amount Of time to the parole cases
"This is job in which anything less
than 100 per cent efficiency spells fail
urc. TO put it on a $3.50 basis is to
doom it in advance to failure" he said
Lawrence WELLER, of the Charity Or
ganization Society, gave an unexpected ID
twist to the discussion by declaring
that it was futile to stand on the de-
fensivc concerning the parole law. but
that the committee should go to work
, to uncover the dark political purposes
underlying the proposed changes.
A committee was appointed to ar
range for hearing in Albany, tho
members being Mrs. Spier, Mr.. WELLER
@ T. Lewis. Mrs. Sidney Borg and Mrs
Francis McNeil Bacon.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Wheat Price Bill
Would Raise Cost
OF Bread 2 Cents
I Staff COrresDopdeNce] |

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The price
of bread Will be increased at least Two
cents loaf. and the American consum-
shoulder an additional bread bill Of
$1,000, 100000. if legislation providing
a minimum SO wheat price to the
farmer, now pending before Congress,
becomes law. Practical proof Of the
foregoing statements were incorpo-
rated in figures laid before members
of the Senate day.
In consequence. the wheat price leg
islation. thus far considered a mere
political play by Representatives from
the wheat states, will become the sub
ject matter of important bipartisan
conferences during the next few days.
Three measures, all proposing ad-
vanced wheat prices to the farm er, are
now before the Agricultural Commit
tees of Senate and House. A resolu-
tion introduced by Senator Gore, Of
Oklahoma. chairman of the Senate
Agricultural Committee, proposes a
minimum OF 500 for No. 1 .|ortheln
wheat, at Chicago. Similar measures,
introduced DN toCuHNOT MCN OllUci, VI
North Dakota, and Representative Nor
ton, Of the same state, propose S2.Io
and So wheat, respectively.
The chief argument offered by the
Northwestern representatives IS that
an increased price is a war necessity
if the farmers of the wheat states are
to be induced TO plant a full spring
wheat crop.
Senators representing the great con-
suming centres Of the country to-day
denounced the proposals as an attempt
to legalize "proiiteering" by the food
producers of the country. at is an
attempt to exact extortionatc prices
for our basic food" declared one lead
ing Senator, "at time when neither
our own people nor those of our allies
can afford to pay fancy prices for
their bread"
The farmer is already receiving a
handsome price for his Wheat, these
Senators declared. The $3.50 minimum
price fixed under the authority of the
food act is more than $1.22 increase
which was 9S cents. 1t is far above the
| 1916 price.
In further substantiation Of the
charge that the farmer is trying to
"hold up the public it is recalled that
early in its career the food admins
tration sent out 1000 kilograms to rep.
resentative farmers in various section.
of the wheat states asking for opinions
on what would constitute Il fair mini
mum price for No. Northern whea'
at Chicago. The average Of all The
replies returned asked for a minimum
! of SlS5
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Leaves Bride Home;
Meets Wife in Court

Detectives who arrested Robert NJ.
Rock at his home. % Bedford Avenue,
Richmond Hill. Queens, informed his
-ycar-old wife that he was
wanted only to explain an irregularity
to his draft board.
When Rock was arraigned yesterday
in the Long Island City police court
however, the charge was bigamy. Rock
apparently took not the slightest no.
tice of the young woman who appeared d
as accuser, but admitted the truth OF
the charge and was held for the grand
jury.
The complainant was Mrs. Henri
eta Wright Rock, of East New Market
Md. Her marriage certificate showed
that she had been married to Robert
NJ. Rock there in 1908. She said that
he had deserted her in Jersey City in
June, 1916.
Rock was married to Miss Vivian E.
Jeffs, with whom he was living at the
time of his arrest. on June 16 last.
lie is twentyeight years old and an
expert machiniSt,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
War Puts Wholesale
Prices Up IS Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. - Average
wholesale prices have increased 70 per
cent since the world war began, ac-
cording to review made public to-day
by the Bureau Of Labor statistics. Most
Of the advance mas been within the last
two years.
From January to December of 1917
the wholesale prices of farm products
increased 90 per cent food 23 per cent
and house furnishings 81 per cent AL
most the only relief afforded the house
hold was 10 per cent decrease in fuel
and lighting. Metals and metal prod
ucts decreased 6 per cent.
Retail prices have fuctuated at a
relatively lower level than wholesale
prices. Dressed poultry and granu-
lated sugar only Of twenty-cight i'm
portant foodstuffs show larger per-
ccntaSc Of increase in the retail than
in the wholesale prices.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Anniversary Of Maine
Disaster Solemnized
Monsignor Chadwick. Chaplain
of Battleship. Tells Story
of Sinking

a crowd of several hundred stood
with bare heads about the Maine me-
mortal monument at Columbus Circle
last night as n marine band played
Lead. Kindly Light" and taps were
sounded for the men who pershed with
the sinking of the battleship Maine
In Havana Harbor twenty years ago
:, From the base Of the monument
Monsignor John p. Chadwick, chaplain
of the Maine from the time she went
INTO commission until her destruction,
dramatically told the story of the dis
astcr. "Just twenty years ago this
minute he said. "the terrible sound
of the explosion rang through the ship.
1t iurched with the force of it, ,and
thought war had begun and wa We're
under bombardment. On deck 1 saw
hcartrending things in the glare of the
flames that roared upward from the
help from the boys struggling in the
water; | cried absolution to them"
Monsignor Chadwick told of the af-
tectionatc relations between the men
of the Maine and himself. and in con-
clusion said: "Our war with Spain was
not an unimportant war. In its sig
niiicancc it was very important. Cuba
was the altar upon which the United
States made the first sacrifice for the
"a'IouS on tne Worlu. Inc war marked
our entry into world politics; it was a
declaration Of our determination to
spread over the world the blessings of
the liberty enjoyed by ourselves"
Three hundred Spanish War veter-
ans. members of all the fourteen New
York camps, attended. The exercises
were presided over by National Chief
of Staff Samuel Rigney At 9:15. New
York time. Frank Dressler and Arthur
Rau. survivors Of the Maine, placed
q wreath on the monument
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Wilson Again Urges
Reorganization Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. Senators
Dillingham; (Rcpubican) and Walcott
DemocraD. members of tho Senate
Judiciary Committee, were called to The
White House tonight for the second
series of conferences President Wilson
is holding with members of Congress to
explain his desire for the passage of
the Ovcrman bill. which would en-
power him to coordinate and rcarrangc
executive departments and agencies.
The Judiciary Committee is expected
to report the bin favorably soon and
the Administration is preparing to meet
opposition from advocates of tho War
Cabinet and munitions directors mcm7
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