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Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17

with interment in Laurel Hill ceme-
terry. Mrs. Teal is survived by her
mother, Mrs Catherine Ewald, and
two daughters, Mrs. ]. B. Gallatin
and Miss Elsie Teal.
CLARENCE 3. MAGUINESS, 80
at 1890 o'clock this morning,
ing at the home Of his parents, 2772
California street. of Spanish inf1u-
enza and pneumonia. He is sur
vived by his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
r. B. Maguiness. and two sisters,
Jessie and Gertrude, and two broth
ers, John Maguiness Of Denver and
Frank Maguiness of Council Bluffs.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
THECKLA BENGSTON, 46 years
of age, died at the Emmanuel hospi-
tai Monday of Spanish influenza and
pneumonia. She had recently come
from, Sweden and came to Omaha
Saturday from Chicago, and went to
the hospital at once. She has no
friends here. The funeral took
place In N. P. Swanson's chapel
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock,
with interment in Forest Lawn.
HERMAN SCHROEDER, 40 years
of age, died Tuesday at local hos
pital of typhoid fever. Funeral
services will be held this aft
ernoon at o'clock in Heafey &
Heafy's chapel, with interment in
West Lawn cemetery.
MRS. JOSIE WARREN, 46 years
of age, died in st. Joseph's hospital
Monday night of pneumonia. Mrs.
Warren came to- the hospital for
treatment from her home in South
Dakota. The funeral was held in
Heafy & Heafy's chapel at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning, with interment
in Holy Sepulcher cemetery. Mrs.
Warren Is survived by her husband,
Joseph Warren, and three daugh-
tiers.
MISS NETTIE MUIR, teacher in
the Walnut Hill school, died Tues
day night from pneumonia, follow
ing an attack Of Spanish influenza.
Miss Muir was the Oldest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Muir, 2513
North Twentieth street. She was a
graduate of the Omaha teachers
training school and had been teach
ing in the public schools for the last
six years. Besides her father and
mother she is survived by brother,
Robert, who Is now at Camp Dodge,
and younger sister, Margaret.
JOHN ]. O'KEEFFE died Tues
day evening at st. Joseph's hospital,
following all illness of three days Of
pneumonia. Mr.. O'Keeffe was SO
vars old and leaves surviving him
his father, Richard O'Keeffe, and his
sister, Mrs. Henry C. Murphy, of
1922 South Twenty-sixth street. Out
door funeral services will lie held at
st. Mary's cemetery at o'clock
this morning, where interment will
be made.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Albright and Fort Crook
to Be improved at Once

Arrangements are now definitely
under way to improve the road be-
tween Albright and Fl. Cfook so
that it will be in shape for heavy
trucking to the fort this winter.
Major Crockett, commanding Off
Ger at TT. Crook. was in conference.
Tuesday, with Sarpy county COM
missioners, together with Randall
X. Brown Of the war activities conf
mittee, ]. B. Watkins, chairman of
a special committee on Fl. Crook
needs; John w. Gamble, chairman
of the executive committee of the
chamber of commerce, and others
and plans were definitely outlined
for grading the entire road and COW
ering it with cinders. This will be
temporary, but adequate for the I'M
mediate purpose. The Sarpy coun-
1 ty commission gave assurance of
full cooperation.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Gauze Mask Usedon Phone;
RumbIngs at City Hall

as patrolman. "Inefficiency" was
the charge placed against him.
The chief OF police has received
a request from a Kansas City NOR
tician, asking for information re-
garding relatives of James Abraham
Nav, who died a few days ago. A
registration card taken from a pock-
ct showed 1909, Cass street as the
mans Omaha address.
Alfred E. Lindell, superintendent
of garbage removal, advises citizens
that the city has entered into a con-
tract for one year. with a hog-feed-
ing concern, the city to collect all
garbage and deliver it to the holder
of the contract. Unauthorized per-
sons who are now collecting gar
age will be arrested. The city will
be paid $2.s5 per ton for all garb-
age delivered.
Chief Ebcrstein is looking up the
law relating to the sale Of cigar
cites,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
need 5000 men
ON GOVERNMENT
WORK THIS YEAR
Acute Shortage of Labor in
This District, Says Labor
Manager; Need Men at
Packing Houses.

Manager Franklin. of the govern
ment labor bureau has been notified
that Omaha and vicinity is expected
20 furnish 500 men for the Norfolk
navy yards and 500 more for the
Va, between now and January /,
government powder plant at Nitro,
next. I is is the quota assigned to
the jurisdiction of which Omaha is
the center.
Whether or not he will be able to
pick up 1000 men within the time
limit is a problem that is giving Mr..
Franklin considerable concern. He
says tn. men are lere, but while
they are not considered slaCkers.
they refuse to go so far away from
home to find employment. The
wages paid at the government works
are minimum of $40 for TO-
hour day, with pay and one-half for
overtime, and S. day for Sundays.
In addition to the 1000 men for
the Norfolk navy yards and Nitro,
Mr.. Franklin has been instructed to
recruit force of. 1000 men for
railroad work in Nebraska. This is
a line OF work that has been taken
over by the government and now all
railroad employees with the excep-
ton of trainmen, shopmen and
office employees are hired'by the gov
eminent. The hiring of these en-
ployes in this territory has been
turned over to Mr.. Franklin.
Women Work on Section. t
Track and section men are diff
cult to find. They are paid $5,45
to $3.50 per day, with lodgings
furnished. Five years ago these
jobs were paying SIS to $l.5O a
day and the railroads were swamped
with men who wanted the work.
In many places out in Nebraska.
according to Mr.. Franklin, the high
wages paid for railroad section
work has attracted women and in
all cases they are reported to be
giving efficient and satisfactory
services. The work, as rule, is
not extremely heavy and an 8-hour
day is the rule.
On account of shortage Of brick
layers and structural steel work
ers, work on the Union Pacific
roundhouse in Council Bluffs has
come to a standstill and it is hard
TO say when it will be resumed. For
more than week Mr.. Franklin has
been seeking mechanics for this
work, but they are not to be found
Another place where the labor
shortage is accute is in the South
Omaha packing houses. Right at
this time these plants are in need
OF $50 laborers. There the mimi
mum wage is 40 cents an hour with
extra for overtime and Sundays.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
SOLOMON BACK
AS TREASURER
OF FIRST TRUST
Omaha Pioneer in Charge Of
Realty Department Also;
Takes Place Held by
Rogers.

Important changes have been
made in the management Of the
First Trust company of Omaha.
whereby Emmett G. Solomon will re-
turn in the capacity of treasurer
and manager of the real estate de-
partment. Mr.. Solomon's return is
due to the resignation of Assistant
Secretary ]. H. Rogers.
Mr.. Solomon is one of Omaha's
pioneerS and for many years has
been prominent in affairs of the
city. He was at one time deputy
county treasurer and later held a
position with the First Trust COM
pany, to which he now returns For
the last several months he has been
located at Riverton. Wyo. He had
charge of a number of banks in
Wyoming.
He arrived with his wife and two
sons Tuesday afternoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17

Miss Jessie Briggs, clerk in
charge OF Spanish "flu" information
in the health department., has tied
gauze mask to the mouthpiece OF
her telephone. Now they are ask
ing her if she was afraid she would
catch the "flu" over the telephone.
The city planning commission will
present to the city council Thurs
day morning a tentative plan for
the development Of Brown Park
district, which is 70-acre tract ex-
tending from o to w streets, be-
tween Thirteenth and Nineteenth
streets.
Superintendent Ringer OF the po-
lice department has requested the
resignation of Charles Elliott, po-
liceman on probation, who recently
was involved in a questionable sit
uation at Seventeenth and Webster
streets. Elliott served one month
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Blazing Oil Spreads
Over Puget Sound in
$1,5OO,OOO Dock Fire

Seattle, Wash, Oct. l6.-Thou-
sands OF persons stood today on the
water front hills here and watched
flames destroy big Northern Paci-
hc Railway company oil dock.
Blazing oil spread over the Pu-
get Sound waters around the dock
and halted attempts OF tugs to pull
out two Japanese liners moored at
an adjoining dock. Only one of the
liners was damaged seriously,
Loss was estimated at about ST.
100000. with the cause unknown. A
municipal 100000 pier, which
stood 200 feet from the DESTROYED
dock, was untouched. 1t is said oil
and other commodities valued at
nearly $S000O,000 are stored in the
municipal pier.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Brother of Sheriff Clark
Killed in Fall from WAGON

Thomas ]. Clark, brother of Sher-
Tiff Mike Clark, was so severely in
iured Tuesday afternoon when he
was thrown from wagon at Four
teenth and Paul streets that he died
10 few hours later at the Lister hos
pital. Mr.. Clark was a driver for
Casco Milling company. His team
10 came unmanageable near the rail-
road tracks and their sudden dash
across the tracks threw him from the
wagon sea
Mr.. Clark was AZ years old. Be-,
sides the sheriff, he is survived by
five sisters, Mrs. John Ryan nd
Mrs. Julia Walsh OF Chicago; Mrs.
John Maher of Brooklyn, n. Y;
Mrs. Nellie Murphy, Kansas City,
Mo-, and Mrs. Kate Krenzer Of
omaha. The funeral will be held
from Sheriff Clark's home, 1920
Sherman avenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Reward of $1O0 is Offered
for Recovery of Body

A reward of 500 is being offered
for the recovery of the body Of
Fred Knecht by the father, J. E.
Knecht, of Winnebago, Neb. While
momentarily unbalanced in mind,
yount Knecht, age "a, jumped from
the combination bridge at Sioux City
on the afternoon of October 9. All
attempts to recover the body have
failed and the above mentioned re-
ward is deposited in the First Ma
tional bank of Winnebago.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Bonds Bought in Omaha
Liberty Drive on Tuesday

Additional subscriptions to the
Fourth Liberty loan in amounts OF
1000 and more were received as
follows:
Officers and employees, o. C. e. ST.
Ry. Co.
Millers Mutual Casualty Co.
$500.
Ajax Rubber Co.
Nebraska and Wyoming Investment Co.
$4,000.
Milton Rogers Sons Co.
Central Mercantile Co.
Mrs. S. A. Bates.
Marie Giocomini
Pioneer Paint & Glass Co.
Lawrence Conner.
1880.
John Bergeron William Jensen
l.. j. TePoel
American Securities Co.
$500.
DR.. F. F. whitcomb r. D. Bedford
Randall X. Brown
$1,000.
Emma Martha Bainbridge
SLIGO.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Mullen.
$1,000.
Western Portland Mrs G.. W. Adams.
Cement Co. Elizabeth Black.
Burgess -Granden Co Isaac E. Condor.
J. +. Nolan. Famous Players
Mrs. K. NJ Souders. Lasky Co.
Ella L. Cummings. Mrs. W. Coad.
John Sorenson. John Weber.
e. W. Getten. +. II. Gaines.
r. E. Winkelman. Mrs. ". e. Talmadge.
Mrs J. D. Foster. Fred ]. Hill.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
OATS HEARING
OPENS HERE AT
10 A. NJ. FRIDAY
Farmers and Others Invited to
Discuss Proposed Standard
Grades to Govern
Grains.

Proposed federal standard for the
grading of oats will be discussed at
hearing before farmers, millers
and others interested at the Hotel
Fontenelle. beginning at 10 o'clock
Friday morning, it is announced ny
the bureau of markets.
AT this hearing, ordered byethe
government and arranged by Walter
Fowler, federal grain supervisor.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Boys and Girls Wanting
Work Urqed to REGISTER

Boys and girls who want work
after school hours and on Saturdays
can register with the bureau of Vo-
cational guidance in the Board of
Education rooms in the city hall,
where their services may be obtained
by business men needing such assist
snce. Miss Mary Foster, superin-
tendent of the bureau. says she has
quite a list of young people want
ing work at the present time.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Contraband Whisky Seized.

Peter Peterson alias Joel Bloom.
2433 Caldwell street, and Charlie
Gustafsen, 2022 South Twentieth
street. were arrested at midnight
Tuesday on the Douglas street
bridge by Officer Sanko, charged
with illegal possession and trans
portation OF Intoxicating liquor
There were l85 pints of Sharp wills
XVI in the Ford car driven by Bloom
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17

of grain and assure him reasonable
compensation.
L. L. Heron, editor OF the Ne
braska Union Farmer, and J. w.
Shorthill, secretary of the Farmers
COOPERATIVE Grain and Live Stock
association, yesterday urged farmers
to attend the hearing and said it is
long step in agricultural progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
''4-ds' Prey Of Thieves, Say
Owners of MiSSinu Cars

20, where is my wandering Ford,
today" was the cry sounded at the
police station Wednesday morning
when Joe Duffy, 22l7 Cass, B. Wade
tno address,, and 'Bres Byers. Ex-
change building, South Side, mott
fled police that their ads" were
missing.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Aviator Falls Into Sea Off
Coast of France and browns

New York, Oct. Lot. Charles
Tyson of knoxville, Tenn, an Off
Ger in the American naval air force,
has been drowned off the coast of
France in the fall of an airplane, &C
cording to word received here to-
p;obt NV HE wife
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17

given an opportunity to discuss and
register any objections they may
have to the prospective official grad
ing of oats by the government.
General Invitation.
Complaints that farmers were not
properly represented when revised
wheat standards were promulgated.
led to the decision of the secretary
farmers and manufacturers will be
of agriculture to hold these public
hearings before definite action was
taken in fixing the standard grades
on oats.
Farmers, millers, merchants, man
ufacturers, bankers, grain inspect
ors, members OF exchanges, ware
house men, carriers and all others
interested are invited to attend Fri
days hearing.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-17
Two Main Objects.

The Department of Agriculture
has two main objects in view in fix
ing these standards. One is to do
away with haphazard methods Of
determining grain values and fix
uniform valuation, based upon actual
food qualities of the grain. The
other is to protect the producer who
endeavors to grow the best quality
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
The Military Information
Bureau.

The Military Information Bureau, es-
! tablished several weeks ago by Brig.
! General George Mel. Presson, the Adju-
! tant General, for the convenience of
soldiers and sailors and their relatives, is
proving valuable adjunct to the military
machinery of the State. The Bureau has
now been in operation long enough to
demonstrate it's value to anxious mothers,
wives and sweethearts. All receive
courteous and prompt answers to their
inquiries. If it is not possible for the
/ Bureau to furnish the information desired,
| the correspondent is referred to an au-
! thentic source for it.
| Miss G. A. Gerald, formerly of Benton,
who has had a broad experience in the
Adjutant Generals office under Gen. A.
| B. Farnham, Gen. Elliott C. Dill and
Gen. Albert Greenlaw, as we'll as Gen.
George Mel. Presson, is proving to be
exactly the right person to meet the pub
lie in this difficult position. Her duties
not only include the solving of many
puzzles and the answering of a large mass
of correspondence, but during each day
she has personal interviews with anxious
relatives who have turned to the States
military authorities for news of loved
ones, light on allotment and insurance
problems or veriication of rumors and
reports of good or evil tenor from over
seas.
The inquiries not only concern such
subjects, but the great, and little UNDER
stood, question of who is entitled to fly
q service flag, where it should be placed
and the position of the star or stars there
on has been answered many times.
How, when and where to hang Old
Glory is another question that is con-
stantly coming Up for decision.
General Presson is endeavoring to make
it plain to all citizens of the State that
the Bureau is for their use, that especial
attention and study will be given to all
questions and inquiries from the relatives
of men in the service and that if the
Bureau cannot furnish the information
promptly and accurately, the inquirer
will be put in touch with the officials who
, can.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
TOO MUCH CREEL.

Mr.. George Creel's "Bureau of Public
Information" at Washington has branch
ed out on new lines. Mr.. Creel now asks
that all historical and magazine articles
and all books dealing with any phase of
the war be submitted to his bureau for
examination before publication.
This work would call for an army of
readers as large as the American army
now in France and would necessitate a
largely increased appropriation. What
good purpose it would serve is not clear.
Mr.. Cree's bureau is already costing
about 100000 year, most of the
printed matter going into the country's
wastebaskets.
Soon after America S entrance into the
war the Creel bureau did some very eff
fective and necessary work in circulation
of intelligently and carefully prepared
pamphlets filled with reasons for our par
ticipation in the world struggle. That
service was worth many times it's cost.
More recently the bureau has been flood
ing the country with a lot of "news"
that is not news and volumes of specially
prepared articles that are neither inter-
esting nor informing. The scope of the
Creel organization should be curtailed,
rather than enlarged the Mime
apolis Tribune.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
Newest in Cape Styles.

wraps, and it may be worn open or
closed according to choice.
Both silk and wool Jersey cloth are
popular cape fabrics, and capes are
fashioned of these materials as ac-
compartments of some Of the seasons
smartest bathing suits. The rubber
or rubberized cape featured very
strongly last season was not found
very satisfactory, and wraps of the
knitted weave materials are much
preferred this year. These loose
wraps are more practical than sweat
ers or sweater coats, formerly so much
worn on the beaches to protect necks
and arms of bathers.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
FACTS ABOUT NEW PLANT WORLD.

A new plant world, through one of few
forms, is opened up by DR.. Pierce Sees
botanical investigation of libraries. The
spots appearing on the paper of old vol
umes, or those kept in damp places, are
found to be due to various fungi and to
represent certain number OF species IN
different stages of growth, colors and
conditions. The microscope shows the
ordinary spot to be made up OF dark
central nucleus, which is the mycellum
or vegetative portion of the plant, sur
rounded by lighter zone colored by the
secretions of the organism. Plants still
living have been transplanted to eelatlnee,
licorice, potatoes or other suitable soil,
and from the erowths SO obtained In
three to six weeks the various kinds have
been identified. AS reported to the Paris
Academy of Sciences, about 20 different
species have been so far isolated. The
molds are not all introduced into the
books or paper, but in some cases their
germs appear to have been present in the
paper materials, even in the raw fiber it.
self
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
A COMPARISON.
Letters From the Kaiser and From Lincoln
to Mourning Mothers.

| A letter written by the Kaiser to a
! German woman who has lost nine sons in
the war is now going the rounds of the
European press. 1t is particularly inter
esting to Americans because of its sharp
i contrast to the famous letter of President
/ Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby during the Ameri
can Civil War. The Kaiser is "gratitied"
and sends his photograph. Lincoln was
grieved, and it did not occur to him that
his picture would relieve the desolation
of Mrs. Bixby.
THE KAISER'S LETTER.
ellis majesty the Kaiser hears that you
have sacrificed nine sons in defence OF
the Fatherland in the present war. his
majesty is immensely gratitied at the
fact, and in recognition is pleased to send
/ you his photograph, with frame and au-
tograph signature"
Frau Meter, who received the letter,
has now joined the street beggars in Del
MENTORS Oldenburg to get living.
LINCOLN's LETTER,
Dear Madam have been shown IN
the files of the war department state
ment of the adjutant general OF Massa-
chusetts that you are the mother OF hve
sons who have died gloriously on the field
of battle. | feel how weak and frultless
must be any words of mine which should
attempt to begule you from the grief OF
loss so overwhelming. But l cannot
refrain from rendering to you the conso-
lation that may be found in the thanks
of the republic they died to save. pray
that our Heavenly Father may assuage
the anguish of your bereavement ano
leave Won only the cherished memory OF
the loved and lost, and the solemn prlde
that must be YOURS to have laid so costly
a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
ACC IDENT IN SAW MILL AT NORTH
SEARSPORT.

Mrs. Ada Bailey, the wife of Edward
Bailey, who runs small saw-mill three
miles out of Searsport village on the
North Sears port road. was severely IN
jured in the mill August 5th. Mrs Bailey
was helping her husband, when her dress
caught in the shafting, pulling her INTO
the machinery. Her husband heard her
screams and rushed to her rescue, but not
before she was badly cut and bruised.
Her clothing was nearly all torn from her
body, and her hair pulled from her head;
She sustained severe scalp wound and
many minor cuts and bruises. She was
taken to the home of neighbor, John
Littlefeld, and Dr. S. J.. Fairchtid OF
Searsport attended her. Mrs. Bailey is
about "a years of age.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
GIRLS! ITS YOUR
STEP CHAT ATTRACTS
Says women pay too much heed to their
face instead of their corns.

Watch your step! A brisk, lively step
is what charms more than lovely skin,
but your high heels have caused corns
and you limp little. That's bad, girls,
and you know it. Corns destroy beauty
and grace, besides corns are very easy to
remove.
Rid your feet of every corn by asking
at any drug store for quarter OF an
ounce of freezopA This will cost little
but is sufficient to remove every hard or
soft corn or callus from ones feet.
A few drops applied directly upon
tender, touchy corn relieves the soreness
and soon the entire corn, root and all,
lifts right out without pain.
This freezone is gummy substance
which dries instantly and simply shrlvels
up the corn without inflaming or even
irritating the surrounding skin.
Women must keep in mind that corn
less feet create a youthful step which en-
hances her attractiveness.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-08-15
AN AUGUST CONCEPTION.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and
essayist, writing some rs years ago,
said:
1.-THE possible destiny of the United
States of America as Nation of hun
dred million of free men, stretching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under
the laws of Alfred and speaking the
language of Shakespeare and Milton, is
an august conception"
The United States is now Nation of a
hundred million or more, stretching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and reaching
out east takes in Hawaii and the Philip
pines, in the north Alaska, and in the
south the Panama Canal. But grander
than it's physical is it's moral greatness.
It's fairness and justice, its courage and
power, it's maintenance of right and free
dom cover the world.
The destiny the United States is now
fulfilling is more august conception
than even the imagination of the author
of Kubla Khan conceived of less than
century ago.