Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
union MEN MAKE
PROTEST ON COAL
DEALERS IN CITY
Object to Cold Shoulder Meth
DDS of Dealers; Take
Their Troubles to.
Union.

DeS MONIES, Sept, l5,-(SpecialO
Union men of Des Moines are
planning on making protest to the
fuel administration against the il
legal cold shoulder methods OF Des
MONIES coal dealers. Coal con-
sumers are taking their troubles to
Secretary L. O. Pouchot of the
Trades and Labor assembly and he
i'll turn is taking them up with the
federal fuel administrator,
In Matron's Care.
A young girl giving her name as
Lucille Cameron of Council Bluffs
and her age as 70 applied at police
headquarters last night for lodging.
She was given over to the care of
City Mother McMichael and pro-
vided with comfortable place to
stay. She said her father is soldier
in France and that her mother has
died since she left home, more than
a year ago. She came to Des MONIES
Monday at the invitation of a girl
friend, who promised to help her
find. work, but when she arrived her
friend had been called away by the
illness of a relative. The girl was
given lodging in the matron's ward.
Alleged Deserters Caught.
-Four alleged deSerters, one of
them R. 7. VerMehron, were
brought from Fort Omaha by a
military guard last night and taken
to Camp Dodge today. VerMehron
was arrested at the Foster hotel in
Des MONIES last week. Government
secret service officials intercepted
letters written by him III which it is
alleged, he referred contemptuously
to the United States government and
its soldiers and boosted of the ease
with which he was evading military
service. His mother was also ar
rested in Omaha charged with aid
ing and abetting him to shirk his
duty.
New Business Firm.
Articles of incorporation have
been filed with the secretary of
state by the Crow Super Produc-
tons company, Des MONIES, capital
ICED at $4,000. Jack .LeElmore
Forum is president and K. B. Park
secretary-treasurer.
Seed Corn Matured.
W. B. Barney, state food and dairy
commissioner, who returned today
from trip in northern Iowa, re-
ported that in his judgment corn
is now sufficiently matured in all
parts of the state for seed corn ex-
cept spots where corn has been re-
planted. He selected seed corn on
his farm at Chaplin, in Franklin
county, 10 miles north of Des
Moines, which is we'll matured. IN
my Judgment twice the amount of
seed corn should be picked this
season as in an ordinary season."
said Commissioner Barney, for the
demand for seed corn again next
spring will be heavy. 1T should
be stored in a dry, we'll ventilated
place where there is no danger of
freezing"
100000 Bushels Short.
1owa's corn crop this year will
be 20463l,000 bushels, as compared
to 246,750,000 last year, according
to estimates made by Frank S. Pin
ney of Council Bluffs, government
crop estimator for Iowa. The hot,
dry winds of August 3, and 5
ruined the crops in some parts of
southwestern Iowa and cut it down
40 to so per cent in others. In
central and northern LAVA, however,
the corn crop is excellent.
State Employee Quits.
w. H. Williams, for the past five
years chief clerk in the office of the
auditor of state, has resigned to
accept position as cashier of the
Citizens State bank of Earlham. He
will assume his new position about
October /. Mr.. Williams has had