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Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Western Farmers Demand
Higher Price for Wheat

Washington, Feb. l5.-Members Of
the Wheat Growers association, here
to demand that the government raise
the price of wheat, from 81 to $275
per bushel, held a meeting last night
with senators and congressman from
ten western states and told them that
at the present time wheat is being
fed to hogs because it is cheaper than
corn and that unless the price of
wheat is raised the farmer will find
it financially impossible to raise it
this spring.
They said under present conditions
"whcatless weeks" will take the place
of "wheatless days" during the COM
ing months of the war.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
BAKERS GUESS At
What IT COSTS
TO Do BUSINESS
Appear Before Food Admins
tration, But Appear Ignorant
When Questioned on
Bread Making.

Bakers examined by the food ad.
ministration yesterday afternoon by
Attorney John w. Parish showed a
woeful lack of information as to the
cost of operation, the cost of doing
business and the profits of their es-
adjustments.
A. Bake, Otto Wagener and Viii
liam ]. Elsasser were the three bak-
ers examined. All admitted they had
no accurate system of bookkeeping,
and admitted that their answers to
the questionnaires they signed were
estimates and guesses.
In each case the bakers admitted
that Joe Fradenburg, their attorney,
had made the questionnaires, and they
had furnished him the information.
Otto Wagner testified he didn't
know what his expenses were in De-
cember last, nor the cost of the in
gradients that went to make his bread,
but he knew he lost money in De-
cember.
"How do you know itl" asked At
torney Parish.
Because l couldn't pay my -four
bills" the witness replied.
"Well, but if you don't know what
it cost you to do business, or what
you got for the bread during the
month, you couldn't tell if you made
money, could your
NO"
"Did Attorney Fradenburg make
out your questionnaire for your"
Eyes"
"And it's just guess work?"
"Yes, just guess work"
"You and Fradenburg are equally
good guessers," commented the at
torney for the food administration.
Just Guess Work.
William ]. Elsasser admitted that
Attorney Fradenburg made up his
QUESTIONABLE in Fradenburg's office,
and that most of it was merely guess
work and estimates.
Anton Bake testified that he keeps
nothing in the way of systematic
records except a cash book Bake
and Fradenburg had made up the
QUESTIONABLE which listed ingredients
that went into the December bread
at $2,856.65.
On the witness stand Bake testi-
fed he did not know how much the
ingredients had cost, that he had no
way of keeping such record, and
that the sum put into the question
naire was merely an estimate made up
by himself and the attorney.
1T may or may not be correct then"
said Attorney Parish.
at may or may not be-" answered
the witness.
Bake testified that he takes $225
per month as his own salary, and
added, "that amt half enough for
the way work"
Money for Rounder.
This witness had listed $400 spent
in December for electric wiring and
electric work, and $500 spent for a
"rounder," machine for making the
dough into Jumps. He was unable
to state what part of these two sums
should be charged to the December
expense, but he listed them in that
months expenses because he bought
them then. On examination he ID
mitted that a machine similar to this
$500 "rounder" had lasted him seven
years.
When Bake repeated that he could
not tell what his profits for December
were Attorney Parish asked him:
"Then how do you know you can
not sell bread at or 7H cents whole
sale?"
"Well, if the larger concerns can't
Continued on Page Five, Column Five.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Foreign Commerce
Placed Under Control
OF War Trade Board

Washington, Feb. 15.-By new
proclamation today, President Will
son today placed exports to all
countries under license by the war
trade board after tomorrow.
The proclamation also applies
the license system to all imports,
and thus places the entire foreign
commerce of the country under the
license system of the war trade
board.
1t is one of the steps of reducing
ocean tonnage of nonessentials to
release ships for transportation of
troops and war materials.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
SHIP STRIKERS
DEFYU.S.DEMAND::
REFUSE TO WORK
Chairman Hurley Makes Fresh
Appeal to Yard Workers to
Stop Hindrance of Nations
War Program.
(By Associated Press,)

Washington, Feb. 15.-A renewed
demand that William /. Hutcheson,
president of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Jobbers, send
striking shipyard employees in east
ern plants back to work, pending an
adjustment of their grievances was
made tonight by Chairman Hurley
of the shipping board,
Earlier in the day Hutcheson had
answered a previous appeal with a
communication declaring it would be
impossible for him to act until he had
some definite proposition from the
shipping board as to working condi-
tions.
Hutcheson's virtual defiance of the
shipping board presents a situation
on which officials decline to COM
ment. Mr.. Hurley's request that the
men be put back to work Immediately
carried no threat and shipping board
officials would not say what steps
they have in mind.
Threaten Forcible Draft.
Reports today that local exemption
boards are preparing to call into the
military service striking shipyard
workers within the draft arge,
prompted the shipping board to send
kilograms urging that such action be
not taken. Deferred classification for
shipyard workers has been put by the
provost marshal generals Office in the
charge of the industrial section of the
shipping board, headed by Meyer
Bloomfield and the board desires that
all draft questions be decided in
Washington.
President Wilson is known to be
giving personal attention to the labor
situation and is following every move
in the shipyard strikes.
Blames Carpenters and Joiners.
In his communication tonight to
Hutcheson, Chairman Hurley points
out that the heads of the carpenters
and joiners' unian were the only ones
who declined to leave adjustment of
difficulties to the ship building labor
adjustment board. Even the carpen-
ters' locals, despite this attitude, Mr..
Hurley declared, have asked to be in
cluded in the agreement.
Hutcheson in declining to ask the
strikers to return to work, called
Chairman Hurley's attention to pro-
posed agreement he submitted Feb
ruary 7, for an adjustment of the sit
uation and declared he had done his
utmost to prevent the men from quit
ting work.
Shipping board officials said tonight
that the agreement was not accepted
because it did not provide for settle
ment of difficulties by the adjustment
board, and because it contemplated
closed shop agreement.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Genoa Couples Stage Double
Wedding in Omaha Hotel

Florence Gillespie was married to
Wesley Winell, and Pauline Pearson
was married to Harry Hodge in a
double wedding at the Merchants
hotel Thursday night. All of the
young people are residents of Genoa,
Neb., where they will make their
homes. .s.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Judge Appoints Receiver
For Nebraska Electric Co.

carefully worked out to connect the
six towns named by wires with a
central electrical plant and that this
work is now under way, but, owing
to soaring war prices for materials
and labor, funds are lacking to COM
,plete the system. The petitioner
states that when this system is CON-
pleted and electricity supplied from
a central plant the concern can earn
substantial profits.
The receiver was appointed in or
der to keep the plants running and, if
possible, to complete the connecting
lines and, the central plant. In addi-
ton to- the $l2S,0O0 bonded indebted
ness the concern has 100000 of debts.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16

Rufus E. Lee was appointed re-
ceiver for the Nebraska Electric COM
pany by Federal Judge Woodrough on
petition of the Chicago Savings Bank,
and Trus1 company, which holds
$l25,000 of the bonds of the corpora
ton, on which the semi-annual inter-
est, due February l, has not been paid.
The company was organized by
Iowa men and has its main office in
Cedar Rapids. 1t is incorporated in
Nebrask. and supplies electric light
and power to the Nebraska towns Of
Creighton, Wausa, Bloomfield, Har-
tington, Wakefield and Emerson.
1t was organic March /, 1917.
The petition states that plans were
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16

URGES WAX CABlNEl.
Supporting the military commit
tees war cabinet and munitions direc'
tor bills as a constructive, nonparti'
san effort to aid and not to embar.
rass President Wilson in unifyins
Americas war force, Senator Weeks
detailed delays and difficulties of the
governments military preparations.
He declared that lack of central
body to make and direct all of the
governments war plans is largely re-
sponsible for present and past trou.
bles.
In his charge against President Will
son the senator said:
"Not a question indicating partisan
ship was raised until the president de-
1iberately injected politics into the
situation by an attack upon the chair
man of the committee (Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon, democrat), and the
committee itself, and by calling to the
White House many democratic party
leaders, not for consultation pur-
poses, but to insist that discussion
of this question on the floor OF the
senate be prevented If possible.
"Have we come to such pass that
the action of the most important COM
mittee in congress at this time is
to be forbidden by the president!"
= Refers to Secretary Baker.
Referrin,. to Secretary Baker, Sen
ator Weeks said after pralsing many
army achievements:
"Neither do | want to unJustly or
unreservedly criticize the head of the
War department. He has had to deal
with a multitude of questions, the dis
posal of many of which meet my ap-
proval.
"If I were to criticize the secretary
personally it would be that he has un-
dertaken to do too many things HIM
self, some of which might have been
left to subordinates. -.
If I were to make further criti-
cism it would relate to his tempera-
mental .lationship to the war.
Doubtless he himself would admit
that he is a pacihst by nature. For
example. even now he is opposed to
universal military training and can
not divorce myself from the conclu-
sion, based on his own testimony, that
he has been inclined to plan for pros
ecution of the war-and this condi-
ton has to some degree permeated the
department-on the basis that we are
5000 miles away from the front IN
stead of fastening preparations. with
all the vigor we would exercise'it our
borders were the battle front"
, Answer Was Flippant.
Referring to Mr.. Bakers reply,
when asked by the committee if other
men could not have done things bet
ter. that he did not know all the men
in the world and could not judge their
capabilities, Senator Weeks said the
answer was somewhat flippant' and
that it is impossible to expect a de-
partment whose head makes such a
statement to make many changes
which an outside investigation has
shown to be necessary.
zone of the notable features OF the
present situation" Senator Weeks
continued, sis the virulence used in
Attacking those who favor the COM
nifttee's plan (of centralization(. They
are referred to as plotters, mischiev'
Gus meddlers and even as servltors
of the enemy. Every mean OF false
suggestion has been used to discredit
a sincere and loyal attempt to make
IConttpued on Page Five, Column TwO.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Russia Breaks With
Former ALLies-TrOtzky

London, Feb. 15.-Russia's with
drawal from the war was real
withdrawal and the throwing away
of all agreements with its former
allies, said Leon Trotzky, the Boil
sheviki foreign minister in reporting
to the All-Russian and Workmen's
and Soldiers councils on the result
of the rest-Litovsk conference, ac-
cording to a wireless dispatch re-
ceived here.
proved Trotsky's policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16

royal flying corps.
Mrs. Castle followed her husband
abroad to visit him. Returning year
later, she announced that her husband
had received the cross of war for val
orous ction on the western front.
She said he had brought down two
German aviators.
Castle returned from the French
front in April, 1917, and joined the
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16

royal flying corps in Canada as an
instructor with the rank of captain.
When a Canadian contingent of the
flying corps was transferred to Texas
last fall for winter training Captain
Castle went with it as an instructor
Mrs. Castle, who is now one of the
star actresses Of a motion picture con-
Germ, was prostrated upon receiving
the news Of her husbands death.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Man Passes sc Days in Jail,
Then ReIeaS. and Fined SIS

Virgil Jestes, after passing 50 days
in the county Jail, was brought before
Federal Judge Woodrough Friday
and fined $5 for bringing liquor into
the state from Kansas City
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
WILSON PLAYING POLITICIAN
FIGHT OVER WAPaBlNET
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts Attacks Presidents
Stand in War Controversy; Secretary Baker Criti-
cized for Attitude Toward Military Prep
araton; Says Opportunities Wasted.

Washington, Feb 15.-President Wilson charged with
deliberately injecting politics into the controversy over war
efficiency by John Weeks of Massachusetts, repub
can member of the military committee speech today He
vigorously criticised the War department and other branches
nE fho
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-16
Nebraska--Continued cold.
Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
CONTINUED

precipitation ......., ~ Nv wv
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March /,
and compared with the past two years:
Normal temperature. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. "a
Deficiency for the day ay................. IL
Total since March l, 1917. ..629
Normal precipitation. ........... .O2 inch
Excess for the day.............. 10 inch
Total precip. since Mar. !, 1917. 22.92 inches
Deficiency since Mar. l, 1917,... 7.46 inches
Deficiency for corr. period 1916.12.97 inches
Deficiency for corr period 1915. rs inch :
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19
Agent. Put On Trail
OF Propaganda Lies

Minpeapolis, Mimi, Oct. 19.-
Twenty-Five special agents of the de-
partment Of Justice were detailed
rom headquarters in the federal
building today to act as 'smission-
aries IN a campaign to run down
Hun propaganda stories and educate
spreaders OF false reports to the dan
ger OF circulating unverified tales.
The decision to organize a cam
patgn to put stop to such stories.
often innocently repeated, followed
the action Of the department of jus-
tice agents in summoning several per-
sons before them yesterday and to-
day to ascertain sources Of informa-
ton and motives for circulating a
false report that a Minneapolis physi-
clan and five nurses had been, Sc
cretly executed@for innoculatine pa
tiehts with influenza germs. n
This story was branded as "a de-
liberate piece Of German propaean-
"a, designed to injure the morale Of
the people at home." &,
Although charges have not .heen
made against any of the persons call
ed before the government agents.
they have been warned that their ac-.
ton borders on Hun propaganda and
that they + liable to prosecution
persons originating or circulating
stories which are injurious to the
morale of the American people at
home or h boys in service can be
prosecuted under the espionage act.
said n agent. I'VE do not wish to
take such action. but will be forced
are chiefly after the originators Of
such Stories. Those who hear the
stories and repeat them are slightly
less to blaine" 49,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19
RUNNERS
70 STOP 10BE
~ EMBRACED
Women ! and Girls in Freed
Towns Insist on Hating
Motorcyclists.

With the Allied Armies in Belgium.
Friday. Oct. 18.-(By the Associated
Press).-Runners and dispatch rid
ers obliged to pas through Courtrai
and other towns have not been MAX
ing as good time as usual.
This fact came to the knowledge Of
q British brigadier general who or
dered the dispatch riders brought be-
fore him. One b~lushingly said that
the charge against him and the 9th
ers was quite true, adding: But we
could not help the delay. sir, for ev-
have each been soundly kissed. 1t
would not do to tell the women and
girls we were in a. hurry. They Just
insist. on stopping your motorcycle
all waiting to kiss you at one time"
What he brigadier general said is
not recorded, but the charges against
The men were dropped.
It has been learned from a resi-
dent of Courtrai that German cavalry
brattng the return of peace on the
night the city was taken. At the mid
die OF the dance, British infantry
which had broken through the de-
lenses to the west, stormed into the
town and the German cavalry dan
dies had to run for their lives.
Letters and diaries taken from cap
tured soldiers make interesting read
ing. One man tells how his division
''got it in the neck" Another writes:
There was the devil to play" and
adds hat only sixty men were left
out Of the entire regiment Not a
single captured order, document, let
ter or diary displays a single note Of
optimism.
In the neighborhood Of Turcoing
and Roubaix more than 100, 900 CIV
tlians have been liberated.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19
Peace Lovers And .Pacifists

eral prostration of the nations okEu.
rope. this. rocking Of the battlements
OF our own separate fortress, we are
asked. with an air Of simplicity which
would be quite touching if we could
imagine 1t to proceed from a mere
defect of understanding, why Nare
we not at peace?'
W have stepped forward to raise
the fallen-to sustain the oppressed
to interpose between the PROSTATE
victim and the descending sword Of
the conqueror."
APPLY as Canning's denunciation of
a false, short-sighted and weak
kneed pacifism fitted its exponent in
his day and circumstances, how much
more cogently does it not apply to
the present situation? The advance
of mankind in the arts and science
has lent to the Vaccinations Of the
kaiser and his henchmen a menace
many times more subtle and danger
GUS than that Of Napoleon at the
height of his militarytprowess. The
cold-blooded and calculated cruelty
OF this war. penetrated less in the
interest OF a tyrant or of a dynasty
than in that Of a race of militarists
and a creed Of cynical autocracy,
were not %paralleled in-the wars of
Napoleon, ruthless as that despot
could be. The need of admiration
Tor his personal genius which his
Ibitterest opponents could not but
concede is entirely absent from the
worlds estimation of Kaiser Wilhelm,
OF whose egotism and monomania the
Junker Pan-German clique have
made useful tools.
The modern prototypes Of those
whom Canning SO convincingly con-
POUNDS would do we'll to ponder his
words, to look back upon what Eu-
rope and the world might have been
had Napoleon established his dynas-
ties and realized his ambitions. and
to imagine. If their prejudices will
permit them, how infinitely more
disastrous in the existing develop
ment of social and economic condi-
tons would be the victory Of Prus-
siafism.
AS lovers of peace every sane and
thoughtful man and woman in the
countries allied against Germany will
welcome its return; but IL 1t must be
purchased at h price of future wars
upon the colossal scale of this one. or
by the sacrifice Of principles of liber-
.ty and justice which nave underlain
every liberal movement in national
and international politics, they will,
without hesitation or regret, rank
themselves with the strongest advo-
Gates Of the continuance Of the war
until its fundamental objects have
been made accessible by the d~estruc-
ton of the malevolent forces of au-
tocracy and reaction. A pacifist peace
would but entail a new deluge Of
blood and iron"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19

lies, come to realize the necessity for
satisfying the aspirations of the Ju-
go-Slav race for freedom to develop
its national, its political and its eco
nomic life. That recognition was re-
Gently formally embodied in a public
statement by the italian government
which ought to be recognized among
the civilized peoples as the liberal
deed which 1t actually is.
The council resolves" the de-
c%laration says, "to inform the Allies
governments that the Italian gov-
eminent regards the movement of the
Jugo-Slav peoples for the Conquest
of their Independence, and for their
constitution into a free state, as cor
responding to the principles for which
the Entente is fighting and also to
the aims Of a just and lasting peace"
self-interest is a powerful inf1u-
nations which it Is not always easy
to subordinate to principle. Free
quently the s4lf-interest of NATIONS,
as of individuals, blinds them uncon,
sctously to themselves, to the justice
Of the claims of others. Italy may.
be pardoned for finding 1t hard to
recognize the inherent Justice Of q
claim which must to some extent
circumscribe its own tmportane. and
which sea the new Jugo-slay state
must have full access and upon
which 1t must have equal rights with
ita neighbours II its economic and POI
littcal Independents IS to be more
than a polite fiction.
The statement OF the Italian goY-
eminent will 60 far to remove one q
the many difficulties which the "
settlement OF the Balkans and tho
0n fi@Dn &kAA- 49, --A-yE
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19

!. The winter suit must be--chosen
with care for 1t must vie with the
most attractive and favored one-piece
frocks. Suits ale popular-very
popular, but there Is something about
the one-piece frock which makes the
skirt and shiytwaist look not quite so
attractive as It n did. I
For street wear, shopping tours.
and other very informal occasions the
suit is still the favored garment.
Wool velours, pom pom cloth, silver
tone, duvetyn and velvet are the. most
used fabrics. The styles are many,
although the more tailored models
find the highest favor.
This suit is only semi-tailpred and
for that reason may be worn on many
occasions. 1t is fashioned of a fine
quality of taupe c0lored wool velour.
Both the. skirt and coat are slightly
sdraped over the hips, thus emphasiz-
ipg the narrowness at the hem. Taupe
Silk braid is used as embroidery on
the coat, and the deep cuffs and broad
collar are made Of beaver.
The tiny ruche just below milady's
chin is n of the newest features of
some of the novelty suit blouses. II
is taupe to match the suit and blouse
and IS fastened to the blouse at the
back only. It is two inches high in
the back and only one inch under the
chin. r~,S
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19
Serbia's Compensation
(From Manitoba Free Press)

-L
The hjstor of Serbia has been one
long chapter of endeavor to preserve
ltself-and through itself. Europe
also-from domination by the Mos
lem invader and to preserve its ma
tional interests from destruction at
the hands OF those whom 1t has pro-
tected with the blood Of its people.
Within the las four years it has been
sacrificed by the short-sighted and
t%emporizing diplomatic policy Of the
Allies in the Balkans and almost an
initiated by its Magyar and Teutonlc
neighbors. It's sufferings it has borne
with patience and it has maintained
the determination to restore, with
the help Of those who owe It repara-
ton for its sacrifice to their supposed
interests, its status as an Independent
nation. Serbia is by all counts the
natural leader OF the Jugo-Slav race.
When the subjects Of the obsolete
and decaying empire OF the Haps-
bnrss came to align themselves eth
geographically after the var Bosnia,
southern Hungary will gravitate, as
a matter Of course. into close alli-
ance with Serbia Tho new state Of
Jugo-Slavia will be In many respects
a glorified Serbia, though It viii be
q Serbs. >klorified by the recognition
of equal rights within the new state
for all Jugo-slavs, whether former
~ Serbian or not.
To the creation at the peace con-
ton Of the power Of PrunstaniEm in
Europa Of an independent Jugo-slAv
state the Entente Allies are pledged
formally and inescApably. For long
the stumbling block In the path which
IL clearly pointed out to them by the