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Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Lincoln Boys on Trip.

Washington. July 2S-(Special
Telegram.)-- F. Pettis and A. H.
Bennell, two well kown young men OF
Lincoln, arrived in Washington this
morning by automobile. They had
the misfortune of breaking a wheel
west of Pittsburgh. While they have
been on the road two weeks, they
covered the distance between Lin
coin and Washington in six days
driving. They left this afternoon
for Philadelphia, New York and New
England and will return home via
Buffalo.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Unable to Figure Out
Why Dead CROSSING FIauued

Conductors on the Dundee line are
wondering why they have to get off
the cars and flag the crossing at For
ty-sixth and Dodge streets. The track
is torn up on both Sides of the street
SO that railroad train could not pos
sibly come from either direction.
Dundeeites now see the realization
of their dreams of doing away with
the grade crossing at Farnam and
Dodge streets. Graders are filling up
the place of the old track to the north
. of Dodge street and the watchmen
have gone.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Lead Pipe and 6 Stitches
For Injuring Pool Table

Lloyd Gwinn, sl3l South Twenty
fourth street, is going to use less en-
ergy in ranm,ng his cue into the pool
table henceforth, he resolved last
night. Gwirn was one OF a party at
game of Kelley" Sunday evening. He
says that his hand slipped and his cue
made a rent In the table cloth. Gwinn
got into an argument with the attend
ant and when he woke up he had
cash two inches long in his head. A
piece of lead pipe was lying nearby.
His wound was dressed at the station
by DR.. c. B. Foltz, who sent him
home,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Captain Klein of Omaha
Ordered to Eastern Post

Captain H. F. Kleine, transporta-
ton officer of the Omaha Quarter
masters corps, has been ordered to
New York where he will be assigned
to more important position at new
army post
Capt. Kleine is a young officer and,
his superiors say, he has made good
in every way and are glad to see him
offered larger opportunities
He has been in Omaha for the last
year and has been prominent in So
cial circles here.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
SOUTH SIDE
Protest Methods Adopted in
Securing Conviction of M0OneV

Laboring men on the South Side
held a well attended meeting Sun
day when resolutions were adopted
protesting against the methods. adopt
ed to secure the conviction of Tho
mas J. Mooney on the Pacific coast
and commencing Governor Stephens
OF California for staying execution
until December.
William Berger presided and the
speakers were Jesse Brilliant, Judge
Caldwell, Jake Davis. John Nightin-
gall and Jerry Howard. A message
was ordered sent to Governor
Stephens thanking him for staying
the execution of Mooney.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
South Side Boy to Enter
. Officers Traininu Camp

Sergt. Edward T. Johnson, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Johnson, Oils
South Forty-hfth street. has been ap-
pointed to enter the officers training
school at Camp Gordon, Ga, accord
ing to message received by his
parents.
Sergeant Johnson was in the quar-
termasters' corps. He enlisted last
September. Prior to entering the
service he was employed in the gen.
eral Offices of Armour & Co. here.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Gloucester Flyers Neck is
Broken in Fall of Plane

Hampstead, N. Y. July 2S.-Lt. c.
H. Haynes of Gloucester, Mass, was
killed today when a giant Haviland
battleplane which he was plotting
fell 100 feet. His neck was broken.
His mechanic, Private Minard S.
Moist, sustained a broken leg and a
broken collar bone.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
South Side BrevNaes

Telephone South 800 and order q case OF
oma or Lacatonade the healthful. refreshing
Home Beverage, delivered to your residence.
Omaha Beverage Co
Frances x. Carroll, attending the Fort
Omaha balloon school, spent Sunday with
his mother. Mrs. Josephine oarroa Of the
South Side.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Constantinople Bombed.

Amsterdam. July 2s-Six eirplanes
dropped bombs on Constantinople
Tuesday afternoon, according to a
Turkish official report received here.
Five persons were wounded. Con-
stantinople has previously been
bombed, half ton of bombs having
been dropped on the city July J.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Father Barrett Dies.

Rev. M. F. Barrett, pastor of the
Catholic church at Florence, died Sum
day at the St. Joseph hospital. Fu-
neral services will be held Wednesday
at 9:30 a. m.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
Life
Story
of

"a series Of articles sketching the
career of DIR. Edward A. Rumely, who
has been arrested on o charge OF hav-
ing bought the New York Evening Mail
with money furnished by the German
government and Of having used 1t for
German prOpaganda.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29

Baker to organize the training scheme
and to appoint regional advisers
Complete details have not been
worked out.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

E., widow Of the late
Frank J. Range, died Saturday Funeral
Tuesday at 1880 o'clock from the resi-
dence, 1921 Davenport street. Burial in
Forest Lawn.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-29
PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. w. E. Shepard. who was confined
to her bed with inflammatory rheumatism
four weeks, has been removed from her
home to Nicholas Sem hospital.
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ming of the war in Europe, when the
bureau of ordnance asked that store
houses be erected and a reserve sup
ply of $4,000 tons be imported for the
possible demands of the future. At that
time it was said that we had only 20
600 tons on hand, which was about
one-twentieth the quantity Germany
had laid in to make her explosives.
The amount she had was several hum
dred thousand tons Nevertheless,
when the war began, it was all used
within a few months. Her guns ate up
gunpowder at the rate of s1,000,0o0 a
day, and it is only through the
nitrates she has taken out of the air
that she has been able to continue the
struggle.
Indeed it is said that Germany went
into the war only upon the completion
of her machinery to make nitrates. She
knew that her importations from
Chile would be cut off as soon as war
was declared. and although she be-
lieyed that her reserve supply would
last her for the short time to elapse
before victory came, she did not Dare
to risk long war until she could
make nitrates of her own. 1t is said
that she has spent s100,000,o00 to this
end and that she has made 100000
tons of nitrates since she declared
war. She has now several great plants,
which have supplied not only the bulk
of the nitrates for her explosives but
also a part of the nitrogen needed as
fertilizer and as feeding stuff for
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tterial. so that it cannot get loose, AS
free nitrogen it has no value what
ever. 1t has to be combined with some
other element In the Chilean nitrates
| it is combined with soda and is known
as nitrate of soda. In ammonia it is
combined with hydrogen and in nitric
acid with hydrogen and oxygen.
The work of getting out the nitrogen
and combining it has been successfully
done by three different processes within
the past Is years. All of these processes
use electricity, and the chief plants
have been built where cheap water
power could be had.
One way is by the arc process. In this
nitric acid is produced by the combus-
tion of nitrogen and oxygen in the
electric arc. The process requires great
heat and high voltage and cheap was
ter power, The Norwegians have used
their water falls for it and by means
of the electricity generated thereby
they are taking hundreds of thousands
of tons of nitrates out of the air.
The second process depends upon the
combination of nitrates with calcium
carbide. This also requires a great deal
of cheap power, although less than the
arc process. 1t is the process now be-
ing used at the Canadian plant at Nj
agara Falls, and it has also been sue
cessfully installed in Germany. The
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and there is no doubt but that he under
| stands it l will say only that a mixture
of nitrogen taken from the air and hy-
drogen from water is carried through
sealed chambers under pressure of 5000
pounds to the square inch. During this
time 1t is raised by electricity to a heat
of about 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and
passed through substance which causes
the hydrogen and nitrogen to unite, form
. ing the ammonia from which we get
nitric acid.
The process include changes of tenn
perature from intense cold to terrible
heat They embrace the use of cleo
tricity, and necessitate machinery SO
carefully made that the human mind can
hardly comprehend it's exactness. Some
OF the most dangerous of the gases are
confined in steel cylinders under a pres
,, sure of a ton and a half to every square
inch. and slight flaw in the machinery
might blow all to atoms. Indeed, 1t is
believed that the explosion which
wrecked the great munition plant at
IGreissheim. Germany. last year was
caused in that way. The parts are joined
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together so that they fit to the one-ten-
thousandth of an inch and between them
in some places are thin plates OF copper
which act as additional corlxs.
one-ten-thousandth of an inch, Have
you any idea how small crack of that
size it? Light might pass through, but
you cannot see it where the metal is
joined I tried to do so and failed. 7
then asked the skilled mechanic who
grinds out the fine parts on a lathe to
give me an example of what these meas
ures mean. Thereupon he pulled out a
hair of my head and measured it with
a little steel gauge. 1t was about one
thousandth of an inch thick. He then
told me that IL l could split that hair
into u equal strands, one of them would
not be quite as thick as the space be-
tween the cylinders when joined The
big machines at Muscle Shoals are to be
made the same way. am told that
they can do the work for which they
were planned. and that with our great
water powers we shall eventually get
all the nitrates we need from the air
(Copyrightd, 1915. by Frank G. carpenter)
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product is known as cyanamid. 1t can
be used in fertilizers or can be con-
verted into ammonia, which then can
be oxydized into nitric acid by a. pro-
cess they are now using in Europe.
The third process, which seems to be
the cheapest and most practical of all,
is the Haber process-the one for which
we are putting up the works at Muscle
Shoals, Ala, and the one upon which
they are experimenting in this labor
atory at Arlington. 1t is being used
with great success in Germany and is
the one from which will probably come
our nitrate supplies of the future.
l shall not attempt to describe the ma
chimes here at Arlington nor the chemi-
cal processes through which the air
goes in changing it from that which We
breathe to the nitrates used in NUM-
tons and fertilizer. l have gone over the
plant with DIR. r. Q. Il. Davis, the expert
in charge of the work. ! have seen the
stuff in the making as far as is possible
on the outside of the complex machinery.
DR.. Davis has told me how it is done
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History That Repeats Itself

Rev Edwin Keigwin, in the Christian
Herald.
After memorable victory of democ-
racy over militarism, long. long ago. a
poetess composed an immortal song cele-
brating the battle, in which occurs the
line:
The stars in their course fought against
Sisera."
Sisera was the war lord of his day.
Whether Deborah's alluson is to the
prowess of General Barak's soldiers, or
to some unusual astronomical influence
which turned the tide of battle I am
unable TO say. The words may embody
a. bit of poetic fancy. Or they may
record a prevailing belief that super
natural influences nerved the patriotic
endeavors of her countrymen in that un-
equal grapple between unprepared IDEAL
ism and military efficiency Be that as
it may, we know this much at least:
The men who followed Barak went forth
as champions of a great ideal, to stamp
out the barbarism of a mad imperial
ism. And they dit it. Somewhere in
America a modern Deborah at this mo-
ment. is tuning her harp that some day
she may sweep it's strings and sing Of
our service flag.
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horses and cattle. The Germans are
making d nitrogen yeast which is good
not only as fodder, but as food for
human beings, and it is said that they
will soon be Independent of the out
side world for nitrate supplies Of all
kinds.
Our nitrate situation. at the present
writing, is Just the reverse of that Of
Germany. We are importing the most
of the nitrates we use. Before the war
broke out we were paying to foreign
countries an annual tribute of more
than $4,000, 900 for materials of that
kind. Almost half of the amount went
to Chile. from where we got more than
half million tons of nitrate of soda
per annum. Another large part went TO
Great Britain and Germany, which
countries sold us ammonius sulphatc,
the same stuff that we are getting as a
by-product from our coke plants and
gas works; and about 10000 tons came
from Canada in the shape of calcium
cyanamid. The latter is form of fixed
nitrogen which the Canadians are TAX
ing out of the air by means of great
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But Will tney come Wnen you DO call for
them?
7HAyE tome to Arlington to show
you how Uncle Sam is calling
spirits, not from the vastly deep.
but from the circumambient air.
He is calling them to assist US in our
great battles in Europe, and. more than
that, they come when he does call for
them. l refer to the nitrates that we
are to bring from the clouds to aid US
in making munitions for lighting the
Germans, and the fertilizers needed for
the food supply of the nation
Over here on the edge of the Poto-
mac, within stones throw of Airing
ton cemetery, the government has
erected an experiment laboratory to
study some of the great problems con-
nected with the war. One Of these is to
extract nitrogen from the air. The prob
lem is that for which, in 1916, Congress
appropriated $20,Oo0.O00, and the one for
which tens of millions are being spent
by the war department. at Muscle Shoals
on the Tennessee river. in northeastern
Alabama.
The progress of the work at Muscle
is to supply nitric acid for the ex-
plosives for the army and navy, and its
construction is being pushed in every
possible way 1t is to supplement the
nitrates we are importing from the des-
erts of Chile, and in time to make us
independent of the rest of the world in
supplying the materials for national de-
Tense. The machinery here is much the
same in miniature as that of the mighty
plant there, and both are very similar to
the hydroelectric plants of Germany,
which are grabbing from the air the ex-
plosives for the Kaiser's great army.
Nitric acid is absolutely indispensable
in the munitions of the war of today.
1t is used in the manufacture of powder
for cartridges. and of high explosives
for shells and torpedoes. 1t is used in
making guncotton, dynamite and gun
powders of every sort and description.
1t is a part of all smokeless powders,
and is so important to us that if our
nitrates should give out we would be
out of the war in very few weeks AT
present, all of our nitric acid is obtained
from the saltpeter we import from the
deserts of Chile, and the greater part
of the nitrogen we are. using comes
from that source.
The necessity for a supply of ni
Tates within our own boundaries was
brought before Congress at the BEGIN
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! Lemon Juice
For Freckles
Girls! Make beauty lotion at
home for a few cents. Try It!

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces OF
orchard white shake well. and you have
. quarter pint of the best frec-Sla and
tan lotion, and complexion beautifier, at
very, very small cost
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter Will supply
three ounces of orchard white Tor a few
cents. MASSAGE this sweetly fragrant
lotion into the face, neck, arms and
lands each day and see how freckles
and blemishes disappear and how clear.
soft and white the skin becomes. les! II
Il harmless.-Adv.
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Red Star Ball Proves
a Brilliant Event in
Montgomery's Social Life

Gle were delightfully."- entertained Thurs
day afternoon by Mrs, Albert Wilson at
her home at Capitol Heights. Miss Ger
trude Ryan was director for the day and
the members responded to roll call, an
swering the question. What has the
Chautauqua Course OF Study meant 20
you2,, The club Joined in a quiz and
discussion of the concluding chapters OF
"How to Live" by Irving Fisher ana
Lyman Fisk A symposium was held on
what Impressed You Most in the
Book?'' This was the last meeting Of the
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year which has been a delightful and
instructive one. The four books which
the club has studied are: Life in An
cient Athens by G. G, Tucker; Char
acters and Events of Roman History"
by Ferreror: THE Greatest Books in the
World" by Laura Spencer Porter, and
How tn Live. by Fisher and Fisk. The
independent Magazine. weekly, has also
constituted part of the reading course.
Following the programme social hour
was enjoyed and delicious refreshments
were served
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Dollar Corsets Tomorrow 75l

We will put on big number Of corsets They in
busts well boned and there practically every size
up to 3Ohe exceptions being FL and 22 They regular
/ 90 corsets The sale price will be rs.
No phone orders and must say cannot exchange
these.
Some bust confners both white and flesh Trecot lace
Comes also without straps, so.
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electric plant located on their side of
Niagara Falls. Just prior to the war
they were taking out $4,000 tons per
annum by means of the cheap water
power there. In addition, we bought
more than s5,O0o,o 900 worth of nitro
geneous fertilizers in tankage, fish
scrap and other refuse animal matter
from different parts of the globe, and
we imported other nitrogen compounds
in the shape of chemicals which were
valued at more than $12.000000 These
came from Europe and chiefly from
Germany.
AS to our own production of nitrates.
we were then producing In the neish-
borhood of 100000 tons in the shape of
ammonium sulphate. This came from
the by-product coke ovens which re-
Gently have been established in connec-
tion with our largest blast furnaces and
from our gas works that make coke.
We got also considerable amount
from the tankage and other products
of our slaughter houses and, in add;-
ton, many thousands of tons in the
shape Of fish scrap and cottonseed
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BURGERS
WEATHER: FAIR
BURGERS
BUY RUGS ON CLUB PLAN
New White Goods

We will show for the first some new ar
rivals in white goods that of unusual interest to the
bride-to-be and the sweet girl graduate
one of the most of the materials IS crystal
organde very appropriate fabric for graduation ana
exercises comes 40 lncneS Wlue pue
offer it at the moderate price of LOO.
Other special of this department tomorrow are
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BURGERS
BUY RUGS ON CLUB PLAN
BURGERS
WEATHER: FAIR
The Silk Section

With all hot weather ahead washable silks are bound to be
greater demand than ever We showing variety
OF all KINDS OF tub silks and high grade novelties With
out exception these silks will retain their freshness and bril-
lancy after washing.
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Arlington. Va. 1918.

I can call spirits from the Vastly deep
Why, SO can I, or so can any man;
But viii they come when you do call for
them?
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Last Mondays Specials Repeated

wonderful to the specials offered last
Monday and the lots large repeat them for they
are very tmeyust the thing that every needs
for spring housekeeping You will find them less than
in the custom of paving.
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42-inch plain white wolfe, 90
LOO quality, special sOC
42-inch plain white wolfe, Tt
80 quality, special - =
40-inch plain white wolfe, &c
rs quality, special - =
4O-inch plain white wolfe, %
$50 quality, special 90 =
44-inch white organdie, &C
.85 quality, special ~.
42-inch white organdie, 40
.65 quality, special sTc
40-inch plain white wolfe, DC
.35 quality, special sAS
4S-inch white lingerie, 90
100 quality, special sOs
44-inch white lingerie, EC
rs quality, special 80 =
40-inch white lingerie, %
so quality, special .sC q
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Specials on the 3rd Floor
Staple Household Necessities

always upon Burgers to offer at
ing prices those things that you need in sheets pillow
etc. this of the largest departments in the south
and certainly department of the best selected
Here specials for tomorrow:
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This nitrogen is floating around free
in the air with its little sister named
Oxygen, and all that has to be done is
to get out the nitrogen and harness II
in combination with some other ma
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Heavy white silk pongee. Spleen
did for dresses and skirts. Washes
Special l''0 V"'us. 1.19
New plaid silks, in taffeta, gros
de Londre and Louisine; beauti-
full colorings. ESQ leo
value. Special 1sJJ
New all-silk foulards. Ideal silk
for summer wear-fully SO in.
wide-very choice pat n AGA
terms. Special 1sFJ
Heavy white silk pongee.. Spleen
did for dresses and skirts; washes
well. 1.50 value. IN
Special As1J
Chiffon taffeta. Something very
unusual in quality at this low
price-bright and lustrous-will
not split-all new colorings. 1.75
s Special 1.49
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Caberdine skirtings in beautiful
new stripes Of rose, copen, green
and black and white, in co
stripes and plaids eVS
New fancy vooiles, fully 40 in.
wide, beautiful range of colors,
in stripes, plaids, floral de- Or
signs and small vine patterns sAO
Doublefold Amoskeag ginghams,
SO new patterns to select %
from; width 80 inches sAC
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-15
Golden Cow Butter Shop Sales
Are Growing Larger Every Day
High Grade Products Have Big Demand; Dairy
Lunch Doing Enormous Business; Cleanliness and
Freshness Characterize All Products; Increased
Custom Requires Additional Room

CLEANLINESS is the keynote at
\ the Golden Cow Butter Shop at
109 Mesa avenue. and this in a
sense accounts for the remarkable
business that this firm has built
up during the past two years. Ever
since its establishment this shop
has been az the head Of the butter
industry and the secret OF their
success is contained in the opening
sentence. and the fact that all Of
their products are fresh.
Butter secured from the Golden
Cow is fresh daily. made from pas
tueriZcd cream. and each day the
output Is disposed or Hundreds OF
pounds OF butter are sold daily.
I'm addition TO the butter sold
the Golden Cow also has an euor-
nous sale Of buttermilk and cot
taEe cheese Both or these products
are made fresh daily and the same
care and cleanliness that charac-
terizes the making Of the butter is
observed bon the manufacture Of the
other articles
A dairy lunch IS maintained by
the Golden Cow and here light
lunches buttermlk. fresh milk.
cottage cheese and sandwiches are
sald. Several hundred people cat