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Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
Grand JURY TO
PROBE POLICE
COURT ACTION
Attorney Announces Mistreat.
ment of Stranger In City
Will Be Pushed to
Limit.

The grand jury will be asked to
take up the cases against Police
Judge Charles E. Foster. City
Prosecutor T. B. Murray and Pa
trolman O. P, Peterson for sem
fencing Fred Miller, the young De-
troit rnachinist, to the county Jail
for IS days on trumped-up charge
of vagrancy, after the policeman had
beaten up the boy, who had conf
mitted no crime and who was guilty
of no offense.
Miller was thrown in Jail over
night following an unprovoked and
vicious attack on him by Officer
Peterson, not allowed to use the tel
ephone at the police station, ar
raigned in police court Friday morn
ing, not given an opportunity to de.
defend himself and sentenced to Jail
on the unsupported word of Officer
Peterson.
Had $3.50 in Cash.
The Jail sentence was imposed
upon the word of the officer, that
the prisoner was vagrant, despite
The fact the boy had not been III
Omaha more than an hour when he
was arrested and that he had $3.50
| in his pocket, together with letters
from his mother showing, he had
been out of employment only for
few days and was enroute to Cali
fornia to accept position in that
state. .
Miller had his tools with him. He
also presented a union card show
ing his dues were paid up. The boy
paid Attorney R. H. Bremers 500
of his $3.50 before he was given his
liberty.
Charges will be filed with the city
commission against Patrolman
Peterson for the part he took in
1.-THE mistreatment of young Miller
and civil actions will be filed against
the bondsmen of Judge Foster.
J Prosecutor Murray and the police
man, according to Arson H. Bige-
low. attorney for the machinists
union, who has been retained by the
labor organization to prosecute the
cases
Miller at Work Here.
Young Miller has obtained work
at his trade in this city through the
efforts of his union. He will re-
main here until the affair has been
settled. ....-
This is but single case among
scores and scores of a similar char
acter which daily are disposed of in
the same manner in police court
by Judge Foster and members of
the police department" declared
| Attorney Bige1ow. MILLER is more
fortunate than many others in that
he is a member of a union which
will not stand for these highhanded
methods.
The Bremers Case.
In regard to the charge of ex-
tortion against Attorney Bremers,
Mr.. Bigelow declared he did not
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04

1919, or an increase Of nearly
100000 over last year.
Grant County Over TOp-Roose-
welt Memorial Fund headquarters re-
ported today that Grant county was
the first to raise its quota, and in
addition went 10 per cent over the
top.
Can't Blame Them-Frank Scze-
paniak asked the district court yes
terday to allow him and the four
members Of his family to change
their name to Stepanek. He says
their present name is "unwieldy, I'M
graceful and hard to speak and
write"
Lodge Makes Change-Fontenelle
Court No. 159, Tribe of Ben Hur,
has moved all of its activities from
Twenty eighth and Farnam streets
to Prairie Park club, Twenty sixth
and Ames avenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
Will Talk on Concessions
of Great Britain to Jews

DR.. Obadiah Grossman, coming
directly from the national headquar-
tiers of the Zionist Organization Of
America, in New York, is to deliver
an address at the Synagogue Beth
Hamardrash Hagodal, Nineteenth
and Burt streets, Wednesday eve
ing at s.
DR.. Grossman brings special
message concerning recent con-
cessions by Great Britain to the
Zionist administration commission
in Palestine. He will explain the
political situation in Turkey, Syria,
Mesopotamia and Palestine, and
will dwell on the difficulties in
volved in the recent Turkish treaty.
Another guest will be DR.. |. War
saw of Waco, Tex, who will be one
of the principal speakers.
The evening will also be marked
by the installation of the recently
elected officers of the Omaha dis
trict Of the Zionist Organization of
America. Rabbi Taxon will deliver
an address.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
Fire Burns Awning.

Fire, caused by a lighted cigaret
thrown from an upstairs win
dow at 6l6 South Sixteenth street,
totally destroyed an awning in front
of the Proctor studio at 2 yester-
day afternoon. Firemen were
called and saved another awning
next door south that had also
caught fire.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
What Can Girls Be?

Interior Decorator" "Dietitian,"
Industrial Welfare Worker" "Pri-
yste Secretary" Landscape Car
dener,' Playground Worker'-no
wonder ambitious girls are going to
read the Saturday articles, What
Girls Can Be-" in The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
Commissioner Zimman at
Work After Severe Illness

City Commissioner Zimman was
at his Office fer few hours yester-
day, the first time since he was
striker with an. attack of ptomaine
poisoning 10 days ago. His ply
stefan has ordered him to conserve
his strength by limiting his work
to a few hours per day for an in
definite time,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
New Motor Police In Action
Sunday Shown by Court Cases

Twenty persons were goven light
fines in central police court yester-
day on charges of speeding and vio-
lating rules of the road. All the ar
rests of the speeders were made
Sunday afternoon. Newly appoint
ed motor police made the majority
of the arrests.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
High School Students. Notice!

What Shall l Be-" is the biggest
of all your questions.
Read each Saturday in The Bee
What Boys Can Be" or What
Girls Can Be-"
A new line of work each week If
you like it, the article will tell you
where to go to find out more about
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-04
At $l.98

Hand turned soles, extra fine quality
Lace and button styles Some high tops
Sizes 2 to 5, $1.98. ..#.
The sun., 1919-08-08
PHONES GET MANY
COINS B. r. T. LOSES
Rush of Brooklyn Calls Taxes
Service.

Many nickels that might have gone
into the treasury of the B. r. T. have
been diverted during the last two days
to the slots OF the telephone pay sta
tions In downtown Manhattan and
Brooklyn. Not q drug or cigar store
maintaining a booth for its patrons but
was crowded with residents Of the bor-
ough across the river making estimates
of the time OF their arrival at the fam
lily dinner table or explaining they
wouldn't be able to get there at all. Last
night and the night before the rush Of
calls. which Is normal between 5 and Z
o'clock on the New York Telephone Com
pany's lines. continued for several hours
later. Tho result was considerable con-
gestion and delay, but the unusual traf-
fic was handled after a fashion.
There was q food of calls in the early
business hours, too. from those who were
advising their employers and business
associates that they would be late in
getting to the Office. 30 that altogether
the telephone operators have had a busy
day of fc
II was hard to find a pay station that
did not have a line of eight or ten people
waiting to make a call. and there were
occasional disputes as to who was
next" but on the whole the crowd took
things good naturally.
The sun., 1919-08-08
BAY STATE CARMEN
WIN 8 HOUR DAY
AUard Includes 80 Per Cent.
Raise.

BOSTON, Aug. 7.-An eight hour day
and an increase in wages OF about 80
per cent were awarded by an arbitra-
ton board tonight to carmen on five
Massachusetts, street railway lines. The
systems affected are the Worcester Con-
solidated Street Railway. the Springfield
Street Railway, the Milford, Attleboro
and Woonsocket Street Railway, the In
terstate Consolidated Street Railway
and the Attleboro Branch Railroad.
The arbitration board was composed
Of Henry D. Endicott, chairman and
neutral member; James H Valley, rep
resenting the carmen. and Bentley w.
Warren, representing the companies.
Mr.. Warren refused to sign the award
on the ground that he feared certain of
the companies could not meet the wage
increase out OF their present revenues
and that he did not feel justified In
agreeing to an increase which could be
met only by imposing further burdens
upon the public"
The new wage schedule provides for
1915 a day for the FIRST three months
s4.l6 for the next nine months and $456
for the second and subsequent years Of
service on the Springfield line. and fol
~ cents, SO cents and 81 cents an houl
for the same respective. periods OF ser
vice on the other lines.
The sun., 1919-08-08
HOLDS FOR A FIVE CENT FARE.

Partly indorsing his transit pro-
grsmme announced on Monday, the City
Club. through Nelson S. Spencer. its
president, addressed yesterday a letter
to Public Service Commissioner Nixon
The City Club agrees that as a first step
all of the companies should be CONSOLE
dated, leases terminated and perpetual
franchises changed to indeterminate
franchises and the value Of the prop
critics agreed on between the city and
the companies.
But the City Club disagrees that an
increase In fare beyond five cents prom
Uses relief from the present conditions.
An increase in fare. It says, decreases
trafflc and does not bring in sufficient
additional revenue to meet the situation.
The club renews it's suggestion that
the city relieve the companies OF paving
and other special charges and permit
the discontinuance OF service on certain
lines and the reduction Of service on
others.
The sun., 1919-08-08

Of the city government Mr.. Garrison
as receiver, appointed as such by the
Federal courts, which courts denied the
city Of New York the right Of q CO.
receiver, declined to meet a committee
of the strikers previous to the declaring
of the strike. Az Mayor Of the city /
have suggested 10 him that in the public
interest he should meet such committee.
I have received no reply to that sugges-
ton UP to this hour.
"As the legal representative OF the
city / now suggest to you that you make
application to Justice Mayer Of the Fed
ernl court. who appointed Receiver Gar
rison. that Receiver Garrison be directed
to meet q committee and discuss their
grievances and submit, II necessary. the
questions at issue for arbitration. 80
that the business public Of the city of
New York can peacefully resume their
respective daily occupations"
In his telegram to Judge Mayer Cor
poration Counsel Burr said.
by direction OF Mayor Hylan here
by respectfully but most urgently re-
quest that you Immediately instruct
Lindley NJ. Garrison receiver OF the B.
r. T. system appointed by the Federal
Court to confer at once-in the public
interests and in order to prevent the
spread OF riot and disorderLwith the
representatives OF the labor unions act
ing on behalf OF the employees OF the B.
r. T. system, now on strike, in order
that the questions at issue between such
employees and the B. r. T. may be dis
cussed and IL necessary be referred to n
committee for arbitration.
Everything that can be done by the
city administration Is being done to pre-
serve law and order and to protect life
and property to the fullest extent. In
spite Of this the strike 10 spreading and
II is feared will embrace the whole city
Of New York. The sole obstacle TO a
fair presentation Of the grievances OF
the strikers and a possible agreement
is stated to be the absolute refusal OF
the receiver appointed by the Federal
ence Of the labor unions In fact or in
principle.
THE situation is grave and II de-
mands immediate action. Throughout,
the country the right OF employees Ia
combine for mutual advantage and for
the purpose OF collective bargaining has
been generally recognized. The denial
of that right by the Federal receiver
may be the means of causing great and
immediate harm and will undoubtedly
add seriously to the difficulties confront
ing the country.
For the protection Of the railroad
property and in the interests of the
travelling public and for the promotion
of the general safety and welfare
earnestly request that you at once in.
struct the receiver TO confer with q
committee representing the strikers tc
ascertain their grievances and to ar
range II possible for a proper and fab
adjustment Of such grievances by ar,
bitration.
THE Federal Government has to goot
advantage recognized the labor unioni
In the past and what the Federal Gov
eminent has done the FEDERAL receiver
1t seems to me. may wen afford to d.
in the public interest"
The sun., 1919-08-08
JITNEY BUS LINES
TO Be ESTABLISHED
Acting Borough President
Hopes to Have 200 Carettes
in Operation To-day.

Joseph A. Guider, acting Borough
President of Brooklyn. said yesterday
afternoon that he expected to have 200
or 500 buses from New Jersey to relieve
the trafic congestion. He said he was
not worrying about franchises, The
main thing at present, he asserted. was
to relieve the public.
In an interview with Mayor Hylan
yesterday forenoon on the question of
licenses, the Mayor referred Mr.. Guider
to the Commissioner Of Licenses, which
Is to take the matter up with the Secre-
tary OF the State of New York. Since
large number of the buses operating
in Brooklyn will have New Jersey
licenses which, according to law, can be
used outside OF New Jersey only for
certain length of time. Mr.. Guider hopes
to have that time extended or tempo
rary licenses granted II the exigency
demands.
Mr.. Guider said he had made arrange
ments with George Magibon. a bus man
OF New Jersey, TO have thirty buses
carrying thirty persons each leave Park
Row, Manhattan, and touch points OF
congestion in Brooklyn. The fare will
be 10 cents. Fifteen of the buses will
leave from Park Row beginning at 4 80
this afternoon and proceed on the fol-
lowing course: Liberty street TO Flat
bush avenue to Ninth avenue to Coney
Island avenue to Ocean Parkway and
end at Kings Highway. The other route
| Is along Lafayette avenue tapping the
Putnam avenue line and the Gates, De
! Kalb and Myrtle avenue lines.
Mr.. Guider said he would be glad to
talk with any bus concerns TO agree on
| the routes and the rate OF fare. He was
| trying. he said. to keep the maximum
fare at 10 cents.
AS son as enough buses were to be
had. Mr.. Guider said. they would be dis
| tributed so as to care for people at all
| the places where they were needed. He
said he wanted TO avoid legal entangle-
ments. and would endeavor to run the
buses so that they did not interfere with
| the franchises held by the B. r. T.
Hundreds OF amateur hack drivers were
| rounded up by Internal Revenue inspect
| ors yesterday. Bertram Gardner, Inter-
nal Revenue Collector for the Brooklyn
| district, said the law levying a tax on
! persons carrying on the business OF OPP
Grating or renting passenger automobiles
for hire would be enforced.
| Amateur haclkmen using every sort OF
vehicle from n bus to a moving var
have been gathering money In fistfuls
since the strike. Their rates have varied
anywhere from a quarter to IS and they
have no hackmen's license. The matter
was brought TO Mr.. Gardner's attention
by legitimate hackmen. who carried their
complaint to the Federal authorities with
the result that twenty agents Of the De
partment acoosted drivers yesterday de-
manding their Federal licenses. Not one
in twenty-five was able to produce one.
The Internal Revenue Collector said
that In this emergency the procedure
would be to send the amateur hackmen
bill for the tax for the current year. TIT
Federal fiscal year runs to June so, 1920
which would make them liable fo
eleven -twelfths of the tax. II they fai
to pay during the month in which the!
begin business they are fined 80 per cent
in addition.
The sun., 1919-08-08
One Way Traffic Rule
for Manhattan Bridge

police COMMISSIONER EN-
RIGHT issued the following
statement last night:
lowing to the congestion
caused by increased vehicular
traffic between New York and
Brooklyn due TO the strike on
the B. R. T. lines the Manhattan
Bridge will be reserved for one
way traffic from Brooklyn to New
York between the hours Of 1880
A. M. and $50 A. M. and from
New York to Brooklyn between
the hours of 5 P. NJ. and 2 P. M.
daily until further orders.
During these hours vehicular
traffic coming in the opposite d.
rection will be diverted to the
B klyn and Williamsburg
bridges. Drivers of vehicles can
avoid unnecessary detention on
either Of the bridges by making
use Of this regulation"
The sun., 1919-08-08
STRIKE BOUND FOLK SHOW
..STREAKS OF MERRY HUMOR

gathered while she persevered and the
truck driver accomrnodatingly waited
but finally seven men Jumped from the
truck, lifted her into the vehicle, the
crowd cheered and the truck moved on
The ferry companies operating be-
tween Manhattan and Brooklyn greatly
Increased the number OF trips MADE py
their boats. At the Thirty-ninth street
ferry boats ran every fifteen minutes, In
stead of every thirty minutes as Tor
merly, and every boat was crowded.
Thirty-five patrolmen were statipned at
the ferry terminal at the foot OK WHITE
hall street to prevent disorder.
Many thousands OF Brooklynites came
to Manhattan yesterday morning from
the Bay Ridge section by crossing to
Staten Island by ferry, and then taking
the Staten Island ferries at 81. George
for Manhattan.
The Long island Railroad announced
yesterday that 1t had put on extra trains
from New York TO Jamaica and queens
and on the Manhattan Beach division.
The Iron Steamboat Company is oper-
ating an extra boat to Coney Island,
and both companies stated that this in
long as the strike continued.
Men and women clerks at Police Head
quarters were sent home last night in
three patrol wagons-with the curtains
drawn, by the way. Regular routes have
been established for these wagons, and
each morning, so long as the strike con-
tinues, they will pick up the department
clerks and bring them to Manhattan.
In the evening they will ride home In
them.
The New York Telephone Company
asked the War Camp Community Service
yesterday II it could furnish cots and
bedding to be placed in telephone build
| ings in Brooklyn for its employees. II
was explained that the strike had greatly
| increased demands on the telephone COM
pany, and that the operators had con-
sid>rably difficulty in getting to their
work. Twenty cots and sufficient bed
ding for them were sent to Brooklyn
last night and more will be sent to-day.
The B. r. T. subway terminal at the
Municipal Building during the rush hour
yesterday was as vacant as 1t usually Is
| on a Saturday afternoon. Few persons
entered the station. and the four police
men who were on duty on the platforms
were taken off before Z o'clock Two
| remained at the ticket office. however.
and lowering around were half dozen
men from a private detective agency.
| The strikers hired number of big
trucks yesterday and cruieed up and
down Flatbush avenue, operating them
as buses. The trucks bore signs saying
1--WE will give you better service than
the B. r. IT,
Many merchants and manufacturers
who owned trucks sent their cars to
carry some of the many women who
were being charged extortionate prices
by the jitney and truck drivers. All the
cars sent by the merchants and manu-
facturers carried their passengers free
More than thirty OF these trucks were
at the Long Island station at Atlantic
avenue.
The women's Motor Corps Of America
sent out fifty arnbulances. driven by
members of the corps. to carry working
women across the bridge and along des'
ignated routes to their homes in Brook
Ign. No charge was made by these cars
The sun., 1919-08-08

II was not an uncommon thing dur
ing the rush hours yesterday morning
and afternoon to see ladies sitting on
the laps of perfectly strange gentlemen,
while the gentlemen perched precari-
ously on boxes set on the floors of
trucks-and some Of them were frank
enough to remark that they didn't care
II the strike never. ended.
B. r. Keith and the Pioneer Moving
Van Company both had big trucks at
Atlantic avenue both morning and even
ing. decorated with big signs that said.
Free rides to working women only"
The trucks filled quickly with girls,
made trip down Fiatbush avenue to
Church avenue. then returned to the sub
way station at Atlantic avenue for an
other load. No one was permitted to
ride except women. and only women who
said they were going to or from work.
The accommodations in most of the
trucks that carried passengers were
rather crude and uncomfortable, and to
get in one had to climb or be pulled up
by fellow passengers. but one truckman
who operated In Flatbush avenue had
things fixed in great shape. He had
planks for seats, and in addition he had
little stepladder which he lowered by
means Of a rope, and then pulled back
Into his truck every time he took on q
passenger.
Considerable sums of money were
made by owners Of trucks and passenger
automobiles. who operated them as buses
for the strike bound crowds. One man
who had a Ford worked from o'clock
IN the morning until midnight on the
tlatbush route, carrying four passen-
gers on each trip and charging rs cents
ride. When he counted up at quitting
time he found he had made S4S.
Many cars with New Jersey, Rhode Is
land and Connecticut licenses were no.
ticed among the automobiles which car
ried passengers over the bridge. Their
owners said they had brought their cars
to New York especially to get in on the
rush business.
The prevailing prices for truck and
automobile rides from the Manhattan
Bridge were Is cents to Fulton street, 20
cents to East New York. and from so
cents to 81 to Coney Island.
Many OF the big mercantile firms in
Lafayette and other streets put their big
trucks in use to take their employees
home. The motors were sent out early
yesterday morning to bring the workers
to Manhattan and were used to take
them back again in the afternoon. Ger
tain points were designated at which the
trucks stopped to pick up each FIRMS
employees.
The sun., 1919-08-08
ROANOKE MEN BACK TO WORK.
First Break in Strike in Southeast
Affects 1900.

ATLANTA, Aug. THE first break in
the strike OF railroad shopmen in the
Southeast was made to-day when 1900
employees OF the Norfolk and Western
Railroad shops at Roanoke, Va. voted
to return to work tomorrow and await
results OF the vote on a general strike
order. In the meantime railroads gen.
orally in the Southeast were working
under suspension of freight traffic
except in perishable goods and food
stuffs
Passenger trains generally were run
ming on schedule. but Pullman sleeping
cars had been eliminated from several
trains.
The sun., 1919-08-08
GIRL BROWNS IN THE PAssAIC.
Companion Reluctant to Reveal
News of Tragedy.

Violet May Farrell the fifteen-year-
old daughter OF Mrs. Eugene Steer OF
181 Lakeview avenue. Clifton. N. j., has
been camping for the last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Meyer OF 142 Lake
view avenue on the Passaic River. near
Mountain View. Yesterday she went
bathing in the river in company with q
smaller girl.
While the two children were in the
water Violet disappeared beneath the
surface. The other girl says che waited
for a time and then started back TO
camp. pausing for an ice cream soda
en- route. When she arrived without
Violet she reluctantly told Mr.. and Mrs
Meyer what had happened
The sun., 1919-08-08
N. Y. BOUND BOAT IN CRASH.
FreiEhter KathIamba and Pleasure
Craft Collide Near Boston.

BOSTON. Aug. 1.-THE NantAskst
steamship Mary Chiffon carrying 500
passengers collided in the harbor to-day
with the British freighter Kathlamba in
dense fog. Many Nantasket passsn-
gers were thrown from their seats And
there was considerable excitement IN the
rush for life preservers. but no one was
hurt. The Chiffon was able TO reach
her dock under her own steam while the
Kathlamba continued her voyage to New
The sun., 1919-08-08
Motorcycle Policemen Fail.

policemen had been formed but these.
IKE their unmounted fellows. could do
littfe to maintain order in the big Dor
ough literally criss-crossed with car
lines. with trouble wherever there were
cars
The Job OF driving a trolley car was
made difficult one. Frequently II took
a wrecking crew to restore the right of
way to normal condition after the efforts
OF the strikers. One OF the favorite