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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
MEASURES TAKEN
TO REDUCE COST
OF FOOD IN FRANCE
Cheap Restaurants Under Con
troll of Ministry of Supplies
Will Be Established.

Paris, July l6:-Four definite
measures intended to reduce the cost
of living were. decided upon at a
meeting of the cabinet. A commits
sloner was appointed to execute the
ideas agreed upon.
The four plans were:
"Clemenceau" or "Vilgra" food
selling booths in Paris will be dou-
bled in number and others will be
esta ablished in other centers of pop
ulatioH
Cheap restaurants to supply meals
at fixed prices will be started in
Paris and in the provinces, under
control of the ministry of supplies.
All war stockks of foodstuffs will
be sold to the public, chiefly
through cooperative societies.
A special service already effective
in the ministry of supplies will seek
to curb illicit speculation in food
st,Hfs.
A bill! pending in parliament con-
tains provisions supplementing ex-.
isting laws against speculation and
increased penalties.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
DECIDE TO LIFT
0PER CENT TAX
ON SODA WATER
c.. 0. P. Leaders Consider Also
Raising lmpost on Soft
Drinks and Ice Cream.

Washington, July l6.-Repeal of
the soda water tax was decided on
by republican leaders of the house.
The decision will be referred to the
ways and means committee, which
will draft a repeal measure. Some
leaders predicted the tax which
levies an impost of 10 per cent on
soft drinks and ice cream would be
repealed within a month.
Investigation of the postoffice de-
partment was understood also to
have been discussed by the repub-
lican steering committee, without a
final decision.
Immediate attention, the steering
committee decided, would be given
by the house to the two appropria-
ton bills, vetoed by the president,
after which the prohibition enforce
ment legislation would be disposed
of. \Legislation prohibiting foreign
ships from engaging in American
Goa oastwise trade also will be enacted,
the committeeman said, as we'll as
the tax repeal measures, before a
summer recess.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17

Mount Clemens, Mich, July To-
Henry Ford, under examination as
a witness for the defense during all
of Wednesdays session of his suit
for $l00O,000 libel against the Chi
cago Tribune, was led through a
maze of questions by the news
papers attorney, who said he was
trying to show that the alleged
libelous editorial was correct in call
ing the motor manufacturer "an
ignorant idealist."
Answering the varied interroga-
tons of Attorney Elliott G. Steven
son, Mr.. Ford described an idealist
as one who "helped to make peo-
pie prosperous, an anarchist one
who throws bombs or seeks to over
turn government" The witness did
not recall the incident of Majo
Andre and Benedict Arnold, de-
scribing the revolutionary traitor as
a writer"
IAN Ignorant Idealist"
At one time, Mr.. Ford said that
he would admit he was an "ignor-
ant idealist" if that would stop the
line of questioning, but later said
the question would have to be de-
cided by the jury. Judge Tucker
interposed objection to-carrying
the line of inqu ry too far outside
the case and Attorney Stevenson
then asked about Mr.. Ford's knowl-
edge of government relations, as
serting that as the witness as a can
didate for senator, had set himself
up as an educator of the people he
had a right to prove that Mr.. Ford
was ignorant.
Mr.. Ford reiterated that his cir
culars against war and prepared
ness were written by Theodore De
Lavigne, but that he was RESPONSE
BILE for the statements, although he
did not recall all of them.
Some of the Statements.
Following are some of the state
ments published9by De Lavigne and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
Deny Grammer Appeal
From Death Sentence
In Electric Chair

Lincoln, Neb., July 16.-(Special
Telegram 1.-The supreme court to-
day denied the appeal from the dis
trict court of Allen V. Grammer
sentenced to electrocution for the
alleged participation in the murder
of his mother-in-1aw, Mrs. Lulu
Vogel, in Howard county in July,
1917. Unless the governor inter-
feres Grammer will be electrocuted
September 19, 1919.
Grammer and Alonzo B. Cole
were convicted of the murder and
given a death sentence in Howard
county. The cases have been ap-
pealed several times. 1t was charged
that Grammer hired Cole to kill
Mrs. Vogel, who was found dead.
Cole was granted a respite a
month ago by Governor Mckelvie,
pending the supreme courts deci-
sion in the Grammer case. He will
now be electrocuted at the same
time as Grammer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
CITYTOPAYMAN
$4,000 A YEAR TO =
COLLECT GARBAGE
Five Commissioners Agree tc
Award Contract to Henry
Pollock.

City Commissioners Ure, Zimman,
Ringer, Towl and Falconer yester-
day afternoon informally agreed to
award to Henry Pollack garbage
contract for five years, the city to
pay $4s,O00 year for the collection
and disposal of all garbage.
The contract, if it is executed,
will provide that Polack shall fur
nish all equipment and abide by rules
and regulations as prescribed by the
city for a sanitary system.
Mr.. Pollaek will agree to use a
110-acre tract of land known as the
Henry Schaeffer farm, located ~
miles north of DeBolt station, north
of Benson and beyond the limits of
Omaha. He will install system of
collection tanks to be hauled on
trucks to railroad cars at convenient
sidetrack points. The tanks of
garbage will be lifted from the
trucks to railroad cars and empty
tanks replaced on the trucks. The
garbage will be hauled in the same
collection containers to the hog
feeding yard at DeBolt.
Until Mr.. Pollack can get his De-
Bolt plant in operation he will be
permitted to use the Winspear tri-
angle, a tract owned by the city
along the river. His present hog
ward at Sixth and Grace streets is
to be abandoned at once and the
premises deodorized.
Mr.. Pellack's present contract
with the city will automatically be
SUSPENDED if the new proposed con-
tract shall be formally ratified. The
existing contract arrangement pro-
vides that the city shall haul the
garbage to the Pollack yard and that
he shall pay the city $255 per ton
for the garbage.
The city council has been besieged
this summer with north side resi-
dents who have complained of the
stencil which arises from the hog
yards on the east bottom lands.
The commissioners and DR.. ]. F.
Edwards, health commissioner elect
visited the site which Pollack pro-
poses to use at DeBolt, and they be-
lieved that the arrangement is the
best that can be made outside of the
city establishing a reduction or in
cinerator system of garbage dis
pesal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17

SIX-CENT FARE
FOR OMAHANS
Supreme Court Suggests 10
Tickets for S. Cents as ,
, Emergency Rate.

Lincoln, July 16.-The supreme
court of Nebraska in an opinion
handed down Wednesday reverses
the State Railway commission in the
application of the Omaha & Coun-
Gil Bluffs Street Railway company
for and emergency rate to be
charged for street car fares
While the court sets no spe-
cific AMOUNT to be charged, it sug-
gests that E cents for single fare
and 10 tickets for IS cents should
be an emergency rate pending an
investigation as to the earnings of
the company. The court in its opin-
ion says:
The fundamental inquiry in fixing
rates of public service utility al
ways is: What rate is necessary in
order to yield a reasonable average
return on a fair valuation of the
property for rate-making purposes
such a return as will not discourage
but will attract the Investment OF
capital in the utility.
Has Wide Discretion.
Under the constitution and laws
of this state the State Railway COM
mission has a wide discretion in
these matters.
"A situation due to an unexpected
rise in prices and wages, which
makes it altogether probable that
the past and present rate is insult
'hcient to yield a revenue which will
pay that fair average return which
the law requires, although not con-
stituting what might technically be
denominated an emergency may,
when shown. be sufficient for the al
lowance by the commission of a
temporary rate, limited to the time
required for making an investigation
and finding of the facts. If it should
happen that the temporary rate so
fixed is too high, the condition may
be rectihed in the order fixing the
rate after investigation.
"In fixing the rates at any partic-
ular time, former earnings and prob
able prospective earnings should al
Continued on Page Two. Column Four.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17

INJURED regret on his lips. Lundeen
stood over him with smoking
gun.
"It-it-it's Frank" Tobias said.
I'm sorry" The words were his
last
Murphy lapsed into unconscious
ness before he reached the hospital.
He does not yet know that the man
who shot him and was shot and
killed was his boyhood friend and
schoolmate, ]. w. Tobias.
Bandit Is Identified.
J. w. Tobias was positively iden-
tilted as the highwayman who has
terrorized pedestrians, at the in
quest held yesterday afternoon at
Hoffman's Funeral Home.
Fl. ]. Tanner, 538 Park avenue,
testified that he was positive, Tobias
was the man who held him up in
front of his home at 2 o'clock a m.
yesterday. \,
VIM. Go,um, 2622 North Twenty
fourth street, who was held up at
2:20 a. m, also identified the dead
man as the bandit who held him up.
F. H. Tuiney, 1886 Capitol ave-
nue., testified that Tobias held him
up in front of his home last Sat-
urday. He was positive of his iden-
tification, saying that he had good
look at his face.
Detectives Lundeen and O. Far
Continued on Page TWO, Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
President Begins Aggressive
Effort to Diminish Senate
Opposition to Peace Pact
Signed With Germany.
SEVERAL INVITED TO
WHITE. HOUSE TODAY
Invitations Expected to Be
Daily Feature Until Execu-
tive Has Made His Appeal
to G. 0. P. Membership.

Washington, July 16.-In an ag-
gressive effort to diminish senate
opposition to the treaty with Ger
many, President Wilson will begin
at the White House Thursday
series of personal talks with repub-
lican senator's.
With his reiterated offer to con
suit with the foreign relations CONF
mittee unacceptable and with his op-
ponents on the republican side evil
Gencing no purpose to seek his coun-
Gil, the president decided to adopt
the more direct method of inviting
republican members to the White
HousA and laying before them one
after another his reasons for asking
that the treaty be ratified.
Some Invitations Out.
A half Dozen senators. whose
names were withheld. were asked t.,
meet the president Thursday and it
was indicated that the invitation
would be daily feature until Mr..
Wilson had seen most of the repub-
lican membership. During the day
he selected fifty whom he desires to
see this week. -
There was much speculation az
to the choices he had made for
Thursdays conference In some
quarters it was thought likely he
had invited Chairman Lodge and
other members of the foreign rela-
tons committee, but it also was sug-
gested that he may have chosen to-
talk first with senators who are
inclined to be friendly to the treaty
and have taken no definite stand
regarding it.
Say Talks Will Fail.
Republican leaders opposing the
treaty in it's present form did not
hesitate to predict the White House
talks would faiDto lessen the oppo-
,stion to unreserved ratification
Democratic senators supporting the
president, however, declared his
course undoubtedly meant he had
convincing arguments to offer.
Those in the presidents confr-
dence indicated the burden of his
appeal to the republican senator's
would concern the league of nations
and the Shantung settlement, the
two provisions which have aroused
greatest criticism in the senate. 1t
was predicted that he would tell his
callers the>complete details of the
negotiations on these points and on
any others that might be brought
into question.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
British Government Gives Din
ner in His Honor, Which Is
Attended by Haig, Prince Of
Wales and Others.
GENERAL AND STAFF
PRESENTED TO KING
As Guest Of American Lunch
con Club He Pays High Honor
to John Bulls Fighting AbiI-
itV and to His Yanks.

London, July 16.-The government
gave dinner in honor of Gen. John
]. Pershjas aid his staff Wednesday
night. The guests included Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, who pre-
sided; Gen. Sir Henry Seymour
Rawlinson, commander of the fifth
British army; Gen. Henry S. Horne,
commander of the British army in
France; Lieut.. Gen. William Ridde1l
Birdwood, commander of the Aus
tralian and New Zealand troops ip
France, and other prominent British
officers.
General Pershing, with his staff,
were presented to the king and
queen at a garden party at Bucking-
ham palace in the afternoon. The
American ambassador, John w.
Davis, and other members of the
diplomatic <orps also were present.
General Pershing conversed for
some time with the Prince of
Wales.
General Pershing was the guest
of the American Luncheon club at
the Hotel Savoy and was loudly
cheered when he entered the dining
room. He thanked the club for its
hospitality to him and the Ameri-
can soldiers and paid high tribute
to the British for their part in the
war.
Gives U. S. Navy Thanks.
at must have Been with a sense
of great satisfaction" said General
Pershing, that you Americans liv-
ing in England learned of Ameri-
cas- entry into the war, and with
what interest you watched the COM
ing of our expeditions, the first, the
naval contingent under Vice Ad-
miral Sims, who quickly recognized
that the difficulties demanded an
increase of craft for destroying sub
marines and unity of command. |
give him and the navy thanks for
their attitude toward the army and
feel safe in saying that never before
was there such complete unity OF
action between. these branches OF
the service.
Il won't attempt to tell you VIII It
the army did. But | want you 70
know that its personnel was imbued
with patriotism and devotion to the
cause of liberty and filled with an
aggressive determination \to carry
out the will of our people at home.
When that first division entered the
battle line and fought brilliant bat
tie at Cantigny, its success set an ex-
ample for the future of the campaign
and had an electrical effect on our
allied armies, which had-been fight
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
Bandit Slain and Detective
Seriously Wounded in Gun
Battle Chums in Boyhood
J. ". Tobias Shot After Opening Fire on Officers at
Command to -Highwayman Murmurs Regret,
as He Learns Officer Shot Was Frank Murphy,
Friend of His School Days; Dead Man Identified
by Several Victims of Holdup

Detective Frank Murphy was
seriously wounded at 3 O'Clock
Wednesday morning by Judd
Tobias, alias Joe Trimble, a boy
hood chuh1, when he attempted to
arrest Tobias at twentieth and
Dodge streets. Tobias was killed
by Axel V. Lundeen, Murphy
partner.
Last night Murphy's condition
was improved. The bullet in his
abdomen was removed yesterday
afternoon and the attending sur
geons said his intestines had not
been punctured nor had his kidneys.
Searching for a youthful bandit
who had staged two holdups earlier
in the morning, Murphy, Lundeen
and O. Farrand, all city detectives,
stopped their automobile when the
figure of man was seen on Dodge
street.
Answers With Bullets.
Halt" Murphy commanded
The answer was a rain of bullets
from a gun which police say was
snatched from a shoulder holster.
Murphy>fell. He's got me, Vic"
he said<
Lundeen returned the fire. The
bandit, wounded, crumpled to the
pavement.
Conscious. he recognized Muir
ply before he died.
He died in the street with a mur-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
Fire Of Unknown Origin
DESTROYS Hoover Home

Two thousand persons focked to
Thirteenth and Grace streets short
ly before midnight last night when
fire, consuming the home and gar
age of Frank Hoover, lit up that
whole section of the city.
Three hundred automobiles lined
the Nicholas street bridge, North
Sixteenth street and Thirteenth
street.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Mrs. Alma Hoover, Norma, her
3-year-old daughter, and Lawrence,
her 1-year-old son, were rescued
from the two-story frame home by
the father, Frank Hoover. The
garage and an automobile truck. the
property of the Coal Hill Coal Co.,
were totally destroyed. The house
was badly damaged. The loss is es-
tirnated by Hoover at $4,000.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
BIG THANK OFFERING
GIVEN TO. GOVERNMENT.

London. July l6.-A wealthy man
of London. who signs himself SIM
Fly as "F. S. T." has written to one
of the newspapers, declaring his in
tention to subscribe to the Victory
loan in the sum of S750,0O0 and then
turn the bonds back to the govern
ment for immediate cancellation.
To-day, on the eve of peace"
writes F. S. T., I'VE are faced with
another crisis, less obvious but none
the less searching. The whole coun-
try is exhausted.
The wealthy classes know the
danger of the present debt Let
them impose upon themselves. each
as he is able, a voluntary levy. |
give one-hfth of my estate as a
thank offering in the firm convictior
that never again shall we have such
a chance of giving our country tha:
form Of help which is so vital as the
present moment"
Publication of this novel form OF
subscription to the loan instantly
aroused the public, and all sorts os
opinions were expressed. But it
does not seem popular with the prof.
iseers, since none has taken the hint
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17

for which Mr.. Ford assumed re-
sponsibility:
1T (war) is the same old scare
crow talk by the same old lazy
vultures, who make human lives,
seldom their own, the stake in their
so-called Battle of brains"
Il feel that this cry for the train
ing of men to kill other men and
for the placing of the army and
navy as a burden on the backs of
the people is false conception of
patriotism and treason to the life
of the people.
The United States has spent more
than $l,000,000,000 on a navy and
army that would cope with an in
vasion that never occurred and nev-
er will occur, and yet the very war
experts who are responsible for that
burden on the army and navy ad-
NIT that our army and navy never
would have been able to meet, with
any hope of success, those of other
so-called powers"
Did Advocate Preparedness.
When the question of prepared
ness was under discussion, Mr..
Stevenson was pursuing Mr.. Ford's
Characterization of preparedness ad-
vocates as murderers.
Il advocated preparedness after
we got into the war; said Mr., Ford.
But you were speaking of 1915
and 1916" explained the. lawyer.
The witness in an apparent abstrac-
ton ignored the dates and, follow
ing his own train of thought, add
ed:
81 was-a murderer just as we'll as
anybody else"
"You were a murderer" gasped
Mr.. Stevenson.
"As I was party to it, one of
the helpers" said the witness calm
ly.
DO you mean that in 1917 you
were the same kind of murderer
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Five
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
independent Germans
SpoiIipu for World Riot

Berlin. July l6.-(By the Asso.
ciated Press. 1.-The managers OF
the independent party are calling on
the German proletariat to protest
August l against "the Versailles inn
perialistic peace"
Their program calls for the pro-
letariat in the Inauguration of a COM
mon fight for control of political
powers and the advancement of a
world revolution,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
DRINKS ARE ON US,
GRATEFUL YANKS SAY.

washington, july lo.-l WO young
soldiers, one minus an arm and the
other crippled in his leg. because of
wounds received in the battle of the
Sonme, John ]. Ridgway and R. D.
Browning, both of Philadelphia, saw
President Wilson and thanked him
for vetcing the sundry civil appro-
priation bill because of inadequate
provision for the rehabilitation OF
wounded soldiers.
The soldiers were the official rep
resentatives of the Disabled Sol
dicrs. Sailors and Marine society,
bearing the thanks of that organiza-
ton to the president -
Coming down on the train they
told a man sitting in the seat next
to then. that they had telephoned
Tumuity and arranged to see the
president When they left the
presidents office their companion
on the train greeted them.
Pm Mr.. Tumulty, boys" he
said. "Say," remarked one of the
doughboys, don't you think we owe
someone a drink"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-17
Conservative Members of
Prohibition Faction in House
Set Out to Curb Radical At
tempt at Drastic Measure.
REVULSION OF FEELING
FEARED IN COUNTRY
Certain to Invite Defeat in
Senate and Possibly Presi-
dental Veto Unless Wise
Counsel and Action Obtain.

Washington, July 16.-Conserva-
tive members of the prohibition fac
ton in the house set out Wednes-
day to curb what they described as
radical attempts to make the pend
ing enforcement bill so drastic that
it might create a reyulsion OF teel-
ing throughout the country on the
whole question: of liquor drinking.
Warning was given by the con-
servatives that if the radical element
went too far and added other severe
restrictions they would be certain to
invite defeat in the senate and pos
sibly find all Of their work thrown
out by a presidential veto.
Wise Counsel Needed.
The need of wise counsel was
pointed out by conservative prohibi-
tionists in view of the published an
nouncement that Representatives
Morgan, republican, of Oklahoma,
and a member of the judiciary COM
mittee had given notice that he
would endeavor to make it viola
ton of law for man to keep a jug
of liquor in his own home for his
own use.
Word was spread during the day
that other prohibitionists were pre-
pairing to write into the bill a pro-
vision, stricken out by the commit
tee. which would prohibit mans
using" any little liquor he might
happen to have around the house.
Under the bill now before the house
it is extremely doubtful, a member
of the judiciary committee said,
whether a person could give drink
Of whisky to a friend at his own
fireside without running the risk
OF arrest.
Questioned About Moonshine.
Members from some of the
southern states were questioned by
eastern and western Representative
as to the volume of liquor turned
out by mountain distilleries and
known as "moonshine. This was
a question on which they were. un-
able to give first-hand information.
Mr.. Pou told the house the other
day that in dozen states that have
already adopted prohibition there
are in operation more illicit stills
than there ever were saloons at any
time in the history of those states.
This was the view of other mem
bers, who said also that it would re-
quire a small army to break up the
traffic entirely.