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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE:
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Brie) City News
Have Boot lrUH It New !acon Pra,
For Xmns Everything electrical
Eurgess-Granrten Co.
Says Couldn't Sleep I Tans Eggers,
suirp Florence Essers for divorce, al
leges she kept him awake nights.
U. S. Grant Ht Mcrtlns IKular
meeting of U. S. Grant post will be
held nest Tuesday night in Memorial
hall, court house.
Stores to Be Oix-n at Mlit re-. j
Kinnlng December 17, Monday, and i
continuing until December 24, the re
tail stores of Omaha will remain open
at night until 9 o'clock tu take care
of the holiday rush.
Visit in Omnlta Mr. and Mrs. B.
T. Pitman of Chadron, N'eh., visited
in Omaha several days on their way
home from Indianapolip, Ind.. where
they visited their son, .Sergeant Pit
itian, stationed at Fort Harrison.
DIschss Socialist Part) The sub
ject for discussion at the socialist
party open forum Sundav afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock will be "fho Socialist
Tarty: A Force or a Farce." The
speaker is Eugene JL Konccky, Fifth
floor Lyric building.
I'ulkv C'onftcutfl Boor Two pints
oi neer were taiicn rrom c c. Greene,
BAKER TELLS ABOUT
PROBLEMS OF WAR
Secretary of War Hints Briefly
at Tremendous Problems that
Confront Nation With Out
break of Hostilities.
. 2528 Tatrlck avenue, when he was
" arrested Saturday morning af Twenty-sixth
and Lake streets. This Is the
first beer to be conttHcated in several
months, according to police.
; Stato Bank of Omaha, corner Six-
. ieenin ana tiarney streets, pays 4 per
cent on ume oeposits. Three pep cent
on savings accounts. All deposit I
this bank are prottcted by the de
posltors' Ruarantee fund of the stato
oi iveorasKa. Adv.
Glass Called to Buffalo IT,
, Glass, who has been manager of he
it. u. Dunn company here for scv
eral years, has , been called to Buf
f.ilo, Is. 1., to take charge of th
office there. Buffalo is his "home
town and he lias been away from
it for 23 years.
Holdup Vk'ti in on Way B,
. Bingham of Logan, Utah, held un an
robbed by two men at Fifteenth and
Jackson streets November 22, is on
His way to Omaha from Ogden, Utah
, to identify, if possible Mck Larkovle
1308 South Twelfth street, charged
wun me crime. larKovic was ar
JBstea iuesaay.
Truth Centre to Meet Truth Cen
ter will meet at the Metaphysical 11
hrary, Assembly hall, City National
. bank building, Sixteenth and Barney
Kirecis, ai ii a. m. Kunday, The
speaker will bo Lulie M. Cooke o
New York and Chicago and the sub
ject 'The Greatest Gift." Week day
-meetings Tuesdays and Thursdays at
z.av p. in.
, fine Fireplace Goods at Sunderland's.
BLkMES U.S. FOOD
HEADS FOR LACK
OFSUGAR IN EAST
f Washington, Dec. IS. Blame for
the sugalr shortage in the cast was
charged to the food administration's
fixed import price by Claus A
. Spreckcls, president of the Federa
bugar Refilling company, testifying
xouay ociore tne senate investigating
committee. He asserted that ,raw
sugar from Cuba was passing through
New York for Canada, where refiners
are permitted to pay higher prices.
Mr. Spreckcls, who said his refinery
was ciosca occause ot lack ot sup
plies, also charged that Earl A. Bahst,
presiucnt or tne American Sugar de
fining company, and Gcorcc M.
Kolph, general manager of the Cali-
. iornia-liawaiian bngar Kenning com
pany, in their petitions as agents of
nit iuuu aunmiiHiraiion naa pern un
duly active in getting raw supplies for
the American company. Mr. Babst is
chairman, of the international sugar
committee, created by the administra-
: non, wnicn iixcci tne price to be paid
for raw sugar coining from outside
ithe United States or its territories at
56.90 a hundred pounds. Mr. Rolph
, is head of the food administration's
sugar division and a member of the
- international committee.
HOW PERSHING'S
ARMY AT FRONT
GOT 'BjW SHELLS
I Philadelphia, Ta., Dec. IS. Charles
I Sholla, a former employe of the
r Frankford arsenal, was held by a fed
? era! commissioner today charged with
having failed properly to set the fuses
i of shells intended for General Tersh
: ing's army,
i William Lepowskl, another former
i employe, was held on a similar charge
" last week.
Sholla and Lepowskl admitted to-
day that they left off certain paper
i wrappings which made the shells de-
fective, because they could .turn out
s more work and thus earn more
money. ,
'i The men insisted they had no idea
the shells would be defective. Both
said they were loyal to the United
States, i
I Big Men Mentioned for
' ' Railroad Director's Job
5 Washington, Dec. IS. Without any
t reason lor it apparent on the surface,
the impression grew today that Presi-
dent Wilson will settle the question
.of how the government is to deal
with the railr6ad problem about Mon
day. .
The president is still debating over
-" the various proposals that have been
" put before hhn.
-. In considering the appointment of a
.'-federal (administrator or director, it
' is understood the president is occu
pied chief y with the question of who
the man should be. Secretary Lane,
Associate Justice Brandeis of the su
. premc co.rt, Charles E. Hughes and
Secretary McAdoo have all been men
; tioned in this connection.
. Submarine Chaser Sunk
Off Atlantic Coast
, Washington, Dec. 15. The Navy
- department tonight confirmed unof-
- ficial reports that a small submarine
. chaser had been rammed and unk off
j the Atlantic coast laset Tuesday. The
' crew was saved.
, The department also announced
'. that. Gunner Arthur B. Toerpe and
.. Seaman Thomas J. - Rose were
drowned Wednesday when a naval
- patrol vessel was sunk by a steamer
- the Atlantic coast last Tuesday. The
r Wednesday had told of the drowning
y of Rose and one other man and the
"rescue of the remaining seven of the
crew of the patrol boat, including one
- officer, Toerpe came from Oak. Park,
111., and Rose from Baltimore.
Looking for work? Turn tT the
Help Wanted Columns now. You
i!l find hundreds of positions listed
(y Associated Vmt.)
Washington, Dec. 15. Secretary
Baker's annual report for the War de
partment made public today consti
tutes only a brief historical review of
the year, and so that it may be devoid
of information for the enemy shows
no recommendations, no detailed in
formation of the transportation of the
army to France or any army plans for
the luturc.
Secretary Baker docs say, however,
that he does not favor universal mili
tary training as a regular national
policy.
"The department has not souglit
and does not now seek legislation on
the subject," he says, "chiefly for the
reason that the formation of a perma
nent military policy will inevitably
be affected by the arrangement con
sequent upon the termination of the
present war. Civilized men must hope
that the future has in store a relief
from the burden of armament and the
destruction and waste of war.
Wish for Harmony.
"However vain that hope may ap
pear in the midst of the most devastat
ing and destructive war in the history
of the race, it persists perhaps be
cause we are. encouraged by the
analasous substitution of courts for
lorcc in the settlement of private con
troversies; perhaps because all the
perfections of nature teach, us that
they arc the product of processes
which have elfminated waste and sub
stituted constructive for destructive
principles.
"When a permanent military policy,
inereiore, comes to be adopted, it will
doubtless be conceived in" a spirit
which will be adequate to preserve
ajrainst anv possible attack those vital
principles of liberty upon which demo
cratic institutions are based, and yet
be so restrained as in no event to
foster the crowth of mere militarisr
ambitions or to excite the apprehen
sion of nations with whom it is our
first desire to live in harmonious and
just accord.
Praise for Guard.
As tO the Cxneditinnarv fnrre in
France. Secretary Baker sav it wnnM
be unwise to disclose details and there-
lore contents himself with telling of
uie sending ot General rershing. fol
lowed by a full division of regular
troops and a contingent of marine a
the first units. He describes also the
organization of the Rainbow National
Guard division (the 42d), adding:
"The purpose of this organization
was to distribute the honor of earlv
participation in the war over a wide
area and thus to satisfy in some part
the eagerness of these state forces to
be permitted to serve in Europe."
High tribute is naid to the "n1on.
did co-operation of the navy, by
means of which these cxDcditionarv
forces have been safelv
and have been enabled to traverse with
out loss the so-called danger zone in-
icsiea oy tne stealthy and destructive
submarine navy of the enemy."
Big Transport System.
It became tve'eessarv. Mr. Raker
says, to build tip an elaborate transport
system 'ior tne expeditionary force
with great terminal facilities, both in
this country and in France, anrl in
gather a large surplus of supplies on
the other side as a safeguard.
This placed an added hnrriin
the supply divisions of the depart-;
nient," he says, "and explains in nart i
some of the shortages, notably those '
of clothine. which h
embarrassed mobilization of troops at
"vine, eiHDarrassmcnts now happily
passed." i
The arrangement mad liav r. '
suited, Mr. Baker continues "in the
transporting of an artnv A ltr9i,.
fully equipped, with adequate reserves
of equipment and subsistence, and
with those large quantities of trans.
portation appliances, motor vehicles
rauroaa construction supphesand ani
mals, all Of which are nerccorv (nr
the maintenance of effective opera
tions of the force." I
Mr. Baker turns to the method by
British Ship Sinks;
Survivors to U. S.
An Atlantic Port, Dec. 15. The
foundering at sea of the British
steamer Knight of the Thistle, was
announced in a radio message' re
ceived tonight from a steamer
which, reported it would land 84
survivors here tomorrow.
The message contained no de
tails of the wreck or the rescue,
but it was thought probable that
the Knight of the Thistle went
down during one of the series of
tcrfllic gales that have swept the
north Atlantic during the last
week.
which the army was placed on a war
footing. He shows that under its full
authorized strengtli the regular armv
includes 18,000 officers and 470,000
men and that the war strength con
templated by the national defense act
for the National Guard was 13,000 of
ficers and 456,000 men. With the
million additional troops of the select
ed draft army added, these figures
furnish, the army of 2,000,000 men
upon which all original war estimates
were based. ,
The secretary describes the drafting
of the national guard, the officers'
training camps, 'the construction of
cantonments, with the problems en
countered and solved through the co
operation of the civilian agene'es cre
ated by the Council of National De
fense, an.' goes into some detail with
various phases of the cantonment 1
question to show the enormous size
of the taik. The aviation program is
touched upon briefly and no addi
tional information is given.
Taking up the quartermaster prob
lems with the outbreak of the war Mr.
Baker cites a few items of what it
was found necessary to supply. They
include: Twenty million pairs of
shoes, 17,000,000 blankets, 33,000,000
yards of flannel shirtine. 50.000.000
I yards oftenting. The work is being
done through the co-operation of
civilian agencies, the secretary says
and adds:
..T-t 1 .
ine uouar-a-year man has been a
powerful aid. and' when this struggle
is over, and the country undertakes to
take stock of the assets which it found
ready to be used in the mobilization
of its power, a large place will justly
be given to these men who, without
the distinction of title or rank, and
with no thought of compensation,
brought experience, knowledge, and
trained ability to Washingion in or
der that they might serve with patri
otic fervor in an inconspicuous and
self-sacrificing but indispensably help
ful way.
"The problems of suddiv are nnt
yet solved; but they are in the course
of solution. Sound beginnings have
been made, and as the military effort
of the country grows the arrange
ments perfected and organizations
created will expand to meet it."
Child Dies of Convulsions.
Little Edward McCune. 606 North
Seventeenth street, died Friday after
noon of convulsions. His mother is
totally blind. His father, W. L. Mc
Cune, employed in a coal, varrl ie
partly blind.
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Select your Toys from our
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And Save From 25 to50'
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new skin all over the body. Tho dead skin
flskes off and passes away in the natural
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Even blackheads disappear and the skin
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WALK-OVER
Profitless Shoe- Sale
of men's and women's high-grade up-to-date in
style shoes is growing in volume each day and has
terminated into an endless chain proposition. Each
pair sold creates a sale for another.
9153 Pairs Walk-Over Shoes
for Men. and Women
left to be sold at
Profitless Prices, $3.90 to $11.15
687 Pairs Walk-Over Shoes
for Women
to be sold at less than cost
$li95
Broken lines, but all sizes.
439 Pairs Walk-Over Shoes
for Men
$3.90
Others $4.15 to $8.65.
Largest line of colors in Phoenix Hosiery in the city for'
" men and women.
Walk-Over-Boot Shop
316 So. 16th. St.
Between Harney and Farnam Sts.
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For Women Who Signed
the Food Pledge
In no direc
tion can Am
erican women
so greatly
assist as by
cnSstlru; In the
service of the
Food Adminis
tration and
cheerfully ac
ccpting its di
rection and
advice.
WOODROW
WILSON.
You have pledged yourself
to "save the wheat." You
are doing a great t work to
win the war.' Make it as easy
as possible for yourself. Have
your meals as tasty as ever.
Learn to use c orn in sixty-one different ways
The Omaha Bee will send you.
"The Cornmeal Book" Free
It tells how to make corn bread, corn cakes, corn pud
,ding. Also corn waffles, corn pone, and corn rolls. And
tamales, scrapple, polenta, and cornmeal mush. And
fifty other tasty corn dishes. "The Cornmeal Book" is
published by the government. v
It is official, reliable and free.
Send your name and address with a 2-cent stamp for return post
age to The Omaha Bee Information Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Ask for "The Cornmeal Book."
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Bring them they will enjoy it all.
Toys may be charged if you wish.
American
Model
Builders
Size No. 1
82c
Size No. '2
81.64
Size No. 3
S2.48
Size No. 4,
S4.09
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l 1. Size No. 3. fT TM' Toy Cannons Our H
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L LUI. Size No. 4, J f
pppt 84.09 rl iJBieVme l:
i MP Ford , fl ffT Soldier Suit..
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rines A won
derful toy. Our
price .....98
Dressed - and
acter Dolls -
prices,
29tf. 49694.
89. 99
Doll Beds Com
plete with spring
and mattress. Our
prices 54,
79. 81.05
Iron Wagons Like cut. Our
price 81.08. 81.21
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Sleds One-half others' prices.
Our price, 79tt. 98. 81.49
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Your Last Chance to Join Our Big Colum
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Make the family happy on Christmas morning by pur
chasing' a Columbia Grafonola it is the gift for the
whole family.
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This Genuine Columbia
Grafonola (1 Q AA
Our price,... . . M I PVV
Columbia Grafonolas Like
illustration, has strong
three-spring motopr' extra
large sound-chamber; comes
in Oak, Mahogany and Wal
nut finishes. All the latesf"
Columbia patented features.
A wonderful instrument. pver5,oooColum-1
Our price, t1 1 A f( ELJ KeJ&
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This Genuine Co
lumbia Grafonola
Just like illustra
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$45.00
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Complete with crack
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price QS
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War Savings
Stamp
Smoking Stand
Mahogany finish
standard; heavy glass
tray. Our price,
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Similar, to cut. Our
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Living Room Rockers and Chairs
Almost acceptable Xmas gift.
Hundreds of styles to select from.
Priced at
812.50, 817.50, 827.50
, 834.50
Parlor Rockers Big values; small
Prices-S2.50. 82.95. 83.75
84.95. 87.50
Martha Washington Sewing
Cabinets Just like illustration.
Makes a most beautiful and
lasting Xmas srift. Whilp
I last our price 89.50
RUGS- FOR CHRISTMAS
Seamless Tapestry Rugs
In size 9x12 feet. Our
price $16.75
Seamless Wilton Velvet
Rugs lYour choice of
floral, oriental and
small all-over patterns
worth up to $50.00
Our price..... $31.5C
Remnants, y Price
500 square yards of
Neponset rem n a n t s.
Guaranteed to wear bet
ter than linoleum. From
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two to twelve yards in size. Price, per sq. yd 49 j '
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