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SERVE HOT COFFEE
TO SNOW SHOVELERS.
City Commissioner Butler, in
charge of the city street cleaning
department, yesterday directed Dick
Grotte, superintendent, to serve
hot coffee twice a day to the men
whb are clearing the streets of
snow. This will contin.ue as long
as this work lasts.
HORSE TRADE DISPUTE
RESULTS IN MURDER.
Denver, Colo., Nov. 29. While
two young daughters of 'his victim
begged him not to shoot, a man
identified by the police as William
Clawson, 40 years old, shot and
killed Joseph Zuckerman, 42 years
old, a horse trader, and wounded
Jacob, his brother. The man then
climbed into a wagon with a woman
and disappeared. .
Dispute over a horse trade is said
to have preceded the shooting.
NOTED SOCIETY WOMAN
IS SEEKING DIVORCE.
New 'York, Nov. 29. Mrs. Willie
Stephen Ian Van Rensselaer, who
was Miss Roxena Bowen, a leader
in the younger set and descendant
of the Wentworhs of colonial days,
is in Reno seeking a divorce on the
f round of cruelty and desertion.
Ir. Van Rensselaer formerly was
tlyrd secretary of the American em
bassy at Rome.
FRANCIS JOSEPH'S ART .
TREASURES WORTH $50,000,000.
Liverpool, Nov. 29. An a t ex
pert just returned from Vienna
values the pictures and art treasures
that belonged to the late Emperor
Francis Joseph at $50,000,000. -An
Anglo-French-American syndicate is
reported to have offered to purchase
the collection.
WITNESS SAYS HE
CAME BACK FROM GRAVE.
Budapest, Nov. 29. Intense inter
est is displayed in the trial here of
the terrorists charged with conduct
ing a rule of "murder and torture"
under Beta Kun's soviet regime.
One witness caused a sensation by
announcing that he had literally
eome back from his grave. He testi
fied he was made to dig his grave,
and while doing so Csertiy, one of the
accused, shot him. Wotinded, he fell
into the hole and was left for dead,
though the grave was not covered.
Later he gained consciousness and
crawled out and away.
Another witness testified Bela
Kun, had ordered Cserny, who was
one of his chief henchmen, to kill
Pogany, the commissary of war in
Bela Kun's own cabinet. When asked
for the reason, Bela Kun replied:
"He isn't radical enough away
with himl"
STAID PAPER UPSET BY
LADY ASTOR'S VICTORY.
London, Nov, 29. Premier Lloyd
George has telegraphed, Lady Astor
hailinjr her as the first woman to
take her scat in the House of Com
mons. The staid old Globe upset all its
traditions by printing a first page
cartoon which shows John Bull pre
senting the Commons with a bunch
of asters. . ' '
RPTTTSH NOBLE ENTERS
London, Nov. 29. Lord Beaver
brook, former chancellor of the
iliichy of Lancaster and minister of
propaganda during the war, has en
tered the British moving picture
field. He has purchased a $4,000,000
concern owning a string of 35 the
aters. , .
Montreal Nov.' 29. Lord Beaver
brook, it was learned, is behind a
projected amalgamation of Canadian
industries with a capitalization of
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MOTHER FAITHFUL
EVEN UNTO DEATH.
Elgin, 111., Nov. 29. Mrs. Mary
Ann Park was always the pal of
her "son, Frank. She was 88. her
,son 56. Eight years ago Frank had
a stroke of paralysis. He had never
raised a limb since. He had never
spoken, save in the unintelligible
mutterings of a . paralytic. For
eight long years he has lain' on a
bed in Sherman hospital. For eight
long years the mother has never left
the bedside of her stricken son,
save for aft hour or two at a time;
Then one day as the aged mother
kept her lone but tireless vigil the
attendants found her dead body ly
ing across the son's bed, her moth
er's arms thrown out in a last em
brace. Death found her where a
pal is always o be founlby the
aide of a pal in need. ' .
MINERS ENTOMBED
IS DAYS RELEASED.
mrii- t,Uhn Nn. 29. After
it Aliabb) uiin", - - - -
being in the Gold Hunter mine at
Mullin since Saturday morning, No
vember 15, when they were en
tombed .by slide of earth, P. P.
Grant and Emil Sayko, miners, were
taken out alive at 3:15 p. m. Sat-
urday. . . , '-.
HITCHCOCK PREDICTS
TREATY RESUBMISSION. .
. Washington, Nov. 29. Prelimi
nary plans to renew the struggle for
ratification of the German peace
treaty were made by Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, administration
leader, in the senate fight. He did
not see President Wilson, however,
and as few senators had returned for
the opening of congress Monday,
the treaty situation seemed to stand
just as it did when the senate ad
journed 10 days ago.
The " democratic leader predicted
the treaty would be resubmitted by
the president next week and that a
compromis would be. worked out
which would result in ratification
within a few weeks.
COUPLE MARRIED
IN DENVER MORTUARY.
Denver. Nov. 29. That even the
jihastly environs of a morgue is no
deterrent to Dan Cupid was evi
denced when William Sumpter
Reaves, just returned from many
months with Uncle Sam's overseas
forces, and Eva Pearl Adams were
married by thcRev. G. A. Barth
in the dinger mortuary here.
, . With only the flimsy partition of
hanging curtains separating the
"bridal altar" . from the marble
' slabs upon which lay several bodies,
the "morgue weddins" was ; per-
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OMAHA, THE GATE CITY OF THE WEST, OFFERS YOU GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES.
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NEWBERRY
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INDICTED BY
GRAND JURY
i Corruption, Fraud and Con
spiracy Charged in Connec
tion With Election by Which
He Obtained Senate Seat.
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133 0THE-R PERSONS ARE
NAMED ON LIKE CHARGE
Personal Guilt of Kaiser
for History's Most Awful
War Conclusively Proved
Astounding Revelations of German Diplomacy and
Duplicity Before and During World Struggle
Made Public in First Offifficial Inside Story
Through Two Statesmen Who' Are Trying to
Build a New Germany.
By JAMES GERARD.
United State Ambassador to Germany During the War.
Written Exclusively for Universal Service.
New York, Nov. 29. These documents show conclusive
ly the personal responsibility of the kaiser for the most awful
war of history. . .
Ten million men died because of his insane conceit.
Any human mind that could fully grasp what that means
would become unbalanced.
And is the man who caused this war to go free?
Shall he be allowed to potter about the gardens of Dorn,
boring his attendants with tales of his deeds, or should he
not be made to face at least justice?
All the dreams of conquest by Germany are shown in
these documents all the lies, all the duplicity. '
A most important offer of the czar was concealed from
the German people, and fool reliance placed upon the "Ger
man colony in America." , .
mi j i . 1 1 . i it . i i p i .
which he obtained his seat in the inen peeps out, too, me war iora s contempt ior ms
senate, defeating Henry Ford, his own civilian chancellor and for those of his servants who
Beemed to hesitate about plunging the world in war.
Here, too, we see what full knowledge the emperor had
of the ultimatum to Serbia how he intrigued to bring about
a situation which would make peace impossible. .
These documents should make the German people
thankful for their revolution and should so open the eyes. of
the world that there will be no hesitancy about bringing the
yellow kaiser to face the jury of the world.
Names of All But 12 Most
Prominent Withheld From
'Publication. Until Warrants
Can Be Served on Them.
Grand Rapids, Nov. 29. Truman
H. Newberry, United State9 senator
from Michigan, was indicted by a
United States grand jury today for
corruption, fraud and conspiracy in
connection .with the election by
democratic opponent
With Newberry 133 other persons
were indicted by the grand jury on
the same charge. The names of all
but 12 most prominent were with
held from publication by Judge C.
W. Sessions, presiding, until war
rants could have been served on
them. Among those named were
H. A. Hopkins, St Claire, Mich.,
assistant secVetary of the United
States senate; John S. Newberry,
brother of the senator, Detroit, and
Paul H. King of Detroit. King was
manager of the Newberry campaign
committee.
Spends Huge Sum.
The others named were: .
Allen A. Templeton of Detroit
Data Jotted Down In War
Lord's Own Handwriting
S? Fderickhs Made in Exciting Days Immediately Pre
ceding, the War Are More Important and Start
ling Legal Evidence Than Any Official Testimony
Hitherto Published. '
ager of the Newberry estate; Charles
A. Floyd, Detroit; M. f. McK.ee,
Detroit: Judd Yelland. Escanaba,
Mich.; Milton Oaknian, Detroit, for
merly county clerk of Wayne
county, Harry O. Turner of Detroit,
Frank McKay of Grand Rapids, J.
B. 'Bradley Eaton Rapids, Mich.,
and Gladstone Bcattie Paw Paw,
Mich.
Judge Sessions indicated that the
evidence before the grand jury dis
closed -the fraudulent expenditure
of between $500,000 and $1,000,000
in connection with the election.
Two Blanket Warrants.
Two blanket warrants were re
turned dealing with the primary
and election campaigns of 1918 in
which Henry Ford was Senator
Newberry's chief opponent.
The first indictment charged that
both federal and state laws were
violated in that sums far in excess
of legitimate expenses were used in
the campaigns. The second indict
ment cited the affidavits which Sen
ator Newberry made while serving
at the Brooklyn navy yard, in which
he swore that no campaign money
had been spent by him or with his
knowledge.
There were six counts ii the first
indictment. The first four were de
voted to charges of excess cam
paign expenditures. The fifth al
leged conspiracy to violate the fed
eral corrupt practices act of Octo
ber, 1918, which penalizes payment
of money to voters. The sixth count
to which Frank C." Dailey, special
assistant to the attorney general,
attaches especial significance, al
leged that the mails were used "to
defraud all the people of the state
of Michigan." t
Contributors' Victims.
This sixth count charged that
not only were all voters of the state
defrauded, but that honest cam
paign contributors were also victims
in that they were misled into be
lieving that the legaal limits of ex
penditures had not been exceeded.
It is also charged that more than
$100,000 of the contributed funds
were converted to the own use of
some of the campaign managers.
This sixth count also contained a
clause charging that James Helm,
former state dairy and food commis
(ContlnMd on Vaf Fonr. Column One.)
Lincoln Club Asks
(jovernment to Call
For Miner Volunteers
Special table to InlTemat Srrvlpr.
Copyright 1811) by 1 ill vernal Service. '
(Copyright In (treat Britain anil Holland
All RTjfhtH of Republication Reserved.)
Rotterdam, 'Holland, Nov. 26.
Universal Service herewith presents
exclusively the first chapters of the
German republic's own. investiga
tion into the causes of the war. It
includes numerous documents here
tofore concealed in the official pub
lications of the various govern
ments. Soon after the armistice and revo
lution in Germany, the government
turned over to Socialist Deputy
Kautsky, Prof. Schucking and other
document experts of the foreign of
fice, all the official letters, memor
anda, dispatches and confidential in
structions found in the archives of
the foreign office.
There were more than 900 docu
ments, unpublished. Many of these
official papers, including notes or
dispatches from the German ambas
sadors in Vienna and Paris, con
tained penciled replies, comments
or instructions In the kaiser's own
handwriting.
It appears to have teen the habit
of the kaiser to scribble notes or
comments on the margin of official
dispatches or reports sent to him
that called for any advice from him.
Some of these hastily scribbled mar
ginal notes contained instructions
to the German chancellor as to the
kind of reply that was to be made.
Startling Historic Documents.
None of these memoranda has
ever been published in any of the
white, yellow and red books, offi
cial documents of the belligerents.
(Continued nn Page Eight, Column One.)
WALLACE ALIVE
AND NOT SLAIN
MESSAGE SAYS
Vice President of Gulf Re
fining Company Safe in
Tampico.
Lincoln, Nov. 29 (Special.)
The board oi directors of the Lin
coln Commercial club adopted res
olutions calling upon, the govern
ment to recruit volunteers, the reso
lution being telegraphed to Senat
ors Hitchcock "and Norris, Presi
dent Wilson, Dr. . Garfield, Secre
tary Baker and Representatives Jef
fries and Evans in part as follows:
Whereas, for four weeks a few
hundred thousand miners and their
operators have jeopardized the lives,
the health and the property of an
entire nation, and.
Whereas, the action of this small
body of men that have been the
cause of this . disaster has, in our
cpinion, been selfish and at least
morally criminal, therefore,
Be it resolved, that we believe it
the duty of the government, and
urge upon the administration to use
the' army and volunteer labor im
mediately and without a day's de
Jay, to remove from ouf people this
dread spectre that hovers -n the near
future and ;that is a menace and a
disgrace to our nation.
New York, Nov. 29. William
Wallace, vice, president of the Gulf
Refining Co., who. was believed to
have been murdered in Tampico,
Mexico, is safe in that city, ac
cording to a message received by
the company. Information is lacking
as to the identity of the Wallace
who was killed by soldiers.
Situation Marks Time.
Washington, Nov. 29. The Mexi
can situation marked time today,
while the government continued to
gather further information on the
Jenkins case and the murder of Wil
liam T. Wallace at Tampico Wednes
day. The identity of the murdered
man had not been established to
night. .
The Jenkins case and the, Wal
lace case are being treated separately
and in no way being connected at
present.
The State department already had
directed the American embassy in
Mexico to make inquiries of the
Carranza government and forward
further information of the new phas
es of the Jenkins case raised in the
nofe declining to accede to the re
quest for the release of the consular
agent..
Arranging Details.
In the Wallace murder case the
government has about all the infor
mation considered necessary and the
interval is being used in frarning the
details of a course of action. .
A note to Carranza, which some
officials think will be about the last,
was being drafted in the State de
partment today and so far as could
be learned it had not been for
warded to Mexico City tonight. It
had been drafted preliminarily and
(Continued on Page Two, Column Seren.)
Conference Opens Monday.
London, Nov. 29. "The Esthonian
government has announced that
peace negotiations with soviet Rus
sia wilt be begun at Dorpat on Tues
day next, December 2. according to
a wireles dispatch from Moscow
1 today.
KANSAS CITY
SWITCHMEN ARE
OUT ON STRIKE
Heads of Railroads Appeal fo
Governors to Supply Troops to
Insure Operation of Trains.
Kansas City, Nov. 29. Heads of
railroads centering in Kansas City
have addressed telegrams to the
governors of Missouri and Kansas
asking them to appeal to the federal
government to supply troops to in
sure operation of trains during the
strike of railway switchmen here.
Railroad officials said efforts
would" be made with such switchmen
as remain loyal and by the transfer
of men from other departments td
keep trains moving. About 1,500
men are affected by the strike,
which was called late Saturday, and
which has been termed by national
union officials as unauthorized.
Terminal Employment.
Switchmen of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific and Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy, who are members
of the Switchmen's union, are not
leaving their places, but members
of 'the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, employed by terminal
roads and the Terminal company,
are going to strike.
"Absolutely no warning of an im
pending strike was given the rail
roads and no demands have been
presented," said W. M, Corbctt,
head of the Kansas City Terminal
railway.
Freight Handling Trouble.
"The real ' difficulty is in the
handling of freight in the several
Kansas Cit yrailroad yards. The
175 switchmen employed by the Ter
minal company are employed chiefly
in the handling of passenger equip
ment, but the 1,300 other switch
men affected by the strike order are
chieffly used in the movement of
freight.
"Several hundred carloads of coal
are available at the outlying railroad
yards, but cannot be brought to the
city where the demands of the
hospitals and hotels and homes are
greatest if the strike is effective."
A trainload of regular troops on
its way to southern Kansas was
handled through the yards' without
delay, Mr. Corbett said.
The Passing Show
; NO COAL ,
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SESSION
SEVERE STORM
TAKES TOLL OF
EIGHT DEATHS
Scores' Injured and Property
Damage Severe From Sleet,
Snow, Rain and Wind in
- Central Valleys.
"... ;
Chicago, Nov. 29. At least eight
persons were killed today and scores
injured and heavy property damage
by a windstorm accompanied by
sleet, snow and rain which orig
inated in northwest Arkansas and
swept across the central valleys and
southern lake region.
Communication . was nearly par
alyzed in northern Arkansas and
ome parts of Missouri and Kansas
as a Tesult of sleet and wind, while
the gale that reached a velocity of
80' miles an hour at Detroit tore
down wires, uprooted trees, swept
away outbuildings and unroofed
houses in most of the central states.
Five persons were killed in south
ern Michigan. '
Two men lost their lives in Indi
anapolis, when one was electrocuted
by a broken wire and another blown
from a laddeT.
A woman was struck dead by a
cornice from a building in Muncie,
Ind.
Heavy Property Damage.
Property damage , probably ran
into hundreds of thousands of dol
lars and reports from many local
ities, especially by the rural com
munities of Missouri, Illinois, In
diana and Michigan were missing.
The gale in the lower lake region
was the severest in years. Shipping
was generally held in the harbors.
The wind's velocity in northern In
diana reached 55 miles an hour and
in Chicago 50 miles.
The " storm, which was moving
northeast, centered over the lower
Lake Superior region tonight.
Warmer temperatures following
Rocky mountain states for two days
and spread in less severe form to
the central and northwestern states,
preceded the windstorm, but lower
temperatures were expected to fol
the cold wave that gripped the
low in tire central and middlewest
ern states. The mercury dropped
33 degrees in Chicago today.
California Governor
Firmly Convinced
Of Guilt of Mooney
Sacramento, CaL, Nov. 29. No
further clemency in behalf of
Thomas J. Mooney, convicted of
murder iu connection with the San
Francisco Preparedness day bomb
explosion, is warranted by anything
within the knowledge of Gov. Will
iam D. Stephens, the governor stated
in a letter made public at the gov
ernor's office here.
"Of Mooney's guilt there is, in my
mind, no question," the letter stated.
Former Emperor HI.
Berlin, Nov. 29. (via London.)
Former King Frederick August of
Saxony is seriously ill at Sybille
nort in Silesia, according to the
Reichenberg Zeitung. With his
family he has been residing in Silesia
since he quit the throne after the
revolution a year Ago
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Final Chapter of the Most
Baffling Murder Mystery
of Middle West is Written
Unceasing Efforts of Authorities in Running Down
'Clues to Identity of Woman Found Foully Slain
10 Days Ago to No Avail Story of Crime Locked
in Vault With Dead Body. j
.With the burial in West Lawn
cemetery Friday afternoon of the
mystery girl, who was found dead
with a bullet in her brain, Novem
ber 20, in a ravine near the Ridge
road, 14 miles north of Omaha, ap
parently the final chapter of the
most baffling murder mystery in
the history of the middle west has
been written.
Ten days have elapsed since a
Washington county farmer dis
covered the dead body at the bot
tom of a 20-foot embankment,
where she had been hurled after
the fatal shot crashed- through her
head.
Thousands of persons have viewed
the remains at the John A. Gentle
man undertaking parlors, 3411 Far-
nam street, and scores of persons
have thought they , recognized the
features of the dead woman. Night
and day, the authorities have been
running down clues, and today de
tectives know "no more concerning
the identity of the woman than they
did the day of the gruesome find.
But One Clue Remains.
Unless some relative or friend
should identify and claim the body
in the future, 'the young woman's
identity will have been locked with
her body in her grave.
' Of the numerous clues which have
been run down by detectives, but
one remains in regard to which
there is any uncertainty. Two girl
friends of Miss Alice Massette,
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on
Weeds' Work
Message to Congress
Fatigues President
Washington, Nov. 29. Despite in
clement weather Presidtnt Wilson
spent an hour on the south portico
of the White House Saturday and
after the regular weekly visit of Dr.
Francis X. Dcrcum of Philadelphia,
his physiciaans reported continued
progress in his condition. ,
Mr. Wilson will send his message
to congress next Tuesday it was
said, but no information was avail
able as to its contents. The presi
dent was ordered to express his
views on the peace treaty situation
and also to discuss a wide range of
domestic problems, including the in
dustrial situation.
The president has been working
on the message for the last two
weeks. The fatigue this has entailed
was thought to have 'prevented him
from seeingy Senator Hitchcock,
democratic leader in the treaty fight,
on his return to the city. It is not
known when a conference may be
arranged.
Des Moines Police Close
Theaters and Cigar Stores
Des Moines, la., Nov. 29. (Spe
cial.) The superintendent of public
safety late today issued an order
closing all theaters, schools,
churches and cigar stores tonight,
for lack of coal. There will be no
church services in city churches
Sunday.
The state is following every pos
sible avenue in an effort to get a
coal supply to prevent suffering.
Armed Robbers Hold Up
Bluffs Grocer and Get $462
Phillip Batt, a well-known grocer
at Main and Sbuth Story streets,
was held up and robbed on the door
step of his home by two thieves
who had followed him from his
store. They secured $462 Mr. Batt
says both were armed with auto
matic rtvolvers, ,
Brandeis Theater '
To Continue Despite
Garfield Fuel Order
Joy Sutphen, manager of the
Brandeis theater when he heard of
the latest order of the fuel adminis
tration, declared "While we will
cheerfully comply with the request
of the fuel administration to elimin
ate all electric lights and we have
been without heat since Thursday, I
see no reason or justice in a request
or order which arbitrarily forces me
to let out my 35 or 40 employes, not
counting the actors and actresses
with the various companies who are
booked with us, when I can operate
the Brandeis theater, due to its for
tunate situation in the interior of a
large office building, without heat,
and with calcium lights, which will
make no demands on the limited
fuel supply.
"Under the above conditions ,we
expect to continue the operation of
the Brandeis theater without inter
ruption." Yaquis Ambuscade
Mexican Troops and
Slay Over 200 of Them
, Nogales, Nov. 29. Two hundred
soldiers and several high officers of
the Mexican federal army have been
killed in recent ambuscade by Ya
qui Indians at Onavas, south of
Tonichi, on the Yaqui river, near the
easttrn border of Sonora, according
to advices received by Francis J.
Byer, American consul at Nogales,
Sonora, opposite here.
Earthquake Is Felt in Paris.
Paris, Nov. 29. A slight earth
quake shock lasting seven seconds
was felt at 9:40 o'clock lasV night
at Cannes, in the Riviera. A heav
ier shock was experienced a half
hour after , midnight at Foix, '.-45
miles south of Toulouse at the foot
of the Pyrenees. Only slight dam
age was done at either place.
INDUSTRIES
OF CITY ALSO
RESTRICTED
Rail Strike, Which Started in
Kansas City Yesterday, Is
Most Serious Complication
From a Fuel Standpoint.
DRASTIC ACTION TAKEN -IN
COAL CttlSIS HERL
Latest Order of Terminal
Committee Is Sweeping in its
Scope and Takes in Prac
tically All Public Places.
' The , yardmen's and trainmen's
strike which started in Kansas City,
Mo., at 4 p. m. yesterday, is the most
serious complication from a - fuel
standpoint tha has yet been experi
enced by Omaha, according to mem
bers of the terminal fuel committee.
If the strike continues it will result
in cutting off 25 per cer.t of the
meager amount of coal Omaha has
been receiving since the miners
struck, and will cut off the entire
supply of oil fuel, H. L. Snyder,
acting chairman of the terminal com
mittee, said.
Order Effective Tomorrow.
As a result of the strike and the
existing shortage of coal every
amusement in the, city, including
theaters, moving picture houses,
dance halls, pool halls, bowling al
leys and other public places were
ordered closed last night The order
will take effect tomorrow morning. ,
The Municipal Auditorium, lodge
rooms, public library and branches
and all the clubs of the city were also
piacea on tne long list of places or
dered closed. z1. ,
Packers Only Excepted."
With the exception of the packers, :
every industry in the city was re
stricted to shorter hours bv thu fi
nal order issued last night-by the
terminal committee. An attempt
will be made to furnish packers
with sufficient coal to run eight
hours a day, Acting Chairman Sny
der said.
The original order Issued by the
coal committee permitted packers
only sufficient coal to run their cold
storage plants. .
The final order for conservation
of coal as issued last night by y. M.
Jeffers, chairman of the committee,
is as follows:
Committee's Final Order.
"The fuel supply in greater Oma
ha and Council Bluffs is being de
pleted daily and the necessity for.
taking care of homes, hospitals, ho
tels and public institutions is so
pressing that the sub coal committee
of the United States fuel adminis
tration hereby notifies all manufC
turers, jobbers, wholesalers, retail
ers, brokers, commission merchants,
and all others, that effective Mon
day, December 1, and continuing un
til further notice the following- limi
tations on the use of fuel are neces
sary and shall be effective:
"1. All retail stores, including
groceries and meat markets, open
from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
"2. All manufacturers, jobbers.
Wholesalers, brokers and commis
sion merchants open from 8 a. m.
to 2 p. m.
"3. All laundries open from . 9
a. m. to 4 p. m.
"4. All office buildings and of-'
fices open from 9:30 a. ra. to 3:30
p. m.
"5. All theaters, moving picture
shows, dance halls, pool halls,
bowling alleys and all other public
places of amusement shall - be
closed.
"6. All public schools, colleges,
and other institutions of education,
shall close, except that proper pro
vision may be made for housing and
boarding students and faculty.
"7. All churches shall be closed
except for a three-hour period on
Sunday morning only. All mid-week1
services shall be dispensed with.
"8. All other public meeting
places shall be closed, including the
municipal Auditorium, lodge rooms,
public libraries, clubs, except for
furnishing regular meals and lodging
accommodations, meeting places of
all fraternal associations, and all
other meeting, places where people
congregate in numbers.
"W. M. JEFFERS.
"Chairman Sub Coal Committee"
Coal Supply Very Low. .
In commenting "on the drastic na
ture of the order, Acting Chairman
Snyder explained that the matter
had been brought to a head by the
yardmen's and trainmen's strike in
Kansas Ciy, the severe weather
which prevails not only in Omaha,
but throughout the entire state, and
the fact that the coal supply is lower
than at any previous time in the his
tory of the city.
Theater managers were in session
with the committee for more than
an hour yesterday afternoon,' pre
senting arguments to show that fuel
was actually saved by allowing their
houses to ' remain open.' The
called attention to the fact "thai
many had installed kerosene heat,
ers, and one even offered to provide
his own lighting power.
Their chief argument was that
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