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Show SECTION FOREMAN ON THE II, P, PAYS $5000 CASH FOR LIDERTY ! BONDS SOLD ON SPECIAL TRAIN I (Special Dispatch.) GREEN RIVER, Wyo.. April 23. The tour of the Union Pacific Liberty loan special, which left Omaha on Thursdaj morning April 18, came to a triumphal end here yesterday. More than fifty stops were made in the thousand miles run from the Missouri river city and the urgent need for the fullest subscriptions to the third Lib-erty Lib-erty loan was eloquently made known to nearly 40,000 people. Tremendous ovations were given at all of the points visited and in Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlin- Hanna, Rock Springs, Gr i n liner and Ean-'ori parade- were organized or-ganized consisting of almost the entire en-tire population of these communities. The enthusiasm for the third Liberty Lib-erty loan was marked at all point. All the parades were led by the L'nion Pacific Pa-cific band of twenty-three pieces, composed of employes in the Union Pacific shops at Omaha. At Cheyenne, ii was necessary for W. M. Jeffers. vice president and general manager, to turn back to Omaha, but the special spe-cial was continued west in charge of P. II. Hammill. general superintendent. superintend-ent. Among the Union Pacific employe? there have been a large number of Liberty loan subscriptions. Sam Wilson, Wil-son, a section foreman on the Union Pacific at Echo, Utah, subscribed for $5,000 in Liberty bonds, paying cash,, and the section men on this section subscribed for an additional total of $6,3uu m cash. A watchman on the western division subscribed for $6,000 in bonds, paying cash The total subscription sub-scription from the Union Pacific em-ploves em-ploves to date runs close to $1,500,000. P. H. Hammill, W. F. Guiley, N. H. Loomis, T. F. Hamer, C. J. Lane and Ballard Dunn continued with the special spe-cial to the end. All these men left Green River last night on their return re-turn journey. oo i certain costs upon which to base new maximum government pi ices. Consolidation of aMl meat purchases ; for the government and the allies in a .sinele bureau at Chicago also was announced an-nounced b the food administration. E. L. Roy of the administration's Chicago Chica-go branch, will be commissioned in the army quartermaster corps to take j charge of the office. He will be assist ed by Gordon Hateley of Chicago, in i connection with purchases for the al lies. Following is the announcement of ! the beef prices The army and navy and the marine corps announce that their meat re I quirements for May delivery (exi pf upon the Pacific coast) will be alloted ! among the packers (unless lower bids, are received) at prices based on livestock live-stock markets, but In no event higher than the following prices per hundred pounds : "Good steers, 500 to 600 pounds f. o. i b. New York, trozen and wrapped, commercial trim for export $21 0"j. "Same 600 to 700 pounds $24.80. "Same. 700 pounds up. $25 55. "Navj requirements, $24.65. "Cows. 500 to 600 pounds. $21.50. "Array beef of special weights, with special trim or for special purposes will have proper differentials. "In case the markets go lower and prices are not agreed upon, they will i be determined by the government.' which will ask the advice of the federal fed-eral trade commission in cost ascertainment ascer-tainment it necessary. The allies will not buy at higher levels than the army and navy. "The packers will not attempt to increase in-crease price for th domestic fradp because be-cause of these allotments." |