The Daily Worker

(By a Worker Correspondent)

Omaha, Nebraska.

Dear Comrades:

With the thermometer hovering around 82 in the shade, and green leaves still on the trees, the people of Scott's Bluffs County, a sugar beet district in Western Nebraska, already see a winter unprecedented with starvation and horror ahead of them.

Three Attempted Suicide

In just two days at least three persons were sent to hospitals in Omaha as the result of trying to "end it all." Jake Simon, ex-cafe owner, despondent over loss of property and failure to find work, shot himself in the head. The bullet glanced from the skull, but Simon may not recover. John Jamovich was found late at night on a viaduct. He was groaning and it was discovered, after the doctor arrived, that he had taken poison. The police surgeon branded it as a "stall," like he does with every poison case that has chances of recovery.

Mrs. George Raines was found in an unconscious state, with three gas jets of her stove turned on. "She has been despondent over financial troubles for some time," her mother told the police. There may have been other acts of this sort during the time stated, but the local capitalist newspapers and the Omaha police force are determined to suppress all such news.