Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 10, 1917, Page 1

NOT YESTERDAY'S NEWS, BUT TODAY'S NEWS TODAY—BY THE GREAT UNITED PRESS . THE BEMIDJL DAILY STRENUOUS EFFORT IS BEING MADE T0 SMOOTH AFFAIRS BY BUREAUCRACY - [ INTERNAL DISORDERS DISTURS GER > NATIONSEDITOR'S |FEW SAW OURLATEST DREADNAUGHT LAUNCHED ARE INSULTED BY | [E= | MAYORVANLEAR | } INHISWELCONE| . National Editorial Association Hear Themselves Denounced at the Opening of Convention. i 2 : “HAVE TO TAKE WHAT IS o HANDED TO US,” IS REPLY | *. i Ringing -Resolution flxdorlmg the - President and Pledging-All To { ol o Photo by American Press Assoclation. ; . . 4 ik s -/Never 'has any of our warships been launched amid such secrecy as Was our newest dreadnaught, the ldaho. Geated turbiné engines.will furnish the 82,000 horsepower necessary to hurl her 600 feet of length and 33.000 tons of:bulk through the water at the rate of twenty-one knots an hour. : : g St. Paul, July 10.—Mayor Thomas “Van Lear of Minneapolis startled the National Editorial association yes- terday when in his address of wel- -come, he attacked' the press in gen- & eral terms for submitting to ‘“the. 1, “business men’s thumbscrew in the “editorial office.” In numerous instances, he de- -clared, it has been shown through advertisers “big business was able el i W R i emie e s agrancy Ordinance Recaives First Reading At Council Mesting; Ditty Is Commended =g _—_— | ) » (By United Press) i y Amsterdam, July 10.—All doubt o w o A that the internal crisis in Germany i is acute was swept away with the receipt of news from Berlin indicat- 4 i ing that the most strenuous effort g e B « 5 on the part of the bureaucy to % : smooth over the affairs of the em- % pire has been adopted. ® 4 '3 H 3 I Zimmerman b A n “ e x atlnn ur Amsterdam, July 1'6’.~6I?nconflrm- ed reports have reached here that . the kaiser has decided to accept the . ; - resignation of Foreign Secretary Zimmerman and Under Chancellor 0 aaca ays Heffelfrich. ooy g ey ) Sien. & es of welcome, also referred to the mayor’s attack on the press. Retort Ccurteous. “There is little I can say except thanks for your welcome,” he sazid. “We have to take it as. it is handed to us. We cannot look a zift horse in the mouth. I agree so fully with the mayor about the beauties of che scenery of Colorado that T will not discuss that with him.” At this juncture in the program a patriotic resolution was offered by Lee J. Roundtree of Texas, George : E. Hosmer, Colorado; Homer Har- wood, . Michigan; Edward Albright. .Tenneéssee, and J. C. Brimblecan, ~ Massachusetts. “I ask immediate adoption of this resolution,” said Mr. Roundtree, *“‘as it is peculiarly fitting that it si.all be passed at this time.” It was adopted viva voca and telegraphed at once to President Wilson. It fol- Tows: “The National Editorial associa- tion in annual convention assembled desires to express to you its supreme confidence and patrictic supoort in the crisis of our republic. and rx- presses belief that yen will <afely lead our nation to victery in the present war. We urege everv natri- otic and loyal American citizen to give you their unoualified support pledging mutually ‘our lives. our for- tunes and our sacred honor.’ as the forefathers gave when the republic was founded. With an nbiding faith in our great earthly destinry as a nation of righteousness, we lnck for ultimate and complete trivmnh o* our army and navy on land and gen” * 5 Governer Sreaks. PRrief welcoming addresses were made by Governor Burnquist, by Fred E. Hadley of Winnebago, presi- dent of the Minnesota Editorial as- sociation. and by L. F. Blyer. chair- man of the convention committee of the Civic and Commerce associatufin. ‘Mr. Blyer gave the editors statistics on the resources of Minnesota and on the Twin Cities, which he said form a community of 700,000 people. “The people of every state,” said Governor Burnquist,” stand back of ‘the constitution and the flag, for the .extension of American liberty. for obtaining the eliminating of military tyranny, and the liberation of op- ‘pressed peoples.” ment in the successful carrying on of tue war. The street carnival was granted a license, and a fee of $5 for the first day and $2.50 for each succeed- ing day was imposed in accordance with the city charter. Ditty Commended. The board of review made its re- port which was accepted and filed. The report showed that 127 taxpay- ers had been summoned before the board and as a result $29,479 worth @f taxable property was added to the list. The board commended Assessor- Archie Ditty on his good work and suggested that the assessor’s term of office be lengthened to at least tie tn which tn 1o his sssessing. | EXPECTED HERE TONIGHT The Bemidii-Fifth ward bus line applied for a license to run another 100 YOUNG PHEASANTS COMING FOR REFUGE Deputy Game Warden S. C. Bailey teday received a letter from Carlos Avery, state game warden, stating that the state department was pre- pared to ship to Bemidji 100 young! pheasants for liberation within the next two weeks and asking if Ward- en Bailev was prepared to receive them for the state game refuge here. All are hens. “Will I take 'em?” echoed Warden Bailey in response to a query. “Show ’em to me.” This latest: bunch will join those recently shipped to Bemidji, the first of their species for the game refuge. NEGRO CATHOLIC PRIEST VISITING IN BEMIDJI Father Theobold of St. Philip’s Catholic church, St. Paul, arrived in the city last night and in the ab- sence of Father Philippe said mass at the hospital this morning. Father Theobold is one of the two negro priests in the United States. Stakes have been driven and it eral building to be erected on the " street. August Palm and Martin Braaten, both of Fergus Falls, are in the city. The former is the general superin- and will be in personal charge of the work to be done. Both represent tiv§ " Page: may truthfully be stated the first |awarded the general cofitract for the start has beem made on the new fed-|new corner of Beltrami avenue and Sixth1 tendent of the new postoffice andj 00. the latter is the general foreman clude the lighting nor any of the g | furniture nor fixtures. Builders of New Federal Building Arrive In Bemidji company of Fergus Falls which was building. Mr; Palm will be here from time to time but Mr. Braaten will be on the ground continuously and will practically be a resident of Bemidji for a year, the contract hav- ing a year for completion. The general contract involves about $40,000. This -does not in- ment appropriation for the entire . the John Lauritzen Construction!improvement is $65,500. "IN MINNESOTA {By United Press) St. Paul, July 10.—The finest crops in 20 years is predicted today in many counties reporting to the state immigration commissioner, Sherman. Cool weather held the crops back but the warm days re- cently are causing the crops to forge ahead rapidly. STATE FORESTER IS State Forester W. T. Cox and an army sergeant are expected to ar- rive in the city this evening and they will begin to examine the can- didates for the forestry regiment to- morrow. HAWANANS WANTTO BATTLE FOR FRANCE Washington. July 10.—Urgent pleas to be sent to join the Ameriean forces in France are to be made by 3,000 Hawaiian militiamen, accord- ing to J. Kuhio Kalaniananaole, the Hawaiian delegates in Congress, who is urging favorable action by the war department. PEKIN IS SURROUNDED Washington, July 10.—Pekin ig surrounded by Republican troops and the emperor has received to the forbidden city 3 new president. FOUR CANDIDATES IN SCHOOL BOARD RACE Four candidates from which to se- lect two new members of the board of education have filed, the election to be held July 21. President M. J. Brown, will again be a candidate for the board and so will J. P. Lahr, secretary. The other aspirants for d honors are Quincy Brooks and x J. T. Tuomy. 12,000 MINERS TO STRIKE SATURDAY IF WAGESNOTINCREASED (By United Press) Leadville, Colo., July 10.—Twelve The govern-|thousand miners will strike Satur- day unless they receive a wage in- crease. for the sale of the qld Nymore jail was carrled ‘afid arfangements were made to put the road at the end of the Nymore pavement to the old city hall in a passable condition. As the entrance of the new bus has lowered the jitney fares the matter of regulating the fares at last Inight’s meeting was held over until a later date and a board was ap- pointed to investigate the matter of regulating the jitney fares through- out the entire city and to make a report at the next meeting of the council. Drill Nichts Set. Thomas Swinson. captain. of the home guard, was granted the use of the city hall for drills every Mon- day night that the council does not meet and on council meeting weeks on Tuesday night. RUSSIANS NEARING | LEMBERG, REPORT (By United Press) Petrograd, July 10.—More than 1,000 additional prisoners and sev- eral villages and guns were cap- tured in the drive toward Lemberg, it was reported today. REX THEATRE CLOSES DURING WARM WEATHER The Rex theater management has decided that during the hot weather and because of the many counter at- tractions such as carnival, circus and chautauqua, that Saturday and Sunday shows only will be shown in the Rex theater until otherwise announced. MOOSE LODGE MEETING The regular meeting of the Moose lodge will be held tomorrow night. The meetings have been changed from Thursday evenings to Wednes- day evenings. The lodge is grow- ing rapidly and now has over 125 members. WHEAT PRICES ABROAD LOWER THAN IV U. S. Washington, July 10.— Wheat prices abroad, where the govern- ments have control of food supplies are shown to be much lower than in the .United” States by a report made to the food administration yes- terday by the Allied wheat commis- sion. While wheat, is selling well above $2 in this country the government prices in other countries, according to the Allied commission, are as fol- lows: United Kingdom and France, $1.80; Germany, $1.80; Belgium, $1.60%5 Australia, $1.14; India, $1.35; Italy, $1.69 to $1.94. S00 LINE TO GIVE BETTER FREIGHT SERVICE HEREAFTER It was officially announced this morning that the Soo Line will put its old schedule back into effect and will again run one east bound and one west bound freight daily instead of every other day as has been the case for the past couple of months. SENATOR PENROSE AFTER SECRETARY DANIELS Washington, July 10.—Senator Penrose has introduced a resolution in the Senate demanding an investi- gation of Secretary Daniels’ official announcement concerning submarine attacks on American transports en- route to France. GEN. HAIG REPORTS TROOPS STILL ADVANC (By United Press) London, July 10.—British troops have advanced again in the Messines Ytschaete section, General Haig re- ports today. FAIR IN EMBARGO (By United Press) Washington, July 10.—Washing- ton assures South American coun- tries the embargo ' treatment will be milder with them than other neut- ral countries. ROAST BEEF DINNER AT C. C. TOMORROW A roast beef luncheon will regular meeting of the club. maintain-her present status for some time, Washington experts believe. FOR ANNUAL COUNCIL The Chippewa Indians held the first session of their annual council this afternoon in the City hall. Af- ter appointing a resolution commit- tee and a credentials committee this afternoon’s meeting adjourned. At these meetings the tribe con- ciders all matters that pertain to its own affairs and its relations as a tribe to ““Uncle Sam.” CHAPLIN SIGNS FOR “MILLION. DOLLARS New York, July 10.—Charlie « Chaplin, moving picture comedian, has been signed by the First Na- tional Exhibitors Circuit for a ser- ies of eight pictures for which he will neceive $1,075,000, according to an “official announcement'’ given out here last night. RUSSIANS CAPTURE MANY IN ADVANCE (By United Press) Petrograd, July 10.—General Bru- siloff is again flanking the Teutons and closing on Lemberg, it was an- nounced today. CITIZENS TO HALT 1. W. W.’S Sioux City, July 10.—The Sioux City civilian training unit, composed mostly of men eligible for home guard duty, is making plans to com- bat the I. W. W. if that organization attempts any activity against the pe grain crops, elevators or other prop- served at the Commercial club tomor-{erty in this section. row noon and will be followed by a|with South Dakota forces will Co-operation be sought _if necessary. Biggest Crop In History Of the Nation Is Forecast Washington, July 10.—A three- billion bushel prospective crop of jcorn this year is the answer return- ed by farmers of the United States to President Wilson’s call for food by America’s Allies in the war. Never before has such a crop been grown. A.record crop of white potatoes also is forecasted with a production of 452,000,000 bushels. That would exceed the previous largest crop, grown in 1912, by 2,000,000 bush- els. Prospects of the rye crop show a slight decrease from the June fore- cast, but the production will be a record with a total of 56,100,000 bushels. Forecasts of the ultimate produc- tion of the various important food crops, based on the condition of the growing crops on July 1, were issued by the Department of Agriculture, and the first announcement of the areas planted to corn, the greatest of all America’s agricultural crops, and potatoes was made. More definite idea of the final pro- duction of the winter and spring wheat crops was given and improve- ment was shown over the forecasts made a month ago. to .dictate what newspapers should ‘ and should not print.” i Uph tom’ I~ e 4 “Every measure proposed for tle pheaval Sign. . ¥ 7 ctrengtgnins‘ of militarism here,” ; . upl‘;‘;:?:llnfioghlgrug t:c?'atulel:?a: yo; ‘he asserted, “however little it may| ., .. o di bus between Bemidj iand Fifth ward.|ing the eidewalk and curb asid the a latter explosion, is pme vlegw ot -accord with the ideals of democracy, n the first reading of the Vag-|qp. Jicense was granted. {nstalling of the storm sewer lead- officials- here today. They think has recelved the unequ_ivocal sup- | rancy ordinance last night, the city The motion made by Alderman|ing to the new bridge was carried. W b Germany as a whole will stand by £ {;:rtcog :la‘: glr:l?t:rpt‘;fii;lee?ea s:let;d council was simply keeping in step|Smart that the clouncil advertlilse'tor City Engineer Swinson was ln; : the emperor for the time being. e Colo: o 3 = 1 a L fill, - of 1 1g that the facts were mot given by | With what all live cities and villages | D108 fOF the paving okiatiecd, w :fi&?&? I b roane Detwees S (By United Press) g el g i o] orvad R Jeading papers. of the nation are doing at this time. ~~|Park and Fitth ward, to report on| Berlin, July 10.—*“Peace without|in:"qiscontent and will grow lous- “Minneapolis will show us many|The substance of the ordinance was the matter at the next meeting. annexation to Germany {8 not ac-|or a5 economic military pgr:ssure in- Y strange and unusual things, I am|drawn up by the State Public Safety F E T R P The street committee was instruct- | Céptable to Germany. Germany can| . oqg0q ‘sure,” said President Tomlinson|commission and is being adopted hy |ed to investigate and make recom-|Win If she holds out,” declared|™ pegce terms as proposed by Ger- when Mayor Van Lear had finished.| most all the cities in the state. In mendations of twelve crossings on|Chancellor von Hollweg today in ad-|,.ny have always hl!hertoy been “‘but not in the least of these is her|)substance, the ordinance forbids s the west side of the city which are|dressing the Reichstag committee. |.n,rned. If they were more liberal ‘Socialist mayor.”’ \ speaking ;against’ the United States I 20 YEAHS to be paved. “We cannot declare peace terms oy would be given some attention Guy U. Hardy of Canon City,|government or the saying of any- Want to Buy Jail? now,” he declared. The position of Germany and her i <Colo., who responded to the. address-|thing-that -will- hamper the govern- ey PRI s Sivazid S - pe < Thenetion- 'to asvertlse- for-bids | /ar oot o i ‘I mode of - warfare will allow -her to | S