Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1917, Page 1

A " “The Italians are-alone ~full brunt of the Teutonic-Austro as- W NOT YESTERDAY'S "BEMIDJI DAILY PIO .VOLUME XV, NO. 271. 1 GEN. HAIG S TEUTONSA USING ~ SAMETACTICS THE - DID EARLY IN WA y "MASSING ATTACK (By United Press) With the Italian armies, Nov. 21. —AIll preconceived ideas that the Italians are husbanding their resour- ces and man power along the Piave river are refuted. Germany 1s seek- ing some other objective in the flow of ‘humanity. The same tactics the Germans used earlier in the war are being used. 9 The attacks are not made ‘except with tremendous masses of troops. These are specially picked and train- ed, perfectly equipped and in splen- did condition. The Italian defensive fire always slaughters ‘them and there always seem more to take their places. In i one-place the Germans outnumbered the Italians two to one in men and four to one in guns. The Italians repulsed these enor- mous odds and when the human waves receded the Piave river was dammed with the enemy dead. The enemy is also speeding reinforce- ments here. Italians Are Stubborn. ‘Rome, Nov. 21.—On account of the disadvantageous battle ground offered along the Piave river, further strategic retirement of the Italian forces will probably be necessary, re- liable information today states. None of the British or French forces have gone into -action yet. . i bearing the sault. They are holding firm and in- flicting terrible casualties upon the jnvaders. Their morale .is the bect ever, and their spirit is good on the front and back home. The people are heartily supporting the war, Germany has been playing to cause a revolution in Italy like Russia but will never attain that hope. TAKING LIQUOR TO INDIANS MEANS SIX-MONTH TERM Fergus Falls, Minn., Nov. 21.— Peter Ertz was brought before Judge Morris in the United .States. court yesterday and sentenced to six months in the county jail for in- troducing liquor into Indian coun- try. . Ertz already is serving a three months sentence in jail here for sell- ing liquor in Wadena and his term does not expire until February 16. His six months’ term will then be- gin, and when he gets through serv- ing the first it is probable that he will then be given another, as there have been numeérous charges against him. He was released on bail at Wa- dena several months ago, and imme- diately began business in Bluffton, this county, whereupon the Federal agents took him in charge. Bold Bandits 6t Diamonds Worth$50,000 5 (By United Press) Minneapolis, Nov. 21.—Three un- masked men this forenoon entered Harry Green’s jewelry store in the lcop, surprised the clerks and got bLetween $40,000 and $50,000 worth of diamonds and $212 in cash and made their escape. HASONS AND BAND ATTENDING FUNERAL A delegation from the Bemidji Ma- sonic lodge, together with the Be- midji band, left early this morning for Erskine, where the funeral of the late Oscar Nelson was held to- day. The Bemidji Masons were to perform the burial ceremonies at the grave, Mr. Nelson having been a member of the Bemidji lodge. The band was to play for the funeral at the special request from the victim of the shooting before he passed away. 0TAN KILLED IN ACTION Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 21..—Among American names appearing in-yes- terday's casualty Jlist is: Killed in ac- tion, Albert Shay, Gully, Minn. RAISE POULTRY AND EAT EGGS, URGES CHAPMAN,POULTRY BOOSTERATU.OF M. Tells School Pupils to Have Small Flocks to Help Food Conservation. NEW MOVEMENT IS STARTED TO HELP PEOPLE CONSERVE Bulletins On Feed to Be Issued to Aid Project; Figures On Beltrami County. “Chapman, the chicken man,” of the University of Minnesota, who was in Bemidji last week, addressing the school pupils on the value of raising poultry as an aid in reducing the ‘cost of 1iving, has sent the Pioneer ‘anarticle “om the- subject -of ‘egsEs, with reference to Bemidji and Bel- trami county, the figures being the result of a survey, the same having been made of every county in the state. Prof. Chapman is an enthu- siastic booster for poultry raising and a movement has been started by the University whereby the problems of feeds for chickens to insure a profit will be issued in bulletin form. Prof. Chapman says “Bemidji hens must help Hoover” and under that caption he writes: Bemidii Eee Eaters. Bemidji consumes annually 220 tons of eggs and 200 .~ns of poul- try. This amount must be greatly increased so as to help Herbert Hoo- ver in conserving .the ‘red meat.” With its present population of 8.000 people it has about 1,600 families, each family consuming eboyt five cases annually or 150 dozen, and the aggregate consumption requires 20 carloads of 400 cases each. Most people like fresh eggs. Their peculiar charm of “new-laidness” de- pends much upon time, distance and temperature. Hens that cackle in Bemidji and on the surrounding farms produce the freshest fruit. It requires 32,000 ordinary farm hens to supply the city of Bemidji. The farm flocks of Beltrami county av- erage only 40 birds today, and about one-half of the production is used by the farmers; the city requires the surplus from 1,600 Beltrami county farms. This would take the surplus of nearly all the farms in the county, and then some. In Steele County. * One town in Steele county, after supplying the needs of country and town, shipped out 8,330 cases of eggs, or enough to give Bemidji her annual supply. The town also had-a surplus of 400 tons of poultry, or about double the amount that Be- midji consumes. The 400 farms around the town have about four times as many chickens per farm as are owned in Beltrami countq. The price per dozen is about ten cents higher here than in Steele county. When will Beftrami farmers give the hen a chance to prove her patriot- ism by helping Hoover? In the meantime, 1,000 families in the city should keep a family flock of from 10 to 20 birds, according to size of family, or property. Tt}is must be done as a war measure and you cannot show your patriotism in a more practical way. Liberty Bonds and Red Cross work are in a class by themselves, but food production and food conservation are the sin- ews of war. Keep chickens. Eat eggs. Eat poultry—but poultry is another story. ALLIES SHOULD STICK TO POLITICAL OFFENSIVE (By United Press) London, Nov. 21.—Arthur Hen- derson, British labor party leader, says the allies should not abandon political offensive against Germany, because it is the most dangerous of- fensive in the face of the Hohenzol- lerans. BEHIDJI: MINNESOTA, WEDNESD AY EVENING. NOVEMBER 21, 1917 MASHE |DECLARES ALL SURPLUS WHEAT SENT TO EUROPE Chicago, Nov. 21.—The United States has shipped every grain of its surplus wheat to Europe, and .no more can be shipped until the next crop is harvested, about July 1, 1918, except what is saved out of ordinafy consumption, is the word Harry A. Wheeler, state food admin- istrator, brings back from Washing- ton, after a conference with Herbert C. Hoover and the administrators of numerous other states. -As a result it is likely that the one wheatless meal a day may soon be ordered to follow the regular wheat- less day. " “The situation shows that there is the kreatest need of careful sav- ing,” said Mr. Wheeler, “and it will mean an lncreqsingly rigid supervi- MINNESOTA FARMERS ASK FOR '$4.778,500 LOAN St. Paul, Nov. 21.—Loans applied for in the St. Paul federal farm loan | district amount to $20,364,000, ac- cording to a statement issued by the federal farm loan board in Wash- ington, of which $4,778,500 was asked for in Minnesota. Of this amount 42,726,200 has been closed in the entire district. Loans applied for in North Dakota amount to $9,= 155,500, with $938,300 closed, and in South Dakota they amount to $3,- 925,630, with $286,500 closed. Mon- tana applications amount to $9,- 660,919, and the total applications in the 12 districts amount to $193,- 250,945. PRIZES ARE AWARDED IN POTATO AND CORN. CONTEST FOR SCHOOLS The following are.the ten winners in the boys’ and girls’ potato; ¢on- test. conducted by_-the. agricultiiral department of the High' school, first’ prize being $156 offered by the North- ern Nationa] bank and -$10 second prize, also offered by the Northern National: First—Carl Hoines. Second—Glen Skinner. Third—Roger Wright. Fourth—Theodore Fenske second best peck in the show). Fifth—Albert Moen. Sixth—Wesley Nelson. Seventh—Floyd Hoskins. Eighth—William Stilwell. Ninth—Vivian Severance. Tenth—Carl Anderson. Corn Prize Winners. In the corn contest the first prize of $15 was donated by the Security State bank, and the second prize of $10 was also donated by the Security State bank. The third prize, a $5 taberett, was donated by tne St. Hil- aire Lumber company. The winners were: First—Malcolm Berg. Second—John Stilwell. + Third—Egner Willett. The entries for competition were all of an exceptionally high class and reflect great credit for the young growers. WOOED BY MARRIED MAN, GIRL MAKES SPY CHARGE Chicago, Nov. 21.—Joseph Black- er, a married man, is in jail at East Chicago today because Miss . Katie Boff, Indiana harbor, made a sworn statement to the police that Blaeker while making love to.her, had told of his workings for the German gov- ernment as a spy. SPECIAL MEN NEEDED FOR ENGINEER WORK Recruiting Officer Clarence Fou- cault receited word from the war department this morning urging him to secure men for the engineers’ de- partment, especially in the railway construction battalions. The call is for experienced trades- men such as timber men, bridge car- penters, masons, steam fitters, hoist- ing enginemen, firemen, teamsters, track layers, construction foremen, concrete foremen, telegraph linemen, blacksmiths, draftsmen, surveyors, painters, electricians, oilers, signal installers, machine repairmen and €ooks. Men who have equipped them- selves in any of the above trades, and who are subject to call, and who have not yet been examined by the local board, should be especially in- terested. The advantages of a vol- unteer in any of these branches over a drafted man are many. The lo- cal recruiting committee is making every effort to assist Officer Fou- cault and any information desired may be secured from the committee or Officer Foucault. SUPREME COURT TO RECESS Washington, Nov. 21.—The su- preme tourt announced that on No- vember 26 a recess will be taken over Thanksgiving until December 10. (had +France before our sion of the wheat products. We have saved a great deal by meams . of wheatless days. At the present rate of: consumption we will be entirely without wheat flour for sixty days, as our present stock will give out two months before the next har- vest. ““A plan to-permit the milling of only a standard flour containing a proportion of corn flour is under con- sideration. Every possible saving must be enforced, or we will be forced to use corn bread entirely. ‘“The government will have to find 126,000 bushels of wheat to'send to next harvest comes in. The mills are now run- ning well above normal, and a check of some sort must come.” $1.000 REWARD IS POSTED FOR VIRGINIA AX MURDERER Duluth, Nov. 21.—A reward of $1,- 000, has been offered for the arrest and conviction of the murderer{ or murderers of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Alar and Peter Trepich, which occurred Friday while the three were asleep in the Alar home. Mayer Michael Boylan has offered a reward of $500 to be paid by the city of ¥irginia. Sheriff John Mein- ing of .8t. Louis county earlier an- nounced 8 $500 reward. HELP H. S. ELEVEN: G0OD GAME SATURDAY “When the Bemidji high school football team meets the Detroit high school eleven in Bemidji Saturday there should be a large turnout. Not only will wne game be a hot one but the, High School athletic association 'nezls hearty support in its financial affairs, / " coming of the Detroiters will be-the first time they have played Bemidji and they will come with”the determinatipn of putting up the real gridiron: article. The locals will play to keep the visitors from scor- ‘ing and. it looks like one big time at the baseball park Saturday after- noon. ALLEGED MONK SLAYERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED (By United Press) Petrograd, Nov. 21.—Prince Yusu- poff and M. Purishevitch, reputed to have slain Rasputin, the monk, have been arrested charged with corre- sponding seditiously with General Kaledines, presumably in a conspir- acy against the Bolsheviki. 785-POUN5 PORKER BRINGS 8. DAKOTA FARMER $122.10 Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 21.—W. J. Ryan, a Kingsbury county farmer, is claiming the honor of having raised the highest priced porker. Ryan sold a pig, eighteen months old, weighing 785 pounds, receiving the sum of $122.10. MISS STEER WOULD BE CATTLE JUDGE Fargo, Nov. 21.—Miss Vesta Steer of Montana is a contender for a place on the team that will repre- sent the North Dakota Agricultural college—for the first time in the his- tory of the college—at the Inter- national show to be held in Chi- cago. Miss Steer won second prize at the college last mall in the stock judg- ing contest in which more than fifty students participated. Prof. E. J. Thompsan said that eight students have been selected from which two will be eliminated, leaving the team of five and one alternate. DIDN'T KNOW WHAT T0 DO WITH BREAD St. Paul, Nov. 21.—“What am 1 to do with all this bread " That question over the telephone puzzled a newspaper office when a woman called up. “What bread,” was asked. “Why! You know. I have forty- three loaves of bread in my cup- board, and I am waiting further in- structions,” she sald. “For what purpose did you save the bread?” “Well,” canie the reply, “Hoover asked that all housewives save a loaf ot bread a day and I though he soon would announce where he wanted us to send it,”* 3D N U i LINE TOMMIES STORM SECOND LINE AND DEADLYTANKSRAZE CONCRETE DEFENSE Pershing Sees Haig Break Enemy Line (By United Press) (By United Press) London, Nov. 21.—Field Marshal Haig has broken the famous Hinden- burg line at various points over a front of a spore of miles. Haig has smashed through for between four: and five-mile advances. The Tommies stormed the second line behind the preliminary defenses and the deadly British tanks batter- ed through artfully contrived Ger- man cement emplacements, ponder- With the British armies, Nov. 21.|0Usly continuing forward. --General Pershing personally watch- Cambrari is almost in British ed the attacks of General Haig when | hands. he hroke the Hindenburg line. BEMIDJI NAVAL BOY WRITES OF “Y” WOR In a letter home, Vernon Lamson,; of the Fifth division, Minnesota na- val militia, writes as follows regard- ing the “Y” hut at League Island|ough that an o navy yard in Philadelphia: “What we call the ‘hut’ is a large U-shaped building, erected inside the . .The extent of the great victory is not fully estimated. Not onlv is the Hindenburg line penetrated and two of its lines utterly smashed, but the British menace the German com- munication line including Douai, Cambrai and St. Quentin. The surprise was so complete and the German de#pmlmfinn 8o thor- icial report does not attempt to estimate the number of nrisoners taken, However, it is be- yard for ugg_mmie{;,and 4uilors.and, | lieved thousands of vrisoners and a believe’ me, “dad, i stitute for home I have seen in seven months. “A place to read and write, smoke, talk and sing. prefer it to any other place open to us in Philadelphia. Edward Bok, of the Curtis Publish Co., was large- ly responsible for this ‘Y’ and it is said to be an exact duplicate of those erected in France. “I'll bet it is a great treat to the )oys in the trenches in France to spend a few hours in one of these huts. We get the very hest of mov- ing pictures and vaudeville enter- tainment. . We are made welcome at the ‘Y’ much more than anywhere else I have been. 1 hope the full $35,000,000 fund is fully raised. It is the greatest service the folks at home can do for us.” STATE POTATO GROWERS MEET AT BRAINERD Brainerd, Nov. 21.—Plans for en- tertaining 500 out-of-town visitors at the annual mceting of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion here on Dec. 6 and 7 are about completed. The fact that the State Potato Growers’' and Northern Minnesota Sheep Browers’ associations are to meet with the N. M. D. A. adds in- terest. A special committee made up of A. B. Hostetter of Muluth, Otto L Bergh, Grand Rapids; A. G. Tolaas, university farm; F. A. Colquhoun and Fred T. Lincoln of Brainerd, met here and went over the plans. Gardner hall has heen secured for the potato exhibit and at least 500 separate displays are expected. In the room below, machinery used in pianting and ahndling of potatoes will be on exhibition. The social session will be held in the rooms of the Chamber of Com- merce, and the smoker, according to plans being made under the direc- tion of R. R. Wise, vice president of the N. M. D. A, and Secretary Lin- coln, will be a lively affair. Favorable responses have heen re- ceived from each of the several prominent men on the program, which will be one of the hest ever offered. CLOSING ORDER HOLDS St. Paul, Nov. 21.—The 10 p. m. closing rule for pool rooms and dance halls, fixed by the recent order of the State Public Safety commission, will remain unchanged. The announcement was made by a commission official, following a dis- cussion of a proposal to change the closing hour to 11 p. m. The order has resulted in a great- er number of inquiries and a larger amount of correspondence than any olther order adopted by the commis- sion. "o 2 15the best Bub-| grreat number of guns have been cap- tured. The exact location of the blow is The boys as a rule|unknown but indicates that Cam- brai is the objective. Styangest World. Battle. .. With the British armies, Nov. 2L —The styangut battle in the history of the wprld was that which smash- ed the }‘lndenhurg line. When the world was saying a surprise attack was lmppsaible. when the Prusisans were th{pking the same thing and sleeping in their comfortahie trench- es, the British tanks like an army of horses of Troy, rose from their quiet and peace to smash forward with no artillery preparation. The lumbering tanks did the pul- verizing and German prisoners roll- ing back from the front in British hands are still surprised as to what happened. Is Great Achievement. New York, Nov. 21.—Military ex- perts consider Haig's smashing the Hindenburg line the greatest mili- tary feat since the battle of the Marne. Canada Lifts Embargo On Live Stock (By United Press) Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 21.—Can- ada’s embargo on shipments of live stock to the United States has been lifted. It was placed to prevent de- portation of Canadian herds. NEW FUEL REGULATOR NAMED FOR THE N. W. (By United Press) Washington, Nov. 21.—John Ma- her of Minneapolis was today ap- pointed fuel administrator to handle all matters pertaining to the distri- bution and apportionment of coal for the northwest. His headquarters will be in Washington. ITALY’S HERO ALIVE Washington, Nov. 21.—An official dispatch from Rome says Gabriele D’Annunzio, the aviator poet, re- ported missing after a flight over the enemy lines, actually is at the front displaying great activity. ! ! i i 3