Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 8, 1917, Page 1

1 H 3 Bemidji is next Tuesday, Dec. 11, ""of Austrian attacks, who have at- . tempted to blow up the structures, ‘said that at Richmond fully fifty per VOLUME XV. NO. 285. (By United Press) With the French armies in Italy, Dec. 9.—French troops are in ac- tion against the ever increasing masses of Austro-Germans who are plainly preparing for Germany’s most supreme effort to break through the Italian lines. The battle all along the line is becoming heavier. The enemy is massing guns, men and material. Shell fire is growing more violent. The enemy is taking plenty of time to perfect plans for the su- preme blow. Bridges across the Paine river have been the objects but the plans have been frustrated by Italian artillery. The weather is exceptional. There is usually heavy snow here at this time, but it is - now clear and the cold is intense without snow. When the battle storm breaks, the Ger- mans will suffer most on account of their line of communication being over difficult mountain passes. SIX MORE VOLUNTEERS LEAVE NEXT TUESDAY; TIME LIMIT DEC. 15 « 8ix more volunteers will leave Be- midji for Duluth Tuesday, whence they will be sent to Jefferson bar- racks. P The last day volunteers may leave 8 he order states that Ha ‘*flfi*”sfilfi’iit%mfi "a selecting the branch of service i De- cember 15 and volunteers must be in Jefferson barracks on that date. Charles Rock was another volun- teer who left yesterday. Major John D. Yost of Duluth has notified Recruiting Officer Foucault of the time Bemidji volunteers must leave, in order to get in under the volunteer rule. Major Yost has fig- ured it out to the minute and not only for Bemidji but for the various cities in. Northern Minnesota. The order says: “Recruits must leave Bemidji at 2:22 A. M., 13th inst for Duluth and Jefferson barracks.” This means that this date is the very latest. The schedule applies only to men who will not require waivers on physical condition. The statement of the war department adds that men in doubt as to the ne- cessity of securing waivers must leave their home towns 48 hours in advance of the schedule. vAfter December 15, the only men who can volunteer for service are those without the draft years. Young men from 18 to 21 years may volun- teer and men from 31 to 40 years may volunteer for service. HORRIBLE SCENES IN HALIFAX EXPLOSION St. John, N. B., Dec. 8.—Eye wit- nesses of the Halifax explosion reaching here told details of the hor- rors through which they passed. In the part were fourteen young women students from Mount St. Vincent’s academy. Esmond P. Berry, St. John postal clerk, was at Richmond during the; worst of the catastrophe. “It was terrible,” he said, ‘“‘people dying in our car like flies. Some of them came to the place with noses shot off, eyes put out, faces slashed with flying glass, limbs torn and distorted. “On one occasion while we were working around a wrecked building we could see a little baby fifty feet or more underneath a burning mass crying for aid. We could not get within thirty feet of the child and had to watch while it burned to death. Men and women were lying in the streets and hundreds must be buried beneath the wreckage.” J. C. Gillespie, a train conductor, cent of the buildings collapsed. Ba- bies were lying in the streets dead. BELOW ZERO WAVE OVER MIDDLE WEST (By United Press) Chicago, Dec. 8.—A cold wave is over the entire Central West plain and middle west states. Kansas cat- tle are suffering. Twelve below zero is reported from that state. Williston, N. D., is reported the coldest point in the United States, 28 below zero being reported from that city. Charles City, Iowa, re- ports 18 -below. of European manuf_actured materials. U, S. Patrol BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 8. 1017 GERMANS MASSING ~ FOR MASTER BLOW - AT ITALIAN LINEY; - BATTLE BREAKING| Wilson Signs War Measure With Austria Washington, Dec. 8—Presi- dent Wilson signed the.resolu-. ticn declaring the existence of a state of war between the United States and Austria-Hungary at 5:03 o’clock last evening. The . state of war dates .from that- time. ; LaFollette Walks Out. Washington, Dec. 8.—After an hour’s debate, the senate passed the war resolution with an affirmative vote of 74, after the house had pass- ed it 363 to 1. Congressman London of New York, Socialist, was the only one to vote against it, and when the roll started in the senate, Senator LaFollette arose and left the senate chamber, refusing to register his vote. ALL NATIONS WILL BE DEBTOR OF AMERICA FOR LEADERSHIP i(By United Press) = Vash on, Dec. 8.—‘All_ mg- 1&%&%;\ Srica’s debtof 10T tife leadership in scientific and political thought after the war,” Secretary of the Interior Lane prefaced in his an- nual report, made public today. The report cited that American chemists and manufacturers are ably filling the demands made by the exclusion Boat Sunk; 60 Men Lost Washington, Dec. 8.—It is offi- cially reported today that the Am- erican destroyer Jacob Jones, was torpedoed and sunk Thursday, De- cember 6, at ‘8 o’clock in the eve- ning while on patrol duty in for- eign waters. It is unofficially un- derstood that. half of the crew was lost. Another official announce- ment is expected soon. It is indi- cated 60 men were lost. Second Victim of Subs. Washington, Dec. 8.—Official ‘in- dications continue to show 60 lost on the destroyer Jacob Jones. Lieut. Commander David ‘Worth Bagley, brother of Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary of the- navy, commands the Jones. ; The committee on public informa- tion, which announced the names o only ten survivors, ha sadded the names of 27 others, understood to have been saved. This makes the second United States vessel sunk by German torpedo boats since the United States entered the war. It is the second largest American loss, excepting the Antillis transport, which carried down 60 lives. Commander Jones distinguished himself October 19 when the steamer Omaha, converted into an auxiliary cruiser, was torpedoed. Then Jones saved 305 of the 348 persons aboard. 0 BELOW ZERO, IS REGISTERED IN BEMIDJI St. Paul forecasted 20 below zero for last night in the Twin Cities and the mercury clumbed downward to that mark in Bemidji. The night was the coldest thus far this winter and the mercury registered around 20 and slightly below on many indi- cators. TWO STREET CARS CRASH: BOMB FOUND AFTER MISHAP (By United Press) St. Paul, Dec. 7.—Two street cars crashed this morning but no one was injured. A bomb containing dyna- mite and black powder was found on one of the cars after the crash. i 1 WILTON CELEBRATES IN | them. FORMER RUSS CZAR I A INot Asked to Go Hungry| In urging the American people to ‘‘Serve hy Savmg:’ and. io ‘‘Fight by Helping the Fighter Fight,”’ the Uuited States Food Ad- < -'r1t cv asks no one to go hungry., .- It proposcs that people shall *‘eat plenty, sut wisely and without waste”” If they will do his, our cwn soldiers and the soldiers and peoples of our allies will be fed, and Americans i1 be healthier, wealthjer and wiser. AMERICA’S PROBLEM is to fecd our allies this winter by \end.m.g them as much food. as we can of the most concentrated nutritive value in the least shipping space. These foods are wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar. THE SO];.UT!ON is for us to eat. less of these and wmore of {other fouds of which we have an abundance, and to waste less of all foods. YO!JR PART is to sign the pledge and enroll as a_member of the Food Administration, agreeing to carry ont the dircctions and adviee of the Fooa Administrator in your home, so far as your circumstances permit. There are no fees or dues to be 'paid. . vy A ;' A o e Mdir Do Rl SO S . D= PR v pe e ] | ThisNoTimefor “Picayune Morality,” Episcopal Bishop Detroit, Dec. 8.—‘‘Picayune mor- ality of the no smoking, no drink- ing, no card playing evangelist has no place on the western front; there you ' face tremendous realities,” Bishop Charles D. Williams of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan de- clared. “Any person, Y. M. C. A worker or anyone else, who goes over to force down the throat of the Sam- my a manual or sumptuary ethics will be met by freezing indifference. “The time has come to leap hur- dles of prudery. The question of sex- ual health is the most important problem of the American army. In April, 250,000 men were in British hospitals with social diseases. Eight- een thousand colonials never reach- ed the battle field. Eighty-five per cent ‘of ¥ etvipopuiation o Neite chateau was infected. We must REPORTED ESCAPED, BUT NOT CONFIRMED (By United Press) Fashington, Dec. 8.—The Ameri- can concul at Tifilis today reported to the state department that former Czar Nicholas has escaped from his confinement place in Siberia. It is said this is only a rumor. CURTAIL ORNAMENTAL STREET TIGHTING: ORDER TO CITIES Minneapolis, Dec. 8.—Orders to curtail ornamental street lighting in cities and towns of Minnesota as a fuel conservation measure, have been issued to county fuel committees, Judge J. F. McGee, state coal admin- istrator, announced here. Munici- palities will be permitted to burn only one light in each cluster, here, after, Judge McGee said but with eight such lights to a block. WEEKLY “FISH DAY” IS SOON TO BE RESUMED There may be some who are won- dering what has become of the week- ly ‘“fish day” in Bemidji. The rea- son the “fish day” has ceased for the present is owing to the ice com- mencing to form on Red Lake and not yet thick enough to allow opera- tions by cutting holes in the ice. As soon as thicker ice is available, the catching of fish will be resumed and ‘“fish day” again come into vogue in Bemidji. -SUB-ZERO WEATHER It takes more than sub-zero cold to prevent the school children of Wilton from holding a loyalty meet- ing, and not only were the children out in full force Friday evening, but many of their parents. The meeting was held in the vil- lage hall, arranged by W. B. Stew- art, county superintendent of schools and the speakers were Henry Funk- ley and F. B. Lamson, secretary of the Commercial club. Raymond Hannah of Bemidjf sang. Mr. Stew- art took the speakers out to Wilton and nearly 100 were present to greet SAFETY RAZOR BLADES ARE HARD ON HOGS Camp Dodge, Iowa, Dec. 8.—Be- cause of complaints of farmers that their hogs are dying of indigestion produced by eating safety razor blades, an order has been issued here that soldiers must not throw their used blades into camp garbage cans. raise the red flag against a scourge that threatens to equal that of the Middle Agés.” Found, Medical Necds Great. Bishop Williams has just returned from France, where he went as an appointee of President Wilson to in- vestigate conditions surrounding American soldiers on the war front for the Red Cross. “It is difficult for us 3,000 miles away to estimate local conditions,” he said, “but I tell you that in the Middle Ages there happened a plague that decimated Europe. I think it is time for the press and pulpit to dis- card their unwise modesty and tell the truth about the sex situation overseas. rn France lives in a pig f high standard.” HERE’S APPRECIATION The members of the Bemidji Ladies’ Concert band wish to express their thanks and ap- preciation to the Patriotic League, which so kindly don- ated $25 to the band for its uniform fund. (Signed) BEMIDJI LADIES’ CONCERT BAND. By Violet Voltz, Secretary. ILLINOIS TAX AMENDMENT LOST IN SUPREME COURT Springfield, Ill.,, Dec. 8.—The tax amendment to the Illinois constitu- tion, voted on at the last general election, was kliled by the supreme court, which denied a rghearing of the case in which the court held, at the October term, that the amend- ment failed of passage because it did not receive a majority of all the votes cast and not of those votes cast for members of the legislature. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE DROPS JONES FROM THE PROGRAM Duluth, Dec. 8.—Senator Richard Jones of Duluth, selected manager of the Minnesota dry campaign by the Minnesota Dry Federation at Minne- apolis Wednesday, has been dropped from the program of the National Anti-Saloon league convention in Washington next week. The action follows the failure of the Minnesota Anti-Saloon league to join in the conference participated in by eleven other state-wide dry organizations and which resulted in the formation of the dry federation. The attitude of the Anti-Saloon league, its national officers as well as Rev. George B. Safford, Minnesota superintendent, has indicated their intention not to participate in any federation plan of conducting the state campaign, but to conduct its own campaign. GREAT LAKES PORTS RECEIVE MORE COAL THAN RECORD YEAR (By United Press) Chicago, Dec. 8.—G. L. Peck, vice president of the Pennsylvania rail- way and chairman of the committee on lake traffic in coal and ore trans- portation, today announced that more coal had been sent to Great Lakes ports up to December 2 than during the entire season of 1916, which was a record year. The report of Mr. Peck shows over 27,000,000 tons sent to Great Lakes ports. Mr. Peck said the northwest has got its coal quota and even fared better than other communities near the mines. ws no sanitation or ven- e “French* morals” never NOT YESTERDAY'S NEWS, BUT TODAY'S NEWS TODAY--BY THE GREAT UNITED PRESS AL Government Rushes Help For Halifax (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 8.—The navy department today ordered that 25,- 000 blankets and 600 stoves from Portsmouth, N. H., be sent to the suffering in the Halifax hospitals. The unit was dispatched from Prov- incetown, Mass. - Reports from the improvised morgues and from hospitals, schools, churches and private residences seemed to bear out the night's esti- mate that at least 2,500 were lost when the Belgian relief steamship Imo collided with the French muni- tions steamer Mont Blanc, causing the detonation of 4,000 tons of trini- trotuluol, one of the most powerful explosives manufactured. It is doubtful if the full number of dead is ever known. In many cases nothing is left but bones and the charred remains of many who were burned to death in the devas- tated area. NAVAL AIR SERVICE TO RECRUIT 2.260 NON-FLYERS St Paul, Dec. 8.—The central re- ‘erulting aivision of the navy, which includes Minnesota, must furnish 2,260 members of the non-flying branch of the naval aviation serv- ice, according to a message which has reached Lieutenant George Treadwell. The number includes 900 machinists’ mates, 900 quarter- masters, 390 carpenters’ mates, 30 blacksmiths and 30 coppersmiths. Many of these will be trained at Dunwoody Institute, Lieutenant Treadwell said. The others will be sent to the Great Lakes station. Apple Pig I Responsible For Air Raid (By United Press) American field headquarters, De- cember 8.—Apple pie was responsi- ble, indirectly, for injury to three Americans by a German airplane bomb. A mess sergeant was pre- paring apple pie and the light from the stove is believed to have guided the enemy plane. U S. WAREHOUSE ON FIRE: CAUSE UNKNOWN (By United Press) Chicago, Dec. 8.—A government warehouse on the south side, con- taining a large quantity of explo- sives and other munitions, caught fire this morning. Flames spread rapidly. The origin is not yet de- termined. Explosives in the south gide of the building were removed by soldiers and police, while firemen fought the flames in the wing con- taining soldiers’ clothing. Four Austrians Arrested. Chicago, Dec. 8.—Late today the fire was gotten under control. Gov- ernment agents pre investigating. Thousands of dollars worth of cloth- ing was destroyed. Federal agents have arrested four Austrians, sus- picioned in connection with the fire. Five Buildings Destroved. Cameron, is., Dec. 9.—Five buildings were completely burned here this morning. The fire is un- der control. COMMITTEES PREPARE APPROPRIATION BILLS (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 8.—Congress is resting. Committees are preparing flgllxrea for the great appropriation bills. [ WILSON ENDORSED; OPSAHLPRESENTED WITH MARY'SLAMB OFFICERS ARE ELECTED: NEXT MEETING PLACES President—R. R. Wise. Vice President—Charles Scheers, Akeley. Secretary—Fred T. Lincoln. Treasurer—George W. Mun- ford, Two Harbors. Executive committee—Sixth district, M. N. Koll, Cass Lake; Eighth district, Oscar Barness, Bagley; Ninth district, 8. D. Patrick, Deer River; Tenth dis- ltrict, George W. Empey, Hinck- ey. Ex-officio members include the officers named above. next winter meeting—Grand Rapids. Next Walker. F. summer meeting — What is declared to have been the greatest meeting of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion came to a close Friday eve- ning with an address by Governor Burnquist, and those from Bemidji present assert it was one of the best addresses they ever heard, straight from the shoulder and chock full of patriotism. Nor did the gover- nor mince words. The meeting was the 16th annual. One who came in with the Bemidji delegation, returning from the meet- ing was Charles F. Scheers, publish- er of the Akeley Herald-Tribune, who wag elected vice president of the association. He stated the meet- ing was one of the most interesting and justructive he ever attended and that the address of the governor was a stemwinder. Three Rinegs Goine. At the same time the association was meeting, the State Potato Grow- ers held their meeting and the Northern Minnesota Sheep Growers’ association also held its meeting, making thyree rings under the same tent. The showing of potatoes was a rev- clation, over 800 samples being dis- played, and overiyhalf of the coun- ties in the statar were represented. There were many who expressed themselves that the display outdid that at the state fair. Endorse President. The resolutions endorsed the president and pledged co-operation in carrying on the war. The reso- lutions also pledged themselves to in every way encourage and assist pro- duction and conservation of food, the maintenance of morale and the sup- pression of vice, discouragement of sedition and continued support of the Red Cross. The resolutions also pledged co- operation with all organizations making an intelligent study of the drainage- subject. The association also resolved to invite the co-operation of all parts of the state in promoting good roads. The further investigation of peat lands was touched upon and the resolutions favored a continua- {ion of the investigation by the state. Cheaper dynamite for land ¢learing was also recommended, as were community team work and soil survey. A stock judging and po- tato judging contest for representa- tives of high school agricultural classes was also advocated, and it was recommended that county com- missioners avail themselves of the federal act and employ county agri- cultural agents. Emnloy Convict Labor. The Tesolutions also recommended that the state employ convict labor on the public highways, and also recommended the enlistment of pris- oners when so recommended by the state board of control. More funds were also recommend- ed for the state immigration depart- ment and also for small fish hatch- erics. The advertising of the state’s attraction for tourists was commend- ed. The federal farm loan act was endorsed. Conservation of fuel and box material was recommended and it was resolved to ask the state to increase the wolf bounty. The retiring president, C. R. Mid- dleton of Baudette, was heartily rec- ommended and Fred L. Lincoln, sec- retary, (re-elected) was also heartily commended. The association thank- ed the press and also Brainerd and her people. Opsahl Gets Lamb. b A smoker for the “three in one meetings was held at the Chamber of Commerce quarters Thursday eve- ning and in its account of the smok- er the Brainerd Dispatch says: “The smoker at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening came as a close of the first days’ session of the Three-In-One convention in this city and a fitting climax was the (Continued on Page Four)