Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 17, 1917, Page 1

VOLUME XV. NO. 292. RED CROSS DRIVE BEGING: ALL ARE " URGED TO JOIN: IF NOT, WHY NOT 7 1t Costs Only One Dollar Pex Year; - Help is Needed to Care for the Boys. oo ' SEE THAT RED CROSS FLAG i HANGS IN YOUR WINDOW. Men As Well As Women Can Juin; Committees Launch the Drive: This Morning. i creased membership is {the \ greatest call to service that has. e been issued to the men and wo- : men of America who have not. joined the -fighting forces of’ the nation. The purpose of this. v organization is to alleviate the: suffering at home and abroad ‘of those who are the world’s. defenders of all that its em- blem, the cross, has stood for since the day of the crucifixion of our Saviour. It is fitting and proper that its appeal should be brought to us at the our Christmas season when hearts and minds are filled with the thoughts of God’s gracious gift to mankind in the birth of His Son. Let us realize to the utmost the value of this organization to the world in this great crisis in the world’s history and let us respond nobly by enrolling ourselves as meinbers of this . mighty agency. of God in min-, istering’to the: miséry and suf- fering of the victims of the atrocious warfare that is be- ing waged across the seas. FRANK B. LAMSON, Secretary of Red Cross Christ- mas Membership Campaign. (By F. B. Lamson) e ————————————————————————— The Red Cross membership cam- paign began this morning. The lo- al chapter members have secured the use of M. E. Ibertson’s under- " taking parlors for an exhibit of their work and every citizen is urged to “call there and secure information concerning the work the chapter is doing in the way of soldiers and sailors in navy. Sixty of our leading business will solicit memberships at places of business and the three dru stores of the city have been made headquarters for those desiring to join the Red Cross and for the re- newal of memberships. Membershin Re i ports. A local committee will secure re- on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and membership cards will be handed or mailed to every member from headquarters. It is important that every home in the city be represent- ed by membership in the Red Cross. The committee desires that a Red Cross service “flag be placed in the indow of every homAei i 1. 1t is desi;'rel:i It:llllats%n Thursday the omes that do not display a service flag be located and an effort made to enlist these homes among th army of members of this great or- ganization. ' (The homes not thus represented should be reported to either one of the three drug stores. You are urged to take a morning walk around the block in which you reside on Thursday morning and use your best effort to see that all the homes in your block display the ervice flag. ) Let evesy man, woman and child in the city of Bemidji act as a com- mittee to see that his block has no homes that are not represented in oty 1 . — B A CALL TO SERVICE . i The Red Cross drive for in- Irank of first lieutenant in the Elev- service to thefnesota, the army and | and while there was ordered to or- men f enth battalion, to consist of seven their | privates, a corporal and a sergeant, g| the corps to-be located in Bemidji. o|MILITARY DELAYS * "ONE ‘OF THE BIG GUNS THAT UN CLE SAMIS MAKING ; BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, MONDAY E VENING. DECEMBER 17, 1917, Close-up view of.one of the 14-inch guns that are being manufactured in American arsenals for use aguinst the Germans. e BEMIDJI AUTO CLUB WILL MEET TONIGHT 10 ELECT OFFICERS There will be a meeting of the Bemidji Auto club this evening in the Commercial club rooms for the purpose of deciding upon re-organi- zation.- New officers are to be elect- ed and all members of the organi- zation and all auto owners should be present. . A campaign for membership is tol be inaugurated and all members are to_be furnished with: plates far-their cars and identification cards. The plan for reorganization included many interesting features for the club and Bemidji should have a live auto club, similar to those in other cities and towns. HOSPITAL CORPS IS ORDERED FOR ELEVENTH Dr. E. W. Johnson, who holds the : enth battalion, Home Guard of Min- has returned from St. Paul, ganize a hospital corps for the Elev- Dr. Johnson is the chief surgeon of the Eleventh and will start the organization of the hospital corps as soon as possible. ports from each of the business men NO TRENCH FRATERNIZING NOIIIWE acting as solicitors for membership,, CHRISTMAS BY THE SAM (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17.—The war department predicts no holiday trench amenities between Sammy and Fritz. The latter may try it and may poke Christmas trees over the trench tops but Sammy will shoot them to pieces. RECRUITING OFFICER URGES RED CROSS AID Over four hundred of Bel- trami county’s young manhood have entered war service and it is up to the people of this county to continue their sup- port of every movement that will help and hearten the brave boys who have gone from our midst. The Red Cross organization is doing a much needed work in caring for the sick and the wounded. If is too much to hope that among the number who have entered the service from-this county -there witl ‘et be some who will need the ministering care of the Red Cross. 1 earnestly urge every citizen of the county to join in furthering in every possible way an increased membership in the Red Cross organization. You fellows who have ex- pressed that you were unable, on account of age or physical disability, to enlist in war service, have the golden oppor- tunity to serve your country by enlisting in the Red Cross army. CLARENCE K. FOUCAULT, In charge of Recruiting Office, U. S. Army. Wet and Dry VoteExpected 5 P.M.Today (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17.--The nation- al prohibition amendment is destined to pass the house of congress at 5 o’clock this evening. - AGAIN PLACED ON CONGRESSBY CROZIER (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17.—Admitting too much red tape in army circles, General Crozier, during his question- ing by the senate investigating com- mittee this forenoon, placed the blame for military delays on con- gress. A hot debate followed. The majority is not so wide as the proponents expected at this time, as it is expected the wets are using the dissatisfaction of organized with prohibition. WILL ASK COUNCIL labor T0 TAKE OVER SLIDE At a meeting of the officials of the Carnival association, held Saturday These monsters and others of all calibers are being turned out in great numbers. N HOOVER WILL BLEED PEOPLE NINE MILLION, SAYS SUGAR MAGNATE i (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17. — Claus Spreckles, the big sugar magnate, took another rap at Hoover and his food policies today when he told the congressional food investigating committee that the American people will pay the Hawailan sugar plant- ers $9,000,000 extra next year if the Hoover food administration fixes varices.«m announced-~it-intends.to do. BARKER IS COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Word reached Bemidji today that Lieutenant Earl A. Barker of the battleship Massachusetts will arrive in Bemidji on Friday afternoon to spend Christmas with his family. The entire city of Bemidji will be glad to welcome Lieutenant Barker for no more popular citizen has Be- midji. The band will meet him at the train and so will the Home Guard and the citizenship in gen- eral. Plans are yet to be worked out but the movement has already started. QUESTIONAIRES ARE BEING MAILED TO DRAFT MEN Questionaires have been mailed to registrants whose order numbers were between 1 and 175 inclusive. These were mailed Saturday and an- other lot is being mailed out today. This will be continued every day until all have received their orders. BROTHERS ENLIST George Clark and Frank Clark, brothers, of 521 Fifth street, enlist- ed with Officer Foucault in the Twentieth -engineers and left this noon for Duluth enroute to Jeffer- son barracks. They have a brother in the Tenth engineers. John Har- ris enlisted in the aviation corps and also left on the noon train for Jef- ferson barracks via Duluth. BAER ASKS FIFTY MILLION (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17.—Serious conditions are reported in the west- ern livestock industry owing to drought, by Representative Baer of North Dakota, in troducing a bill to- day appropriating $50,000.000 for government purchase of livestock feed to be resold to farmers on credit. the Red Cross membership. K i Sauer, Bemidji’s Slacker, Bemidji has one man at Jefferson barracks of whom she isn’t one bit proud, at least not at the present, and he is William Sauer, the slacker who had been held for the past sev- .1 weeks in the county jail and K ho has just been taken to Jefferson #barracks from Minneapolis, sent by the military authorities. " Sauer is the fellow who arrived in Bemidji early last summer and worked brief periods in various pla- ces. His actions soon attracted at- tention and the late Deputy Sheriff Denley got on his trail. The arrest of Sauer followed and a book which as’ in New York state. held for the army. held. T S T Takento Jefferson Barracks he carried gave his age as within the draft age and his address He was held by Sheriff Johnson pending further investigation and the federal auth- orities were called into the matter. The result was that a federal charge was lodged against Sauer and he was as last winter. winter sports will be grouped. While in the county jail, was the most cussed prisonmer ever He would do the most unusual and contemptible tricks and was the bane of those in charge of him. He (Continued on Page Four) evening, a committee consisting of A. A. Warfield, H. E. Reynolds and Frank T. Beaver was appointed to appear before the city council and ask that the city take over the toboggan erected by the Carnival as- sociation. It is the plan to have the city con- trol the toboggan, the same to be turned over to the city by the asso- ciation. The club will pay for the replacing of the foot of the slide for the winter sports. There is also a warming house available and it is the intention to have this brought to the site of the slide. Near the foot of the slide it is planned to have the skating ring created instead of having it at the foot of Third street Under this plan the It is also planned to give a dance after the holidays, similar to the one last year which was so successful, the Red Cross to also share in the proeeeds. LESS DRESSES THROW WOMEN 0UT OF WORK (By United Press) New York, Dec. 17.—Over 30,000 women garment makers today appeal- ed to President Gompers of the Am- erican Federation of Labor to use his influence toward giving them em- ployment making uniforms for the FORTY FIVE CENTS PER MONTH NOT YESTERDAY'S NEWS, BUT TODAY'S NEWS TODAY--BY THE WREAT UNITED PRESS I BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER IT A “RED CROSS XMAS”’ [MORE ‘PEACE TALK BY GERMANY,SAYS REPORT; BATTLE OF LAGOONS INITALY PAID RED CROSS MEMBERSHIPS TO RUN FULL TERM the Red Cross membership drive is for the renewal of memberships from New Year's to New Year's, this will not be the method employed in Be- midji, owing to the time various members have joined the chapter and owing to the various campaigns for membership. This is from the offi- cials of the Beltrami county chapter. Several memberships have been obtained as recently as two and three months ago and even more recently and these are to run for a year. They will not expire on the first of Jan- uary as is the custom in some chap- ters in large cities. Several contributed as much as $20 when they were approached for memberships and it would not be fair to such to curtail their member- ship. The idea of the present drive is to INCREASE the membership and the memberships yet to run will do §0. RS. LA JAMBE GAVE CHEESE It was Mrs. Conrad LaJambe who donated the cheese which will be sold by numbers for tne benefit of the Red Cross, instcad of Mr. La- Jambe, the attention of the Pioneer having been called to this correc- tion. SURGICAL DRESSING FEATURE OF WEEK One of the mort attractive feat- ures of the Red Cross membership campaign, inaugurated today, is that at Ibertson’s store, where white roled Red Cross members are giving a practical demonstration of the making of surgical dressings which are in urgent demand. The interior of the store is spot- less in its white and in the display window is the product of the handi- work of the members of the chapter. There is a variety of bandages and there will always be some one there every day during the week to show what the work is like and tell of its need. Mrs. C. R. Sanborn is in charge and will gladly give any in- formation as to classes, etc. 16 INJURED WHEN STREET CARS COLLIDE IN CHICAGO (By United Press) Chicago, Dec. 17.—Sixteen per- gsons were injured, five seriously, when two street cars collided this morning. BANKS ARE CLOSED, PETROGRAD REPORT (By United Press) Petrograd, Dec. 17.—All banks have been closed. News from the south indicates civil war extending. NEW CHARTER COMMISSION TO HOLD MEETING THIS EVENIN The new charter commission will hold its first meeting at the city building this evening, organize and take the oath of office. The com- mission will also discuss the plan of action in drafting a new charter for Bemidji to be voted upon by the people of the city. DRAFT EVADER HAD soldiers. On account of the war and expense curtailment, fewer women's clotkce are being bought and the meakers are out of employment. There is a constant shortage of army uniforms and the women are ask- ing for work in making them. BASKET SOCIAL THURSDAY Tue Medern Samaritans will give a ba-"rt social in the Odd Fellows hall Thursday evening. The Har- lmony orchestra will play. l GOOD SCHEME; TAKEN (By United Press) ? Winnipeg, Dec. 17.—James Mil- lan, reported wanted at Hopkins, Minn., for draft evasion, has been arrested at Winnipeg. He registered in the United States and Canada. Whea questioned in Canada he show- ed United States registration and vica versa. e While in some cities in Minnesota (By United Press) Amsterdam, Dec. 17.—Germany will shortly transmit peace terms to the allies through neutrals and un- der pledges of secrecy. Reports say the peace terms will assert ‘“Ger- many’s political disinteredness for Beilglum, not mentioning Alsace Lor- raine.” Italians On Offensive, me, Dec. 17.—(Official)—The Italians suddenly assumed the offen- sive against the Austrians in the Piave delta sector on armed motor boats and destroyed a small bridge of the enemy, swept over some enemy positions and took some prisoners. Wage Lagoon War, With the French armies in Italy, Dec. 17.—Italy is waging a war of lagoons to save Venice. The strange half water and half land conflict of centuries ago between Atilla and the original Huns reached the same spot that modern Huns have reached to- day. Then the residents fled to the lagoons, establishing Venice. Over some of the lagoons Italy is checking the Huns by highly per- fected land-and water defenses. The section is specially inundated and the Adriatic entrances sealed by mine fields. The Italians are using a lagoon fleet. Motor bhoats armed with machine guns and cumbersome flat bottomed British monitors are co-operating. GERMAN-RUSSIAN CONFERENCE BEING HELD AT STOCKHOLM (By United Press) Stockholm, Dec. 17. — Philip Scheidmann, leader of the German Socialist majority, is here conferring with the Bolsheviki minister, Orlov- sky, on German-Russian peace. Both refused to discuss the terms they were working on. Germany direct- ed the peace terms he discussed here rather than at Brest Litovsk, be- cause at the latter place the Bol- sheviki gave the anglings full pub- licity. HOME GUARD WANTS RECRUITS FOR VACANCIES The Home Guard is looking for more volunteers. At the present there are about twenty vacancies, according to Captain Thomas Swin- son, and he states that a class of re- cruits will be organized and drilled and members will be taken into the guard as soon as properly qualified. These applicants must apply on either Tuesday or Thursday evening and arrangements will be made to accept them into the regular guard as soon as possible. AMERICANS TOLD TO LEAVE RUSSIA (By United Press) Tokio, Dec. 17.—Conditions in Russia are becoming intolerable. Am- erican Ambassador Francis is advis- ing Americans to leave. American refugees arriving here say food sup- plies are scarce and there is internal strife in the torn nation. o|SPY ROBS BRITISH WAR MISSION OFFICE (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17.—A German spy entered and robbed the British war mission offices, it is reported here today. The key to the mission’s private postal box is missing. De- tectives claim it was an ‘“‘inside job.” The mission’s office is the most im- portant bureau of information out- side of England. Important military secrets are kept there. NAVAL PROBE WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY BY COMMITTEE (By United Press) Washington, Dec. 17.—The inves- tigation committee today announced that the house naval probe will open Wednesday with Secretary Daniels of the navy and Admiral McGowan a8 the first witnesses. ——