Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 8, 1918, Page 1

ly Solected Men Have yCertified For Traipi Speci Eight From Southern Part of County, Five From Northern e Portion of County. { e Tomorrow noon, thirteen men of the Beltrami county registration, . specially selected upon order from the government, will leave Bemidji enrofite to the Carnegie Institute of : i Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa:, for spe- " cial training in mechanics under su- pervision of the government. Of the selected list, 2ight are from the Bemidii county district and five from Baudette district, and they are scheduled to entrain at noon. : The thirteen are Beltrami’s .quota called for from Minnesota by the .government, -Every man chosen was required to have at . least. . eighth grade school training and an adapta- bility for technical and mechanical ‘training, experience also being a po- tent factor. ¥ Those who ' make up the Beltrami quota are as.follow Bemidii District. N. E.. Given. William - Smith. * This picture was taken in fl‘rance to. feed, clot) Bk and it shows some of the Amer_lca!;‘ ,b%yee ':fihey’“’hi‘;g ‘;‘;;,fih‘if; E:,}g,‘.;‘_' d| boys putting a little spirit and joy " for you. How much are you y | into life at the front. going: to invest in perfectly good se- curities for them? BARKER GREETS PARENTS OF “THAT WONDERFUL| 0f LaFollgite v ov avaversigy < H Bemidji remembered the call to (By ' United Press) =) ¢ Washington, April 8.-—Congress | + arms one year ago Sunday. Lieu- tenant Barker and his men of the today gave single voiced ‘support to Fifth Minnesota Naval division also A;'e you going to stand by boys and this flag? E The way to do it. is to buy Unite: States bonds of the Third Libert: Loan. = : o these protes Germans Sacrifice Troops. By JUNIUS B. WOOD. With the French armies afield, Alprll 8.——T:v?ntyég\6eo German divi- sions, comprising ,000 men of theg ALLIES OPTIMISTIC ever-increasing reserves, have been! Washington, April 8.—"Each pass-lgacrificed since Thursday before the X 5 \ . (By United Press) c ABLE FROM PERSHIN With' the: Americans afield, April i pulsed a German rajd with German (By United Press) casualties. The Germans were driv- Pershing has cabled, asking the Unit-| trenches, ed States to oversubscribe the Third dollar invested in Liberty Bonds is a.dollar invested in American man-| Amsterdam, April 8.— German mnewspapers, which a_year ago scoffed BRITISH_ACCOMPANIED JAPS war , are now changing their views LANDIN&VLADWOSTOK on the anniversary of America’s en- Washington, April 8.—With the|marine poli N policy, which caused the official confirmation before the state United States to enter the war, a bad _ the Japanese landing at Vladivostok, | Policy. Several newspapers gave this it is authoritively stated today that|as their view in commenting upon : off” policy. ere b o reanch T 4| States entering the war. The Taglische Ruundschau says ghe failed to defeat President Wil- g RE%GU E%A%’%%B%ORT son at the last election. from Finland says the Red Guards have captured 8,000 White Guards, ‘OVERSUBSCRIBE,” IS 8.—Americans northwest of Toul re- Washington, April 8.—General|en off before reaching the American Liberty Loan. He says that every Germans Chanee Views. hood. at the United States entering the (By United Press) try. They consider Germany’s sub- department that British accompanied this country will continue its “hands| ghe first anniversary of the United from the United States. that Germany lost her chance when Stockholm, April 8.—A dispatch and lost 2,000 killed. President Wilson’s warning to .the kaiser, issued in his = Baltimore _|speech ‘Saturday. The-house took up the draft legis- lation, needing quick passage, to in- ‘Whitney Brown. George Worth. Floyd Donaldson. Alpright. Robert E. Beaudrea T e - Burgoyne. . Middleton. ‘William “Foley. The call for- this specialized list was also issued for throughout Min- nesota ‘and the country. The men are to be assigned-to the leading col- leges; - universities . and technical schools of the middle west and east, and the assignment of the Beltrami boys to the technical school founded by -Andrew Carnegie, the multi-mil- lionaire stell magnate and one of the leading schools of its type in the “United States. BRITISH GUNS TEAR HUGE “GAPS. IN GERMAN LINES *% (By:-United Press) With the British afield, April 8.— - British guns pulverized German at- tempts to better their positions out of Bosquby, Sunday. The guns tore such huge gaps in the Teuton lipes that the attempts were abandoned. The German’ locally attacked Han- gard Wood, but the British immedi- ately countered and retained most of the wood, capturing prisoners and machine guns and inflicting -heavy casualties on the enemy. CHICKEN LIVERS FOR RED CROSS MEDICINE (By United Press) ; ‘Washington, April 8.—Under the misapprehension that chicken livers were a valuable medicine and that the medicine derived could be used to benefit soldiers, Mrs. C. R. Weaks of Water Valley, Ky., sent forty pounds to William Howard Taft for the American Red Cross. The latter wrote a long letter to Mrs.” Weaks explaining why chicken livers could not be used for medicine. sts. ‘throug sure smooth working of the second draft call. - “The senate continued its efforts to pass'.@ bill drastically punishing se- ditious propagandists and - disloyal- evoked - criticism 0= At féwspapers, political candidates and speakers, but ‘it is likely of passage. B LAKE TONNAGE INCREASED (By United Press) Cleveland, April 8.—The Great Lakes fleet, carrying ore, grain and fuel necessary to the winning of the war is to begin the 1918 season with greater. carrying capacity than last year, This is despite -the fact that the government has drawn on it for several -boats for ocean travel during the war. The tonnage to be available -for 1918 will be 3,503,450 gross- tons, according to the lake carriers’ asso- ciation here. This -is 14,500 tons greater than the capacity at the close of 1917. 3 Although the official date for open- ing of the lake traffic season is April 15, many boats are expected to make an earlier start. SERGT- MAJOR FEIR IS HOME ON FURLOUGH ‘e, . measure - opening - the per. i InRepudiation (By. United Press) 5 Mondovi, Wis., April 8.—Walter Houser, former presidential manager for Senator Robert LaFolletts, and Hormer- secretary: of ‘éta}te‘ today is- isued a signed statement- répudiating TLaFollette, asserting that he did so “as a duty to my country, my family ‘and my friends.” Houser, was, perhaps, LaFollette’s closest friend. WILL ASK ALL CAFES ~ TO ELIMINATE WHEAT (By United Press) Washington, April-8.—The food administration will ask every first class restaurant to forego.entirely the use of all wheat in any form whatever until next harvest. Some hotels have already voluntarily promised. ¥ ARTILLERY REPORTED VIOLENT (By United, Press) Paris, April 8.—(Official)—Vio- lent artillerying, especially along the Jeft bank of the Oise last night.: We took some prisoners. In the ' Ar- gonne district, enemy surprise at- tacks failed. A. E. (Bob) Feir, formerly assist-| {yNOFFICIAL FIGURES ‘TO ant cashier in the Security State bank, returned Sunday from the aero camp at Garden City, N. Y.,'and will remain throughout the week on fur- | lough. \ Instead of Assistant Cashier Feir, | quarter of a billion dollars is al- he is mow Sergeant Major :Feir of|ready subscribed to the Third Lib- having) erty loan. training| jnistic. the 256th aero squadron, been through the various stations in the aero service, and the finishing touches, before going ‘‘over there,” are in Garden City. ‘“Bob” says he is lighter in weight but that he feels fine and wouldn’t have miss- ed his experience for danything. He expects his ‘address in the near fu ture will be “somewhere in France.” MANY PERSONS ARE AROUSED There’s considerable discussion and considerable harsh comment current throughout the city over the pro- posed Liberty Loan campaign soon to start in Bemidji, the report being to the effect that several women are to make a canvass of the city with cards and interrogate citizens as to their personal and financial affairs, seeking to secure information of a private nature to record on the card as a guide for a practical assessment on the purchase of Liberty Loan ‘bonds. The question of authority for such action has been raised and its le- gality is also questioned, and some of the comments heard are rather lurid, the position being taken by some that an attempt is to be made by solicitors to inquire into affairs to be mnone of their business .~ BYLIBERTY LOANREPORT and with no legal authority as a board of inquisition. Inquiry of those in position to know, relative to this feature, elic- ited the explanation that such is not the intent and will not be done. True, the tax records at the court house have been gone over and cards indexed as to- the amount of taxes paid. On the cards are -questions as to one’s indebtedness and what his income is, ete. Also what he has sub- gseribed to the various war funds, such as Y. M..C. A,, Red Cross, etc. It is also asserted that no attempt to pry into one’s private affairs is to be made, and that there will be no occasion to tell any solicitor to “go jump in the lake’ or something along | ported here that the engineer In short, it is to as-| fireman were killed and forty passen- certain ‘in a measure who are the| gers injured when two New York “glackers” in helping the loyal and| Central passenger trains, patriotic people aid in kicking the|the Empire State express, similar lines. crown off the kaiser. DAY SHOW MILLIONS SUBSCRIBED (By United Press) Washington, April 8.—Unofficial figures this afternoon -indicate that Telegrams continue opti- MRS. C. A. SEVERENCE T0 SPEAK HERE TOMORROW Mrs. C.-A. iSeverance of St. Paul will address the citizens of Bemidji and vicinity at a mass meeting to be held tomorrow, Tuesday, at the Elko theater, immediately following the, first show there in the evening, in aid of the Third Liberty Loan. Mrs. Severance will also speak to the women at the Methodist church auditorium at. 3 o’clock. Mrs. Severance is chairman of the Woman’s National Liberty Loan campaign for the Ninth. Federal Bank district. She has delivered many noted addresses in this coun- try and abroad, and the local Wo- man’s Liberty Loan committee has prepared a rare treat for the people of Bemidji, and every patriotic per- son is expected to do his bit by giv- ing this speaker a large audience. TWO KILLED AND 40 INJURED; TRAINS CRASH (By United Press) Albany, N. Y., April 8.—It is re- and including plowed into freight train wreckage. EARL COCHRAN ONE remembered the call. It was “fare- ;| well” to the blue uniformed young men as they stepped to the military cadence over the pavements to en- train for the coast to help man the sea dogs. It was ‘‘good bye” from the boys. , And from the deck“of-the hattle- ship Massachusetts comes tlie follow- ing greeting, dated Sunday, April 7, to the mothers. 2and fathers of the boys and the people of Bemidji: “One year ago! Doesn’t seem possible. Please extend to the mothere and fathers of that wonderful bunch of boys that came with me my sincere greet- ing and wish. Love to you all. “EARLE A. BARKER.” The wire was dated on the anni- versary of the departure of the naval militia, one year ago, April 6, and indicates that Lieutenant Barker and his “boys” remembered home from the day they answered ‘“Here sir,” when their names were called, by the order from Washington. " OF HONORED CADETS Mrs. George W. Cochran, Sr., and Mrs. W. A. Chichester returned this morning from Culver, Ind.,, where they spent Easter week with Barl Cochran, who is a cadet at the Cul- ver military academy. Earl is taking, dalong with his other studies, cavalry, which is one of the most popular features of the practical instruction afforded by the academy, the methods of instruction being those of the regular United States cavalry service, The most proficient riders of the 250 boys tak- ing "cavalry «re enrolled as the Black Horse Troop, and this troop is well known over the country because of the military appearance and good horsemanship of its troopers. The Black Horse Troop is shipped to Washington at presidential inaugura- tions and there have'the honor of acting as personal escort to the vice president. At Easter time, the cavalry men were given a tryout to fill ten vacan- cies in the troop and out of the 150 boys making the trial, Cadet Coch- ran was selected as ome of the ten best riders chosen for the Black Horse Troop. This is a great honor and the highest compliment to the horsemanship of the cadet. MDONALD SPEAKS T0 KELLIHER PATRIOTS Kelliher is commencing to ‘“go some” in demonstrating her loyalty, for the opera house was packed Sat- urday afternoon when E. E. McDon- ald of Bemidji spoke on the war in general and the Liberty Loan in par- ticular, and he was enthusiastically received. Mayor William Skrief pre- sided and introduced the speaker. In the evening, the children of the Saum school gave a historical review of the year's war in a playlet and another large crowd was present. The young people acquitted them- selves in a most creditable manner and were enthusiastically received. Kelliher is astir with the advent of the Third Liberty Loan and is be- coming one of the most active cen- ters in Beltrami county. ing day finds the allies in better posi- tion to. resist with definite success,” French portion of the battle front| said General MacLachlan, SERVICE CALLS SEVERAL MORE BEMIDJI M Adolph Billadeau and William these were ineffective on account of] Abell, who have been connected with | their inability to follow the Dairy Lunch of this city, have|fantry. gone to Camp Dodge, where they will enter the special school for cooks, from there to- be assigned to a cer-; tain division of the service. Joseph B, Walker = of [ Miss., John Sanderson of Terringtol N. D., and John Oland of Minot, trymen. the others, joined the worth. Kan. Iboard. ! Corporal Clarence Foucault James 8. Lang and artillery. GERMAN'S DETERMINE (By United Press) With the British-afield, April 8.— President Wilson’s determination to support the allies’ troops is not an Daily, facts prove that Hindenburg has decided to force few The plan includes refresh- instant too soon. the issue rapidly and with pauses. ening of his lines. | NOBODY KNOWS Absolute knowledge 1 have none, But my aunt’s washerwoman's son, : Heard a policeman on his beat, Say to a laborer on the street, That he had a letter just last i week, Written in the finest Greek, | From a Chinese Coolie in Tim- ibuctoo, ‘Who said the niggers in Cuba knew, Of a colored man in a Texas town, Who got it straight from a eir- cus clown, That a man in Klondike heard the news, | From a gang of South Ameri- can Jews, About somebody in Borneo, Who heard of a man, who claimed to know, Of a swell society female rake, ‘Whose mother-in-law will un- dertake, To prove that her thusband’s niece, Has stated in a printed piece, That she has a son who has a friend, Who knows when the war is going to end. —Ex. seventh | British a W military attache today, in the war f,’f,‘;‘“{o"“ by-dljp. Germans altempt Brandon, D., algo left for Camp Dodge where |y gntiafre uns. they will enter the service as infan- 851 alrplane:l:'{-egunficcuunted for. Jessie McPherson, who left with Thirty-first engineers and went to Fort Leaven- These men were in-|Haig’s night report said German at-| ducted into the service by the local|tacks on the British lines opposite sent | counter attacks Ben A. David to|placed the British in positions pre- Duluth this nmoon, where they will|vlously held by the enemy. be sent on to Jefferson Barracks.|Germans captured Pierrmande and These men lave enlisted in the coast | Folembray, the statement adds, how-B TO FORCE THE ISSUE| _ v AR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARANAAAAANA alone. Half of these reserves were| ncirgle Amiens from the gouth, while the remainder were sac- rificed in small local attacks, to insure ample reserves. mans brought up trench mortars but| the in- British..Riddle Planes. .. London, _April 8.—(Official)—| Thirteen German aeroplanes were) brought dowsm in the fighting with British airmem Saturday, and 11 -| others were disabled, two shot down Sixteen Brit- British Repulse Attacks. New York, April 8.—General Albert were ,repulsed and British in Avely Wood The ever, GOVERNMENT WHEAT REPORT United Press) April 8.—The con- ion of winter wheat April 1 was One year ago it (By 78 6-10 of normal. was 63 4-10 percent. The forecast predicts estimated production of 560,000,000 against 418,070,000, estimated production in 1917. Rye is also showing a large in- crease, 85 8-10 per cent, compared with 86 per cent a year ago. LUTHERAN PARSONAGE Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock the Lutheran Free church parsonage in the Fifth ward, occupied by Rev. O. P. Grambo, wife and five children, was burned to the ground. The fire was caused by the explosion of an air- tight stove in the pastor’s study. Everything upstairs, including Rev. Grambo’s $1,000 library, was burned, but the furniture down- stairs was saved. The loss of the contents amounted to some over $1,600, and there was no insurance on the furniture and books. Rev. Grambo and family have occupied the residence for the past two years. ANOTHER SHAKEUP IN WAR DEPARTMENT (By United Press) Washington, April 8.—It is re- ported that another shakeup is com- ing in the war department. It is as- sumed that further reorganization is coming as a short cut to the wun- stinted use of force which President Wilson has preached. the appointment of two more assist- ant secretaries of war is a step in that direction. . SHOWS BIG IMPROVEMENT 3§ BURNED T0 GROUND It is believed- P 3 A e B cr il i SRS @)figgm k&