Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 18, 1918, Page 2

'FARMERLOYAL ~ AVERS WILSON, VOLUME XVI, NO. 162 EXTRA! COMPTROLLER \yrned Tail, OFSTATEFOOD| RanikeHell, Washington Credits Minnespta With Being Best State in Conservation. PAYS i-llGl-i COMPLIMENT TO DIRECTOR REYNOLDS St. Cloud Normal President 'Extends Greetings to New .Bemidji Normal. “Prof, ‘A’ D. Wilson, Minnesota fed- “eral food administrator, and Pres- ident Brown of the St. Cloud state normal, addressed, business men at the noon ‘day luncheon Wednesday, in the Commercial club rooms. - JIn his talk Mr. Wilson said: “The people in general throughout the state are co-operating in the en- forcement "of the food regulations. Yau K"Report By FRED S. FERGUSON. (United Press Correspondent.) With the Americans in.the Cham- pagne, July 18.—The Americans are still advancing everywhere along a ‘25-mile front. As this is cabled, at 4:20 o’clock this afternoon,” American Commander Giyray, reporting prog- ress to headquarters, wired: . “Met Boche in his line of re- sistence. Sharp fighting, Boche turned tail, ran like hell. Our troops pursued, Hope to have more prisoners.” + West of Chateau Thierry the Amer- icans have captured -the following towns: Villers,” held on Dammard Courchamps, Licyolignon, Monthiers, Torcy, Belleau, Givray, St. Gengholps, "{}‘? nation needs. men, money:and | Haytesvens and:-other-villages and ' i proud of Bemidji for- the imen; she--hag farms. - - At headquarters, . ~all sectors: are given-~to the service. ) sking permission to pusn further but There is no danger of a food famine|ji is’ essential the line be held because the prospects for the coming, strajght. It is necessary to hold some year are better by far than las. year. We could feed the Allied nations. Farmers Are Loyal. - . “The farmers in Minnesota, I find, are just as loyal as any group of Americans. The added .crops they have planted this year are glowing indications of their loyalty. In fact, all classes of people are playing the game splendidly. i “Washington gives Minnesota thé reputation of being the cleanest state in the union with referénce to carrying out food regulations, espe- cially that of the sugar order. “We certainly appreciate what | H. E. Reynolds, your county food ad- ministrator, has done and is doing. He gets nothing for his service and _the co-operation.you,_ give him will be very much appreciated.’” . Great Day to Live. Prof. Brown -declared in his talk that today is the greatest day of all days in which to live. It is the time of opportunity. “The.schools,” he said, “must be| given credit for the success of the men at the front. Schools must con- tinue, not because of the war but in spite of the war. The boys and girls must be educated to take the place of those departed. “More progress has been made in .- science during the past two years than in the previous 20 years. “] am glad to extend St. Cloud’s best wishes to the new Bemidji nor- mal school ‘and assure her co-opera- tion for its future welfare.” g SERVICES chgfi‘fln&u nold seryices - in ' the Nymore Jutheran Free chutch this evening at 8 o*clock. units waiting the arrival of adjoin- ing units. . This is the greatest Boche pur- _suit the ‘Americans.ever had. Enor- mous numbers of prisoners have been taken, it- being impossible. to "esti- mate the number. = American air- planes co-operated. The surprise of th,e Boches is complete and the con- ntration for the attack was perfect. Field guns and horses were cafried on trucks to the battle line. PERSHING WIRES COLONEL SAYING SON WAS LOST BEHIND ENEMY’S LINE . (By United Press.) Oyster Bay, New York, July 18.— Colonel Roosevelt ;today received a cable from General Pershing saying his son Quéntin had been lost behind the German lines, reported missing. Oyster Bay, July 18.—‘‘Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him.” Theodore Roosevelt after press dis- patches had furnished confirmation of earlier reports that his son, Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, had been killed. ROOSEVELT NOT MENTIONED IN PERSHING’S CASUALTY LIST Washington, July 18.—General Pershing’ casualty list today contains 57 names. That of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt is not mentioned. - o A, POTATO FLOUR INDUSIRY IN. - BEMIDJI IS NEARING REALITY fiemidji’s potato flour plant is near-| ever saw, its large storage capacity ing a reality, and when it is consid- ered there is only one potato flour factory in the United States, it will ‘mean that Bemidji will have the sec- ond. The one now .in operation.is in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and is a great success, earning large returns-on the investment with demand heavy for its output. There are other plants us- ing potatoes throughout the potato sections of the United States but are starch’ factories and manufacturers of other lines in which potatoes play an important part. It is not generally known that be- fore the outbreak of the great war, Germany had 400 potato flour plants in operation and now has 2,600, there figures according to statistics. Hol- 1and has one plant which uses 35,000 bushels of potatoes per day. Japan, it is stated in statistics, sends an average of 35,000,000 pounds of po- tato flour to the United States, whole- saling in price at 12 cents per pound. Equipment Man Here. H. E. Gubalke of Minneapolis, rep- resenting the concern that manufac- tures potato flour machinery and equipment, located at Baltimore Md., and said to be the only industry of its kind in the country, was in Be- midji yesterday, sent for by Morris Kaplan, who is instrumental in or- ganizing a stock company to begin the manufacture of potato flour in Be- midji, the hub of one of the greatest potato growing centers in the coun- try. The plant of the Bemidji Brew- ing company has been purchased and it is'8aid by Mr. Gubalke to be one of the best structures for the business he being a marked feature. Quoting From Hoover. Quotintg from a statement by Her- bert Hoover, national food adminis- trator, he says: Among the different foodstuffs, nione of them has been brought into more prominence and importance than the poato. It has become the bulwark of the agricultural defense of Germany: ‘Itis becoming more and more the basis of defense in every country.” “The potato marketing of the Unit- ed Sates is one of our worst organ- ized industries. The percentage of loss between the producer and the ultimate consumer is enormous. The ebb and flow of production gives it a fluctuating price from year to year that stifiles consumption on one hand, destroys the habit of eating poatoes and, on the other hand, produces gluts in whtch the producer is brought to total loss.” Strong Endorsement. Dr. H. E. Horton, government ag- ricultural commission, says: “In Europe, potato flour is used regularly, and spec¥al cook books are published for its utilization in all kinds of bakery goods. The immi- grants from northern Europe, accus- tomed to the use of potato flour have created a market for that commodity in this country. In 1913 we import- ed 16,710,498 pounds of potato flour and starch. The war cut off the sup- ply, but the demand still exists and there is an excellent chance to make big money manufacturing potato flour in this country from the potatoes now almost a total loss.” It seems as though Bemidji was destined to become the home of an- other thriving industry. This statement was issued by Col. | . Who Saves, Serves; Who Squanders, Shirks --- Prepa ~"An artillery horse and side-chairs arg impressed intoithe service of trans- porting wounded Tommies to the rear, ’-:, IBROOM FACTORY MAY THIRD PAYMENT ON LIBERTY BONDS DUE ‘W. L. Brooks, chairman of the Bel- trami County Liberty Loan commit- tee, again calls attention to the neces- sity of making the third payment im- mediately on the Third Liberty Loan bonds purchased during “the April campaign on the regular government plan. The payment is for 35 per cent of the purchase, or at the rate of $17.50 for each $50, and is due today. ‘While an effort is being made to notify each purchaser of the paymert being due, Mr. Brooks made his pub- lic announcement that none. should allow the date to pass without turn- ing his money over to the government for war use. The final payment-on the bonds purchased under the government plan will come Aug. 15, when 40 per cent or §20 for $50 bonds will be due. CALL FOR EXPERIENCED LIMITED SERVICE MEN The local draft board has received a call for limited service meu who are competent in logging and handling of such work, the men to be employed in spruce production in the state of Washington for the aviation section. Men of ability ‘only are .wanted, men who are competent to assume the position of foremen and assistant foremen. All who wish to learn de- tails about this branch of service should call at the offices of the draft board in the court house, wherc names will be registered and the proper authorities notified, after which the men will be called. KENTUCKY JAVA NEXT. (By United Press.) Covington, Ky., July 18.—Mrs. William Hub likes a good cup of cof- fee and she's going to have it wheth- er the Huns make any dent in the South American trade or not. She has planted her own coffee, and has a nice little crop of it ma- turing rapidly in her war garden. Mrs. Hub has sent a sample of nearly ripe coffee to the national war garden commission, Washington, so that body may encourage starting of other “plantations” in war gardens if it sees fit. “DRYS” T0 OPEN STATE CAMPAIGN AT BIG LAKE St. Paul, July 18.—Sherburne county will have a county option elec- tion Aug. 12, and it is announced that the drys will open their cam- paign with a rally at Big Lake, July 21, which will be addressed by S. R. Van Sant, former governor and chair- man of the Minnesota Dry federation, which has been asked to help in the campaign. - Sherburne county voted wet by a narrow margin in its first fight, July 12, 1915, the vote standing 884 to 909, against abolishing saloons. PIAN MEMOXIiL HOME. (By Unite | Press.) Atlanta, Ga., July 18.A movement for building « memorial home in memory of the late Judge Robert T. Daniel F. Griffin, Ga., who grand sire of Odd Fellows’of the world at the time of his death, h Jbeen started by the Grand Lodge of ‘GeorgiaA The home will be for indigent Odd Fellows and Rebekas and their chil- dren. FAR-SIGHTED WORK. (By United Press.) London, July 18.—Farm scholar- ships are being given sons of Serbian farmers in a movement for the recon- struction of Serbia’e agriculture after the war. Already a number of Serbian youths are receiving instruction in Scottish agricultural colleges. The expense of these farmer stu- dents is provided was | ~ LOCATE IN THIS CITY : 'William Wiggham, one of tli¢ pro- moters of the Northwest Broom and ‘Brush company, which is to be lo- cated in Bemidji, laid the proposition of organizing the new concern before the members of he Commercial club ‘Wednesday noon. i 'Mr. Wiggham stated that the fac- tory expected to employ between 18 and 20 men, who would receive sal- aries from $4.50 to $8 per day. Bemidji was selected as the proper ‘ncation because of its excellent rail- road facilities, and it was through the effort of the industrial commit- tee, George-T. Baker,~chairman, that the decision was so promptly reached. The company desires to sell a small amount of stock in $25 blocks, and expects to pay 8 per cent on pre- ferred stock and an equal amount on common stock after all preferred ¢tock has. receiver its percentage, They figure that the earnings will run to 20 per cent. The machinery to equip the fac- tory- will cost about $2,000 and in- dications are that operations will be- gin this fall. B A stock subscription petition is be- ing circulated and if $1,000 is reach- ed the plant is assured. DOUGHNUTS WAKEN THOUGHTS OF HOME BY FRANX I. TAYLOR (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the American army in France, June 16. (By Mail.)-—He was one of t {uiet, likeable sort of chaps who little and does a lot. He never talked enough about himself so that you could know him, yet you liked him and trusted him because you could’t help it. He used to come in from the tren- ches during the day and do anything he could to be useful around the Salvation Army hut run by the Mec- Intyre Sisters of Mount Vernon, New York. He would stand watch at night and come back to help the girls in the daytime. They couldn’t persuade him to sleep. Fe Disanppears. Then his company moved, and the girls missed their chief~doughnut dip- per. They often inquired what had happened to nim. But no one knew anything about iiim, and they heard frem him only through an occasional brief note from the trenches a few miles to the norun. One morning Miss Irene was roll- ing doughnut dough, and Miss Gladys was dipping them in the boiling grease, when the former chief dough- nut dipper stumbled into the hut. He looked tired and footsore, and he was dusty. “Gee, it’s good to see you,” he said after the girls had given a drink and fed him some doughnuts, which he ate silently. They waited for his story which he did not begin. STATE WILi. EXHIBIT ITS RESOURCES AT BIG FAIRS St. Paul, July 18.—Agricultural exhibits, showing the resources and opportunities of Minnesota, are to be shown at state fairs throughout the middle west hy the Minnesota state board of immigration, according to plans of Fred S. Sherman, commis- i r of immigration. mbling the agricultural exhi- now being done by A. M. Op- tant commission, and W. C. salh, a; 1ibit expert. Motion pic- be shown of agricultural, manfacturing, mining, summer re- sort scenes. The itinerary for the exhibits is as follows: Springfield, T11ld Aug. 9 to 26; Indianapolis, Aug. 31 to Sept. 7; South Bend, Ind., Sept. 9 to 14: Peoria, I11., Sépt. 20 to 28; Waterloo, Towa, cattle congress, Sept. 30 to Oct. 6; Kansas City, Interna- re For W.S.S. Pled, FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH. LABORTHROWS [ENEMY STILL HATIN ARENA; | HALTED AFTER FULLTICKET | FOURT T0 BE NAME == iskainy DRIVE Bumqui)ut and Wheaton De- |Franco-Americans Safely Hold clared . Inimical to . the Cause of Labor in State. Allied Lines, Also Inflict Heavy Losses. FORMER HIBBING MAYOR |SECOND PHASE BEGINS IS POSSIBLE CANDIDATE Delegate WamaVAgainst Labor Entering Politics; Labor Board Under Ban. Virginia, Minn.,, July 18.—The Minnesota Federation of Labor in its thirty-sixth annual convention here officially threw ts hat into the polit- ical ring with the passage of a reso- lution ordering the calling of a con- vention to be held in St. Paul.on Aug. 24 for the organization of a separate Labor party, and the nomination of a complete state ticket. Both Gov- ernor A. A. Burnquist and Fred E. Wheaton, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, were declared indmical to the cause of labor. L Though no official announcement has been made, it is believed that the’ caucus will mark a combination of_ labor, with the Non-partisan lea- gue. President S. S. McDonald of the North Dakota Federation of Labor, who spoke, told how well such a com- bination had worked in his state. His speech was well received. Ar- thur LeSeur, an official of the league, also addressed the delegates and met a cordial welcome. Candidate in Doubt. No further mention was made at this morning’s session of a possible gubernatorial candidate. To date, however, no one has appeared on the political horizon as even a bare pos- sibility except former Mayor Victor Power of Hibbing. His indorsement by Fornier Mayor Michael Boylan of Virginia was well received. Boylan rapped Burnquist as an autocrat. Resolution Adonted. - The resolution calling for the adoption of a separate party was adopted despite an unfavorable re- port by the resolutions committee to whom it had been referred, after it had-first veen presented to the entire convention. - The resolutions com- mittee added two, recommendations, providing labor should not attempt to control the popular will in politics but should nevertheless vote solidly for the candidate whose platform was for the best interests of labor. When the matter was brought on the floor, however, the convention ordered the two recommendations, which practi- cally annulled the entire resolution, voted out. / y Warns of Politics. A fight developed nevertheless, be- fore the entire resolution was adopt- ed. Frank Golden of Minneapolis asserted that entrance into politics caused the downfall of the Knights of Labor, the organization preceding the American Federation of Labor. His statements were disputed by other delegates who asserted the cause of the downfall was merely the fact that unions all over the country had gotten their hands into the fund of the national organization and wrecked it. Cut Out State Board. The convention also decided that it would have no dealings in the fu- ture with the state labor poard, but would bring all its disputes up to the national war board. “Yank”firifigs In 159 Huns; -4 Others Die (By United Press.) With the Americans in the Cham- pagne, July 18.—Sergeant Brown walked into American headquarters with 159 prisoners, after capturing them alone with an automatic rifle, and reported: “Sorry, sir. Was unable to bring all 1 had. Four wounded died on me.” VERY GOOD. ENGLAND. (By United Press.) London, Juiy 18.—The profiteer is having a hard time of it. In a little more than three months proceedings were taking against 7,086 alleged profiteers with convic- tions in 6,603 cases. Of 10,164 persons prosecuted for violations of the food control law. out of the Agri-|tional Farm Congress exposition, Oct.| convictions were obtained against cultural Relief of Allied fund. 16 to 26. 9,090. B — —. e R IN CHAMPAGNE SECTOR French and Yankees Attack Between Fontenoy and Bel- . leau; Make Gains. BULLETINS - (By United Press.) - Washington, July 18.—Gen- eral Pershine today reported that the Americans gained en- tire possession of their sector on the south bank of the Marne yes-- terday. German thrusts against the Yankee northwest of Cha- teau Thierry were completely broken un. AMERICANS ADVANCING / London. July 18.—An author- ative view here is that the Fran- covrAmerican counter offensive is progressing satisfactorially. On account of this there is little likelihood of Evernay falling in- to enemyv hands. There is little change on either side of Rheims. ENORMOUS TEUTON LOSS. Paris, July 18, —The Paris Matin estimates that the army has_sustaintd 70,000 casualties in the first two davs of fichting at Dormans Pocket. south of the Marne. By FRED 8. FERGUSON. (United Press Correspondent.) With the Americans.in the Cham- pagne, July 18.—The fourth day of the battle finds the Germans still halted in attempting to reach Rheims. The stnbhorn Franco-American re- sistence cast of Chateau Thierry and casl of Rheims safely holds the allied lines, also inflicting heavy losses upon ih2 cnemy. Near Mezy and Jaulgonne, Boche American regimental commanden esti- mates 5,000 dead in front of his com- mand alone. Near Lemesnil the su- premest effort of the Germans gained only sixtenths of anile. The attack today is apparently cen- tering on an attempt to reach Eper- nay. It is estimated that 120,00 Ger- mans ard engaged on the entire front. - Second Phase Begins. (By United Press.) Paris, July 18.-—The second phase of the German drive in the Cham- pagne sector began this morning when the allies passed from the ag- gressive to the defensive, the enemy directing its heavest blow toward the Rheims mountains. Hun losses are estimated at 60,000 in this sector. Franco-Americans Advance. By WEBB MILLER. Paris, July 18.—(Official.)—Fran- co-Americans attacked this morning on the 36-mile front between Fonte- noy to Belleau. Initial advances were from one to nearly tow miles made at some points. Prisoners were taken. 8he Marne-Champagne 1s unchanged. The German rush near Monthewill was checked. Near Prosnes the Ger- man attack failed. GERMANS ARE FALTERING. By ED. L. KEEN. (United Press Correspondent.) London, July 18.—The fast dwind- ling German efforts, originally spread over a 50-mile front, is now concentrated on 20 miles, between Virigny and Combligny, attempting to advance toward Epernay and pinch off Rheims salient, is lagging and the advanece is petering out hourly. Else- where it is fluctuating and local at- tacks are decreasing in power and in- tensity. East of Rheims, the Franco-Ameri- have completely stopped the cans Germans south of the Marne. From Chateau Thierry, eastward to the junction with French and Americans, they are holding like a stone wall. Thus far the Germans have failed to attain any objectives they had planned. There is just the barest possibility that instead of using reserves in an apparently fruitless effort to take Epernay, the Germans will attempt another gamble and attack the Brit- ish in the Somme and Ancre where the Boche artillery is active, but Brit- ish artillery is alert and in the mean- time the allied reserves are growing. SERVICES TONIGHT. J. R. Sand of Cloquet will hold services in the Nymore Lutheran Free church this evening at 8 o'clock. HDAY OF