Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 29, 1918, Page 1

- VOLUME XV], NO171 - FUEL SUPPLY - INBELTRAMI 1S PROBLEM; COAL BANREPORTED | Message of vlnqugr_y Fails of Reply; Wood Substitutes Is Also f‘antty” Problem. ' HARDSHIP 1S FORECAST; HOMES MAY BE CLOSED DENOCRATSTO | WORKHARD FOR succassmma Secretary o/f‘ Interior Lane Will Be Sent as One of “Keep Out Politics” Speakers.’ Ton of Coal Twice as Good as Cord of Wood; Little Dif- -ference in Cost. that are being installed all over Parlg B Justi-what. Bemldjj and Beltrami St. Paul, July 29 —Both republi- - county will have to face this winter|cans and democmts expect to com- HENDR'CKSON TAKEN- in the matter of fuel slxpply is prob-| plete the ‘organization of their state 3 Y Jematical, but it is said a’ conference|committees this week. The republi- will' be ‘held in . St.. Paul this week|cans®*will meet Thursday, when the beiween ‘the Beltrami county fuel ad-| congressional candidates, who. failed “ministration and. J.:C. McGee, head| to-name their personal reresentatives - of the state fuel administration, to|on the committee at the last meeting, discuss the local situation, will present the names, campleting MESSAGE UNANSWERED, | the list of members. “The report reached Bemidji that l'll‘het-(zfimoclraits will n:ieetth at fl.‘fi‘ an embargo had been placed on this| ¢3!} Of the chalrman, afc they Wi have a whole system of committees county and there were some hot shots b A passed. out without any mincing - of to appoint, general, executive, advis- | since the day before Memorial day ory and finance. when he arrived home on leave. He lfifi;]fldte{g grflge‘:"a;“s:gznte;hgf The executive committee selected|has been in Bemidji since wearing MecGee: asking anent the report but at the meeting of candidates Tuesday | the uniform of the navy and his rank, the messa,ge remsins unanswered. will be reconstructed after the next| The authorities have been notified of night by Police Chief Ripplé on.a charge of being a deserter from -his ship. The order for his arrest was wired to Bemidji by his commander: Hendrickson has been in Bemidji ‘ave io- Coal .meeting, -when several.of-the mem- | his arrest and action is awaited. s on. Bemidji | 278 ‘expect to~ be transferred to the| - e R * residents, “haye hard coal fur- advisory committee. “naces and he ting plants, will fare| No ma&ggj:vglifilg tfil::sadm a;y”think NONPARTIS AN TR]O ill during this winter, for last win- NEW GAME GUARDS ter many residents were obliged to|of their success, there is no denying shut their homes and shift elsewhere, | that the democrats are optimistic owing to lack of fuel. and they will' put up a real fight for | Fargo, July 29.—Announcing that ‘“politics” has no further place in the work of the board of game and. A Few Wood Figures. their entire ticket. fish control, George Hogue of Steele, “I am still in sympathy with the I. W. W. except on the war,” the wit- ness admitted. ' THIS IS KULTUR. (By United Press.) , With the American Army in France, June 19.—(By Mail)—He was one of those boys who was the g It will be something of a novelty to The edict to burn wood is also & y,yo tne’ democrats. fighting for ythe ur(l)blem th?it: dscltdedly knotty, for election of candidates below the gov- }fiofi,”?{’?&" tohfzt ie‘;‘:rlfig;;lse:e g’;‘,fi ernorship, but every man on the tic-|gecretary of the board, also announc- this center.. It also costs from $1.25 | ket this year is a real candidate and | ed the appointment of the following to $1.50 to cut it and from $1.50 tof Hiere Will be fghiing all Slone the| gistrict deputy gamo wardens: ; i Edward F. Deering, deput; SE h:& load and r;u tffi‘r a't:}aéfiging The campaign will be wa _thaleor. the- E}gh}hw fismct, ‘an irgmfi‘;.e)r' midji-of “about $1 per~cord find( barder ‘hecause Té democr now.| for the Nonpartisan league and son then about 75 cents per eord. to Un- that the public is disposed to let. well | o¢ Frank B. Wood,. vice president of load ‘and~then &dd -from :$1.50 to enoiigh alone so far as public officials| the league. - $1.75 for delivery, 75 cents per cord are concerned' this year. . It will bel = Harry Deuce, Belfield, Tenth dis- for sawing and about-25 cents per |t task“of the democrats’to ovet: trict, publisher of a newspaper that cord “for splitting. And then. this|“®D¢ this disposition-if they can. | pecently declared itself for the Non- doesn’t mean high .class fuel, either., | . T0¢y Will do their best, and they | partisan league. A G oh ATt munns al.)ont 15 have been promisgd aid from thena-| "y P. Knappen, Bismarck, deputy cords, more oF less; and. approximate. tional committee-and speakers of note | for the Sixth district, newspaper pub- ly there are 40 tons of hard coal to] iTom outside the state, including Sec-| jigher supporting the Nonpartisan the car.. There is practicdlly twice ret"?’ Lane, of the Interior depart-| jeague, as muel héating qualities to a ton yaenc. ‘l:Iow They A ’ of coal as there is to a cord of wood " Argue. = 2 andBthidlfiEt qut;tfzfiglzl on hard ‘cosl waehaeto(}mem?scmjfs: gy F{e?,w’f; RANGE MEN HEARD in Bemidji.was S v 5 n Hard. :co: Duluth Was secured throughout the: state ;as -Governor by Bemidii de: t,$7.25 to $7.50 [/Burnquist; that; B.-B. Gislasson''is [N THE l. w .w. TRIAL with freight $2 per ton, with about better known than Attorney General — 75 cents for-delivery, or.25 to 30|Clifford L. Hilton, and that J. S.| Chicago, July 27.—Attorney E. J. cents per ton delivered direct to the|Jacobson is better known than Fred| Kanhall of Duluth and Walter Jac. bin. The profit allowed by law is| W. Putnam, railroad and warehouse| obson of the Iron Range district of also to-be added. commissioner. Minnesota, were witnesses at the L Good: birch costs about $8 per cord | They can't say that Edward Indre-| W, W. trial. on board cars at Bemidji, it is esti.|hus, their candidate for secretary of| = Kendall was attorney for 300 mated and then there are additional | State, is better known than Julius|Finne who were accused of draft eva- charges of about $1.25 to deliver, 75 |Schmahl, or that he is a better vote|gsjon last year. Many of the accused cents per cord to cut. What the deal-) getter, for Schmahl has a record all| he said, registered in jail after learn- er-gets is another matter. his own in the vote getting line. ing that registration did not mean It’s .great to live in a wood ms‘ Indrehus will put up a real cam-|immediatg military service trxct paign and will utilize the fact that| = Jacobson, born of Finnish parents he is a real farmer as well as a labor | i “Minnesota, testified that he was * ““;‘;: man to the best possible ad-|an 1. W. W, until last summer, but a vantage. d FARGO CITY EMPLOYES The democrats reckon confidently deputy eherlft took hisicard aWay and . - on a heavy republican vote for NOT HELD ESSENT[AL Charles A.-Lethert, their candidate E for clerk of the supreme court, be- 2 cause it was the vote of the Non- L 8§ Fargy, N. D., July 29.—Discovery partisan-league in the primaries that 7 ;that-a: city employee had been placed nominated Hermann Mueller, the re- ;1" afizix;ferxt'eg ?Ias»;ifilfation because publican candidate. Lethert already is affidavit declared he was engaged in an essential occupation,.led to the is imaking an active pergonal ‘cam. adoption by the city commission of a paign. resolution declaring that no city em- ployee is so neccessary ‘but that the city can give his services over to the COUNTY s. S. WORKERS Ef,z (;ih:::;sc’%x;x}x{wfllvg.tha;vngtsgcl};ge;‘fl:: government. by reason of his presence. CO&V&TOMORROW One night he had to stand’ guard y =t at an outpost alone, a dangerous TOWNLEY BANKRUPTCY. (By United Press.) St. Paul, July 29,—Bankruptcy proceedings of A. C. ’I'A')wnley presi- dent of the National Nonpartisan league were in the courts here again today. A hearing before G. S. Ives, referee in bankruptcy was set to start late this afternoon. The case has been brought here from Fargo, N. D., where a petition to investigate Townley s financial cir- cumstances, was-granted. ~Books of the National Nonpartisan league Evere ordered brought into court to- ay. Beltrami county’s Sunday school | place. About midnight he signalled convention will convene tomorrow in | the approach of a party of Germans. the Presbyterian church at 10 o’clock | His “ comrades went out the dark and proceed to Diamond Point, where| trench, but couldn’t find him any- the convention will be held. All dele-| where. They looked and looked, and gates and those attending should|then gave him up for lost, though bring well filled lunch baske they knew he’d never quit and he'd If rain interferes with this the|never De taken' prisoner, convention will be held in the Pres- Next morning they found his body byterian church. Te convention will | beaten until it was most unrecogniz- be open to the general public and|able. Beside it was a club, the end all Sunday school workers should at-|of which was wound with barbed tend. wire, the weapon the barbarians had The délegates from the Bemidji | used to batter his body when they Methodist church are: Martha An-|killed him. derson, J. C. McGee, Carrie Brown, Near him were the bodies of three Mrs. Jenie Van Arnum, Dr. F. A.|Germans he had killed before they Shannon, Supt. Balcom of the public|got him. In their haste to get away schools, -Martha Larson, J. H. French, | from the outrage, the Germans had W, L. Brown, Mrs. P. L. Harris, Rev. | left these bodies. B. D. Hanscom, Mrs. T. G Schadegg, There is one company of Ameri- A. T. Carlson, Alice minnick, John|cans that will never forgive Ger- Larson, C. L. Isted, Elwood’ Isted,| many. Edith Anderson, Esther Mcfee, Lloyd La Lonne. STRIKERS RETURN (By Uited Press.) London, July 29.—bStriking muni. tion workers at a mass meeting de- WOMAN ADMITTED TO BAR OPENS DICKINSON OFFICE Dickinson, A\. D., July 29.—Dick- inson-now has a full-fledged woman lawyer in Miss Frances Burnett, sis- ter of Attorney W. F. Burnett. 3 She has just been admitted to the = North Dakota Bar. Miss Burnett passed with the highest honors in a successful class of nineteen candi- dates for admission to the bar. She is the second woman to take up the practice of law in North Dakota. She studied two years at the Uni- BAR BEER ADS ON CARDS. Washington, July 29.—Brewing companies’ advertisements painted on refrigerator cars must be eliminated immediately, railroads were advised today by the railroads administra- cided to return to work immediataly, | tion. Information was sought con- versity of Minnesota and finished|accepting the government offer of|cerning other advertisements or her studies at the University of|mediation. Unskilled labor had «l-|trademarks of commercial houses on “his siren placed on the tower of Notre Dame is one of the 26 fixed sirens approach of the shells from the lang‘muge German gun. each of these sirens will cm'ry a distance of 1,500 meters. the local organization melted away. | North Dakota, ready returned to werk. cars. to. warn the people of alr ralds or the The sound from ] " INEW FLOUR MILL FOR CHARGE OF DESERTION/ “Moose” Hendrickson of the bat-|: tleship Kansas was arrested Saturday] .. SPOONER: SITE GRANTED (Spooner Northern News.) Announcement was made last week that the flour mill, which is to be con- gtructed by J. W, Collins and ‘Charles Miller will be built in Spoon- er near the site of the creamery, as they were unable to secure a suitable site at Baudette, where it was first planned on building the plant. The site was granted by the In- ternational Lumber Company and is ideal for the purpose, as it is located close to the river and is on the spur of:the mill plant and accessible for tedms and vehicles. Work-on construction will hegin at ogte, two loads of material heing de- livered on Thursday of this week. t is expected to build a mill of t\\*enty five barrels cap‘\chy at once a 1 as agriculture is developed in t;l‘s section the plant will be en- latged. The plant will be a valuable addi- tion to the husiness activity of the village and will also furnish a mar. ket for the increasing supply of grain heing'raised in the district. SILVER LAKE SCHOOL ~ FLAG RAISING SUNDAY Silver Lake school had a flag rais- ing and patriotic meeting Sunday, the national emblem having been pu chased through the efforts of the chil- dren and their teacher, Miss E. Per- rault by selling pencils. It was pre- sented to the board of education and citizens by Superintendent -Allinger ot the Cass Lake:Missfon school on behalf of the teacher and her pupils. The acceptance ‘of the flag ‘was hy Clerk McPherson of the board. A feature of the celehrauon was | Sweeping forth, the Americans are ES NFLICT TERRioLE LOSSES; INPORTANTPOIN By Fred S. Ferguson. (United Press Correspondent.) With the Americans Afield, Noon, July 29.—The first counter-athck with the Americans in any con- siderable force since the last German retirement has begun between Nesle and Sergy on a two-mile front east of Fere en Tardenos. A terrific bombardment preceded. The Germans were repulsed everywhu'e, suffering terrible losses. Over 300 dead were piled in a single narrow ditch in a direct frontal rush. The Americans cnptured a foot bridge across the Ourcq and the re- treatmg Boches were shot down as they went scurry- ing up the opposite bank. NO QUARTER GIVEN; NONE ASKED. By Lowell Mellette. . (United Press Correspondent.) With the French Afield, July 29.—Franco-Americans drove the Germans entirely from the important concentration center.of the Fere en Tardenois and proceeded a short distance to the east crossing of the Ourcq river. The allied soldiers took Roncheres and Villersagron. Hard fighting by infantry, cavalry and tanks wuth terrlfic artillery following gave the allies complete possession of the lower half of the wide salient between Soissons and Rheims. Fere en Tardenos was captured only after a desperate struggle lasting many hours. Machine gun nests were wiped out in a bitter struggle where no quarter was asked and none given. The Franco-Americans are proceeding cautiously without wasting men. . CROWN PRINCE RAPIDLY RETREATING By Fred S. Ferguson. oot (United Press Correspondent.).” H ‘ Wlth the Americans Afield, July 29,—The crown prince is rapidly retreating toward the Orue and Velse rivers and may fall back northward and northeastward from Fere en Tardenos, improving positions they took yseterday. AMERICANS WITHIN JAPS REINFORCE FOE 8 MILES OF FISMES. OF THE BOLSHEVIKI IMPORTANT CENTER (By UnitedoPress.) Amsterdam, By JOHN DE' GANDT. volunteers have reinforced Czechs in (United Press Correspondent.) eastern Siberia, Bolsheviki have Paris, July 29.—4 o’clock p. m.— learned., Al ot of the eounty 1o0d | omoviint German soncentration con- - ASK PERSHING” YANKS midji, chairman of the county foo administration, several citizens of this being present, while Cass Lake was also well represented. Ice cream was served at the close of the pro-| gram. It is the intent to have a similar gathering next month or early in Sep- tember. TEN MORE ENTRAIN FOR CAMP TUESDAY Ten more recruits will leave tomor- row for Jefferson barracks, having been enlisted by Sergeant Clarence Faucault of the United States recruit- ing station. Those who will entrain are: William Kaiser, C. A, C., Bagley. Leonard Peterson, C. A. C., Shevlin Conrad J. Paulson, C. A. C., Shev- lin. Ralph Omsted, C. A. C., Fosston. Olaf Holverson, C. A. C., Fosston. Clarence Renne, C. A. C., Shevlin. Clarence Helland, C. A. C., Gon- vick. Clarence Lattin, engineers, Bemidji Herbert Hendricks, cavalry, Be- midji. Frank Andress, infantry, Akeley. SPECIAL CLASS OF 8 ASKED OF BELTRAMI A_call was received today by Judge Simons, cihef clerk of the draft hoard, to entrain eight specials within the five days following August 5, the men to go to Jefferson barracks. A feature of this call is shat mem- beré of the class of 1918 may have the privilege of volunteering. Here is a fine opportunity for the young reg- istrants. ARMY RELIGION MOTORIZED. (By United Press.) Washington, July 29.—Fighting army parsons with the A. E. F. in France are dispensing cheer and mercy from automobiles and motor- cycles. Many denominational war commis- sions, it was stated today, art sup- plying their representatives with these means of getting about on the firing line, ter of the Vesle river. Desperate fight- ing in the new pocket between Ourcq and Vesle. The Germans are attempt- ing to cover their retreat. some of the answers given by Ameri- GEN- PERSHING REPORTS can piisoners fo German officers who PURSUIT OF ENEMY E:Lelsttelrofln them' on naval and military The German officers are furious at (By United Press.) the American prisoners fpr their re- Washington, July 29.—General | fusal to divulge any information Pershing today reportéd capturing whatever, and the coldly sarcastic Seringeset-Nesles, Sergy dnd Ronch-|manner in which the men almost in- ers. variably reply to those seeking in- “North of the Marne,” formation. “our troops continue pursuing the ey e enemy. Despite desperate rear guard action we crossed the Qurcq.” NEARLY 14 B"..LIONS (By United Press.) (By Uniled Press. ) Paris, July 29.—(Officfal.)—No Washington, July 29.—America's change north of the Marne. Over| war bill has reached $13,935,877,000. 400 prisoners were taken. This nation is now spending $50,- — S 000,000 daily or over $2,000,000 GERMAN PUNCH IS i =R GROW]NG WEAKER GENERAL DIAZ PRAISED BY HUNGARIAN GENERAL By WILLIAM P. SIMMS. (Italian-American News Bureau.) (United Press Correspondent.) Rome, July 29.—The Pesti Hirlap, With the British Afield, July 29.—| the principal democratic newspaper Barring the worst luck imaginable|in Hungary, praises General Diaz for the allies the Germans will never | frankly in discussing the Italian again be able to drive forward with|army as well as the valor of our the punch they carried when they | troops. Tt says: opened the 1918 series of drives last “Diaz has given proof of great abil- March. It looks as if the Germans|ity to organize and the manner in are now either certain of forced re- which he has dlrec_ted the operations treat or defensive operations, hoping|in the last campaign deserves most to obtain peace before swelling Amer- | serious attention. ican forces force the Germans to un- R AT conditional surrender. It is now in-; PARIS OFFICIALLY WILL creasingly difficult to fill German RECEIVE HOOVER AUG 2 ranks and political sentiment opposes giving young boys for cannon fodder. Paris, July 29.—The municipality of Paris, officially will receive Her. BOY CARNEGIE HERO WINS bert C. Hoover, the American food ad- SECOND MEDAL IN ITALY ministrator, on August 2. MANY ASK CLEMENCY. TELL ENEMY OFFICERS Geneva, July 29.—‘“Ask Per- shing; cable Wilson!” These are he said, OVER 400 TAKEN. (Italian-America News Bureau.) Alessandria, Italy, July 29.—By a (By United Press.) decree of the provincial authorities, St, Paul, July 29.—About fifty pe- a silver medal for civic valor has| titions for the clemency were before been conferred on Renato Monti di|the state pardon board today when Carlo, a boy student twelve years old. | that body met at the state capitol. He risked his life to save a girl, Gio-| The meeting had been set for July vanini Signori, from drowning in the| 28 and was postponed because At Tanaro river. The boy won a Car-|torney General Clifford .. Hilton was negie medal and $100 not long ago.|in California, July 29 —Japanese-