Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 10, 1918, Page 1

. All Males Between 18 amd 45 Years Must Register at Voting I s Septemher lblh;,/ BEMIDJI DA — VOLUME XVI], NO. 208 NORTHWEST IS AROUSEDOVER NONPARTISAN APPOINTMENT Lindbergh Named Member of ‘War Industries'Board and t People Stunned AUTHOR OF TREASONABLE BOOK OPPOSING COUNTRY Storm of Protest: Liberty Loan Committeemen Will Not Serve If Action Holds ‘Washington, Sept. 10.—The ap- pointment of C. A. Lindbergh, recent Nonpartisan league candidate for gov- ernor in Minnesota, to a place in the War Industries bpard is meeting em- phatic protests from Minnesota and is still hanging fire,"it was ledrned from an authoritative source. A complete record of Lindbergh’s anti-war activ- ities has been glven to.the board. An announcement is expected from the board in a few days. Meanwhile Chairman Bernard Baruch is investi- gating it. The author of “Why Is Your Coun- try at War?” has been reccommended for a publicity job. If Lindbergh gets the appointment his duty will be to educate the public on the subject of priorities. It will be for him to tell why it is important for this industry or that industry to get fuel and raw materials so that the war may be the more vigorously prosecuted. It is understood that the Nonparti- san league through George Creel has been urging the appomtment. It is known strong pressure in behalf of Lindbergh has been brought to bear by persong connected with the adnfin- istration. « -Say- Thev-Won’t ‘Serve. St. Paul,- Sept. -10.—Letters and dispatches received at the state capi- tol told state’officials that many Lib- erty Loan committeemen in the Ninth Federal Reserve district were writing letters "declining to serve in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign if C. A. Lindbergh is appointed to a fed- eral war work position in Washing- ton. .. Travelers returning from trips in the northwest also told officials at the capitol that they knew several such letters had been written and mailed. A. R. Rogers, chairman of the Ninth district loan committee, de- clined to comment on the stuation. JAP FARMERS GET RICH WAR PROFITS (By United Press.) Tokio, Aug. 10.—(By Mail.)—Jap- anese farmers have long purses, well filled as a result of war prosperity which has come to them since last autumn, according to G. Shimura, president of the Hypothec Bank of Japan. © A year ago, these farmers seemed inextricably burdened with debt, ow- ing their banks an aggregate of $100,000,000, and being compelled to pay a yearly interest of $7,500,000, " Shimura said. Today the farmers have taken up $12,500,000 of these loans, are making almost no further ests for loans, and are buying e ivily of Hypothec Bank debentures of the smaller denominations. From being insistent borrowers, they have become. transformed into investors. For three years, the Japanese em- ployed in industries reaped the chief gains from-the war. Last fall, the tables turned. Prices of rice, raw silk and tea were lifted upward by the war demand, and have stayed up. The result is the unparalleled pros- perity of Japanese farmers. On the other hand, these high prices have created a heavy demand for small loans in industrial communities, as factory workers have felt the pinch of the higher cost of living. Since prosperity has attended the life of farmers, deposit rateés of banks in the provinces have become much lower than those of town banks. De- posits with co-operative clubs in agricnltural districts also are in- creasing with astonishing rapidity, President Shimura said. With far- mers so well provided with funds, and with prospects good for even great income from the coming harvests, it is expected that the greater part of any issue of government bonds, such as to meet expenses of the expedition to Siberia, will be purchased by the rice, silk and tea farmers of Japan. TERRIBLE FIRE SWEEPS ODESSA: MANY MISSING (By United Press.) Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 10.— Russian dispatches today state that thousands of buildings were destroy- ed in a hage fire that swept Odessa, and that hundreds of prisoners are missing. SUPREME JUSTICE TO SPEAK AT THE ELKO ON TIMELY WAR TOPICS Judge Oscar Hallam, judge of the supreme court of the state of Minne- sota, will speak in the Elko theater tomorrow night at 8 o’clock, under the auspices of the America First society, and all Bemidji members are requested to wear their buttons when they attend. Judge Hallam is filling engage- ments m,4 extraml county and has been enljgted by the America First organization. to spread .the doctrine of prep: rm_g the’ people ‘for “a Hun peace offensive, certain to -come one of -these ; days, and to_prepare the people for what is in the future and to beware a premature peace propa- ganda. Judge Hallam is one of the best known speakers in the state. He is a lawyer of unusual attainments and his coming will be a great pleasure to all who hear him. CONGRESS OUICK TO CLOSE OLIVER’S SALOONS Washlingtun, Sept 10.—Without a dissenting vote, the house passed, after a few minutes consideration, the senate resolution empowering the president to establish prohibition zones around munition factories, mines, 'shipyards and other \v.xr-pro ducing plants. This is the resolution introduced in the senate by Senator Kellogg with special reference to closing saloons at Oliver, Wis. It is a small village of about 30 persons and when the sa- loons were ousted from Duluth and Superior saloonists and other liquor men started booze joints in the tiny village which is near Duluth and Su- perior and without the banned circle. It immediately became a sodden mass with the flow of liquor. Oliver is a manufacturing center; having a large steel plant, and became the rendevous for-a sordid aggregation. So flagrant did it become that national legisla- tors and state officials carried the sit- uation to the national congress. NIGHT: BRINGS LONDON ITS WAR ATMOSPHERE By United Press.) g London, Aug. 23— (By Mail.)— The real war London is London at ‘night. . London of dayllght hours is a trifle disappointing to the newly-arrived American, eager for ‘‘war sensa- tions.””. He finds no ‘shell holes, no air raid scars, as lie had expected, nothing ih the physical makeup. of the city to indicate it is in the war zone. On the streets are many men in uniform, but a much greater number of civilians than anticipated. People are calm. They go about their busi- ness quietly. There is little talk of war. People don’t seem to like to talk about it. It remains for the night to draw back the curtain. The first unmlstakable “war feel” comes when darkness begins to fill the crooked streets and the Oxford- gray tones of the buildings sink to a sombre brown-black. There is no defense against that darkness, which permeates the city slowly, like a thickening fog, absorbing one outline after another. There is something inevitable about it. On both sides of the street the houses present solid walls of black. Not a pencil of light escapes from the light-tight window-shutters. Failure to close the shutters at nightfall is an offense punishable by a heivy fine. Here and there down the street isa subdued street lantern—under a hood which makes it invisible from above —1looking more like a Japanese lan- tern at a garden party than a street light. An occasional red light marks a subway entrance—an air raid ref- uge. Now and tl;en a pedestndn emerges from the darkness, is dimly visible an instant as he crosses the faint glow near the street light, and then disap- pears into the obscurity from which he came. After 10:30 p. m. practicaally empty. GET YOUR BINS READY FOR COAL DELIVERIES “Notice to all parties who have coal orders placed. with coal compa- nies : “My attention has been called to the fact that it appears that the deal- ears are urging you to put in your coal and it seems necessary for them to ask you to get your places ready for coal. This, I believe. you should do and co-operate with the dealers and get orders in at once, as this lo- cal committee has put forth an extra effort to secure shipment of coal for this county and any delay on the part of consumers in preparing to receive their order will make it hard for the dealers to make deliveries as fast as it comes to Bemidji. “Therefore, I ask you all to prepare your bins to receive your allotments of coal as soon as the dealer advises that he has coal on hand. C. E. BATTLES, Chairman of Beltrami County Fuel Administration. the strcets are fe - BEMIDJI, MINN., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10, 1918 OLD GLORY ‘ON'GERMAN TERRITORY This IFreunch official photegraph shows American and French officers salut- Ing the American colors in Alsace. SGTFOUCAULT | ISORDEREDTO BARRACKSFOR OVERSEADUTY : ters and Will See Service Abroad as the Result WIRE NOTIFIES FRIENDS; “LEAVING MINNEAPOLIS Called to Active Duty When Examined at State Headquar-|! Recruiting Closed by Manpower Measure E. H. Denu, Pioneer Office, Bemidji, Minn. - Minneapolis, Sept. 10.—Passed overseas examination. Leaving for Jefferson barracks tonight. CLARENCE FOUCAULT. The above Q1sp tch was received this moml‘ng‘ by EZHEL, Denu, business manager of the Pioneer Publishing Company, and tells the story of the transfer of Sergeunt Foucault, re-| cruiting officer of the Bemidji sta- tion, closed by the government under | the manpower bill which terminates all enlistments and calls upon all males between 18 to 45 years, inclus- ive, to register next Thursday. Served an Enlishment. i Foucault has served nis term in the coast artillery and was railroading for the M. & I. when the war broke. | He re-entered the service and was as- signed as recruiting officer at the Bemidji station under Major Yost. With the order received Saturday to; close the office and report immediate- ly to headquarters at Minneapolis, Foucault complied with alacrity, his; order being to report for examin‘ationv for ‘“‘appropriate service His mili- tary experience will no doubt take him soon to France and promotion is| certain to follow. REMOVE OLD THIRD LOAN POSTERS: NEW ONES SOON H. H. Comminsky, who is chair- man of the advertising committee for the Fourth Liberty loan, requests that all old Third Liberty Loan post- ers be torn down. School children who see any of these old posters will confer a favor upon the conmnuee| and do their bit for the government by tearing down these old posters. GENERAL RHINOW IS EXPECTED TO ATTEND H. G. ENCAMPMENT Adjutant General Rhinow of St. Paul has written Major H. Z. Mitchell of the Twenty-first Home Guard bat- talion that if possible he will spend a day at the encampment at Red Lake during the Red Lake fair. When he arrives, arrangements will be made to him to the encampment via auto to spend the day aljoted. | THIS DAY IN THE WAR | Sept. 10, 1917—Premier Kerensky | deposes Commander-in-chief Koriloff as a traitor, and Korniloff starts his army moving towards Petrograd. Sept. 10, 1916—Roumanians re- pulsed in Transylvania. Sept. 10, 1915—Germans attack French in Vosges with gas bombs. Sept. 10, 1914—British and French ecross Marne in pursuit of | will go on Sunday in autos. Germans falling back from before Paris. TWO FIRST CLASS AUTO “ DRIVERS WANTED T0 * COLLECT REGISTRY CARDS The Beltr.xml county draft board has two jobs for some good, first class automobile drivers, who are not afraid of weather, night driving or roads. No “tenderfoot” need apply. The jobs are these: One man with car to take up the registration cards Friday, September (notice the day is Friday and the date is the 13th), in the townships of Birch Island, Konig, Eland and Kel- iher. Another man to take up registra- tion cards in townships Brook Lake, Moose Lake, Sugar Bush and Taylor. . Sheriff Andrew Johnson will make the trip to Grygla and northwest of Red Lake. *“1t will be necessary to have these cards in possession of the local board Friday night, so those who wish to volunteer must figure to leave some- time Thursday and be at the farthest point Thursday night to leave. early Friday morning. Those who are interested in this venture may apply to E. H. Denu, at the Pioneer office. Motor Corps mem- bers who wish to offer their services to the government have this oppor- tunity. - ‘BEMIDJI DAY PROMISES TO BE BIG SUCCESS Given a nice day next week, Tues- day, and there will be a huge crowd ;at the Red Lake Indian fair on “Be- midji Day,” when the Twenty--first Home Guard battalion will be in its first annual encampment. Everybody scems to be imbued with the spirit to make “Bemidji Day” a hotter one and Bagley and McIntosh will turn out in large numbers as the (:ompmues from ‘those places will also be in camp with the battalion, while scores from towns miles distant will make the trip on the special train to run from Bemldji and oy auto. The officers will leave nexl Satur- { day afternon to get ready for the ar- rival of the Bemidji company mem- bers and the Bagley and Mclntosh men. The local company members The Red Lake railroad will transport the bag- gage and supplies. There will be sports and a special program on ‘‘Bemidji Day”’ and Be- midji people should use every effort to make it a great success. NEWSPAPERS BIG AID IN GOPHER RECRUITING St. Paul, Minn.,, Sept. Maj. John D. Yost, recruiting officer in command of the Minnesota district since Dec. 1 last, has just returned from a short leave of absence spent in in Washington, and is waiting orders that will transfer him to some other point in the state. The number of Minnesota enlist- ments in the army from the time of the entrance of the United States into the war until the recruiting was stop- ped totaled 15,030, practically half of whom were recrulted since Jan. 1, 1918. Major Yost attributes his success in the Minnesota recruiting field largely to the newspapers of the state. He points out that the newspapers have proved their patriotism by con- tributing practically 300 columns of Duhhcny a week to aid army recruit- ing. b I can’t thank the papers enough,” he said. Lieut. 8. Stephen Da Costa, Spanish-American war veteran, has been Major Yost's assistant. He also will be assigned “elsewhere.” . DISTRICT COUR COURT OPENS Dustrict court npened this morning, Judge Stanton presiding. There is not much of importance on the cal- endar this term and it is not expect- ed the term will last long. Y PIO™ ~ 4 - P o ’ s FORIY-FIVE CE?iTS PER MONTH Driving along the Ham-St. tured Roupy. Rushing toward farm and Rouge farm. and around Rheims. A break with slight opposition. The concentration of artille FRENCH TIGHTENING THEIR GRIP AROUND - ST.QUENTIN; TAKE - IMPORTANT HILL - (By United Press.) Paris, Sept 10.—In their advance against St. Quentin, the French captured Hill No. 103, less than four miles south of the : |city, said a war office statement today. Quentin road, the French cap- the Hindenburg line north of La Pere, the French swept across the Croza canal at many points and advanced two miles beyond, seizing Clastres, Montescourt, Lizerollers, Remigny and Fortliez woods northwest of Canter’s BREAK WOULD MEAN DISASTER. Particular attention is being given by the Germans to the three hinges of their line,—in Flanders, northeast of Soissons, through at either point by the Allies would spell disaster to the army. Therefore, the German high command is buttressing them for eventualities. ’ In Flanders the German strategy seems to be obliteration of points vulnerable to sharp assaults. Particularly is this notice- able along the Lys river south of Ypres, where the Germans are reported to have removed all their artillery to the east side of the river, and a little to the north around Wytschaete, where the British have advanced their line nearly a mile and apparently ry of all calibres, including ma- chines and large bodies of men in the region of Soissons,. where every nook and cranny of the rolling country contains hordes of defenders, proves the importance the enemy places in hold- ing this territory, while nothing is being left undone in the region around Rheims to strengthen in gun and man-power the ize are soon to come. 72 UARTS OF BOOZE INTO BRANDT'S CLUTCHES AT EARLY MORNING HOUR One of the most pathetic sights in Bemidji this foremoon was the con- tents of two trunks in the clutches of J. B. Brandt, chief of the Indian agents, the contents being 72 quarts of perfectly good booze, reposing in the back of a perfectly docile jitney. A few of the friends of Mr. Brandt happened to spy the car and its load with Brandt at the wheel. He cour- teously stopped while the friends gathered around the car and its pres- ‘ious cargo. It was evident some of the bottles in the boxes had been damaged and there were several long breaths taken on the part of the mourners as they recalled days lang Iyne. 1t was indeed, ]ml]wur Two trunks, innocently strayed over the N. P. into Bemidji at 4:30 o'clock this morning. On Lhe trunks was an address and the destination International F Poor Interna- tional Falls. Like a nound hot up~ on the trail of a rabbit, the Indian agent chieftian, aided by Agent “Tom"” Wold, landed upon the inno- cent appearing trunks from which emanated the odor of law violation and the locks were forced. And there was revealed 36 quarts of Clearbrook Bourbon in one trunk and 36 quarts i of the same brand in the other trunk. And International Falls will cough hoarsely with parched throats, for the booze was taken from the train and will be ticketed 1o St. Paul and to the Public Safety commission for de- struction. 3 MEN BETWEEN 32-36 YEARS AND 19-20 YEARS FIRST IN NEW DRAFT' (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—-Men be- tween 32 and 36 years old, inclusive, and 19 and 20-year-old registrants will be called first in the new draft,] Provost Marshal Crowder today an- nounced. Eighteen-year-olds and those above| 36 years will he called later. ! September calls will exhaust the| original Class One. : | AMERICAN WOMEN ARE ‘ CARING FOR OUR SOLDIERS (By Lmte(l wax.x : |4 London, Aug. 19.-—(By Maii.)-— | American women over here are huw‘ looking after their soldier boys | More than 600 are enrolled in ”lhl German line, against the assaults the Germans apparently real- “Care Committee” which has sub- committees all over England, Scot- land, Wales and Ireland. Every Amercan soldiers who re- turns to England, his temporary “blighty,"” sick or wounded, is visited and supplied with comforty of vari- ous kinds—gifts of flowers, fruit and delicacies, as well as articles of cloth- ing. These American women work un- tiringly. They assist men who have run-out of funds, organize picnics, river trips and sight-seeing excur- sionss, as well as write letters home for those of the boys who are unable to do so themselves. This work was begun hefore Amer- ica came into the war, for even at that time there were many Ameri- cans enrolled in British and Cana- dian regiments. Some of them are now discharged because of wounds, and in such cases the Care Committee provides them with facilities for re- turning to their homes in the States. LAVINIA GROCERY IS DESTROYED BY FIRE The frame Lavinia grocery, of which George N. Wood is proprietor, was destroyed by fire yesterday noon while the owner and his wife were at dinner. Just how the fire originated is un- known. It * partly insured. The store was the only one in La- vini nd was also used at mail head- quarters. GONVICK SOLDIER IS KILLED IN ACTION (. K. Anderson of Gonvick has been killed in action, according to the last casualty report, sent to the war de- partment by General Pershing. GIBERCOURT TAKEN BY FRENCH: OFFICIAL (By |nl(ul Press.) Paris, Sept. 10.—Striking toward St. Quentin from the south, the Frenel are progressing toward Hain- le Grand. acourt and vam BOSTON GRABS THIRD GAME FROM CHICAGO Boston, Sept. 10.—The Boston Ame ns got the big edge in the world’ series by beating the Chicago Nationals in a mad scramble for the fourth game yesterday, by a score of 3 to 2. This gives the Red Sox a lead of three to one in the series and it is necessary now for them to win only one more game to make them the war-time basehall champions of the world