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

VOLUME XVIL. NO. 234 BEMIDJI PULLS VICTORY FRON BLACKDUCK BY SCOREOF 7106 Hair Raising Finish in Last Two Minutes of Play by Forced Pupt TWO FIELD GOALS NET BLACKDUCK ITS SCORES Doran Dashes Behind Goal and Falls Upon Ball; Phibbs Kicks Perfectly butplayed thrbughout the game un- til the last two minutes of play, \Be~ midji’s high school football eleven ‘ nosed aut the Blackduck high Scliool planes, valued at $9,000,000 but now obsolete, and 500 additional motors valued at $750,000, some of which may be used on submarine chasers. * “Among other surplus material found,” the war department says. “was 4,500,000 feet of 3%-inch rope. »“Other goods found and put to use were 500 pairs of field glasses worth team yeé'terday afternoon on the ", “Blackduck field, score 7 to 6, in favor of Bemidji. Complete reversal ot form on the part of the Blackduck team marked the hard fought contest, the Black- duck team being slaughtered when it met Bemidji the opening game of the season on Athletic park, Bemidji. For_the greater part of the contest the Blackduck bays kept the ball in Bemidji’s territory and the locals . fought on the defensive throughout. Blackduck Scores. ™ In the second quarter the Black- duck boys kicked goal from the field and repeated the performance in the third period, scoring six points, Not a scrateh did the Bemidji boys get until the time was practically up. ‘With but two minutes to play, Simons was forced to kick. A Blackduck player attempted to intercept the ball, making a jump. His hand hit the ball which went over the goal line of the Blackduck team Doran was “There Like a‘flash Doran dashed past the defender ' of the*goal and- pounced upon the ball behind Blackduck's line. Phibbs kicked'a perfect goal - and the score registered seven as the whistle blew, and Bemidji rooters went wild. Many Accompany Team. A large crowd saw the contest, The senior and junior classes of the high school were excused to allow the stu- -dents‘to accompany the team and they were present in numbers. Séveral Bemidji citizens ‘were also present, and Superintendent Bolcom was also an intrested spectator.. Autos car- ried the team and rooters to Black- uck and the latter rooted hard for theh- voys to ‘pull ’er out.” And .they did. TurklySeeks ~ Peace Terms - From Alligs (By United Press.) Washington. Oct. 10.—Renresenta- . tives of the new Turkish government are negotiating with the allies as to rms upon which: they may with- draw from the war, the United Press authoritatively learned today. MILLIONS FOUND IN UNUSED WAR GOODS Washington, Oct.. 10.—The dis- covery of millions of dollars worth of unused or worthless war material has resulted from a survey made by the purchase, storage and traffic division of the general staff. In the division of military aero- nautics_alone $10,000,000 worth of supplles of all kinds has been found and be put to use or sold. Among the items were 150,000 gallons of oil worth $75,000, 417 typewriters val- ued at $25,000 and 200 tons of hay valued at $3,000. Training planes, and worth $75,000, a type now- obso- lete, were found as were also 128 1. W. F. airplanes worth approxi- mately $1,427,000; 1,500 J. N. 1 air- 300 in number $37,500. depot at Omaha. supplies to the value of §7 discovered in this same immediately shipped overseas. This was found in a supply Other emergency 5,000 were ation and | Parchet of New York City were in "BEMIDJI DA Iver sinée the douuin,; out of the St. Mihiel salient the tommat!ons of M(-tz lmvo heen uuder the fire of the Amer- aean artillery. MOVING PICTURES TO BOOST MINNESOTA C. E Buckbee, Arthur Appel, Iva C. Cappe, all of St. Paul, and A. A. Bemidji today in the interest of the Ten Thousand Lakes association of Minnesota, the-visitors being on a trip down the Mississippi from its source at ‘State Park, the trip to ter- minate at the Twin Cities. Moving pictures of varfous scenes| of interest are being taken for the promotion of.the advertising cam- paign for next season ‘and various scenes were: taken today in and around Bemidji, Secretary Reynolds of the Commercial club acting as chaperone of the party The pictures will be shown in various leading pic- ture houses outside the state. THEY HOOVERIZE IN THE ARMY NOWADAYS (By United Press.) With the “American = Army in France, Sept. 16. (By Mail.)—The boys over there are not going to let the folks back home excel in this game of Hooverizing. The boys have been getting letters from the folks in U. S. A, teiling about food saving. Some mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers were going without things they wanted, that the fighters might have more. To show its appreciation of econ- omy back home, the army has begun a similar campaign to ‘‘save grub,” as they call it in the ranks. The campaign is one of saving without denial. Men cannot stand; the strain over here is they are denied enough food. But they can save without being stingy. There are several ways of going at “gaving grub” in the army. One is to avoid over-helpings at the camp kitchen or the mess. The cooks in the army are good scouts and proud of their creations, and when a doughboy shoves up his plate for a meal, the tendency is for the cook to get enthusiastic and dish out more than any normal man can eat. They are much more careful about helpmm; now than formerly, and if a man’s belt is not tight after his first plate of “chow’” he may go back for more. They're utilizing surplus fat in all meats for cooking grease, instead of just frying it away into smoke. Crusts and dried bread will make good material for various dishes— probably there’ll be more puddmg\ than usual in the army now. It won’t make the doughboys mad. The American army has better “chow" than any other in the army now, ‘and the men in it realize that they are under obligations to the rest of the allies to economize on the food. ELMER WILCOX MAKES SUPREME SACRIFICE ON FRENCH BATTLEFRONT Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Wilcox of Lake Plantagenet have received a tele- gram, announcing the death of their son, Elmer Wilcox, who died in action in France on September 13. He was in the infantry OUTLIVED USEFULNESS. IS SUICIDE'S EXCUSE M. W. Vail, near Blackduck and owns consider- able farm land in this county, com- mitted suicide by shooting himself- Tuesday morning at Gemmel, Minn. He left a note stating that he re- gretted to do this act but felt that he had otlived his usefulness and that life was not worth while. His body was taken to Tenstrike by the 0Odd Fellows lodge of that city Wed- nesday. Mr. Vail was well known in Bemidji. —— e & % who lives on a farm|f BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1918 AMERICAN ARTILLERY IN ACTION BEFORE METZ THE PRESIDENT'S . TERMS OF PEAGE In his speech of Jan. 8y Presi- dent Wilson laid down these four- teen peace propositions: “Covenants of peace must be reached in the open. “Freedom or seas in peace or war. “Ellmination of econgmic bar- riers among nations associated to maintain peace. “Guarantees of armament re- duction; “Adjustment of colonial claims -impartially based on popular ¢ rights. . “Fvacuation of Belgium. ~'Evacuation of Russia. ““Kvacuation of French .terfi- tory and righting.of Alsace-Lor- raine wrongs. e “Readjustment of Italian fron-* tiers on basiss of nationalities. ‘ “Free opportunity for Austro- Hungarian nationalities for auto- nomous development. Also recog- nition. “Evacuation of Serbia, Rou- mania and Montenegro, with guarantees for all Balkan states. “Sovereignty for Turkish por- tion of Ottoman empire with au- tonomy for other nationalities. “Independence for.Poland, with “outlet to sea, “‘Association of nations for mu- tual guaranties of independence and territorial ®ntegrity for na- tions both large and small.” Appearing before congress un- expectedly Feb. 11, President Wil- son responded to peace feelers by von Hertling, German chancellor, and Czernin, Austro-Hungarian foreign secretary, saying: “After all, the“test of whether it is possible for either govern- ment to go any further in this comparison of views is simple and obvious. The principles to be ap- plied are these: “1. Each part of the final set- tlement must be based upon essen- tial justice to bring a permanent peace. “2. Peoples and provinces are not to be oartered about like chat- tels to establish a balance of pow- er. “3. Territorial settlements must be for the benefit of people concerned and not merely adjust- ment of rival states’ claims. ‘“4. Well confined national as- pirations must be accorded all possible satisfaction.” FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN SLOW: SAYS TREASURY Washington, Oct. 10.-—The Treas- ury Department was openly admit- ted that the slow progress of the Fourht Liberty Loan toward its six billion dollar goal is a matter of ser- ious concern. With the thre® weeks’ subscription period half gone, the loan is only 30 per cent subscribed. The total reported to the Treasury up te last night is $1,791,463.200. “There is no use in denying or at- tempting to camouflage the fact that Liberty Loan committees throughout the country are confronted with a serious situation,” said the Treasury statement réviewing the campaign re- ports. “If the loan is to be sub- scribed, a daily average of $467,000- 000 must be raised between now and October 19. [ THIS DAY IN THE WAR | Oct. 10, 1917—Mautiny reported in | German navy. Oct. 10, 1916—French attact| south of the Somme. Oct. 10, 1915—Austro-Germans gain ground near Dvinsk. Oct. 10, 1914—Frencn and German cavalry clash near Lille, FIGHTY TEACHERS ARE - ENROLLED AT INSTITUTE at the teachers’ institute, which is being held in the court room in the court house. Yesterday, Mrs. Mar- garet Baker of St. Paul, boys' and glrlb club worker, gave an interest- ing talk .and demonstration. Miss Erickson of the city achools gave an interesting talk and reading, and W. G. Bolcomsuperintendent of the city schools, an address. C. W. Stanton, district judge, gave. a patiotic speech this afternoon. Miss Shelland of St. Paul is expected to arrive in Bemidji today and will at- tend the meeting tomorrow, which is the last day of the institute. MRS, GAMBLE WILL BURN THE “KAISER TOMORROW EVENING Mrs. Mary Gamble is going to stage an act-tomorrow evening in front of the Rex theatre, she announced to- day. She will burn the Kaiser and also have a reproduction of the Lusi- tania as part of the setting. She will also appear in a specially designed (‘ostume camhralBIast WrecksCenter 0f French Gity (By United Pres.) With the British Afield, Oct. 10.— A tremendous explosion yesterday wrecked the center of Cambrai. Fif- teen to twenty blocks were destroyed by fire. TWO FARMERS’ CLUBS ADDED TO BELTRAMI R. H. Olifstead of the University Farm. specialist in farmers’ club or- ganization, is in Bemidji today in the course of his wofk and went to Alas. ka township to organize a farmers’ club. Tomorrow he will do the same for Quiring. On Saturday he will be in Kellihex to meet the Progressive Farmers’ club at.the city hall, and that same even- ing will be in Hines to visit the Co- operative club. Sunday, Mr. Olmstead will be with the Solway Farmers’ club at the school house, | On Friday, County Agricltural Di- rector Aamodt will leave for the Uni- versity farm, to attend a meeting of county agent leaders and heads of the experiment station. The confer- ence will be for the purpose of dis. cussing work for next season and Mr. ramodt will represent the Southern Beltrami County farm bureau. it is the intention of Mr. Aamodt to have the county agents of north- eastern Minnesota meet here some-| time this month. Fifteen counties| would be represented. UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN TO BE INAUGURATED HERE B. M. Wheeler, campaign directdr of the United War work campaign fund, was in Bemidji today a guest of C. L. Isted, chairman of the Beltrami county organization. Mr. Wheeler has charge of ten counties in the | northwest part of the state and there| { is to be a meeting of all directors and | others interested, in Crookston, Octo- ber 16, and Mr. Isted is desirous of having Beltrami county represented { by delegates. I The campaign is to be organized in Beltrami county FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH ‘KAISER ABDICAT‘ES;’ LATEST ADDATIONTO PEACEPR PAGANDA; ~norIRED BY ENEMY (By United Press.) Stockholm, Oct. 10-—Rumors are persistant here that the kaiser has abdicated. In connection with this is noted that re- ports of the overthrow of the Hohenzollerans were expected to be circulated at the time the launched. \ German peace offensive was ALLIES CUT LAST OF GERMAN DEFENSES. With the British afield, Oct. 10—The allies have cut the last of the German defenses on the twenty-mile front in the Chambrai-St. Quentin region, and cavalry is pouring over the open country, slashing the heels of the Germans who are in full retreat toward the Belgian frontier. have been taken. A score of villages REICHSTAG MAJORITY ADOPTS U. S. CONDITIONS London, Oct. 10—A Central News dispatch asserts the Bighty teachers are in attendance|government majority of the Reichstag has adopted the whole of President Wilson’s conditions as a basis for peace. AMERICANS THROUGH KRIEMHILDE LINE With the American First army, Oct. 10—~Americans are through the Kriemhilde line on a front of four miles, having smashed the last German defense line in the region west of the Meuse. Belgian frontier. Only natural defenses are now between them and the MEDDLING IS CHARGED T0 NONPARTY LEAGUE Minneapolis, Oct. 10,—Th# Non- partisan league madeé” eleventh hour efforts to bring about the withdraw- als of nominees of the National party in Minnesota, it has become known. League leaders did succeed in bringing about the withdrawal of C. L. Johnson, nominee for secretary cf state, occording to charges made last night by Clarer "¢ W, Halbert, chair- man of the Natfonal party ticket. The withdrawal of Johnson was on stationery bearing the names of James A. Manahan, general counsel for the Nonpartisan league. According to Mr. Hilbert, the lea- gue desired the withdrawal of as many National party nominees as possible in order to get the support for the league candidates. While there was no league candidates for gsecretary of state, is it rumored that t1e league intends to support Edward Indrehus, democratic candidate, against Julfus Schmahl, Republican. Efforts will now be made by the National party to have stickers cir- culated for placing their own candi- date on the ticket. TEN COUNTIES 1™ NEW DRAFT BOARD DISTRICT The newly formed Fifth District draft board, headquarters at Crook- ston, will have jurisdiction over Polk, Marshall, Red Lake, Kittson, Pen- nington, Roseau, Norman, Mahno- men, Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Wade- na, Beltrami and Hubbard counties. B. W. Lakin of Bemidji is one of the members and will spend some time on the. board, HELMETS MARK GRAVES OF YANKEE SOLDIERS (By United Press.) With the American army in France, Sept. 12. (By Mail.)—By their hel- mets you shall know their graves. It’s the case over the battlefield that stretches north from the Marne over rooling hills covered with grain fields and woods. As the German forces retired they left many dead behind. American troops following buried these Germans where they fell at the first oppor- tunity. Usually the graves are marked with nothing but a German helmet on the fresh mound of earth. Sometimes a stick is erected, or a cross, depending on the intensity of artillery fire in the region, and the time at the disposal of the ‘“moppers- up.” Sometimes the German helmet is on top of the cross. Once on the grave, the helmets are untouched. The American dead were buried in groups farther back when possible. Sometimes this couldn’t be done. Then a silent group of doughboys buried their fallen by the roadside. These, too are recognized by the helmets on the fresh earth mounds, with crosses-at the head, and usually a bottle stuck in the earth into which data regarding the fallen fighter was hastily scribbled and placed by his comrades. Some day it can be gathered and information forwarded to his folks. ..,,_._ MASONIC RITUAL LAYS KNUTE NELSON IN LAST RESTING PLACE Masonic uites, under the auspices of Bemidji's lodge of Masons, laid Knute Nelson in his final resting place at Greenwood cemetery this af- ternoon. Services were held in the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. L. P. Warford, pastor of the Presby- terian church. Mr. Nelson died last Friday at Bend, Ore., where he was superinten- dent of the Shevlin-Hixon company. For fourteen years he was in an ex- ecutive capacity for the Shevlin inter- ests In Bemidji, Speoner apd Cass Lake and was highly esteemed by all employes and the citizenship of Be- midji. His death was due to com- plications arising from appendicitis. Deceased was a native of Denmark, born January 11, 1865. When a young man he came to the United States, following logging and saw- mill work since his arrival. The widow and two children sur- vive, also two brot{ers. One of the strongest tributes paid to Mr. Nelson was that from E. H. Dea, general superintendent of the Shevlin-Hixon company, who had been intimately acquainted with Mr. Nelson for years. He was greatly moved when he learned of the pass- ing of his friend and said: “To me he was one of the most lov- able souls, of high character, abso- lutely honest, absolutely just, and absolutely fearless. As a mill super- intendent he was the most capable I have ever seen, and his long asso- ciation with our company, first with me at Bemldji, then with the mill at Spooner, Minn., from where he came to Bend, has endeared him to all of us. “Few men can pass across into the Valley of Death leaving behind the record which survives Mr. Nelson for integrity and character. His iife has begn an inspiration to all of us, and in his death we can only say that the grave is not the end of the man who has lived as Knute lived. Such men live forever in the work they have done while here.” RESIGNS POSITION. Migs Anna Tardy has resigned her position ,as stenographer at Koors Bros., and will spend the winter with her parents on the farm, four miles from the city. FIRST CLEARWATER BOY TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE (Special to Pioneer.) Bagley, Oct. 10.—A telegram re- ceived by Mons. R. Fosness of th town of Holst, Clearwater county, at- nounces the death of his son, Bernt Fosness in action ‘*‘somewhere in France. Jernt is the first Clearwater boy to pay the supreme sacrifice, fighting under the Stars and Stripes in France.. MANY TAKE SUPPER. About 300 people were served at the chicken pie supper last evening in the Presbyterian church, and around’ $125 v, as realized. [ i