Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 4

PAGE FOUR CAPT. STEWART INVITES | MOTOR CORPS TO DRILL . WITH THE HOME GUARD Captain Scott Stewart of the Bem- idji hope guard has invited all mem- bers of the motor corps to drill with his company every Tuesday evening. On thursday evening the offiger’s school will be held and regular floor work school conducted. Commis- sioned officers and noncommissioned men of the motor corps have been urged by Capt Stewart to take part. All motor corps members are urged to take advantage of the Tuesday night drills and if arrangements can be made to make this the regular drill night instead of every Thurs- day it will be done. The matter will be discussed at the next mot‘r:r e corps drill night, which wiil Thursday October 24. Motor corps members who are de- sirous of advancement should take in the officers school when possible, as recommendations will be made only on military qualifications. - SIGNAL CORPS BUSY IN THE RECENT FIGHTING (By United Press.) With the American Army in France, Sept. 10. (By Mail.)—The sfgnal corps men had to do some fast work during the recent fighting to keep up with the infantry and to keep communications always open be- tween headquarters and the villages newly captured where the doughhboys were. The signal corps was the connect- ing link between the infantry, artil- lery, ambulance service, and head- quarters. The signal corps did won- derful and lightning work. Every other department says so. H 1t’s no cinch being the signal corps after a division that is continually gaining ground. As soon as the in- fantry makes a push you have to get a telephone line strung into the farthest ruins or woods or wheat fleld, no matter how many German shells are spattering eclat over the area. Then, about the time you get a wire stretched along the ground and in ‘working order, call up headquar- ters to tell them, “This is the new post at Squeedunk, give us a ring to see how she works,” along comes an- other boche shell and cuts the com- munication. There's nothing to do but go out and find the cut and fix it, and probably more boche shells are trying to make/more cuts in com- munications, or even cut you off. The signal corps had wires eyery- where, in bushes, along the ground, on poles left by the boches, under- ground, through ruins. Headquar- ters say they never had such quick service, and they were never out of communication with regiments long- er fhan the few minutes it took a signal corps man to inspect the wire and repair a break. A signal corps man was stringing some wires across a wheat fleld. “Some war this,” he said. “I have not had a sleep for more than two days. I suppose I'd fall asleep on the job if it weren’t for these,shells that come whistling along. Duck. There comes one!" . After it exploded, he said, “They kind of scared me at first. I thought every one was meant for me.’ HERE. YOU ‘CROAKERS. TAKE ONE GOOD LOOK (By United Press.) London, Oct. 1. (By Mail.)---Lac- est figures gathered from neutral, allied and enemy sources show big increases in the cost of living in Europe since July, 1914. Accoring to figures Italy heads the list, but rationing there extends only to sugar and bread (with macroni, rice and maize fiour.) These conditions are not com- parable with those in the central .empires, where almost every food is rationed in very limited amounts, and where in some cases the rationed quantities cannot be obtained. The cost of living for those who can man- age to give exhorbitant prices for illicit food must be incredibly great. Following is a table showing how the war has increased food costs in Europe: Italy, Feb. -1918—153 percent Norway, Mar. 1918—-187 pereent Sweden, Mar. 1918134 percent Germany, Nov. 1917—125 percent Great Britain, June 1918—108 per cent France, Dec. 1917-—100 per cent Switzerland, Dec. 1917—96 per cent France (Paris,) Jan. 1918—91 percent Holland, Mar. 1918—82 percent Denmark, Feb. 1918—73 percent. LIKE A MESSAGE " FROM THE GRAVE Lieutenant Receives Letter From Sister Long Thought to Be Dead. Trenton, N. J.—Like a ‘note from the grave was a letter received a short time ago by Lieut. George Dinges, sta- tioned at Tullytown, Penn., from his sister, Mrs. A. A. Haywood of Long Hill, Conn., who was kidnaped 34 years ago when she was a baby, and who was long since given up as dead. The story of Lieutenant Dinges and his sister being reunited reads lke fictlon. George Dlnges and his sister, Ida May, were the only children of Mr, and Mrs. Willlam Dinges of Mount Kis- ll She Was Kidnaped. ¢ co, Westchester county, N, Y. When Ida was two years old while she was playing about the house she suddenly disappeared. It was Iater learned that she had been kidnaped. The parents spent considerable money and effort for many years In a search for her. A description of her was sent hroadecast, but she could never be located. The girl had been picked up some- where and adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. Hebbard and taken with the family to New York, where she lived for five years. The family afterward moved to Long ill, about eight miles from Bridgeport, Conn,, where the Hebbards recently died. In their will they re- quested that all their legal and other papers be buried with them. Meanwhile the missing child had grown to womanhood and had mar- ried A. A. Haywood. One child re- sulted from the union. Following {lie deaths of the Heb- bards it leaked out that Mrs. Hay- wood had been adopted,when a child and that her real name was Dinges. Ligs uewsssurprised the woman and she at once began looking up all the 'families named Dinges throughout the country, She learned that a lieuten- ant named George Dinges was in the United States army aod she communi- cated with the adjutant general, being Informed later that the man she sought was stationed at Tullytown. Mrs. Haywood went to Mount Kisco and from older residents learned more about the casé, until she established the fact that Lieutenant Dinges was her brother. She then wrote to the lieutenant and he hurried to Long Hill to 'visit her. Mrs. Haywood inherited both money and property from the Hebbards. A 0-0-0—-0-0-0! HOPE TO CATCH FEMALE HAFFLES BY PERFUME Berkeley, L\X—Berkeley po- lice are literally on the scent of a female Raffles who is believed to have robbed several homes lately. The female thief smokes cigarettes while she works and leaves the stubs scattered about. On each_occasion a strong odor of perfume was left in the hemes, and the police are snif- fing all susplcious-looking fe- males in an effort to detect a similar aroma. Subscribe for The Pioneer —y— THE BEMIDJI' DAILY PIONEER WEIGHING A POUND OF SUGAR WITH A TEASPOON “The absolute” neceasity of saving sugar as a War measure by reducing the ration for each persox to two pounds a month leaves many in doubt as to just how they may know whether they are keeping within the ration or not,” says A. D. Wilson, Federal Food Administrator for Minnesota, “As- sume that one of the two pounds goes into the cooked food you eat and that you consume the other one poumd in tea, coffes, on breakfast foods, or with fruit. The problem is to weigh the one pound you consume in the Iatter way with your teaspoon.” “This is a very simple matte! Mr Wilson, “if you will consult the accompanying drawing.” share with his phymlto? Even it your giving depletes the cooky crock to the polat “of your sub- stituting something: du for supper that night? “Your son always ghu\n his cookies with his comrade. Your jelly, the glasses with the clearest of ruby lights in them, is carried to your neighbor—always® “Can’t we women think ;bout the war problems of our kitchens in the same way? There is sick- ness and death in the heuse of America’s eighbors. England and France and Italy and Belgium, though we have realized our close- ness to them only a little while, How Man Teasgoonfuls in 11b. d“Su 96 Level 32 Heaping T “This matter of sugar conservation, and of food conservation gemerally, is, after all, just a question of being neighborly A woman writer for the Washington Herald, puts the whole thing in a nutshell as follows: “There is & dear old neighborly custom in Amerioa that all the rush of our life has not been able to down. “Has your neighbor of a bak- ing day, never run in with a pie, fresh from the oven, for your sup- per table? Have you never pissed & glass of jelly over your back- yard fence? And if there were trouble or sickness or death in any house on your street, didn't you and all the other neighbors vie with each other in sending in thoughtful little comforts nnd tempting dishes of food? *And when your lttle boy:comes ::g:; for cookies, do you ever him a second ‘bandful to gar? 3 of these dally 1% of these daily 1 of these daily TES POOD ADMINISTRATION need our friendship. Their sons are playing the game of war with our sons. America has moved into the world's street. ‘The food we save 18 still (lvm to our bnyl to share with thelr comrades. It.l carried, truly, ‘Just over the way' to the sorrowing house of & friend.” 3 “If you've lived in France up mear the bastle front,” says Mr. Wilson, “and should see British, French, Ital- ian, or American soldiers hurrying past to get into the fight and knew that they were hungry, and if you had’ food in your house, you wouldn't hesitate to step outside and share your food with the boys who ‘were going ahead to fight and protect your home. That"is practically the situa- tion that exists. The only differemee is you are not near the battle front. You can share your food with the men" who-are daily going to the battle front and with those who are luppomnz them: behind the !Inol ¥ A GONSALAS REFUSES TO CLOSE: ESSLER DOES IT FOR HIM| The “soft drink parlor” owned by “Big Harry,” corner Minngsota 'av- onue and Third street, was closed on personal order of Chief Essler this ‘fternoon and ordered closed until permission was given to reopen. This gathering place for men of \arious ‘dégrees had received orders to. prev nt, gdtherings inside, as did many otherv places. But the pro- prietor ignored the instructions and permitted a gang to continue to loaf round the place inside. Three times was he notified and éach time ig- nored the order. Chief Essler was informed of the refusal of Gonsalas and he went down and ordered the place closed instanter.. It was done. The refusal of Gonsalas to close when even the schools and churches closed to help Bemidji check the deadly plague, stands out prominent- ly in the efforts of the authorities to prevent wholesale affliction and pos- sible deaths in the city. SCOUTS WILL REFOREST ITALY: VITAL PROBLEN (By Henry Wood, United Press Correspondent.) Rome, Sept. 18. (By Mail.)—To the Boy Scouts of Italy has just been entrusted the nation-wide propagan- da for reforestation. Results the boys may obtain prob- ably will: count as one of the most effective services ever rendered to a state by this organization, which has attained fully as great proportions in Italy as it has in the United States. ‘be diminished. The Boy Scouts of Italy, beginning at once, will not only give their own help in the actual work of reforesta- tion, but will inculcate it as one of the cardinal principles of their or- ganjzation. While reforestation long has been one of the vital problems facing Italy, it has become doubly impor- tant as a resutl of the past two years of war. Italy has no coal supply, and her railways, factories and in- dustries generally are dependent upon coal fields of England and America. Decreased importation of coal caused by was has created a coal shortage in Italy that was one of im- portant factors contributing to Italy’s military disaster 1ast fall. The short- age, which was dat its acutest point immediately following the Italian re- treat, threatened to entail even still greater military disasters; and to pre- vent this the Italian government has recourse to its forests for sufficient fuel to keep the railwzys and muni- tion factories going. 3 Olive wood was chosen as the best wood fuel for railways, and hun- dreds of thousands of Italian olive trees have been cut down. Burning of the olive wood resulted in_ ruin of hundreds of locomotives and burn- ing of thousands of acres of crops along the railways, but it tided over the situation until the allies arranged for larger importations. Italy still is recelving liundreds of thousands of tons of coal less than her minimum needs, and as a com- sequence she is obliged to continue obliteration of her forests with the certainty that in the end she must suffer from it all of the evils that have been sustained in China, the United States and other countries by the denuding of the forests. ' Every railway station in Italy is a center of great deposits of firewood which Italy is holding for emerg- ensies should her coal supply again Hundreds of thou- sands of soldiers are cutting down wood and hauling it to railway centers. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1918 DONT FORGET GUM IN YANKEE'S COMFORT KIT}, - (By United Press.} An American Hospital in France, Sept. 13. * (By Mail.)—When you are making up comfort kits for soldiers at the front, have you often won- dered just what is most needed and what is extra among tne doughboy’s “finds” in that bag? Here is what they have found most essentlal ‘and useful; A eate;y razor, shaving brusk and soap, tooth brush and paste, chewing gum, playing cards, package of cigar- ettes, and a can of tobacco. Towel, ;vrtxsh rag, soap, hard candy or choco— ate. Asked what-he thought most im- portant, a doctor here replied, ‘“‘Chew- ing gum.” Often patients cannet smoke, especially gas cases, or eating is difficult. Gum does them lots of good.” WANT AD DEPT Advertisements in this column cost half cent a word per lssue, when paid cash in advance. No ad will be run for less than 10c per issue. ‘Ads charged on our books cost one cent a word per issue. No ads run ‘| tor less than 25c. FOR SALE - FOR SALE—At a bargain if taken at once. ‘‘Heavy team of geldings, weight about 3000 lbs. Box 87, Solway, Minn . 10t1024 | FOR SALE—Household furniture and piano, 1102 Miss avenue. Phone 655-W. i §t1015 FOR SALE CHEAP-—One double bar- rell 16-gauge shot gun, in perfect “order. 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