Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 31, 1918, Page 1

+~ BELIFTED FOR | VOLUME XVI. NO. 267 0U CAN'T GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF YESTERDAY'S PA™ :+.READ THE DJ1 DAILY BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, OCT. 31, 1918 v.“\i PIONE FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH - BANWLLNOT SEVERAL DAYS Unfounded : Reports ‘Are Cur- rent As to Reopening The-"~ atres. and Schools SEVERAL NEW CASES ARE RIFE IN THE CITY _Attorney General Says Teach- ers Will Draw Salaries Where Schools Closed Various reports have become cur- rent in Bemidji, relative to lifting the ban on the closing order through- out the city, some of the reports hav- ing it‘that the theaters are to re-open Friday, on Saturday and on Sunday, all three being included in various stories. Other reports relate to the re-open- ing of the schools Monday, and these are only a few. Renorts Unfounded. Fact is, the schools will not be re- opened ‘Monday . nor the theaters re- “ open, as ig being reported. The in- - fluenza qpldemic is not abating, to be perfectly - frank about it, reports ‘showing ar increase in the number of icasés . 2 The re-opening order, when it is igEued, Will be-for the entire city and not_any special interest, and it will not be done-until there is a practi~ cal certainty that the epidemic,is conquered. k “Teachers Get.Salaries. In a legal ruling, issued by -At- thorney General Hilton of the state, all thé teachers who have been re- lieved from their work by closing orders will receive their salaries the same as if they were at work. This ruling is the result of a deluge of questions raising this point. NINE MEMBERS. MOTOR CORPS. TO FIRE ZONE Nine members of the Bemidji motor corps left with their cars for Lawler this mprning, four of them to be assigned to Cromwell after reach- ing thelr destination. The trip was on call of the head of the state motor corps and the time of stay on duty in the fire swept zone is uncertain. . One of those to respond to thie call was. J. G. Wallace of Solway. He is a member of the corps and when called by ’phone and asked whether it would be possible for him to re- spond, blurted out: “You bet; tickled to death to go,” and he was in Be- midji bright and early this morning. Lieut. G. W. Harnwell of the corps was in charge of the unit which com- sprised L. P. Eckstrum, Ed. Ebert, G. M. Torrance, J. G. Wallace of Sol- way, Harry Olin, L. B. Wilson, Roy Bliler, A. A. Richardson. THEY’LL QUIT THIS KIND OF TRICK PRETTY SOON (By United Press.) London, Oct. 9. (By Mail.)—An English sergeant, just back from im- prisonment in Germany, tells the fol- _ lowing story about the treatment he received there: He was captured at Cambrai. Dur- ing ene of the visits of the German doctor to the prison camp he suddenly looked at the prisoner’s tight hand and said: ‘‘Ach! What's the matter with your finger?” The sergeant assured him the finger was quite all right, but the doctor insisted that the finger was poisoned and that he would have to lance it. He did so, and three days later three of the Englishman’s fin- gers became very much inflamed. Jt went from bad to worse and eventu- ally the hand had to be amputated. The victim of this atrocity decla that originally there was nothing wrong with his hand, and that the finger was lanced in order to make him unfit for service in the army should be ever get back to England. INVESTIGATING THE “FLU" o ¥ Captain J. W. Levy ot the Minne- sota state board of health was in the city today, having been sent to the northeastern part of the state to in- vestigate the Spanish influenza con- ditions. From here he went tn Thief River Falls and will return to Be- midji tomorrow. daily throughout Germany. Demand That Emperor Quit (By United Press.) Encva. Oct. 31.—Demonstrations against the kaiser are being staged according to advices here. ' Frequent demands are being made by the socialists for the abdication of t e entire Hohenzollern family, . Berne reports say the kaiserin is seriously ill and very weak and is re- vorted to insist that the kaiser ab- dicate. FIFTEEN DIVISIONS OF - AUSTRIAN ARMY FACE CRISIS, SAYS REPORT (By United Press.) ‘Washington, = Oct. 31.—Fifteen divisions of Austrians, between the mouth of the Brenta and the Piave, are in grave danger and a crisis is impending, says an official Italian war office dispatch today. 3 Fighting now extends over a front of 150 kilomters and the allied ad- vance east of the Piave continues without check. The Italians have _occupied Oderzo and..have reached Sacile. The British- have entered FEDERAL AID FOR - ~ SCHOOLS IS PLAN (By United Press.) Washington, Oct. 31.—A Secretary of education ig'.to be the next addi- tion to the president’s cabinet, if a bill now pending in the senate be- comes a law. The bill has the backing of the Na- tional Education association, was recommended in a recent report by the Commission on the Emergency in Education, and has the support of Sen. Hoke Smith of Georgia, chair- man of the senate education com- mittee. - It seems likely to have litle activity opposition. The bill’s title says it is “to ap- propriate money for the conduct of said department, and to appropriate money for federal co-operation with the states in the encouragement and support of education.” One hundred million dollars a year is appropriated by the bill for sub- sidizing training of teachers, physi- cal education, education of immi- grants and adult illiterates. The secretdry of education is to be on an equal basis with other members of the cabinet, and is to have three assistant secretaries. The secretary’s salary is fixed at $12,000, and the as- sistant secretaries are to receive $10,000 each. The appropriation contemrplated for salaries, incidental expenses, and general financing of the new department is $500,000 a year. It is proposed that the department inaugurate a_system of attaches to American embas§ies abroad, to deal with educational matters and investi- gate educational methods in foreign countries. One of the aims of the proposed law is abolition of llliteracx in America. ‘The Commission on” the Emergency in Education found adult illiteracy one of the most serious ob- stacles to establish of true demo- cracy. Federal aid to state efforts to im- prove educational conditions is to be given only when the state shows the proper spirit and enterprise by appropriating an amount at least to equal to the sum paid it by the federal government, for improvement of its educational status in certain gpecific respects. FARMERS ARE WATCHING SOLDIER LAND ACTION {By United Press.) St. Paul, Oct. 31.——Citizens of the northwest are watching with great interest first action on the plan to create hundreds of farms in unde- veloped agficultural territory for re- turning soldiers. They are urging smen to pass the bill appro- ; $1,000,000 to sidrvey farm for the project The bill has reported by the senate com- been mittee on public lands. Wisconsin, ®ichigan, Nerth Da- kota, South Dakota and Montana committee are in action on the pian P Miss Kifchener, sister of the late Lord Kitchener, is atio English women engaged in war work. to the Red Cross and has been acttve at service stations e The photograph shows her distributing comfort kits to Frei storeroom at Dinan. CHIEF ESSLER ISSUES WARNING TO THE BOYS Tonight beipg Hallowe'en, Chief Essler requests The Pioneer to warn boys against committing. depredatiens, “which have already commenced. Much wanton de- struction’ has-already been com- mitted by irresponsible boys and to prevent apy further wanton acts the city will have several special police throughout the neighborhoods of the city tonight. Anyone detected destroying | property and ~committing other depredations will be severely dealt with. RULES FOR SENDING CHRISTMAS BOXES TO SOLDIERS IN EUROPE Despite the fact that the rules for sending Christmas packages to the; soldiers “‘over there” have been pub- lished at length, there is a great deal of uncertainty existing apparent- ly, judging from the barrage of in- quiries being made in Bemidji. The boxes for the sending of prese- ents abroad are expected to arrive tomorrow and will be at the Red Cross headquarters. They must be packed and returned to Red Cross headquarters. They will be shipped November 15 and will have to be in- spected and .made ready before ship- ping. The sum of twenty-five cents must be paid for sending to Hoboken, N. J., at which point the govern- ment will carry the packages to Eu- rope free of cost. Any information required may be obtained from Mrs. C. N. Jacobson, Mrs. J. A. Youngren, Mrs. Otto Mor- ken and Miss Velma Dean. Every soldier in Europe with American Expenditionary forces will be allowed to receive one Christmas box. This box must not weigh more thaw threé pounds and must be of standard size, 3 inches by 4 inches by 9 inches. No prohibited or unmailable ar- ticles must be in the parcel and no perishable food. When a package is ready for shipment the proper ad- dress must be placed upon it with the necessary number-of stamps and then turned over to the Red Cross headquarters in the public library. Here it will be inspected and if all right aeposited in the mails. Christmas parcels to the American Naval forces follow the same regula- ‘tions as those laid down by the army except the parcel may weigh twenty pounds and be sent in care of the Fleet Supply Base, Twenty-ninth street and Third avenue, Bush Ter- minal Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. BROTHER IS ILL. Dr. Thorvald Lunde received a tele- gram today announcing the gerious illness of his brother, Oistein Lunde of Douglas, N. D., who is suffering from pneumonia, brought on by the Spanish influenza. Dr. Lunde will leave on the early motning train for Douglas. MISS KITCHENER A WAR WORKER IN FRANCE ‘PARK REGION “ECHO” EDITOR wominent ©oservices + Laitle line, <ollhiers inou Miss Kitchener hax give Hun Soldiers | _Revolt; Slay ! j e i (1 4 - v (By United Press.) | Stockholm. Oct 31.—Forty -thou- sand German soldiers are reported to have revolted in the Ekaterino-Slav| district northeast of Odessa, shoot- ing their officers and marching on! Kharkoff waving red flags. | . | i DIES: WAS TOWNLEY AID Alexandria, Minn., Oct. 31_” i ..\vl‘ Wold, reformer, editor and legislnlor.l‘ died heré Tuesday unight, He was editor of the Park Region,Echo. He served in the 1915 session f the Leg- islature. » Was Townley Supporter. The death of C. A. Wold recalls the anti-Nonpartisan league fight at Al- exandria in September, 1917, and the arreet and conviction of the editor in March, 1918, on a charge of publish- ing an article in his paper which tended to discourage enlistments. For this offense he was fined $200 and sentenced to three months in jail. Following the September outbreak in which the Park Region Echo office was broken into, the typesetting ma- chine demolished and the presses damaged, Wold ascribed as reason for the action, his friendliness to- ward the Townley organization. N. S. Randall, Nonpartisan league agent, announced after the damage wrought to the Echo plant, that he had enlisted Wold’s aid for the league and appealed to the people to raise a fund to rebuild the paper. HEAD OF STATE GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT EN ROUTE REDBY Carlos Avery, head of the state game and fish department, was in Bemidji today en route to Redby to look over the state fisheries there While in Bemidji he was the guest of Game Warden S. C. Bailey. The state fisheries at Redby have been a great boon to the people of the state of Minnesota since its in- auguration as a food conservation measure, and state institutions. have been supplied bountifully as well ag markets throughout the state. The fisheries at Redby are the most im- portant in the state CHANCE FOR MINNESOTA. (By United Press.) Moorhead, Oct. 31.— Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri will look to Minnesota next year to supply them with a large amount of seed corn, according to County Agent O'Banion, who has been urging the farmers to save all the seed they can. He pre- diets that the right quality of corn will command a faney price for seed next spring URKEY LAYS DOWN ARMS TO BRITIS FLU CLOSING Teutons Rise; @ EXTRA! “(By United Press.) London, Oct. 31.— British representatives at noon today concluded an armistice with Turkey at Salonika, according to authorative information. The terms are said to include free passage of the Darden- elles and to be such that it will be impossible for Turkey to re- sume hostilities. Turkey approached Great Britain, proposing to bring about a separate peace and the armistice resulted. British officials are expect- ing Turkey to surrender on the battlefield. TURK ARMY SURRENDERS. London, Oct. 31—The Turk- ish army in Mesopatamia has surrendered, it is stated au- thoratively. AUSTRIA ASKS ARMISTICE. London, Oct. 31.—The Aus- trian commander-in-chief on the Italian front has applied to General Bliss of the Amer- ican forces for an armistice and asked that the request be forwarded to the inter-allied council, being held in Ver- sailles. DARDANELLES ARE OPEN. London, Oct. 31.—The Dar- danelles were opened at 6:30 o’clock this morning. FIRE PROTECTION DAY NEW SIGNIFICANCE Saturday will be observed as Na- tional Fire Protection day in Minne- sota and throughout the United State. Mindful of the forest fire disaster, Minnesota’s annual observance will more general this year. Railroad employes in Minnesota have been instructed to observe the day by Director General McAdoo. They are asked to remove all rubbish heaps and to inspect all fire apparatus and o resolve to make and keep tidy hereafter all the property of the rail- roads wherever situated. QUAIL SEASON OPENS TOMORROW: LAWS RULES St. Paul, Oct. 31.—If you are go- ing quail shooting tomorrow be sure you know the game laws. In Min- nesota quail may be killed beginning tomorrow and until December 1. Not more than ten may be shot in any one day and the season bag limit is thirty. Not more than twenty may be in possession at any time—other. wise arrest and a stiff fine faces the hunter p DRIVING AMBULANCE WAS TOO TAME FOR “CASEY" Rome, Oct. 6. (By Mail.)—Ken- neth “Casey’” Campbell wants to fol- low in the footsteps of his brother Douglas,- the first ace among the American avitors in France. Casey has been attached to a Harvard am- bulance unit of the American Red Cross in Italy, and this unit left Rome on Saturday night “homeward bound.” But Casey means to stop off in Paris to enlist in the ranks of the American aviation corps if that is at all possible. He, along with the rest of his unit, has been decorated by the King of Italy for bravery at the front, but he is anxious to get a “closer up’ view of hostilities than falls to the lot of the average am- bulance driver. Campbell a member of the class of 21' Harvard and is a native of California, being a son of Prof. Camp- bell, astronomical instructor at Jose. His Mount Hamilton, San brother Douglas, who was slightly hurt in a fall from his plane in France, is now recuperating in America TURK REQUEST FOR ARMISTICE PASSED ALONG T0 THE ALLIES Answer of Secretary Lansing to Request of Turkey Hand- ed Spanish Official REPORTED NOTE IS BEING PREPARED TO SURRENDER Pershing Reports Destruction of Twenty-one Enemy Planes Wednesday (By United Press.) Washington, Oct. 31.—The United States will pass on to the allies the reauest of Turkey for an armistice. This was the answer of Secretary Lansing todav to Turkey in a formal note. delivered to the Spanish am- bassador. acting for Turkey. Turkev asked that the president undertake to notify the allies of the request for an armistice. TURKEY WILL SURRENDER London, Oct. 31.— Turkey has agreed to an armistice, ft-was learned to- day. She is not definitely out of the war but is reported preparing a note tatamount to ‘an unconditional sur- render. AMERICAN FRONT ABLAZE Washington, Oct. 31.—Heavy ar- tillery fire on the American front east of the Méuse and the destruc- tion of twenty-one enemy planes Wednesday, was the report of General Pershing today. BULLETINS (By United Press.) Covenhagen, Oct. 31.—General Foch’s armistice terms reached Ber- lin on Tuesdav night. it is declared in the Vossische Heritung. AUSTRIA QUITTING ITALY Milan. Oct. 31.—Austria has noti- fied the Polish government at War- saw that military and civil authority of occunied Polish territory will be handed over to them and that Austrian troops will eva~uate immed- ately. This information was con- tained in a Vienna dispatch today. MIGHT BE THE REASON. London, Oct. 31.—The latest esti- mate of Austrian prisoners in the vresent drive is 40.000. BERLIN-VIENNA LINE CUT. Zurich. Oct. 31.—All railways be- tween Berlin and Vienna, via Oder- bere and Bodenbace., have been cut. Communication between . Agram, Budapest. Fiume and Vienna is com- pletelv interrupted. RED LAKE SPAWN TO STOCK STATE LAKES Carlos Avery, head of the state game and fish department, while in Bemidji today, stated that he in- tended to arrange for the sale of whitefish in Bemidji, and have a special day or days for their sale. Other cities and towns have the whitefish for sale but with Bemidji 0 near to Redby it seems rather strange that special effort is not made for handling them here. Mr. Avery is going to Redby to arrange for securing a large supply of whitfish spawn for the hatchery at St. Paul, the hatchery there being specially equipped for hatching dur- ing the cold months. The fry will then be distributed in lakes of the state best fitted for their development He says the Red Lakes have the best quality and the greatest quanity by far of whitfish in any lake in the state. State fishing wfll soon close for the winter, some of the equipment already being removed from service. Ice will soon be forming and as soon as it does operation wiil cease for the winter. i | ! j i i { | 1 5 —pi —_—,——