Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 18, 1918, Page 1

~ YOU CAN'T GET — VOLUME XVI. NO. 282 PAN HEAD IS INDICTED; LAYS - RESPONSIBILITY TOOPPOSITION Cites Big Government Con- tracts as Affected; Early Trial Is Demanded oy | CHARGE IS USING MAILS "IN FRAUDULENT SCHEME ‘;Nine Thousand Stockholders . " in Minnesota; Hearing Set : For January 3 Tergus Falls, Nov. 18.—S. C: ) ‘ Pandolfo, president, and John Bar- rett, secretary, of _the Pan .Motor company of ‘St. Cloud were indicted by the grand jury in the United ‘States court here on charges of us- ing the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. Both men appeared at once before the court and entered-pleas- of not -guilty with privileges of demurring ‘to the indictments. Senator R. B. Brower, appearing :as attorney for the accused men, asked for an immediate-trial, declar- ing that government contracts, amounting to $300,000 or $400,000, would be jeopardizei of the charges * were allowed to stand any length of time. | Charges Opposition. He also declared that certain inter- ests opposed to an automobile man- ” ufacturing concern in the Northwest had for some time been trying to in- * jure the business of his clients. United States District Attorney Jacques “and Asistant District At- torney -Anderson asked the trial be deferred, explaining that it would be necesary to make further and more extended examination of the com- pany’s books' and to 'summon ‘wit- neses from nearly every state in the *Union to properly present thei case. . Minnesota Interested. Judge Moris, after hearing both sides, said that the defendants were entitled to- an early trial and fixed January 3 as the date of the hearing. The company, acording to its ad- % vertising, has more than 50,000 stock-holders, with 9,000 in Minne- sota. $1400 TO BE RAISED TOWARD U. W. W. GOAL The United War Work campaign in Bemidji has reached $8,600 of the having come in as voluntary su!)— scriptions. This leaves approxi- mately $1,400 to be raised which will be done by a canvass of the city by special committees. Commencing tomorrow morning, the residence and business district will be covered in an endeavor to attain the quota set for Bemidji. DAUGHTER OF WEISS DIES. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 18—Mary, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton €. Weiss, died of pneumonia. Mr. Weiss is a member of the Minne- sota public safety commission, and is publisher of the Duluth Herald. .Jcommissioner; James Sorenson, dairy $10,000 quota alloted this city, all| _TODAY’'S NE _BEMIDJ1 D COMMITTEE NAMED | TO FIND EMPLOYMENT .- - FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS At a recent meeting of the Com- mercial club, it was voted to have a committee named to look after the welfare of the Bemidji soldiers when they return. The committee haé just been named and will make a. canvass of all employers and note what posi- tions will be open and how many men can be employed. Record will be kept and when the boys come they will be accommodated with employ- ment as before. All employers of labor should co-operate with the committee, known as the labor com.- mittee of the Commercial club, that the returning soldiers may be we!l taken care of upon arrival. The committee appointed consists cf B. W, Lakin, logging superin- tendent of the Crookston Lumber company; W. L. Brooks of the Nor- thern Natiopal mank, and chairman of the Liberty lvan; E. H. Denu, busi- ness manager of the Pioneer Publish- ing company, and W. Z. Robinson of the Smith-Robinson Lumber - com- pany and president of the Com- mercial club, Mr. Robinson being an ex-officio member of the committee. The work of this committee is most important and should he afforded every possible co-operation, that the returned soldiers may again take their places in the industrial work of Bemidji, vicinity and county, and be potent factors in the big step for- ward soon to be taken, JUDGE DID NOT DECLINE: HAD NOT BEEN ASKED Brainerd, Nov. 18.—The report circulated that Judge W. S. McClena- han, recently re-elected without op- position, district court' judge of the! Fifteen judicial district, had declined the ‘supreme court commissionership vacated by Associate Justice Homer B. Dibell .'of Duluth, is without i foundation: s the judge had not been offered suck a position since he de- clined a similar one in 1913. At that time a majority of the su- preme court asked Juuge McClenahan to accept the .supreme court com- missionership, which he declined be- cause he did not wish to sever home ties and his position on the district court bench. SIX STATE' OFFICIALS Paul, Minn., Nov. 18.—Reap- pointment of six state officials. isan- nounced by Governor J. A, A. Burn- qujst, disposing of practically all ap- pointments remaining to be made for terms beginning in January. The officials named for new terms were: C. Louis Weeks, insurancé St. and food commissioner; Elias J. Lien, state librarian; W. A. Wittgecker, stote hotel inspector; W. F. Rhinow, adjutant general; John P. Gardiner, state labor comissioner, and James T. Hale, state tax commissioner, for a six-year term. John B. Sanborm, who resigned as insurance commissioner to enter an officers training camp, soon may re- turn to the state service, and it is understood if he is discharged from the army-because of the cessation of hostilities, he will return to his former position and Commissioner Weeks will resume his former duties as deputy attorney general. Mr. Sanborn was not able to determine when he could return however, so Mr. Weeks’ reappointment is an- nounced at this time. The term of Ralph W. Wheelock, chairman of the ‘State board of control, expires in April, and that of Carlos Avery, state game and fish commisioner, in August. By W. W. Husband (Formerly with the American Red Cross in Berne.) London, Nov. 2. (By Mail.)—One of the most inportant phases of the varied work which the American Red "Cross is doing in Switzerland is that of carimg for the repatriated Italian soldiers enroute from Austria to Italy. \we were very busily engaged in Switzerland last spring in organiz- ing relief for American prisoners in Germany when there came the first ments were premptly made for tak- ing up this work under a combina- tion between the American, French, and Italian Red Cross organizations. This has now become one of the st important features of allied relief . wh we have undertaken in Swit eriand. anv Have White Plague. A considerable part of thes I*alian repatriates are tuberculous while others are the pitiful “‘grandes ~ AMERICAN RED CROSS MOTHERS | WOUNDED ITALIAN SOLDIERS sudden influx of invalid Italian re-| patriates, sent from Austria under a| new exchange agreement. Arrange-| lhles:‘ S ! A hopelessly wounded men.| The condition of thse men as they {arrive from Austria is often very serious and the work o be done for them is correspondently urgent. Man of the repatriates die in transit. 1 remember one group of ‘tul)ercn]m\s soldiers in which about| {fifty deaths occured between the1 | time they were gathered together in| ria and the time they reached| the Italian border. There are sev- eral deaths in practically every train, and the condition of many of| the other passengers is deplorable. The Americ Red Cross realized the importance of this work and threw| its whole energies into it. The ordinary method of these men out is as follows: The Italian = government sends a train jinto Austria, through Switzerland, | to gather up the men who are to be |t | Au bring released under ti exchange agree- ment. The train crosses the Swiss | border with its repatriated pas- engers and arrives at Buchs, where ' (Continued on : Four) { i 1 WS OUT 0i -~ BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 18, 1918 ~ - NEW COUNTY AUDITOR Many who voted for A. D. Johm;on for county auditor in the recent county ° election, were utterly un- acquainted with' him, while many | more who know him merely to speak to him know little or nothing ahout A. D. Johnson him, and many questions have been and are even nnw being asked, as his victory was. the sensation of the county election. 2 The new auditor is a young man, 31 years of age. He is a resident of Bemidji and lives at 419 America avenue. He is married and has two sons. For the past three years he has been storekeeper in Bemidji for the M. & L railroad, under the road'’s accounting department, coming from Brainerd, and never before took part in politics. Mr. Johnson commenced his busi- ness career as stenographer to the superintendent of the River division of the Northwestern railroad. The following eight years were spent in the accounting department of the Northern Pacific railroad and he was recommended to the Minnesota & International, coming to Bemidji. The early education of Mr. John- son included the Southern Minne- sota normal college at Austin, and the Winona business college. His business career has been solely along the line of business, x Mr. Johnson is not given to ef- fusion, yet is approachable in every way. He is quiet, a thorough gentle- man, a hard worker and attentive to his duties, and will make an earnest endeavor to fill the office to the sat- isfaction of the taxpayers and people of the entire county. SUGAR BAN LIFTED AFTER JANUARY. BELIEF Washington, Nov. 18.—Officials have indicated it is probable the sugar allotment-for the entire coun- try will be increased from three pounds a person monthly to four pounds on December 1. The increase will also apply to public eating places, allowing four pounds instead of three for every ninety meals served. Lifting of all restrictions on the consumption of sugar after January was said by officials as likely because of large supplies that would be avail- able then in Java and the free flow of Cuban sugar during that month. By February, it was indicated, Cen- tral Europe and France and Italy should be in a position to resume production. TO PUSH PETERSON CASE. Washington, Nov. 18.-—The gov- ernment has indicated its intention of pressing the prosecution of vio- lations under the espionage act, which becomes null at the end of the war, by asking the supreme court to advance pending cases involving Eugene V. Debs, James A. Peterson and Jacob Frohwerk. Debs was accused of disloyal and seditious utterances in a speech at Canton, Ohio. Peterson was charged with ob- structing recruiting through articles in newspapers in Minnesota, and Frohwerk was charged with publish- ing articles in the Missouri Staats Zeitung intended to hamper prosecu- tion of the war. HEAD OF HUMANE SOCIETY HAS RESIGNED Minneapolis, Npv. 18.-—Welcome W' Bradley, executive officer of the Minnesota Society for Prevention of Cruelty, and for many years secre- tary of the Minneapolis Humane so- ciety, leaves December 1 to become secretary society. His headquarters will be at Omaha and, while he will have general charge of the work in the state, ha;“flu," i to be up will also direct the Omaha office, { that of the Nebraska Humane] BRIEF INTRODUCTION _ || L RESS. PHONE AND KEY OPERATORS ARE GIVEN BIG INCREASE Washington, Nov. 18.—President Wilson has issued a proclamation tak- ing over the consolidated express business' now carried on by the American Railway Express company, and assigning the operation to Direc- tor General McAdoo. As soon as the new rates go into effect the wages of express employes probably will be raised, making ag- gregate advances of about $12,000,-| 000. TELEGRAPHERS RAISED Washington, Nov. 18.—Railroad telegraphers’ wages have been ad- vanced by order of Director General McAdoo, 13--cents per hour above the rate prevailing last January .1, with a minimun of 48 cents per hour, retroactive to October 1. Eight hours hereafter is to. be considered a day’s work, and overtime will be paid at the rate of time and a half. ~ This ‘order, involving aggregate in- é_reases of about $30,000,000 a year, applies to between 60,000 and 70,000 employés, -including telegraphers, tel- ephone operators, agent-telegraphers, agent-télephoners, tower and train directors, block operators and staff men. It does not apply to telephone switchboard operators. A seperate wage order wjll be issued this week applying to railroad agents who are not telegraphers. . PLEASE TELL US HOW -, T0 MAKE COAL DUST - Washington, Nov. 18.—Make your own coal and help win the war! This is what they are doing in England, the department of com- merce has announced. It’s all very simple. Sweep up the coal dust, mix with cinders, sawdust, fine chips and any of the dust that accummulates in the cellar. Add a little cement and some water. When mixed, pack in small flower- pots, ,or other convenient molds. Fuel cakes, made in this way, should be dried for a week until thoroughly hardened, the English have learned. AWhen ~made properly they will burn and give much heat. TRAVELING HOT BATH WAGON AIDS GASSED By Webb Miller (United Press Correspondent.) Paris, Oct. 26. (By Mail.)-—A squadron of traveling ‘“hot-bath trucks” is‘the newest scheme of the chemical warfare service for treat- ment of American soldiers suffering from German mustard gas. At several points behind the American sectors these bath trucks are held in readiness to start instantly when- ever the Germans start a gas bom- bardment. The most important part of the treatment for mustard_gas is a hot bath as soon as possible after the gas touches the skin. Before the in- auguration of the “hurry-up” bath outfits, gas suffers had to be trans- ported to the nearest hospital with facilities for bathing. This some- times meant a delay of several hours when every minute was precious. Under the new arrangements the “path trucks’” hurry toward the front upon receipt of a telephone message announcing the beginning of a gas bombardment. The trucks push up as close to the firing line as possible, and within a few minutes are ready to begin operations. Esach truck carries a 2,500 gallon tank of water'and an instantaneous water heater. Other automobiles carry a demountable bath pavilion and the necessary piping. The work of putting up the tented pavilion and making the water connections is a matter of only a few minutes. More than twenty soldiers can bathe simul- taneously in the tent. As the gas sufferers are brought in, the attendants undress them and dip the clothing in a solution of lime water, Even the helmets and shoes are immersed in the solution. Mean- while the sufferers are quickly sprayed with liquid soap and taken into the showers for fifteen seconds. Then other attendants scrub the gassed men and spray their eyes, noses an throats with a solution of counteract the burning and irritation of the poison. The men are then given clean clothing and sent to an evacuation hospital. The attendants wear oilskin one-piece suits with tight-fitting headpieces. 4 During a recent test forty-eight men were bathed in two and one- half minutes. - PROTESTS WAGE CUT. Laredo, Texas, Nov. 18.—Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in the ¢losing hours of the Pan.American labor con- ference here, served formal warning no general reduction of wages nor increase in working hours after the war would be accepted without a bitter fight by organized labor “FLU" VICTIM IMPROVES. T. Thompson, who has been ill for the past two weeks with the Spanish is improved today and is able + [ YESTERDAY'S PAPERS-READ THE PIONEER . e 1Y PIONEE FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH U.S.ARMY RESUMES CETORHINE; RFLED, SAYS fiUN NEWSPAPER (By United Press.) With the Americans advancing toward the Courier to Verdun and Barle Duc, Nov. 18.—The third army resumed its advance into German territory at dawn today. When the march began the left wing of the Americans rested on the Franco-Belgian frontier, while the right wing was near the German border in the Metz region. march, the Americans reclaimed nearly five hundred square ADVAN AICE wp“..‘ il miles of French' territory. BELGIAN TROOPS HAVE ENTERED BRUSSELS. Paris, Nov. 18.—A 'detachment of Belgian troops has en- the purpose of keeping order. tiiumphal entry of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth is now tered Brussels for scheduled for Saturday. “WILHELM ONLY FLED,” SAYS BERLIN NEWSPAPER. Paris, Nov. 18.—The Berlin Tageblatt declares that the emperor only fled the country and did not abdicate. The news- paper points out that the act of abdication was not published. KAISER PLANS RETURN TO THE FATHERLAND. Copenhagen, Nov. 18. —The Workmen’s and Soldiers’ council of Potsdam announced that it has learned that former Kaiser Wilhelm is planning to return to Germany, owing to the disturbances in Holland. Paris, Nov. 18.—German soldiers have been rioting in Metz since November 10, according to a correspondent of Le Matin, who went there to await the scheduléd to enter Metz tomorrow. FEAR’S SENSE OF DUTY IS EQUAL TO SHELLSHOCK (By Unted Press.) London, Nov. 2. (By Mail)—A soldier sifferers from shellshock when great, overmastering fear crashes against his sense of duty. He tries with all his moral fibre to conquer that tear and it is when he fails that shellshock comes, shatter- ing his nerves and sometimes leaving him with a blank mind. This is the definition of shellshock given by Maj. Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, an eminent mental specialist, in a recent lecture on the strange affliction that comes to hundreds of unwounded men, including many of high mental gualifications and model physique. Though real sufferers from shell- shock receive the most sympathic treatment, once they arrive in the quiet hospitals where specialists are restoring disordered minds, the authorities, of all armies have be- come skepiical in dealing with many cases. This is because cowards haye faked shellshock symptoms in the hope of being sent out of the line for a time or even of heing discharged as mentally unfit, Minor degrees of shellshock some- times are hard to distinguish from the worst degrees of plain yellow- ness, Maybe the doctors have made some mistakes in diagnosis because the diffesence is so subtle, but most of their dicisions probably were right. for specialists learn human nature as they learn psychology. The faker usually over-acts his part. There was an infantry captain with a brave record in the trenches who came to London to recover from ghellshock and would never ride in the subway bhecause the sound of the train with its trailing vacuum re- minded him of the sound of big shells coming through the air. On his first subway ride after coming back he trembled like a frightened child in a dark closet. His nerves had given way, Big, brawny soldiers are inmates of a shellghock hospital near London. Some are obviously of unsound mind as a result of their flerce inner con- flict of emotions. Others appear to be absoiutely normal. Yet some of the “normal’” men whimper like chil- dren and crawl under the beds when an air-raid is on. These are real shellshock cases. Psychologists distinguish between a coward and the shellshocked man whose condition comes from that in- terior battie of character. Only a hrave man can suffer real shellshock —if he weren’t brave his sense of duty wouldn't have resisted to the hreaking point. ACCOMMODATING POLICE. | An intoxicated individual aboard a train was taken off last night at Bemidji by the police at the request of the conductor. He was sobered up in the city jail and ordered out of jtown this morning. He left. T i Rhine,, by In their first day’s The restoration. The French are SCHOOLS WILL REMAIN CLOSED SEVERAL DAYS UPON MEDICAL ADVICE The public schools will not be re- opened this week. - This was the de- cision of the board of education, act- ing upon the advice of doctors of the city and the exact dat is as yet uncertain. This action was taken Saturday evening at a special meeting to hear reports of conditions, the schaal board being guided by the medical men of the city who are in close contact with the Spanish influenza plague, while many parents also favered the continted closing. - The fact that Bemidji has gotten along so well in preventing the gpread of the plague is the desire to continue health conditions now ex- isting among the pupils of the public schools. H. K. Flynn, one of the state public school inspectors, was in Be- midji today and was surprised at the good conditions surrounding the schools during the plague epidemic. He said many schoel systems throughout the state were still closed and he commended Bemidji upon the action it took in promptly closing the schools, a precaution. CORDWOOD RATES ARE LOWERED. ANNOUNCED (Special to The Pioneer.) St. Paul, Nov 18- -After months of conference with federal railway authorities, the Min- nesota Railroad and Warehouse com- mission {8 in position to announce a decided reduction in freight rates on cordwood. The new rates will place wood in direct competition with coal and other fuels, as soon as the fuel administrator has fixed a price on the former commodity. The new rates substantially are on a parity with those originally or- dered by the Minnesota commission, and are from 20 to 40 per cent be- low the prevailing scale. A distinct benefit to the public in the new tariff is a rule providing that the rate will apply equally over a single line or two or more lines of railroad, the only basis being continuous, mileage. OPSAHL ON SICK LIST. two the J. J. Opsahl is i1l at his home in Lavinia. He recently returned from Cloquet where he had been doing relief work in the fire district. FAILED TO LEAVE: HELD. Berne, Switzerland, Nov. 18.—M. Guilbeaux, director of the Revue Domain, not having complied with a decree for his expulsion from Swit- zerland, has been arrested. i B