Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 25, 1918, Page 1

BYWHITEWASH = right tackle for five yards and then %) first play Neuman spilled Johnson for VOLUME XVI.. NO. 288 BEMIDNI WINS INNORTHWEST TITLECONTEST High school Eleven Defeats Thief River Falls Team by Score of 39 to 0 S COACH SMITH’S PROTEGES Victory Gives Locals Cha pionship of District; Be- midji Shows Her Stuff The Bemidji high school. football team” defeated the Thief River Falls ' high school eleven on the local grid- iron Saturday afternoon by the score of 39 tq 0. The game Wwas bitterly | contested and was featured by open fileld running, line smashing and very little forward passing. Thief River Falls was far outclassed by Coach Smith’s aggregation, and only the deadly tackling of Brazen at . fullback prevented the Bemidji scorc from being a great deal larger. The locals gained gro\md -in«big chunks from the startwhile - Thief Rive Falls was able to make distance bu once durng the entire game. Line Performs Well The. Bemidji line ' performed in sterling fashion the visitors heavy’ line. From tackle to tackle, the vis- jtors found the going hard, relying for the most part on dashes -around| the wings. ~Captain ~Simons: and Stechman .at. the: Bemidji outposis ~“had thei ands;full,“but they were able to break rough many time:s and when they did they made their presence’ known, Simons especially throwing the runner for big losses. ~ Qaptain. Mostue won the toss and ~ chose ito’ receive, -Captain®Simons de-~] fending the west goal. Phibbs kicked off to the 15-yard line, Koors bring- jng the runner to earth on the 25- yard line, ‘Threé line plays netted only’ four: yards and ‘Captain Mostua ‘was forced «to; punt!;c Mostue.pung . 25¢yards, to ‘Doran. on-Bemidji's " yard:line, who ‘returned 19 yard © 7Thief River Falls’ 35-yard «Hne. The first score of the game came with the first four minutes of play. Morse going over for the tonchdown and Phibbs kicking goal. Neuman Blocks Punt. . Bemidji again kicked off, Thief River Falls returning the ball to their 40-yard line. Barzen”slid oft Simons threw Flattum for a two-yard loss. Opsahl broke through and spilled Johnson for no gain, and then Mostue was called back to punt. Neéuman broke through and-blocked the kick, Simons, recovering the ball on their 45-yard line and eluding four tacklers, ran 45 yards for the secon@d touchdown. Phibbs" again kicked goal, making the score 14 to 0. - Bemidji agrin kicked off to Thief River Falls, Barzen returning 20 vards to his 35-yard Jline:.. On the a two-yard loss and then Doran in- tercepted a pass and carried it ‘to the visitors’ 30-yard line. ~On the iirst play, Kenfield went around left ond for 30 yards, warding off three tacklers' by some of the finest stiff- arming seen on a local field, and planted the ball between the posts for the third touchdown. Phibbs missed goal. Thief River Falls Kkicked off to Phibbs on Bemidji's 20-yard line and he returned it to the 40.yard mark. Consistent gains off tackle and through the center soon sent Phibbs off for the last Score of the first half, the goal being missed. The haif ending 26-to 0. Doran -Goes Over. . Thief River Falls kicked off to Bemidji at the start of the third peripd and Simons returned the ball 25 yards to his 45-yards line. Morze one a delayed line buck carried the ball to the vi8itors’ two-yard line where Doran smashed through right tackle for a touchdown. Phibbs kicked the goal. The balance of thé game was marred by frequent fum- bles and penalties, until tthe final three minutes of:play when Phibbs on a delayed line buck went througa Thief River Falls’ right tackle for 20 yards and a touchdown. The goal was missed, making the score 39 to @ How Thev Lined Up. The lineup for both teams follows: Thief River Falls. Bemidji. Schuster ..... o @sssione Stechn.un Mostue, Capt. .l ...Neuman Holden ...... Lgsooos .. Koors Lindquist by .....Opsahl Moravec . Danl Lund. ... .....Boyce Parenteau apt. Simons Hadrath .. Doran Johnson . Morse Flattum 5 . .Kenfield Barzen ¢ sli Doy s o Phibbe Substitutions — Thief River Falls, Mostue for Parenteau, Weirus for Mostue, LaBreg for Lindquist; Be- ROMP ALL OVER VISITORS |’ BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY-EVENING, NOV. 25, 1918 - LIEUT. FOUCAULT ON FURLOUGH: COMMANDS 298 COLORED SOLDIERS Lieut. Clarence Foucault, arrived home . from Camp Green, Charlotte, N.-C., this_morning for a furlough of twelve days aund is busily engaged receiving hearty greetings from his host/of friends in Bemidji. The - former Bemidji - recruiting officer hasg, by hard work risen to' his present cummisgsion and is in com- mand of a”company of 298 negro soldiers, mostly from ‘Georgia, Mississippi. and clher south- ern ‘states. He statej,that the col- ored men make splendid .soldiers and have a happy faculty of . obeying cheerfully the orders issued them. He: says: he Iy -~ first sergeant, a hugh- specimen of negro, who is dark skinned and an impressive chap, a graduate of the -famous institute founded by Booker T. Washington, Foucault says that this soldier®is the most. soldierly. member of the com- ‘manders he evgr saw, and a sticker for discipline. P “Those boys would do anything for me,” says Lieut. Foucault.. “On a hike, no matter if the mud is up to our knées;in rain:they will plough thréughit singing and seem as happy as can be, no matter -how hard it might-be.” - Singing on a hike is be- ing taught the men' and they are certainly great when they once get started on a hike. “I expect to be sent over seas be- fore long with the reconstruction forces, and'expect to take my men along. i ‘“Meet Lieut. Swinson frequently. He is at Camp Green also, with a company of colored soldiers. We are known as pioneer troops and will play an important part in the recon- struction part of the prbgram over there.”. Lieut. Foucault says he is feeling fine, and certainly looks the part. LOCAL DRAFT BOARD WILL TLOSE DEC. 10 Under orders received by the Bel- trami county draft board from Gen- eral Crowder, federal provost mar- shal, the draft board will cease to exist on -December 10. The order means the last chapter of the great draft drama that sent hundreds of thousands of men into the military service during the war. District boards have been ordered to stop consideration of appeals and will close their offices December 1. The office for this district is in Brainerd and W. B. Lakin of Bemidji is & member of the district board. for Dahl. Referze of M. Umpire— Falls. Head throp, Carroll midji, Stapleton —Dr. Diedrich, U” O’Connell, Thief Ri Linesman — Dr. college. €. a distance ef River Falis No o Bemidji d of 60 yerds lost only 10 yards for penalties. * Barzen was one of the hardest and surest tacklers seen on the field this season, he making about half of the tackles for his team. Had the visitors not had a player of his style the Bemidji score would easily have been much higher. Opsahl at center was a wonder on the defense, time .after time break- ing through and spilling plays in their infancy. Captain Simons at right end? turned in every play around his end) ’ and in nearly every case got the run- ner algo. | Kenfield, Morse, Phibbs and Doran tore the heavy Thief River Falls line to shreads when ever they carried the ball and generally took from two to three tacklers to bring them down. Neuman, although playing his first year, showed up fine at left tackle, on one" occasion breaking through| and blocking a punt which resulted ® Bemidji’s new normal school, iliel sixth normal in the state, will open}santial nature, modern in every de- for the summer term about the first; tai part of June. This is the decision of the state normal board, according to A. P. White of Bemidji, member of the state board, A committee to secure a president for the normal has been named, of which Mr. White, resident member of the board, is the chairman. This will involve consideration of all ap~ plicants and a thorough investiga- tion into their qualifications and fit- ness for the position of getting the new s‘ch,ool started. Three months Alabama, | will be allowed the committee to se- cure the right man and his selection will be made at the next board meet- ing in February. ‘ Nearing Completion. . The' new main structure of. the school is rapidly nearing completion and the inside decorating is now in progress. It will soon be finished. The structure is the finest of its nature“in the entire-state, spacious BEMIDJI SOLDIER DIES FROM BATTLE WOUNDS " "Mr. and -Mrs.” Adolph ‘Klein' are'in reeeipt of an official tefegram from Washington, announcing the death of their son, Herman. ' " The message states He digd October 15, from wounds recelved in action. Mr. Klein enlisted in the service last July and went across immediately. He had made his home in Marshfield, Ore., for the past ten years. WARNING TO PARENTS “ISSUED BY THE MAYOR Specially on Sunday were several boys and small children out on the thin ice along the shore of Lake Bemidji and two of the venturesome broke tHftough and went down in the lake. Fortunately, they were notin water over their heads, but might ‘have gotten under the ice and been drowned. Today Mayor Vandersluis ordered a policeman to warn the children from the ice but the city cannot place a special policeman as a safe- guard. The mmyor asks The Pioneer to warn all’ parénts to Keep their chil- dren from ventutring on the ice on Lake Bemidji while it is fragile. * HERO Ol-: ZEEBRUGGE ATTACK O. Walker of the royal Lieuf. H. T. navy, who was the hero of the famous 3ritish naval attack on Zeebrugge. | Lieutenant Walker, who avas an offi-| cer of H. M. 8. Vindictive, had his arm | blown off during the landing of the! British zailors and marines on the | mole. He is expected in this country ! in Simons making his 46-yard sprint for the second touchdown. shortly to fill an appointment with the | British bureau of information. | 7 [T and stately, built in the most sub- -and handsome on its magnitude. Request had been made for an ap- propriation”’ for dormitories. The same. request was also made by the normals at Mankato and Winona, but owing to the conditions from the war at present it deemed advisable to postpone action for the next two year period, when it will be presented to the legislature. Funds Recommended. Bemidji has asked for emergency funds for equipment, the equipment being specified. It has been recom- mended. The necessary amount for YOU CAN'T GET TODAY’S NEWS OUT OF YESTERDAY’S PAPERS--READ THE- MIDJ1 . DAILY T’ e —JUNANIMOUS \ an . F FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH | JWILLBE CONFERENCE RULE; - GERMANY GETTING - T0 BE DEMOCRACY A (By United Press.) Washington, Nov. 25.—The. decisions of the forthcoming peace conference must be unanimous. There will be no majority rule. Y WILL DISCHARGE SOLDIERS BY THOUSANDS. Washington, Nov. 25.—The discharge of soldiers on this side is expected to reach the daily rate of thirty thousand men by the end of this week or early next week. The machinery for the demobilization is being speed up. GERMANY IS BEING DEMOCRATIZED. i Copenhagen, Nov. 25.—The Berlin Workmen’s-Soldiers’ council has issued a proclamation claiming provisional control resultant |of the entire country_for the purpose of suppressing attempts was |of counter revolution. Berlin dispatches report that Oldenburg, Bremen, Ham- burg, East Ariesland and Schleswig-Holstein have formed an independent republic with Hamburg as the capital. ~ ITALIANS OCCUPY MORE CITIES. . Rome, Nov. 25.—Italian troops have occupied Innsbruck iyearly maintenance for the coming|and Landeck. two years has also been recommend- ed. Funds for putting into proper condition the grounds immediately surrounding the building have also been recommended. It is confidently expected the new normal will” start uuder the most favorable auspices and a great future :s predicted for the new seat of learn- ng. ) |MFSSAGE CONFIRMS EARL MIVER'S DEATH and Mrs, K. Mclyver received a telegram Saturda¥, confirming 'the rehort that their son, Earl, was dead. The message stated he died in Liver- pool, England, October 7, three days after he landed, the caise of his death Dbeing the Span.sh influenza. He was 20 years of aue. Mr. and Mrs. Mclver™ have two more sons in the service, Claude and Austin. The former is in France and the latter in England. TWENTY YEARS ESTIMATE T0 REBUILD FRANCE Chicago, Nov. 25.—Reconstruction work will tax the productive capacity of the country for lumber and other materials for years, Edwin B. Park- er, commissioner of priorities of the war industries board, told members of the National Lumber association in convention here. He predicted it would take twenty years to rebuild France. ALLIED OFFICER SALLS " INTO CONSTANTINOPLE Paris, Nov. 25.—General French entered Constantinople - Sunday on the“battleship Patrie. COURAGEOUS JAPS! Tokio, Nov. 25. (By Mail.)-—The Imperial university of Tokio has de- cided to add a chair of Russian, for the study of the language and other subjects relating to Russia. It will be in the College of Literature ON DEER HUNT. C. R. Rank, a real estate dealer of Minneapolis, is in the city and will spend some time in this vicinity deer hunting. Mr. Rank owns iand near Turtle River, where he spends a good deal of the sufiiner months. DOUSE THE GLIM, KELLY! London, Nov. 4. (By Mail.)—It's hard to fool a London policeman. He is somewhat slow at coming to a conclusion, but when he arrives at that point he sticks to it' like glue. Late one night recently a police- man noticed a light in a house at Highgate. He knew the occupants of the house were on “‘early to bed and early to rise” family, as he had never before noticed a light there at so late an hour. This particular suspicious. A knock at the front door brought policeman grew { & man, who said he lived there, and gave the name of Wilson, but he did not know the number of the house! Then the policeman noticed a food card protruding from a pocket of the man’s coat. He helped himself to it 0PPOSING REPORTS OF ANTHRACITE SUPPLY Washington, Nov. 25, —— Prospects for a full supply of anthracite coal this winter are good, the senate com- merce committee was told today at the reopening of its jnvestigation of OFFICERS ELECTED BY RED CROSS DIRECTORS: WORK ON COMMITTEES With the selection of the officers of the south Beltrami county chap- ter, Red Cross, the hoard of diregtors is today turning Its'attention to the the fuel administration: “Arthur Lea- make-up of the committees to serve royd, director of the administration’s for the ensuing year. . distribution daivision, outlined terri- The new officers of the chapter, torfal allotments for the season and chosen by the board, are as follows: | Was sharply questioned by Chairman “ President—Charles Warfield. Reed particularly concerning: 3,600sr ‘Vico-President—Rev, L. P. War-{ 000 tons assighed 'to Canada; p ford. ' 'Mr. Learoyd' said the program Secretary—Mrs. Frank T. Beaver: calléd for a® 100 per cent domestic Treasurer—Dr. E. H. Smith, re- distribution ‘of anthracite for the elected. New England states and North At- Various appointments are to be|lantic states. made aside from the committees and [ The committee was told the needs these will be announced as soon as|of the northwest@rn states would be completed. given specigl comsideration. Reply- ing to a question from Senator Ken- yon, he said that fowa had been al- lotted 145,000 tons of anthracite to be distributed over the northern third of the state. BELOW NORMAL. SPOONER EVADER oF DRAFT GIVEN SENTENCE Spooner, Minn., Nov. 25. — Oscar Olson, who has made his home in this section for a number of years, was Washington, Nov. 25.—Production sentenced in the federal court atjof ‘antbracite coal has been so re- Fergus Falls to five days’ imprison-|duced that it is now nearly 100,000 ment in the Ottertail county jail for|net tons behind the daily average failure to register. production for last year, the fuel ad- He worked at the Shevlin-Clarke | ministration announced in making (By United Press.) London, Nov. 3. (By Mail.)—At a suburban variety show a conjuror was doing a trick with an egg. At a giyen point in’the performance he called upon someone in the audience to assist him. In response there stepped out an American soldier, to whom the conjuror handed the egg asking him to examine it. The soldier seemed to roll it be- tween bis hands, and it vanighed! No one was pore surprised than the per- former when the egg finally was pro- | duced from uunder the soldier’s chin. orry to interrupt your show, Bud, he apologized, but [ played thig game myeself before I joined up.” | mill at Fort Frances, Ont., last year | public figures on production for the and came back here a short time[week erding November 16. after registration day, and offered to e e register. y He was advised to go to Bemidji WHAT CHARTER SAYS before the local board, which he failed to do, but instead. left for ABOUT HEALTH BOARD North Dakota, where he worked on fi e the’farm of Governor Frazier. Later : - he sought to register under the Sep- A few days ago The Pioneer made tember 12 registration and was ar- “‘fi];;“lhl“(’]“e“' :" ll‘l]r ‘l‘““‘"l that Be- osted as a 8 . m ad no health board, as pro- r(,s/(\;dh;sw;:l:c{!(‘(:;zen dfeSweden, he|vided by the city charter. The asser- would have been exempt as an alien tion was later questioned, it being and could have avoided all penalty, [beld that the ¢ity had a board of as well as service, if he had regis-| health. ; tered and claimed his exemption. | The Pioncer is not taking issue in o, e this question and has no personal in- terest in it one way or the nthe_r. However— The city charter, under the head- ing “HEALTH DEPARTMENT—Ap- plication Qualifications, Sec. 36, includes the following: The health department shall con- ist of three members, one of whom ghall be duly licensed to practice medicine within the state of Minne- Fota He shall be styled health officer. The charter ordinance also speci- ties each memoer shall be a “‘resident and elector of the city.” The rection also goes on to say, “they shall be appointed as the other officers by the city council for the term of one year.” The council has named a health | committee of the regularly appointed committees made by the president of HOME ON FURLOUGH. the council, but no board of health 5 s e o . ihas been named. It's members are, rl Riley, son of Mrs. C. E.Itiley. jounjy, Croon, and Phillippi, neither arrived in 4,mni(]jl Saturday after-| 0" p6m are doctors, and there are uoon and \\'{I] spend a short furlough |ihree. The charter saysthree shall here with his mother and sisters. Hc”". named as a board. The council will ,!'vp{)!" on the transport Merauka ; haw aot appointed a board of health at Philadelphia, December 4 Mr. |0 the city of Bemidji, according to Riley hW%s ‘nmrla several trips arrofisluh‘_ officiaf® the Atlantic while in the service MEN TO BE HOSTS. NEW -STORE OPENS. —and found the name to be Kelly. | sl R. A. Wheelock has opened 2 store Kelly's fate still hangs in the bal-| A lutfisk supper will be given by [and meat market in the Wheelock ance. He was remandbd af High-|the men of the First Scandinavian |bullding on Beltrami avenue, for- gate Police Court pending further| Lutheran church December 4, fu the|merly occupled by the Bemidji Elec. discoveries as to his past | church basement tric company . e " i ' r S o St i