Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 13, 1918, Page 1

VOLUME XVI. NO. 303 SELVIG AGAIN *VALLEY ASSN. Dairymen End Convention with Election of Officers; An- derson Second V.-P. ONLY ONE CHANGE IN EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL Secretary Houske Says Visitors Enjoyed Their Stay; “Flu’s” Presence Felt The fourtednthi“annual convention of the Red RiwgpsValley Dairymen’s association camg:$o'a close Thursday afternoon with the election of offi- cers, all with the exception of one peing re-elected. The name of L. D. Anderson of Clearbrook will appear in the place of A. B. Stensgaard of McIntosh, second vice-president. The full list of officers is as follows: President—C. G. Selvig, Crookston. First Vice-President—N. P. Han- son, Westbury. Second Vice-President—L. D. An- aerson, Clearbrook. - . Secretary—Leonard Houske, Hal- stad. - Treasurer—C. M. Davidson, Climax. Closing_ Program, The afternoon’s program was car- ried out with the exception of the paper scheduled to be ppresented by Dr. C. P. Fitch, head of the veter- inary division of the University of Minnesota. .His place was taken by ELECTED HEAD | Andrew French of St. Paul, state ‘dairy’ and food commission, manager of the dairy council of the state association. . y George P. Grout, president. of the/ Minnesota. State. Dairymen’s associa- tion, gave-an -intéresting address on “Pepding and Caring for the Dairy i eir Visit. Tnkln?nilgtv: dco%‘};lderatlon the in- fiuenza epidemic, geveral members and their families being afflicted, .the attendance was all‘to be expected snd the program was ~carried out ~with hardly an exception. Secretary Houske said the members present thoroughly enjoyed their visit and were glad they could be here. The place of holding the next con- vention will be determined next year. PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO USE ENGLISH ONLY St: Paul, Dec. 13.-—A continuation of the policy announced by the Pub- Jic Safety commission last summer of compelling public, private and pa- rochial schools to use the English language Qxclusive]y in teaclung all}| subjects except a foreign language, | js recommended by C. G. S:huiz, state superintendent of schools, in his bi-annual report. After telling of the order issued by the Public Safety commission to _he effective August 1 last, the superin- tendent continues: “The department suggests as a means to bring about this change in schools where it has not already heen done.: . . “The adoption and use of English text books, and the employment of | teachers qualified to teach all sul;- jects. in English, unifying the prl—I vate schools of cities and other com-; munities with the public schools as: ~20 text books,, courses of study, at-) ,tendance, classification, examina- | “ijons, grading, promotion and grad-| wation of pupils.” (By United Press.) Minneapolis, Dec. 13.—No super- <tition in the Fort Snelling hospital. Friday, the thirteenth, isn’t going 20 stop the wounded Yanks from “gver there” when it'comes to a little diversion from the routine of wound | dressing and dieting. They are hav- ing an entertainment tonight—an 210-fashioned folk song festival. CENSORSHIP FORMALITY. Berlin, Dec. 13.—The German cen-‘ sorghip of telegrams exists now only 2s a formality. —_ EVERYBODY PLAYED SAFE It was noticed to a marked de- gree that Bemidji peo[_zle ‘were un- § usually courteous this morning, || both about the house and en route }' Yto the business district. ~School f| pupils were unusually industrious § | and polite to their teachers. Service in stores and business places was a little prompter than i usual, smiles were plentiful and§, the sun shown in all its splendor. § | 3 All this, brethren, because it was { Friday, the 13th, and Bemidji}| took no chances with the mystic combination. i e g The schi Abov A~ A ANOTHER ARREST IN GIRLS’ LIOUOR ESCAPADE Ray Spencer was arrested yester- day on a ‘complaint prepared by County Attorney Torrance, signed by Luella Johpson, & minor, age 15 years, charging the accused with having furnished liquor to the girl on the day.of Bemidji’s peace cele- bration which ¢aused her to become jntoxicated and act in an unbecom- dng man, ? in ‘the business district. Thé, com% aint says the girl will be 16 years old’in April. Spencer . wag arraigned before Judge - Gibbons ' in the municipal court, waived examination and was held in bonds ‘of $1,000 to appear before the February grand ju “The girt¥wass kel before " Judge, Harris of the. probate court and wasi committed to. the girls’ school at Sauk Centre.- She was arrested in company with a’ young woman named Mrs. Rice at the time of the liquor episode, the latter "also pleading guilt to intoxication, drawing a fine and jail sentence. W’ADOO VOLUNTEERS T0 SOLVE PROBLEM: WILSON DOESN'T KNOW Washington, Dec. 13.—Secretary McAdoo’s proposal to keep the rail- roads under government control un- til 1924, met instant criticism from the republican slde when the senate convened. Senator Kellogg of Min.[ nesota declared that ‘a proposition for permanent = government owner- ship of railroads is at the bottom of | the whole thing. ! Referring: to- Mr. McAdoo’s letter to the congressional interstate com- merce committees, made public last night, Senator Kellogg said it is “a} most remarkable document, coming as it does immediately, or in a few days after the address of the presi- demt in waich the president said he had no judgment of his own.” Before Senator Kellogg spoke the senate committee decided to meet Thursday to discuss the railroad problem: Declaring congress can immedi- ately act on railroad legislation, Sen- ator Kellogg said he favored unified operation under ‘‘a strong govern- ment control together with federal regulation of railroad securities.” PUBLIC DANCES HIT BY NEW ‘FLU’ ORDER Owing to the “flu” situation in Bemidji, Chief Essler today issued an order forbidding the holding of pub- lic dances in.the city until further notice. Several new cases have been re- ported and it -is-thought best to ban public dances until the condition has improved. 3 FINDS DIRE DISTRESS. Dr.-L. A.-Ward ‘was called to the old Crimes farm, east of Bemidii, Wednesday, and found every member in two families, eight in number, down with the Spanish “fiun.”. The cattle and horses had not been fed’ for some time, @8 all patients were too ill tor do any work. The town board took the matter in hand. WOULD PURCHASE ISLAND. Panama, Bec. 13.—Negotiations have been begun by the United States for the purchase of property rights on the island of Taboga, at the Pa- cific entrance of the Panama canal in Panama territory. It is said the pian is to add to the canal fortifica-| tions six batteries of coast artillery and a post of 3,000 men. The cost| of the property rights, it is said, will| aggregate $15,000,000. | THIS IS WHERE PRESIDENT higdule Tor the trip of President Wilson acr ) p ¢ 15 a's¢env. in the harbor of Brest, which has been one -of .the large 1 DAILY BEMIDJI, MIN WiL the ~AAAAAAL Spectacular Bandit Raid "(By United Press.) St. Paul, Dec. 13,—One of the melodramatic bandit - raids staged in Min forenoon in the .town of Cadott; twelve miles east of Chippews-Falls; desperad when A party. of-armed ‘seven in all, cleaned up the town and: . . escaped. ¢ %t ~ The places robbed were as follows: Four. saloons. ¥ Five stores. Two™ garages. Railroad depot. : More than $6,000 in cash was se- cured-and much valuable booty.. The rohbers escaped in an automobile. News of the wholesale robbery was sent to St. Paul from the Cadott town gm‘shul who phoned from Chippewa alls, KNUTSON URGES BILL ALLOWING SOLDIERS TO KEEP THEIR UNIFORMS When it was learned in Bemidji that the government intended to de- prive the returned soldiers of their uniforms, there was a storm of criti- cism,.. the people believing that the men who offered their servives and lives in the preservation of their country should at least be allowed to have the uniform they wore in camp and on the battle fields. Other cities and towns throughout the nation shared the same_view. Congressman Harold Knutson of the Sixth district, Minnesota, from his home in St. Cloud wired the fol- lowing to Congressman Shubert Dent, Jr., chairman of military affairs com- mittee: St. Cloud, Dec. 11.—Ameri- can people anxious that dis- charged soldiers be permitted to retain uniforms. Can you not secure suspension of war depart- ment ordér to turn them in, pending congressional action that will permit their retention. Please use best efforts and initi- ate legislation at once. (Signed) HAROLD KNUTSON, Member Congress. The reply was as follows: Washington, Dec. 12.—Mili- tary committee took favorable action on the uniform bill to- day. SHUBERT DENT, JR., Chairman. This means that Bemidji soldiers and all' enlisted’ men . in Beltrami county will no doubt be allowed to' keep their uniforms and wear them whenever occasion requires, in Yn- triotic parades and on other simila occasions. . Drilling is also contem- plated in Bemidji and an organiza- tion effected. NO ORDERS ABROGATED. The impression appears to have gone abroad that the orders of the Safety commission, or some of them, have now been abrogated. That is not a fact. All of the orders issued by the commission remain in full force, and will remain in full force until formally abrogated by the com- mission or the regular law.making powers of the state. BIBLE CLASS TONIGHT. The Bible class of the Lutheran Free church will meet at the home of Ed. Akre, this evening at 8 o’clock. N., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13 erican naval bases in Europe. ‘Cleans Town “most | draft call and soon after reaching . ever | Camp Dodge asked for transfer to the nesota was that thig]field artillery, which was granted. _ YOU CAN'T GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF _YESTERDAY G xx.\*“"\ SON LANDS {HERBERT AGAIN HOME AFTER SERVING NATION Another Bemidji soldier has come home, having finished his work in the military arm of the United States army, Captain John M. Herbert of |the field artillery. l Captain Herbert's last station was Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., and he served practically all of his time at Camp Taylor and other large encampments. Herbert enlist- ed a8 a “buck” private early in the ~~ Close study and hard work won him promation after promdtion until he <l attained a -captain’s insignia. i BRITISHER TELLS OF GERMAN TOWN PANIC (By United Press.) London, Nov. 25. (By Mail.)~- “Yes,”” said a recently repatriated, wounded British aviator, who had been a prisoner in Germany since January, 1917, “I was in Mannheim during two night raids. It was dur- ing the latter part of 1917. Oh, they had the wind up all right, even then. We wondered what was happening when we first heard the syrens and guns start. Our orderlies just van- ished. There was a big chemical factory not far from our camp. Several bombs must have hit it fair and square. In the morning when iwe looked out there was not much of it left. “Nothing came on us either time. 'T'ritz noticed that this hospital camp . was a safe spot, and built a barracks ‘next door, and put down a gun test- ing station on the other side. “It was wonderful how our fellows managed to pick out the factories. The town itself was not damaged at all. When we left Mannheim we | marched right through the town, and though 1 saw several factories in ruins, I didn’'t see a single private house that had been hit.” A Colstreamer who had been in Essen during the raids on Krupps spoke of the frenzied panic that pre- vailed, and told how a mob of Ger- mans, men and women, rushed into the hospital where the wounded prisoners were lying. They broke into the wards and fiercely threat- ened the English. His comrade, in the next cot, they acutally pulled out on the floor, and jumping on the helpless man, per- manently injured his spine. This repatriated Englishman also had much to tell of the great ma- terial damage wrought by the Brit- ish bombers, and the far-reaching moral effects produced on the civil populace in Germany. UNITED STATES HOLDS "DESTROYER RECORD (By United Press.) Washington, Dec. 13.—The United States navy leads the world in de- stroyers, built or building. This information Rear Admiral Griffin, chief of bureau of steam en- gineering, gave the country today in his angual report, recording achieve- ments of the past war year. Much of the report is technical, but its substance is a story of success in big things. With about 276 de- stroyers building, Admiral Griffin has this to say of the destroyer standing: ~ “In ships built and building, the United States has now a larger force of destroyers than that of any other navy. “This increase has not been gradu- al, but has been attained by giant strides within a year. The difficul- | ties encountered in such unprecen- dented progress have no parallel in warship construction anywhere at;] any time."” , 1918 B E—— Y S— S————— R FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH VOCIFEROUS CHEER ASHELA By Fred railway station. Once aboard left immediately for Paris. ‘When the last 150 destroyers were ordered, a 28-knot speed was contem- plated, but before contracts were let, it was decided the speed should be 86 knots. This meant doubling the number of boilers and increasing the amount of forgings. Makers of the latter were far from keen to handle the work, but the tasks were under- taken, even though an unprecedented amount of work already was under way. Actual expenditures of the bureap for the fiscal year 1917 were estfs mated at $49,636,093 whereas the fiscal year 1918 expenditures were $283,742,767. This represented more than three quarters of a million dollars expenditure per day. “Since.the United States became a belligerent, the magnitude of the en- ginearfng work ot .the navy, both me- chaniéal and eléctrical hais been—not {only in its actuat-amount but in the rapld development of facilities for its execution=—without a parallel, for the same period of time, in the his- tory of the world's navies,” says Griffin. A Dbirdseye view or the bureau's activities may be obtained from the fact that the navy is operating 570 regular navy vessels, 93 coast guard, lighthouse and kindred ships, 937 converted merchant craft, and 247 vessels for army and navy transporta- tion. There are under construction at navy yards 376 combatant and auxilary vessels and 52 tugs. The navy has about 210 radio stations. Griftin reveals that 8 anti-sub- marine devices were developed dur- ing the war, and that radio, tele- graph and telephone apparatus for commutication with airplanes have been remarkably developed. Touching on oil land development, the report makes this significant comment on the California reserve: “Development of the naval reserve land has progressed so rapidly in the past few years that unless legislation is passed shortly the entire reserve must be commandeered.” MAKE OUR OWN MAPS. (By United Press.) Washington, Dec. 13.—America should be indenpendent of the rest of the world in the matter of ‘maps and shipping charts, as a matter of na- tional security, “the navy hydro- graphic office advises in its annual report today. “A position of independence” says the report, “will secure to us great advantages in the features of nation- al security, efficiency due to working under an individual and homogene- ous system, undivided responsibility for the safe navigation of our ship- ping, both naval and commercial and (United Press Correspondent.) Brest, France, Dec. 13.—President Wilson stepped ashore on French soil at 3:22 o’clock this afternoon. preceded the president in disembarking. ship George Washington, dropped anchor at 1:30 o’clock. The president was given a vbciferous welcome as he rode through the street in Brest this after —_———-—- o0 GREETS PRESIDENT NDS UPON SHORES OF FRANCE Ferguson. i ) Mrs. Wilson The United States srnoon from the pier of the the special train the president MET BY NOTABLES. Paris, Dec. 12.—Colonel E. M. House, President Wilson’s personal. advisor, General Trasker H. Bliss, Gordon Auchincloss, son-in-law of Colonel House, and Joseph C. Grew, former councellor of the American embassy in Vienna, all members of the American commission for nego- tlating peace, as the American peace mission henceforth will be known, left tm}ny by special train for Brest to queet President Wilson. he special train was fitted out with Pullman sleepers and a dining car. The commission will arrive at Brest tomorrew about 10 o'clock. TROOPS CROWD CITY. ~Brest, France, Dec, 12.-—Brest is crowded . with troops and. sailors and the Breton:peasantry in their guaint costumes, Buildings and squares are hung with flags and streamers and mottoes ‘bearing -the words ‘''Vive Wilson,” *“Hail the Champion of the Rights of Men." Stephen Pichon, the French for- eign minister, and Georges Leygues, minister of marine, will go aboard the George Washington at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon to extend the first formal greetings. General Pershing, General Bliss, Admiral Benson, Admiral Wilson, Colonel E. M. House and Ambassador Sharp will go aboard at the same time The presidential party will be brought ashore on the channel steamer St. Tudre, which has been brought here to take the place of the lighters usually employed. The resurrection from the humiliating situation of the leading nation in the world being dependent upon other nations for nautical information.” The report shows that in the last year, the service has been so devel- oped that the desired independence has been about reached. ‘DADDY’ OF DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION VISITOR When the fourteenth annual Red River Valley Dairymen’s association convention closed in Bemidji, Thurs- day afternocon, few uniniated were aware of the presence of the “daddy” of the association. Quietly and un- ostentatiously, M. J. Cort of Minne- apolis mingled with his old time as- sociates and friends of more recent years, but it was Mr. Cort who or- ganized the association fifteen years ago, and never fails to attend the an- nual sessions of this vigorous and prosperous body of dairymen and | butter makers and farmers. Mr. Cort carries the distinction of having been named a life member of the organization and is still keeping| a watchful eye over its activities. Mr. Cort also organized practically | every creamery company in the Red| River valley and many in other sec-| tions. He knows the game from the| ground up and his counsel is always valuable. steamer will fly the French flag and the president's ensign. It has been arranged that the various ministers, generals, admirals and embassadors, will be the first to debark, final land- ing reserved for the president and Mrs. Wilson. The ministers and offi- cials will form a group to receive the president as he steps ashore. The foreign committee of the Chamber of Deputies and a delegation of socialist deputies also will be present, FOUCAULT PUTS CORPS THROUGH FINE DRILL The motor corps was drilled last evening by Lieut. Clarence Foucault, and the members considered it far the best of any yet held. They are. all enthuslastic and indications are that the company will speedily be en- listed to full strength. The following appointments for non commissioned officers were made: H. J. Koors, ‘‘top” sergeant; R. L. Given, G. M. Torrance, Edward Ebert, George Rhea and B. R. Erick- son, duty sergeants, and Harry Olin, William Chichester, E. B. Berman and J. W. Smith corporals. The men will be advanced strictly on their merits, with interest, will- ingness, and attendance a considera- tion. The next drill will be held Thursday, December 19, when Lieut. Foucault will again be in charge. RIOTING IN RUSSIA. ‘Washington, Dec. 13.—Violent methods still are being adopted by the commission charged with com- batting the revolt against the Bolshe- viki, according to advices reaching Washington through official chan- nels. Executions are sald to be num- erous, the victims including many priests and monks. PUBLIC SAFETY BOARDS WILL CONTINUE TO ACT St. Paul, Dec. 13.—Notices that the entire organization of the State Public Safety commission must con- tinue 100 per cent active have been sent from the capitol offices of the war board to all county directors. Special asistance is asked toward car- rying out the arrangement between the ¢ n and the federal em- ployment service to find positions for | returning soldiers. B & | L PSR £ | i NG SRS