Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 1, 1919, Page 1

VOLUME XVil. ‘NO. 51 ~ . IN SMUGGLING - T0 MICHIGAN . of the New Lew | 7| = ~--Operators Ingenous and.Dar-| | LAW VIOLATORS HEAVILY ARMED WITH WEAPONS Padded Chairs Contain Booze, Book Cases, Cars of “Ce- ment,” Auto Tires, Kits %dumed Press,) 2 Detroit, Mich., March, 1.—A col- " orful chapterin’ the history of pro- hibition -is being written by numer- ous daring bands of whiskey-smug- glers operating in. Michigan. 8 . Their attention in centeted princi- pally’ on Detroit. Smuggling whiskey into the state today is not’ the. crude, haphazard business it was when Michigan went dry, last May.. Brains, daring and in- muity are necessary to circumvent the forces éngaged:in enforcing the dry laws. ¢ } The principal source of supply for Detroit and vicinity is Toledo, Two good automobile roads connect the cities. ‘Along these roads at the Michigan-Ohio _border and at Mon- PRy roe, Michigan, a stopping-off point between the cities, the state consta- bulary, deputy sheriffs and agents of ‘the state pure food and drugs bureau|. are mobilized in_force. Exciting’ Night Races. They daily intercept automobiles has laden wi iquor; gome of them ; How many get by un- problematical. - Not a night passes without leaving its tale of “exciting] races thro the dark. . Anywhere from.one to:four wrecked cavgbes, ' " F 2 Practivally every weapon known to sxcépt-poison gas ard howitzers, < 'is ‘to-be found:in the' smuggler’s ar- senal. Clubs, revolvers, knives, rifies blackjacks, shotguns, rocks, slugs of iron” and bottles are used 1 ! Offices Are Attacked. 5 Officers peering-into freight cars in - search of contraband have been gounded with- clubs, beaten with tblackjacks, - stabbed, shot at and “»“otherwise, discouraged. Booze run- ners often smuggled themselves and their. go into freight cars, uhder piles of rial in the hope of evad- ing detection, and always fight with every weapon:at-hand to-escape ar- rest, and -jai 450 The automobile; whiskey smugglers often. work- in*&quads, one machine acting as a scouf:car; -well in advance of the main body, to discover. traps or draw the _pursuit. Convoys of this type bring in anywhere from 1,- 000 ot 5,000 quarts: of whiskey in one trip. ~At current prices the value of the larger amount'would be close to $40,000. . A ! Use Camouflage. Individuals . travel 'daily. between Detroit and Toledo and seek to smug- gle back a few quarts for home con- sumption. ~ They use suit cases with false bottoms, hot' water . bottles, capacious pockets and double com- rtment’ cans. Women have been E:own to cirry a girdle of whiskey bottles ‘about' their waists, under coats (or skirts.; - Officers interurban cars thoroughly. =~ ! Automobile owners ‘make use ‘of practically every part’ of their cars to smuggle in a supply of drinkables. Camouflaged - tires-‘and inner tubes succeeded for a while, but the police found a-leaky ohe and now all tires and tubes:are examined. Tops.with double Hnings, tocl kits, hollow seats, extra. ggs’ tanks, special compart- ments built ‘around the motor hollow doors and ‘other parts of the machine were successful in. the early stages, but toda; -théfi are hopeless. Probably the most successful of the ram runners are those who use the 'railroads. They operate on a large scale, risking carloads of liquor at a throw. The whiskey comes , buried in piles of vegetables, stuffed intowpiano. cases and shipped as fur- niture, bibles, ink, rags, oil and a hundred other common commodities. Chairs Booze Stuffed. A carload of huge, padded arm- chairs arrived from Clicagbo and an inspector noticed the wrapper of ex- celsior on one chair appeared to be damp. One of the bottles inside the upholstering had broken. A car of cement, yielded several hundred cases of whiskey. Leaking cases of hooks and other non-leakable articles often announcé the real nature of ship- ments. Other "cities in_the state offer a good market, but Detroit is the recog- nized ready market where good prices obtain and the huge quantities of wet goods disappear like so much rain in the desert. The margin of profit is great. . The whiskey,. pur- : {;1 fllfl ;wd;;:_{;ii gettlement .. commission gearch. ;llt LEO OPSAHL Captain Bemidji High School Basket Ball Team ¢ IMMEDIATE ACTION NECESSARY T0 INDUCE SETTLING OF LANDS (By United :Press.). -, St. Paul, March. 1.—“Unless this country acts -quickly to improve farming - conditions, especially for the prospective settlers, Canada, Aus- tralia, New Zealand and South Amer- ican countries will snatch a majority of the available settlers,” Daniel A. Wallace ,chairman_ of Governor Burnquist’s soldiers and settlers’ land told - the, United " Press. 52 : He said Canada was making'a very. definite . effort - to: attract farmers from the U. S. and that he would ‘not be surprised to'See scores of re- turned soldiers going into Canada to live unless some definite action is taken by the state or the federal gov- ernment. i g Without” knowing where they get his address, Wallace said, he had re- ceived no less than - two hundred letters from returned” soldiers. and from farmers in Various parts of the U. S. asking what Minnesota had to offer in the way of farms. He has replied presonally to most of the in- quiries he. said. y Bills now before the state legisla- ture should be passed at once and put into operation, -he said, or the fed- eral government should act at once on some plan of inducing labor to go on the farms and develop them. BLACKDUCK DISGUSTED WITH MAIL ‘SERVICE Under the heading “From Bad to Worse,” ’the Blackduck ~American wretched mail “service’ ’that pldce is getting: Mail service north of Bemidji which has been none too good for months past is given another knock- out blow in-a recent order just re- lceived by Postmaster Smith. ; Under - the "new ruling it will’ be timpossible 'to be able to mail reply {answers to any letters received on Ithefevening train. . Mail intended for ithe southbound morning train must ibe in the postoffice by eight o’clock ithe night before when the mnail is put in a poch. The. train carries no mail car north of Bemid§i, nor any mail clerk, letters cannot be mailed on_the- train either. - With rates continually going high- er and service poorer people are be- ginning to realize that government control is not what had been éx- pected. SOMMER WILL SUPERINTEND WORK ON ELK CLUB QUARTERS When the improvement is made to the Elk temple club rooms, the job will be done right for George Som- ‘mer has volunteered to superintend the work. Mr. Sommer is the super- intendent for Edward Jackson, the well known building contractor, and as he is-a member of the Elks will not charge for his service, which certainly shows he’s a booster for the proposition. ¢ P —— chased in wholesale lots at about $5 per gallon is sold at from $7 to $10; | per quart. Marvelous tales of wealth are told. One man is credited with having cleaned up close to $500,000 in less than three months. Others are said to have made anywhere between $100,000 and $500,000 ctive Page o ‘lars Were Afraid . : | school quint on the local floor toni :|from the high scores the has the following to say about .ae|> BENIDIT HIGH AT ARMORY: Slaughtered - Second. Team -at . ‘Walker; ‘Asserted Regu- " LOCALS OBJECTED TO - NON-REGULATION FLOOR Visitors Will Attempt to Defest ) First Team; Warm Scrap Is Expected The £a5t Walker high school basket: ball team will meet the Bemidji in what is expected to be a hot fo game from start to finish, Jul “Blac, have piled up on opposing midji will have to travel at top every minute to_come out ahead. Walker, or. the ‘‘Blacks” as they have nicknamed: their team, has:de- feated Akeley 75 _to 8, Pine.River 68 to g, and the Brainerd Armadas 78 to 3. 5 second team was defeated: on- the Walker floor by the overwhel?ng score of 564 to 9. Walker claimed send its first team was because they were afraid of being defeated. The reason Coach Smith of the locals did not play the first team was that the Walker gym is-much smaller than the basket ball guide calls “for and also much too low. . Tonight = the ' two teams will meet on a real basket ball court and fans will see who has the best team. Walker Stars. In ‘McDougal, right forward; Ba- con, center, and au, Walker has three fast.and elusive men. the B, shot fourtee! nin; baskets. . These three men will | to be watched closely if Bemidj tends to come out a winner. Kulan- der and Houchen at the other for- ward and Dickinson ‘at guard . are not to be held lightly. . p Co-eds in Preliminary. The Walker girls will play the Be- midji girls in a preliminary game: This is the first meeting of th_eae two teams this season and both quints are out to win. Miss Heilig, coach of the Bemidji, ¢o-eds, expects one of the hardest games of the scason for her team. If the locals can go at the same pace they did against the Akeley team they. should:come out ahead by a good .margin. Gopher-Illini Officials. Dr. J. W. Diedrich; former univer- sity of Minnesota quarterback and baseball captain, and “Wallie”. Er- win, former Illinois basket- ball ‘and baseball star, will referee and umpire the game. The Probable Lineup." guard found the net for eight ve Others that will p fnto-the game are, Stechman, Traf- ton, Stapleton, Naylor, Koors, Wash- urn, Dl;mx, “Tommy” Simons. and harldson. 3 v L Co-eds’ Lineup. The Bemidji co-eds will star}. out with Elsie Shannon and Madge B GRS teams Be-| Earlier in the season the Bemidji| that the reason Bemidji would not| B! Against field . baskets and | €0 /Bacon:.ten baskets, while Rau:at 0 - YOU CAN'T GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF YESTERDAY'S PAPERS _BEMIDJI, MINN,, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1919 (WALKER MEETS | - ! Reccvering from wounds; and in ‘iThiet River Falls, March 1.—C. E. lard, former ~president of the Faymers State bank of Grygla, who returned to this city last week and shortly thereafter was arrested and taken to Warren on a warrant charg- the hearing following his arrest, Mr. Bellard waived examination and was L.bound over to the grand. jury at the uext. session. of the district court fori Marshall county. Rail'was fixed in fthe sum of $5,000,”#nd this the priponer secured the following day. Ball ately returned ates that e exXpectd Zin here indefinitely. -He i8 .all'he can to help untangile the affairs of the bank and hopes to be able-to clear himself of a large part of the stigma which naturally be- came attached to him. through. .is ‘disappearance last May -and the sub- sequent collapse of the banking in. gtitution of which he was the head. How well he will succeed in this ‘s difficult to tell, but he insists that he - will_ do all in his power to straighten matters up. There are rumors that other erim- inal charges are to be brought against Mr. Ballard in connection with the deal, but up to the present tlu{a only one formal charge, as des- cribed above has been perferred against him. The trial on the for- gery charge will come‘up for hearing at the spring term of court for Mar- shall county at Warren. o + SENATE BILL WOULD END WIRE CONTROL L2 Washington, Marclh - 1.—Chairman Bankhead of -the Schate Postoffice committee has Introduced and had referred to his committee a resolu- tion providing for termination of government - control of telegraph, telephone and -other wire .utilities December 31 next. The resolution is similar to a measure pending in the house. PEQUOT SUFFERS DISASTROUS FIRE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT Pequot suffered a disastrous blaze in its business district early Thurs- Traf- | day morning when the postoffice and ton at forwards, Loraine Kreatz at|large general store- were wiped out, center, Elsie Nuss and Edla Rudy at! with a loss of about $25,000. . The guards. LITTLE FALLS RETAINS ITS DISTRICT LEAD On the St. Cloud floor, the Little Falls high school basket ball team de- feated the St. Cloud high quintet last night by the score of 20 te 13, shoving the loser hopelessly into the ruck of the state district title race. The second team of Little Falls also won against the second team af St. Cloud by the score of 25 to 15. Little Falls thus kept her slate clean in the district race for a chance to play for the state title, with Brain- erd in second place with one game lost, lost. ers on March 15 at Little Falls. SAILOR HUNNIE EXTINCT. (By United Press.) Berlin,. Feb. 1. (By Mail.)-—No more sailor suits for little Fritz! German methers are so disgusted with the behavior of the German Bemidji third with two games | The locals will meet the lead- | ing, overheated stoves in the Great | Northern roundhouse set fire {o the £ | sidewalls, burning holes in the side|lages, towns and the large cities, and { ! contents of the postoffice were saved, The intense cold greatly hampered ;ths work of the fire department. SECOND HIGH SCHOOL BASKET SHOOTERS DEFEAT DEER RIVER The scond high school basket ball team went to Deer River ' Friday night and defeated the team repre- senting the high school of that place by ‘the score of 30 to 15. The locals who played against the losers were Koors, Stapleton, Naylor, Denu, Trafton anw Washbuarn. OVERHEATED STOVES SET FIRE TO ROUND HOUSE OF THE G. N. Shortly after 6 o’clock this morn- of the structure. The fire depart- ment was called but the damage was slight, ANOTHER SOLDIER HOME. Everett Leighton, formerly em- navy, they have passed a resolution |ployed in the Crothers barber shop, never again to clothe their offspring|has been discharged from military as imitation sailors. duties and has. returned to Bemldjl. -~ oy oricet gocte™ HisY RS wIve I“‘AY K4 other wyys convalescent, the soldiers he ‘Walter ‘Reed, hospital 1n.Washington are permitted to muke affidavits the inecessary stutc‘mgnq to -enable ‘them to secure any back pay or MILITARY MEN MAY - NOW KEEP UNIFORMS: WILSON SIGNS BILL (By United Press.) Washington, March 1.--President Wilson today sjgned the bill allow- ing soldiers, gaflors apd marines to retain their uniforms and other ing forgery, is again at liberty. At} equipment. The president also agproved fifteen congressional bills and Yne joint res- olution. The most important. meas- uresssigned were the postolfice bill; measure authorizing resumption of voluntary enlistments in the army, and.the act authorizing’ the payment of allotments to enlisted men in case where disputes have arisen and 'de- pendents have consequently suffered from the digcontinuance, .. oo wcin OVER SEVEN MILLION DIED IN WORLD WAR (By United Press.) Washington, March 1.—Seven mil- lion thred hundred fifty-four men died in the war, Chief of Staff March announced today. Russia paid the heaviest price, los- ing 1,700,000 dead, while Germany was second, France third and the United States last among the great powers. THESE HUNS GOT TO PARIS, (By United Press.) Paris, Feb. 10. (By Mail.)—When a German shows up In Paris, it's a sensation. So far only eight have succeeded in reaching the French capital, and all have been quickly rounded up by the police. The latast arrival was a wealthy individual, who just casually came over from Hanover. He kept the police busy for hours trying to find out how ne got here. Immediately after the signing of the armistice conditions on the old fighting front -were in very fluld state. Getting into France from Ger- many or into Germany from France was an casy matter. Seven Germans, including a wgoman, crossed the frontier at this’ time and reached Paris. - They came by train with. re- turning soldfers and civilians. - All imediately ‘weré arrested, and. ex- plained that they lived in Paris be- fore the war and thought that the signing of the armistice permitted their return. MANITOBA'S ATTORNEY ELECTED HEAD OF J. H. From the February number of The Modern Highway, published monthly by the Jefferson f-llghway association of which Bemidji is a member, it is noted that at the annual meeting held in New Orleans last month Hon. Thomas H. Johnson, attorney general of Manitoba, Can., was elected presi- dent, the highway having its incep- tion in Winnipeg, the seat of Mani- toba’s government. From his picture, the new head of the highway association looks like a real one and it seems as if those chaps from that city are live wires, for on the sociability run from Win- nipeg to New Orleans a year ago Premier Norris made the trip and was feted all along the line by vil- Bemidji thought so much of him per- sonally that a large delegation ac- companied him to the Itasca State Park and gave him a banquet. The vice president of the Minne- sota unit is J. H. Beck of St. Paul, and the directors are Daniel Shaw, Thief River Falls; Hon Thomas E. Cashman of Owatonna and J.: K. Martin of Little Falls, “AERICANOW | CHEFFACTOR TOAVERTWAR BETWEEN FOES Jugo-Slavs Over Control " of the Adriatic STAGE BORDERING ON ACTUAL WARFARE United States Will Cut Finan- cial Aid and Food Supplies From Both Factions By Fred S. Ferguson. (United Press Gerrespondent.) _j Paris, 'March' 1.—XAmerica stands today as the c}le( factor for averting the latest threatened: European war.. The squabble between .the Itallans and the Jugo-Slataks for control of the Adriatic has reached a stagé bor- dering on dctual warfare, : Both countries, however, are de- pendent upon America, economically, and in case of open hostilities Ameri- ca will immediately cut:oft their sup- plies of food and money, rendering them practically impotent. g Lithuanians Refuse Armistice, Stockholm, March 1.—The Lithu- anifans have refused .the request of the bolsheviki for -an armistice, says an official dispatch today. WINNIPEG WOULD BUILD PAPER MAKING PLANT (By United Press.) " Winnipeg, March ‘1.—The city of Winnipeg is spouring the ‘necesgary legislation tao build & nrplr mill an the banks of the Red River, conven- fent to pulp lnds”along-the city's railway. that stipples the. water sys- tem of the city and runs 90 miles to- Jnrd e e O e e P city’s power plamt which ‘will® grest- ly reduce the cost ot operation. At present, the west ig supplied by. the Backus plant at Ft, Frances, Ont., and International Falls, Minn. STREETS SOUND BETTER. (By United Press.) Strassbourg, 4. (By Mail.)~~ The:city co! ‘working day ané night r - streets of w city from ‘thei’ n designation; to appropriates: Natuys ally the big French battles and gen~ erals furnish most of the new names for the streets. Rue Marechal Joffre, Rue Foch, Rue Gouraud, Rue Petoin, and Rue Castelnau have already been formally ' christened. However old French names are not being forgotten and Rue Gambetta, Rue Deroulde, Rue Turenne, Rue J. J. Rousseau and Rue Vauban are now down on the city’s street list. ~A few of the other new ones are Avenue' de la Margeil- laise, Avenue de la Victoire, Boule- vard de la Marne, Rue De eWedun, Rue de Rheims, Rue de I"Arganne, Rue dé Liege, Rue de I'Yser, and Rue du Cercle, the latter in remembrance of -the hate Kept up in the students’ circles throughout . the¢ -German . oc- cupation against the Hun. THIS STATUE I8’ APPROVED. (By United Press.) With- The Third Army On The Rhine, Feb. 4. (By Mail)—In a public square ‘hear the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhine in Cobleuz stands ‘4" onumént - erected by Na- poleon while 'on’'the march toward Russia. After Napélen's disasterous retreat the Russians, entered Coblenz. Instead of razing the monument the Russian general merely added with oxquisite frony the inscription in French “Seen and approved by me, Jan. 1814 When the American doughboys entered - Coblenz a field kitchen outfit was parked around the base of the monument. With keen appreciation of the situation, some doughboy went the Russian general one better and added in chalk, “0. K. 18th U. 8. Infantry.” MOTHER FAVORS MEMORIAL. (By United Press.) Valley City, N.. D, March 1.—A Valley City mother, in whose home is a golden star, pleads for a com- munity monument in honor of the fallen world war heroes. She wafts it because before her boy left he said “Mother, if they get me, think how proud yow'll be to see my name on the monument up town.” Stone for Rosaries. The rosaries sold at Kandahar are extensively manufaciured from soft, crystalized silicate of magnesia. This is quarried from a hill about thirty miles northwest of the city, where soapstone and antimony are also. ob- tained in considerable abundance. The stone varies in color from a light yel- low to a blulsh white, and is generally opague.’ s B oA At R AT