Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 2, 1919, Page 6

7 " bauilt in the United States, and some- - i EHEAT I:AKES l _LEADSTHEM ALL i} mne and mree-rémfis Miles of MGH SPEED FROM START One Hundred and Twenty-Five More Cargo Ships Delivered Than From ‘All Other American Ways in .. the Same Time. ‘Washington.—Nine and three-tenths mijles of clean-cut cargo ships, That 18 the latest official report on the con: tribution of the Great Lakes district yards to the American chant ma- rifie.. Held by canal res!fi%fi?fls"fii lighter type of vessel than that made 1 onthe coasts, the district did not pro- duceiso many net tons as certain other sections. But it built more ships than any other district in the United States. On September 1, 1917, the Great Lakes started to build for the govern- ment. The first ship turned over to the United States shipping board came from a Great Lakes yard. She was the Limoges, a 2,930-ton cargo carrier, under construction for French opérators by the Toledo Shipbuilding company. On August 24, 1917, the Ninth district was created. It turned the Limoges over to the shipping board on August 30. ‘They had not permitted the grass to grow under their-feet for some de- cades in that region of busy commerce. Now they saw to it'that the ice did not grow under their ships. To beat not only the Hun but also the winter season was the first. big task which the Ninth district faced. By almost superhuman effort the-yards finished 27 vessels and got them to sea before the canals froze in 1917. Production Rose Steadily. When navigation opened in 1918 another fleet of 20 ships slipped newly I_mllt from the yards and went through the canals to the sea. From that date the Great Lakes production rose steadily until month after month the district turned out half the steel ships times more than half. Efficlency and energy combined in a veritable cru- sade of endeaver, and in November, 1918, the district touched the hjgh point of its capacity. In that one month it built a fleet of 28 ships— nearly a ship a day. This astounding output brought the total for the year up to 163 cargo ves- mels, one of them wood ‘and ‘the rest steel. In 12 months the Ninth dis- trict had produced just 125 more ships than all the American yards de- Hvered in the year before Aerica went to war. ;"Any narrative of the Great Lakes Iork is a progress from one shining tHumph of this sort to another. The smallest yard of all, fitted with only berths, actually delivered 18 ps In 1018 and finished a fourteenth ditly a little too late to get it out be- winter. Between the end of No- vember andthe end of March it lsunched sixi ships‘ more. Four -of these are now icompleted and s @fth} 18 almost ready for service. They are lfl of the 4,200-ton type. iAnother yard built a 3,500-ton ship 1784 days. Another launched a 2.400- foh ship in 28 days. And a fourth yard broke the world’s record when it lsunched a 38,600-ton ship in 17 days after the laylng of the keel and de- livered it completed to the shipping board in 14 days after the launching. { “Team Work” the Secret. ‘The ingenuity and co-operation which made such nccompllshment pos- | aible were also what made the yards expand rapidly enough to meet war- time emergency and peace time neces- sity. There are 112 berths in the dis- trict now, 71 for -cargo ships and 33 for tugs. The American Shipbuilding || company has a yard of ten ways at Detroit, Mich.; of five at Superior, 'Wls. of three at Buffalo, N. Y.; of ' gix at Chicago, IIL.; of three at Cleve- 18nd, O.; of eight nt Lorain, O.; the Great Lakes Engineering works has a M of four ways at Ashtabula, O., and another of elght- ways at Ecorse, Ilch. the MecDougall-Duluth com- | pany hn a yard of nine ways at Du- Tuth, Minn.; the Manitowoc Shipbulld- fng company has a yard of six ways 4t. Saginaw, Mich.; the Toledo Ship- Bullding company has a yard of six ways at Toledo, O., and the Globe Shipbuilding company has a yard of five ways at: Superior, Wis. At all these yards the records for llvetlng, fabricating, tonnage per man, stand out like mouhtain peaks. For || example, the average total number of rivet gangs in the district is about 10 per cent of the entire country, yet District Manager Benton points out joyously that the average output of these gangs enabled the lakes to de- liver 30 per cent of the country’s total ship tonnage. .“Team work” is the secret, accord- Ip‘ to the district executive, the bullders, and the men. The district bas been untroubled by strikes of other Jabor disturbances, or by dis putes with builders. . Starved to Death. i8t. Louls.—“Died of lack of mourishment,” physicians wrote today on the death certifieate of A. Jacobs. || A bank book found in the pocket of the aged recluse showed a $400 balance, 5,000 Fish Successfully . Elude Fort Worth Police Fon‘ Worth Tex.~The sea- son's first fish story broke here, but as-yet Fire Chief Bideker is unable to explain' how. the. elu- sive finnies got away. Five thousand young bass were shlpped ‘here ln a ten-gnllo tank trom the San' Marcos hatcherles to be used In Testocking the wa- ters of Lake Worth. All ar- rangements had been made for taking the bass to the lake, but when "the chief and several of his men went to the Texas & Pacific station it was found the fish had been previously receipt- ed for and taken away. Police and city detectives are trying to solve the mystery, ustp MOLASSES TO OIL CAR Chauffeur Takes Wrong Jud When His Machine Needs Lubricating. Dover, Me.—Dover people had the laugh on the driver of an able-looking motor truck which was being towed through the town recently, not betause there had been “engine trouble,” but because the driver had applied the con- tents of the wrong jug to the lubri- cating system. Jt seems that when the machine needed a liberal dose of oil, the owner had picked up a familiar jug and in a semilight had poured into the oil well the viscous contents of the jug. Then he set about preparations for his mo- tor business and tried to start his car. The harder he worked the worse the engine ran. Finally the secret came out when engine inspection revealed the fact that the oil had been mysteriously con- verted into molasses, which had been pumped thoroughlv through the lubri- cating system. The truck was towed to the garage men for a deswaet-nlnz process. PLANT PINE TO KILL SCRUBS Long Island Land Owners Take Steps to Be Rid of Small Oak Pests. Mincola, L..L—C. H. Gnise of the forest department at Cornell univer- sity, offers a good medium by which Iand owners may rid Long Island of its scrub oak and at the sanie time lay the foundation for future wealth. He advocates the immediate planting of Scotch and red pines on the scrub cak lands. Long TIsland on the north and central sides abounds with scrub oak. Reds and Scotch rid. the lands of scrub .oak by killing their growth. They grow tall and spread out, shut- i ting completely the sun’s light from the scrub, which dies very quickly. Mr. Guise has ‘watched these experi- ments in other parts of the state with satisfaction. All that is necessary to prevent for- est fires is care in plowing up about 150 feet on all sides along the edges of the forest and erecting a fire-proof barrier. The latter is not essential, however. The plowed edges will re- tar¢ against the spread of fire. DEMOBILIZE PIGEONS OF ARMY British Sell 10,000 Little Messengers to Aid Charities in France and Belgium. London.—Demobilization of Knglish war pigeons and men who care for them in France has taken place, with the exception of birds and men se- lected for the army of occupation. About 10,000 birds that had served thelr country fnithfully were eold o STAHL-JACOBS Furniture: Renovators All work guaranteed. Work called for and de- livered. General Repair Shop Phope 488 . 400 Minnesota Ave. Pipe Man and Tobbaconist First Class Rooms in Connection FOR Expert Shoe Repairing At Moderate Prices - e Try the Bemidji Shoa Repair Shep Across the Street from Dalton’s Restaurant 'A. PATTERSON 218 Beltrami Ave, Bemidji ETREE— S— by France and Beiglum afid the proceeds of the sale divided among charltable Institutions of -those countries and England, in accordance with the wish of the breeders who had donated the pigeons to the British army. Many a man owes his life to the rapid flight of a pigeon from a broken- down seaplane. In the battle of Mes- sines 1,200 pigeons were used to carry messages, not a single one of which went astray. The German pigeon service was very thorough. A Birmingham medal maker imitated so perfectly a message container devised by the enemy that it was possible to send a number of “dud” messages to German lofts with their own captured birds. FOR ELECTRIC BORDER FENCE Military Authorities Think That Best Way to Cope With g Mexicans. c o e Fort Sam Houston, Texas.—An elec- trified barbed wire fence along the Mexican border from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the Pacific ocean I8 favored by the military authorities who are familiar with the conditions that exist in that wide scope of fron- rv. As an adjunct to this barrier against bandits, it is proposed that a government highway be con- structed along the bank of the Rio Grande and the remaining part of the intérnational line. It is roughly estimated that the cost of building the hizhway would be ap- proximately $12,000.000. No figures have been made public as to the prob- able cost of constructing the barbed wire fenece.” The proposition has been laid before the war department by Congressman John N. Garner and is| said to have met the approval of the officials of that bmnch of the govern- ment, Try This on Your Parrot. As the automobile party passed one corner they saw a soldier on guard, a big white dog beside him, and then a beautiful American flag. Of course this combination attracted the atten- tion of everyone in the car. The flug was silk, the dog majestic and the soldier prond of his trust. “Oh. look at that dog on guard!" exclaimed the woman. The little boy snickered audibly. All were impresséd with the solemnity of the scene. and this outbreak seemed ta the father uncalled for. “What do you mean, laughing, John- ny? he demanded. “Oh,” cried little Johnny, “mamma said, ‘Look at the dog-gone guard!’ "= Indianapolis News, M. A. 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Our establishment is thoroughly equipped. We work out each ' problem in a man- .. ner . that' meets .} with the approv- al of mankind. . .44c and 60c Plums Canteloupe .19¢ .44c .33c .32¢ .3lc .33c order. Have a case of Bevo delivered with your T T E Closed all day the 4th, open until 9:00 p. m., July 3rd. llllllllllllllllllflfllIllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE Three Times and IlIIIIIIIII|||IIIllIllllllIIII||I|I|lIIIIIIIIlllIllllllllllII||I|II|I|II|II|lllIIII|I|I|l|||||IIIL_ Wednesday and Thursday PECIAL AT TROPPMANS GBUGERY DEPARTMENT Lemons, best quantity, per dozen, 48¢, 58¢ Oranges, per dozen . .. ... Bananas, per pound Apricots Peaches and Watermelons at special prices McMurray’s Fruit Nectar, per bottle, 22¢ Olive salad, per bottle . .. ........ Olives, quart jar ... Grape Juice, pint bottle . . . Home Brand Pork & Beans, ll size can, 2 for. ... Jello, 3 packages for Lux, 3 packages for ............. Sold LIGENSED AUGTIONEER Lewis Beroud 514 Miss. Ave . WEPAY the highest market price for rags metals, rubbers and scrap iron. We also pay freight on all out of town shipments for 100 pounds and over, Hlxhest prices paid for hides. - ’GOLDBERG’S HIDE & FUR CO. Phone 638-W 112 3d Street DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemidyi, Minn. DR. H. A. NORTHROP Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon Ibertson Block 'glfloe Phone 163 e e DRS. GILMORE & McCANN Physicians and Surgeons Office: Miles Block e — A. V. GARLOCK, M.D. Eye—Ear—Nose—Throat Glasses Pitted e e s e ——————————— DR. E. A. SHANNON, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 ) e —————————————————— DR. E. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office Security Bank Block DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. LUNDE AND DANNENBERG Chiropractors Hours 10 to 12 a. m. Phone 401-W 2tob, 7to8p m. Calls made. 1st Nat. Bank Bldg. Bemidji DENTISTS DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY DR INTIST North of Markham Herr' Gibbons Block Phone ‘8 l DR. J. W. DIEDRICH Office—O" Lelr -Bowuer Bld Phones—Oftice x’;a ‘W Res. a'fo R D. H. FISK Attorney at Law Office Northern Nat. Bank Bldg. Phone 181 GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYRBR Miles Block Phone 580 =tk VETERINARIANS Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGEES Veterinarians Phones: Office/ 3-R Bemid)), Res. 99 Minn. J. WARNINGER VETERINARY SURGEON Oftice and Hospital 3§ doors west of ’l'rrc:’nnmln' Phone No. 309 8t. and Irvine Ave. BUSINESS TOM SMART Dray and Tramster Res. Phone :1! Offiee Phone 18 America MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 5 Sewing Mae! 514“Mlnnesou A B : J. Bistar, Mgr. T is‘!;'ai-w ] NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY Dwight D. aMiller WE CAN ontare serm iy taing Anywhers GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, W. G. SCHR Bemiajsi oznal"‘hono [ CIot.hu Clunen for &. W r n. omen ENTFRPRISE AUTO 0. Auto Livery and Taxi Service Day and Night Service Office Remore Hotel, Cor. 3rd St. & Beltrami Avu. Office Phone 1 Ruldm Phone 10 ‘WM. 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