Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 17, 1919, Page 3

WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1919 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PAGE THREE MISHAP TO AUTO STIRS SLAVONIA Soldier Cuts Telegraph to Make Repairs and Results Are Astonishing. HAS DIPLOMATS WORRIED Ties Up Railroad Traffic and Results in Conggstion That Takes Month to Straighten Out—Week to Restore Wires. Szabadka, Slavonia.—When a wheez- ing little automobile of American make, driven by a Serbian soldier, broke down oa a country road 40 miles from here, it started an interna- tional tangle which rolled up until it had the diplomats of four countries worried. Here are some of the things that be- &an to happen: “Three hundred cars of French mer- <handise bound for Roumania piled up on the four switches of the rallroad yards here and congested things until not a wheel could move, A Red Cross supply train of 30 cars, bound for Bucharest, came up behind the French trains and completed the tleup of communications. Ten Americans were marooned for nine days on board the Red Cross train. 8ends Train to Investigate. Roumanian merchants who were .relying on the prompt delivery of the French goods sent a special train from Bucharest to investigate the delay. Szabadka, an important town on the frontier between Hungary and Serbia, was cut off from all communication with the outside world. The Serbian soldier who was the in- nocent cause of all this trouble was driving his car merrily northward one day when the steering gear went wrong. He stopped, found the cause of the difficulty and decided that he needed a piece of stout wire to repair the damage. He reached up to the long-hanging, single-wire telegraph line and cut off a generous section. Having fixed his car, he drove blithely on. The wire gave out presently and he renewed it twice, thrice, four or five times, from the telegraph line beside the road. Meanwhile the trains of French mer- chandise had begun arriving at Sza- badka. Official sanction was necessary for the cars to proceed. The frontier officials framed the proper sort of tele- gram, and it was duly countersigned and presented to the operator. Trains Congest Yards. - He reported that the wire was “no working.” So the frontier officials de- cided to wait until it began to work. ‘They waited two days, while more and more trains drew into the congested yards. Szabadka was cut off from wire communication. Mails go only once a week, and then only if trains are running. The telegraph officials finally de- <ided to send out a line-repairing party. The party returned after an- other day’s delay, with the announce- ment that so many breaks had been found their supply of spare wire had given out. . Meanwhile, congestion in the yards increased and the appeals from the French convoyers, the American con- voyers and the Roumanian merchants became more urgent. It was a full week, however, before the wires had finally been restored and the official vises obtained. By that time the block- ade had become so complicated that it will probably take a month to put Szabadka back on a normal basis. Bishop Wants to Box. Cleremont, So. Afr.—Bishop McLag- fen of this city sent to the All Sports Weekly an offer to box any bishop for a fund for disabled soldiers, and adds that to aid in making the match he will extend the offer to any editor of his own age of any paper. The bishop 1s sixty-eight years of age. Subscribe for The Pioneer. Printing ARE YOU IN NEED OF Tags Cards Blanks Folders Dodgers Receipts Envelopes Statements Bill Heads Invitations Packet Heads Letter Heads Call at Pioneer Office Phones 922 and 923 GOOD WORK IS OUR SPECIALTY WOMEN WAR WORKERS, EAGER TO SERVE, G| T0 AID ARMENIANS| Mary Vail Andrees, Only Woman to Receive Distinguished Serv- ice Medal, Heads Party. Dissatisfied with uneventful civillan life, after two years’ vivid experience as workers abroad in the world war, a party of young women, led by Miss Mary Valil Andrees, of New York City, bave just gone to the Near East, MISS MARY VAIL ANDREES, Distinguished Service Herolne Who Now Goes to Near East. where nearly a million people are suffering from disease and starvation. Miss Andrees had returned to this country after serving for the Red Cross, but when she read of the sad plight of the Armenians, she at once offered her services to Near East Re- lief, the former American Committee on Armenian and Syrian Relief, whicn already has saved thousands of lives in Western Asia. Miss Andrees is the only American woman war worker who was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by Congress. Most of the other members of her party like- wise served with honor for the Red Cross and other war service organi- zations. Among the other members of the group are the Misses Frances And Betty Anderson of New Canaan, Coun., who were decorated with the Croix-ae Guerre by the French Government; Miss Margaret Milne of Washington, D. C, who was « member of the Hoover Relief Commission for Ru- mania, and Miss Alex Sidney, an Eng- lish woman who served for three years with the British Relief Commission in Sefbla. Miss Déris Nevin, anotaer member of the party, is a daughter of the late Ethelbert Nevin, the com- poser. Col. Willlam N. Haskell, commis- sloner to the Near East for the Paris Peace Commission and officlal repre- sentative of the Near East Rellef, has cabled that the rellef workers now In the field are overwhelmed by the mag- nitude of their task. Col. Haskell says 800,000 Armenians will starve before the next harvest unless they are given aid and 120,000 orphan children face death from hunger and exposure. Thousands of refugees are daily be- Ing brought to the relief centers from the deserts. 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