Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1920, Page 1

MEMBER UNITED PRESS The Pioneer is a member of the United Press. Today’s world’s news today. GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF TODAY’S PAPER VOLUME XVIII. NO. 30 Y R — o, Central BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1920 LITTLEFALLSIS |¢, MID-SEASON | COMING; PLAY "LOCAL LEGION Game Scheduled for Wednes- day and Thursday Nights; Both Post Players MACALASTER STAR IS * MEMBER OF VISITORS Refer.ee When Walker and Be- midji High Met; Yes, It’s Frank Hall American Legion baskéteers, repre- :senting the Little fFalls legion post, will be here for games with the local legionaires Wednesday and Thurs- «day. %he aggregation is composed en- tirely of former high school and col- lege stars, including Frank Hall, of Macalaster fame in both football and basketball. He was here as referee in the Bemidji-Walker high school .contest and was very satisfactory to Doth teams. Bemidji fans should be anxious to see him playing the game, for while he was referee, he dis- ‘played a thorough knowledge of playing a—fdst game this year. Same as Bemidii. 5 Little Falls organized an Ameri- can ‘Legion aggregation about the same time as the Ralph Gracie post. hence should put a strong battle against the local legionaires. That ~ity has always had an admirable reputation for strong basketball teams but Little Falls and Bemidji have never tangled to a great extént .outside of the- high school athletics, which were always hotly contested. Return at Little Falls. A return game will be played in Little Falls on February 28, at which time the contest is expected to be -even harder than the first since by that time each team will know the -other’s style of play. The game with the Grand Forks Y. M. C. A. outfit, which was origin- ally scheduled for February 7, has ‘been cancelled on account of the Little Falls games and the local high school game on Friday, making a total of three contests for one week. Thief River Feb. 12. Thief River Falls basketeers jour- eny here on February 12 for a return game with the -Legion team. This should be an exceptionally fine ‘battle. The locals met defeat there in a hard contest, after having had a big lead at the end of the first half, ard on February 12 are going to show the Thief River outfit what a snappy contest they can put up. The visitors are coming with a big bunch -of boosters,and with a large turnout to root for the Bemidji quint the <clash should be a good one. ‘CAPT. NEUMIER SENDS MESSAGE TO FRIENDS Captain Fred Neumier, who over three years was editor of the Pioneer, and enlisted in the United States army at the outbreak of the world war, writes a card to the Pioneer dated ‘“‘Bern I, Brief Expedition,” evidently from Switzerland, upon which he sends greetings to G. E.| <Carson and E. H. Denu as follows: “Greetings of the New Year to yourself and family, Mr. Denu and all my friends. Here for a few days on a court of inquiry. “Capt. F. Neumier.” On the reverse side of the card is shown an immense chain of high mountains, with solid substantial buildings of the city at the base, a towering spire of a cathedral and a high concrete constructed bridge. The stamp on the card bears the name ‘“‘Helvgtia,”” at the bottom, and the numeral 10 in the upper right corner, and contains a likeness of some potentate or important per- somage. 2 DR. WARNINGER'S BUFFS WIN AT ST. PAUL AND AT WALKER Dr. Warninger’'s Buff Rocks again won the blues at both the St. Paul Fanciers’ Poultry show and at the Walker show held last week. At Walker, his Buffs won first, seeond and third in Cockerels; first, second and third in pullets; first, second and third in hens and first and second in pen. _ In St. Paul he had another display and in strong competition took sec- ond in Buff cocks, second and third in hens, second and third in cock- erels, first, second and third in pul- lets, against fifteen competitive en- tries. These Bemidji birds will also be entered in the Crookston show to be held February 9 to 13. C. I M, BEMIDJI LuoES OUT ON - INTWO GAMES| SECOND GAME St. Paul Mechanic Arts High Wins Saturday Night, Score 17 to 9 VISITORS KEEP LEAD THROUGHTOUT THE PLAY Earl Cochran Plays “Whale of a Guarding Game’’; Holds Captain Scoreless S Displaying only mediocre mid-sea- son form, the Bemidji high school dropped the second game of the series to the Mechanic Arts High school quint of St. Paul at the armory Sat-. urday night, before the largest crowd of the season, by a score of 17 to 9. Saturday’s tussle proved to be a fast, rushing, rough game with the closest kind of guarding on both sides. Neither team played a flashy exhibi- tion of basketball, the Bemidji quint missing no less than six easy shots of the ‘“up in close” variety. It was by far the poorest basket shooting the locals have exhibited this year. But, the game was exciting from a spectators point of view because of the stiff fight both teams put up to keep the score down. The score at the end of the first half was 9 to 5 in favor of the Trainmers. Bemidji Ties Score. With the score 9 to 5 against them the Bemidji quint tied the count when Brooks and Higbe shot a basket in rapid succession in the first five minutes of play in the second half. Not once during the game did Me- chanic Arts lose its lead. Mechanic Arts came right back in the next minute when by a clever piece of team-work, they worked the ball the length of the floor and Lang shot a basket, again giving the Trainers the lead which they retained to the end of the game. At this stage of the game, Mechanic Arts hau two per- sonal fouls called on them in succes- sion for holding, but Higbe failed to cage either of them. Captain Stechman, Bemigji's cen- ter, was sadly off form Saturday night, not caging a single basket al- though he had innumerable chances. Brooks and Higbe also were some- what short of their usual accuracy with the leather sphere and had to be satisfied with one and two baskets respectively. Earl Cochran played a whale of a guarding game, holding Captain Copeland scorele#s. Lang Leads Visitors. Lang, left forward was the visit- ors’ star man throughout the entire game, scoring all but seven of his team’s points. Walter Higbe the, stocky little guard was the big man for Bemidji, scoring all but two points made by the locals. Bemidii Must Improve. Bemidji must show much improve- ment during the coming week in order to defeat the strong Brainerd high school quint, who seem to be going at an almost unbeatable pace. These two teams meet Friday night in a district game at the armory. The line-up and summary: Bemidji (9) B. F. Brooks, rf............ Stapleton, If Naylor, If............. Stechman, ¢ HAZDE; 1 i siuiriinhons Cochran, rg... Powell, TE ..o v oins Mechanic Arts (17) B. «Copeland, rf........... 0 Lang, If... Dindorf, ¢ . Schmidt. rg Heocooocoo? cocorTocowecoo RorRoRTororrvooe!'d missed—Higbe, 6 re oo e Copeland, 4. Referee—Dr. J. W. Diedrich (Min- nesota). Timekeeper—W. nois). Scorer—W. McDonald, Bemidji. MEIRDETH TAKES OATH: HOUSTON DOES. ALSO (By United Press.) Washington, Feb. 2.—E. H. Meri- deth today took the oath of office as secretary of agriculture. After seat- ing Merideth, David Houston hurried to the treasury to take the oath as secretary of the treasury, succeeding Carter Glass. Houstin shares the views of Glass that this country should make no further loans to Europe. Glass now becomes a United States senator by appointment of the presi- dent as a democrat. B. Erwin (Illi- Weather forecast, 24 hrs., Markham: Fair tonight, moderate winds. “PIONEER’S” CIRCULATION Largest circulation of any paper in North | on this guarantee. BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE Minnesota. ; Al accepted 45c PER MONTH "~ BOSTON'S FAMOUS FISH PIER IS BUSY AGAIN The famous Fish Pier of Boston which has been idle for over ten years now bustles with activity. * taterAtipaat The East Coast fisheries has taken over the whole wharf and will make it one of the biggest fresh fish terminals in the whole world. Photograph shows fishermen celebrating the opening of the pler with a fish-pucking contest. LOCAL TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION ORGANIZED AT MEETING ON SUNDAY/ Has Ten Members; Charter Will Be Secured; Offi- cers Are Elected At a meeting held Sunday after- noon in this city the Bemidji local of the International Typographical union was organized and the follow- ing officers were elected: President—M. W. Pierce. Vice-President—Paul Sanford. Sec.-Treas.—Sam. H. Webster. Recorder—C. L. Fargo. The executive board will comprise the following members: M. W. Pierce, chairman; other members, Sam. H. Webster, E. J. Ripple, C. L. Fargo |, and A. H. Reed. The additional members compris- ing the local are, Andrew Rood, Walter F. Marcum, H. L. Cummings and J. A. Adams. By-laws and constitution will be drawn and formulated and the charter for the local will be granted as soon as _arrangements are completed. N. C. O’Connor of Minneapolis, rep- resenting the International Typo- graphical union, effected the organ- ization and returned to his home Sunday night. He expressed delight with the co-operation given him and stated that he had never met with a better or fairer bunch of fellows in all his life. DULUTH OBSERVER SAYS HIGHWAY SNOW BLOCKED H. W. Richardson of Duluth, weather observer, in a report up to last Friday noon includes in his re- port of conditions of North Minne- sota highways the following: (Babcock Highway No. 8). Roose- velt highway, west. Duluth to Grand Forks via Grand Rapids, Cass Lake, Bemidji, Bagley, Dugdale, Crookston : Roads impassable for auto traffic. f’as;able for _sleighing with light oads. MARRIED BOWLERS DEFEAT ‘BACHELORS Opening the bowling season, the married men defeated the unmarried men in a three-game match at the Crawford alleys yesterday afternoon, by a margin of 145 points. Both teams contained a number of old time bowlers, but with lack of prac- tice the scoring was low, the highest score being 183 by J. Parmelee. The “bachelors” dislike to admit defeat in the first match of the sea- son for Bemidji but have high hopes of redegming themselves before the season is over. Unmarried: A. Lee ..136 170 129 J Given .134 122 141 Berrigan .113 160 170 Winter .141 159 119 B, Popp 140 144 166 Total, 2,144. Married: E. N. Ebert ........ 162 145 146 D. Gould ... 122 155 162 J. Parmelee .. 160 183 148 B Erickson ... 159 145 145 H. M. Stanton ..... 160 171 136 Total, 2,289. BIG LAKE CLUB MEETS FEB. 11 AT STOUT HOME The Big Lake club will meet at the home of Charles Stout, February 11, in Turtle River township. The question of the Babcock road plan, or amendment No. 1, will be dis- cussed, F. A. Scott taking up the discuseien favoring the amendment and Edward Berg opposing it. The FIFTY TEACHERS ATTEND PATRIOTIC MEETING About fifty "teachers attended the meeting of the Teachers’ Patriotic League, held at the 'High school buildi‘ng Saturday afternoon. John W. Schrader, of Solway, presided at the session. Miss Annie Shelland, rural school inspector, gave a snort talk on the purposes of the league. It was decided to hold local meet- ings in each of ten districts to be selected by the county superintend- ent, each district to take in the neighboring territory. A temporary chairman is to be appointed to pre- side at the first meeting. The object of the league is to take up the work that will lead to the making of better American citizens negenlve the problems pertaining to the different localities such as health, public improvement. citizenship and patriotic activities. The officers of the association are: President, John W. Schrader, Sol- way; vice president, Mildred Zim- mernwn, Blackduck; secretary, Carol Knox, Nebish; treasurer, Mavis Phil- lippi, Bemidji. GOODYEAR CORD TIRES FACTOR . IN SPEED RAC A resume of the 1919 automobile ‘'racing season shows that it was one of the most successful in the history of the sport. Three new world's records were hung up. Tommy Miltonn made 10 miles at the Sheepshead Bay track in five minutes, twenty .and two-tenths sec- onds in his speedy Duesenberg, or a speed of 112.4 miles an hour. Ralph De Palma set, a new mark at the same track wheun his Packard Spe- cial flashed across the line in the 50 mile race in 26 minutes, twenty- three and four-tenths seconds, or 113.7 miles an hour. Gaston Chev- rolet hurled his Frontenac around the same board oval at the rate of 110.53 miles an hour in the 100 mile race in 654 minutes, seventeen and eight-tenths seconds. Goodyear Cord tires were big factors in the success- es of De Palma and Chevrolet. Tommy Milton was the largest in- dividual winner, getting the check- ered flag in the two Uniontown, Sheepshead Bay, and Elgin races. Races were marked by few serious accidents but there were plenty of thrills for spectators. Everything points to a record year in automobile racing in 1920, as interest has in- creased, rather than diminished since the war ended. SEED POTATO GROWERS WILL MEET TOMORROW The first annual meeting of the Beltrami County Seed Potato Grow- er's association will be held at the court house tomorrow. An excellent program has been arranged, includ- ing talks by several potato experts. The morning session will be called to order by A. E. Rako, president, and following the reading of the minutes of the last meeting and the appointment of a resolution commit- tee there will be a general discussion. For the afternoon session there will be a lantern slide legture on “Potato Disease,” also a discussion of “Minnesota Potato Certification,” by A. G. Tolaas, chief inspector. Hugh J. Hughes will talk concerning the ‘“Minnesqta Potato Exchange.” Two directors will he elected for the association and the report of the secretary and the treasurer will be heard. All who attend the session will un- doubtedly receive something of much value from Mr. Tolaas and Mr. FORDSON TRACTOR AND OLIVER PLOW DISPLAY ATTRACTION FOR 500 C. W. Jewett Co. Garage Show Rooms Crowded With In- terested Farmers The Fordson tractor and Oliver plow display held Saturday under the auspices of the C. W. Jewett Com- pany, Inc.,, was a decided success, nearly 500 attending the special film feature shows and exhibit rooms at the Elko theatre and the Jewett Gar- age respectively. The film entitled “Keep the Boy on the Farm” was one of Henry Ford's productions and was interesting throughout. It depicted two farm scenes in the same neighborhood. showing one using the Fordson tractor and the other working the farm by team. As the reels were slowly run it unfolded the story. of how both farmers succeeded, when the tractor was put into use on both farms, how the work was made much easier by the use of modern machin- ery and how it held the boys’ inter- est in farm work. L. D. Kitchell of Wenatchie, Wash., lan expert on power farming, gave ag interesting talk on farm life and made comparison of the old and new way of conducting a farm. He also pointed out the way for every tarmer to acquire a tractor Nearly two hundred were served at dinner by the Jewett Company in the Odd Fellows’ hall, and a larger number enjoyed the display at the show rooms, where cigars were passed to all visitors. During the morning, G. P. Ballou, district manager of the tractor de- partment, had a number of tractors out on the streets and some of them had long trains of sleighs hitched, i loaded with school boys and girls. In his talk to the farmers at the Elko, Mr. Ballou stated that the meeting was such a decided success that the company had decided to make this an annual event. 300 ALLEGED ‘DEPORTERS’ FACING FEDERAL CHARGE (By United Press) Tombstone, Ariz., Feb. 2.—Approx- imately 300 Arizonans, many of them promienent as state politicians, mer- chants, mine owners, bankers and leading citizens, were to go to trial today on charges of kidnapping, the aftermath of the so-called ‘‘deporta- tion’ of more than 1,000 alleged members of the I. W. W. from Bisbee, Ariz., July 12, 1917. The action will be the largest criminal prosecution ever held in this part of the country. The de- fendants were here January 21. The Bisbee deportations attracted wide attention. A strike of miners in the Bisbee district was blamed on I. W. W. agitators. Coming as it did at the beginning of the United States’ participation in the war and seriously threatening to retard cop- per production, at that time no ne- cessary to munitions making, it in- furiated those opposed to the L. W.W. On the morning of July 12 a posse of about 1,000 men herded the al- leged,agitators near the Bisbee rail- road station, loaded them into box cars and sent the train toward Columbus, N. M. At Columbus the men were taken in charge by offi- cials of the government. NORTHERN FARMER LOSES HOME 3Y FIRE The Lome of W. E. Worthington of Northern was totally destroyed by (fire on Wednesday. The origin of the fire is unknown, and no insur- ance was carried on the building. formally arraigned program promises to be most inter-| Hughes, and a large attendance is|The house with its contents were a i urged. esting. | total loss. VISCOUNT GREY DECLARES THAT RESERVATIONS ARE JUSTIFIED American Point of View in Ratification of From An Peace Treaty g WILSON’S OPPOSITION REASONS FALL FLAT Great Britain Is Willing to Accept Reservations as Drawn in Change (By United Press) ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—Senator Lodge gave notice in the senate to- day that on Monday, February 9, he will move to suspend senate rules and take up the peace treaty. This will forestall Senator Hitch- cock, who has 2mnounced he will move to take up the treaty on February 10. ~ (By United Press.) Washington, Feb. 2.—In a letter of Viscount Grey, former British am- bassador here, to the London Times, in which he stated that ‘“the Amer- ican reservations to the peace treaty were justified from an American point of view,” it was believed here today the statement would hasten ratification. Senators, who favor ratifications, held that Grey's letter took the ground out from under these mem- bers who were against any reserva- tions whatever, and who have said that the allies would not accept them. It was pointed out that Britain, prin- ciple associate of the United States jin the world war, expressed through Grey, willingness to accept many of the reservations which have been proposed. His attitude, and the fact that he even went so far as to argue in favor of certain American reserva- tions, is expected to strengthen the stand of senators who favor quick ratification on a conipromise basis, even if all of Senator Lodge's resers vations have to be accepted. Senators today were watching closely for some sign of what the White House thinks about the atti- tude of . Great Britain. The presi- dent's attitude all along has been that he would and could not accept changes in the treaty, because he had signed the original documents, thus promising the allies they would be accepted by the United States. DR. HILL ADDRESSES BEMIDJI'S CIVIC LADIES Before a large gathering at the meeting of the Women’s Civic and Community club held in the rooms of the Bemidji association on Satur- day afternoon, Dr. H. W. Hill talked on the subject “Public Health of Today.” According to Dr. Hill, too little money is spent in the prevention of disease in comparison to the large amount spent in caring for disease. Prevention should receive more at- tention than ever before. Even in the world war many defects were found among the applicants for mili- tary service which could easily have been prevented in the youth. Caring for influenza patients was thoroughly discussed by Dr. Hill. He compared the influenza to the grippe of 1890. No serum has yet been found that will render a person im- mune from this disease and conse- quently the most precautious methods must be used in caring for the pa- tients. Care must be exercised with the hands and the eyes as well as the throat. He also spoke of the present situa- tion regarding tuberculosis in Min- nesota and the lack of medical atten- tion it was receiving since not nearly all cases have been reported for medical aid. Gargles were condemned by Dr. Hill as a throat wash for Kkilling germs, since a period of 15 minutes is required to kill the germ and no one is able to hold a gargle in the mouth for that length of time. It also re- tards the normal flow of saliva which in itself should condemn the use of gargles. Following Dr. Hill’s talk, a general discussion was held and many inter- esting points were brought up and explained. STAR MEETS TOMORROW. Regular meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star will be held at the Masonic Temple tomorrow evening. Important business will come up be- fore the lodge, and all members are urged to be present. P4