Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 26, 1920, Page 1

N .ON: SINN FE!N MOV£M£N'l‘ _‘,l“iundl'!e‘dl of Slupeéu Have - Been Taken. in by Soldlen ,and Officers in Raids’ . BELIEVE GOVERNMENT " MAKING CLEAN SWEEP s Attacks Last- Sunday Thought to Purport Destruction of Data Against. Leaders (By United Press) N Dublin, Nov. 26.; —S\veeping down on leagers-of the Sinn Feinn move- ment British forces today arrested Arthur Griftith, acting presidgnt- of the . Irish republic, - John MeNeil, founder of the Irish Volunteers. Grif- fith was arrested at his home at-two o'clock today. Charges against him were not made public: Since the mur- -der of fourteen British officers in Dublin, there have been great activ- L ities and hundreds of suspects have been taken in by soldiers and.offi- cers. “The attacks last Sunday are supposed to lave been enginecred to destroy evidence British officials had compiled. against Sian Feiners. Many documents’igere ¢ destroyed in the raids and a number of the offi- - cers killed were conngcted with the \ Tytelligence. di of -the Brit- oA R~ ieh army. Griftith fschief of the 3 Irish ‘parjiament and ‘acting presi- dent af the republic in the absence of amon De Valera. B i Y 1t was believed that docurhents dis ¥ covered recently /in the ~Wwholesale gearclr by Irish officials and military _pMticlals’ implicated ‘them with the plqu of Extremists and that the gov- + ernment IIA% deeided to make a clean GDU’ITY RURAL, SGHOOLS S Not only the teachers and puplls of the Kitichi school, but the pea?l of the community appreciate the . teen -volunies of the International aneyclopadla, donated to their school by Mrs. A. E. Witting. They promise not only to use the books in school work bat in their community gather- inigs. ' \ The. Institute being held this week at. Bludatte, under the supérvision of Assistant © County Superintendent Miss Mary.Ljlleskov, though small in numbeuas _very enthusiastic in the waork. esides having c}mrge of the k, M s Lilleskov is doing the work of one of the state instructors. Miu .Alice Florer from Nebraska and orie of the best Institute workers in the state'is the conductor. County Superintendent J C. Me- Ghee and the County Nurse, Miss Linmrea Anderson, have spent the ast two weeks” lgthe ‘southern part of the county. perintendent Mc- Glee finds the great majority of teachers are doing their best for the schools and a great amount of excel- lent work is being dgne. Miss Ander- son finds a great many defective chil- s ren that have had treatment as the relult of the visit of other nurses. ~ . Some children are found, however, who have been requested by both of \ the former nurses to have their ton- sils removed but the work not “ ben.‘dong_and Miss Anderson finds th‘lir throats in very bad shape. The only way the. work can be properly done will be by having a county phy- ¥ sician who will be paid by the county to perform the operation when the parents are unable to make the pay- ments. fllflflm RECOMMENDS : COAST DEFENSE Belleve. Th-t M-ny delmal : ents for Coasts Are 2 b Absolutely Vital” 4 B X (By United Press) ‘Washingnton, Nov. 26. (By A. L, Bradford.) —Defense of the naval ba- sese and ports with armamexgt able to withstdnd the most powerful na- vies of the world, should be pushed to’ completion with the greatest pos- sible speed, Major-General Lamnsing ~ H. Beach, chief of engineers, said to- g day in his annual repnrt to Secretary of war Baker. *Provision has not ‘et been made ~for effective coast defenses arnd in ‘important strategic’ areas at naval bases because of lack of 16-inch guns and howitzers’”” Beach said. He recommended that additional arma- ments<being established for coast de- fense s ‘‘absolutely vital.” BEMIDJI MlNN., FR!DAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1920 et MWLING LEAGUE WILL/ GPEN SEASON SUNDAY Sunday aften{uon will see the start of the Bemidji Bowling league with six teams §mashing the maples. The, league will be run on a handi- cap bagis this winter giving all teams an equal chance. At onepthirty Sunduy afternoon the following teams will line up: Koors Brothers against Clifford & Cop. on alleys one and two, and the Roof- ers against Swift & Co. on alleys three and four. At four o'clock the other two {eams, the Oilers against the Pio- neers, will roll on alleys one and twe. The membership fee for each mem- ber of the league is $1 which is plac- ed ‘in the treasury and the proceeds will go toward paying the expenses of a team which will represent the league in tournaments later in the season, All bowlers are requested to he on hand Sunday afternoon to start the season off with a banga COUNTERFEIT-PROOF -MONEY. S N (By United Press.) Berlin (by mail).—Mixture of minute iron and nickel particles in paper money will render it counter- fext-proof according the~Prague inventor of the process\. A magnet will, pick up the paper wherea: counterfeited paper ould not be lifted. The particles must be mixed in during manufacture, hence it is considered doubtful whether counter- feitt-i:'s could afford to make such stock. A \ DIVORCED WAR WEDDINGS. (By United Press.) Berlin (by mail.)—Sixty per cent of German divorces at this time are of couples wedded during the war. Twenty per cent of all divorces are attributable to war incidents, mainly unfaithfulness during the war. Statistics also show that many couples during the war' and since then are marrying far younger than before the war. Many girls of six- teen are now wives or widows. Fifty- five women -and 42 men are noted over 100 years old, 3,600 men and 72‘00 women over 90 years old. | | JCCUPANTS UNINJURED WHEN CAR TIPS OVER Dr. G. M. Palmer and R. L. Given escaped injury yesterday when re- turning from Turtle River in the Palmer automobile, all though the car left the road, slid down a five-foot embnnkment, and tipped over on its side. No injury was done to the car or to the occupants, it is reported. MILLIONAIRE., MYSFERIOUSLY SHOT. PASSES AWAY TODAY Ardmore, Okla., Nov. 26.—Jake L. Hamon, mil’ionmre, who was myster- jously shot 'here Sunday, died today. STELLAR COMPANY WILL RESUME MANUFACTURING R. L. Given Accepts Offer of Company and Becomes Local Manager at Once' R. L. Given, of the Given Hard- ware company of this city, has been offered the management of the Stel- lar company turpentine plant and has accepted the offer. He will as- sume the management at once. An office for the company will be opened by Mr. Given in the Given Hardware store and one will also be] maintained at the plant. The plant has not been operating for a couple of months but will re- sume operations at once. During the months of opemlon the results ob- tained from the plant were excep- tioanlly good and indicat® -&ha:t when stumps can be,obtained in the desired quantities tlle industry will be a,most profitable one and will rapidly expand. Just at this time it is_hard to get a sufficient supply of stumps ahead to keep the plant run- ning at capacity. Mr. Given ‘is very anxious to hear from.all who haye stumps in any qua_ntllv suitable” for this industry. Good prices are paid for the stumps and it is a splendid opportunity for the farmers of this~ vicinity to fi- nance their land clearing operations. LANDIS ISSUES ORDER AGAINST SALOON OWNERS ¢By U mled Press) Chicago, Nov. 26.—Federal Judge Landis today issued a tempora er against seventy-two owners “dry saloons’” who are alleged to have violated the Volstead act. Order was issued on the ground that fhe places were public nuisance: ccming within the meaning of -the Volstead law whichh gives federal judges the power to close places and ‘“‘abate the nuisance.” Under the or- der® the saloons wil be allowed to keep open but will he brought into court for contempt if liquor is sold. HEARSF[NEPROGRAM . f{esulu of Better Book Week Are Reflected in Program ,,' ‘Given by Puplls A largbly atfended meeting of the Parent-Teacher -association was™held Tuesday afternoon in the Higli schgol auditorium. The auditorium was filled to -capacity -and the program was one of the special excellence. A largé portion: of 7 the program was the result of “Better Book Week” and showed in a ‘marked manner the interest taken by the children in the| campaign for better books for boys and gixls. The play entitled “Peggy’s Dre.xm" was Both written and played by pupils of Miss GRalaas’ sixth gra and reflected much credit on the chil dren who participated in it. The following program was car- ried- through in splendid form. The children and terchers who took part made the meeting bne of special en- joyment to everyone present. Orchestra, -direction - of Mlss Fib- igar. ‘Songs and _Dramatization from “Mother Goosk,” Miss Gunscl\uw and Mrs. Letfor Orchestra. / Dramatization, “Hdnsel and Gret-| tel,”. Miss Glass. Tableaux—Miss Larson, Dutch Twins, Pinoccio. Mrs. Ward, Uncle Remus, Unefan in Japan, Widow Calligan’s Boys. Miss Petteys, Gul- liver’s Travels, Bebecca of Sunny- brook Farm, The Birds’ Christmas Cgrol. Miss Hanlon, Toby Tyler in;| Circus, Pied Pnpnr. Ann of Green Gables. * Story—*“How the Camel Got His Hump,” Dorothy Borgen, Miss, Craig’s pupil. Play—“Peggy’s Dream,” original with Miss Gaalaas’ six grade. Dance—“I‘rench Babies,” direction of Miss Mynson. UNMASKED BANDITS GET (By United Bress.) Duluth, Nov. 2 'wo unmasked men shortly after ten o’clock today threw ammonia in the face of A. L. Hendrickson, jewerly store proprietor, and, after béating him insensible, escaped with a pouch containing $10,- 000 worth of diamonds. The men ran toward the residence district With guns in hand and dis- appeared.’ “Poléd it the scerle short- ly) afterward ‘had found no trace of them an hour later. Hendrickson was badly beaten and was taken tol 4 hospital where it is beheved he will} recover. LODGE HOLDS SCANT HOPE OF REVENUE LAW CHANGE- (By United Press.) hington, Nov. 26.—Scant hope was given for any revision of the present revenue laws by the special | session of congress to be called by President-elect Harding after March 4, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, re= publican leader in the senate, said today. LEAGUE REQUESTS U. 5. TO -~ SERVE AS TURK MEDIATOR Washington, Nov. 26.—A request of the League of Nations that the United States mediate between the Armenians and Mustapha. Kemal Pasha, Turkish _nationalist leader, was received at the White House to- day and sent to the president, but no comment on it was forthcoming. » . DULUTH DIAMOND HAUL HARDING ENDS TNVESTIGATION OFCANALZONE |Sees Canal a‘s\firi\}ate Citizer and Listens to Stories of | Zone Officials’ = N OFFICIAL INSPECTION United States Is Friendly to Panamanians e (By United Press) Puanama Canal Zone, Hard e cllltth and in the Colon. zone officials [ tizatiop of the canal 1 maments of oW made t ma E dent the Thanksgi a¥e more than ium111 ners ja one of the most g gant ances in twenty centur It you lind the zone a reflex of that rightes m wh believes in b ty Tor which we de PL”I for uurk:l\'e' ST, PAUI. PLUMBERS RE"‘URN ) -l(|n\~' (By lml(ul Pres St. Paul. Nov. affered per day. crease nr ealel v demanded and a \'lnxul shop form per WEATHER IS SETBACK §10 | neapclis, Nov. 26. - A football gume, thre: theitear for the ate high championship game on this afternoon. 'The first of the snow er the field w were on edge. on account of the weather, ON COLON SDE MAY BE ORDERED SOON Assures President Porras That No- By Raymond Clapper)-— lect Harding congluded | CiVie societies since the Red Cross is his pe | investigation of the Ca-|not permitted to spend money in this nal zope when he returned to|Way. Several larger organizations saw the canal as a me capar to stories of citizens ob nh am today. Ofticials here|at that place this evening. E the devices are not : . ¥ in cope with the re- cently f wopld rprovements should be <hip for Pana- Por s ind othiers [ ports byy commissions will be made TO OLD JOBS AT INCREASE i | The acsenibly b1 oper, day aver the T6 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME heavy snow fall, starting an hour before the Bemidji-Faribault high school to hamper in their unsanctionad clash -hool football orthrup field sioppy but both g,mh : The crowd was small [TOBOGGAN SLIDE AND SKATING RINK PLANNED Recreation Boar* of Red Cross Forms Plans for Recreative Sports for Winter That Bemidji’s young pehplu might have an opportunity .for clean out- door recreation during the winter months, the-recreation board of the Red Cross has, completed plans for a skating rink and a toboggan slide to e located on the City park property on Lake boulevard at the end of Tenth strect. This. ple(‘(t has been under consideration for several weeks but no definite action was taffen on the subject until the board met on | Wednesday afternoon th completc its plans. Vagious cm\m.)ttcea have ‘been ap- pointed to zet the project under way and it is believed that work will be started on the construction at once. kating season is as a rule yshort, snow interfering with the on the lakes very early in lhc\ inter. Ifor this reason it was decided to furnish a-skating rink which will be kept in condition dur- ing the entire winter. The proposition will necessarily be al organizations have already. pledged their support and the smaller podies will be called on within a_few days. Rev. L. P. Warford of the First Presbyterian church was chosen as the representative of the local ming isters on the recreation boarq. t \\ hen he as faction on the pa 5 —_—— Brussels to Minneapolis, for the with _he iolls HIG}{ SCHOOL ORCHESTRA ;‘:lrlsl(l]l:us ll\)l:flu,\'fl‘, n;il ‘:i'mi.win-g Tping, i his tather was ill. Charles \W. Drew, :[“u al “ion of fortifieation VISITS CROOKSTON CAME (o l‘u.un‘dc(l the Minneapolis Insti- cone ‘om the camal to the| The Uigh school orchestrn. their|tute of Pharma ramn ! imong the mat- | directress, Miss Murtha Fibigar, and 7 ers biought yo his attention. Miss Margaret DonovAn went to Ne- An htsnfrll of the fortifications fpish today to give a musical pro- ARCTIC EXELORER SENDS . 2 on the onn ol the items|gram at the Crookston lumber camp MESSAGE TO WILSON DISARMAMENT IS MAIN' TOPIC BEFCRE LEAGUE (Byy United Press) Geneva, Nov. 26, (By Henry Woud).—The Leangne of Nations s sembly expected to conclude its week's work toray, Hearing of ve- and then the program calls for tad- Journment until Tuesday. ] Disarmument was the main topic cominisston and were Lo consider that question They began thie session yest- with instruetions s for the present must within a reasonhble limit. wus- also expeeted to the demand of the Aus- tes that a reply be the German mandate note. EB to come hefore the they today. e Held take up toi tralizn del made o UNIVERSITY DAIRY SHORT COUR,SES OPEN The first of the dai for the season of 1920-21 are being {jgiven at University Farm. Classes were organized for, advanced cream- short courses Icr_v operators and for cheese plant operators. .~ The latte ¢ to have the benelit of two wecks of pract work and experience in a che 0l se- melted as it fell, but gradually it{making plant at Zumbrota. The next turned colder so that the _x:roumix course in the séries is for ice cream wére thoroughly blanketed, By 1: ers and it will open November The milk begin their at - University Farm. plant operators will studies December 6. ——— = __—__—__—_____.__—____— 'BE HELD ON SATURDAY The funeral ol liztle Harry Welch, ten year old son of Mr. and-Mrs. C. R. Weleli, who passed away at St. An- thony's hospital Wednesday morning, will be held from the T. J,'Andrews residence, 1337 Irvine u(ouuc . on Saturday aftérnoon at 2 o'clock. Dr. G 11 Zentz of the Metholist church will officiate. Arrangements are in care of M. E. Ibertson, undertaker. Interment will ‘be made at Green- wood cemetery The surviving tamily are his par- ents, three brothers and two sisters. His dmother, Mrs. Emma J. Sturges, and his aunt, Mrs. Fred Woodward, arrived last evening frqm Clinton, Minn., to attend the funer- al. P. 1 Weleh, of this city, is an uncle of the child. Death was caused by complications resulting from an attack of “fAu.” FATHER DIES WHILE SON IS ENROUTE TO HIS HOME (By United Press) Minneapolis, Nov. 26.-—Unaware that his father didd here Thanksgiv- ing day, Charles W. Drew, Jr., vice- coungul to Belgium, enroute from (By United Press.) Washington, Nov. 26.- message from Dr. Fridjhoft Nansen, the Arctic explorer, to President Wilson, was reccived at the White House today. Officials expected the | text will be made public later. The message is angderstood to praise the president’s offort in forming the League of Na- tions and . declared the league is™a ‘going’ concern. Nunsen s taking a prominent part in the meetings of the league um-unbly at Geneva. WoRIR S0Y BABSES AWAT 4 AT HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT Albert V. mrll, ihe llvu year old san of Albert Worth, Sr., died last, even- ing about six o'clock at St. Anthony's hospital affer a sickness of a few fays, ‘Che funeral will be held from he, Methodist ¢hurch Sunday afte noon at three o'clock; services being condueted by Dr. G. UL Zentz, pas- tor of the church. Interment will be made in the cemetery“in the town of :\'nwhurn ASSOCIATION ENT ERS NEW CLEANUP CONTRACT Regular Meeting of Business Men Favors Contract for _ Semi-Weekly Cleanup Reynolds, chairman of the fire cleanup committee, reported that $1,143 out of the $1:200 had heen subseribed and as a lu.ult the Bemidji, wsociation in regular session Wed- aesday voted to enter into a contract vith Joseph Hahn to clean up the vack yards of the business district H. E. wice each week for the coming year. H. M. Stanton, formerly sec »f the locul association, now sec of the Grand Forks Commercial club; was called upon for a few remarks. He told the members concerning the Theodore Roosevelt Highway asso- siation meeting held at Duluth this wi tating that a permanent asso- ciation had been formed and that a perminent secretary would be en- gaged. - “Members from New York, Vermont, n, North Dakota, Montana and ) unuutu were pres- ent,” said Mr. Stanton, “and $15,000 will be used for maintenance on this highway each year. Indications arc That it will be on one of the most fm- portant’ highways in the United Sftes.” The Beltrami County Agricultural association and the recreabipn com- mittee of the Civic and Commerce association held meetings Wednesday afternoon, perfecting plans for - the coming year. HOTHER'S CLUB MEETS TOMORROW AFTERNOON Mother's club will meet to- The noprow afternoon at the home of \Irs. A. E. Nelson, 1122 Dewey ave- wee. The hostesses will bg Mesdames Nelson. C. D, Lucas Wiiter. call will wered with itles of children’s song The pro- sram will consist of the following jers: “The place of music in the (?DONNELLS MECHMIC‘.’ DIE AI.MOS’I' INSTANTLY Eddy O’Donnell, lnjuufl in fli‘ Cbllision Yesterday, l‘llud Away Early Today CHEVROLET HAS WON ' CHAMPIONSHIP OF 1920 Youngest Racer - of Motor World Had Won Great' Honors at Indianapolis i {Dy United Press) Los Angeles, Nov, f6.—Bddy O'Dounell, autumobile racer, injuved in the speedway contests here y erday, died here early today: “Gad ton Chevrolet and Lyall Jolls, the later O'Donuell’s mechanician,’ wen Killed ulmost instantly when the cars driven by O'Donnell and Chevrolet came together in the 250 mile race yesterday. O'Donnell sustained a fractured skull.and both arms were broken. The two cars rolled down the incline to- gather, landing in a heap on both the drivers and mechanicians. John Breshahan, Chevrolet’s mechanician cseaped injury. Chevrolet's standing at he time of his death won for him the national automobile race cham- plonship for 1920. Chevrolet, the youngest of the rac- ing brothers, won great fame in the 500 wile International speedway races this year, making a record then of 88.14 miles an hour. Roscoe 1. Sarles won first place in the races heye yesterday. Eddy mill- er won second place and Bddy Hear~ ne, third, KITTSON COUNTY BOY .. . BEST LIVE STOCK JUDGB +Carl K, Ash, of-St:- Vmu’nt son county, won first place in thy hoys' and girls' state live stock judgs ing contest.at University Farm. The contest was the opening bill for the annual Junior Live Stock Show held at South St. Paul. Ash’s score was 486. Reuben Affeldt of Fillmore county was second; Jay Schuler of Martin county, third; Stephen Eastér, of Kittson county, fourth, S. MeKay of Fillmore county und W. Hubert.of Redwood county tied for fifth place, cach witha score of 439, Other™ . winners for a' share in the. prize ] money were L. Mitchell of Nobles county and O. Shilts of Stearns, coun- ty. The three highest winners will represent the boys’ and girls’ clubs of Minnesota at the International Live Stock Show. All their expenses will be paid by the Minnesota Live Stock Breeders association and other agencies co-operating in boys’, and girls’ club work. INDUSTRY IMPAIRED, GERMAN (By United Press.) Chemnitz, Germany (by mail),— The German stocking industry, once one of.the most flourishing, has fal- len on bad times. This is partly at- tributable to the natural retrogression resulting from the [war; partly to ex- change questions whwh make import~ of raw materials difficult; and. partly to the development of the stocking industry in America ayd the budding ¥ldevelopment in Australia. s The German plants are casting about to develop “specialties” such s as mixed colors, in the hope that they will be able to regain something of their old standing on the world’s nuukc UNITED: ST#TB EXPGRTS SHOWING BIG INCREASE Excess of Exports Over Imports in October Llr'el! of Any Month This Year NNy (By United Press) Washington, Nov. 2 — United: States exports inereasedzand imports deereaged for October as compared vith both, September this year and ctober of last vear. The department nl"lmmnerct‘ announced, today that exporta for October totalled $752, 000.000 as against $505,000, 100 I'or =|September thi; and $632,000,000 for October Ilast year. ~For the teii hs perind ending Oetober this exports! totalled $6,832,000 as ainst $6.499,000 for the same, per= iod last Imports for October were $360,- ' 000,000 for September and $402,000,- 000 for October last year. Imports for the first ten months of Shild's education,” by Mrs. J. W, Smith: “Better pictures in the home ind how to interest children in pic- <" by Mrs. 8. D. Snyder; “Rote by Mrs. Ei W. Johpson, 1920 were $4,720,000,000 compared with $2.09,000,000 for the same pe- rlod in 1919, The.excecss of exports over imports for October was' the largest of any month this year.