Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 20, 1921, Page 1

The Ploneer is the only daily W1y, TONAlLe "6 ity has' ‘the largest circulation in ‘Northern Mffinesota..” E - “.BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 20, 1921 e T |DECLAMATORY CONTEST . VOLUME XVIlL NO. 232 Eight Young Ladies to Compete 3 Tomorrow Night for Place i 0RS . in District Contest Tomorrow evening at the Methodist church ‘auditorium, the two winners in the High ‘schicol class declamatory conteat will compete for the honors of the school. Fallowing are the two winner from each class with the selection which they gave: ‘Freshman, first, Ruth Caskey. “The Keeper of the Light.” Second, Helen Lahr, “The Second Trial.” lntanu’fiorfl’yl ‘Falls Lodge to - Reti#n Visit of Local Lodgg.ast Year ONE.HUNDR. % FIFTY - — v o I { ~Sophomore, first, Bernice Kirk, COM!m. EN SPECIAL *“Pro Patria.” Second, Ruth Essler, T —— £ “Laddje.” " * Junior, first, Marguerite Donovan, “'‘es to Be|“Slippery Flies Out,” second Alice Camefon, “For Dear Old Yale.” enior, first, Elsie Shannon, “Bob- by Shaftce,” second, Ragnhild Moe, “The Swan Song.” Thjs'i8 an event much looked for- G ward. to by all supporters of the lo- Sunday, February 23, will be one|ea) high school and much enthusiasm of the biggest days for Bemidji M00S€ | nag heen shown in the class contest. In the history of the order. On that] "/ mall admission fee will be taken day ‘members from ‘the Internationalf,t the entrance Friday evening. Fallg Mwfl? lédge.bone ;n{h;éd“!‘itg : strong, will come by special trai smgmm Acm,l. . TNy DISCOURAGES NEW LINE Big Class of Cant Initiated Dhjto. ral . Order of Mot w. 4 class of fifty or more into the order. Last fall the Bemidji Moose travelled to Imer‘lla_gt‘i%gm Faits by speciat-train: ate visit the local lodge and w‘\lnltisle ind Seeteses and igit| a class of over one hun- dred:.and the visit of the northern Moosa is hy way of returning the compliment, ) The special train will arrive at the Union depot-about 12:30 p. m. and will , be- escorted to the Moose hall where a lunch will be served after which the visitors will be entertained in various. ways until fiv %':lfic}(; when, they will retirn {6’ theMqbse] lodge . rooms for 4 dinner which wlltl Senator Jones of Washington Claims American Line Was Not Approved (By United Press) - ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—Charges. ‘that dn° agént ‘of ‘the Upited States e. . shipping board has disapproved of an be served from five to seven o'clock. | American line out of Newark, N. J., A jaipt drill.will then bé”pit’on 1 fuse It would 'hinder business the old armory by the metibers 5t the [y per ‘his other lines sailing out of women of the Mooseheart Legion) New.York, were made public today degree team and the team of.thelny endtor Jones, of Washingtan. . Moose lodge to which every ong ¥ " Jones told of alleged incidents dur- 50 wishes is invited to attend. ing a speech at the opening of the At eight o’clock the regular session | copvegtion. ~ He declared Britislr in- of the lodge will convene and thefferéats were instigating a deliberate « class dnitiated. At the close of theYgamipdign to uproot the American initiation work a short program of | merchant marine; that theé interna- addresses will be given by members|tional American ' merchant “marine of the visiting lodge and theé local|with American' co-operation agreed lodge: with the British admirality “to pro- ~ In the afternoon the visitors will be | poge no policy injurious to the Brit- escogted to the Normal school andljsh mercantile marine or British in afl:ordnnce with an_invitation |trade.” . which has been extgnded by the Nor- mal .school -a visit will"be “made -to; Dboth:buildings. R by LIt wag found that, international B3RkéLs as, well ag"the h¢ads of rail- ! B & roads and Steamship companies, were A pumber of ladies will accompany | wittingly and unwittingly agents of am zi;tg‘:fi"‘mmbm from Interma-1¢h3 Britlsh in their attethpts. on, s 3 ) ——— Moo#eheart Lgion order will enter- luhxglgxem during their visit. T Moose lodgde is now in the midst of a campaign Yor new memb-T}- {m ers and a special dispensation has| been granted them by the-supreme 3 officers'to accept membership. at owe half; the regular imitiation “fée. A" large number have alréady joiied atid it is: éxpected that tion:of the open ¢ 3 large: class of fifty ‘or sixty will-he, ipitiated. ’ OVER FAVORS:( N'T0 Belioves Such Plan Would Bé| "Solution to Eeondiniédl i - i (By United Press) - ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—The only golution to the present ,E{tqndmicfl deprepsion in the United’ Btatés ‘and hn'xg: e x tutinf ade such -a splendid showing in st 4 t the world {BXHe & por etii's cliampionship also may jein credt to the starving.countries-of 3 » : itheAnvaders: 8 Eurape,” Herbert “Hoover, ‘Toriiier [U% STSIICE, o0 riine, Mrs. William . Gavin“and other 'noted wonien fa:| players-‘are - also planning to make the house agricultural-committee to-jihe trip over to meet the best of the day.. > iklish womén. .. Fngland is somewhat, apoused oyer ‘the’ invasion dnd some of the leading ‘afthorities thru the press are trylng t0 lead the more pessimistic follow- ‘érs Away from the ‘beliéf that the Am- erican contingent will be impossible ’ /By Henry L. Farrell. (United Press Correspondent) .. Néw. York, Jan. 20.—Having snc- . led in winning a British tennis ¢ther [ championehip, America will maké a 08t serious effort mext summer. to Wirex”’ the *Erglish golf “titles. * Funds have been in the process of ‘soHeitgtion since last fall to send a/ big team of the best American golf- érs “dfter the British ‘championship and sjccess of the financial drive pbenis’ sure. * Looking toward the amateur titlo af the Isles, the United States Golf Asdotiation has announced plans of ‘similAr proportion. 4 . “‘Chick” Evans, present American ‘¢hanipion, 8. Davidson Herron, ‘Tast year's champion; - Francis Ouimet,l former . _titleholder; Bobby Jones, lson: Whitdey, “Buck’’ Wittemore, Reginald Lewis and ‘Max Marston agreed to make the trip across the Atlantic. Robert A. Gardner, who i, 7 Y. Hoover launched: fortt “unexpected into_ a discussion of the world ftm and economic situation, ' the ‘subj swhich he was most famijliat. ote of his tilk re ‘whieh:‘sought his gpinion on pending legislation. to prevent manipulation and h Rl grain transaction. ica last summer took back with them generous tales of the improvement in the Americdn game and théy sound- -ed a warning to their countrymen: to viKe'fip and devote their attehtion "to_ the deyelopment of yolngsters, ‘€lse America would step in and take away from them their prized do- * (By United Préis) i Washington, Jam, 20. (By L. Cj Martin.)—The senate fofeign rcla- tions comnifttee today ordered a fav: orable report on the Borah, resolution recommending a world disaintavfent 5 campaign with amendments. minion of the links. Plerre, 8. D., Jan, 20.—CHuarges of - “loogeness” on the part ‘of the pres- (By United Press ent ljvestock sanitary board ‘are-cons| Worcester, Mass., Jan. 20.—Will- tainéd in a resolution submitted to|iam N. Taylor, watchman.in one’of the ¢émmittee on live stock in both |the big buildings in the two million housks of ‘the South Dakota legisla-|dollar fire in Worcester, was in cus- ture, and to the presiding officers of | tody here today following annouince- hoth’branches, by ‘the South Dakota |ment by the fire chief that several Hereford Breeders’ association. fires were of ihcendiary origin. "'~ The resolution says that the pre- Several other suspects are sought. sent live stock sanitary board is too | Nineteen persons were injured. ll:msleninf fccepting certificates . _— ealth for live stock being shipped | RED INDICTED into the state, and it is asked that ‘I)'fi%;uxc?v}' LIQUOR CHARGE more ’stringent examination of stock Geprge W. Cross, superintendent of being'shipped into the state be made | the Red Lake Indian agency, returned and a sixty-day re-test of all live|this morning from Duluth where he stock being shipped from other states. | was called as a witness in a “moéon- 4 ~ shine” ¢ase against L. Graham of the Céunty Auditor A. D. Johnson re-|Red Lake reservation. Graham was turned this morning from St. Paul|indicted, reports Mr. Cross, who T where he has spent the past few days | turned to his home at Red Lake this on Business. afternoon. | TO'REPRESENT SCHOOL| “control of the air. .gies today and along lines of air craft BEST-T0-ENGLAND to Beat. ; 7British ‘players who toured Amer-| IRH BRI DISARMAMENT Is Ready to Forego Further Construction and Enter \ Naval Agreement RECOGNIZES SUPREMACY NOW IN CONTROL OF AIR Great Britain Now Directing Her Energies Along Lines of Air Construction (By United Press) London, Jan. 20.—Great will send delegates to an internation- al conference on disarmament, the Daily ‘Chronicle declared today. The newspaper said it expected to see the conference broaden its dis- cussion out to include other import- ant_questions. Lp e amaze o “The British delegates will be sent in the spirit of cordial co-operation and good will, the Chronicle said. (By United Press) Washington, Jan. 20. (By Ralph Turner.)-—Great Britain is ready to forego the further construction of battle ships and enter an agreement for disdrmaient, becayse ‘Skre recos- nize§ that ‘future supremacy, lies in Mrigadier Gén- eral Mitchell, in speaking of the air service, told the United-Press today: To this 'part of her.military policy Great Britain is directing her ener- fleve!apmcn!, ‘Mitchell explained. MINNESOTA STATE FARR " SETFOR SEPTEMBER 3-10. St. Paul, Jan. Thomas H. Canfield of the Minneso- ta State Fair was re-elected secre- tary of the 1921 exposition at'the re-i organization meeting of /the fair hoard Tuesday. . Thre date &f the fair’ wag set for September 3 to 10. L. H."Post of the Northwestern National ~{lank.:Minngapolis, .was. reselacted. pparingy ; treasurer. W. W, Sivright of Hutehinson, pre- sided at his first meeting at presi- dent of the fair, succeeding krank W. Muyrphy of Wheaton. and William Lycan of Crookston, D. D. M¢éEchin of:Hibbillg, J. L. Mitch- ell of Austin, Herman Roe of North- field, Curtis M. Johnson of Rush City, Frank B. Logan of Royalton, Frank Millard of Canby and William F. Sanger of Windom. —— HOUSE VOTES AGAINST i INCREASED 'MEMBERSHIP Washington, Jan. 20.—The House of Representatives voted yesterday against increasing its membership, uow 435, This action was taken by adoption f an amendment to the reapportion- the ‘total to 483. Under the amend- ment twelve seats will be shifted {rom eleven to eight states. The vote to keep the membership at 435 was 198 for to 77 against. siflers improvemen middleweight, Sunda, ’30.—Secretary | | gake, of | Nebraska -electoral vote. ment bill which sought to increase 19 a. {ternate, and also a grandmother. in _TODAY IN CONGRESS Senate. Manufacturidg committee consid- ers hearings on the Calder coal bill. Foreign relations committee. re- sumes consideration of the Borah dis- armament resolution. The senate’ committee seemed to continue their filibustre against the emergency tariff ‘bill. Judjciary committee considers France’s resolution for amnesty of po- litical prisoners. Herbert Hoover appears before the agricultural committee to give his views on curbing cotton and grain speculation. The ways and means committee begin hearings on tobacco tariff. American - Legion representatives place the negeds of service men to the military atfairs committce. Interstate commerce committee considers railroad valuations. Rivers and harbors committee con- on Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers. House. Judiclary committee considers a bill to incorporate firms to enguage in Britain {4, 4¢ with China. Appropriatidns sub-committee con- siders army, navy, deficiency, diplo- matic, consular,and harbors and riv- ers appropriatigus bills. Thor Jensen, champion wrestler of Winona, under, the management of Jack Paulson, has agreed to come to Bemidji to wrestle L. C. Curtis, local at three o’clock at the.armory. To clineh the agree- ‘ment and to émphasize his conlidence in his owm ability he has offered u draft for $100 to be paid to Curtis in case "he [ails to appear for the bout and he has offered this amount on the side. Jensen threw Albrecht, the heavy- | weight Minneapolis fireman, twice in < fifteen minutes recently and those who saw Curtig and Albrechi wrestle for an hour an@ twenty minutes last winter wifhout a fall will agree that this promises to be a good hout. Joc Morris, Curtis’ manager, knows that local wrestling fans are sure that Curtis will beat any man his own weight sg he has offered them an opportunity go see Curtis In action with a man® weighing 165 pounds, about eight pounds more than him- self. Indicaffons are that this match will be farfhejter than any hefore this winter. [ o PUBMBLERS ATTEND - EDITORS 'MEET AT CROOKSTON 1. Z. Mitchell, editor of the Be- mid Sentinel. and K. 11. Denu, sec- ret; and. manager of the Pioncer Publishing company, left this after- Members of the bod™l présent Were | nyon (o attend, the meeting of the vice présidents E. J. Stillwell of Min-| Nor(hern Minnesota Editoriul associ- eapolis and Lee Warner of St. Paul | 460 4t Crookston. M Mitchell is president of thé association. The first meeting will be held this evening and ‘Mr, Mitchell will at that time deliver the president’s annual addvess. THNe. session will continue the remainder of the week, with new features arrandded in line of enter- tainment and business program. GRANDMOTHER TO CARRY ... ELECTORAL VNTE BY AIR Lincoln, Neb.; Jan. 20.—Mrs. H. H. ‘Wheeler, 55 years old, and a grand- mother, was scheduled to leave Lin- coln at 8 a. m. today by airplane on a trip to Washington, D. (., as dele- charged with delivering the She was to be joined at Omaha at by Mrs. Draper Smith, 66, al- another plane. The trip will be made “wind and weather permitting,” Mrs. Wheeler says. 7 ONEMANBOARD MAY SUPERVISE “HIGHWAY PLAN Final ‘Action to Provide for Carrying Out Road Program Expected Hour@ TONNAGE TAX MEASURE BEFORE HOUSE TODAY Calls for Eight Per Cent Tax on Value of Minerals in *Lieu of Other Tax (By United Press) St. Paul, Jan. 20.—Final action by the house ways committee on a bill providing for administration of the Babcock good roads amendment, is expected hourly. The committee voted returns yesterday in favor of a one-man administration of the highways department, and members of the committee officially declared that C. M. Babcock, commissioner of highways, should not be hampered by the commission in carrying out the pluns for highway improvement. A tonnage tax measure is before the house. This provides for a tax not only on iron ore and mines, but places a on all minerals taken in the state for commercial purposes, The tax would include sandstone, limestone, granite-rock stone, sand, gravel, clay, peat and' marl. It was introduced by Representa- tive Henry Trobridge of Austin, and calls for an 8 per cent tax on the value of minerals taken from the ground in lieu of all other taxes on such produc o PORTER FINDS WEALTHY MAN DEAD IN HIS BERTH (By United Press) Chicago, Jan. 20.—Samuel Kahn, 61, wealthy manufacturer of Cinein- nati, was fonnd dead on a Chese- peake & Ohio train when it arrived at the LaSalle Street station here to- . Kuhn, accomppnied by his wife, Wwas enroute to California. Wikien"the porter went to waken them he found Mr. Kahn dead in bed. Death was attributed to heart failure. ADVERTISERS ARE GUESTS AT PUBLISHERS’ CONVENTION Croolston, Jan, 20.—On the prin- ciple that it takes two to make a bar- gain, Minnesota publishers today in- vited big advertisers of the North- west to their annual convention. They want to get together to understand each others problems, and enable themselves to “dicker” on a more profitable basis, according to H. Z. Mitchell, president of the Northern Minnesota Editorial association. The publishers were gathering to- d{\,v and will open the convention to- night. H. Z. Mitchell will deliver the president’s annuall address. Tomorrow the publishers will take luncheon at the Northwest School of Agriculture. Advertising agen- cies of the Twin Cities are to have representatives at the meeting tomor- row to discuss business-like and un- lzusm ike methods of country pub- lishe: The conference will™ close Sagurday. PREMIER LENINE'S LIFE IS IN SERIOUS DANGER Detectives Use Precaution to Protect Russian Leader From Poisoning (By United Press) Riga, Latvia, Jan. 20.—The life of Nikolai Lenine is in serious danger, according to all reports reaching here. Latest reports from Moscow were that Lenine, lying ill, js sur- rounded by detectives who are tak- | ing every precaution against a poison: ing plot, much in keeping with the plots on the ancient czars. Liuards were reported to be strict- 1y carrying out a plan so much like that used in the old regime, in which Lall food must be especially prepared for the suspected person. The vi- | ands are first offered to a servant and if the servant is unharmed by the food, it may be fed to the patient. Thus every precaution is being taken for the life of the premier. It is re- ported that “Soviet leaders found conditions in Moscow were grave. They are apprehensive of what may happen if Lenine di FORMER TREASURER OF | U.S. WOULD SPREAD TAX Declares More Interest Would Be Shown in Expenditure of People’s Money (By United Press) New York, Jan. 20. (Copyrighted by UnitedgyPress, by Harold D. Jucobs.)—"M everybody a ‘watch dog of the treasury’,” as a step to- ward solution of the taxation proh- lem, is the suggestion of Charles I° Fairchild, secretary of the (reasury in President Cleveland's first admin- istration. “In my opinion the great evil in s country is public indifference rd speculation,” he said today. “One way to overcome this indif- ference would be to'spread taxation out in such a that every one is effected directly even if it does not amount to more than a few cents a “That plan,” 1 Dbelieve, “would make everyone personally interested in what the government did with his money and there would gradual influence toward government economy.” WILLIONS OF RUSSIANS ~ ARE DRIVEN INTO EXILE By Russell Browning, (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Eng., January 20.—Dur- ing the past two years two million refu from Russia have invaded practically every civilized country, and thousands continue to sweep through the Soviet lines and scatter themselves to the four winds. Lesser hegiras than the present Slav exodus have created sweeping enthnographic changes in the human race. But aside from the broad racial drama presented by the Russian dis- persipn, the individual stories of many of the exiles are rich in human interest, “local color, and the stuff’ that epics poems are made of. A thousand potential Enoch Ar- dens, ten thousand Evangelines, per- haps a future Ulysses are wanderin, in forcign lands, out of touch with home and family, out of joint with the new life of an alien country. An estimate of the distribution of these refugees is given in a report just issued by the American Red Cross. The figures do not include any of Lthe recent Crimean refugecs, near- ly 130,000 in fumber, who are al- ready scattered over a half dozen neay Eastern countries: ’ Poland, 1,000,000; Germany, 560,- 175,000; Austria, 50,- 000; C antinople, 50,000; Finland, 000; Italy, 20,000; Serbia, 17,000; England, 15,000; Latvia, ~ 12,000, Hungary, 5,000; Egypt, 4,000; Lem- nos, 3,500; Greece, 2,600; Cyprus, 1,500; Bohemia, 1,000; Sweden, 1,000; Norway, 1,000, Total, 1,964, 000. Recent Crimean refugees, 128,000. Total, 2,092,000, sponsible for the hordes of Russian exiles. Thousands of war prisoners, who, in the early days of the war, fought under the czar’s banner and were captured during Hindenburg’s victories in the dismal Pinsk and Pripet marshes, interned in prison campsg in Germany, and marched over the French frontier after the armi- stice, to learn for the first time of the revolution in Russia, have been the (Continued on Page 6) IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS (By United Press) London, Jan, 20.—Important docu- ments were seized in a raid on Sinn Fein authorities throughout London early today, Scotland Yards an- nounced. The search had been made for arms and ammunition but none were reported found. No arrests were made. The raid was one of the most ex- tensive in many months and was re- ported to have been determined upon after rumors of wide-spread plots and probably destruction had” arisen. he a| The red terror is only partly re-; SEIZED IN IRISH RAID READJUSTMENT “OFBUSINESSIS * CONINGSLOWLY Reports From All Over State Indicate Return to Sound Business Basis . SMALL STORES STOP - CREDIT TEMPORARILY, Rural Merchants and Business Men Put Business on Strict Cash Basis St. Paul, Jan. 20.—Business con- ditions are slowly readjusting them- selves throughout Minnesota along ‘“‘old fachioned but common sense lines”—as one country banker put it—judging from a broad and unusu- ally interesting variety of replies re- ceived during the past week to a questionnaire sent out by the Mer- chants National bank of St. Paul. Although. a_heavy movement of grain to market has not been started, a minor movement has been under way for several weeks and in some counties this movement is gaining headway. The principal reason, ac- cording to a score or more of bank- ers in as many counties, is that rural merchants and business men in cities adjacent to rural centers have felt obliged, to put their business on a strictly cash basis. “1t is perhaps not generally known but hundreds of small stores through= out the state have temporarily dis- counted credit for the first time,” suid one correspondent. “I have talk- ed with a number of farmers and most of them seem to have indorsed this movement.” ‘It secems safe to say that 95 per cent of the bankers in the state, firm- ly are convinced that Minnesota farmers and business men in general, are far better off financially at the present moment than are farmers and business men in any other agricul- (Continued on Page 6) ENTRY LIST CLOSES FOR INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT (By United Press) St. Paul, Jan, 20.—The entry list for the annual bowling tournament of the International Bowling association closed today with more teams enter- ed than ever before, according to T. J. Gronewald, secretary. The fact that there are more holidays occur- ring in the tournament schedule this year accounts for the heavy enroll- ment of individuals and iive man teams, according to Gronewald. DEFINITE TWENTY YEAR LOAN URGED BY BRITAIN British Exchequer Official Says Payment of Debt Now Would Be Unwise (By United Press) London, Jan. 20,—America would induce an epidemic of national bank- ruptey if she demanded immediate payments of her war loans to Great British, according to a high British official of the Exchequer. Outlining his position on loans, he stated authoritatively that, while the advances are demanding loans, no- body is optimistic enough to believe that Britain would be able to pay ex- cept under a long period of time. He urged a definite twenty-year loan. “This conference at the time of the loans was on the minds of both parties, for an exchange of discussion and negotiations,” he said. “In Great Britain it was believed there were many agreements to the cancel- lation of the debt,” the officer de- clared, “but hope for that solution was abandoned when it was known that there was strong opposition in the United States. ! at Britain's debt to the United Sta is $4,277,000,000. On this amount this country has paid inter- est to the amount of $232,357,185. leaving $314,582,825 interest un- paid. Great Britain is willing to pay and cxpects to pay the entire princi- ple and interest,” he concluded. BARBERS BALL AT ARMORY - LAST EVENING WAS SUCCESS in every way describes the Barbers' union ball at the Armory last evening when the local union of the Journeymen Barbers staged its first affair of this kind. Music was furnished by Shucks' orchestra and apparently every one in attendance spent an enjoyable evening. Dancing continued until 1 o’clock. Miss Catherine Sexton was awarded the gold wrist watch offered as first prize in the ticket selling contest. she having turned over $118.60 the night before the dance. Miss Florence Kopman was second with the sum of $51.40 and she was presented with a pearl necklace. Third and fourth prizes were won by Misses Bernice Kirk and Helen Davis. L g