Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 8, 1921, Page 2

'W at the po:t:’fiu at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, une , — TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1921 'BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr.! G. W. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WIN’fER, City Editor Telophone 922 | Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer’s name m\ut[ be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica-| tigms for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. l | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail 00| One Year ... Six Months ....e........ Three Months .....ccceeee.... 15 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday| and sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS 1 CO-OPERATE WITH BELTRAMI ! Counties in Michigan and Wisconsin have developed with-! in the last few years methods by which land clearing is stimu-, lated. In some places, a contest arouses much interest and good: competition. In other places a careful survey is made of con-' ditions within the county and farmers have agreed to a certain’ allotment, wheh they themselves suggest, of all the land which‘» they will clear during the year. By this method, the difficulties| which may be presented to any one or a group of farmers, may{ be solved. Some may need financing, some may need equipment| of a certain kind which may be borrowed or purchased. : We believe that Beltrami county is to inaugurate such a; plan and that a meeting will be held in the near future at which} time certain features will be discussed. It will be an excellent idea for Itasca county to be represented at that meeting and the two communities work out a plan together. If it is a good thing} for Beltrami, it will be a good thing for Itasca and co-operation between the two will be an excellent thing for both. Agricul-i tural problems are much the same, at least, as far as land clear- ing is concerned. | While Itasca county is making good progress, there are still many things that we could learn concerning agricultural problems in Northern Minnesota. We might venture to state that two lines need investigation. One is the growing of sugar beets which has become common in the state and the other the larger growth of clover seed. These two things should be given consideration at the present time.—Grand Rapids Herald Re- view. . The meeting of the Civic and Commerce association will devote their attention to this project at their meeting tomorrow| noon. Land clearing experts will be in attendance and definite steps will undoubtedly be taken to take up the matter of land clearing in a systematic manner. Many interesting facts have been brought out in the Tri- State Development Congress, held in St. Paul a short time ago, and as was pointed out, there is no part of the development of the cut-over areas that can take a more important place than clearing of the land itself. Upon this hinges community devel- opment, successful colonization and agricultural prosperity gen- erally. Any step Bemidji can take through its association is| bound to result in manifold returns. 0- CALLS SCHOOLS NATIONAL CRISIS | Joseph H. Defrees, president of the United States Cham-| ber of Commerce, is quoted as follows: “Educational author-| ities, who have carefully studied conditions, estimate that of the| 600,000 school teachers in the United States, 100,000 are under| 21 years of age, 30,000 have no education beyond the eighth| grade, 150,000 have no education beyond the third year in high | school, 480,000, which is four-fifths of the total, have not had| two years qf special training, the minimum standard required in| other civilized countries, and that 40,000 temporary teachers have not even fulfilled our own low educational requirements.| “Conditions in our public schools undoubtedly contribute| much to the unrest in the country today. Nothing in our na-| tiona} life is more important than the employment of the best! faci.lltiqs for the education of our children. One reason why radlca}lsm has not madg the same headway in this country that! it has in Europe is the fact that hundreds of men occupying posi- tions of the greater importance began life as poor boys.” Mr. Defrees cites the statement that 18,000 school rooms| stood idle in this country last year through lack of teachers. He urges better compensation for trained teachers and better facil- igies for the training of teachers as a remedy for present condi- ions. e EOVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR | | m%um&ufig IYTTTITITIPIrE | Advice to Young Men o o? roniniste; whnt n}mdale(l to the girls of his congregation to provide a commandments for yo i vi piled from the contributignsmr‘gczsgr‘i :&ubm:t.s e felleming, decaloguc icon: Thou shalt not be a tea-hound nor a lounge-lizard. Thou shalt not fritter away the best vears of thy life in foolishness. Thou shalt not have any graven images of actresses, movie stars nor :grmer sweethearts in thy possession; thou shalt not bow down thyself before | em. ) Remember the engagement ring to keep it holy. i ’{:nu s:a}t not be a quitter. z il ou shalt not break a girl's heart because s k ine.! T s oroak & gl e someone.has broken thine. Thou shalt not wear soiled collars and cuffs. Thou shalt not be ashamed to pray. Not bad at all, is it? Now let the youn v i . he y g men provide an appropriate | decalogue for the girls, and let,both sides adhere to the rules, and‘ Snu;r,tél:i; and ytnnrriage will be well on the road to reconstruction,—Little Falls Tran- seript. 5 | ! where the brother she could scarcely ' remember and whom, untit a month | previous, she had believed dead, would Life Imprisonment Seldom “Takes” One reason for the demand for the death i i i s penalty in Minnesota is a life sentence seldom means that the prisoner has to spend all \t[L: 1‘-;:{“:; the calendars at Stillwater. When capital punishment was xholishclj the pardon board should have been eliminated fro AL i « m the tournament also.— The high price of raisins and prunes has no terro: i . T s ha r for the M S moonshiner, while the potato crop is plentiful, and the “rhor::u 12:3::\:’;? re‘lx’fmmm ll:yé‘he lotyvly s}md seems to be developing a new market that will soon make the eating of potatoes look like ext trav: Wil i Tame Northara it extreme extravagance.—Wil. This has been a wonderfully mild winter, but it is too ecarly trading the family jewels in the coal bin for summer underwear— Baudotte gion. President De Valera of the Irish republic is re i L of | ] ported to be in France. we'é"}t’rh:sz.““dem of the United States was in France once.—Mank-ato Dailyv Fre 1 | half an hour ago, an’ { shortly thereafter we can sel {1y down the harbor along the stra & 4 Peter B.Kyne Author of “Cappy ‘Ricks,” “The Valley of the Giants,” Etc. (Luntinued krom Last Issue) i 1010res, Teariul Tor ner venetcuors| safety, urged Mother Jenks to accom-, pany them out aboard La Estrellita, but the old dame indignanty refused, and when pressed for a reason gav it with {he utmost frankne “They'll be tykin’ Surros, an’ when they ‘im they'll back him agin the wall he backed my sainted 'Ener; your father against, my ¢ Tve a notion that your father's sow'll let! Mrs, Col. "Enery Jenks come to the) party.” At 10 o'clock Wehster accompanied | Mother Jenks home in the earriage, which he dismissed at K1 Buen Amigo —with instructions. to return to the| hotel while e continued afoot down | the Calle San Rosario to the Dbay, where Leber's huge corrugated iron | warehouse loomed davkly above high water mark. Ie slipped along in the deep shadow of the warehouse wall and out on the end of the little dock, where he satisfied himself that I Yel launch was at its moorings; then he went back to the warehouse| and whistled softly, whereupon a man crawled out from under the .\'h‘ucluruk and approached him., 1t was Don Juan Cafetero, “They're all inside,” he whispered | and laid finger on lip. “They got in| divil a sowl| the wiser save weself.” ' “Thank you, John. Now that I know the coast is clear and the launch ready, T'll go back to the hotel for Miss Ruey.” Very well, sor,” Don Juan.replied, and crawled back under the ware- house. Half an hour later the sound of; hoof beats warned him of the ap- proach of Webster and Dolores in a carrfage, and he came forth, louded in the launeh such baggage as they had been enabled to bring, and held th gunwale of the hoat while nis p: gers stepped aboard. About 2 half a mile off shore Web-| ster throttled down the motor until the launch barely made steerage way. “It would never do to go ahoard tl steamer before the fracas started ashore,” he explained to Dolores. “That would Indicate a guilty knowl- edge of coming events, and in the event of disaster to the rebel arms it | is just possible Senor Sarros might have pull enough, if he hears of our flight six hours In advance of hostil- ities, to take us off the steamer and ask us to explain, So we'll Just cruis n-| “We'll Just Crulse Slowly Around and Licten.” slowly around and listen; the attack will come just before dawn; then vy ont to the steamer and be welcomed | aboard for the sake of the news we bring.” She did not answer, and Webster knew ler thoughts were out where-the are lights on the outskirts of Buena- ventura met the open country—out shortly muster his not too numerous followers. In the darkness Webster could hear the click of her beads as she prayed; | on the turtle deck forward Don Juan Cafetero sprawled, thinking perchance of his unlovely t and wondering | what effect the events shortly to tran- spire ashore would have on his future, He wished Webster would relent and offer him a drink some time within the next twenty-four hours. In times of | excitement like the present a man | needs a drop to brace him up. Five times the launch slipped laz gling two mile waterfront: fiev it loafed back. The moon, which | any L w | brave Corrid Vi P K Xyme’ iu tne nrst quarter, sank. Then to)| Webster’s alert ear there floated| across the waters the sound of a gentle purring—the music of an auto truck. He set the launch in toward Leber’s little dock, and presently they saw the door of Leber's warchouse open. Men with lanterns streamed i forth, lighting the way for others who bore between them heavy burdens. | “They're emplacing the machin guns in the motor-tru lie ‘whis: pered to Dolores. “We will not have, to wait long now. It's nearly 4 o'clock.”™ Again they backed out into the bay | until they could see far out over the sleeping city to the hills beyond _in the west. tive crept, dropping grade until it disappeared in the low-! lands, | a murmur, scarcely audible, as of a muftled snare drum, punctuated pres- ently by a louder, sharper, insistent -puck-puck that, had Webster but T known it, was the bark 6t a Maxim-| @ v rapid-fire gun throwing a stream of shells intp the cantonments | of the government troops on the fringe * of the city. ! Webster’s pulse quickened. “There | goes the tillery to the south, sor”| Don Juan called, and even as he! spoke, a shell burst gloriously over ! the government the white walls of which were already looming over the ainder of the city, now faintly visible in the approaching | dawn, “That was to awaken our friend, | " Webster cried. “I'll bet a | 1o nickel that woke the old horse | thief up. There's another—and an- | other.” The uproar swelled, the noise grad- unlly arifting around the city from ! west to south, forming, seemingly, a | “The " govern- | semleircle of sound. ment froops are up and doing now Webster observed, and speeded up his motor. “I think it high time we playes the part of frightened refugees. Mau- ser bullets kill at three miles. Some strays may drop out here in the bay Tle speeded the launch toward La Estrellita, and as the craft seraped in alongside the great steamer’s com- panion landing, her skipper ran down | the ladder to greet them and inquire agerly of the trend of events ashore. | “We left in a hurry the instant it started,” Webster explained. “As | Americans, we didn't figure we had | interest 'In that scrap, ” He handed Dolores out on the landing stage, tossed their baggase | after her and followed; Don Juan took the wheel, and the launch slid out and left them there. At the head of the companion ladder Webster paused and turned for another look at Buenaventura. To {he west | three great fires now threw a lurld ‘: w light skyward, mocking an equally lurid light to the east, that marked the approach of daylight. Ife smiled “Those are the cantonment barracks burning,” he whispered to Dolores. “Ricardo is keeping his word, Ile's driving the rats back into their owr holes.” s s 2 & s = = The weeks of cleay living, of ab- stention from his wonted daily alco- | holic ration, had inspired in Don Juan Cafetero a revival of his all but de- funct interest in life; conversely, in these stirring times, he was sensible of an equally acute finterest in So- brantean politics, for he was Irish; and flabby indeed is that son of the Green Little Isle who, wherever he may be, declines to take a hand in any public argument. For the love of politics, like the love of howe, is nev- er dead in the Trish. It s finstinct with them—the heritage, perhaps, of centuries of op- pression and suppression,_which nur- tures rather than stifles the yearning for place and power. Now as Don Juan turned Leber's launch shoreward and kicked the motor wide open, he, too, descried nst the dawn the glare of the burning cantonments west of the city, and at the sight his pulse beat high with the lust of battle, the longing to be in at the death in this struggle, where the hopes and aspi- rations of those he loved were at stake. Two months previously a revolution | would have been a matter of extreme’ indifference to Den Juan; he would ! have reflected that it was merely the outs trying to get in, and that if they succeeded, the sole benefit to the gen- I public would be the privilege of nz the bill. Today, however, in the lnowledge that he had an opportuni- ty to fight beside white men and per- chance even up some old scores with | the Guardia Civil, it occurred sudden- 1y to Don Juan that it would be a and virtuous act to his lot with the Ruey forces. He was a being reorganized and rebuilt, and it behooved him to do something to dem- onstrate_his waofjood. | | [ l | Webster; Presently along the side of | those hills the headlight of a locomo- | swiftly down | A half hour passed; then to the! | south of the city a rocket flared sky: | ward; almost instantly another flar d! from the west, followed presently by | | packing cases. either | d0ing | right smart more | weaken “Don” Juap knew, of course, that should the rebels lose and he be cap- tured, he would be executed; yet this contingency seemed a far-fetched one, in view of the fact that he had John Stuart Webster at his back, ready to finance his escape from the city. Also Don Juan had had an opportunity, in the hills above San Miguel de Padua, for a critical study of Ricardo Ruey and had come to the conclusion that at last a real man had come to lib- erate Sobrante; further, Don. had bad ocular evidengce that John Stuart Webster was connected with the revolution, for had he not smug- | It was | gled Ruey into the country? something to be the right-hand man of the president of a.rich little coun- try like Sobrante; it was also some- thing to be as close to that right-hand man as Don Juan was to his master, consequently self-interest and his sporting code whispered to Don Juan that it behooved him to demonstrate his loyalty with i Enery, They're Comin’/ | means at his command, even unto his heart’s blood. | *Who knows,” he cogitated as the launch bore him swiftly shoveward, “but what I'll acquit meself with hon- | or and get a fine job undher the new administration? °Tis the masther’s | fight, I'm thinkin’; then, be the same | token, ’tis John Joseph ' Cafferty’s | win, los¢ or draw, an’ may the devi | damn me it I fail him afther what! he’s done for me, Sure, if Gineral Ruey wins, a crook av the masthers finger will make me jefe politico. An’ f he does—hoo-roo! Hoo-ray!” With his imagination still running riot, Don Juan made the launch fast to the little dock, down which he ran straight for the warehouse, where | the Rncy mercenaries.were still con- gregated, busily wiping the factory grease from the weapons which had | just been distributed to them from the A sharp voice halted him, he paused, panting, to find him- self looking down the long blue bar- rel of a service pistol. | “Who are you, and what are you here?” the man behind the | weapon demanded brusquely. “I'm Private John J. Cafferty, the latest recruit to the uey army,” Don . Juan answered composedly. “Who did ve think I was? Private secreth’ry to that divil Sarros? Man, dear, lower that gun av yours, for God knowsI'm nervous enough as it is. Have ye ething’ ye could give me to fight avie?” The man who had challenged him— a lank, swarthy individual from the Texican border—looked him over with twinkling eyes. “You'll do, Caf- ferty, old timer,” he drawled, nd if vou don't, you'll wish you had. There’s a man for every rifle just now, but I wouldn't be surprised if there’d be a rifles than men be- fore a great while. Ielp yourself to the gun o' the first man that goes down; in the meantime, hop into that You're just in time.” Without further climbed into the truck. adel of sheet steel had been built around the driver’s seat, with a nar- row slit in front through which the latter peered out. The body of the truck had been boxed in with the same ado Don Juan material and housed two machine guns, | emplaced, and a crew of half a dozen men crouched on the floor engaged in loading the belts. Four motor bicycles, | with sturdy, specially-built side cars attached, and a machine gun in each side car, were waiting near by, togeth- er with a half-dozen country carts loaded with ammunition cases and drawn by horses. “How soon do we start?” Don Juan demanded anxiously, as he crowded in Dbeside one of his new-found com- rades. “I believe.,” this fndividual replied in the unmistakable accents of an O: ford man, “that the plan is to wait until five o’clock; by that time all the government troops that can be spared from the arsenal and palace will have been dispatclied to the fighting now taking place west of the city. Natu- rally, the government forces aren’t anticipating an attack from the rear, and so they will, in all probability, their base. 1 Delieve that certainly it will save eases our t. us many men. Don Juan nodded Lis entire approval to this shrewd plan of campaign and foll to stuffing ca in the web | belling, the while he whistled softly, try immediately called the officer of [ = ' Juan | every | there truck and keep the cartridge | belt for the machine guns full up.! A little cit- | 2 A | unmusically, and with pufiing, hissing . sounds between his snaggle teeth, until a Sobrantean gentleman (it was Doc- tor Pachcco) came out of the ware- | house and gave the order to 1lrocced.‘| They marched along the water front | for four blocks and then turned up a | side street, which happened to be the | calle de Concordia, thus enabling Mother Jenks, who was peering from | the dogrway of El Buen Amfgo, to see | them coming. “Hah!” she muttered. *“Enery | they're comin’. The worm is turnin’, | ‘Enery; 15 years youwve wyted for vengeance, my love, but tod’y you'nl get 1. 1 She waddled out into the street and held up her hand in a gesture as au- thoritative and imperious as that of a traflic oflicer. “Batter-rry ‘alt!” she ery give that command often enough +a have acquired the exact inflection | necessary to make an impression upon { men accustomed to obeying such a { command whenever given. Iustinc- ! tively the column slowed up; some of the Foreign Legion, old coast artil- lerists, no doubt, came to a halt with !prumptuess and precision; all stared | at Mother Jenks. i i “'Ow about ’arf a dozen cascs 0" good brandy for the wounded?” Moth- |er Jenks suggested. “An’ 'ow about a | bally old woman for a Red Cross | nurse?” | “You'res on, ma'am,” the foreign leader replied promptly, and translat- {ed the old lady’s suggestion to Dr.| Pacheco, who accepted gracefully and tilian. So a detail of six men was told oft to carry the six cascs of ! brandy out of El Buen Amigo and ;load them on the anununition carts; i then Mother Jenks crawled up into ; the armored truck with the machine gun crew, and the column once more ! took up its line of rapid march. The objective of this unsuspected | force within the city was, as Ricardo Ruey shrewdly suspected it might be, poorly garrisoned. Usually a force of fully 500 men was stationed at the national arsenal, but the sharp, sav- age attack from the west, so sudden and unexpected, had thrown Sarros into a panic and left him no time to thanked Mother Jenks in purest Cas-| (i guard, who peered out, observed nothing but the motortruck, Whlcl/l seeined far from dangerous, and with- out further ado inserted a huge key in the lock and turned the bolt. The sentry swung the double gates ajar, and with a prolonged and raucous toot of its horn the big car loafed in. The sentry closed the gate again, while the oflicer stepped up to turn the key in the lock.. Instead, he died with half a dozen pistol bullets through his body, and the sentry sprawled beside him. The prolonged toot of the motor~ horn had been the signal agreed upon to apprise the detachment waiting in a secluded back street that the truck was inside the arsenal wall. With a vell they swept out of the side street and down on the gate, through which they poured into the arsenal grounds. croaked. She had heard the late 'En-| At sound of the first shot at the gate, the commandante of the gsrrison, which had been drawn up In & double rank for reveille roll call, | realized he was attacked, and that swift measures were necessary. Fortu- nately for him, his men were standing at attention at the time, preparatory to receiving from him one of those ante-battle eshortations so dear to the | Latin soul. A sharp command, and the little gar- rison had fixed bayonets; another com- | mand, and they were in line of squads; | before the autotruck could be swung | sideways to permit a machine gun to play on the Sobranteans in close formation, the latter had thrown out !a skirmish line and iere charging; {while from the guardhouse window, Just inside the gate, a volley, poured. into the unprotected rear of the truck following its passage through the gate, did deadly execution. The driver, a bullet through his back, sagged for- ward into his steel-clad citadel; both machine gun operators were wounded, and the truck was stalled. - The sit- uation was desperate. { “'m a gone goose,” mourned Don Juan Cafetero, and he leaped from the shambles to the ground, with some hazy notion of making his escape through the gate. He was too late. Two men, riding tandem on a motor- cycle with a machine gun in the spe- cially constructed side-car, appeared in the entrance and leaped off; almost plan his defense carefully. His first i thought had been to send all his available forces to support the troops bearing the brunt of the rebel attack, and it was tremendously important that this should be done very prompt- Iy, in view of the lack of information | concerning the nuwerical force of the ! enemy; consequently he had reduced | the arsenal force to 100 men and re- tained only his favorite troops of the guards and one company of the Fif- | teenth infantry to protect the palace. Acting under hastily given tele- phonic orders, the commanding ofti- cer at the cantonment. barracks bhad detailed a few hundred mén to fight a uard action while the main army ay embankment - which swept in a de arc around the city and offered an excellent substitute for breast- works., This position had scarcely | been attained before the furlous ad- ! vance of the rebels drove in the rear guard, and pending the capture of the arsenal, Ricardo realized his opera- tions were at an impasse. he Promptly dug himself in, and the battle de- loped into a brisk affir of give and take, involving meager losses to both ! factions, but an appalling wastage of ammunition. The arsenal, a large, modern con- crete building with tremendously thick walls reinforced by steel, would have offered fairly good resistance to the average field battery. Surround- ing it on all four sides was a rein- forced concrete wall 30 feet high, with machine gun bastions at each | corner and a platform along the wall, ! inside and 25 feet from the ground, which afforded foot room for infantry which could use the top five feet of the wall for protection while firing over it. There was but one entrance, a heavy, barred steel gate which was alway necessary to have it opened for in- gress or egress. Given warning of an attack and with sufficient time to pre- pare for it, 100 of the right sort of | tighting men could withstand an in- definite siege by a force not provid- ed with artillery heavier than an or- dinary field gun. With a full realiza- tion of this, therefore, Ricardo and command. As the column approached 'the | neighborhood of, the arsenal, three de- | tachments broke away from the main | body and disappeared down side streets, to turn at right angles later and march parallel with | command. Each of these detachments motorcycle mounted machine gun bat- | kept locked when it was not | his confrercs had designed to accom- |- plish by strategy that which could not | be done by the limited forces at their | i before Don Juan had time to dodge " behind the motortruck to escape pos- sible wild bullets, the machine gzun was sweeping the oncoming skirmish ;line. Don Juan cheered as man after man of the garrison pitched on his face, for the odds were rapidly being evened now, greatly to the pleasure of the men charging through the gate to support the machine gun. Out into the arsenal yard they swept, forcing the machine gun crew to cease firing | because of the danger of killing their own men; with a shock bayonet met bayonet in the center of the yard, and “the issue was up for prompt and final | decision. = Don Juan’s Hibernian blood thrilled ; he cast about for a weapon in this emergency, and his glance rested on the body of the dead ofticer beside the gate. To possess himself of the lat- | ter's heavy ‘ “cut-and-thrust” sword | was the work of seconds, and with a royal good will Don Juan launched himself into the heart of the scrim- | -fi(\ 2 A | fell back in good order behind a rail- | i “Z \ | Launched Himself Into the Heart of the Scrimmage. mage. He had a hazy impression that he was striking and stabbing, that oth- the main | €S Were striking and Stahbing at him, that men crowded and breathed and was accompanied by one unit of the | Pressed and swore and grunted around him, that the fighting-roomn was no | tery with its white crew; two blocks | better tham it might have been, but beyond the arsenal square each de-| ‘Was rapidly improving. Then the gory | tachment leader so disposed his men | f03 lifted, and Doctor Pacheco had | as to offer spirited resistance to any | Don Juan by the hand; they stood to- | sortie that might be made by the! Fether in the arsenal entrance, and troops from the palace In the hope of | the little Doctor was explaining to the driving off the attackers of the ar-| War-mad Don Juan that all was over senal, | during its operations, the main body | machine gun company, proceeded to' operate. With the utmost assurance in so far as the arsenal was con- Having thl;s provided for protection | cerned—the survivors of the garrison having surrendered—that now, having nominally under Dr. Pacheco but in | the opportunity. he. Doctor Pacheco. reality commanded by the chief of the | desired to thank Don Juan Cafetero for his life. Don Juan looked at him amazedly, for he hadn’t the slightest in the world the armored truck rolled | 1dea what the Doctor was talking down the street to the arsenal en- trance, swung in and pointed its im- pudent nose straight at the fron bars while the hidden chauffeur called ! loudly and profanely in Spanish upon the sentry to open the gate and let | him in—that there was necessity for great hurry, since he had been sent down from the palace Ly the presi- | dente himself, for machine guns to equip this armored motorcar. The sen- about. Ile spat, gazed around at the litter of corpses on the arsenal lawn, and nodded his red head approvingly. (Continued in Next 1ssue) REXALL REPRESENTATIVES MEETING AT MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis, Feb. S._Rexall rep- resentatives of the state met here today in the annual convention of the Minnezota Rexall associatiod.