Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 1

The »* is the only daily within 100 miles of. Bemidji and has the largest circulation fw Northern Minnesota. 1DJI DAILY PIONEER WEATHER REPORT > Minnesota Weather: Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Not much change in ‘temperature. VOLUME XIX. NO. 56 BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1921 85c PER MONTH — MERCHANTS ANL FARMERS ENJOY PICNIC FRIDAY LARGE CROWDS ATTEND | UNIVERSITY ALUMN] T HOWE'S LONDON CIRCUS| ~ MEET FRIDAY EVENING Usual:: Cikcus: Stunts «Carried Out; Trained Horses Are Clever Feature in Bemidji alumni unit. Boys and girls of all ages, from the baby carried in the parent’s arms Annual Farm Bureau Picnic 0]t the gray-haired “boys and girls,” | tion details. Be Genuine G,et-To;ether gathered in Bemidji yesterday to wit- present stud Affair Tomorrow noon performance drew a much larger ness the showing of Howe’s. Great London circus and Van Amburg’s trained wild animals at the Northern Minnesota fair grounds. The after-|the purpose b § PROGRAM OF SPORTS " “ Troud than the evening performance, | So7: A num AND TALKS PLANNED/|#!though it is estimated that at least| ;™ qpg gi - (Continued on Page 8) Business Men and Farmers Are Urged to Attend Picnic public, 2,000 were in attendance last night. “Crowds of pedestrians waited pa- tiently for over an hour yesterday, fglowing a hasty dinner, and hun-|’ dreds of automobiles lined both sides} of ‘the line of march as the free street AT at Fair Grounds parade passed through the downtown (B; A cordial invitation has been ex: tended to the Civic and Commerce. as- sociation members and members ‘of other organizations in this county. to attend the annual picnic of the Bel- trami County Farm Bureau associg- tion to be held at.the fair grounds in| ’amidji tomorrow. Business men are urged to turn out in large numbers to better show their spirit of will- ingness to co-operate with the farm- ers at all times, Farmers are not only requested to attend, but. are even urged to do so. i The committee in charge, consist- ing of H. L. Arnold, J. J. McCurdy. and County Agent D. C. Dvoracek, |8hew- The wild animal a has prepared an interesting program of talks and sports, and from all in- dications the picnic will be a regular get-together affair. Meat mulligan, mashed - potatoes, coffee, cream and sugar will be served | ter» although plenty of them were on at noon. Each one attending is ask- ed to bring a plate, cup, spoon and a fork, and such extra eatables as they may wish. L. E. Potter, president of the Min-|8° to Thief River Falls. nesota Farm Bureau federation, who has been a leader for many years in farm bureau work, will be present and address is sure to be of interest to both farmers and business men. S. B. Cleland, assistant county agent|; leader, will also speak, 4 A program of sports will include an elimination tug-of-war contest be-|! tween farm bureau units. Races of all kinds have been arranged for all,|shots, interrupted the three negroes from t'y: small boys and girls to the e they were on the paint of holding Erown-ups. With ideal weather permitting, it is expectéd that several hundred people |shot the two men. From positions on will be in Bemidji tomorrow express- ly for this picnic, Farmers’ clubs and farth bureau units, recently or- ganized, 'are taking much interest in this annual get-together affair. NEARLY HALF BILLION COLLECTED IN TAXES (By United Press) Washington, June 23.—More than $474,000,000 was collected in the income and .excess profits tax, ! second installment on which was pay- able on June 15, according to treas-) ury officials. It is expected nearly $600,000,000 will be in this install~ Ject. ment when it is fully tabulated. The government expenses will run slightly below its income this year for the first time in many years. FORESTRY AGENT ADMITS THEFT OF FORESTRY FUNDS —— (By United Press) Missoula, Mont., June 23.---J. A. Urbanowitz, fiscal agent of thej de- pantment of forestry service, which includes Montana and northern Ida- ‘ho, yesterday appeared before Unit- ed States Commissioner Wallace P, Smith here and admitted the theft of $100,000 of the department’s funds. | enthusiasm of the audience. and shot and killed one bandit. An- buginess district'and returned to the air - grounds for the opening per-|the farmer formance, which began about 3 Approximately fifty alumni and Graduates and students of the Uni- versity of Minnesota who are living and this section of the state will gather at the Markham ho- tel tomorrow night to organize an E. B. Pierce, secretary of the General Alumni association and registrar at the university, will be present and assist in the organiza- ents at the university are now making their home in Bemidji. The organization will be formed for of keeping up the uni- versity spirit and also for social rea- ber of social affairs, some , are already being plan- nner-banquet will be held 'STATE BANKERS MEETING MINNEAPOLIS TODAY y United Press) Minneapolis, June 23.—Financing and stock-raiser was the chief subject before the Minnesota o’clock. State Bankers’ association conven- o’clock, and like most circuses of sim- ilar size furnished plenty of thrills for both old and young. The fact|® ; that this city has not had a circus for [industries. several years added greatly to the|ganization o . The usual circus stunts were car- ried out in a methodical manner, each moment of the show being taken up are alike” seemed to answer the ques- tion of whether or not it \Es a good cts were up to the usual standard and the train- ed horges met with hearty approval. Several acts may be called good, but ghe clowns appeared to lack the abil- ity to furnish the usual circus laugh- . hand frequently. The show left Bemidji early this morning for Crookston where it is showing today. From there it will census was 956,676,645 TWO CHICAGO DETECTIVES made recently in.Chicngo. . e AREA OF FARM LANDS by e inieresting e, Nevrte'| INCREASES IN DECADE The evening show began at 8|tion here today. Bankers of the " northwest are particularly. interested in the big pool organized by bank- ers of the country to finance livestock Announcement of the or- f a $50,000,000 pool was Census - Reports Show Largest Increase in “Dry Farming” in Mountain Division According, to the department of commerce, ‘bureau of census, the to- tal farm-area of land iin the United States increased 76,878,220 acres or 8.7 per cent. between 1910 and 1920. The acreage, according to the 1910 878,798,325 and in 1920 acres. SHOT NEG; ‘The larger amount of this increase N RO FIGHT was. peported from ‘the Mountain di- Chicago, June 23. 'wo of Chica-|Yision where considerable land has g0's most effidient detectives were |DeD taken shot, probably fatally, in a running up for “dry farming” purposes, under the new homestead fight with three negro hold-up men laws, and where large areas have here this morning. Detectives John |Deen acquir ed for grazing purposes. Hogan and Thomas Rennis, crack Outside of the mountain states the Dakota, Sou up a gasoline statfion. The negroes opened fire without warming and the ground the officers opened fire other, Lewis Henroy, was captured by a watchman. Y the wooded LABOR LEAGUE TO DISCUSS HIGH SCHOOL SITE FRIDAY only a smal area. Labor League has been called for|from 138 t Friday evenming at 8 o'clock at the Moose hall for the purpose of discus- sing the proposed changes in the site for the new high school building. All members are urged to be present. It is understood that the meeting is to be open for free discussion of the sub- 78_acres. MASS MEETING TONIGHT | e o acreage 2,645,935 acres. largest increases were noted in North th Dakota and Nebraska. An interesting fact, as disclosed in the ceusus-figures, (is the decrease in the timhered or wooded portiion. This has decreased from 190,865,553 acres to 168,615,122 acres or a decrease of 22,250,431 acres. This decrease, how- ever represents only, the decrease in portions of farms and does not include the general timbered sections, as farm woodland represents L part of the total forest A special meeting of the Be‘midji The average size of farms increased o 148 acres in the ten years and the average improved land on each form increased from 75 to In Minnesota the increase in farms was 22,241 and the increase in farm Fargo, Jupe 23.---Department of justice officials are engaged lin con- ducting investigations in which sev- rominent men in North AT LINCOLN BUILDING| 2ot Mmeet ae criman tnetuas robbing of banks, wauto thefts and Citizens to Discuss Proposed Sites for New High School; Election Saturday dollars. liquor transportation. Arrests are to be made shortly as several warrants already have been issued. The conspiracy is very large, property stolen, in robberies amount- ing to several hundred thousands of BY Volume additional some have an average bus'ness. ice cream had a busy doubtedly and action store. number of for a vote. Noticed Little Change Several Merchanfs Now Favor WITH PART IN AMBUSCADES Free-For-All Advertising (By Umites Bress) for Market Day ¢ Portland, Qre., June 23.—Charges as they were parked on the various streets, showed almost 1,600 and at ten) it is estimated fully 8,000 visit- | Sims Is Ordered to Tell Exactly ors were in the city. . Inquiry made of the merchants, as Where He Was Misquoted to the volume of business done, re- By Press vealed widely different opinions. Some of the stores did a record business, | exceeding the business of the first| market day a long way, others had a brings while others did not notice | any appreciable increase in Opinions were freely expressed by a number of merchants that better re-| The secretary gave the order to sults would be obtained if each store were allowed to adventise as many bargains as it wished and use as t mush space as it wished instead of accuracy press reports in quoting ithe two bargains and the alloted space permitted - previously., Un- discussed before the next market day In a large number of the stores, o the specials went fast showing that |report. the advertisements were read and Sims was with the secretary only the customers knew what the bar-|% moment. He handed the order and gains were before they came to the [Sims left immediately. The admiral New customers were reported by a coma 50 and 60 miles exclusively rorlt‘he gecrtary of the navy., - the trade bargains as they did not —_—_— know of the circus until they arrived [ MORE THAN 300 DROWNED (in Bemidyi. . IN JAPAN FLOODS, REPORT 2 undoubtedly the contributing factor ” HOUSE AND SENATE AGR (By United Press) S s of th. Teembers, | TWO KILLED WHEN AUTO ] Presiident Barker did not even have a “‘corporal’s guard” around him when it was time to call the meeting to order. . 4 DAMAGE FROM TORNADO To NAW PERSONNEL CUT persons were drowned in floods in the Washington, June 23.—An agree-|iors have receded ouly slightly, it is ment upon 106,000 men for the navy|understood. enlisted personnel for the next fis- cal year, a reduction of about 14,000 TWENTY ARTICLES DROP men, was reached yesterday by sen- ate and house conferences on the 60 PER CENT IN YEAR naval appropriationdbil:sé T}l|le move 5 requesting the president to call a nav- argo, N. D., June 23.—Twenty ar-| : A . : ¢ alqdisarmimcm? conference of Great|ticles classed ? a8 nocessitics {ave Wires in that Territory Are|stcering wheel caused the accident, Britain, Japan and the United. States|dropped 60 per cent in the last year, is not to be settled on conference according to F. P, Mann of Devils but will be brought before the houseiLake, president of the North Dakota e 3 . Library park, according to an an- i nouncement made ‘this morning by Dyrector G. O. Riggs. The boys are to meet for practice at the band rooms in the City building this eve- ning at 7:30 in preparation for the |concart. All members are request- SECON MARKET vt e Qv il onaowe saruroar| IRANSIENT I3 . HELDHEREFOR - STOREROBBERY His Cars in Benefit Race at State Fair Grounds Minneapolis, June 23.—Tommy Milton, Minnesota’s own driver, rec- Edmund Gibson Waives Ex of Business in City|qq o be on hand promptly. ognized as the greatest speed demon SEAMEN'S UNION CHARGED that the. ambuscades in the Linnton business the market day|Hall S, Lusk this morning. Informa- stated that there wag a of five per auto (some had (By United Press) {of the Navy Denby today ordered their | Rear Admiral Sims to give him a complete report of his London speech. The general merchandise stores Any action which the secretary may | JUDGE STANTON ASSIGNED been traveling, together with Ed- and hardware stores report splendid "lmglne:s. The soft drli)nk parlors. ‘his formal account of the .accuracy concentrate against Sims will await of present records concerning some 1 and restaurants par ore speech in London, on Irish sympath- time all day. “l gave him a written order .in- this will" be thoroughly |structing him' to say -exactly where taken accordingly. then went to call on Admiral Coontz. the stores, some havingto comment on his conference with Tokio, Junme 23.---More than 300 Kuishiue djistrict, according to fig- ures announced here today. The wa- Retail IMerchants’ assocsation. There will be a meeting of citizens Beld ‘in the Lincoln school building, Fifth ward, this evening at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of discussing the pro-|. posed ,site of the new high school FIRE CAUSES LOSS TO - ‘building. It is expected that citizens ST. PAUL NEWS PRESS ROOM favoring both proposed sites will pre- . sent the merits of their choice to the (By United Press) citizens of the fifth ward. St. Paul, June 23.---Fire in the pressroom of the St. Paul Daily News today caused several thousands of Voting on the location of a site for the nmew building will be held Sat- urday, June 25, in the Central school dollars worth of damage. The presses | building, according to notices posted were repaired, however, and the regu- lar editions were made. ¢ FREIGHT PUSHERS WILL, | “Fat” Lucius’ M. & I railroad baseball nfne will journey to Pine- wood Sunday to try ito give that team Wishing to do so. another beating, one defeat not be- HUTCHINSON LEADS ‘FIELD ing considered by Pinewood as suffi- cient to prove that the local “‘freight pushers” have a first-class team. With tthe batting practice . given. them by. another Jocal team at the ‘ball park last Sunday, and with regu- about a week ago. It is expected that a large vote will be polled omw this matter as it has become a sub- ject in which every citizen {in Be- mid}i §s expected. Dr. J. T. Huomy, clerk of the school PLAY PINEWMD SUNDAY hqfir\i. announces ;that the plans and specifications are on file in his office and may be /inspected. by any one IN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (By United Press) St. Andrews, Scotland, June 23.— lar ,practicel all this week, the boye[Jock Hutchinson led the field today are in fine condition to make other in, the fixst round of the British open ball teams in this section of the state |Championship with the score of 72. own against them. probably be the Phibbs brothers, who have so far worked well together. Auger has been nursing a sore arm ‘but may relieve Phibbs if necessary. Lucius reports a number of offers for outside games to be played on | July 4, but he hae not yet decided] which offer to accept. The probable line-up for Sunday’s game at Pine- weod will _include Pill Berrigan, |midji State Teachers college gaye the Claude Bailey, Frank Phibbs, Fred Phikibs, Pete Johnson, Alec Cameron, |mencement exercises held at Long Bill Lappen, Bd Ripple and Ed Auger,|{Prairie Wednesday for the eighth with Gene Caskey as B. (Booster). !grade class of 172 students, toe the tnark in order to hold their | Hutchinson played a surprising game in the face of adverse weather. His The battery for Sunday’s game will |[most remarkable play was in the eighth hole which he made in one, This is a 142-yard hole. PRES. DEPUTY ADDRESSES LONG PRAIRIE STUDENTS President M. W. Deputy of the Be- commencement address at the com-| - To and Fro tween Galveston and Houston as its fury decreased. PLOT DISCOVERED TO SELL fly over Northern Minnesota trunk under arrest in connection with a-plot [road conditions, with a view to mak- ito manufaoture and sell thousands of |ing a scientific study of the problem. spunious tickets for the Carpentier-|. It is now planned to leave Minne- Dempsey fight next Saturday. The|apolis June 30 and fly over Bmiuart {men are charged with grand larceny, |Fargo, Crookston, Detroit, . Par tional driving, the Deusenberg of Daytona Beach fame and the Fron- tenac with which he captured the In- dianapolis race, will be on the track for the celebration. In addition to (' 3V brought to Bemidji. One thing is|tjon asking the arrest of the seven city officials of Minneapolis and St.|the charge of robbing the William An- certain, there were more people in|gyrviving strikers here in jail as wit-|Paul, delegations from prominent|derson store at Puposky on or about Bemidji yesterday than have been R lodges and societies of the northwest, hore for 'a long time and in fact |Nesses Was approved in the federal| ppe May 10, 1920. He has expressed the Elks of both towns and-speed fans larger, number of people in the city Bom pffl:;tically every big city, auch Stant h turns from h 1 I " | \ . [ | stars o e gasoline world as Barney | Stanton as soon as he returns X ;zfi;fizymt;::yon szu%nteo‘z?u::nm DENBY ORDmED SIMSTQ gldfield‘; Louis Chevrolet and the|the term of court at Grand Rapids ibiiles shortly before the circus parade GIVE CoMPLm RENRT thilil:e;r:;sges :;mthl;‘é ox;fhat;x‘g t.?h:,fig ::‘Ii(}l‘plend guilty to the charge, it is folks.” Varimfi iiirt track stars, who| The robbery of the Puposky store ran against ilton when he first started his speed career, will also at- tend the ceremonies to pay tribute to Tommy. the celebration will not only see Mil- ton in action with his famous cars, but a program of sensations that will satisfy even the most rabid thrill fan. business such, as a Saturday usually| 'Washington, June 23.---Secretary |Pony polo will be on the card, when the Minneapolis team will attempt to izers in the United 3 has been assigned to try criminal 5 mted Mt cases in the district court at Minne- [ber of lakes in Hubbard, Cass and Sims when the admiral reported, in apolis which ends the present term accordance to orders cabled him in|this week, according to an announce- € Europe. . “Admirak Sims denies the |menit made yesterday by Judge H. D. |case brought to light the Puposky Dinckinson, senior- judge of the Hen- |robbery and local authorities began oo his repont,” Denby said. nepjin county district court. investigation. as soon -as-advised of nesday afternoon at the Civic and Commerce association. The suspense of waiting for the circus parade was tropical tornado which threatened the cgast from Brownsville to New Or- leans stamped. Wires in that territory HOLD MEETING TONIGHT were down and it is impossible to get information as to the extent of the damage done by waters which partly fipoded the city of Matagorda and other towns in that vicinity. The tor- nado centered southwest of Houston and moved northwest along the Texas coast, according to weather bureau officials. ported- by the bureau did not ma- terialize, but a 50-mile_gale swept . :'1'1;5: i:a:lh:h::;e;?urzfall:{do‘:!‘t:;uafl.l’; ROAD lNSPECHON TRIP died down. The storm passed be- DELAYED UNTILMEBO " 5 ‘| ed nearly level with the sea wall at Galveston and were subsiding this morning. Wireless messages from ships sent to sea several miles out said | nounced. conditions ‘were improved. 3 After this week the concert will|the world has ever produced and who P 2 ound Wednesday Varies, Several be held regularly on' Thursday eve-|shattered every track record last year ination and 1s B # Over | nings, ithe date being changed to one|when he drove his big Deusenberg a to Await Action |day later this week on account of the |mile in 23 3-5 seconds, will be wel- r —_— IB A %bactl“b &nl::amlaneumat Laike comed .llaack to his home state Sat- tasca e park. r. ggs in-|urday, June 25, when the Elks of FULLY 8,000 VISITORS tends to bring the band boys in from |Minneapolis and St. Paul tender him IN BEMIDJI WEDNESDAY |c2mp tomorrow night, since the camp |5 reception at the state fair track|. i to close Saturday. which they intend to make bigger than any home-coming ever staged in the northwest for any one man. Mil- ton added many leaves to the speed laurels he wears when on Decoration Day he won the Indianapolis 500- mile race, the ambition noted driver. . Both of oil pier, Monday night, in which sev-|Which Milton has used in his sensa- By coincidence, the second market |eral striking seamen were killed in a day and a circus performance fell on | fight with police, .were the result of the same day and for this reason it | an official plot by the Seamen’s is almost (impossible to tell just what | ynion were,{nnde in federal court by ROBBERY OF STORE AT PUPOSKY LAID TO HIM Father and Mother Taken to Cass County; Cousin Frank Guilty of Forgery . of every the cars Edmund F. Gibson, transient, waived examination before municipal court Wednesday and was bound over to await action of the grand jury on desire to appear before Judge C. W. was not reported to the authorities at the time it occurred and only through another case in Hubbard county about ten days ago was the robbery brought to light. A num- ber of automobile tires, groceries and a small amount of clothing is said to have been stolen from the store . about that time, more than a year Fans of the northwest who attend ago. gAu'.hcrriues in Hubbdrd county ar- (Continued on Page 8) raigned Frank Gibson, a cousin of Edmund Gibson, with whom he had '‘RIMIN, ALEND. ngind Gibson’s father and mother, OB G AL G AR th‘rough Northern Minnesota for the past two years, working at times and camping out on the shores of a num- Judge C. W. Stanton of this city Beltrami counties, 'for for.gery, to which charge he pleaded guilty. This Twelve prisoners now are in the |the fact. The father and mather of e Hennepin county jail to be tried at |Edmund Gibson were taken intg gus- he was miisquoted and if he could to|the present term. Judge Stanton |tody Wednesday by Cass county au- say just what he said in that ad- |takes the place of Judge C. S. Kelly, |thorities and taken to Walker under dress. - I want an early reply to that |DoW on vacation. Judge Stanton|a warrant issued from that county. went to Minneapolis last week and [Tt js not reported what charge they has been there since. On Tuesday of next week he will open court at Grand Rapids. | chief of naval operations, and refused | ASSOCIATION MEMBERS PLAY of $2,000 bail. This party is said to are to answer, Edmund Gibson is at present eon- fined in the Beltrami county j.nl, pending possible release on furnishing % HOOKEY AFTER LUNCHEON |have traveled this section of the state with two Ford automobiles and, ac- cording to reports, there are many robberies which have been laid to them during the past two years. No business session was held 'Wed- PLUNGES INTO YELLOWSTONE (By United Press) Livingston, Mont., June 23.---Mrs. Ed. Zeller, 20, residing near Port- land, Ore., and Almira Zacher, 11, a resident of Hail, N. D., were killed IN TEXAS ls UNKNOWN yesterday afternoon when a tounist automobile driven by Mr. Zeller plunged over a cliff into the Yellow- stone River. A broken pant ‘of the . . cording to Mr. Zeller, who swam to Down and Communication ::Iety. & ; e The Zellers were motoring Lo Has Been Broken Dakota with August Zacher and fam- ily who occupied a car behindl the wrecked one. The Zacher girl was riding with the Zellers in a smatl car. (By United Press) Houston, Texas, June 23. — The 1 had passed today with its force] RALPH GRACIE POST TO All members of the Ralph Gracie post of the American Legion are urged to be present at the regular meeting of the post-to be held at the rooms of the Civic and Commerce as- sociation in the city building this eve- ning beginning at 8 o’clock. Several matters of importance are to be tak- en up at this time, . - - Y The 90-mile wind which was re- Inspecting Minnesota highways by airplane may beco% a part of the Babcock program, U. M. Babcock, state highway commissioner, has an- The waters of the sea were report- Commissionet Babcock anid Mayor J.°E. Meyers of Minneapolis plan:ta SPURIOUS FIGHT TICKETS|highways next week to -observe con< ditions and watch traffic. An attempt New York, June 23-~Eight men are{will be made to jot down data on il counterteiting and forgery. Rapids, Fergus Falls and Bemidjiq Martin)—Leaders in congress, par- The original plan called for leaving CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS Minneapolis June 27, but Mayor A. 'O TAKE NEW GRIP ON HELM | V. Garlock has been informed by k Mayor Meyers that the trip has been i 23.—(By L. C.|delayed until June 30. Mayor Gare W asbinglony Jens 434 locky:is to be informed of the exact ticularly in the senate, are to take a time of landing and the details of firmer grip on the legi: 7 they made clear today, _ _ _ according to the telegram, ___ _J ative helm, |the trip shortly prior to landing lLere, Al