Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 1

The Ploneer is the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and has the largest circulation in Northern Minnesota VOLUME XIX. NO. 86 \ KIVANIS CLUB - HAS BlG TIME FOR VISTTORS Local Charter to Have Big' | Time Tomorrow COUNTRY CLUB PLAYS BIG PART IN PROGRAM Inter-City Tournament Will' Be Held at Local Golf Links All Day Sunday Visiting Kiwanians, coming to Be- midji to attend the charter presenta- tion ceremonies of the local club to ‘be held at Birchmont tomorrow night, will register at the Elks’ club “rooms, which will be the headquar- ters for the visitors. Visiting ladies will also be entertained by a commit- tee Tieaded by local women. District Lieutenant Governor J. O. Pollock of Fargo will perform the presentation ceremonies in the eve- ning, after the visitors have enjoy- ed a golf tournament in the after- noon and a. fish fry on the State Teachers college grounds early in the evening. Following the charter presenta- ‘tion, a_dancing party for the Kiwan- ians and their friends will be held at the Birchmont hotel. At the regular weekly meeting of the local club yesterday noon, T. C. Bailey, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, made a re- port on the program arranged for the visitors. A number of selection were given by the Minneapolis Syncopat- ors and also by Kohano's Native Ha- waifan troupe, which appeared at the Grand theater last night and Wed- nesday night. The entertainments were very well received. Golfing promises to be one feature of the Kiwanis entertainment. and plans are heing made at the Bemidji Céuntry club ‘to care for one of the. Jargest; if not the largest, crowds on the links tomorrow and Sunday. At least 100 caddies will be needed tomorrow and Sunday at the Bemidji Country club golf links when tourna- ments are to be held, according to one of the officials of the club. This indicates conclusively that there is to be a “big doings” there on days. .- Sunday’s play will consist of inter- ecity tournaments with teams. from St. Cloud, Grand Forks and TFargo. Lunch will be served at the golf links at noon Sunday for 75 cents, and it is expected that most of the players will spend the entire day there, weather permitting. This afternoon, the Bemidji.club is playing the Birchmont summer ho- tel golfers, and. it was expected that the competition would be keen. This was to.be an eight hole match. RUNAWAY GIRLS BEAT * THER WAY‘TO BEMIDJI Two Girls From Sauk Center School Taken Into Custody By Sheriff Johnson Sheriff Andrew Johnson took into custody two runaway girls from the State Training School at Sauk Cen- tre Thursday, having apprehended them on @ farm about 20 miles northwest of Bemidji. ‘The girls gave their names as Myr- tle Liberty and Catherine McDonald, ages 17 and 18 years. & They have been at the training School for about eighteen months and becmme\' 'atistied with general con- ditions \% decided to take a leave of. absen g They \% ago Thun, school to\ Walker a where .the; midji, landi ‘They went for the first\ along fences \ route. \ Deciding tha the school three weeks and walked from the Cloud and on up to hen back to Pequot, tained a ride to Be- ere several days ago. wut food or drink 2e days, sleeping in farm yards en s et iting could not be a part of their program they secured food and drink at various farm houses and in homes in villages along the route, which made progress less difficult. ‘The girls are well dressed and ap- pear to be bright and intellizent young ladies. They secured work on a farm about twenty miles north- west of this city and seemed happy and contented when they were visit- ed by Sheriff Johnson, to whom they related their story. They are being held by the sheriff awaiting the arrival of Miss Patter- sony parole agent of the school, who is expected ‘to,arrive here from Du- luth today. They will be taken back to the training school at Sauk Centre. WINNIPEG THEATRICAL WORKERS OPFOSE .CUT (By United Press) Winnipeg, July 29.—The musi- cians, stage thands and moving pic- ture operators, comprising the Win- nipeg Theatrical Federation, have refused to accept the 25 per cent cut in wages proposed by the theater managements on the grounds that the present contracts do' mot expire until July 31. The federation’s offer is that the men work up to the last of August at present wages-pending a suitable settlement. v SHERIFF AND DEPUTY MAKE “FLYING” TRIP. Sheriff Andrew Johnson and Dep- uty George Shea drove to Baudette last Monday and returned Wednes- day afternoon. The drive north to Baudette was made in 5% hours run- ning fime which is about as fast as has been reported for 110 miles. Sheriff Johnson reports that the road was the best he has ever seen iL. Considerable work is being done on it north of the Red Lake where here- tofore the road; has been in poorest of condition. The worst part of ‘the road, according to the sheriff, was A number of ladies from Grand)about nine miles out of Spooner. [Forks have already arrived in the «city, and several more are expected, to take patt in the inter-city tourna- ment “Sunday. They will compete with the Bemidji ladies. Among those from Grand Forks who are ex- pected to take part aret Mrs. J. D. Bacon, Mrs. Dr. Whitcomb, Mrs. E. E. Sherman, Mrs. M. G. Olson, Mrs. C. J. Murphy and Mrs. H. Barnes. Both the visitors and the local golfers are looking forward to the fournament with much interest, and it is expected that a number of low scores will be made. BAUDETTE BOASTS FIRST WOMAN JUROR IN STATE (By United Press) Baudette, July 29.—The first wo- man juror to serve in Minnesota has proved the sirength of the feminine will power.,, Mrs. O. F. Odin, wife of a local banker, was selected from the audience when the venire was ex- hausted. She favored the plaintiff and although the eleven men were for. the (defendant, the verdict was for the former. BUFFALO POLICE WILL BE WELL ARMED AFTER SEPT. 1 Buffalo, July 29.-- Police of Buff- alo on September 1, will .be requir- ed to carry one extra round of ammu- nition for their revolvers. This new ruling was ordered after police on geveral occasions had run out of am- munition while engaged in revolver Dattles with yeggs and bandits. RUSS FAMINE FLIGHT IS CONTINUED TODAY (By United Press) London, July 29 —Russia’s famine flight continued today. The cross- roads in parts of the Volga region were choked with thousands of rick- ety carts, small herds and pedes- trains. The wildest confusion reign- ed at these points. Great clouds of dust arose as lines began to force their way through each other. The: cross-roads became centers of death. Even cattle struggling along attached to their owners’ carts failed to survive the heat and dust and fell dead. There were millions of suf- ferers, according to reports reaching here today by way of Rebel. Copen- hagen and Berlin. CASS LAKE-BEMIDII RCAD CONTRACT LET By Next Summer, Road From Cass Lake to Bemidji Will Be Comipleted The last link in the grading of the new Cass' Lake-Bemidji Highway No. 8, under the Babcock system, hqs been started and will be finished this fall, it is expected. This consists of 6.2 ‘miles from the south line of the Beltrami-Itasca county line running toward Bemidji. The contract was let last Thursday to Contractor Ros- holt of Warba for 29% cents a cu- bic yard and the contract calls for the removal of 99,000 cubic yards of carth. The price of 29% cents per yard is less than half the price ask- ed last fall when the bids were adver- tised for by the county commission- ers for the same stretch of road. The grading is completed now as far as the river, on the road running east from Nymore. The new stretch will start at the river and go to the Beltrami county boundary, the por- tion from there to Cass Lake already being graded. The surfacing on the road will not likely be done until next summer. When this strip of road is completed, Cass Lake and Bemidji will be joined by a road that will need no apologies from either city, something that has not been possible in the past. It will complete the link between the Scenic highway at Cass Lake and the Jefferson highway at Bemidji- Because of this bad strip of road, tourists in the past-have been in the habit of making the connection at Walker and Park Rapids. There will be no reason for doing this next year and the many hiudreds of touridts, who wish to make the complete tour to Bemidji and Cass Lake, will be able to do so in comfort. GENERAL O'NEIL VERY LOW AT ROCHESTER HOSPITAL Rochester, July 29.---General O’Neill, first commander of the 28th division, was reported very low at St. Mary’s hospital teday. His bro- ther, Dr. O'Neill of Chicago is at- To and Fro . FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1921 T SO PR TR QT ot '!'ntueoclfie?. yrv}th 55c PER MONTH | Copyrtght) LEGION ELECTS FOUR ADDITIONAL ALTERNATES Bemidji Post to Be Represented By Eight Members at State Convention at Winona Although the attendance was small, considerable business was ac- complished by the Ralph Gracie post of the American Legion in regular session Thursday night at the rooms off .the Civic and Commerce associa- tion. The most important work of the evening was the election of four substitute alernates to take the place of any of the delegates and alernates who may find it, impossible to attend the state convention to be held at Wi nona August 1, 2, and 3. Three elect- ed alternates have . already. stated that_they would be unable to attend on account of business reasons. Those who were elected to be on the “waiting list”” are Don Whitman, A. Dannenberg, B. Borreson and Kern Olson. At the previous meei- ing a similar list was elected and from that list possibly two vacancies will be filled. Thd delegation was instructed to support Dr. A. A. Van Dyke of St. Paul as the next state commander if it appears within the best judgment of the delegatoin after arriving at the convention. ‘When Representative THarold Knutson visits this city August 5, a committee will wait on him regard- ing the possibility of securing at least two obsolete canon for the Ralpl, Gracie park. Authority was given the adjutant Lo order a caisson and limber from the chief of ord- nance, United States army, for use in post funerals. These are to be issued out to Legion posts at $15 each, the freight to be paid by the post. ‘The Bemidji post is to be repre- sented at the convention by eight members and it is planned by them to leave here Saturday. The four delegates, Fred Traser, C. L. Pege- low, commander of the post, Paul Howe and Darcy McGhee, expect to leave tomorrow by automobile, while the alternates will probably leave to- morrow night in order to arrive at Winona in time for he cpening ses- gion Monday morning. The delega- tion plans to advertise Bemidji and Northern Minnesota whenever an op- portunity is presented. There is also & plan on foot to “paint the town red”, according to several of the dele- gates, BEMIDJ'S NAVAL UNIT ENTRAINS THIS EVENING Bemidji’s unit of the Naval Militia will muster at the armory tonight at 8:30 preparatory to taking the train at 2:32 a. m. for Duluth where they will board the training ship Essex for a two weeks cruise on Lakes Su- perior, Huron and Michigan. Forty-six members of the Demidji divieion will make the trip. They will travel by special sleeper to Du- luth. The sleeper will he attached to the Great Northern train going east at 2:32 a. m. The sleeper will be ready for occupancy at 9 o’clock, however. . Members from all the district will be present on the cruise, some com- ing from North and Sounth Dakota. It is expected ,they will leave Du- luth some time late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. ,They will spend several days in Chicago and expect to be present at the Pageant of Progress which is heing held there during the time the Militia is in that city. The division will be in charge of Chief Machinist- Mate W. E. Morris from, Bemidji to Duluth, JUVENILE BAND PLAYS | CONCERT THIS EVENING The band concert have been given last night by the Juvenile band will be given wt § o'clock in Library park tonight. A splendid concert has been prepared, which will contain several selections not heretcfore played. On Saturday evening the band will give a concert at Birchmont hotel in honer off the guests of the Kiwanis club. Cars willobe ready at the City hall to take the band to Birchmont at 7 o'clock and( all band members are requested to. be at the hall promptly to take the cars. The band will return from: Birchmont at 9:30. KIWANIANS TO ENJOY DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT . At the -conel t n ‘of the presen- tation of the charter to the Kiwanis club tomorrow night at Birchmont, a band concert will be given hy the juvenile band in honor of the guests of the Kiwanis club. At the close of the band concert a dance will be given in the hotel for |the Kinwanians and their invited friends. MRS. H. L. HUFFMAN TO REPRESENT AUXILIARY Mrs. H. L. Ruffman expects. to leave Bemidji tonight for Winona where she goes as a delegale from the local Woman’s Auxiliary of the American Legion, to the second an- nual state convention to be held there August’ 1-3, The meeting will be held jointly with the annual state convention of the Legion. The convention proper, with head- quarters at the First Congregational church, will be called to order at 10 a. m. Monday, August 1. An address of welcome, report of ecredentials committee, and naming of speaial committees will take up the morn- ing session. In the afternoon reports. of the secretary and treasurer will he given. A pre-convention meeting of the state executive committee will be held on the evening of July 31. Reports of committee chairmen wilt oceupy the attention of the | delegates the morning of the second day. A cruise on the M river aboard the Streckfus er Washington on Tuesday afternoon, August 2, at which time a special convention. session will be held, will be the big feature of the program. At this sesison Miss Pauline Curnick, national secretary of the American Legion Auxiliary, will probably ad- dress the delegates. The Legion will also hold a session on this steamer at the same time. ‘Election of officers, report of the resolution committee and new bus ness will be the order of procedure for the final day. Dancing, mov and boating par- ties, are being planned for the dele- gates by the Winonascommittee on arrangements, and in addition, auto- mobile tours around the city and vi- cinity are being arranged. | Dr. Helen Hughes Heilscher, Man- kato, state president, will preside. WIFE OF PURDUE HEAD CAN TAIK ONLY LITTLE which was to Banff, Alberta, July ---Beyond a few words Mrs. W. I. Stone was unable to describe to friends today the horrible details of a week alone| with her husband’s dead body at the foot of Mr. Eamon. ! “She has passed through the vnl-} ley of shadows,” said Dr. Bell in} words sent he: “She can’t talk| now.” Word from the temporary camp set up at Marble Creek was that it would he four or five days| Defore the body of W. E. Stone, p DATA FOR CERTIFIED SEED POTATO GROWERS Second Field Inspection to Be Held During First Week in August (By'A. G. Tolaas, Chief Inspector) The first field inspection of the fields listed for inspection and cer- i on has ben completed. Very few es of varietal ‘mixtures and disea have been found by the in- spectors ujq to this time, but num- erous reports of imperfect stands have been received. An imperfect stand may be due to a number of exuses; often being the result of an imperfectly working planter or the prevalence of u disease such as black- leg or Rhizoctonia with conditions favorableyfor their development. This year during a great portion of the planting season, conditions for germination ‘were very unfavorable. Very little rain fell with the result that seed pieces lay for a long time in the soil, the upper three or four inches, which is often the depth of planting, being virtually a dust mulch, This condition is conducive of the development of the Fusarium dry rots which soon attacked the <ced pieces and in certain fields, de- pending ‘on the length of time the seed picces had been in the ground before good germination’ conditions arrived, caused their complete de- struction. Consequently, where flelds listed for inspection affected in this way are otherwise in good condition, they will be given favorable consld- eration by the inspectors Although blackleg, dry stem rot (Rhizoctonia) and Iusarium will have not as yet shown up to any ex- tent, every grower growing potatoes for certification should thoroughly inspect his own field and be on the lookout for these various troubles. Should any of them occur, the affec ed plants, together with any plants that are undersized and unthrifty should he removed immediately. Thig is absolutely necessary, since the in- spection regulations call for the re- moval of such plants before the sec- ond inspection. The inspectors will start out on the second field inspec- jon during the first week in ‘August, the intention being to visit each grower approximately one month aft- cr the first inspection. GENERAL ACTION ON IN VACATION SECTOR Toronto, Ont., July 29.--Invasion of Ontario by the vacation army is in full ewing. From New York, Chica- o, Detroit and scores of other Amer- ican cities anglers are rushing into the forested uplands that are studded with gemlike lakes. Other tourists laden with golf clubs, tennis rackets, canoes and oth- er outing traps are tourning toward the many resorts in the northland. Many of these summer playgrounds hidden in the heart of the wilder- ness almost untouched by encroach- ing civilization. Bulleting from th hing front in- dfcate the season’s catch of muskel- lunge, black bass, trout, salmon, pike and pickerel will far surpass big hauls of previous seasons. Tleavest travel in years to these districts is re- | ported. U. S. OPPOSES PROPOSAL FOR PRELIMINARY MEETING ington, July 29.—The United States has outlined to Great Britain America’s final word of opposition t: the proposal for a preliminary con- sident of the Purdue Univer: | could be brought out; of the moun-| tains, ference to the Washington d ma- ment and Pacific confercnee, it was learned today, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HOLD OUTING SUNDAY Members and Friends of Order Assured Big Time at Blackduck Lake Knights of Columbus and their friends will have their annual sum- mer outing at Blackduck next Sun- day, July 31, and from all present in- dications it will be the most efjoy- able outing ever held by the order. Arrangements have been made for a big public affair and the atiendance is not to be limited to members. Much interest has been shown by persons living in the towns and communities near Blackduck and it is expected that they will be there in full force. Bemidji will also be well represented in addition to the Knights of Columbus. A picnic dinner will be served at noon on the shores of Blackduck lake for 50 cents. This includes the en- tire dinner, and the committee in charge assures the public plenty to eat. One feature of the afternoon is the ball game between Bemidji and Blackduck and this event alone is sure to be worth the visit. Music will be furnished during the day by the Blackduck band of 35 pieces. A general outing and good time are assured those who visit Black- duck and the picnic Sunday. As one member of the committee puts it “Just jump into your car and drive to Blackduck, we'll take care of you after that.” Auto busses and automobile: he available Sunday mornin afler 7 o'clock at the corner of Third street and Beltrami avenue for those who have no other way of going. Ar- rangements have been made so that the fares will be based on the regular railroad rates. ‘The return trip can be made in the same way and at such time as is desired. SETTLERS OPPOSE SCRAPPING OF WINNIPEG RAILROAD (By United Press) Winnipeg, July 29.—The greatest been manifested among and others served by the Winnipeg Water Distriet owing to the threatened pping” of that road. The rail- was built when the aqueduct which supplies Winnipeg with its water supply fromi Shoal lake, was under construction. At that time steps were /made to induce settlers to use the railway. Now many, in dismay, declare without reserve that the discontinuance of the railway gervice would be followed by a gen- eral exodus from what they believe to be one of the richest, if not the richest, sections of the province. ALLEGED AUTOMOBILE THIEVES BOUND OVER TO COURT will ettier Detroit, Mich., July 29.—Five al- leged members of the Detroit- Min- neapolis automobile theft gang, who were arrested here a weck ago, have been bound over to federal courf for trial following a hearing before Com- missioner J. H. Hurd, on charge of violating the Dyer act. Carl Lockart of Minneapolis was one of the five. CARPENTIER MAY ASK DEMPSEY FOR SECOND GO If Frenchman Wins Next Bout in'U. S,, He Will Challenge Dempsey, It Is Said By Henry Farrell, (Unlted Press Stuff Correspondent) New York, July 29---When Georges Carpentier’s wind came back after ick Dempsey had pounded all his br h out in the Jersey City arena, he said something strange for a van- quished fighter, “Dempsey beat me, and he will beat me again in the same way, 1 do not want a return bhout.” His frankness in discussing the battle that deprived him of his life’s ambition was but one of the admir- able characteristics that made him almost as respected in defeat as he would have been honored in victory. However, it has been learned from some of his intimate friends that the IFrenchman has not entirely set aside the ambition to Decome the world’s heavyweight champion. THis frank statement that he wanted no more of Dempsey ig said to have been but one of his shrewd moves after the very thing he denied he wanted. If the Frenchman wins his next bout in America, he will challenge Dempsey again, it is understood. He knows he can’t bheat the champibn now, but his advisers have told him to wait another year or more---and that Dempsey wlll beat himself in the meantime. Since the fight many of the wise still think that, he laid lown in the fourth round of the bout with Demp- sey. Not that there was anything fixed or crooked about it, but that he found out he couldn’t win and when he went down the second time, he stayed down to avoid further, pun- ishment. His appearance on the floor of the ring and his condition in the corner do not warrant a belief like that, The Frenchman is a great ghowman, a fine actor, but he hardly could have faked the look on his face when Dempsey picked him up off the canvas, and he hardly could have slumped, hump-backed, across the ring ten minutes after the knock- out, unl he bad been hurt badly. HOMANSDEPT. ISIHPORTANT PART OF FAR Exhibits in This Department Play Important Part in | State Fair Also £ LIST OF PREMIUMS IS VERY GENEROUS Women in Charge Are Anxious that Exhibits Be Numerous ) in This Branch [— One. of the most important branches of .the exhibits to be dis- played at the Northern Minnesota Fair at Bemidji, September 20 to 23, and one which thus far has received little or no publicity is the Woman's Department, of which Mrs. C. D. Lucas is superintendent, with Mrs. John Koors and Mrs. W. Z. Robinson as assistants. This department con- sists of cut flowers, canned goods (native grown), baked foods, dairy, poultry, apiary products and needle worlk., The list of premiums is much more goenerous than on previous years and this is one of the departments which presents the women’s part of the fair better than any other department. This department, particularly the canning divislon of the department, has had a very important part in the annual state fair exhibit and has gone far to help win the prize in pre- vious years. ’ Those in charge of this department are anxious that the exhibits be num- crous and that the women take spe- cial interest this year in getting their exhibits to the fair. The vegetables are to be judged on general appearance, fulness of can aud sealing. Canned fruits will be judied on cleanliness of juice, whole ness of fruit, color and sealing. Jel- ly will ke judged by color flavor, con- sistency and covering. Preserves will be judged on appearance, flavor and color. Pickles will be judged on flavor, tenderness and general ap- pearance. Bread judging will be ac- cording to a score card, covering ex- ternal appearance 15 points, crust 10 points, crumb 35 points and thor- oughness of baking 40 points. On garments, the score card will be made up as follows: workmanship, 55 per cent; style 15 per cent, ma- terlals 20 per cent and general ap- pearance 10 per cent. . Class 33, of the premium list, is called a “Thrift” department, and is composed of remodeled garments for women. All entries In this cluss must have cards attached, stating the amount of new material used, squrce and trentment (washing, cleaning, dyeing, ete.), of old material. Much interest is already being shown in tha Woman’s Department, and it is expectppd that a special Dbuilding or portion of building will be set aside for the housing of the exhibits, TWO CHICAGO GUNMEN BEING HELD AT ST. PAUL (By United Press) St. Paul, July 29.—Two Chicago gunmen were in captivity here today. Thomas O’Connor, alleged murderer of a Chicago policeman, and James Gallagher, alleged to have murdered a civilian and shot a policeman in the Windy City last year, are the pair under arrest. They had out-witted police all over the country for months. Gallagher was picked up as a common drunk. O’Connor was arrested Monday night when he at- tempted to hold up a porter on a Great Western train. Detectives from Chicago were to arrive here to- day to take them back. ORDER OF SVITHOID IN SESSION IN MINNEAPOLIS et (By United Press) Minneapolis, July 29.—Delegates representing 14,000 members of the Independet Order of Svithoid, the largest Swedish American benefi- ciary in the,United States, were ar- riving here today for a three-day convention. Eric Elmgren, Chicago, is grand master. There were 70 dele» gates from )Chicago. f “WHY ARE U. 8. TROOPS ' IN GERMANY?” INQUIRY ey / (By United Press) Washington, July 29.—Inquiry ad to why American troops are being kept in Germany at a cost of approxi-~ mately $1,000,000 a month will be made in the senate within the next few days. Why are the troops not brought home now that peace with Germany, has been re-established? When will they be brought home? What steps are being taken or will be taken to obtain from Germany the $240,000,000 now over-due for sup- port of the American army of occu- pation? Senator Borah said today he would seize his earliest opportunity to dis- cuss the questions in a speech, f—— it e 5 § 7