Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 8, 1921, Page 1

The Plonger s the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidjl and has the largest ‘circulation in Northern” Minnesota VOLUME XIX. NO. 146 BEMIDJI, MINN., | MINNZSOT HISTOR innlesota—cln;dy and ufiet- TX tonight and Sunday, possibly Y in north, rising temperature in east and south tonight. OCT. 8, 1921 55c PER MONTH F&fiéflifififiy e ning when the League of Women | Voters met there. The musical numbers, violin solo |by Miss Grace Currie, accompanied v ‘ Iby Miss Vera Cutter; piano solo by FATHER, MOTHER AN[{}; ‘bMisls\x,I Rai{nhl‘:ld g{oe, and voealll solo ‘|by Miss Mabel Croon, were well ren- BABY BARELY ESCQ% Tdered and well received and added i i‘o the evening’si entert.uinmcnt‘.1 o ' as a very fluent Parents Forced to Walk Haf-;‘ bcMa;(irfkge\xzd?hxosughly ¥alniliz.r g ith her subjects. She stated that | ‘tMrs. Albee Ladd Declares That Every Woman Should Be in Favor of Disarmament Early Morning Fire Destroys Stcre Building and Living Quarters at Zerkel The Civic and Commerce associa- | Mile in Night Clothes to ¢< Obtain Shelter Pioneer)—Five children of the fam- ily of Nels Nelson, formerly a resi-| dent of the town of Frohn, but now of Zerkel, a little village 14 miles south of here, were burned to death this morning between 1 and 2 o’clock. | Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and little baby narrowly escaped with their lives The store building and addition, i which the family lived, were burned to the ground. It is thought the fire originated from a defective chimney between the store; building and the addition, which was used as living| quarters. The oldest son of the family was in North Dakota at the time of the five, and he, together with Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and the baby, are the enly survivors in a family of nive. Tiwo of the children had been attending school in Bdgley and had gone home Friday night to spend the week end at home. Both were burned to death. Mr. Nelson was burned about the 1y Bagley, Oct. 8.—(Special to The‘& head and Mrs. Nelson’s face was also burned, while they were making their| escape. The little baby was sleeping, with the father and mother, which explains its being saved. The aem-| bers of the family who were burned to death, range in age from 3 to 16| years. | Mr. and Mrs. Nelson were forced, to walk half a mile to a neighbor’s| home in their night clothes in order; to obtain shelter. Both are suffer-| ing severely from the terrible shock.| It is.understood there was no insur-| ance on the building or contents. | The dead are: Amy, 16; Roy, 14;; Kenneth, 12; Lillian 11, and another little girl, aged 7 years. | The charred remains of the fivei children were found this morning ly-| ing in a position that would indicate| that they were overcome by smoke; and never left their beds. WOMEN'S CLUBS TO MEET IN BEMIDJI NEXT YEAR (By United Press) , Owatonna, Minn., Oct. 3.—Bemidji was chosen for the 1922 convention of the Minnesota Federation of Wom- en’s clubs. Mrs. J. E. Rounds of St. Paul was selected president, and Mrs. J. A. Cheney, St. Paul, corresponding secretary. TOMMY GIBBONS WINS ANOTHER IN SHORT ORDER (By United Press) Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 8.—Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, added another knockout to his string of vic- tories when he knocked out Clay Turner in the first 30% seconds of the scheduled 15-round bout here last night. the League is a large national or- nization. 1t is an educational vement and works for democra ) lc:‘%uc does not exist to cri \ but®to publish facts so that \/oters may draw their own conclu- sions._ It works for measures instead of parties, with this fox its slogan, “To get into your-own party, but to go into. it intelligently., ”’ Under her subject “The Interna- tional Reduction of Armament,” she made, the statement that “the next r would be A" WAFr “of extermina- tion.” She compared the vasts sums that go for armmament and how lit- tle goes for “éducation. She urged that every woman back the effort to secure reduction -of “armament by interfiational court. s -Miss" Mabel “Wagner;, president of ie-Teague, announced that the date for the next meeting had not been set, but’at that meeting Judge C. W. Stanton would answer the 38 ques- tions under the heading of “What do you know about government?” or Woman’s League status.” MINISTER CONVICTED OF MURDERING WIFE (By United Press) Lakeport, Cal., Oct. 8.—Rev. John Spencer was today convicted for the murder of his wife, Maude Spencer. The verdict was returned after the jury had been out six hours. Mrs. Spencer was drowned in Clear Lake on.which Lakeport is located, while vacationing here. with her husband. “The Lord’s will be done,” mur- mered Spencer as he left the court room. The sentence will be pro- Inounced Monday. The court has the choice between life imprisonment or hanging. “HUMAN FLY” FALLS TO HIS DEATH WHILE PERFORMING Fargo, N. D., Oct. 8~Word has been received here that the ‘“human fly,” who has performed in various parts of Minnesota and North Da- kota, fell to his death at Sand Point, Idaho. When the “human fly,” who was Jack Hughes of Detroit, Mich., scaled the Equity building in Fargo on Labor Day, he is reported to have remarked that he experienced a nerv- ousness, which he. attributed to the strenuous schedule followed this sum- mer. BALTIMORE AND LOUISVILLE PLAYING AGAIN TODAY Louisville, Ky., Oct. 8.—With the series standing even today, one game each between the Baltimore Orioles and - the Louisville Colonels, the teams were ready today to take up the junior world’s series again. Fri- day was a lost day. Games werc played Wednesday and Thursday. Managers of both teams put them thyough practice Friday., The teams will play here today. FIRST PERIOD OF THE SALESMANSHIP CLUB WILL CLOSE AT TWELVE 0°CLOCK TONIGHT Big Credits Have Been Earned By Last-Minute Efforts and There Will Probably Be Some Surprises in the Nexf Count—Leaders Running Look at the calendar. Tcday, Sat- urday, October 8, is the last day of the first period in The Pioneer’s $4,000 salesmanship campaign. When the clock strikes 12 tonight your chance to earn votes while sub- seriptions are worth the most votes|s will have ended. Today is one of the most import- ant of the entire seven weeks which the campaign is scheduled to run. It should be one of the most important days of your life. Make it a red-let- ter day in your present fight to win high honors and a $1,120 prize. Work right up to the last hour before time to turn in your final orders on this period and get in every subscription possible for any human to secure dur- ing the limited number of hours this first period still has to run. The sure road to success is DOING A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE NEXT BEST. That is true all through life—no matter what your endeavor may be. Life is a competition and those who plan best and work hard- est are the ones who succeed. If you merely work as hard as you vour competitor is working; if r ambition is to merely keep up —ryou’ll not get very far— Close, g awarded any of the world’s big prizes. BUT—IF YOU WORK HARDER AND LONGER AND MORE EFFI- CIENTLY THAN ANY RIVAL— YOU'LL WIN. Every person would like to attain But most of them fail. Why? there are difficulties in the ause it .takes work—effort and physically—and persist- ence. It’s only the worker who goes right on, straight ahead, detouring obstacles and over-riding difficulties, who will ever succeed. It is not always the easiest thing in the world to secure subscriptions. It is hard to keep going when things sometimes seem to be ‘against you— when ord; imply won’t come as rapidly or as ly as you think they should. But remember others have the same experiences, the same argu- ments to meet, the same trying diffi- culties. The prize you can win at the end of only three short weeks will many, many times repay you for your fight. AND IT'S THE FELLOW WHO KEEPS GOING WHO WILL WIN. TODAY IMPORTANT. The candidate who stands highest tonight at midnight will be the can- didate who will stand the best chance .vul vou will never take any blue ribbons, win any high honors or he later to_win the Buick four at the (Continued on Page 6) NORTHERN MINNESOTA'S NEW GRANDSTAND TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. TO OPEN OCTOBER 17 | |Institute Has Been Called at % That Time on Account of Division Meeting ——— | County Superintendent J. C. Mc- !Ghee has called a Teachers’ Institute to be held in Bemidji during the week beginning October 17. The first |three days will be under his super- | vision with George F. Howard, one |of the leading educators of the state |as conductor, assisted by Miss Jessie | Wedin, another able instructor. | This institute will then join the northern division of the Minnesota | Education association for the next Bemidji now boasts a $10,000 grandstand at the Beltrami County fair grounds, which is capable of seating 2,500 persons comfortably. The popularity of this new structure is evidenced by the fact that it was well filled at each program. On the ground floor are 24 display booths, while the second floor housed the women’s -department this past [three days. The teachers were called together at this time instead of ear- year. Two entrances are provided lier so that they might have the ad- from the ground floor to the grand- vantage not only of the institute, but {stand proper. of the prominent educators who will Censtruction was begun late, and be brought to Bemidji for the educa- work was. rushed that it might be|tion association. ready for the fair which was held| About 160 teachers will be in at- COMMERCIAL LAW CLASS TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT Final arrangements are to be made Monday night at « meeting to be held in the Civic and Commerce associa- tion rooms at 8 o’clock for the course of lessons of commercial law studies which are to be given during the fail and winter by arrangements with the extension department of the - Uni- versity of Minnesota. Those who contemplate taking the course will decide Monday night on what evening each week the lessons are to be given. All those who have signified their intention of taking the lessons and any others who are interested in the cours re urged to be present at the meeting so that arrangements may be completed. Those present at the meeting will al- so vote upon the instructor to be selected to direct the lessons. W. C. T. U. CONVENTION FAVORS DISARMAMENT Park River, N. D., Oct. 7.—The state convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in con- vention here went on record as favor- ing disarmament, total abstinence, purity of life, conscientious use of ballott and support of law enforce- ment. WISCONSIN TOWN HARD HIT BY ALL-NIGHT FIRE, (By United Press) Necedah, Wis., Oct. 8.—Practically the entire business section of this city was destroyed by fire which started late last night, and was still burning this morning. The flames started in a restaurant here of an un- known origin, and, owing to a frame building nearby, spread rapidly. The fire department was called out, but not until early this morning did it have the fire under control. Many buildings were seriously damaged, and the cost was estimated to run above $100,000. MRS. LADD ADDRESSES TEACHER COLLEGE STUDENTS Friday morning Mrs. Albee vadd addressed the -students of the Be- midji State Teachers college, and urged the pupils to read the papers during the conference on limitation | of armaments. s ‘avested in the and of more millions inv products’ machinery were Seventeen conventions of allied dairy {trades are to be held during the show. here last month. However, the tendance the whole week and the will be laid before next year’s fair. |accommodated. The law provides ] |that all teachers who are perfect in [NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW taught. Seme school patrons are of the {enough inspiration and instruction More Than a Thousand of the|will be given to enable the teachers |school room. Friends of education |are invited to attend any of these St. Paul, Oct. 8.—If an earthquake | Ghee reports that all tes hers have were to wipe the Twin Cities off the | been secured for the schools of Bel- Leaders in every branch of thelers secured earlier than for several dairy industry of the country were years. tinue all next w " of willions of dol-| ¢ Jadust NORTHWESTERN TODAY (By (;:llod Ph iground floor of the structure is not‘pouple of Bemidji are asked to offer |attendance, shall be paid by their AT’[RACTS LARGE CROwD‘npinion that more is accomplished by World’s Best Dairy Cattle * Im accomplish more during the term | meetings. map this week, the country’s dairy [trami county. Fewer permits have here for the opening of the National Minneapolis, Act. 8 yet completed, since a cement (loor rooms and board that they may be | districts the same as if the week was | following the regular routine than |than if the week is spent in the Are on Exhibit Today (By United Press) | County Superintendent J. C. Mc- business might go Lo picce; been granted this year and all teach- Da Show. The exposition will con- MlNNESOTA PLAY‘NG ro did to Northwestern pl What Chica- rs last More than a thousand of the % > & D dasidadlv fa world’s best dairy cattle were on |’ aturday was a factor decidedly fa- exhi Machinery exhibits worth vorable to Minnesota today. Ole Mag- = 000,000 W aredn b Hael | nussen, Grausnich and N. Penfield ¥ he’ show is expected to attract|Were out of the game today. more than -haif ¥ million peo-| - The. Gophers were in good shape pld to the Twin Cities during the“‘““" last \»:vuks game vw)th North week, Dakota, and Coach Williams was : ready to start the same ‘line-up. The ,|COMPANY K MEMBERS WILL BE PAID TUESDAY Captain D. J. Moore announces that he has received pay checks for Company K, Minnesota National Guard, which will be distributed next 1y night at regular drill. The cover payment for the period Toreign countries, interested inj | G 3 and largely dependent upon the l",“_}wcathcl was cloudy and cool. ducers of this country, were ruprc-‘UNEMPLOYMENT P——A_RLEY ::nuda,dEnglan(l, France, Hawaii,| Cuba and South American countries. | Dairy interests and farmers of the BIFFERS ON MEASURES I Northwest will take full advantage e of the proximity of the show, ofli- ials said. North Dakota sent a thous-{ ~Washington, Oct. 8.—Sccretary of and delegates her . [Commerce Hoover today applied him- They came in a s self to the task of smoothing differ- parked on tracks near the Minne-|ences between members of the nation- sota State Fair grounds. Instead offal uncmployment conferences regard- otans are living aboard the train. | vancements. win City commereial bodies have| The commitice on emergency meas- made plans to accommodate the|ures and manufacturing is reported to thousands in attendance. Bureaus of [have split in two sections, the majory information have been established |ity favoring a downward readjust- commodations have hee ority was believed to be the contrary. St. Paul, Oct. 8 Ornshby Mercede tone of the most fa lin the world and valued at $90,000, ry Show, which opened here to- 1s taken to the University ssota velerinary hospital for |’ ation. He is owned by of Moorhead, Minn. nted. Delegations were here from | - (By United Press) eking hotel accommodations, the |ing reductions of wages and price ad- for the guidance of ment for wages and prices. The min- f\v%ll not be shown at the National RETURNS OF SUNDAY’S GAME WILL BE POSTED —— Present indications are that the Yanks and Giants will play their fourth game of the series tomorrow, if the weather per- mits. In case the game is played the returns will be posted on the special bulletin board at The Pioneer office as soon as re- ceived. To date some difficulty has been experienced in getting the brief account of each inning from the St. Paul office of the United Press, undoubtedly due to the fact that the telegraph wires are flooded with smaller reports, although the messages have been filed promptly at St. Paul. RAIN POSTPONES FOURTH GAME OF WORLD SERIES McGraw Is Now Confident That The Giants Have at Last Found Their Stride According to word received short- ly after noon by the local office of the Western Union, and also by the Pioneer from the United Press office at St. Paul, the world series game which was scheduled for this noon was called off on account of| rain. \: It is expected that the fourth game | of the series will be played tomorrow afternoon, however, | | | | after-| Northrn Division will be if the weather|Etate DIVISION MEET TODRAWLARGE (ROWD TO ITY Expected That Large Percen- tage of Teachers in Division Will Be Present CLUBS PLAN RECEPTION FOR THURSDAY EVENING Program for Three-Day Session Promises Much for All Persons Interested R The first convention of the North- ern Division of the Minnesota Educa- tion sciation, which will open in Bemidji Thursday, October 20, is ex- pected to bring several hundréd teach- ers and educators here for a threc- day session. A large number of teachers have already sent word that they will be present and it is expect- ed that a large percentage of the teachers in the district covered by the in attend- ance. The main session of the convention will be held in the new armory and other sessions will be held in the Teachers college and Methodist permits, and if the grounds are not | church. in too bad condition from today’s rain. Returns will be posted on The Pi neer bulletin ard if the game played tomorro (By United Press) ¢ York, Oct. 8.—Prospects of | and Giants as the two man- agers expressed them today, were: Jolm McGraw, manager of thel Giants: “The boys have hitl the They have found their bat- | ting eyes and {rom now on will play | hitting _and i the fighting, running | game that won the National luum{o} pennant. I am glad they had their| two off days at the start.” | Miller Huggins, manager of thel Yanks: “We can’t expect ta win | them all. We still have the etlge and | are going to keep it. W have Hoyt and Mays left. Wateh ds get going | fire again tomorrow.” | s pub- Regina, S —Recent figure: lished by the provincial government give the number of automobiles in | Saskatchewan in 1920 as 60,325, as compared with 55,010 in 1919 and 46,380 in 1918. The total number of motor vehicles in 1908 was 74, NEW LUTHERAN HOSPITAL FUND GROWING RAPIDLY Dircetors of the new Lutheran hospital, which will be constructed » next year, met rccently_un(l 1 the report of the committee h which is in charge of the sale of stock. The report showed sul. that $25,000 bed outside of the ¢ of Bemidj Of this amount, $1,200 was collected in one day at Kelliher. i Another commitl rranging the details for the pur- < of a site for the institution, and it is expected that one will be med within the next two weeks. truction will start carly next spring, according to the present plans. + is now at work cussion on Wages. By Lloyd Allen (United. Press Staft Correspondent) London, Oct. 8. Britain’s railroads __after seven years of governmental control—have been returned to pri- vate management and the British tax- payer is 2 pproximately three-quarters of a billion dollars poorer—181,- 081,149 pounds sterling, to be exact. Today it’s safe to say the British people generally rejoice at the ter- mination of state interference in the railroad busines Morcover, the man in the street is undoubtedly convinced that “nation- alization” of the roads would prove a very questionable and probably costly innovation, and he would point to wartime curtailed services and costly passenger fares, to prove hig conten- tion that any socialization or semi- socialization is doomed to utter fail- ure. Because the British are essentially modest about proclaiming themselves “efficient,” the world/at large is vir- tually ignorant of the speedy express trains that in mormal tir run at world-record speeds. Also it's not gen- erally known that the British railroad companies and th workers have highly complex, self-adjusting wage v Tittle real friction keep the s that automatically —and ir | college will be in s s{made M, Thursday evening’s session will pe |followed by a reception in‘ the armory |given by the Women’s Civic and Com- munity club and .Womcn’s Study club for all teachers in attendance at the | convention. The Bemidji Civic and Commerce ciation will give a buffet luncheon v night to the school men in the ciation rooms. The city schools and State Teachers jon on Thursday (Continuea rrom Page 6) FIRE CAUSES BIG LOSS AT WISCONSIN PRISON (By United Press) Waupun, Wis,, Oct. 84--Cor'wicts at the state prison were battling a in a huge pile of Mexican fibre, which broke into flames early this | morning. The prison hospital was filled to capacity carly this morning with convicts and city firemen, who fell victims to the smoke and gas. The origin of the fire could not be determined. The loss was cstimated at $45,000 and is covered by insui- ance. AUTOMOBILES COLLIDED BY ACCIDENT THIS AFTERNOON A car was considerably damaged this after- noon when run’ into by another car being driven by A. L. Dickinson. One fender was badly smashed and the front part of the Smith car was bad- ly damaged. Onlookers state that Smith was driving straight down Beltrami ave- nue on the' right side of the street when Dickenson, who was driving up Beltrami avenue, attempted to cut across in front of the Smith car at Third street but failed to go ound the “dummy policeman.” Af- r hitting Smith, it is said, Dicken- son backed up his car and then, in attempting to get out of the way, drove head-on into the Smith car again. No one was hurt in the acci- dent, however. P e oo GOVERNMENT RAILROAD CONTROL DURING WAR - - COST ENGLAND NEARLY A BILLION DOLLARS Transfer of Gigantic Properties From Government to Private Control Was Accomplished Without ‘Any Special Dis« SRR CYI ORI R : . : very little real friction keep the rate of pay at a definite figure, as com« pared with the cost of living. Wherefore, the ‘transfer of these gigantic properties from government- al to private control was accomplished without any special cussion ragard- ing wages, since this problem had been adjusted many months previ- ously. Also, the whole question of govern- mental remunerationito the compan< ies had been taken care of by means of an arrangement whereby the gov- ernment guaranteed the railroad managements to keep the mnet re« ceipts, while under state controly equal to the 1913 earnings, Regular payments were made from the state, subject to later refunds from the companies should super- audited statistitcs show any over- payment. Here it was, that the state treas- ury suffered. By the time de-control arrived, August 15, 1921, the state had paid out 121,981,149 pounds, while an additional figure of approxi- mately 60,000,000 pounds remains to be paid. These sums were transferred in three payments, the first of which was ‘ch 31, 1920, Previous tof Hinued on Page 6) 4__T‘ £ being driven by Roy Smith -