Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 26, 1921, Page 1

The Ploneer 1s the oniy dally within 100 miles of Bemidji and has the largest circulation in Northern Minnesota NO. 161 TBEMIDJI, MINN,, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 26, 1921 BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER SR ORT rain tonight d Thusday;, somewhat cooler in northwest portion,”, RED LAKE CONSERVANCY - BOARD TO MEET FRIDAY (ITY ORDINANC - ON SOFT DRINK STANDS APPEAL Judge C. W. Stanton Affirms Judgment on Municipal Court Test Case . A very important mecting of the Red Lake Drainage and Conservancy Board .will be held in the court house in Bemidji, Friday, October 28, at 1 o’clock. C. G. Selvig, chairman of the board, will preside. hear arguments on the establishment of a maximum and minimum lake level for Red lake in cdnnection with the flood control and drainage proj- is a difference of opinion as to the level at which the lake should be maintained, this meeting has been called to give an opportunity for the presentation of facts concerning the proposed level. The level will be es- tablished by the drainage and con- servancy board and the findings sub- mitted to the department of the in- terior for its approval, in as much as the project will be made in the Red Lake Irdian Reservation territory whick 1es under the jurisdiction of the} % RULING, SHOWS CITY ACTED WITHIN POWER Ordinance Forbids Sale of Soft Drinks at Retail Without Lictnse ment of the interior. %, %, P, RED A7 vel is to be established and as there On May 2, 1921, Ordinance No. 120 was nfiogteg dhy ;he cilty (;f Be- "N OPERATION midji which forbids the sale of non- i intoxicating beverages at retail with- R BILL TO BE CUT out first having obtained a license] Washin, & iet. 26.—Red tape therefor. Some time after Frank, will be slas .\{b We operation of the Hubert was convicted by Municipal | new beer Bil) ‘tions to give the Judge Gibbons under the above or-|people the be " beer and wine dinance of selling without a license.|for medicinal ses without un- : ghe Cju%%mgx;t ;vas a}p]t)}t;*alvé(} tz\.n{l ?ccgslsalrzy delay, B"Im_mnissioner of In- ve C. W. Stanton of the district|ternal Revenue e A ’\c:u;’tehas given: ruling on the case|day. S Sinennteg o ‘which affirms the jul‘11gment of th?] —_— municipal court. The opinion of | i Judg(;1 Stanton follow;::b Sefond ;TROPICAL HUKRICANE “This is an appeal by. defendant t on questions of law alone from judg-| HITS CITY OF TAMPA ment of convction in the Municipal; \ Court of the City o]f Bemidji, in said | county, upon complaint charging de-| fondant with the violation of Or.|Property Damage Caused By e the City of Be-| Tidal Wave; No Lives Yet s 3 forbids the sale of non-intoxicating | Reported Lost beverages, at retail, without first hav- ing obtained a license, therefor.. The appeal is submitted upon the (By United Press) record and files in the Municipall Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 26.—The gnu{;t, Cun;lse'rjlv‘vrltgqn stxmlnn?n n&afle city of Tampa is under water as a h:V o <le‘t)’y.) ll(Y ttorney, Gra- result of a tidal wave caused by a a;:g] B 01;:3;1:‘:], ;&lg:;}’ Atftflr{"lll!y ‘:‘.Il".)}i)ll:z\l hu}l]'_ncalec whlluh swept Flori- . ssel, 2 mey for ‘de-| da last night and carly today. A con- 1 was done throughout the city as a 1(1:1?1::21 (i:%ferégzntc(;?xt;fa]};iedu a gh& ;esultbof the storm. 1Thus far no lives i n e e 3 st. grounds that the same does not a‘/’%ell vtv?:e:f‘l))zltiegclzmohe and tele- charge a public offense under any law| graph, are down. Many signs and a of ‘the State of Minnesota, or under| number of buildings = were blown gt b R R B P Bt IR At e 3 ch de rer was over- a. m. all efforts to communicate Pyt e bree R B e B i ubs 2] 4 . | re: i ere by mail carly today g‘hetl;mly queTtmn t:if law presented | stated that all of southern Tampa was rg,corde aa?ln?i? , as .l}?c};gs‘efi hby t_he under water and many other streets cx;urt errnd files, 11: w, fi er dtlc trial | of the city of Tampa flooded. Repu]‘ts son 'thc ;n making Ils order over-|from Tampa reaching the local office thaltnie Sld( ‘i:g‘t"zii Otr:,?iene:r:scedfilari by ma;l was that 11t§was the most se- . .| vere s S87. 120 was adopted May. 2, 1921. Thel ol S b authority of the City to so ordain| k was expressly conferred by the legis-| MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED faars i he snactientvof (Chapter| IN FALL TO PAVEMENT . “It is therefore ordered:and ad-| Judged that the judgment of the| While riding on an auto_truck be- Municipal Court of ,the City of Be-|longing to R.J. Tesch Tuesday after- midji herein be and the same is here- | noon, Ben Rice fell to the pavement by affirmed.” and was seriously injJured. The acci- S dent occurred when Mr. Rice was CONSUL AT-SALINA CRUZ lcan;‘ngbagainst i stake on (tlhc side of the body of the truck and as the ATTACKED AND STABBED |car turned the corner at Minnesota . |avenue and Second street, the stake Sl (By L'gitcd Press) “broke, causing Rice to fall to the _ Washington, Oct. 26.—Lloyd Bur-|paverent. ::I'nghumMAme‘ricun consul at Salina| The i '“YiCSTtlf his_head were the jruz, Mexico, was attacked and rious. The injured man was stabbed by two unknown assailants | immediately taken to the hospital on the night of October 24, the state | and did not recover consciousness department was officially advised to- | nutil this morning. His condition this day. afternoon is reported to be improved. [CUD UV PAPP SN A A A A A P i N e TODAY STARTS BEGINNING OF END IN PIONEER’S PRIZE SALESMANSHIP CIRCULATION CAMPAIGN If a Club Member Checks in One Second After 8 O’Clock Satur- day Night, Credits Turned in Will Not Count—Standings Published Today for Last Time. The standings in The Pioneer Salesmanship Campaign at the end of the second period appear below. To this published count will be added those ballots found by the judges in the ballot box on Saturday night, when the final count is made. The leaders are working along with asparallel success. ‘Any club member can go over the top in these last three days. Here’s to the best salesman! Make these days count. District No.~1 901 America Ave..... 1,348,625 .1,274,180 695,975 732,501 184,400 72,400 75,400 Mrs. Fred Graham Mrs. Dot Van . Hud. Britten .............. . Mrs. D. L. Van Arnum ... P. L. Brown .. Charley A. Parker . Miss Rose Schmitt . .308 Mississippi Ave.. /415 Minnesota Ave.. District No. 2 ‘Including All Territory Outside the Corporate Limits of Bemidji Peter Graves ......... 2 o .Redby.............7194,300 Mrs. Cora Frederickson - _Solway..............781,175 Miss Marie Rider .......... Shevlin 720,050 Mrs. B. B. Bardwell . Clearbrook. Miss Naomi Blakely . ‘Turtle River Miss Olivia Roy ... _Island Lake.... Mrs. John Noel ..... , R.F.D. No. 1. 184,300 . 74,025 of effort i o Today starts the beginning of the Sie and onnu-l}znlf we _end. This is the last week of the|and suspense will culminate at the greatest salesmanship campaign ever Northern National Bank Saturday inaugurated by any newspaper in|night at 8 p. m. Above are the names Northern Minnesuta, and interest is|of the club members who will be rich- centered on the campaign by friends|ly rewarded before Sunday dawn. and relatives of the club members,| Among the club membe Irom all parts of the 3 (Continued on T r 6) The meeting has been called toj . ect which is to be established he | % Rt’d‘}‘uie :'?ve‘; n: telwfloul;]e‘g, ?\"“te‘s}into form for the clash with the Be- ENPLOYES MEET IN OPEN FORUM Rail Chiefs and Chairmen of Five Brotherhocds Bow to Labor Board | Pe;\nington County Eleven Is | Anxious to Wipe Out All Previous Scores After six weeks of intensive train- ing, during which the slogan has becn “Beat Bemidji,” Coach Stenhoff has rounded the Thief River Falls team midji squad, winner of last year’s | state title, here Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Next to winning the Northwestern ESUMMONS FOR MEETING or State championship, Thief River Falls would rather emerge victor from the Bemidji game than to gain| any other laurel this season. The spirit arises from the twyo defeats handed the Pennington county eleven in 1918 and 1920, by scores of 39 to 0 and 49 to 0, respectively. With a veteran team, cousisting' ' practically of the same players as the 1920 squad, Thief River Falls’ hopes might be realized against Coach Smith’s green ‘and inexperi- cnced team. Coach Stenhofl’s cleven o.qtives and employ has trained for the Bemidji clash as ¢ nment representative: though the state title were at stake. yy today in an attempt to pr Coach Stenhoff Jis satisfied he will | (o October 30 strike. present a formidhble cleven. Coach Smith of the local eleven put his team through two of the hardest scrimmages of the scason Monday and Tuesday afternoon The backfield will no dotbt s son, and the interference ha: i provement in the last two scrimmages. Tonight will end the last hard |j railroads of the countr; {on the opposite side, as Barton’s scrimmage for the wecek, while, to- morrow afternoon will be devote§ to | carly tomorrow with Fred Wilson, es- listed, one! | R mock scrimmage and signal practice. TORRANCE TO ASSIST AT GWINN PROSECUTION OUTLINES ITS OBJECT 1919, which IBoth Sides to Voice Claims and Get Together to End Their Difficulties met with gov d chiefs and chairmen of the fivé power- l.. ma ! d to the author-| Virginia and Wyoming, Figures for era ful brotherhoods bowe u ) i States Railroad ! the territory of battle than | United States R of |are whooping cough, measles cecutives visiting with rail- hemorrhage, congenital de Ivoad chicfs, who will be fighting bit-) malformations, puerperal feve |terly within a few days if the strike i goes into eficet. The object of the meeting, ing to the. summons, follov | railroad i cord- |and injuries show an incre County. Attorney Graham M. Tor- rance left yesterday for Bagley, 1 of Ge: ppewa Indian, is charged with ing shot a man by the name of W fall, a horse dealer, last November tri and buricd the body in a swamp ncar‘DoLLARh DAYT@ DRAW Roy lake, southwest of Bagley, where it was found in May of this year. The | cese is attracting wide attention, es- n: lly among the residents of Bag- ley and vicinity. CLAIMS OF PULLMAN CO. .PAID BY ADMINISTRATION Washington, Oct. 26.—Claims of the Pullman company against the government, growing out of the hoard‘ of federal railroad control, were set- | tled by the railroad administration| today in payment of $7,250,000 to| ESCAPED STILLWATER CONVICT IS CAPTURED (By United Press) Moorhead, Minn., Oct. 26.—Officers were expected back late today or caped Stillwater conviet, who is al- leged to have confessed to shooting Peter Ness, Moorhead policeman, on October 14, when the latter tried to prevent robbery of the Pan restau- rant. Ness, who was not expected to live for some time, is still in a local hospital, and although he may re- cover , he has lost the sight of his right eye. " Wilson was arrested at Interna- national Falls on a description sent broadcast after the shooting. He es- caped from Moorhead the night of the crime before the police net had been Brotherhoods where he is engaged on the murder |their October 30 e Gwinn. Gwinn, a|a violation of the July the board cut w (Continued on page 6) ke call was not v- | which SHOPPERS TO BEMIDIL 505,00 i oo | . = ;Lccal “Merchanis Cotoperate to, Make November 2nd a Buying Holiday Dollar Day, Wedr 2, is sure to see thrift ing advantage of the wonde gains being offered by local mer-| chants for that day, if they will only take the trouble nouncements of various merchants who are concentrating on the one. idea—to make a buying holiday on that occasion. Rare bargains are offered in nearly every instance and it is remarkable that the menr 5 much interest in this idea. 4 by what one merchant w y: “We're going to giv handise that they will not st, and charge the loss to advertising. The customers will bene- ly every industrious v has entered into thi and all are trying Lo make this event one that is sure to draw t asked to watch for ments and are profit by" doin sured that they will trading in Be- spread. midji on that day especially. DEATH RATE LAST YEAR INCREASES OVER 1919 Census Bureau Shows Rate in Registration Area Was 13.1 Per Thousand ington, Oct. 26.—~The Depart- ‘ment of Commerc nnounces that the Cen Bureau” g on mortal |issued shortly, aths as having occur | within the death registration {of continental United States, repre- sonting a death rate of 13.1 per 1,000 I population as compared with 12.9 i the lowest rate jeorded in any v | tration area wa The death re; sive of the Te comprised of Columbia and 16 | cities in n-registration s a total 1 486,713, or 8 {timated population of the Unite States. The state of Nebraska was established in 1900. ration area (exclu- itory of Hawaii) in , the Dis- istration wresent the only states v are Alabama, Arvizona, Idaho, lowa, co, North Dakota, Ok- homa, South Dakota, Texas, West waii will appear in the report, but they are not included the | in this summary. road Labor Board called the meeting to, order shortly | increased from were o1y to 1 igth side of the col- 4 The death rate from pneumonia per 1,000 in 3 in 0. For chronic ses of the heart the rate in- d from 131 to 141.9; for can- r, from 80.5 to 83. Some of the wses for which the rate increased sbral v and ar- atal- idents from 10.4 per 100,000 in 1919 to 10.4 in 1920. A marked deerease ath 111 6 in 191495 [ from influenza, 71 in 1920 « the v | from suic r, and appendicitis. The |itie ised by automobile which L with h rate against before. The death rate declined from 11.4 in fever and in that for accidental drowning. |PRINCE CF WALES LEAVES }a LONDON FOR INDIA TODAY | | London, Oct. 2 The prince of Wales Jeft London this noon for s Lak- | Porgsmouth, where he will embark ul bar-op the Renown on a voyage to India. 'DELIVERY TRUCK BADLY DAMAGED IN COLLISION The delivery truck belonging to thé Bemidji Lumber and Fuel com- pany was badly damaged between 7 is ' and 8 o’clock Tuesday morning, when nd eastbound freight collided with |it and carried it about 756 feet down |the tracks. Two wheels were torn off the truck and the cab was quite badly | smashed. The driver, Charles bLarry, E ed with the truck, bul was abt injured. 1t appears that the dri B WS 1'e- and in 1 tracks g the Great Northe :pt watch of the freight, which w tanding ncar the depot. Since hi ttention wi given to the reguiav train, he not aware of the train approaching from the west. eie GOSH: LOOKS 4 LiKe 115 GoIN'T0 7, A HARD WINTER HARDING SAYS NEGRO HUST BE GIVEN CHANCE (By United Press) Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 26.—The negro must be given a chance to make good, President Harding de- clared in a frank discussion of the ¢ problem in the heart of the outh today. The black man must be en political and economic equali- 3 a matter of justice and nation- al welfare. That, he explained does not mean social equality. On the other hand he urged that both sides recognize an absolute divergence in things so- cial and ) Harding, in a rather startling fash- ion, protested against his own party use of the black man 1 mere politi- cal tool and urged the negroes to vote either the democratic or republ- can ticket. SAN FRANCISCO POST OFFICE STATION GUARD KILLED (B United I'vess) San' Francisco, Oct. 26.—Frank B. r rancisco post office station, was shot and killed carly today by a bandit who held up the regist room at the post office and escaped with a pouch of registered mail. How much the loot amounted to was not known a few hours after the robbery, but it was believed to have been large. HARDING'S NAME DRAWN INTO N, D. RECALL FIGHT Nenpartisans Issue Challenge to Independents to Get His Word of Favor — Fargo, N. D., Oct. 26.—The name of President Harding was dragged into the North Dakota recall fight mpartis; haflenged the Inde- pendents to [ President H: ing the rec the Nonpart The challenge zon Borglum in @ Most of the old pa tried to keep out of the fuss beeause party lines are buried here and no s support- to quash old party principals are directly in- volve tor McCumber is the only one expressed himself on par He announced his desire to establish a law providing for the clection of state off without par- ty designation. Efforts to get Mc Cumber to announce himself on one side or the other of the recall were without avail. Cha of fraud and contemplated fraud were thrown by both sides tod. Independents charged Nonpartisans were contem- plating state-wide violation of the corrupt pra 5 % Nonpartisans continued to charge duplicating of signatures by the v call parties. They charged irreguls ity of publication and circulation of r’jllllfli||t‘l>- required to be printed and circulated under the election laws. principles LADY OSTEOPATH TO OPEN OFFICES HERE NEXT MONTH Dr. Lillian A. Stratton of Stillwater osteopathic physician, is in the city today and announces that she will open oflices in the tles building between the first and fifteenth of November. Tull particulars of the definite > will be announced when Dr. St tice he Declares It Is Very Evident Tha ment Is International in tional in Its Causes. (By United 1mress) London, Oct. 26.—The world un- employment problem will better it- self with dep ing slowness unless the various nations can make con- certed effor This opinion was Wi!il.mu’ Williams, former vice-p dent of the Hydraulic Steel comy; of and, Ohio, who has spent everal y studying the labor prob- om, and who is now visiting London after working all summer in the mines and steel plants of France and the 3 “Unemployment seems conside bly less i Fr: ain or Amer s partly because of the shortage o mch workers following the 300,000 French work ander arms. “In Germany the worker is less well paid than before the war, In general ais wages have hardly kept up with the 1,000 per cent incre: in the cost of living. The middle cla: i sluding teachers, small proper! ars and the federal employees in the sivil, railway and post office services, » been tremendously hard hit, be- wages have hardly in- ; than 500 per cent. | “It appears to me all wrong to say that Germany has got hack to normal. I'he real fact is that German mines ind mills are running simply because Germany has not yet started to get to noymal. Ter s are sold tton will be ready-to prac-, r|ing of enormous 65c PER MONTH et 0 L AL L T T WORLD POWERS HAVEMILLIONS IN LAND ARM France _Is Apt to Prove an Obstacle to Limitati?n of Land Armament NAVAL SITUATION LOOMS LARGEST IN CONFERENCE |France Now Has the Largest Organized Reserve Force, Excepting Italy 3 | + By A. L. Bradford (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 26.—France is likely to prove a stumbling block in |efforts to limit Jand armament in the coming Washington Conference. ition of France has been » and wide ever since Harding’s call for the gton Conference as being de- ned not to cut down her present (huge military establishment unless the nations of the world guarantee curi against the “German her s mena {; ., 2L obvious that the world naval 1 rgest in the Wash- nce. The efforts of the men gathered here to ment” will be principally lowing down the present » race in warship construc- Great Britain, the situation loom: ington Confe forcign stat “limit arm: directed to competiti tion betwi United States and an. But ob: here point out that it must not be forgotten that the great- lest war of history, the World War, was a conflict of armies and not of 1V So, it is argued, since the Washington Conference in a sense, a pe conference, the parley might partially defeat its own end by not giving serious consideration to the question of limiting land armament. When the conference takes up the limitation of land armament, France is expected to make it known to the fore plenipotientia s here that cannot restrict her military estah- [lishment unless one of twp things |are done: | 1. Ratification of the agreement drawn up during the peace confer- ence at Paris between the United | States and Great Britain and France by which the first two nations guar- ieed to come to the aid of France in the event of an attack by Ger- many on the latter country. 2. Some other guarantee by the powers of the security of France in I'the event of such danger, to take the | place of the Paris Defensive Alliance, twhich the United States refused to Iratify: TFrance also may put forward the argument at the Washington Confer- jence that she eannot restrict her ar- imy because it has been by her mili- tary establishment that she has forced Germany to carry out the terms of the Versailles Treaty, and that this will be the only way in which Germany can be forced completely to execute the treaty in the future The position of France in the con- (ference will be important for two | principal reasons: . » 1. France has under arms the largest organized active army in the world today. 2. I'rance by making known her (Continued on Page Six ) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT ADVOCATED BY STUDENT OF LABOR CONDITIONS t Present Situation of Unemploy- Dimensions and Alsg Interna« ETIR Y e, abroad simply by reason of the ads vantages arising from a currency which is constantly depreciating. Some day or other, Germany must begin setting her financial house in order. The result of that will be a /| period of vast unemployment and un- - [ happiness “It is very evident that the present situation of unemployment is inter- ional in its dimensions and also international in its cau: The situation will better itself with depressing slowness unless the varie 3 concerted ef- wuses must. be met by international arrangements regarding the limitation of arma- ments should greatly help by the save ms of money. like to 'see Lloyd George or M. iand or President Harding call an international confe. ence for the consideration of suc factors in the situation as interna- tional exchange, international cred- its, tar cte. “M. Briand cxpressed to me re- cently his belief that the diplomats of the near future would find inter- national confercnces on such subjects as the prevention of unemployment quite as essential to the happiness of their peoples as the more usual prob- s of boundaries and other similar n “But I should 1inly nothing the world so plays into the hands of all the fore of unrest and revolution as unema ployment