Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1921, Page 1

The Ploneer is the oniy daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and has the largest circulation In Northern Minnesota PRS- BEMIDJI DAILY VOLUME XIX, NO. 183 BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, ,-NOV. 21, 1921 ,,.} \.»)'&wh\‘“' N NE ~ ¥ ~*WEATHER REPORT Minnesota —: Generally fair in north, possibly sndw in south por. tion tonight and Tuesday. 55c PER-MONTH - EXPLAINSNEW * [I.S.INTERNAL REVENUE LIEN Revenue Department Imposes New Form of Lien for Law Violation ABOUT &6 LIENS ALREADY PLACED IN 6TH DISTRICT Imposed for' Nonpayment of Income Tax or Viclation of Prohibition Laws ' RS At the request of the local abstract company, William H. Pryor of Dulutl’l, president of the American Title Men’s association, appeared before the Ki- wanis club Thursday, November 17, for the purpose of informing the busi- ness men generally of, the Uniged States Intérnal Revenue liens being filed agaiust taxpayers in Minnesota. These are a new kind of lien which the Internal Revenue department has recently commenced imposing for the nonpayment of income tax or for violation of the prohibition la\gvs.ylt is a-proposition worthy of considera- tion by all persons doing any business invoiving either chattel mortgages or real estate loans or the pnrchase'of property, and it is desired to give as much publicity to this matter as possible. B The outstanding features of this kind of Lign, so far as konw, appear to be as follows: They are impgsed for nonpayment of income tax or for violation of the prohibition laws. E Such liens are filed under Section 3186, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by 37, Stat. 1016. In Minnesota the United States Disirict Court has six divisions, Bel- trami county being- located in the sixth division. The branch of the Unit- ed States District Court for this div- ision is located at Fergus Falls, Minn. Under present arrangements all liens against taxpayers in_the sixth divis- jon, ‘which includes Beltrami county, are being filed with-the Clerk of the United States Distriet: Court at. Fer- gus Falls, and become a lien upon all such property of such taxpayer the moment it has been so filed. These liens cover all property and rights to property, both personal and real, of the taxpayer against whom the lien has been imposed, and in- cludes the homestead. Such liens never outlaw, and can not be cut out by bankruptey pro- ceedings. - In some cases of violation of the prohibition laws, the defendant has been convicted in a criminal action, been fined and has paid his fine, and then has found that a lien has been imposed upon his property in a civil action; in other cases defendants have been acquitted under such a criminal action and a lien has been imposed upon their property under a civil action, There are about eighty such liens known to have been ed upon prop- erty in the sixth division in Minne- sota already, and many more are ex- pected to be filed at'an carly ‘date. These liens; so far as now known, average from about $600 to $4,500 each, and the only known way to dis- pose of same is to pay them. The Beltrami Consolidated Abstract company of this city is preparing to furnish this service for the benefit of its customers, and will be glad at any time to furnish any information at its command to.any interested per- son upon request. AMERICAN DONATIONS OPEN TRADE SCHOOL IN ALBANIA Tirana, Albania, Nov.! 21.—The new Albanian trade - school,, built largely with contributions from Amer- ican school children, was opened here recently. It is a complete manual trainipg school, first institution of its | kind in the country. The school is undgr the direction of Professor Louis Meron, of Washington, D. C., who has been loaned to Albania for one vear by the McKinley Technical High school of Washington. ASSOCIATION CONTEST BRAWS THIRTY ESSAYS About thirty essays have been writ- ten anjl forwarded to Miss Leila Stan- ton, seeretary of the Civic and Com- merce association on “What Makes Bemidji a Good City?” A number were sent in from out of town, but the majority were written by citi- * zents of Bemidji. The committee of the association which has this in charge will select judges at once to pass upon the es- says and the final results will be an- nounced at the regular luncheon of the association on Wednesday, Nov- ember 30. COMPANY K TO ANSWER INSPECTION TUESDAY NIGHT Company K, Minnesota National Guard, will be inspected Tuesday 13|gl)t at the armory at 8 o’clock by Major Cotton of St. Paul. All men of the company are expected to be pres- ent with full equipment. FOOTBALL DOPE BADLY _+ SHATTERED SATURDAY Michigan Humbles Minnesota 38 to 0; Hamline Keeps Goal Line Clean 5 Late-scason football dope was bad- ly shattered Saturday afternoon, when several games turned out rath- er different from pre-game expecta- tions. Michigan mad¢ a new record over Minnesota by defeating the Gopher squad 38 to 0. Ohio State lost to Illinois by 7 to 0 and Iowa won the undisputed claim for the championship of the western confer- ence by defeating Northwestern 14 I'to 0. Towa has a clean slate and the title goes to that cleven without an apparent whimper. Chicago defeated Wisconsin 3 to 0, spilling the dope for the Badger team. Tndiana dgfeated Purdue 3 to 0. In the East, Harvard upset Yale's dope and won, 10 to 3. Syracuse dou- bled Dartmouth’s score, 14 to 7. In the Minnesota state college conference, St. Olaf trimmed Gus- tavus Adolphus,- 14 to 0. Worthing- ton high school won over Stillwater high school aggregation at Northrup Field by a score of 7 to 0, eliminat- ing Stillwater from the state high school finals. Worthington and Alex- andria are scheduled to meet Thanks- giving day at the Gopher gridiron to settle the state title. Alexandria en- ters the field by reason of her vic- tory over Coleraine, 41 to 0. Hamline’s powerful team brought a most successful season to. a bril- liant close at ‘the Hamline field by defeating North Dakota university, 14 to 0. Hamline’s goal line remains uncrossed, the only points scored against the Methodists being 3 on a Carleton place-kick and 2 on a Cor- nell safety. Lidberg, Swanbeck and John Si- mons, the latter from Bemidji, were the outstandingistars for Hamline, although the entire team is reported to have shown up very wel. Simons, although handicaped by a bad leg, showed his worth when in the first quarter he tore off several long gains on a fake end run play which sent him through the line unaided. He picked his holes well and at defensive end stopped most of the plays sent his way. INTERNATIONAL FALLS MOOSE HERE ON WELFARE BUSINESS Victor Linsteen of International Falls'is T the city today on his way to the Lake Julia Sanatorium, wherc he is making arrangements with Mrs. Seville, an inmate of that institution, for sending the three Seville children to_Mooseheart. Mr. Seville died at Lake Julia San- atorium last summer and the mother is confined there now. The Moose lodge of which Mr. Seville was a mem- ber; has been ‘caring for the children for some time ar through that o:- ganization the children will be given a permanent home at the Mooscheart institution. KAPLAN TAKES CHARGE OF CO-OPERATIVE STORE The Pioneer of Saturday contained the information that Morris Kaplan had been chosen to act as manager for the Peoples Co-operative store. Mr. Kaplan will take charge of the ‘affairs of the store for a period of 'three months in which time he will endeavor to place the business on a sound paying basis. It is understood that Mr. Kaplan’s services will be given to the store without charge on the condition that the business be moved from the pres- ent location in the Schroeder block to the new Kaplan-Robertson build- ing on Second street, as soon as it will be ready for occupancy. It will be the policy of Mr. Kaplan to at once reduce operating expenses by eliminating the fresh meat depart- ment, and a:d soon as possible the hardware, dry goods and shoe de- partments: will also be discontinued. |RALPH GRACIE POST NOT TO HOLD MEETING THURSDAY Duejto the fact that the next veg- ular meeting night of the Ralph Gra- cie post of the American Legion falls on Thanksgiving day, it has been de- cided by the officers of the post not to mest this week. The first regular meeting in Dec- ember will be held December 8, but it is expected that a meeting will be held next week-for the purpose of hearing the reports of the Armistice day committees and disposing ef sev- eral other business matters. The exact date of such a meeting will be an- nounced shortly prior to the meet- ing. ROYAL ARCH MASONS TO ENTERTAIN BLUE LODGE Bemidji Chapter Royal Arch Ma- sons are entertaining all Blue Lodge Masons at the Masonic Temple this evening. Invitations have been sent to all Known Blue Lodge Masons in the city, but a general invitation is extended to all membpers of that or- der, whether members of the local lodge or not. Addresses will be made by Judge C. W. Stanton of this city and J. H. Anderson of Austin. will be served and a_smoker will be lemoyed. A very enjoyable ‘evening *ig assured all Masons who attend. Following the program a lunch] STARTING NOV. FRANCE ENGLAND R T (Copyrighny ARMAMENT | LIMITATION He CONFEREMNCE, nterested Outsider T N TEAMS REPRESENTING NGNPARTISANS TO FILE PROTEST T0 ELECTION Would .lalestrain. éanvassing Board From Declaring Officers Elected (By United Press) Bismarck, D., Nov. 21.—A group of Nonpartisans will file suit in supreme court here this afternoon asking an injunction against the state canvassing board, restraining it from declaring R. A. Nestos, S. Johnson and William Kitchen, elected to the offices of governor, attorney general spectively, when it meets on Wednes- day, November 23. It is understood the plaintiffs will charge gross frauds in the petitions asking for the recall. They will claim, according to ad- vance information, duplication and signing by former voters who were dead or moved away from the state, and by parties who did not vote at the last general election. LANGFORD INFANT DIES, AT ST. ANTHONY HOSPITAL The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Langford died at St. An- thony’s hospital Sunday. The body was taken to Solway at 11 o’clock this morning from the Huffman & O’Leary undertaking parlors, and funeral services were held at Solway and inter¢ment made in the ceme- tery there. Mrs. Langford is ister of Mrs. R. L. Luce of Bemidji. TWO FORMER MINOT POLICE TO FACE DISTRICT COURT Minot, N. D., Nov. 21.—Two for- mer Minot police officers, under in- dictments, are to be tried during the adjourned term of the district court with Judge A. G. Burr of Rosby pre- siding. They were Larry Byrne, for- mer chief, charged with grand lar- ceny, and W. S. Brown, captain, al- leged to be guilty of extortion and failure to prosecute gamblers, CABLE MONEY TRANSFER SERVICE TO GERMANY Local Manager Ina Peterson of the Western Union Teiegraph company, announces an arrangement, effective on November 25, whereby cabled money transfers to Germany will be paid in American funds. The particular value of this ar- rangement is that it eliminates all questions of exchange and places the payee in a position to take full ad- vantage of the premium on American currency. It also involves refund of the full amout deposited in the case of mnon-payment, which is another great advantage in the case of a de- preciated and declining foreign cur- rency. The Western Union Telegraph com- pany belicves that the arrangement of this direct money transfer ser- vice to Germany on the dollar basis will be of considerable convenience to people desiring to send money cheaply, quickly, safely and directly to their friends or relatives in that country. RED RIVER VALLEY CLOVER GROWERS MEET AT CROOKSTON (By United Press) Crookston, Minn., Nov. 21.—Clover growers of the Red River Valley and Minnesota were in session here to- day to develop a plan for marketing of sweet clover seed. Hugh J. Hughes, Minnesota director of markets, call- "ed the conference. —t and commissioner of -agriculturey-ve-| NO ISSUE OF PIONEER ON THANKSGIVING DAY The Bemidji Daily Pionecer will not be published Thanksgiv- ing day. Consequently advertis- ers are asked to have their copy in the hands of the advertising department not later than Wed- nesday noon for either the daily of that date or the Weekly Pio- neer, which will go to press Wed- nesday evening. NORTH DAKCTA OPENS President of Association, G. W, Hanna, Delivers the Opening Address (By United Press) Fargo, N. D., Nov. 21.—Education and its part in'the future of the state and the nation will be stressed at the state educational meeting, opening opening here this afternoon. Among the prominent speakers will be United States Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert, Cora Wil- son Stewart, famed as founder of the Moonlight schools in Kentucky, and Minnie J. Neilson, superintendent of public instruction. General meetings will be held af- ternoons and evenings. Mornings will be devoted to sectional conferences, important among which are the Par- ent-Teacher associations, school ad- ministration,, and superintendents and principals. G. W. Hanna oft Valley City is president; W. E. Parsons, Bismarck, secretary; R, L. Brown, Valley City, field secretary; Charlotte Jones, Cav- alier, treasur (By United Press) Fargo, N. D., Nov. 21.—“The teacher must be held above the faint- est need for fawning or bootlicking. If the public would get the great good out of its school the teacher must be clothed with authority to handle the internal affairs of the school as his own right.” This was one of many striking facts brought home to the teachers of North Dako- ta today by their state president, G. W. Hanna of Valley City at the opening of the state educational con- vention. Bishop Poynz Tyler de- livered_the invocation. lent H. W. Geary of the city ion welcomed the educator: to “Fargo, the threshold of the East to the West and of the West to the East.” CENTRAL PARENT-TEACHER MEETING IS POSTPONED The parent-teacher meeting of the Central school which was to have been held in the Methodist church Tuesday night, November 22, has been postponed to some future date. Announcement will be made at a later date as to the time it will be held. ST. PAUL SAFE CRACKERS SPEND BUSY WEEK END (By United Press) St. Paul, Nov. 21.- fe crackers obtained ncarly $3,000 in three rob- bery attempts today and Sunday. They smashed the combination of the safe at the Venus theater and ob- tained $333. AL the Verdi theater they took the safe from the office to the stage, but failed to gpen it with a heavy charge of explosives. Five men over-powered the watch- man _and blew the safe at the Grin- nen-Kake corporation early Sunday Clothing and other valuables amoun ing to about $1,500 were stolen from the home of V. L. Johnson last night. STATE EDUCATION MEET | CHILD CLAIMS FATHER CAUSED TRIPLE MURDER Ten-Year-Old Son Accuses Father of Killing Wife and Two Others (By United Press) Wellington, Ohio, Nov. 21.—A 10 year-old child today was the accuser { his father, Oliver Vandvort, under arrest here. Vandvort insisted he wus the vietim of circumstances in being found at the) home of his divorced wife with yhe dead bodies of Bertha Vandvort, 30, her mother, Mrs. Whit- low; wifd Howard: Boser, 24, i His son, Oliver, Jr., however, an- swered police questions with “Papa did it.” Authorities belicve Vanvore was intoxicated. They found a loaded revolver in the automobile, but no trace was fonnd of the weapon believed to have heen used in the triple murder, Vandvort insisted e was near the house Saturday night when his son ran out and cried for help. A few minutes before he had seen the figure of a man or woman leave the house, he said. TWENTY-DOLLAR BILL IS CAUSE OF SHOOTING SCRAPE (By United Press) Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 21.-—Steve Stanich of Chicago is in a critical condition in a hospital here with four bullet wounds in his head. Mike Vopo- cek is being held at the police station in connection with the shooting yes- terday afternoon. A quarrel over the ownership of a twenty-dollar bill re- sulted in the shooting. MORRIS & CO. ANNI)U‘JCES TEN PER CENT WAGE CUT Chicago, Nov. 21.—Wage reduc- ¥ [tions of 10 per cent effective on all employees was announced today by Morris & Co., packers. The redue- tion will go into effect November 28. The reduction followed recent wage slashes by other packers. NGVEMBER LIVESTOCK SALES ARE CANCELLED The sale planned by the Red River Valley Livestock association for No- vember 23 at Crookston has n sarily been canceled as a sufficient number of stock was not consigned to make this sale possible. Breeders generally throughout the valley have preferred to make sale consignments to the usual sales that have been held during the week of the winter shows. The expression of livestock men is very pronounced for the regular saies that will be held at the Winter Live- stock Show, February 6 to 10, 1922. Indications are very favorable that all bre; usually represented at the winter shows will have consigned for the sales some of the best in- dividuals of the respective breeds. Breeders are becoming reconciled to the lower prices and have deter- mined to keep on with constructive livestock improvement in the Red River valley. The coming winter sales, February 6 to 10, will be one of the best op- portunities ever presented to live- stock men of the valley to obtain good foundation stock and to add better animals to herds that have al- ready been started. Now is the time that livestock hreeders are urged to prepare for the winter livestock show and sales. Those who_expect to add something better to their herds this winter can well afford to keep in mind the breed sales that will be held during the week of Feburary 6 to 10, 1922, NA WILL ASK OPEN DISCUSSION OF DETAILS Delagation to Try to Thwart Japam:s Opcn Desire to Side-track Details ington, Nov. 21, (By Carl D. China’s delegation will try to thwart Japan’s openly expressed desire for sidetracking details at the Far Eastern conference, Seeing what ‘| they call a Japanese effort to escape the washing of soiled diplomatic linen, the Chinese let it be known today in advance of the Far Eastern commit- tee s n scheduled for 4 p. m., ! that they will soon press for an open idiscu sion <f a number of details, . { such as the Shantung-Manchurian and Isecret treaty questions. ] ‘ An important statement regarding the American attitude toward sev- I eral phases of the Far Eastern prob- lem may be made at the committee meeting, it was learned. Elihu Root has been co-onerating with Secretary of State Hughes in a comprehensive study of the oriental question and may speak for the Uni- ted States. NAVAL MILITIA GIVES DANCE WEDNESDAY NIGHT The big Thanksgiving dance, so far the only one announced in this city, will be given by the local unit of the. Naval Militia at the new ar- mory Wednesday evening, November 23, The Louisiana Red Devils or- chestra has been engaged to play for this occasion. This orchestra has played for two well-attended dances here recently and extra good dance music is assured here Wednesday eve- ning. A number of young ladies have vol- unteered to sell tickets in advance, since the proceeds will go to the Naval Militia unit, which is now heav- ily in debt. BE GUESTS OF MOOSE The Women of Mooscheart Legion will be guests at a social evening be- ing given Tuesday night, November 22, by the Moose lodge in Moose hall The members of the Moose lodge arranging a program for the evening and all Women of the Mooseheart Legion and their families are invited to be present. . The committee in charge wf the affair has not made public the nature of the program but assure all an en- Joyable evening. REV. PARMETER IN CITY ON CHILD WELFARE TRIP . L. Parmeter is in the city in connection with the work of the Children’s Home in St. Paul. He ap- peared in a number of local churches in the interest of the Home yesterday. He is the successor to the late Rev. Savage, who for manay years, was in charge of the work in' Northern Minnesota. ON GRAIN AND HAY RATE (By United Press) Paul, Nov. 21.--Reduction of state freight rates on grain and hay in Minnesota were in order to- day. The state railroad and warchouse commission ordered all railroads to show cause today why their rates on hay and grain should not be reduced in conformity with rates in inter- state shipments preseribed by the Tn- terstate Commerce Commission. Rates on wheat should be reduced about 16 per cent and on coarse grains about 17% per cent, the commission ruled. The rates were expected to be put into effect today and if not, the com- mission will hold a hearing and prob- ably enter an order specifying the new rates. UNION SERVICES AT ST. PAUL’'S CHURCH THANKSGIVING DAY Special Union Thanksgiving scr- vices will be held Thanksgiving mor- ning, November 24, in St. Paul's Evangelical church, corner of Sixth street and America avenue, of whicn Rev. William Kamphenkel is pastor. Rev. William Elliott, rector of St. Bartholomew'’s church will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon. A Union choir, made up of members from the various churches participat™,z in the service, will render spec musie, METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT The Sunday school board of the Methodist Sunday school, which in- clades the superintendent, officers and teachers, will meet th vening at the church, and it is desired that all be present. ST.PAUL’S CHURCH HOLDS CHRISTMAS SALE FRIDAY The ‘Christmas sale of the Ladies’ Aid and the Young Peoples’ League of St. Paul’'s Evangelical Lutheran church, will be held Friday afternoon of this week in the basement of the church beginning at 2:30 o’clork. Lunch will be served also during the afternoon to thoze who wish it. FRANCES OFFER France Would Cut in Half He Effective Army By Cutting Period, of Service ot BRIAND PAINTS FRANCE MENACED BY. GERMANY, To b g Claims Germany Is Not Disarms ed to')E?(tent World Generally Believes She Is (By United Press) Washington, Nov. 21.—France will cut in half her effective army by re- ducing by 50 per cent the period of France's military service, Premier Briand today stated at the arms lim- itation conference. “This,” he said, “is France’s offer to peace. Moreover, it is certain that by action of the French government the period of military service will be cut in half,” the premier said. “Ger- many,” he said, *“still has the spirit of war. France, perhaps more than any other nation, wants to bring peace throughout the world,” the pre- mier said. It was, had been expected, a pic~ ture of France menaced by Germany, which Briand painted in explaining why his country longs to disarm, but dares not do so. There was also the expected appeal to America to under« tand the I'rench position. France would like to join the Unit~ ed States in making the great sacri- fice, but dares not. America, he pointed out, has not realized the situ- ation which lies at the very door of france, in Germany. With Luden- dorff teaching war doctrine, France cannot close her eyes, Briand said. “America should understand,” said Briand, “that Germany is not disarm- ed as the world generally supposes, but has several powerful bodies of armed men under different names, all police, but all world war veterans and all-being trained Far war." He described these in detail, he said, to show that Germany has so many trained men, particularly offi- cers that it would take only a few days to martial an army that would endanger France. (By United Press) London, Nov. 2lL.—Great Britain would be certain to join the United States in cvent of war between Am- erica and Japan, The Times declared today in demanding abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The Daily Express o urged Japan to yield to the Harding program for lim- itation of naval armament. WOMAN VOTERS HOLDING REGIONAL CONFERENCE (By United ‘Press) Des Moines, In., Nov. 21.—The annual regional conference of the League of Woman Voters of the Fifth Region opened here today. It is the second annual meeting of the or- ganization. Members are present from Minne- sota, Towa, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. MOOSEHEART WOMEN TO MEET WEDNESDAY NIGHT The Women of the Mooscheart Le- gion will hold their regular meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at Moose hall and all members are urged to be present. Lunch will be served af« ter the business session, PHILOMATHIAN CLUB TO HOLD MEETING TONIGHT The Philomathian club will meet this evening at the home of M. W. Deputy. The subject for discussion will be “Capital and Labor,” and tha subject will be treated by Georgq W. Rhea and George W. Harnwell, FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE OWNED BY A. LA BOUNTY Fire completely destroyed the resiy dence owned by A. LaBounty located at the west end of Eighth street Suna day afternoon shortly after 4 o’clock, The origin of the fire is unknown, it evidently having started while the occupants were outside, but it is thought to have been caused from an over-heated stove, The house was occupied by a family named Har- ding. Practically none of the contents of the house were saved. Information as to insurance could not be obtained this forenoon. A silent alarm was turned in at 6 o’clock, soon after the fire had been discovered in the brsement of the Doran plumbing shop, and this was extinguished with chemicals. Fira had caught in some kindling near thg furnace, | | EACE | . -