Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 10, 1922, Page 1

Ny F. J. KOORS TO SUCCEED The Pioneer is the only daily within 100 miles ‘of Bemidji and has the largest circulation in North- , ern Minnesota, : Generally fair tonight ednesday, preceded by un weather this afternoon; 'der tonight. “BEMIDJI, MINN., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1922 56c PER MONTH VOLUME XIX: NO: 223 FAVORS CHANGE INWATER RATE Amendment to Water Or\di- nance Accepted Unanimously After Final Reading P. BARNELL IN FOURTH — Nuxx;ber of Minor Propositions Keep Councilmen Occupied Until Late Hour Final reading and acceptance of tie proposed amendment to the city or- dinance governing water rates in Bemidji was perhaps the most im- portant matter taken up; by the city council in regular sgasion Monday night, although asnumber of other 1435 important _imatters kept the aldermen on the job-untili@ late hop The vote on th & N unanimous . for*cceptat new ruling will o into:efis diately following legal 1 - The purpose of the amendment is to regulate the amount to be paid -by water consumers who use more than 500,000 gallons of city water in a quarter. The amended ordinance would ‘make the rate for any amount bi- tween 500,000 gallons and 1,000,000 gallons 15 cents a thousand gallors, and any amount over 1,000,000, 11 cents a thousand gallons. Thc 1aini- mum charge of $2.50 a quarter will remain the same as in the old or- dinance. Another provision of the amended ordinance is that a penalty may be inflicted on those persons whio do notpay their water bills 30 days after they are due. At that time the water can be cut off and a payment of $5 will be required, before the water is again continued. Pearl Barnell, who has Tepresented the Fourth ward on the council for several years, tendered his resigna- tlon Monday night, apparertly be- cause of conflicting business. His res- ignation was acccpted as, was also the resignation .of Street. Commissioner W. E. Hazen. S Frank J. Koors of the Fourth ward was elected to fill the Barnell vacan- cy for the remainder of the uncx- pired term, which engds a year from the coming city election. Discussion _was held concerning what course of action should be tak- en regarding. aldermen who have failed to be present for the past sev- eral months, but no action was taken since it is only a short time until tae next city election. George J. Row of this city has been selected to audit the city books for the present fiscal year, which ends January 31. The last audit was made b}{ the Bishop-Brissman company of Minneapclis, and in giving Mr. Row the job the council considered that less expense would be involved through hiring -a local ‘man. The report of the city treasurer was read by President J. P. Lahr, accepted and orde’r/q‘d placed on file. The' report of thé municipal t‘:nufi for the two weeks ended January 7, showed a total of $132.80 collected in fines, was also read and accepted. Anothgr interesting report was that of the city health officer, Dr. E. A. Shannon. This report showed the city unusually healthy during the past three months. Forty-six births and thirty deaths were recorded- during that period. The report of the fire chief for the month of December showed eight calls answered by the department, two being silent. Chief Dailey recommend- ed that a new truck be purchased soon. His report was also accepted and ordered placed on file. Follfawlmg the resignation of Street Commissioner Hazen, which is to be- come effective at once, motion was made and carried that bids be asked for snowplowing the sidewalks and streets for the balance of the-fiscal year. < The use of one-third of the street near the City Livery was asked by Denigon & Burgess while constructing a new building. This request was granted and a surety bond of $500 was asked to be furnished. In a written report by the city engineer and the fire chief, a request was made that the city purchase eight fire hydrants under specifications to be supplied by the superintendent of water works. . The street committee was author- ized to purchase an outfit to thaw out frozen hydrants, the cost not to ex- ceed $50. The need for such an outfit was clearly oulined by the city en- gineer. E. W. Hannah’s request for license to operate a second-hand store was accepted, as was also the request of J. J. Doran for a_plumbing license. T. C. Fenson was granted a renewai on his pool table license and William McDermid was granted a license on four pool tables. Transfer of the soft drink license at the New Frederick hotel from Marr to Shorts was also granted. Two requests-for soft drink licenses were laid ‘on the table until the next regular meeting. ~ . A resolution to cancel all outstand- ing warrants issued prior to Novem- ber 1, 1917, as recommended by the (Continued on Page 8) HEATON JURY FAILS TO REACH VERDICT AT NOON —_— Fate ;:f Former Bank Teller ;t Fargo Still in Hands of Deliberating Jury Fargo, N: D., Jan. 10.—The jury in district court-which took under: con- sideration the case-of Frank Heaton, former teller of the Ssandinavian- American bank of Fargo, had not reported today at rioon. 8 Heaton is accused of embezzling i $78,000 of the bank’s funds. The state state introduced witnesses, who tes- tified that Heaton had confessed to taking the money before a director’s meeting. . One witness, whose testimony Heaton afterward des’ared to be false, said Heaton ¢ old him he first dipped into_ the\ % ¥s funds to pay his first. wife’s "3;, \l expenses and then continued hi\ 2. * Heaton, who took th '6, 7d in his own defense, said he esumed responsibility for the e: ‘g(. \ement on the promise from th that he would not be proso under threats of prosecuii did not assume the responsibi RETURNS FROM CENTENAI%Y 4 CONFERENCE IN ILLINOIS Rev. Blaine Lambert, district mis- sionary for the Methodist Episcopal ¢hurch, returned Sunday night to Be- midji after spending the past two weeks at the Centenary training con- ference-at Evanston, 1ll. He reports that there will be a sub-district con- .ference’ here January 31, which will include the churches in the Bemidji territory. At that time there.will be a report made of the centenary pro- gram up to date. CHARTER COMMISSION TO MEET THURSDAY EVENING C. W. Vandersluis, chairman of the newly appointed charter commission, announces that, due to the Charity ball Wednesday evening, the next regular meeting of the charter com- mission will be held Thursday evening at 8 o’clock, instead of on Wednesday evening as planned. . BIG MERGER MAY BRING LOWER PULLMAN RATES Washington, Jan. 10.—A big mer- ger, which mayeventually bring low- er Pullman rates, was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission today. The merger will make possible greater economies in construction costs, the Pullman company said. BEMIDJI PAINTERS HOLD IMPORTANT MEET TONIGHT There ‘will be a mass meeting of Bemidji painters at_tie Odd Fellows hall at 7:30 o’clock tZis evening, and at that time there will be something of importance to all members an- nounced by the president of the union. All painters are urged to be present to establish the scale for the coming season and to promote har- mony in the painting art in Bemidji. GRAND FORKS LEGION TEAM PLAYS THURSDAY Local fans are assured _another treat when the Bemidji National Guard team takes the floor against the Grand Fork (N. D.) American Legion team Thursday night. The Dakotans come here with an enviable record, and, from all reports, expects to cop off the game. The game will be staged at the new armory, begin- ning at 8 o’clock. The visitors will run up against a tough snag when they meet Company K’s reorganized team, the same out- fit which defeated the Excelsior Y. M. C. A. team last Saturday night by a score of 27 to 24 in a fast, hard- fought game. Practically the same line-up as participated in that game will be out for the game Thursday night, and in- dications are that fans may expect just as good a game as the last. ASSOCIATION WILL HOLD REGULAR MEET TOMORROW | da; No definite program has been an- nounced for the regular weekly meet- ing of the Civic and Commerce as- sociation tomorrow, but .an inter- esting session is assured and a large attendance is urged. An especially attractive menu has been arranged for the luncheon which will precede the business meeting. Discussion will be held regarding the association’s budget for the year, and all geiabers . are urged to be present to take an active part in this. H. Z. MITCHELL’S UNCLE PASSES AT WASHINGTON H. Z. Mitchell received word Mon- day of the sudden death of hi$ uncle, Charles S. Mitclell, editorial writer on the Washington Herald. C. S. chell was well known te a large num- ber of Bemidji people as the edtior ¢f the Duluth News-Tribune, a position he held for a number of years, leav- ing Duluth a little vve to accept the Washington pusition. He received nis early ncwspaper training on the St. Cloud Journal- Press and was later owner of the Alexandria Post News. He is a past president of the Minnesota Editorial association and was always active in newspaper circles. He is survived by | his widow and three children. The re- mains will probably be interred at St. Cloud, |D‘ AW Wit | My A ATV A\ \\ \\\\ \| \! A\ N )\ WY 2T TR e SN \ \! \ W\ NO CHINAFYING OF RED RUSSIA, STATES SOVIET Four-Power Plans to Enter Russia Will Fail Unless Changed, Writer Says By Lloyd Allen (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Jan. 10.—Plans for an Anglo - American - Franco - German agreement to penetrate Russia, re- build her industrles, restore her cri pled transport system and rehabil tate her generally, will fail unless they are radically revised. 5 The Russian view is that the “pene- trating” countries have planned an attractive ‘wedding, providing a dash- ing bridegroom, but have failed even to seek the necessary consent of the bride. Russia, the United Press learns au- thoritatively, will not negotiate with a European consortium. If there is any negotiation by Russia, it will be with America in Washington,” Great Britain in London, Germany in Ber- lin and France in Paris. There may be first a general meet- ag. It will have nothing directly to o with penetrating Russia, howéver, but will deal with recognition of the soviet government. The position of the Russians is that any sort of capital will be welcomed. Capital is essential to the former em: pire, and Russia cannot be put upon her feet without it. “But,” a soviet trade official said toda)_', “there will be no Chinafying of Russia. Certainly we want capital. And we can make propositions to cap- gtalists that will assure our getting it. But we will get it as a world power should, from individual countries. . ““We do-not want and are not go- (Coutinued on Page 8) RICKENBACHER DECLARES INFAVOR OF AIRPLANES (By United Press) New York, Jan.- 10.—Airplanes, which are not being restricted by the arms conference, will serve the next war, Captain Eddie Rickenbacher, American ace of aces, declared to- y. “The dreadnaughts of the air will hurl death by bombs on defenseless men, women and children. . “Nevertheless, I believe the Wash- ington arms conference is right in not restricting airplanes,” Ricken- backer said in an interview with the United Press, “The airplane being the devil war it is also the angel of peace,” h declared. This is the opinion of the sky fighter who brought down more Germans than any other American fiyer. NORTH DAKOTA UNIERSITY PLANS ORATORICAL CONTEST i LBy United Press) . Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 10.— Orations’to be delivered in the con- test at the university in February must be on file today with the regis- trar. Six contestants will be chosen at a preliminary conference. The win- ner of the university title and $30 prize will compete in the intercolle- giate contest here in March at which the North Dakota Masons will give a gold watch as the prize. MOOSE COMMITTEES TO HOLD MEETING TONIGHT There will be a meeting of the executive committee and the house committee of the Moose lodge in the new lodge rooms tonight at 8 o’clock. All members of these committees are urged to be nresent as important busi- ness is to come before them, | Sixty-five ting the pre: dertaker, BEMIDJI TEACHERS T0 PLAY CROOKSTON AGGIES The Bemidji State Teachers college basketball aggregation will appear in action here this week when the Ag- gies from the Northwestern School fo Agriculture at Crookston come here Friday evening for the initial meeting of these two schools. Since losing to the veteran St. Cloud Teachers line-up, the Bemidji teachers have been going through regular practice in hopes that such drill will aid the boys to continue throughout the game the same brand of basketball as displayed by them in the early part of the game. Be- midji led St. Cloud in the first sev- eral minutes of play, but was unable to continue the same style of game throughout. b = Coach Wirth announces that Crook- ston should have one of the best teams in that section. since the school has a large number of male students to pick from in selecting a team. GRIFFITH IS ELECTED HEAD OF DAIL EIREANN (By United Press) Dublin, Jan. 10 (By Charles Mc Cann).—Arthur Griffith tndqy wus elected president of the Dail Eireann. The former minister under Eamonn De Valera will head the provisional government to arrange for the estab- ment of the Irish Free State. Whether Griffith will also resume the presi- dency of the Irish republic will be known later. Michael Collins moved that Arthur Griffith be appointed president of the Dail. O’Dufly seconde.i the motion. (By ed Pross) Dublin, Jan. 10.-—As a protest against this motion amonn De Val- era left the council chambers, his supporters followed him afterward. members remaining an- swered the roll call electing Griffith. POSTOFFICE CAN REDEEM OUTSTANDING THRIFT STAMPS Postmaster A. P. Ritchie has re- ceived authority from W; ngton to redeem outstanding thrift stamps at face value of 25 cents each, when affixed to thrift cards in the number of 16. The cash may be had or stamps will be accepted as postal savings depos- its. They will be a pted from any holder, regardless of any names writ- ten on the cards, and no previous no- tice is necessary. TEARDORF FUNERAL TO BE HE[MEDNESDAY be held to- Funeral ser morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in this city for Charles [ rdorfy who passed away at the University hospital, Minneapo- lis, Saturday, after a short illness. The deceased had been principal of the tonsolidated school at Spur dur- nt term, previous to located at the school which he in North The rel s of the deceased ar- rived in nidji yesterday morning and arrangements have now been completed for the funeral, Deardorf was a member of the American Yeo- men lodge of this city and the Wood- man lodge of Lapor He is survived by his wife and two <ons, Norman, 14, and Kenneth, 13, his mother, two sisters and four brothers. The mother, one brother and Mrs. Deardorf's brother, Lyle Norman of Park Rapids are here to attend the funeral. Interment will be made in Greenwood cemetery under the direction of M. E. Ibertson, un- |4 WOULD HAVE U. S, BUY ALL LIQUOR SUPPLIES Jcint Committee to Recommend Government Purchase of Bonded Liquor Washington, Jan. 10.—Pur,hase by the government of all liquor supplies in the country will be recommendcd to President Harding soon by a joint committee on government reorganiza- tion. The plan is to have Uncle Sam buy all the liquor now in bonded W; houses, which ®uld be bougit, it estimated; for $50,000,000. The trea ury. could quickly get back this money and then by the sale of five million gallons for medicinal purposes at $12 a gallon, the committee holds, the proposal would save millions now paid out to guard the warehouse rd keep records. The prohibition oiTice and Wayne B. Wheeler favor the proposit The government now must guard bonded warchouses in which the whi: key is stored. E. R. JAHR RESIGNS AS LUMBER COMPANY MANAGER | E. R. Jahr today gave out the in- formation that he has resigned as manager of the Smith Lumber com- pany of this city, his resignation to take effect in the very near future. Mr. Jahr has been connected with is company for the past eight years, with the exception of about 18 months, when he was engaged in the s in lowa City, lowa, and Croshy, Minn. ade no definite plans for te future, but expressed a desire to remain in Bemidji and advises that in all probability he will continue his residence here. ‘ HIGH SCHOOL TO PLAY LITTLE FALLS FRIDAY Bemidji high school’s basketball squad will make another attempt in the district schedule this week, when the team journeys to Ittle Falls Friday morning to meet that high school squad there Friday evening in the first game between the two schools since two years ago. Little Falls high school has a vet- eran line-up which has been winning all of its games so far this season, and the Bemidji outfit looks forward to a hard battle against the Morrison county boys. Next Wednesday night, the Cass Lake high school quint will play the locals here an eXceptionally fast game is looked for. The Bemidji State Teachers college squad found the Cass Lake bunch a hard crowd to beay but came out of the game on the long end of a 23 to 17 score. Judging from that, the high school boys will find Cass Lake no easy contender when that team com DEMOCRATS LAUD WILSON AS THE “FATHER OF PEACE” (By United Press) Minneapolis, Jan. 10.--Woodrow Wilson was lauded as the “father of peace” by demacrats here today for the annual Jackson day dinner and rally. Return of democracy was freely predicted for 1924. Polic of the present republican administration were criticized, and democrats pre- pared to work for party candidates in this year’s congressional elections. The Jackson day dinner is an an- nual fete with Minnesota democrats is staged by the Minnesota Demo- club, g TWIN CITY DOINGS OF INTEREST T0 BEMIDJI Former Residents of Bemidji Remembered By Pioneer’s Twin City Bureau Minneapolis, Jan. 10.—“I expect to have some interesting information for the people of Beltrami county in about a week,” said Mike Holm, sec- retary of state, while over from St. Paul today in connection with auto- mobile license arrangements. it will afford me pleasure to present what- ever I may have through the wolumns of the Pioneer.” Just what it is that Mr. Holm will I give out, can not be forcn:usteq, but the intimation was that it will be something -of particuiar mterest to Beltremi county taxpayers. Tom McCann, formeriy of Bemidji and now “general manager of _:le Shevlin interests with general off on the eighth floor of the Soo-First National, the same Tom that he was in Bemidji. He recently w pointed a member of the comnittee investigating agriculture, the appoint- ment being made by President 1 ding. Incidentally, Mr; McCann is { perfecting some plans for operations in Beltrami county that will be made known shortly. W. E. McKenzie, publisher of the Crookston Tim and who is wel! known in Bemidji, was in Minneapo- lis recently on his way to Battle Creek, Mich., for treatment in a san- itarium there. + W. R. Mackenzie, former resident of Bemidji and widely known, partic larly because of his work in organ ing the Northern Minnes ment association, its sec ¢ and daughte Cal. Mr. M ill at a Detroit | confined for sev inally, he recovered ciently to get to from here he went west. He has an ailment of the heart. He is reported to be improvir Mrs. Macken at Los Angele became i tel, whe ¢ ufli- Minneapolis and The Twin Cities have many forme: residents of Bemidji who now make ACCEPTANCE OF NAVY PROGRAM EXPECTED SOON Plenary Session Friday Is Now Expected to Announce New Five-Power Pact CHINESE MOVE TODAY * HELD AS ONLY BLOCK French Pick Apparent Flaw in Clause Allowing Building for Outside Nations (By United Press) Washington, Jan. 10.—A plenary session of the arms conference is ex- pected Friday to announce to the world the powers’ acceptance of the naval limitation treaty sigpcd by the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy. The five powers involved in the treaty will affix their signatures Saturday, aecording to present plans. Arthur Balfour, head of the British delegation, has post- poned his departure to participate in the signing of the treaty. The con- ference is now approaching its wind- up. l!'unxid«rtllim\ of the naval treaty which embodies the sweeping pro- gram for limitation of armament in its modified form was expected to come before the conference in secret session today. Its approval is pect- ed, although some lively discus: is probable. Its fate in the senate appears sat- isfactory, but today there came to life a new movement from Chinese quarters to stir up sufficient pro- Chinese sentiment so that senators vould serve notice that they would kill the treaty unless Shantung was satisfactorily ~ settled. The Chinese said “they were exploring new ave- nues” since the Japanese appeared in- digposed to continuance ot the new offices of Hughes and Balfour. The news of the alleged Chines move oringinated from British sources. As for the fate of the their homes here, the list including William P. Dyer, former superintend- ent of schools at Bemidji and now professor at the college of agricui- ture; Montreville J. Brown, tant attorney general; R. E. Fisher, form- er city ticket agent, now selling stocks and bonds in Minneapolis with offices in the Plymouth building; Tom Mc Cann, now mana, for the Shevlin- Carpenter dinte S Harvey, ;still with the Shevlin inter + W, H. Schmidt, who ran a groce store there AL Wilson, now engaged in publicit ' work. {ARBUCKLE GETS READY FOR TRIAL TOMORROW San Francisco, Jan. 10.—Roscoe Arbuckle lolled in a luxu uite at the Plaza hotel here today between conferences with his million-dollar defence, and otherwise got ready for the opening tomorrow of his second trial on a charge of taking the life of Virgia Rappe. As “Fatty” was socially ostracised; if he were broke; if he had sold his ,000 automobile or any of his cheapc ~ ones; if he saw ruin ahead of him he did not show it. He was takini his rest. He plainly showed worr: times, but in the language of the street, “they haven’t got his goat.” =3 ST. PAUL MAN SH_O‘OTS SELF; WIFE HELD AS WITNESS St. Paul, Jan. 10.—Reynold Mal- kan died carly today from the effects of pneumonia and a bullet wound, *[which, he said, was self-inflicted. A women known as Mrs. Malkan is held by police as a witness without charge. She was turned over to the coroner because she was in the room at the Van Dyke hotel where Malkan said he shot himself, because she was going to leave him, MISSING COMMISSIONER MAY BE STILL ALIVE Ft. William Ontario, Jan. 10.—A light seen on Welcome island last night led to the hope that it might be the signal of James Mahar, miss ing commissioner of Cook coun who. disappeared nearly .two wecks ago. PREMIERS AGREED UPON ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE (By ‘United Press) Cannes, France, Jan. 10.—An Ang- lo-I'rench defense alliance as the bas- is for European economic reconstruc- tion and peace has been agreed to by Premiers Briand and Lloyd George. The text of the British memorandum on the agreement is today being con- sidered by the members of the Brit- ish cabinet and is to be presented here tonight. In French circles it was said that the treaty is satisfactory to France and that it will strengthen Briand's position with his parliament. The pact to be signed by Britain and France might be arged to in- clude Belgium and Italy, making it a four-power treaty, treaty it became known today that objection would be raised -probably by the IFrench to a new clause per- mitting the five powers.to build battleships ior Toreign account. This clause allows a power to construct i ships not larger than those permitted to the five powers, but with the stipulation that all d tails shall be furnished the other s nalories. The French objection is under- stood to be based on the basis that the nations would scek to evade the treaty terms by building for other powers with the chance that the craft could be bought back. It was learned that the agreement between the United Stat ireat Britain and Japan that islands in the pacific be left at status quo has not yet been set down in the draft of the naval treaty. This has caused some surprise outside the conference as a definite agreement on this subject was an- nounced by Sceretary Hughes. COLD STORAGE LIMITT_ON WILD DUCKS EXPIRES TODAY (By United Press) St. Paul, Jun. 10.—Wild ducks held in cold storage after today are in violation of the federal migratory s law and will be confiscated, ac- cording to an announcement made by Charles Avery, state game and fish commissioner. The state law permits the storage of birds for thirty days but the fed- eral laws allow only ten, and Avery announced that the federal law is to be enforced. The duck hunting sea- son closed January 1. IMPLEMENT DEALERS IN SESSION AT MINNEAPOLIS (By United Press) _Minneapolis, Jan. 10.—Problems vital to the implement dealers of Min- nesota were discussed today at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Im- plement Dealers’ association in tho West hotel Representatives of farm- ers’ co-operative dssociations, includ- ing ex-President L. E. Potter of the the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federas ation, are to address the gathering. — “HARD BOILED SMITH” MAY BE CALLED FOR HEARINGS Washington, Jan. 10,—The calling of “Hard Boiled Smith” as a witness, if he can be located, is being con- sidered today by the senate commite tee probing alleged illegal hangings, murders and brutalitics in the Amer+ ican army during the war. The in- vestigators want Smith to testify re- garding the American wrainin near Paris, C. W. JEWETT CO. DESIGNATED WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS . The C. W. Jewett company of this ity has been designated as wholesale distributors of Ford parts, as have all organized Ford sales and service deal- er: new ruling will enable them ! Il to hardware dealers, ga I repair shops, ete., at wholes will create for them a new operation and distribution, to e and ficld of — i e