Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 19, 1922, Page 1

wit] N«\)'rl;_hem Minnesota. VOLUME XIX, NO. 231 The Pioneer is_the only_daily in: 100 miles of Bemidji and has. the largest circulation in e A R 2 ) : * MINNESOTA ! Y 5 to- night and Friday; rising tempera- ture tonight and in east and south portions Friday, 88c PER MONTH e el " Army 'l;.e‘mr'lo'l’ln.y Cambridge [TAMS BIXBY TO BELAID | TOREST AT RED WING According to'a telegram received this morning- from ' Miss Eloise L Callahan, secretary of the Bemid. Townsite and Improvement company, St. Paul, of which company Tams Bix- ? lby was president at the time of his death at Kansas City Tuesday eve- ning, fueral services for Mr. Bixby were tq be held at the family home City Squad Again Tonight; |at Muskogee, Okla., today. The re- 2 5 ¥ mains are to be sent by way of St. BandWl“ Be Out Paul to Red Wing, Mr. Bixby’s former 55 —— ‘home, for burial Saturday. % € & : Mr. Bixby’s family was remembered “DOUBLE HEADER GAMES by the Civic and Commerce associa- ARE BOTH HARD-FOUGHT |tion in regular meeting Wednesday 18 Score; Cambridge Wins By 30 to 19 Count Cass Lake High Loses By 32 to Basketball fans ‘who. delight in hard-fought games _were«well pleased noon.and a message of condolénce was ordered sent to the family in their hour of bereavement. The mes- sage is in recognition of the fact that Mr. Bixby was largely responsi- ble-for the early and present success of this city. ) 3 with, the* two. games. staged at the - new armory. last evening, Bemidji high school squad ‘score of 32 to 18, and the Bem Army team lost to city squad by a count High school fans ‘we the turn: of events for of.30 to 19, delightéd: up their best:game o defeated the Cass Lake-high school outfit ] %g idji the Cambridge the Bemidji: team and consider-the students put of the season; The Cambridge-Bemidji game, despite Be- midji’s defeat; reminded local fans of the old style games when the “Big Bemidji”’ squad was _going 'strong. ncisco, ~Jan. 19:—Chen ,Chinese by parentage, \'in the "American army it | Wh r he\ | sleeps with his ances- e South Gate of Can- < 7And by order of the United States war department he has fruit cake in his coffin’ so: he won’t get hungry. Chen was killed fighting in France, His father; Chen Sing-lo, wrote to the Cambridge and Bemidji are fo meet|war department and asked that his again tonight ' and) the Army team hopes to play the: visitors a mm;h _closer game, with possible ‘victory in sight. Peterson Stars For the high school, Peterson was easily the star of the game. Although ill all day yesterday, he playe ing "1 he wa: “a whale of a game” ‘netting of the 32 points for Bemid; showed up well, as usual,, although he scored anly one basket from the floor. He also made good on six out. of seven attempts at.free throws. Henry at center showed improvement scoring three field goals. iSl'n th: completed over his . previous . games, - the scoring for B , dji with one field oV e goal. Hulett substituted for Boyce dead boy’s bod wentvm} its way to at left guard, and Hickerson substi- . ? son’s body might be returned to Can- ton to sleep with the ancestors of the Chen family. The war department ‘ |listened to the plea of the father and directed that whatover the old man asked he should receive, . So the body of Chen Chan-Sen was d | brought from France to New York, 6 | where it' was met by his father. . “It’s a long journey back to China and then a long way more ' to the place where our forefathers sleep,” said ‘the. elder Chen. And according to Chinese custom, he asked that cake and other ‘goodies be placed in the casket “lest the boy be hungry.” The request was officially granted and the China. i On top’ of the'casket. are two tuted for Smith at right guard when nter 'in place of Smith went t Henry. \ Waldon and'Lar: for Cass Lake, Larsen, right with four field | goals, and Waldon, right forward, with:three field baskets and two out of eleven free throws. Koenempn. left forward, completed the scoring for his team with one field goal. Marshall, center, and' Caswell,|D. D. MILLER’S FATHER left guard, failed to score. Bemidji- started the scoring and rang up three field goals befdre Cass ot ‘started. The visitors then né back and at the end of the first period the score stood 18 to 10 in favor of Bemidji. Albert Hanson of " Lake , came 1ed the scoring &criptions, -one ‘i “Chinese’ and “the other.in American. They were written by the father and both say: 3 “This soldier named Chen Chang- ‘Sen, also named Iutso, another name Sze-Too-Sun. His i home is Jia gi Chuen, outside of South Gate, Tai Sen Shen (Shin Ling), Canton, China.” 5 TAKEN, TO ROCHESTER ; % 4 . Dwight D. Miller, formerly in the insurance business. in. Bemidji, re- cently took his father, T. J. Miller, al- so a former Bemidji business man, to Fosston refereed and his work met [the state hospital for the insane at with ‘approval. - the season closes. Cambridge- Bemidji Cambridge put. up -the old-style game of “get away with all you can” and as-a result the game was hard. fought from start to finish. The visit- ors started the scoring with a. field baslgg:t and Plummer, playing for Be- midji, evened the score with two free throws. From then on for the re- mainder ‘of the first half, the score see-sawed until the end of the period iound.t}xe count 15 to 13 in favor of the visitors: In the' second period, o Cambridge added another 15 points to it§ score while' Bemidji made but six points in this half. . Plummer led the scoring for Be- midji -with three field baskets and three out of three free throws from the foul line.: Playing left forward; this former Bemidji high school and city team star, who has been playing this season with the Thief River Falls cty team, was considered the star of the local squad. Fred Phibbs at cen- ter, scored two- field -baskets; Camer- on, right guard, one; Frank Phibbs, right forward, one; and Bailey, left guard, one. "Norton Shows Speed Norton, of the fast Ascensions team of ‘Minneapolis starred for the Cam- bridge squad. Living up to the repu: tation of having been selected by l-American high Walter- Camp a5 ' guard, ‘his team with six fieid (Continged on page 6) (By United Pn‘n) ann) .—Unemployed men seized F'meeting “hall here part in the demonstration. ther .power from the Irish office and in England, / Thé next local game for the high - school squad will - be. ‘against the Brainerd high school Friday evening, -:Iarmary. 27. Coach ‘Smith is well sat- isfied with the showing made by the team last night and with s fair break _ - of lack looks forward to several more victories for the Bemidji team before Dublin, Jan: 19 (By" Charles Mc last night = and formed a voluntary army of four companies, raised the red flag and refused to evacuate. About 120 took Neégotiations to transfer still fur- London to 3 provisional government ‘were being pushed in conferences here Rochester for treatment. The senior Miller is 74 years old and up to-the time of his detention had beeén em- ployed by the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce. association. CROCHETCRAFT BOOKS OFFERED SUBSCRIBERS Six Months’ Subscription for Daily or Year for Weekly Gets Choice Book The first. shipment of Crochetcraf.t books of 112 pages _with 414 beauti- ful designs have arrived and are now. on display at The Pioneer office. These books, are not for sale. ’{‘hat isy they are mot to be sold. outright for cash. The ‘only way you can se- cure one of these books is'by paying .a six-month subscription to The Daily Pioneer or one year to The Weekly Pioneer. s The rate for The Daily. Pioneer is $3 a year délivered in the city by car- rier and $2.50 for six months by mail. The Weekly Pioneer is $2 a year by mail. it Crocheteraft is the most elaborate, most complete collection of modern crochet patterns and designs ever assembled in a single book. 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Re- member they are not sold, but given frée with The Pioneer as above stated. a in BEMIDJI, MINN.; THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 19, 1922 10 C.:G. Selvig of Crookston, presi-| dent of the Conservarncy Board, has informed The Pioneer by letter relative to the prog- Tess being made on the drainage ‘plan. He advises that Mr. Reed, drainage engineer of the-United States Indian: Bureau, expected to send the Re recently sub Drainage an: Commissioner of Indian Bureau C. H.| A ¢sociation Stands With Bowed | Commissioner Burke is hoped for. Viewers on the Red Lake project will be appoi approved by .| partments; advises Mr. Selvig. Ever -|since February- 21, 1921, when con- gress passed work_has: be ‘| project. It was materially expedited when the legislature on April 19 last appropriated funds for the survey. On October 28 a preliminary hear- ing was held here and on’ November 22 and 23 # conference ‘with the In- dian bureau officials On account ~of ‘thel ‘Washington. meager data self and the Walker, chief engineer, and Adolph |every co-operation possible to F. Meyer, consulting engineer, have : had to go forward very carefully.in| order to be sure of their ground, re- ports Mr. Selvig. Following ence, Mr. Meyer prepared his report, which was 31, 1921. It ing over 16 diagrams. Without doubt the Wash- ington offici: cision as “so| them to do s MUSICAL MEET FRIDAY AFTERNOON - The Bemidji' Musical Art club will meet tomerrow afternoon at 4 o’clock at the rooms of the, Civic and Com, assodiation monthly session. A fine program has been arranged for this meeting and merce: it 18 urged t ent. RIS 7 The following program will be giv- en: Paper—*‘‘Negro Music,” by Mrs: W. C.. Budge. “Oh, 'Mary don‘ yo’ weep, don’ yo” mourn.” “Swing low, sweet chariot,” | by State ' Teachers College Girls’ Glee club. Reading, Miss Josephine Parker, with musical accompaniment, by Miss Ella Parker.’ SCREIY e Y I MISS SJOSELIUS RECITAL 1S KEENLY ANTICIPATED4 Bemidji‘music fans are excited over the fact that a real grand opera star is to appear peared. in & opportunity. of the chure! most. 4 Board Says Early Action on Plan Is Now Expected “From Uncle Remus,” MacDowell, by Arvilla’Kenfield. selius, whe is to sing at the Methodist church- Friday night, has never ap- and, probably never will again, so a large attendance is expected to take advantage of this really wonderful variety enough to appeal to every one and it is expected that the capacity Red Lake Drainage and Red Lake d Lake drainage report, mitted by the Red Lake, d Conservancy Board, to Burke yesterday. Early action by inted when final plans are the interior and war ‘de- the Red Lake bill, active en put on the Red Lake was held at regarding Red Lake it~ run-off area, George W. the Washington confer- submitted on December is a lengthy one, includ- pages with 16 maps and als will submit their de- on_as it is possible for. 0, Mr. Selvig believes. ART CLUB TO | in regular -bi: hat all members be pres- “The First Banjo,” by in their midst. Miss Sjo- . city of this size before Her program contains h will be taxed to its ut- | Minneapolis Civic and Commerce as- Carter and Mitcl;nell’vkeport to Association F: nv@fi{nbly on Outside Co-operation GOVERNOR PREUS SAID TO BE GIVING HIS AID Heads Out of Respect to ' Tams Bixby, Deceased Lower rates for wood products was the chief topic: of discussion at the association luncheon ‘Wednesday noon | and from reports made by Charles Carter and H. Z. Mitchell, ihdications are that these lower rates will be forthcoming soon. Mr. Carter received several commu- nications, among them being one from Governor Preus, who adyised that he was much interested in ‘the probiem and that he had conferred with the railroad and warehouse commission and further stated that'he would give ing about lower rates. 3 " H. Z. Mitchell, while in the Twin Cities last week, met with the North- west. development committee of the sociation and advised that this body was discussing land clearing -and lower wood rates in Northern Minne- sota. Everything b, v of co-oper ation is being done, advised Mr. Mit- chell. The advisory board tion Army met after and:Mr. G. W, Harnwell’s ve; was _accepted; but no other appoint- went was made, General discussion followed the opening of :the i c¢oncerning the needy of this I The Civic an tion, when advised of the death o Tams Bixby by R L. Given, who also moved that a message of“condolence be sent the family, passel the same by_g zising voe; and, ssedhfor g of the Salva- Tuncheon ROSBY SUNDAY SCHOOL TO HOLD BOX: SOCIAL FRIDAY | The' Rosby’.Union ‘Sunday school will hold ‘a box social at the Rosby Community chapel Friday evening.| The Rosby people are anxious to com-; plete their chair fund and are look-| ing forward to a large attendance Friday evening. | CHARGES SOLDIERS WERE | HELD UNDER ICY WATER (By United Press) ‘Washington, Jan. 19.—Charges that private soldiers, who had com- mitted minor offences, were doused to death under icy water at Savenay, France, were laid before the senate invéstigating ~commitice. today. Charlés Elliott of Newark, N. J., swore he saw guards punish men, who were late for sentry duty, by holding them ‘twenty =~ minutes, with their clothing on, in a stream of cold wa- ter, and ‘that several men died of the effects. - RGADS IN NORTH DAKOTA Minnesota Senator Tells Grain Growers That Bad Roads Are Waste of Money — (By United Press) Fargo, N. D, - Jan. ]_‘J:—“Good roads improve moral conditions, pro- mote health, extend educational op- portunities, furnish homes for the { poor, work for the unemployed, food for the hungry, and do more to pro- mote community interest than any movement undertaken by the moral- ists of the age. “Bad roads cause enormous waste of time and money. Because of them $414,000,000 is lost annually on the crops. One-sixth of a year they are impassable. In 1919 many Minnesota farmers claimed'theyrlost 65 cent$ a bushel on wheat because of inability to get it to market at the proper time.” These were some of the arguments for road construction advanced be- fore the Tri-State Grain Growers by State -Senator P. H. McGarry of Walker, Minn., pesident of the Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnes ciation. For the past two { nesota, he declared, was spending $25,000,000° a year on roads and bridges. Minnesota's ‘recent, statute taxing automobiles raises $6,000,000 this year and the amount is expected to increase from $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year. “It is a tax,” Senator McGarry | declared, “that places the burden on the class of property where it rightly belongs. Nod being a bond issue it is free from jinterest. I am convinced that as years go on it will be Suffi- cient to take care of Minnesota’s road building program.” Senator McGarry thinks the depart- ment of agriculture’s estimate of 414,000,000 annual loss on crops. be- cause of poor roads is very conserva- tive. Mr. Mullen, highway engineer of Minnesota, has estimated that if it costs to haul concrete, brick, asphalt, or bithulithic road $1, it will cost $3.37 to transport it over earth, . " | McPHEE SELLS STORE AT MILLBANK, 5. DAK. Phee, who is to take over O the O Leary-Howser conipa dry goods store with Harry Snyder of Minneapolis on February' I, T the\ Economy store at Millbank, D., preparatory to coin- ing to Bemi Mr. MacPhee is now reported to be in Minneapolis spending a short hon- eymoon heforeé coming here to make his home. Miss Bertha Barton of Aberdeen; S. D., became Mrs, Mac Phee on January 10, according to the Grant County Review, published at Millbank. CO-OPERATIE AGENCY DECLARES DIVIDENDS So. St. Paul, Jan. 19.—A 25 per cent dividend and an 8 per cent stock dividend were declared by the Central Co-operative Commission association today. The livestock sales agency was organized only five months ago. The dividend, it is said, amounts to $3,000 movre than the . total paid-in capital of the associatio The agen- ey is backed by the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation. Since the.agen- cy was established it has done a gross business of more than $25,000,000. The agency, it'is claimed has been charging commissions about 25 per cent less than the prevailing rates. Private firms recently raised their rates 10 to 15 per cent. January Thaw T You POUTINGO— Y0U (ANNOT GO ouT—YOUR BooT MeGARRY URGES G0OD__|BANKS ARE TAXED ON CAPITAL AND SURPLUS The' personal property list as pub- fished.in The Pioneer last week was the cause of considerable discussion and comment among ‘the business men, some claiming their taxes wevre too high, while others were of the opinion that the other fellow’s taxes were too low, but no complaints were made by any individual that his own taxes were too low. A comparison of the personal prop- erty taxes paid by the banks looks entirely different when it is known that ail banks are taxed upon their capital and surplus. Where the personal property taxes are low in proportion to their capital and surplus, it shows that that bank has a larger percentage of its capital invested in real estate property, which pays ‘taxes as suchy quite impossible for a bank pe paying its just proportion of taxes, because its capital and sur- plus ave shown on its published state- ments, which are published at least twice a’ year. MORE TREES NEEDED . T0 STOP U. S. FLOODS (By" United Press) Washington, Jan. 19.—Reforesta- tion of waste regions in this country is absolutely necessary to combat reg- ular recurring floods ~which yearly play great havoce along our rivers. Unless our waste lands are planted with trees, s the American Fores- try association, viver floods in the United States will in time cause dis- aster such as that now n the flooded regions of China, 10,000 3quare miles in area. “Millions of dollars in property are destroyed in this country every year,” the association says, “becaus of spring floods, For some reason we take this as a spring habit of nature and give litt) o thought to cor- o recting this habi "‘Thm country needs a broad na- tional forest policy directed by the United States Forest service,” said Charles Lathrop Pa its president, “and when that forest policy is adopted we will make progress in the right dir as concerns denuded and defo START DRIVES TO REPEAL EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT Washington, Jan. obtain repeal of the eighteenth amendment have: been started throughcut the country, C. 0. Hink- ley, scerctary of the association op< posed to national prohibition, declared today. “We will fight for repeal of the prohibition law and for the re- turn of beer and light wines. The first step,” he said, “will be a member- ship campaign.” FARM BUREAU BLAMED FOR PRESENT DIFFERENCES Fargo, N. D., Jan. 19.—The Min- nesotn Farm Bureau, Tom Cashman of Owattona in particular, is blamed for present differences between the Equity Co-operative Exchange anr the United Grain Growers, Inc., by Equity officers. DETAILS OF MURDER OF lines Points Which the State Hopes to Prove — ” (By Unifed ’ress Fargo, N. D., Jan. 1¢ short life was es from Fargo and Moorhead. as he outlined his evidence. a mutilated corpse. Investigation of the girl’s journey to Fargo showed that her conduct had been irreproachuble. At the train she was-met by Mr. Rasmussen, who was employed in Moorhead, *a home town boy,” whom she had asked to meet her “as she had never been in Fargo before.”. He took her to the hotel ome kind farmer's wife had d her. She registered, went to her room and went out with Mr. Rasmussen. She returned about 11, and about 12:30 she was assaulted, about 4 the assailant returned and murdered the girl with a rubber hose, wher direc the state hopes to prove. far gome time, the state s trance, the state hop to pr the outs e gy eyt | iy Uhited Press shows “ANierica nidst = GRYGLA GIRL REVEALED States Attorney Green Out- ) —Details of the death chamber at the Prescott hotel in Fargo where Marie Wick’s taken were pmjenced to the jury late yesterday by witness: The touching story of Marie Wick’s vacation trip, so grugsomely gnded wag told by State’s Attorney Green, To this trip the girl had looked forward and planned with only the enthusinsm that .a country girl who had never seen a city larger than a village of 2,000, could. She returned Mr. Green described the manner in which the girl was tied to the bed. Her clothes were arranged neatly as a well trained girl at home might have done in her own bedroom. Her goyketbook was robbed, the theory eing that the criminal tried to give the appearance of robbery as the mo- tive. Room No. 30, in which the girl was killed, was connected by a door which could be opened from Room No. 31, but the dust on that side in- dicated the door had not been used d. ¥ gained by using a bent hairpin from NAVALTREATY ISNOWNEARLY DECIDED UPON Reference Made to Capital Ship Tonnage Ratio in Final Draft of Treaty t SCRAPPING PROGRAM - OUTLINED IN ANNEX Chart Shows United States Must Scrap 31 War Vessels When Treaty Is Effective P Washingto,, Jan. 19 (By Carl D. Groat).—Reference to the 5-56-3-1.75 capital ship ratio has been’ admitted in the final draft of the naval treaty. Ac [sion of the actual reduction W Lue to Japanese sentiments. The rJdduction, however, is indirectly pro- vided for by specific figures on total tonnage. A The treaty is based on desire for “maintenance of general ppnce," and for the reduction of armament com- petition. " . The preamble says: The United States of America, the British Em- pire, France, Italy and Japan, desir- ing to contribute to the maintenance of general peace and to the reduction of armament competition, have re- solved with a view to accomplish these purposes to .coll('lulle the treaty to limit their réspective armaments and that they have appointed their plen- ipotentiaries, who have cnngmumcatcd with each of their respective powers and who have agreed as follows: . Then follows the treaty proper di- vided into three chapters. Capital ships to be retained, rules for serap- ping, replacements = and . defence. Chapter three with miscellaneous pro- visions containg the articles relative to communication in case’ of a desire to amend the treaty and in case of a power becoming involyed in war, How the great naval powers will gerap their' fighting ships'is given in exact details i an annex to the y. ‘The chyrt obtained by the scrap 31 vessels when the treaty is effective, Great Britain 22, as well as ‘abandoning (Qiér biulding program, Japan 18, as well as abandoning her building program. After the first batch of ships is scrapped this year, America scraps no more until 1934, but Britain must scrap four more in 1925 and begin anew on scrapping in 1034, while Japan after her scrapping does none until 1934, ' INSPECTORS TRAILING ELKHART MAIL BANDIT Elkhart, Ind.,, Jan. 19.—Marines and postal inspectors today trailed the robber who stole two registered mail pouches, containing $600,000 in bonds and then pushed $100,000 worth of loot into the post office win- dow. . Dan Indrin, colored porter, who had charge of the mail truck when the pouches were stolen, has vindicatell himself. The thief picked $100,000 worth of unnegotiable bonds aud re- turned them to the post office with a note saying “Here are your bonds,” and signed Tommy O’Connor. It is believed the bandit used the name to cover his identity. POPE BENEDICT REPORTED IMPROVED IN HEALTH Rome, Jan. 19.—Pope Benedict, who suflered from a severe attack of bronchial catarrh, was considera- bly improved today. Dry Dalistini, who visited the pope, enied alarmist rumers of his ill- ness. Physicians, however, said they found Pope Benedict's fever lower and ‘“gencral conditions bettering.” PREUS OFFERS. REWARD FOR WILKINS" MURDERER (By United Press) St. Paul, Jan. 19.~Governor Preus has offered a reward of $200 for the capture of the men who murdered Ben Wilkin sin St. Louis county last summer. The offer was made at the request of Mayor William Empie ¢f Virginia, Minn, MONTGOMERY SUCCEEDS McKERROW AS MANAGER St. Paul, Jan. 19.—J. S. Montgom- ery today succeeded the late W. A. McKerrow as manager of the Central Co-operative Commission Association of So. St. Paul. Montgomery had been closely associated with McKer. row in the organization. REPUBLICANS UNABLE T0 AGREE ON PARTY POLICY (By: United Press) ‘Washington, Jan. 19~~Republican senators were unable to agree today on a party policy with regard to the payment of interest on the eleven billion dollar debt owed by foreign governments and other features of the debt refunding bill. After an hour and a half debate, the secret caucus adjourned until 4 o'clock today.