Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 26, 1922, Page 1

(" PLA.N HARD-SURF. ACED .. Sank C:énter, Jan. 26.—Newspaper A i ¥ " The ‘Pioneer is the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and has. the largest' circulation in Northern Minnesota. e — — bt — i INNESOTA L {ISTORICAL S OCIETY o g—— > Minnesota — Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and Friday; not much change in tem- perature. 4 N & f— 66¢ PER MONTH TWO MILLION DOLLAR FIRE LOSS IN CHICAGO Representative of - Roosevelt team will'’invade Highway Association 'l‘;fid Organization’s Plan OCEAN.TO-OCEA| A D S:gflsh rs of Minnesota met here to- 2 met at the Palmer House this Committee of Soli i Memberships to Call of M en will deliver his address and reports will be received from C. R. Hauke, a representative of fe .5 tellow. publishers on sociation, addressed 3 the Civic and Commerce association | & at the mnoon luncheon Wednesday,|f outlining the plan of t association | toward the copstruction of a .Rossman of the Yd-Review; C. R. mar Republican- Schilpin of the surfaced highway from oce: eig 5. 5 ocean. . X A Sek A n. publishers are on The plan includes the solicitation | F; m." R. P. Chase, state | & 2% of memberships in this County as]a ditor will address the convention well as every other county in thel Friday. 4 fourteen states through which ‘this play the Cass Lake minary _ to the He stated that the association is|™* : at 7:30 receiving splendid ‘support along the| OVER KILONIS WEDNESDAY i route, and that with the moral and = financial aid of a solid membership| Chicago, Jan. 26.—Johnny Meyers gress would be more easily sccured.|weight wrestiing title, retained his ti- sections of the road where 16¢al aid|pinned Kilonis to the mat with a| The B i, girls_have been prac- cannot be secured. body scissor i ici i y scissors and arm lock after nine | ticing regularly under the direction | minutes and fifteen seconds of the | of Misg Josephg’ne Parker fzr t‘ll;scp:zos’: fourth rond, and after 39 minutes | several months and should put up a they be given an’'gudience permitting] TLast night’ Afhone shote ¥ihd perm) st ‘night’s match was the first{ have sh t caticiana them to present ‘the .details of .the heldunder the new rules. The match [ i fi,:ké’fiv,fiu :eyndgl::;:)esvtvifil?xf‘Clen?} provos on, and expressed-hope that {was to have gone fifteen rounds of | pdly represent the emidji and Beltrami county would each with two-minute| night are Ella Elliot, Alice Cameron, Edla Rude, Gloz, Irene Lyons and Doris Lydick: GOMPERS FEARS CUTS ~~N-RATES ON FREIGHT P ' (By United . +|. Rome, Jan. 26.—Interment of the| Washington, Jan. Envoy and Mrs. Jeffery, who for{body of Pope Benedict XV. started at] heads' among the insurgents of the e 3 o’clock this afternoon. Ceremonies] agricultural conference labored today to )lend‘ofl' the threatened rump-con- evening of music tonight. The pro- |taries of the Catholic church. - |ference by pointing the. way to-a coupe at the expense of the admin- and 15 seconds of wrestling. first-class ‘game. support the highway. both morally One fall determined andE fmaxmal,llfi. -’ |the winner. Had there been no fall, nvoy ‘Walter Jeffery, the blind judges would have selected the win- Salvation Army leader, rendexed sey-lier b b " eral splendid musical selections” on]-- — the piano, which’ were most ‘heartily _appreciated.- - = £ GOOD PROGRAM TONTGHT AT SALVAT_ION ARMY HALL INTERMENT OF BODY OF . (i POPE IS BEGUN TODAY (By ed Press) the past week h conducted spe- A cial meetings at the Salvation Army |of historic solemnity were conducted hall at 116 Third street, will give an |in the presence of .the highest digni- gram will consist of piano duets by Envoy and Mrs. Jeffery, piano solos by the envoy, also vocal duets ‘and solos. I§ will be the kind of a pro- gram which will appeal to all and will be given .free of any charge. A col- lection will be taken, however, to.help defray expenses. This will be the| last meeting at which Envoy and Mrs. Jeffery will appear here and it is urged that there be a large attend- ance. istration, DIME SHOWS DISPLACE CANTU ARRANGING BACKING FOR MEXICAN REVOLUTION -El Ccmi-fiyca];ed‘]zu” o few relics of the pre-war gays,”there al Esteban dantu, f’o'rmer governor of suvives the “dime m,oyle show. ] Lower California, is in New York ar- These shows, of whlch. on}y two or ranging. American financial backing]three exist here, are believed .to be g’l: a new rcvolution against the|among the few in a large American histeesgsoo'::ia!t::: %fi?%fi&ayacc“dmg bs city whi\;’h l:fe wi'.h'sbo\()ld zh:slg:;(;xii:; jon i i ' | created by the increased cos by olgtlon B belugtalked of European conflict. To consider plans which will en- le farmers to clear more land in most économical and cheap- est way possible, farmers, bankers and ! businessmen of Cass county met at | Walker Wednesday f the Cass county Land Clearing Assoc- iation along lines similar to. the Bel- trami County Land Clearing associs on organized here last year. ' Duxbury, who represented the Bel: trami organization, reports ful meeting, with farmers from every portion of the county present. Otto I. Berg, Superintendent of th i North Central experiment station at 4 Rapids and president of the a County Land Clearing asso- ciation; H. S Funston, land commis- oner of the Soo Line railroad; M Bride of the Soo line development department; H. W.; Byerly, general immigration agent of the Northern Pacific and Mr. Duxbury Brainerd high school’s basketbull | Bemidji Friday evening to meet - the Bemidji* high school outfit at the new. armory the first encounter of these two 2 teams this year. Brainerd has noth- fer Uniod Srean) ing on Bemidji this year, in the fact that both schools have - new teams. o “‘talk shop.” Members of the However, the visitors have been fair- ern Minnesota Editorial o- | Iy successful in their games, especial- North assy ly in the last few weeks. i;ation defeated St. N 13 rainerd last Friday by a count of 15 president H. P. Phillips {{, 11, which is indicative that there Ci N F nms§a be sorn‘;e very good material ‘on ity in Near Future ey Mi the Brainerd team. Secretary A-v3. Rutledge of Minne- Bemidii high has been improving . idii Pi rapidly since the early-season games fhe Bemidji Pioneer gnl:l the last ffew en{cuntcrs g‘:mve e sevell hwa, -] A [ » rought gratifying results, the Theodore Roosevelt Highway as-|“Advertisin) %‘P}f‘:fi‘;""i}un&g‘;fi’ of the fact that the orgm’uzation 33 * | playing together for its first season Fébruary 21 Is Date Set for | abl Electing New Officers to Guide City A,fliirs and organized were in the’ World ‘war are urged to attend a banquet at the Radisson Totel, Minneapolis, February 7, dur- ing’ automobile show week, given in honor of Assistant Secretary of War J. M. Wainwright and Major Gen- FEW PETITIONS BEING CIRCULATED ABOUT CITY hi; t dlgud Shieh & February 11 Is Last Day for Filing Petitions for Those Offices to Be Filled of staff. City politics are .beginning to| warm up a bit. Here and there may be found groups discussing the com- but indications are that! By another year a strong spuad will undoubtedly répresent since graduation will still leave the best players with the team. One of the features of Friday eve- no serious so-called - politcal fights s of 30 meetings will follow the organization of the association commencing January 30. tatives of the land clearing section of the ‘agricultural engineering divi- v of Minnesota nd of the state forest- in Minnesota. All are invited to this banquet and retary Wai "f““’”e"wt ve of the secretary of tion Wednesday afternoon. ‘This de- February 21 is the.date set fpr electing new city officers. This will r to succeed Dr. A, V. Garlock, a city clerk to succeed Mrs. Belle Denly, a city treasurer to suc- { ceed George Rhea, a city assessor to succeed C. B. Hoyt, a member of the park board for a five-year term to- succeed Charles Warfield and one alderman from each of the five wards. In the first ward E. D. Boyce’s tegm expires, in the Second ward A. B Palmer’s, in the Third ward Bert Carver’s, in the Fourth ward Naish| | McKinnon’s, and in the Fifth ward J. E. Hayward finishes his term. No aldctman-nt-!ajge ning’s game wil_be the first ‘appear- lfi: year of-the Bemidji?plfigh school girl’s team The girls are to sonal representative of General Per- shing will discuss the plans of the government with respect to the .or- ganized reserves and the new army of the United States under the National Defense act 1920. of Cass county ry department, will speak at Brainerd-Bemidji highway passes. YERS RETAINS TITLE game. This contest will be called agent who has charge of the meetings together with A. J. Schwantes, as- sistant professor of land clearing at the university, dates and places. The rate of clearing land in Cass county during the past year, has been one acres a farm annually, says Mr. Sc- _Cass Lake boasts a victory over the gqgley gil;ls’ team dby a score of 4 to along the route, assistance from con-|of Chicago, claimant of the middle- L;'r:e:.m %’;;,:.yp;‘:: nhf:;;eha?lta (;‘Arst- 1t is the purpose of the association |{1o when he defeated John Kilonis of tlass girls aggragation and thi to sceure financial aid through con:|Nosfolk, Va., in the fourth round of DAL e St s e s gress to be appropriated along thel, scheduled 15-round match. Meyers | strong team of girls. announce the Thierry, St. Mihiel and the / will be cxchanged. More than alstated that 50 per cent of the area thousand are expected to attend.'of Northern Minnesota will be served Rnpor»ls on the progress of the r organiz: the a: made. Of ed comm ill be urged to do «o. The dise of g ment. to be chosen . Lahr was elected for a two-year term last election. Petitions for the following have already been Warfield for member of the park board, George Rhea for city treasur- er, Mrs. Belle Denly for city clerk, - land C. B. Hoyt for No candidates for the other offices k| have been announced, but it is pre-isupervise the work. sumed that most of the present hold- ers will seek another term, | The last day for filing is February {11. Before filing it{ is necessary to secure 10 per cent of the voters to sign petitions for “tMe various candi- dates and indications are that these will soon be freely crculated. |CITY CHARTER COMMISSION CONTINUING DISCUSSION Discussion of the various sections tof the proposed charter for the city of Bemidji is being continued by the ¢city charter commission which meets in regular session at the Civic & Com- rooms each Wed- rate has increased from one and one- tenth before 1921 to six acres per farm during the past year, largely due to the efforts of a land clearing The Cass county m'gnnim\t‘mn is to conjunction with the farm bureau as in this county and an as- sociation manager will be secured to TURTLE RIVER BLOCK BUYS $900 in cash and $500 in pledges to COLLECTION-OF TAXES TEMPORARILY HALTED (By United Press) Duluth, Jan. 26.—Judge Page Mor- ris in federal court here today grant- ed a temporary injunction restraining the collection of ap- proximately $1,000,000 in state taxes on the iron mining industry. The injunction was Oliver Iron Mining company, a sub- sidiary of the United States Steel cor- poration, and 30 mining companies which petitioned Turtle River ang. composed of 0. W. Thomgwsoxtey ot s o farm Olson, J. H. Locke and B. Wentworth, | near Movxl"" lake, a director of the las reccived a pure-bred Holstein land clearing association and the sire, 13 months of age, from by 26. — Calmer ter fat per month. LOCAL TEACHERS TRIM order against merce association nesday evening. RALPH GRACIE POST TO - HOLD MEETING TONIGHT | All members of the Ralph Gracie post of the Amecrican urged to attend the regular meeting of that organization the rooms of the Civic & Commerce association this evening at 8 o’clock. This is the Jast meeting” before the annual election of officers and it is | desired that there be a large attend- ance. Several matters of importancc,patticipatc in the lare to be taken up at this time. A program of . This would take the form of call- ¢ 4 ing on Harding to enact a relief pro- mm“c HO‘JSE FLW gram as provided in his opening ad- A k dress to the conference. [ clus&on. to :ll‘\e :}Ilreadg long list piled B - % up during the three days is promised Cleveland’s Unemployed Enjoy when Samuel Gompers, president of - P . . e American Federation of Labor, a Few Hours .°f _R\“t in Dime gelega}tle, plages the labor position l‘)e- o OWS ore the conference. Movie Show that cuts in freight rates will be —n h'an':lntedl intoh 7]ower 'wages . workers along the line. CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. 26 (U"::Ed the conference that labor can not be | Press).—In Cleveland, as one of ‘the | expected to be the goat. normally would yield Bemidji Squad. Easily Take 3,500,000 in state revenue, but due to dullness in the industry this year the actual amount of taxes envolved in the suit is less than $1,000,000. U. S. PROBABLY WILL NOT ATTEND GENOA PARLEY “» Gompers fears to be held at . (By United Press) Washington, Jan. 26.—The Unit- cd States very probably will not ac- cept the allied powers invitation to Genoa economic (By United Pross) Washington, Jan. 26.—Resolutions supporting Henty Ford’s offer for the governient. nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala., and the St. Lawrence waterway will be submitted to the f:onleronce, it was learned today. It is understood that in declining the invitation, this government will settlement toward this and similar conferences that may be held in the future. entertainment has been promised and, from all reports, than the one make a general staged last session. program, lunch wi part of the whole game, the second |vage explosive, half being much slower with the scor- 'y Nc ! ing fairly even. Bemidji started the |sota by the division of agriculutral constantly i ifornia. : y in Lower California: These theatres, scarcely more than CHARGES MOVEMENT TO GET | covered holes between large buildings. o T & are always jammied, from carly in the EX-SOLDIERS TO TESTIFY | day until midnight and on through 2 the wee morning hours. _(By United Preas) 1 9 5 ‘g6 to see the shows, Washington, Jan, 26.—The charge | however. The theatres have largely that Zhere is an_organized movement|taken ‘the place of the “two-bit” flop * on foot to get ex-soldier witness ho i ) ki testify concerning “alleged hangi t any time during the day and and killings nk:he Amer,ican(}:;mg’k night ““driftérs” may be seen asleep tionary forces‘were made ‘before the|ihere catching a few hours rest, out gwestlgatmg committée today by Mr.{of the desolate cold of the streets. | reen of Minneapolis. Even after the banging piano ceases| T R R t midnight and the lights are dim- WILLIAM GUMMER TRIAL y :‘ ed, these men sprawl over the seats ADJQURNED TO JANUARY 30 —rthese men who are homeless, penni- | less, but oftimes not without ambi- o5 (By United Vress) _Valley City, N. D., Jan. 26.—Ad- Jjournment of the William ‘Gummer case until January 30 was announged late yesterday, because of the illnéss of the prosecuting attorney. Gum- mer is being tried for the murder of Marje Wick’of Grygla, Minn. tion. 1 n‘xnd the managers have opened the doors for. them. So when- Uncle | 'Sum lopped the one-cent tax off .the dime show recently; the “boys” were happy. -It.was easy to hit-a buddy | for a_thin dime and beat it for a pic- ture house flop. 2 8 ‘Huddled together. for warmth like so many animals, the unimployed} men have found the hard bed of rest] = |in the broken, wooden seats of - thel dime show. | ‘Listen to_their stories. But the: never mention the hard times, the ir- Army basketball| régular snatches of food they “bum,” | squad lost the third game of its tour|they’re dreamers and they are always at Minot Wednesday ‘evening by a]happy in a rather unusual way, for) score of 27 to 21. The game' was |they live in hope for the Tfuture.j clean and hard-fought from the start, |Each day they look for the job which the Bemidji team fighting unti . never comes, and probably won’t final whistle, according to o come for a long, long while—until] from Minot. The outcome was ‘said|the snow ‘is gone and they can sleep to have been in doubt until the final. n i the parks, in the open, any- whistle. % re, but always with theif boots on. Bemidji is to play Minot'a_seconi Nothing can crush that nebulous game tonight and from there i§ to EE cloud of hope which surrounds them to Jamestown to. ay . tom Wi ——not ‘even the dusky janitor as he night. A game for Saturday ‘nightdrives them out when he starts clean- may be.arranged. with cither Fargoling the theatre in the morning after or Moorhead, ¥ i the night' before, ’ Deaf, Dumb and Blind ing for Walker with three field bas- kets and three free throws out of| On February 13,14 and 15, Depu- five. Dickenson scored two field |ty Collector L. L. Daily will be in Be- Greiner of Cass Lake refereed a very satisfactory game. the State Teachers college and the lo- | will call upon Deputy Dail cal Naval Militia company, and willifice at the Federal building on the probably be played mext week. The above dates. Bemidji teachers will play the Notth-| The above announcement has been west School’of Agriculture at Crook- made by Colleetor L. M. Willeuts, St, ston February 4, _ __ 190 PERSONS REPORTED ; . . DEAD IN EGYPT FIGHT (] LEARING ¢ (By United Press) h < § London, Jan. 26.—Rome dis- W‘L CONTm'JE patches to the Evening: Star re- v A ¥ S S ported’that ‘fresh’ disorders, in which 190 persans were killed ¥ i [ ; and thousands wounded, have N K ¢ b 3 broken out in Egypt. meWAR omcms « |Backers of Clearing Drive Decide to Continue Work in Beltrami County F TO MEET FEBRUARY' 7 Officers of Beltrami county who THOMPSON OUTLINES OTHER COUNTIES’ WORK "Jumes G. Harbord, deputy chief |Clearing Association and Farm '‘Bureau Are to Decide Upon Definite Plans Later banquet the Minnesota sociation will be perfected. Similar organizations are being formed throughout: the coun- try. Ernest E. Watson, Minneapolis attorney, who is a lieutenant colonel in the Reserve corps is president of 4 the Sevently Corps Area association scale, according to plans formulated and is in charge of the hanquet. at a meeting of the directors of the Land clearing in Beltrami county is to continue another year on a large There are 3,000 World war officers | Beltrami County Land Clearing as- sociation and the directors of the Jivie & Commerce association, held at the rooms of the latter organiza- ged to attend. Sec- wright as the personal and General Hubbard as the per- n was reached definitely, but def- inite plans to be followed this year will be mapped out later. Mark J. Thompson, superintendent of the Northeast demonstration farm and experiment station at Duluth, outlined the plans of other counties : in this section of the state and told . Experiences of the days of Chateau of what is being done by each in the drive for more cleared acres He as amended June 4, s g by land ¢! ing associations. ion of the 88th division and| " [n addition to Beltrami county, ment of officers will be Cuss, St. Louis, Itasea, Crow Wing rs who have not accept-'and Koochiching counties have well- ong in the corps anized and active associations and : will be planning an extensive drive for ed at this banquet questions coming year. at importance to the govern C. S. Carter, as president of the Beltrami association, presided at the mecting Wednesday. A financial re- port for the past year showed about the credit of the county lang clear- ing body, also a quantity of land clearing” material,. paid for but not vet distributed to land clearers. PURE-BRED HOLSTEIN SIRE A bull block recently organized st - |farm bureau, came from Grand Forks at MeIntosh. This sire’s dam to take part in the meeting. Williany a record of 1,002 pounds of but- |Lennon of Kelliher was also present. Various plans for the coming year were discussed, but none were def- initely adopted; however, work wiil proceed this year on one plan or an- other. It was unanimously decided that the farmers should get their ex- plosives at absolute cost, the same as during the past year. Further action will be taken at the regular meeting of the directors of the farm bureau on February 7, and at the annual meeting of the land clearing association next month. Plans will be definitely adopted at these meetings and the work for the car laid out. A land clearing man- ger will undoubtedly- be employed WALKER HIGH OUTFIT Second Game Wednesday By 29 to 15 Count The Bemidji State Teachers college X basketball squad got back at the!, ., . orvise all actual Walker high school squad Wednesday a in the past to sup evening at the new armory for the defeat suffered at Walker a few weeks ago. Outplaying Walker at every stage of the game on the large armory floor, Bemidji won by a score { PICRIC ACID ALLOTTED ON of 29 to 15. The first meeting of SAME BASIS AS BEFORE - these teams resulted in. victory for Walker by a score of 22 to 17 on the o small Walker floor. St. Paul, Jan clearing being done by the mc!nl)crs of the association, and to assist zll farmers personally. 5.—Twenty-ciglt ric acid, a war sal- have been allotted to 18 counties in Northeastern Minne- The first half was by far the best | carloads of pic scoring and piled up 10 points before engineering of the University of Min- Walker got started at all. The lo- cals continued to score frequently, the half ending 20 to 8. At no time A was there any apparent danger of jused in making the first allotment, Walker overcoming Bemidji’s lead, tes, & although the scoring in the second pe- | ant professor of lgnd clearing in the riod was 9 to 7. nesota. The basis used for re-allot- ting Minnesota’s share of the new supply of picric acid is the same as according to A. J. Schwantes, assist- division. Riggs and Simons as forwards and The area, the number of farms, Rumens as running guard formed a|the acreage of unclcnr_ed land, and great combination for the teachers.|the rate of which clearing was done Romens showed great improvement |between 1910 and 1920 is the basis over any previous game, scoring five used. geld 'busklecs, lourlinr thefifilrst hn:f. . Simons also scored five field goals, 5 but had far more chances than did GOVERNMENT TO SUE FOR Romens. Riggs scored three field h;akc_. and t’hn-e ofit of six free throws, completing the scoring for Bemidji. Elliott as stationary guard By Unite Freem) played a hard ganie, breaking’up Walker's plays with case. Horns, | center, captain of the squad, proved to behrlm ;)etltcr than in the last game and his failure to assist materially caused considerable comment among The War Frauds Bureau of the De- the fans. Greenfield relieved him in the last of the second period. Hermes substituted for Romens and Berglund for Elliott in‘the latter part of the garhe. Altogether-the Bemidji team payment. showed up -better than ever before, but passing and interception of pass- es proved poor: at times, as did both short and long shots at the basket. RECOVERY OF HUGE SUM§ i) Washington, Jan. 26.—The govern+ ment will begin suit for the recovery of large sums of money, which were over-paid for aircraft construction during the war. partment .of Justice, co-operating with the war department accountants have developed sufficient evidence to justify recovery of frauds for over« TO ASSIST TAXPAYERS ™' IN FILING TAX RETURNS Moen, right forward, led the scor- and Bilben one. Coppernoll and |midji for the purpose of assisting failed to score. Coach Lloyd taxpayers in filing their 1921 income tax retdrns. All those Wishing assistance in A game is being arranged hetween | making out their returns on income v in his of- Paul, ) _