Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 14, 1922, Page 1

W oo _The Pioneer is the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and has the .largest circulation in Northern: Minnesota. - o= VOLUME XIX. NO. 305 BEMIDJI, MINN,, FRIDAY EV! ENING, APRIL 14, 1922 JURY FAILS TO AGREE ON H. L. MELIUS Saoond Trial at Special Term|i " Has Same Result as First ; H . Trial; Jury Discharged KIWANIS CLUB EEKSSHORTER 010 78 i B RN ‘. For the second time, the jury in 2 15 5% i J the case of the State of Minnesota Passes Resolution - Requesting|vs. Henry L. t;\Ielimx. on a chlak_’rze of » . - o improper conduct toward a 15-year- Direct Highway Connection | old.girl, has failed to agree and has SOut!l 'Wl“('ear”' -!'i%en-dlscharged. At the regular e term of court here, this case was tried and the jury failed to reach an agreement and a new trial ¥ the special term here Tuesday, this was the first case to be tried by jury. . Trial was started Wednesday and the case went to the jury at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon. At 9 o’clock this_morning, when court convened again, thi jul;y wasdsml without an . agreement and was discharged by or- Club Tharsday Noon der of the court. Just whgt dis’;’:osi- tion will be made of this case has 5 . . not been definitely announced, but A resolution requesting a direct|it is expected that it will be ordered trunk highway connection south of | continued until the next term of Bemidji with Walker county seat of | court. @ Cass county, and; thence south to A v3 today, ten jurors had the Twin cities was passed by the|been % ' to sit at the trial of Bemidji Kiwanis clubin regular ses-|the 8 %%, ¢ Minnesota vs. Peter sion at the Elks club rooms Thurs-| Bhahy) ® ‘'liher on a charge of - day noon. 5 = unlawf} A g intoxicating liquor The -resolution is as follows:| Hearing 1"% nce was to start this “Whereas, Bemidji, a_city of about|afternoor n as the jury had 10,000 population and the county|been com ,iscat of Beltrami c&unty, the Iiicond 3 argest county in Minnesota, has no direct trunk Thigh‘éay connections { ARBUCKL! REEN IN south to the Twin Cities, and LOS AN ) 2 “Whereas, Amendment No. 1 adopt- ad #OVIE HOUSE ed in 1920 did not provide for a route connecting these two county seats as was intended, and “Whereas, The establishment of suckl a trunk highway would afford a direct outlet along the shortest TO SPEAK HERE SOON Interesting Proérnm Enjoyed at Regular Meeting of . Los Angeles, April 14—*Fatty” is .on the screen again. One of the leading movie houses here today an- nounced a Roscoe Arbuckle comedy; since the Labor Day party in San mately 50,000 people, “Now therefore, be it resolved, by the Kiwanis club of Bemidji that the commissioner of highways for the state of Minnesota be urged to give its appearance today, is a feeler. earliest possible date.” The resoluticn is signed by A. D. Johnson, chairman of the Public Af- fairs committee, E. V. Boyce and F. R. Duxbury, and will be forwarded —Judge Florence E. Allen, perhaps America’s most widely known wo- marriages. They are: The club is to invite Mr. Babcock to ccme to Bemidji’and speak before done on the road projects near Bem- | Many divorces. i It is planned to have a public meeting so that all who are interested in any way may get first hand infor- ness. partner of his wife.: She should share his.confidence in all:maters. | assistance to Bemidji. The Thursday ~meeting was. in Judge Allen has tried 397 divérce consisting of D. E. Whitman, S. S. |8y other two judges in the same Wilson and L.,B. Wilson with W. N. [peried. Bowser acting as chairman Miss | , Amplifying her four rules, Judge BID ON NEW INFIRMARY son. 4 i Bids have been entered by Bemidji District Lieutentant Governor ‘A.|They are ready to quit at the first|contractors on the new intiymary.tJo be erecte)nli at Walker .nmli) tlhese cfin'—: A tractors have reason to .believe. thal banquet of the Scottish Rite body,|the quarrel was over the naming of |their bids may be accepted since the was introduced to the club and gave | baby. It was their first quarrel, too. | jowest, bids are reported to have con- a short talk on the work which the| . I reconciled them. Women some-|tsined errors, which when corrected Kiwanis_organization is trying to [times make the livey of their hus-|would make the bid higher than those bands miserable by nagging. entered by the local firms. k - § 5 The bid entered by Ed Jackson:& National bank was the main speaker [lieves, are not too liberal, but are t00[Son on the general contract was the y second lowest received; that of Royyw] € e Harker V. Harker for the heating e greater chance there is for a reconcili-|ang plumbing of the structure was SCOTTISH RITE MASON ation,” she declared. ‘‘Often whén a|the third lowest, The O. W. Sievert Co H E S case is called I find that the parties|Go entered a bid for the roofing The various jobs are to. are made up, and don’t want separa-[contract. ENJOY ANNUAL BANQUH tion.” She has reconciled 101 couples, | be awarded next week, it is announc- ed. piano during the luncheon period with i A anumber of enjoyable selections. The asty marriages are the most attendance prize, a box of ladies’|common cause of divorce. Young silk hose, was won by Elmer E. Swan- |People of today marry hastily not B realizing the personal responsibility. E. Rickard of Minneapolis, who was |duarrel. e Lo in Bemidji to adaress the annual|, ‘I recall one divorce petition where accomplish. S g W. L. Brooks of the Northern| .Most divorce laws, judge Allen be- on the program and gave an interest- liberally administered. i ing talk ongf‘aninessg’ll\dethods." “The longer a case is pending the and granted 246 divorces. ANDY BROWN MAY YET BE| TRIED FOR WICK MURDER Gummer’s Pal Is Released from Fargo Jail But May Be Arrested Again “Maundy Thursday” was observed in Bemidji by the annual banquet of the Scottish Rite Club at 7:30 o’clock last evening at the Markham hotel, to which the members and their ladies were invited, 43 were in attendance. Attorney Thayer Bailey presided and gave an outline of the purpose of the occasion. A. E. Pickard, sent here by the Minneapolis Consistatory No. 2, was the speaker of the evening, and mu- al sglections wh}i‘cl:l bwel{f greatly enjoyed were furnished by Miss Grace : 3.7 Currie on the Violin and vocal solos (By United Press) by Dr. E. R. Two, Miss Raghnild Moe | _Fargo, April 14—Andy Brown, re- acting as accompanist. A number of leased yesterday afternoon from the out of town guests were present. Cass County jail may yet be prose- cuted for the, murder of Marie Wick Vernon Lamson, who for the past |of Grygla, Minnesota. This was evi- year has been teaching school near dent from the motion of dismissal Cass Lake has accepted a position [ Presented yesterday by States Attor- with thc Journal lat !{nternational |ney Green, and granted by three dis- Falls. trict ‘court judges. Mr. Green ex- The Journal is a daily paper pub- |Pressed confidence that, if in trying lished by E. Montgomery, and the ad- | Brown the evidence used in the Wil- dition of Mr. Lamson to his force |liam Gummer trial were introduced, will give this rapidly rising _ daily |he could also convict Brown. Gum- new pep and force, for good in the|Mer isnow in the states prison. . community. Mr.Lamson will cover| ~Dismissal now Mr. Green says, will the city on news and advertising. not ‘prevent prosecution at a later z date; if additional evidence is intro- duced. Brown ‘was arrested last Sep- Achargigg him with first degree mur- . R ESFUN LT dcquma.,lssued_ immediately after st. ‘Peter, April 14—Leona Fried- umer s Secavicton. ler, 19, was near death today as the yesult of an attack by her mother. The mother died from.exposure on the Minnesota river banks, four miles from here. . FIRE IN FIFTH WARD "/ CALLS, OUT DEPARTMENT Fire caused by the explosion of Albert Friedler, the 20-year old{an oil lamp, called out the fire de- son, was only seriously wounded, the Jpartment shortly after 9 o’clock last mother shot him last’ night. First|evening ‘to the Andrew Edd resi- sha tried to slash the throat of her |dence, about three blocks southeast daughter with a razor, and when her |of the Lincoln school in Fifth ward. son came into the room she fired at|Jt is estimated that the damage him. Shq fled then into the woods|amounted to about $200, about near the river and, being only lightly |equally divided on the building and clad, died from exposure, contents. ; ' | i TLAKINTO HAVE GERMAN '| German - Representatives Ac- «cept in Genaral Proposals of #Financial Experts Is Appointed Genéral Manager of ‘Shevlin-Clarke Lumber’ ‘|’ at Fort Francis ALLIED EXPERTS HAVE BROAD, GENERAL PLAN force is stated by Federal Commis- BABCCCK TO BE ASKED was ordered. _With the opening of |C. L. ISTED WILL BE IN COMPLETE CHARGE HERE Organization of Commission, Considered Important, Is Still Delayed Today Lakin Has Been Superintend-] ent of Logging Operations Here for 15 Years B."W. LAKIN Mr. Lakin has been made general manager of the Shevlin-Clarke Lum- ber Co. at Fort Francis and will be- gin his new duties May 1. been Jogging superintendent for the B. W, Lakin, who for the past fif- teen years has been logging superin- tendent of the Crookston Lumber company in this city, has been made general manager Clarke Lumber Francis, Canada, where the Lakins will make their future home. Lakin assumes his new (By United Press) Genoa, /April 14—Germany today |with the Towner-Sterling bill to es- conference on the|tablish a Department of Education, Crookston Lumber Co. here for the past 15 years. put the Genoa road £o one of its four goals—the fingdcial reconstruction of Europe—| ¢oplishment of education in the by submitting a. prompt, brief reply |Government on a Department, instead J{accept. fenerally the allied experts’|of a Bureau, basis. He points out financial proposals. Germany’s reply, which was re- duced to 100 words from nearly a 300-page document, reparations must be considered in the balancing of the national budget. Allied experts presented a broad, |[which receiver Federal aid, would ao the basis of the|more to raise the level of teaching This has been|than any other thing. Mr. Towner The Lakins ‘expect to move to Fort Francis soon. “THE GREEN PEA PIRATES” BEGINS iN THIS ISSUE st. C. L. Isted, who has been manager of the local plant with the exception of - the logging department, will be placed in complete charge of the Be- i operations May 1st. Both changes are in the nature of a promotion, added duties and re- sponsibilities being given these two well known Bemidji citizens. The Fort Francis plant has two the first appearing in Los Angeles llarxq L mills andh_ieil doinzh a bin{ s Ci g ogging business, which in the pas route to the Twin Cities for approxi- Francisco, following. whick Virginia has been in charge of J. A. Mathieu. Rappe diea. The film, which made | Each of the mills is as large as the big mill in Bemi adventure at once, ‘assured that o i general plan for Genoa conference. considered for three days by mem- bers of the four sub-divisions. The Germans and_ Russians were given an opportunity FOUR SAFE CRACKERS GET $65 FROM OFFICE SAFE —— Pierz, Minn., April 14—Four safe crackers today took the safe from the Morrison County Lumber ] office, broke it open in the street and escaped with $65.00 in currency. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DISCUSS JUNIOR ORDER With suggestions as. outlined by District Deputy, E. J. Marz of Staples, who was present at regular meeting March 23, Bemidji Knights of Columbus, held a very interesting meeting Thursday night at.the K. of C. hall with a large per- centage, of the members present. As suggested by the district deputy and also by the lecturer of the coun- cil and supperted by the majority of 'the members, it was woted- that committee be appointed -to with Rev. Fr. Joseph Fraling with the object of organizing the young boys of St. Philip’s parish junior Catholic. organization which will have the .moral support of the at Plant No. 1. Mr; Lakin has been identified with The Germans’ local business affairs in many ways, due consideration to the proposition wom JUME HAS Fo"R being one of the owners of the Be- midji Lumber & Fuel company,.a di- outlined above in order that* such a| ¢ o route may be constructed at the HAPPY MARRMGE’ RULB rector of the Northern National bank sion to get under way. sians made their suggestions yester- Orgnni’z‘ntion of the politiical d a direct he Bemidji Civi commission, the most important since ST Pl ity of fhe Doyl O ioe. qents with: Russin, was st de| PRESBYTERY OF ADAMS Cleveland, April 14 (United Press) | retain his interests in the local fuel and lumber company. : A *He is selling = his home on Lake to Commissioner Babcock. man jurist, has four rules for happy | poulevard andg also offers for sale i % Just when he will allglve wife fih"“ld have ‘a regular|yove: his household goods and es- the club regarding just what is being ance. Money —matters cause | tabligh his"home in Fort Francis has The husband should make a busi- ‘;'::tsb:: 2135?;,‘;:9 H,s;ine:;: : wig.l:; fiade ::is fioonlsfi possible. . - "Both ‘Mr..and Mrs. mation about the Babcock system of R“e Vf‘ff"' ;""“‘d be sympathetic. |pogt of friends in Bemi highways,and principally what is be- e wife'should never nag her hus- | repret- their .leaving, but who join : 3 o band. She should:work with him: R : i ing ing done on-these ghways to be of 15, ‘the ‘lakt two Serms | of cont \‘w;;:l!:e':l;: fillz;;s;re »‘\:lheo’xnfindmg good TWO MEN LOSE LIVES " WHEN SKIFF OVERTURNS his Paige coupe. (By United Press) St. Paul, April }4—A l‘{“ of bread | o thir homes Wednesday evening. and some groceries floating on the | A¢ the short business meeting which Mississippi led to the discovery of a|yuq held at 4 o‘clock Tuesday after- Thursday. N " Hughie Osborne and Fred Lusth lost noon st the loeal. church, Rev.:d. M. their lives when their skiff overturn- e near the packing plant, in South | Red Lake Falls. At the public meet- body of Lusth early today. IRISH TENOR REPORTED lMPRoleG THIS MORNING The business session was held “I love Bemidji,” said Lakin, “and charge of the merchants. committee, | ¢8Ses, more than have been tried by|pad hoped thabutl‘lilli's ;o:lld be ll':ny per- (Continued on Page 8) It developed during the discussion as to the plans for the next meeting that there’is a movement in ‘B to organize a commercial league among the fraternal organi- zations of the city, in which younger members desire to be rep- resented, and it was voted that committee be appointed to with similar committees of other or- (By United Press) New York, AI‘T'I 14—John Me- [, combly. Rev. Carl Perrin of East Cormack, noted Irish tenor, who for |Grand Forks was appointed commis- three days lingered near death at his[sioner to the .general assembly and apartment was cheerful this morn- ing after a comfort;bl}vle night. The improved condition of the singer was Sommlssioner d F. B. Davies 8k announced at 7:00 o’clock this morn. | COmmissioner anc G & onis ing by Mrs. McCormack. ternate lay commissioner. The next “Mr. McCormack spent a very com- [at Red Luke Falls. fortable night and seemed very cheer- | The ladies of the church served ful this morning,” his wife announced. |supper Tuesday evening and dinner 1 | Wednesday noon. The entire session an infected throat. However, accord- | was considered very helpful to all ing to his physicians, his vocal chords concerned. B are not seriously affected and his ill- ness will not injure his yoice. rer advised that a very interesting program is being arranged for the next meeting, which would be in the nature of a surprise affair, h the entertainment committee is now working out. Paul Winklesky and Thomas E. Lloyd were elected delegates to the state convention of the Knights of Columbus to be held at Duluth, May 9th. J. G. Ryan and Thomas B. Cas- sidy were clected as alternates. The singer had been suffering from The End of a Perfect Day GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS {No;Shortage Seen in &nmbor of Teachers, But. Many Now Lack Proper Training ‘Washington, April 14 (Capital News Service).— That the shortage of teachers, which became so acute during .and shortly after the war, is a thing'of the past as far as numbers is concerned is well shown by the |Bureau of Education statistics. That Hthe shortage has been made good at the expense of quality of the teaching sioner of Education, J. J. Tigert. He believes that vigorous methods must be used to raise the standard of ed- ucation, which was lowered during the war because of inadequate sal- aries which couldn’t hold good teach- ers but which were attractive to partly trained men and women. Representative Towner, of Iowa, whose name is associated intimately points to these statements of Mr. Tig- ert as but another argument for the that illiteracy can not be overcome v untrained or half-trained teachers. It is contended that the inspiring in- luence of a Federal standard o insisted that jqualification to which teachers might be expected to conform before they would be considered eligible as L.members of the staff of state schools emphasizes the fact that the Towner- Sterling bill, when law, will not at- tempt ‘to control, but to advise, in educational methods, and will no i to submit| ;.0 intefere with the free expend- counter proposals in each diViSion. iy ;;;q of state funds for state educa- reply, presented t0-|yional purposes than the Department day, enables the financial commis-| ¢ Agiculture inteferes at present The Rus-{i the'state agricultural methods. * HAS HELPFUL SESSION After compleing a very successful meeting of the presbytery of Adams, representatives of the various Pres- byterian churches of this district left Gray of Bethel was elected modera- tor to succees Rev. W. H. Evans of ing Tuesday evening, the retiring moderator, Rev. Evans, preached the sermon on “The Need of Today.” After the sermon, communjon was observed, with Rev. J. M. Gray pre, siding. all-day Wednesday and local business of the district was attended to and appointments made to the general Mr. Hannah of Bethel was appointed ay commissioner. Rev. Thomas of Blackduck was appointed alternate session of the Presbytery is to be held INJUSTICE OF VARYING PENAL LAWS ASSAILED Different Penalties for Same Crime in Many States; Now Seeking Unification Washington, April 14 (Capital | [News Scrvice)—Senator Capper, of | Kansas, has recently introduced a bill in the Senate to climinate capital punishment in the District of Colum- bia. E. E. Dudding, president of the /Prisoners Relief Society, an organi- zation devoted to assisting men and women who have served terms in the penitentiary and have no friends of their own when they come out, has written Senator Capper, asking that he include in his bill an amendmnt looking to the unification of penalties in the different states of the union. Giting examples from| the West Virginia penitentiary, where there are 200 Federal prisoners, Mr. Dudding says: “One‘is there for second-degree ‘|murder, and has life, while beside -{him are a hundred men serving five years for second-degree murder. There is one Federal convict serving life for manslaughter, and in the cell with him is a state prisoner with five yars for the same charge. “The highest penalty im Louisana for larceny is two years, while in Con- neticut it is twenty years. In West irginia you steal $20—it is thirty days in jail. If you take $21, then you get ten years. If you want to stop crime and unrest, make laws just.” A further instance is noted in the | daily press, in which a. judge who sentenced a man to prison for three yars for burglary, calld him back to the bar and re-sentenced him to i< |years when the prisoner was rude to the court. tonight and” Satur, rain, warmer in §5c PER MONTH ™ WAR VETERANS WILL OBSERVE remonies to Be Staged By .American ‘Legion :and G. A. R, Posts This Year GRAVES OF VETERANS ARE TO BE DECORATED Ralph Gracie Post Hears Fine Talk By G. M. Torrance on Proposed City Charter e War Veterans in- terred in the two Bemidji cemeteries are to be aecorated on Memorial Day this year under the direction of a special committee of the Ralph Gracie post of the American Lej This action was decided upon at the regular meeting of -the post in the rooms of the Civic and Commerce as- sociation Thursday evening. Decora- tion of graves will includel those of the deceased veterans of the Civil ‘War and the Spanish American War, as well as the World War. tion to the 'graves of the World War veterans in the local cemeteries are tp be marked, with American Legion grave markers bearing the Legion These markers are to be purchased through National headquar- terd of the American Legion at In- dianapolis. For the floral decoration of the graves, the committee is to decide what steps are to be taken to raise the necessar; year a public contributi for this purpose and about $100 was It is expected that the public will be invited to assist in this pro- ject again this Memorial Day. Paul Howe has been appointed chairman of this committee. To arrange for the observance of Memorial Day in conjunction with the members of the Bemidji G. A. R. post, another special committee wi F. C. Montague as chairman has been John Durache and Bill Smith are the other members of the general committee. are to be made for a patriotic speak- er and for a public program to be held probably during the .afternoon It is expected that the customary services at the cem- etery will also be held, starting with a parade from the downtown district. The local post will also ‘assist in the decoration of the graves of service men still overseas, for which the Le- gion posts all over the United States are contributing, the majority at the rate of five cents for each member Relatives and {riq f deceased service men still bu in France are invited to contribute to this fund if they so desire. b contributions will be gladly receivéd by the local post with the understand- ing that the moncy will be used to decorate the grave of the seryice man designated in the request which accompanies the contribution. Other- wise, such contributions will go into the general fund for the decoration of all graves overseas. 3 According, to present plans, when members of the post assemble for the Memorial Day parade this year, they will march behind a new post banner, for such a standard is to be ordered at once to be used with the colors which were donated to the the Bemidji Home Guard unit. rangements are also being made to have both the flag and the standard of the Legion displayed at the meet- It was also decided that the post should donate an Amer- ican flag to the Civic and Commerce association to be displayed in the as- sociation rooms at all times. C. L. Pegelow has been selected to make the presentation at a regular meeting of the association in the near future. In order to help raise funds for financing the American Legion Mem- at ' Rochester, posts throughout the state are showing at their local theaters the picturization of Robert W. Chambers’ great drama, A local committee with R. D. McGee as chgirman has been appointed to arrange for the showing of this picture in Bemidji in the near It is now bein, Duluth under the auspices of the Legion and is meeting with great fa- Rudolyh Wel.e and Whitney Brown are the other members of this showing of this film will be announc- edl ater when arrangements have been for showing here. e, chairman of the dante committe announced that plans are now nearly completed for the annual post ball to be held on May 1 and that good music with something out (Continued on page 6) VIRGINIA TAXI DRIVER IMPLICATES SECOND MAN (By United Press) Virginia, April 14—Frank Nosie, held for the murder of William Ruazic, today implicated a second man. lice are investigating his story. Nosie was_arrested in the woods near O by Deputy Sheriff Bert Martinis, who offered him a lift. He had been roaming the woods after failing in an attempt to get by immigration authorities at Inter- national Falls into Canada. He, was disheveled and) jiractically ' starved. Nosie says he did not kill 'Ruzic. Po- it secking a second man, Graves of all ‘Arrangements of Memorial Day. ings of the post. orial hospital