Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 16, 1922, Page 1

\ VOLUME XX. NO. 50 BEMIDJI, MINN., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1922 Minnespta: Pr north; fair in south tonig erin south and west pomonl sat~ urday. ? CHAUTAUQUAT - PRESENT FINE: PROGRAMHERE - Five-Day Program ‘Will ,quin Saturday, Afternoon, July'22, With Melody Quartet *’ABLE SPEAKERS LISTED; N DIVERSIFIED PROGRAM Local Business Men ~Assure Financial Success; Agree to Sell Tickets Bemidji’s 'Chautauqua program this year promises to be one of the very |best . ever staged) {here. The program last :year was. considered very good-and the Chautauqua man- agement has since that time endeav- ored to make its program even bet- ter, High class talent is assured for each performance and ‘able speak- ers have been secured for a num- ber of instructive addresses. ] The Chautauqua this year will be staged here July 22, 23, 24, 256 and 26, .opening Saturday and - closing the following Wednesday - evening. Sale of advance tickets and other arrangements locally will be in charge of the Bemidji Chautauqua committee of which A. T. Carlson is chairman. The program for .the first day % § opens at 3 o’clock in the afternoon with the ‘Mercedes Melody Quartet. & At 4:30 there will be a meeting for very girl and boy in Bemidji .with the junior supervisor in charge. i lans will be made for the Junior 4 Town work. At 8 p. m. the Mer- i cedes Melody Quartet will open the 4 evening program, followed’by Ed- ward Taylor Frank with an address - on “National Developement Thru Vo- cational Education.” . . At 3 p,m. Sunday the Joymakers Male Quartet will, give the afternoon program.; This q\mnet will also open i the evening’s entertaiment and. will i be followed at 8:50 b Alex Millseion & g Main Street.” "Vesper services will be held at 4:30. Junior Town will be' in full swing at 9 o’clock in the morning of the third day, Monday. - The afternoon program at 3 o’clock will be given by the Tull Players, featuring Fern Casford. In the evening the Tull 4 Players will present “A. Pair of Sixes,” the ace of American com- dies. " Junior Town will meet at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning” and also Wednes- day morning. - Tuesday afternoon’s program will consist of the Premier Artiste. Quintette at 3 o‘clock and an address at 3:50 by Bagdasar K. Bag- hdigian on “Back to the Fundamen- tal Americanism.”The Premier Quin- tette will give the evemng program at 8 o’clock. At 3 o’clock on the afternoon of the fifth and last day of the showing here, there will ibe .a Junior Town Program, “Conquest. of Peace.” This -will be followed at 3:30 p. m. 1 by an address by. John E._Aubrey, “The One Mile Town;” Mr. .and Mrs. Glen Wells, entertainers de luxe, will give the evening program. In order to make the snowing of the Chautauqua’ program possible (Continued;on Page 8.) WILL TEST CONCRETE " FOR ROAD SURFACING ‘Washington, June 16.—To throw more light on the durability of con- crete a wear test is to be made with the conditions "approximating those actually - found on the road. This test will include about 65 sections of concrete wearing surface, each sec- tion being of a different quality of A concrete. &1 On this runway will be operated a specially constructed car with two truck wheels equipped with solid rub- ber tires and loaded to represent a truck. The car will:be ‘guided by small railroad fafl !o ‘hold it in posi- tion, the power’ "'heing applied’ by means of an elchc motor the rear wheel. This apparatusnvp be operated around: the circul way at a speed ‘of probably -2 ,miles an hour, The test will involve :the use of truck Wwheels eqmpped with different kinds of tires and will ‘in- clude the use of ron-skid chains. A steel-tired wheel will probably also be used to get the cffect of an accel- erated wear test. The object of this experiment is to determine the relative wear of the different concrete sections when sub- jected to traffic equipped with differ- ent types of wheel, also to furnish a comparison and laboratory tests. This test will be in. operation contin- uwously beginpiflk some time in June. srun-| he 'BOX FAC'I'ORY SAW MILL |FOUR BEMIDJI YOUTHS PUTS ON NIGHT SHIFT ‘night crew employing some for- ty men started work at the Bemidji p}ane‘ of the Chicago Box and Crat- ~company, é\grsany night. This créw'is 'in ‘addition’ to the ‘full day crew now being. employed at the saw mill, ;. ‘The -hox, factory. proper will woxz.( ‘only the d vy shift as in the Contractors are busy giving all buildings a new coat of paint. The buildings aré decorated red .with white'trimmings and add much to the appearance of the local plant. NAVAL RESERVISTS WERE TO REACH DETROIT THURSDAY A card posted June 13 at Port De Luce received this morning from E. A. Barker, U. 8. Navy boat Paducah, reads as follows: “Wonderful trip through the locks from Montreal, twenty-two in number. Great ex- perience, but such a strain on all. Had to wait in Lake Ontario yester- day on account of high sea, but made up time last evening. Waiting clear- ance permit here at Port DeLuce, entrance to Welland canal. There are twenty-five locks in this canal. Expect to be in Detroit Thursday.” TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR BIRCHHONT OPENING Tickets are now on sale for the opening of the Birchmont summer hotel at the head of Lake -Bemidji Tuesday evening, June 20. The op- ening of this popular summer host- elry with a dinner at 6:30 and danc- ing at 9 o’clock is expected to give added impetus to Bemidji’s summer social activities. The public is in- vited to attend the opening and it is expected that the facilities will be taxed to the limit that evening. The opening of the New Chase hotel at Walker last week was attended by over two hundred persons and plans are being made at Birchmont for an even larger crowd. Van’s five-piece orchestra will furnish the music for the dancing. Tickets are on sale at $3 a plate, in- cluding the dancing party. They v be secured at Boardman’s, City Drug. Barker’s, Baker’s or the Mark- ‘ham ‘Hotel. - ILLER PASSES AW. AFTER EXTENDED ILLNESS T. J. Miller, for ‘several years a|. real-estate dealer in Bemidji, passed away Thursday in a St. Paul Hospi- tal, where -he has been confined for several months. He leaves to mourn his loss besides his wife, a son, Dwight and two daughters, Mrs. Lou Jorgen- son of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Archie Williams of Bemidji. The latter with her little daughter, Harriet, will leave tonight for St. Paul to attend the funeral which will be held there tomorrow. The many friends of the family in Bemidji extend sincere sympathy to them in their bereave- ment. FOUR KILLED BY STORM AND PROPERTY DAMAGED Storms and Hectic Weather in Vicinity of Twin Cities Take Two Lives (By United Press) St. Paull, June 16—Four dead and several injured was the toll of yester- day’s excessive heat followed by storms last night. A twister cross- ed St. Croix and Polk counties, Wis- consin, killing a man and boy and injuring several. The blow wrecked homes and barns at Forest and Glen- wood City, Wisconsin and caused ex- cessive damage to farms and crops. A man named Schultz and a boy were killed in Forest. The storm al- so caused heavy damage at Cylon, Emerald, Erin, Prairie, Hammond, Baldwin, and Clear Lake, sweeping over four townships in St. ‘Croix county and across Polk county. Lightning wrecked power and tele- phone wires west of the Twin Cities. Torrents of rain fell here around midnight. At Fargo, a heavy rain totalling one inch fell during the night. This makes the rainfall in that section now slightly above normal, according to Robert Spencer, observer at Moor- ead. Rain was needed and the heavy fall was thought to have been beneficial. The rain extended west throught the southern part of North Dakota, (By United Press) St. Paul, Minnesota, June 16—One man was killed by lightning, another by heat and three others suffered injuries during yesterday’s hectic weather. Raymond Thomas, swim~ ming instructor at the Central Y. M. C. A. was killed by a bolt of light- ning which struck-a craft on the lake at Chisago City. Swan Peter- son, 50, was prostrated by the heat and died‘ Severe lightning caused consider- able” property damage. Camping Experience Is Objest of E:tg\nuve Hlkr “l.lfq” ¢ Wei ot Ancepud i 1l Farley, White Pine, Cass.Lake, Wilkinson, -Benedict, Laporte, Guth-| rie and Nary were visited by four Be- midji hikers ‘on’a little ramble “in quest of camping experience. These hikers were Lloyd Lind, Luman Al- drich, Irvin Keeler and Charles Van- dersluis, Jr. The boys left Bemidji at 10:15 . m. Monday, June 5, and walked to Farley the first day. The mosquitos were able to penetrate the coarse netting and the boys did not have over an hour’s sleep that night. This accounted for them making only to White Pine, a distance of 11 miles, the second day. Wednesday night they made a straight hike of 19 miles from White Pine to Norway Beach. Thursday morning they reached Cass Lake and that night they hiked to Wilkinson. Friday afternoon Benedict was added to their list of towns and Saturday they visited Laporte and Guthrie, staying at Guthrie until 2:30 Sunday morning, from which time to 8 a. m. was occupied in. the walk to Bemidji. Bemidji looked to the boys on their arrival home, they report, to be. bet- ter and bigger than all the other towns put together. The mosquitos were the one great drawback to com- fort and they did a good job. Two “pup” tents, six blankets and food supplies made up the packs which the boys carried, No rides whatever were taken. In cases of two routes between towns, the longer route was invariably tak- en, except from Cass Lake to Wil- kinson when that streich was hiked on the railroad tracks. The inhabi- tants of the towns visited were al- ways helpful and enthusiastic toward the hikers and this kindness expe- dited the getting of supplies. The boys declare that the hike was a good, long 100 miles and in count- ing up the mileage, the lowest esti- mates were taken. The addition of these ‘estimates made up the num- ber of miles which was' their aim. This hike had nmbenrmg on Scout work, KIWANIS CLUB HEARS . TALKS BY G A.R. BOYS Incidents pertaining to the Civil War were related at the regular meeting of the Kiwanis Club Thurs- day noon at the Elks Club rooms by members of the R. H. Carr post of the. G. A. R., invited guests of the club -when Flag Day exercises were held. The newspapermen of the club had charge of the meeting, with H, Z. Mitchell acting as chair- man. Each of the G. A. R. members present gave a short talk of interest. The attendance prize, an American flag, was won by E. B. Berman. The date for the district meeting at Grand Forks was announced for August 24 and 25, and it is expect- ed that the local club will send a large delegation. The trip will prob- ably be made by auto. Kiwanis Ladies’ Night will be held about July 13 at Birchmont and a committee composed of J. L. George, E. E. Swanson, H. L. Huff- man and T. C. Bailey was appointed to arrange the details. BEMIDJIBOYS BANDWLLGO 11 b S State Fair Board Offers Less Than Expected; Bemidji to Donate the Balance PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS WILL ASSURE FAIR TRIP Name of Organization Changed to Bemidji Boys’ Band; No Concert This Evening Voluntary contributions are now asked in order to raise a sufficient amount to send the Bemidji Boys band to the Minnesota State Fair this Fall. The directors of the Be- midji Civic and Commerce associa- tion have accepted the offer of $800 made by the state fair board and are now waiting for the -contract from that body. This offer is much low- er than was expected but neverthe- les Bemidji is not discouraged. In the budget raised by the Be- midji Civic and Commerce associa- tion several months ago was an ap- propriation of $500 for this purpose and this sum will be applied on the total amount needed. Approximate- ly $750 is still needed in order to finance the trip and a committee with C. W. Vandersluis as chairman has been appointed to arrange for the financing of the affair. The committee’s plan is that 75 persons foster the sending of the same number of band boys, each per- son giving $10, In the event that this sum is not reached, contributions of any size will be received at the Pioneer office and the names of those contributing will be published from day to day. This contribution fund will be open until Saturday evening June 24. Several parents have al- ready volunteered to furnish the nec- essary $10 for their boys and it is practically certain that the needed amount will be raised. ‘Navertheless public contributions are welcome and will be received at the Pioneer office or by Mr. Vandersluis. Only a very brief concert was giv- en Thursday evening on account of the rain, However, no concert will be given this evening. This noon the boys furnished a short musical pro- gram and parade through the down- town district on its way to the fair grounds where it gave a program for the annual picnic of the Beltrami county farmers. The name of this orlganization has been changed to the Bemidji Boys’ band, the change having been made after the boys took a vote on the matter. It.is believed that this name will better y the im- pression that the band is composed of larger boys and is capable of tak- ing its place among any municipal bands in the state. ST. PAUL ELECTRICIAN 1S ELECTROCUTED THURSDAY St. Paul, June 16—Accidently coming in contact with a 4,400-volt wire, Henry Gustafson, 34, was elec- trocuted late yesterday. He was an electrician for the St. Paul Electric Light & Gas company. TOSTATEFAIR| KELLOGG IS CONCEDED NOM%W 0.P. Anna D. Qlel?n Spew Certain i (By lfillted %g‘ St Paul, ‘June 16—Tryin| find a job in the Minnesota primary elec- tions Monday is a useless pastime, it appeared today. Frank B. Kellogg undoubtedly will receive the Repub- lican nomination for re-clection. His opponents, Ernest Lundeen and Richard E. Titus, have attempted to stir up sentiment against Kellogg. Mrs. Anna D. Oleson, the first woman to seek a high office in this state, is pretty nearly assured the Democratic nomination in spite of the bitter word war. Thomas J. Meighan and Homer Harris will also seek the democratic nomination, Franklin Ellsworth, Former congress- man of Mankota, is apposing Gover- nor Preus for the Republican nomi- nation for governor. There has been no widely publish- ed predictions of success., for him. All state officers are seeking renom- ination and_ re-election. Andrew J. Volstead is pmchcally assured the Republican nomination for congress in the seventh district, and will again be opposed in the election by Representative 0. A. Kvale. There is a contest of im- portance only in the third district where. Richard Thoreen of Stillwater will give Congresman Charles Davis a hard run, JOHNNY WILSON TO MEET MIKE GIBBONS SHORTLY (By United Press) Oklahoma City, June 16—Johnny Wilson, champion middleweight box- er, has been assigned to fight Mike Gibbons of St. Paul at Colorado Springs in the near future, it was announced today. Wilson, who will be guaranteed $25,000, has wired acceptance of the offer. FRENCH & FOLEY PURCHASE INTEREST IN BRICK YARDS E. N. French and M. Foley have purchased the brick yards formerly owned by Knplan & Robertson. They are repairing the machiney and sheds on the property south of Be- midji and expect to get them in or- der so that they can begin opera- tions next Monday. MINNEAPOLIS BOUT IS EASY FOR L. C. CURTIS L. C. Curtis of this city success- fully met George Dalrymple at Nic- olett park, Minneapolis, Thursday evening, winning the match in eight minutes and 85 seconds. In the semi-windup, Ralph Parcaut and Chris Jordan went 40 minutes to a draw, In the headline match, Ed “Stmnu- ler” Lewis won over John Freberg of Minncapolis, taking the first and third falls. Freberg won the sec- ond fall in 10 minutes and b scconds, and gained the “distinction of being one of the very few wrestlers in the game to have pinned the champion’s shoulders since he won the title. Curtis is scheduled to mect Ralph Parcaut for the third time at Web- ster City, Iowa, on July 4th. This match promises to be an exception- ally good one since Papcaut now holds one victory over the Bemidji wresl]er, the second match xusu]tmg in a draw with one fall for each in the two-hour limit. ‘ ’/ x||mill .4|- 7 // rfiu, / ' | TWO EVENTS BLOCKED BY FAIR EXECUTIVES At a meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Beltrami County Agri- cultural association, the Sunday pro- gram to be given at the fair grounds was discussed thoroughly ‘from all angles and as a result the following statement has been made by this com- mittee relative to two events on the sports program as already announ- ced. Notice . “This is to give notice to the public that the sports program announced to take place at the Northgrn Minnksota Fair grounds on Sunday, June 18th has been arranged without the knowledge or consent of the ex- ecutive committee of the Bel. trami Country Agricultural As- sociation, “The executive committee of the Association has refused to permit two items of the id program to appear, mmely, a ladie’s wrestling bout and men’s boxing match. Box:h. matches in Minnesota are pro- hibited by state law except by consent of the State Boxing Commission. b “Executive Committee” AIRPLANE MAKES WEST’S AUTO STAGE LOOK TAME Washington, D. C., June 16.—Gla- cier National Park Thursday opened its 13th season with an innovation— the inauguration of the first aerial- taxi service which thus far has fur- nished competition for the automo- bile stage in any of Uncle Sam’s play- grounds. In order to get “the eagle’s view” of the Rocky Mountains, sev- eral of the first arriving tourists took to the “winged vehicles” and rode over the Continental Divide through cloud banks. Hoiwever, the automo- bile scenic highway still is the more popular route taken into the park by the majority of sightseers. Charles Middleton, general man- ager of the United States Aircraft corporation of Spokane, Wash., is holder of the first concession granted by the National Parks Service de- pnrtment for the operation of sight- secing airplanes in Glacier National Park, I FOUR MEN ARRESTED BY AGENTS AT LITTLE FALLS Little Falls, June 16—Four men were arrested in Little Falls by Fed- cral phohibition agents and a quan- tity of liquor seized. Joseph Leutz, proprictor of a soft drink parlor, showed hght and was sporting a black eye in jail today. Fred Connen and Lyle Spencer were arrested in another soft drink parlor, and fourth was arrested when he notified a place that prohibition agents were coming. LEO MAYER SOLE OWNER OF MAYER & SWISHER GROCERY Through a recent business trans- action, Leo Mayer became sole own- er of the Mayer & Swisher grocery store at 507 Beltrami avenue, Harold Swisher sclling his interest to Mr. Mayer. NEW YORK IS LEADING MANUFACTURING CENTER Great Metropolis Is Something Besides Vast Playground; Output Five Billion (By United Press) New York, June 16—In spite of efforts of motion picture producers, who would have people think jof New York as a vast playground peopled by millionaires and its streets lined with cabarets and thea- tres, the greatest city in the world maintaing its supremacy as the world’s leading manufacturing cen- ter., Statistics recertly made public by the Department of Commerce .at Washington reveal facts about the metropolis that are hard to reconcile with the stories of dissipation and hectic night life which appears to be the rule in current periodicals and Sunday supplements. Broadway and Fifth avenuc are not the only thor- oughfares in New York, 'fo those who are accustomed to think of that city in terms of sky- scrapers, qhnppmg districts and thea- tres, it is surprising to learn that in 1919 goods whose value exceeded $5,000,000,000 were manufactured in Munh:ntmn and Brooklyn. That is enough to supply cvery person in the United States with $50 worth of merchandise and is equal to onc- twelfth of the total amount of goods manufactured in the entire country. Chicago and Philadelphia follow New York in the relative importance of their manufactures. It may be true that New York is a paradise for bootleggers and that morc money is spent for amusement and race-track gambling than in any city in the western hemisphere; yet there are 32, 590 rhriviaz manufact: ¢ establishments with a tatal can- on of more than $3.006,900, (Continued on Pnze 8.) = e JHILLER} FIGHT Present Governor, Nathan Mil- ler, Expected to Run Against William R. ‘Hearst HEARST’S AMBITION'IS TO RUN FOR PRBIDENI' All-Absorbing Topic in New York State at Present Is Gubernatorial Race By P. B. Scott (United Press Staft Correspondent) Albany, N. Y., June 1&—Political ‘observers at New York ‘state’s cap- itol today were more than ever con- vinced that the state ticket this fall will be Miller vs Hearst. x They are basing this conclusion on two things: First, that Repubhcan party ehiql- tans are determined that the ‘present governor, Nathan L. Miller, shall run to succeed himself, in the hope ‘of grooming him for presidental timbar if he is elected; Seccond, that Willlam Randolph Hearst has the Democrat.c nomina- tion sewed up in his pocket, if he cares to take it, and according te every indication here, he ‘wants it. It has been learned on credible au. thority that the republican party managers have decided that Miller must be the G. O, P. candidate, whether he wishes it or not. The plan of the leaders at the present is to trot out all aspirants for the gubernatorial nomination, killing them all off one by one, and at the last minute in the convention nom- inate Miller. Miller's record has been attracting nationwide attention ayd it has been gratifying to some of his party’lead- ers t‘(’) note thnlt he has been ‘migh- tioned gs ‘a presidentia) . iblity b; editors outside o}“l‘l‘i‘g ‘;q"te. %fi’z has inspired them with the ‘beliet that he will be a serious consider- ation at the next G. O. P, mationkl convention if he is elected and- it is decided that Harding shall be retired. The Hearst Aspirations On the other side of the political fence, two big factors point very strongly to the fact that Hearst de- sires the Democratic nomination. The first is the significant fact that practically the same men are fostef- ing his candidacy up-state as‘did in | 1906. The second is that Heamt is believed to think that if he can capture the election this year, he will be in a position to command atten- tion when he puts forward his claim for consideration as the Democratic presidential nominee 2 years hence. This latter is said to be by thnui vho know him, Hearst’s one big am: 3 bition—to try for the president‘al chair. He is credited with reasoning that if he can be elected governor of New York state, then he is the logical man to be Democracy’s stan- dard bearer. The one interesting feature of the Democratic situation this year is the aloofness of Tammany Hall. No word has yet come from the Fourteenth street wigwam as to who would be acceptable to them, but here is the situation as it appears here, Under the new convention law, (Continued on Page 8.) L AWAIT RADIO MESSAGE . FROM MARS TWO WEEKS (By United Press) Hudson, Wisconsin, June 16, (By Jack Darroch, United Press Staff Co- respondent, cupyrighted by the U- nited Press 1922. Aboard Marconi’s Private Wacht,) Electra)—Mystet- ious sounds came from out the ether to the powerful but delicately tuned receiving set in William Marconi's private cabin during the fortnight message from Mars. But the visit- ing planet, closer now than for nine years, failed to communicate defi- nitely with the earth, “I listened practically all the time for two Wecks,” Marconi said. I had the instrument tuned ready to 5 receive from anybody no matter where or who they might be.” 1 et KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CAST TO MEET TONIGHT The cast for the production .which is to be put on by the Knights of Columbus at the Grand theatre June 28 and 29, is requested to meet to- night in the old Moose hall. Mr. Kelley, who is to direct the show, arrived in the city this morn- ing after an unavoidable delay, and will start the rehearsals tonight. Those who arc expected to take part are tequested to meet at the hall at 17:30 and parts will be assigned them,