Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 21, 1922, Page 1

’, PIONEER | night, except somewhat - g in‘the east tonight; n: change- in-temperat BEMIDJI, MINN.,, M(')NDAY‘ EVENNG, AUGUST 21, 1322 CONFERENCE CALLED TO A’ CONSIDER OLL AT SEA - H T (By United' Press) i Washington, August 21.—An_in- ternational conference of the prin- cipal maritime nations of the world will convene: liere this winter, at the invitation of the United States, to consider measures to be taken to rid the world seacoasts of the menace to fisheries, property and migratory birds in the increasing pollution of coastal waters by oil ejected from steamships. President Harding, acting in com- pliance with legislation enacted re- cently by congress, has authorized Secretary of State Hughes to issue invitations to. the conference, and in interdepartmemtal committee repre- senting the departmlents of state, war, navy, commerce, interior and agriculture, and the shipping board is at work detexmining which nations will be invited and formulating agents for the confergnce. Representative: T. F{ Appleby, New Jersey, in whose state are some of the finest bathing - beaches on the Atlantic coast, notably that at At- lantic City, is the father of the con- ference. He imtroduced and secured passage by congress of a bill author- izing President Harding to call it. It is intended that the result of the conference will be an international agreement whereby each nation will pledge itself to see that masters of ships flying its flag will exercise ev- ery precaution in the ejection of oil from their ships, and in no case will eject it where it will drift shore- wards. Because no mation has juris- diction on the high seas beyond-the three-mile limit, an agreement is the sole manner in which the object can be attained, domestic legislation be- ing inoperative. TRAIN WRECK CAUSE INVESTIGATION IS ON Blame to.Be Fixed for Derail- ment . of Million-Dollar Passenger Train e o_ ILEGION MAKES i . @ “Lives of World War Victims Sacrificed for Political Pur- poses,” Says Van Dyke \ Treasurer A E. l-'ei:;‘ ‘v(_}ivveo | Comparative Figures Show- ing Increased Attendance cussion of Menace Miss Audrey. i the Grand Champion calf shown at the Northern Minnesota Fair last week. Audrey got her calf last year through the Security State ~Bank Calf Club. and ever since she joined she has been a leader in the way she. has. fed and cared for her calf. The grand champion calf is a pure bred: calf .imported here from the leading Gurnsey center in Wiscon- si Automobile and Motorsycle Events Fumnish Fitting Close to Fall Fair STRIPPED RACER GOES THRU FENCE; NONE HURT OVER 2,000 DELEGATES PAGEANT WAS FEATURE AT VIRGINIA MEETING OF EVENING PROGRAM Lois Watson with a pure bred Holestin won second place. Lois takes excellent care of her calf and| was. complimented by the judge on the way. she had grown out her calf. If she had had an opportunity to get the animals coat in little beter shape she might have been the first prize animal. Audrey and Lois are entitled to represent . this community at the state fair but owing to the fact that it° would cost about $60 to express the calves to and from the fair, they probably will not . go. . Third prize. was won by Leonard Swenson, with his purebred Short- horn. Leonard has a very fine in- dividual. The judge told him that there was very little difference be- +f tween his calf and the ones that won over. him and that a different judge might have placed them the other way too. Other calf club members exhibit- ing, most of them winning valuable prizes in the County contest were: Carl Hoines, John Lee. Olaf Narum Theodore Eenske, Ivan Goodmanson Bernard Goodmanson, -Gustav Berg, Léslie Evans, William Evans, Oscar Swenson. In the County contest, the calves were_judged according to age and breed with the following results: Second Year Guernseys 1. Audrey Jondahl (Continued on page 6) AMERICA LOSES MONEY BY INMIGRATION CURB Program, Asks Governor to Provide Land for Disabled Service Men Fees for Conqeuion;, Entry Fees for Races and Exhibits Will Run Over $2,000 Ford Novelty Race, Australian Complete Piogram (By. United Press) Virginia, Aug. 21—Immediate aid for “long suffering victims of the worl.d’x war” was demanded by ex- ccutives of the Minnesota American Legion today. Commander A. A, VanDyke de- clared the lives of wounded veter- ans are being sacrificed for political purposes. He demanded slashing of red tape ad starting a move to elim- ulxate red tape within his organiza- tion. Elimination of needless com- mittees to make a more concise and workman state machinery was urged. More than 2000 delegates were on hand_ for the opening of the state con'vcnhon this morning. Special trains brought hundreds last night and hundreds more arrived today. Three brass bands and the St. Paul Drum and Bugle corps kept the town awake until the wee hours of the morning. ~ The executive committee met Sun- day and framed a convention pro- gram, The convention probably will: Demand immediate pasage of the soldiers adjusted compensation act. Pass upon the advisability of a state legion publication. Adopt plans for the completion of the hospital at Rochester opened to every service man in America. Condemn the duplicate adminis- tration of the United States veteran bureau under General C. E. Sawyer. Ask the governor to provide land for; disabled service men,” not under training to become farmers. Hanford MacNider, national com- mander of the legion cancelled his gngagemcnt for Wednesday even- ing saying he would not be able to reach the convention. Commander VanDyke said he will ask the convention to recommend that the government hospital to be erected at St. Cloud have 500 beds instead of 350 as planned, ROUND UP OF RADICAL AGITATORS IS BEGUA Chicago, Aug. 21 (By Chas. R. Lynch)—A round up of radical ag- itators in connection with the wreck of the Michigan Central Million dol- lar express at Gary, Indiana was emminent today. Authorities raided the office of William Z. Foster, la- bor editor, who was recently denied the right to speak at Colorado and seized hundreds of papers. An cxhausted examination of the propoganda found in Foster’s office was made today. Authorities plan to question agitators whose names |appeared on the lists. The Northern Minnesota Fair closed its 1922 show Saturday and will be recorded as the greatest fair from every point of view held in this section of the state. The attendance receipts record shattered -all previous marks both afternoon and evening. A statement prepared by A. E. Fier, treasurer of the association tells the story. His statement makes a comparison with 1921 and is as follows with refer- ence to gate and grand stand re- ceipts. 1921 1922 Entry day, no charge ....$344.00 Second day, $2835.15 ...$2144.75 Third day, $3076:55 . .$2723.75 Fourth day, $713.65 . .$2035.00 Fifth day, no fair . ..$480.25 Advance sale of season tickets $896 Advance sale of Pageant tickets $138 Entry fees for concessions and exhibits and races etc. are not yet complete, but these it is believed will run well over the two thousand dollar mark. The . advance sale of pageant tickets covers only- the half belonging to the fair association the other half going to the Thurston Co., who conducted the evening feature events. _Owing to the large number who participated in the Pageant it was necessary to give out many free passes to the grounds and grandstand to those who took part. B The exhibits in the stock, agri:| @ary, Ind, Aug. 2 se-Qfficial . in- culture, school departments fancy | vestigation of the Million Dollar ex- | goods; poultry etc, as well as the | press wreck on e Michigan Central program of races and sports to-| railroad, in which two, trainmen gether with the large list of conces-| were killed and two injured, was sions far exceeded the same depart-| started today. ments of last year. Officials of the road charged that spikes were withdrawn from the track for a distance of several hun- dred yards. John Katana of Gary was arrested after he was alleged to have remarked, “It’s a shame they Northery Minnesota’s greatest fall fair closed its most successful season Saturday, the feature of the day. being the thrilling automobile and motorcycle races. which in many instances proved- intensely interest- ing.: . The. real _thrill given the crowd was. when John Spillplane. and diver went over. the embankment at the west turn of the track, going at a speed of a mile: a- minute. He was third in the race and the dust so blinded him that he was unable to see the curve. The car went straight over the embankment: and was kept right side up by careful manipulation of the steering wheel. Neither driver nor mechanic were harmed in the least. E The free for all stripped car race was won by William Saccoman of Backus in-his eight-cylinder Jackson ‘car. . his- best- time for the two miles: being 3:50. R. G. Glenn of the Progressive Auto Company was a close second, he having cap- tured first in the first of three heats. John Harris was awarded third money his being the only other car to finish. In the solo motorcycle and side car races ‘Harry Stahl of the local Harley{Davidson aglency captured first honors, he winning first place in both races, . ; Ralph Moberg. finished second and Wade Carpenter third in the} solo, race and Joe Kisser second and Moberg third. in..the..side ‘car. race. The Ford' ‘Ydce in which there- were. six entries. furpished excitement plenty. The race wis run from a standing start, each driver being required to ride once around the half mile track, sfop his car and engine, crank it and jump into the seat; drive anothér half mile and repeat until:four laps of the track were made. - The winner of this race was Mike Bertram, with Archie Bowers and Floyd Hirt second and third, re- spectively. In the Australian Pursuit race Earl Cochran in a Chevrolet cap- tured first money and Louis Straw- bridge in a big Lexington second money. - et (Continued on ‘Washington, August restrictive - immigration enacted by congress in June, 1921, to dam the flood of foreigners surg- ing to American shores, cost the state. department over $5,000,000 in passport . visa fees during the past fiscal year and its position as the only self-supporting department of the government, as well. In the fiscal year 1920-1921, the department collected over $10,000,- 000 largely from $10 visa fees paid by immigrants. This sum exceeded by $1,270,198.76 the amount paid out by the treasury to operate the department and its activities. The surplus was turned over to the treas- ury. - During the fiscal year just ended, however, barely $5,000,000 was tak- en in by the department. The slump is attributed to the immigration law which cut immigration into America in half and curtailed the lucrative business -conducted by American consuls in foreign ports in visas. As a result, the department estimates an excess of expenditures over re- ceipts of $3,306,025.07 for the year, completely wiping ~out the profit made last year. MAN SHOOTS BROTHER WED TO WIFE LEFT 20 YEARS AGO (By United Press) 150,000 COAL MINERS To WORK wrrm“ WEEK weren’t all killed.” “Philadelphia, Aug. 21—With the| One thousand dollars reward was hard coal district up state preparing |offered by the road for the arrest for resumption of mining anthracite [ of persons responsible. Only eight miners and operators held separate | men. were on the train, which was meetings here today to outline its | composed of twenty-three cars of maximum concessions in the hope of | perishable freight and express. Every reaching an agreement to end the |car left the track. strike at & joint onference. Engineer E. Coy and Fireman E. The shortest of gaps remained to |Lubbs, both of Niles, Michigan were be bridged. Men and owners here | buried in the wreckage of the en- agreed upon the contract which will | gine and it was hours before the send more than 150,000 miners back | bodies were recovered. to work within a week. All that re- The train was traveling sixty miles mains to be agreed on is the length lan hour, when the engine jumped of time this contract shall run and |the tracks and the cars piled up on whether the entire matter of wages |it. Thousands of persons . walked 'shall be put up tb an arbitration | from Gary to see the wreck. Conduc- board, with the report abroad that | tor Foot was a veteran of the Port- a compromise on the question of |er, Ind., wreck in which forty were arbitration had been found. killed. Page fl AMERICAN LEGIONIN. SESSION AT VIRGINIA (By United Press) Virginia, -Aug. 21—A real contest for the office of state commander, of the ‘American Legion was in the offing todsy as delegates met for the annual convention. Five candidates were ready for the race and caucuses were under way as the- first delegation arrived Sunday. M. P. LaFleur of Two Harbors, 7. L. Begin, Minneapolis; Gerald Barron, Cloquet; and Victor Port- man of Currie, are all in the run- ning to succeed Dr. A. A. Van Dyke St. Paul, present comander. B. D. Grogan, Mankato and Levi Hall, Minneapolis, have been men- tioned as candidates for the national executive committee. Harrison Fuller former state commander of St Paul, has also been mentioned for this office. . Mrsy A. O. Clarke, Minneapolis seemed to have the field largely to herself in the talk of a successor to Mrs. Sandy Hamilton. Minneapolis president of the Womens Auxiliary. also in convention session. b Hanford McNider, national com- mander and a number of other prominent legionnaires, Hre expect to take part in the c¢ohvention ses: Out of' the Game— But Who Pays? Portland, Mich., Aug. 21—William Hughes, 43, returned here to find the wifé he left 20 years ago wedded to his- brother David. Hughes, un- like Enoch Arden, could not recon- cile himself to the marriage shot and killed himself. William _ quarreled with the couple, and Mrs. Hughes fled as her former husband pulled the gun. David’s daughter Gertrude was slightly wounded by one of the bul- lets. AN UNIQUE WINDOW DISPLAY OF J. C. PENNEY CO. STORE One of ‘the show windows of the J. C. Penney Company store, at 413- 415 Beltrami avenue, contains an unique and graphic demonstration of the size and the growth of that nation-wide organization. The: window trimmer has placed s colored tacks in a large map _o! the, slons. % : j i United - States at the points whera The legionnaires of!'Virginia and the company have stores. From these the iron range have.arnngfg 2 bDsY { 40ks , strings of the same color run program of entertmm&i@fl? o & Vvisit~1 1) a ‘card on which the name of the ing members, 6,000 dt "Whom are city or town and the number of the expected to attend. The convention Ctore is printed in bold type. will continue through Thursday. N here is one red tack. This de- notes the “mother,” or first store GERMCA:N‘?:;;II(S);SIEO;I? PAUL which was opened at Kemmerer, L Wyoming, in April, 1902. The yel- Jow tacks indicate the 312 stores that were in operation at the begin- ning of this year, while the blue tacks direct attention to the 59 new stores now in course of opening. The three white tacks.locate the buy- ing offices of the company at New York City, St. Louis and St. Paul. A = WHY.' YER NOT QUITTIN' NOW? STICK AROUND, YOUMIGHT WIN. HHHHE I S\ J T =\ AND ALL } HAVE T0 DO 1S JUST FEED THE'KITT (By United Press) St. Paul, Aug. 22—Nearly 2,600 delegates are attending the conven- tion of the German Baptists of North America, which opened in St. Paul today. Rev. C. F, Stockman oi.SL Paul is president of the orgamm-‘ tion. THE SUFFERING 9 PUBLIC-ALWAYS THE"FALLGUY “ e s et ¢ e . SMITH-HUGHES COURSE APPEALS TO FARMERS Enrollment in City High School Will Be Large, Advises Instructor Plughoeft e Harding Will Be Taken Up Today & st The indications are that the en: rollment in agriculture under the Smith-Hughes act will be large for the goming school year. This course was introduced into the Bemidji high school two years ago, The work that hgs been offered has made it popular with the farm boys. The department has been working under a handicap thus far, but with the new building and added equipment this will no longer be the case. Only farm boys, or those who ex- pect to go to farming, are admitted to the course. A large proportion of the farm boys are unable to attend school the entire nine months on ac- count of late fall and early spring work. This course has been so ar- ranged that these boys may have an opportunity to get more schooling in their vocation during the winter months. It is offered from a prac- tical standpoint. The aim of the course is what Dr. Frank Crane, in an editorial on “The Education I Wish I Might Have Had,” says: “I wish my powers of observation had been carefully drill- ed and developed and that I had had someone to teach me the rudiments of the sciences in the field and not alone in books.” The course of study for the com- ing year is as follows: Animal Hus- SEEK PERMANENT PEACE PLAN TO CURB STRIKES Senate to Take Up Bonlu Before Considering the Strike Situation ! (By United Press) $ Y Washington, Aug. 21—Steps are being taken in congress today to put through two of the measures recom- mended by Harding for meeting the strike situation. ; The house was prepared to pa this week a bill setting up a federal commission to investigate every phase of the coal mining industry in the hope that such an inguiry will lay the basis for permanent peace in this strike beset industry. Such a bill was to be introduced today- by Chairman Winslow of the Interstate Commerce Committee and this probably will be accepted. Although the senate is taking = bandry, Shop Work and Manual g Training, Farm Arithmetic, and Eng- rest unh! Wednesday on the long lish. tariff grind the foreign relations committee met on the president's proposal for legislature giving the federal court power to protect treaty rights of aliens so that the federal government will intervene and punsih those hesponsible for violence such as the Herrin massacre. The bill of Scnator Kellogg in- corporates #he president’s sugges- tion and may be reported out late today or tomorrow, but it is not probable that the senate will act on it until next wek after the soldier bonus has been disposed of. Senator Borah, chairman -of . the senate labor committee, ssid today he would try to get the labor com- mittee- together ~tomorrow ‘ to “thke up his bill arranging for a fact find- ing agency in the coal industry. Borah’s bill has been introduced by the white house after being in gen- eral, what the president desires im the way of legislation to secure re- liable facts regarding how much money coal operators are making and whether prices are reasonable. Because the senate ahs pledged to take up the bonus Wednesday actual steps_toward working out the legislative program asked by Hard- ing, will be left to the house this week. i FIRE DESTROYS BARN, GRAIN, CLOVER STACKS A fire which destroyed a barn, four grain stacks and three stacks of clover on the farm of Mr. Burt- rum near Tenstrike, Sunday, was witnesed by Wayne Lapley. George Klungness and Fred Breen, wlho were returning from picking cran- berries in that vicinity. The boys noticed a column of smoke in the distance and started in that dircction but were turned back by neighbors who were running in all directions from the fire as they had been warned that there — was dynamite in the barn and all got to a safe distance before it exploded scattering burning embers into the clover and grain stacks which are a total loss. The Bemidji boys helped in every way in trying to save the grain and in putting the fire out. but. the fire had gained too great a headway- and their cfforts were bent on. saving nearby property. Mr. Burtrum was not at home when the fire started and is unable to account for its origin. The course is free. A small charge for the use of books may be made. In order that high schools may offer this work, the state and federal government give financial aid to the extent of paying three-fourths of the instructor’s salary and other expenses of the department. SCHUMAKER, BROOKS AND MARCUM LEAD GOLFERS Saturdays, Sundays and Holi- days Giyen to Men Players - to Finish Matches In the golf championshpi handicap tournament for the silver trophy, given by E. H, Denu who hcld the cup for two ycars, W. L. Brooks and Dr. E. H. Marcum have been ad- vanced to the semi-finals. R. H. Schumaker and E. H. Denu played a tie match of eighteen holes for this award and will have to play another eighteen holes to determine the semi- entrant. In the race for the gold metal championship, R. H. Schumaker is leading the field in the second round of seventy holes with a score for the 36 holes of 172. A. J, MacMillan and E. H. Denu are sccond with a score of 177 on the 36 holes. | S. S. Wilson has played his third lap and hung up a score of 272 with eighteen holes more to go. This race is developing into a most interesting contest, the contenders all having entered without a handicap. Rules adopted by the greens com- mittee give right of course to men players on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, in order that match plays may proceed without difficulty. W. F. Brooks, president of the Minnekahda club of Minneapolis and also a member of the United States Gold association grecns committee, is spending several days at Birch- mont, and pronounced the local course one of the best in the state. Mr. Brooks is considered one of the big men in the game throughout the United States. FAIR HEALTH BOOTH IS GREAT HELP TO MOTHERS The Health Booth at the North- ern Minnesota fair proved to be one of the most interesting and helpful to the general public of any exhibit on the grounds, according to those who were in close touch with the work. The booth is the first of its kind ever opened at the local fair and was in charge of Miss Beth McGregor, trained nurse, and placed there un- der the supervision of the Baby Wel- fare committec of the Woman’s Community and Civic club of this city. Mothers were given free instruc- tion regarding the care of babies and patterns were issued for baby clothes and given free. These were sup- plied by the division of Child H: giene, made possible by the pa: of the Shepherd-Towner act. The local committee, under wht supervision the display was arra: A is comprised of Mrs. R, L. Given, chairman; Mrs. Earle Barker, X A. E. Feir, Mrs. D. L. Stanton, Mr, lE. D. Boyce and Mrs. R. E. Richard- son. 1 COUNTRY DESIRES PEACE™ :: HARDING TELLS SOLDIERS (By United Press) Washington, Aug:. 21—This coun- try’s principle concérn is peace -and the securities of peace, President Harding declared today in:i-an ad- dress to one thousand citizen -sol- diers he reviewed back of the white house, 4 “There is ~o doubt of armed. wax- fare and no design to carry on-an armed campaign in any direction,” Harding said explaining efforts. of the house to induce the young men of the county to enter the soldier’s training camps. HARVEST FESTIVAL NOW:: i BEING HELD AT MOORHEAD (By United Press) " Moorhead, Aug. 21—A weeki of harvest festivals under the suspices of the fire department opeened hére today. Prizes will be awarded for agricultural exhibits and a carnival ¢ompany has pitched its ftentsy _ 4