Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 30, 1922, Page 1

The Pioneer. is the only Northern Minnesota. daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and > has the largest circulstion in VOLUME XX. NO, 113 0 Mipnesota: § tonight and in southeast \____——15\ Abate. = - DUANAGETS "5 5t Records of Jfitifié H, A.Sqqqlu, Court Commissioner, Shpw Agents Are Not Idle OFFENDERS BOUND GVER TO FERGUS FALLS JURY Number of Stills Are Found in Operation; Mash and Booze Confiscated Although litle 3f anything has been said about the work Being done by the Indian department to- ward’ cleaning up . the territory of moonshine stills and home brew es- tablishments, tieé men on the job have not been idle. From the record of Judge H. A. Simons, Sr., court commissioner; be- fore. whom the cases. are heard, it is found .that considerable home made “hardware” has been secured and that some of the offenders are held over to appear at the Fergus Falls term of court in. November. Armong the names of the offenders: are found the names of Gust Smith from whose premises were taken a 25 gallon still, a copper coil, 15 gallons of mash and a cooler. He was _bound over August 11th. . H. ffmeister’s premises were relieved *of a washboiler -still, two empty. barrels and a half-pipt of “moon.” He will tell the jury at Fergus Falls why he had these about his premises, : i S. Snack, on August 9th, had his premises improved by removing a 25 gallon copper still, a_copper coil and some nasty, old mash. The Fer- gus ‘Falls court next November will hear the truth about, his case. G¢ Nelson in the early part.of August got careless about his prem- ises and the agents saw fit to take possession of and five jugs. He will be given an opportunity. to tell why this collec- tion of rubbish was permitted on his place of business. Just recently the, agents found a quantity of stray beer and moon and !’ some other paraphernalia on various premises and for which the owners may have to given an account. Bismarck, N. D, Aug. 30—Plans for the development of the North Dakota Lignite fields are being dis- cussed here today at the meeting of the mewly organized North Dakota Lignite ‘Coal Operators’ association. Stanley Washburn is president of the associatiofi> - Senator Lodge’s jBntle for Renomination Big Event in Massachusetts . Boston, Aug. 30 (United Press)— With the state primaries .only two weeks away Massachusetts’ political canldron was bubbling mergjly for what is expected to be the greatest battle of ballots in years Setp. 12. Sénator Henry Cabot Lodgels fight. for renomination easily stands out 4s the big event. His nomination papers were signed by 60,000 vo- ters, a record for the state. Opposing him_for the. legislatare, whose plat- form includes the League of Nations prohibition and the Newbury case. As_a resut of mucn criticism of the administration’s method of hand- ling the rail and coal strikes situa: tion, there is an under current of speculation as to_whether some vo- ters will sdek to show. their displeas- ure by voting against Lodge. President Harding’s address to congress on the .strike situation re- ceived much, unfavorable -commient here, even i e ‘Ef.j,ublicnn Press. During the weather the every day _eitizen worried little about his coal supply for next winter, but with warning from State and Federal -of- ficials of a certain shortage, that same citizen is beginning to cast about for someone to blame for the situation. In the Democratic ranks Sherman L. Whipple, nationally known lawyer is waging an aggressive campaign for nomination for the United States Senate. Whipple- has the full sup- port of Mayor James M. Curley’s city machine, a -formidable weapon. Colonel William A.-Gaston, another (Continued on Page 8.) a ‘washboiler still mf operation; a gallon -of “moon” and |- three-burner ol stove, two oil cans |’ s — for Big (By United Press) St, Paul, Aug. 29—Fifty thousand dollars in cash prizes is offered for the big sports carnival wWhich will be staged at'the Minnesota State Fair, Twin Cities, Sept., 2 to 9. Never before in the history of the state fair—this year’s fair is the 63rd one—has such a big sports pro- gram been arranged. First on the program will be au- tomobile races. Three days of racing are /scheduled, September 2, 6 and 9 being given over to the speed kings. Purses aggregating $15,000 will be divided among the winners. Sig Haugdahl in his famous three mile 8 minate car, the fastest car in the world will be among the twenty-five pilots who will compete. Haugdahl will make an effort to break the world’s circular track | record’ which he established at the fair in" 1921. The time _is 46 4-5 seconds. Besides Haugdahl, other well known drivers entéred are Fred Horey, Leon Duraay, Verne Soules, Ray Claypool and. Ray Lampkin. Lovers of harness racing will get their fill on four days..More than 200 harses ‘are entered and will com- pete for the $22,000 in’ purses with additional money which the fair is offered. Harness racing s carded for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, September 4, 5, 7, 8. Five hundred men and women horseshoe pitchers from all parts of the state “will compete in -the big tournament to be promoted by the fair. Prizes totaling $700 have been hung up. _ = Eight hundred young -birds will compete in the pigeon race from Omaha to the Twin Cities. For this 350-mile race, the fair is offering $250. The® winning birds wil be shown at the fair all week. The night horseshow will feature five evenings, and $8,500 ~in cash will be distributed among the win- Congress Not to Act on Any ‘Legidition Except When Absolutely Needed N (By Unitea Press) Washigton, Aug. 30—Congress will not enact any emergency legis- lation authorizing seizure of the railroads and idle coal mines except in the immediate necessity of an absolute crisis—which does not exist now. This a virtually complete poll of sentiment in both houses showed today, is the reaction on Capitol Hill tp the official white house statement that President Harding wants Con- gress before it adjourns to arm him with power to-take over the rail and coal properties as the last resort and operate them in the public wel- fare. - Many senators and congressemen expressed doubt as to whether such legislation could be passed in any event, and all agreed that a seizurg act.could be put through only when it was. certain” that it was the one move . that would stop industrial paralysis and end severe hardship. Only a few members were found ho believed that seizure legislation ould or could be pushed through at this time. | Washington, Aug. 30—Representa- tive. Johnson of South Dakota in- tends to force a test of seizure sen- (Continued on Page 8.) BOYS’ BAND WILL GIVE BIG CONCERT TONIGHT Bemidji will have an opportunity this evening to hear the same pro- gram which the Bemidji Boys’ band is to give at a public concert = at Mipnehnha park, Minneapolis, next Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock preceding the éngagement at the Minnesota State Fair next . week. The concert_this evening will begin st 7:30 announces Bandmaster G. 0. Riggs. The program is- ordinarily played in two hours but efforst will be' made tonight to play it in an hour and ‘a half. The_boys are now going through final practice in preparation for the state fair engagement, part of the practice being in marching order. The concert tonight promises to be one of the best ever attémpted Days BEMIDJI, MINN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 30, 1922 o —y States in 1921 ‘caused; the death ' of 12,500 persons,—one killed every forty-two minutes day and night. More n 300,000 persons were injured. fatalities on our highways last year were more than the American dead in the Spanish-American- War, while the injured far outnumbered our 221,000 wounded in the World War. That the automobile hazard is grow= ing: steadily is shown by the fact that although accidents on the failroads are decreasing automobile crashes in 1921 increased 4 per cent over 1920. For more than two years the Balti- more and Ohio railroad has placed men at crossings where large numbers of automobiles pass. These observers mote the machines crossing and take down the license numbers of those whose drivers fail to take any precau- tion. In 1920 these observers noted 398,000 wvehicles and, according to their records, 25,000 drivers failed to take any pre- cautions at highway crossings. In one mionth of this year 16,177 automobiles were checked by the railroad’s observe ers and 2,972 drivers were reported as having failed to stop, look or listen before crossing the tracks. During the first four months of this year 58,806 machines were observed and the “fail- ures” reached seventeen per cent. Few Accidents from Skidding ‘The impression prevails in some quar- ters that asphalt pavements are slip- pery, especially when wet, gnd conse- ly -are dangerous to drive over. If this were true, accident records would - show, a large percentage of cases where skidding was the causc of the accident. A three months® investigation re- cently. made in Maryland discloses the fact that 90 per cent. of automobile accidents are due to speeding. Of fourteen fatal accidents, two were | caused by failure to heed the warning <+ Proceedings=Close 205 Minnesota Av Reckless Driving Toll Is One Life : ery 42 Minutes On U. S. Highways S % Photo by Underwood & Underwoods Ths result of speoding along & publié higkway at might. Five died and at railroad ©F four by speed~ ing; four by driving on the wrong side of the road, and four by reckless driving. None of the fatal accident was caused by skidding. v Statistics, from city records in San Francisco on automobile and motor= cycle accidents, show 3,609 accidents in 1921. Of this number only 138, or 38 per cent were due to skidding. Of the 109 of these occurring on asphalt pavements, 75 per cent were the result of carelessness. Four-fifths of San Francisco’s paved streets are of the asphaltic types. Owing to rains in winter and fogs in summer, they are in a wet condition most of the time, so the slight percentage of accidents due to skidding is at once apparent. The tabulation of an average thou- sand reports on causes of automobile collisions. filed with the claim depart- ment of the Inter-Insurance Exchange, Los Angeles, shows only 6 per cent. of the accidents . were due to skidding. Forty per cent, of these skidding acci- dents resulted from imprudent attempts this accident near Cleveland, %o turfi f06 quickly; 40 per cedt. From over-speeding and only 20 per cent. or 12 per cent. of all accidents were due to unavoidable skidding. g Many Collisions in Iowd A rigid investigation by the Towa State Highway ission during 1921 showed that of 4,633 accidents which occurred in that state in which 359 persons were killed and 4,195 injured, 114 accidents or 24 per cent of the total were due to skidding, and Towa has practically no asphalt roads. The great percentage of accidents in Towa were collisions, Of these there were 1,210, with 1,010 persons killed and injured. Asphaltic pavements have not caused any appreciable number of automobile accidents. While the tractive resistance of asphaltic concrete is relatively low, it is not so low as to cause excessive slipperiness. As a matter of fact, statistics prove that asphaltic pavements are less slippery than are the other so~ called permanent types. ——— BEMIDJI STAR ABANDONS REGULAR TRIPS ON LAKE Due to the lateness of the season the Bemidji Star of which George 'A. Port of Bemidji is owner and op- erator, has discontinued its regular _ | Lake Bemidji scheduled. service and will now-operate only for excursions and when chartered for auting par- ties. Each Sunday afternoon at 3 the boat will leave the Third street dock ‘for an excursion. The launch may be chartered at any time, it is announced by Mr. Port. RANKIN LEADS TODAY IN HONTANA PRIMARY (By United Press) . Helena, Mont., Aug. 30—Welling- ton D, Rankin obtained a slight lead over his opponent for the United States Senate in Montana in today’s return from yesterday’s primaries. Congressman Carl W. Riddick ran a close second. ) Benton K. Wheeler led Tom Stout by more than a thousand votes for the democratic senatorial nomina- | tion. Unias, here and it is expected that it will be largely attended, It will be held in Library park and the public is invited to attend. o’clock, when the weather permits] BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS _ COMPETE AT STATE FAIR (By United Press) St. Paul,- Aug. 30—Nearly 1,000 boys and'girls froth all parts ot the state will- compete - ifi” the “Boys and girls’ club contests .at the coming Minnesota State Fair, Twin Cities, September 2 to 9, it was announced today. = The club work program has grown so big at the, State Fair that a sep- arate department has been organized this year for the exhibits of the farm boys and girls. The department under the supervision of T, A. Erick- son, state club leader, is to be known as the Boys’ and Girls’ club depart- {ment, and an entire building has been set aside for the exhibits. The build- ing which formerly housed the bee and honey exhibit will be the home of the boys’ and girls" clubs. The building has more than 9,000 feet of exhibit space. No other department of the state fair has grown so rapidly as the Boys' ‘and Girls’ club movement. In appreciation of the wonderful re- sults already obtained by club lead- ers in this state and to further en- courage the work, the fair manage- ment this year is offering premiums and special prizes totalling $11,600. HALF MILLION POUNDS OF WOOL GO TO POOLS More than 500,000 pounds of Minnesota’s 1922 wool clip have gone to the various faymer owned marketing agencies which are co” operating with the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation. Reports from the three sales agencies suggested by the Minnesota wool marketing committee early this year show that in spite of reduced production, the amount of wool pooled by Minne- sota farmers this year is equal to the largést amount marketed coop- eratively in any other year. SEN. JOHNSON LEADING CALIFORNIA PRIMARIES| (By United Press) San Francisco, Aug. 30—Senator Hiram W. Johnson running against Charles C. Moore for the Republican nomination for the United States senate in California, increcased his lead steadily as returns from yester- day’s primary were tabulated. Figures covering all but 12 of 58 counties of the state, none of which are complete, gave Johnson 123,367 | and Moore 89,888. -~ 1 i |lunch will follow the business me STATE DEPARTMENTS TO_GV UNITE IN BIG EXHIBIT State Fair Visitors- Will See What Is Given ‘i‘n.Rehlrn for*Taxes P‘\l‘miShIe . Departments of the state govern- ment—47 in all including various institutions—are joining to make their exhibits under one big roof at the state fair grounds this year the big special attraction, just as aerial circuses, war exhibits and other fea- tures were drawing cards at other fairs. The state depar:ments are using 30,000 feet of floor space in the huge stecel building on machinery hill for displays designed at first to entertain and then to inform vis- itors of the returns given for state taxes levied. The general committee predicts that there will be less de- mand for reduction in taxes when citizens learn from inspection of state exhibits of all the tax funds buy. ! Latest radio appfiances will both send and receive daily at the exhibit of the University of Minnesota. Dem- onstration of the practical use of wireless will include that of hour market quotations, concerts and so forth can be obtained on the farm. Free motion pictures will tell a good roads story and graphically show beter roads progress in Min- nesota at the space given the state highway department. Free highway maps will be given out, also infor- mation on highway plars and policies. A big menagerie of animals, birds and fish will make up the wild life showing on the game and fish de- partment. A binder twine machine from the prison factory will be in operation in one of the 17 exhibits oy institu- tions under the state board of con- trol. Many other interesting and in- structive showings are being made ready for the big show. The state departments exhibits will be free to all visitors . (LASSY BASKET TEAM ASSURED : e Local Firemen to. Put Classy Basketball Team in Field; Players to Be Paid Bemidji will be able to boast this winter of having one of the very best basketball teams in thc state, present indications point out, At a meeting of the entertainment com- mittee of the Bemidji ~ Volunteer Fire Deparemtn, it has been decided to put into the field the classiest basketball team ever seen here. The committee plans to hire two or three professional players, one of whom will act as coach and build the team up aroud these men. All men on the team are to be paid. Training ‘will be established and any player who cannot deliver the goods will get the “razzberry”, the com- mittee announces. Season tickets will be sold at a discount and the entire procceds of the season will go toward the enter- tainment fund for the 1923 State convention of firemen to be held in Bemidji. The public can be assured good, clean basketball, as the committee states freely that no rough stuff will be tolerated. The present plans all for an average of three games each week, commencing the latter rart of November or the fore part ¢ Dec- ember. A complete schedu” will be announced later. This committee is desirous of see- ing Bemidji have a basketball team which will be capable of meeting and holding its own with the best teams in the country. RALPH GRACIE POST TO MEET THURSDAY NIGHT Ralph Gracie post of the Ameri- can Legion will meet in special ses- sion Thursday evening, August 31, at the rooms of the Civic and Com- merce association at 8 o’clock. This meeting has been postponed on ac- count. of the absence from the city of several of the officers of the post and ‘also due to the next regular meeting of the post is still over two weeks away.* A number of important ‘matters are to come up for consideration at this time. There will also be a re- port on the state convention held at Virginia last week. This report will be made by three delegates which represented Bemidji. Commfttee reports wil} -also be heard and it is likely that a light ing. Tt is espc ly desired that t! be a large attendance at this s sion. <o James Butts Defendants in Court Proceedings PREMISES ARE CALLED A “PUBLIC NUISANCE” Court Order Closes Bluldm: for One Year; All Personal Property to Be Sold Abatement proceedings brought against John Slow, James Butts and Frank Dewey of this city in District Court before Judge C. W. Stanton have resulted in the closing of the premises known as N. 205 Minnesata avenue. The proceedings also apply to all other persons or parties. un- known claiming any right, title es- tate lien or interest in the personal property and real estate described in the complaint. X Judge C. W. Stanton’s findings were filed today and the judgement entered this forenoon, As a result the place known as 205 Minnesota avenue has been locked up for a period of one year and the sheriff has been ordered to sell the personal property. Graham M. Torrance, county At- torney for Beltrami county, appear- ed in behalf of the state of Minnesota ex rel A. V. Garlock, mayor of the city of Bemidji and P. J. Russell ap- peared in behalf of the defendant Frank Dewey. The defendant John Slow - was charged with occupying and con- troling the premises known as 205 Minnesota avenue, while the defend+ ant Frank Dewey was charge with being the free owner of said real property, and that the defendant John Slow on the 17th day of March 1921, obtained a contract from Frank Dewey for the purchase of said real property, and.that the de- fendant John Slow on the 16th day of March, 1922 executed a purpoted assignment of his contract to the defendant: James Butts. It was further charged that on the 27th day of July, 1922 and at divers other dates, said John Slow did wrongfully, unlawfully and wilfully keep and maintain in and about said premises a place where intoxicating liquor was kept for sale and com- monly sold; that the defendants James Butts and Frank Dewey, and (Continued on Page 8) London—A mathematical analyser has reduced ‘“‘theater mnoises” to a science. He claims that during the average London performance there among the audience 5,000 noises, made up as follows: 260 coughs, 320 throat clearings, 10 sneezes. NEIL SWANSON LEAVING FARM BUREAU SERVICE Founder of Farm Bureau News Service Resigns; Elliott Named as Successor Resignation of Neil H. Swanson, director of the news service and in- vestigation departmeht of the Min- nesota Farm Bureau Federation was announced today. Mr. Swanson re- signed to become city editor of the Minneapolis Journal. S. E. Elliott, formerly editor of the Farmers Dispatch, and recently associated with the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., has been elected to succeed him in the Farm Bureau organization. Mr. Swanson organized the néws and investigation department of the state federation, and founded the Farm Bureau News Service, which serves more than 500 “Home town” newspapers every week wtih the news of Minnesota’s cooperative market- ing and agricultural organizations. According to J. F. Reed; president of the federation, the ‘departnfent has been built up until it is recég- - nized as the strongest and most succesful - maintained by any stite federation. “The country newspapér has been the best friend the Minnesota farmier and his organization Hhave ever had,” Mr, Swanson said. “It would be impossible to give the Home town paper too much eredit for the part it has played in making cooperative marketing a success in Minnénsota. | It deserves the gratitude and the support of every farmer and eévery farm organization.” Mr. Ellioi¢ has been intimately associated as a newspaperman, with the work and policies of farm orgas nization for nine years.