Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 31, 1922, Page 1

—— — The Pioneer is the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and has the largest circulation in Northern Minnesota. VOLUME XX. NO. 114 ? ; \ BEMIDJI, MINN;, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1922 - CREAMERIES OF "V vusive coury HOUSE MEMBERS™ "= oo o BOYSBAND T - P%yisroFsson Minnesota State Fair, September 2 midji Daily Pioneer on that date. state Commerce Commission today to 9, as the result of club work dur- b Employees of the company will : declared an eme! isti) s R | rgency existing on ing the past year. Norman Webester D | be permitted to spend the day as L - A\ ¥ / the railroads west of “the Mississip- i -} of Bemidji will represent the potato | they see fit. Monday advertisers . pi and extended its priority orders M — cluby, }Iarold Rohrer of Turtle River. are urged to have their copy in to their vast territory. the -pig club, and Lois Watson of the hands of the advertising man. Under a previous emergency dec- N Puposky, the dairy calf ¢lub; Ruth| / e ager Friday or Saturday morning i laration, the priority system was McGuire, General Manager of | Essler of Bemidji and Juliette Martin ;f‘? ¢, mg Game of Politics| for publication Saturday. Wednesday Evening. Concert|ordered only for territory east of of Nymore; the bread baking club; Th e i A gt e 3 emselves; Im- br. the Mississippi although all railroads £ ey CHECKERED COATS NOT “'_"' et d Park M""f Big | lcre ordered to expedite shipments ant Positions at Stake 'Hit With Large Audience |on the éssential commodities. Calhoun Grier and Martin Hass EQ AIAWAYS FAIR EXCHANGE fuclfmll;:gst?cI:ht;n':o‘:c‘:::zbfi fx;":ad- BOYS TO PLAY. SUNDAY ducts is ordered by the commission. CO-OPERATION PLACED | Tenstrike the dairy judging teary FLOOR LEADER IS 4 2 LA , agriculturi. % 7 g STATE FIRST, HE SAYS e T oniy T, 4y READY BEING TALKED Exploiter of Law and Order| AT MINNEHAHA FALLS O e e, Tecuveytomer the Bemidji schools spent-Monday 0. this week in Park Rapids judging % s Tl 3 Implores Farmers to Continue Cl irmanships of nportant Loses $200 in Mix-Up To Parade Twin City Streets| . ... ".rg to be used for the trans- to Make Minnesota Butter Committees Being Lined there. Two calves were selected to be sHown at the state fair. Saturday; Fair Engagement |portation of these commodities also - ¥ . ? i dered. This was taken to Finest i 1 g Up in Lower House Even representatives of and boost- Was. or inest in the World HIGHWAY FAmcm BE = » ers for law and order campaigns sometimes fall victims of “foul” play Opens Monday Morning mean that a shipment on the western SEm AT STA“ FA]R By Laurence M. Benedict and in their dire stress, have to rely lines is deteriorating rapidly mak- ing such drastic action retessary. Washington, August 31 (United [on the mercy of wayside Good Samar- “Press)—The Republican majority in |itans. the house is now deveoting a good | Such a calamity befell Preston L. deal of its time (unofficially) to in- Hickey, exploiter for “In The Name ternal politics. of the Law”; a drama of police life | may be termed one of the largets at- high- quality butter because of its . Administration memberss back |to be shown at the Rex theater for 3| tendances of the season. The program 5 0 600 cooperative creameries. from a six weeks recess spent at |days beginning next Wednesday, | which the boys gave last night is the Association Hears Report on Other states. built co-operative| Residents of Bemidji and vicinity— [ home in the gentle art of trying to | while he was en route from Minneap- | same as that which will be played be- |' g ver Now Being Made; creameries at the same time Minne- | partners in the good roads program— | be renominated, are now playing the |olis to Bemidji yesterday. The Good | fore ‘thousands of people at Minneha- y Now:Deing Niade; sota was. building its creameries, but | will find answers to any questions on | game of politics among themselves, | Samaritan role was played by Mrs.|ha park, Minneapolis, next Sunday Plan Meeting Soon in the other states the co-operative | highway progress, plans and policies | with the stakes the floor leadership, | Mary Brinkman, proprietress of the [ afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock, a reg-. creameries have been largely killed |at the exhibit of the state highway and a number of important committee | Rex Theater. y i ular two hour program, but crowd- off. In Minnesota they have survived | department at the state fair. Also, chairmanships in the next congress. It all happened in a mix up of | ed into an hour and a half last night.| . In making the survey for birch but they are by no means safe. highway officials there willbe glad to | Voluntary retirements among the checkeredsuits. Hickey isa showman | * Bound for the Twin Cities and its | wood in this territory, the Beltrami Twenty five years ago the coopera-| get suggestions of highway users for #old timers” and involuntary retire- |Naturally he wears a checkered suit.| engagement at the Minnesota State County Land Clearing association Fair next week, the band will leave | and the county agent’s office, thru tive creameries manufactured prac- | trunk route improvements—particu- | ment decreed by “fickle voters” in|Another young man wearing checker- tically all the butter that was made in | larly those taking only small outlays. | the primary elections that htve been |ed regalia sat beside Hickey on the |bright and early tomorrow morning/|the Farm Bureau, have reported Minnesote. At the present timesthere| The foregoing announcement in & held thus far have already been so |train yesterday. The two fell into con-|and is scheduled to arrive, at the state | about ten million feet of birch tim- are 2,000 cream stations scattered {new bulletin from the highway depart- | numerous as to necessitate an alrpost vergation. It was hot r_xdmg. Both shed | fair grounds tomorrow night, where | ber in six townships thus far re- throughout the state and owned by |ment follows that in The Daily Pio- | complete ned deal in the republican | their coats. Conversation lagged. Both | they will be housed in tents during | ported. D. C. Dvoracek made the re- the centralizers. neer recently which with other news- organization in the lower branch. |dozed and fell asleep. the fair. The trip will be made in|port at Wednesday’s association The centralized system is what kill- | papers sent hundreds of proposals for And the scramble is already on. The | W"‘hen the El;ak.eman’ entered shout- four large auto busses, a motor truck | meeting and stated that —question- ed off the cooperative creameries in | changes and betterments to Charles | vacancies do not have to be filled un- |ing “Brainerd Hickey’s friend, jump- | being used for the baggage and in-|aires were not coming in as rapid- other states and they are now making | M. Babcock, state highway commis- [itill next March 4, when the new con- ed to his feet, grabbed his coat and | struments. Several touring cars will |1y as desired and that Assistant every effort possible to get control of | sioner, in response to his request. gress comes in, but‘ by that the time |bag, bid ch.key good-bye. -p'md left. It | also accompany the boys. County Agent, Edson ‘Washburn the butter industry in Minnesota. To| “Public interest shown in the bet- 'the problem of making the new selec- | was not until after the train had left Baggage and the musical wstru- | wis making a tour of the birch dis- this end one of the largest central- | ter roads program is gratifying and | tions will be only a matter of ratifica- | Niswa tha't Hickey reached for al ionec™ o™ "he loaded on the truck |tricts and would have his report jzers in the United States has announ- | it augurs for the bigger success of |tion. The “slate” being made up now. cigarette. The pocket was empty- this cvening and the start for the ready the latter part of the week. ced its plan to establish sweet cream | the undertaking,” said Mr. Babcock. The majority party may lose heavi- Alxu:me'd he reached for his wallet in | poin”Cities will be made at 4 o’clock i irdet 'th détesmine that - the creameries in: Minnesota. It is doing|“The plan was to get criticisms but |1y in the November election but the | the inside pocket containing $200 ex- tomorrow morning. A light lunch will | schedule of prices submitted by the this in order to be able to compete [ nearly all of the scores of letters and | belief prevails here that it will retain | Pense money. ‘That was gone fgo. be served at Pine River, dinner at | Minnesota Associates was a fair . with the co-operative creameries on | cards.to date have been most friendly |:icontrol over the. house and the reor- Then a panic ensued. Upon mvest.: ) St. Albans on Mille Lac Lake, and |price to pay farmers for their birch the-New York and Philadelphia mar-|and will spur the organization: to | ganization- to be effected next year |tion Hickey found the strange_rh ad | Supper at the fair grounds according [a meeting of the Association mem- e e o T D mvun | greater effarts. An effort is being | will be worked out without any help [taken the wrong coat and with it|to the present plana. of Bandmaster |bers and farmers who have birch high quality butter, The centralizers | made to acknowledge all replies and Firenriho demoerats, - n -~ % i went pocketbook- mG"eY: business { ¢ o Riggs. wood to sell will be called as soon have: practically-all the 'other butter | to answer a great number of aques'| Phare is little real talk of putting refel:er.x‘ces.and all ponh nr;xvmg xin Satarday forenoon will sec the boys |85 possible. At this meting represen- markets of the United States, and |tions asked. The general result is en-fyup's man to contest with Speaker Bemidji tlhixcl‘(‘ey %‘reg,t ed :lr:: :h; parading the strets of Minneapolis |tatives of the Minnesota ~ Lumber they are now making. a drive to get | couraging.” z Gillet in the next congress and so the ;“e. of % e l‘acmt:“hea:noff anv|and the same afternoon will see them Associates will be present it is un- these two important markets. The large majority of readers re- [republicans are giving firts thought to tmnec;ecgzrzcde suits. 7 parading the business streets of St. derstood. The establishment of sweet cream |sponding to the commissioner’s ~ re- fthe position of floor leader, which |5 1‘3}'" Foitrraie m“c}; the taking of (Continued on Page 8.) G. Oliver Riggs gave a detailed outline of the proposed trip to be creameries in Minnesota by the cen-| quest for suggestions caught the idea| - (Continued on Page 8.) ind.” Hick id iy coat. that 1 mind," Hicuey 54, — taken by the Bemidji Boys' Band to comm AND Clvlc the State Fair. He told of the buss tralizers is putting’into effect . the|__to bring out minor changes in « i Y e - the one he left is most dangerous weapon the farmers’| markings and so forth to increase the ! today, “because t "t a fair ex- m “ms MAY BE fairly good. But, it wasn't a fair eX ' A transportation arrangements and CL"BMEETS SATHRD Y gave a complete resume of the boys’ At. the first meeting of the club creameries have yet had to go.against. fcomforts and conveniences of high- change. He got all I had and except program from the time they leave year of thq Woman’s Community The cooperative creameries in Min- vel without expending large & A nesota h::e kept'in the lead because ::,zn:;, A few jroposgd pavigg j;%g ALWE;[S M TODAY for a boxc o’f' matches, his pockets Fyere eMnL® 5 Friday morning at 4:00 o’clock un- til their return to Bemidji. and.Civic Club to be held Saturday afternoon between 3 and 4 o’clock they have made better buttr. than|some that there should be 5 a state i Mrs. Brinkman is In the meantime, 3 J. G. Morrison, Jr., of Red Lake in the Civic and Commerce associa- th centralizers; but now, with the cen>| trunk highway through every = town (By United Press) acting as chief financial asset and was called upon by President J. L. SenatePasses tion rooms, Miss Beth MacGregor, |rison responded briefly, telling of > Red Cross community nurse, will | the large quantity of standing birch Co-operative Creameries, | Bernice Kirk of Bemidji, the cake Outlines Situation baking club; Theodore Fenske of Be . midji, the potato demonstration tear Giviug the people of this communi- o A e ty one of the best band concerts ever heard here, the Bemidji Boys’ Band Bmcfl SURVEY BEING gave an hour and a half program in Library park last night before what MADB IN TH]S co"m By A. J. &cGuire For 25 years Minnesota has been}_ _ | e recognized as the greatesf butter state Visitors at Hlshway Depart- in the Union. Minnesota wen this dis- shss 2 Hinction ehiefly th the quality of but. | Mment Exhibit Are to Be Given Answers to Questions ter produced. Minnesota has made quality butter, the cooperative cream- | pulletin, the survey indicated that the | California, Aug. $1—Intense heat | @ eries will have to put forth except-|better road program is popular and [was encountered by rescue parties jonal effort the hold the ground that | advancing satisfactorily in virtually | today as they dug their way towards they: have made during. the past 25 |'every section of Minnesota. the subterranean chamber where 47 tralizers taking the field for- high fand-so forth, but according. to the| At the Argonaut. Mine, Jacksom | o 50 e’ nded exploiter. /Elwell for a few remarks. Mr, Mor- years. . ; . gold ‘miners are entombed in the ° °_1talk on the need of a “Loan Closet” on the reservation and the vast The Minnesota Co-operatxYe Crea;.r}- MORRIS AND BAKKE: TO depths; of the ' Argonaut. mine. SoldlerBonus in Bemidji, said closet to consist of | acreage wasted during past years. eries ‘Asso¢iation, Inc., has-seen this RUN NEW PALACE CAFE| [t is believed the victims will be . bedding, towels, linen and garments| He extended all an invitation to —— attend the Red Lake Indian fair to be held in Red Lake September 14, 15 and 16. It was decided to hold no meeting of the association next week on ac- count of so many planning to at- for the sick. Miss. Mac Gregor will cite some of her personal experiences which will show why such a closet in Be- midji will be of great benefit. The other members onthe program for the club meeting will be announced tomorrow, All members and friends are urged-to be present. ‘Washington, Aug. 31 (Spec- ial wire from United Press)— U. S. Senate this afternoon passed the adjusted compensa- tion bill, termed as-the soldier bonus bill. The bill now. goes to conference. H. Mortis and O. K. Bakke, pro-found alive as they tried to raise barriers of rock: between themselves and the fire that cut them off half a mile under ground. The number of men buried was raised. to 47. when the street clothes of four, who had failed to check in ‘at the. mine office before going | below; were found in the lockers. competition coming, and fortunately for the creameries it is prepared to|prietors of the Milbeth Cafe in the met it; 355 cooperative creameries { Kaplan building, have moved. to the have become members of the state [ quarters formerly occupied by the association, and through this com-|Palace Cafe on Third Street. The bined power they are going]to be able | place is being remodeled. and 1i3m< to wage a successful battle. rovements are being mades He i 8 The association has organized the ?.ew concern plans to operate a first tend the state fair at that time. five counties, During the flush, June | class restaurant in every respect. five counties, During the flush June . FARM Bonlm RECHVE and July, 72 cars of butter were ship- lvm 3 = = ' ped weekly on which there was a net D L FAW P FALL CWAIGN‘ cm =iyl ENCOURAGED BY PREUS| '] The association has a New York of- fice for the distribution of the }l;mt- ter, and through this office as high £ & - as 14 cars of butter have been dis- Designates Week .of' S'ept. 25 tributed in a day. The association h:s , to Oct. 1 as Diversified been successful financially from the K beginning. It has never been a-dol- Fm“_'g Week lar in debt, and’the $19,000 that has been paid in by the’ 335 member creameries in capital stock is prac- (Continued on: Page 8.) Agricultural Organizations Rallied to Support Rural Credits Amendment g Pre i . 7 2 /, z (Farm Bureau News Service) (B Dtel i - / 'l:"‘ A Nearly 4,000 agriculturalorganiza- St. ?aul, Aug. .31—60""'" £ i tions in Minnesota were called on this Preus in @ proclamation today dés- week to rally to the support of rural | ignated: the week of September 25 'l eredits amendment—Amendment No. CLEARWATERFA]R wm; to October 1st as Diversified Farm- 17 1. 3 survey of the farming situation and * 5402 T« elevators, co-operative shipping asso encourage diversity of production I 55483 > ciations) co-operative creameries, z - : ) X éounty Farm Bureaus, township Farm a?dfconvertmg _=1t'great:¢art prognst{on ¥ Butosa units, farmers clubs, boys of farm crops into meat and dairy A X d- girls” clubs, and other organiza- grodacte. an the state rural credits campaign “The. people of Minnesota have ons, the state ru edits paig just gaml:ared a bountiful harvest,” ::mmtltteetcalletd on lfi:iel fn;mersfl(:f the proclamation read, “but. as often | the sdatc to vote solidly for e happens a large yield is accompanied an-:fn ment. . . by falling prices which greatly re- ! Vote Yess,” is the slogan adopted duce the farmer's reward for his by the committee, headed by J. F. : M | season’s labor. This year as often Recd, president of the Minnesota opens Friday and includes an aerial {}o¢ore many farmers find that pro- Farm Bureau Federation. “Get Your flying cirtus with wing ~ walking, | guetion of grain and hay is prof- Neighbor to Vote Yes,” is another, parachute jumps and all kinds - of | japle only. if -they are fed to. live “The * rural credits amendment, stunts in the-air. Indian war dances }g,a Amendment No, 1, is the most import- and other Indian sports are scheduled |« the ‘periods of low prices, just ant issue that has been- before the as well as foot races, sack races’and |, jn seasons of poor yields, farmers voters of the state in years,” the call horseshoe pitching. A baseball game | gho practiced diversified = farming says. “It should be talked over in and_canoe races are also schedulde. |4, the highest _degree suffer least. every public meeting. Every agricul- Music will be furnished throughout} ™ «rpe production of milk, cream, tural community, the town as well as the fair by the Bagley band. butter, beef and pork, mutton and farm should sec to it that its solid It is expected that quite a number | wool, cggs and poultry has relieved vote is cast for the amendment. Pass- from Bemidji will attend the fair at | the farmers in many sections of age of Amendment No. 1 will enable least one day. Attendance is invited |the state from the uncertainties of the legislature to establish a rural from the entire northern section of | one-crop farming. credits system that will build up the the state, visitors being ‘asgured that' “It has given farmers a steady prosperity of the whole state by buili- the livestock and agricultural exhibits income instead of one that is seas- ing up its basic industry without one will warant their attendance " onal.” ol penny of cost to the taxpayers.” With a grand array of livestock and agricultural exhibits assured for the three-day exposition, the Clear~ water County Fair got underway to- day at Bagley. Today was entry day and exhibits of stock:-and farm pro- ducts were sure to be-among the ::est ever shown in Clearwater coun- Y. The main entertainment program SNANNN 8 N NN N i?l’ots_ To Wreck Fast Passenger Trains Are Dis@cavserei | cal thunder ;. change in temperature. 55¢. PER-MONTH: Dynamiting, Bullets. and Fire Aid in Spreading Reign of Terror Today /| BRIDGE IS DYNAMITED: AS TRAIN TIME NEARS: . Seventeen Passengers Hurt in: Head-On Train Crash: Near Jercey City & e (By United Press) Chicago, Aug. 31—Dynamiting, © bullets and fire aided in the spread of the railroad reign of terror. to- day. Plots to wreck passenger traing. bearing hundreds of men, womei = and children were revealed. Police patrolled the. homes of, rail. workers in one community to pre- vent their burning. Three men were held at Chicago after detectives: al- leged they had, uncovered a plot. fo: dynamite the Western Express of - the New York Central and. wreck - other trains. The wreck of a section 1 car near Council Bluffs, Towa, was all that prevented the fast Illinois Central passenger train from crash: ing into a pile of spikes and. rocks road officials said. One of the nine men riding the car was killed, and | two were probably fatally injured.. -t Windows in houses one half a mile | away were shattered when the Peii- ! nsylvania railroad bridge at Wil- | mington, Delaware was dynamited i just before a fast passenger train 1 i was due. Seventeen passengers were in- jured in a head on crash near Jer- - sey City, N. J. Police patrolled the i homes of railroad workers in, Al- gitry Loufsiana, /to prevenf “their 1 being burned. An.explosion; of dyn- " amite on the C. C. C. & St. Lonis, near Cincinnati derailed part-of- a, work train. The fast Chicago and Alton train, B ran into an open switch near Bloom: ington, Ia, Authorities said the. switch had been tampered w'th. Four men were held at Gary, Indiana, charged with murder as the resut of the wreck of the Mich- igan Central Million-Dollar express there. (By United Press) Sacramento, Calit., . Aug. 31— William Merro, president of; the; lo- cal federated shop crafts, was shiot. and killed here today by an. alleged. railroad shop crafts strike breaker. H. E. DeBolt, employed in tha, - Southern Pacific shops, is said to have confessed to the shooting. He claimed he shot in self-defense. NEBISH MAN ARRAIGNED HERE ON LIQUOR CHARGE Frank Carney, Nebish, ‘was ar- rested by the Indian officers and i & was arraigned yesterday. He waived b examination, and gave bonds for his appearance at Fergus Falls, November 14th. A wash boiler still; a forty gallon copper still, sixteen gallons of whiskey and the usual paraphernalia was reported found: I in his possession and seized by the officers. He was arraigned before the United States Commissioner Judge H. A. Simons. SENATOR JOHNSON WINS CALIFORNIA NOMiINATION San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 31— Senator Hiram Johnson today had won the Republican nomination for i senator. Returns from 5,802 of the state’s 6,695 precincts gave Johnsod 274,801 and Moore 209,152. LODGE SUPPORTS BONUS; e NOT TO HURT TREASURY (By United Press) ‘Washington, Aug. 31—Argu- ments of bonus opponents that the four billion dollars estimated gov- ernment expense will be an inex- pedient and untimely drain on the. treasury are absurd and idle, Sen- ator Lodge, Michigan Republican leader told the senate today, “The bonus will not huit the treasury,” he said. “It was‘ good enough to stand the shack of war It can stand this shock perfectly well with bonus payments entend- ing over a longer period of years. Lodge threw bitter exchanges at the arguments that the bonus bill will cost the government several billions, as some senators charged. “In estimating that amount,” op- ponents figure that each solaier will take advantage of every option of the bill. Lodge said “This is untrue. for a veteran is allowedi only one option and the cost will be not more than the finance committee estimas ted, $3,845,659,481. e Ty