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~ —— The Pioneer is the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and has the largest circulation in* Northern Minnesota. VOLUME XX. NO. 122 City Now A U. S. Navy v J1 DAILY PIONEER | nim‘*flflu&‘ light showers in north ¢ Warmer tonight in east BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 11, 1922 ple to Boast Adequ Treaty Ratification France and Italy. Have Not Yet Accepted, Dis- ' ‘armament Program; Both Expected to Ratify This Fall; U. S. #Scrapping” Will Undoubt- edly Be Held Up Until After All Five Powers Have Ratified. Washington, Sept; 11 (United Press)—Complete plans for scrapping the American battleships and battle cruisers doomed by thé armament conference have been carefully work- ed out by the technical experts of the Navy Department- The order from the Secretary of the Navy for “full steam ahead” on the scrapping progfam probably will be held up until the last of the five powers in the agreement have def- initely ratified the naval treaty. England, Japan and the United States have ratified and it is under- stood in official circles that France will ratify the pact in the early autumn. It is an open secret that Italy only waits on Frante’s action before falling into line. p So far the only steps toward car rying out the scrapping program has been the disposal by competitive sale of six of the older battleships that were included in the treaty list. The ships were practically obslete and would have gone the junk-pile route in due course, even had there been no limitation conference.. Similar action is being taken by England and Japan, the ships that are being destroyed by them being the older ones orr the list, that like our own, had outlived their usefulness. Pasage of a scrapping bill by Con- gress gives the chief executive power to order the work of scrapping the doomed warships as soon as the formal exchange of ratifications takes place- Except for an item of $5,000,000 for payment to certain sub-contractors for work completed for the care of the ships to be scrap- ped, for inventories and other neces- sary expenditures, no funds...-have yet been provided by Congress. Will Cost $70,000,000 Cancellation of contracts and in- cidental expenses in connection with cutting off of the building program will require an appropriation of $70,000,000 according to the de- partmental estimates. The actual dis- posal of the vesels however, naval officials hope, will bring some re- turns. This is true particularly of the old vessels, for there is consid- erable brass and lead in them in ad- dition to steel. In making plans to scrap the ships there are two distinct problems te be faced. One of these, the simpler one, is the_ disposal of the dozen old ships, Regarding the disposal of these the scrapping board recommend that they be offered for sale to wrecking firms for junk after all equipment of value to the Navy: has been taken off Provided purchasers can be found, it is understood that tnis means of disposal will be adopted- In case there are no bidders for them the Navy will have to undertake the work of cutting them up or imust take them to sea and sink them. ‘While there have been no tentative suggestions from Germany, Sweden and Holland that bids might be forth coming from abroad, the recent fail- yire of the British to get more than 2 nominal sum oir a-number of their old battleships has a tendency to discount any optimism in this direc- tion. T ‘While the old ships could be used __as the British are doing—as targets for the fleet, giving airships, sub- marines and battleships all valuable training, there is.a feeling in naval circles that the economical waste in sending to the bottom all this metal should be avoided if possioie- Ships Now’ Building The second and more problem confronting the board - was the disposal of the ships now build: ing. Here the. recommendations of the board was that these vessels be sold on the stocks to the highest bid- ders to be broken up-and the scrap, disposed of.. The practical diflicplty of having wrecking gangs come into private yardg_ .or navy yards even probably wil}, lgad to the adoption of a different plan. It is understood that in the cases of the four ships building in the private yards, the final disposal of the hulks will be taken up in the negotiations over the set- the cancellation of the contracts. It is the opinion of many officers that it will be possible to make satisfac- tory arrangements with the ship yards building them to undertake the work of breaking them up- ) Tn the case of the four battleships and two battle cruisers building in navy yards, the board recommended that the hulls be sold as they stand to commercial firms. Two of the battlecruisers are at the Philadelphia yard, work on them only having been fairly started before the stop order was issued. difficult | . REGISTRATION FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL IS BEGUN Registration of all Seventh and Eighth grade and = High School pupils was begun at the Central school building this af- ternoon at 1.30, and will con. tinue through Tuesday- All students for the Seventh and Eighth grades and High School are to_register at the Central school, before Wednesday morn= ing when regular class work will begin. A book rental fee of $2 for the year is to be paid by all High School students at the time. of registering. Registration is being held at the Central school because the new building is mot yet ready. FIRE DAMAGES LOCAL GARAGE Rear End of Motor Inn Is Damaged By Sunday Noon Fire; Few Cars Lost Fire, which broke out Sunday noon in the Motor Inn Ga- rage building, gutted "the rear end of the building, practically destroy- ed the entire roof, demolished five ‘automobiles, one boat cart, duck boat, machinery, tools and about $2500 worth of repair parts belong- ing to F..M. Goughnour ,proprieor of the Motor Inn. Mr. and Mrs, Goughnour were in the front office of the building at the time the fire broke out, which started in the work shop near the stairs leading to the storage room used for repair parts. As soon as the smoke was no- ticed, Mr- Goughnour rushed out in- to the work shop where clouds of smoke and flames“eovered the room- The alarm was sent in at once and the Bemidji Fire department Te- sponded almost instantly. The fire laddies did excellent work in keeping the flames confined to the rear of the ceiling and roof and in less than half an hour had tne | blaze extinguished and all well under control. The building which is owned by E. J. Letford is covered by insur- ance, as was also the machinery and repair parts, as well as some of the cars. There werq twenty-two cars in the garage proper, none of them were damaged other than smoke or water, while only the cars in the work shop were charred by the fire. Willing hands assisted Mr- Gough- nour in vacating the building of cars and other stock in jig time- There was one Chevrolet truck, two Buick cars, one Buick roadster and the Buick service car all be- longing to Mr. Goughnour in the work shop, and one Auburn touring car belonging to a tourist, which it is understood is covered by insurance. As soon as the adjustérs have com- (Continued on Page 8) HUFFMAN & O'LEARY TO The Huffman & O’Leary furniture store is going out of business, an- nouncement to this effect appearing in Tuesday’s Pioneer. Oné¢ of the specials that will ap- peal to women in this community is the sale of brooms at ten cents each and only one to a customer- The purchase has a string to it, which requires that the customer buy other merchandise. / “That’s a good place to give a dancing party” said one prospective customer- Let’s all pitch in and help clean out the place. We can bring our brooms with us and help sweep out after the goods are all sold.” Definite plans by either P. J. O’Leary or C, A. Huffman have not been announced although the latter is one of the nominees for Register of Deeds and expects to carry the election this fall. Mr. O’Leary has made no definite plans. The big double page ad wili carry hundreds of valuable articles in the the furniture line, all of which must be closed out as soon as possible, at 12:30) ~ CLOSE OUT WITH SALE BOYS BAND HOME AGAIN Tremendous Ovation at ‘Fair Friday Night . “Gee, but we sure had time,” seems to answer the best any possible queries as to how the Be- midji Boys’ band enjoyed the Min- week. The engagement included a concerts all of which were'extreme- ly well enjoyed- ~ The band returned to Bemidji Saturday night, close to midnight, having left the fair grounds Satur- day morning at 7 o’clocks A stop of three-quarters of an hour was made at Anoka, where a reception was given the boys on their way to the twin cities and here a concert wus given by the saxophone section which included a number in which the en- tire band sang. Dinner was served at St. Albans on Mille Lac Lake and supper at the New Chase hotel at Walker. Their arrival was somewhat delayed this side of Walker. Four auto busses and Bandmaster G. O- Riggs’ car made the return trip togetaer, the truck carrying the instruments and baggage having left the fair grounds at midnight Friday, Both “the goingl and the return trip were enjoyed, there being plen- ty of room at all times. Mr. Riggs reporis exceptionally fine service from the busses and trucks and states that much credit is due the owmers and drivers. All of them were on the job all the time and gave the best possible service. The climax of the state fair en- gagemment came Friday evening when- Tony Snyder, director of the state fair music, announced to the grand stand through an amplifier that upon special request of the state fair management the “world’s most fhmous boys band from Bemid- ji, Minnesota, under the direction of G- Oliver Riggs” would give a couple of numbers. Mr, Snyder had been instructed by Thomas H. Canfield, secretary of ‘the fair, to arrange for the Bemidji Boys band to. play in front of the grand stand. Friday evening -on an ‘elevated stand as a special feature act. The act went over big. The boys were applauded from the minute they appeared in view of the grandstand until they were again out of sight. The announcement made by Mr- Snyder received a tremendous ova- tion, ds did the first number played by-the boys. An encore just had to be played before the crowd would let the boys leave the front oi the grand stand, The boys are all well and in the best of spirits. They are still full of pep and “rarin’ to go.” Several of the boys remiained with their parents and will return home later. GAS TANK EXPLODES; NYMORE MAN INJURED C. H. McFadden of Nymore an employee of the Chicago Box and Crating Co., suffered an extensive laceration above his left knee while attempting to weld a gasoline tank iat the box factory Sunday after- noon. The tank in some way . ex- ploded, causing a severe injury to Mr. McFadden’s left leg. The acident occured about 5 o’clock He was taken at once to medical attention and is now at his home in Nymore on Roosevelt street, Dr. D. F. McCann, the attending physician states that Mr. McFadden will re- cover nicely although it will be some time before he will have the use of his left limb. AFTER SUCCESSFUL TRIP Bemidji Musicians Receive a great nesota State Fair engagement last number of side entertainments and KELLER BEGINS OF DAUGHERTY Minnesota Representative Files Indictment of Daugherty’s Action BITTER FIGHTING OVER DAUGHERTY INJUNCTION Policy Committee of Shop Workers Is Discussing Individual Peace Washington, Sept: 11—Impeach- ment proceedings against Attorney General Harry Daugherty were be- gun in the house today by Rep: Keller of Minnesota. Keller, Repub- lican, filed with the house an indict- ment of Daugherty’s action on seven counts and introduced a resolution for an investigation and report by the judiciary committee as to whether Daugherty should be brought before the Senate. sitting as a-court of Impeachment. The charges declare Daugherty overrode the constitution, abused his authority and degraded his office by his action in obtaining from the federal court in Chicago a drastic injunction against the railroad strikers, The Minnesota Representa- tive also accused Daugherty of ‘“fa- voritism toward wealthy criminals.” (By United Press) Chicago, Sept. 11—Bitter argu- ments over the Daugherty injunc- tion against the railroad shopmen’s strike were waged throughout the day in federal court here- Attorneys for the unions bitterly attacked and denounced the injunc- tion as unlawful; A huge corps of government low- yers aided by Attorney General Daugherty npheld:thé-arit and plead- ed with Judge Wilkerson to make the sweeping order permanent. The court was urged to inquire into the private interest which start- ed the suit, by Donald Richberg a representative. As the court battle was waged {the policy committee of the shop- crafts union went into session again this afternoon to discuss proposals for settlement of the strike with in- dividual railroads. The morning meet- ing was adjourned immediately af- ter being called. MITCHELLS TO ATTEND NEW YORK.LIFE MEETING Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Mitchell left Saturday morning for Banff, Alberta where they will attend the annual outing of the New York Life Insur- ance company’s $200,000 club. Mr. Mitchell is the New York Life agent for this district, and is one of the 16 agents from Minnesota who are eligible to attend this outing-.In order to attend, agents must sell at least $200,000 worth of insurance during the preceding year, DEGREE OF HONOR LEAVE FOR CROOKSTON MEETING Three autos containing members of the Bemidji order of Degree of Honor left this morning for Crook- ston to attend the state convention there this week. HOCK WOULD ABQLISH . Away With Present and Make New One" (By United Press) ‘Washington, Sept:- 11—The rail- road labor board would be abolished and in its place a disinterested board would be set up to handle contro- versies between railroad executives and employees under a bill intro- duced today by Representative Hock of Kansas- Representative Hock, a member of the house interstate commerce committeqy which handled the in- dustrial legislation, recommended by President Harding, declared in a statement that passage of his meas- ura would /aid in the ,permanent solution of the railroad problem. The board which Hock would have replace the railroad labor board would consist of five public repre- sentatives appointed by President Harding, at salaries of $7,600 a year. The board is composed now of an equal number of representatives of the executives, labor and public. DEMOCRATS WILL OPEN STATE DRIVE TOMORROW (By United Press) St. Paul, Sept- 11—Democrats will upset precedent tomorrow in open- ing the state campaign on the “front porch” of the Edward Indrehus farm in Benton county- Tradition holds that political cam- paigns shall receive their initial im- petus through a meeting in a large center of population. Edward Indrehus, Democratic nominee for Governor, however will deliver his keynote speech tomorrow from his own door step, Silas M. Bryan, candidate for lieutenant Governon, will also launch his cam- paign. Ax‘mg‘\l)ickie Oleson, first woman nominee for the United States senate’ and John Lind, former governor will occupy the seats of honor on the Indrehus porch. Delegations from all sections of the state are expected to attend the meeting at the Indrehus farm, Farm- ers from Benton and adjacent coun- ties have been advised of the meet ing and the neighboring county has been placarded “all roads lead to Benton county next Tuesday: LIGHT FROSTS REPORTED THROUGHOUT MINNESOTA (By United Press) St. Paul, Sept. 11—From 96 de- grees above last Wednesday to freezing temperature today was a considerable change weather men agreed. Light frosts were reported throughout Minnesota, and Wiscon- sin last night Heavy frosts occured in North Dakota and a light frost in southern sections Saturday night- The lowest official temperatures last night, were 38 at Duluth, Wau- sau and Moorhead. At Moorhead there was a light rain, The ther- mometer fell to 36 degreesy Sat- urday night. Garden truck may have been nipped, but if protected at all there was no serious damage. Devils Lake reported heavy frosts with the medium between the “light” and “killing” terms used. Garden stuff probably suffered. Williston, the same night, had 38 and Prince Albert 28. the fall term of Junior and Se Wednesday morning at 9 o’cloc the Senior department will be; Thereafter the regular school in another article in this issue, Bemidji’s half-million-dollar High School began rece ther signs of the progressiveness of Bemidji. most up-to-date high school buildings in the state, Bemidji’s Splendid New High School This city now iving registrations this afternoon for nior high school work. Registration continues all day Tuesday. k the Junior department will begin regular class work, while gin regular class work Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. hours will be observed. This new building presents a very admirable appearance, and its presence here gives fur- can boast one of the best and a partial description of which is contained RAILROAD LABOR BOARD Kansas Legislator Would Do Half-Mill FLOWERS NEEDED FOR DECORATIONS FOR TEA Persons who have garden flowers with which they will help decorate the Civic and Commierce association rooms for the Wednesday afterncon tea to be given in connection with the state meeting of the Minncsota Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs, are requested to communicate with Miss Leil Stanton, secretary of the associa- tion, at once. Arrangements will be made to call for those flowers which cannot be delivered to the as. sociation rooms- It is urged that those who have flowers re. spond to this call generously. POTATOES AND CORN CROP HIT Hot Weather Causes Big ! Reduction in Yield Throughout State (By United Press) St. Paul, September 11th—During the hot weather of the last three or four weeks, a reduction in the corn crops of -Minnesota, being estima- ted at 7,000,000 bushels was noted. The forecast on the potatoe crops was cut nearly 3,000,000 bushels in the same time- Increases were shown in the forecast for spring wheat, oats barley and flax- While the drouth brought a huge decrease in the production of corn and potatoes, the yield of potatoes was larger than last year. The corn will be 28,000,000 bushels less sian last. Paul H. Kirk. Minnesota sta- tistician sees no alarm over the de- crease in production due to the dry weather during August. The condi- tion of corn on September 1st was 75 per cent of normal compared with 83 per cent on August 1st. The re- port said the forecast was 112,027, 000 bushels compared with 140,5607,- in 1921 and a five year average of 120,064,000 bushels- The early crop of potatoes will be much better than in 1921, but the condition on September lst was 72 per cent of normal, indicating a production of 38, 105,000 bushels compared with 27,625,000 bushels last year and a five year average of 29,000,000 bushels- The condition of spring wheat is 80 per cent of normal indicating a production of 32,629,000 compared with 23,655,000 bushels last year and a five-year average of 42,281,- 000 bushels. On a condition of 89 per cent the forecast production of 142,015,000 bushels of oats indicates Minnesota will produce one of her best crops, the 1921 final estimate being 94, 176,000 bushels while the five year average was 116,095,000 bushels. (Continued on Page 8.) BIG PRIZE OFFERS FOR NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW (By United Press) St. Paul, Sept. 11—Prizes totalling $35,130 will be awarded by the Na- tional Dairy Association and the five national Breed Associations at the National Dairy Exposition Oct. 7-14, as one of the biggest incentives to the showing of the best stock of the country ever offered to breed- ers. - This is made up by the $5670 in prize money offered to Ayrshire breeders, $9,920 offered for Holsteins $7,770 for Brown Swiss, $5,920 for Jerseys and $5,920 for Guernseys. In each breed fMivision $3,790 is offered to regular classes comprising pure bred cattle, Ten prizes will be awarded each class. . The National Dairy Association of- fers in addition to the Holstein As- sociation $6,420 to Holstein breeders Prizes for state herds of holsteins total $2,250 in addition an addition- al $2000 to be divided among the Holstein Association’s breeders. Jersey breeders will get the same amount of prizes in the rezular 23 as given the other breeds. 3rown Swiss will have prizes for state herds, totalling $1500- { elas: Bemidji’s Brand New& High School Is Open ate High School Facilities ion-Dollar Although Not Entirely Completed, Splendid New Junior and Senior High School Building Is ___Being Used; Structure Is One of Best and Most Complete in State; Will Be Finished Entirely Next Month. For once in its history at least, Bemidji has been provided adequate high school facilities for the indefinite future- With the completion of the entire new high 'school structure set for early October, Bemidji’s half- million dollar institution is a far cry from the little red school house on the hill or the clumsy old log school house in the woods, which most of us have known at some time or other. The days when the “there R’S” were the main and practically the only essentials to an education haye come and gone, at least so far as Bemidji is concerned, and right now one of the most up to date high schools in the state of Minnesota -is the boast of this city. Only 18 years or so ago, the Be- midji high school depariment held forth in a few half hidden rooms in the Central school building and the number of graduates at that time could be ccunted easily on the fing- ers of either hand. About 12 years ago Bemidji felt the increasing need of a suitable high school building to house both the Senior and Junior departments and at that time a modern structute 0 was erected between Sixth and Seventh streets on America and Irvine avenues. The city then sat back and watched with pride the ip- creasing enrollment each year. Need of New School Felt A little over two years ago, the need of facilities was again keenly felt and plans were being made by those most interested for some sort - of a structure to relieve the conget- tion at the high school, While the plans were still in the process of formation, the high school building was destroyed by fire one cold win- ter morning and the lack of neces sary school facilities was a thousand times more keenly felt. Clags work was held in every available hall or meeting place and exceptionally good work was accomplished despite the severe handicap- Fifty one stud- ents graduated from the Bemidji in- stitution in 1921 and fifty-four in 1922 although there was no in- stitute for them to graduate from. In the meantime plans for a new building had progressed and the selection of a proper site became the topic of the hour. Work Is Rushed Two days after the present site at the head of Beltrami, Minnesota and Bemidji avenues at Fifteenth street was sclected by popular vote work on the new structure began and it has required the utmost effort at all times that the building might be ready for school use this fall. Contractor Ed. Jackson of this city, who has the general contract and the various other contractors are to be complimented for the | structure which they have erected. Mere words scem inadequate to deseribe the beauty and complete- ness of the building, although in this article the writer will attempt in a humble way to give the im- pression gained by him on®a very recent “tour” of the new institu- tion, When the building is later opened to the public in general, it is urgently requested that every resident of the city make 1t a point to view the entire structure. A first hand impression is always the .best and more lasting to the viewer- A formal dedication is being planned, it is understood, for about the mid- del of the present school year when every detail of the institution is in its best possible working order. School Opens Pupils in both Junior and Senior departments - began registering for the term this afternoon and regular class work will begin Wednesday despite the fact that only the two upper stories are ready for use at the present time- If no bad luck i# experienced, all of the contractors will have their various jobs com- pleted by October 10, the mammoth auditorium-gymnasium being the last portion of the building to be finish- ed. Excavating for the new structure was started last fall and soon the building began to take on form. Work continued all winter and sum- mer as rapidly as possible, Delay. in receiving material is retarding.some of the work at the present time but is expected to have o scrious effect en the completion of the. .. school within the next few weeks- Magnificient Monument Contractor Jackson has erected a magnificient monument to his ability (Continued on Page 8.), ___,

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