Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 4, 1922, Page 4

'$1,441,486 A YEAR'S UJISASTEH RELIEF COST Red Cross Aided 145,000 Vic- *:tims in United States—Losses [* Total $30,000,000, ? — ¢ Reventy-two disasters, with hun- dreds reported killed and injured, and more than 145,000 ¢ither homeless or requiring assistance, called for emer- gency - relief measures and the ex- penditure . of. $1,441,486.36 by the ‘American Red Cross during. the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, aceording to a. statement based’ on’ the 'forth- bnmlux annual report of the Red Cross. The greatest toll-of life was taken by burricane ‘andF tornado, while the;.overflowing “of .3ivers, the breaking of dams and torrenttal ratns A&rovée the greatest number of ‘people o their homes. . The property, loss wap ‘estimated at more: than. §30,- @06,000. +(The. year's 'Cisasters rreported ‘In- cluded twenty-six floods; nineteen‘tor- nadoes, fifteen fires, four epidemles, two theatre collapses, two shipwrecks (one an airship),:and a bridge cul- lapse, mine explosion, ‘Fallway: colli« #ion, and a drought.: Of ny goadl in the Unltéd States that st San An- tonio, ‘Texas, caused the greatest property loss, $6,000,000°and thie high mark ‘ef fatalities, 100, while the flood 14 the: vicinity of xshurg Abd Natchez, “Miss.; forced” 31,000 persons frow thelr homes. . = A National c:lam'!y Tn the Red Cross disapter re]h-{ records there will probal Ayt remain fof .many years one calamity which touched nearly every ‘state with a sénse of horror. and ef loss: * This was the distressing collapse of the” roof of . the Knickerbocker Theafre In Washington, D. C., resulting in nine- ty-six deaths and 125 persons injured, Situated in the center of ‘the’ besuti- fal Northwest residential section, this wmotion picture theatre was natromzed Dy many perons of prominence ‘Both in the official and civil life'of the Na- tional Capital, whose family and per- sonal ‘conneetions radiated out ‘over the qmlr- country. - The ‘horrer was inteiasified by a terrific’ snowstorm which, though it retarded, dld not ‘iock Red Cross relief. Alrghip Crash Finds Afl at Hand ;l‘he crash and dezlmzt!un of the U. Ariy's large airship Roma in Vir- glnla last February with the loss of 3¢ officets and men-and 11 injured wnl the first disaster of its kind'to call' Red Gfoss relief in this. country. yne suddenness of the accident tested the prepareduess of the organization and of ‘the Chapter at Hamipton, :Va.,;buit the Tesponse was immediate and relief’ rnished the’survivors, also funds for ie- expenyés of relatives of tlie desd, who camé from lnngdlltnl-es to claim thflr oyn “ In the year's oversea record ifor ahl vendered by the Red Cross are two firesjn the Philippines; one In Manlka, which destroyed 1,000 homes, ‘with a loss of $1,500,000 and 5000 persons wmade homeless, .the other at iToolo, which drove 3,000 from their dwellings. In medical rellef that was quick aml effective the smallpox epidemic iniSan Domingo, which had a total of 22000 ‘Gases ‘with 225 deaths in a single day. tested the readiness of the Red Cross for action, and the samé ecan be said of .the Sun Domingo hurricane, which kiged -2 persons and reduced the homes of 182 persons to wreckage. A flood In San Salvador, with a-death toll“of 50 and 2,000 refugees, was also effectually handled by The local Chap- ter of the American Red Crogs. Relief Machinery Perfected The yeur has seen the further per- t«-wpn of disaster relief udlnnlmru tive measures i every field of ‘Ameri- can Red Cross activity, and that the work may be carried on tostill greater accomplishments tlie' American Red Cross. is appealing for widespread re- aéwal of membership during the an- i Roll Call, to be conducted this rv from Armistice Duy (November 1) to, ‘and including, . 'J‘h.mm"lrlng flfl'flhwmher 30). .&ed’ Cross Roll Call Heard World- Around ’i‘he .Annual Roll, €all uf the Amerl- Tted Cross for: rnhtmtmn of the mnhirslhy for 15237 will bégin. on e Day, . November, .11,..and n Thanksgiving Dar, ‘November “Jhe ground ayork for this stu- 1%6&»\!.! task of rednrolling the mem- : bership, thiroughout the world has heen .%@5 a plan for.the first compigte stem. of re &;tru- i &s,nlelnhrl\hlp an alllits 3,300 .ume (‘hnmem n!llunm “apd-abroad. {1t {wportant feature of:the rmmd-I world Roll Call cumpaign will be| 4 iversal effort to re-ehlist-the serv: jice of war-time Red Cross workers in the peace programiby - thelr part \piation in the Roll Call. e ) vast army of voli imllate with -t ‘gperation’; also Thal 5 h rngent and tn'klte iharithne i "épgls <In o deep-sen Roll. Call that | ed 10 reach every‘member .‘q}yutemml wember In every part of orld who muy be-en voyage or rarily id:any port. houwgnds ot Chapters will adopt Jioiwe. canvass plan of enrollment ‘\‘hku originated in Pittsburgh, where Je‘ “Jnst-year it resulted in a XII(‘IIII)PI;I]‘]) pse of D0 per cent. - All records “fhis year's eampaiga “will be kept “standard-size cards to be tiled by pehapter for future use. < CHRISTIAN - SCIENCE Services will be held in the Battles building, room 24, over the J. C. Penney Co. store at 11 o’clock. Sun- day school at 9.45. METHODIST EPISCOPAL “The ‘Americanization: of Edward Bok” will be'the subject for the Sun- day evening sermon at 8 o'clock- Morning wors}np at 10 :30.. Serm- |- on-by-the pastor. Sunday school at 12 noon. Epwort - League at 7 o’clock. G. H. Zentz, pastor. ST. PHILIP’S Low mass at 8 o’clock. High mass at 10 o’clock. Sunday school followed by bene- dlcuom of the Blessed Sacrement at B;\pmms at 2. Vespers and benediction at 7:30 P me Rcv_ J. = . BAPTIST Sunday school at 10:30. Morning worship at 11:30. Sub. ject “The Person and the work of 'the Holy Spirit.” Young Peoples’ meeting at 7. Theme, *The Offense of the Cross.” Evening service at 8:00. Subject “Repentance”. Prayer meeting YThursday even- ing at 8:00. Fraling. George W. Kehoe, pastor.]. ST, PAUL'S EVANGELICAL (Sixth apd America) The services for Sunday Novem- ber 5 will be in the German language, the text will be John 4; 47-54, “Das Wachstum des Gleubens.” Calendar for the day Sunday school at 10 a. m. Gootesdienst, 11 a. m. Y. P. L. at 7 p- A cordial invitation is extended to everyone. H. W Radloff, pastor. Elk Teeth as Ornaments. Indlan braves decorated themselves with necklaces made of claws taken from the most ferocious animal In America, the grizzly bear. Only the squaws wore elk teeth as decorations, and they used only those from the animals killed for food and clothing. Now the white men are following the fashion® of/ the squaws, but are pay. ing a price that tempts the lowest characters to slaughter and waste the welk for these really worthless trinkets. A faller urderstanding of the history and significance of the custom -of { BETHEL LUTHERAN Sunday school at 9:45. Swedish services at.11 a. m, All are cord.ally invited' to at- tend- Na_evening- service ‘s the pastor will 'bé ‘at Hart Lake. Mid-week lflayer service, Wednes- dny e'vening ;t 8, o'clock. . NYMORE LUTHERAN “Sunday ‘school at 10:30a: i Services at 8:00 p’ “Men's Aid ‘meets Tuesday night at | Olé “Paulson’s home, at §'p. m. Prdyer: meetinig fitufiny night at the home of* John “Neélson. . Ladies” Aid meets Thursday afier- noon at the home ‘of Mrs. Ed. Akre. Services Thursday night at 8 p. m. $ Confirmation -class meets Saturday at 9 a. m. Rev. Bode, pastor. TRINITY EV. LUTHERAN Reformation festival on Sunday. Servces in the evening at 8:00 o’clock er the Immortal.” choir. Berd Bible class'on Saturday even- ing at 8 'ciocks .. Sunday school'at: 9 o’clock. Chmr reheflrsat ‘on’ ’flmfiday even- m; Gh:ldrens' &ble:glass on Satur- day: afternaon from..:2:00 to 3:30 o'clock. . - i -2 “ Rev. E."Frenk; pastor EPISCOPAL Services on Sunday: o Holy Communion*and scrman at 11 o'clock. . ~ - . Sunday school at 10. Dean Walker from Trininty Cath- edral, Duluth, who was advertised to speak last Thursday evening in the church by mistake, will address the Guild members «in the church basement next Thursday afternoon. In the evening, November 9, he will deliver a special ~address in the church at 8 o’clock. The rector will be absent but it is hoped that communicants and adkerents will attend the mass meet- ing in the church. William Elliott, Tector. wearing -elk. teeth should have ag tp-) ‘fluence in depreciating the market for’ them “and thus removing the incen- tive for this wanton destruction of MANSLAUGHTER" AT ELKO ~THEATRE; OPENS TONIGHT “The most lavish scene since “Joan our- noblest ‘and :most valuable game|the Woman!” animal—Xxchan; WANTS HOMES FOR VETERANS lproducmm of ““Man: e e Mrs. Carrol Marks, Vice President ef | new mark Auxiliary, ls’Seeking Action by California, Califorhia Wil vote in November on whether it shall make available a fund. of $10, 000,000 to :buy its war veterans homes and farms within its state limits. as campaign sec- retary. - Sbe . is Airs. Carrol Marks uf Los Angeles,’ vice president of the Amerivin Le-! glon Auxiliary. That’s what ig eaid of the Roman bacchanal recently staged by Cecil B. DeMille for his latest Paramount slmlghtel‘ 2 Cecil B. DeMille' has again set a for sheer, , spectacular EXPERT WATCH REPAIRNIG A womr! un is at the head of the movement; | W, H, HUESGEN | " JEWELER Mrs, Marks has been one of .the out-! standing personalities In the Auxiliary,’ which is composed of 200,000 war moth- «rs, wives, and sisters. She has been devoling’tén hours a’ day, ¥ix- duyst a, to “veteran -organizatien -work | week, - sinee the day America enteréd the 'w,nrs in 1917, and her latest duty Is to_help the suldiers obtain a _home and farm: ald through their native state. Buren R. Fitts, aadiounl executive comfhittee member of- the American Legion. fur Culifornia, I8 the director of the camr paign. 'MARKHAM Hotel Building 'GRAND THEATRE TODAY Willizufl Steiner Production Present 'NEAL HART i AMERICA’S PAL . “West of the Pecos A RUGGED ROMANCE OF THE SOUTHWEST cmms_' flmcmsou 0] f‘_mmmcm 'mrn:fl" “Range Rider” in two parts, Leo Maloney Deputized Grand Orchestra 7:10-9, 10c & 25¢ g when the pastor will speak on “‘Luth-| Reformation song by the church} Ty ilIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIllIIIIIllllllllilll"llllllllllIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHIHs'i!llllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIllI!lIIIIHIlIlIIIIIIllIIIII splendor. ' And | he did nv'thh the Roman' scenesin; “Manahvghter". iThe epiSode, which is -used to point a powerful moral, shows Rome just befort the fall-—pagan Rome with all of its licentiousness and,de- bauched beauty. At the heighth of the revel---while the ‘guests, the dancerg and the guards slumber in a drunken stupor.— the barbarian hordes storm the -gates ,and pillage burn and destroy cverythmx in theigs path. Leatrice Joy in the: rnle of the patrician hostess of this bacchanal and Thomas Meighan ‘as the leader of the barbarians have the principal Yoleg in this as with Lois Wilson, they have in ‘the major portion" of the actual story of “Manslaughter,” the great Paramount Super-Special production in mine parts at the Elko theatre starting tonight. ~ times on the stdge. ‘Gilly—never mind the last name — made the word safe 4 sarcasm A big picture, T e Christie Comedy in two parts, entitled— Grand Orchestra, special music—Mat. 2:30, 10c-30c GRAND “TURN TO THE RIGHT AT GRAND THEATRE SUNDAY To the millions of theatre-goers who enjoyed that greatest comedy- drama hit of the speaking stage in to the Right” by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard, and to the other milliong who longed to see it, the news- that this universally popular play has been “ransferred .to.‘the screen will prove « “joyful notices This highlight of the stage, char- acterized as the “play of “mirth and’ imorals” -in its celluloid ;version is Alice Terry who Wolt'"her’ way. to fame in_*“The’ Four Harsemel? and “The Conquer‘ng Power” hile | opposite her is'Jack Mulhall v"mo}l John Golden’s presentation of “Turn | ’ e SA‘I’UKDAY LVLNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1922' |!mzde a reputation on both stage and screen. Others in the cast gre Har- ry Meyers, who was the Yaflk in “A Conneticnt Yankee'in King Ar- thur’s Court”; George Cooper,- Ed- ward Connelly, Lydia Knott, Betty Allen, Margaret Loomis, William lBletcher, Enc Mayne and Ray Rip- e “Turn To The Right? is. the greatest stage success ofi modern times. It broke all records foy con- tinuous stage ‘peformances in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Phila- delphiu‘ More than “half- a' million -people ‘saw ' the play n: New York. acterdelineation: from Richard Bar- It was given 443 tmes there. . % on%r, ATE EATR GAlN TONIGHT “Motion. 4p{lrcw - the regular folks; whose story was so- human’and interesting that New York had to hear it retold443 You can meet thém by seemg the picture that’s even greater than the great play— Elsie-who couldn’t forget Joe; and Joe, who hoped for her sake she would Ma :Bascom, a mother of the sort that makes the name mean somuch Deacon Tillinger, likea green,, peach ,washal'd- and he might either ripen or turn bad - .Mfigés,asdeftwith : his tongue as. with his fingers fjounded on John Golden’s big Broadway stage hit, a play written by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard “OCEAN SWELLS."’ : Presented on the screen.;’b,! John Geolden and Marcus E Scenario by June Mat Mary O’Haray/ Sammy Martin — 1o anything over: on | him. Evenings 7:10 and 9:00 SUNDAY 'mn MONDAY |IIllihlhiillIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIII!IlllllIlllliIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIlilllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIu(IlllllIIlI|II|IlIIIIIIIIIIIIl|IIIIIlIIIHIIIIlIIIllIlIllIllIIIIIIlIIIII thelmess are ‘axd to be in for more oplendid entertainment when “Sonny’ the latest production-to be made for Associated First Nationul Pictures, shows at the Grand theatre again this evening. As in his pre- vious pictures, Barthelmess has tak- en, for his leading character, a very aowed him with an intense appeal. simple and human Imune and en- Barthelmess is shown in a dual role for the early part of the pic. ture. He is supported by a cast of superlative merit that includes Mar- garet Seddon, Pauline Garon, Lucy Fox, Herbert Grimwood, Patterson Dial, Fred Nichols, James Terbell, Margaret Elizabeth Faulconér and Virginia Magee. “Sonny” cannot be.summarized as a “corking good picture,” it is more than that. -It ig a drama of mother- less manhood for all times. :'JIHIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIiIlIlIIIIIIIIIlIlIIlllmmlll“!llLJIlfllllllIIlIIlIlIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"' ; ]yifi\“\\lllllllllIII|IIlIIIIlIII“IIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIIlIIII|I|II|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII i 3 city slicker would put | No, sir-ee!: FOX NEWS