Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 1

. partly because of the mystericus air . agreement .among The Pioneer is the only daily within 100 miles of Bemidji and paq the largest circulatiom im Northern Minnesota. B VOLUME XX NO. 206 To Invite Eu ‘of United States i Believe Reparation..is Present 'Eu;o[‘(ém Crisis; May Remedy Conditions U. S. MAY PARTICIPATE IN SETTIMS OF FIGURE e ol American Bankers Believed Ready to Aid Gérmany if Right Figure is Set (By A. L.-Bradford) Washington, Dec.”19. (Copyright- ed 1922 by the United. Press.)—The United States,:afters its outstanding move in its plan to-avert collapse in the old world, is about to invite Eu- ropean powers to make a final at- tempt to settle 2 German reparas tions problems, it was learned from the most authoritative sources here today. . uic 7 % The plan of the United States for intervention in the European situa- tion, which. has filled two continents with excitement and anticipation of the case,_has now, been revealed by the United States as follows (1). Believeing that reparation is the key to the . present European erisis, the United States will partici- pate in a commission or some other Yorm of official inquiry to establish an exact figure for Germany to pay. It will be a figure constituted as a just reparation for the war and an amoung that would be up to Ger- many's_capacity to pay, but not be: yond. ¥ 3 (2.) If settlement of the repara. tions problenys can be effected by the European powers on such a:figure, the United States can give: assurances that the American bankers stand ready to ad: vance a loan with proper security to put Germany..on.her-feet. and-start her towards afiiortiZation of the in demnity. ). Flnu‘%, the United States government “will adopt a more len- jent policy on the question of col- lecting the allied war debt in this country, That is,, it is ready to con: sider the obligation of each debtor on its own merit§, granting more len- jency in turn to those countries less able to pay. PAY FINE FOR CREATING - DISTURBANCE AT DANCE| For creating a disturbance at a dance Saturday evening in the K. C. hall and for attempting to keep an officer. from ,performing his - duty, Jud Sexton/and Severn Huck each paid a fine of $60 in municipal court Monday when arraigned before Judge Gibbons. A row at Schuck’s dance Saturday night is said to have start- ed the whole affair. As a result of the row, in which fa young lady was slapped in the face, the police department was notified and Patrolman Paulson soon went to the scene and after ascertaining the trouble attempted to remove Sexton from the hall. - Sexton is al- leged to have struck Paulson and, when the patrolman used his black- jack, others at the dance are said to have atempted to stop him from arresting Sexton. As a final result, Sexton and Huck were summoned before Judge Gib- bons Monday . forenoon and. were of- fered their choice of a fine of $50 each or 60 days in jail. They paid the fine. - - STORES ASKED TO CLOSE FOR CRODKSTON CONTEST Although Beridji stores for the most part sre open evenings this. week until 9 p. m. and some later than that, efforts are being made to have such placds of-business close at 7:45 Wednesday evening, that the clerks and employers may attend the basketball game-at the new armory. in which Company M of Crookston will play the Bemidji Firemen in the first real hard contest of the seas- on on the Bemidji floor. Arrangements hdve béen made to start the game at 8 o‘clock and ac- cording to Manager R. B. Lycan, can- | The |5 F. & A. M. TO INSTALL not be changed at this time. Friday night game against Fosston will be started at 9 ofclock. As many merchants as posible will be requested to ‘assist the Firemen in this project and the greatest aid will come through the closing of stores v evening at 7:45. It is that the request will be expec heartily complied with by the stores in general. A . i S—p—— YIME g BeenMadePublic No Trace of Denver Robbers Has Yet Béen Found; Use Radio to Spread News (By United Press) Denver, Colo., Dec. 19—Eight states today joined in the hunt for seven bandits who yesterday held up and robbed the United States Mint here of $200,000-in currency and fatally wounded Charles Lincoln, a bank guard. No ‘trace of the bandits had been found early today although police in /Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mex- ico, Wyoming, Nehraskl, Kansas and Oklahoma were continuing the search. Authorities frankly' admit they had no clues. : The radio was used to broadcast the description of the men and state and forest rangers joined the hunt. Shortly after, the battle at the mint, authorities were deluged with tele- phone calls telling of a speeding touring car. Efforts to locate the car failed. Police today believe the bandits separated within a few minutes after the daring hold-up was staged. CROSBY AND HOWE NEW NAVAL UNIT OFFICERS Clinton J. Crosby was elected Lieutenant Junior Grade and Paul Howe was elected Ensign of the Fifth Division, Minnesota Naval Militia, at the election held Monday evening at the“new-ammory. - ‘TheSe elections J nfirmed by the. com-. ménding officér of ‘the district. Ca; ‘Guy Eaton, and upon his confirma- tion to the governor, the commissions will be issued to the new officers. ' The two new. officers will give the local. unit. three offieers, the com- manding ‘officer. being R: B. Lycan, lieutenant senior , grade. The offi- cets of ‘the unit-plan to increase the 'personell as rapidly as possible, five new memberg being enlisted Monday’ night, including Paul Howe, Clinton Crosby, Chdrles Elliott, Lloyd Boe and “Unk” Mayer. 4 The' next regular drill will be held Monday evening January 8, and it is expected that at that time furth- er plans will be made for the wundit which now consists of 63 membets. .number of prospects have been lined up and the/personell of the un- it will be increased as much as ‘pos- sible, it is understood. Fotmer Lahd Cléaring Mansger Here in Charge of Farm Instruction for Vets Edson Washburn, formerly land ‘clearing manager for Beltrami coun- ty is now actively in charge of agri- cuiltural instruction at Veteransville and the Silver Star colonies at that place. Veteransville is the new name for White Pine, and was at orie time a big and flourishing saw mill commu- nity, but was burned out a year or two ago, leaving ruins of the mill arid the main camp buildings, mostly built ogs, which with 40 acres of land was purchased by the U. S. Veterans Bureau and is now being revamped into a modern community unit by ex- service men. : The single men live in the big cen- tral building, as in a club, and boat st'the lumber camp dining room. Most of the married men have built on their own land and are living in- dependént of the community, but us- ually congregate there two or three times a week for a social evening. The central portion of the community building ig equipped with a piano and ‘ietralo for music, tables for games and plenty of good books, papers and (Continued on Page 2) NEW OFFICERS WEDNESDAY Bemidji Lodge No. 233, A. F. & | A. M., will megt in regular communi- | cation Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Masonic hall. Install- !ation of officers elected at the last | meeting will be the main feature of the evening. A large attendance is urged. ] %% BEMIDJ1, MINN., TUESDAY' EVENING, DEC. 19, 1922 MJI DAILY PIONEE east and-south tonight. Wednesday, afternoon or night: %.%: National Convention Outlinés : Work: to Be Followed by Movement in 1923 Convention Serves to Clarify Opinions on Remedying Farm Situation (Farm Bureau News Service) Energetic prosecution of a na. tion-wide = co-operative ~ marketing program will be the watchword in the Farm Bureau movement in 1923. This was détermined at the annual conveption' leld at Chicago, Dec. 11 to. O:-E..Bradfute was unanimous- ly elected president after J. H. How- ard, who had held that office since ‘the national organization wag form- ed three years ago, refused to per- mit his name to be placed before the ‘convention. J. F. Reed, president of the Min- nesota Farm Bureau Federation was ‘elected a member of the national ex- ‘ecutive committee. With him serv- ing from the Mid-West states well be Howard Leonard of Illinois and W. H, Settle of Indiana. There are ning from other sections on the board. W. H. Walker of California was named vice president. Mr. Bradfute hag been president of the Ohio federation for several years and has been a moving spirit behind . the commodity marketing movement in that state, where a large number of farmer-owed sell- - {(Continued on Page 2) D DUMB MAN 1S DOWN BY AUTO A fedf and dumb man, who gives his_n .as 1. P. St. Louis, was run down Hy a fast going automobile on the Birchmont road last Saturday. | He was picked up by another. car ‘and-taken to Bemidji where doctors examified him. He was found to have a badly bruised leg and ankle and hurt in the back. He advises that -one of hig lungs was also badly af- fected. . Phe name of the "driver or the number of the car was not obtained as the driver did not stop to see how badly-he had injured his vietim. 1t was learned that St. Louis stays over. at. the poor farm at hights and does 0dd jobs around Nymore and Bemidji. He can neither hear nor and his eyesight is very poor. . In this helpless condition he is making every effort to learn who run §; him down and will appreciate any assistance that can be given hiry! in ascertaining the name of the driver or owner of the car. MINNESOTA PRESIDENT _ |- ON EXECUTIVE. BOARD ...partment Was notiffed {oday. Thase ruinis 6f the Weinhard Hotel (ieft) #ind the Astorla National Bank are.part'of the devastation of & $15,000,000 fire which wiped out historle Astoriz, cldest city in Oregon. - four blocks were burned and every bank;"department’ store, and hotel in the city destroyed. TURKS WANT U. 5. T0 “PLANE LOCATED seieve et American conte Would Prevent Any Possible Political Aggression Lost in Blizzard Friday But Found Without Pilot Late Yesterday by Flier . By EDWARD J. BING. (United Press Staft Correspondent) New ork, Dec. 19.— (United Press) (Bv Unlted Press) —*“There is no truth in the state- Washinjiton, Dec. 19—The “mail fment that Great Britain or, for that plane flown by Pilot Boonstra of the ' matter, any other power has a leght- United Mail Service, which 'mate claim to the oil fields of Mosul,” was lost:%g blizzard last Feiday, | was the statement made to the United was loc: ot Porcupine Ridge/date | Press by Mahmoud Pasha, Turkish y:sferd:y bk P b ex-Minister of Public Worlzs, and the detailed - to. stwrphth de. most competent’ “man .of the legal =wsS=- questions connecsed-with - the-Mosul .oil_question, Mahmoud Pasha was a member of the Turkish cabinet until the out- break of the World War, when he re- signed because he objected to fighting the Allies: He acted for the Turkish government during the negotiations with the British concerning the oil Flying ovep the'ri about twenty miles from Splt Leke City and ten miles off thej regular mail route, Bishop sightgd the plane: and found the flying .gnit of -the pilotspread out on the :wings. This led the de- partment -to believe that the pilot ‘wag safe: | A geatching party left Salt Lake of Mosul and “therefore nobody is City, battling with twenty feet of more competent to give an authori- sfiow to reach a deserted cabin’ two | tative statement about that subject. miles from the location of the plane (Continued on Page 2 where it is believed the aviator is —_— awaiting aid. VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM IS . ISSUED TURK DELEGATES (By United Press) . (By Henry Wood) Lausanne, Switzerland, Dec. 19— Foreign Minister Curzon of Great Britain today announced that unless the Turks a(:cepted the allied pro- ject for freedom of the Dardanelles by tomorrow, the Near East peace conference will be terminated. This virtual ultimatum is being considered by the Turkish delegates. NEW SERIAL STORY TO BE STARTED WEDNESDAY Anna Katherine Green is the author of the story of love, mystery .and death; which will* appear in the Pioneer as a serial beginning with Wednesday's is- sue. This story will be complete in twelve chapters, not too long to be tiresome, but just long enough to be capable of holding the interest of all of its readers. [rITOR Sdrrearodds o i , by frost last night. WEATHER. F Homn's Corners. Mr. Flandefs had both feet nipped |’ Indicdtions are for 4 brigflt and| cheerful Christmas day dround The postmaster is overwhelmed by the Christmas spirit-shown in this community. ! [ to practice. 3 L} Famous - Actress Declares She will Return to the Stage After Her Recovery (By Webb Miller) By United Press) Paris, Dec. 19—‘My son insists that I take a rest, but for me, rest means death,” F The immortal Sarah Bernhardt, stricken as she wag about to ‘appear in Sach Gutyy's new play at the Edward the Seventh theatre, thus despised the entreaties . of fricnd that she abandon tne stage and spend the years that are left her in ease and comfort. Her physicians after an anxious night issued a bulletin at 11 a. ni. today which said: “The crisis is fortunately quickl: passed but Madame Bernhardt needs absolute rest for a few days and com- plete isolation.” This was signed by Dr. Desnos and Dr. Obrissier. “There is really no danger,” Des- nos later assured the United Press. *‘Madame Bernhardt will live to at- tend my funeral yet.” The one very real peril, however, it is admitted, is that Sarah Bern- hardt, despite her 78 years, refuses to surrender and consider herself an old woman. “I will return to the stage when I have recovered from this slight in disposition,” she insisted to friends who urged her to give up her work. She remained bright and cheerful in defiance of the malady diagnosed by the physicians "as syncope. Syncope is fainting followed by stupor. WOULD BROADEN WORK OF AMERICAN BANKERS Presidént Puelicher OQutlines Plans Before Pittsburgh Bankers Monday Night Pittsburgh, Dec. 19.—Plans for broadening the work of the American Bankers Association as an institution for service for the whole people rath- ¢r than merely for the specialized field of bankers were outlined here last night by John H. Pulicher in an address at a dinner given him by Pittsburg bankers as president of the American Bankers Asociation. Mr. ' Puelicher told of the recent meétings of the Administrative Committee of the Assoctation at Washington, D. C., during which contracts were estab- lished with' government officials for the purpose, of placing at their dis- posal such facilities of the organiza- tion as might be helpful and condu- cive to public, welfare in their work. “Just as the prosperity of the in- dividual banks,” Mr. Puelicher said, “ig built on the progress of the com- munity, so the prosperity of banking ‘s founded on the economic better- ment of the pation. It is a narrow view of the American Bankers As- (Continued on page 2) NEW REPUBLIC USING WISCONSIN LAW MODEL Czecho-Slovakia Adopting Set of Industrial Laws Like Those of Wisconsin By HERBERT LITTLE. (United Press Staff Corpespondent) Madison, Wis., Dec. 19 (United Pregs).—A brand new European re- public is modelling its statutes on Wisconsin laws. | Czecho-Slovakia, born of the treaty faf Versailles and headed by President Masaryk, who spent a year studying American conditions in Chicago and the Middle West, is adopting a set of industrial laws that idcludes not only several that have been put into suc- cesful use in' Wisconsin, but also some originating here that the Badger State has not had the nerve to put in- ' This information was received here réeently by Prof. John R. Commons of the economics department of the University of Wisconsin, author of numerous pione vorkmen’s compen- satjon, civil service, and unemploy- meént measures, in a letter from ) McDowell, head of the Chicago versity settlement house and a guest of President Masaryk. Czecho-Slovakia was freed of Aus- trian domination and Austrian debts by the Versailles treaty. It is now the only Slavic nation with a staple cur- rency. “gie 3 The me: o0 be put into e Rl o hich have been s (Continued on page 2) IMMORTAL SARA/DAVISFAVORS PASSES CRISIS| AMILLIONFOR CONCILIATION Seeking Quick and Effective Settlement of Strikes and Similar Disputes CONCILIATION WORK IS A RECOGNIZED FACTOR Believes Conciliation Service Points the Way to Peace in American Industry ——— Washington, Dec. 19.-—° (United Press.)-—A -~ million-dollar Federal commission- to- “depropagandize” the statements-of contending sides in in- dustrial disputes was proposed to Congress as an aid to quick and ‘ef- fective settlement of strikes by Sec- retdry of Labor Davis in his annual report. Davis based his plea for such a body on the principal that public opinion settles strikes and without full possession of all the facts, public opinion cannot be formed. “The public knows that often al- leged facts are presented in public speech or announcement which are not. the true facts and therefore the public often hesitates in reaching a conclusion,” the Secrctary wrote. “With the proper sort of un or- ganization in the D/partment of La- bor, it weuld be possible not onlyito bring contesting clements together before a break in most cases, but al- s0 in evely insiance to give ‘he pub- lic the true facts from unprejudicéd sources which would bring about a speedy crystalization of public opin- ion ag to the merits of the dispute. - \The,_very faét that-the vontenders™ realize that the public would get the true faets would make them hesitate to come to a break. “I believe with the creation of an organization such as I have in mind and with an appropriation of approx- imately $1,000,00C a year this gradu- ally to be increased with the growth of industry, practically every labor controversy can be adjusted and nearly every strike can be ‘avoided..” Thig “simon-pure news agency” proposed by Davis would be an ad- junct of the comciliation service whose work during the past year Da- (Continued on Page 2) WINTERS ARE BELIEVED TO BE GETTING WARMER Chicago, Dec. 19. (United Press) —American winte are getting warmer, weathtr statistics announced here. The old-fashioned winter with big snows seems a thing of the past. Summer ig slowly taking place of cold days in the early spring and late autumn. November just passed was third among the warmest Novembers on record. In 1902 and 1918 averages for the month were warmer. The cold snap during the last few days of the month pushed this year’s record down. Since January 1, 1910, there have been 97 months in which tempera- tures have been above normal and only 47 below. Since August 14, 1920, the mercury hasn’t gone below normal except between June 20 and July 28, 1922, Summer was 47 days longer than usual this year. The growing season began on April 1 and ended Nov. 15. The average season is 189 days. WILL PROBE ALLEGED COAL PRICE GOUGING St. Paul, Dec. 19.—Alleged goug- ing in coal prices in the® northwest was under investigation here today. Fuel administration representatives of northwest states were in session and the capitol, with C P. White, fuel administrator for this district. Complaints have come to head- quarters of tihe tuel administration here that coal dealers were profiteer- ing. Means of combatting boosting of prices during the serious coal shortage will be discussed. Plans for relicf from the anthra- cite cozl shortage also were gone ov- er. All plans for relief depend upon action at Washington, it is said. Fed- eral fuel administrators have :been urged to see that 150 carg of anthra- e shipped into the north-