Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 1

‘strong ' demand in Congress for an- w!tl;%:w 9% Rttt Wit WEATHER Minnesota: Ungsettled tonight and Saturday. Probably snéw in north; snow or rain in south. Colder in northwest portion. s e m— e PRICE 3c Deaths ffom Cancer in 1921 | ‘Show Increase; Tuberculosis Shows Marked Decrease ‘Washington Me&lin( Stands Out as Big Achievement of U. S. in 1922 Bulk of Cases Reported to the Missing Persons Bureau From Great Subways . Washington, Dec. 29—The De- partment of Commerce announces that the compilations made by the Bureau of the Census show that 1,082,009 deaths occurred in 1921 within the death .registration area of ‘continental United = States, rep- resenting a deafh rate of 11.6 per 1,000 ‘population as compared with 13.1 in 1920. The rate for 1921 is the lowest rate recorded in any year since ' the beginning-.of the . annual gompilations in 1900. 3 The death registration area (ex- clusive of the Territory of Hawaii) in’1921 comprised 34 states, the District of Columbia, and 16 cities in* non_registration states, with a total estimated population on ‘July 1 of 88,667,602 or 82.2 per cent of the “estimated population of the Uni- ted States. . The death rate. from cancer in- creased :83.4 per 100,000 in 1920 to, 86 in 1921. Some of the other dis- eases for which-ithe ‘rates increased are diptheria, typhoid fever, appen- {Continued on.page 2) By Nea Service New York, Dec. 29.—The slam of a subway door, the surge of a rushing crowq‘_arlxd thousands of strangers, carried ‘into the maelstrom of New York’s great catacombs om commerce the subways, are swept along—to disappointments, misfortune, and of- ten death. - ) They form-the bulk of the cases reported to the Missing Persons Bur- aeu of the Police--Department. Few get public notice until they: reach a tragic ending-. Not long ago-Joseph Gallo, of Fairfax, S. D., came. East with his wife. They were to ‘sail for their old ‘home in ‘Czecho-Slovakia to refire. Passage was. engaged. They started from their hotel for the pier. The subway was crowded. Gallo pushed his way through the crowds. His wife was close behind. But be- NEW YEAR 1S EXPECTED TO BRING RATIFICATION Events of ‘Administration in Past Year Reviewed in Order of Importance . Washingten, -Dec. 29 - (United: Press) —The Washington Arms con- ference, with its great lntemgt)nnal pacts for :limitation of maval:-grma- ment stands out-as the greatest a- chievement ‘of the United States gov-- ernment in 1922, : > The new year is expected to bring final Tatificationg of all the Washing- ton: conference: treaties, as this gov- ernment is conifident that France and Ttaly will not jeopardize all this peace preserving work by failing to approve the pacts. pghe cnnfex‘p;r)ce which adjqumed carly in February after a session of about three months: drew up {reaties which called ‘fo; o A ten year nav Toliday in battle- ship construction. A maximum battleship tonhage of 525,000 ¢ons for the U ited States and Great Britain, 315,000 tons for Japan and about 170,000 for France and Italy- * S guard had slammed the door, sep-, arating husband and wife. She boarded the next train. It was the wrong one. Speaking little English she couldn’t make herself understood. . She was lost among millions. f Two days later the frantic hus- pand found her—in the morgue. She had died of fright. A few weeks later Hyman Leving, a Newark (N. J.J grocer, came to (Continued on Page .2) New Officers of Ten lThqfimd\ Lakes Association Plan on Big 1923 Tourist Crop And fore she could board the train, the |- £ HYMAN LEVINE, HIS WIFE AND SON, WHOSE SEPARA- TION IN NEW YORK SUBWAY ALMOST ENDED IN A TRA- GEDY. The: scrapping. of ' the Anglo-Jap- anege alliance.™ The scrapping “Officers of the Ten- "Thousand |- Lakes of Minnesota 'Association, e-|™ o lected at the annual meeting {tuth; -are begining prepanations e | record influx of tourists to Minne« risota in 1923., 3 A “{*:Sentiment expressed-at the Du- futh meeting indicated that resort owners generally are expanding their ‘quarters. 'One man is finishing build- ings ‘amounting to $60,000 in value: Many others who found it necessary to turn away visitors last summer e building additional cottages in mticipation=of the big travel ex- pected in 1923. Accordingly, the association ap- proved plans for more extensive ad- vertising of Minnesota’s lakes. The «. ~(Continued ‘on Page 2) DANGER POINT OF FUEL - (By United Press) ¥ v Washington, Dec. 29—Federal fuel distributor, Conrade E. Spens, today stepped out’of office assuring: President Harding in his final report ‘that barring extrgme weather, the ‘country has passed the danger point of the fuel situation this winter. Spens, whose resignation becomes z effective Jan. 1st, leaves for Chi- cago to resume his duties as vice- d president of the Rurlington Railway ’p’t‘ about 70 baftle- ‘Women employment managers and " otkers manfacturers and factory- inspectors, public health ex- perts, fndustrial statisticians, econ- omists:and Goverment administrators will appear on the program of the ‘Women’s Industrial ~ Conference which has been called by the Womens Bureau of the United States Depart- ‘ment of Labor, to meet in Washing- ton, January 11 to 13tk. More than" 100 national organizations of women ‘have ‘been invited to send delegates to the conference and acceptances already receive indicate an attend- ace of representative women from all over the United States. + This, the third governmental con- ference held during the present ad- iministration to consider questions of public 'importance, ‘will “be officially openied by the ‘Secretary of Labor, the Hon. James J. Davis, and the first session will be presided over by the assistant Secretary.of Labor, the Hon. Edward J. Henning. The gath- ering is ‘under the management of the Women’s Bureau of the Labor Pepartment of which -Miss Mary And crson is Director. Treat; % A- series of treaties seeking to stabilize China arid to make the prin- ciple of “The Open Door”:a realityq] in the Far East: . At the end-of 1922 there is a other armament :‘parley to supple- ment the work of ths-year’s confer- ence. The House Appropriations committee has inserted a pro_vmian in the naval appropriations bill re- questing President. Harding' to .call a conference to-consider limitations on- the construction of aircraft, sub- marines and smaller aw: Yy ves- sels. i} At the same time the Harding ad- ministration has come to the conclus- jon that the United *States must in- tervene in Europe to»prevent. an e~ conomi¢ collapse there and’ is now seeking the .most practical way in which its aid ean be extended. 3 The ‘Tariff -Legislation In the line of legislation, the en- actment of the Fordney-McCumber tariff law, revising as it does all the 4 (Conti ofi Page 2) WISCONISIN M'A‘N NAMED HEAD OF 1. C. COMMISSION BI‘MEKDUCK hm Pi'_ANS & BIG.CONCERT AT HINES (By United nfifin ‘Washington, Dec. 29-—Bal. fazer Meyers of Wisconsin was today appointed chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for the coming year, Mey- ers succeeds Charles McCord who served this year. . . NEW KIWANIS LEADERS TAKE OFFICE NEXT WEEK Dr. D. F. McCann sang his “Swan Song” as president of the local Ki- wanis club at the meeting Thursday noon at the Elks club rooms and had charge of the entire program from sending the invitations to leading the singing. S Supt. J. C. West will assume the leadership of the club, as president, at the next meeting, as will all other newly elected officers. Dot Van‘s orchestra provided the musical entertainment for the meet- ing. -Roll call was resorted to for a program and each member was re- quired to tell one thing that they had learned during the past year, which proved to be a live topic. A favorable report was heard from A band concert by the Blackduck band is to be given at the Hines town hall Wednesday evening, Jan- uary 3, at 8 o’clock, according to notices being sent out by the Hines Lyceum board. The concert will be held under the auspices of the Hines board and will be given as one of the five numbers on the scason ticket. The Hines Lyceum board looks forward to this number with inter_ est, believing it will be one of the best numbers. The band has 40 members and has already a well-es- tablished reputation for its high musical attainment. In addition, the band will have with it voeal talent, thus assuring one of the best and most varied entertainments of the season. Plans have been made for a large attendance, it is understood and the public in general is invited angq urged-to attend. Mrs. Adelaide Fries, of Winston-' Sklem, is the first woman to be hon- ored with the presidency of the North Carolina Literary and Histor- ical society. One of the older soc- a number of committces. eties «f its-kind in the country. DETROITS MUNICPAL RMLWAY ‘S Sum system. b e . ......|BEMIDJI MEN ENJOY VERY Is Already Fast Paying Offl " syccpssruL quaiL HUNT Obligations and Giving Improved Service F. S. Lycan and George Kreatz, tecognized as Bemidji’s premier guail hunters and Thompson Ross of: Chicago = réturned the first of the week from a trip into Tennessee and Arkansas where they enjoyed a suc- cessful ‘quail hunt. By-J. ‘A. Darrock (United Press ‘Staff Correspondent) Detroit, Mich. r%ec. 29-——{ h; :nrznt. icipally ‘owned lway ~of ‘Detroit, o st‘l{l)lainyitswinfan,cy‘is financially beal-}: “We had a most delightful trip,” th& and * rapidly developing into a said Mr. Lyc.nn, “and s$urely shot tremendous saceess, according to the loads of quail. Tt is great sport and latest ‘figures given out here. we enjoyed every minute of the Besides putting back into the pro- time.” A o perty a considersible’ amount of mon- Mr. Ross joined the B_exmdjl hunt- ey in additions and betterments, the |ers at'Chlcago. He is mtgrested in city railway department, on Decem- the Minnesota - Electric I:\ght and ber 1, paid® $500,000 to- the Detroit | Power Company of this ¢ity. . United railway, applying on the semi- annual payment that falls due on To ASK Q.OSED WN' = ON ALL MINNESOTA GAME i June 1, 1923, The department hopes to pay another-h8lf million dollars taaa S shortly after’ the first of the mew vear. By making these payments in . Willis J, Bibb, advance of the-actual date on which St. Paul, Dec. 29.—The next legis- Jr., is at home dur- they fall due; the” deparfment saves |lature will be asked to declare a five- ing the Holidaya. a large amount. of interest. year closed season on all wild game except destructive and obnoxious — At the close of five and one half months of operation, the department had carried 204,669,795 passengers, made up of 154,434,188 revenue pas- sengers and 50,265,607 transfer pas- sengers with a-total of $8,259,591.02 received as reverniue from transporta- tion. The total miles operated be- ing 21,746,822, whic shows an av- erage of 38 cents per car mile with and expense of .2257 per car ile: > : Non-operating inconte and miscellan- Another meeting of the executive eous brings the total amount of mon- committee of the society will be held ey received up to $8,809,471.12 or early next mornth, when the legisla- (Continued op page 2) ture convencs. animals. Moose, deer, ducks and all birds and wild game will be protected from the onslaughts of increasing numbers of hunters, if the Minneso- ta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has its way. The exécutive committee has decided to make ‘these demands -on the legisla- ture. Py (Copyright. W.N. U.) [ T=xy N (2 | QUIT SMOKING CIGARS ) looked beau- b1 tiful with its many lighted candles 2] and great festoons of cotton, tinsel £~ and other inflammable material 1plan of Senator Borah is identic | Forestry Board, o Death With An Ax Austriah Settleljpentf' At Superior Seethes . "I.'oday for Vengeance FEELING RUNNING HIGH AGANST BOMB MAILER (By United Press) Marshfield, Wise., ec. 20—Feeling is running high here ggainst the per- son or persons who mailed the infern- al machine to the James R. Chapman home, which exploded Wednesday night, causing fatal injuries to Mrs. { Chapman and seriousl yinjuring her husband. According. to District Attorney Chapman and seriously injuring her today. A land owner in the district, who 'is said to have upbraided Mr. Chapman on several occasions for al- leged over-assessment of his lands, is suspected. EUROPE STANDS AT CROSS-ROADS Repérh from Ath®ns are That Renewed War With Turks Seems Inevitable (By United Press) Etrope totay stood at the cross- roads, one leading to war in the Near East and the other to resume the Lausanne conference, which was sus- pended while Ismet Pasha, chief of the Turkish delegates, prepared a re- ply to the allies’ demandg that the Tarks permit an international court in which eases involving foreigners would be: tried. " Bdre There was an obvious effort on the part of the allies to meet the appeal that the Turkish obstinacy on this point is responsible for the recent disturbances of the conference, while Ismet Pasha desired the world to be- lieve that British greed for the rich Mosul Oil regions in the Mesopotam- inis the real reason. Ismet Pasha’s veply will try to throw the blame on the Greeks Re- ports from Athens said the Greeks (Continued on page 2) MC CUTCHAN SENTENCED T0 SERVE SEVEN YEARS (By United Press) Dickinson, N. D., Dee. 29—David McCutchan must serve seven years for the murder of Walter Inman of Amidon last March after a qguarrel over renting the Gillette farm in Slope county. The jury, after nine hours deliber- ation, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and fixed the sentence. Amidon community was greatly stirred by the murder and a large representation attended the trial which came here on a change of ven- ue. McCutehan ‘plead self defense. FRANCE INTIMATES WAY FOR ECONOMIC PARLEY (By United Press) Paris, ec. 29—France today, through semi-official channels, inti- ‘mated a way whereby the world eco- nomic conference could take place i ‘It was pointed out that the with the plan of the financial con- ference at Brussels next month to which the United States has been in- vited. There will be an opportunity for the United States to make its voice heard in a world economic gathering. MAY GET TWO ELK FOR DIAMOND POINT PARK F. S. Lycan, member of the State advises that Be- midji’s application ig first on the list for two clk, which are to be placed at iamond Point park. Mr. Lycan has the co-operation of the Bemidji Park Board and the Elks lodge and all the expense that is en- taileq is the work of catching the elk and shipping them from State Park to Bemidji. George T. Baker, superintendent of parks, and a member of the board highly enthused ove: prospects of securing these anir and will make provisions at Diamond Point to take care of them when they arrive, without the American president tak- |° |ing any frrther steps. the | Owner of Cabin in Which the Murdered Man Had Lived Held From Angry Mob BLOOD-SMEARED AX AND SLEDGE HAMMER FOUND Patrolman Waits for Alleged Murderer to Return and Takes Him to Jail (By United Press) Superior, Wis.,, Dec. . 29—Little Austria seethed today with.-vengeance following one of the most brutal crimes in its history. ~Nicholas Triff a bachelor in the Allouez section, was hacked with.an axe and his body beaten to a pulp. Jacob Vesuil, the owner of the cabin in which Triff lived, was arrested five hours after the murder and spirited away from an angry mob. At supper time, neighbors heard a disturbance in the cabin of Triff, who was 40 and popular. Last night they found his body on the floor, his face an unrccognizable mass of wounds. A blood smeared axe and sledge hammer were found. Vesuil had been seen entering the cabin and was seen later by Mrs. John Connolly, wife of a patrolman, when, covered with blood, he entered a street car. She reported to her hushand and the search began. Connolly, knowing the penchant of Austrians to return to scenes of crime, lay in waiting. Five hours later, Vesuil returned. He had been uptown to a hearty dinner. ‘While neighbors of Triff searched frantically with hatchets and shot. guns~for the murderér, ~Connolly spirited Vesuil away and lodged him in the county jail. He denies the murder but police are confident he was the attacker and plan to place a formal charge against him today. Vesuil is 27 yearg old and lived in u cabin 200 feet from the one Triff vents. . Triff is known to have $5,000 in a bank here and is reported to be the owner of considerable property He worked at the ore docks. STUDENTS AND ALUMNI TO STAGE DANCE TONIGHT Students and alumni of the Be- midji high school and their friends are to enjoy a dancng party at the New Moose hall this evening. The annual meeting of the Bemidji High School Alumni association will also be held at this time and officers for the new year are to be elected- A large attendance is urged. M. B, A. LODGE TO ATTEND SHADIOW FUNERAL SERVICE All members of the M. B. A. lodge are requested to meet at the Baptist church on Saturday, December 30, at 2 p. m. to attend the funeral of Parker, president of the lodge. JUNIOR FARMERS TAKE . IN NEAT SUM IN 1922 18,971 Minnesota Boys “and Girls Enroll in Club Work in Past Year, Report Shows ighteen thousand nine hundred nty-one Minnesota boys and girls enrolled in 1,759 separate clubs in 1922 and sccured from their pro- ducts a total of $410,679.78, or the m of $183,022.12 after deducting costs. These figures are from the annual report of T. A, Erickson of University Farm, state leader of boys and girls club work, The actual gain in “membership over 1921 .was only 241, but 75 per cent completed the season’s work and submitted reports as against 71 per cent for 1921 and 65 per cent.for 1920. “Our effort for the year,”” says Mr. Erickson, “was not for a large incrcase in membgrship, but rather to help the clubs already.or- ganized to do better work and'to keep as many of the old club mem- bers in the work as posgible. The increased number of members re- ported ig largely due to the increased cfforts of county. agents and other leaders. More leadership was devel= oped in 1922 than in any previous year.” The ‘total number of members re- in 1922 was 13,959 as {gainst 13,254 in 1921. The value of products in 1922 surpassed those ‘of 11921 by $110,891.08 and.the value above cost in 1922 sutpassed by $32, the net value in’1921. . Evickson repotts that $82,500. (Continued onspage 2) i porting