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-kl ^r^ -T*f?:i?i"J ^^f^^-'^'^^'^^^?t'-fF *-*h^ fP-' 5- VOLUME XVII. NO. 166. OPPONENTS OF LEAGUE LAM U.S. WITHDRAW May Make It an Issue of 1920 Campaign Not Ready to Announce. ARGUE U. S. WOULD THEN RESUME FORMER STATUS Two Years Time Limit, After Which Nation Members May Cut Loose. By George Martin. (United Press correspondent.) Washington,. July 15.Forseeing complete victory for President Wilson in tiie senate, some league of nations opponents today were discussing a plan to make withdrawal from the league by the United States an issue in the 1920 campaign. The proposal was nebulous. No one was openly sponsoring it. Those who favor it will be ready to an nounce it, however, the moment they think they will receive party support. Senators,' who have discussed this idea point out that two years is re quired for actual withdrawal and the issue in the election would be the giving of notice to the league of this country's intention to withdraw, which would get the United States out in 1923. By that time, senators ^%ay, the United States would have done its share towards establishing Europe and will have the right to resume its nationalistic policy. CHAUTAUOUA SEASON TO OPEN TOMORROW WITH FINE PROGRAM Musical Numbers by High Class Organisation and Splendid Lecture.* Bemidjl's Vawter chautauqua for the season of 1919 opens tomorrow and'the program for the entire week is of much higher quality than has usually been seen and heard in this city. It is varied and every feature is of high class the opening program starting off the sessions with a rush. The tent and executive staff of the chautauqua has arrived and the tent will be located on the northwest in tersection of Fourth street and Be midji avenue. George B. Tack, comedian and songster, whoJias, returned from mili tary service, and his male quartette will start thel four, days with high class and popular selections. They are instrumentalists, also, and wiil be heard in that specialty. This ag gregations is conjposed of live wires and inject considerable comedy into their specialty. They go on at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. James Hardin Smith, a Tennessee orator, who is widely known for or ganizing men for social service, will be the speaker of the afternoon. His topic is "Taste the Apples," and it seems a most unusual subject for dis cussion, handled in a masterly man ner by this unique character. At 4 o'clock the juniors from which to select part of the cast which will stage "The Magic Piper" as a chautauqua feature, and in the even ing the Tack company will appear in lull concert. Season tickets should be securer. at. any of tht drug stores, jowelry stores, Markham or the committee ^r-' memibers of the local backers of the chautauqua. DR. NEUMAN SENTENCED. Duluth, Minn., July 15.Dr. Chris tian Neuman of Princeton, Minn., found guilty in United States district court on two counts charging disloy alty, was sentenced to serve a year and a day at Leavenworth, by Judge Page Morris. He was granted a 90- day stay of execution and was re leased on bonds of $10,000. His at torneys announced that they would aippeal his case. ANOTHER SOLDIER HOME. Orville Greenslitr arrived the tp one year'in serv city last night rif ice in the military. He received his discharge at Camp Mills, N. Y. NINE SINKS SWEEPER: MINNESOTAN KILLED (By United Press.) Washington, July 15.One officer and six men of the United States trawler, Richard Buckley, were killed when the ship was sunk by a mine they were trying to sweep up in the North Sea, off the coast of Eng land Saturday. Two other officers were slightly hurt and sixteen of the ft-ew were saved. George Paul Rezab~-of Vvar mati. Minn -watt one of"thofc* killed. :M FOR INSPECTION OFSEED PLOTS BEGIN FRIDAY Bemidji Business Men Invited To Take Part Big Dinner Served Each Day. TOLAAS IS COMING TO SPEND ONE DAY County Agent Aamodt Wants to See Many Auto Owners Assist in Project. ""'wL "Are you going to be with us on one of the community tours? If you cannot be with us all day, drop in whenever we are near your place. Potato fields, especially the seed plots, will be visited, the rogueing of diseased and mixed varieties will be demonstrated so that you can go home to your own plots and do like wise. Representatives from the Minnesota Board, for Seed Potato Inspection and Certification ^will be with us to explain and discuss the inspection and certification law. All those having cars will assist in the success'of the tours if they will ac commodate as many as possible of those who have none. Thus far we have been assured of sufficient cars. A few extra would not toe missed." Thus asks A. W. Aamodt, South Bel trami county agricultural agent, and he wants to see many from Bemidji with the farmer tourists on July 18 and 19, and Monday, July 21. Every day, members of the famil ies of the associations under which the inspection tour is to be made will serve dinner. And one of the big features of the outing will be the presence^ on Friday of A. G. To laas, chief potato inspector of the state. Hines and Community. On Friday will be known as -WJines and Gommunifcy"Aday -and the following schedule has been pre pared: Auspices of Hines Seed Potato as sociation and the Hines Community Committee of Farm Bureau. 9:00 a m.Meet at Hines and iproceed south to farms of William Hayford, Jesse Smith and George Smith. Return to Hines and go north to Ben Sydow and William Hines on Blackduck lake. DinnerMr. and Mrs. William Hines, Blackduck lake, will treat Ihe whole crowd to fish and pota toes. Come on in! The water will be fine. After dinner the crowd will pro ceed to the farms of William Hass, E. E. Schulke, J. Hemple, and as many others as time will permit. Blackduck Communit Saturday next will be known as '^Blackduck audi Community" day, and the program is as follows: .Auspices of the Blackduck Potato Growers' association and Farm Bureau members. 10:00 a. m.Go north to William anker, Henry Legler, J. C. Thomp son and A. F. Buor's farms. NoonTo White Pine park on Blackduck lake for a picnic dinner, which is to be served by the wives cf the members of the Blackduck Po tato Growers' association. 1:15 p. m.To the farms of Hou i bins, John Berg, Okeson, Gilstad, Anvid, Beckwith Olson, Henry Berg, No. Cedar & Lumber Co., Alfred Gustafson and others, if time per mits. Blackduck Community. Oa Monday following, July 21, the following is the program, known ?s "Solway and Community" day: Auspices of the Solway, Lammers, imd Jones Farmers'* clubs and the Jones-Lammers Community Commit tee of the Farm bureau. 8:00 a. m.Starting at the Nortn crn Timber Co., farm, go wesc to the farms of Nels Sorenson, Pete Peter son, Fred Peterson, Charles uarson, J. C. Anderson, A. S. Ruskjer, Arthur McDaniels, L. W. Packard, P. J. Millbach, W. H. Stumpjes and Cleorge Nealy. NoonTo Solway where a picaic iunch will be participated in. \fter dinner talks will be given by L. Jensen, of Clearbrook, and others. 2:00 p. m.Proceed to the fol lowing: Ruasel farm. George Beck er, Anton Fredrickson, D. Powers, Christ Thompson, Adolph Gustaffson. John Gustaffson, Ole Sime, Ot.o Fredricks, Joe Hallan and others, lime permitting. HOUSE FAILS TO PASS DAYLIGHT BUI OVER VETO (By United Press.) Washington, July 15.The at tempt to override President Wilson's veto of the daylight saving bill re peal failed in the house by 23 votes. The agricultural bill, to which the daylight savings bill repeal had been attached as a rider has been referred to the agricultural commit tee and probably will be reported stjratrt minuf* thr repeal rJdr. BEMIDJI, MINN., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1919 CAPTAIN GEIB GREETS FORMER BEMIDJI FRIENDS PERSHING IS "CAPPED" AT OXFORD "Marshal Joffre"'and General Pershing, followed Sir louJi' ll.tu: .ind Admiral Beafty In cap and gown, Walking M procession utter being "capped" for the honorary degree of doctor of laws at Oxford university, England. WEEKLY LUNCHEON BY BEMIDJI ASSOCIATION WILL BEOF INTEREST Several Matters of Importance Coining Up Community Market. Is Topic. The weekly noon day luncheon, to be held tomorrow by the Bemidji as sociation, has much of interest for all who attend. The menu will in clude roast beef, potatoes, vegetables, blueberry pie, ice cream, coffee and tea. E. H. Winter will tell of the cam paign for the shipping of sheep and cattle to Minnesota pasturage from western Montana, and F. S. Lycan will tell of Jefferson Highway plans. The community market project will also be brought up and discussed, and the membership campaign will be broached. -s It is the intention to have a big meeting of farmers and Bemidji busi ness men the afternoon of July 30, for the purpose of discussing plans for the establishment of the com munity market. At that time the principal speaker will be W. G. Braden of Adrian, Mich., organizer of the Adrian municipal market one of the most successful. He is ah or ganizer and will give the meeting his experiences and ideas. F. B. Mann, president of the fed erated commercial associations of North Dakota, will also be among the distinguished guests, and an effort will be made to secure A. D. Wilson of the University of Minnesota for that day. At the luncheon tomorrow Earl and Claud Bailey and James Klung ness, all just returned from overseas, will be guests and give talks upon their experiences. Captain George Geib, former Be midji resident when the war broke out, was greeting friends today, he having come to Bemidji for a brief visit after his retur from overseas. For a year he was on the battle lines of France and took part in the ter rible fighting. Captain Geib has lo cated in Des Moines, the home of his former engineering partner, Lieut. Roy Leibsle, who also left Bemidji and served in the military. Both will locate in Des Moines. Geib had a wonderful career in the military. He graduated from the officers school at Fort Snelling, after long experience with military affairs, being a bravet captain in the Illinois National guard. He was, on account of his age, granted a first lieutenant's commission. When he reached Camp Dodge he was immediately promoted to a captaincy, and given an import ant assignment. Then it was he shot himself in a leg while at revolver practice, and afterwards broke the injured member when a motorcycle be was riding slipped on a wet pave ment. Then he was sent overseas when able to navigate properly. He says Bemidji looks good to him, but his future in Des Moines will be spent in a wider field. HEAD OF FEDERAL RESERVE BANK R7-SIGNS POSITION (By United Press.) Minneapolis, July 15.Theodore Wold, head of the federal reserve bank of the Ninth district, has re signed to accept the position of vice president of the Northwestern Na tional bank. TRADE WITH GERMANY WAS RESUMED TODAY ('By United Press.) Washington, July 15.Practically unrestricted trade with Germany was begun today. Dyestuffs. rbemlals and potash are b*tt4. SJOPMENT RATES CONSIDERED. (By United Press.). Sk Paul, July 15.Revision of rates on car shipments from sta tions in Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa to stations in Alberta, Can.,- and Saskatchewan were to be considered today by the St. Paul dis trict freight traffic committee of the United States railroad administra tion. The stucco and lime shipments from points in Iowa and Kansas to siations in Manitoba. PERSHING GREETED IN LONDON: HUGE CROWD (By United Press.) Loddon, July 15.General Persh ing qjnd his staff arrived here from Dover at 12:48 this afternoon. Dense crowds blocked the Victoria station when his special train arrived. A guardjj.ef honor of Welsh guards and, high "British officers greeted the Americans. Pershing stood at attention in the door of his railroad carriage when the band played the Star Spangled Banner. Crowds cheered as Persh ing passed through London street to the Carlton hotel. At Dover, when the Americans ar rived on a destroyer, the first vocif erous welcome was staged. TENNIS TOURNEY WILL START SUNDAY: DOUBLES AND SINGLES The Bemidji Tennis club will start a tennis tourney next Sunday morn ing, classes being A and B, the lat ter for beginners. The tourney will be played on the courts of the as sociation near the Normal, and will be for doubles and singles. New mem bers of the association will be ad mitted for a fee of $4 instead of the usual $5 as the season is advanced. Entries for the tourney should be made to Bert Barker, at Barker's drug store, before July 18. UNFOUNDED REPORT. In some mysterious manner a re port came to The Pioneer to the ef fect that two Nymore boys had tak en to a boat on Lake Bemidji and had failed to return. Diligent inquiry at official sources failed to elicit any foundation for the rumor. BOY SLAYER IS SENT TO REDWING SCHOOL: SHOWS LITTLE EMOTION Gruesome Details of Tragedy Brought Out Hearing in Probate Court. Master Uno Niskanan, the eight year-old slayer of his boyhood chum, Torval Reuna in Ten Lakes town ship, adjoining the town of Frohn. was committed by Probate Judge Harris to the state training school at Red Wing until he is 21 years old, or until paroled. The hearing was held Monday afternoon. The lad faced the ordeal without a sign of emotion, only once he start ed to cry. He didn't seem to realize the enormity of his crime, nor what his punishment was to be. He ad mitted that he shot his young com panion in the bedroom of his own home. The wounded boy walked from the house and fell after going about 75 feet with the bullet in his head. The slayer then dragged him through a potato patch and through a fence and put the unconscious boy in a brush pile. The crime was com mitted between 9 and 10 o'clock in the forenoon and about 6 o'clock the victim of the bullet died. A feature of the hearing was the presence of both fathers of the prin cipals. They have been friends and still appeared on the best of terms, despite the awful tragedy which bad befallen tbro IJ- -r-f- DAILY PIONEE f'V.', "V CABINFT is MEETING .x\ sodet FORMER ST. CECELIA MUSIC STUDIO INSTRUCTOR ARRIVES Former pupils of and those expect ing to attend the St. Cecelia studio at St. Anthony's hospital will be pleased to learn that the former instructor will again be associated with the school, having arrived this noon, to lake up her duties. MIDYEAR CONFERENCE OF METHODIST CHURCH OPENS (By United Press.) Devils Lake, N. D., July 15.The mid-year conference of the Metho dist church at the chautauqua Prounds here is expected to develop into the largest religious gathering ever held in the state. The meeting will last six days and not only will clergymen be present but laymen as well, who are expected to bring (heir families for an outing at the Inke. PRESIDENT TO VISIT ST. PAUL. TALK LEAGUE St. Paul, July 15.President Wil son will visit St. Paul and make a public address on his tour of the country which, it is expected, will be made late this month or early in Au gust. An invitation from the St. Paul Association to be the guest of St. Paul has been accepted, according to message from Secretary Joseph Tumulty received iby Secretary E. M. .McMahon. Plans are being made for an open meeting at the Auditorium, probably on the evening of the day President Wilson arrives. State and municipal officials will co-operate in^irranging the meeting and reception of the president. St. Paul democrats also will make special plans to welcome the presi dent and it is expected that thou sands of northwest citizens will come to St. Paul to see and hear President Wilson. FRANCE FORGETS THE WAR: HOLDS MAMMOTH CELEBRATION (By United Press.) Paris, July 15.Paris forgot war yesterday when she wildly celebrat ed victory in a mammoth demonstra tion. Allied war leaders, including Ceneral Pershing led thousands of war heroes in the all-nations' parade. NEW SON ARRIVES. A son has arrived in the family cf Mr. and Mrs. Chris Neuman. The pmall yan made his debut at St. An thony's hospital. MINNESOTA TIED TO HIGHEST PHONE RATES (By United Press.) fit. Paul, July 15.Minnesota is tied to the highest telephone rates inaugurated until October 1, at least. The state railroad and warehouse commission is powerless to act for three months, because the federal law extends government control rates for that period, it is said. The commissioners arc receiving .protests daily because of the in creased rates. Whether the rates will be reduced after jurisdiction is re stored to the state depends upon the promised investigation, which may last any where from 30 to 90 days. Thus, if the commission sees fit to reduce the rates the reduction prob ably could not be affected before No vember or December. ATKcCALL OF WILSON MANYPROBLEIuSARE UP FOR DISCUSSION (By United Press) Washington, July 15.President Wilson today called a meeting of his cabinet for this afternoon. Attorney General Palmer was to see his chief in advance of the general meeting and may talk about the prohibition situ- ation when the cabinet meets. The department heads are extremely anxious to bring his attention to many problems that have become acute during his absence in Europe. The policy to follow with regard the government owned homes built during the war in several cities was to be decided It is thought possible that their sale to individuals will be auth- orized by the president. The situation in Mexico is causing concern. Another policy, which may soon be determined, is to what extent federal government will participate in the reconstruc- tion of Europe. Secretary of Labor Wilson is expected to discuss the call- ing of an industrial congress to frame policies on strikes and lockouts. "^og FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH PERSHING AND STAFF PREPARE TO RETURN TO UNITED STATES Much of Commanders' Work Has Already Been Trans feree to General Allen. Washington, July 15.Prepara- tions for the early return of Gen urul Pershing and his personal staff from Fiance is Indicated, army of ficials said in frecint dispatches from abroad. PERSHING QUITS CHAUMONT. Chaumont, France, July 16. Chaumont, for two years the center of the activities of the American ex peditionary force, has passed to his tory us American general headquar ters with the departure of General Pershing and his staff for the new headquarters in Paris. The populace bad been apprised of the departure of the American com mander-in-chief through the old method of beating drums and the reading of a proclamation from the mayor by the torn crier. Men. wom en and chlldr# attsfRpted to shake General Pershnfa by*the lan aa be left the city ha|l. fham who were unable to reaclj him shook hands with Major General Harbord, the chief of staff, and other staff officers. WEALTHY BUYING LANDS. (By United Press.) Winnipeg, July 15.Lord Rodney, descendent of one of the most famous admirals of the eighteenth century, is going in for farming. Lady Rod ney is accompanying him on a tour of western Canada with the object of securing farm lands. Since the war, farming has become a popular hobby with wealthy and noble Englanders. VOCATIONAL TRAINING. (By United Press.) St. Paul, July 15.A two weeks intensive professional training course for tenohers of vocational ag riculture will begin next Monday at the University farm, St. Paul. En trants will be required to register Monday morning and classes will begin immediately in the afternoon. VISITORS FROM OREGON. Mrs. Charles Rederstrom and three children of Bend, Ore., are guests at the Gaines home in Bemidji. Before coming to this city they visited in Minneapolis and Brainerd, having been absent from home for about two months. Mr. Sederstrom is machin ist for the Shevlin-Carpenter com pany. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HAVE ACTIVE SESSION The Beltrami county board of county commissioners is holding its semi-annual sessions at.the court house, but thus far little actual busi ness has been accomplished the greater part of the day being'spent In discussing a bill for road improve ment, not authorized by board action, so it was said. However, the work, so it is asserted, was authorized by a board member. Filling of sink holes in roads is also to claim at tention, and it is expected that the sessions will occupy a full week. On July 25 a meeting will be held for the (purpose of opening bids for the sale of $250,000 road bonds, and it Is expected there will be no dif ficulty in disposing of them, for they., bear 5 per cent interest, and with out the reservation the firs* $100,- uort sold, $