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witht a loFiSfr vt%BiHm' UU tha Uigeit eirculatioa is Northern Minnesota, U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Admits that Biggest Fight Qf All is Coming N Iff Dishonest Dry Agents Called Big Obstacle to Proper Enforcement of Law "ml (By James T. fcolbert) (UniMkl Prea Staff Correspondent) CHAPTE* I Washington* Dee. 13.America BtU) is unconverted to absolute pro hibition. Four years of Jegal prohibition have failed to dry up the American thirst. .V Dry leaders here who are federal prohibition Enforcement agents ad admit if privately. Wet adherents proclaim it trium- phantly-^^uiji publicly. Drys,' however, profess to seef steady progress toward the goal des cribed by Roy*! Raynes, federal prohibition coinmissioner, as the "changed moral and psychological vie^biiit^-t'iV' "$fcts Insist that the reaction ag ainst prohibition now is in full swing. v.fioth indes haye vast arrays, of sta. tistics *b support their -contentions. Thieiy haVe analyzed the results of the last congressional elections to suit their differing-viewpoint. The Association against the Pro- hibitionAmendment, the most pow erful single wet organization, holds thatthedefeat of a huntber of dry congressmen, with the corresponding a^ o* ^pftpalters/ arid the deri eidedly we$1|^#pouhcements of .btr ers in states *nere,the issue was #ut &fcl^t:f& Return f6 the pre-pro- l^h^dajw.'^^r *5Sft..3-^ -p iWk tnk prthe^nandifte drys jSrlue iS| their continued fcpntrol of cdn ress is sufficient (evidence of the /u feelings^ n*ynes," Thowevefraiimits h"tat the llg^hi still is ahead. Prohibition r{(Conttaued:onPage8.): .i NEW OFFICERS ELECTS) BY LEdON AUXILIARY pjiection of offoer&dnd, plans for qfefistmas work occupied the bulk of SlfesessKn of ithe American Legion Auxiliary of 1JieRalp Gracie post held in the roonts of the Civic and Commerce association Tuesday even ing Mrs. R. Lycahwas elected president ensuing year to succeed!Mrs/- C. wftiley, Miss tedith JSiasgbl^f was ejected ,vic presldent Mrs, Earl Thurber, treSk Hareir and Mrs.'^F. tireunig, Mrs.,A.: White and Mrs J, Winter^to the e^utive^comiilittee The -sec-, retafyH to be app^Wted.: Plihtts" for brin^tig Christmas bleajyjresLak'the to |l|ielrt6 bjift :$?' -*.#ve "*3 ex-serviceth VOLUME XX. NO. 201 :tf'i$?&S> be inadeto the few days* MURDER AND BRIBERY IN WET AND DRY WAR Fourteenth Annual Meeting of Governors Opens Three-Day Conference Tomorrow men cqu- Julia ]&ifa Walker Aftria^'rWms were aiscussed ahd ^he, Iftnii is tb assist as much as possible, in addition to local welfare work, following the business meeting,, a fkfidh was served. The meeting, %h1ch ha^ been pos^ioned fronr a free* agp Monday evening, quite %eH attended. "Washihgton Dec. 13. 'There se4ii to be o occasion for action at the^ pjresent time", Secretary of Wallace declared in a PI Md ndt presen Sf^-"i.TSi1'*rf!rS: Z?J~1"K fm^W^^^^ %((i-~ W to a^dr ^raS^ ,able expe-^- rv ieftate within GOVERNORS MAY ASK FOR BLANKET COMBINE R1GOT White Sulphur Springs, W- Va,, Dec, 13 (United Press).A movet ment to obtain blanket figfitV i$? states to elect "combinations" an. enter into agreements for concerted action on certain industrial and eco action on ^ru mauspa an a .rtomic problems probab will be got nnder way at (the fourteenth annual conference of State governors and igovernors-elect meeting here for 3 days starting tomorrow, according to Miles C. Riley, secretary of the con ference. A Federal constitution now pro hibits the commonwealths from en tering into agreements "except by permission of Congress." Granting O this required ^permission some times delays imperative action by the states for an uncomfortable per iod, Riley said. The governors tentative proposal is to interpret the wording of the law inversely so as to follow Con gress to pass legislation allowing states to effect combinations on cer rtain general types of problems,'and (Continued on Page 8) BONDSARESUGGESTED TO SPREAD ROAD COSTS State Highway Commissioner ji(^ts:^^^'-^l#t ,EaK. !-.,J&ar J?ay Its Portion Highway-bond dpsues/ alone will allow the state to apportion to each yfear. .its proportionate cost of hridges, grading and other perma* nent road improvements, Charles M Babcock, state highway commis sioner, asserted in a recent address. Otherwise, he said, present highway users must pay the full cost of hteir own and future users' road improve ments Bonds authorized, he added, a fair share of the cost of lasting ibettenments. Many of Which will serve for all time, may ibe justly passed on to future generations. "Minnesota is "using nearly half its .current trunk construction funds to buy rignt^f-way and for grad ingi tiling andi .other permanent workthe rpermanent foundations of the/^iigWway system," said Mr. (Continued on Page 2) Disclosures in Yesterday's Raid on Dope Ring May .Give Needed Light _' r. 'li.''"'." i ^IKI Gou,o^ihsyo^ris & .^J Itefests. "M^^SSiti^ Ii6b/T^h it' '''\'1-' Los Angeles, Dec. 13Investiga tion of the baffling .Win. Desmond, Taylor* murder case may bfe re-openr ed in connection .with a raid on the headquarters of alleged nation-wide ddpe ring in New York yesterday, authorities said today. Officers -stall attempting to solve teh crime are persistent.in their be litif that Taylor, prominent moving picture director, .was slain by per-, sons from a dope ring because he ^^2 sought to stop thrin from selling nar, 0 statent^ttt said p^in^ll^sters. il'he ^lew York raV* disclosed thatj thnA ring ha ramiifeatipns in HoM! ftpnrHd ,_ amerg- a| a !ds ft':.1fie/l9avltedge'-bt ie"WCpia|ife tfe came to me v.?, largely 3 to the Vbltf^of business of Armour & (3#., and thus effect large econo mies in the administration of that business.''' Tbe secretary held that the propos trt" nork* ^^?7 5ere among the doige purchasers,J A ^ortasfromi tfeJ ood, according to report fron ifew police and federal officials berei who said they confirmedethe report $ aiming they have 'th names pf,. ^ght pronSinlnt nxovle, sfars ,whoI MASONS VISIT WAILKER LODGE TONIGHT v. r-~r Between 20 and 30 members of al did, not Violate the packer control the IJemidji lodge of A. P. & A. M. law^whlbh was reuglatory in nature -X Boston, Dec. 3,8The steamship, Manchester Spinner, is night ._ --r ashore oh Long Island pounding in the recent visit of Walker here. The the heavy seaB, according to an S. 0. left late this afternoon on an extra freight ov6r the M. & I. for Walker British ot attend a meeting of the lodge to This visit is in return fo Walker' lodge is conferring third de- S. intercepted here early today. giee work on a large class tonight. 1 Wkkersham and Gompers are Listed as Star Witnesses in Daugherty Hearing GOMPERS ADMITS fHHAT LABOR IS BEHIND MOVE Judiciary Committee Charged Stifling Evidence :i '.in'''Secret Hearing" fi5* (By United Presn) Washington, Dec. 13-^Hearing in 'the Datigherty impeachment pro- a "resumed today with Attorne General Wicker- former Attornev Genera Wicke sham and President Samuel Gompers of thfe American Federation of Labor scheduled as star witnesses. Wickersham is the trump card of Refresentative Keller of Minnesota, author' of the impeachment resolu-. tion, who Charges that in the person of William J. Burns, chief of the Federal Bureku of Investigation, DaUgharty knowingly and wilfully appointed an unfit man to hold a po sition of trust. Wickersham's letter to former President Taft in 1912, denouncing Burns for alleged jury fixing in the Oregon Land Fraud case, was read before the House Judiciary commit tee yesterday. Today the former Attorney General asked to give per sonal testimony in the matter. Gompers is called by Representa tive Keller to testify that he called the record in the Oregon jury cae to Daugherty*s attention in 1912 and.urged him not to appoint Burns. United Press) Washington, Dec 13Frank ad miss|on that the full power of the Ainarican Federation of Lab*or has been thrown into the attempt to im- iij^cJ'^Atto^iey General Daugherty ^^TtCdfttinued on Page 2) CLEMENCEAU SAILS FOR HOME ON UNER PARIS J? (By United Press) New York, Dec. 13Georges 'Clemenceau left for home today oh the liner Paris. Just before the ship^ sailed, Clemenceau was asked for a last message ^o the people of the "United States. "Not now," he said- "I shall give you my last word when I come back.' "When will that be?" he was "When I am dead," he said. "My ghost will come back to deliver my message." Many of the people who met him when he first arrived here were there to say good-bye. Charles Dana Gib son, at whose home he stayed in New York, Bernard Baruch, ^rank M. Polk, Col. .Stephen Bonsai, Col House and Dr. Le Clercq were on haVd. i^r^ f? f^ BEMIDJI, MINN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 13, 1922 England's Political Hostesses aersars.the wjvea'flf stc'toportant~memberfl of the new BritUh^ ^government Who will preside over the important dinners to be given In London during tfie current season. Upper row,.left Cursm, IJ&SiOf the foreign secretary FIFTY CHICAGO FAMILIES FORCED FROM APPARTMENT BY EARLY MORNING FIRE (By United Press) Chicago, Dec. 13Fifty fam ines scantily clad were forced to flee from their homes in zero weather early today when fire destroyed a four^story apartment here. One jwoman, Mrs. Hulda SmitM was reported missing. The fire was discovered by a taxi-caib driver, ,rho entered the buildirtgr-and':":i-^ounde'u" J. LEWIS ISSUMMONED BEFORECOALCOMMISSION (By United Prsa) Washington, Dec. 13John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, has been sum moned to appear before the federal Fact Finding Coal Commission here tomorrow. The call to Lewis followed several days of examination by the commis sion of prominent operators from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The comfhission summoned the op erators and Lewis in an effort to bring about an agreement to avert a possible coal strike next year- Seasonable Woes Mrs lortfoFtfe admiralty, and Lady Lloyd-Graeme, wife of the president of the Board ot Trade. Below, left to right, the Duchess of Sutherland, wife Of the secretary ot the air ministry the Duchess of Devonshire, wife of the oolonial secretary, and the Marcblooess of Crsw, wife ot the new sjnbasssdor.tq Franc*,r at the apartment doors. Clad in night clothing, many tenants fled to the street, swept by biting winds in temperature near aero. Alice Calrson, 10, who was left in the building, was rescued by firemen/ The damage was es timated at $75,000. |i^ .V?,!'' PIONE E to right, Viscountess L. Amery, wife of the first HIGHWAY TOLLS WOULd BE BIG IN MINNESOTA Former Minnesotan Applies Toll Rates of Southern State to Minnnesotaa Minnesota could collect more than $5,000,000 a month by applying on its 7,000 miles of trunk ^highways the road and bridge tolls collected on a road in a certain southern state a former resident of Minnesota writes in the state trunk highwSy bulletin. "With a few friends", I recently made- an automobile trip to a town 30 miles away to see a football game and we paid $210 in road and bridge tolls," the letter reads. .Out of curi osity, I figured what the same rate of 3 1-2 cents a mile would mean on the average of 710 vehicles using the so-called Babcock roads back home. The totals of $174,950 a day or $63,491,750 a year may afford Minnesota auto tax payera something to think about and tolls here may partly explain why this state with more than $100,000,000 for roads is starting to pull itself out of the mud and abolish the tolls.'* The bulletin adds an example of how Minnesota car owners are not obliged to take generally antiquated toll schedules to figure big savings on better roads. Nearly 850,000 cars and truck3 owned in the state and averaging 5,000 miles each, it (Continued on Page 8.) :vV.:A- WM Busy Session Next Month J'-AWJSl^lU '-HSE&Z soci ALIENSURGED BYSEC.DAVIS Secretary of Labor Declares Government Must Give Big Problem Attention CALLS CITIZENSHIP OF FEDERAL CONCERN Would Have Aliens Enrolling Pay Fees to Provide for Necessary Education Washington, Dec. 13Enrollment and education of America's seven million aliens that they may be made rerdy for citizenship was proposed by Secretary of Labor Davis in his annual report just made public. The secretary declared that the gov ernment must come to know the alien must be made acquainted with the principles and aims of govern ment in the United States. Setting forth the problem of the alien with in our gates, the Secretary said: "One of the problems before the American people is the proper care and education of the approximately 7,000,000 of naturalizalble aliens in the United States-rpotential citi zens. This is one of the tasks to be accomplished by the Bureau of naturalization. I will nbt say that these standards are too low, though when we consider the great privilege we.confer when granting citizen ship they are none too high. If the present standards were strictly re quired, our difficulties, so far as they arise from foreign-born citizens, would be pretty well eliminated. The problem of eradicating the false doctrihfes of radicalism in America would be no nearer solution if we made citizens of every alien forth with the solution lies in enlighten ing the foreign born, alien and citz ien, in the privileges and duties, rights and responsibilities which at tach to citizenship, and the nature and methods of government of a republic, with emphasis upon the natural changes- which may be brot about through evolution by means of the ballot. "To put across such a program there must be methoda systematic and automatic means of bringing the alien into contact with the Govern ment in a friendly spirit of coopera (Continued on Page 8.) LAUSANNEMEET MIGHTBREAK UP Curzoh Notifies Tnrks That Kemalifts Must Recede From Opposition Lausanne, Switzerland', Dec. 13 Marquis Curzon, in behalf of the allies, toiclay notified the Turks that the Near East conference here will be abandoned unless the Kemalists recede from their opposition to' al lied demands for the protection of Christian minorities in Turkish ter ritories. Marquis Curzon said the Turks would Only be'to blame if the con ference Ibreakfe tip on the minority question. fM Turks must decide quicklyi the English foreign secre tary said, whethter to join the League of Nations br refuse its in the'TKeaf Eas settlement.assistance WEATHER ti In threatening 'abandonment of the conference, Curzon asserted he did sO with tiie full agreement of France an,d, Ittfly. Ambassador Childs had previously declared in behalf of America that Christians in the Near East must be protected as well as gies once more to the interests of the United States, have long invited him, the import' It is understood that the conference ancc of which cannot be estimated," will suspend immediately if the i an announcement by Colby sai'dy Turks do not change their attitude. This statement, combined with the fact that WMson's health has rapidly Lethbridge, AlbertaThe govern- improved of late ?nd the interest he meht herd of antelope at Foremost, manifested in the democratic victory has increased from 50 animals in is regarded as highly significant by 1918 to ISO at the present time. political leaders. nnesqta: Snow tonight Atfd', ufesday. Warner tonight and Thursday. ^^Tttls Legislature To A Mass of Bills ill mmtiim &r 3* *i More Than a Thousand Blhji Likely to be in Hopper After First Week Four Women to Occupy Seats In House for the First Time in History (By United PreM) St Paul, Dec. 13The Minnesota legislature will face amass of bills when it convenes January- 2. With unofficial committee busy framing house bills, and a limh'ber^f legislators putting together pet,, mea sures, fliey probably will be jhors than a thousand bills in the hopper by the end of the first week, $f tfie session. When the house convenes, W. It. Nolan, Minneapolis, speaker of the last two legislatures, will be reelecV ed speaker by about 80 votes, his supporters claim- It will be the sec ond time in the history of the state that cne man has served a9 speaker in three successive legislatures.' Nonpartisans are expected, to put up a candidate. It may ^be *S.- M. Iverson, of Grant county, A. B. Cole or Nels T. Moen, of Fergus F^Hs, Louis C. Spooner of Bigstone cpUttly is another possibility"' Oscar FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. OMICH TUESDAY Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at thfe Presbyterian church for Mrs. P. a. Omich, 75 years of age, who part ed away after an extended lllnefe, Sunday night at/her home, 10d Ir vine avenue south. Rev. L. P. War ford, pastor of the church officiated at the services. Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Omich had been ill for the past three months but the last few days before her death found her con dition very serious. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. G. E. Oar son and Mrs. W. N. Weber of this city, and Mrs Grace Young of Port land, Ore. Two sisters also sur vive, one living in Michigan snd the other in Denver, Colo- Dean Rog ers' of Minneapolis, a grandson, was in Bemidji for the funeral. Mr. Omich preceeded his wife in death a few years ago. S With the passing of Mrs. Oniih, Bemidji loses another pioneer resi dent, she and her husband having settled here in the early days. She has a large number of friertds .in this vicinity who with her family mourn her death. A large n^ber cf frionds gathered at the church Tuesdjty to pay their last re eets and as an expression of sympathy for the family. The, floral offer ings were beautiful. BELIEVE THAT WILSON MAY RE-ENTER New York, pec..^3- I-1 $ M7 EXPECT CONTEST FOR CONTROL OF SENATE Swifii son of Nicollet^ may be a candidate and there is a report abroad that L. J. Barnes, Duluth, would not be dis appointed if someone should nofni* nate him. After election of a speaker, the house will organize and the handing out of legislative jobs will begin,. A young army of jqbseekers 1*111 belsn the job as the speaker's gavel falls. In the senate side of the capitbU Lieut Gov. Louis L. CpUU8| ^#Hl convene! the upper htinse-ano a-^|f^t will begin between the adminism* tion and new members for control of the senate organization. -.^..v With 21 Nonportisan league and labor votes in the senate, and If other members Who have Nohpar^i4 (Continued on Page 8.) ,..i4 -*Mflft_. .,4...t. activity by Woodro^, !^|ls^ -held here today when it ^as^a^ ed the .laiw-partnership^w^0'snTwi^^' former president and.' f^jp^hfidfipS Colby," former .secretary 'at State,. ''wiU be terminated December a 1st. ''As the result of a steady gain ih his (Wjlson's) health during the laft', few months, he is turning hi* eneir- subjects which