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The Piow it th oaiy daily
within 100 miles of Bentdjl and
tola th "Unret circulation la
Northern. Mmnetiwu.
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Statistician Peclares America
Is Only A&oirt rlalf Way to
Prosperity at Present
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DISCUSSES PRICES AND
SALES FDktolWteO YEAR
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Says BusinewlEarninsrs Should
Average Somewhat Better
TKan in Year Passed
Welleslcy Hflfei Mass.. Dec 30
"What's going tp happen in 1923?"
That question is uppermost in the
minds /of X,000,000 American bus
inessmen and investors, Who are fae
ing the1
problem of making plans for
the New Year-
Signs are not clear and the usual
barometers seem to contradict one
another.
In the face of this general con
fusion wfe had best fall back on the
facts and" figures. (After
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a thorough
study of the, fundamental ondi_
tions that govern our market, Roger
W. Babson today issued a statement
whcihaclears the air and furnishes
a basis of fact for your plans.
"We are not* at a Tioint in the
business cycle," says Mr. Babson,
"where you can get almost as many
different opinions as there are bus
mess men, Jjfome are very bullish,
for the coming year, and others can
not see much hope for business. The
reason for such a situation is that
we are at present neither at the top
of a boom nor at the depth of a de
pression. If, we were at either i
these extreim^lftett' -would fc no
TjaeSttott~6t'3^%^^ fc mov
it is, w,e^are J**?* Jptt
way between iftifaZ
"During We past year ^United
Staies business has steadily ad
vanced until the average for the
"whole country is "what we usually
call "normal" business. Having ad
vanced thus far, shall we immediate
ly continue into a great prosperity
period or shall we go into another
period of depression and poor bus
iness as some predict?
i Dealing With
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"If you wilt only remember^the
five years preceding 1921 and re
call what an enormous orgy of ex
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AUTHORITIES
HUNT FOR BOMB
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Marshfield, Wis., Dec 30Mem-
bers of the county board of Wood
county expected lo meet here today
in special session believed to be for
the purpose of appropriating funds
with which to carry out the work
of ferretingl out thfcse responsible
for the sending pf the bomb which
exploded and killed Mrs. James R
Chapman and seriously wounded her"
husband.
County officials,v
local police au-
thorities, postal ihspectors -and others
are all working on the case Private
detectives arrived late last night to
take part in the investigation, ac
cording to District AttorneyjCalk
ins. The investigation so far into
the crime has brought about several
new clues and circumstantial evi
dence is pointing strongly toward a
suspect whom they expect to take
into custody within a short time.
BRITISH WOMAN AND MAN,
DEATH PLOTTERS,T0
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London, Dec. 30Mrs. Edith
Thompson and Frederick Edward By
waters will be hanged simultaneously
at 9:00 Tuesday morning, January
th, for the murder of the woman's
husband, the Daily Mail announced
today. The Home Secretary has de
cided to refuse the petitions for
clemency, the Mail declared it learn
from official sources.
Mrs. Thompson exptects to become
a mother early in the new year- She
will be the first British woman to
be' hanged in fifteen years. Bywat
er's appeal wag accompanied by pe
titions so large that two motor trucks
were required, tb carry them to the
Home Office. They contained more
than a million narites.
Thompson, for whose murder the
couple are to be hanged, was found
'dying Hie arm* of his wife, Oct
ober 4th. In a sensational trial, it
developed that the couple had plotted
hig death.
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Coue Cheera V& Cripples
Department of Commerce and
Federal Reserve Board Seef'
Business Prosperity
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Washington, Dec. -30With, an
optimism based on a year of* virile^
lndu^er%*^and, jjaw%antc^ajphieyei
mentSra|he FederaJ'Besetst&^Foaird:
and the Department of Commerce
in a year-end analysis and forecast
of the nation's "business hare united
in predicting-gieater prosperity for
the^merican businessjttan in 1923.
Despite unsettled economic con
ditions abroad and difficulties in
lAny domestic industries, both
goyernmenragencies see for Ameri-
c| bysitijj^ss a te*ady upward swing.
iTHe federal gaVemnjfjnt -.with a-de
duction ot.thev total, interest-bear
ing" of the c6mfi&fil $66^000,000
ah the twelve mrfnins ending Decem
ber 11th, blazed''the way towaftl the
economic structure,
i The department of commerce
ported basic industries
Market is Now Featured by
^Unseasonal Strength New
Year Promises Much
The holiday week is always dull
in the lumber trade, and this week
is no exception. Demand, howevor,
remained remarkably strong up tc
the very eve of Christmas and is
expected to reassert itself even more
strongly immediately after the new
year- Prospects were never better
for a heavy volume of business, and
the lumber industry is keenly opti
mistic. The market is featured by
unsseasonal strength as the year clos
es. Retailers' stocks on the whole,
are very low, due to the unusually
good business that they havft enjoy
ed for some time and their hesitancy
in buying before inventories for fill
ing-in purposes. The building out
look being excellent in nearly all
cities and large towns, the yards will
soon have to come forward with re
quirements that will aggregate enor
mous .quantifies.
The agricultural situation has im
proved notably of late, and the ex
pectation is that faimers, after sev
eral years of relative inactivity in
such work, will next year undertake
extensive building construction and
repairs, which probably will be car
ried on at a pace -calculated to make
tip much of the time lost. Country
yards, therefore, are also preparing
for a bigger year than usual An
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Jaw,increas
ing contrary to the general' rule at
this time of the year
active this year
s^eel products increased from 60 "Jer
cefnt to 70 per cent. Petroleum 15
per cent eoke 40 per cent paper 20
to 30 per cent rubber 40 per cent
automobiles, 50 per cent leather,
25 per cent sugar, 40 per centj
building construction, 50 per cent
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Emlle Cot. the mental Healar who Is tovutt America In Ja&uary.
preached good cheer to crippled childrenat the Hermitage Craft School
2nd Home forCrfpples at Sussex durtor'ft tour ot angiand.
NORTH ATLANTIC STORM
IS SWEEPING SOUTHWARD
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'Bordeaux, prance, Dec. 30Ter-
rific storms of sleet and snow that
have been playing havoc with ship
ping in the North Atlantic ocean all
,wek have been swept southward by
a hundred-mile gale and today were
causing damage along the lower
coast of Franc*
The Lufetfa^ a 1400-ton French
liner, was driven into She, mouth of
Giwmd rv%f"ttnable^l- proceed
dn ^.Vipyajge .southward. _____
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TO HOLD CHEST CLINIC
IN BEMIDJI NEXT WEEK
Plans have beeh completed to hold
another cliest clinic, Friday, January
5, in th offices of Drs. Garlock &
Garlock. Dr. E. L. Laney or Lake
Julia sanatorium will be charge,
assisted by Miss Beth MacGregtor,
Red Cross community nurse.
.These clinics have been very suc-jiate
The ne,ed'ofmvin another was- so urgent
that it Was decided to hold one be
fore the resignation of Miss Mac-
Grego*5'takes effect, which will be
V4thjn a' Short time. Any person
year. i 'Wwhin & Snore UUK. -n-j F-*-""-
Textile mills are 20 per cent i$ore ^ymftg the least symptoms of lung
than last. Iron ^ndtJ^-JKii ar
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lumber 35 per cent brick 50 per
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LUMBER MARKET REPORT
SHOWS FINE PROSPECTS
BEMIDJ I D4ILY PIONEE
BEMIDJI, MINN., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 0, 19 22
.Thes clinics have oee very sue i '-jj&r
cesiful and much good has resulted.'with the consequent weato^ of
cesanJi ana transportation facilities wlWfcpart
to make appomt-
nterttfc e'arfey sr that they may be car
ed for at%is titite.
REVOLUTIONIZE
NAVvWARFARE
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.on of Recoil Said
.iave Solved Problems of
Light Ships, Heavy Guns
FRENCH GOVERNMENT*
EXPERTS STUDY PLAN
Utilization Would Practically
Nullify Effects of Pacts
Made at Washington
By John O'Brien
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris, Dec. 30 (United Press)
More powerful than the Big Bertha
which shelled Paris from a distance
of sixty miles and capable of being
used aboard warships built only for
13 1-2 inch guns, a new weapon
which, it is believed, will revolution
ize the use of artillery in naval war
fare, is being studied by the French
government experts. iv
One of the astounding features of
the invention, due to the labors of
two French scientists, is that it elim
inates the recoil shock of the biggest
guns.
Utilization of the newly discov
ered principle in the artnament of
naval units would practically nullify
the effects of the limitations imposed
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BIG STRIKES MARKED
NATION IN PAST YEAR
Coal Strike is Most Important
Since Effects Were Felt
by Entire Nation
New York, Dec" 30 (United Press)
The outstanding purely domestic
feature of lOgS in tbis country were
the coal and rail strikes. Of these
the coal strike was the more import
ant, as it was and is acutely felt by
practically the whole country
Thousands of people are now suf
fering from the lapk of fuel, and,
according to authorities, no immed
relief is in sight. The railMrlke,
transportation facilities
responsible for the present cOjal COn
dition. *_%'
After numeious negotiations" had
failed th miners suspended opera
tions on April 1. They demanded
a raise in wages and the operators
threatened a cut'. The strike affect
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MOOSE ARE PLANW
ON BIG TIME SUNDAY
Although the numbers on the pro
gram for the big annual New Year's
Eve celebration of the Bemidji
Moose have been kept set-ict by the
comniittee in charge, the members
of the committee piomSse to keep
their guests enteituinyd Sunday
evening from 7:30 to "Happy New
'Year" time-and then sdme.
Nearly 500 invitations or notices,
have, beep sent out for the party. All
members of the Loyal Order of
Moose, the Women of the^ Moose
heart Legion apd the Jvjnior Order
of Moose, and their ladlj^are invit
ed. i
Moose members ar&l!so remind
ed that the first busme^sv meeting
of the" lodge for 1923 wili be held
next Tuesday evening.
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Diver Seeks Gang's Victims
J. D. Rooney, federal agent, at left, supervising the Bearch of divert
In Lake LaFourche, La,, aw the. bodies o P. W. Daniels and T. F.
Richards. The men disappeared following their kidnaping by a hooded
eang, and later their bogles* were wrought to the smiueo of the lake by
a dynamite Wast. Right *s Tod Davenport, one of the men kidnaper:
with Daniels and Richards*and then released.
COllNTYBOARDTOffE N \WmCV AIAMC
ANNUA MEE TUESDA riumtL flLUE
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Beltrami county commusbioneib
are to meet annual sessiorn at the
court house Tuesday and a vfcry busy
meeting is apparently in sjtore for
the board. Appointment oi.a chair
man ,and vice-chaiiraan of the board
and selection of county employees
will be among the first maUtei-h to4 be
taken up
Friday forenoon at 10 o'clock a
hearing will be started for redis
ricting Beltrami county as the re
sult of county division., However,
it is not expected that any definite
action on the project wilLbe taken at
this session* i
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APPOSES PLAN
Great Britain, Germany a nd
Other Nations in Favor of
U. S. Intervention
Washington, Dec. 30 (By A. L.
Bradford. Copyughted 1022 by the
United Press )France alone
withholding acceptance of American
interventionyin FJurope. Gieat Brit
ain, ^Germany and some other oatioftg,
*,-Concerned, it was learned from a
high official today, ulieady have for
mally indicated their willingness to
accept the American proposal for an
international commission of business
men and financial experts to rec
commend a just and practical re
vision of the German reparations.
The United States would be lep
resented on the commission, accord
ing to the American plan for taking
Europe out of its piesent economic
chaos, made by President Harding
and announced by Secretary of State
Hughes in an address at New Haven
lasy night to force a show-down as
to whether the United States can aid
Europe.
France has not icjected the pro
withholding its attitude regarding it.
posal but for some time has been
Tired of waiting for the facts, this
government started to foice the issue
by .making the proposal public Ac
cording to administration officials, It
was learned that negotiations on the
pioposal have been earned on for
nearly two months.
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BRINGS PLEASURE
TO NORTH WOODSMEN
Lumberjacks in Wisconsin and
Upper Michigan Now Enjoy
Evening Entertainment
out tales of then comiades, th^lum
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Minocqua, Wise, Dec 30-Long
dreary evenings in the lumber camps
of northern Wisconsin and the up
per Peninsula of Michigan are things
of the past.
A new day has dawned for the
lumberjacksat least those employ
j In seveial camps hear and Mai
Maiquette, Michigan
JSfo longer will the "jacks" after a
hard day of labor have to sit on the
edge of his bunk and "cus-," about
tlie drearyness and lonsomeness of
the idle hours in the camp.
Many lumber companies have de
cided to chasp away those blues and and students of
fill those idle hours with something school at the new Moose hall Friday
while. In many of the camps evening
this is being brought out by the in- Miss Josephine Parker, retiiin.g
wai elected vice-presi
Koors succeeds Miss
stallation of- radio receiving apparat- secretaiy
us.
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WEATHER
Minnesota: Snow tonight an in
northeast portions Sunday. Cold
er tonight and in Easl portion
Sunday.
PRICE 3
AMERICA'S PL
GIVENOFFICIAL
ANNOUNCEHENT
Outstanding Feature fs Body
of Experts Representing
Principal Governments
EUROPE GIVES MIXED
REPORT TO PROPOSAL
France Objects, at Once But
Britain and Germany are
In Favor of Move
(By Halted Pran)
Washington, Dec. 30The
administration's plan for deal
ing with the world economic
crisis will be bitterly fought in
congress. The plan will be crit
icised in a way calculated to
arouse public opinion against it.
(By United Preaa)
New Haven, Dec. 30The long
looked for American plan for. utter?
vention in Europe's financial crisis
has been officially revealed by Sec
retaiy of State Hughes in an aJ
dreas here last night. It's outstand
ing feature is a commission of
iness men and experta iepr"-ont"
the principal European gtmun
ments and the United SUt'-- wh
will make an exhausted study of the
leparations problem.
This commission would endeavor
to take the matter out of politics and
recommend a revised repaiations
figure up to the limit of Germany's
ability to pay. This recommenda
tion would be submitted to the re
spective governments for approval
Outstanding business men^aiid fi
nancial experts would be selected for
tHe commission in hope that the
peoples and governments of the
world would favor acceptance of
their findings.
The administration would be will
ing to ask congress for an ensiei
funding for the eleven billion cLd
lars allied debt to the United State*.
With the Euiopean economic
structure lestored through this plan
this government would give its ap
proval to a loan by private interest!
to Germany.
(By Unlt*d Press)
Euiope gave a mixed report to
Secretary of State Hughes' proposal
for an mtei national committee to
consider reparations, according to
exclusixe United Press dispatches
Great Britain welcomed the pl.ui,
government circles received it warm
ly the press enthusiastically. It in
dicated Bonar Law will adopt it if
the tariff conference of the allied
piemieis again fails.
France objected at once to Hughes
proposal. Semi-official word sent
out from the Quay D'Orsay was thai
it wouldn't work that the funding
tioublc with the repaiations was that
Germany wouldn't pay them that it
was unfaii to Fiance who was most
interested the proposals that the
commission will consider.
Germany, while welcoming the
pioposal, was busy with a reparations
plan of her own which she will offer
to the allied premiers next Tues
day. Tlie C'uno government offers
to pay foitv billion gold marks pio
vided the allies or anyone else will
loan them twenty billion.
TOMMY SIMONS NAMED
PRFSIDEKT OF ALUMNI
Tommy Simons was elected presi
dent of the Bemidji High School
Alumni Association to succeed Hal
Ian Huffman at a meeting and
anting paity held by the alumni
the Bemidji high
dent John
--One outfit has been set up at the Parkei as secretary and Harold
headquarters camp at Vail Spur, near Morse was elected treasurer to sue
Marquette, Mich with Raymond Tyr coed Fred
as operator.
Every evening instead of sitting
on their bunks, listening to the worn teflfyS. Music for dancing was
furbished by the Cook orchestra of
berjacks are thrilled by the exper- three pieces
ience of listening to concert* and to The Alumni association has betm
speeches given in far off places, i called for a meeting to be held Suh-
In additional the ladio is educational day4 aft"i noon at 4 o'clock in the
as it keeps the woodsmen informpd jroonjs of the Civic and Commerce
of what is going on the oos Jet association, the mectiig being called
world. i bv the new president. The object
The companies have decutccMl the meeting is to make arrange-
itrc. ohi'l I"1
Graham. Th election
was held neai the close of the danc
ng party, which was quite well at-
-ti'Tnient entetya n- ments for future activities on the
part of the association,
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