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1 I VOLUME XVIII. NO. 280
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TO AID LOCALS
MIGAME
A Yet Fund Insufficient
ft to Send Bemidji High to
'V.... Northrop Field
CONTENDERS PREPARING
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP FRAY
Bemidji Fans Urged to Leave
Contributio ns at Pioneer
Before Tuesday
Contributions have Already been re
ceived toward a^und to send the Be
ihidji High school football team to
Minneapolis to play the champions of
the southern half of. the state, for the
state* high school championship on
Thanksgiving Day but the amqunt
pledged to date is far insufficient to
insure expenses for the team. Four
hundred dollars is the goal and this
amount is require* if Bemidji is to
battle for the state championship.
Chances are the best that Bemidji
will win if an opportunity*,is^offered
to play. The boys on the team and
the coaches have done their share in
Winning every game so far~this season
and in making an aggregation of
which this city is justly jproud. It
is now up to the 'people of Bemidji
to do their share to see that the
necessary sum is raised to send the
team to Minneapolis where the two
contenders meet on Northrop
field. Al iwilil readiness there and
the southern team is looking forward
to a real battle against a real op
ponent.
Faribault High school is to be the
contender for thrtitle and the local
boy* feel certain that they can hold
i down the school if given the chance^
^Regular practice ,is being held every
afternoon and h~e boys are being put
thru extraordinary stiff practice in
'preparation for the"crucial contest.
ContrtbtffcionsViarge and" small are
acceptable as every penny helps to
make the fund sufficient. Every en
thusiast
whogwished
to
on
seeethe
home-
town eleven to the stat title fray
ist asked to bring or send his or her
contribution to The Pioneer office
where the fund is being raised.
The following enthusiastic fans
have started the fund to send the
"boys to Minneapolis. About 400 is
needed and those desiring to help
may do so pyJeaving their contribu
tions at the Pioneer office.
*.Martin Dunn $10.00
Charles Warfield 10.00
Bemidji Pioneer 10.00
Harding^Whaley Co. 10.00
Qulncy Bropks 10.00
Ray Hanhah 2.00
Boardman*s Drug Store 10.00
A. B. Palmer 5.00
Earle (Barker 10.00
Dick Melville 2.00
Mrs. Sanborn 5.00
Judge C. W. Stanton 5.00
Contributed 2.00
Miss Mabel Brooks 1.00
Any sum from 25 cents to $.25.00
is most cheerfully received.
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NINE BURNED TO DEATH
IN NEW YORK TENEMENT
Residents Forced to Take
Flight From Building
in Plight Clothes
New York, Nov. 20Nine persons
were killed in a" fire which swept a
tenement house in Harlem. The re
gains will.be searched for many bod
ies. The charren" remains of three,
children are among those carried
from the building. Most of the re
gains have been identified. The
abuse had 1Q0 tenements.
.?h. fgw drak7A..ereflan
The fire was discovered on the first
Bpor and spread so quickly that
Harry Sturkers, who sen? in the
alarm, foupd his escape by the front
:door blocked by a wall of fames.
climbed out of a ground floor
window.
The roaring fire was soon spread
ing iip the stairway and crackling
throughout the structure from base
ment to roof. Tejrrified men, women
and children, in night clothing, hungjt
ftom the windows screaming with
fright. The flames loomed up behind
them an3 many fell down the fire
escapes, while otherss were unable to,
_,, otnpr
wer
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FRUIT SHEDS DAMAGED
AT NEW ORLEANS TODAY
V.
Damage by Fire Is Estimated
at Two Million Debars,
Say* Report
(By United Press.)
New Orleans, Nov. 20. Damage
estimated at $2,000,000 was sustained
by the Cyamel Fruit and Steamship
company, when fire believed to be
caused by sparks from an engine
spread throughout the total extent of
the sheds on the river front here to
day.
The breeze fanned the flames and
they spread with great rapidity, and
it was with difficulty that the steam
ships Truxillo and Poncelot Were
moved out into the river to safety.
A gasoline tank on the Poncelot ex
ploded but no further damage was
reported.
PRE-WAR PRICES MAKE
APPEARANCE ON MARKET
Chicago, Nov .20.Pre-war prices
made thqir first appearance yesterday
in the grain market., Corn and'oats
were sacrificed wholesale in the trad
ing pits until both cereals were
squarely on an ante-bellum basis
value. Transactions in wheat wer
also of great volumes, with prict
slashing in progress.
Reported unsettled general condi
tions furnished the background", and
large supplies of eedstuffs were said
to be in sight, with live stock being
rushed to marked instead of being
held on farms, according to reports.
HOSPITAL ENLARGEMENT'x'
TO ACCOMODATE 200 MORE
Washington, Nov. 20.The U. S.
Public Service is enlarging its hos
pital at Tucson, Ariz., so as to_ pro
vide for 200 more patients
UNION SERVICES TO BE
IffiLD THANKSGIVING DAY
Uniorf" Thanksgiving services will
be* held on Thanksgiving day at 10:-
30 a. m. in the Baptist church. Rev.
G. H. Zentz, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church, will deliver the ad
dress.
Special music will be rendered by
the choir of -the Baptist church. It
has beemoustomary for some time to
"hold,"--a special Thanksgiving service
on Thanksgiving day in one of the
various churches and it is~"&xpected
that as heretofore there will be a
large attendance.
MISS LUELLA BACKUS
SURPRISED ON BIRTHDAY
Miss Lueila Backus was happily
surprised on Thursday evening, her
birthday anniversary, by a number of
h!r friends, who arrived with boxes
of dainty refreshments to spend the
evening with her. Games and/danc
ing passed a most pleasant evening,
which was closed with the serving
of a fine lunch. The members of the
party were, Miss Backus, Misses An
zonetta Kenfield, Harriet Boyce,
Alice Prather, Gladys Hoar, Blanche,
Barnell, Ruth Billadeau, Bernice
Kirk, Myrtle Kolbe and Irene Nay
lor Messrs. Gordon Smith, Mertcn
Denley, Walter Barker, Floyd Wilcox,
Calhoun' Grier, John Smith, Walter
Kloss, Paul Funk, Charles Tpnk and
Henry Jordan. i
OIL WELL IN NORMAN
DISTRICT SUCCESSFUL
Winnipeg, Nov. 20.The flr3t oil
well sunk in Fort Norman district in
the peace river valley is producing
one ^thousand gallons an hour ac
cording to Standard Oil officials*. Al
fred Patrick, who drilled the first
well, said the/company's representa
tives expected to drill wells in a dis
trict two hundred miles wide and of
unlimited length. On interests thru
out the world are interested in the
New Peace River oil fields.
DUTCH SOCIETY TO SHOW
MUSICAL ABILITY SOON
Arrangements have, oeen complet
ed by the Dutch New Netherland So
ciety for a symphony orchestra con
cert by Dutch-American musicians to
be held in the New York City College
Organ Hall on December 10.
Chairman Wv P. Kriens, with his
orchestra of seventy-five pieces, will
give a program of entirely Dutch vo
cal and instrumental music. Mr. Van
Bommel, Madame Dopper, and other
Dutch soloists will assist in the per
formance. It is to celebrate St. Nich
olas Day, which the Dutch usually
keep oiKJthe eve of December 6, but
which i3 to be postponed this year by
the society to December 10.
UNION LABOR LEADER
FOUND DEAD IN HOME
(By United Press.)
Washington, Nov.
Endows until the firemen reached one of the union labor leaders of
iSem With "scaling ladders. Others the house, was found dead in his
S r&om icfnd story windows! home here last- night, ^rom heart
^L^M*%T* SWw, was found by.his se^re
S fiSres silhouetted against tery. Gariand has served mi theHast
.ST3 ttSiW fi" vanish as the three congresses and was chairman
SSxcSe^e way and they were of the committee on mines and mm-
-jtot in this debris.
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GERMANPLAN
1SREGA
Is Admitted by Delegates That
German Attitude Furnishes
Biggest Problem
tEAGUE MAY DEPEND
va th\ thc\ ie\
lievv
sthan it
now accomodates, and for the neces
sary increase in hospital personnel.
The enlargement is necessary to ac
comodate the large increase in the
number of patients in this vicinity.
20.Representg
of PUUbur
O N ECONOMIC BASIS
Belgi an Delegate Asserts That
Hour for Disarmament Has
N qt Yet Arrived
(By United Press)
?neva, Nov. 20 (By Henry Wood.)
"$. \e question of hov the League of
ns will meet Germany's threat
regard" the clause of the treaty
2* sallies involving allocation of
cfl onieg ubder various mandates,
1 the attention of the league
(0
today.
lgh other mat tor. 5 were to
re the assembly it was pri
'mitted by -many '-delegates
nany's attitude' furnished
problem now confronting
V* and that the-assembly be-
_t necessary to devote much
time to findjug a quick solution.
llrcft'icial conversation turned to
what steps the leapue, entrusted with
the adjustnient of the threat, could
lake to compel Germany's acknowl-j t starts operation.
IdgemenT of the binding nature of
the entire pact. Whii3 none of the
delegates would consent to 'being
quoted, the impression seems general
that under present conditions the
league would have to depend sole
ly on an economic basin.
(By Undfcd Press)
Geneva, November 20. (By Henry
Wood.)''The hour for universal
disarmament has not yet arrived." M.
LaFontaine, Belgian delegate, declar
ed 'in the public se=:iion today I-a-
Fontain maintained that ,th* econ
6mis situation is the moat import
ant one confronting the world. He
insisted'on the right of the league to
rely upon the strength of the national
armies at an hour when it is depress
ed,, then it will not be at the mercy
of any one.
Delegate Eowell, of Canada, criti
cised the league council that it had
wasted time with' "secondary prob-
lems." He demanded immediate
settlement of the territoi-ial dispute
between Poland and -Lithuania.
"The council is on trial before the
world," he said. "The typhus reports
are a humiliating confession of the
failure. If members of the council
cannot make pledges for their own
nations they had better resign and
give way to others."
Howell concludeuSwith the warning
1ia unless the council is backed up
by a few well-done activities, it will
cease to hold the respect of the world:
COMPTROLLER CALLS FOR
NATIONAL BANK REPORTS
(By United Press)
Washington, Nov. 20.Thcycomp-
trol'er of currency today issue* a call
for the condition of national banks
as of Monday, November 15.
BEMIDJI, MINN., SATURPAY EVENING, NOV, 20, 1920
LOCAL FANS ASKED TO
PAY FOOTBALL EXPENSE
Dependent almost entirely
upon the local fans is-Bemidji's
chance to wiir the state high
school football championship
this year. The team is in ex
ceptionally good shape for the
battle on Thanksgiving Days, at
Northrop field, but funds must
be raised to pay the expense of
the trip if the local aggregation
ft to make a try for the title.
The Pioneer has opened aw
fund for this purpose and it is
urged that the sum of approxi
mately four hundred dollars be
raised by Tuesday morning.
Those who wish to donate that
the local boys may have a
chance for-the championship
are asked to bring their dona
tion to the office or mail it. Any
sum from 25 cents up will be
acceptable.
GENERAL BODY COMPANY
CONSTRUCTING FACTORY
The start on a building to hous,e
another industry in Bemidji was
made this week when the General
Body corporation commenced the
erection of a factory building on a
tract of land purchased for that pur
liose south of Nymore. The building
is being -rapidly constructed and in
a short time, will be ready for the
installation of the machinery.
It has not been widely known that
such a company was operating in
Bemidji but the organization was ef
fected last spring arid it is the inten
tion afcthe company to manufacture
bodieslor Ford trucks-in large quan
tities. The size of the present build
ing is 40x70, one story and basement.
A number of orders are waiting to
be filled and the capacity of the new
building will be taxed from the time
HAMUNE DEFEATS FAST
AGGIE ELEVEN
St. Paul, Nov. 20.Hamline uni
versity's powerful, well balanced grid
iron aggregation closed its 1920 sea
son yesterday with a victory over the
North Dakota Agj-rie eleven at Nor
ton field, 2 to G, in a game* featured
by sensational end runs and long
forward passes.
The Methodists^scored all of their
points in the first half, the first touch
down coming aJt8 three minutes of
play. During the first two quarters
North Dakota was helpless, but
braced in the third period when they
scorde their touchdown and came
within a few yards of another. Ham
lin ewas kept on the defense most
of the second half with numerous
substitutes in the lineup, but came
strong in the last few minutes and
carried the ball well into enemy
territory. MEN'S ANNUAL TURKEY
SUPPER MONDAY NIGHT
The male members of the Presby
terian church will serve Jjmir annual
turkey supper on Monday evening,
November 22, from 5 to 8 o'clock.
Plans have been made to take care
of one of the largest crowds that
ever attended any of the church
suppers and an excellent menu has
been arranged for the "feed." The
nien promise that they will- do their
best to see that everyone is waited
Jupon promptly.
Following is the menu: Turkey,
goblet gravy, dressing, cranberry
jelly, mashed potatoes, rutabagas,
waldorf salad, pickles, rolls, coffee,
and apple pie.
I The Melancholy Days Have Come
NOLA N ASSERTS
STRIOVE
SEACTEDDPON
i nyi'-~.... Caw*
n0 -j
a
Believes Minneso ta Can Put
In to Foreground With
New Market System
PLANS FOR MARKETING i.ooo.
MePartlyn Nominates Nolan as
Speaker of the House
or Another Term
St. Paul, Nov 20."We must
adopt a large constructive program
of legislature to correcf. the condi
tions which have caused discoutent
in our !5tatc," Representative W.
Nolan of Minneapolis, declared today
when the legislators ni|t here. In
accepting the indorsement of the
program wo can put Minnesota fore
most of all states with puograssive
marketing."
"We arc pledged to enact logisla
(tire for the bonelit of farmers as
far iitr marketing is concerned, said
Representative It. A. Wilkinson, of
Lake Elbow. We should have this
program ready by the time the legis
lature meets so it can be put into
activity at once." Wilkinson sug
gested that, a delegate from each con
grei-sional district be appointed as a
member of the committee for fram
ing plan,.
After conferring with Governor
Meet Preus and officers of the state
'rtepar-uneut of agriculture, the ses
sion was continued with'the election
ol' Representative Pattison of St.
Cloud, as chairman, and Representa
tive Neuman as pecretary. Repre
Kcntativo McTarlin of International
i\\ nominated W. I. Nolan as
speaker
thoe
ninatc 1
house.
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off th
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MBS. WITTING HONORED
AT SURPRISE GATHERING
Lasfc evening-,.--following. th- l^y-
cr uni concert at the Methodist
chuich, th ladies, of the Women's
Study club gathered at the home of
Mr3.'F,J3. Arnoldl, 802 Beltrami ave
nue, to honor-Mrs. A. E. Witting, one
of their members, who will leave to
night for Minneapolis for a short
visit with her daughter, Miss Sally
Witting, before going on to Califor
nia to make her home.
The affair was a surprise to Mrs.
Witting, and the evening ,was pleas
antly rpeiit in visiting. Dainty re
freshments were eervod. Mrs. Witt
ing wa.s tendered the Rood wishes of
tho ladies which was expressed in
ihoir presentation of a beautiful
fountain pen to her.
FORMER KAISERIN IS
IMPROVING IN HEALTH
(Hv United Press)
Doom, Holland, Nov. 20'The
former Gr.rinan Kai^erin's condition
has improved to such an extent that
the former Crown Prince has return
ed to Weiringon. it was learned to
dav. It was k.iid, howotfer, that she
Is "fitill seriously ill as tho result of
a heart attack.
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RAILROADS APPLY FOR
NOTE AND BOND ISSUE
Interstate Commerce Commi s-
sion Receives Applications
From Nine Railroads
*B United Press)
Washington, Nov. 20.Applica-
tions to issue notes and bonds total
ling $34,687,000 were received by
the Interstate Commerce commission
today from nine railroads. Most, of
these issues will be used to take up
P,i maturing obligations, others to p$o-
yid
fol
improvemeut
The Big Four asked for a pledge of
517,366,000 and the Minneapolis &
St. Louis, ?5,925,000. The Michigan
Central asked for $5,050,000 and the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, $5,-
PROGRAM BEING URGED PARENTS or SEVENTEEN
MARRY AFTER DIVORCE
Lincoln, Neb. Nov. 20.Henriette
SchmaiLzl, 67, and Clemens H.
Sehmailzl, ager 74, parents of 17
children, forgot the divorce that sep
arated them five years ago and were
remarried here yesterday. They were
first married in 1807. Mrs. Sehmailzl
was granted a divorce in 1915, hav
ing charged her husband with nou
supnort and cruelty. When they ap
peared for the marriage license they
said they were as happy as they were
tlie |Jay they were married\B3 years
ago. Mrs. Sch.muil: took the initi
ative in procuring the license. She
guided the faltering hand of her hus
band as he signed the application.
\'l of the 17 children are living.
WILL DISCUSS PROBLEMS
OF FRANCE AND BRITAIN
(By United Press.)
Paris, Nov. 20.^Official announce
ment was made here today that
Premier Layguese and Lloyd George
will meet in London next week to
discuss internatibnal problems be
tween France and Great Britain.
OUTLINES METHODS TO
BEATPRODUCTION WASTE
Washington, Nov. 20. Three
sources of waste in production and
means of eombntting'each were out
lined by Herbert Hoover last night in
an address before the Federated
American Engineering societidta,
speaking as president-elect 'of' the
organization.
.Intermittent employment, unem
ployment" thai arises in shifting in
dustrial currents, and strikes and
lockouts were the causes he men
tioned.
Intermittent employment, the for
mer food administrator said, might
be eliminated, at least in'part, by
co-ordination of economic groups,
the various industries working to
gether aid each other. Using the
bitumioua coal industry as an exam
ple,, he said the bud economic func
tioning could be remedied through a
concerted effort of tho coal operators,
the coal miners, the railways and the
great consumers to prevent alternate
demand and shortage.
FOUND WILD BUFFALO
IN CANADIAN NORTH
(By United Press.)
Edmonton, Alta., Nov. .20. The
phantom herd of the north has been
found. For years a tradition of a
great herd of buffalo somewhere in
the Mackenzie river basin has ling
ered among the fur posts. Indians
told of sighting It blackening the
wild pastures of remote Valleys. No
white men had seen it. But trappers
had chanced upon its trampled trails
iind ten years ago, two mighty bulls,
that had straggled far from their
fellows, were killod.
F. H. Kitto, engineer of the nat
ural resources branch of the depart
ment of the interior, who has re
turned f^-orn five months of explora
tions in the Mackenzie country, re
ports that he saw the herd and
estimates it at 1,000 head. He re
ceived reports, he says, from Indians
that another herd equally as large
exists farther north.
Canada has the largest bison herd
in the world in the national park at
Wainwright, Alta. On January 1 it
numbered 4,335. With the exception
of ninety animals that still live in
untamed freedom in the northern,
fastnesses of-Yellowstone Park, the
Mackenzie river herds are the only
wild buffalo left on the continent.
DRAINAGE*SCHEMES AID
IN CULTIVATION OF LAND
Winnipeg, Nov. 20. Since the in
auguration of dralniiRe, schemes in
Manitoba, nearly 3,200,000 acres of
land have bc*n brought under cul
tivation by this method, government
officiiilH announced.
HMDINCWHTOITWAY
TOMANAMA CANAL ZONE
(By United Press)
November 20. (By Raymond Clap
per, aboard the steamship Paris Mina.
ly wireless via New Orleans.)Car
rying President-elect Harding to the
Panama canal zone on a vacation trip,
the liner Paris Mina was making
,-ccord .time today at more than 13
kjiot?. 'The ship today was entering
the Caribean sea, Harding has spent
much of hi.-, time on deck ever since
leaving Nw Orleans. He walks up
and down, smoking his pipe and
rhattin with passengers.
LXILLA TARIFF
Senator Curtiss Sa ys Two Bib
lion From Other Source*
Will Meet Demands
POSSIBILITIES OF PEAT'
FOR FUEL INDICATE!*
Experimentation with peat for fuel
purposes is bringing some results ac-w
cording to present indications.
It is a surprise to learn that plants
for converting peat into fuel are now
being designed. The plan is to pul
verize the peat and place the product
on the market. A machine has been
invented which cuts the peat into
strips, macerates it and leaves it in
such form that4fr may be dried. Then
the product is crushed and a plant
for this purpose has already been
constructed at Minneapolis. Pul
verizing plants may be built at Du
luth and other points in the stata
and when the industry has been de
veloped will be found at advantage
ous points throughout the state. By
the development of peat, Minnesota
may be made independent of coal and
the peat production may sell for
about $5 a ton.Grand Rapids
Herald-Review. POLICE TAKE FIVE ON
CHARGE OF GAMBLING
Rooms Over Great Northern/
Pool Room Raided by
City Police
City police threw out the drag net
Thursday night on lower Minnesota
avenue and gathered in a quintette
of the pursuers of the elusive gamo
of chance. Five gamblers were ar
rested in the rooms above the Great
Northern Pool room, four of which
pleaded "not guilty".
One pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to $50 fine or thirty days in
jail. His sentence was suspended on
the condition of his leaving town. Ho
left.
Two of the others were convicted
and fined ?50, or thirty days in jail.
They paid their fines.
The police had some difficulty In
gaining entrance to the gaining room
having to break in two doors to reattt
the gamers. A perfectly good tabla
was confiscated in the deal.
MKS. KRANTZ SURPRISED
BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
Mrs. Oscar Krantz was ^lest of
honor at a surprise party planned
and given at her borne, 709 Irvine
avenue, last evening by a host of
her friends and neighbors, there be
ing over fifty persons present. A
pleasant evening was spent In play
ing cards, after which refreshments
which the invited guests had brought
were served in a delightful manner.
Mrs. Krantz was given a thirty-two
piece set of silverware, Hallmark
pattern, and the guests departed,
wishing Mrs. Krantz many happy re
turns of her birth anniversary.
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INCOME TAX RATES
MAY BE SIMPLIFIED!
Harding Suggests Exchange of}
Liberty Bond* Outstanding?
for New Issue
(By United Press)
Washington, Nov. 20. (By L. C.
Martin.)A billion dollar tariff is to
be the aim of republicans when tho
new administration comes into power
at the next legislature, republican
leaders here declared today. Sena
tor Curtiss of Kansas, said he believ
ed one billion a year could be real
ized from the tariff if that cau bo
maintained.
Curtiss said two billion income
from other sources will meet the im
mediate demands of the government.
Democratic officials recently admit
ted that four billion were to be pledg
ed for the next four years. Curtisa
and other republicans, however, said
that immediate reduction in the arm
ies of government employees by
about $200,000 will be made by re
publicans when they take control
and other money saving methods aro
employed.
Curtiss also predicted that "tho
tax on articles of apparel, on soda
water and other luxuries would be
removed and that the income tax
rates would be greatly simplified by
tho new congress. A change along
nnother line suggested by president
elect Harding today is the exchange
of liberty bonds now outstanding for
a new issue and legislative provision,
for keeping the new bonds at par, it}
a measure to be considered early by
the sixty-seventh congress, Curtiss*
said.
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