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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-10-21
BUSINESS (
TO READERS

Many ads appear in the
classified column Of the Pioneer
which are signed similar to
this: ~. B., care Pioneer"
These are what are known as
blind ads and those wishing to
answer them should do so by
mail, addressed as directed in
the ads. Many persons call up
this office and ask who the ad-
vertiser is. In several instances
this paper has no knowledge Of
the advertisers identity and if
the party is known we have no
authority to give out any in
formation.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
ACTIVE TO Hi LAST

Washington.-Thnt marines were ac-
tive In the world wal up to the mo
ment that the arinistice went into ef-
feet Is evidenced In a division order
signed by Major General John A. Lee
jeune, u. s. marine corps, command
ing the Second division In France, q
copy of which has just been received
in Washington.
According to the order the Devil
Dogs last act In the universal drama
was a final and definite conquest OF
the Meuse river, where line after line
Of marines crossed on bridges hastily
thrown across the stream by the Sec
ond engineers.
The Fifth and Sixth regiments OF
marines, which received their bap-
tism Of fire at ChateauyThierry, head
ed the Second American division I'M
der General Leysune. On November 10
they had reached the Meuse, where
the Germans had thrown up strong
lntrenchments on the east bank.
Bridging the river was u hazardous
| feat. but II was accomplished BY the
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
SCOUTS AIDED AT EXPLOSION.

The value of organized boyhood In
aa emergency was fully demonstrated
In the cities Of New Jersey to which
refugees fled from South Amboy,
where the explosion of a great she'll
loading plant occurred.
No call was issued for the boys, but
they responded OF their W volltlon
and worked us hard as they could, do
Ing everything and anything asked.
Some of the scouts rode with the
drivers of c%onveyances which were
bringing the people from Amboy. They
helped the refugees Into the cars, car
rying babies, bundles and family pets,
and making things comfortable on the
ride. Others acted as messengers In
the armories, carried cots and blan-
kets, swept floors, waited on the can
teen workers, passed out refresh
ments, entertained the children by
playing games with them, and, In fact,
boys could be seen at all times busy
ms bees, doing everything that was
helpful.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
GIVES HUSBAND HARD JOLT
Bloody Evidence Is ketchup, but Roy
Will Probably Stay Home Eye
ninqs for Awhile.

st. Louis.-Roy Colley Of this city
returned home from work and found
his wife, Clara, stretched out on the
floor with her neck and throat covered
with what appeared to be blood. Col
ley screamed, woke his wife's sister,
Miss Mary Collins, who was In the
lex room. Both dashed to the street,
but the sister beat Colley to the police
station. Colley arrived just as the sis
ter was voicing her belief that Colley
had killed his wife. Colley told the
police some burglar must have muir
dered her.
Reserves were rushed to the house
and were welcomed by Mrs. Colley,
who in the meantime washed away
the ketchup which had been the evil
dence of the 'crime" and calmly ex-
planned that she "trusted she had
taught Roy a lesson and that he
would stay at home evenings In the
future.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
AERIAL APRONS
A LONDON

gradually close In their fire so the
enemy could not escape, the aerial
box" gradually being narrowed.
The entire process depended largely
upon listening devices which could de-
tect the approach of a humming air
plane miles away.
Efficient Defense System.
The defense system was SO efh-
cient that T5 per cent of the raidlng
machines were kept out of London.
And those machines that got past the
barrages had great difficulty In escnp-
ing. To the terror Of bursting shrap-
mel was added the confusion of Verey
green, white, yellow and orange, and
these flashing lights, intermingled
with the terrific din of the exploding
shell, so confused aviators that they
lost all sense of direction and space
and many of their machines got out of
control, becoming an easy prey. In
such cases British birdmen would mp
proach, firing on the enemy machine
anti-aircraft guns would halt, and the
hostile plane would be brought down
by n burst from the British plane. But
often there were fierce duels, marked
by spitfre from the machine guns OF
the contending flyers.
The course which the raiders tool
was traced out, minute by inmate, b!
the Kaleidoscope" operators, and di
rections given TO searchlight crews
antl-alrcraft gunIers and flashed u
alrdromes by aerial defense headquar
ters, which conducted the uattle mucl
in the same way MS n general In tn
field.
Scarcely n Gotha got through tn
outer London barrage unscathed. tn
faint hearts who couldn't penetrnt
the barrage often turned back, only I
find they were outnumbered four {
n by faster G:itish machines.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
WEAK IN AIR AT THE START
Great Britain Had but Four Squad
mi of Alrplanes, but Made
Rapid Strides.

London.-The declaration of war by
Great Britain at midnight, August o,
1914, found the Royal Flying corps
with only four squadrons In being
representing well under 100 alrplanes.
Three OF these %squadrons went instant
ly to France. A new squadron fol-
lowed these pioneers In about ten days
time. while n nfth squadron modified
and set out In "a hours, reaching the
fighting zone.
In those early days OF the war ma
chimes were used simply for %strnteglcal
reconnaissance. II was not until nfter
the battle OF the Alsne. when settled
lines OF warfare were established, thni
artillery fire control from the air and
the cruder forms OF cooperation with
the infantry were pr1cficed and de
veioped.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

SCOUT
Conducted by National Counci Of the
Roy Scouts OF AmericaO
GERMAN MISUSE OF SCOUTS

How German terrorism has extended
even to the perversion Of the objects
of their own boy scout organization Is
told by Thomas Nj, Johnson, a staff
correspondent OF the Evening Sun OF
New York, with the American First
army In France. lie says:
"The fear Of German boy scouts. ms
much as anything else, intimidates
the German people at home, according
TO prisoners captured in the last few
days.
Several prisoners, including prus-
slams, explain this seemingly strange
statement by saying that German boy
scouts II the cities, lads OF fifteen and
sixteen years of age, have been drilled
and equipped with machine guns and
placed under orders by the military au-
thorltles and the pollce-drilled as
thoroughly and strictly as German sol
dIers themselves and taught the goose
step.
"German civilians, weakened by lack
of food and knowing the murderous
power of machine guns, are In awe OF
these youngsters, who are beginning TO
give themselves the airs of Prussien
officers. If this is true, 1t . a val
uahle sidelight on militarism."
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

London.-Some of the onder
achieved In aerial navigation and 9TH
err wonders contemplated were spoken
of by Mai. Gen. Sir f. III. Sykes, chief
of the air staff in an address before
the chamber of ommerce.
1t was asserted by General Sykes
that in four month"; between July ana
October, 20 trips were made across the
English channel. The mileage ira
vers, d was S,0S5 and 1,S43 passengers
were carried, although flying was pos
sible ONLY on II days.
AS for the future, the government
was looking forward to n weekly mail
service to India, for which % machines
would be required and the charge for
sending mail a few shillings an ounce.
Another route contemplated was from
Cape Colony to Cairo, for which air
planes and flying boats would be used
Suggesting TINT airships might be
adopted for long DISTANCE flights, Gen
eral Sykes said a German Zeppelin
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
SOME KICK TO THIS MIXTURE
Hospital Patients Aduiterste Alcohol
With FormaIdehyde, Then Pro
coed TO Wreck Hospital.

San Francisco.-As real fire wa
ter" nothing exceeds alcohol ndul-
.erated with fo~rmaidehyde.
This was demonstrates here ny
Grace Wilson and George Clark. two
vagrants under treatment at the lso
lntIon hospital.
The two awoke several days ago
vith an awful thirst, and no other bey-
erage, except water, being available
at the moment. they proceeded when
the nurse was not looking to imbibe
freely OF alcohol. a bottle u which
was standing nearby. Then they de
cided to adulterate the alcohol with
fo~rmaIdehyde. The effect was very
similar 10 that Of casting a match into
. barrel Of gasoline Before the ex-
nloslons we're entirely over, the furni-
tire In the room was nearly all
srecked, while two policemen. who
had been sent 10 quiet them. had been
locked up in q closet The two women
were then locked In a cell ID charged
eth dlstur'tS& the Deace
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Splendid Service Rendered Uncle Sam
by These Youthful Herces>
ITALY SCOUTS PLANT TREES.

Tho hoy scouts of Italy have been
entrusted with the nationwide prop
uganda for reforestatlon, and results
Of the boys efforts are expected to
count as one OF the most effective sery-
Ices ever rendered to a state by this
organization, which has attained fully
as great proportions and prominence
In italy as II has In the United States.
The boy scouts Of Italy, beginning
at once, will not only give their own
help In the actual work OF reforesta'
ton but win incnlcate 1t as n Of the
cardinal principles Of their organiza.
ton.
italy still is receiving hundreds OF
thousands OF IONS Of coal less than her
minimum needs, and AZ O consequence
she is Obliged to continue obliteration
of her forests.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

American engineers under heavy ar
tiIIery fire. Crossing the stream on
bridges but two feet In width vas "A
SIN more hazardous business. But
apparently the marines consider
nothing too hazardous to at least at
tempt.
With the eneIny's artillery and ma
chine guns pouring IN lncessant fire
UPON these slender straws OF passage.
the marines advanced. Time after
time an enilade Of fire swept rows OF
them into the swIriiDg Meuse-but
they advanced.
The crossing finally effected, they
pressed ON with undaunted courage
and stormed the Huns stronghold on
the east bank. The Germans gave way
before the Impetus Of that furious
charge and fhc marines again found
themselves yieto.s In their last great
battle of the war.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
BApEN-PowELL AND SCOUTS.

On the anniversary OF the outbreak
Of the war In Europe, Lieut.. Gen. Rob
ert s.. s. Baden-Powell. founder Of the
boy scout movement, addressed the fol-
lowing cablegram to the Boy Scouts
of America:
slope scouts win Join In increased
effort to make fifth year Of war sue
cessfuIly the last"
Chief Scout Executive James n.
West replied as follows:
american scouts through splendid
war service program have gioriously
justified value organized boyhood. Arc
pledged to hundred per cent particIpa-
ton In effort to make fifth year sue
eessfully the last"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
LOU LOST HIS HAT
AND ALSO THIEF
Deputy Sheriff Goes to San Fran
cisco for Robber and Has
Experience.

San FranciscQ-Lou McKeily, depu-
ty sheriff at Kelcyville, Lake county,
came to San Francisco to have the po-
lice here help him find some cracks
men who robbed the post Office there.
McKelly wore a big broad-brimmed
white hat with a rattlesnake skin for
a band. 1t is a hat he was proud of.
Said he to Detective George Hippeley /:
81 have shown some of you fellows
how to hunt for big game up there in
the summer time. Now you show me
about your hunting down here"
Then they went to dinner In a fash
ionable cafe. McKelly hung up his
rattlesnake skin hat. They sat down
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

and ate turkey, while McKelly ex-
planned about the way the cracksmen
did the job in Kelcyville.
When they had finished McKelly's
big rattlesnake hat vas gone. There
was a row, but it was no use. The
best that Hippeley could find out was
that a woman at the next table had
been heard to remark:
81 would like to have that hat over
there to decorate Johns den.".
McKelly bought a brand new hat,
called a 'beanny," and went back to
Kelcyville without the cracksmen.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
CONVlCTS USE YARN ROPE
Make 25-Foot Rope From Yarn Fur
nished by Red Cross n Escape
From Prison.

Boise, Idaho.-With the aid of a IS
foot rope braided from yarn furnished
the inmates by the Red Cross, Fred
George. alias Gruber. and Harry Hin
ton escaped from the state penitenti-
airy. George has a life sentence for
murder banging W. him and Hinton
was serving FIVE to fifteen years for
robbery. With the aid of the yarn
rope the men let themselves down
from the top OF the wall surrounding
the nenitentiary.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Bird Saves Boys Life
on French Battlefield

Manchester. N. H.-How n
bird on a battlefield OF France
indirectly saved the life OF Prl-
vate Edward Lassonde Of the
United States iieuvy artillery
was told by the young man IN
n letter 10 HIS father.
Lnssonde said that he was
riding on n cnisson loaded with
ammunition when n bird began
20 circle about bis head. II
flew so close that It's wings al
most brushed Lassonde's cap.
Finally the young soldier sprang
from his seat and a after
the bird. Just then a German
shefl struck the caisson and II
went up with a mighty %xplo-
sion. The Manchester boys
chase of the bird saved him
from injury or death.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
QUITS "RoAD" FOR SAFETY
Throws Up Job to Avoid Danger From
Trains and Shortly After Is Killed
by One.

Cleveland. &C, A. Idle, after 30
years "On the road" with the Erie rail-
road, abandoned his job to avoid dan
ger from the trains. And every day
since his wife would congratulate her
self that now she could be content In
the knowledge that he would come
home safe from his work In the Office
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men.
Then, one day, he took a holiday
and with his wife visited a cousin at
Warren. O.. The three went riding In
the cousins automobile. They came
to q crossing.
All three we're killed by a passing
train.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Leaves Loot in ,oebox;
Conscience Stricken.

Waukegan, nl.-A housebreak-
er who stole several articles Of
valuable jeweiry from the home
of DIR. and Mrs. Paul o. Berger
here became conscience stricken
and a few days afterward. when
Doctor Berger looked In his Ice
box, he found the jeweIry there.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aerial aprons, or
how the Gothas were kept away,
might form one tense chapter In a
book about how the British baffied the
Hun air raiders. The last six months
of the war there was not a single air
raid on London, de, in part, to the
fact thai the city's defenses were such
that they flied enemy flyers with ter
ror. Any aviator that escaped the
death traps-and the chances were
about one in three he would not-gen-
orally was of little value thereafter Tor
flying. because his nerves were shat
tered. A British aviator who by accl-
dent was caught in the aerial barrage,
but managed to land safely near Lon
don, tossed on a bed, verging on in
sanity for weeks, so horrible was the
experience.
Roughly, there were three chief
weapons for dealing with Hun air
raiders; the aerial barrage, aided by
searchlights fast, fighting scout planes
that attacked the invaders, and aerial
aprons. The Germans, il may be noted,
were never able to perfect any scheme
to prevent British aviators from
bombing Rhine towns even in the day
time.
Aerial Aprons Queer Things.
The aerial aprons were queer
things. They reminded n of rope
portieres. Upon signal. captive bal
looms were sent aloft from the out
skirts of the city, the balloons being
in pairs. These buoyed up a curtain
Ct dangling ropes, a half-mile or Sc
long. These aerial aprons served two
purposes First, they forced the raid
ers to fly high, and when they flew
high they could not drop bombs ef'
f%ectively; second, any machine dart
ing into the ropes courted destruction
When flying high they were met by the
British fighting scouts. These aeria
aprons were shifted daily as to heigh'
so eneny airmen could not be fore
warned.
London always had the protection
If four score airplanes during th'
asst year of war. These machines
could mount to 10000 feet. The avi
Gtors were picked night flyers, A
such heights 1t is difficult to see an
other airplane Mt 100 yards. But a
1 given signal these birdmen took I
he skies, jealousy guarding the al
jroaches to London. These brave feI
lows often chased & hostile machin
into the barragc and a few BIRTHS
birdnlen were killed by their ow
shells. But whether It was II zeppeli
or a Gotha that was bent on baby xii
ing the British scouts would swoop 0
; their foes like hawks.
> The barrage was almost like drum
hre. There were two outer barrage
and one inner. Scores of guns, man
+ of them six-inch rifles, were employe
In this work. They generally worke
In batteries of four, each unit of ii
battery, perhaps, being n mile or tw
from the other units. The four guI
would endeavor to get a hostile plnr
- W the center of their box fire, and the
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
poINes OF THE SCOUTS.

The scouts Of Montclair, N. j., with
a hastily contrived apparatus, sue
ceeded in belIog-aphing from Glen
Gray to Montclair, a distance OF SIX
teen and a half miles. Communication
was opened and short messages =
read.
Fire broke ont three times In the
mountains back Of Plalnfleld, New Jer-
sey. and each time the boy scouts
gent out to fight II.
A Brooklyn troop Of scouts assisted
IN old lady tn secure food and fnel.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

Col, Oscar j. Charles, one of the
best known young officers in the army,
was wounded September % By a she'll
fragment which drove his water can
teen into his leg below the knee. lie
refused medical attention, removed
the cnnteen himself, had 1t refiiled'
and served wounded men near him
with water from II and kept command
Of his regiment until the battle vas
over. Colonel Charles was ut n time
adjutant Mt West Point, served
through the Spanish war with distinc-
ton, was In the Moro campaign, and
was one of the first officers to ask
transfer to line service in the recent
conflict. He commanded the Three
Hundred and Sixteenth infantry IN
the Seventy-ninth division.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

winsted. Conn.-The power plant at
Robertsville Falls which furnishes
electricity for lighting here vent
dead" early one morning recently. An
investigation developed the fact that .
rat had put the plant out Of business
by crawling into the terminals and
short-circuiting the system
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
TRAVEL IN AIR SAFE

flew from Bulgaria to German East
Africn, carrying twelve tons OF ammu-
milton. When the Zeppelin reached
Africa and the commander heard that
the force for which II was taking the
ammunition had surrendered the dlri-
gible made the return journey, reach
Ing home safely after having been In
the mir without landing for four days.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Calls HoIdup Story Absurd.

at lne uOOT. OIc opthCh IL w hhN h~e
ner father had crept that far-dying
on the doorstep.
Calls HoIdup Story Absurd.
81 do not believe his story" said
Captain Coughlin after Rokawicz had
been held to the grand jury for MUIR
der and was lodged In the county Jail.
81 think he killed Papke, but his hold
up story is absurd. He knew Papke
well enough to have recognized him.
! am satisfied there was some other
reason. The murderer always in his
confession tries to justify his act. In
the months that we have been investi-
eating this case we have been unable
to find a motive. ! think Papke's dog
must have snapped at Rokawicz. An
argument followed. Rokawicz drew his
knife and stabbed Papke In the back.
"Rokawicz, l believe, is a victim of
a peculiar form Of insanity"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

A Canadian Whaling company has
been engaged In canning whsle meat
for seye vhi monthaL
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
BREAKS UNDER
SPIRIT VOICES
Conscience Lashed, Chicago Man
Clears Crime Committed
Last Winter.
TELLS STRANGE TALE
Voices Become Louder and More In
sistent-ln Terror Man Takes to
Whisky and Whisky Loosens
His Tongue.

Chicago.-The voice of a murdered
man rang in the ears Of Joseph Roka-
wicz. For almost a year after his
neighbor, Frederick Papke, was found
dead on the doorstep of his home by
his own daughter, the voice talked to
Rokawicz. He did all he could at the
time of the tragedy. He volunteered
to act as a pallbearer, helped the be-
reaved family and when the fiat be-
came vacant Rokawicz moved in next
door to the Papke family. Papke was
killed the night of January "A, and
from that time onward he heard
voices.
They became louder, more inslstent.
They accused.
Rokawicz, in his terror of the super
natural, took to whisky-and the whis-
ky loosed a tongue hat had talked
only sympathy before.
81 would not be surprised If this
Rokawicz knew something of your hus-
bands DEATH" said a neighbor to Mrs.
Papke not Icing ago.
The neighbor had heard the voices
answered by Rokawicz. The widow
went to Capt. Thomas j. Coughlin of
the stock yards police station and
Rokawicz was arrested. At first he
denied knowing anything of the muir
dor
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Breaks Down and confesses.

At last he broke down and told Cap
tain C~oughlin a strange story.
81 was coming home" he said, with
a full months pay in my pocket.
feared holdups. l had my ~long-bladed
pocket knife in my hand. AS | passed
the Papke house l saw a man standing
there. His back was to me. ! thought
he was q holdup man-and stabbed
him. l went home, believing a
killed a robber and / did not worry.
The next day / found that had killed
Frederick Papke, my neighbor, my
friend. / was horror-stricken. did
what | could-but the voices-the
voices"
papke, according to his wife, had
taken their pet dog out for an airing
after supper. He had been standing
In front of the house. The daughter,
Emma, heard a whining and scratching