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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
DISCUSS PLAY GROUNDS
AT MEETING TONIGHT

Providing of added play grounds
for the children Of Bemidji will be
discussed at a meeting to be held at
the Commercial club this evening at
8 O'Clock. The meeting was called
by Mrs. E. f. Netzer, chairman of
the play ground committee of the
Bemidji Women's Community and
Civic club, and the boord of educa-
ton and park board will be repre-
sent. The matter OF providing a
physical culture director for Bemidji
will also be discussed at the meet
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
ENDORSE PLAN
GIVING III COUNTY
FINE | SYSTEM
OF HIGHWAYS
Commercial Club Recommends
That Commissioners Issue
$25O,O0O Bonds for Roads, :.
SPEND THIS AMOUNT FOR
ROADS COSTING $4,000
Situation Made Possible by
Federal Aid and Passage of
Babcock Plan Amendment. !

Bemidji's Commercial club We'd
nesday afternoon approved the road
building plan which will give Bel
trami county highway construction
costing $517,5O0 for an expenditure
of but $250.ooo, this amount to pc
secured by a bond issue made pos
sible for the unanimous vote OF mem
bers of the county loard. This IN
usual situation Is made possible BY
the Beltrnmi county allowance OF
$4,000 provided by the federal road
building program, and through re-
turns from the Babcock road amend-
meI,t which is to be submitted to the
voters of the state next fall for ap-
proval j
s. D. Snyder, assistant county sur
veyor, has completed map showing
the program of road construction
which would result under the plan ;
he thoroughly outlined the system
suggested to the Commercial club
members, making prominent many
features. which are certain TO prove
of advantage to the county in gem
Where Money Would Go.
1t is planned to spend $165,0O0 on
the completing of the Cass Lake
solway road which runs through
Bemidji; to spend $4,000 on the
Bemidji-R i-Rlackduck-Kel road;
SITS, 900 on the: Kellih er- -Baudette-
Spooner road; $32,500 On the east
and west road across the north end
Of the county and, $4,000 on the
road leading from Bemidji into the
Benville country, providing road ia
cilities which would prove Of great
benefit to the county.
The 100000 federal aid has been
designated for use on the Cass Lake
Solway road, but committee COM
prising James l.. George, former au-
ditor Of Beltrami county, Represen-
tative A. E. Rako and j. l.. ElWell
has been appointed to take the mat
ter up with the state highway com
money may be made available for
other roads of the county.
. A special meeting of the Baudette
Commercial club was held recently
and the proposition after being sub
mitted by Engineer Snyder was unan-
imously endorsed. The plan is also
favored by Roy Bliler. county sur
veyor, and he hos recommended 1t to
Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissi ioner.
George Walker, Jr, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Walker of Bemidji, who
recently returned from France, told
in an interesting manner, of his ex-
periences on the battle front. He
Is the proud possessor of the croix
de guerre.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
NO DANGER IN MINNESOTA
r. FROM l7-YEAR LOCUST

Absolutely no cause for alarm on
the part Of Minnesota farmers exists
In connection with the 17-year 10
Gust. This statement is ussued by
II. l.. Washburn, university farm, st.
Paul, to Offset the effect Of mis-
quotations Of him In some OF the
papers fof The northwest relative to
the occurrence Of y brood of the"17-
year locusts" In Minnesota. No
brood IL scheduled to occur In Min
riesota to the best OF his knowledge,
says Mr. Washburn. This insect, he
adds, is met with only In very
limited areas. and then only oc-
casionally, in this state.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10

That the business of bringing
sheep to this country from North
Dakota and Montona ranches to
northern Minnesota to Craze and
make ready for market can be
carried on profitably is being amply
demonstrated by Raus Richey OF Bag
ley. This man expects to market
10000 head of sheep this season, and
he will bring in about the same num-
Der, having already made purchases
of 2,100 head in Montana, 5000 in
Wyoming and placed orders for g.
900 more. The sheep are now arriv-
ing at Bagley
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
State FISHERY
AT REDBY Will Il.
Be CONTINUED;
BILL APPROVED
County Division Measure To Be
Dealt With Next Week Says
Noonan in Weekly Letter
{f%y.
MORE CLERK HIRE FOR
COUNTY AUDITOR ASKED
i. ::
Drainage Bill Opposed-Near-
ly 1000 Bills Introduced
y. During Session. =.
(By W. IT. Noonan.)

St. Paul, April 9.---Raudette'
prospects of annexing an armory are
about as bright as 'bartender's fu-
ture, which isn't very bright since
the nation decided to wrap a rain
spout around his neck. Things were
going along nicely until the legis-
lature decided to unravel the home
guards, and then 1t was all off like
an old shoe. However Bemidji still
has a fighting chance to get one, and
IL fighting will do the trick the "City
of Enterprise will land one sot the
military bungalows.
County division and its opponents
will go to the mat in the senate next
week, and i'm this case Baudette will
not be out of luck, because Fan signs
point to the bill becoming q law, al
7loagh it may. know that 1t was in
4 fight when the scrap Is over. and
the teeth are counted. ~ +,
- Members from southern Mime
sofa went on speeding spree the
other day and tried to kill Pat Nc
Carry's ten Thousand lakes bill with
wholesale prescriptions Of talk, but
they got nowhere with their talk
fest They waved their various
limbs and donated the argument that
the bill was about as essentialtas a
hair in the boarding house butter,
but when, they were through the bin
was still able. to sit up: and take
punishment. and the smiling face of
the genial Pat, who had come. oy er
from the. senate to watch the fire.
works, was all lit up like a Christmas
. tree. .''. The bill was then hustled over
to the governor, who lost no time in
decorating the dotted line with a
~" two "A's" and a "Burnquist.
1.-The size of the appropriation is to
be decided later, but Mr.. McGarry,
who is not only head of the highway
committee, but the most experienced
highwayman in the legislature when
it comes to dynamiting appropria-
tions out of the treasury for north
ern Minnesota, will see to it that it
is plenty-probably fifty thousand
strips of the long green. With such
a. sized chunk to advertise the north
Arn part Of the state as a playground
great results should come, in the way
of thousands of tourists with plenty
of money and a disposition to spend
it.
Hardly Recognize It.
The bill codifying the game and
fish laws was up the other day, and
when farmer members got through
rivetting amendments to it the au-
thor needed a blueprint to recognize
it. About the only addition that
wasn't sewn on was an annex making
it unlawful to hunt, shoot, convey or
have in possession cooties less than
three weeks old. Chicken, rabbits,
red foxes, black bear, pike, pickerel
and suckers were all affected by the
amendment, and the most important
Continued on Page Eighty
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
TO RESUME PRACTICE HERE.

Attorney Ascham. who gave up
his practice of law here last August
to enter military service, returned to
Bemidji today and will reopen his
office. He took the army training
at Manchester college, St. Paul, and
was discharged in December, since
which time he has been visiting in
the outhern part of tn" state.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
TRACTION ENGINEERS AND
THRESHERMEN'S COURSE

A course for traction engineers
and a course for threshermen will be
offered at university farm in May
and June The traction engineers
school will begin May 10 and close
June IA. and the threshermen's
school will begin June 16 and close
June 21 Persons interested should
address l.. B. ,Bassett. university
farm. St. Paul
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
BLACK PEARL. VALUED AT
$4,000 SOLD BY BAKER

George r. Baker, Bemidji jeweler,
has sold the black pearl found in a
shell below the Mississippi river dam
several years ago. The pearl was ex-
amined by experts who placed it's
value at no less than $4,000 N.
Desbecker, a pearl purchaser of Buff
alo. N. Y, bought the stone.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-04-10
BARWISE- KENT.

Charles F. iBarwise, who has re-
Gently returned from military serv-
ice in France, and Miss Lillian Kent
were married last evening at the
Presbyterian parsonage, Rev. Lester
P. Warford officiating. Mr.. and
Mrs. Barwise will make their home
in Bovey, Mimi.
The sun., 1919-10-09
UNTERMYER BOOTH
NOT FOR REGISTRY
Tanln,any Merely SaW a Rent
Free Opportunity.

The temporary structure occupying
space on the public highway at Broad
way and Ninety-eighth street, on which
appear pictures of Irwin Untermyer, a
Tammany candidate for Justice of the
Supreme Court, is not a registration
booth at ALL
Joseph johnson, campaign manager
for the thirty-three year old son OF
Samuel Untermyer, who was nominated
by Tammany to succeed Justice Joseph
Z. Newburger. a veteran of the bench of
twenty-eight years experience, COM
planned to the Citizens Union that their
statement that Untermyer Autographs
were on a registry place was unfair. He
asserted that the building on city prop
erty was in reality the West Side head
quarters OF his candidate.
Thomas A. Williams, the Tammany
leader Of the Ninth Assembly district
was quoted yesterday as saying he had
had the headquarters put up in the
street as a place where voters could be
instructed as to their duties. He was
in SO much of hurry to get 1t up be-
fore the irst day Of registration that he
neglected to apply to the Borough Presi-
dents Office for permission. So Walter
T. Arndt. secretary of the Citizens
Union, wrote to N. F. Loughman, acting
Borough President of Manhattan, last
night, asking that the building be re-
moved as an encumbrance.
Aside from the apparent illegality of
its being placed on the public highway"
wrote Mr.. Arndt. there is an obvious
improperly in the erection OF a building
apparently intended to initiate one Of the
city's registration and election booths,
and, therefore, tending TO mislead voters
seeking to register Inqurers at this
building have been handed campaign lit
erature. The purpose of the building
and the reason for its similarity to the
official polling places is thus made clear. ="
Mr.. Williams is said TO have told Q
friend that the location at Broadway
and Nnety-eighth street was ideal for
campaign purposes because OF the great
number OF persons passing up and down
Broadway every night.
The sun., 1919-10-09
SUIT AGAINST VOLPI,
OVER ART, SETTLED
Private Agreement Made Out
Of Court.

A settlement out Of court was effected
yesterday. with the result that the suit
of Arthur C. Spence against Professor
Ella Volpi. Italian art connoisseur. was
discontinued when 1t was called for trial
In the Supreme Court. Justice Finch
consented to the discontlnuance, but none
Of the principals would reveal the badis
for the settlement.
The suit attracted widespread atten-
tion, particularly In art circles, because
sensational testimony was expected to
be given at the trial regarding the au-
thenticity of many celebrated paintings
brought to this country. Mr.. Spence
appeared in the suit against Professor
Volpi as assignee Of a claim of Jack
son johnson, shoe manufacturer and
newspaper owner Of Chicago ana St
Louis.
Mr.. Johnson purchased two paintings
at a. sale conducted In this country by
Professor volpi. They were represented.
II was alleged. as a Rubens and a Van
Dyck. Subsequently, the complaint al
legged. Mr.. johnson discovered the paint
ings were counterfeits and worth only
about 800 apiece, whereas he had paid
$500 for them. Professor volpi came
here from Palermo recently, supposedly
to defend the action.
The sun., 1919-10-09
BELGIAN MONARCHS
CROSSING THE PLAINS
There Are Babies to Be Kissed
at Many Stations.

ON BOARD Kise ALBBrT's TRAIN, Oct.
s.--Belsian royalty passed to-day into
the far reaches of the central West.
In the night their special sped through
Illinois, and at daybreak was In Ne
braska. Beyond Omaha, which was
reached at 10 A. NJ. they came into the
great wheat belt where the American
Commission for Relief In Belgium found
sustenance for the millions OF starving
refugees In the dark days Of the war.
The special crossed the Mississippi at
Savannah, ILL.,, and the beams OF a
searohlight on the royal car played over
the muddy waters of the river. But
there were few on board who saw II.
Crown Prince Leopold, however. was one
of them. for he has been curious about
the father Of waters" A large crowd
had gathered at the station in Omaha,
and the King and Queen appeared on
the rear platform to shake hands with
as many as they could.
The monarchs have been deeply
at the sight of throngs assembled
at stations just to see them. Both are
fond of babies. and they are leaving in
their wake many happy mothers whose
Riddles" have been kissed by royalty.
The sun., 1919-10-09
PAINTED PRISONER
MYSTERY TO POLICE
Found Asleep in Beer Truck
and Won't Wake Up.

The police were unable to Identify a
prisoner brought TO the East Thirty-fifth
street station yesterday for the reason
that his face was lacquered with a heavy
coating of green paint. The man was
unable to give any aid TO the officers
who sought TO solve the mystc"y. He
was brought to the station sound asleep
and remained in that condition through
out the day, snoring powerfully and oc-
casionally giving vent to mumbled ex-
clamations. Doubtless in his dreams
was a nightmare version of the paint
brush slapping on his face.
The police were quite in the dark as
to the identity of the person who welded
the brush. 1t looked like so-caiied
practical Joke. The nile green counte-
nance c=.me to light in the box Of beer
truck from beneath the folds OF a blan-
ket. The truck driver said he was busy
making his delivery rounds and had not
devoted much attention to his peculiar
passenger. He had tried TO awaken the
man. but finding the attempt futile de-
cided to finish his work first and settle
with the stranger afterward Toward
noon the driver backed the truck up to
the station house and rolled the jade
jag out, thus performing his civic duty
as he saw IT,
The police applied kerosene rag to
the prisoners countenance and were able
after some labor to discern the true out
lines OF his visage. HIS name and home
will have 20 await the end Of the tine
tured dream.
The sun., 1919-10-09
FIRST GERMAN rs
HERE ON PASSPORT
Comes to See Girl Who Loved
Him Before War.

Erich Hecht senior member Of Hecht,
Pfeisser q Co., importers and exporters
OF Berlin. the first German to come into
the United States on a passport since
America entered the war, arrived last
night by the Holland-America liner
Noordam, declaring that the primary
object OF HIS trip is to persuade his pre-
war American sweetheart to mary him,
and the other object to investigate busi-
ness conditions in America. thus COM
bining pleasure with business. He said
he had left this country in 1912 after
having become well acquainted with -
young woman well known In New
York social circles" They became be-
trothed and he went back to Germany.
The war came and he went to the front
with an infantry regiment. was wounded
and was sent to Berlin and put In the
comm.ssary department.
Hecht wrote to the young woman un-
til America got into the fray. when the
correspondence ceased. After the armis-
tice he sent her a letter saying that al
though technically her enemy he loved
her as much as ever, She told him TO
come to America and she would tSk the
matter over with him.
Julius Daiber. business manager OF
the Chicago Opera Company. said he
was held UP in London by the railroad
strike after he had engaged passage
from Plymouth by the Noordam. He
found the price of motor cars for the
short trip from London to Plymouth
had scared to 81 900, and he got Lieut..
Hobbs of the Royal Flying Corps to
take him to Plymouth for $3.50.
The sun., 1919-10-09
MINE CONFERENCE
WILL REOPEN TO-DAY
Operators and Workers Still
Far Apart.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. s,-IThe joint wage
conference of the central competitive
coal field. adjourned from Buffalo last
week. will be resumed here tomorrow.
The negotiations will be taken up at
the point reached Just before adjourn
ment, that is, with the committee of the
United Mine Workers of America stand
ing on the demands formulated at the
Cleveland convention and threatening a
strike on November / unless these are
granted. and the commi; toe Of the mine
operators refusing to accede to those de-
mands. insisting that the Washington
agreement is binding until April 1, 1920.
and Offering to negotiate a new wage
scale that would be effective at that
time. The owners deny the miners COM
mittee has authority to negotiate a con-
tract
Operators here in advance OF the open
ing session of the conference asserted
that the miners demand for six hour
day, five days week, a so per cent. in
crease In pay, time and a half for over
tune and double time for SUNDAYS and
holidays was impossible of acceptance
and that II the miners stood on these
demands no alternative would remain
but for them to carry cut their threat
OF a Strike on november i.
The following statement was given out
tonight at the headquarters of the mine
workers:
THE miners have come to Philadelphia
with the sincere desire and hope that
contract may be negotiated with the coal
operators They feel that this can be
done and they know also that the pub
lie hopes that II will be done. The
Cleveland convention of the United Mine
Workers of America decided unani-
mously that II satisfactory new con-
tract was not made before that date all
of the bituminous coal mines Of the coun-
try would be called out on a general
strike on the first OF, November
"Such a strike would paralyze the in
dustrial life Of America. No one realizes
this fact better than the miners them
selves. and II is their earnest hope that
such calamity may be avoided They
have no desire to Interrupt industry or
to cause any inconvenience TO TIE public.
All they are asking Is squarevleal. II
the operators have come to Philadelphia
with the same earnest desire to avoid
suspension of mining operations there
will be no strikF"
The sun., 1919-10-09
Senator McNary's Measure Ex
tends War Restrictions.
spectoi Dsspatch 20 THn suK.

WAsHiNoroN, Oct s.-Lesislation un-
der which the Government would resume
and retain througi out 1920 complete
control OF the sugar business OF the
country to meet the existing shortage
and insure the best possible distribution
was introduced in the Senate to-day by
Senator McNary (Ore.).
The measure authorizes the President
to vote the Governments stock in the
United States Equalization Board,
Delaware corporation that was formed
for the purpose OF wartime control OF
sugar. so as to perpetuats the policies
of wartime control. The board IL gwen
all the powers heretofore exercised by
the Food Administration regarding
sugar
A system of licensing dealers in sugar
10 authorised. with penalties OF $4,000
fne. two years Imprisonment. or both.
for violation of regulations that may be
prepared. These regulations will aim to
insure fair prices and distribution and
to prevent speculation and discrimipa-
tion. The powers include right Of the
President to forbid exports Of sugar and
to forbid or fix the terms OF import.
The sun., 1919-10-09
NAMES DAN O'REILLY
IN DIVORCE FORGERY
Former NJ. Y. Beauty Charges
Fraud Nine Years Ago.

The name of the late Daniel O'Reilly,
disbarred attorney, whose connection with
celebrated murder trials, notably those
Of Nan Patterson and Harry X. Thaw.
made him one of the best known Grim
inal lawyers in the. country. figures In
papers fixed yesterday IN the Supreme
Court through which CLARA Dolores
Machain L.opp, a New York beauty Of
twenty years ago. seeks to have an
nulled her marriage TO George Washing
ton Lopp, q dancing master of Paris,
France.
Mrs. Lopp accuses O'Reiliy. who has
been dead for SIX years. of forging q
final decree OF divorce and giving 1t to
her with the statement that the decree
had been signed by Justice Alfred II.
Page of the Supreme Court on July ~,
1910 She paid $4,000 to O'Reilly for
his services, she states, and in the be-
lief that she was no longer the wife OF
Joaquin J. Cueto, wealthy routh
American whom she had married in
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, IN 1887. went
through a marriage ceremony with Lopp
in O'Reilly's office. 63 Park Row. Mrs
Lopp now lives at 80 East Fifty-eighth
street
Accusations are made by the plaintiff
against her husband. who nvcs at 103
Rue La Boetia, Paris. France She
states that she knew him IN Paris for
three years before lier marriage to him,
and that II was at his suggestion that
OReilly instituted divorce proceedings
She alleges that Lott and OReilly con-
spired together to deceive her into be-
lieving that the decree made out by
O'Reilly and to which the name of JUS
tice Page was forged was a legal docu-
ment.
On ascertaining the facts in connec-
tion with the alleged deception, Mrs
Lopp says, she left her husband In
Paris In May, 1916. and with her daugh-
ter. Sophia Cueto, now 81 years old and
the wife OF James Selvin of this city,
arrived here from France last month.
Permission to serve the defendant
with summons and complaint by publi-
cation and through the mails was OBJ
tanned by the plaintiff from Justice Hen
drick. He continues to conduct fash
ionable dancing establishment known as
"The Washington Place" In tho French
capital, the papers allege.
The sun., 1919-10-09
ELECTION BOARD TO EXPLAIN.
Must show Cause for Withholding
Two Names.

Justice Peter A. Hendrick last night
signed an order directing the Board of
Elections to show cause why a manda-
mus should not be issued compelling
them to place on the official ballot the
name of Patrick J. McGrath as a can
didate for the Municipal Court bench in
the Sixth district and OF Harry J. Muir
ply as a candidate for the Assembly
In the Sixteenth district. The order is
returnable tomorrow.
The Board Of Elections on Tuesday re-
jected the independent petitions of Mr..
McGrath and Mr.. Murphy on the ground
that many of the witnesses to the sig
natures did not live In the district.
These men contend that the funtions of
the Board of Elections are purely min
isterial and that any objections TO nomi-
mating petitions must be passed upon by
the courts
1t is understood that Stephen ]. Madi-
gan. candidate for the Supreme Court
whose petition also was thrown out nv
the Board of Elections, will ask for a
mandamus.
The three independent candidates were
considered in Tammany circles as most
menacing