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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-02-04
1000 AT OPENING OF sg
FARMERS SESSIONS
Medina County Led With Delegation
VI Of Sixty

With the unprecedented registra-
ton the first day of 1900 agricultur-
lists from all over Ohio at the Annual
Farmers Week which opened in Col
umbus Monday morfng, Medina coun-
ty led in attendance with, the larg-
est delegation, Of sixty.
Tuesdays thrush of visitors was re-
ported to have been the equal at least
Of the former days arrivals and more
were said to. be arriving on every
train. .38
Cattle raising, farm accounting, the
value of clover cultivation and some
economic discussion were Of chief in
terest in the first sessions.
That farming would be a much more
profitable operation without resultant
increases in prices to consumefs, il
farmers kept suitable accounts, was
the statement Of Prof. R. F. Taber 81
Ohio State University.
He urged that the farmer treat his
farm as a factory and keep accurate
accounts Of Investments, interes,
thereon, depreciation, labor, overhead
and all other items that go to make
up his budget, He declared the Opera
ton would not necessitate q knowledge
Of technical bookkeeping nor employ
ment Of a bookkeeper.
Among those from Medina county
at the annual meeting are:
Spencer, O. F. Mantz; L liverpool
Edwin Krause; Brunswick, RALPH
Strong, r. H. Gibbs; Sharon, R. D
: Wall; Medina, E. c. Nettleton; Gran
ger, J. c.. Indoe; York, Chas. Nettle
ton; Chatham, Clem Rice; Litchfield
Mott Starr; Westfield, H. c., Hui
burt; Montville, Geo. w. Rickart
Lafayette, J. E. Gault; Hinckley, Jas
Janock; Guilford, G. L. Long; Jerse.
Cattle club, Grant Chidsey; Holstein
Freisian, Clair Miller; Wool Grow
ers, A. S. Garfield; Milk Producers
]. c. Indoe; Y. M. G. A., E. w. Bar
mes; Poultry Association, ] E. Gault
S. B. Stoddard, Edw. Rooney, J. T
Meyer, Frank Weidner, s. F. Heavi
lin, Geo. Stewart, Sidney Uhinck
Clyde Benedict, Alvin Barth, Pres
Paul B. Elliott, Vice Pres. Ed.Nettle
ton, Sec. R. E. Lance, Treas. Carl B
Abbott, Harley G. Brunskill, J.. N
1 Wertz, County Agent r. H. Halder
son, Brant Farley, Elk. Sec., J. M
Wertz, r. Fl. Gunkelman, and Chas
Dowd. ,%
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When the water supply of the vii
slage was shut off week ago last Sat
aurday night because Tot a break ia the
main, the general impression was that
the accident left the town without fire
protection Itlhas been learned since
that Firs Chief w, Il, Wise and d half
dozen other members Of the fire de-
partment, remained at the station all
might after arranging adequate chem
|icaL facilities, and plans for utilizing
Champion creek and other nearby
waterways for connections should an
emergency arise These men are I'd
Be commended for such far-sighted-
ness, and the Inconvenience Of their
aiiznieht vigil will be generally ap-
| preciated. ~ IA
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communities Of the country receiving

communities Of the country receiving
aid.
Thus it is that the American dollar,
plus the two native dollars, will give
a child one nourishing meal q day for
"a month.
/ Medical aid, medical supplies and
material must, Of course, be an un-
qualified gift, for these are the things
absolutely lacking.
$33,000,0 900 i'd necessary at once OF
America must desert these helpless
children in the very heart of winter;
| $1,000 will save the HE Of 4 child
until the next harvest.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-02-04
sURRENDERS TO COURT

Theodore Conner, secretary of the
Hydro-Car Co. Of Cleveland, who
was secretly indicted by the grand
jury last month for alleged illegal sale
of stock in Medina county, surrenderd
to the local authorities OH Monday. In
the absence of Common Pleas Judge
Nc Clurc i'll Akron, Conner was taken
before Probate Judge Wand Deusen, who
admitted him to hail in the sum Of
$500 4sS3 II lsS
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-02-04
FEDERAL OFflCl..
AFTER LODI MN
ALLEGED vIOLATORS
or VOLSTEAD LAW
Lodi and Vicinity Said to Have Been
Distributing Point for contraband
Whiskey from Pennsylvania For a
Long Time.

Frank Rairdin, proprietor Of Taylor
Inn, Lodi, in whose hotel Sheriff
Bigelow recently confiscated 200
quarts Of whiskey, and Fred Yost,
now In jail charged with having stol-
en- 200 quarts of booze from Rairdin
and stored it in shack near Lodi,
which also was later confiscated by
the sheriff, must answer to the fed
eral authorities. It was upon orders
from the federal authorities that
Rairdin's supply of whiskey was con-
fiscated.
Federal Prohibition Agent Fred
Counts Of Cleveland, accompanied by
his assistant, H. ]. Burton, the latter
former Medina county man, were in
Medina Monday to secure full infornl-
alton concerning both cases from
Sheriff Bigelow.
Federal Agent Counts stated to the
Sentinel that following his report to
the federal department at Cleveland
Tuesday morning, warrants for the
arrest Of both Rairdin and Yost would
be issued AT once and served the same
day.
At the time his whiskey was con-
fiscated, Rairdin stated that the booze
was some that he had left ais a former
dealer following the national prohibi-
ton enactment.
Counts states that this is beyond
reason. The whiskey, says Counts,
came contraband from Pittsburg in
the fail of 1920, bottled from a Penn
sylvania distillery; the labels showing
that the goods was non-tax paid for
any other purpose than medicinal.
The bottles were also wrapped in
Pittsburg newspapers bearing date of
July, 1920, long after the prohibition
law went into effect.
According to Counts, federal author
tiles were not at all surprised over
the present developments in Lodi. He
stated that Lodi and vicinity had been
known to the department for some
time as a distributing point from
Pittsburg, altho the department had
been unable to determine just the
ones who were serving as go-be-
tweens.
~
Two charges are contained in the
warrant for Yost, and one in the war,
rant for Rairiin. Those against The
former are for Illegal possession and
illegal transportation; the one against
Rairdin for illegal possession.
To the Sentinel Federal Agent
Counts praised Sheriff Bigelow fol-
the result Of his efforts in getting the
goods on Rairdin and Yost. He alse
stamped as false the rumors about
town that much of the alleged con
traband booze secured from Rairdir
and Yost had subsequently turned uE
missing. Sheriff Bigelow produced
every bottle, said Counts.
Yost, who was absent from Lod
when the whiskey was taken from hi
shack, later turned up and was quiet
ly arrested by Marshal Dwight Eak
n en- of Lodi. Yost was taken before
Justice C. e. Knapp, where he pleat
guilty and was bound over to cour
in the sum Of $4,000. This amoun
was later reduced to $500, but up t.
the present time even this amount ha'
not been forthcoming, and Yost is still
reposing in the county Jail. sN
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-02-04
CHANGE IN FIRM

Mr.. Earle B. Gibbs, well-known
and popular young man Of Medina,
has bought a one-half interest from
his brother, Edward C. Gibbs, local
dealer for the Oakland and Chevrolet
automobiles. This new concern viii be
known in the future under the name
of The Gibbs Motor Co. MI. Earle
Gibbs has been connected with his
brother for the past eight months in
the capacity of salesman.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-02-04
G. s. q &. ROBBED

A stranger sleeping In the wait
ing room Of the Cleveland, Southwest
ern & Columbus interurban line, on
the public square, Cleveland, early
Sunday morning, promptly awakened
when the ticket agent left the office
for a moment. When the agent return
ed, the cash drawer had been robbed
Of $17f and the sleeping stranger had
vanished. IN,
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

toned to asphalt roads. Most of the fight
ing that has been done in Europe and Asia
since the armistice would have amazed
Gen. Pershing, for the armies were gen.
orally mobs, there was no staff work at all,
commanders in chief did not know at criti-
cal moments where their fanks had gone
to, artillery advanced without any covering
infantry whatever, and every possible sort
Of mistake was committed-sometimes with
the happiest results, the enemy being in an
even worse muddle.
Battles became affairs of psychology
rather than of strategy. Swift advances
by small bodies of badly armed troops
scared the life out of large bodies OF bet
ter armed troops and led to the loss of
thousands of square miles Of territory.
But il never led to any such loss of life
as took place during the battles OF the
great war Not more than thousand peo-
pie fell during the two great battles for
Omsk in the autumn of 1919, and the Polish
loss on the occasion of their great battle
for Warsaw was ludicrous.
All this is preliminary to a short de-
scription of Ataman Semenoff, who, ac-
cording to a telegram received here yes
the Japanese as head of the new Rus
sian" Government in Vladivostok. II this
news is confirmed it means that Gen.
Boldyrev, who is an honorable man, has
refused TO let himself be used any longer
as figurehead by the Japanese military
leaders. But il will certainly arouse sus-
picion in England and America as to this
Vladivostok Governments claim to de-
scribe itself as Russian | would like, for
instance. to have the opinion OF Gen.
Graves of the United States Army on Semen
off, also that of Col. Slaughter, likewise OF
the United States Army, on the same sub
iect. Both these officers have been in ST.
IBERIA and know Semenoff we'll There are
a number of American consuls TO whom /
could also appeal with confidence on this
subject only that am afraid that the rules
of the consular service would prevent them
from speaking for publication. There are
also many American and British business
men in Siberia who have very decided
views about Semenoff, but l am not sure
that. with all the cables to Vladivostok in
the hands of the Japanese. any one OF them
would like to speak out.
II the Washington Government were to
publish blue book giving all the des.
patches sent to the State Department and
to the War Office about Semenoff from the
middle Of 1918 to the present time, 1t would
be one OF the most sensational volumes
ever issued by any government press. For
these dispatches would prove that Semen
Off is in the pay Of the Japanese Govern
ment and that he is as bad brigand as
California ever saw in the forties OF the
last century The publication OF such
book would make impossible Semenon's re-
tention Of government in the Far East.
The Japanese would have TO find some
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

When workmen complained he had them
stripped, tied up and scourged He MUIR
dered, robbed, burned and misgoverned like
a medieval German Baron. The British
officers who were attached to his court
sent the strongest protests on this subject
to their superiors, and the American Off
GERS did the same, but there was no i'm
provement and most of the foreign officers
left. This is the man whom the Japanese
have had in their pa0 for the last three
years and whom they mean to run as their
candidate for the Presidency of the Far
Eastern Republic. In my opinion Lenine
is much more respectable person.
Semenoff is married, but having annexed
a woman in cafe of Kharbin, the worst
sink of iniquity In the Far East, he has
made her share his throne
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Gen. KappeH, Deceased. Was a
Man of Superior Sort

Gen. Kappell, also said by the kilograms
to have been concerned in the Vladivostok
revolution, was of different type.
business man by profession and an Estho-
hian by nationality, he was till 1914 the rep
resentative of German firm in Samara
>At the beginning of the great war he en-
tered the army as an ensign, but at the
end of the war he was Colonel of artiF
lery. When the Czecho-Slovaks took Sa-
mara, Kappell, who was living there at the
time, collected 500 men round him and
helped them to capture Simbirsk and
Kazan, as well as 165,OOO,OOO gold rubles
which the Reds were carrying about in
railway trucks.
In November, 1913 he was in Ufa, having
now attained the rank of General, and in
1919 he was again at Ufa forming a new
division. ! saw him near Ufa in May
1919 and thought him one of the best
Of the Russian rals-businesslike un-
wearied, careful OF his men,
When the Red wave swept over the Urals
in June, 1919. he was swept before 1t, but
during the terrible winter retreat from
Omsk which followed he showed great
bravery and resource. When Kolchak was
captured near Irkuta Kappell seeing that
nothing could be done but to save as many
of his sadly diminished force as possible
crossed Lake Baikal on the ice taking
forty-eight hours to do it and getting his
feet frozen. His soldiers succeeded in
carrying him to a CzechoSlovak Red Cross
train on the other side of the lake, but
several days afterward the unfortunate
General died. His name is mentioned as
that Of one of the leaders that recently
took Vladivostok but the mistake is prob
ably due to the fact that his troops, though
they had dwindled to small band, still
retain the name of their beloved leader.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
With Kolchak
This Cossack Betrayed Him

Semenoff never really acknowledged Kol-
chak, and Kolchak could never win the
obedience of this Cossack bandit. who had
behind him the might of Japan. the only
country that really counted in Siberia for
Il could send half a million men into the
Maritime Province in the course of a
month, a feat which neither America nor
England could possibly do. II Japan had
really wanted to crush the Bolsheviks 1t
could have done so easily in 1918. II 1t had
really wanted to assist the supreme Ruler
il could have seated him in the Kremlin in
1919. But Judging by its actions, 1t seemed
to desire that Russia should remain weak
and divided and II seems to desire so STILL
The Soviet Government Is afraid that
Japan will launch from Vladivostok a
great attack not only on Red Siberia but
even on Red Russia, but IL need have no
cause for fear. The Japanese wantAo keep
the Russians fighting one another dd in
fnitum and IL any of the White Generals
in it's pay are too successful against the
Bolsheviks 1t will get rid Of them, for a
strong Russia, whether White or Red, is
the last thing in the world that the Mi
kado's Government desires Its one idea
is to make the Russian Pacific coast really
Japanese. though nominaly 1t may be
Monarchist or s. II. or Menshevik.
But whatever II be Japan will rule the
roast. Even in 1919, when there were
American, British French and Italian
troops in Siberia, the Japanese soldiers and
officers behaved as though they were cocks
OF the walk Incidents illustrating the
contempt with which they treated foreign
Officers could be cited by the score. On
one occasion at Harbin four American Of
ficers had taken compartment in rail
way car by paying for II and getting a
proper authorization from the galway au'
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thorities to have it entirely to themselves.
But after the train had started Japanese
Major who spoke English insisted, despite
all protests on forcing his way into it and
taking the best seat. There was naturally
a row, in the course of which the Major
drew a revolver but was knocked down
and kept a prisoner till the end of the
journey.
| introduce this question of the Japa-
nese because it is intimately bound up
with the question of Semenoff who is only
a tool in the hands of the Japanese. If
he rules in Vladivostok the Japanese will
be masters of the port and American bust
ness will be firmly but politely frozen out
To continue, however, my account of
Semenoff. In 1919 he had most violent
row with Kolchak, who denounced him for
holding up ammunition and whom he in
turn defied, greatly to the delight OF the
Japanese. to whom Kolchak was not suf-
ficiently subservient. In July, 1919, the
Japanese sent military mission to Omsk
in order to treat with the supreme Ruler"
who refused to have anything to do with
them, however, when it was explained to
him that before any help was sent he must
write a most servile letter to the Mikado,
throwing himself metaphorically at that
monarchs feet and imploring his assist
ance.
Later on in the year great pressure was
brought to bear on Japan by England and
France, with the result that Semenoff and
Kolchak became nomnally friends. The
former was given the rank of General-he
rad previously given himself the rank of
Ataman-and invited to come to the Ural
front with his Cossacks. He accepted the
rank and still retains it. but he never
moved from Chita and, when Kolchak fell
he was unable or unwilling to assist him.
He did, indeed come as far as lrkutsk in
his armored train, but, being extremely bad
as a military leader, he had to retreat
again and soon had to flee to Japan.
His short period of rule in Irkutsk
showed him to be not only bad. soldier
but an inefficient administrator When
the villagers complained he sent among
them punitive expeditions which robbed
and burned like the Germans in Belgium
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Japan's Course Tends
to Benefit BOlSheViSm
By CAPTAIN FRANCIS MCULLAGH.

In other words, the white race. as repre-
sented by various Russian Cossack chiefs,
who are really bandits and adventurers,
der in Mongolia and eastern Siberia. The
Japanese and Chinese are using them
against the other Dressed in skins and
rags and seldom sober, for the Japs keep
them well supplied with firewater their
wild followers are rapidly degenerating to
the condition of savages, and the well
dressed, well equipped Japanese leaders
regard them with contempt.
That the japanese will keep them in that
condition as long as possible may be re-
garded as certain. But the result of 1t all
will be that most of the Russian peasants
will be driven to side with the Bolsheviks,
and that the whole of eastern Siberia will
fall into Japanese hands. The Japanese
will make the most of the present dis
turbed state of Europe, with Germany
land handicapped by conditions in Ireland,
Egypt and India.
The Japs are behaving however, with
great diplomatic skill and II will be diff
cult for any western Power to take excep-
tiou to their proceedings. They can always
blame the Chita Republic for neglecting to
fulfil it's engagements, especially with re-
gard to the naturalization of Japanese
subjects whose losses are fixed so high
that the impecunious Russians can never
pay it.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Semenof Regularly Subsidized
BY the Japanese Government

The Japanese paid him then. as they pay
him now, for the upkeep OF his troops, and
they give him besides regular subsidy in
money in return for which he has got to do
exactly what they order him to do, exactly
as IL he were an officer in the Japanese
army. In the middle of 1918 he was sub
sidized by the British Government, and
when they dropped him he hired himself
out 10 the Japs. whose paid servant he still
is Under these circumstances Il is ridicu-
lous to say that the Government" which
he controls at vladivostok is a Russian
Government: IL is as much under the Mi.
kados thumb as the Government OF For
mosa, and Americans will stand poor
chance of getting any concessions out of it
II those concessions conflict with Japanese
interests
Semenoff, when at Chita. did not depend
entirely on the Japanese, however. to bal
ance his budget He had other ways of
making money. Holding as he did the
frontier town of Manchuria. strongly gar
risoned by Japanese troops, he insisted on
collecting the customs there. though he had
no right to do so. This proved a gold mine
TO him. for he could extort as much as he
liked not only from merchants coming In
hut also from merchants going out, particu-
Isrly from Chinese merchants whose Gov
ernment is so paralyzed by fear of the Jap
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
CosSack Leader Pictured as
Grovelling Before the Mikado

Moreover. the colossal mining and forest
concessions, which the Japanese are de-
manding and which nobody can prevent
them from taking. will give the Mikado
stfanglehold on the Far Eastern republic.
Worst of all. Japan is working through
Russian agents, whom she has bought body
and soul. One of these is Gen. Semenoff,
who is only a igurehead in the hands OF
Capt. Kuroki. the clever son of Field Mar
shall Kurok the conqueror at the battle
of the Yalu. Semenoff is very ignorant
young Cossack and almost a savage, but his
proclamations are written for him and his
military plans drawn up by Kuroki, who
speaks Russian well and is always at his
elbow. Semenoff is occasionally sent by his
master to Toxic in order to grovel before
the Mikado, who though now, as is well
known, sunk into lethargic and half
witted condition. is generally pleased at
seeing white man grovelling before him
in posture of abiect abasement
Another big Russian figure in the Far
East is Gen. Khorvot, large, easy, affable
man, with long gray beard, who is at the
head 6f the Chinese Eastern Railway and
who made his headquarters in Harbin,
which, being leased by Russia from China
was until the other day neither Chinese nor
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Special Correspondence to THE New York
HERALD.
Copyright 1921. by THE NEW York HERALD.
REvAL, June s.
rAPAN'S proceedings in Siberia will
rather help Bolshevism in that coun-
u try than otherwise, and may end in
q war between Japan and America. The
Japanese Government has now demanded
from the Far Eastern republic the opening
of three important points, Khabarovsk,
Blagovyeshchensk, and Chita-the latter
being the seat of government. 1t also de-
mands for its nationals concessions in
mines, woods and steamship communities
tion on the Amur, and insists that its sub
jects be compensated for all the loss they
sustained in the civil war in Siberia. This
simply means of course, that the military
party in Japan is in the saddle and is de-
termined to keep Siberia in a state of dis
order for its own purposes.
The Soviet Government has addressed a
note to the French. English and Italian
Governments complaining OF the support
which the Japanese are giving TO White
Guard leaders like Semenoff and Ungern-
Sternberg. The Soviet Government blames
England for permitting this seizure OF
vladivostok, which is 1t says breach OF
the Anglo-Russian trade agreement, and IT
says it reserves to itself the right to take
the measures rendered necessary by this
change of policy on the part of Great
Britain"
The Japanese made all arrangements Tor
the capture of Vladvostok from the Boil
81 he Qa6
prevented the Red troops from concentrat-
ing and allowed the insurgents to seize the
railway station and the arsenal. Vladi
vostok now is practically Japanese port
r At the same time the Japanese are busy
in Mongolia, where they are raising q
large Mongolian force for service in 81
IBERIA. Here, howevey they are not hitting
IL off so we'll with the local White guerillas
Ungern-Sternberg and Ataman Annenkov, a
young Cossack OF 25, extremely ferocious
drunken and dissipated. Annenkov, whose
record as a butcher and a gunman would
earn him the respectful admiration OF the
worst old time bad man" OF Texas, re
Gently attacked the new Monaghan army
but then. fearing arrest by the japanese
he took refuge at the headquarters OF the
Chinese expeditionary force in Mongolia
Afterward he proceeded to Pekin in order
to elaborate, with the assistance OF the
War Ministry there, plans for campaign
against Ungern-Sternberg who on his side
proclaimed general mobilization with
out. however. getting a single recruit
On venturing northward again into Mon
golia Annenkov was arrested by the Japa
nese and his band dispersed. In Pekin
there is now sitting conference Of the
Mongolian princes" who are drawing up
with the assistance of the Chinese Gov
ernment, a plan Of campaign for driving
Ungern. .Sternberg out Of Mongolia.