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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16
RUTLEDGE

Chas. Mills returned from Moose
Lake Wednesday with a new Ford
coupe.
Mrs. M. Slime, Miss Senoeb and Miss
Ann Kepler attended the Farm Blu.
reau Picnic at Pine lake Wednesday
Gordon Mitchell of Duluth, came
down Saturday to drive his brothers
car back. 1t was at the "U" Service
station for repairs.
Mrs. Salkiewic is in st. Paul this
week, on a short vacation.
Emil Anderson left for his home
at Austin Saturday.
Mrs. w. H. Welshinger and baby re.
turned to Forest Lake Saturday, leav.
ing Eugene to visit at the F. Ander.
son home.
A. w. Underhill of Sandstone was
in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Slime and family went
north for few days vacation, on g
fishing trip.
Mrs. Geo. Cich of Sturgeon Lake
spent last Thursday at her parent
al home.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Carter anG
Glenn, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jaglowsk
and family took the day off and at
tended the Farm Bureau picnic al
Pine lake Wednesday of last week.
Francis Charter of Cloquet, is Wis
iting Mrs. Rondeau at the D. S. Scot
home
Miss Gertrude Soelberg of Rush
City, is visiting Mrs. L. D. Jones.
D. S. Scott celebrated his SSH
birthday Sunday, June 18th. Mr.
Scott is in good health and was equa
to enjoying the festivities of the da!
that were prepared for him. Mrs
Chas. Millner of Forest Lake, came
up for the occasion, bringing him {
birthday cake. Mr.. and Mrs. Emery
Scott of Carlton, also came anC
brought him cake. Mr.. and Mrs
R. H. Cribbins, Mr.. and Mrs. E. H
Davis and son, Orval Edstrom, all O
Duluth, were also his guests. AL
enjoyed a very delicious dinner after
which there was vocal and instru
mental music.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16
BIRCH CREEK TOWNSHIP

Miss Hildur Larson returned home
from Minneapolis Saturday.
Miss Mabel Strom returned to Du-
luth Sunday.
L. o. and Ed Hatleli transacted bus
mess in Kingsdale Monday and Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Gustafson and Hen
ming and Mrs. Gustafson's brother
visited at o. Oswald's Sunday.
The Nordland Ladies' Aid will meet
at Alfred Johnson's of Kettle River,
June 18th.
There will be Young Peoples meet
ing Saturday night, June 18th.
Meeting in Norwegian Sunday NOR
ming, June 10th, also English SER
vices in the evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16

HAS your baby learned to talk
YETI" asked a citizen here of a young
married man. "Well, not yet" he
replied, nothing but static
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16

novels now published in English.
The new book will be issued in Nor
way this fall and will be translated
into English soon thereafter.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16

American Want Ads-Only 1c a
word.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16

American Want Ads are read by
buyers and sellers alike.
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Tell it through a Want Ad.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16
Always Plenty of
Ice Cubes

It's really comforting in hot weather to
have bowl kept full of ice cubes and to
know that you have a never-failing source
that keeps the supply constantly replen-
ished!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
HIGHWAY DEPT.
Barred
BY LEFEBYRE.
Legislative Committee Civ.
en- Figures Showing
Financial State.

PHOENIX, Feb. 1.-(P-If the state
highway department had been closed
last December 81 it would have had a
balance on hand today of $230,743.75,
w C. Lefebvre, state highway engi-
neer, today told the joint legislative
committee which is investigating his
conduct of the department.
This amount would represent the ex-
cess of resources over liabilities, the
latter being estimated at $2,346, ,637.O6.
ILefebvre had told the committee at
the first hearing that his department
was solvent" Interrogated by Fred
Sutter of Cochise, chairman of the
committee, as to the meaning of the
term, Lefebvre contended that if the
departments business were closed up
and he was forced to liquidate, he could
pay off all the departments debts and
have something left over. Smart, Gore
and Company, Chicago, public account
ants ,on December 81, 1922, reported a
deficit in the department of $1,209,-
342.77. While agreeing that the de-
partment owed somewhere in the
neighborhood of $SOO,OOO, Lefebvre
! told the committee at the first hearing
! LIldL. JHSI6 was lIO ueL1ClC III CHS
strict meaning of the term, and that
s175,0O of the 100000 could be met by
incoming revenues from gasoline tax
and other sources.
| On December 81, Lefebvre told the
committee today, the department had
liabilities as follows:
| Accounts payable, $514S62.96; bal
ance of county pledges received, ST.
4 S44.S4; designated under federal ai6
projects, $5S1 174.75; designated non
| federal aid projects, 1929, 4O4.G6; re
sources from special funds and appro-
priations, $9O,00O.O0; and property ant
equipment, capital account, $1,02S,'
349.S5.
His resources he listed as follows:
Cash, $297,542.3O; accounts receiv
able, $13, ,416.4O; federal aid earned
s241, ,516.4O; special funds and appro
priations, $9O.OOo.O0; inventories of ma
terials an dsupplies, $4S6,3S4.75; bal
ance of appropriations under senate
bill 81, none; county, aid pledges, $5,
1000; federal aid unearned, $475,172.5O
iproperty and equipment, $1,02S, ,349.S5
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
WOMEN VOTERS
HEARS
PEACE MESSAGE
Miss Josephine Schain
Pleads For Law Barring
War.

Seventy -four Douglas women, leaders
in every phase of civic and religious
work in the city gathered at the
Country club last night to hear Miss
Josephine Schain give her message tc
the League Of Women Voters OF
Douglas.
Miss Schain brought message not
only to the women of Douglas, but
applicable to all the women of the
world.
The dinner which was one of the
many functions proposed and backed
by the local league brought out the
intense interest which Douglas women
are cultivating in national and inter-
national affairs. Mrs. J. L. Hastings
presided in the position of president
substituting for Mrs. L. ]. Tuttle,
who is out of the city. In her ad-
dress she proposed that a message OF
sympathy be sent to Mrs. Tuttle and
instructed the secretary to- do So
Mrs. Hastings then introduced the
first speaker of the evening, Mrs. r.
]. Mott of San Francisco Mrs Mott
trict, which includes the seven far
western states, opened her remarks
by praise of the activities of the
local League of Women Voters. She
stated that Douglas was outstanding
among cities listed in the national
league. She mentioned that the ma
tional league was anxious to get in
direct touch with Douglas women by
establishing a state board, and init
mated that such a step was not far
in the future. Mrs. Mott then went
on to touch on the leading characters
of the league in national affairs.
She deplored the lack of votes at each
presidential and state election, putting
her highest estimate of total votes
cast at perhaps SO per cent of the
number eligible to vote. In speaking
of women office holders throughout
the nation she made the bald state
ment that the large majority Of
women office holders were not sue
cessful because they We're ignorant
of civic science. She particularly cit
ed the instance of Mrs. Bertha Landes
mayor of Seattle, who overcame this
handicap by study of such problems
Mrs. Mott closed her message by
hoping that the national board and
Douglas would soon be in better
touch with one another. Most OF
Mrs. Motifs address dealt with the
work of the league in relation to the
local league.
Following Mrs. Motifs speech Mrs
Hastings again took the floor to
make few remarks and introduce
Miss Josephine Schain to the Douglas
league. Miss Schain startled the
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
.NTCARAGUA-MEX.
POLICY o. KID
BY COMM T TEE

WASHINGTON, Feb. /. - up - over
the protest of it's democratic members,
the house foreign affairs committee
today reported the Fairchild resolu-
tion proposing that the house endorse
President Coolidges Nicaraguan-Mexi
can policy The vote was 10 to 5.
Representative Connally, democrat,
Texas voted with the republicans for
the announced purpose of moving to
reconsider the action. This he did
after nearly an hours heated debate,
only to lose, to 6, on a strictly party
vote. The committee rejected, s to z,
proposal by Representative Moore,
democrat, Virginia, to call Secretary
kellogg for questioning on the sub
ject On this motion, Representative
Fish, republican, joine dwith the demo-
Gratis who supported it.
Action on the Fairchild resolution
climaxed a series of stormy meetings
during which republicans accused
democrats with attempting to inject
politics into international affairs, elic-
ting vigorous denials from the latter.
At one session, Representative Lin
thicum of Maryland, ranking democrat,
left the committee room as a protest
against what he described as gag
rule" by the republicans, while today
Moore threatened to absent himself
from the committee meetings for the
remainder of the session, declaring he
would not be a party to what was go
ing on
The democrats took the position that
the committee had no right to act on
tba rasoIution without endea voriner tn
obtain more information on the situa-
ton, while the republicans contended
that the presidents recent message
fully set forth all facts that the COM
mittee should know.
Just before today's session broke up
Moore carried by 9 to vote a mo-
tion to print stenographic report of
the entire proceedings.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
F ind Bodies Of -Four
Victims OF Murderer
Sentenced To Death

WHITTIER, Calf, Feb. / P).-The
confession of George j. Hassell, con
victed Texas slayer, in which he ad
mitted the murder here ten years
ago of q family of four, was con-
firmed today by the finding of hu-
man bones buried in the cellar in
house which he formerly occupied
Hassell is now awaiting execution
in Texas as the result Of the Staying
OF his wife and eight stepchildren
The Whittier victims are believed
by police to be Mrs. Marie vogel,
formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa, and her
appeared from here under mysterious
circumstances in 1917.
The bones of four persons were
unearthed late today while police
were digging beneath the house il
which Hassell at one time lived.
under the name of ''G. Baker"
The officers were guided in theil
search by chart prepared by Has,
sell. In his confession Hassell de.
ciared he had choked and clubbeo
to death woman with whom he
was living here and then Killed the
sleeping children, following an argu-
the army This happened shortly
after the United States entered the
world war. After committing the
murders Hassell buried his victims
beneath the house.
When Hassell's chart arrived Mon
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
COLORADO RIVER
COMMISSION ACT
PASSES SENATE
If Adopted BY House, In
tact, Governor Promises
To Veto 1t.

PHOENIX, Feb. 1.-[P-The possi-
bility that the state may farm OUT
it's accounts receivable to collection
agencies as part of the plan for reha-
bilitation of the state finances was
mentioned today by member of the
house appropriations committee in
connection with the passage of the
regular tax anticipation bill by the
house.
Yesterday, john P Orme of Maricopa,
member of the committee, disclosed
that a plan was afoot to place the
state on a strictly cash basis in two
more years, precluding the necessity
for issuing tax anticipation bonds and
for registering state warrants, with a
resultant saving in interest charges
What the plan was he did not say.
Passage of the Jones of Maricopa
Colorado river bill, providing for the
creation of permanent river commits
sion; o fthe Akers of Maricopa meas
ure, limiting the hours in which
women may be employed in industrial
pursuits by the senate, and the intro
duction of bill by Kimball of Gra-
ham, and Bettwy of Santa Cruz, pro-
posing to change the system of taxa
ton on real estate and other properties
held by institutions or individuals who
lend money, featured the legislative
day.
The Jones bill, if passed intact by the
house will be vetoed by the governor,
according to Governor Hunts declara-
ton few days ago, The bill gives
the legislature the ledge" of one vote
in the composition of the commission.
The Kimball- -Bettwy bill proposes to
tax all properties held by corpora
tions, associations or individuals whose
business it is to lend money or to make
money by the use of money, in the
same way tha tother properties are
taxed. Kimball explained that under
the existing plan of taxation in Ari-
IONA such institutions and individuals
are exempt from certain taxations.
The Graham senator declared that
inasmuch as the mines, producing in
dustries, are paying 80 per cent OF the
taxes of the state,' the banks should
not be exempt in any particular. The
banks, he held, were growing rich from
taking over tax exempt properties and
holding them until the valuations were
N0--
In the committee Of the whole, the
house approved the bill raising the sal
aries of supreme court justices from
$5, 900 to $500 a year, as well as a bill
calling for the establishment of state
school for girls, separate from that al
Fort Grant, at which the girls now are
housed with delinquent boys
Under the terms of bill introduced
! by Murphy of Gila an appropriation
of 100000 would be made to match a
, like appropriation by congress for the
construction Of road across the Fort
| Apache Indian reservation from Cool
! idge to White river
| The senate passed the Akers bill fol
the employment of prison labor on the
state highways, amended to stipulate
| Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
FOREIGN LAND
HOLDINGS SAFE
SAYS BUREAU
Department OF Commerce
And Labor Says No Prop
erty To Be Taken.
BLAME OIL COS.
Accuse Companies Of At
tempting To Precipitate
Real Conflict.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1 [P).-Writ
ten statement issued today by the
department of commerce, industry
and labor which is in charge of the
administration of the petroleum law,
declares that the Mexican govern
ment has no desire to confiscate any
property of the foreign oil companies
and has not confiscated any such
properties, as some rebelEous com-
panies which have not accepted the
petroleum law would maliaously
make it appear.
These "rebeIIious companies" the
statement continues, have attemptec
to make an international problem
cut of the new petroleum law and
use it to precipitate real conflict.
IF these companies reduce or sus.
pend operations says the statement,
"it will be for the purpose or caus;
ing unemployment. They deliberate:
ly wish to create a critical situation
in the oil zone"
The department points out that tho
companies are at liberty to completS
ali operations Begun before January
!, when the time expired for applica-
tons for new concessions, although
since that date the government has
refused permits for drilling to com.
panies refusing to accept the law
"It now. appears" adds the state
ment that the rebellious oil COM
panies are responsible for the pro-
paganda that the Mexican govern
ment, desirous of confiscating their
property, has in an arbitrary man
ner cancelled their permits and that
the Mexican government is the direct
cause of the labor difficulties in the
petroleum zone.
''This is untrue The Mexican gov
ernment has not done more than sec
the laws observed in obedience to
the constitutional mandates and ideal
of the Mexican revolution.
"These companies have attempted
to convert into an international prob.
lem matter which solely concerns
Mexicos internal regime and which
is entirely domestic, as pertaining to
cur sovereignty. They are making
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
Dean Shirrell Quits
Ariiz. ~" By Request

TUCSON, Feb. 1.-(R-The regents
at their recent meeting authorized us
to request the resignation of Dean
Shirrell if it seemed for the best good
of the university" DR.. Cummings, act
ing president of the university, said
tonight. Dean Shirrelfs resignation
will be placed before the president to-
morrow morning, effective yesterday.
He quit his office tonight after a lit
tie more than year of service as dean
of men. The deans letter contained
no more than a mere statement of his
resignation. He made no further state
ment in addition to the one saying he
was glad to go.
designations have not been asked of
any other faculty member, DR.. Cum
mings stated.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
The Day In Washington

Ford tax hearings were re-
sumed.
The senate finance committee
approved the alien property bill.
Construction of three cruisers.
opposed by President Coolidge,
was approved by the senate.
Senate republican leaders
STAYED off a vote on a resolution
advocating tax reduction.
The senate voted to delay the
shift Of immigration quotas to
national origin basis.
Bootleggers Invading congress
sional officers were denounced.
The administrations Mica
raguan- Mexican policy, was en-
dorsed by the house foreign af-
fairs committee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
U.S.. MARINES ORDERED TOWARDS China
Conhiscation Purpose Is Denied By Mexico!
BOOtlegger Etiquette
In Congress Described
On Floor By Johnson

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 R.-
BOOtleggers have waited i'm con"
gressiOnal IObbies while their
cards were sent in to members.
Representative Johnson, democrat,
Kentucky, declared i'm the house
today.
some even had the impudence
to solicit me,' he added. "And
when they are caught and con-
victed, they boast that their rl,.
fluentiaI friends will get them
out of their troubles"
The Kentmcl<ian was attacking
the treasury's medicinal whisky
bill, which he described as an in
strument to defeat prohibition. He
cOntended the "subsidized" corr
pOration set up by the bill would
be empowered to distribute liquor
in any way it chose, under the
guise of dispensive medicine.
SIT has been correctly styled 'thc
whisky BILL" he said.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
M'NARY- HAUGEN
F AR M BILL IS
BLOCKED AGAIN

WASHINGTON, Feb. l (F9-Unsuc-
cessful efforts were made today in
the senate to link the McNary- -Haugen
farm bill and the McFadden branch
tanking measure in an unanimous
consent agreement for time for
voting on each Chairman McNary,
of the agriculture committee VINO IS
co-author of the farm measure asked
unanimous consent for votes accepted
suggestions for changes Of the date
originally proposed and then ran in
to objections by Senators King, dem
ocrat, Utah., and Harrison, demo-
crat, Mississippi AS result, botA
measures continue in their present
status with no limitation on their
discussion, but new efforts will be
made later to reach an agreement for
disposing of them. McNary wanted
a vote on his bill Saturday and on
the banking bill Tuesday. Senator
Howell, republican, Nebraska, sug-
gested vote on the banking bill on
February 10 and Senator Shipstead,
farmer-labor, Minnesota, asked that
the date for the farm relief measure
be deferred until Monday. The house
will take up the McNary-Hauge bill
next Tuesday and already has dis
posed of the McFadden measure un-
less the senate amends the resolu-
ton it approved last week containing
two amendments upon which the con-
ferees were in disagreement.
During the Senate discussion, Sen
ator Johnson, California, wanted some
agreement about a division of time
between the farm and banking meas
ures and other pending business ex-
planning that he had a bill-the
Boulder canyon dam measure-which
he wanted acted upon at this ses-
sion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
Mexican Train Guard,
Insane, Kills F oul

MEXICO CITY, Feb. R.-Four
soldiers were killed and two were
wounded today when another soldier
one of the military guard on a
Laredo Mexico City passenger train,
suddenly became insane when the
train was nearing Gomez Farfas,
state of Chihuahua. He seized sew
eral rifles, one after the other, and
began shooting promiscuously. Eel
low soldiers finally subdued him. No
passengers were hurt, but both for
eign and Mexican passengers, Think
ing it was bandit attack, were
badly frightened.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
Hope To Avert Strike
On Southern Pacific
By Arbitration Board

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Hope
Of avcrting a strike that would
tic up the entire Southern Pacific
system from Ell PasO to Portland
and from Ogden to San Francisco
WAS expressed by representatives
OF the company, the public and
signal men, who are demanding
wage increases, when they meo
here today.
For two months the signalmen
anA the company have been at
lOggerhcads. The employees asked
13 cents an hour more pay. The
company declared the SYSTEMS
revenues will not stand the strain
The decision of the three party
representatives, acting as an arbi
tratiOn board, will be final.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02

WILL LEAVE SATURDAY
SAN DIEGO, Feb 1.-R-The fourth
regiment of marines, numbering 1900
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02
SAN DIEGO SEA
SOLDIERS GET
SAILING ORDER
Fourth Regiment Will Be
On High Seas Before
Noon Saturday.
GO TO ORIENT
Chinese Moral Restraint
Breaks, Down, Mission
ary Reports.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.--R-SaiIing
orders under which 1900 marines now
at San Diego, Calf, will be moved
closer to China as a precautionary
measure coincided today with dis
closures that President Coolidge does
not anticipate that it will be necessary
for Americans to be evacuated from
Shanghai although tn egovernment is
taking all possible precautions to as
sure them protection, or if necessary,
transportation.
The marines are scheduled to sail
Thursday on the transport Chaumont
bound for Asiatic stations. 1t is ex-
pected that detachments will be left
at Guam to replace marines ordered
from there to Manila. They will be
held available for use in China if
called for by Admiral Williams, COM
manding American naval forces in the
Orient.
President Coolidge is still awaiting
some intimation from China that an
agreement can be reached between the
warning Chinese factions under which
negotiations of new treaties with
China can be taken up.
While no move toward direct con-
versations with the two major fac
tions had been made, 1t was indicated
at the White House today that in the
event of negotiations, the Washington
government probably would be retici-
ent on the subject until it had some
accomplished fact with which it has
to deal. The president feels that it is
proper that general policies should be
annOuncnd hIt that negotiations with
other governments must be conducted
in an orderly and more or less confi-
Dental way until a conclusion can be
reached.
The president called Chairman Borah
of the senate foreign relations COM
mittee to the White House today and
is understood to have gone over the
Chinese situation with him. Borah
declined to discuss his talk with the
president and no information as to its
details could be obtained at the execu-
tive office.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02

Fair Wednesday, Thurs
day; not m"~h change in
temporal
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-02

TUCSON, Feb. alberto ]. PAM,
former secretary of the treasury of
Mexico, resigned his post to once more
bear the portfolio of minister to France
because he "likes life in Paris better
than in Mexico City," he declared here