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The Washington times., 1930-03-24

MINE FACTIONS
FIGHT BITTER
BATTLE

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, March a
0N.S0 Rival factions of the
United Mine Workers organization
fought q bitter but bloodless bat
tie at Westville yesterday in the
first clash between the trump"
and regular" organizers since
the recent conventions. Verbal
pyrotechnicS constituted the chief
weapons of attack and defense.
Adolrh Germer. vice president
of the new" organization. and
Oscar Ameringer, editor Of the
Miner, official organ of District
IL, held sway at the Westvilie
high school, while Van A. Bittner,
Of the Lewis forces, was conduct
ing another meeting in a nearby
hall. lewis adherents are said
to have placed pickets along the
streets and in front of the hign
school In the hope of preventing
miners from listening to Germer
and Ameringer. Despite these
efforts, however, the new" Off
cials claim 400 coal diggers made
their way into the high school
and approved the aims of the
"rump" organization by loud
cheering.
Before Germer and Ameringer
got started with their speeches.
they sent a committee Of two to
the Van Bittner meeting with q
challenge to the effect that
either Mr.. Germer of myself
will address your meeting and
explain our side of the case, and
in turn MIR. Van Bittner can ap
pear before this meeting and sex
plain his side of the case" When
the committee delivered it's mes
sage to the Lewis meeting, it was
sent away with the admonition
you are bolsheviks and cannot
be listened to-"
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
| { c Al STATUS
IS SOUGHT

VANCOUVER. British Colum
bia, March "a G.N.SO The
status of q seaplane in maritime
activities may be established in
Admiralty Court here when the
Canadian courts will be asked for
the first time whether a sea.
plane is a ship.
This question was brought
about by Bruce Boyd, who has
entered a suit in admiralty in
behalf of Joseph H. Burton,
against the AlaSka-W a-Washington
Airways, Ltd. for salvaging one
of their Fairchild monoplanes.
The craft struck an iron buoy
while taxing from the mouth of
False Greek preparatory to a
take-off for Victoria. A pontoon
was ripped off the craft and she
began to sink with the pilot
Capt. G. H. Mckenzie, and two
passengers aboard.
Burton sped to the rescue in
his small gasboat, slipped a tow
line aboard and towed her to
safety.
He claims he is entitled tc
salvage and seeks $4,000, eSti
mating the planes value al
$4,000.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
PARTNER
ARRESTED

. CHICAGO, March "a Q.N.S).
Two men were under arrest today
as police sought an underworld
warfare motive for the shooting
Of Leon Sweitzer, former owner,
in Texas Guinan'S Green Mill
night club yesterday while 800
guests made merry.
The men in custody are Harry
:, G.. Voiler, reputed manager for
Miss Guinan, and Arthur D.
Reed, his bodygurad. Sweitzer
named these two as his assailants.
according to the police. He was
wounded by three bullets, but
probably will recover.
The former owner said he was
shot following a quarrel over the
rent for April, which he said he
sought to collect upon hearing
that TEX" planned to leave for
New York Saturday.
The police pointed out, how
ever, that the Little Cub. an es-
tablishment opened by Sweitzer
shortly after he leased the Green
Mill to Miss Guinan, was the
scene of an unsuccessful bomb
ing attempt recently.
The police also declared that
Ted Newberry, who fled from
Chicago some weeks ago after
being shot at, was" a friend of
Sweitzer, and that John (The
Billiken) Rito, found shot to
death in. the Chicago River two
weeks ago, was one of New
berry's henchmen. Bennie Ben
nett, Rito's pal, is missing and
is believed to have been taken for
a ride"
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Lawes Hits Tendency
Of Modern Youth
TOward Crime

NEW YORK, March "a
N.S0.-"There is no more
crime today than in other
generations in proportion to
our population" said Warden
Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing
Prison. addressing the Boys
Club Federation here today.
But there is more serious
crime now and it is being com
mitted by boys who have drifted
into crime through society's
neglect of their leisure-time
activities" he continued.
Lawes said last year in New
York alone more than $4,000
boys from 16 to 10 years old
appeared in court.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
PRETTY NURSE
TRIES SUICIDE

PHILADELPHIA. March "a
1.NSD An attractive 25-year old
woman who says she is Phyllis
Miller, graduate nurse of Balti-
more, is in a serious condition to.
day in the Pennsylvania Hospital,
from the effects of poison she
swallowed yesterday in a suicide
attempt.
She was found unconscious In
a room at the William Penn Hotel
by a chambermaid Sunday after
noon. She had registered as Mar
garet Graham, but a note on the
bureau of the room said her real
name was Phyllis Miller and re
queSted that her sister, Alberta
Miller. 301 E. North Ave., Balti.
more, be notified.
Miss Miller refuses to give any
reason for her act, hospital at.
tendantS say.
1T will be no use for you to dis.
charge me, because I'd do it
again." she insists.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
ASSA|LANT
NAMED BY GIRL

FAIRFIELD, Tex, March "a
1N.SD.-Stan Moore, wealthy
landowner and business man, to-
day had been cleared by Wilma
Jones of a charge of tying her to
hotel bed here and setting fire
to the mattress.
The girl, in a signed statement,
witnessed oy Texas Rangers and
County Attorney w. v. Geppert,
laid the blame for the attempt
on her life on a man who had
not been accused by her before.
she said. because she did not
wish to hurt his mother"
She abSolved Moore. whose
name she was alleged to have
forged to a $3.50 check, and de-
clared that she did not believe he
had any connection with the
assault. The statement came,
authorities said, after a severe
grilling.
The arrest of the unnamed
alleged attacker was expected to-
day.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
ADOPTS
PROGRAM

NEW YORK, March 24.-The
law of cycles applies, even in So
Wet Russia, the present leaders
of the Russian government have
discovered within the last few
weeks.
Six years after the death of
Nokolai Lenin and the ruthless
discarding of his "NEP," or new
economic policy, in favor of the
more strict practices of COM
munism, the present rulers of
Soviet Land have returned to a
policy virtually paralleling this
rejected scheme of the dead
leader.
Slowing Down
This time it is called a
slowing down" of the Soviets'
100 per cent communication plan
for Russia. It amounts to the
sudden application of brakes TO
the Sovietization machine which
has been forging ahead without
check or hindrance in its ecclesi.
astical iconoclaSm and its liquida.
ton of the rich peasants and pri-
vate traders.
The reasons behind this "slow.
ing down" process appear to be
much the same as those which
prompted Lenin to announce his
new economic policy. In both
cases the Soviet leaders in the
Kremlin found that the govern
ment's plan for communication Of
the country was racing ahead of
it's ability to furnish the ma
chinery, tools, implements and
seed grain to the peasants and
workers-all of which had been
pledged in plenty once the nation
had become thoroughly commu-
niZed.
Curb on Atheists
First indication of the modified
policy came when the central
committee of the Communist
party put a curb to the activi
ties of the League of Militant
Atheists, whose zeal in the de
struction of churches and the
obliteration of religion has
aroused the indignation Of tht
rest of the world.
The mere fact that this order
followed close on the heels OF
protests by high church dignita
ries all over the world against
the religious desecration which
has been proceeding systemati.
cally in Soviet Russia for weeks,
does not mean that Joseph Stair
and his commissars in the Krem
lin have needed the outraged pro
tests of churchmen abroad.
The second indication was an
other central committee order
permitting resumption of a linn.
tied amount of private trading,
enabling hundreds of shops and
bazaars, closed tight since the
governments assault upon the
merchandising bourgeoiSie, to be
reopened.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Blame Prosecutions
On Soviet Government

NEW YORK. March "a G.N.SD.
The Soviet government of Russia
was charged with direct re
sponsibility for religious persecu-
tions in that country in a report
made public today by the sub
committee Of the American COM
mittee on religious rights and
minoritieS.
Authorities we're urged to adopt
a more liberal policy in dealing
with beliefs.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
WOMEN To JOIN
GANDH| TREK

BOMBAY, March "a QN.SO.-
Feminine support and actual
participation in M a h m a
Ghandi's Indian independence
campaign impendS.
The independence leader halted
his march to the sea today at
Xuva in Bombay presidency, to
help organize women who are
eager to join his trek to Jalalpur,
where the opening stroke in his
"civil disobedience campai gn
against the British is to be made.
At Jalalpur Gandhi proposes to
manufacture salt in defiance of
the government, which holds a
monopoly in this industry.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
International

the Zoo yesterday; how everybody
had their cameras along and how
the young folks were cutting
capers and how the animals were
all popped up.
And tell 'em about the crowds
along the speedway, both afoot
and in autos. And about the man
whose hat was blown into the
water near the speedboat landing.
and who didn't mind going home
bareheaded. Why there's plenty
of spring stuff to write about"
Thank Mr.. City Editor, "
gasped the reporter, amazed that
so many signs of spring could
be found in one day, Il can write
that story now"
And this is it.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Arlington Cop Hits
Smoke Screen In Chase

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va.
March &c. Wayne Carr, officer
of Arlington county, had a mar
row escape last night when chas-
ing an alleged whisky car from
Mount Vernon Avenue and Co
lumbia Pike at RoSslyn a distance
of two miles, he was met with
a smoke screen.
Carr was unable to stop the
car, the driver making his escape
into Washington over the Key
Bridge
Carr. since the exciting chase
of a month ago, when Raymond
Crack was shot, has been making
war on bootleggers.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
TakOma Park Firemen
Will Drill Wednesday

TAKOMA PARK, Md, March
24.-The Takoma Park volunteer
fire department has issued a call
for the engine crews to report at
the fire house Wednesday evening
for drill.
Regular drills are to be held at
stated intervals and the chief re-
quests that all members attend
and familiarize themselves with
the equipment and their respective
duties,
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Cake Lodges In Throat,
Woman Almost ChOkes

A piece of cake lodged in the
throat of Mrs. Emma Keonnel, As,
900 block Webster st. N. W., early
last evening nearly causing her
death.
Mrs. Keonnel was dining with
her family and a guest when
the accident occurred. Her bus.
band summoned the Fire Rescue
Squad and under their attention
she was shortly afterward pro-
nounced out of danger.
The woman was given an in.
spection by a physician On Ener-
gency Hospitals ambulance and
allowed to remain at home.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Paris to Cairo Possible
Now by Through Train

CAIRO, March "a G.N.SD.-
The famous Simplon- -Orient-Ex-
press may now be taken direct
to Cairo. The inauguration has
just taken place of the Taurus
express. which heads south from
ConStantinople, as a continuation
of the Simplon express.
The entire journey, from Paris
or Vienna. may be accomplished
entirely by rail.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Blind Rabbi to Speak
At Jewish Center

Rabbi Michael AaronSohn, ma
tional field representative of the
Union of American Hebrew Con.
gregations, who lost his sight dur
ing the world war, will be speaker
at the meeting of Argo Lodge, In
dependent Order B'nai B'ritn,
Wednesday night in the Jewish
Community Center.
Rabbi AaronSohn left his stud
les at the Union Theological Col
lege to join an infantry company
in the world war. He was
wounded, losing the sight of
both eyes in the fighting in the
Argonne forest.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Registration of Aliens
Opposed by Wagner

NEW YORK. March 2 4U:SO
Registration of aliens will not
only fail in the purpose for
which it is proposed, but will
hamper the Americanization of
immigrants, U. S. Senator Wagner
said today in an address to the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
WHARTON VISITS HERE

Clinton R. Wharton, colored
secretary and consul of the Amer
ican Legation at Monrovia,
Liberia. is in the city and will re
main for several days. Wharton
who is a native of Boston, Mass,
has been in the foreign service Of
the diplomatic corps since 1928.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
AccOtink Rebekahs Make
Mrs. Shepherd Delegate

ACCOTINK, Va, March "a
Mayflower Lodge of RebekahS has
elected Mrs. Georgia Shepherd as
it's delegate to the Virginia Re
bekah Assembly in Lynchburg in
May. Mrs. Ruth Allen was select
ed as alternate delegate.
The Washington times., 1930-03-24
Mrs. Lawrence A. Lowell
To Be Buried Tomorrow

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March ~
U.N.SO Funeral services will be
held here Tuesday for Mrs. Anne
Parker Lowell, wife Of DR.. A.
Lawrence Lowell, president Of
Harvard.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-09
VILSTAD NEIGHBORHOOD

The Vilstad Ladies' Aid will meet
with Mrs. Clara Hedin Thursday aft
ernoon, Oct. 16, at o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hill of Mime
apolis, visited over Sunday at the j.
d. DeMaris home.
John Degerman of Duluth, is visit
ing at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Nath Degerman.
Elmer Hansen came here from st.
Paul and was Sunday visitor at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Anton Hansen.
Miss NeOmia Larsen, who has been
employed in Minneapolis, has re-
turned to her home for an indefinite
stay.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frahs and fam
lily of Askov, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan
Skinner of Hinckley, attended the
Luther League program at the Viii
stad church Sunday evening.
Miss Mabel Hedin, who has been
visiting at the home of her mother,
Mrs Clara Hedin, for two weeks, re-
turned to her work in Minneapolis
Friday.
There will be a calico social at
the Jackson school house, Friday eve
ming, Oct. II. Ladies please bring
box lunch for two.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-09

Men are queer, says a careful OBJ
server. Wouldn't there be roar
when they went home to their meals
if they had to climb up on a high
stool in front of table on which
there was no cloth and eat their
meals in this fashion? Yet a major
ity of them prefer to do that in a res
taurant, and will pick out the high
stool and feed board in preference to
the cloth covered table. A man will
borrow a chew of tobacco and set his
teeth into the plug where some other
man has gnawed off a chew. Offer
him a piece of pie at home from
which his wife or one of the children
has taken a bite and he would boiler
his head off. At home he would not
drink out of a glass from which one
of the family had been drinking. Call
him into the back end of a barn
hand him bottle of rot-gut moon
shine of which nobody knows the or
igin or nature of the contents and he
will stick the neck of the bottle half
way down his throat to get a swig
after half dozen fellows had the
neck of the bottle in their mouths
Truly man is queer duck.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-09
A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT
By H. r. Daniel

1t is perhaps not generally known
that the inspiration which led S. w.
aStraus to devote many years of his
life and expend a small fortune in
his efforts to spread the gospel of
thrift among the American people,
zsprang from the precepts of thrifty
parents.
Early in the years of his thrift work
he once said: my father was, in his
early days, a poor man but he knew
the value of economy and out of
very meager income he saved $500
with which he made a start in bust
ness. Fundamentally, the secret of
my fathers success as he moved into
the larger activities of business, was
his keen appreciation of thrift. He
and my good mother had learned what
it meant to live within their means,
to spend money carefully to save wise
ly. Thus from the days of my earli-
est youth the value of thrift was in
Stilled within me and now, looking
back over the years of early life even
up to the period of young manhood
and the beginning of my own bust
ness career, there comes the con-
seriousness of debt of gratitude to my
father and mother so deep that it can
never he repaid. No other inheritance
ever could have equaled the lessons
in thrift | learned from them. Could
a more worthy monument be erected
TO the memory of my dear parents
than the inauguration of a movement
through which others might receive
the benefit of thrift education?"
In all the activities in which S. w.
,Straus was engaged there was always
this added impulse which came with
the memory of these thrifty parents,
.Steadfast in their devotion to a prin-
rciple which they fully realized meant
not only material progress but which
contributed to the development of a
sturdy character.
While S. w. Straus held to the be-
lief that no man was ever too old to
learn the value of thrift, he was par
ticuiarly impressed with the need of
teaching thrift to those of tender
years. Looking back over his own
life he realized only too well what it
meant to gain an understanding of
thrift while still in the years of child
hood. And so it was that he did
everything within his power to en-
courage the teaching of thrift in our
schools and one of the very last arti-
cles he wrote on thrift before his
pen was laid aside forever was an APP
peal to the American people to give
more heed to this phase of thrift edu-
cation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-09
HINTS ON HEALTH
fprenared and Furnished by the
Public Health Education
Committee of Minnesota
State Medical ASSN.

Home radios may be real health
asset run with wisdom and discretion.
And they may be a serious health
menace. particularly to the children
in the house.
This is the opinion of the educa-
tional committee of the Minnesota
State Medical association expressed in
q bulletin issued on the radio-madness
to be observed in many American
homes today.
The tendency of too many enthusi-
struments long after baby and the
younger children are in bed, though
within easy hearing, is actually dam
aging to young nervous mechanisms,
these experts say, even when the lit
tie victims manage to sleep through
the racket.
Long hours of sleep in the quiet
of the home are the prerogatlve or
childhood. The baby should sleep
most of the time during the first
months of his life-the school child
from ten to twelve hours. A radio
going full tilt hour after hour in the
home will contribute to later irrita-
Dility and nervous instability.
Music is an important cultural re-
source and necessary means to re-
Taxation and recuperation," says the
bulletin. The doctor recognizes it
as such and uses it frequently in the
management of his patients. The
radio has made it so easily available,
but it has also made it an abuse and
a word of caution on behalf of the
children becomes necessary.
Home should be refuge from the
noise and tension and hustle incident
to all phases of modern living. A lit
tie calm and quiet are important for
every member of the family and the
family radio ought to minister to rest,
not destroy it.
THE children should be protected.
Staying up way past bed time to listen
in on distant programs and continu-
ing the racket after the children are
at last in bed are equally bad prac-
tices. The wise parent will guard his
children against them"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-09
EAST OF BRUNO

All are glad to learn that the sick,
Mrs. Earl Howey, and John Babe, are
improving at this writing.
Mrs. Dave Jewett of Ontario, North
Branch, Canada, visited Will Davis,
her brother and family, Monday and
Tuesday.
Henry Thomas, Fred Rupp and wife
visited at the Ed Rupp home. Mrs.
Jake Churchill and children, and Miss
A. Jensen also called at the E. Rupp
home Sunday.
M. Meyer called at the E. Rupp
home Sunday.
Mrs. o. Wentin and mother, Mrs.
Culley, were Askov visitors Tuesday.
C. o. Billman's visited the Albert
Osterkamp home at Kerrick last
Thursday.
Ell. Miller was a Pine City caller
Saturday.
The Royal Neighbors and their hus-
bands had a party at the home OF
Mrs. E. j. Miller. The evening was
spent in playing cards and other
games. Mrs. Laying received first
prize, Mrs. Joe Marihart the BOBBY
| prize. All had a good time.
E. ]. Miller and family visited at
the Keyport home west of Duquette
| Wednesday evening of last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Miller visited al
the Noeldner home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sway were Sun
day dinner guests at the Berglund
home.
Frank Stepan made several calls in
this neighborhood Friday.
| Hannes Rypkema of Hinckley, was
calling on friends in this neighbor'
hood recently.
Albert Osterkamp, wife and son
called at the E. Charpentier home
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Davis, Mr.. an(
Mrs. Howard Davis, made severa
calls in this neighborhood Sunday
visiting old friends, and also spent {
little time with Will Davis, theil
cousin.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Davis spent the
weekend here with old friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Berg spent Fri
day evening at the John Sway home
John Sway was Willow River call
err Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Berg, Walter an(
Frank, spent Saturday evening will
the Billman family.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Lingren, Mrs
John Stafford, Mr.. and Mrs. Plaisted
Mr.. and Mrs. Reese Davis of Superior
Mrs. Albert Osterkamp, and Mrs. E(
Rupp were among the callers at thu
John Babe home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Miller and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Miller ant
family visited at the Joe Pekaril
home at Rock Creek, and the Henri.
Kveck home at Pine City, and E.
Miller and family also visited at tn
A. M. Dougan home Sunday evening
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-09
Accidental.

Two small boys returning to their
school room after recess showed evil
dence of having been crying.
Teacher: Percy. why are you cry
ing?"
Percy: Harold kicked me in the
stomach
Teacher: Harold. did you mean &c
kick Percy in the stomach"
Harold: Nav, | didn't, but he
turned around just as | kicked"