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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12
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Receive Shower

New Avon, March 6EThe young
people of the New Avon M. E. church
gave a miscellaneous shower for Mr..
and Mrs. Percy Hanson at their home
near Gilfillan Friday evening. They
received many beautiful and useful
gifts for their new home.
Mr.. Wellman and Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Tahgman of Bancroft, Iowa
and William Kalkhoff of Templeton
Iowa have been visiting the past week
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Kalkhoff.
A number of people of this com
munity attended the funeral of Mrs
Raymond Reding and small daughtea
which was held at the Morgan Cath
Ollie church Thursday morning. Among
them were Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Thorn
as, Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Thomas, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Rothmeier, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Schwab, Mr.. and Mrs
Wenzel Goblirsch and Mr.. and Mrs,
Leo Prokosch.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Wheaton and
children were dinner guests at the W.
c. Robinson home Sunday.
Raymond Lindeman accompanied
Arthur Hawton and several Redwood
Falls boys to the basketball tourna-
ment at New Ulm Saturday.
Myrl Lindeman received first place
in the dramatic division of the south
east district declamatory contest held
in Clements Friday night.
Mrs. Otto Lindeman entertained a
group of boys in honor of MyrPs 13
birthday Saturday afternoon. The
boys had grand time playing ball
and other games. At five o'clock the
boys were served ice cream and cake.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12

Marshall is to have a new modern
school in the near future and plans
are being considered by the Board of
Education. A new theatre, too, is
being considered by the theatrical in
terests, to be built on Third street.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-03-12

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
MAYOR WALKER RETURNS MEDAL
 OF DEAD FLYER
Won HunefeId Had Given It to Balchen and Latter Gave It to Mayor-Lat-
 ter Gives It to Baroness

New York. Aug 14,-(UP)-A bronze medal worn by Baron Ehrenfried Gunther Von Hunefeld on his flight across the Atlantic in 1928 has been returned to the late flyers mother in Germany by Mayor James J. Walker of New York. Mayor Walker told of meet ing the baroness and of returning the heirloom to her when he broal- cast talk to the United States by short wave radio last night.
 You remember the story when Bernt Balchen and Floyd Bennett flew to Greenley Island to bring relief to Hunefeld. Koehl and Fitz- maurice" Walker recalled. "Out of appreciation Hunefeld gave Balchen q medal, an heirloom thai had been in his family for many generations. In turn to-day l had the great satisfaction of going with Balchen and koehl to the home of the haroness, There 1 experienced the great delight of presenting to her the medal which her son had given to Balchcn, and which in turn Balchcn had given me"
 Mayor Walker spoke highly of the courage. the hope. the deter imitation as well as the optimism" with which Germany was facing the economic crisis, There may be Il depression in Germany but 1t does not extend 10 hospitality" he added
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
ROCKEFELLER'S GRANDSON FINED
 FOR HIS BATH
Plunged Into Maltbie Lake Reservoir in the Nude and Pays $ and Costs

West Haven. Aug 14--(UP)-
 A midnight plunge in Maltbie lake reservoir a Ia nude has cost John D. Rockefellar's grandson, John Rockefeller Prentice. $5 and costs.
 Prentice and Edwin Hendrie, both of whom live in New Haven, pleaded guilty to a charge of bath ing in forbidden waters and were fined by Judge William L. Larash late yesterday.
 Prentice, who worked his way through Yale by operating tele- phone switchboard. night at New Haven hospital, is Yale Law school student. Pressed for an ex- planation today he replied: say I'll be seen val"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
JEWISH PEOPLE
 IN PALESTINE FEAR BLO0DSHED
Zionist Committee Be- lieves the Arabs Are Preparing to Cause Trouble on Saturday

London, Aug 14-(UP)-Blood- shed in Palestine tomorrow is probable, a statement from the executive committee of the Zion ist revisionists said to-day. The occasion for this. the statement said, will be anti-Jewish demon- strations by Arabs.
 The Arabs already have killed a number of Jewish travellers. ac- cording to the statement, which declared that officials in Palestine are going nothing to prevent such manifestations.
 For some time the Arabs have been tgitating against the govern ment's action in erecting sealed armories In remote Jewish commit mites as a safeguard against pos sible renewal of Arab-Jewish strife. There has also been trouble in con- nection with the governments im- position of a high duty on gasoline and automobile accessories.
 A Jewish group which recently called on the American consul in Jerusalem called attention to the state of tension and declared 1t to be similar to that prevailing just prior to the 1929 disorders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
MAY CLOSE ALL
 SPEAKEASlES IN
 BROOKLYN, N. Y,
Commissioner Mulr00ney Has Given Orders to That Effect After Three Men Had Been Killed

New York, Aug 14-(U. P.) ' Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney to-day decreed that every speakeasy and every vice re- sort in Brooklyn must close as an answer to the brutal killing of three men in a dilapidated shack in the Gowanus section of Brook iyn last night. Every available de- tective was ordered out to see that his decree was effective.
 The killings took place at 91 14th street, Brooklyn. after what police believe was a fight. The shack is said to be a speakeasy and hangout for men and women wei known In the underworld. Among those hunted by police Is Little Augie" Pisano.
 The bodies of the murdered men were identified at the Kings County Hospital as Aneglo Robert Simoncllo. 2S. Brooklyn; Charles Mature 20. Manhattan: and Jo- seph Barberio. 2s. Brokolyn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
COMMITTEE OF
 INVESTIGATION ASKS MORE POWER
By Strict Party Vote New York Seekers for Crime Ask Roosevelt to Call the Legislature

New York, Aug 14.-(UP)-By & strictly party vote of five to four, the Hofstadter committee Investigating alleged scandals in New York municipal administra- ton decided to-day to ask Cover. nor Franklin D. Roosevelt to call a special session of the state legis- Iature. to grant the committee ad- ditional sweeping powers. over the adverse vote of the democra- tic members of the committee. the republican majority forced through its plan to demand the right to grant immunity to witnesses that may be called to testify he fee- splitting or other evidences Of graft.
 The committees work had been blocked last week by a decision of the court of appeals that the legislative act creating the investi- yating commission was not broad enough to permit immunity grants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
WE SHOULD NOT
 OBEY BAD LAWS
 STATES BELLAMY
Man, Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance to Flag in 1892, Speaks His Mind

Hartford, Conn, Aug 14.-(UP) Bad" laws should not be obey ed, in the opinion of Francis R. Bellamy of New York, who wrote the familiar pledge of allegiance to the flag in 1892 to bolster a spirit of declining patriotism.
 Bellamy. former journalist and lecturer, was interviewed wh,le vis- iting his daughter, Mrs Edward J. Morin of West Hartford.
 "One of the most certain ways of getting rid of such laws Is to dis obey them so that their purpose eventually will be ignored" ne de' cIared. "The eighteenth amend ment has made the American peo- pie hypocrites and has cause more harm than any existing thing. l am afraid that some day some fanatic witl try to change inc words of the pledge of allegiance so 1t may be used as an argument Tor prohibition"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
FRENCH VOTERS
 OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR HAYES
Held a Meeting Last Night at the FrancO-American Hall and Unanimously Endorse the Mayor

At a meeting of the French democratic club held at the Franco American hall last night 1t was voted unanimously to en- dorse Mayor Frank Hayes for re. nomination as mayor at the com ing primaries. Alderman Ernest P. Belval, a member of the club. was also endorsed for renomina- ton as candidate for alderman. The meeting was very largely at- tended and the members were in full agreement with the different matters introduced. A large num- Der of applications were received from citizens who desired to be- come members of the organization, all of which were approved and they will be initiated at the next meeting.
 Archie Gauthier was elected vice president of the club. It was voted to hold a rally in the Franco American hall at a date to be an nounced later.~ The next regular meeting of the club will be held at the Franco-American hall on Tuesday evening. September l at 8 o'clock. William c. Doucette, presiden1 resided and the secre- tary, Frs -ioiselle. was at his post
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
Worked Twenty Four Years To Save The
 Honor Of Family
Banks of Jenkins Firm Collapsed in l907- Father Died = Son Started in to Pay Cred- itOrs-Last One Satis. fled Yesterday - He Paid Back $l,3OO,OO0 and He Didn't Have to Do It

Mineola, l.. l.. Aug 14-UP)- The prosaic record of satisfied judgment revealed to-day that John c. Jenkins. Jr. member of a banking family whose banks failed in the panic of 1907. had assumed $1.300.000 II obligations he might have evaded in the bank ruptcy court, and paid off the last creditor.
 Admiration was expressed by bankers and former depositors fin the Jenkins banks at the 24-year fight Jenkins waged to preserve his family's integrity. In all the time Jenkins was earning and saving money for the creditors hel ived simply In his home at Sea Cliff, using only a small portion of his incomes for his family's needs.
 When the Jenkins banks-the First National Bank of Brooklyn. Williamsburg Trust company, Hill side bank of Richmond Hill Queens. Jenkins Trust company Terminal bank and Sea Cliff bank closed in 1907. depositors first refused to believe 1t.
 The senior Jenkins. who with his sons controlled the institutions. was regarded as one of the sound est bankers in Brooklyn. The crash created as great a sensation as the recent closing of the Bank of United States.
 Public resentment fiared. The officials were indicted. Within d few months the elder Jenkins died of grief over the failure.
 To-day the son. recalling the 24 years following the crash. said:
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
WAS BLIND FOR TWENTY YEARS
 BUT NOW SEES
7l.Year.Old Man Wants to See Movies and Read About TelevisiOn and Al CapOne

New Orleans. Aug 14-CUP)-- "One of the first things wan to see is a movie--and they tell me this Marlene Dietrich Is pretty to look at too--"Joseph Forsythe, who at 71 has just regained his sight through an operation. said today. The aged sugar cane planter had been blind 20 years.
 "Country folks didn't get to see movies much in 1911 before went blind. I never did. see one. They say this Marlene girl is dandy" "l want to read the papers too. The folks have read to me but mostly they've read about politics and such. I want to read about televis- ion and Capone. Reckon I'll have 10 live to be hundred to see all I want to see. Seems just go on looking the rest of my life and sAver get tired"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
Critically Wounded Just 6 Before Dawn To-day in New York Apartment House = Yates Is the Youngest Republican in Upper House = Ruth Jayne Arrested SHE REFUSES TO
 SAY ANYTHING

New York, August IA (UP) - Senator Roy T. Yates, one of the youngest members of the New Jersey upper house. and promi- nent as clubman. broker and banker, was shot and critically wounded some time before dawn today in the elaborately furnished apartment here of Miss Ruth Jayne, an attractive blonde.
 Not until three hours after the politician was taken to the hos pital for ruptured and crippled in private ambulance, were police notified of the shooting.
 Six hours later. police knew little more of the shooting than they did when Detective James Cotter en- tered Miss Jayne's apartment and found her, in wildly colored pa- jamas, hysterically pacing the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
Senator Yates
 Of New Jersey Shot By Woman
JACK DIAMOND JUDGE EMPIRICAL OVER
 NEW YORK

New York, Aug 14-(UP)- Federal Judge Richard J. HOp- kins, the Kansas prohibitlonist took time out from reading Ict- ters commenting him for the sentence he gave Jack Ue2s) Diamond long enough yesterday to compare New York and It's '3O,OOO speakcasics to an "Ar. kansas dog sitting on an ant hill." Going down to the Ozark country for his Manhat- tan metaphor, Judge Hopkins said:
 T am reminded of the Ar kansas dog sitting on an ant hill bowling with pain while he Is bitten by ants but so indifferent that he docs not remove him. self from the hill. New York Is to-day rcaping the whirlwind Of her own sowing, and while she howls and walls about rack. ctccrs and gangsters, she still sits on her ant hill and contin- ues to violate with impunity many of the laws on the statute books. Highly respectable citi- zcns get together and while they violate one law with in- punity, discuss with all serious ness how others disregard other IaWs."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
PLAY SOLDIERS AND ONE LITTLE
 CHAP IS DEAD
The Old, Old Story, They Didn't Know That the Gun Was Loaded

Buffalo. N. Y. Aug 14-UP)-- It would be great fun to play sol diers with grandfather's gun. tho three owen boys thought. Donald 8. sat on the bed reviewing hi' army of two soldiers. Harold IS and Thomas, Jr., Q. Harold, because of his seniority. carried the l2' gauge shotgun.
 The boys decided to divide forces Harold and Thomas were to be enemies. The enemy must be shot The gun was lifted and the trigger pulled. Thomas fell to the floor dead his body filled with shot None knew the gun was loaded, police were told.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
SPAIN MAKING
 SOME PECULIAR
 AND DARING LAWS
One Is in Regard to Chil. dren Born Out of Wed- lock and Another on Divorce

Madrid. Aug 14-U. P.) - A daring move striking at the tradi- tional attitude toward children born out of wedlock was made by the new republican government in Spain to-day.
 The historic constitutional con- vention, in session here. complet- ed the text of a chapter two in the new constitution. embodying radi- cal changes iff1Aexisting laws gov erning marriage and family life.
 Marriages may be dissolved "by mutual consent. the chapter pro. vides. while children born out of wedlock would have the same rights In society as legitimate chill dren.
 Civil laws will lregulate investi- gations of paternity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
Sweetheart Of Smith One Of The Fiends
 Sentenced For Life
Katherine Keller Is Niece of Dead Judge = She Washed Bl0od-Stained Clothing of Smith and Hid the Gun - Three Brutes Are Now Safe Behind Bars
LYNCHING CROWD
 LOST THEIR PREY

Ann Arbor, Mich. Aug 14.- tUP)-Miss Catherine Keller. 25, hciress niece of the late Judge Darwin z. Curtis today was ar- rested and held for investigation in connection with the four torch murders near Ypsilanti Tuesday morning.
 Miss Keller is said to have been the sweetheart of Fred Smith, one of three men sentenced to life i'm. prisonment for the murders.
 The arrest was made by Lieut. Neil R. Black of the Michigan state police. Black said Miss Keller admitted she had washed the blood stained clothing of Smith. He found bloody news. papers and .32 caliber pistol II her home. she said
 He believed the pistol was one of the weapons used in killing VI. vian Gold. Anna May Harrison, both of Cleveland, and Harry Lore. Ypeilanti. and Thomas Wheatley. of Denton, Mich.
 Smiths confession, Black said.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
CHARLES MASON, STORY WRITER,
 WAS A SUICIDE

South Hadley. Mass. Aug. 1@-- (UP)-The death of Charles C. Mason, 3l, magazine writer, globe. trotter. Harvard graduate. ana World war veteran whose body was found in a cottage here yes terday, was attributed by police to suicide today.
 A bullet from a .22 calbre rife found near the body ended his iife' Investigators first considered a murder theory but agreed that suicide was a more plausible ex- planation after learning the victim had lost several thousand dollars in a recent venture.
 Mason, son of Mrs Frances Ma: son of Riderwood, Md. never had fully recovered from the effects of being gassed while overseas in the world war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

Putnam. Conn, Aug 14,-pP Petitions were circulated here to-day protesting against alleged state police "brutality' In main taining order among the clty's $50 striking textile workers. The in- cident which caused citizens to prepare petitions was the alleged clubbing of Egide Le Crolx by q state trooper when Le Croix tried to extinguish tear gas bomb which was causing his horses to suffer.
 Charles Salzberg of M. Salzberg & Sons company. from which 3oo weavers are striking. has with drawn concessions previously of- fered the strike leaders. He said the strikers could return only at the old terms. 55 hours a week and the former wage scale. His
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
PUTNAM CITIZEN IS CLUBBED BY STATE TROOPER AND MAYOR
 AND RESIDENTS ARE AROUSED

decision was announced after an unsuccessful conference with strike leaders yesterday.
 Mayor Charles A. Richard joined the critics of the state police but absolved local authorities of re- sponsibility for the trouble. Neither myself nor any member of the police committee or off, cers of the police force could foresee that the situation would he so unsuccessfully handled by the members of the state police that their methods of handling the situation should have proven so disastrous. no one could haNS forseen." said the mayor. Lieut. Ross V. Urquhart, commander of the Danielson barracks of the state police, declared Le Croix was struck because he attacked the state trooper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
LAST CALL
 IN FILIN C
 THE NAMES
All Must Be in Tonight If They Expect to Vote at the Primaries = Both Camps Are Very Active To-day

With tonight the last time for filing names for the democratic primaries. unusual activity was not ed to-day in both the camps of Mayor Frank Hayes and William E. Kennedy. opponents in the race for the mayoralty nomination. Town Chairman John H. Crary heading the regulars" and School Commissioner Henry Butler direc- tor of the Kennedy forces. both visited the office of the registrars of voters to-day and filed a sur prising number of applications for the primary list. This indicates that the balloting on the 27th. the date of the democratic primaries,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
COL LINDBERCH AND WIFE MIGHT
 TOUR THE WORLD
From TOkiO to China, Across India to Europe and Back Home By the Azores

None. Alaska. Aug 14.-(UP)- The aerial vacation of Colonel and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh may be extended to a world tour. he indi- cated to-day as he sought break in the. rainy weather to make q start to Siberia.
 There Is nothing definite, Lind bergh indicated, about the world tour but the flying couple are considering plan to fly from To- kio to China, thence across India to Europe and back to the United States via the Azores Islands. "1t's just something we're thinking over," LindberGh told questioners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
Late Bulletins
ITALY'S UNEMPLOYED 637, 7,156

Rome, Aug. 14.-(UP).-Italy's list of unemployed at the end of July stood at total of increase of 63563 over June the government announced to-day total of 1000 persons receiving unemployment subsidies Since the February peak of 765,325 unen ployed, there has been gradual shrinkage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
LIVED IN lNFIRMARY " YEARS

Hamilton, O., Aug. 14.-(UP)-Mrs. Kate Barton, &C., died recently at the Butler County lnfrmary here where she had been inmate for v years Mrs Bar. ton who had been blind for many years, cherished doll baby which some one gave her when she was young ster She always kept it with her and when she was buried the doll was placed in the casket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
PRISONERS FOOD FOR FAMILY

Elyria, O., Aug H.-(UP).-A prisoner at the mearer ratons for his wife and their 13yearod daugh ter Sheriff Clarence Adams said the wife brought an empty basket to the jail every day. and after visiting with her husband, who is serving out $500 liquor me left with few morsels he had given her. The sheriff let them keep the food
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
GIRL KEPT ALIVE FOR
 ii MON HIS
l8.Year-Ud New Hamp- shire Girl Has Been Liv- ing in Mechanical Lung and Hope Held Out for Recovery

Boston. Aug 14-CU. P.)-HOpe was held to-day for the ultimate recovery of an 1S-year-old New Hampshire girl who has been kept alive by a mechanical lung" for more than II months at Massachu- setts General hospital.
 The girl, whose name was with held, was near death with infan- tile paralysis when admitted to the institution September II last. Vic- tim of that type of the dread dis ease crippling the intercostal mus cles, she was unable to breathe and was in a coma.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
WASTE LUMBER MAKES TOYS

Memphis Aug. 14-(UP). ).-Waste lumber which he noticed about lumber mills here furnished Ron V Will son with an idea of converting it into toys. He now ships his toys to all parts of the country and makes yearly trips to marketing centers to visit with buyers Wilson was once an efficiency expert at mills here
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
WORKS ON SECOND NOVEL

Dallas, Tex. Bug. 14.-(UP).-Mrs. Evelyn Miller Pierce daughter of former Lieut.. Gov Barry Miller of Texas is in Santa Fe, N. M. working on "What Women Want" her second novel, Mrs. Pierce, widow of New York newspapernan began her career novelist with "Hltop" published last spring
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
SALES AGENTS SENIOR IS DEAD

Sanford, Me-, Aug. A.-(UP).-Arthur L.. Lesher, TO- of Rye N. Y, senior member of the firm of Lesher & Whitman sales agents with offices in New York and Boston, died suddenly of heart attack to-day while rowing boat Square Pond, where he was vacation ing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
FISH CAUGHT BY HAND

silver hake are being caught by hand along Stony Point beach in Dorchester nightly Anglers and children alike wade knee deep into the water and the fish onto the sand when they driven into shallow water by larger fish,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
TOWN BUYS HALL FROM CHURCH

North Reading, Mass, Aug. 14.-UP North Reading town hall was owned jointly by the town and the First Parish Unitarian church until recently. The town bought out the churchs share in the property
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
BIRTH OF A SON.

Montreal. Aug 14-(UP)-Lady Bessborough, wife of the Governor General of Canada. gave birth to son today at the Royal Victoria hospital. Both are reported as do- ing we'll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
RIVALS OLD LEE MEADOWS

Boston, Aug. 14.-(UP) Meadows, the old Pitts burgh pitcher used to be famous basebas only be- spectacled hurer That honor to have passed to Danny MacFayden of the Boston Red Sox of the most effective members of the local teams pitching corps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
RUSSIA BUYS COTTON CULLERS

Lockhart, Tex, Aug. H-(UP)-Eighteen cotton cuing machines were completed here recently by the Lockhart Cuing Machine Company for the Russian gov ernment The machines cost $750 each and will be used in Turkestan to cul trash and light seed from planting stock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
VOLCANO FRUITS.

Karuizawa, Japan, Aug 14--tU P)The Voluncano Asma erupted at 11:3O a. m. today after an earth quake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug 14.-tuP) The treasury net balance on August l : was $l41 $50. .0S9l5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

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