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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Conservation
Club Elects
NewOfficers
Organization Active in the
Protection of Wild Life
and Fish
FAIRY LAKE BASS POND
Resolution Recommends Sank
Lake Be Closed to All
Winter Fishing

The annual meeting of the Con-
servation Club was held in the
Community Club rooms Friday, eve-
ming. Carl Fischer, who very ably
officiated as president the past
year, called the meeting to order.
Following the reading of the
various reports, which showed a
very prosperous year for the club,
the election of officers was taken
up and the result was as follows:
Robert Schwalen-Presiden
Ed L. Rathe-Vice President
Harold Gray-Secretary
Art McDermond-Tre ~.
The Club was quite active in
conservation work the past year,
among the outstanding events be-
ing the feeding of pheasants dur
ing the winter, securing of fish fry
for the surrounding lakes and also
some pheasants were liberated.
During the coming year one of the
largest projects of the club will be
the building of a bass pond at
Fairy Lake. The pond will be built
near Jardine's bay. Several of the
members have volunteered their
services and it is expected to have
a bee later on to complete the pro-
ject.
Fish fry and pheasants have
been requested for this year and
they will be placed as soon as they
arrive. In this connection Game
Warden Mossman announced that
the pheasants in this community
had weathered the winter success
fully due to the efforts of local
sportsmen.
The Melrose Sportsmans Club
challenged, the local club to a crow
hunt, the opening day of the con-
test being last Sunday. The event
will continue until May LIST, when
the lossers will give a dinner to
the winners to be held in the Mel
rose Sportsmens club house at
Birch Lake. Hunters must bring
the heads to the Connely Meat
Market in this city, where on each
Monday morning they will be
counted. Warden Mossman, of this
city, will count the birds for the
local club, while Warden Worm
brock, of Melrose, will count the
heads for the hunters of that city.
Crows will count two points,
Hawks three points and owls five
points. Anyone interested, whether
a member of the club or not, may
take part. Prizes for high man in
the local club will also be awarded.
Three dollars will be given as sec
ond prize. Captains Of the teams
appointed were: George Fish, Walt
Jung, Alex Benson and Clarence
Trones.
The club also went on record to
close Sank Lake to all manner of
winter fishing, and also favors a
short open Season on pheasants in
Stearns County the coming fall.
On Monday afternoon Wardens
Mossman and Vornbrock, under
the auspices of the local club, SEM
ed Hoboken creek and placed quite
a large number of fish back into
Sank Lake.
Last year the club enjoyed a
large membership and it is hoped
that it can be materially increased
this year. The dues are only fifty
cents per year, and with a large
membership a great deal Of con-
structive conservation work can
be done. Turn your membership in
as soon as possible.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Organize To
Fight Grass
Hopper Pest
County Agent to Hold Meeting
in This City Friday
Evening, April %
IS VERY IMPORTANT
Township Officers and Farm.
ers of Western Stearns
Should Be Present

Congressman Selvig's bill APP
propriating over 81 ZOO, 900 to aid the
Northwest farmers in handling the
grasshopper scourge which was a
menace last year and with normal
weather conditions is expected to
be much worse this year, has pass
ed the Congress.
Several sections Of Western
Stearns were seriously affected last
year as was the territory adjacent
and north Of st. Joseph.
Wednesday, e. C. Lenzmeier, re-
Gently appointed county agent with
the organization of the Stearns
County Farm bureau, called at the
Herald office Wednesday afternoon
and stated that the work of getting
up the organization to fight the
pest has been started.
OF the amount appropriated $143,-
600 will be available for Minneso-
ia. County Agent Lenzmeier has
arranged for a meeting to be held
at the Sank Centre Community Club
rooms Friday evening, April %, at
500 o'clock.
This melting is a very important
one and should be attended by the
township clerks and supervisors of
Sank Centre, Melrose, Wildwood,
Getty, Ashley and Raymond town.
ships, Stearns county, and Little
Sank, Kandota and Birchdale town
ships, Todd county.
While the Stearns county agent
hasn't any jurisdiction over Todd
county Mr.. Lenzeier stated he was
willing to cooperate with officers
Of townships adjoining Stearns
county to the end that the menace
may be reduced to a minimum in
this section.
In an ordinary season the hop
pers will start Matching about the
middle of May and will finish the
latter part of the month. The pois-
oned bran should be distributed be-
tween June first and 18th as the
hoppers will begin to fly about that
time. When they reach the flying
stage the poisoned bait will be eff
fective If not used before the fly
ing stage has been reached. a
The hoppers reach the flying stage
when about two and one-half weeks
old.
The Sank Centre meeting should
not only be attended by the town
ship officers but all other farmers
interested.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Republicans Will
Reduce Taxes
Senator ROckne Has Plan to Effect
Savings-Would Cut All
Appropriations

Supporting the Republican plat,
form declaration calling for a $5,'
100000 cut in state expenditures
Senator A. J. Rockne, chairman OF
the senate finance committee, has
taken up Governor Olson's chal.
lenge and shown definitely how this
reduction in governmental costs can
be effected.
The repeal of the one mill road
tax and the looping off of 8 per-
cent on general appropriations will
bring about the promised cut at
least 100000 in the state budget
Senator Rockne declared in his pa
per, the Zumbrota News.
In answer to the sheer hypro-
crisy" charge made by the governor
against the Republican platform
Senator Rockne said. "This Ian
guage, coming from a man holding
so exalted a position as that or
governor of the State of Minneso-
ia, rather places the utterances as
having come from a soapbox orator
haranguing a mob, but If it pleases
His Excellency to make such
charges, I cannot, of course, as a
humble citizen of the state, find
fault with 1t.
1.-THE inference from the state
ment appears to be that the COVER
nor thinks that this reduction can
not and will not be made. When ]
was asked as to whether it was
safe to make such a statement De
fore the committee on resolutions
appointed by the republican state
convention, I explained that II
could easily be done, and when ask
ed how, told them that we could
repeal the one mill road tax which
costs the tax payers of this state
approximately two million dollars.
"Then there is no question but
what we can make general cut OF
8 per cent on all appropriations
which total amount is in the neigh
borhood of $4,000, 900, and this will
produce another reduction of 3d..
100000, totalling $5,200,000. Now il
His Excellency thinks that this
estimate is saturated with political
dishonesty and hypocrisy" then let
the governor make the most of it.
but I can issue him that If the
legislature will follow my sugges-
tions the cut can be made at the
next session, and that no activity
Of the state will suffer from the
cut"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
County Loses Its
Fight on TB Test
Judge Cameron Rules That Co.
Protest Against Making The
TB Test is Void

The long tight against making
the T. B. test in Douglas county
ended this week when Judge Cam
eron, who heard at this term of
court the states demurrer against
the answer Of County Attorney C..
Fred Hanson to the original COM
plant of the state in this case, sus-
tanned the demurrer.
In ordinary non-legal language,
that means that the county is "all
wet" in its plea that the petition
asking for a TB test was obtained
on false representations, and the
county's contract with the State
Livestock Sanitary Board will have
to be lived up to and TB test
made.
AS the county board has never
made levy for a TB test, the test
will have to be paid for with
county money, and when the
county board meets in July to
make its county levy for 1888, it
will have to levy enough to pay for
the test and the necessary retests.
The 1888 levy will have to be in
creased per haps $4,000 for the TB
test.
county, and when the county board
meets in July to make its county
levy for 1888, it will have to levy
enough to pay for the test and the
necessary retests. The 1888 levy
will have to be increased perhaps
$4,000 for the TB test.
The movement to make a TB
test of Douglas county cows began
in the fall of 1881 when a petition
was circulated asking the county
board to have the test made. More
than so per cent of the cattle own
ers Of the county signed the petit
ton and the county board, at it's
December meeting that year, ac-
copied the petition and contracted
for test.
An interesting feature of this ac-
ton is that the vote of the county
commissioners was three to two in
favor of the county board, in
January, only one member Of the
board who favored making the test
was still on the board: Erne Lee.
John O'Brien and Theo. Winkjer,
who had voted for the test were no
longer members of the county
board.
A movement began Immediately
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
BIG LIQUOR HAUL

Thursday evening OF last week
the Federal prohibition officers
made a big haul in st. Cloud. A
camouflaged truck belonging to
Quinn Brothers, warehouse and
transfer firm, Fargo, N. D., attract
ed the attention of Federal officers
who for the moment were at st.
Cloud, was followed to Waite
Park and overhauled. A bedspring
and other household goods were
hung on the outside Of the truck.
Investigation revaled that the truck
contained 1000 gallons of perfectly
good alcohol and 20 cases of Mel
lowood Canadian whiskey.
The drivers were placed under ar
rest. The disposition of the alco-
hol has not been disclosed.
It appears that this is not the
first time that Quinn has been APP
pretended by the Federal officers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Student of India to
Discuss Conditions
Sunday Evening Forum Series Will
Close at Congregational Church
April IL

To conclude the series OF SUNDAY
evening, forum services at the First
Congregational Church, Sank Gen.
tire, Rev. Morgan has secured the
services of Ralph Keithahn, Ma
dura, India to conduct a public for
UNI at the Congregational church
Sunday evening, April II at 7:45.
Mr.. Keithahn is home on furlough
after five years residence work in
Madura, India, where he has had
charge of the normal training
schools of that city.
Mr.. Keithahn has been active
in the reform movements taking
place in India, and because of his
open sympathy with Gandhi and
the Nationalist cause he was in
formed by the British Governor, of
the Province of Madura that his
services were no longer required in
that Province, and was asked to
leave the country. His case was
taken up with the International
Missionary Council in consultation
with the government of India, and
the Indian office in London. At
this trial Mr.. Keithahn was able
to defend his position and will be
permitted to return to India in
October. This case received consid-
cradle international publicity and
many American colleges came to
Mr.. Keithahn's defense.
During his five years in India
Mr.. Keithahn has travelled extern
sively and has studied the causes
for the uprising of the masses. and
the present changes taking place
in Indian national life. He has
been the guest of the outstanding
leaders in India among them being
Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindran-
ath Tagore, and is an outstanding
authority On the India political sit
uation. Mr.. Keithahn is a native
born Minnesotan, his home being
at Fairmont, and is a graduate of
Carleton College and the Chicago
Theological Seminary.
The public is invited to submit
any number of questions without
personal signatures on India and
mail to Congregational Church be-
fore next Sunday. These questions
will be personally answered by Mr.
Keithahn at the forum service. This
service is open to the public.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Todd Co. Editor
SpokeOver Radio
Advised Reduced Public Spending
to Lower Taxes State Govt.
Cost Has Great Increase

George A. Etzell, editor of the
Clarissa Independent, and chair
man of the Todd County Taxpay-
ers Association, speaking over
WCCO radio Tuesday noon said
that the way to reduce taxes is to
reduce public spending.
The present tax situation with
its burden is the result of drifting
into, the public expenditures we
have, said Mr.. Etzell. Money was
coming easy the past twenty years
and townships, villages and school
districts embarked on an improve
ment of roads, bridges, drainage
bitches and school buildings far
beyond their ability to pay. What
happened in local affairs was also
taking place in the state and ma
tional fields. In the state govern
ment the cost has increased in
twenty years from $11,000,000 to
over $4,000 900 and something like
1000 people are on the pay roll.
Tn the federal government, during
the same length of time, costs have
gone IN from 500, 1000 900 to over
four billion dollars and there is
pay roll of over 1,023, 900 people, he
declared.
If increased budgets and add
itional spending. gradually drifted
into, has brought our high taxes
and made ownership of property a
burden, then the common sense
wav to solve the problem is to re-
trench and get our spending down
to the level of the present day
nocket books Of the people, was
the conclusion Of Mr. Etzell.
The Todd county editor recited
long list of state and national act
ivities, entered into the past
twenty years. which have added
enormously to the tax burden and
most of which are unnecessary and
could inst as well be eliminated.
We have examined. investigated,
snooped upon and regulated until
o,,r most private affairs are print
ed at public expense in bulletins
and in hook form and held up to
the public eaze. he told his radio
S'"'NcHCc. <1yt ItIlS bdS COSI uiOhCN
and we are feeling the effects Of 1t
in increased taxes. he said.
The first step in remedying the
tax situation is to point out to the
taxnavers the causes of high taxes
and this is what taxnavers assoc
iations is to point ont to the tax
pavers the causes of high taxes
and this is what taxpayers associa-
tions are doing. Our state and
county taxpayers associations have
brought home to the people of the
state the fact that when thew ask
for public inprovements. the cost
comes o,,t of the tax dollar. AS this
knowledge becomes general. we
will get started on the road to real
tax reduction reform.
Mr.. Etzell praised the work of
the Minnesota Taxpayers Associa-
ton end of the various county as
Continued on Page Five)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Local Woman
To Face Forgery
Mrs. Ben Proell. Wife of Farmer
Arrested In City Monday
Afternoon

For several months the mer-
chants of Sank Centre have been
harassed by forged checks.
These checks have varied in
amounts from $500 to $4,000.
Monday afternoon Mrs. Ben
Proell, the wife Of a well known
farmer residing southwest of this
city, presented a check:
Merchants National Bank,
Sank Centre, Mimi,
PAY to the order of JOS. Kemp
er, $1,000" signed by Henry Volker.
This check was presented to the
Red Owl Store in this city, and
cashed.
It appears that the Red Owl Store
had been warned to be on the look
out for a check of this character.
AS soon as the deal was completed
the manager got in touch with the
Merchants National Bank. In con-
nection with Chief of Police Joseph
Miller, Mrs. Proell, was apprehend-
ed as she was about to leave the
city.
Mrs. Proell, it is understood,
claimed to be Mrs. Kempter. when
she Endorsed the check. When TAX
en- to the Merchants National Bank
she said she had found the check.
The lady was allowed by Chief Of
Police Miller to return to her home
with Instructions to appear before
Municipal Court Judge r. R. Kells
Monday morning.
At the hearing the lady protested
her innocence, claiming she had
found the check. She was held to
the grand jury under bonds of 5000
which was furnished.
The business men of this city
have been victimized for small
sums in forged checks for the past
several months.
The manager of the Burg store
stated to the Herald Monday he
had filled out a check for $500
which Mrs. Proell had signed under
a fictitious name. He also stated
that he would not appear in court
to testify against her.
The business men cannot fathom
the situation. They are of the opin-
ion that Mrs. Proell Is the victim
of a woman higher up" AS the
situation stands Mrs. Proell must
face the charge of forgery before
the District Court.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
Stearns Taxpayers
Reduce 1882 Levy
Sank Centre, Ashley, Raymond
Getty in Line-Total Savings
Amount to $S5,900

The farmers of Stearns county
at the annual township meetings
held in March cut the tax levy to
the amount of $3.50 for 1882 over
that of 1881.
Every township in the county
participated in the reduction. Sank
Centres levy is $1,000 as against
$500 last year. Slight reductions
were also made in Ashley, Raymond
and Getty townships. The follow
ing table will show the levies made
in each township:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14

Wreckage of the New York-Cleve-'
land air mail plane that crashed
near Bedford, Ohio, killing the pi-
lot, Forrest Malick, Of Newark, N.
j. From the appearance Of the
wreck it is believed the plane struck
the ground nosedown while fighting
a snow storm which was raging.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14
MPORTANT MEETING

An important meeting of the Ray
mond-Ashley All Club will be held
Friday evening April Is at the Will
liam Shanahan home. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-14

A Texas somnambulist climbed
into his car and drove for 10 miles
before he hit a truck and woke up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-18

the next business session of the
club on Thursday, May 18th. Mrs
James Kirby will be named head
of the new entertainment commit
tee. Mrs George Bailey was chair
lady of the nominating committee.
Mrs Bailey will be the hostess at
this weeks meeting of the club to
be held at her home at 1887 Cooke
street on Thursday evening. A
card party has been planned for
that meeting.
Ladies' Aid Society
An important meeting of St
MichaePs Ladies' Aid society will
take place at st MichaePs parish
hall at 8 o'clock this evening. Mrs
J ohm M. Lynch, the president,
will preside. All members are
urged to attend and a cordial in
vitation has been extended to all
ladies of the parish interested in
the work of the society.
Plan Card Party
Plans are being completed for q
joint card party to be held at Car
ney hall on Thursday evening by
Waterville Camp No. 10, Patriotic
Order, Sons of America, and its
auxiliary, Camp No. IA, Patriotic
Order of America.
Children of Mary
The members of the Young La
dies Sodality of the Children of
Mary of st Michaers church, will
meet at st MichaePs parish hall
tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
Plans are to be discussed for the
annual reception of new members
which takes place next month and
rehearsals for the attending SER
vices will be started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-18
Arson Suspects Have
Cases Continued
Ippolito and Mussa Under Bonds of $500 in Con-
nection With Mysterious Garage Fire

noon and turned over to the HAM
den authorities on the suspected
charge of arson. They were APP
pretended through the efforts of
the local police and sufficient evil
dence has already been obtained
to link both men with the Vernale
ring of arson experts.
Mussa and Ippolito are being
held under bonds Of $4,000 in con-
nection with the suspicious fire
which destroyed Joyce's garage at
$3.50 Whitney avenue, Hamden, on
Octoberd Is, 1881. Residents OF
Hamden readily recall the incident
for a terrific explosion aroused
them on the night of the fire. Pass
ing autoists. informed the author
tiles at that time that they had
the blazing structure and making
polite is at liberty having obtained
custody of the police. incidentally
suicide when sentenced last week
" jail AOT Olc year was q AlCIltDSi
of the same ring.
Plans had been made to-day to
have Anthony Vernale, 48, of 37G
South Main street brought to Ham :
den from states prison in Wethers-
field and his son, Charles, from
the New Haven county Jail to. APP
pear with the two local men taken
into custody Saturday. The senior
Vernale is serving a term of three
to five years and the son a Jail
sentence Of onet year for their part
in the destruction Of their home
on Gates avenue. Mrs Blekis was
an accomp1ice in the case.
Mussa when taken into custody
here Saturday morning was sub
jected to a long quizz by Lieuten-
ant Joseph Stevens, Fire Marshal
Dennis j. Lahey and Robert Hur-
ley, former superintendent of the
state police. He is now special in
vestigator for the board of fire
underwriters. He has been assist
ing the ploice in the investigation
of the many mysterious fires in
this section of the state.
With the arrest of Zigmunt
Mickinewicz of Fort Hill avenue,
Waterville, on the suspicion of hav-
ing set fire to his home early Sat-
urday morning, it was a busy day
for the police in probing fires.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-18
PRESIDENT HINDENBURG
Former Chief Ally Of Kaiser And Monarchists
Is Now Greatest Servant Of Republic

benefits, avert danger from 1t, OBJ
serve the constitution and the laws
of the Reich, conscientiously full
fiji my duties, and do justice to-
ward everyone. So help me God"
What the old man swore to, he
meant to keep. He did.
He supported the constitution
faithfully. He accepted the Dawes
plan. He showed his mettle in
backing up acceptance of the
Young plan. All the reactionary
forces in the country, all the lead
ing soldiers and monarchists urged
him not to sign the bill accepting
the Young plan. They insisted that
he should either resign his office
or force referendum.
His answer was a solemn mani
festo to the nation:
]. I'm view OF my responsibility for
Germapy.and the future could not
bring myself to refuse. 10 sign. -
Ny life was spent in that school of
duty, the old army. where learned
to do my duty to my country, re-
CARELESS of my own feelings. Per-
sonal considerations, accordingly.
have had nothing to do with my
/ decision. The idea that could
avoid responsibility by means of
referendum or my resignation Is
one, therefore. which / could not
possibly entertain"
A singular reversal Of form took
place all over Germany. During the
presidential election and for some
time after, the Nationalist. Nom
archists and reactfonaries looked
upon Hindenburg as a hero-a
man who would play their game.
Every genuine well-wisher of the
republic feared him. To-day every
reactionary in the land bitterly
hates Hindenburg and the we'll
wishers of the republic look upon
him as a rock in a weary land,
a man who stands by his oath. a
man to whom duty IL no idle word.
BY a strange freak of fortune
the greatest servant of the former
kaiser has become the greatest
servant of the republic.
He has been first in war. He Is
now first in peace.
THE END.