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Evening star., 1932-11-12
Pastors Anniversary.

Members Of the Vermont Avenue Bap-
tist Church will celebrate the third
anniversary of its pastor, Rev. c. T.
Murray, from November 13 through
November 90. A number of the leading
ministers of the city have been invited
to participate In these services and all
of the clubs and departments of the
church have been devided into groups
and assigned to some particular service.
The speakers viii be as follows: To-
morrow, IL am. and pm, the pastor;
November IA, pm, Rev. j. L. s. Hollo-
man, pastor Second Baptist Church;
Tuesday, pm, Rev. G.. o. Bullock,
pastor Third Baptist Church; Wednes-
day, pm, Rev. w. H Jernagin, pastor,
Mount Carmel Baptist Church; Thurs
day, 8 pm, Rev. w. A. Taylor, pastor
Florida Avenue Baptist Church; Friday,
8 pm, Rev. z. L. Harrison, pastor
Shiloh Baptist Church; November 20,
IL am. and pm, Rev. A. j. Tyler,
pastor Mount Airy Baptist Church; 8
pm, Rev Joseph r. Jones, pastor First
Baptist Church, Fairmont Heights, D. G.
Evening star., 1932-11-12
Activities in Local Churches

for the Young Peoples Fellowship
Sunday at 7:30 pm. Church school,
$50 am; holy communion, am.
Evening star., 1932-11-12
Transfiguration Episcoual.

The services tomorrow will be at
7:3o am, ii am. and 7:30 pm; church
school, $50 am. Rev. j. j. Queally
rector will officiate at all the services
The Women's Guild Is preparing for
the annual bazaar November 80 and
December l. Dinner will be served both
evenings.
Evening star., 1932-11-12
Gospel Hall.

Gospel services will be held tomorrow
at 8 pm, at 245 Fifteenth street south
east Prayer meetings are held every
Thursday at o'clock and Bible read
ings Saturday from to 8 pm.
Evening star., 1932-11-12
TweIfth Street Christian.

The pastor, Rev. J.. F. Whitfield, will
use for his subject at IL am, Com
memorating His Death" Communion,
- noon; church school, $50 am;
Christian endeavor, $3.50 pm; preach
ing at 8 pm. Prayer meeting Weones-
day night
Evening star., 1932-11-12
Garden, Memorial.

The congTegation and the Church
School will inaugurate unified wor-
ship program tomorrow morning. The
Sunday School will have their church
worship service from 1890 to 10:55
o'clock. The pastor will speak on
Making Living" The Junior Choir,
under the direction of Mrs. Gladis
Stewart, will furnish the music.
Adult church service, 1l:05 am.
Rev. Kenneth B. Carson will preach
on Mad Men," and at pm. on IA
Friendly Chat" Brean Bible Class,
$50 IN. The Young Peoples Club,
7 PM; prayer and Bible study. Thurs
day, 8 pm; Junior Choir, Friday, 2
pm; Boy Scout troop, Friday, 7:45 pm.
Evening star., 1932-11-12
Memorial United Brethren.

World Service day will be observed
tomorrow. At IL am. the sermon viii
be delivered by Rev. Grace Sponseller,
a member Of the Pennsylvania Confer
ence. At 8 pm. the Otterbein Guild
viii present a pageant, "The Cha-
lenge," in the Sunday School House.
The women's day offering will be re-
ceived at all the services Of the day.
Sunday school, 9:40 am; Junior Chris
tian Endeavor, IL am; Senior and In
termediate Societies, GAS pm.
Prayer group Tuesday. 7:45 pm;
Missionary Society, Wednesday, from
10 am. to pm, to make garments
for the children of the United Brethren
Orphanage and Home.
Evening star., 1932-11-12
IincaIn Road M. Z.

"The Peerless Leader" is the topic to-
morrow morning of Rev. w. F. Atkinson
and in the evening wages That Have
Not Been Cut" Albert Dell will sing
at the morning service, while the pro-
gram In the evening viii be the Lords
Prayer in song and tableau by the young
people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
RUSSIA PLANS
FIRST SOVIET
FASHION SHOW

Moscow, (UP)-The Soviet cap
ital will soon witness its first fash
ion show" 1t will be so different
from similar shows in the outside
world that 1t scarcely deserves the
name.
An exhibition OF sartorial mod
els submitted by designers, artists.
scientists and ordinary mortals Is
being organized, with prizes for
those adjudged most suitable for
Soviet conditions. Practical and
sanitary considerations, 1t Is point
ed out here, rather than fashion,"
or style" will determine the win
ners.
The exhibition, under auspices
of I he clothing trust, raises an
Interesting question about the flu
ture OF Soviet clothes. VIII the
new Russia follow the dictates OF
Paris and other foreign style GEN.
ters? or will it develop styles of
its own?
As yet the question is somewhat
academic. There are not enough
clothes to go around and no mar
gin to spare for style.
Women in Moscow, Leningrad
and other large cities, who are
interested In clothes, 90 not mink
twice in answering the question.
They definitely want to follow
European styles. They watch care
fully foreign moving pictures, the
few foreign fashion magazines
that are struggled into the coun-
try, and the dress of foreign visi-
tors for guidance.
The clothing trust, however, is
not so sure about this issue. They
talk about the ''socialistic aims" of
their industry rather than it's
fashion side. A spokesman of the
trust said that capitalistic coun-
tries spend millions of dollars in
producing new styles and ousting
old ones. This was a form of
waste, he said. which the Soviets
would avoid.
The fashion show" is one of
the methods for interesting the
public in this undertaking. Ev-
eryone here has been invited to
submit sartorial ideas. The prize
winning models Will become stand
ards for mass production.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24

between $4,000 and $4,000 work.
ers are engaged In short shifts
with plants operating at less than
so per cent of capacity produce
ton.
Sweeping price reductions have
added to the general distress. The
wave of price cutting, designed to
stimulate sales, has progressed
over a period of two years but
now is showing some signs of
abatement.
But despite their plight, the
major companies seem to be
weathering the storm. BY virtue
of more economical operation and
strenuous sales campaigns. Fire.
stone increased netp rofits from
one to FIVE millions dollars in 1881
over the previous year. General
has been able to maintain its long
chain of unbroken dividend rec
ords. But these records are ex-
ceptional and do not mean that
the fortunate concerns have
profited from the sagging market.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
RUBBER CITY"
STACCERS WORK
TO BEAT SLUMP
System Keeps More
Akr0nites at Their
Machines

Akron, O.-The tire industry,
like other branches of industrial
enterprise, Is marking time, anx-
iously waiting for the depression
to end.
Haggard from two years of
shrinking revenues, the industry
that furnishes the rubber city"
with most of Its bread and but
ter, has reorganized its forces and
geared its equipment in prepara-
ton for immediate production at
a capacity basis.
Peak Production
In the peak production years
of 1927 and 1928, the rubber in
dustry employed between $1,000
and $4,000 Akronites. The fac
tories Of Firestone, Goodyear,
General, Seiberlihg, Goodrich, In
dia and others were busy "a hours
a day. Then came the depression.
Wages were reduced. Manufac-
turers turned to the "stagger"
system in order to spread what
employment there was among the
greatest possible number, Of
workers. The tire industry was
among the first to adopt this pol
Icy. At present, 1t Is estimated,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
Torture Used
To Produce
Ransom
BY ALEXANDER JAMIE
Director OF the "Sccret Six" of the
Chicago Association of Commerce

Chicago Association of Commerce
(THIRD INSTALLMENT)
Kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
has focused public attention on this
newest big-scale activity of the I'M
derworld.
There are two distinctly differ
Nent kinds of kidnapping. One is
the kidnapping of gangsters by
,gangster rivals for revenge or for
business reasons. The other is the
kidnapping of private citizens, most
often adults, to obtain huge ran
SONS for their release.
The first method is old. having
been employed in practically all
wars between rival gangs. The
second is something relatively
new-that Is, on an organized
scaIe-and IL 1t is not curbed 1t
may lead to very serious condi-
tions.
The Secret Six has records of
81 recent kidnapings for ransom
in Chicago and vicinity Doubt
less, there have been many more
such crimes that never were re-
ported because the kidnapers
chose victims who are engaged in
some illegal or quasi-Iegal bust
ness---victims who will not be so
likely to go to the police with
their troubles.
Therefore, any effort to esti-
mate the amount of ransom money
they have collected would neces-
.sarily be a guess. But, undoubted-
.ly, the total would show ire
mendous figure because demands
for as much as $150,000 have
been made in individual cases.
KIDNAP RING
kidnapping for ransom is rela-
lively new and therefore, as yet,
difficult to fathom. l do not know
about the east and other parts of
the country, but our evidence indi-
Gates that most of the major kid
napings in the midwest have been
committed by a group of about Is
men. They go where their business
requires.
!. These professional kidnapers
have very definite system and
there are many indications that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24

big kidnapping jobs in the midwest
have been pulled by the same
gang.
The first step of the gang is to
send out Ginger man to get all
possible information on the in
tended victim. This finger man"
carefully checks his quarry to find
out his ability to pay, his personal
habits, when he goes to and fro
from his home and his place of
business, who his friends are, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
VICTIM BLINDFOLDED

Arriving at the hideout place. the
victim Is blindfolded before he is
taken from the car and led inside.
The house is usually in some re-
mote location. Two guards are
placed over him. After threats of
death and torture. he Is directed to
write a letter to friends requesting
that they pay the stipulated ran
som.
The victim is seated at a table,
given pen and paper and warned
to look straight ahead while the
blindfold Is temporarily removed
so he can write the letter. His
captors stand behind him and
thus he never sees them.
The kidnapers contact with the
designated friend by means Of the
telephone, and tell him that the
victim will be released unframed
IL the ransom money is paid.
Then the victims own note Is
mailed to the friend as proof of
his predicament.
More telephone calls from a
mysterious source give instruc-
lions for payment of the money,
usually in small bills.
The usual manner Of payment,
designed to guard against pos
sible ambush, Is this:
The friend Is told to give the
bundle of money to q messenger
who must drive the victims own
car (the license number of this
car has already been obtained by
the finger MANI.
ROUTE OUTLINED
BY means of highway route
numbers that are given him to fol-
low. the messenger Is to drive to-
ward a point perhaps 400 miles dis
tant. Somewhere along this line
anywhere in the 800 miles-he
will be signaled by a car, usually
by certain number of flashes of
its tail-light If at night, by GER
tain honking of the horn IL in the
daytime.
At this signal, he must throw
the package of money out Of his
car and continue driving straight
ahead. Thus, the kidnapers can
pick clear spot, with no posi-
bility of ambush.
Once the money Is collected. the
captive Is freed. Usually he Is
driven n long distance and dumped
out on q lonely road late at night.
AS when taken, he Is kept on the
car floor under a blanket and he is
warned not to remove his blindfold
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24

Passengers of State Railway ex-
presses In France soon will learn to
climb on quick-luncheon counters
stools and eat while the trains are
speeding. The first "bar" viii lse on
the Paris-Cherbourg line. Cock
tails, hot and cold drinks. and
quich meals will be provided for
travellers of all classes. Each car
will have room for SO eaters at a
time,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
New Automobile in sweden

For the purpose OF making and
exploiting a n ew type of front
drive for automobiles a company
is to be organized in Stockholm.
Sweden. The features of the car
will include synchronized gear
box with free wheeling attachment
and an over-drive effect, which
have been invented by DR. Burger
Lunstrom of Stockholm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24

kind of auto he has, its license
number, etc.
All this, the finger man" re-
ports to the chief of the kidnap
ring. II the report is satisfactory
the quarry then becomes subject
for action.
A few nights later. as the Sc
lected victim is driving home. his
car is forced into the curb by an
auto containing four Or five men.
They cover the victim with guns
and force him into their own auto.
He Is laid face downward on the
floor of the car, his wrists tied be-
hind him and a blanket placed
over him.
The men in the rear seat sit
with their feet on his blanket
covered form while the car is
driven to the gangs hideout, often
many miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
Death Stops woman's Vote

When an automobile called at
the home of Mrs Prudence Elliott.
aged 100. at Creve. Irish Free
State, to take her to the polls dur
ing the recent election. she was
found dead. James O'Donnell. aged
io2. of Meenmore, cast his vote as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24

until after the kidnapers' car is out
of sight.
The victims are usually re-
turned unframed, but these kid
napers are desperate and will kill
If resisted. In recent case they
shot and wounded man and
killed his wife when they resisted
capture.
Gang war kidnapings are brutal
affairs. often followed by torture,
to exact rival gang secrets, and
then by the murder OF the victim.
There has been a case in which
the captive's ears were twisted off
with plyers.
LEADERS AT LARGE
A number of arrests haves been
made in this kidnaping-for-r ransom
racket around Chicago and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24
WHAT. CHICAGO'S SECRET SIX FOUND OUT
ABOUT KIDNAP BUSINESS METHODS

midwest, but I believe the real
big shots are still at large.
Since kidnap victims are often
taken from one state to another, 1
strongly believe we need a fed
eral anti-kidnaping law. such as
is now proposed in congress, to
combat this crime. Federal law
now makes 1t a felony to trans
port a stolen auto from one state
to another. Isn't a human being
entitled to as much protection?
AS matters stand now, when a
kidnap victim Is taken into an
other state the officials of that
state have no power to bring wit
nesses from the original state be-
fore their grand jury.
Moreover, the moral effect of a
federal law would be a great de-
terrent. Regardless of the weak
ness of many local law enforcing
units in this country today, Uncle
Sans laws still command keen
respect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-24

TOMORROW: How gangs can be
destroyed. The alliance between
gangstcrs and crooked machine
politicians and what 1t leads to. /.
How good citizens can clean up by
clecting honest officials.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-14
Cattle Trucking Grows;
Better Highways Answer
Good Roads Give Farmers Two
Means of Transportation to
The Terminal Markets

Receipts of trucked-in live stock
at South st. Paul in 1882 were
143, 154 loads or. 2,386,59 head. In
1880 there 104, 203 loads Of 1910, 900
head of cattle sheep, hogs and cal
yes brought by ~truck direct from
farms of the Northwest to the ter
minal market. The number Of loads
increased nearly 40 per cent and
the number of animals more than
80 per cent. The average number
per load increased from 12.5 to 1876
There are many arguments as to
the relative advantages Of shipping
b. rail or direct by truck, but the
steady improvement in Minnesota
highways each year places great
er number of farmers in a position
where they can take the choice of
the two methods, instead Of being
limited to one.
With open winter roads, ship
ping by truck continues through
all seasons without abatement, and
in 1881 the average was greater in
the winter than in the summer
months. The largest number in one
day was Dec. 1, when 1,130 trucks
entered the yards. Truck receipts
were 35 per cent of the total re-
ceipts in 1881 and "a per cent of
the total in 1880. In 1921 trucks
brought only 2 per cent of the
total.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-14
Commissioner Cox VIII
Address the Homemakers
Has rlan For Restoration To Tax
Paying Basis of Improbable
Lands

w. T. Cox, State Commissioner
of Conservation, will be among the
outstanding speakers to address the
annual Farmers and Homemakers
course at the University of Mime
sofa Farm, January 1928.
The Commissioner will discuss
plans for restoration to a tax-pay-
ing basis of Improbable lands and
property that has reverted to the
State by tax default. This is the
objective of the five-man conserve
ton commission which is formul-
ating program along this line for
the coming year, with Mr.. Cox in
personal charge of its execution.
at viii be the commissions OBJ
jective to move scattered settlers
on Improbable drained peat land
adjoining timbered tracts, where
they also constitute a fire hazard,
to other state land where they will
have better opportunities to be-
come self-supporting." Mr.. Cox
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-14

It will benefit the member pat
rons of this association exactly
$12O, 265.79, which amount is the
second largest refund to. be made
by the organization, and $12,484.72
more than paid in 1880.
Since its organization in 1921, the
Central has never failed to pay
liberal patronage refund and
stock dividend to farmers at the
end of each year, and the 1881 re-
turns will make q total of $1,000
$500 to be refunded to Central
patrons in the last ten years. This
was done upon a commission basis
$3.50 below most of Central's COM
petitors.
Farmers apparently have sensed
the need for cooperative market
ing during this period of depres-
sion more than ever, for in 1881
the Central experienced its second
largest year in volume of livestock
handled as well as net earnings.
When truck receipts are reduced
to a car basis, total of 22,635 cars
of livestock were sold through this
cooperative association during the
year. This was 1,347 cars in ex-
cess of the 1880 total, and within
311 cars of equalling the year of
1926, the record year for receipts
at South st. ;:Naul. Total receipts
handled by the Central comprised
1928 per cent of all live stock mar
keted at South st. Paul, and Gen.
trails percentage of rail cars re-
receipts alone was 34.28%, the
largest rail percentage in the re-
cords of. the organization.
This leaves the Central Cooper
alive Association by far the larg-
est live stock marketing agency,
either cooperative or privately
owned, in the world.
This is the endorsement of an
organization built upon honor that
is truly cooperative and is out
standingly rendering efficient SER
vice.
Livestock farmers throughout
the northwest will soon be COM
ing to st. Paul to attend the an
nual stockholders meeting of the
Central Cooperative Association"
said N. K. Carnes, General Man
ager. This will be the eleventh an
nual meeting of stockholders in
this association and will be held at
the Lowry Hotel in st. Paul on
February 9 and 10. Enthusiastic
over the remarkable record of
their association, many members
are planning to be in the capital
city for the convention where an
educational and entertaining pro-
gram will be provided for the occa-
sion."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-14

Orler Limiting Time to File Claims
and for Hearing Thereon. Revised
and Adopted by Probate Judges
ASSN.
State of Minnesota, County of
StearnS-SS
in PROBATE COURT
In The matter of The Estate of
Ole Arneson Decedent.
day having been granted to An
dreas A. Arneson.
1T is ORDERED, That the time
within which all creditors Of the
above named decedent may present
claims against his estate in this
Court, be, and the same hereby is,
limited to six months from and af--
ter the date hereof; and that Fri
day, July Sth 1882, at nine o'clock
A. M, in the Probate Court Rooms
at the Court House at the City Of
st. Cloud in said County, be, and
the same hereby is, fixed and ap-
pointed as the time and place for
hearing upon and the examination,
adjustment and allowance of such
claims as shall be presented within
the time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof begiven by the
publication of this order in the
The Sank Centre Herald. as provid-
ed by lava
Dated January 7th 1892
(SEAL) J. B. Himsl
Judge of Probate.
v. T. Conklin
Attorney for Representatives.
Published Jan IA, 81, %, 1882
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed vennewitz, of
visited with relatives
in this city short time Monday.
Tom Halvorson, of Harmony,
MINI, came up last week for
visit with his mother and brothers
in this community.
Mrs. Joseph Hollenbeck and
daughter, from st. Paul, visited in
this community several days of the
past week with Mrs. George Hetzel
and family.
Mrs. Joe Moves, who has been
visiting with Mrs. A. M. Anderson
for some time, went to Little Falls
Friday for visit with her son,
Chester Noyes and family.
Miss Robinson, Of Minneapolis,
has been employed by Mrs. r. v.
Plant to work at the Personality
Shop. She will commence her dut-
les Monday of next week.
C. A. Parker, of Wadena, came
to Sank Centre Sunday noon and
remained until Monday night WIS.,
iting with his mother, Mrs. e. H.
Cooley, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. v. L. Burgess.
Ben Bosshardt will leave next
Monday for St. Paul to attend the
fifth annual meeting of the Insur-
ance Department of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation to be
held at the Lowry Hotel that day.
At the present time there are near
ly $4,000 policy holders in the COM
pany in this state, making it one Of
the largest companies.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-14
Family Reunited After
Twenty-Eight Years
Little Falls Parents Find Daugh-
ter They Have Given Up
For Dead

Little Falls Jan. IL A Little
Falls couple and their daughter
have been reunited after % years,
it was disclosed today. And most
of that time the daughter was liv-
ing in the next county.
The reunion took place at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Salz-
brunn and the daughter is Mrs.
Minnie Cordie of Browerville, one
of 10 living children. She has two
sons and two daughters who with
their father have just been intro
duced to the rest of the family.
Minnie left home with a girl
friend when the Salbrunns lived
east of Royalton. They went to
Willmar, where they found work.
The other girl returned but Minnie
stayed. The letters became less fire.
quent and the Salbrunns moved
several times-to Foley and other
nearby points, later coming to
Little Falls. Several letters were
lost because of changes in address.
Years passed and Mrs. Salzbrunn
gave up her missing daughter as
dead, but the father never gave up
hope that some day she would re-
turn to this community and locate
them.
Meanwhile Minnie had settled
down to the business of MAX
ing a home on farm between
Browerville and Staples. Recently
Minnie determined to find her par
ents. She drove over in this direc-
ton and her first stop was at a fill
ing station in Rice. There she was
going to make her first inquiries.
The first men she spoke to turned
out to be one of her brothers.
A big family reunion with a fam
lily picture followed.