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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
CHORAL SOCIETY
TO GIVE EASTER
SEASON CONCERT
T. F. Reed Elected President at
Organization meeting;
Will Meet Fridays

Redwood Falls is to have choral
society to give entertainments
throughout the spring and summer it
was decided at meeting Friday
night at the city hall when about As
men and women heartily endorsed the
move and promised their support.
About 60 persons are expected to
join the society.
7. F. Reed was elected president
of the organization with Mrs. R. w.
Pryor as vice president; Fred An
thony, secretary and Mrs. E. B. Or
ton, treasurer. Mrs. w. E. Paffrath
will be librarian.
F. E. Reunitz of Springfield who
re- emily returned from Los Angeles
where be was doing concert work, has
been chosen conductor. Mr.. Reunitz
has done professional singing and
choir conducting and is highly re-
commended.
The society will hold it's first prac-
tice Friday night when work will be-
gin on Maunder's "Ol;vet to Calvary"
a sacred cantata recalling some of
the incidents in the last days of
Christ's life on earth. The club ex-
poets to give its first concert during
the Easter season.
The music has already been receiv-
ed and hundred per cent turnout
Friday night is expected, Mr.. Reed
stated. Rehearsals Will be held every
Friday night at the city hall from
7:30 p. m. to $3.50 p. m.
The following were appointed men,
bers of the music committee: Mrs. H.
v. Starr, Mrs. Max Treu, Miss Eliza
beth Adams, C. D. Clipfell and C. A.
Lauterbach. The membership COM
mittee includes w. M. Smith, Mrs.
Clarence Hili:g, Mrs. B. E. Marsh, M.
o. Hanson and S. w. Limburg.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
3 Winners Named in
School DeclamatOry

Merle Lindeman, Alice Melges and
Rosellen Jackson were named winners
in the declamatory contest Tuesday
night at the high school assembly.
They will take part in the sub-dis-
trict contest to be held here February
%. Winners there will be eligible for
the district contest.
Merle Lindeman won first place in
the oratorical section with "The Way
to Lasting Peace. Wayne Searle won
second place with "The Red Menace"
"Mickey's Marker" was the selec-
ton of Alice Melges who placed
first in the dramatic division. Bur-
dell Beckstrand won second with
"Mothers of Men,"
Rosellen Jackson won first place in
the humorous division with "Ma's
Sabbath Morn" Charlotte Martin
was second with Little Brothers Are
Like That"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
Bus Routes Changed
to Give New Service

Bus service will be provided from
Redwood Falls to New Ulm, Mankato
and connecting lines after February
Is, it was announced this week by the
Northland- Greyhound company.
Changes have been considered for
months and hearing was attended
last fall by many business men in
yterested in the service.
Under the new plan a bus will
leave for Minneapolis via Fairfax,
Winthrop and Glencoe at 1922 a. m.
and the afternoon bus at 3:15 will
go in over the old Olivia route. The
Asst p. m. bus west will go to Mar
shall and Minneota and the 1924 p. M
bus to Marshall and Candy. Eastbound
buses will make connections for
Rochester, Winona, Blue Earth and
Mankato via Mankato.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
How Much, Who, When
Are MOtOrist Problems

Motorists who are wondering when
and how much they will have to pay
for automobile licenses will not find
the information in the weeks news.
Instead new question is in their
minds, TO whom will we pay the fee"
Governor Floyd B. Olson raised the
question Wednesday when he pro-
posed that instead of having car
owners pay the fees to Mike Holm,
the legislature should make the IL
cense plate industry a bureau under
the highway department. The high
way department has recently been
placed under the control of Farmer
Laborite N. w. Elsberg while Mr..
Holm is one of the few surviving Re-
publicans in state offices.
The Governor supports his proposal
with the claim that such action would
save the state $4,000 year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
SCRIP MONEY Will
PROVIDE WORK FOR
ClTY'S UNEMPLOYED
Council Votes to Try $500 of
HOmespun Currency as
Relief Measure
PURCHASE NEW FIRE HOSE
Merchants Urge Scrip at Meet
ing; Committee Completes
Final Arrangements

Redwood Falls will issue scrip
money for labor as poor relief
measure, it was decided at meeting
of the city council Monday night. A
committee of the council, the relief
association and the Commercial club
made definite arrangements for the
project Tuesday afternoon.
The money will be paid for city
work and will be Endorsed by the lab
orer when exchanged for merchan-
disc. After the first transaction each
person receiving the money will be
required to affix stamp of two cents
for dollar or one cent for SO cent
piece before it can be passed. When
SO stamps are affixed the money will
be redeemable at face value, the
money having accrued from the sale
of stamps.
Scrip will be printed as soon as
possible and put in circulation as fast
as it is needed. The first issue will
be for $500 but more may be issued
if necessary. Printing of the money
will be paid for in scrip.
w. L. Hardy and j. F. Knudson,
council members and Rud Stensvad
and C. A. Lauterbach made the final
arrangements. L. E. Backer, presi-
dent of the Merchants association,
acted as spokesman of the committee
Of ten who visited the council meet
ing and explained the plan adopted
several weeks ago.
Licenses to A. B. Knapp and R. H.
Regnier, pool hall operators and D.
w. Buckley and R. H. Byram, theatre
owners, were granted by the council.
The council appropriated $3.50 for
maintenance of the armory and de-
layed the appointment of an assessor
until future meeting.
Joseph M. Corbett, chief of the
Redwood Falls fire department and
R. F. Byram, assistant chief, recently
reelected, were approved by the
council which also voted to purchase
500 feet of two and one-half inch
hose and 200 feet of one and one-half
inch hose. This is the first hose that
has been purchased since 1927.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
Will Continue Union
Services in Churches

Union services which have been
conducted here for several months
will continue for another three
months, it was announced Sunday
evening by DR.. ]. P. Linn, pastor of
the Presbyterian church.
The next union service will be held
the second Sunday in March when
young persons of the churches parti-
cipating will attend a supper at the
Methodist church, before the service.
Last year $50 youths attended the
dinner.
In his message Sunday evening
Rev. Oscar Joneson chose as his SUBJ
ject "The Educated Heart" and based
his sermon on the story of the Good
Samaritan. He said "there is great
need of loving hearts and kind words
in our dealings with all people, not
only with those who have physical
troubles, but with those who are
mentally and spiritually distressed as
well. In the home there is need of
loving hearts and kind words as there
was in the days of courtship. In the
business world you do not know what
man is terribly worried and needs a
loving heart to speak kind words to
him. You do not know what farmer
about to lose his place has tremend-
GUS need for some words of encour-
agement. In the community, every
where, there are people who need
their burdens lightened. It would be
a great day for the world if all peo-
pie could learn the story of the Good
Samaritan and live it in their daily
lives"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
REDWOOD-NEW ULM
tilt FRIDAY;;CARDS
HAVE TITLE CHANCE
Beat Morton 37-12; Compare.
tive Scores Pick Brown
Team as FavOrite

After trimming Morton 81 to IL
Friday night to remain tied for first
place in district ten standings, the
Redwood Falls High school team is
favored in the game it's followers
have been waiting for-the New Ulm
tilt which is slated for the Lincoln
school floor Friday night.
Redwood won January 20 on the
Brown county seat floor % to Is but
since that time, the Joe Harmon team
has been strengthened considerably
and will offer keen competition.
The Cardinals also have improved,
however, in the last two games, show
ing better ball handling and offensive
and defensive work.
Although Coach j. L. Browns team
does not play every team in the dis
trict, it is interesting to note by other
teams scores, how the team should
stack up in the tournament. VIM
throp, co-leader in the district, has
now won nine games in the confer
ence while Redwood has won five.
Winthrop defeated New Ulm before
the holidays 20 to II in its second
game of the season on the New Ulm
court. The Cards defeated the same
team % to Is few weeks later. VIM
throp defeated the Morton quint 81
to Is while Redwood won at Morton
81 to II.
Confined on page eight
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
BOY DEAD, PAL AND
GIRL HELD AFTER
TRACY ROBBERIES

A youth committed suicide and two
pals, bo, and a girl, are being held
after manhunt which cleared up
Is robberies at Tracy early Thurs
day morning. The boy, who shot
himself in his room, died at the Tracy
hospital Thursday afternoon.
A telephone operator spread the
alarm at 2:45 a. m. when she heard
someone breaking into the drugstore
below the exchange. The fire alarm
wa s sounded and police, firemen and
other citizens spread through town
in search of suspects.
The three youths were found at
a. m. in house located in the Sec
ton of the city known as Greentown.
When arrested Frank Gondek threw
away his pistol and gave up. Leo
Urbanski was left in a room alone
for few minutes and was found lat
er in bed with shot wound in his
head which resulted in death. The
girl, Martha Ross, was charged with
receiving stolen property while Con-
dek admitted the thefts and was
bound over to district court. Their
ages range from Is to 10.
A checkup revealed eight places
had been burglarized and that car,
stolen at Montevideo, was waiting for
them in an alley with the engine run
ming. Five other places were robbed
last week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
George Olson Recalls Thrills of
War After Receiving Purple Heart
Withdrawals Force
State Bank Closing

The State Bank and Trust company
of Redwood Falls did not open for
business Monday morning. 1t was
closed by order of the board of direct
ors.
Frozen assets and continued with
drawals over long period caused the
closing. Time certificates which
amounted to $542, 1852 December 81,
1881 had shrunk to $311, 543.91 at the
end of last year. Savings accounts
fell off from $1O0,691.42 to STE, 677.82
in the same period and checking ac-
counts fell from Sale, 386.78 to $311,-
543.91. Undivided profits which were
$16,601.88 in the 1881 report were
only $3,396.35 at the end of 1882.
Most Of the Withdrawals were due
to business conditions which forced
many persons to live on savings.
Much of the money, however, went
into postal savings and was shipped
east or deposited in banks able to buy
securities, many of them from the
east, as collateral. The bank borrow
ed $149,320 from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation some time ago.
A moratorium might have been de-
cared and depositors asked to sign
waivers but measure allowing such
action approved by the legislature
was vetoed by the governor.
A receiver has not yet been ap-
pointed but it is generally believed
that depositors' losses will not be
heavy if the banks creditors are Civ
en- sufficient time to refund their Dor
rowings. G. v. Marley, state bank
examiner, arrived Tuesday. Although
no receiver has been announced it is
understood that o. A. Stensvad may
receive the appointment.
L. R. Ewart, vice president of the
Citizens State Bank, declared the
situation is not as bad as it might at
first seem. He is among those who
believe the depositors will get most
of their money eventually.
eff there was ever a time," he
stated "that civic loyalty was needed
it is now. Faith in the community
and its institutions will pay untold
dividends but losing our heads will
get US nowhere.
He pointed out that money invest
ed within the last five years in any
thing other than government bonds
has suffered far greater loss than
money deposited in closed banks
Careful consideration of these facts
will in due time solve the situation
m satisfactory manner"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
FARMERS HOLIDAY
MEMBERS ADOPT
RELIEF PROGRAM
Ask Governor to Suspend Farm
Mortgage Foreclosures
for Two Years
FAVOR SHIPSTEAD BILL
Would Increase Period for Re-
demption of Farms, Cut
Auto Fees in Half

Members of the Redwood county
unit of the Farmers Holiday organ
ization launched program designed
to relieve the farm situation at
meeting at the court house Saturday.
About 200 farmers braved the severe
cold weather to attend.
In resolutions adopted after a dis
cussion led by E. T. Ebbesen of Re-
we're, county chairman, the following
steps were taken:
Governor Olson and the legislature
were asked by legislation or by de-
claration to suspend the foreclosure
of farm mortgages for a period OF
two years.
Went on record as favoring the
passage by congress of the Frazier
bill and the Shipstead bill to provide
for federal refnancing of farm mort
cages to be amortized through a
principal and interest payment not
to exceed three per cent a year.
Favored reducing auto license fees
SO per cent both on minimum and
basic rate.
Asked an increase in the period OF
redemption on farm mortgages fore
closed from one year to three years
where the mortgagor agrees to pay
customary share or cash rent for the
two years following the present re-
demption period.
Recommended the appointing of a
committee to arbitrate between the
mortgage and mortgagor where
foreclosure of a farm or chattel
mortgages is threatened.
Recommended changing state stat
utes so that county boards may fix
salaries of all officers and employees
of the county.
Sheriff L. J. K;se explained at the
meeting that he is only performing a
duty of his office in selling farms and
urged that violence be avoided. Judge
A. R. A. Laudon explained the farm
situation with a chart which showed
how interest charges and taxes have
increased while farm returns fell off
in recent years: Mike Kramer, form
er Brown and Redwood county re-
preventative, explained legislative
questions and urged a committee to
consider action at farm sales which
are unfair to the owner.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
SALOONS, SALES TO
MINORS BARRED IN
OLSON REPEAL BILL
Would Revise Statutes to Con.
form With National Laws
When Changes Come

Sweeping plans for a new prohi-
bition repeal bill that would prevent
return of saloons and bar sales to
minors was submitted to the legisla-
ture Tuesday by Governor Floyd B.
Olson.
Declaring that vets and drys alike
seemingly concur in the belief that
congress will redefne intoxicating
liquor, he urged that Minnesota
statutes be so revised as to prevent
conflict with new federal laws.
Principal features of his bill are:
Authorizes cities, villages, bor-
oughs and counties to license and re-
gulate the sale of Misunderstanding
liquors containing between one-half
of one per cent of alcohol by volume
and 3.O5 per cent by weight, and pro-
hibits such subdivisions from passing
ordinances inconsistent Herewith.
Prohibits sale of such liquors with
in the state of Minnesota except by
license. (This would make it option
al with each community by the pass
age or nonpassage of ordinances
to permit or not permit within its
boundaries the sale of such iquors).
Prohibits sale of such liquor to
minors.
States the amount of annual license
fees collectible by such subdivisions.
Defines beer to include lager beer,
ale, porter, or that which is made
from malt and to include such bever-
ages when containing between one
half of one per cent by volume and
(Contin,,ed On naue eiOhtl
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
Hawkins Begins Life
Term at Saltwater

Leonard Hawkins, one of the men
believed to have taken part in the
State Bank and Trust company rob-
berry here last September, was taken
to Saltwater Monday to serve "the
remainder of his natural life" after
being convicted of murder in connec-
ton with the robbery of the Third
Northwestern National bank in Min
neapolis December 16.
Although it was the second time he
had been convicted for robberies,
Hawkins protested that it was a
frameup. wept in court and claimed
that he was a gambler by trade and
had never done a "stick-up" job in
his life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
Was Wounded, Gassed in Battle
of Argonne Forest; Is
Second HOnOred


and in grave danger of losing his life
in the World War, George w. Olson
of Redwood Falls was awarded
Purple Heart by the United States
Government in recognition of his
bravery during the war.
Mr.. Olson says he will never forget
the battle in the Argonne Forest when
he was trapped in a shell hole while
his company was making a drive over
the top.
They had been stationed in the
front lines since September 26 and
were ordered October 3 to make a
drive over the top. Bullets started
flying fast and furiously Mr.. Olson
said and the squad divided. He drop
ped into a shell hole with a fellow
named Rogers from North Dakota
They had been there several min
utes when Rogers got out of the hole
and started running back to the
American lines. He was shot by a
German sn:per before he had gone
more than ten yards and died in
stantly.
Alone in the hole, facing a posi-
bility of the Germans starting a
march and with the eyes Of the snip
ers watching, Mr.. Olson waited for
some break which might get him back
to the lines.
He edged up the side of the hole
until his head with his steel helmet
was, sticking over the top. A gunner
saw him and fired. The bullet struck
him above the brim of the helmet and
glanced off.
II decided he was too good shot
for me to be sticking my head over
the top" Mr.. Olson said, $50 I pulled
m my neck" He piled large hunks
of dirt at the holes edge with peep
holes between the chunks SO he could
watch the enemy. 81 waited several
minutes" Mr.. Olson continued, "be-
fore l saw them leave their trenches
and start toward the hole in which !
was sitting"
|. He crawled from the pit on his
hands and knees and started for pile
of brush several rods to his left. On
the way, he saw a member of his
troop lying on the ground wounded
and groan;ng. He tried to drag him
with him but a bomb from the Ger
man guns struck close by and cut Mr..
Olson in several places as it spread.
His leg was badly bruised from
shrapnel and his canteen was smash
ed from his hip. His belt was also
torn away. He managed to reach the
brush pile where he remained until
a gas bomb exploded near him. He
felt the effects of the gas and started
for the lines once more, collapsing as
he fell into the American trenches.
- He was rushed to base hospital
and remained there until after the
armistice was signed.
Mr.. Olson lived in Glendale, North
Dakota, at the time of the war and
was member of Company D, 1877 in
fantry, division 35. He is the second
man in Redwood Falls to receive the
rare Purple Heart award. B. E.
Marsh received one recently.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
Band Reflects All
Officers at Meeting

Nate H. Bovee was reelected man.
ager of the Scenic City band at its
annual meeting Tuesday night follow
ing the regular practice at the city
hall. M. o. Hanson was reelected
secretary and treasurer, Louis Pola-
czyk was reelected custodian and j.
T. Murdoch and C. A. Lauterbach
were reelected directors.
S. w. Limburg asked all band
members to attend practices more re-
gularly during the coming year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09
League Lead Regained
bv All Stars TUESDAY,

The Provident Life All Stars re-
gained their position in first place in
the Minnesota Valley Basketball
league Tuesday night by defeating
the Bird Island quint 81 to 10 on the
Morton floor. Belview, which has
been alternating in first and second
places with the Helgeson team, is now
in second place.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09

The Carnation club will meet at
the home of Mrs. w. T. Wilcox FRI
day afternoon. Members and friends
are invited.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-02-09

James MacGregor was 4 business
visitor at Vesta last Wednesday.
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-24
Walter White To
Speak Here Sunday
To Address Detroit Public
At St. Antoine Y. M. c. A.

Sunday, June 25, at 3:15 p m. in
the Y. NJ c. A. auditorium will be
one of the biggest days in the his
tory of the N. A. A. c. p. in De-
troit. at which time Mr. Walter
White. executive secretary of the
n. A. A. G. =. will address a mass
meeting,
Mr.. White will discuss Judge
Lowell's decision in the Crawford
case. The public is anxiously
awaiting his coming. as they want
to know what course the n. A. A.
G. p. will take since Judge Low
ellis decision was reversed
High executives OF the city. and
other outstanding judges, lawyers,
and citizens will be guests at this
meeting. Special effort will be
made for the renewal Of all mem
berships that have lapsed and will
lapse the first OF July.
Be sure to bring your friends
with you.
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-24
Ruby Bates And
Victoria Price To
Speak In Detroit

spectacular mass meeting viii
be held Friday June 80, at Mt.
Olive Baptist Church corner OF
Brush and Willis. in interest OF the
Scotisboro Boys Special features
OF the occasion will be talks by
Mrs. jamie Patterson. mother ot
Haywood Patterson one OF the in
noccnt boys who is condemned 10
death. Lester Carter. one of the
white defense witnesses who was
on the train with the two girls
when the Scottsboro Boys were ar
rested. Ruby Bates and Victoria
Price. the girls who at first accus-
ed the Scotisboro BOYS of assault;
and Richard b. Moore. nationally
known speaker and organizer Of
the l. l.. u.
The general public Is invited tn
he present. including workers and
their organizations. professional
and business citizens and others
interested in freeing the nine IN.
nocent scottsboro Boys. Admission
will be ten cents
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-24
REFUSE TO TURN OVER
ScOTTSBORO FUNDS TO LID.
NJ A. A. c. P. Announces Policy After
Board Meeting Last Week

New York The National Asso-
citation for the Advancement Of
Colored People will not turn over
Internationally" all funds coll
lected by IL for the scottsboro de-
tense TO the International Labor
Defense, It was announced this
week by Walter White. secretary.
The N. A. A. c. p. announcement
was made after the board of d.
rectors on June Is had considered
the demand of William L. Patter-
son, secretary of the I. l.. d. that
the n. A.. A. G. =. either turn over
its money at once and support the
whole defense program OF the I. l..
u. or cease collecting funds.
More than $2.4OO has been coll
lected by the n. A. A. c. p. for
the Scottsboro defense to June 16
and the distinct understanding
with the contributors and with tho
I. l.. d. was that this money would
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-24

The birthday cake Is ready.
--wai he aervee Tuesday pikh
at Bethel African Methodist Epis
copai church. Frederick and st
Antoine Streets.
The members of the Detroit
Housewives Leagues are celebrat-
ing their third anniversary and
everyone Is extended an invitation
10 participate OF course the cake
Is for the members in the festiv-
tiles
While the party was not planned
particularly for Mrs Fannie b.
Peck local and national president,
she viii play an important part
during The evening. She has pre-
pared short speech To- deliver
Just before the cake is cut
And all of the other hard work
ers in the organization just ask
The members of the Booker r
Trade Association if
YOU think they don't work hard for
The improvement of Negro business