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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
REACTION AGAINST RELIEF
(AuStin American)

A wave of reaction against unfortu-
nate relief clients has been sweeping
the country. Newspapers, magazines,
public speakers fabricate stories about
the masses of men and women who
prefer to take a few dollars of relief
money rather than seek regular en-
ployment. A most potent argument
used by those who prosecute the UNI
employed is the increasing tax burden
as result of the expenditures which
our government makes on those who
cannot find work.
The money allotted to the unem-
ployed has at no time been extrava-
giant. If some of those who are crying
about the expenditures would try to
live on the budget set up by relief
agencies, they probably would be
driven to desperation in a very short
time.
The figures show that unemploy-
ment is on the increase. Conserva-
lively there are more than 100000
without work. President Roosevelt,
probably for political reasons, talks
of breathing SPELL and tries to
convey the picture that the trend is
upward. But facts deny the truth of
such intimatiOnS.
The country must reconcile itself
to the fact that so long as jobs do not
exist men and women and children
must be fed. False propaganda can
not keep people from starving. There
is plenty of the things essential to
sustaining life here. Those who have
profited from the tolls of workers in
the past must now be willing to re-
turn some of those profits until they
will again put those workers on job
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
CORN-HOG VOTE WILL
BE TAKEN OCTOBER 26

A vote will be taken by Pine county
producers in the Corn-Hog adjustment
program on October 26 to ascertain
the sentiment of continuation of this
program which will expire November
80 this year. On the outcome of the
vote will depend the decision of the
AAA as to whether or not a new pro-
gram will be offered.
Ballots will be mailed to all con-
tract signers who may mail their vote
or deposit it in the ballot box located
in the county agents office at Pine
City. Non-contract signers who in
tend to vote should call at the coun-
ty agents office or write for ballot.
Sentiment Will Decide.
Unless the result of a referendum
indicates strong desire for cOntinu-
ing cooperative control of corn-hog
production no adjustment program
will be offered. This being the
case," says F. w. Stepan, chairman of
the county COrn-HOg committee, "a
failure to vote may be interpreted as
an unfavorable vote and a substantial
number of such failures to vote may
kill the program. To prevent such an
Interpretation, all persons eligible to
vote, should vote in this referendum.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

Van Meter, Baby Face Nelson, Tommy
Carroll, Charley Makley. Harry Pier
pOnt, Herb YOungblood. These were
all ruthless murderers, without de-
cency or regard to any semblance of
fairness and with no regard for hui
man life. The way of the transgres-
sOr is hard-but it doesn't last long
since the G-Men got going. But the
sad part of it is that so many other
decent, law abiding and law enforc-
ing men were sacrificed and their
lives had to be snuffed out by those
desperate men before they were fin
ally wiped out themselves.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
FRIENDS ARE BEST

It's the same old story-money
is not all. A person may gain
wealth and power through deter
mination to have his way and
through autOcratic and ruthless
methods. But at what expense
Apparently we may have friends,
even with those methods, while
young and while things are going
good" However, in time we reap
the harvest of the seeds we SOW.
When a person is old and needs
and appreciates friends more
than at any other time in life,
it is too late to make amends for
i'll treatment of fellow men ear
lier in life.
An outstanding example of that
came to light recently with the
death of an old anti-union man.
A we'll written editorial on the
subject by Editor A. F. Lockhart
of The Minnesota Union Advo-
cate, entitled "A Labor Batter
Passes" was published recently,
as follows:
Last week a man by the name of
Dietrich E. Loewe died in abject pow
erty in Danbury, Conn. He died in
obscurity. He died in blindness.
Twenty years ago this self-same
Dietrich f. Loewe was world famous
as the most militant hater of union
Labor in all America. His name was
on the lips of every Labor leader; he
was the subject of countless news
stories, editorials and interviews.
Last week he was remembered again,
but only in the obituary columns.
Loewe was the central figure in
the famous Danbury Hatters case,
perhaps the most noted and the most
Labor case in Amer
lean history.
In 1903 Loewe secured a judgment
against 200 individual members of
the United Hatters' union as result
of nationwide boycott of his pro-
ducts. The case went through the
appellate court and finally to the
L. S. supreme court, which decided
in his favor He then set out to
punish his former employees by fore
closing on their homes. The Amer
lean Federation of Labor then stepped
in and paid him damages out of a
fund contributed by trade uniOnists
from practically every state in the
Union.
Having won his victory, LOewe set
out to demonstrate that his "open-
shop policies were in the best in
terests of himself and his employees.
Twenty-three years later his business
went into the discard. He was broke.
He maintained the only nOn-union
factory in Danbury and refused to
relent.
The Danbury Hatters' case was
shallow victory, and during his de-
clining years Loewe saw his great
factories gradually closing until he
was finally forced into retirement.
His last years were burdened with
blindness. and he passed to his final
reward unmourned-even by those
great industrial leaders who gave him
moral support in his bitter fight
against the trade union movement.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

Have you read the editorials?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
man investigation of chain store ac-
tivities.
Fears Growing Menace.

man investigation of chain store ac-
tivities.
Fears Growing Menace.
Other speakers reiterated Christie
piers remarks, Mcintyre adding that
lat the rate chains are growing it
will be only about rs years before no
sales at all are made by Independent
merchants" He based his argument
on figures which he said showed 46
per cent of all shoes sold last year
were by chain organizations, minus
mail order sales.
1.-THE Legislature won't listen to in
dividuals," he said. I'VE found that
out last year. But a different out
come will result if we go down there
together and get the legislators &C
quainted with our needs. National
laws are needed too, aimed to do
away with the manufacturers dis
count to chain buyers"
Pierce charged chain stores were
interested only in profits, while the
Independent merchant thinks of his
home town as WE'LL" He claimed that
the combines were moving out of
"profitless centers of population" to
smaller towns, thereby creating an
added menace for Independent re-
tailers."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

To gain the respect and confidence
of the public again it will be neces-
cary that there be a shake-up in the
Division of Game and Fish, some dis
missals from the service, and others
told where to head in at, to quit fool
ing and wasting time, and to GET
TO WORK!
If we are to cut the expense of
government. the State Game and Fish
Division would be a good place to
start. Without a doubt some savings
could be made there.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
RETAILERS BEGIN
TO ORGANIZE A
STATEWIDE BODY
First Unit Met at New Ulm Last
Week; to be Known as "COm.
munity Builders"

Independent merchants out
over the state in the various
lines of retail trade are COM
mencing to organize in a state
wide body for their own prOtec-
tion and the building and main
tanning of local communities.
The organization is called Com
munity Builders The first
group meeting was held last week
in the city of New Ulm.
A report of said meeting pub
lished in the New Ulm Review
follows:
Opening guns in a statewide cam
paign against chain stores were fired
here Monday night when charter No.
1 in the new Community Builders"
was granted local group.
Embracing a three-fold program
seeking chain store taxes, futhering
the aims of retail fair practice law
and opposing the proposed sales tax
measure, the local organization was
formed when more than 100 mer-
ing territory met at Creamery hall
with leading retail trade association
executives.
christopher Speaks.
Among speakers at the affair were
G. j. Christopher, secretary of the
Retail Hardware Dealers Association;
w. T. Coulter of the Bruce Publishing
Company; H. S. Mcintyre, secretary
of the Retail Dry Goods Associations;
Bill Pierce of the Northwest Drug
Associations; and Ray Johnson, state
organizer, all of Minneapolis; and
George Bagen of Albert Lea, secretary
of the Retail Grocers Association.
From here members of the organic
ing group intended to swing through
out the state, organizing local units
everywhere to demand that the legis-
lature take up the retail Independent
merchants problem at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature. New Ulm
was chosen as the point for the first
meeting.
Plan Educational Program.
Both legislative and consumer edu-
cation programs will be carried on By
Community Builders" officials ex-
planned.
Each community with a chapter
will name officers and a legislative
committee. County chairmen will
then be appointed to represent all
units in that area They will attend
congressional district meetings where
representatives will be named to sit
on state board of directors.
Speaking first on the program,
christopher traced what he termed
a selling down the river" of indie
pendent merchants at the last session
of the Legislature.
Says Chains Organized.
He argued that chain stores "have
lost no time in organizing effectively
to defeat Independent merchants"
First. he explained, Community
Builders" would perfect their state
organizations. later asking support of
jobbers and wholesalers.
Local chambers of commerce no
longer represent the Independent bus
mess man. Christopher argued. He
traced the history of the recent Pat
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
(The st. Paul Daily NeWs)

While the prospects for peace grow
progressively darker, it is good to
learn that in at least one quarter of
the world the curse of war has been
lifted.
Paraguay and Bolivia having ended
their bloody conflict in the Gran
Chaco, the cables have carried the
surprising and welcome announce
ment that in Paraguay swords are
literally going to be beaten into plow-
shares.
The Paraguayan government has
announced that it's army and navy
arsenals will be turned into pillow fac
tories, the plows to be distributed by
the government to farmers at cost in
the hope of reviving peaceful agri-
cultural industry.
No one needs to be told how much
better off Paraguay will be with her
factories turning out plows instead
of cannon. If this adherence to the
ancient scriptural injunction could
only be copied in other lands, how
much happier all mankind would be I.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
THE END OF A MURDEROUs GANG
carlton County Vidette)

Only two men are now left of the
cleverly organized. murderously nervy
and brainy-more or less-kidnaper
gang of twenty-five Williams who took
100000 from Adolph Bremen of St.
Paul in very daring event some
months ago. They subjected their
victim to wanton indignity and cruel
ty, but got away with it-temporarily.
Alvin Karpis and Campbell are now
the only two left of that gang. The
deadly G-Men have gotten the rest.
Most of them have come to an in
glorious end. Dillinger, Hamilton,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
SANDSTONE

The Missionary club of the Bible
church will meet this week at the
home of Mrs. A. Walden. Meeting
will be held on Thursday afternoon at
2 p. m. DR.. PatmOnt will speak to
the women on Romance of EUROPEANS
Missions. This meeting is open to
all ladies.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

Voting yes will not obligate the vot-
ers in any way to accept any contract
that may be offered as result of the
referendum. 1t merely indicates the
voters belief that a program general
ly similar to the 1885 program should
be offered and leaves him free to ac-
cept or reject the contract when Of
fered."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17
CROSBY COMMUNIST
WILL SPEAK HERE

Bills are out in AskOv announcing
a meeting to be held in the D. B. S.
hall Tuesday night, October %, at
8 o'clock. Emil Nygaard, former
Communist mayor of Crosby, will be
the speaker. Everyone is invited.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

Today is the tomorrow you worried
about yesterday-and all is we'll.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

each Thursday; want your message
to go along?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-14
Trapped HUSBAND ANNE IN AUTO, MRS. BEALL TELLS JURY
Gen. Johnson Urges
New Deal to Explain

NEW YORK, June IA G.N.S).
What this country urgently needs,
in the opinion of Gen. Hugh S.
johnson, is "clear pronounce
ment from the President" on plans
and policies.
Writing in the July issue Of the
American Magazine on the sub
ject, where do we go from here?"
the former head of the NRA
warned that something has got
to be said and done Immediately
to restore business activity" and
added:
"If the New Deal goes into
1885 with nothing more than it
has now. and our new prophets
Of discomfort 80 in with the
promise of something much bet
ter, there can be but one re-
subtitle warning threats and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-14
Mercury Scars
Toward Record
For Season

A rising temperature and high
humidity combined today to give
Washington what promises to
be the hottest day of the year
so far.
Early this afternoon the mer-
curry stood at 81 degrees, two
higher than the maximum yes
terday, and the humidity was
46.
AS the temperature continued
to rise slowly, Weather Bureau
officials said it probably would
pass 80 before the day is ended.
Tomorrow will be not quite so
warm. with showers expected to
break the heat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-14
JAPANESE PUSH.
INVASION Of
NORTH CHINA
Planes Roar Over Peiping,
But Chinese Prepare to Re-
Sist Armed Forces

PEIPING, June IA G.N.SO.
japanese planes roared over Peip-
ing today and thousands Of addi-
tional NipponeSe troops took up
stations within the Great Wall,
as responsible Chinese leaders laid
plans for some sort of resistance
to Japan's spreading penetration
C. North China.
The Japanese expressed salts.
faction over the extent of Chinese
compliance thus far with their
demands for removal OF anti
japanese factions and suppression
Of anti-Japanese agitation, but
pressure was brought to bear on
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek
to take active leadership in oppos-
ing further capitulationS.
The population of Peiping re-
NAMED calm in the face OF the
japanese aerial demonstration,
staged to convince it of Japan's
determination to stamp out un-
friendly elements by force OF arms
if necessary.
Feelings we're aroused, however.
by widespread distribution Of in
flammatory propaganda PAM
phlets, particularly because one
set of leaflets, bearing signatures
of former Chinese officials and de-
manding establishment of an lin
dependent" North China state like
Manchukuo were found to be
forged.
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sport hat, and sport shoes, the
wife who has chung to her hus-
band through three years Of
heartbreak and misery, took the
court room by surprise. A woman
spectator murmured:
"Why, she's beautiful"
And she was beautiful. Her big,
dark eyes blazed behind her
glasses, her pale. cameo-like face
glowed softly with suppressed ex-
citement, her entire body CULVER
ing with emotion.
This was no mouselike creature
bowed with grief and premature
age. It was a young tiger, fight
ing for her own. Her voice rang
passionately through the silent
court room as she faced the wom-
an who had caused her so much
heartache.
"On the night of June IL,
1882, 1 saw Anne Lyddane'S car
parked in the driveway near
my home. My husband was in
it talking to her. When he saw
me he jumped out and ran to
me. He held me as Anne Lyd-
dane backed her car to run
away. In her haste, she backed
into a ditch. And as she drove
off, she looked around to see
if Arthur was still holding me
and when she saw that he was,
she laughed in my face.
"The next morning my
youngest child was born"
STARES AT WITNESS
"Ah" A deep sigh swept
the court room. It rose and
swelled and died again like the
sea breaking on the rocks, and
then receding.
Anne Lyddane, with her back
to the spectators, stared directly
at the witness. Her face was
inScrutable.
Under the questioning of States
Attorney James H. Pugh, Mrs.
Beall related how she had called
Mrs. Lyddane on the telephone
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and Assistant Prosecutor John
Oxley, who has conducted most
of the examination of witnesses,
drew from the mealy-mouthed
former jailbirds weird story of
how Anne Lyddane had first
approached John "Googy" Car
nell, Rockville bartender, and
whispered that she wanted her
husband slain.
They then told of no. Harry
Thomas and John Martin Boland,
both of whom have had an
opportunity to judge the world
from behind steel bars, had gone
to Rockville, met Mrs. Lyddane
and plotted with her to kill
young "Slom" Lyddane.
Hold Night Session
Late yesterday Judge Ham.
mond Urner announced that the
court would be in session last
night and when it convened for
the evening session Ira Gulickson
and Bert C. Farrar. experts in
| lOCA1CA4SlIlS pdpC1 dlAO GyPCW4 4VSAo
went to the stand.
Their purpose was to discuss
the so-called "Googy" note, the
missive that the State contends
was written to John "Googy" Car
nell and Mrs. Lyddane-a missive
that read:
II am as much implicated as
you are. If you don't go through
with this deal l will make it bad
for all of u.s."
Gulickson, of the District police
department, said he was positive
the note was written on Anne
Lyddane's typewriter and Farrar
corroborated his statement. But
Mr.. Farrar admitted the study Of
typewriters was not an exact
science and State Senator Sted-
man Prescott, chief of the tai
ented defense array, has another
expert who will say before the
trial ends that the note was not
written on the typewriter Anne
used at her work in the Farmers
Bank and Trust Company.
Arrest Camera Men
In the midst of the court Ses-
sion last night three photograph
ers were arrested for violating the
rules and taking pictures on the
third floor of the courthouse.
They we're G. E. TandkerSley.
of the Washington Herald; AL
Candida, of The Times, and Will
liam Hoff, of the New York Daily
News.
Chief Judge Hammond Urner,
Judge Arthur D. Willard and
Judge Charles w. Woodward,
hailed the youths before them in
their chambers and after listen
ing to the photographers ex-
PLANTATION that the rules were VIC
lated inadvertently they released
them with warning.
The pictures were of Mrs.
Arthur Beall. wife Of the barnes
town gas station operator, with
whom Mrs. Lyddane was ad.
mittedly indiscreet.
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STRIKE ON COAL
IS AVERTED
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dent and will carry the Presidents
suggestion to a joint scale confer
ence, representing the bituminous
mine industry, to be held at the
Shoreham Hotel tomorrow. The
formal action of this conference
will have to precede the message
which will go to the mine workers
throughout the country, but Presi-
dent Lewis said today that he an
ticipated no difficulty in spread
ing the word.
Sure Of Passage
Those who called at the White
House seemed to be assured that
the Guffey-Snyder bill is consti-
tutional and that it will be passed
easily by both houses of Congress.
Passage of the Guffey coal bill
is the hostage demanded by the
union miners in exchange for
their agreement to return to work
June II, the day after their ex-
listing contract expires. This &C.
ton by the Congress appears a
physical impossibility, even though
President Roosevelt has asked con-
gressional leaders to give the pro-
posal right Of way" now that
the NRA bill has passed in the
Senate.
Even if the Guffey bill is
passed, or the miners agree to q
short truce, there remains still
the threat of trouble in the coal
fields of Illinois, the home of
the Progressive Miners Organiza-
ton, and in the South and West
where operators are threatening
to contest the constitutionality
Of the measure.
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rumblings which we now hear
in the distance will be realized
in trouble"
Remarking that when Mr..
Roosevelt first went into office he
told the people frequently what
he planned to do and what he
was doing, General johnson
wrote. but today no man know
eth the mind of the king"
The general emphatically wrote
that the Administration does not
need any new plans but his ar
ticle continues, it does need to
make clear the plans it already
has and to point out what plans
offered by others it does not
countenance and will not support.
1t does need a little of the fear
less leadership which started the
wheels going in 1888"