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The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
CITY TRYING TO
BUY PARK LAND
KnudsOn, Brown on Trip to
Eveleth to Interview
Owner of Lots

In an attempt to buy II lots
forming the old gravel pit behind
the ice house for use as city
park, Leon H. Brown, city attor-
ney and j. F. Knudson, council
man, drove to Eveleth Tuesday to
interview Mrs. H. D. Gerth, owner.
Should Redwood Falls acquire
the land it will be levelled and
graded to slope from the highway
to the river and planted with
trees and flowers. Eventually it
is hoped that tennis courts and a
kittenball field may be added to
the scenic park.
The state highway department
has offered to furnish engineers
to supervise the project without
cost to the city and it is expected
that government paid labor will
be employed to keep expenses at
q minimum.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
COUNTY ALLOTTED
FUNDS FOR ROAD

Redwood county will receive
$46, 1886 as its allotment from the
state gas tax and $1O,913 from the
one mill tax, according to inform
alton from the state highway de-
partment-
Included in the gas tax money
is e8,085 rs a special allotment for
use On the road which connects
hi0kWnys SO and 10 through Nor
gs1, Wabasso, Lucan and Milroy.
It p proAable that a contract win
be let this summer for the i'm
proPement of nine miles of this
roa4 west of Morgan, the rest of
the rou1e being in good condition.
nuNEle county received $43, $50
~ ~ money and Yellow Medi-
eines 00;600.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
WORK ON
BRIDGE APPROACH
Tyson Station to be Moved
Monday to Point 800
Feet East

With work on the new bridge
approaches underway since Mon
day, the Woodrich Construction
company of Minneapolis is tear
ing the old pavement from the
north end of Mill street prepara-
tory to grading and repaving the
west approach.
The Tyson oil station on Mill
and Bridge streets will be moved
Monday to position 800 feet east
of the present one at the inter-
section of the east approach and
highway 10. The Sinclair sta
ton, owned by George A. Barnes
and A. D. McRae, has already
been turned around and moved so
that it fronts on the new highway.
A crew of about 80 men, hired
through the unemployment office,
is already at work. The portable
office Of the company has been
placed near the Chicago and
North Western station.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Steps Taken to Organize
County Laav, Order League

which would have improved court
procedure and dimmed the chances
of criminals being set free by
hoodwinked jurors.
He declared that more crimes
are committed today by youths of
18 and 19 years than any other
two ages and stated that training
in the homes and schools must be
made greater factor in moulding
character. A proper attitude to-
ward society must be instilled in
the student, along with other
fundamentals of learning, he said.
Crime costs the average Ameri-
can s25 per year directly and over
500 indirectly, he said adding that
Minnesota is in an unfavorable
position in comparison with other
states in this regard. For example
the cost of bank robbery insurance
in New York is less than 81 per
thousand while in Minnesota it is
$40 per thousand.
He predicted an improvement in
crime conditions because of the
school for police officials, crime
radio station, increase in numbers
and powers of the criminal appre-
hension bureau and the highway
patrol and other improvements
made by the legislature.
The meeting was poorly attend
ed, due in part to conflicting meet
ings, and Mr.. Lindel was invited
to return for another address af-
ter q county unit is established.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
ENGINEER NAMED
TO PLAN POLICE
RADIO STATION
PaSsOlt Indicates Work Will
Start Soon; County
Offers Room

Determined to have the new
police radio station operating at
the earliest possible date, officials
of the bureau of criminal appre-
hension have already appointed
DR.. Henry E. Hartwig to draw up
plans and specifications with in
structions to begin work here in
the very near future.
This information was received
this week by George A. Barnes,
county attorney, from M. c. Pas
solt, bureau superintendent. He
also thanked the county board, the
Commercial club and the Lions
club for resolutions asking that
the station be placed here.
DR.. Hartig is from the Univer-
sity of Minnesota department of
electrical engineering and it is be-
ieved that he will supervise con-
struction of the station as well as
make plans for it.
The county commissioners last
week adopted a resolution asking
that the station be placed here,
promising to furnish quarters in
the county Jail where an extra
cell guarded by steel doors will
make an excellent broadcasting
room. The board also offered to
heat and light the room.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
RITES HELD FOR
MRS. BECKER, 62
Resident of Community for
Many Years Died at
Home Thursday

Funeral services were conduct
ed Sunday afternoon at the Mid
die Greek church for Mrs. Henry
Becker, 62, who died at her home
at North Redwood Thursday after
a short illness of pleurisy and
pneumonia.
Rev. o. S. Monson was in
charge of the services and burial
was in the Middle Creek cemetery
beside her husband who died in
August. The body lay in state
from 1 p. m. Saturday at the
North Redwood Evangelical
church.
Ida nj. Schroeder was born in
Marquette, Wisconsin, September
A, 1878 and as a child moved with
her parents to Courtland where
she resided until her marriage to
Henry F. Becker, September 9,
1898. They made their home in
Renville county until 1920 when
they moved to North Redwood
which was her home until her
death.
She is survived by 13 children
and stepchildren, Mrs. E. Druery,
Mrs. C. ]. Kurtz, Mrs. Carl Miller,
Mrs. L. j. Taubert, Mrs. Charles
Zachow, Mrs. William MacGowan,
Anton, William, Alvin, Elmer,
Harold, Fred and Floyd.
Out of town relatives who at
tended the funeral were Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Zimmerman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Schroeder and Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Schroeder of
New Ulm, Fred Zimmerman and
Mr.. and Mrs. Hippert of Court
land, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Meierding
and family of Morgan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Marquardt of Vesta,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Miller of Ap-
pleton, Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Schroed-
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Schroed-
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Schroed-
er and Mrs. E. Black of Danube,
Mrs. Laabs and son and Mrs. Aug
ust Matz of Echo.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Government Agents
Are "G-Men" Heroes


Will government agents step
into the search for Denning and
Limerick? If so what will be
their methods and their advent
ures?
With the Bremen case in st.
Paul of paramount interest and
the Dillinger case not yet forgot
ten, the public looks to Edgar
Hoover's department of justice
agents, "G-Men," for its heroes
and its thrills.
"G-Men" showing typical mo-
ments in the lives Of government
agents will be shown at the Red
wood theatre, Sunday and Mon
day, May 26 and 81.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Six Boys, Four Girls Haze
Best Senior Class Grades
List Announced at Reception
Saturday; Six Have 80
Averages

Six boys and four girls were
named Saturday evening at the
annual senior reception as the
honor students of the 1885 Red
wood Falls High school gradual
ing class.
The division was unusual as the
girls have predominated on the
list for many years and the marks
were exceptional, six Of the group
have averages Of 80 or better.
William Finn is valedictorian
with 94.4 average and Myrl
Lindeman is salutatorian with
93.3. Others in the order Of their
rank are George Novak, Mervale
Wolverton, Elaine Warner, Shirley
Steiner, Ingrid Anderson, Viola
Billie, John Mcconnell and Cor
don Alexander.
Members of the junior class
were hosts at the reception and
banquet which were followed by
dancing in the Lincoln auditorium.
1t presented a realistic Dutch
scene with a profusion of tulips, a
windmill, Dutch figures and wood
en- shoes as decorations. A group
of sophomores who acted as wait
resses wore typical Dutch cos
TIMES of blue and white.
The affair, most important of
all social events in the school year
was attended by 16O guests among
whom were DR.. and Mrs. Albert
Asleson, Mr.. and Mrs. Parker D.
Sanders, Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Che
ney, Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Hillig,
Mr.. and. Mrs. C. A. Lauterbach
and Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Backer of
the Board of Education, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. H. Wichman, the faculty
of the senior high school, Miss
Thela Aske and Miss Leona Nc
Gowan, principals in the Lincoln
school and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Parker, Mr.. and Mrs. R. w.
Whyte and Richard Jueneman.
The program included talks
"L.ow Dutch zu High Dutch" by
Ruth Alexander, junior president;
High Dutch zu Low Dutch" by
Keith Mckay, senior class presi-
dent; song and dance" Little
Dutch Mill' Carolyn and Marolyn
Bue; talks "Dutch bikes" by Par
ker Sanders, Dutch Behind the
bikes" by C. N. Nicholson; a
song, Little Dutch Garden" by
Marjorie Pettis and dutch Treat
by j. III. Wichman.
Faculty members who had
charge of the arrangements were
Miss Elizabeth Chaplin, Miss
jeanette Lee, Miss Hazel Myhre,
Irwin Buss and S. w. Limburg.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
To Manage Theatre

Wilbur Melges who for the past
year has been assistant to D. w.
Buckley of the Redwood theatre
will take charge of the New State
theatre at Olivia about June Is.
The New State which is owned by
Mr.. Buckley will be closed for re-
decoration May 27, and when the
work is completed it will be one
of the finest of its size in the
northwest. Donald Peterson be-
gan work at the Redwood theatre
Monday, to replace Mr.. Melges.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Witnesses Pick Photos
Of Dillinger Gangsters
as Those of Men Sought
Would Move Evan
Bank to Redwood

Word was received here We'd
nesday that the directors Of the
Evan State Bank have applied to
the state banking department for
permission to move their bank
from Evan to Redwood Falls. A
hearing on the question will be
held soon.
1t is understood that permission
is also asked to increase the capi-
tai stock of the bank, which is
now $4,000. This is the third at
tempt made this year to start a
second bank in Redwood Falls.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
2Men Who Stole Vesta Car Linked With Bank Raid
Rural Children
Take Prizes at
Annual Outing

Rural School Play day, the Sec
ond to be held in recent years,
sponsored by the Redwood County
Rural Teachers association Of
which Mrs. Grace Chalmers
Dahms is president, was held at
Wabasso Friday. The day was
favorable for outside activities
and large crowd attended.
The program opened at 9:15 a.
m. with the raising of the flag by
Superintendent C. D. Clipfell, the
giving of the flag salute by pupils
and teachers and the playing of
the Star Spangled Banner by the
Wabasso High school band.
Races and dodge and kittenball
games completed the rest Of the
mornings program. Picnic din
ners in the park were enjoyed at
noon, during which time the band
played several numbers. Jumps,
dodgeball and kittenball games
made up the program for the af-
ternoon, district 1O4, Seaforth,
winning the championship game
in dodgeball and district 1OS, Lu-
can, winning the championship
game in kittenball.
The Lamberton Teachers Train
ing department had charge of
games for the small children in
the park and the Redwood Falls
Teachers Training department
kept scores for the dodgeball
games.
Much credit is due to Superin-
tendent Wallace Simpson and the
teachers of the Wabasso public
schools, the high school students
and the business and professional
men of Wabasso for the co-opera-
ton given the association in put
ting on this day Of games and en-
tertainment for the children and
their parents.
E. w. Everts of the state de-
partment of education, director of
health and physical education, was
present and was pleased with the
spirit of sportsmanship shown by
all schools and spectators.
The committee in charge of the
Play day arrangements was made
up of the following teachers: Ell
len Whelan, district 1O4, chair
man; Esther Dale, district 116;
Carroll Milbrath, district 26; Hat
tie Cox, district LOG; Elsie Jacob
son, district 13; Fred Stava, dis
trict 108 and Mrs. Dahms and Mr..
Cipfell, ex-officio members.
Following are the results of the
games and individual events:
KittenbalLLucan village, dis
trict, 103, first, Seaforth village,
district 104, second; Clements vii
lage, district Is, third.
Dodgeball - Seaforth village,
district 1O4, first; Lucan village,
district 108, second; district 4s,
third.
Boys dashes: group A, 6 to 8
years, first, Lester Loges, district
1O4; second, Bernard Klabunde,
district II; third, Francis Petrack,
district ia. Group B, 9 to II
years: first, Melvin Rohde, district
109; second, Gordon Glib, distric
43; third, Warren Giesler, district
4S. Group c, IL to 16 years, first,
Donald Okins, district CIV; second,
Warren Jensen, district 27; third,
Jack Kleine, district 43.
Continued on page seven)
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
All Leaders Meeting

Miss Mildred Schenck, Al Club
Agent, will be in Redwood Falls
Saturday afternoon, May Is to
help all leaders and members in
home economics projects. This
meeting will be held at the eify
hall, Redwood Falls, beginning at
2 and should be over by 4:30 Ms
Schenck suggested that all Leaders
and members bring questions fkGk
they wish answered. Last y6ur
the county received many ho1p-
full suggestions from Miss S<k
and she is expected to bring uGn1
good ideas again this year.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
New Investigator

George Anderson, who has been
Redwood county relief investi-
gator since January, left Wednes-
Gay for St. Peter where he has a
position in the county engineers
office. Miss Leone Lehrer, former
investigator of Pope county, will
arrive today to take Mr.. Ander-
sons place. Miss Lehrer is .
graduate of Manchester college.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Park at Washington

Sherman Park of Redwood
Falls, president of the county
Corn-Hog Control association, is
in Washington, D. C. this week
with several thousand other farm
ers who were addressed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace Tuesday. The
purpose of the gathering at the
capitol is to urge approval Of leg
islation favorable to rural sec
tions.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Desperate Men Stole Car Of
Vesta Farmer After
Striking Child
Drove To Hanley Falls, Left
Car, Boarded North
Redwood Train

Two desperate criminals
who eluded authorities of
three counties after accident
ally ditching a stolen car
which they were driving,
striking a IL year old child
and stealing another car,
were identified from photo
graphs this week as members
of the former Dillinger gang.
The men are being hunted by
Twin Cities officials after escap-
ing from this section by doubling
back on their track and boarding
the M and St. L train at North
Redwood early Saturday morning.
Although ragged and bleeding
from injuries received in their ac-
cident, they fooled the trainmen
who allowed them to ride into the
Minneapolis station.
With their car ditched two miles
north of Vesta Friday afternoon,
Thomas Limerick, 20, and Maurice
Denning, 81, both wanted for the
Ellsworth bank holdup of April 1,
stole car from Gus Penske, Yes
ia farmer, after knocking his son,
Allen, from the automobile onto
the road.
Both Men Injured
Although both men were badly
cut about the face and Limerick
sustained a broken arm when their
car hit the ditch following a blow
out as they were travelling at ter
rife speed, they escaped while
witnesses who had stopped to Of
fer them aid, watched without
realizing what was happening.
They sped away in Penske's
car, an Oldsmobile sedan, aban-
doned it three miles from Hanley
Falls near the railroad track and
somehow got to North Redwood
where they took the 2:51 a. m.
train into Minneapolis, buying
tickets from the conductor. AS
their clothes were torn and their
faces covered with blood, they told
the train brakeman that their car
had been sideswiped by a truck
and they had to leave it and travel
to Minneapolis by train.
Six Witnesses
The Vesta incident was witness
ed by James and Harlan Otto of
Redwood Falls who were return
ing from Vesta in Forster's furni-
ture truck and Gus Miller who
stopped to offer assistance. ThS
men were identified by James OF
to, Miller, the conductor and
brakeman of the M and st. L and
Penske from photographs shown
them by state men who are work.
ing on the case. Both men are
ex-convicts. Accompanied by a
third, they took $3,607 from the
Ellsworth bank, April 1.
Penske working in the field about
6 p. m. saw Ford V-8 round the
curve from the Echo road and
hurtle into the ditch as tire blew
out. He got into his own automo-
bile, with his son, Allen, riding in
the back seat and went to investi-
gate the accident.
The men were just extricating
themselves from the badly wreck
ed Ford as Penske, the Otto boys
and another motorist drove up.
All the onlookers saw them tear
the drivers license from the
steering wheel of the Ford and
take set of automobile plates
Continued on page seyen)
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
COMMERCIAL RADIO
STATION PROPOSED

After a brief discussion of a
proposed commercial broadcasting
station for Redwood Falls at the
meeting of the Commercial club
Monday night, w. R. Wingate,
president, was authorized to ap-
point a committee to investigate
the attitude of towns in which
such stations have been operating.
Mr.. Bendix of Echo who is inter-
ested in establishing a station in
dicated at the meeting that it
would require a year at least to
secure a license.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Bearded Boys Will
Play Here June l

The House of David baseball
team, known for their boards and
ability as ball players, will come
to Redwood Falls June 1 for a
night game at the fair grounds.
They will furnish the lighting
equipment and are expected to
bring Grover Alexander and an
older Dean brother, Elmer, who
are with them this season.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
Walnut Grove Man
Gets Tractor Prize
In Essay Contest

Emil Giese of Walnut Grove
won an Allis-Chalmers tractor Of
fered as first prize in a 200 word
essay contest on the subject "What
l would like in a good farm tract
orr sponsored by the Rural Pro-
gress magazine. He is driving the
machine out from Minneapolis.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
FL AT SANBORN

Henry Teigan and Warren Creel,
prominent Twin Cities Farmer
Laborites, spoke at a meeting of
the county party organization held
Tuesday evening in Sanborn. A
large crowd heard their discus
sions Of governmental problems,
dealing particularly with taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-26

(Continued from Page 1.) of more than $10,0OO, PWA al- lows 25 per cent leeway between S100 and $1O,0OO and 100 per cent where material costs are less than $100.
 PWA made public figures that domestic steel manufacturers and rolling mill operators. who received orders for $146,717,00O from PWA, increased their pay rolls from 2O7.O00 men in March, 1883, to S2S,000 in March, 1885.
 Employment Created
 Indirect employment in the steel industry" PWA said. has been created by orders for 750, 900 tons of new railroad rails, struc- tural shapes for immense bridges. hundreds of public buildings, ma terials for thousands of new freight and passenger cars, the traffic tunnel under the Hudson river and many other types of structure"
 A total of 121,000 men was re- ported in March. 1885, over March 1888, in steel fabricating and manufacturing plants only, officials said. That does not include the men put back on payrolls to get out iron ore, coal. and other basic materials used in iron and steel production.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-26
MANY PILGRIMS
 ATTEND NOVENA
l5,O0O Crowd Into Village of Ste. Anne DeBeaupre
 This Morning

Ste. Anne De Beaupre, Que. July 26.-1UP)-Fift thousand pil- grims from all parts of the United States and Canada crowded this little French Canadian village to- day to attend final ceremonies of a novena in honor of Ste. Anne. Six miraculous faith-cures have been reported and thousands of the de- vout, the sick, the halt, and the blind, wended their way to the shrine to-day in the hope that di- vine intercession would bring them relief.
 Five of the reported cures in- volved Americans. A druggist from Auburn, Me-, left his crutch- es in the shrine after being cured of a chronic leg ailment. Mrs. Marie E. Hoffman, Detroit, Mich, Frederick Walberg, Worcester, Mass, Rudolph Petrini, Clifton, N. Y, and Miss Ruth Grimes of Bal timore, Md, said they had been cured of various ailments.
 All hotels and boarding houses are filled to overflowing. Hundreds of the pilgrims slept in tents out side the village. Others were forced to return to Quebec City 70 find accommodations.
 His eminence, Cardinal Villene- uve, attended pontificial high mass in the grounds of the Basilica this morning. Archbishop James c. McQuigan of Toronto officiated.
 The novena celebrations will bc concluded tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-26
BANK MESSENGER
 GUARD USED GUN

Peoria, Ill.,, July 26-(UP)-Two men were wounded, one critically, today in a daring daylight payroll robbery.
 One of the victims was bank guard and the other bandit.
 Two of the three robbers who participated in the holdup escaped but the bandit who seized the $1.- 900 payroll was wounded and was captured with the money.
 Joe Backuf, a guard for the Commercial Merchants National Bank & Trust Co.,, was accompany ing the payroll messenger for the Empire store. When they were a block away from the bank they were confronted by the three hold up men who calmly announced the holdup.
 Backuf promptly began shooting and his fire was answered by the bandits. Backuf fell with charge from a sawed-off shotgun in his left side. One of the bandits was hit in the leg and captured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-26
MISERY CHISELER IS NAME CALLED
 ALFRED WAGNER
Got Ransom Money From Borrowing Relatives of
 Kidnapped Persons

New Work, July 2e = (UP) - Misery that accompanied some of the most notorious crimes of the last three years paraded in concen- trated tabloid today across the stage of federal court where AL fred Otto Wagner is on trial.
 Those Who Paid
 There was Berry Stoll, young Kentuckian of millionaire family who paid $4,000 to release his young wife from kidnapers, telling of agonizing notes federal agents say he received from Wagner.
 There was John Raul, who sob- bed as he stepped to the witness stand and identified the ransom notes he received. before his son, Jackie, was found drowned last month in East River.
 There was Alfred D. Distelhurst. of Nashville, whose 6-year-old daughter was found buried in a Shallow grave in Tennessee while he waited in New York to meet the author of a demand for ransom. The government says Wagner wrote them. And there were wit nesses to tell of the heartbreak Wagner is alleged to have intensi- fled in the Kidnapping of George Weyerhaeuser, 9, in Tacoma, and in the disappearance of Charles D. Towt, Nyack, N. r., who has not been found.
 Wagner Loses Swagger
 Wagner - big, square jawed, bushy haired and swaggering until yesterday - quailed as he met Stolls contemptuous gaze from the witness stand, watched young Raul shake in sobs. and saw Distelhurst's quiet grief. He will be confronted Monday by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation, who will tell jurors why he named WaWgner the Misery Chisler." Defense Attorney Mur- ray Kreindler subpoenaed Hoover yesterday. Another federal agent, Thomas J. Donegan, opened testi- mony yesterday by telling of Wag- ner's capture in an abandoned fac tory building where Monroe Towt, son of the missing Nyack octo- genarian, had been instructed to deliver $75,000 ransom.
 Federal agents say Wagner has had no connection with any kid naping.