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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13

The Minneapolis Journal says: Almost every
body forgot that Sinclair Lewis was 81 February
7. The extreme cold prevented any banquet at Sank
Centre"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13

And now the rural newspapermen know what it
is to publish blizzard edition.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13

Blooming Notwithstanding with the bitter cold
and nearly exhausted, decrepit hitch-hiker
picked up by Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Schsler who
played the part of the Good Samaritan enroute home
from Austin last week. The man had started hitch
hiking from Mexico to the Twin Cities three weeks
ago in response to a radio broadcast informing him
of the serious illness of his only living relative sis
ter whom he had not for eight years. The first
leg of his trip was fine through the Sunny South
west but in this section he had clothing suitable
for the elements of the last three weeks His last
dime spent on the trip from Des Moines to Aus
tin, where he sold his good suit of clothes for three
dollars, and he had not overshoes heavy winter
clothing Marshall Glenn Dennis. of Blooming Prair.
lie, found ride for him to the Cities.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13
State News Briefs
High School Gets Finn Steam Bath

Stapes.-Finnish baths were free to jantors,
teachers and students in the Staples high school last
week One of the night shift plumbers, who are
changing the heating system from gravity to vac
uum force, took plug from a steam radiator in one
of the rooms left it in the basement, and knocked
off work at a. without replacing the plug or
turning off the radiator When the janitor fired up
at three a. m, steam began escaping from the rad
iator. The room was not opened until time for
school to start when freshmen stepped into steam
bath Water had risen to a height of three inches,
and damage to plaster desks and molding is estimat
ed at around $3.50.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13

Montevdeo.-A conscientious school teacher held
her life less than her duty at Montevdeo last week.
Miss Cleo Everson, teaching in rural school in
Woods township, died from over-exhaustion and a
heart attack, due to sacrificing herself in of the
most honorable of professions Miss Everson had
walked three quarters of mile to the school house
through deep snow drifts and the intense cold At
ter building the fire in the school building she called
school to order, but became i'll during the morning
hours and taken home. She died the next day
from the exhaustion her efforts had produced, and
another unsung heroine passed to a reward where
school teachers must receive the acknowledgement
their services have due.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13

Sixes 1865 and up :. Eishfs $50 and up.
list prices At Lansing, subject to change with
out notice. Safety Glass standard equfpnsenf
sH around. Special accessory groups exfra.
Car iRu sfrafed is the Sir Cylinder <-Door
Sedan, S795 list. A General Motors Value.
. SO 9. N. A. e. TlME PAYMENT Plan
Evening star., 1936-03-10
Ma ajor Features
and Notes

Kitty Carlisle, New Orleans gift to
the movies, will co-star with 9-year-
old Freddie Bartholomew as guest OF
Mary Pickford during the Parties at
Pickfair" program on WJSV at 10.
Lawrence Tibbett, on WJSV at
$50, will feature the aria and chorus
Cesar, Great Vert Thou" from
Deems Taylor's opera, THE Kings
Henchman." His program also in
cludes Where My Caravan Has
Rested and None But the Lonely
Heart
DR.. HereWard Darlington, director
of the American Physical Institute,
will take a leading role in the Crime
Clues presentation on WMAL at 8.
The program will originate In a
haunted house" on Staten Island,
N. Y.
Viennese music will dominate the
Sigmund Romberg program on WRC
at 10. The selections include "Kolo"
and Marching Marionettes.
Mary Lewis. Metropolitan Opera
star, who retired from public life
after her marriage, will return to the
world of music as guest soloist with
Ben Bernie's Orchestra on WMAL at
9. She will sing I'm Shooting High"
and IF Should Lose You"
Radio Joe and his Budget Boys, on
WMAL at 1880, will be dedicated to
the National Symphony Orchestra.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
BROADCAST BOOST
TO ENGLISH WORD
Briton in U. S. Studying
Trends Sees World Gain
Over French.

HROF. LLOYD JAMES, adviser
- on spoken English for the
British Broadcasting Co., who
n is in the United States, study
ing language trends in the broadcast
field, believes that English has super
ceded French as the nearest approach
to a universal language, as result
of the influence of radio and motion
pictures.
Prof. James, who also is a profess
sor of phonetics at London Univer-
sity, is booked for broadcast tomor-
row at 10:45 pm. on Columbia. He
has selected for his topic, 1.-THE
Spoken Word"
"Broadcasting machines are stand
ardizing the spoken language just as
the printing press standardized the
written language" he said. They and
the motion picture projectors are fore
ing the adoption of a rational sys-
tenn Of education, are smashing old
prejudices and traditions, and are
laying the foundations for a great
universal language which will pro-
mote peace and understanding among
the peoples of the world. It is my job
and that Of all persons connected with
radio and the cinema to see that these
Evening star., 1936-03-10
Explains Theft of Car.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. R.-Listed
among stolen cars today was a cream
colored sedan bearing the Knoxville
police emblem and the legend, "Traf-
fic Department" Capt. Tome Moore
explained its disappearance:
II guess they just turned the key
7 left in the switch and stepped first
on the starter, then on the gas"
Evening star., 1936-03-10
FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE
FEATURES.

London, 8 p.m.-"The Haunted
House" GSD, 25.5m.; Csc,
31.3m.: GSB, 3l.5m., or GSA,
49.5m.
Schenectady, 6;45 p.m.-"Early
Days of the Vacuum Tube"
r. c. Robinson. W2XAF, slam.
Madrid, 7 p.m.-Special pro-
gram for English-peaking listen
ers. EAQ, 30.5m.
London, 7:30 p.m.--News bulle-
tins. esd, 25.om.; Csc, 31.3m.;
GSB, 31.5m., or GSA, 49.5m.
Berlin, $50 p.m.-Folk music
from the by ways of Germany.
DJC, 49.8m.
Evening star., 1936-03-10

wonderful machines are directed to
such ends and are not used for selfish
and narrow purposes.
A BOY and girl singer, picked for
radio contracts from $500 others
in three months of Chicago additions,
will broadcast their prize winning
songs over Columbia Sunday at II
pm.
The two winners will be selected
before the broadcast from IL finalists
Each will be given a 13 week contract
with Columbia at salary of 500
weekly.
GOVERNMENT matters will pro-
vide the subject matter for at
least two Of this weeks radio pro-
grams
Representative Jones, Democrat, Of
Texas, chairman of the House Agri-
culture Committee, is scheduled to
discuss the new farm act during the
program of the American Farm Bu-
Evening star., 1936-03-10

reau Federation on N. B. C. Saturday.
The proposed bill to create Federal
Department of Territorial and In
sular Affairs will be the subject of an
other broadcast Wednesday over the
same system.
EDDIE CANTOR will present Harry
Richman as his guest star Sun
day. The broadcast, originating in
Hollywood, Fla, also will feature
Bobby Breeb, 8-year-old singer-actor,
whom Cantor adopted"
Evening star., 1936-05-07

comes into most immediate contact.
Even against physical disease, DR..
White said, mans defenses are very
fragile, as was evidenced by the re-
cent Potomac floods and the extreme
danger Of epidemics that followed
this relatively mild disorganization
OF settled ways Of life.
Much Of the increased protection
against contagious diseases he at
tributed to the making of health serv-
ices non-political and placing them
in the hands of specialists concerned
only with the most effective ways to
achieve results.
The sessions of the society this
morning were given over to medical
and surgical clinics conducted by Drs.
George K. Nutting, J. o. Warfield, jr. !;
w. Warren Sager, B. F. Dean, jr.; E.
Osmun Barr, Neil p. Campbell, G. L.
Weller, jr.; L. M. brennan, Elizabeth
Parker and Hugh H. Hussey, jr.
This afternoon, DR.. James p. O'Hare
Of Boston was to address the scientific
assembly on glcmerulo-nephritis, a
condition Of the kidneys, and DR.. r. M.
LIE Comte on kidney surgery. Other
physicians scheduled to present scien-
tific papers this afternoon were Drs.
Henry L. Darner, r. Rhett Rathbone,
Roger s. Cohen, Fred r. Sanderson.
Chevalier L. Jackson of Philadelphia
and Margaret M. Nicholson.
Evening star., 1936-05-07

Continued From First Page.)
appeared extremely nervous as he en-
tered the court room, accompanied by
his secretary.
On the two indictments charging
embeZzlement, Justice Gordon i'm
posed sentences Of from two to seven
years and on another true bill, which
alleged a violation Of the securities
act, he meted out prison term of
from one to five years, stating that all
three sentences would run concur.
rently.
The broker, who is a member of the
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs,
came here 20 years ago from Phila-
delphia. His home was at 2458 Wyo-
ming avenue, but a few days ago he
sent his wife and two children from
there to Jacksonville, Fla, where Mrs.
Kurtz's people live.
The three charges to which the &C.
cused man pleaded guilty involved
losses totaling $20,775, but Justice Cor
don called attention in open court to-
nay W VAC 4oSb eitob WCA ONCl pIUU,UUU
shortages are outstanding.
Kurtz is alleged to have taken Sc
curities or cash from clients with in
structions to buy other securities and
converted the funds to his own use.
From the District Supreme Court
house he was taken, In custody of
marshals, to the Jail and later prob
ably will be transferred to the District
Reformatory at Lorton, Va.
The maximum Kurtz could have re-
ceived on each Of the embezzlemept
charges was 2 to 10 years. The Sc
curities act violation carried a maxi
mum Of $4,000 fine and five years i'm
prisonment. No fine was assessed by
the Judge.
The three persons who were willing
to prosecute Kurtz were Arthur Sted-
man Hills, an attorney: DR.. How
ard E. Smith, Of the Agriculture
Department, and Comdr. Claude S.
Gillette, as secretary and treasurer
of the American Society of Naval
Engineers.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
CONFESSION MADE
|. IN GIRLS Staying.
But Police Doubt Story of
New Yorker in Death
of Mary ProuIx.
BY the Associated Press.

6J tilO hocoClatcu fItoS.
BOSTON, May 7.-Police Capt.
James Sheehan said today that Harry
Asher, 80. of Brooklyn, N. Y. former
resident of Maine, had confessed to
the Staying Of Mary Proulx, 7, Of Water
vile, Me.
Sheehan said. however, he did not
place much credence in the confession.
The captain said Asher stated he posi-
lively" committed the crime. He de-
clared he hit the girl on the head with
an iron bar, Sheehan said.
Sheehan raid Asher made the follow
ing statement:
Il met little girl in Waterville and
I asked her if she would like to go to
New York with me. ! said would you
like TO go to New York and meet my
folks. I'd like company on the road.
She said don't force me to 90 to
New York. I don't want to 60 any,
where said be good girl and come
with me- She said no don't ask me
to 60"
She started to cry. She said.
leave me alone When she said that
! took an iron bar out of my pocket
and hit her twice on the head. Then
l took to the road I did not abuse
her. I went to Auburn and Augusta
and then to Boston"
Sheehan said that after Asher had
confessed he Immediately sent to head
quarters for stenographer to take
a repetition Of the statement from
the man.
Asher had been taken into CUSTODY
and was being held as vagrant when,
Sheehan said, he made the confess
sion.
When arrested he was wearing a
Drown suit on which, police said, there
appeared to be blood stains.
The Proulx girls body was found
Tuesday bound with twine to a tree
stump. Maine police said she had
been gagged and criminally assaulted
Evening star., 1936-05-07
SENATOR CUTTING
IS HONORED HERE
Memorial Dinner Held on
Anniversary of Death
in Plane Crash.

Tribute to the late Senator Bron-
son Cutting of New Mexico who was
killed a year ago yesterday in an air.
plane crash, was paid by his friends
and associates last night at a me-
mortal dinner meeting at the Brook
ings Institution.
Informal and simple. the gathering
was attended by Is members of the
Senate and House. who participated
In round-table discussion on a SUBJ
ject in which Cutting was vitality in
terested-some of the forces that
Illustrate representative government
and how TO combat them.
In addition to speeches by those
present. kilograms lauding the dead
legislator were received from Mayor
La Guardia of New York, Senator
Norris Of Nebraska and William Allen
White, Kansas editor.
Senator Cutting "symbolizes the
hope of Americas future DR.. Edwin
Borchard Of Yale University, said.
Had he lived. he would have been
ideally equipped for the presidency of
the United States. His name will
always symbolic achievement and
virtue in American public life"
Mayor La Guardia's message said:
Senator Cutting left an enviable record
for vision. progressiveness and courage
to see a thing through. Considering
the Senator's education, background,
associations and personal interests,
his progressive views on economics,
politics and government showed a
rare personality and an unusual public
spirit"
Senator Norris called Cutting zone
OF Gods noblemen, whose death
brought sorrow to the heart of every
liberty-loving person in the United
States"
Senator Hatch, New Mexico Demo-
crat and colleague of the late Senator.
described Cutting as "a brave man,
loyal friend, courageous statesman,
a man who had most keen sense of
public duty and of responsibility"
1t Is hard to realize Bronson Cut
ting has been gone from this life for
a year." Whites letter stated. His
personality was so vivid, the impetus
he gave good things was so vital, that
he seems to be with us even now. So
do the lives Of good men live after
them in the hearts of their friends.
in the blessings those lives have be-
slowed upon their countrymen."
Evening star., 1936-05-07

times stepped to the diners side tc
correct mistake of the table waiter
Each time the head one apologet-
ically, but unnoticed by Mr.. Klapp
transferred the fork and knife to the
left and right side of the diners plate
respectively, only to find upon his next
round Of the tables that the silver had
been changed back to the wrong
position.
Not until the third time, when Klapr
noticed the head ones solicitude, did
he realize what was taking place
Fastening to explain, lest the waiter
be held TO blame. he looked up and
said:
"oh, that's all right as it is. You
see, I'm left-handed."
BIRTHDAY.
The first stamp issued pas 96
years old yesterday. 1t Uas the
famous Penny Black Stamp of
Great Britain, issued May 6, 1910,
1Dtth Queen Victoria's head printed
in deep black.
One OF them ipas sent to q little
girl, telling her to keep II, for some
day it tOould be Ualuable. The note
is in a London museum. 1t marked
the beginning OF stamp collecting.
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COUNSEL.
THE Department of Justice received
letter the other day from the
firm of-believe 1t or not-Ruff g.
Ready. attorneys, of Miami, Fla. The
letter indorsed candidate for Federal
judge in Florida.
Evening star., 1936-05-07

and constant vigilance to prevent them
from getting a foothold. The Suscep-
tibility of man has not changed. Dr.
White emphasized, and any relaxa-
ton of the vigilance might cause as
great epidemics as those of the past.
World Held Morally Better.
Similarly, he said, the world seems
to have changed for the better morally
since the days when wars were con-
slant, each nobleman hired his own
executioner, and such puniShments as
flaying. burning alive and breaking
on the wheel we're commonplace.
These seem so repuguant to the mod
ern civilized man it is difficult to
imagine they ever could be revived
Yet, said DR.. White. man himself
has not changed since the days Of
f1ayings. He still is instinctively self
ish and cruel, with strength and
cunning his natural weapons in the
struggle for existence. Just as public
health services and sanitary engi-
neering hold back the disease germs.
so the veneer of civilization keeps sub
merged the more deadly germs of hate
and cruelty, and any break in bull
warks of culture and religion which
society has erected to protect itself
might bring back the worst of the
past.
One Of the reasons man was so long
In conquering the physical epidemics,
DR.. White said, was that the causa-
tive organisms found such familiar
places in which to hide. Man had
lived in close association with rats
throughout his history, familiarity had
bred contempt for them, and anybody
In the Middle Ages who had sug-
gested that they were the hiding place
OF the Black Death would have been
scorned. The cause was sought in
vain in something unfamiliar and
mystical.
Germs" Of Conflict Cited.
Much the same may be the condi-
ton in respect to the psychological
germs of conflict, he said. Their
securest hiding places are in such
institutions as patriotism and national
ism, highly commendable in them
selves, where seekers are least likely
to look for them. Masked in the pre-
tense Of such virtues, men of ill will
are able to release the age-old hatreds
and instructive aggressiveness of man.
kind.
1t is as important to know these
sources, he said, as to know the car
riers of disease micro-organisms. He
predicted some "Gorgas of the future
in some new Geneva unmasking the
motives OF some demagogue," Just as
the mosquito was unmasked as the
carrier of yellow fever.
Mankind never has tried scientifi-
cally, DR.. White said, to protect itself
against war by the methods which
have succeeded so sensationally against
disease. But, he emphasized, vast
amount of data on human motives has
been uncovered in the last two gen.
erations which, when co-ordinated
into a rational whole, may provide a
starting place for just such a program
to bring about warless world.
The practicing physician, he in
sisted, must play prominent part
in working toward this end. The
causes of physical disease and means
for their prevention must be sought
In sick persons with whom the ply
sician alone comes into conflict. Even
SO, DR.. White said, the causes and
means of prevention of the great
epidemics must be
sought in the mentally sick. With
these also the practicing physician
Evening star., 1936-05-07

with President Roosevelt, Representa-
tive Bankhead of Alabama, majority
leader. said a program would be
worked out under which r. F. c. funds
would be lent for municipal public
works.
Members Of the Better group have
complained that after local plans
were laid for public works in various
communities. the Federal Government
did not furnish the expected funds
President Roosevelt has expressed the
view that if q large portion Of the
81 500 .000,0 900 were set aside for P
w. A., the money would not provide
the desired number of work relief
jobs.
Hopkins Advice Revealed.
Hopkins advice to Congress was
contained in his testimony before the
Appropriations Committee. not re-
vealed until today. The $500, 900 900
he said, will be insufficient for a full
year unless private employment con-
tinues its rate Of gain.
AS to suggestions for a permanent
relief program, he said sit was not
desirable now to draft such a plan
because if you were to do it today you
would have 70 set up a device to take
care of a very, very large number Of
people"
Now I certainly do not look for
ward to the number of unemployed
that we have now" he said I'VE have
had distinct improvement in three
years. There ought to be more"
Urging that a permanent plan be
drafted later when the size Of the
longtime relief load can be estimated,
he said:
II would rather see Congress putting
its mind on cooperation with indus
try in terms Of employment.
Sees Work for 2,0O0, 900.
Hopkins told the committee the ap-
preparation would enable W. P. A. to
provide work for an average of o.
100000 persons throughout the year,
compared with the March peak of
3,050,000 He said the present plan
was to drop approximately 100000 in
the next few months and have around
100000 actually employed on July /,
1895.
Hopkins said that while there had
been attempts to take advantage of
relief politically. II think there is no
substantial evidence that 1t has been
taken advantage Of" He cited orders
to State administrative officials warm
ing against politics and said party
affiliations of applicants were not in
vestigated "to my knowledge"
The administrator cited several
w. P. A. undertakings which, he said,
have been subject to "boondoggling"
charges, and concluded: so far as I
am concerned, I have no misgivings,
for instance. about the project of
making braille books for the blind.
If they want to call that boondoggling
it is all right with me. feel no
concern because we sent nurses who
were on relief to visit the sick. If that
Is boondoggling I think it Is a good
thing"
He said such projects as theatricals
and dancing would not amount to one
half Of per cent of the total.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
LABOR BOARD ORDERS
VOTE OF A. P. WORKERS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Labor Relations Board today
ordered an election among the edi-
torial employees of the Associated
Press in its New York ONCE to de-
termine whether or not they desire
to be represented by the American
Newspaper Guild"
Those employees on the pay roll May
8, With exception of executives, would
vote in the election, ordered to be held
within 10 days after May 6.
The board added:
In connection with the election,
Morris Watson. whose discharge by the
Associated Press Is claimed to have
been due to his organizational activity
and whose case is now before us, will
be considered as among the editorial
employees of the Associated Press.
Whether his vote in the election will
be counted will depend upon our
ultimate decision in the case relating
to him."
Evening star., 1936-05-07
ENTOMBED.

THOSE return-to-your- -youthful-fig
ure window displays in the stores
got a Park road grandmother into a
pretty bad jam one recent night after
the family had gone to bed.
She had purchased one of the gar
ments devised as figure-restorative
and was trying it on in the privacy of
her bed room. Failing to get into it
from the top, she tried sort of the
climb in from the bottom, holding it
above her head. 1t went better that
way, but just enough better that the
grandmother soon found herself en-
tombed-completely cut of from the
world. It was a pretty tight squeeze,
literally speaking. but the grandmother
was not going to call for help.
She finally cut her way to freedom
with a pair of scissors, took a deep
breath, and concluded that sticking
to her present figure is lot easier and
safer.