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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

her life and has many friends who
wish her much happiness when she
becomes bride next month.
Francis and Albert Kaeder were
home from the Cities for the week.
end.
Mrs. Hugo Wickstrom and Miss
Lyllian Petee called on Mrs. L. Nc
Arthur Sunday afternoon The Nc
Arthurs are having their home made
ready for winter by having some ex-
tensive remodeling done.
On Friday evening a group of
neighbors gathered at the nome of
Nels Nordholm to help him celebrate
his birthday anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. P. Ward were
callers at the Ernest Nordholm home
Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Hoglund of
Cambridge. and Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Lingren of Bruno, were Sunday guests
at the G. j. Hoglund home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kyro and
children spent the weekend at An
Mandate visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hendrickson,
ST., called at the Kyro home last
Thursday evening.
Leonard and Dominick Daniels,
cousins of the Laska boys, were here
Saturday with party of hunters.
Joe and Francis Laska were in
Minneapolis Friday and Saturday.
Guests at the Vincent Laska home
Sunday night were Mrs. Dancer and
son, Junior, Mrs. Albert Geise and
son and Evelyn Heino, while on
Monday night, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Hammond and son, Ronald, called
there.
The local teachers will attend the
M. E. A. meeting in ST. Paul Thurs
day and Friday of this week. While
Superintendent and Mrs. E. F. Pei
tola are gone, Mrs. Peltola's mother,
Mrs. Ronning, of Winthrop, will stay
with little Bette Jean
Lucille Martin of Sandstone, was
a guest of Mrs. Henry Matson Sum-
day.
William Martin went to Mime
apOllS Saturday to get Mrs. Martin
and children who have been in the
Cities for some time while Mrs Mar
tin took medical treatments. They
returned home Sunday night.
w. A. Hileman of New London,
Ohio, was caller Friday afternoon
at the j. j. Malloy home Mr.. Hile-
man was formerly employed on the
S. S. Lamont with John Malloy, Jr.
There will be service at the ST..
Johns Finnish Lutheran church Sum-
day, Oct. 81, at 10 o'clock. After the
service a dinner will be served by
Mrs. Andrew Pajala, Mrs. Albert
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Finlayson School Notes

The annual fall high school party
held Friday night of last week marked
the first time that the new gymnasium
was used. The gymnasium was fine
place for a party. The tan of the
ceiling and walls took life under
the bright ceiling lights, while the
orange tint of the window guards
and the silver of the radiator pipes
added that touch of color so neces-
sary to party. Fall, a new gymna-
SUM and the first party of the year
made everyone feel like having fun.
Games, initiation, music and lunch
are drab words for the three hours
of enjoyment Friday.
The faculty will go to st. Paul
Thursday of this week for three-day
meeting of the Minnesota Educational
Association.
Dorothy Belling has been elected
secretary of the merit system, a posi-
ton held last year by Mae Wallio,
now freshman at the University
of Minnesota.
Boy scouts and scouters will at
tend scout rally to be held in Hinck-
ley November S.
In a recent game of touch football
the senior-sophomore team beat the
junior-freshman team.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28
SANDSTONE BIBLE CHURCH

Sunday services October 31-Sun-
day school, 10 a. M, all ages; morn
ing service, II a. M, subject, Be-
levers Made One by the Holy Spirit.
Sixth sermon from the book of Ephe-
slams. Read Chapter 2. Bring your
Bible Sermons are illustrated with
large chart. p. M, Bear Creek,
service. p. m, gospel service. Spe-
cial singing and gospel music. Come
and sing the old time gospel songs.
Subject, When They Will Cry to the
Rocks.
Wednesday, p. m, prayer meeting
Thursday, 2 p. m, Missionary club
Thursday, p. m, Bible class, Bear
Creek.
Friday, p. m. young people
evening.
Saturday, 2:30 p m, Juniors meet
ing.
R. DEURSEN, Pastor.
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Hannu and Mrs. Ed Koski in the
church dining room. All are well
come and will be assured a fine din
ner.
The next meeting of the Thimble
club will be held in two weeks at
the home of Mrs. Anton Faudskar
with the Misses Violet Johnson and
Caroline Trygstad as assisting host
esses. Mrs. w. T. Pearson resigned
as president and Mrs. E. F. Peltola
was elected to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Doty moved
their household goods Tuesday to
Sandstone where they will make their
future home. They will open a gro
Gerry store there about November l.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES


Bible study Thursday evening at the
Forsyth home
c. E. Friday evening at the Elwell
home. Social hour.
Sunday school at 10 a. M; service
at 11:15 a. m.
Special services November
through November with the pastor
speaking. The theme for the week is
with Jesus" Services begin at 8
p. m. with a prayer service at 7:30
p. m. Everyone welcome to these
services.
Kerrick.
Service at 9:45 a. M; Sunday school
following.
Ladies' Aid meeting Saturday aft
ernoon at the Selinski home.
Willow River.
Bible study Wednesday evenings
Sunday school at 2 p. m; service
at 8 p. m.
DAVID HARRINGTON, Pastor.
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MIDWAY TABERNACLE

Sunday school and Bible class at
p. m.
Service Tuesday at 8 p. m. at the
Fargeal home miles east of Willow
River.
On Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day evenings, Oct. %, 20 and 80, we
will have services at the Scandal
hall 212 miles south of Bruno. There
will also be services Sunday, Oct. 81,
at 2:30 p. m. Evangelists Anna Olson
and Grace Talakson will be with us
at all these services. Special songs
and music will be provided. All are
welcome.
0. M. HAUG, Pastor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

law will in no way be affected by
the recent decision of the Ramsey
county district court outlaWing the
gross sales tax provision of a prev
ious chain store levy, according to
Attorney General William S. Erwin.
A decision handed down by Judge
R. D. O'Brien held the specific tax
against the chains constitutional. The
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

How much chasing can you afford
to do for Csc? If you want to buy
or sell invest a few pennies in an
American Want AID and let it do the
chasing for YOU
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28
RUTLEDGE BIBLE CHURCH

Sunday services October 31-Sun-
day school, $3.50 a. m, all ages; morn
ing service, 10 a. m.
Tuesday, p. m, Bible study.
Thursday, p. M, Ladies' Aid meet
ing.
R. DEURSEN, Pastor.
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Peace Lutheran Church, FinlaysOn
H. Sporleder, pastor.

H. Sporleder, pastor.
English service, 1920 a. m; Sunday
school and Bible class, 10 a. m. The
festival of the Reformation will be
observed Subject: "a Mighty For
tress is Our God"
Confirmation class meets Satur-
day at $50 a. m.
No choir practice this week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28
Trinity Lutheran Church, Brook Park
Rev. S. T. Palm, pastor.

Rev. S. T. Palm, pastor.
Reformation service Sunday, Oct
81, at IL a. m. at the parsonage of
Rev. S. T. Palm. All are invited
to come and worship with us.
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st. Paul's Ev. Luth. Church, Bruno

st. PauPS Ev. Luth. Church, Bruno
missouri Synod)
Divine worship at 2:30 p. M; Sum
day school at $3.50 p. m. All our
services except the second Sunday of
the month are in the English Ian
guage.
E. G. HALLSTEIN, Pastor.
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State Capitol News
BY A. I. HARRIS

A conference of midwest farmers
and farm organizations for the week
of November % to 81 was assured
last week by Governor Benson. The
conference thus would follow the
opening of Congress by about week,
the Governor pointed out, and would
give the conferees a chance to study
proposed legislation. The Governor
announced that he would invite not
only farmers and farm leaders of
farm states, but midwestern COVER
nors as well. 1t was even thought
that invitations may be sent to farm
ers as far off as Ohio and PennSyl-
vania.
The announcement followed hear
ing held in ST. Paul by a Senate
agricultural subcommittee at which
time spokesman for the Minnesota
Farm Conference Board, continual
tons body for the recent Minnesota
Farm Conference, presented the pro-
gram worked out three weeks ago
in st. Paul. The board came out
strongly for direct control of mar
keting machinery through price-fix-
ing, as opposed to past programs
of production control.
Stafford King, Republican state au-
ditor, thought he had gotten hold of
something real last week. If it did
fizzle out, no one can accuse Mr.. King
of not trying.
Of
the executive council, he arose to
declare that State Relief Administra-
tor l.. P. Zimmerman, who had just
rendered his resignation to the coun-
Gil, was being forced out by the adj
ministration'' That fell through,
however, because Mr.. Zimmerman
was right there to say: Il would
have quit a long time ago if the
Governor had let me. Frankly, I've
wanted to resign for a long time"
The next day, Mr.. King appeared
before the council meeting with a
letter received from State Comptrol-
Ter E. j. Pearlove, who had received
the information contained therein
from Mr.. Zimmerman himself. It
contained a report of bank balances
of certain federal relief funds, de-
posted in a st. Paul bank. Staff
must have thought the balances were
for slush funds for farm conferences,
or workers schools, or Farmer-Labor
political campaigns, because he was
all set to EXPOSE" these mystery
funds"
Mr.. Zimmerman, who had been
making monthly reports of the fed
eral monies as matter of course
in his routine summaries, again had
to rise to explain that the funds were
exclusively federal, and that they
represented balances growing out of
processing tax refunds and other
matters carried on by the federal gov
eminent. By this time Staff had
found the going pretty rough, and
decided that he'd have to find some
thing else to ''eXpose" day.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

Long plank in the Farmer-Labor
program that those who have should
care for those who have not, figures
released by the Minnesota Tax Com
mission, showing that income tax re-
ceipts have risen from S1,000,000 in
1885 to more than S5,500,000 in 1887
points to the fact that the wealthy
are assuming an increasing share Of
the costs of government which were
formerly heaped upon those who have
not
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

Coming to the fore again in de-
Governor Benson last week requested
State Auditor Stafford King to re-
consider the tax rate of TAI mills
fixed on homesteads for the first
$4,000 valuation with a view to re-
ducing the rate by approximately
is mills.
This levy was set to meet debts
incurred and existing" at the time
the homestead exemption act was
passed. Until these debts are liqui-
dated-a matter of several years
owners of farm and city homesteads
will not reap the full benefits of the
act, due to amendments made by
the conservative-contro Senate to
the administration homestead eXemp-
ton act.
However, in the meantime, Gov
ernOr Benson charged that the rate
set by King is a violation of both
the spirit and letter of the home
stead exemption act" He asserted
in his letter to Mr. King that an
analysis made at his request shows
that the levy is made on the basis
of one mill producing S1,000,000 in
revenue, whereas you informed the
Legislature in the latter part of July
that one mill could be estimated to
yield S1,250,000.
Il need not point out to you, )"
said Governor Benson 'Ethe need for
this maximum tax relief as we'll as
the need for reduction of taxes upon
all real property.
May l, therefore, request that you
reconsider the levy as fixed and GER
titled by you upon homesteads, with
the view that it be reduced to pro-
duce in revenue only an amount nee
essary to meet the obligations pre-
scribed by law"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

Asked if corn loans would follow
the loans to cotton producers, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
said during a recent trip through
this section of the country that "the
middle-western farmer is riding high
on his own tractor and can get along
without government gas"
Unfortunately, Mr.. Wallace's meas
ure of the gas tank was more opti-
mistic than accurate. Farmers pro-
duced a heavy corn crop this year
with the result that there has been
a constant drop in price.
In southern Minnesota, where most
Of the states corn crop is grown,
farmers can see no reason why Uncle
Sam, having dipped into his pockets
to aid cotton farmers, cannot do the
same for them. Such a program is
not very expensive, for farmers will
sell the crop at later day and pay
their loans. In the meantime they
avoid the necessity of dumping their
grain into an overburdened market
and turning over to the spectators
the advantage of seasonal price up
turns
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-28

opinion declaring the gross sales tax
part of the old law unconstitutional
was not surprising to state officials
in view of recent verdict of the
United States Supreme Court out
having a similar provision in an Iowa
law patterned after the Minnesota
statute
Mindful of this decision, the last
Legislature took steps to amend such
parts of the law that were liable to
be found unconstitutional, the attor-
ney general pointed out.
Chief effect of the verdict will be
that the state loses $895,915.62 in
certified taxes under this particular
provision of the old law, plus inter-
est amounting to $126,141.10, which
makes total loss to the state of
81 ,O22 ,O56.72. About Is per cent of
this amount had been withheld from
the state, however, pending outcome
of the litigation, so the refund claim
on the state probably will come to
about $766, 542.54.
Books, they say, are the fountain
head of knowledge. Certainly, they
add to the enlightenment and enjoy
ment of the people. Yet, in Min
nesota, close to a million people are
without free library service, accord
ing to Lee Zimmerman, state direc-
tor of Libraries.
Living mainly in rural areas, these
people form 38 per cent of the entire
population of the state and, lacking
the recreational facilities afforded by
the larger cities, are among the most
avid readers in the state. Borrowers
in the most thinly populated districts,
where some library facilities are af-
forded, average 94 books a year in
comparison with six books in the
three large cities in the state, accord
ing to statistics.
Four counties in the state haven't
single library and 33 other counties
have but a single library to take
care of all people in the county.
Mr.. Zimmerman pointed to effects
of the depression which caused a
drastic reduction in library facilities
on the one hand while on the other
hand it stimulated reading by those
with enforced leisure who sought
escape or a way out through books.
He recommended increased state aid
to furnish adequate library service
to rural areas.
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
TURF PLAN
DEAD, IS
BELIEF
Return of Measure
'ToCommittee Seen
As Death KneII

Realizing they were headed for
almost certain defeat on the floor,
House District Committee advo.
Gates of the District racetrack bill
today announced plans for with
drawing the measure.
Representative Jack Nichols
Cd of Oklahoma, who has aided
sponsors of the bill in seeking its
approval, revealed today that at
tomorrow's committee meeting he
will ask unanimous consent that
the bill be recalled to the COM
mittee.
Although he gave as his reason
that sponsors felt that further con-
sideration, possibly more hearings,
might lead to a solution which
would dispell some of the opposi-
tion, it was confidently believed
that if the bill is recalled it will
be definitely killed for the session.
Bates Fights Bill
1t was learned that Nichols and
other advocates have canvassed
almost the entire District com.
mittee and have found no oppo-
sition to withdrawing the meas,
ure.
On the other hand, Representa-
tive George Bates CR) of Massa-
chusetts, one of the leaders of the
opposition, will attempt to make
sure that the bill will be killed
if unanimous consent is given to
recall it. He said:
Il am confident, and 1 think
that the sponsors of the bill
realize the fact, that it would be
rejected if put to vote in the
House.
81 would be willing to have
such a vote in the House, for
/ know we would win.
81 want to make sure that
the bill will be killed if 1t Is
brought back to the commit
tee"
The measure has been a point
Of controversy ever since it was
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
UnCIe Sam Prints
Sucker LIST 10 Sell
AT 500 Per Copy
international News Service

The list of $4,000 persons who
earned $4,000 CT more in 1895,
which Congress authorized the
Treasury to compile and make
public through the House Ways
and Means Committee. appeared
in bound form today-and at
$100 copy!
While Representative Crowther
(RO of New York declared the
publication of the names provides
racketeers and blue-sky stock op-
orators with the best sucker list"
ever compiled, and will attempt
to have the publicity provision re-
pealed, other members believe
there is little Congress can do
about it.
Representative Bacon CR.) Of
New York said even if the pro-
vision were repealed in the rev.
enue act a similar provision. is
embodied in the securities and
exchange act which requires the
commission to make public the
salaries by corporations register
ing under that law.
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
MOIey Calls COurd
Plan Pig i'm Poke

see that golden moment pass.
We have, as the President
stated. a rendezvous with des-
tiny. Let us make democracy
work by working through the
instruments of democracy"
In urging one or more constitu
tional amendments to meet cur
rent problems Moley warned il
would be more than a year before
any benefits could be obtained
under the Presidents plan. In the
same length of time, he said, the
Constitution could be amended il
the President would only take the
lead in that direction.
Criticism Admitted
Moley admitted he had fre
quently criticized the Supreme
Court for its decisions. He said
the original arguments" ad
vanced for the Presidents plan
have been brushed aside by the
logic of facts"
"It is frankly admitted now
that the real purpose of the
plan is to secure within the let
ter, though not within the
spirit of the Constitution, a
CONTINUED on Page 20, Col. u
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
Staying HOLDS
; 3BR0THERS

RUSTBURG, Va, March %.
Three brothers today were charged
with the robbery and murder OF
Joe E. Anderson, SO, night fireman
at a lumber plant, whose battered
body was found buried under a
pile of sawdust in the boiler room
early Sunday.
Sheriff Jack L. Miles, of Camp
bell county, accompanied by police
and State troopers, rushed to Rich
mond late last night and arrested
the three men.
Those held are Fred Warren
Johnson, %; Hugh Taylor John
son, 26, and Watkins Anderson
Johnson, %. The brothers were
sought after Mrs. Matte Ander-
son. widow of the slain man, gave
their names to police and the
sheriff.
Watkins Anderson was returned
to the Jail here today, while his
brothers are still in Richmond.
Sheriff Miles, who placed the
charge against the brothers, de-
Continued on Page 20, Col. g.
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
RACING BILL TO BE WITHDRAWN
Gust 1000
Chicago
"SitterS'

CHICAGO, March % GN.SO.
Police armed with riot guns, tear
gas and warrants today applied
the iron hand to check the epi.
demic of sit-down strikes here,
routing more than 1000 strikers
from two industrial plants and a
community department store.
Marking the first time that au-
thorities had taken a definite
course of action to check the wave
Of sit-downS here, police went into
action when States Attorney
Thomas Courtney branded the
strike tactics illegal. Authorities
looked to the action as the pos
sible death-knell of the sit-doWt
strikes here.
Police Gust Strikers
After evicting 100 strikers from
the Automotive Product Company
Foundry and $50 men and women
who had held the Wilson-Jones
Company stationery plant, 200 po-
licemen cleared the Logan Square
Department Store of approximate
ly 100 employees, 80 of them wom.
en-, who began their sit-down last
week.
No violence marred the eVic.
tions. In both raids the officers
carried warrants charging the
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
AGED DUCHESS
LOST ON FLIGHT

LONDON, March % G.N.S).
A heavy snowstorm over the Wo-
burn district handicapped the
search for Mary, Duchess of Bed
ford, 71-year-old aviation enthusi-
asst missing on a solo flight to the
Bedfordshire fenlands.
No word has been heard Of the
venerable Flying Duchess" since
her tiny Moth plane, five hours
out of Woburn, circled back over
Huntingdon and then disappeared
to the southeast.
Searching parties were sent out
by land and air but swirling eddieS
of snow covered familiar land
marks and reduced visibility.
Grave fears were felt for the
duchess safety. Scores of volun-
teerS paced the roads in motor.
cars in the hope of finding some
trace of her.
Daughter of an English arch.
deacon and a dame commander
of the Order of the British EN-
pire, the duchess of Bedford took
up flying when she was past sixty.
At the age of "a she made record
flights to India and South Africa.
The duchess has always called
flying "the greatest sport in the
world for women"
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
Mayor in Power Row
To Fight Impeachment

HUNTINGTON, Ind, March
% G.N.S0 Mayor Clare w. H.
Bangs, who from Jail cell has
waged a fight for municipal opera
ton of a power plant, today was
drafting an appeal from the i'm
peachment vote taken by the
Huntington city council.
BY a vote of 5 to 2, the council
last night impeached Bangs on IA
of 10 charges, voting his acquittal
on the other five counts. The
charges, preferred last July. dealt
with his attempt to operate a
municipality owned light and
power plant in the face of numer
Gus court reVerses.
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
international News Service

Raymond Moley, formerly one
of President Roosevelt's close ad-
viSers, now a magazine editor, to-
day aSsailed President Roosevelt's
court plan as a pig in the poke" ?"
which is likely to destroy Dem
ocratic institutions and obstruct
progressive development in the
future.
Testifying before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Moley chal-
lenged his one-time chief, the
President, to propose a constitu-
tional amendment to achieve his
proposed economic and social re-
forms. He said the Presidents
proposal was splitting not only
the Democratic party but the
whole liberal movement.
Roosevelt Challenged
Terming the plan a blind, in
temperate change" Moley de-
clared it would "perpetuate a
basic wrong" and produce no per-
manent remedy for social all
mentS.
Moley declared:
''The time is ripe for a basic
and fundamental reStatement
of the law to make possible the
humane ObjectiveS Of progress
Sive thought. / deeply regret to
The Washington times., 1937-03-23
BOUT IN BERLIN
OFF, SAYSMAX

NEW YORK, March % G.N.SJ.
Max Schmeling announced today
that negotiations for a title fight
between himself and Champion
Jim Braddock, at Berlin, had been
dropped and that he would sail
tomorrow for Germany.
Schmeling will return here late
next month to go into training
at Speculator, N. Y, and force a
showdown with Braddock in the
proposed match in Madison Square
Gardens Long Island bowl in June.
Schmeling said a laSt-minute ef-
fort was made to induce Joe Gould,
Braddock's manager, to accept
Deutschland Halle's $350,000 Of
fer for the Berlin bout, but Gould
held out for $400, 900 and the offer
was withdrawn.