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The Washington times., 1937-08-31
TROOPS FORCED
TO Give GROUND,
MADRID ADMITS
Nationalist Strength Is
Superior in North

MADRID, Aug. 81 G.N.S),
Government troops have beer
forced to withdraw from Their
original positions along the north
ern front, Madrid officials ad
mitted today.
They said the retirement be
came necessary after the govern
ment forces reached their objec-
tives and then found the national
lists had obtained considerable re.
Inducements. The nationalist
brought heavy pressure on the
government forces, authorities de.
elared.
e VALENCIA RAIDED
Meanwhile, three nationalist
planes raided Valencia. seat OF
the government, and severa
bombs were dropped in the suburb
Of Malvarrosa. Damage was re-
ported slight.
The retreat on the Granada
sector followed some of the heav-
lest fighting in that area since
the civil war began.
DRIVE NEAR
Government troops launched a
series of raids in the hope of cut
ting off advanced nationalist posi-
lions, but the Madrid forces held
their ground and a large-scale bat
tie ensued.
At the same time, preparations
were under way for resumption
Of the major government drive on
the SaragoSsa-Teruel sector.
p SALAMANCA, Spain, Aug. 81.
GN.SD.-The nationalist advance
on the Santander front in the
northern Basque is progressing
rapidly, nationalist authorities an
nounced today, while more than
200 Madrid troops have been killed
in major fighting on the Granada
front.
Officials said several villages
were occupied in the Santander re-
gion by nationalist who reached
Puentamanta in their headlong
drive.
More than 200 government
troops lost their lives in a heavy
battle at Lanjarran on the Gran
ada front in the south, and govern
ment forces there are in full flight,
1t was claimed.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
Marriage LalU Starts

married by the city clerk imme-
diately after issuance Of the IL
cenSe.
Hereafter, u hours must elapse
between the license and the cere-
mony, law instituted to discour-
age gin" weddings.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31
ARLINGTON CUTS
ITS APPEAL FOR
WELFARE FUNDS
$1,000 on Hand, State
Is Asked for Less

ARLINGTON, Va, Aug, S1.-Be.
cause Of a 5000 balance at the end
Of its fiscal year, Arlington county
today took the unusual position Of
asking the State for a reduction in
public welfare funds for the com
ing year.
On recommendation of DR.. Earle
G. Brown, head of the public health
and welfare department, the Ar.
lington County Board voted yes
terday to reduce its request for
annual State funds from $40, 1855 81
to $7,623.98.
TOTAL FUND $12,19S
Under the State-county public
welfare setup, Arlington will add
$4,574.38 to the State funds to give
the county total operating budget
of $12, 1886 for its welfare depart
ment. The State contributes so
per cent and the county 40 per
cent for welfare work.
The county board also voted to
extend an invitation to business
firms in Washington and else.
where to consider the ACCESSIBILITY
of locating in Arlington county,
and commended the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce for its cam
paign to bring new businesses into
the county.
ZONE CHANGE DENIED
Application Of Earle K. Trone
for a change in the coming laws
to permit the establishment Of an
"open-face" type laundry in the
Clarendon business district was
denied by the board.
Total expenses Of the county
government for the last half OF
August, including a $12,529.70 pay
roll, were approved at $24,567.52.
The Washington times., 1937-08-31

Thursday f. Phillips Oppenhelm's
best seIIer-"EnVOy ExtraOrdinary"-
starts in The Washington Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
CouncilBuys
Truck;;Orders
Street Work
CALLS FOR BIDS FOR
CURB AND GUTTER
CONSTRUCTION

A one and a half ton Interna-
tional truck for the street depart
ment was purchased from Dit
benner and Gluth by the city
council Tuesday morning after
bids had been received at the re-
gular meeting Monday night.
The truck was bought for $3.50.
Other bids were $1,000 from the
Stewart Motor truck company of
Minneapolis; $1,022.64 by the
Redwood Falls Motor company
and $990.50 by Closz-Holmberg.
The council granted petitions
for black-top surfacirg of block
on Broadway from Mill to Wash
ington; on Third, Fourth and
Fifth streets between Minnesota
and Mill and on Minnesota from
Broadway to the bath house; on
Second and Jefferson, East, Lin
coin and Drew streets and two
blocks on Broadway from Wash
ington to Lincoln.
Specifications for curb and
gutter construction and repair
along the sections to be treated
were approved and bids will be
received April %. Arrangements
were made with R. M. Hirsch of
Springfield to furnish a patrol
grader with which to prepare the
streets for bituminous surfacing.
Milk licenses were granted to
L. A. Cheney, John Burger, Jr.,
George L. Hanson and Jerry Ma
honey. ...s
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Rebuild
Fort Ridgely
Co1nlnissary
LARGE BUILDING WILL
HOUSE MUSEUM AND
MEETINGS ~

Fairfax-Long sought after by
civic groups of Fairfax, Sleepy
Eye and other nearby commun-
tiles, the start of the restoration
of Fort Ridgely buildings was an
nounced this week by the Nation
al Park Service. .
The commissary building, AZ
feet wide and 1O2 feet long, will
be reconstructed with granite
from the same quarries which
furnished rock for the original
building. Members of the Veter-
ans Conservation corps, quartered
at the park, will do the work dur
ing the summer.
The building will serve both as
museum and a meeting hall and
will be maintained by the state.
It is believed that restoration of
other historic land marks will be
authorized later.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Company L to Get Taste of
Battlefield in Summer Camp
GREATEST MANEUVERS
IN STATE HISTORY AT
CAMP RIPLEY

Members of Company L will
see real battle action when they
go into their two weeks training
at Camp Ripley August 8, accord
ing to word just received here by
Captain Wilbur Lamberton.
Battle grounds" will be laid
out as soon as the snow leaves
and actual combat will be siInu-
lated over an area from Camp
Ripley to Grey Eagle. With Camp
Ripley as a center of activities,
the "war" will be fought over a
section 80 miles long. Arrange
ments have been made with pri-
vate property owners for the use
of their land where the troops
will set up camps.
Differing from past training
periods, this years maneuvers
will give national guardsmen ac-
tual warlike conditions instead of
imaginary enemies as in previous
years.
The training course will bring
1850 national guard and regular
army troops from Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and
Iowa together to take part in the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08

Sock Lifters
Bound Over
NAB SLEEPY EYE MEN
WHO RAIDED STORE
AT WABASSO

A pair of alleged shoplifters
who left the Goblirsch store at
Wabasso Saturday afternoon,
dropping tan cotton stocking from
beneath their jackets were appre-
hended in a box car on the Chic
ago, North Western tracks there
shortly afterward and brought to
the Redwood county jail.
Alfred Anderson and Andrew
Kruger, both of Sleepy Eye, were
hailed before Judge T. F. Reed Jr.
in Redwood Falls Monday NOR
ming and, bound over to district
court. They were returned to the
Jail after bonds of $500 apiece
had been set.
Both said they would plead
guilty to a charge of the theft of
about 100 pair of women's and
children's stockings valued at $40.
The pair, who admitted they
were intoxicated, came to Wabas-
so on a box car from Marshall
where they said they had bought
a pint and a half of whiskey.
While waiting for the train to
leave for Sleepy Eye, they got out
and went to the Goblirsch store
where they took boxes of the
stockings from the counter, piled
them on the radiator at the front
of the place and then picked them
up and lei attempting to hide the
merchandise under their coats.
A clerk, Miss Mathilda Schuel-
Ter and several customers who re-
garded their actions as suspicious,
saw them leave and the town
marshal was notified. He found
them in the box car, ready to
leave after they had been trailed
through the soft snow. Several
empty boxes which they had
dropped were found along their
course.
1t was reported that one of
them jumped on the officer in an
attempt to resist arrest.
Questioned by Sheriff L. ]. Kise
who was called to Wabasso after
their capture both men at first de-
MED being in the store, one of
them claiming that he was asleep
in the box car all the time, but
they finally confessed.
A crowd of nearly 200 persons
gathered around the Wabasso
bank where the men were kept
while waiting for the authorities.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
446,oo0Under
SocialSecurity
in Minnesota
$4,000, ESTIMATED, IN
JOBS INSURED BY
PROVISIONS

More than 446.000 men, women
and children in Minnesota are
directly affected by the Social Sc
curity act, with eight of the acts
ten provisions now in operation in
this state, according to a state
ment just issued by Fred M. Will
cox, regional director of the So
ciaI Security board.
Approximately $4,000 are es-
timated to be employed in jobs
covered by the state unemploy-
ment compensation law while 3d.
200 are being cared for under ap-
proved public assistance plans.
Records show that 388,534 wage
earners have applied for accounts
under the Federal old-age bene-
fits program, the majority of
whom are covered under the state
unemployment compensation law.
For expenses of administering
the state unemployment compen-
SatiOn program enacted December
"a, 1886, Minnesota has already
received federal grants totaling
S158,17736.
Minnesota's old-age assistance
plan became effective in March
1886 and the State has received
Federal grants of $5,670,451.43 for
this form of assistance.
The three maternal and child
welfare programs provide for the
extension of such services, par
ticularly in rural areas, Minnesota
had an approved plan for mater
nal and child-health services for
1886 and federal payments total
ing $21 1872 had been made to the
state by June 80. The plan for
1887 provides for a federal grant
of S69,434.
For services to crippled chill
dren in Minnesota, a federal grant
of S14,379 was made in 1886, with
$90,161 anticipated in 1887. Min
nesota received S11, 800 for child
welfare services in 1886 and dur
ing 1887 it is expected that the
Federal grant will total $42,592.
In addition to these services,
Minnesota has received 500, 640.43
to provide for the re-education
of workers crippled in industry
and S170,574.83 for expanding
and Strengthening its state and To-
cal public-health services.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Junior College
MoveStarted
CLUB COMMITTEE WILL
DISCUSS NATTER
WITH BOARD

Following the action of the
Litchfield Woman's club which
has aroused COMMUNICATIVE in
terest in the establishment of a
Junior college there, the TWEEN
tieth Century club of Redwood
Falls appointed a committee to
investigate the possibilities of
adding Junior college to the
Redwood Falls school system at
its meeting Monday afternoon.
The move was suggested by
Mrs. c. L. Farver who was nam
ed to the committee with Mrs.
Clarence Hillig and Mrs. Reede
Gray. The committee has not
met as yet.
The high school building now
under construction, to be COM
pleted in the fall, will contain
sufficient classrooms to accom-
modate a junior college.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
ALPHA JEPPESEN
RITES TUESDAY
GIRL, %, DIED SUNDAY
AFTER BEING ILL
TWO YEARS

Last rites for Alpha Hazel Jep-
pesen, %, who died early Sunday
morning at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Jeppesen,
were held Tuesday afternoon at
the Presbyterian church with
Rev. J. P. Linn in charge. Burial
was in the Redwood Falls ceme-
terry.
She was born July %, 1913 at
Evan, attended grade school at
Lucan and high school at Red
wood Falls. She was graduated
with the class of 1882.
Received into the Presbyterian
church by letter from the Trinity
Lutheran church at Lucan, she
was active in the organization,
assisting especially with the mu-
sic. She was generous with her
musical talent in the community
and for time worked in the
Music Store here.
Pail bearers at the funeral were
Ralph Tenney, Gilbert Johnson,
Melville Miller, Robert Tiffany,
Wilbur Melges and Tom v. Whit
ing and those in charge of flow
ers included Miss Ann Johanneck,
Miss Gertrude Smith, Miss Lii
liam Docken, Mrs. Orvin Docken,
and Mrs. Milton Jensen and Mrs.
Charles Jones of Lucan.
Appropriate vocal selections
were furnished by w. M. Smith,
Mrs. R. V. Ochs, Mrs. S. B. Duea
and C.. A. Fobes with Mrs. B. E.
Marsh at the organ.
Miss Jeppesen had been ill with
heart trouble for the past two
years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
g CCC YOUTHS
WILL BE SENT
TO WEST COAST

Eight Redwood county youths
who signed up for the latest CCC
enrolment probably will be sent
with a group to the west coast,
examining officers said. The boys
left Monday for Montevideo
where they were examined and
from there were sent to Fort
Smelling. They expect to leave
for the coast April Is.
The contingent includes Lloyd
Goodsell of Morgan, John Senger
Jr. of Clements, Earl Larson of
Lamberton, Harry E. Jorgenson
of Morgan, Vernon Koenig of
Lamberton, Alvin Scharfe of Luz
can, Charles Leith of Morton and
Alfred P. Riley of Wanda.
The county quota was 40 and
there are still places for eligible
boys who are urged to apply inn
at the relief office.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Gazette Subscription
Price to Advance MAY is

beyond May Is, 1897. Re-
CARELESS of when your paper
expires, you are eligible to
make the so cents per year
saving by acting promptly.
Subscription payments will
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The price of The Gazette
was So per year for many
years prior to the depression
when the rate was lowered i'm
lire with wages and prices of
farm produce. The increased
cost of producing an ever inn
proving newspaper of the size
and quality of The Gazette
neceSSitates this advance in
price. THE PUBLISHERS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08

With production costs
mounting steadily, The Red
wood Gazette finds it neceS-
sary this week to announce a
so cent advance in its Sub
scription price, effective May
Is.
During the next few weeks,
The Gazette will accept new
subscriptions and renewals at
the old rate of S1.50 per year
within so miles of the city.
Subscriptions of persons iv-
ing more than so miles from
Redwood Falls have always
been So per year, payable in
advance.
The expiration date of your
paper appears with your
name at the top of this page.
If your paper has expired or
will expire within the next
few months, you are urged to
take advantage of this offer
which will not be extended
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Olivia Group
AsksCharter
forBankHere
HEARING ON KIRCHER
BROTHERS PETITION
APRIL 20

Application for a charter for a
second bank in Redwood Falls
will be made before the state
commerce commission in st. Paul
at II a. m. April 20.
Frank Kircher and George Kir-
cher, brothers, of the Citizens
State bank of Olivia and the
Danube bank are asking the COM
mission for permission to estab-
Iish an institution to be known as
the State Bank of Redwood
Falls.
Three other attempts have been
made to establish a bank in Red
wood Falls in recent years but
charters were refused.
Frank Kircher was optimistic
as to their chances to obtain the
charter when he was in Redwood
Falls Wednesday. He stated that
the move was not to reorganize
the former State Bank and Trust
company and said there were no
local persons in the action.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Peoples Lobby Political
Error, Actions Rash But
Exaggerated, Zwach Says
CRITICISES GOVERNOR
IN HANDLING CAPITOL
AFFAIR

The peoples lobby episode at
the state capitol in st. Paul Tues
day was a political play on the
part of one faction which got out
of bounds and now is being over
played as political fodder by the
opposing group, John NJ Zwach,
at large from
Brown and Redwood counties,
said in a statement to the Gazette
made by telephone Wednesday
night.
Infractions of the group of sew
eral hundred Workers Alliance,
Farm Holiday association and
Farmer-Labor club members who
visited the capitol Tuesday have
been exaggerated, Zwach said,
although it is true that they broke
open the doors to the state sem
ate and took possession, many OF
them remaining there throughout
the night and that some entirely
unWarranted statements were
made.
The group was admitted to the
floor of the house where they
made speeches, some of them ex-
tremely radical, and where they
were addressed by Governor Ell
mer Benson.
The governors speech was be-
meath the dignity of the office,
Zwach said, and some of his re-
ferences to senators were intol-
Grant and unbecoming to his posi-
ton. His statement, ''in a fight
like this it is all right to get a
little rough once in WHILE"
John felt was ill-advised before
such a group. 1.-The governor was
somewhat lax in handling the sit
uation," he said.
On the whole the group pre-
sented its case to house members
in a better manner than had
similar group two years ago, John
stated.
1t was when the group went to
the senate chambers and found
the doors locked and adnittance
refused that it took matters in its
own hands and broke the lock on
the door to force its way in, he
said.
Some of the visitors were good
substantial fellows who had no
idea of going beyond their rights,
Zwach said. He added that he
had talked with janitors who
cleaned up the senate chambers
the following morning. The floors
were Uttered with ashes and Gig
aret butts but beyond that no UNI
due liberties were taken. Books
and papers on desks were not dis
turbed, he said.
John was uncertain as to the
political results of the episode.
While he could see no gain on the
part of the liberal faction In the
whole. planned effort to exert
political pressure, he doubted that
it would be boomerang to that
faction when the facts have been
sifted from the exaggerations.
Gas a lobby it was no worse
than some of the other efforts
made by various interests to in
f1uence the legislature" he said.
Johns version of the matter
was sought by The Gazette be-
cause he has maintained an. indie
pendent course in legislative mat
tiers, voting with the liberals
when he feels their proposals are
good and with the conservatives
when liberal bills go too far. He
is serving on unusually important
committees considering that this is
but his second term in the house.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
$7l,500 Paid
CountySchools
Ill SCHOOLS GET SHARE
FUNDS FROM STATE
REVENUES

The county auditors office sent
out SIS, 515.58 in state aid and
$11, $1,000 from the March appor-
tionment to Redwood county
schools last week.
The state aid sum is the second
payment made schools here this
year, $35, 104.45 having been re-
ceived in the fall.
The apportionment which is re-
venue from the sales of state
owned timber, lands and other
materials is apportioned at the
rate of $3.50 per school child on
the basis of average daily attend
ance., According to state figures
4,281.8 county school children re-
ceive the benefit on a pro-rated
basis.
Penalties on real estate in the
county, half of which goes to
schools here, were $1,528.49, a
sum which boosted the apportion-
ment to $3.15 per school child.
A few months ago another
fund, the income tax, returned
$13,432.65 to the county at the
rate of $3.85 each for 3,489 chill
dren. The income tax apportion-
ment is given to schools on the
basis of the number of children
of compulsory school age, from
eight through Is, whose homes
are in the district.
State aid which is derived from
interest on the state permanent
school fund was paid for supple
mental aid, special departments,
departments for detectives, trans
portation and libraries, Redwood
Falls received the largest sum,
$13,052.36 and Lamberton the
next largest, $10,858.54. All Ill
schools in the county benefited.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Salvation Army
Drive Successful

Expressing his appreciation of
the generosity and cooperation
given during the drive, Major
David Carlson said this week that
the 1887 campaign for Salvation
Army funds is more successful
than the drive last year.
Donations so far include $140.98
from Redwood Falls; $16.40 from
Wabasso; 5000 from Vesta and
$1,000 from North Redwood. Con-
tributions may be left with M. o.
Hanson at the Citizens State
bank.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Roof on by June,
Prediction From
School Builders

Redwood county restrictions on
roads imposed this last week de-
layed four truckloads Of gravel
bound for the new Redwood Falls
high school building. Truckers
hauling the material from Echo
were stopped on the county high
way posted for only three ton
truck limits from BelvieW north
to the river.
Although completion of the last
part of the concrete slab first floor
was delayed because of the truck
tie-up, inspectors on the job said
the roof would be on the building
by June. They explained that
some outside brick work will be
done after the roof is on.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
SOftball Leagues
Planned for County

Several softball leagues will be
organized in Redwood county to
start play in May, according to an
announcement this week by Clark
Sponaugle, head of the WPA re-
creational department.
A Junior baseball league will
also be formed, Mr.. SpoT- augle
says. and if enough county teams
wish such a league, a strictly nom
professional senior league will be
lined up.
Anyone interested in these lea
CUES may get complete informa-
ton from Mr.. Sponaugle.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08


greatest military maneuvers the
northwest has ever. witnessed. j.,
Originally, it was planned by
the war department to have all
regiments making up the Fourth
army move into northern Mime
sofa for the maneuvers, but as an
economy move, the units will be
split between Camp Ripley, Fort
Riley, Kansas, and camp on the
west coast.
Members of the general staff at
Washington will come to- this
state to act as unpires and obser-
vers. Major General Mathew A.
FINLEY of Council Bluffs, Iowa is
commanding officer of the di-
vision ...
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-08
Plans Completed
for School Survey
of Child Hearing

Plans have been completed foi
a hearing survey to be conducted
in the schools of Redwood Falls
and Lamberton under the aus
pices of the Redwood County
Public Health association. Spec
ial equipment will be installed in
the schools Wednesday, April IA
and examinations will be made
under the direction of the COM
mittee for the prevention and
amelioration of deafress of the
Minnesota State Medical associa-
ton. 4E4t
In Redwood Falls arrangements
are being made by Mrs. c. L..
Lynn, Christmas Seal manager
and Superintendent Reede Gray
and in Lamberton by Miss Jennie
Holm, Christmas Seal manager
and Superintendent w. o. Keller.
Following the days survey, a
public health meeting at which
the instruments used in the test
ing will be demonstrated and
health talks will be given, is to be
held in the Redwood Falls school
auditorium, sponsored by the
Parent-Teacher association. A
delegation from Lamberton will
attend the meeting. Speakers will
include DR.. Horace Newhart of
Minneapolis, chairman of the
committee, DR.. Francis E. Har-
rington, Minneapolis health Off
Ger. Miss Marguerite Breen, edu-
cational director of the associa-
ton, st. Paul and Leonard E. FL
stad, superintendent of the School
for the Deaf, Faribault.
P. T. A. associations from
throughout the county are invited
to attend.