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The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
More Sports
Fewer Night
Clubs Urged
GOLFERS HEAR SPORTS
PRAISED AT ANNUAL
DINNER HERE "

Urging increased membership
in the golf club and more parti-
cipantS in sports of all kinds, Rev.
Godfrey O'Sullivan declared the
country needs a diet of athletics
to replace its night club life in a
brief talk at the annual banquet
of the Redwood Falls Golf club at
st. GATHERINGS church Tuesday
evening.
His remarks preceded talk by
A. R. A. Laudon on his recent
visit to Mexico and southern
states, dealing particularly with
golf courses visited. He declar-
ed he has yet to play on a course
with a prettier setting than that
in which Redwood golfers tee off.
Reports of committee chairmen
dWelled on the growth and i'm
proVement of the course. G. H.
BurmeiSter reported an increase
in playing membership from 54 to
sc last year and Parker D. Sand
ers gave an accounting of the
clubhouse project which was
completed except for hot water
facilities last season. DR.. G. A.
Alexander made recommended
tons for course changes, ]. L.
Parsons reported on stock collec-
tions and Leon H. Brown, men,
Der of the auditing committee,
praised the work of E. w. Currier,
secretary of the club.
The Minnesota Valley cup won
by a team from the club was dis
played and N. S. Frank was in
troduced as champion of the meet.
L. J. Ziegler, mems champion of
the club and Mrs. B. E. Marsh,
winner of the women's handicap
tourney, received their trophies
from R. V. Ochs, president, who
acted as POSTMASTER.
Sanders and Currier were re-
elected to the board of directors
with Russell Whiting, new
member. Other directors are
OchS, Laudon, Burmeister, Par
sons, w. A. Brammer and Frank
Clague. They will meet soon to
elect club officers for the year
and make further plans for the
season, highlight of which will be
the Minnesota Valley tourney
here in June.
The meeting closed with the
showing of motion pictures of
famous golfers.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
Stoneback FaVored Against
Field IN Checker Tourney
MILD SPORT ADOPTED
BETWEEN SEASONS;
MEET TONIGHT

Between the rigors of basket
ball and baseball, Redwood Falls
and North Redwood athletes will
keep in condition with a new ex-
ercise-checkers.
William Stoneback, who is con-
sidered one of the best checker
jousters in the state, is expected
to down the field if he enters.
Stoneback has just returned from
Minneapolis where he engaged in
two day contest with the run
ner-up to the state champion and
he reports that he was beat in
just two games.
His manager, Floyd Schmid,
expects to go with him to Mar
shall soon to engage in a checker
tournament at the invitation of
Marshall residents.
Those who definitely expect to
bow to Stoneback in the Civic
and Commerce clubrooms tonight
include John Hoepner, Rex Mill
er, Tom Hosken, Fred Hooper and
Clark Sponaugle, head of the
WPA recreation program in
which the event is included.
Others are expected to be lined
up for the massacre.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
SO Seniors in
4 Schools to
GetDiplomas
LAMBERTON HAS 81 IN
SENIOR CLASS; rs
AT WABASSO

Lists of seniors who plan to re-
ceive their high school diplomas
at commencement exercises early
in June were released this week
by several superintendent of
Redwood county high schools.
Lamberton High is second lar
gest in the county with "a seniors
this year while Wabasso will
graduate 26, Morgan Is and Bel
view 13.
DR.. w. E. Peick of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota will be the
Lamberton commencement speak
er June 10. Regina Ebbesen is
valedictorian and Dorothy Lang
holz, salutatorian of the class.
Other members are: Elvera' All
termatt, Marjorie Bellig, Lawren-
ce Benedict, Warren Bishop, Le-
nora Buetow, Eileen Cambronne,
Regina Ebbesen, Herman Eick-
holt, Lucille Erickson, Loretta
Estum, Olinda Feige, Arthora
FredrickSon, Frederick Halverson,
Gene Halverson, Dorothy Hubert,
Leila Hulett, Floyd Imker, Lloyd
Imker, Alfred Iverson, Bertha
Jennings, Norma Jorgenson, Ma
bel Kuehn, Dorothy Langholz,
Beulah Lee, Evelyn Marks, Yer
non Okins, Ivadell Raveling, Dom
aid Roth, Donald Shelton, Alice
Skjervold, Dorothy Underwood,
Marvin Underwood, Lowell Van
Duzee, Bernice Wog.
Members of the Wabasso High
school graduating class are: Ru-
dolf Andersen, Delrose Becker,
Dorothy Balfany, Vernon Bar
mum, Lauren Beran, Myrtle Bit
ker, Loreen Bittner, Ethel Dahl,
Florine Davis, Verona Fenger,
Fern Fuhr, Jesse Jett, Elaine Jo-
hanneck, Rosella Lange; Cuthbert
Mahal, Elfrieda Martensen, Glad
US Micnel, Pearl Picker, Florence
Prokosch, Elaine Raveling, Louis
Steffen, Vernon Shemon, Leander
Starken, Ewalda Thomas, James
Thomas, Catherine Winn.
Seniors who expect to receive
Belview High diplomas are: Har-
rison Payne, Donald Kohls, Wv
ian Anderson, Bernice Eide, Clar-
ice Anderson, Mildred Roxberg,
Donald Johnson, Gilbert Kohls,
Harold Crying, Aida Johnson,
Louise Gertjejensen, Vivian Will
liams, Dorothy Flom.
The Morgan graduating class
includes: Lyle Story, Reuben
Friedrich, Norman Hansen, Lor-
aine Tauer, Phyllis Crane, Alma
Jannusch, Elmer Meierding, Or
villa Penning, Fay Lingle, Wilda
Lingle, Harry Knudsen, Willmar
Forbrook, Melvin Klotz, Clifford
Thompson, Madelyn Potzler.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
Mana of "Seventh Heauen''
Once Was Litchfeld Girl
REDWOOD RESIDENTS
RECALL HER AS
SCHOOL GIRL

Gale Sondergaard who will
play the important role of Mana
in the movie Seventh Heaven"
coming to the Redwood theatre, is
a former Litchfield girl who is re-
membered by three Redwood
Falls residents.
Mrs. Hardy Bronson and Ed
Martinson, both former Litchfield
residents, recall her only vaguely
and E. o. Beckstrand who was a
year ahead of her in school re-
members fner but recalls no in
cident in her childhood which
might have indicated her later
rise to fame on the. stage and
screen.
It was in the "Swede Hollow"
neighborhood around South park
in Litchfield however that Gale
(then Edith Sondergaard) got the
theatrical start that led her to be
voted the motion picture academy
award for the best sustaining
character played in all of Holly
woods film spectacles during
1886. The role that won her this
coveted honor is that of the
scheming housewife in "Anthony
Adverse"
Although her particular type of
acting and features are seemingly
fitted for sinister roles, for she
plays a similar one in "Maid of
Salem" she was a fun-loving pop
ular member of the neighborhood
gang" in Litchfield.
As a dark-eyed and gay Danish
girl between the ages of 10 and IA
she was the center of her crowd.
Her father, Hans Sondergaard,
now University of Wisconsin
professor then buttermaker at
Litchfield, and mother, were both
highly talented and widely read.
Edith's sisters, Ragni and Hester,
were also gifted, the former be-
coming an accomplished musician
and the latter now on the New
York stage following in Edith's
footsteps.
CONTINUED on Page 12)
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
Soil Program
Meetings Set
SOIL CONSERVING BASE
AND CORN LIMITS
TO BE GIVEN

The Redwood County Agricul-
tural Conservation committee has
completed setting the soil depict
ing and soil conserving bases ard
corn limits for farms in Redwood
county and will release them to
farmers at township meetings
scheduled to be held in each
township.
At these meetings individuals
will be given their bases and corn
limit and may declare their in
tentions relative to participation
in 1887. Just how the bases and
the limit fit each Individual farm
and what may be done to get ben
eft from the program will be ex-
planned.
The committee urges every far
mer and landlord to attend the
meeting for his township regard
less of whether he has been CO.
operator or plans to cooperate
with the 1887 program.
The schedule of meetings: Sat-
urday, city hall, Redwood Falls,
Paxton, Redwood Falls, Homer
and Delhi townships.
Monday-Sherman and Morgan
at Morgan city hall; Vail and Wa
terbury at city hall, Wabasso;
North Hero and Springdale at
Dahlgren's hall, Walnut Grove;
Swedes Forest and Kintire at
Odeon hall, Belview; Johnsonville
and Granite Rock at ZeugS hall,
Lucan.
Tuesday-Westline and Under
wood at Milroy; New Avon and
Sheridan at WabaSSo city hall;
Three Lakes and Shutdown at
Clements city hall; Charlestown
at Sanborn; Willow Lake at Wan
da.
Wedresday-Gales township at
Gales townhall; Lamberton at
Lamberton; Vesta at Vesta, Sch
roeder's hall; Brookville at Nor
gan CITY hall
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
BLACK TOP HEARINGS

Hearings on four petitions for
black-top street treatment will be
held before the city council at 8
p. m. Friday. Council members
state that it is important that any
one having objections to the
treatment in the sections desig-
mated in legal notice which ap-
peared In the last three issues Of
the Gazette, appear before them
at that time.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
John Whittet,
Pioneer, Dies
BEGAN FARMING HERE
IN 1870; FUNERAL
HELD TUESDAY

John Whittet, Sc, who died Sat-
urday was one of the pioneers of
the community.
The son of Janet and John
Whittet, he was born in Jefferson
county, Wisconsin, three months
after his parents arrived there
from Scotland.
At the age of 19 he came to Red
wood county with another young
man, the two driving a span of
mules with covered wagon and
bringing dog with them. Mr..
Whittet lived at first with his mo-
ther's sister who owned the farm
now known as the Robert Mar
shall place. That summer, in 1870,
he turned the first burrows on
what are now the Jerry Mahoney
and D. w. Whittet farms.
June Is, 1874 he married Mar
tha Jane Duncan and the couple
lived on the Jerry Mahoney
farm, later moving to a farm in
Three Lakes township. In 1889
the family moved to Redwood
Falls.
He leaves a daughter, Mrs.
John Anderson of Redwood Falls,
two brothers, Thomas of Redwood
Falls and William of Milton, Wis
corfsin, Ia grandchildren and, IL
great grandchildren. His wife,
one son and two daughters pre-
ceded him in death.
Funeral services were held at
8 p. m. Tuesday at the Odlaug
chapel with Rev. j. P. Linn of the
Presbyterian church in charge.
Pail bearers were Joseph Bun
ting, T. H. Inglis, Charles Ilett,
Carl Byram, Joseph Longbottom
and Rudolph Rain. Mrs. William
Redetzke, Mrs. Carl Byram and
Mrs. Julia Glassco had charge of
the flowers. Music was furnished
by Mrs. B. E. Marsh, Mrs. G. L..
Crooks and Mrs. R. V. Ochs.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
Tax Assessors Here
for Annual School

Forty-tWo tax assessors from
throughout Redwood county met
at the city hall Wednesday after
noon for their annual school of
instruction which was conducted
by George Gage, state tax COM
missioner.
j. Albert Johnson was again
selected assessor for Redwood
Falls at a special meeting of the
city council Thursday night. He
will begin assessing improve
mentS this week and start his
property survey May /.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
National Tea
in New Site
LARGER STAFF WILL
GREET CUSTOMERS
TOMORROW

Friday will mark the grand
opening of the National Tea store
in its new location, the former j..
c. Penney building on Second
street.
An increase to 10 employees
from the three formerly working
there is perhaps the most signifi-
cant aspect of the move. Accord
ng to A. Nielsen, district super
visor who is assisting with ar
engagements of the new store,
three men will be employed in the
meat department and seven per-
sons in the grocery section.
Paul Williams, formerly with
the Red Owl store and more re-
Gently of Dirlam's Market, will
have charge of the meat depart
ment, assisted by Curtis Miller
and another man not yet selected.
Hardy Bronson, manager of the
store here for the last seven years,
will continue his present position
and Mrs. Bronson will work in
the grocery department in which
five other persons will be en-
ployed.
Plate glass display windows,
two fianking the twin entrances
and one between them, have been
installed to add considerably to
the appearance of the store from
the street. Thirty-four reflector
lights lining the tops of the win
dows on the interior will be turn
ed on even in the daytime to in
crease the attractiveneSS of WIN
dow displays which will be
mounted on new staggered shelv-
ing.
The store colors are emerald
green and canary yellow, the
green having been used for
counters and display islands and
on the wainscoting and the yell
low for ceiling and upper walls.
Grover Mansfeldt did the deco
rating.
New fixtures include a walk-in
refrigerator for meat storage and
an eight-door refrigerating unit
for butter, cheese, fruits and veg
etables which is equipped with a
vegetable freshening device. The
store will be air conditioned.
The wiring was done by the
Duncan Electrical shop and the
plumbing by the Pease company.
Mr.. Nielsen and Roy Anderson,
district manager, assisted with
arrangements.
The Redwood Falls Light and
Power company offices will be
moved into the former National
Tea building as soon as work on
the enlargement of the Gamble
store into their present building
makes it necessary.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
High School Cage
Team i'm Tourney

The high school basketball team
will represent Redwood Falls at
a northwest amateur tournament
in the Amunciation school in
Minneapolis Friday.
Members of the squad who will
go include Clarke Thomson, Russ
Lauterbach, Paul Asleson, Bob
Paffrath and Noble Starr. Having
drawn the bye, Redwood Falls
win meet Hibbing High school
Friday night.
In games played SO far the
Edison high entry has established
itself as tournament favorite.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
To Discuss Yards

Eldred Hunt, horticulturist of
University Farm, will speak on
grounds and planting at a home
yard improvement meeting in the
Redwood Falls city hall at 2 p. m.
today. The meeting is open to
anyone interested. A similar
with Mr.. Hunt also
speaking will be held at the Wa
basso school house at p. m. FRI
day.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
3 BUSINESS FIRMS
MAKE IMPROVEMENTS

Cream colored Nuwood laid in
square blocks on the ceiling and
in wide horizontal strips on the
walls of Randgaard'S cafe this
week gives the effect of more
light in the place. Grover Mans
feldt and Walter King who are
doing the work are decorating the
light backgrounds with strips of
the same material in pale tan.
The ceiling of the Mint cafe
has also been redecorated, the
work being done by Roy Flore
and a crew. Blocks of tan and
brown NuWood were laid in
checker board effect.
The chairs in the Whiting bar
Der shop will be moved to the
front of the place and the estab-
lishment will be redecorated fol-
lowing the rearrangement this
week.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01
Resume Work

Work will be resumed on the
Redwood Falls athletic field April
8 with a crew of 80 WPA men.
The track, the basement for the
band shell, the baseball diamond
and tennis courts will be built.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01

The Sorosis Club win meet
Monday afternoon with Mrs. Ray
Tenney as hostess. Members are
asked to note change.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01

A meeting of Scouters of the
Fort Ridgely district was held in
the Lincoln school Wednesday
when plans for the years pro-
gram were formulated.
The Redwood gazette., 1937-04-01

MIR. and Mrs. Ben Pelz motored
to Echo Wednesday evening to-
visit Mr.. and Mrs. r S. Stouffer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
Chinese War Pldnes Started All Trouble
Attack of All Upon Japanese Area-Daring Death Spreading Attack
BY H. R. EKNS Copyright 1897 By United Press)

 Shanghai, Aug. 2o-(UP)-Chin- csc war planes, diving recklessly. shook Shanghai today with the most terrific bombardment of the fight for the city. They swept over the city and, centering over the area where the Hangkew or Japanese area adjoins the international set- clement proper, blasted the Jap- anese lines with a rain of bombs that spread panic throughout the foreign area.
 It was a daring, death spreading operation. There was some belief that 1t was the prelude to . Chinese general offensive.
 It was just east of the point at which this creek empties into the Whangpoo that the Chinese planes made their raid today.
 Series of Power Dives
 They came over the Japanese lines and at once began . series of power dives near the Japanese con- sulate general.
 The anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese warships strung down the river bust into fire.
 The area the Chinese planes were punishing as only Q block or two from the international settlement proper, though 1t was on the other side of Soochow Creek, and the people of the settlement, remember ing the terrible raid of last Sat- urday, were thrown into panic.
 They raced up the Nanking road
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
Factory Owner To Tear
 Dovn Plant Before GiUingI,

like to fish. If these men don't want to work, maybe they'll soon find out they don't have to-"
 Simonds said he would return to Fitchburg and confer with his brothers before smashing every piece of machinery in the building" { The strike was called August 10 after the steel workers organizing committee filed charges with the national labor relations board that the company had attempted to coerce employees into joining an alleged company union.
 Emil ]. Lever, head of the 6. w. o. 0. in the Philadelphia area, said that the occupation of the plant was not sanctioned by the 0. I. O. union. The sitdown strikers he said. occupied the plant without support of ell the 20O employees. N
 The abrasive company is one of the smaller units of the eimonds Saw and Steel %. It manufactures grinding wheels and abraslyes most of which are used by auto- mobile manufacturers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
STOLE PARTS OF
 ILLICIT STILLS
Jerry Grella Is Placed Under Arrest-Federal
 Govt. Property

Theft of boilers, tanks and other parts of dismantled illicit stills was charged today by police to Jerry Grella. 22, of 800 Washington ave- nue. The metal owned by the fed- eral government, was stolen from the stoleyard adjoining the offices of the Blakeslee Company, at Mea- dow and Field streets, during the weekend.
 Grella was arrested by Lieutenant Detectives William Foley and Con- nie Shanahan, following 6 conn plaint by the government. The theft was discovered when movers went to transport a quantity of the metal to a farmer who had purchased 1t.
 Police said that parts of i7 stills seized in recent years were taken. The tanks and boilers were removed from the lot by truck. The two ar- resting officers said that Grella told them he sold the metal as junk.
 Grella is held at police headquar- ters under bonds of $i,000. He will be arraigned in city court next Wednesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
Major Green Dies Ln Chair For Case Hammer Murder

Ossining, N. Y, Aug. 20-tUP)- Major Green, Negro who never got beyond 2-a in grade school died in Sing Sings electric chair last night for the hammer murder of Mrs. Mary Harriet Case.
 The Negro shuffled into the death chamber supported by guards and followed by the Rev. c. G. Woicott, pastor of Hariem's Little-church- around -the-corner. and the Rev. A. N. Petersen. the prisons Protestant chaplain.
 The chaplain intoned the words of the 23rd psalm and Green. his eyes tightly closed. mumbled after him. His lips continued to work as he sat in the chair at 11:06 ?. m. He never opened his eyes.
 The last words Green heard were. Goodness and Mercy"
 Executioner Robert Elliott admin istered the first shock at 1i.00 and followed with two more. D. Q. O.. Sweet, chief prison physician, pro- nounced him dead at l1:0s p. m. <
 Green was a bachelors club por- ter in a New York city apartment building. He regularly washed win- dows for Mrs. Case. a beautiful
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
CONGRESS MAKES SPEED TO FINISH
Wage, Hours Bill Will Be Dropped Woman Sem
 atOr Sworn In
By EDWARD W. LEWIS


 United Press Stan Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 20-(UP)-Con- gress moved at top speed through 06-degree heat today to wind up 6 230-day session by tomorrow night. Differences between the house and senate over housing legislation pre- scented the only major problem to be settled before adjournment but leaders predicted that e conference committee would reach an agreement soon. Conservative southern demo- crats killed all hope of action this session on the administrators wage and hours bill. They blocked ef- forts to hold . house democratic caucus last night to bind members to action before adjournment.
 They Sat Outside
 More than 25 southern democratic representatives sat outside the cau- GUS room while supporters of mo- ton to force the bill from the house rules committee vainly tried to rally . quorum. The best they could do was lS7 members, eight short. The senate received new woman mem- Der today. Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves, slender, soft-spoken wife of Ala- bama's Gov. Bihb Graves, took the oath 0f olilce as successor to Sen. Hugo |. Hack who was elevated to the supreme court.
 Leaders Rlan Action
 Administration leaders planned tContinued on Page O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
!. N. ALBERT HIT
 VIII BLACkJACk
President of Albert Furni. ture Co. Was Struck on
 Grove Street

I. N. Albert, of oe Cooke street, president of the Albert Furniture Company, was struck on the head with a blackjack yesterday after noon at Grove street and Central avenue, he complained to police. MT. Albert, prominent local businessman suffered a scalp laceration. He was treated by doctors, and x-rays were taken to determine if he had been injured seriously.
 Chief Inspector Joseph Stevens of the police department said today that he had been informed that MT. Albert knew his assailant. He ex- pected, he said, that MT. Albert would seek a warrant for the arrest of the man.
 MT. Albert made, his complaint to Patrolman Matthew Guarini. He said the attack took place about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. and that the weapon was a black Jack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20

Philadelphia, Aug. 2o-(UP)-A. T. Simonds, president of the strike- bound abrasive company, said to- day that he would tear the plant down brick by brick and spend the rest of my live fishing" before he gave in to the Committee for In- dustrial Organization.
 Simonds arrived here from Fitch- burg, Mass, last night after 26 sit-down strikers were arrested and charged with forcible entry. The strikers had climbed e high picket fence and occupied the plant in the afternoon after Q union-com- pany truce expired.
 siinonds, head of the ccmpany's parent organization, Simonds Saw and. Steel company ct Fitchburg, was indignant when notified the strikers had occupied the plant.
 "They can smash the machinery lis they want to-" he said I'll were the sole owner I'd smash it myself.
 sMy brothers and have el.000,- 600 cash in the bank and we all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20

bride of less than e year. He went to her apartment last Jan. Il car- rying the cloths he used on the windows. He also carried ham, mer, concealed in the clothes. The 26-year-old former Lancaster, Pa, girl, graduate of Skidrnore college, admitted him, gave him his inc structions and went into her kitch. en, He followed silently and struck from behind. She struggled.
 Then, in the words of his con- fession Green Init her again and again." He dragged her into the bath room and lifted her body into the tub, where he had already turned on the water. He knotted a bed sheet around her throat and pulled 1t tight. Then he pulled the wedding ring from her body and ransacked the apartment.
 Frank Case, q youthful hotel executive, found his wife's body when he returned home from work that evening.
 Green left many clues--amcng them the hlood-stained hAmxnsg, found in the apartment house incl nerator, and his fingeTprints on the bathroom door-which quickly led to his arrest.