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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-08

ASKOv VILLAGE
Mayor N. Froker
Councilmen-Hans Mosbak, c. R. Peder-
sen.
Clerk I. Glenn
Treasurer .-----------J: Albert Johnson
Justices of the Peace-Edward F. Olson
Constables-Conrad Christensen. Clarence
Morgensen.
BROOK PARK VILLAGE
coSneilmen-Lioyd Vettling. s. Peterson
w. H. Alderman.
Treasurer Fohrman
Clerk ---------------------- Finn
Justices of the Peace-Guy Johnson, M
Constables-viggo Ravnholdt. Lester Gross
BRUNO VILLAGE
Mayor Carlton Stafford
Councilmen-Hiram Walsh, E. T. Downing,
Victor Marihart.
Treasurer ---John Wahlstrom
Justices of the Peace-D. D. Mccoy. E. w.
Constables-Arthur Lessenden. Albert
Osterkamp.
FiNLAYsoN VILLAGE
CoHncilmen-Syivester Petry. Jorgen Han
sen, Frank Frederickson.
Clerk n; BeNhng
Justice of the Peace Henry Petry
Dahlin.
HENR1ETTE VILLAGE
Councilmen-Robert Conger. A. S. Gustaf-
son. P. w. Hoflin.
Clerk Virgil Ramsey
justices of the Peace-H L. Wallace. elm
ConstablesEL. R. Price, George Mar
quardt
HINCKLEY VILLAGE
co ayOc Schmidt, George saSs
Goltz, A. w. Nyline.
Clerk w. Empey
justices of the Peace-Martin L. Nelson
Patrick Healy.
Constables-Wm. H. Lammerts. Frank J
PINE CITY VILLAGE
coHncilmen-Marion Lones, Adam Bieder-
mann, John D. Wilcox.
TIeTk ---C1 George M; eenGn BsIev
justices of the PeaceLchas. F. Stephan
Walter Blanchard.
ConStableS-ohn Biedermann, Arthur c.
GLASGOW, Art Friend.
RUTLEDGE VILLAGE
Mayor Liljedahl
CoHncilmen-R. ]. Isaacson, John Losch
H. M. Dempsey.
Treasurer ------------------H. ). Bennett
SANDSTONE VILLAGE
CoHncilmen-H. o. Biistad, M. Bulls. P.
E. Robinson.
Clerk A. Johnson
Treasurer ------------Roy N. Sandwich
Justice of the Peace -. H. Tomhave
Constable Larson
WILLOW RIVER VILLAGE
Mayor Harry Nyrud
Councilmen-Jacob Novak, H. E. Johnson,
A. E. Wahlstrom.
Clerk Bohaty
Justice of the Peace ------R. T. Addington
Constable ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Novak
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-08
Official Lists
OF Officers Are
Again Complete
The Annual Village Elec-
tons are Held Tuesday,
December 6.

AS usual in most cases the people
of the villages of Pine county took
the attitude of "let George do it,
in the management of their affairs
and as a result small vote totals were
in evidence. In only two cases were
there extra questions voted on and
these were in Sandstone and Brook
Park. The former voted the issue of
$4,000 worth of bonds to extend the
sewer system as WPA project 271
to 80 and at Brook Park the intoX-
icating liquor question was voted
down 40 to 81.
In Askov Paul NJ Froker, who has
been serving his second term as
councilman, was rewarded for good
service by being chosen as mayor.
George 1. Glen was elected clerk
and c. R. Petersen was chosen coun-
Gilman. j. Albert Johnson was
elected the new treasurer.
Other cases where new mayors
were chosen were in Bruno where
Carlton Stafford will succeed j. P.
Murphy, Jr., and in Willow River
where Harry Nyrud succeeds DR.. w.
c. Ehmke.
Following is the list of village
councils as they will officially be made
up during the coming year:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-08
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL soc's'''
CT PAUL, MINI

Family Newspaper
DARE TO DO OUR DUTY
Let us have faith that
right makes might. and in
that faith let us. to the end
dare to do our duty as we
understand it."
Abraham Lincoln.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-08
A National Record

Largest circulation of any
newspaper in the United
States published in a COM
munity of its size.
By far the largest circu-
lation of any newspaper in
Pine county.
A good advertising medium.
The Valley settler., 1938-08-19
ANNUAL MATANUSKA VALLEY
 FAIR

FAIR 1R
 The Ma tan uska Valley fair Pre- nium lists are out. he prizes in general arc not diminished in amount but are equalized to offer greater opportunity in more fields for exhibitors,
 One outs tandlng change in the new premium list is the increase in farm displays. It must be under stood that these items cannot be entered in any other class. Every one in the Territory of Alaska is urged to bring or send in exhibits for the Fair to com pete for some of the prizes offer- ed. Everyone in the: Matanuska Val- ley in "a rticu1ar are urged to sup port our local Fair in every way possible. Don't hesitate to ent- or any item Which you may be just a little bit hes tant about. If you wait till you are sure of first prize on any item or article you enter, your nei Ghbor may do the same and the result will be---- no Fair. COmpe is the quail ity which develops the spirit of a good Fair. People like to compare and try to beat the other fellow. But if you fail to make enouGh exhibits, you have failed to do your duty at the Fair. This is a common thina hich we hear at such times, "Gee-whiz, my old black SOW will beat anything they got here." We'll, why don't you bring your old black SOW? It won't cost anything to try and it wi Il be heaps of fun to find out who the best belongs to. The Baby show this year promises to
The Valley settler., 1938-08-19
DELEGATE DTM0ND HERE

Delegate Anthony J. Dimond will be in Palmer dn the evening of Aug. ust 2Oth, and is expe cted to spend three days in the Valley.
 On the evening of the 2oth MT. Dimond will deliver an address in the Community Hall at Palmer to the pc ople. His address is expec- ted to be of special interest to the voters of the Valley, as Mr. Dimond will devote one time to the explanation of the one-h0use Legislature. The Delegate IS ad- dress will be followed by other Democratic candidates.
 All speaking of the evening is free and everyone is invited to attend. This is an excellent :op- portunity to meet our Delegate to Congress and listen to the ideals for which Mir. Dimond is working. Following the speeches of the evening, the Do1nocratic Club of the Valley will sponsor a dance at the Community Hall, The admi 8 si on price for the dance will be $l. The music will be furni shed by
 the Polar Bears and Q large crowa is exp pected.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
BOTH GOVERNMENT
AND BUSINESS LAX
Government Less Efficient,
However, Than Business,
Observer Says
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, Feb. S. "A reader
raises this point:
do you really believe that business
is any more efficient than the New
Deal?"
Yes, Il do believe so.
But, if | believed the New Deal to
be more efficient than business, l still
do not think 1 would be paying much
of a compliment to the New Deal, for
business does not seem to be quite
efficient enough to be hard to beat,
bv even a very small modicum of eff
ficiency.
As Stewart Sees 1t.
Business, if efficient at all, certain
lv ought to be sufficiently SO as to
keep a country's economic status rea-
sonably stable-to maintain tolerably
good times as regular thing, and al
SO to keep them improving gradually.
It hasn't done it.
AS far back as we can remember
we have had about three major de-
pressions per century, with one or two
minor depressions per interval.
Where Business Fails
We have had intervening booms,
foo. hut they have been as dangerous
as their succeeding slumps have been
painful.
Yet business has not been able to
recognize boom as a boom while
said boom actually was looming. we
had a postwar boom. 1t lasted SO
long that it puzzled me. My idea was
that we should have had a terrible
prolonged depression after so terrific
a conflict.
got an interview on the subject
with Herbert Hoover, then secretary
of commerce. I took him to be pre-
ominently a business expert. He as
sured me that that thing was not
boom. that we were living in a new
age of the world that what l called
2 boom was, in reality our moderA
"normalcy". We know what followed
before the end of his presidential
term.
| Since then I never have had nue.!
Continued on Page Five.>
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
AFLamd0m
To
Christians

Chicago, Feb. 5.-(AP)-Alf M. Lam
don told the United Methodist Con-
ference today that Christianity is
threatened by the theory of absolute
government abroad in the world
Let us in America not make the
mistake of think we can escape all
contacts with what is happening in
the rest of the world" the 1886 Re
publican presidential nominee said in
prepared address to Methodist
clergymen and laymen attending a ma
tional conference on faith and service.
He continued:
1.-THE absolute government that has
taken hold of a number of nations
would take away freedom of WORSHIP,
freedom of expression, and even free
will. Where this absolute government
would not absolutely destroy tie
church, it would undermine the veTy
foundation of the church
Thus Christianity has a great STANG
IN the preservation of democracy
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
FOURTH VICTIM OF
CRAZED MAN DIES
Three Killed Instantly in MAssacnu-
sets Institution; Fifth Crit
ically Ill

Tewsbury, Mass, Feb. 35-(AP)-
Four deaths were charged today to
John Mack, 70, ex-lumbernan, who
stalked through Tewsbury State In
Urinary mems ward at dawn yester-
day, firing mail-order pistol at j.
low patients he said whispered about
him."
John Lewis, 76, LOWELL Mass, died
last night. The three other patients
had died early yesterday. A fifth VIC
tim is in serious condition.
Mack, arrested in Lowell three
hours later, is held in jail without
bail on charges Of murder.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Voted Against Laying Aside
Bill When Southern SEN
ators Sought Show
down Then
FARM BILL AGAIN
STRIKES TROUBLE
Agriculture Officials Object
to Smiths Cotton Amend
ment, and Long Floor Fight
Is Expected; Split Result
ing from Court Fight, I'm
healed

Washington, Feb. 5-(AP)-Major-
itv Leader Barkley Of Kentucky in
dicated today he would move to Law
aside the anti-lynching bill next week
Il am unwilling that this whole ses-
sion should be wasted or consumed in
futile discussion" he said.
Barley voted against shelving th2
measure when southernars failed by i
50 to 81 vote to pigeon-hole it yester-
day.
Both Senate and House were in re-
cess today. Southern senators arrang-
ed caucus to map next weeks stra-
tegv against the anti-lynching bill.
Agriculture Department opposition
to last-minute changes in cotton pro-
visions of the compromise farm bill
raised the possibility, meantime, of a
prolonged floor fight over the mea-
sure. The controverted item was an
amendment inserted at the behest OF
Senator Smith, Democrat, South Car
DINA. to speed up payment of part OF
the S13O,O0O,OOO bonus Congress has
voted for 1887 cotton growers who
complied with 1888 programs.
Departmental officials said Smith s
proposal permitting borrowers to sur
render loan cotton to the Commodity
Credit Corporation and receive up to
two cents a pound in price adjustment
payments might lead to government
impounding of as much as 100000
bales
Other developments:
Leaders of the little fellows con-
ference agreed to try to set up per-
manent organization to keep the gov
eminent advised of the small business
mans needs.
A year ago today President Roose-
welt proposed his court reorganiza-
Continued on Page ForrO
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Roosevelt
To Settle
IckeS ROzC

Washington, Feb. (AP)-President
Roosevelt plans to settle the row be-
tween Secretary Ickes and the latter's
under secretary, Charles West, inform
ed officials said today, by transferring
West from the Interior Department.
Representing Mr.. Roosevelt as sup
porting the cabinet member, these Of
ficia1s predicted he would seek a new
post for West in another branch of
the government. Ickes last week
swooped down on Vests office in the
latters absence and virtually liqui-
dated it's personnel, removing James
A. Rohrer, Vests brother-in-law and
administrative assistant. Vests own
job was untouched, as he was a presi-
Dental appointee.
Secretary Ickes called at the White
House today to discuss what he said
was a "lot of odds and ends" He
added, however, Vests name was not
mentioned.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Warfare In
South Spain
Is Reneued

Hendaye,, France, at the Spanish
Frontier, Feb. s. (AP) - Warfare
spread along the southern Spanish
front today as government and insur-
gent troops took advantage of warmer
weather to fight for positions.
Opposing forces were still deadlock
ed in the. Aragon, while insurgent
warships frightened their blockade Of
the Mediterranean coast. In eastern
Badajoz province, where lines have
been shifting without appreciable ad-
vantage to either side, insurgents said
they had occupied series of stra-
tegic hill positions.
The government acknowledged los
ing ground in this sector, but report
Cd # had launched a new drive in the
hitherto quiet sector of Grenada,
which resulted in occupation OF two
positions. An insurgent counter at
tack was defeated.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
ENJOY From
Germany Is
For Peace.

Philadelphia, Feb. 5.-(AP)- DR..
Hans Dieckhoff, German ambassador
to the United States, in an address
prepared for delivery today, said the
foreign policy of the German govern
ment is for real peace" but so long
as there is no political appeasement"
there will be mo feeling of security"
The ambassador was on the pro-
gram at a luncheon of the Philadel-
phia branch of the Foreign Policy As
ISOLATION.
I'm our opinion, the main thing is
to have a real peace" he said. I'm q
great speech made a few months ago
in this country, we find this sentence
In moral consciousness of the world
must recognize the Importance of re-
moving injustices and well-founded
grievances This is what we believe"
While the ambassador did not name
him. the quotations was from Presi-
dent Roosevelt's address in Chicago
last October 5.
"The sooner we come to real peace
and / hope that we will come to it.
the letter" the ambassador said.
"This real peace must be our great
goal"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
NEW POLICIES FOR
PATROL ARE FIXED
State Police Required To
Spend More Time Out
on the Highways

Raleigh, Feb. 5-The State Highway
Patrol, under the supervision of Ma
jor Arthur F'ulk, is inaugurating three
new policies, according to announce
ment of A. j. Maxwell, commissioner
of revenue.
The policies are listed by Mr.. Max
well as:
1. Patrolmen are required to spend
the major part of their time on high
ways outside municipalities.
2. Patrolmen are required to Oh
serve the same regulations in patrol
ing streets and roads they are expect
ed to impose on others.
3. Patrolmen are expected to prose
cute without fear or favor all reck
less drivers and all important VIOLA
tons of traffic laws.
The commissioner announced these
policies in a signed article on "A
North Carolina Worst" in which ne
pointed out that the States deatn
rate on the highways is more tnan
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Hoey
On Bureaus
Justice

Raleigh, Feb. 5 (AP)-The study of
the proposed State department of just
ice by Professor Paul Sanders of Duke
University was in the hands of Cover
nor Hoey today, but he had no COM
ment on it.
In a letter accompanying the re-
port Major L. p. McLendon of Green's
tboro, chairman of the commission
stE.:ying the proposal, said:
"In transmitting the material to you
1 do not wish it to be understood that
1 am at this time endorsing the pro-
posed department or any particular
method of establishing it. Primarily,
it is that 1 hope to give information
and evoke construction criticism"
Hoey explained the report was not
official.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
London Naval Treaty, Sign
ed by Both Nations, Re-
stricts Size to 35,-
600 Tons
UNITED STATES HAS
LIVED UP TO PACT
Britain and France Both
Have Been Consulted on
Query to Japan, Hull Says;
This Country. Meantime,
Reduces by Half Its Forces
In China

Washington, Feb. 5.-(AP)- The
United States asked Japan today
whether she is building, or intends to
build, battleships larger than $4,000
.OnS.
If so, note to the Tokyo govern
ment said, the United States will build
larger ships herself but is willing to
discuss limitation Of their size.
Secretary Hull, announcing this ac-
ton, said it was taken after. consulta-
ton with Britain and France. sigma
cries of the London naval treaty of
1886, who were taking similar steps,
The United States has built no bat
tleships in excess of $4,000 tons, in &C
cordance with the London treaty.
This country, meantime, took a
long step away from China by order
ing it's armed forces there reduced by
more than half.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
2 Bandits Suspects
Slain by Officers

Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 5 (AP)-
Police recorded a $500 bank rob
berry as solved today with the
bloody uotatiOn-"twO bandit SUI
spects slain, five persons wound
ed, including three detectives"
Vincent GrinkOwicz, of Cleve-
land, and a man known only as
MACK were killed. Police were
checking fingerprints with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in
an effort to identify Mack.
Two of the wounded lowered be-
tween life and death, Detective
Z Robert Cline and Carl BOettcher,
"a, of Cleveland, one of four men
who were targets for hail of
police bullets in a twO-stOry west
Side rOOming house yesterday.
BOettcher's lung was punctured,
while Cline and Detective William
Danrer were shot in the abdomen.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Feb. Edgar Leroy
Smoak looked death in the face and
without blinking an eye or splHlnS
one tiny speck of tobacco from a Gig
arctic he was rolling asserted his IN
nocence of poisoning his high school
student daughter, Annie Thelma
Smoak.
His counsel, William L. Farmer, had
Just warned him in most solemn terms
mat he had but two weeks to live
iour correspondent sat by watching
the doomed mans reactions.
AS certain as anything human Is
certain, you're going to walk into the
gas chamber two weeks from today
and meet the Great Judge who can't
oe fooled by pretenses," said Mr.. Far
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
U. S. Envoy Is Permitted
To See Mrs. Ruth Rubens

Washington, Feb. 5 (AP)-The Sow
let government acceded today to re-
quest that a United States official be
permitted to see Mrs. Ruth Marie
Rubens, American citizen incarcerat-
ed in Russia on suspicion of espionage.
Charge d'affaires 10y Henderson
caIbled Secretary Hull that Moscow
had agreed to the long-standing Anne
rican demand. Henderson has asked
that he or Second Secretary Angus
Ward be allowed to visit Mrs. Rubens
this afternoon or tomorrow.
Soviet authorities previously had
informed the United States they would
not permit an Amer ~ diplomat to
see Mrs. Rubens ul..-. after Russian
police had finished investigating her
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
MENTAL PATIENT, so,
ASSAULTS INMATES
Medfield, Mass, State Hospital Scene
of Violence by One Thought
Not Dangerous

Medfield, Mass, Feb. 5.-(AP)-A
5O-year-old mental patient at Medfield
State Hospital, where two men were
two men were battered to death two
weeks ago, became suddenly violent
today, ripped metal guard from a
sink and attacked three other inmates
before being subdued by an attendant.
They were not seriously injured.
The patient, John Coti, not consiG-
cred dangerous" when committed,
was immediately placed in an EEK
elusive room"
The attack occurred in the same
ward where patient welding a shoe
box, battered two fellow inmates to
death two weeks ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05

case State Department officials said
today that the inference is they have
now completed their investigation.
This was taken to mean Russia had
not accepted Hulps principle of right
to visit without delay" a principle
on which he insisted soon after Mrs.
Rubens' arrest became known. Hull
emphasi. ed the principle in his formal
note of January Is. 1t involved the
general right of American diplomatic
representatives to visit Americans
jailed in Soviet Russia.
Hull declined to comment today
when asked whether or not Russia's
accession to the question at this time
meant, in effect, agreement with the
principle.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
FARM BUREAU HEAD
TO TALK NEW BILL
WinsIow and O'Neal Will Confer In
Washington Tomorrow With
Senator Pope

Raleigh, Feb. s. (AF)-Edward
O'Neal. American Farm Bureau presl-
dent. and j. E. Winslow, of Greenville,
State Farm Bureau president, will
confer with Senator Pope, Democrat
Idaho, at Washington tomorrow on
the farm conference bill, e. F. Arnold
executive secretary of the State bu
reau said today.
Winslow, one of a committee OF
eighteen appointed last fall to draft
farm legislation, will leave from
Rocky Mount late tonight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Japs Claim
AdvancesOn
China Front
Weather Cold In
Fig h ting Zone,
A n d Snowstorms
Hamper Operation

Shanghai, Feb. 5.-(AP)-The ia
panese force operating against the
Chinese left flank Is miles east of
Pengpu today reported fighting its
way across the Hwai river and adj
vancing north toward Kuchen on the
Tientsin-Pukow railroad, leading to
Suchow
Chinese troops defending a position
about ten miles west of Pengpu also
were driven back and the city Oc-
cupied, the Japanese said.
Dispatches from Suchow said Chi
nese troops holding the north bank
of the Hwai north of Pengpu along
the Tientsin-Puchow line, repulsed ia
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
Smoak Claims Innocence
With Death Hour Nearing

noer. eff you have anything to say,
Won ought to say it now"
Smoak looked at your correspondent
with keen grey eyes that never flick
cred and said evenly and earnestly:
"My heart is right with God. From
nv heart I'm not guilty of murder,
and if I go into the gas chamber I
will go for the laws of North Caro-
lima and not for any murder. I never
harmed anyone in my life"
Previously the gaunt New Hanover
man had greeted his counsel: "Bill,
I'm sure glad to see you," and had
added to your correspondent:
From what the newspaper says,
I'm in a mess. Amt that the dang
CONTINUED on Page F1ve)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
MAN is HELD FOR
KILLING OF CHIEF
Bruce Shue Accused of Fatal Shooting
of Chief Rape of Hunters
vile January 1

Charlotte, Feb. s (AP)-Bruce Shue,
charged with fatally shooting Police
Chief J. A. Rape, of Huntersville, the
night of January 1, was ordered held
for superior court today at a preli-
minary hearing in Mecklenburg coun-
ty recorders court.
Shue was arrested in Edgefield, s.
c., few days after the chief was slain
as he approached stranger on his
beat. ~
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-05
SLIGHT GAIN MADE
in COTTON MARKET
Prices Two to Five Points Higher at
Close, With Middling Quot
ed at 1854

New York, Feb. 5.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened three to five points
up on higher Liverpool cables. trade
and foreign buying. May sold off from
1854 to 8.61, leaving quotations one to
three net higher shortly after the first
half hour.
Futures closed two to five points
higher. Spot steady; middling 1854.