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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
SOkOls All Ready
To Stage Festival
Continued from Page ~

'SOutlIluS0 rage ~
nical directors, and will consist of the
following numbers: Grand Entree
and Review; Anthems, Flag Raising;
Greetings, Representatives of Pine
City; welcoming address, Edw. J. Gin
cera, Sokol festival chairman.
l. Special drill-Children of Pine
City school.
2. Calisthenic drill-Sokol children.
3. Rhythmic waltz drill-Pine City
Sokol ladies class.
4. Exhibition on horizontal and
parallel bars-Sokol ladies and men.
5. Sailor dance-Hopkins S o k o l
children.
6. Mass calisthenic drill-Al
classes.
7. Exhibition drill - Meadowlands
Sokol juniors.
8. Games and tumbling-S o. o l
men,.
9. Drill of wooden soldiers-St.
Paul Sokol ladies.
10. "Mazurka" rhythmic dance
Pine City Sokol ladies.
IL. special DIX eXnDltlOn Grill
st. Paul Sokol men. d,
IL. Handkerchief rhythmic drill
Minneapolis Sokol ladies.
Is. "Beseda" Czech national dance
in native peasant costumes.
Finale.
Refreshments will be sold at the
fair grounds before, during and after
the program.
In case of adverse weather condi-
tons arrangements have been made
to hold the program at the high school
auditorium. Announcements to that
effect will be made on the streets
by means of loud speakers.
In the evening there will be dane
ing and special entertainment at the
Crystal Palace where opportunity will
be given everyone to meet the Sokols
from the entire Northwest.
According to all indications people
from far and near will come to Pine
City on May %, to witness the work
the Sokols are doing to promote
physical and moral development espe-
cially of the younger generation-the
foundation Of our country.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
High School.

On Tuesday of this week the Sem
ior High School Girls Glee club went
by bus to the music festival at Moose
Lake. The music festivals in this
territory are outstanding in that the
element of competition has been en-
tirely eliminated. Competition has
no place in the field of music here.
The Askov group came home from
Moose Lake in a happy mood, not
because they had defeated anyone in
any contest, but because they had
received some really worthwhile in
spiration through sharing the best in
music with young people from sur
rounding communities That is what
makes music festival really worth
while.
The cast is now working hard on
the finishing touches of "Anne of
Green Cables" the play to be pre-
sented by the high school in the
D. B. S. hall Friday of this week,
MAY 13). This play has been an
outstanding success in other places
and should be well received in the
Askov community.
Elementary Grades.
The fifth and sixth graders have
been working on puppet show for
some time now, and are giving it some
time this week, probably Friday.
They are giving movie at the same
time. The movie. will show scenes
from the middle ages and the pup
pet show scenes from the time of
Robin Hood and King Richard.
The police staff for the first and
second grades this week is as follows:
Hall police, Leroy and Galen; flower
police, jeanette; buster police, Lois;
eraser police, Alice and Violet; pencil
police, Gloria and Philip.
Twenty-four pupils received citi-
zenship badges this week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
Cattle Advance
But Drop Later
Upturn Erased When Of
ferings Expand; Hogs
Lower; Lambs Down.

South st. Paul, Mimi, May 10,
1898: Continued rains and soft side
roads proved no barriers in market
ing livestock as evidenced by the
Tuesday run at South st. Paul. At
tracted by Mondays price advance
here, cattle moved freely to market
Tuesday and prices reacted down.
ward, according to the Federal-State
Market News Service. All of Mon
days gain was lost, bringing prices
on steers and yearlings about on a
parity with the close of last week.
Upward to 500 was paid Monday for
choice HOO pound steers while SIM
liar grade weighty steers were held
at considerably higher figure on the
current session. Bulk moved within
range of $725 to $3.50. Heifers
gained slightly Monday, but that i'm
provement was lost Tuesday. De-
mand, however, was still good. Load
lots of heifers reached $8.65, and odd
head brought $875. A spread of
$3.50 to $3.50 included most good to
choice offerings. Scarcity kept cow
values on a strong key. Vealers were
uneven but about steady. Bull trade
was fairly firm. Stockers and feeders
continued steady to strong, with sup
plies light A firm trend was again
in evidence in the dairy cow trade,
good springer cows over HOO pounds
going at $1,000 to $500, instances
more. The lower grade cows were
selling down to $45.00, with anything
less than that usually left for killers.
There was no let-up in the hog
decline, and values at this writing
are scraping a new bottom for the
season. In fact, the top at $3.50 on
Tuesday was within SC of the 1887
low. Even moderate receipts and
strength in the dressed trade failed
to check the downturn, a decline of
25c to 35c being enforced so far this
week. Weights over $50 pounds
showed the full downturn, while sows
and stays shared in the general loss.
Pigs dropped Csc to SOC.
Slaughter lambs declined 1Oc to
Csc this week, woolskins off most.
Slaughter ewes suffered a Csc to SOC
break and top shorn ewes at $3.75
are now $1.00 below the best time
of few weeks ago. Choice wooded
lambs today brought $500 and good
to choice clippers had a spread of
$500 to S7.40.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
ASKOV
Rev. BObjerg- Dies.

Word has recently been received
here that Rev. A. Bobjerg died April
II, at Odense, Denmark Rev. Bo-
bjerg spent his last years at writing
mostly of a historical nature. His
life history is an interesting story
both in Denmark and in the United
States. 1t is recalled that he was the
first teacher at Grand View College,
Des Moines, Iowa, and was also
among the early settlers of this COM
munity. 1t will be remembered by
many that Rev. Bobjerg was associ-
ated with Mr.. Mosb9k when the
rutabaga industry was first estab-
ished here and when that industry
possibly reached its climax, at which
time prices of $40 to $50 per ton were
quite common.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
AskOv Has Woman
AS Its New Doctor

DIR. Stella Wilkinson is the name
of Askov's new doctor and she comes
here from Duluth. DR.. Wilkinson
takes the place of DR.. A. A. Giroux
who has been here temporarily since
last winter. She is a graduate of
the University of Minnesota and
served her interneship in the Womens
and Childrens Hospital in San Fran
cisco, Calf.
She has done graduate work at.the
University of Pennsylvania in dis
eases of women and obstetrics. DR..
Wilkinson has also studied abroad
and has recently been practicing med
icine in Duluth.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Miller were Du-
luth visitors Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul N. Froker were
visitors in Duluth Sunday.
Mrs. Jens Nielsen went to the
hospital at Pine City last week for
medical attention.
L. A. Lewison and family visited at
their former home community in
South Dakota from Friday until Mon
day.
Miss Anna Elkjer came from Du-
luth Friday and visited until Sunday
at the home of her mother, Mrs. Louis
Elkjer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phil Bastard came
from Minneapolis for weekend visit
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. p.
Sorensen.
Miss Alva Fogt came Friday from
Duluth and visited until Sunday at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Emil Fogt.
Richard Buck came from Minnapo-
lis Monday and will help with the
work at the Ferndale Nursery dur
ing the rush season which is in full
swing now.
Many friends and neighbors spent
a pleasant Sunday afternoon and eve
ming at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Soren X. Christensen, helping them
to commemorate their silver wedding
anniversary.
M. E. Shorty Nelson came from
Sebeka Thursday and visited at the
Arthur Olesen home until Saturday
He came especially for the birthday
of his mother, Mrs. C. p. Nelson, who
is staying at the Olesen home.
Mrs. Bert Smith writes from Pom
tiac, Mich, in renewing their sub
scription to the Askov American and
states that conditions there are "ter-
rible" with thousands out of work.
They send greetings to every one of
their old friends.
Svend Petersen and family visited
in DEBORAH, Iowa, from Friday until
Sunday. Saturday evening Mr.. and
Mrs. Petersen were at Albert Lea
where the former was the speaker
of the evening at the 44th anniversary
of the Danish Brotherhood lodge.
During the past week several have
visited Jay Cooke state park, near
Carlton, to see the st. Louis river at
its best. The continual rains through
out this part of the state have caused
the stream to suddenly become a
mighty river. Water has been COM
ing over the entire Thompson dam;
the swinging bridge is seriously dam
aged, normally this bridge is about
20 feet above the water, but for sever
al days it was under water.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
Meeting Discusses
Soil Conservation

A soil conservation meeting was
held in the Askov village hall Mon
day night at which time the 1898
program was explained. Melvin An
derson of Brook Park, was one of the
speakers.
All in the Askov community who
haven't signed up and wish to do so
are urged to see Chris. Frederiksen
during noon hours or evenings.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12

AS a result of the endorsement
given him by the sixth district
Farmer-Labor convention at Little
Falls recently, Harry w. Christensen,
(above) state representative from
Meeker county, Tuesday, May 10, filed
as candidate for Congress on the
Farmer-Labor ticket.
Christensen, who was prominent
on several important committees dur
ing the last legislature, said his filing
came as result of this endorsement,
and also because of the insistence of
many friends throughout the district
who came to him urging him to make
the run and promising him their sup
port.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
More Want Ads

FOR SALE+Cook stove; also 1884
VS. truck, long wheel base, with
or without enclosed box. Trade for
anything l can use.-Fred C. Olesen,
Askov. 25W35-1t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12

To supply the milk and cream
needed in one day in the city of New
York requires more than 100000
quarts of milk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
PARTRIDGE TOWN
BOARD PROCEEDINGS
May 2, 1888.

May 2, 1888.
Regular town meeting in Askov on
this day with all members present.
The meeting was called to order by
the chairman.
The minutes of the last town meet
ing were read and approved as read.
There was not much complaining
of bad roads at this meeting. On mo-
ton carried, bills numbering from
149 to 165 inclusive, were allowed
and paid.
Harold Christensen, road work S 900
Lawrence johnson, road work. $3.50
Ralph johnson, road work -- 500
Jens K. Christensen, dragging - 1900
Chris Petersen, dragging --- 1900
Jens j. Krogh, dragging $1,000 1880
j. D. Adams & Co., grader
blades ------------------ 9.24
Nels P. Petersen, bridge and
grader inspecting ---------- 4.80
Marius T. Johansen, road work 21.5O
Carl Pearson, dragging ---- $50
L. A. Paulsen, dragging $1,000 1915
Mikael Petersen, dragging ---- 100
Jens Slot, dragging and grad
ing 14.OO
Einar Jensen, town service 800 800
Chris. Frederiksen, town serv-
ice ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 800
Julius F. Slot, town SERVICE 800
G. Flint, town service - 400
The next regular town meeting will
be held on June 6, at l p. m.
There being no further business the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12

The next regular town meeting will
be held on June 6, at l p. m.
There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned
c. FLINT, Town Clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12
The Crucible

ASkov Public Schools
Ruth Miller, editor; Mildred Abraham
sen, assembly; Gene Buck, sports;
Lesley Krantz, elementary grades.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-12

You saw it in the American.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Coster' Past News
1oMap Who Knew
Him by Real Name
Ex-McKesson Official
Also Is Surprised;
Cont Believe 1t
BY the Associated Press.

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Dec. ia
w. P. A. worker and a roadside
restaurant owner today disclosed
details of intimate acquaintance,
personal and professional, with F.
Donald Coster, self-slain drug COM
pany executive. Both said they never
suspected Costers activities.
Edward w. Hubbard, w. P. A. en-
ploye and nephew of Ebert Hub
bard, writer, said he first knew
Coster by his real name, Philip
Musica, in 1915, but did not know
of his past.
Mr.. Hubbard's first wife, the for
mer Carol jenkins, divorced him in
1928 and later married Coster. His
second wife and their five children
live in two-story house at nearby
Breinigsville bought by Mrs. .Coster.
William E. Jones, local restaurant
proprietor, said he was vice presi-
dent and manager of McKesson-
Robbins, Inc, in 1929-30 and has a
Bible Coster presented to him when
Mr.. Jones was inducted into the
drug firm presidents Masonic Lodge
at Fairfield, Conn.
I can't believe it's true" said
Mr.. Jones. Il once complained
about the assets the company listed,
but nothing ever looked suspicious. i"
Once high up in the business
world, both Mr.. Hubbard and Mr..
Jones are now in modest circum-
stances. Mr.. Hubbard was a men,
Der OF a New York brokerage house
that went bankrupt. Mr.. Jones was
called by McKesson & Robbins, he
said, to take charge of a s25, 900 900
factory expansion program. He said
he was dismissed" for "harmony's
sake"
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Musicu Is Termed
'Pre-Doomed'
Egotist
Ey the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Dec. l7.-Psychia-
trists probed the strange character
of F. Donald Coster today and
termed him "pre-doomed" egotist.
The italian immigrants son, who
started life as Philip Musica and
went to prison for swindling, then
changed his name and rose to con-
troll of an $4,000, 900 drug Arm,
couldn't stand the puncturing of the
Coster myth.
Once "Coster" was destroyed, once
he was unmasked as the ex-convict
Musica, the creator OF the myth had
to kill himself.
He was naturally an egocentric, I"
said Marvin Friedman, New York
prison psychiatrist. He had an alb
normal desire for power. Always
more power"
DR.. A. A. Brill, noted psychiatrist
and translator of Freud's works,
said Coster looked on crime as a
business.
There is no changing this type"
he said. He had something lack
ing in his moral makeup. No mat
ter how high he climbed, he was
doomed from the beginning"
Evening star., 1938-12-18

climbed higher, changed his name
to r. Donald instead of the COM
moner form Of Frank D., and was
soon in a spot where he could get
million dollars backing and control
Of McKesson & Robbins.
Now he had the front. Within
two years after his acquisition of
the corporation he was merging II
wholesale drug houses with McKes-
son g. Robbins. He incorporated
holding company in Maryland to
control the company incorporated
IN Connecticut. In 1929 the listed
sales rose to $4,000, 900.
And the crude drugs department
thrived. Profits piled up and osten-
sibly were turned back into the de-
partment. w. w. Smith e. Co., on
whom carefully forged financial
reports were made, was the English
agent, receiving toward the last
Sl5O,000 a year in commissions for
sales which apparently were never
made. Manning & Co. was the Ca
madam fiscal agent. Payments were
amade from the corporations treas
ury into Brooklyn branch of the
Chase National Bank and the can
celed checks went back to George E.
Dietrich-Musica at Fairfield, where
the treasurer, Julian F. Thompson,
could not see them.
But 1t was Thompson, in the end,
who got suspicious. He inquired
about insurance on the crude drug
stocks supposedly held in half a
dozen Canadian warehouses, learned
there was no insurance and even
tually that there were no ware
houses.
Quotation in His Room.
In those days Coster-Musica had
framed and hung in his room a quo
tatlon from Harriet Beecher Stowe:
When you get into tight place,
and everything goes against you,
TILL 1t seems as If you couldn't hold
on minute longer, never give UP
then, for that is just the place and
time the tide will turn :"
In just such a tight place at last,
Coster-Musica broke down this
week. Arrested, he was held in S.
600 bail but allowed to remain at
home. When he was faced with re-
arrest yesterday, his nerve broke.
Like Kreuger and Stavisky he
used pistol to end his troubles.
The heritage of woe he left may
mean the loss Of as much as $40, ,OO0,-
900 to investors.
Batteries of auditors were working
night and day on the accounts and
records of the concern to determine
its financial status.
Il wouldn't be surprised if the
l3,000-odd stockholders lost in the
neighborhood of $20,00O,0O0, al
though no accurate figure is avail
able at this time" said Mr.. Noonan.
James J. Caffrey, regional admin
istrator Of the S. E. c., said the
information now at hand does not
permit of any judgment in these
matters" by the S. E. c.
Evening star., 1938-12-18

Vernard-Arthur Musica lived even
more humbly in Brooklyn.
Grew Up on East Side.
Coster- -Musica's ideas OF living
called for a better showing. As a
boy Of 6 he had come to America
with his father, Antonio, a Neapol-
itan barber, and his mother. His
natural shrewdness was given q
sharper edge in the squalid tenement
districts Of the East Side, so that
when he turned 81 he was after his
father with plans for riches. He was
pretty crude then, going no farther
than the simple n1ulcting of the
Government by getting short rt-weight
receipts on cheese shipments.
For that he was convicted and
sentenced to a year, but after six
months he was pardoned. His luck
was holding and he was even
bolder. His brain teemed with
ideas. One of them was the hair
company which imported human
hair for women's switches. When
that collapsed and numerous banks
realized they were swindled, the
Musicas, quite numerous brood
by that time, were in flight toward
Honduras.
They never reached there. The
police got them on q ship leaving
New Orleans.
Brought back to New York, Philip
shouldered the blame. The others
were guiltless, he cried. That was
quarter of a century ago and the
charge was grand larceny. Philip
spent a long time in the Tombs.
still sharpening his wits and think
ing of wealth. and in March, 1916,
he received suspended sentence
of one year.
Thereafter he was an "investiga-
tor" and worked as william john
son" for the Attorney General, spy
ing out espionage activities and
draft dodgers.
Dropped Out Of Sight.
He entered the police records in
1920 in connection with celebrated
murder case-the killing of Barnet
Baff, poultry dealer in Washington
Market. When the fuss about that
died down, Philip quietly dropped
out of sight.
But Ferdinand Pecora, now State
Supreme Court justice and In those
early days chief assistant district
attorney of New York County, re-
membered him as a shifty. schem-
ing man.
There was an indictment for
subornation of perjury against him
and what happened to it is still
q mystery since the papers in Gen.
eral Sessions Court are missing
but that didn't concern Philip par
ticularly. The world was his. It was
full of money and people were
credulous. A man with a front
could get anything he wanted If he
tried hard enough.
So he turned up about 1923 in
Mount Vernon, N. Y, as Frank D.
Coster, head of Girard g. Co., man
ufacturers of hair tonics, with a
partner, Philip H. Girard, who
probably never existed. He had to
use alcohol and he had a couple of
minor brushes with the Federal
authorities.
His resources, indicated by the
Mount Vernon Bank records which
show his bank balance was $37, 900 in
1925, were still modest. But the
ambition to become rich burned
more fiercely.
Check nisrrenancieS
Federal agents are still checking
the apparent wide discrepancies be-
tween the comparatively small
amounts of alcohol used in Girard
products and the large Withdrawals
made In the firms account from
Government bonded warehouses.
In any case Musica-turned-C -CoSter
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Musicu
Continued From First Page.)

Haven said George had been mar
rled IL years, but it was only yester-
day that his wife learned he was
one OF the Italian immigrant BROTH
ers who worked a million dollar
bank swindle in connection with
the collapse of the United States
Hair Co., quarter of century ago.
Philip Took the Rap"
That was a job for which Philip,
the brains" of the family, took the
rap" melodramatically proclaiming
the others innocent.
Perhaps even then, he already
had gleam of the brilliant criminal
idea he followed through to its ulti-
mate tragic conclusion-hiding his
Identity under the masquerade of
an American name, two Heidel-
berg University degrees, respectable
American parentage and good
clothes.
Even in that day he had come
far from the cunning of bribing
customs inspectors to mark down
the weight of imported Italian
cheeses for his fathers East Side
business.
His other brothers, Robert and
Arthur who are in Jail here, were
questioned by Assistant United
States Attorney Irving r. Kaufman,
who also questioned Donald McKes-
son Of the. New York Quinine g.
chemical Works, Inc, Brooklyn. Mr..
Mckesson was member of the
original McKesson e. Robbins firm
which sold the assets, except real
estate, to Coster in 1925.
Mr.. McKesson, in a formal state
ment, said he had had no connec-
tion with the company since that
time.
Women in Family Subpoenaed.
Four women members of the
Musica family have been sub
poenaed to appear before the Fed
'eral grand jury Tuesday. They are
Coster-Musica's widow; Miss Marie
Girard (Grace Musical of Westbury,
Long Island, a sister; Mrs. Robert
Guex Louise Musical, wife of the
gardener on the estate of Henry
Morgenthau, jr., Secretary of the
Treasury, at Fishkill, N. Y; another
sister, and Mrs. Marie Girard marie
Musical, mother of Coster-Musica,
of Westbury.
Over the week end, accountants,
experts in law and financial skull
'duggery and the various investiga-
tors in the United States attorney S
Office, the S. E. G. and Attorney
General John j. Bennett, jr's, Office
studied testimony already at hand
and hundreds of records. Mr.. Ben
nett's hearings, adjourned yester-
day afternoon in the middle of the
astonishing developments, will be
resumed Monday.
None of the Coster- -Musica's S
brothers has asked to be permitted
to attend his funeral, which is ex-
pected to be held Monday from his
home in Fairfield.
Underworld connections of the
quiet, respected corporation head
who lived unobtrusively in Fairfield
with 135-foot yacht in Long Island
Sound, were limited when it was dis
closed he started the second up
ward climb of his criminal career
by snatching a small fortune from
the alcohol business in the dry era
Schultz Link Hinted.
1t was indicated his business rela-
tions then and afterward may have
reached into the racketeering en-
plre OF the late Dutch Schultz and
other big shots of those days.
Mr. NOOnap cold Chor rlee p
Evening star., 1938-12-18
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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1938-06-17
Vszenf beg vysokych zdi.

Statni dozorce veznic v In
dianapolis, Ind, doporucuje,
ably stat postavil veznici, ktera
by nemela zadne zdi kolem.
Venice by mela staff ma stat
MIN pozemku a jejf naklad by
cinil So, 900. Kdyz byl do
tazan, jaky ucel sleduje posta-
venim takoveto Venice, odpo-
vedel, re nema strachu, re by
veznove utekli, nebot mini "a
vesti docela jinou taktiku pro
ne. Je zbytecno staveti tyto
zdi, ty jsou praye drazdidlem
VENT, kteTf sc c1tf byti odlou-
cent cd sveta a proto jejich
touha pc svobode je vetsi. Vez
move by NELL byti die jeho pro-
gramu podrizeni zvlastnfmu
prnmyslovemu vycviku a tim
by ztratili chut k dnesnim Ute
kun.