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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-02-23

Miss Irene Olson visited at her
home in Minneapolis over Sunday.
Mrs. Theo. Jensen left yesterday
for Minneapolis, expecting to leave
little later for the west coast.
Sig Killander of Duluth, Boy Scout
Executive, called on Scout officials
in Askov Tuesday as well as at other
points in the county.
Hedge Stottrup from the CCC camp
near Deer River, is visitor at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Frede Stot-
trup, coming here Friday night.
Harry Jensen and family of Den
ham, came Saturday night for visit
over Sunday. Their return was some
what delayed, however, on account
of the snowstorm.
Miss Clara Frahs left Tuesday for
Rochester, N. Y, to resume her en-
ployment after enjoying a visit at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Frahs.
Marvin Jensen returned from Min
neapolis yesterday after spending
three days in the city as guest of
the Minneapolis Star. Marvin was
awarded the trip as premium for
his ability to acquire a certain num-
Der of new subscribers for his paper
route.
The Askov high school basketball
team will stage its last home game
of the season at the D. B. S. hall
tomorrow (Friday) night when they
meet the boys from Bruno. An added
attraction the same evening is a
game between the town teams from
Kerrick and Askov.
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and financial legislation at the
source.
MAYS AND MEANS Demo
w craSs also select the other
committees of the House. most
important Of which is the Rules
Committee, controlling the
House program.
Latest slate for the four
Rules Committee vacancies as
this was written include: Comer
Of Mississippi, Delaney Of New
York, Dempsey Of New Mexico,
and Costello Of California (al-
though Costello. a New Dealer,
is supposed to be declining the
honor.
Careful inner checking on how
this revised Rules Committee
would stano on the question Of
Executive domination indicates:
It would be eight to six against
under the most favorable RooSe-
velt circumstances, ten to four
against under ordinary circum-
stances.
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Srovch Offers Suffrage Plan:
Bill Asks Statehood for D. G..

'diciary Committee, the chairman
of which, Representative Hatton
w. Summers (D0. Of Texas, has
promised early committee action.
RANDOLPH OFFERS PLAN
On the first day of the new Con,
gress, Representative Jennings
Randolph CD, of West Virginia,
slated for the Craftsmanship of
the House District Committee, in
troduced a resolution to give the
District both national and local
suffrage. This measure, also pro-
viding for a Constitutional Amend
ment, would give the District ma
tional representation and "a re-
publican form of government" in
Washington.
The third resolution. introduced
by Representative Mary T. Nor
ton DO. Of New Jersey, chairman
Of the House District Committee
before she took over the leader
ship Of the House Labor Commit
tee, would provide only national
representation.
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By eEvie' Robert

Frank Hogan. brilliant lawyer and toastmaster
of the dinner. Those responding were:
Jim Farley, Corden Hull, Justices Reed and
Roberts, and Senator Ashurst, chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. Each in his way fairly
went to town" on the honor guest in his own
peculiar manner; serious, but with enough fun
thrown in to give it zest
Gene Tunney There
ENRIENDS were there from far and wide. Par
ticularly Of interest to me was my old friend
Gene Tunney former heavyweight champion
who's great friend and golfing companion of
Homer Cummings from his home state. Connecti
cut, where he's taking more than passing inter
est in politics.
Besides the unusual number of prominent
lawyers present, there wa a great group of the
cream" Of the newspaper world, columnists, etc.
OF course, all Of the highups of the Department
Of Justice were there in full force, from Frank
Murphy, the new A. c., and Bob Jackson the
Solicitor General land perennial candidate), ,
right on down to scores Of the young secretaries
who fairly love their former chief, as do we all.
1T WAS funny as could be to look through the
crowd and spot the big legal lights who
ministration, and this department in particular,
for the last year or two. can still hear some of
their criticisms ringing in my ears, so it was to
laugh to see them so "charmingly" mingling in
the crowd, hoping they'd be seen and considered
lone of the family for what might occur in the
future.
Now General you may have chance for more
golf and real rest, because it's been long time
since you unpacked your bags, all ready to go to
the Philippines and, zeal soldier stepped into
the breach as Attorney General. In leaving, we
wish you the greatest happiness and all the
prosperity you want-but just please stay around
where we can see you and Cecilia often.
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Venezuelan Orchids
Almost Priceless

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 G.N.SO.
orchids Of rare and almost price
less species from Venezuela are
to be displayed in that republics
pavilion at the New York World
Fair 1899. The entire display is to
be changed every three days, fresh
orchids being flown from Vene-
zuela to the fair.
quested Hopkins to bring to the
committee a detailed record Of
WPA employment since its incep-
ton.
johnson announced he will
question Hopkins first regarding
WPA political activity in Penn
sylvania. Kentucky and Tennes-
see, during the recent campaigns.
The campaign expenditures in
vestigating committee. headed by
Senator Sheppard CD of Texas,
devoted special sections of its re-
port to the three States where
election contests were bitter.
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Three measures to give the Dis
trict some measure of autonomy
In the management Of its own
affairs awaited House action to-
day pending organization of the
House and its committees.
The latest resolution, intro.
duced late yesterday by Represent
ative William I. Sirovich CD0, Of
New York, would make the District
the forty-ninth State and would
confer on its residents the status
Of citizens Of a State"
TO BE CALLED COLUMBIA"
Asking for constitutional
amendment. the Sirovich resolu-
ton would create a State here to
be named Columbia" and would
give the citizens the same rights
and privileges as citizens Of other
States.
The resolution would reserve
for Congress, however, its legisla-
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NeU WhipS
Named bu
BOlQnd

The Democratic whip of the
House, Representative BOIand
of Pennsylvania, today named
Representative Ford (D.) Cal
ifOrnia, as his chief assistant
and appointed the following
assistant whips:
Representatives Stanley,
Connecticut; Gavagan, New
York; Sutphin, New Jersey;
Cooley, North Carolina;
Green, Florida; Derouen, Lou
isiana; Terry, Arkansas; Ran
dOlph, West Virginia; Schultz,
md lana; Kelly, Illinois;
Jacobsen, Iowa; Houston,
Kansas; ThOmasOn, Texas;
Lewis, Colorado, and Wall
gren, Washington.
Ford, Stanley, Gavagan,
Kelly and Jacobsen are new
appOinteeS, the others having
served in the same capacity
in the last Congress.
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Nine-DGy Secret

A BATTLING appointment was
"A that Of Clyde Williams, a
Roosevelt on most everything
man, to the Antt-Monopoly In
vestigating Committee in place
OF the purged purger, Represen-
tative Eicher of lows.
Choice was made by Speaker
Bankhead, who slipped his an
nouncement into such an OBJ
Scure crevice of the Congress
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Ban Lynching '---First Lady

which we should all be
against"
At the same time Mrs.
Roosevelt stressed the fact
that she was speaking as an
individual and not as a rep
reSentative of the Admins
tratiOn.
Addressing close to 1000
cOlOred youths attending the
conference, Mrs. Roosevelt
said she believed in equal Op-
pOrtunity and equal treat
ment for cOlOred youths at
the military and naval acad-
emieS and in the civil service.
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Independents Preferred

THE three other candidates
L for the three other vacan-
cies on this committee which
originates tax, tariff and other
financial legislation finished in
the following order:
2. Maloney Of New Orleans,
another independent thinker.
3. Pat Boland, of Scranton,
Pa, House Whip, a Roosevelt-on-
practically-everything man.
4. McKeough Of Chicago, a
Roosevelt-on-everything- hecould
possibly.think- -of-man.
It means the two top favorites
with the House Democrats were
not Roosevelt choices. It also
means that any time three Dem
ocrats think the Administration
is wrong on any issue, and join
with the Republicans, Roosevelt
will lose control Of tax. tariff
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Mob violence must be out

Mob violence must be out
Iawed.
Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt
declared that yesterday, in
addressing the National Con-
ference on Negro Youth.
In response to a question
from the floor as to her views
on the subject, Mrs. ROOse-
welt replied.
81 doubt very much if a
law will actually stop lynch
ing, but / would like to see it
passed because 1t puts us, as
q whole, against something
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Cworld Copyright. 1899, by King
Features syndicate, Inc. All rights
reserved. Reproduction in full or in
part strictly prohibited.)
TNHE independent thinkers and
the Garner boys are being
boosted quietly but surely into
the stirrups in Congress.
This Is saddling time. House
committee vacancies are being
filled. Leaders treat the matter
as dull routine. The public
pays no attention. Yet insiders
know the big issues of the COM
ing two years are really being
decided now by the selection Of
the men to the committees
which control legislation in the
lower house.
It is, therefore, a matter Of
some significance that the
Democratic caucus gave the
highest number Of votes for a
vacancy on the all-important
House Ways and Means Com
mittee to:
Milton West, q Texan. a
Garner man, one whom Mr..
Roosevelt possibly would call a
yes-but-er, who certainly will
want to be sure how anything
is going to work out before he
votes for it.
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S3,OOO,OOO INVOLVED
French Teachers
Will Fete Envoy

Count Saint Quentin, the French
ambassador, will be guest of
honor at a dinner Of the Wash.
ington Chapter Of the American
Association of Teachers of French
at the Sulgrave Club Wednesday.
Miss ELIZABETH Reynolds, presi-
dent Of the local chapter, is ar
ranging the program.
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usual number Of high Govern
ment officials retiring, either
in order or disorder, as the
case might be. AS a general
rule, these dinners comprise
hundreds who are wishing the
official God-speed back home
or giving him a polite kick
out of town.
But Wednesday night was
one of the big exceptions,
when one Of the greatest testi.
monial dinners ever accorded
to q private citizen was given
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$4,000 Sought
For IVA Inquiry

Senator Vic Donahey CD, Of
Ohio. chairman of the joint con-
gressional committee investigating
the iva, yesterday introduced a
resolution requesting an additional
$25 900 to finish the inquiry. The
report will be ready by April l,
the resolution said. Representa-
tive r. Ewing Thompson CD. Of
Texas, offered a companion meas
Ire in the House.
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Finds Bonneville
Power Inadequate

Congress yesterday heard the
prediction that by the time the
Bonneville power plant, in Wash
ington State, is completed, the
Pacific Northwest will need twice
the electric power this project will
produce. It came from Admins.
traitor j. D. Ross, of the power
project. in his annual report to
Congress.
The Washington times., 1939-01-13
M'GEHEE FIGHTS
EXEMPTION IN
D. C. SALES TAX

A movement to exclude all
exemptions-to tax everything,
down to a five-cent piece of
candy-from the proposed two
per cent sales tax for the District,
appeared likely as congressional
tax experts neared completion of
their survey of the local tax
structure today.
Representative Dan r. NC
Gehee CD of Mississippi, a mem
ber of the House District Com
mittee, announced he would fight
the proposed 25-cent exemption
from the tax, and also exemptions
on food and medicine.
REASON FOR EXEMPTION
Nobody likes to pay taxes"
he said, but if we're going to
levy a tax, let's go the whole
way
The exclusion of purchases
u1lQeF 20 Genus ana OF 1000 ana
medicine was agreed upon by the
tax experts to spare low-income
persons from carrying too heavy
Ia burden.
But McGehee believes, on the
basis, he says, of experience in his
home State Of Mississippi, that
the purchases of smaller items
and Of food and medicine consti-
tute the largest field for revenue.
Put a tax right down to
nickel purchases" he said, then
we'll catch everybody"
$S,OOO,OOO INVOLVED
The sales tax feature of the
proposed tax program, with the
exemptions, is expected to yield
$5,500,000. Elimination of all ex-
emptions, it is estimated, would
yield an additional $3,00O,OOO.
The proposed program, which is
to be submitted to the Joint Con-
gressional Committee on Internal
Revenue Legislation Monday for
final approval, also includes a tax
on incomes in excess of $4,000.
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tive Jurisdiction over all Govern
ment departments and Federal
property in Washington.
This resolution, as well as two
others introduced earlier in the
session, was sent to the House Ju.
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HaUe Effect of LaGO

80 wv S@SS 900 ~
COME uneasiness is noticeable
~ in Congress about Thurman
Arnold's budget plan to double
his antitrust enforcement force.
The Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral wanted million dollars
more for his bureau next year
The PRESIDENT granted him an in
crease of $750, 900 in the budget.
Arnold has informed the
House Appropriations subcom-
mittee this boost will permit
him to hire 127 more attorneys
in the field Che will open branch
offices in most cities) and IA
more in his Washington head
quarters. He now has 104 law
yers and economists, so the in
crease means more than dou-
bling his force, his investiga-
tions and his prosecutions.
It means Mr.. Arnold can
work his consent-decree method
of forcing alterations in busi-
ness practices far more force
fully and effectively than he has
yet tried in his cases against the
movie people, oil. motors, fl
nance, the doctors, etc.
It means the New Deal will
not need any more legislation to
change business practices OF
which it complains. With 141
more lawyers, Mr.. Arnold can
do practically everything F. D.
R. has mentioned and lot he
hasn't. Arnold can wiring out
voluntary concessions by threat
of prosecution from whatever
business he chooses to attack,
and these concessions will have
the effect of law when they are
filed, as required, in the Federal
courts. He has already made
the antimonopoly investigation
obsolete, or soon will if Congress
will let him have the money.
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Ewes Rib

WASHINGTON is q natural" as a place for
w testimonial dinners (no other city has more
"meat" to work on than here) because of the I'M
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to our beloved friend, Homer S. Cummings who,
unnecessary to relate, has just retired as Attor-
ney General after having served the longest term
In that office with one exception, in the history
Of the Government.
The, crowd and the details Of the dinner were
wonderful to look upon, and 1t proved to be one
Of the gayest occasions Of the season for the
simple reason that real, true friendship was ram
pant in every direction.
Mrs. Cummings SpdrkLed
TNHE whole party was dignified, without TOO
= much dignity, and extremely enjoyable, with
out TOO much gayety. The former A. G. was
his true great self and made "the speech Of the
evening"" and his wife, Cecilia, was charming
and sparkling as ever, maybe little more than
usual. She enjoyed to the utmost the honors
being poured upon the head Of her ilustrious hus-
band. !, for one. would have loved to hear HER
make speech, because she can "sure do it,!
The hit Of the evening from the artists stand
point was George o'Connor, singing his master
piece, Saloon"
You can imagine the wonderful things that
were said when you consider those called on by
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Behind the News By Paul DlalZon

sional Record on the opening
day that not a single newspaper
man knew the appointment had
been made Until nine days later.
Williams friends expect him
to join the downtown New Deal
economists, thus preservin g
their one-vote majority in the
committee. But they are not
sure because he has manifested
some stubborn and independent
tendencies. Standing of the
committee, therefore, remains
in doubt.
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WAGNER SEEKS
DOUBLED FUND
FOR SLUM WAR
$4,OOO,OOO Benefit Is
Seen in Plan

Congressional leaders today
were studying a proposal by Sen
ator Wagner (Dem) of New York
to double Federal loans and sub
sides in the field of low-rental
housing.
His latest bill, adding $780,,
900, 900 to the amount which may
be loaned by the United States
Housing Authority and $45 ,000, 900
to the volume of annual grants
for this purpose, seemed likely to
encounter rough going, owing to
the determination of budget-bal-
ancers to pare all appropriations
asked from now on.
PROGRAM POPULAR
Even so, soundings show sub
stantial sentiment in Congress
for continuing this particular
program.
In local application, the District
of Columbia and numerous cities
which have taken advantage OF
the subsidy under the terms of the
original authorization would have
chance to double their low
rental public housing programs, II
the new bill were to become a law.
The Alley Dwelling Authority In
Washington, as the agency deslg-
mated to carry on the public hous-
ing program here, would share in
the new distribution of funds.
Senator Wagner based his move
to double the program on the
need for Federal aid IN slum clear
ance.
FHA INCREASE CITED
He supported it with a reminder
that the Federal Housing Author
ity recently was authorized to in
crease it's mortgage insurance
liability by billion dollars. The
two programs, as the New York
Senator sees it, SHOULD go hand
in hand.
Assuming that all loans would
be repaid, the additional 800 mil
lions for which the bill provides
would eventually come back to the
Federal Government. It would,
however, lose the interest on the
money, since the subsidy program
provided for in the original act in
effect permits the USHA to ap-
prove grants to local housing au-
thorities which equal or exceed
the amount of interest paid on
the loans.
REPAID BY RENTALS
AS the program works out the
national Government puts up the
money to build slum-clearance
housing projects, the local hous-
ing authority leases them to low
income families at rents they can
afford to pay, and the principal of
the loan ultimately is repaid from
the rental income.
In Washington the Alley Dwell
ing Authority has found it can.
not build the kind Of houses it
wants to, with modern sanitation,
cross ventilation and of substan-
tial construction, for less than a.
figure which would call for a
monthly rental of approximately
$40 a room. The Federal subsidy
makes it possible to rent them
for IS or Sc room, at the maxi
mum.
POINTS OUT BENEFITS
Senator Wagner estimated, in
introducing his bill, that the en-
larged program would provide "de-
cent American homes" for about
150, 900 additional families, or
more than half a million persons
now living in slLms or sub-stand-
ard dwellings, and at the same
time give employment to 100000
men for a year.
On a pro rata population basis,
the District would get some
$4,000, 900 of the new fund, and
from it be able to rehouse some
750 additional families now living
in alleys or ramShackle dwellings
on back streets.
u n
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is wearing a large sobrero like gen.
uine gaucho of the pampas. Last
Tuesday, Mariana and Margot de-
cided to go up to New York for din
ner and a little swinging at Ell Mo-
rocco and Stork Club. . Then they
took the train and came back here
the same night. That's Real Cafe
Sessiety!
But even the more conservative
Smart Settlers felt sad Saturday eve
ming as they went to the last of the
"Three Dances" at the Sulgrave Club
To celebrate so great an event,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Parker, the
Philip Coffins, Count and Countess
Roberti, Of the Fascist staff; Mrs.
Kent Legare and Nancy Letter en-
tertained at dinner parties beforehand
:. Meyer Davis was there in person
to conduct the band, and many a
smartie was seen drying the tears
from his eyes for the great sorrow of
having to wait almost year before
going to the next soiree Dancing
Glass. Mr.. and Mrs. James Finan
came from New York for the occa-
sion, and Arthur Krock, the N. Y.
Times Columnist, put them up for the
night.
As coming parties, Mrs, William ].
Donovan is furnishing cocktails for
Patricia Donovan on Thursday, Jan
uary 26. Miss Elizabeth Howry is
giving a buffet supper for Peggy
Townsend, January 20. and Mrs.
Arthur Vandenberg will entertain at
cocktails and all on February 6.
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By Igor CaSSln1

turned out to go to the Cafe Caprice
or to Raleigh Hotels Pail Mall Room.
A great romance and savage fight
took place at these two night rendez-
vous The fight took place outside
the Roger Smith Hotel when a colos-
sal Georgetown University lad made
some detrimental remarks about a
young lady and was knocked down
with incredible speed by a much
smaller, but much speedier, Latin. =.
The blossoming romance, which went
on at the Pail Mall Room, as it goes
on every day of our calendar, is that
between Emily French Meyers, the
sophisticated and prettee debbie, and
Rufus Johnston, the well-attired and
dashing local Socialit -. It's
LOVE in B-L-O-O-M!!! But
there also was that steady couple
formed by this inseparable twosome
of Tommy Adams and Caroline Cecil
-. Bill Russell, instead, kept his GUS
tom of having a new date every
night. Dorothy Nicholson, the ap-
pealing damsel, appeared in a pale
green frock and whirled around with
energy. . Roberto Medina, the eye
glassed South American, was there
with his blond looove Betty Beale,
the scribe, waltzed with agility.
Talking of Cafe-Society and of its
members, here is one about Mariana
Zuberbuhler, the little Secretary of
the Argentine Embassy, and his very
smart wife, Margot formerly Gar
rett), who Ito enter completely in
the South American atmospheric now
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VIM. Chapin Huntington, Mrs.
R. H. A. Carter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Beach, Mrs. Ridley Nc
Lean, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Hechinger, Mr.. and Mrs. Chaun-
cey G. Parker, jr., Mrs. John
Henry Dwight, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gale Mclean, Mr.. w. L. Sperry,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Baird, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. w. Mackall, jr.,
DR.. and Mrs. Montgomery Blair,
jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Robert G. Will
son, Mr.. and Mrs. r. Smith, Mr..
L. Corrin Strong, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. Bond, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmore Cropley, Mrs. VIM. F..
Sewers, Miss Anita PhippS,
David S. Rumbough, Count l..
Fumasoni-Bionde, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Knowles, Mr.. Walter
Dubois Brookings, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rixey Smith, Mrs. E. r.
Finkenstaedt, Mrs. Henry A.
willard, Mrs. Richard w. Boil
ling, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry r.
Fowler, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
N. Marsh and Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam B. willard.
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uooF VI Tie CIuD 900, all OF the
furniture was taken out of the
swanky Club Saturday afternoon. E. .
Nobody could get hold of Pete Ma
cias, the rotund and popular owner,
nor of Leo Foss, the courteous Mas
ter of Ceremonies, as they had dis
appeared without leaving trace of
themselves. OF course, there was
great sadness among the Cabaret
Smarties, but they couldn't blame
anybody else except themselves
cause Heigh-Ho wouldn't have gone
on the rocks if it had been more
valiantly supported by them all . 1t
really was pitiful to 90 there on week
days and see two or three sad cats
trying to be gay and experimenting
with some tricky and fancy routines.
500, there was great indecision of
where to go, bat finally they mostly