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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
PLANNING BOARD
MOVES TO ASSURE
RECREATION WORK
CLARK SPONAUGLE Is
RECOMMENDED FOR
COMMUNITY LEADER

First step in assuring Redwood
Falls designation as a major re-
creation center with a communi-
ty leader and five assistants was
taken by the city recreation plan
ming board at a meeting in the
city hall Thursday night.
E. o. Charlebois, elected presi-
dent of the planning group, APP
pointed Reede Gray, Mrs. C. A.
Lauterbach and Arthur Seifert
as committee to present the city
council with a plan for financing
the community leaders salary.
Mr.. Gray was named board secre-
tary.
The leader and his assistants
could handle swimming and
Memorial Field play as well as
conduct a widely varied program
of leisure-time activities for all
age groups, it was pointed out.
WPA will furnish approximately
$3.50 a month, total salaries of
the assistants. The city is asked
only to guarantee a part of the
leaders pay.
Clark Sponaugle, present area
WPA supervisor, was recon-
mended by the committee for the
position of community leader, the
final appointment to be made by
the council.
A material expansion of Red
wood Falls leisure-time program,
to include handicraft, music and
dramatics as well as athletics was
discussed by the board.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
GREAT UNCLE POORLY
REWARDED FOR NEW
RUBBER PROCESS

Alan Goodyear, %, of Paxton
township is the last male rela-
tive Of Charles Goodyear to bear
the famed inventors name.
At least, so far as Alan and his
father Carroll E. Goodyear can
ascertain, he's the last and Alan
naturally has made some study
CT the family line through cor
respondence, books and magazine
articles.
There's no Goodyear in the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber COM
pany and none connected with the
manufacture of Goodyear welt
shoes, so the Paxton Goodyears
are making their living at farm
ing, although their great-uncle
turned up one of the most import
ant industrial discoveries in
American history.
Their choice of occupation,
however. is in accord with Good
year history. Charles father,
Amasa Goodyear, was an invent
or of farming implements as well
as one of the pioneer rnanufact-
urers of hardware in this coun-
try.
His son, born in New Haven,
Connecticut in 1900 was in part
nership with him for time. It
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
CANDLES PLAN
2 DAY COOKING
DEMONSTRATION

Mrs. Eleanor Schneider, well
known home economist and DEM
cnstrator, will be in charge of the
free cooking school to be held at
the Gamble Store Monday and
Tuesday afternoons. Mrs. Schneid-
er has had years of experience in
her field, having been home econ
omics director of one of the larg-
est bakeries in Minneapolis, MAX
ing cooking broadcasts over radio
station WCCO. For ten years she
was a manufacturers representa-
tive in Minneapolis and for some
time was in charge of cooking
schools and sandwich demonstra-
tons throughout Illinois.
She will demonstrate recipes for
attractive ard economical dishes
and provide instructive entertain
ment.
During the demonstration free
refreshments will be served.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Redwood Goodyears Among
Descendants of Inventor

was in 1889 that Charles accid-
entally dropped a mixture Of
rubber and sulphur on a hot
stove while trying to find meth
cd of making articles of India
rubber practical through immun-
izing the material to heat and
cold.
He called his indispensable pro-
duct, "gum elastic"
The millions of dollars which
his invention has profited others
through the century, are an ironic
result of his work. For in 1885,
just, five years before his death,
he was arrested and imprisoned
in Paris for debt.
He was an uncle of c. E. Good
years grandfather, who was also
born in the cast-in Massacllu-
sets.
Mr.. Goodyear's father, Adel-
bert Goodyear migrated to Iowa
from New York state and it was
from Iowa that Mr.. Goodyear
came to the Redwood Falls COM
munity 81 years ago.
The Goodyear travels in this
country began with the landing
of the Mayf1ower after its second
voyage. 1t brought Stephen Good
year and the name.
The occurrence of A and c from
generation to generation in Good
year first Eames is interesting
Amasa and Charles, Adelbert,
Carroll and Alan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
COMPANY TO DRILL
TWICE EACH WEEK
CHANGE TO INCREASE
PAYROLL; MEMBERS
WILL BE ADDED

A further step in the govern
ment's preparedness program,
drill sessions of Company L will
be held twice each week until
January 1, starting at once.
At a meeting of officers of the
1O5th infantry in Mankato Tues
day night, called by Colonel Ivan
Bowen, training schedules were
re-arranged in accordance with
the change. Training sessions
will now be held here Tuesday
evenings as well as Monday eve
nings.
Captain w. H. Lamberton and
Lieutenantsy E.. H. Bollum and E.
H. Johnson from the local COM
pany and Captain Richard Cook,
regimental supply officer, attend
ed the meeting.
Since the men are paid for drill
sessions, the extra drill will swell
the company payroll materially.
1t is probable that the sessions
will continue beyond January 1.
Company L recently received
orders to increase the number of
enlisted men from Sc to 83. En-
rollment of the additional men is
not yet complete.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
529 MoreAAA
Checks Arrive
REDUCTION IN RATE
ON CORN LOANS is
EFFECTIVE SOON

Thousands of dollars continued
to pour into Redwood county this
week as checks representing the
first corn parity payment for 1889
came in patches.
Totaling $34,917.17, a bunch OF
500 checks arrived at the county
soil conservation office Tuesday
morning, according to Fay Starr,
AAA. committee chairman. Added
to the sum of 801 checks received
last week, they amounted to $780,
33O.38. More are expected before
the first payment is completed.
Word has been received from
Washington, D. c., that the inter
est rate to farmers on all Com
modify Credit corporation loans
including corn and wheat loans in
Redwood county will be reduced
from four per cert to three per
cent per annum, effective Novem-
Der /, 1899. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wallace explained
the reduced interest rate is based
on an understanding that grew
out of a conference of represent
atives of the American Bankers
association and Commodity Credit
Corporation officials, Mr.. Starr
said.
Banks and lending agencies now
making Commodity Credit corpor-
alton loans have previously been
guaranteed 21a per cert interest
per year and Commodity Credit
corporation has received ~ per
cent of the four per cent charged
producers. Lending agencies max
ing loans after October 81 will be
guaranteed two per cent and the
Commodity Credit corporation
will receive one per cent.
The reduction will result in
savings to farmers of approXim-
ately $4,500.000 annually on loans
now outstanding.
Marian Hegdal who worked in
the corn-loan department of the
county office, has resigned and
James Reed, recently employed
by the Forster Furniture company
in ST. James, replaces her. Mr..
Reed worked in the soil conser-
walton office here previously.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
CALL FIRST GRAND
JURY in 7 YEARS
WILL APPEAR MONDAY;
PETIT JURORS TO
APPEAR WEDNESDAY

Redwood county's first grand
jury in more than seven years
was drawn Saturday by Frank
Baldwin, clerk of court and or
dered to appear at 10 a. m. Mon
day, October %.
Their investigation should bc
completed by Wednesday morning
when the petit jury will appear
for the regular term of court.
Forty-four civil cases and four
criminal hearings are scheduled
for the October session.
Grand jurors are H. M. Hoff-
man, Mrs. Fred Holznagel, J. j.
Jeppesen, Fred Murset, Mrs.
George Patton, Bert Virgins and
o. C. Randgaard of Redwood
Falls; Herbert Belshaw Of Under
wood township, Fred Brake of
Westline; o. w. HER of Morgan
village; B. j. Kerkhoff and N. P.
Nelson of Morgan township;
Mrs. Ed Kohls of Belview; Mrs.
A. Leonard of Delhi; H. j. Ode
gard CT Vesta; G.. w. Peterson
OIL BrOOKVllle, MIS- Auton FTO-
kosch of Three Lakes; Mrs. E. w.
Ramey and Frank Uhlenkamp Of
Paxton; Will Schnormeier OF
Gales; William Werner of New
Avon; Mrs. Frank Woelfel Of
Sheridan and Carl Wog of Lam
berton township. @
Their summons recalls the last
grand jury probe in the county
in May 1882 when Freddie and
Marshall Groves of South Dakota
were indicted for the armed ROB-
berry of the Redwood Falls Gam
BILE store. The two youths were
captured in hard-to-hand, combat
with Sheriff L. j. KiSe after hold
ing up Gilbert Johnson, store
clerk, at the point of a revolver
and stealing nearly $50.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Pheasant Hunting
Breaks No Record
SPORTSMEN OBJECT TO
LONG SEASON; GAME
HARD TO LOCATE

Although heralded as "the best
hunting in 10 years" by the state
department of conservation, phea-
SAINT shooting here the opening
weekend was only somewhat bet
ter than last year.
But not a single hunting acci-
dent married the weekend's sport,
doctors said.
The usual wide range in luck
and variety of theories as to the
number, smartness and location
of birds was reported after the
first big drive against the fowls.
One typical experience was that
of a state official whose party
hunted hard all morning Satur-
day, failed to get a single pleas
ant. After lunch the group got
their limit within half-hour
near the Redwood Falls city linn
its.
Ben E. Lee, Chisholm game
warden working with a "fying
squadron" of wardens through
out the territory since September
IL, says ne saw jaDOdt zOV pneaS-'
ants at Daub's lake near Wabasso
before the season opened. Open
ing weekend, only five or six
flushed in the same territory. Lee
says they're there, but they're
wise.
Sentiment among sportsmen
here is overwhelmingly against
the 16 day season now in effect.
Running through October 80, it
gives three weekends for the
slaughter. Several letters asking
that the shooting term be short
aned have gone to the game and
fish department from Redwood
county.
Two laws were stressed BY
wardens bringing violators into
court here Monday night. One is
Continued on page six)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
SERVICE: FIRE
BROUGHT TO FIRE
HALL TODAY

Wayne Braker drove a fire
right up to the fire hall this morn
ing. -,
1t was extinguished by the time
he got there, but he had Chief j.
M. Corbett check the ashes.
The Redwood Falls High school
industrial arts instructor had his
car filled with fuel last night in
preparation for a trip to the MEA
meeting at Mankato this morn
ing. When he started to enter
the closed machine at a. IN. the
back seat, probably smouldering
all night, burts into flames.
Braker put out the fire himself,
then drove the car to the fire hall.
Only the springs and frame of
the rear seat remain and other
parts of the interior are badly
damaged by smoke.
Mr.. Braker caught a ride to
Mankato with c. o. Halvorson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19

perfect ventilation, a sink, work
tables and wood boxes.
The concession stand, located at
one end will have back-bar for
display of merchandise, a stove
and sink. Adequate service open
ingS are provided.
Convenience Of the building to
picnickers is assured by its Local
ton, only 81 feet from the edge
of the parking area now under
construction.
Footings for the building will
be poured bsfore cold weather
sets in. Then the crew will pour
footings for the latrine building,
another stone structure, to be put
up near the present tennis courts.
Although plans have not yet ar
rived here it is probable that they
will include specifications for
tourist showers. Modern plumb
ing will be installed.
Since the completion of Mem
orial Field stadium last week.. r.
F. Byram's WPA crew of IA has
been working in the park.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Lars GrOng Takes
Office AS County
Legion Commander

Installation of the new county
commander, Lars Grong of Sea-
forth took place at meeting of
the county council of the Ameri-
can Legion at Walnut Grove
Tuesday evening. Other county
leaders were indicted into office
as well as new officials of the
Walnut Grove post.
Present were district command
err Sam McNall of Sleepy Eye and
former commander Ernie Samuel
son of Slayton. Attending from
Redwood Falls were Tom Reed,
Frank Baldwin. William Johns,
DIR. c. L. Tompkins and L. P.
Winter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
EARTH TREMORS
FELT IN EAST

Boston up Earth tremorS
described by a Harvard scientist
as a major earthquake" were
felt in New England, New York
state, as far west as Ohio and in
eastern Canada today. Dishes
were ratified and pictures set
awry but no serious damage was
done. In New York the Fordham
university earthquake instrument
showed the shocks originated 150
miles north of New York City
The first was felt at Gas a. m
eastern standard time. The sec
tons affected included Albany
Montreal, Toronto and numer-
Gus towns in New England.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
MRS. BROWN HEADS
DEDICATION GROUP
PRESIDENTS OF OTHER
CLUBS. WILL SERVE
ON COMMITTEE

Mrs. Leon H. Brown, president
of the Woman's club, has been
selected chairman of a committee
of Redwood Falls women's club
heads to arrange dedication OBJ
servances for the c. D., Gilfillan
Memorial building, probably late
next month.
After meeting with Mayor J..
G. Budik and L. R. Ewart Tues
day, Mrs. Brown said she would
call presidents of the four other
city federated clubs together the
first of next week to lay prelim-
mary plans for the ceremonies.
Mrs. Browns selection as chair
man is particularly appropriate,
since Mrs. G. 0. Gilfllan, wife of
the donor of the women's rest
room and council building to the
city, is member of her club.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
ERECTION TO START
BEFORE WINTER
BY WPA CREW

A low rustic structure fitting
perfectly in its woodland setting
is pictured on blue-prints by
which Chris Delaney, Ramsey
park development superintend-
ent, will direct a crew of nearly
60 WPA workers in construction
activities, to begin this weekend
or the first of next week.
A combination shelter, kitchen
ard concession stand, the build
ing will be located north of the
children's swings, between them
and the bandstand.
A tentative grant of approxi-
mately $4,000 from the state, TO
be more than matched by federal
funds, will be used for the shelf
sr building, completion of the
parking area north of the zoo and
construction of a modern latrine.
Random asher" - squarecut
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Stockholders
OF Fair Will
Meet Monday
RAMS, SHANK, CROKER
TERMS AS SOCIETY
DIRECTORS EXPIRE

Stockholders of the Redwood
County Agricultural society,
sponsors of the Redwood county
fair, will hold their annual meet
ing at the courthouse Monday 1t
g p. m.
Three directors will be elected
for three years each, the terms of
"A. p. Rams, Joseph Shank and F.
E. Croker expiring.
w. A. Hauck, agricultural So
sciety secretary and Ed Hender-
son, member of the fair board,
accompanied by c. c. Little, at
tended meeting of the Clover
Belt association in Window Mon
day. Representative of fairs at
st. James, Fairmont, Jackson,
Worthington, Hutchinson and
Blue Earth as well as Redwood
Falls and Window discussed dates
of next years fairs, attractions
and fair problems.
The Clover belt group meets at
Blue Earth next year and comes
to Redwood Falls in 1941.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Bandits Enjoy
Brief Career:
Face Sentence
SHERIFF KISE TIP ON
IDENTITY OF BOYS
AIDS IN CAPTURE

Days before the two young gun
men who slugged Howard r.
Amsden of Sanborn in a highway
car theft and stole Charles Ma
cheeks car at Morton, were APP
pretended near Owatonna Sat-
urday, Sheriff L. j. Kise of Red
wood county knew their identity
and helped set machinery in mo-
. ton to effect their capture.
1t was not exactly the Redwood
sheriff'S case. The Cottonwood
county sheriff was investigating
the Amsden attack and Renville
county authorities had jurisdic-
ton over the Machecek car theft
but tips enabled KiSe to connect
the youths with a 15-year-old girl
held at the Montevideo Jail on a
( delinquency charge, to learn
their names and to pass the in
formation on to other authorities
throughout southern Minnesota
where the bandits made crime
history for a few weeks.
Captured on a farm three and
one-half miles south of Clare
mont where they had taken re-
fuge 36 hours after they escaped
a police barrage at Mankato, the
youths gave their names as r.
win Anderson, "a of Granite Falls
and Francis Shore, 20, of Mime
apolis. Shore, however, has lived
at Montevideo and Anderson who
served time in st. Cloud was
committed from Montevideo,
Sheriff Kise said.
Signs Confession
lone Shore, 15-year-old sister
of Francis, was the girl with An
derson when they threatened to
kill Amsden on highway II near
Sanborn October 4, knocking him
unconscious with the butt of a
revolver ard taking his car
But she was in Jail at Monte
video on the delinquency count
when Shore and Anderson stole
Machecek's car last Wednesday
morning.
A signed confession in which
the badits recount long series of
crimes extending from Water
town, South Dakota to Louisville,
Kentucky, is in the hands of
Sheriff w. A. Matthies of Blue
Earth where they will be pro-
secuted. .-.4. ........,,,.---
The men were caught by Sheriff
E. T. Helgeson of Steele county
and his deputy as the result of a
casual remark dropped at a card
table at the farm. A listener be-
came suspicious and reported to
Helgeson.
, Authorities went to the farm
and seized one of the young men
on the porch. They found the
other sleeping in second story
bedroom.
The young men appeared at
the farm Friday afternoon and
were received as visitors by the
housekeeper who did not suspect
they were sought by police. They
told her their car was wrecked
and explained cuts on the hand
of one of the youths as resulting
from the accident 1t was cut in
breaking the display glass at the
Renner store at Winnebago.
Blood was seen on the sidewalk
Continued on page six)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Deny McClain
Another Trial
emerson REFUSES TO
SET ASIDE VERDICT
OF DISTRICT JURY

A motion by counsel for Oliver
McClain to set aside the verdict
of a district court jury which con-
victed him of carnal knowledge
nearly a year ago and dismiss the
action against him or to grant him
new trial, was denied this week
by Judge Albert H. Emerson.
The Granite Rock man, % years
cid at the time of his trial here in
October 1888, is serving a seven to
80 year indeterminate sentence In
the st. Cloud reformatory.
In denying the appeal by Nc
Claims attorneys, Leon H. Brown
of Redwood Falls and z. L. Begin
of Marshall, Judge Emerson said,
ST feel that the defendant had a
fair trial and that the verdict is
responsive to the evidence"
at is claimed by the defendant
that the county attorney George
A. Barnes) violated the statute
which provides that he may not,
in arguing to the jury, refer to the
fact that the defendant failed to
take the witness stand in his own
DGn6lI anu IL ID SoSSSosSN eiAoo sAAS
court should have admonished the
county attorney about that matter.
I fail to find a violation In that
regard. but. of course, if there had
been something said by the county
attorney regarding that matter,
the court, if it commented upon
the same, would be positively
violating the same statute" Judge
Emerson stated in his memoran-
dunn.
"The county attorney in his ar.
gument to the jury may have been
Somewhat vehement at times, but
arguments by defendants counsel
which followed the county attor-
rey's argument also indicated
considerable interest and eager
ness to properly impress the jury,
all of which comes, under proper
limitations, within the duties OF
counsel
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
DAWN TO DUSK
DRIVE FRIDAY
BY SCOUTERS

A "dawn to dusk" drive will be
made Friday by Redwood Falls
Scouters, charged with raising the
city's share of the Minnesota VAL
ley Area budget of $8.444 for the
years Boy Scout work.
DR.. c. L. Lynn, finance chair
man; F. B. Macs, newly elected
chairman of the Fort Ridgely dis
trict; Percy Nelson, George A
Barnes, w. A. Duea, j. L. Par
sons, E. H. Bollum. D. w. Gold,
Richard Cook, E. L. Gallea and
Reede Gray will solicit funds.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Allies, Turkey
Agree on Pact
PRESSURE OF SOVIET
FAILS TO PREVENT
PACTS COMPLETION

Ankara, Turkey -(P)-Turkey
the power of the eastern Mediter-
ranean, signed a mutual assist
ance pact with Britain and France
here at g.: is p. m. today THE
treaty contains clause permit
ting Turkey to remain neutral
among France, Great Britain and
Soviet Russia. Pressure of So
Wet Russia, believed to have been
brought on Turkey to sever her
relations with the two western
powers, apparently had failed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Cattle Truck,
Car Collide
NEW ULM NIGHT CLUB
PROPRIETOR HAS
NARROW ESCAPE

The left side of his car sheared
off, Jess Becker, AZ, owner of the
Nightingale night club at New
Ulm, escaped unscratched in an
accident a mile east of Franklin
at a. m. Wednesday.
Becker was driving east, return
ing from Lake Lillian when his
machine and cattle truck driven
by Joe Nelson of Redwood Falls,
sideswiped.
The Becker car rolled over sew
eral7 times and landed in the north
ditch. Damage was estimated at
$500.
d The truck was only slightly
damaged and the AZ head of cat
tie remained inside. Nelson, who
lives eight miles southwest of the
city, was unhurt. i4,-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Charter Men Named

w. S. Brammer, A. c. Dolliff
and Julian E. Morten have been
named to the new Redwood Falls
city charter commission, replacing
Mike c. de CRAFT, Theo. Gand-
rud and c.. N. Nelson who re-
signed. Frank Clague who indi-
Gated he might resign shortly af-
ter the commission was appoint
ed, has decided to remain on the
board.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
Milroy Man, Veteran
Husker, Represents
County in District
PARKING SIGNS
ARRIVE TODAY

Signs designating two and four
hour parking areas arrived today
and will be installed on Redwood
Falls streets, starting at once,
Mayor j. C. Budik said this NOR
ming.
The ordinance adopted by the
city council at a recent meeting is
designed to prevent dead park
ing" of cars for half day and long
Ell periods in order that the space
may be available for visitors cars.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
GREW TELLS JAPS

Tokio-(P)-United States Am
bassador Joseph c. Grew, in a
strong and remarkable diplomatic
speech on Japan-United States
relations, told meeting here to-
day that Americans believed that
"the many things injurious 10
the United States which have
been done and are being done by
japanese agencies are wholly
needless" He said Japansese-A Am
erican relations can be improved
only through consideration oil
those facts and steps to alter
them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
DIR. C.. d. KOLSET,
SANBORN, DIES

Funeral services will be held at
the home at 2 p. m. Sunday for
DIR. Carl D. Kolset of Sanborn
who died Wednesday afternoon
after being in poor health for
three years. Burial will be at the
cemetery at Wendell Monday.
Survivors are his wife and
daughter, Ruth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
5 More Join CCC

Five more Redwood county
youths left Monday for CCC
camps, going first to Minneapolis
for physical examinations. Reg
inald Albrecht and Ellsworth
Sandman of Morgan, William
Goodthunder of Morton, William
Stanek of Wanda and Donald
Haywood of Walnut Grove made
up the group.
The contingent of Is which left
last Wednesday was assigned to a
camp at Red Wing, the county
welfare office learned this week.