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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07
Questions Pertaining to
Agriculture Problems

Is it wise to leave the cellophane
wrapping on lampshades to keep
them clean?
No. Removal of cellophane from
the lampshade not only gives a
more pleasing light, but keeps the
shade from warping.-Charlotte
Kirchner, home furnishings special
list.
Do you have any building plans
for corn storage cribs and struct-
ures?
Yes. Our engineering division has
prepared a large number Of detail
ed plans and blueprints for nearly
every type of farm building. 1 am
sending you a list that describes
these. You may send for any one
you wish. The charge is 10 cents
each.-H. B. White, agricultural
engineering division.
Is going barefoot" injurious to
children's feet?
Unless the feet are cut and badly
bruised, this practice seems to be
good development for the arches.
But remember that children's feet
grow rapidly and shoes and stock
ings that were worn in June may
be outgrown by September. Short
shoes are not only uncomfortable
but cause serious injury to the feet.
-(Mrs) Belle o. Fish, family rela-
tionship specialist.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07
Total in inches ..-......-.....-2.9

Total in inches -----..-------2.91
Total rainfall for the month was
POI inches, compared favorably
with other years topping all but
two in the last six, records show.
Only 1885 with $3.50 inches and 1887
with 6.1O inches exceed it. In 1888
August brought only 1.97 inches of
rain to this community.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07
THE WEATHER.

Compiled from the records of
Henry Rydholm, here is a sum-
mary of the months weather act
ivity for this city. High and low
temperatures and distribution of
rainfall are noted.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07
GOOD SCORES MADE
AT TRAP EVENT
Keldahl Top With
Perfect ShOOt-'NOther
Event Next Sunday

Last Sundays trap shoot at the
fair grounds was largely attended
and was successful from every an
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07
Is going barefoot" injurious to
children's feet?

New Zealand has about 80 mil
lion sheep, according tc a recent
estimate.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

scheduled to meet Harvard, Pop de-
cided on q tricky little play he no
ticed years before in an Auburn
Vanderbilt game. The Indians de-
cided to use II on the opening play.
When the kickoff was received the
Indians ran together in a huddle,
and slipped the ball under the front
of Dillon's jersey. Then they scat
tered, running and lodging, each
with one arm folded across his
stomach. Dillon Hoped carelessly
down the middle of the field, cross
ing the goal line with little effort.
II was 1t Carlisle, too, that War
ner crossed up his opposition by
sewing halves Of footballs on the
Jerseys Of his players In one OF
the first real strategems Of the grid
iron.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
One-Two-Three?

c. S. Howard may get ample re-
venge for the loss of two $lOO, 900
prizes when he shoots for racing s
richest prize-the Santa Anita Han.
dicap-with three standout per-
formers.
Seabiscuit will be there, carrying
top weight and a good share of the
public's money in the March event.
And in addition to the Biscuit will
be two stablemates from the Ar
gentine pampas. Kayak II and Sor-
teado.
The three Howard stable entries
have a good chance to make up for
Seabiscuit's heartbreaking defeats
of 1887 and 1898. It is far from inn
possible that they may run one. two
and three this year.
Ralph Neves. Towards jockey,
has made the statement that he
would rather ride Kayak II in the
big race than Seabiscuit. Which is
the pinnacle Of praise, for a jockey
gets 10 per cent of the purse when
he wins stake. His share, If he
had leg up on the winner. would
be $4,000.
Sorteado Is the horse bought for
$40 900 after he made . clean sweep
of South American races. Howard
hadn't planned on entering him in
the handicap. n South American
horses require quite . while to be-
come acclimaetd.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
Speaking of Sports
w arner, Dobie
Resign College
CridirOn Posts
By ROBERT McSHANE

w HEN Glenn Pop" Warner and
w Gil Dobie, two of footballs old
est coaches in point of service, an
nounced their designations almost
simultaneously, they gave football
historians a red letter day.
Only Amos Alonzo Stage, College
Of the Pacific mentor. exceeds Ell
Their Of them in years devoted to
the grid game. Warner has COM
pleted his forty fourth year Of coach
ing, and Dobie his thirty eighth.
Stage has coached for IS seasons.
Both men have had great deal
to do with shaping the trend Of foot
ball. They we're coaching teams
when the flying wedge was the
games best ground-gaining play.
Warner can claim credit for much
Of football as it is played today. He
was among the first to rely on decep-
ton rather than power-in some
cases carrying deception to an ex-
treme. The warner System" Is a
monument to his ingenuity.
Warmers hidden ball trick will al.
ways be a delight to football fans.
who never tire of hearing about it.
Shortly after the turn Of the GEN.
tury. when his Carlisle Indians were
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

weight Champion Henry Armstrong
will fight Bobby Pacho in Havana
on March 4 !. Charles Rickel,
1903 years old, hasn't missed an open
ing baseball game in Cincinnati
for the last half century Base
ball authorities estimate that 90.
600. 900 are playing the game around
the world Bill Stewart. deposed
manager Of the Chicago Blackhawks
hockey team. viii umpire spring
baseball games n The south.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
Pessimist Leader

His coaching career at Temple
wound up with an all-time average
OF .776 as a result of 267 wins, los
defeats and 81 ties during the a.
year stretch at Georgia, Carlisle,
Pittsburgh, Stanford. Temple and a
few other points.
Dobie, though he didn't make as
many technical contributions, left
an equally sharp imprint on the
game. He learned his football un-
der Doc Williams at Minnesota. To
the gloomy dean Of the gridiron the
sport owes many Of its traditions.
Always . pessimist, Dobie gave rise
to the tradition that coaches are
always weeping about their mis-
fortunes.
He is the possessor Of the longest
string Of victories ever achieved by
an American college-the l0-year
stretch at Washington without de-
feat. His team won 81 games and
tied three from 1903 to the middle Of
the 1917 season
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
Naismith Complains
DIR. JAMES NAISMITH, origina

DIR. JAMES NAISMITH, origina-
tor Of basketball, recently told
group Of coaches, officials and
sports writer's what could be done
to make the game better.
at officials and the rules body as
he pointed out that:
1. The rules today consistently
penali1e the offensive team.
3. Many officials are not interpret
ing or enforcing the rules properly.
3. Elimination Of the center jump,
In addition to penalizing the scoring
team, actually slows the game and
eliminates many clever plays which
would add spice. -
It is true that the offensive team
is penalized by loss of the ball every
time it makes basket. But it is
equally true that the defensive team
receives many unjust penalties. For
instance, the dribble primarily was
evolved to enable a cornered player
to break loose. Today it is used as
a weapon with which the offensive
player can crash into a defensive
man. nhowNhS SAos thS iottCI WILL
get the penalty.
His first and second criticism is
practically unanswerable. The fans
seem to be against anything which
would handicap the team with
score in prospect, and few officials
are going to listen to an evening of
booing. So that fault rests in the
public's lap.
Before the center jump was elm
mated the average time required
for an official to get the ball and
toss it up at the center was four or
FIVE seconds. Now a player takes
the ball under the basket, has five
seconds to get it out, and the team
has ten more seconds to advance be-
yond the center of the court.
Coaches in general seem to be
satisfied with the present rules.
Many changes have been suggested,
but the feeling has been that the
game will certainly not be improved
by the hasty adoption of new regu-
lationS,
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
Stratton Comeback

WHEN Monty stratton. White
W Sox pitching ace whose right
leg was amputated in December
following a hunting accident, first
announced that he was going to try
a comeback it was suspected that he
was whistling in the dark.
Now, however, even the most du-
bious are keeping . skeptical eye
on Monty. Experts have already
gone to his Greenville, Texas, home
to consult on the best type Of arti-
fetal leg for the injured young ath-
lete. His convalescence has APP
preached the point where he is
ready to begin his mechanical ex-
pertinent, and he is more optimistic
Of future success than he was last
spring when he pulled an arm mus
Gle.
Stratton Is fortunate in having in
terested experts of the artificial limb
industry in his plight. Some manu-
facturers accept his condition as
challenge to their resourcefulness
While many players grant that he
has an outside chance of pitching
again, they are not OF the opinion
that he will be able to cover ground
with any speed.
1t Ii reported one expert has as
sured Stratton and Sox officials that
Monty will not only be able to pitch.
but that he can run with fair de-
gree Of speed.
Stratton will not make the trip
to the Pasadena training camp. In
stead, he will work out in Texas
until April 10, when he will come to
Chicago. According to present plans
he will be in uniform during the
White Sox-Cubs benefit game for
him in Comiskey park on April II.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

I OUIS SHATTUCK GATES, sill
- ver-gray and semi-corpulent,
heavy-spoken and decisive, is
Bourbon whose Wall Street office
Miners Salute the House of
Topnotcher in Morgan and the
Copper World New York Stock
exchange, and
yet thousands of small mining men
up and down the Rocky mountains
today are sending him congratula-
tons.
The American Institute Of
Mining and Metallurgical Engi-
neers awards him the william
Lawrence Saunders gold medal
for "signal accomplishment in
mining and metallurgical enter.
prises. This honor goes to Mr..
Gates rs . depression-made
leader in the copper industry.
His methods have facilitated
copper recovery from low-grade
ore. However, much Of the
cheering comes from the small
mining men Of the West for his
successful efforts for q four.
cents-a-pound import tax on for
eign copper.
He is a miners miner and no
swivel-chair industrial captain-this
57-year-old president of $3.50, OOO,-
900 corporation. He is M. /. T.,
graduate 1902, native of Boston. His
dossier clicks off sstirnekeonar .,;f%
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

Gen. Alphonse Georges, above, is
expected to succeed to the post Of
chief of the French general staff
when Gen. Marie Gustave Gamelin,
who has passed the legal retirement
age Of IS, retires. Georges has been
second in command to Gamelin.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK

NEW YORK.-At the old beanery
for the hired help in the New
York World building, few years
ago, there was quite a stir. and
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

I OU1S SHATTUCK GATES, sill
- ver-gray and semi-corpulent,
heavy-spoken and decisive, is a
Bourbon whose Wall Street office
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
Sport Shorts

X OBERT GARDNER, rookie
- pitcher for the Washington Sem
ators. is feet inches tall
Though golf is essentially a Scotch
game, the word "caddy" is from
the Chinese language Too hard
tracks. too much speed from start
ing gates, and too many short dis
lance races cause the early break
down of American horses. according
to Herbert Bayard Swope. New
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

VIII
missioner Fred
Swan, who succeed
ed Pop Warner as
head coach at Tenn
pie u n ] v e r s ity.
served as Warmers
assistant for siH
years at that school.
Neil Sanford,
a Nova Scotia hook
ey player, scored 16
goals unassisted in
a recent game
LIGHT and Wo1tor
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17
Tortoise, Hare
Resume Feud

The tortoise and the hare are at
it again! This time "Pinky," the
hare, gets a free ride ON mike"
78-pound turtle which the Illinois
department Of conservation will ex-
hibit at the Chicago National Boat
and Sports show February rs
through March S.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17

Could it be possible this little at
tendant is that sorry for the BRIDE
groom? Regardless Of the cause,
he burst into tears during the re-
cent wedding ceremony Of Miss
Heromoine Llewellyn and the earl
Of Ranfurly at st. Georges in Lon
don. His shy bridesmaid tries con-
soling him, but to no avail.
Glacier County chief., 1939-02-17


y for the hired help in the New
York World building, few years
ago. there was quite stir and
stew of ambi-
Dream Book ton. Swapping
Came Through dreams. one
Az Advertised Maxwell Ander-
son was going to
write play; Louis Weitzenkorn had
the same idea; big, jovial Phil Stong
had written 16 novels, to the quite
considerable Indifference of all pub
fishers, but Mr.. Stong said all this
was just a little practice workout
and he promised to deliver later on.
Swarthy, saturnine James Cain
thought he might have the making
of a book or two in his system, but
said little about it. Young, whippy
Dudley Nichols, a demon reporter.
trained as an engineer, had writ
ing career neatly blue-printed. Paul
Sifton, burned up by social injus-
tice, was going to. write few plays
and tear the lid off things in gem
cral. Ben Burman, whom Phil Stong
could carry around in his pocket,
was going to be a bell-ringing now
elist.
A kindly Destiny presided over
the old beanery. The above play.
wrights, novelists and Holly.
wood big shots probably could
have bought the then sinking
world with their collective re-
sources Of today.
The spot news of this chronicle Is
with the Southern Authors award for
his recently published novel, "Blow
for a Landing" This is the highest
literary award in the gift of the
South, in which non-fiction also was
judged. His previous books include
Steamboat Round the Bend"
Mr.. Burman once told me how his
dream was almost sidetracked. He
quit the World, to become an author
with no luck, and, at long last,
only dime. The fragrance of fresh
ly baked buns in shop window de-
throned his reason and he shot the
dime for four buns. Back in his
garnet he found a letter from q
magazine, saying they liked his
Ministries of the Mist" which they
had had for months, and which he
had given up as lost. Would he
come up and consult them on a mi
nor change? He would, but lacked
carfare.
He had seen q pretty girl in a
nearby studio. He didn't know
her, but he told her his troubles.
She was similarly situated, but
staked him to three two-cent
stamps. He raised a nickel on
them at stationery store, saw
the editor and got not only
check, but . big hand ON his
story.
And, naturally, he returned
and married the pretty girl, who
thereafter illustrated his books
rs they traversed, not only his
pet river, but Damascus, the Sa.
hara desert, Bagdad and other
such mother-lodes Of literary
raw material.
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Family Of Tuscaloosa
CAPTAIN Hears Broadcast

Eleven-year-old Lois Mae Badt
reserved a special pat on the back
today for her little cousin, Ruth Mae
Levin, $3.50 Thirtieth Street NV.
If it hand't been for a telephone
call from Ruth last night, Lois might
have missed hearing her daddy's
voice on the radio.
Daddy" is Capt. Harry A. Badt,
commander Of the U. S. S. Tusca-
loosa, which rescued 579 German
seamen from the scuttled luxury
liner Columbus Tuesday
Lois, who lives at 1920 Allison
street NV, was studying in the
living room of her home when her
cousin telephoned excitedly: Uncle
Harry's on the radio"
Mrs. Badt was in another room
with her 9-month-old daughter
Esther Ellen, but she came on the
run to hear her husband.
1T certainly was nice to hear his
voice." Mrs. Badt said.
This has been quite a colorful
year for Capt. Badt," she said today
EARLY in the year the Tuscaloosa
went on a goodwill trip to South
America with the u S. S. San Fran
cisco and Quincy, and now at the
end of the year comes this rescue in
the Atlantic"
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alarm. the men understanding they
were to stand by and scuttle and
burn. You know, had drilled them
in that for weeks. The destroyer
was about miles astern. At the
same time I telegrapned our posi-
ton to all ships, advising them I
was ready to scuttle to prevent the
Columbus from falling into the
hands OF a British warship.
Warning Shots Fired.
"At 2:57 got flag signal from
the British destroyer which said,
Stop immediately At that time
the Tuscaloosa, which had been
steaming beside us, turned aside to
await developments. At 3:O5 the
British fired two shots across our
bow, and gave the order to lower
the boats.
"At 3:06 I gave the order to
scuttle, to open the seacocks. BY
3:14 all of the boats were lowered
and cleared of the ship, except
Nos. Is and ID, which were held
for the scuttling crew and fire
brigade. At 3:15 the chief engineer
advised me that all personnel had
left the engine room and the valves
were open. Then I ordered them to
set the fire.
&c" (The tuscaloosa did
everything sailors can do for other
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heavy and we had a safe anchorage
That is Is miles south of Vera
cruz, where we we're virtually in
termed. Fresh water and provisions
became serious problem and
finally forced us to make the break
for home, though we didn't get very
far. We left on Thursday, Deem
Der IA, about noon.'
Escorted by United States Ships.
Asked if he left on orders, the
captain replied, I'VE must have had
orders. That's obvious.
"A heavy gale was blowing when
we left, and we were escorted, or
followed, whichever you want to call
it, by destroyers of the American
Navy. There was always one or two.
knowing nothing officially as to the
relations between our country and
the United States, we wondered
what the escort meant. They ap-
peared very friendly.
Last Monday, the Tuscaloosa
took up the escort. Tuesday at 2:3O,
when we had remarkable visibility
and could see many miles, saw a
destroyer on the starboard side. At
2:55, I was able to make out the
British flag.
Her tunnels were not SO clean,
and I couldn't make out any de-
tails except that she was G class
destroyer. At 2:56 I sounded the
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James Dixon, Miami attorney for
the sugar company, because we
were afraid the crew would take the
ship outside the harbor and sink
her before they would submit to
capture by the British
Houston attorneys for the Imperial
Sugar Co. of Texas said the Ham,
burg American Line demanded and
was paid the s38,54172 in freight
charges before permitting three of
its ships to give up their cargoes in
Sumatra and South America
The Arauca left Veracruz, Mexico,
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Columbus
Continued From First Page0

he said quietly. You don't ask
questions
Carried No Arms.
The lean, middle-aged German
sea captain said the Columbus,
scuttled within the American neu-
trality zone 240 miles southeast of
Nantucket Shoals Lightship, carried
no weapons other than six pairs of
boxing gloves
The crew members were highly
excited on docking at Ellis Island
to read of the suicide at Buenos
Aires of Capt. Hans Langsdorff of
the Admiral Graf Spec. who scut-
tied his crippled pocket battleship
orders from Berlin.
No German officer would comment
however, on Capt. Langsdorff'
death
The survivors, including nine
women stewardesses and two boys,
will be kept at Ellis Island until
they have been examined by immi-
grafton officials.
They appeared relieved and happy
to be ashore and laughed as they
described how they scuttled the
third largest vessel in the German
merchant marine.
Two Men Were Lost.
More serious was Third Officer
Henry Lampe, q, who said the two
crew members lost when the others
put out in % lifeboats apparently
thought the alarm was only the
signal for another "scuttle drill"
Lampe, a stocky figure, speaking
In slow. precise English, explained
that when the alarm sounded indi-
eating an enemy vessel had been
sighted each crew man leaped to
carry out orders given in advance.
He said the Columbus seacocks
were opened by engine crews while
10 men, known as the "stosstrupp"
or special action crew, seized drums
Of benzine and emptied them in
strategic spots throughout the vessel.
Two trusted sailors, Lampe con-
tinued. followed them with in
cendiary torches that turned the
32.500-ton ship into flaming hulk
Crew members had their duffel
bags packed ever since the Colum-
bus left Veracruz, Mexico, last
Thursday noon for a destination
announced to the press as Oslo,
Norway, but known only to the
captain
Most of the crew, until they were
actually on deck, thought the last
abandon ship" alarm was merely
another "scuttle drill
Tells Story of Scuttling.
Capt. Daehne told this story of
the scuttling:
1--WE came to Veracruz on Septem-
Der after landing our passengers
at Havana. You remember we were
on a cruise at the outbreak of the
war. We didn't have enough fuel
to make run home. so it was neces-
sary to 60 to Mexican port.
THE Columbus, with draft of
IS feet, was too big to make the
port proper at Veracruz. so we
anchored outside little. On Octo-
Der 8, when winter began to set in
on us, it was not safe for us out
side, and after long and difficult
negotiations with the Mexican au-
thorities, we got them to agree to
give us an anchorage at Anton
Livardo, where the seas we're less
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last Thursday for Germany with .
general cargo Of phosphates, hides
and sisal fiber. Washington officials
said yesterday the ship, as a mer-
chairman, could stay here in
definitely.
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a $38, 54172 claim against the Ham
burg american Line, was filed at
Miami
I'VE hurried this action" said
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Armed Coast Guordsmen
Watch Over Arouco

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Dec.
81 Delight armed Coast Guards
men watched over the German
freighter Arauca today after the
vessel, fugitive from a British war
ship, was placed under a Federal
libel attachment by Texas sugar
company.
The guardsmen marched aboard
the Arauca last night after a Navy
detachment from the United States
destroyer Philip had searched the
vessel. Coast Guard officials here
declined to explain the develop
ments.
The British cruiser Orion, which
fired a shot across the Arauca's bow
and chased her into Port Everglades
Tuesday, continued to hover a few
miles offshore.
The libel action, growing out of
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sailors under those circumstances,
They kept us warm and were fine
to the woman stewardesses Be-
yond that, gentlemen. what is there
to say? When a sailor gets an Or
der he fulfills it. You ask no ques-
tons. 1 did the same as any other
captain, any American captain.
would do under the circumstances"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-21

taken at this time on the recent death of James Burnes, treasurer of the council for many years.
 A committee to draw up resolu- tiOns on his death will be named by Grand Knight Thomas w. Scadden tonight. A successor to fill out MT. Burnes' term of Of- flee, which would have expired in July, will also undoubtedly be named tonight.
 Many committee reports are ex- pected tonight and the Grand Knight will report on participa- ton of the council in the Mon- signOr John J. McGivney funeral services, which took place today in Bridgeport and in Waterbury.