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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
Mrs. Mary E. Sellers
Rites Planned Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Emma Sellers, "A, widow of P. G.
Sellers, who died suddenly of a
heart attack at her home in Bolivia
Tuesday night at 1890 o'clock, will
be held from the home of her
daughter, Mrs. c. L. Harper, at
302 South Second street, this after
noon at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. J. C. Harmon, assisted
by the Rev. Ruth Ketchum, will
conduct the services. Interment
will follow in the family cemetery,
near Bolivia.
Active pallbearers will be: Macon
Danford, Troy Danford, w. K. Coke,
Euclid Eichorn, Webster Swain and
Bryant Danford, nephews Of the
deceased. Honorary pallbea + e r S
will be: DR.. B. T. Atkins, ]. o. Muir
rell, A. L. Mercer, DR.. Houston
Moore, C. C. Groom and S. A. Pot
ter.
She is survived by nine children
IouI MIS-. T.. W AeIceFi
Of Bolivia; Mrs. B. J.. Mintz, Mrs
c. L. Harper, and Mrs. NJ. G. Johns
ton, of Wilmington; five sons, 7. G
Sellers, A. B. Sellers, Nash Sellers,
and Byron Sellers, of Wilmington
and ]. P. Sellers, of Bolivia.
Four sisters, Mrs. A. J. Rouse, OF
Rosehill; Miss Lavina Danford, OF
Wilmington; Mrs. Webster Swain,
of Winnabow; and Mrs. w. E
Eichorn, Of Bolivia; and f o u +
brothers, A. T. Danford, of Burgaw;
E. j., G. P, and ]. D. Danford, of
Bolivia; and twenty six grand chill.
dren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
HIGH Schools Debaters
To Compete With Kinston
Here On Friday Morning

FRIDAY morning at 1925 O'CLOCK
no New Hanover High school de-
hating club will pit its affirmative
team against the negative debaters
Of Kinston High school on the
ouestion, Resolved, That the 1eo-
eral government should operate the
railroads.
The public is invited to attend.
The New Hanoverians, should
thev win the debate, will be invited
to appear in the state elimlnat >ns
which will be held later. The stane
wide debates for state honors vii
be conducted at Chapel Hill within
the next few weeks, it was an
nounced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
Dewey Thinks Roosevelt
Is Trying To Stop Him

ST. LOUIS, March 81 Up -
Thomas E. Dewey, New York dis
trict attorney who is campaigning
for the republican presidential NOM
nation, thinks both President
Roosevelt and Vice-President Garner
have joined a "stop-Dewey'' move
ment.
Questioned at a press conference
today regarding Mr.. Roosevelt's
statement that Dewey should be the
republicans choice for vice-presi-
dent, he replied one Of his aids had
made the proper comment: "Roose.
welt has Joined the stop.Dewey
movement"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
DR.. Alexander To Talk
At Lions Meet Tonight

The principal speaker at the
ladies night program of the Lions
club at 1870 o'clock tonight in
the Cape Fear hotel ballroom will
be DR.. C. B. Alexander, of Fay
etteville placement agent in south
eastern North Carolina for the
state blind commission, Mixer
Maffitt, major projects committee
chairman, announced yesterday.
DR.. Alexander will stress in his
talk the rehabilitation of those
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28

blind persons who are able and
willing to work for themselves and
urge that such persons be en-
couraged to follow special lines of
work.
Mrs. Donald L. Sewell, president
Of the clubs ladies auxiliary, urges
all auxiliary members to attend
and consider further means OF sup
plying more glasses to children
with defective vision in the city
and county schools.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
BATTLE

BELFAST, March 27.-LP-One
hundred smugglers fought a noun
tain battle with 20 customs Off
GERS on the border between north.
ern and southern Ireland today.
The customs men ambushed the
smugglers, who were transporting
flour by donkey. Four were ar
rested and the others fled, leaving
a ton of flour and scores of dom
KEYS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
REYNOLDS Travel Films
Are Accepted By State

WINSTON-SALEM, March 27.
CP-The advertising committee OF
the North Carolina department OF
conservation and development an
nounced today it had accepted the
offer of Richard j. Reynolds, OF
Winston-Salem. to present to the
state a series of travel films.
A color-film travelogue will be
made and will be shown in all
parts of the United States, the com
mittee announced following a meet
ing here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
Three County Managers
Appointed By Maxwell

RALEIGH, March 27-CR-A. =.
Maxwell announced tonight appoint.
ment Of three county managers for
his campaign for the democratic
gubernatorial nomination. They were
Major ]. Frank Ray Of Frankli:., for
Macon county; e. B. Whitaker, of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
VESSEL SUNK

LONDON, March 81 Up The
air ministry announced that a Brit
ish plane attacked and sunk a Ger
man patrol vessel during a recon-
Nuisance flight over the North sea
today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
-FOUR FEATHERS" OFFERED
ON THE BIJOU PROGRAM

If you treasure a good film as you
do a good book, as first-rate enter
tainment and relaxation, then top
your movie list with -Four Feath-
ers," Alexander Korda's stirring
drama of adventure and romance in
the Sudan, filmed entirely in beau
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28

1t is figured by a,to,.
perts that the average arrn e.
keep cost of a car durin, Up
amounts to 1892. That a YEA
f ina,,rs re repairs. license, dep sess H.
line, etc. oh' gasa
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Rites Tuesday For
Finlayson Woman

Funeral services were held for
Helena Dorothy Belling of Finlayson,
Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock
with Rev. H. Sporleder, pastor of the
church, in charge. She died Satur-
day, August 10, at the State Hospital
in Cambridge where she had been
for more than two years because of
i'll health. Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
August Belling, Sr., two sisters and
two brothers preceded her in death.
Helena Belling was born in Stod-
dard, Nebr., on Feb. 27, 1892 and
came with her parents to Finlayson
in 1905, settling on a farm north of
that village. In 1919 she moved with
her mother into the village and re-
sided there until going to Cambridge.
Four brothers and two sisters are
left to mourn her passing. They are
Ernest and Albert Belling and Mrs.
Aug. Vogt of Finlayson, August of
Wood Lake, Herman of Cottonwood,
and Mrs. Perle Sparks of Los Angeles,
Calf.
Burial was made in the Peace Luth-
eran cemetery at Finlayson, the pail
bearers being Theo. Stockamp, Benz.
Stockamp, Einar Mattson, Carl Meid-
linger, Chas. Sparks and Ed Carlson.
The bereaved relatives have the SYM
pathy of friends and neighbors in
their hour of sadness.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
AskOv Wins First
Game OF Play-offs

Finlayson was eliminated Monday
evening as a contender for the cham
pionship of the Twilight D-Ball
League when it lost the first game
of the play-offs on its home grounds
to Askov by the score of 9 to 6.
The Finlayson boys started with a
bang in the initial inning when their
first five men scored but they were
held to only one tally from then on,
that coming in the third frame. Askov
went into the lead in the third inning
with three-run outburst, the score
then being to 6, and added two
more for good measure in the sixth.
Sandstone was to have played the
fourth place winner the same eve
ming for the right to play a three
game series with the victor in the
Askov-Finlayson tussle, the fourth
place team being either the Officers
or Friesland. However, Sandstone's
opponent had not been selected at
that time so no contest was played.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
International News Review

against Germany. India was not in
terested in promise but wanted an
accomplished fact, in other words,
self-government first; then soldiers!
The other day the British govern
ment renewed its offer to India: If
the $50 million inhabitants of that
country would actively support the
British government against Germany
and Italy, there would be autonomy
at the end of the war.
But in India the dominant Con-
greSS party argued: eff eventu-
ally, why not now?" AS long as
Great Britain is anxious to grant
form of self
not do it right away? And the
British answer was that during
crisis such as the present, it
simply would not do to take any
steps in the direction of change
of government in India. To
which the Congress party re-
tOrted: "But why did the British
government await years of war
when it had plenty of time to
bring about this reform in years
of peace?"
And there the matter stands. It
will be discussed in the British par
lament this week, and also by the
All-India Congress, and it is-at the
present moment-not thought that
CONTINUED on Page ~
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Workers Busy As
Fair Time Nears
State Fair Grounds Beehive
of Activity in Preparation
for Big Event.

With hundreds of exhibits arriving
daily for the Minnesota state fair
which opens only a week from Satur-
day, the fairgrounds are a beehive
of activity in preparation for the big
exposition August "a to September 2.
By train, truck and private cars,
the advance shipments of both educa-
tional and commercial exhibits are
going into place. Next week the
first shipments of cattle and horses
will be shunted onto the state fair
sidings as the enlarged livestock ex-
position, which includes the National
Percheron show, again swings into
show-ring form.
Million Dollar Program.
Visitors at the 1910 state fair will
view for the first time the completed
million dollar Improvement program
which includes the new super-speed-
way, the worlds largest outdoor
stage, three additional blocks of dis
play space in the machinery exhibit,
two miles of new 'White Ways" and
boulevards, parking space for 10000
more autos and full utilization of
the new All Club building.
These improvements, largely WPA
projects, mark the completion of a
three-year building program and pro-
vide the Minnesota state fair with the
finest plant of any permanent expo
sition in America.
New Speedway.
Final touches, including chemical
treatment, are now being made on the
new half-mile speedway which is
twice the width of the former track.
A four-foot concrete wall surrounds
the entire bowl which is steeply
banked at the curves to permit record
speed. Superior to the former track,
all turns are fully visible from every
section of the grandstand.
Approaching the new speedway
from all directions are two miles of
new boulevards decorated with new
lighting fixtures. The main boule-
ward, double lane roadway, skirts
the outer edge of the track and con-
meets the northern and southern
parking areas.
Before the grandstand is the new
stage, $50 feet long, 60 feet wide and
providing 5000 square feet of show
space. Beneath the stage will be
modern dressing rooms, fireproof stor-
age rooms and fireworks control
room.
Machinery hill has been completely
revamped to include a full block of
trees, lawn and a miniature lake.
Towering over the newly handicapped
area is the glistening white All Club
building which is now fully equipped
for the hundreds of All visitors. An
other new private exhibit building
looms like the prov of ship over
the hill.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
BY GEORG STRANDVOLD

During the last few days the en-
phasis in international affairs has
been on African and Asiatic events
rather than European.
In East Africa the Italian armies
have penetrated the defenses of Brit
ish Somaliland, and seem to be on
their way toward cutting off one link
of the chain connecting England with
the Indies; even Egypt is threatened.
There are, however, reports to
the effect that the Italian often
sive may not succeed very far,
and that the British are intensity
ing their resistance, realizing that
major defeat in Africa might
spell disaster to the empire at
large.
At the moment, the obvious inten-
ton of Italian strategy is to destroy
British power in the Mediterranean by
trying to blockade the Suez Canal as
well as Gibraltar; in this indirect
manner Mussolini appears to hope
to be able to aid Hitler's expected
attack against the British Isles.
Promise to India.
In October of last year the British
government promised India modified
form of self-government if the peo-
pie of that far-off possession would
support wholeheartedly the war
Askov American., 1940-08-15
4-H Trip Winners To
Give Demonstrations

Girls who won trips to the state
fair at the county All home eco
nomics achievement are working hard
to improve their demonstrations for
the state fair. These demonstrations
will also be given at the county fair
on Friday, August 23,, at 2 p. M, in
the school building" where the All
exhibit will be held. The public is
invited to come in and see these dem
onstrations on cake and bread baking,
canning, clothing and room furnishing
projects.
Agricultural demonstrations on the
following projects will be given:
Home Identification, sheep and pota-
to. These will also be given at the
county fair on Saturday, August "a,
at 1890 a. m.
The dress revue queens outfit made
of flour sack material will be on dis
play along with the other two cloth
ing exhibits which will 60 to the
state fair.
Every All member who has fin
ished his or her project is eligible
to exhibit at the county fair to COM
pete for cash prizes.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
$4,000 Is Allotted
For REA Project

According to a telegram received
yesterday from Electrical Engineer
c. D. Dimity of Washington, D. c., a
grant of S162 900 for the construction
of North Pine Electric Cooperative
89A has been approved.
The board of directors of the Co.
operative will meet Thursday (to-
night) at the Willow River hall when
decisions will be made as to the use
of aluminium or copper wire and the
setting up of an office at Willow
River or Finlayson. Steve Gadler
of the REA division will meet with
the board.
1t is expected that clearing and
stalking will start at once and that
the first electric service to the nearly
500 members will be available in
approximately three months.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Gustav Meidlinger
Is Laid To Rest

Death came Friday, August 9, to
end the suffering of Gustav j. Meid-
linger of Finlayson. He had been
i'll for 81 years but the immediate
cause of his death was bronchial
pneumonia. He passed away in the
Pine City Memorial hospital.
He was born on July 17,I1896, in
Scotia, Nebr., coming to Pine county
in 1914. For some time he lived in
Sandstone and Finlayson and later
made his home at Hinckley.
Funeral services were held Sum-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the
Peace Lutheran church and burial
was made in the Peace Lutheran cem-
etery. Rev. H. Sporleder officiated
at the last rites. The pallbearers were
Fred Martin, Otto Petry, John Osladil,
Albert Miller, John Petry and Cecil
Johnson.
Those left to mourn the passing of
Gustav Meidlinger are his sister, Mrs.
Lee Spear, of Bayard, Nebr., and five
brothers, Carl of Finlayson, Louis,
Art and Frank of st. Paul, and Alfred
of Granite Falls. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Meidlinger, preceded
him in death.
Friends and neighbors of the be-
reaved relatives extend sympathy.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Willow River
Woman HOnOred

Mrs. Clarence Jensen, who resides
southeast of Willow River, was
awarded a solid copper tea kettle by
Electrical Engineer c. D. Dimity of
Washington, D. c., Friday at her farm
home for being the only woman
director of a Rural Electric Coopera-
tive in the state of Minnesota.
Mrs. Jensen is director of North
Pine 89A. She has been active in
this work from the start and deserves
much credit along with the other
members of the board and the county
agent, Max McMillin, for the organi-
zation of the project.
She has been selected on the wir-
ing and appliance committees as well
as publicity manager for the COOP
erative.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Attack Fatal To
Prison Official
COrt r. Prosser, Custodian
Officer, Dies Following
D.Ball Games.

Cort r. Prosser, custodian officer
at the Federal Correctional Institu-
ton at Sandstone, passed away last
Thursday night, death being attri-
buted to heart failure. He had been
in Friesland that evening when the
Officers played Finlayson in kitten
ball double-header. He was one of
the players and it is thought that the
excitement and eXertion was too
much for him. During and after the
games he complained of not feeling
well and went to a doctor for medical
attention but died during the night.
He was born in Pennsylvania on
Nov. 13, 1896. He was in the army
for time and later in the service
of the government for six years in
the east before coming to Sandstone
last year with Mrs. Prosser who is
the only survivor. They have no
other close relatives.
Buried With Military Honors.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at o'clock with Masonic
rites. Mr.. Prosser had just joined
that organization in May and the
pallbearers were fellow members of
the lodge and the Institution person.
mel. They were Warden Geo. w.
Humphrey, j. L. Kirkpatrick, Capt.
H. D. Bailey, John B. Elleray, R. V.
Candy and Albin Norlin. Rev. H. T.
Owen was in charge of the services
at the Congregational church. Inter-
ment was made in Springhill cemetery
with military honors.
Mrs. Prosser's plans are not COM
pleted at this time but she will re-
turn to the east later. Her new-found
friends and neighbors here extend
sincere sympathy in her tragic be-
reavement.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
William Challeen
OfPineCity New
40 and 8" Head
LegiOnnaire is HOnOred at
22nd Annual State Con-
vention in Hibbing.

William Challeen, prominent Le-
gionnaire of Pine City, was elected to
head the 40 and 8" fun organization
of the American Legion in Minnesota
at its annual state convention in Hib-
bing Monday. The convention was
the 22nd annual convention of the
Legion in this state, and Mr.. Chal-
leen was chosen by the 20 voitures
of the 40 and g. to lead them during
1940-41, succeeding Howard w. Clark
of Winona.
A 50-piece band went from Pine
City on Tuesday to take part in the
big parade of the Legion on the after
noon of that day. The parade was
one of the most colorful affairs in
the Legion's history. Pine City was
also voted the out-state activities
award and the out-state history
award.
A Consistent Worker.
William Challeen has been a con-
sistent worker in Legion affairs since
the Leon Heath Post was formed
in Pine City some 20 years ago. He
has served as post adjutant and as
post commander and has also headed
the Pine county unit of the 40 and 3D.
He was instrumental in making the
district convention success in Pine
City during June and has always been
the spark-plug for success whenever
a Legion affair needed pushing.
Other officers elected along with
Mr.. Challeen were DR.. w. H. Mulligan
of St. Paul; A. w. Paul of st. Paul,
and Clifford Rice of Minneapolis. A.
N. Mead of Hutchinson was elected
Grand Commissaire intendant; Clare
L. Fischer of Rochester, alternate
cheminot national.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
AskOu Youth Wins
Eagle Scout Badge

Scout officials and parents of Scouts
from Pine City, Sandstone, Askov and
other neighboring communities jour-
neyed to Camp Lawrie Friday evening
to participate in and witness the
Court of Honor which was conducted
under ideal conditions in the natural
outdoor bowl at the camp.
The Court of Honor is an affair
that has to be seen and heard to be
appreciated. At the Friday evening
Court there was full array of off,
GERS and officials who extended con-
gratulations and merit badges from
the lowest to the highest rank to the
various Scouts who had earned such
recognition.
The highest rank is that of Eagle
Scout, and at this particular Court
there was only one Scout eligible, this
being Harry Mortensen, Jr., of Askov.
At the impressive service Harry was
accompanied by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Mortensen, and by his
Scoutmaster, George I. Glenn of
Askov. His father pinned the Eagle
badge on Harry and the chairman
gave the latter a rose which he in
turn presented to his mother.
In order to qualify for the Eagle
Scout award it is necessary to win
at least FL merit badges so Harry is
to be congratulated for his accom-
plishment.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Championship Game
At Rutledge Sunday

Rutledge will play Moose Lake on
the formers home grounds Sunday
afternoon to decide the winner of the
first half of the Pine County Base
ball League schedule. Both teams
went through the first half unde-
feated, their game with each other
being rained out.
Both teams are out to win and
promise fast and exciting game to
the spectators. An advertisement
elsewhere in this paper will give fur
ther details.
In the last scheduled game of the
season last Sunday, Rutledge forfeited
to Beroun, not having the required
number of players present for the
contest.
In seven-inning game at Moose
Lake, the home team swamped Sand
stone % to 9, with Westholm and
Matuseski each getting four hits for
the winners. The box score is pub
lished below. The Hinckley-Denham
game and the Mahtowa-Willow River
contests are unreported.
Moose Lake 22; Sandstone g.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Workers Warned
Not To Migrate
For Defense Jobs
Early Registration at Local
Offices Preferable, States
Christgau.

Minnesotans seeking employment
in defense program industries are
advised against blind migration to
other states by Victor Christgau, di-
rector of the division of Employment
and Security. He urges an early
registration at any office of the Divis-
ion as being preferable.
eve have just received word from
the Michigan Employment Service" +"
he said, "that many persons from
other states are going to Detroit in
the hope of finding work in defense
industries there. Michigan author
tiles already have more than 267, 900
registered residents who are waiting
for job. There is an abundant sup
ply of local workers to meet any
immediate demand that Michigan en-
ployers may make. Workers from
other states who travel there are
doomed to disappointment"
Similar Conditions Elsewhere.
Similar employment conditions ex-
ist in defense industries on both the
east and the west coasts, Mr.. Christ
gau said in advising Minnesota work.
ers who are qualified to register 10
cally.
'In the event additional workers
are needed in other states," he eX-
planned, ''that fact will be officially
made known to us and then our Di-
vision will be able to direct registered
workers to firms that actually will
put them to work. This plan will
prevent the disorganized migration
that marked the industrial expansion
during the first World war"
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Pine City Editor
At Camp Ripley

w. S. McEachern, editor of the
Pine Poker-Pioneer of Pine City, left
recently for Camp Ripley, west of
Mile Laos lake, near Little Falls,
with Battery E of the county seat to
take part in war maneuvers. The war
games are part of the regular training
of the Fourth U. S. Army and mock
combats and skirmishes will be
staged.
During Mr.. McEachern's absence
of three weeks, F. P. Gottry, former
Pine City editor, will be in charge
of the Pine Poker-Pioneer.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Townsend Meeting Friday

Herbert F. Haren, state speaker
from the Townsend organization, will
talk at Townsend reorganization
meeting at the R. N. A. hall in Hinck-
ley Friday evening, August 16, at 8
o'clock.
The general public is invited to
attend the meeting.
Askov American., 1940-08-15
Fire Survivors To
Hold Annual Meet

The officers and committees of the
Hinckley and Sandstone Fire Sur
vivors Association held a meeting last
week and decided to have the annual
meeting of the association in the
Hinckley high school auditorium Sum-
day, September L, at o'clock p. m.
1t will be the 46th anniversary of
the disastrous fire.
All "old timers" as we'll as any
others who might be interested are
invited to attend. The program and
speaker will be announced later.