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ing military and civic procession,
was transferred to the rotunda Of
the Capitol. 'atia F30"iq =
''The day was observed
throughout the Union as one Of
fasting and prayer. Services in
the churches throughout the land
were held in unison with the serv-
ices at the executive mansion,
and were everywhere attended
with exhibition of profound per-
sonal grief.
The South in Sorrow.
Gin all the cities of Canada
business was suspended, public
meetings of coincidence with a
kindred people were held, and
prayers were read in the
churches.
Throughout the Confederate
states, where war had ceased but
peace had not yet come, the peo-
pie joined in significant express
Sions Of sorrow over the death
of him whose very name they
had been taught to execrate.
early in the morning of the
2lst the body was removed from
the capitol and placed on the.
funeral car which was to trans
mort it to its final resting place
in Illinois /. The train which
moved from the national capital
was attended on its course by
extraordinary manifestations OF
grief on the part of the people"
AS for the story of that sorrow
full journey westward, no one has
ever told it better than Carl Sand
burg, poet and Lincoln biogra-
pher. The closing words Of his
masterpiece Abraham Lincoln:
The War Years." published this
year by Harcourt, Brace and
company - words whose stark
simplicity remind one of such
writings as the Gettysburg Adj
dress-are these:
"There was a funeral.
cit took long to pass its many
given points.
"Many millions of people saw
it
"The line of march ran seven
teen hundred miles.
eyes, there was a funeral.
"Fron his White House In
Washington where il began
they carried his coffin, and fol-
lowed it nights and days for
twelve days ~.
Bells folling, bells sobbing the
requiem, the salute guns, cannon
rumbling their inarticulate thun-
der.
''To Springfield, Illinois, the old
home town, the Sanganon near
by, the New Salem hilltop near
by, for the final rest Of the cher
ished dust.
"And the night came with great
quiet.
"And there was rest.
"The prairie years, the war
years. were over"
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the milling crowd. Their hoarse
shouts of "Clear out! Clear out,
you sons Of hellI" rise above
the tulnult as they drive the half
crazed audience out of the the.
ater.
Meanwhile Rathbone has sue
ceeded in unbarring the door to
the box and several people,
among them a surgeon, rush in.
They see the tall form of the
President slumped forward in his
chair, his sad eyes closed, never
to open again. Someone brings a
shutter, torn from a building near
by, and they lay his gaunt form
upon it. They carry him out of
the theater to the house of
Charles Peterson across the
street.
Ford's theater is empty, de-
serted now. Its curtain has been
rung down upon the comedy,
"Our American Cousin" - and
upon one of the greatest TRACE
dies in American history! ds5lnc
Death at 7:22i Al! M.kTsn
The next morning Washington
newspapers carried this story
1.-The body Of President Lin
coin, who died from an assassin's
outlet at 5:zz O'CLOCK this morn
ing, was removed from the Peter
son residence opposite Ford's the
alter to the executive mansion in
a hearse and wrapped in the
American flag. 1t was escorted
by a small squad of cavalry and
by Gen. Augur and other military
officials on foot. A dense crowd
accompanied the remains to the
White House, where a military
guard excluded the people, allow
ing none but persons of the house
hold and personal friends of the
deceased to enter. Gen. Grant
arrived here at 2 o'clock in a spe-
cial train from Philadelphia. His
presence tends somewhat to allay
the excitement.
Leaf through the pages of James
G. Blaine's Twenty Years in
Congress-" published IN 1885, and
read there this description of the
events which followed:
"The remains Of the late Presi-
dent lay IN state at the execu-
tive mansion for four days. The
entire city seemed as a house Of
mourning. The martial music
which had been resounding IN
glad celebration Of the national
triumph had ceased; public edi-
fee and private mansion were
alike draped with the insignia of
grief.
Funeral services, conducted by
the leading clergyn1en of the city,
were held in the east room on
Wednesday, the 18th of April.
Amid the solemn telling Of church
bells, and the still more solemn
laundering Of minute guns from
the vast line Of Notifications
which had protected Washington,
the body. escorted by an impos-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-12
Chicken Thievery-
With Qualifications
fnr Asaoeinfed Prearl

PUEBLO, Colo, April H.
Stealing chickens is a case of
grand larceny in Colorado, re-
gardless OF the value of the poul-
try, If the theft occurs at night.
If the thievery takes place in day
light the general larceny law ap-
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plies, and it stipulates the value
of any stolen property must ex-
coed $50; otherwise it's case of
petty larceny.
The quirk in the Colorado law
was uncovered recently after Of
ficers solved a chicken stealing
case by following a trail of
feathers from coop to loot.
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0dEpCA > WCCAAys x1PAA ~OS AOUJJ
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
released by Western Newspaper Union.)
TT IS the evening of April
IA, 1865-Good Friday.
l. On the stage of Ford's
theater in Washington the ia
nous actress, Laura Keene,
is playing in a delightful COM
edy, 'Our American Cousin. F"
Joining in the laughter that
sweeps through the audience
from time to time is a gaunt,
sad-faced man sitting at ease
in a fhigh-backed, satin-up-
holstered rocking chair in an
upper stage box. Abraham
Lincoln is forgetting for a
few minutes the crushing re-
sponsibilities which he, as
Chief Executive of a nation
torn asunder in civil war, has
been bearing for four long
years.
The third act of the play
begins. The President leans
over to whisper something to
Mrs. Lincoln who sits beside
him. Neither the Lincolns
nor Maj. Harry r. Rathbone
and a Miss Harris, who accom-
panied them to the theater, notice
that a dark-moustached young
man has slipped through the door
at the rear of the box and is now
standing behind the President.
The next moment there is the
muff1ed sound of a shot. It is
unnoticed by the players on the
stage or the audience, still chuck
ling over the last funny line they
have heard. But the Presidents
head drops forward on his breast.
Startled, Major Rathbone looks
around. Through the smoke he
sees, the dark young man with a
pistol In his hand and hears him
mutter something which sounds
like "Freedoml" The major leaps
to his feet and grapples with the
intruder, who slashes at him with
q knife, tears loose from the off,
GERS grasp and springs to the
front of the box.
AS he vaults over the railing,
his spur catches in an American
dag which drapes the front of the
box. He drops heavily to the
stage with one leg doubled under
him, then scrambles to his feet.
With blood streaming from his
wounded arms, Rathbone rushes
10 the front of the box.
"Stop that mani Stop him!" he
shouts. 1.-THE President has been
shot!"
But everyone is too stunned to
move for a moment. The young
nan, waving aloft the bloody
knife, drags himself across the
stage and disappears in the
wings. But before he does So.
the startled actors recognize in
the white face and the black eyes
blazing with fanatical hatred the
familiar features of one of their
own profession - John Wilkes
Booth.
All this has taken place in less
time than it takes to tell it. The
next moment Ford's theater is a
pandemoniun Of screaming
women and shouting men, SHOW
ing, pushing, breaking chairs,
crashing through ratings and
trampling upon each other as they
surge toward the stage or try to
climb up to the box where the
moaning Mrs. Lincoln is support
ing her stricken husband and Ma
jor Rathbone is trying vainly to
open the door which the assassin
had barred from the inside.
Now the soldiers Of the Presi-
dents guard come bursting into
the theater and with fixed bayonets
and drawn pistols they charge
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New York City has 4OS public
Fairgrounds.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Trip From Denmark
To U. 5. Takes $1,000
And Six Months
Manufacturer Says
Business in Europe
Is 'MortoIIy III
By IRA WOLFERT.

NEW YORK (N.A.N.A0. - The
Odyssean exertions required of a
modern European businessman who
finds it necessary to travel were
related today by Jorges Madison, a
Dane interested in a plant that
manufactures bottle caps.
Mr.. Madson's firm also owns pat
ents on a process involved in the
manufacture of bottle caps. Last
May he decided to leave Copenhagen
and come to New York to look after
his firms American interests and in
troduce a system of Danish exercises
in which he is interested.
Ordinarily this is Today journey
costing about $l60, cabin class.
Since the war it has developed into
a journey requiring more than six
months and involving an outlay Of
about $1,000, leaving out the cost of
the time involved.
Our business" Mr.. Madison said,
uses tin as raw material. When
the NaZis walked into Copenhagen
April 8 our manufacturing depart
ment came to a complete stop. We
could get no more tin. Our busi-
ness through the rest of the world
began to grow progressively worse
because of the mail situation In
our export department the Situa-
ton was as follows: Materials were
paid for at the point of debarka-
ton. Well, the money was paid
into the banks in the various ports
of the world, but there is no way
for us to get that money until after
the war. And, of course. who knows
what kind of money there will be
then?
Travellers TravailS.
IT decided to come to New York
to look after our business here. I
went to the German consulate in
Copenhagen for permission to leave
Denmark. He sent my request to
Berlin and two weeks later came
the reply that I would be allowed
to leave if I would explain my busi-
ness in New York satisfactorily and
if all my visaS were in order.
Il got an American visa and an
Italian visa and bought ticket on
ship sailing from Genoa Before
I could leave Italy entered the war
and my ticket was no good. I then
attempted to sail from Petsamo,
Finland, but the earliest reservation
1 could get was for January.
by that time France had COL
lapsed and I decided to sail from
Portugal. Spanish and Portuguese
visas were secured ultimately. but
to get transit visa through France
I had to 60 to the French consul at
Stockholm. The consul forwarded
my request to Vichy and after that
there was simply silence. The re-
quest disappeared in great void.
Il investigated an air route that
would skirt France by making a
direct hop from Rome to Madrid
But travel along this route was most
uncertain and 1 abandoned it..
Finally the American Express told
me they were sending out travellers
along an airline connecting Berlin
Stuttgart, Lyons, Marseille. BARGE
Iona and Madrid, from where air
transportation could be secured to
Lisbon. They said they could not
guarantee arrival, but they believed
Evening star., 1940-12-25

passengers were getting through be-
cause only once when they left
Copenhagen for Berlin they were
never heard from again.
Visas Had Expired.
by that time my American and
Portuguese 'visas had expired. ]
renewed them, again with some
dif1iculty. But it was impossible to
get French visa. The Germans
said they would allow me to book
passage on the plane provided ]
had ticket on ship leaving Lis
bon. I bought passage on a Greek
ship and started off.
From Copenhagen to Berlin the
passengers were curious lot, not
businessmen, but Germans, Italians
and Spanish of some sort. I stayed
at the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin
and found everything normal except
for the ration-card system, the
blackout (Which was normal to me
since living in Copenhagen the
absence OF soap in my bath and the
absence Of meat 1 dined on the
Kurfurstendam, Berlins Broadway
1t seemed quite normal The beer
was good. Scotch whisky was avail
able.
I'VE started from Tempelhof Air
drome, which has been enlarged and
is extraordinarily opulent now. Our
plane was new and very large, had
steward and stewardess and a
smoking room. 1t carried 25 pas
sengers, some Jewish refugees from
Holland, some American-born Poles
and few German officials.
Business MortalIy Ill.
t'The food on the plane was good
We stopped at Stuttgart for rig
orous customs inspection. stopped
again at Lyons, France. There the
airport was in a state of complete
disrepair, hangers bombed and
wrecked and so forth A few sad
looking Frenchmen, hands in pock-
cts and cigarettes dangling from
| lips, watched us land and leave
The next stop was Marseille. which
seemed untouched except for the
abasence of vehieular traffic.
"I arrived at Lisbon the day
italy went to war with Greece, SC
my Greek ship did not sail. After
IA days of solid arguing and scurry-
ing, I finally secured a third-class
passage on Portuguese ship, the
Guine"
Mr.. Madison said his factory had
resumed partial operations in Oc-
tober, when small tin shipments be-
gan arriving from Germany How
| ever, the Germans have instituted a
severe rationing system on coal
which cuts down power for all fac
tories. In many cases to one-third
normal requirements.
Business in Europe is not merely
bad" Mr.. Madison said, 'it is NOR
tally i'll, quite unlike the last war
when business remained possible.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

prepared for the city's renowned
Mummer's parade on New Year Day.
Come New Year the Mummers
will be glittering array of high
stepping mimics flouncing along
Philadelphia's Broad street to the
acclaim OF thousands, but right now
their efforts are accompanied by the
sound effects of hatchet and saw,
rather than the blare of trumpet
and horn.
Robe Is Half-Acre Of Satin.
Your Mummer king is stalwart
fellow, but even he could not manage
his nearly half-acre of satin rain
ment without the support of table
Evening star., 1940-12-25

like structure through which he
pokes his jeweled head.
His prancing courier-attendants
must do their bit in erecting bedizen-
ed floats that will accompany the
encourages along the Smile trek to
the reviewing stands at City Hall.
The groundwork not only must
be done secretly, but must be done
exceedingly well, for this year the
competition will be keener than
iever-with approximately $4,000
marchers expected to participate in
the annual event.
Furthermore, the Parade Com
mittee has ruled that "nondescript,
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Turt|eburgers Prove
Popular in Key West

Ey the Associated Press.
KEY WEST, Fla.-Turtleburgers
are old stuff to natives of Key West.
where meat has to come almost ITS
miles by truck from Miami
They are made from the steak OF
turtles, ground and seasoned with
onion, pepper and salt More and
more they're being put on sale, and
tourists go for them, although they
fall into the luxury class-25 cents
each.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

meaningless costumes and floats will
be stopped before they start"
The result: The city should get
its biggest and best parade in years
and the Mummers the sternest of
competition for the $4,000 in prize
money appropriated by the City
Council. :
Float Themes Secret.
Mummers are mum about the
creations they are planning, but
admit their ideas will touch on
vital affairs of the day"
Some are known to have enlisted
the aid of riveters and machinists
presumably to make sport of the
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Weeks Of Hard Work
Make Mummers
Kings for Day
Merry Memics Preparing
For Annual Parade
In Philadelphia

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25.-To be
kings for day, Mummers first must
be carpenters for several weeks.
That's why cellar lights are burn
ing long hours these nights as
Philadelphia Mummers. garbed in
oyeralls instead of regal rainment,
Evening star., 1940-12-25
industrial world and It's complica-

industrial world and its complica-
tions.
Other information indicates many
OF the open-air actors will attempt
to show that:
The simple life has become a bit
complex.
That straight line is no longer
the shortest distance between two
points.
And that in the near future people
will live by system of push-buttons,
card index files and electric gadgets.
Coffee grown in Brazil last season
filled 100000 bags.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
Auto Thieves
NotMurderers,
Police Believes
SLEEPY EYE GARAGE
RAIDED, HOWEVER;
CAR, GUNS TAKEN

Sleepy Eye-A big "blood-and-
bullets" melodrama built up
around an abandoned car found
here simmered down to a placid
little routine crime.
No blood, no bullets, said Chief
of Police Gene Clark, who was
frankly mystified about the ex-
element.
Clark said the car was picked
up at Isaak Walton park five
miles south of Sleepy Eye Mon
day, the day after two men were
seen riding in it and several hours
after the Remmele garage had
been looted.
At the garage another car and
eight guns, rifles, shotguns and
a revolver, were stolen.
In the machine abandoned at
the park were two tires, two
radios, some peanut machines and
a set of license plates.
In st. Paul, crime bureau OPP
eratives said there was some evil
dence the car had been used by a
gang that robbed garages at
Clarks Grove, Ogilvie, Eveleth
and Frazee, as well as Sleepy Eye
last week. The loot in most places
was automobile accessories, tools
and the like.
The car was stolen at Frazee.
Clark held it for investigation by
crime bureau operatives.
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Plan Benefit
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
of which the corn loan program
is. part has had the effect of
Strengthening the market in spite
of supplies exceeding even those
of the 1928 period, in the case
of corn, he said, adding that the
consumer is also protected since
the government can release corn
as necessary to keep the market
at a seasonable level. This has
been done recently he said so that
farmers in the drouth areas of
Nebraska could buy corn at fair
price.
Asked why the government
continues to finance reclamation
projects while paying farmers to
take land out of production, he
said such projects as are under
way were approved or started be-
fore the present program and gen.
orally are primarily for water
power or navigation with irriga-
ton secondary. They constitute a
small part of the land in produc-
ton and serve to provide homes
for families set adrift by dust
bowl conditions.
Americans, he stated, can avoid
all necessity for tariffs, farm pro-
grams and similar protection if
they are willing to accept the
world standard of living and COM
pete with the coolie and peasant
III foreign agriculture and their
counterpart in foreign industry.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
All Churches Invited
To PRAYER Service

Members of all churches are in
vited to the program in observ-
ance of the World Day of Prayer
at 8 p. m. Friday in the Episco-
pal church of the Holy Com
munio. Mrs. Paul Bard Of the
Church of the Nazarene heads the
committee of women which has
arranged the event. Other men,
bers are Mrs. Donald Smith, Pres
byterian; Mrs. J. A. Storts, Church
of Christ; Mrs. o. G.. Austbo
Methodist; Mrs. o. J. Ross, Eng
lish Lutheran and Mrs. L. w. Has
singer, Episcopal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
WRESTLERS AVENCE
LITCHFIELD DEFEAT
NEW ULM GRAPPLERS
BEATEN EASILY IN
MATCH THURSDAY

Redwood Falls High school
wrestlers evened the count with
Litchfeld here Wednesday after
noon, scoring IS points to their
opponents 81, their second victory
within a week. Last Thursday
afternoon at New Ulm they scor-
ed So to triumph.
Sickness and injuries weaken
ed the Cardinal wrestlers who had
won their matches when the team
was defeated at Litchfield recent
ly and it was greener members of
the squad who were losers there
who came through yesterday to
revenge the defeat.
Russell Tetrick, Warren Linde-
man and George Steele threw
their opponents while Marvin
Loock won a decision and Doug
las Davis won by forfeit. Andy
Smith and Ken Parsons lost their
matches and Stanley Young, out
with injuries, did not compete.
Against New Ulm, Davis and j.
Smith won by forfeit while
Douglas Mann, Ken Parsons, Rob-
ert Tetrick and George Steele
each scored five points and STAN
ley Young and Warren Lindeman,
each three. Roger Parson, a sew
enth grader, competed with a
junior and Steele, at l65, with a
heavyweight. Young's match was
a tie, giving New Ulm three points
and Roger Parsons lost to D.
Wolf of New Ulm, accounting for
their other five.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
LIONS DISCUSS
WINTER FISHING

The relation of winter fishing to
conservation was discussed at
length at the luncheon meeting Of
the Lions club Monday noon.
Several members expressed the
opinion that spearing through the
ice actually benefits game fish
where the spearers are sportsmen
enough to take only rough fish
and obey the law regarding spear
ing of game varieties.
There were fewer defenders OF
winter angling and no champions
of commercial fishing as it had
been observed by club members.
Several said regulation of fishing
for sport to protect the supply of
fish is small change" compared
with what could be done in the
commercial field.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
Thursday, February s, 1910
DELHI AND WABASSO
ELIMINATED LAST
NIGHT AT BELVIEW

Morgan eliminated Wabasso and
Holmbergs smoked out Delhi
Wednesday night in the first
round of the Redwood county in
dependent cage league playoff,
placing Morgan and Redwood in
the finals of the tourney tonight
(Thursday) at the Odeon in Bel
view.
Morgan had a world of Difficult
ty with the stubborn Rabbits in a
game that was tied frequently and
kept the crowd in an uproar. The
lead alternated as one team and
then the other put on extra pres
sure. With two minutes left Wa
basso held a three point edge but
Nick Klaassen, ace of the Morgan
lineup, came through with need
ed points and Morgan chalked up
a 40 to SO victory.
Y Holmbergs had mo easy picking
III the first half but Wyman Cor
bett and Wallace Zimmerman al
ternated in scoring perfect hits in
the last two quarters to run the
count to 66 to 38.
Zimmerman scored Is points,
seven field goals and four free
throws out of four attempts
while Corbett swished the net
eight times from the floor and
once from the foul line for II
markers before he went out on
fouls. Clarence Kraenrer went in
in his place and tailed three free
shots.
Don Peterson was third in the
scoring with Is points, seven field
goals and free shot. Most of his
points came in the first half in
which Redwood led % to II. The
first quarter score was 9 to s.
Gordon Venema counted four
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
Holmbergs,M Morgan
In Tourney Finals

baskets and free shot and
Arnett contributed basket in
each half.
jacobson led the Delhi scoring
with IA points, six baskets and
two foul shots, followed by Hous-
man with four baskets. Larson
and Moldestad contributed five
points each and Siegfried, six.
Wabasso got into the meet by
beating Belview Friday evening
and Redwood made the grade by
beating Delhi at Delhi 81 to 15
Thursday night.