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S1y N. {. C0NVICTS
GRANTED PAROLES
,,,, 8 Phillips, Sentenced In
'' puplin To Six Months,
Among Men Freed

auFIGH, Aug. 15.-R@S x
a tsaaers were paroled today by
p1ssrnor Hoey. They follow:
'J nsvid Hinson, sent up March
d. 1888, from Scotland county to
H. lS.,, lei eight to 10 years for break
seit and entering; Lawrence LYDIA,
ns ,+ s1 June 3, 1899, to serve
ssn,s to five years for forgery in
annrconbe; Robert Black sent up
n Eaiv 20. 1889, from Lincoln for two
Jus for breaking, entering and
I ysrl Elizabeth Black, SEN
I IsrledI to 70 months in 1redell Ap-
v s'' Il for assault with a deadly
I'll l,s.non: j. E. Little, serving 10
TsStbs imposed in Johnston April
n ~ nv two counts of larceny; and
zines Phillips, sentenced May 9
JAM! ID n1plin to serve six months for
Irving a concealed weapon and
r oossession of non-tax paid liquor
for sale.
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record rate Of more than 1000 a day
were announced today by War de.
partment officials.
A Philadelphia concern IN. W.
Aver and SOM was put in charge
of a $4,000 advertising campaign
to reinforce recruiting methods al.
ready being employed with the aim
of expanding the regular army's en-
listed strength to its full authorized
limit of 1915, 900 by January l..
The enlistment campaign, it was
made clear, will be pushed regard.
less of the fate of the selective serv.
ice legislation now under debate in
the senate.
The bulk Of the $250,00O available
for advertising was earmarked for
newspapers. Only about SIS, 900 wal
expended last year for promotion.
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Thirty-seven of the 70 most in
furious insect pests in America
have been imported.
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BRITAIN SEEKS so
U. S. DESTROYERS
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Atlantic. The British were pic.
tured as reluctant, however, to
give up sovereignty over any Of
their possessions.
Although there was no official
comment on this proposal, Secre-
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau
told his press conference that the
British had made repeated appeals
for destroyers. He declined to
comment when he was asked if
Britain had offered to trade island
possessions for warships.
The chief question involved ap-
peared to be whether such a trans
fer of naval vessles could be &C.
complished without congressional
action-even if the administration
decided to take such a step. Lee
commended it could and there were
reports that the White House had
received an opinion from the at
torney general to this effect. l
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twenty days after the enactment
OF the bill. Later a motion to re-
commit the measure to military
committee with instructions to in
clude the Vorys amendment in it
was defeated 207 to 49,
The changes made by the house
consisted principally of language
Tightening the provision tn a t
mlltiamen with dependents may
resign within twenty days, and re-
moving a provision empowering
III national labor relations board
to take court action to compel an
emplyer to rehire a ~oonscript al
the end of his year of service. The
conscript, however, was left free
to take such action himself.
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Ehringhaus To Preside
At Reunion In MQnteo

CHAPEL HILL, Aug. 15.-R-
Former Governor J. c. B. Ehring-
haus Of Raleigh today accepted an
invitation to preside as POSTMASTER
at the annual Roanoke Island reun.
ion of graduates of Woman's college,
State college and the University at
Chapel Hill at Manteo Saturday, J.
M. Saunders, alumni secretary here,
announced tonight.
The former governor and his party
and delegations composed of a mum.
Der of officials from the three units
of the consolidated university at
Greensboro, Chapel Hill and Raleigh
will leave tomorrow morning for the
Manteo celebration, it was an
nounced.
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DOWNS EFFORT
TO RESTRICT
MEMS SERVICE
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to be in President Roosevelt's
hands in a few days.
With his signature, the admins
tration will be in a position 10
start the first phase Of its general
program for getting an army
eventually to number 1,200, 600, IN
to uniform and under training. The
second phase, as outlined by wal
department officials, is selectlve
compulsory military training,
such as is contemplated in the leg
islation now before the senate.
The days debate on that meas
ure produced an appeal from Sen
ator Downey (D-Calif) that an
amendment be added to provide
jobs building a network of super
highways for the conscripts after
the completion of their year Of
compulsory training in the army
The chief controversy over the
national guard bill dealt with Its
provision that the militiamen
might be sent anywhere in the
western hemisphere. Opponents,
flocking to the support of an
amendment by Rep. Miller (R-
Comm to limit their service to the
continental United States, its pos
sessions and the Philippines, ar
gued that power to send the guard
into South America gave Presl-
dent Roosevelt virtual authority to
declare war.
Supporters of the bill replied that
such power was nc greater than
the President already has where
the regular army and the navy
are concerned. They said,
that adoption of the Miller amend
ment would be misunderstood in
other countries, especially in the
South American nations to which
the United States has promised
protection against any European
or Asiatic attack.
This amendment, I trust, will
be overwhelmingly defeated" said
Rep. Rayburn O-Tex), the ma
jority floor leader. 1T is dan
gerous and will be misunderstood
not only in the western hemisphere
but to the ends of the earth. W.
must show here that there is no
division on national defense. What
we do and say here is known If
the capitals of the world almos'
as soon as we say and do it."
Republicans Protest
Republican members protested
when an effort - ultimately sue
cessful-was made to restrict de
bate on the Miller amendment.
This business of ramming dow
the throat of the American people
something of vast Importance II
a short space of time is entirel.
out of order," shoued Rep. Ben
der (R-Ohio).
The Miller amendment was bea
en-, 210 to 10, on q teller vote
Also defeated was an amendmen
offered by Rep. Vorys (R--Ohio
permitting any militiaman or re
serve officer to resign within
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YOUTHS NAY QUIT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-R-
The national guard mobilization
Dill as it passed the house today
carried an amendment authorizing
the honorable discharge of guards
men under 10 as soon as they are
called to active duty.
Rep. Massingale (D-Okla), a
sponsor of the proposal which was
accepted by a SO to So standing
vote, asserted:
1T is not right, it is not the de-
sire OF the congress and the people
OF the United States to force chill
dren into the regular army"
lin a previous dispatch on this
subject it was stated, through err
ror, that Massingale's proposal
was to give the youths dishonor-
able discharges.) /
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VIRGINIA SWEPT
BY FLOOD WATER
Highway Traffic Halted In
Southern Part Of State;
Damage Is Great

RICHMOND, Aug is. - Up -
Flood streams today reached crests
not exceeded in fifty years, hating
through highway traffic in South
side Virginia and causing heavy
damage to crops and property.
Much tobacco, the principa l
money crop Of the area hardest
hit from Petersburg to the North
Carolina line, was washed away
or left water-logged.
Heavely-traveled North-South ar
teries such as U. S. Routes l, 1860,
%, and $50 were blocked at sever
al places by rampaging rivers.
One navy flier was killed and
another injured in a mountain top
crash in Floyd county, blamed on
the rain and fog.
State trooper William R. Holton
of Suffolk was killed in an auto
mobile collision near Richmond.
Investigating officers said a driv-
ing rain and poor visibility were
contributing factors in the acct
dent.
A landslide on the Seaboard air.
line railway at Alberta wrecked
48 freight cars and blocked the
line between Emporia and Peters
burg. Only one was injured. Sea-
board trains were rerouted over
Atlantic Coast Line tracks.
Three persons were drowned yes
terday as the flood crests moved
from western Virginia to the SOU
thern are of the state where rain
had been falling steadily for SO
hours. 2
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mo NAZI PLANES
RAID LONDON AREA
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n0nfIntIpu TlUI1 o5O OAAS
suburbs eight miles south of Charing
Cross, mid-London.
otber raiders smashed at objec-
ives down the Thames from Lon
1oint air ministry and ministry of
,onoe security announcements said
.hot although there was n person
'i11ed and many injured in homes
md factories in the densely settled
cotton around Croydon, little DAM
wv vas done to the airport itself.
other reports of ruin and casual
.;os came from Hastings on the
southeast coast-landing place Of the
,ost successful invasion Of England a
thousand years ago - from the al
ready hammered naval base at Port
1ond towns of the southwest and
coastal cities of the northeast, and
from Industrial Rochester.
Silent About Trap
British military men kept a tight
lipped silence about details Of Brit
aims own mystery weapon" - a
r1ane trap said to have played an
efficient and formidable" role in
blocking the Nazi attacks.
The British Press association said
the trap was Britain's --latest hush
hush defense weapon'-a strict mill
tarv secret at least for the present.
There were reports that at least
one German bomber had been caught
in the trap. However, the official
British breakdown of the listing of
enemy planes bagged showed:
Brought down by British fighter
planes, 1870; by anti-aircraft, II; by
infantry soldiers apparently with
rifle fire., two; by a Lewis Una
chine.gun) crew, one.
Total of 708
The toll in the daybreak-to-dusk
battles brought to 70S the number
of German planes the British have
reported shooting out of the sky
since the start of mass raids last
June IS.
The attack on Croydon was the
deepest thrust in a mighty aerial
offensive Of a thousand or more Nazi
raiders which beat at Britain from
Scotland to the southern English
co. in the greatest such attack in
history.
And while ambulances still raced
to the famous airfield, air raid sirens
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screamed all " London. At the
time Of this warning, however. nc
plane was sighted over the central
section of the city.
Raids went on tonight over a wide
area Of the southeast, where during
the day no less than 1000 German
planes had crossed the coast in one
narrow section.
At least three Of the 20 to 80
stukas which attacked Croydon were
reported shot down and the re-
mainder were driven off by holding
British fighter planes.
Fires Started
Debris was scattered over the air.
port for hundreds Of yards and in.
cendiary bombs started a series Of
fires.
A perfume factory was smashed.
A row of houses was hit by a
bomb that just missed a gas works.
One witness said at least ten bombs
were aimed at the airdrome; one
apparently hit a hangar on the out
skirts of the field.
A high explosive bomb fell near
the wall of a public shelter in which
four small boys had been playing
hide and seek. They were not Sc
riously hurt.
Hours after the raid, men still dug
in the factory debris for the bodies
of laborers. And ambulances still
sped to the area.
The Stukas struck after a three
mile glide downward and, said a
witness, were ove the airdrome it.
self "only a minute or two" before
they went off like hell' with Brit
ish ships in pursuit.
There were casualties in Croydon
streets; none knew just how many;
the airport is situated in a comfort
able residential suburb of normally
100000 people just about eight miles
from Charing Cross.
A big double-decked red London
bus passing Croydon was hit by
some splinters, and an undetermined
number of its passengers were vic
tins.
damage that had been wrought, it
was stated officially.
Not only ambulances but fire
fighting apparatus as we'll was sent
to the scene.
Spectacular
It was the most spectacular in all
the numberless great engagements
over these islands. But froh the
Associated Press building, which is
near the Thames about a mile east
Of Charing Cross, no raiders could
be seen over the center of London.
The young British pilots were
fighting against a great about in
vasion of English skies-five days
of it ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS long has
been expected to precede an attempt
at invasion Of these shores.
Authorities disclosed that a new
"plane trap was at work, although
its details were kept secret. In this
trap, a big German bomber was de-
clared caught and smashed, it's &C.
cupants dying in the crash.
There was no minimizing the fear
that an invasion Of troops was near
at hand-householders and fishermen
along the coast silently pulled in and
hid their little boats lest they fall
into other, and not English, hands.
But the peope kept calm and waited.
The German parachutist scare that
had arisen earlier with the finding
Of German parachutes was de-
nounced as a clumsy hoax" in.
formed sources also said that docu-
ments p%urporting to be operations
orders had been dropped in England,
but that they were nothing more
than a CLUMSY effort" to undermine
morale.
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u. S., JAPS DIVIDE
SHANGHAI SECTOR
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sector is being divided between
American and japanese forces.
The Americans, in addition to
the central district. embracing ths
Shanghai commercial and finan.
cial zone, will guard the Yves,
Honkew area, north Of Soochow
creek and stretching to the settle.
ment's northern boundary.
1t is considered noteworthy that
this section includes the special
district court, which thus remains
outside the domination Of the
Wang Ching-wei Japanese-spon-
sored central Chinese govern
ment."
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Guard Maintained At
Raleigh Phone Office

RALEIGH, Aug. 15.-tR-F o u r
men are standing a 24-hour guard
over the telephone building here
as a part of the Bell Systems
national plan to protect communi-
cations from sabotage, District
Manager S. H. Youngblood said
today. 2
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Preparations To Push
Recruiting Announced

= WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-R-
Preparations to accelerate further
the army's drive for volunteer re-
cruits already coming in at the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-09-19
Kingsdale

Philip Aarlie spent the weekend
at home from the CCC camp in Bena.
Miss Marian Selitz of Minneapolis,
spent Saturday evening and Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arvid
Selitz.
Miss Mary Haines came home Sat-
urday evening to spend few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyde Haines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Feigum and
Donnie and Merlin and Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Feigum drove to Minneapolis
Sunday morning and spent the day
there.
Miss Norma Feigum came home
from Sandstone for the weekend.
The Bill Bearheart family moved
into the Hjalmer Carlson place and
the Clarence Bildeau family moved
into Joe Okerlund's house last week.
Alfred and Russell Videen came
home from st. Paul to spend Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Lund visited
at the Porter Cockerham home east
of here last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Lund visited
at the Paul Pahos home in Mark
vile Friday.
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South Holyoke

Miss Lenoa Person came home for
a rest from her work at Minneapolis,
as she has been i'll lately.
Miss Susanna Bjorsvik of Duluth,
visited here Sunday.
Fritz Semers is at his home here
now after a four months stay in Du-
luth.
Mrs. Tom Walton visited in Wren
shall one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Oswasky drove
to Carlton Monday.
Miss Mary Maxi went to Duluth
Saturday and came back the following
day on the Great Northern train.
Mrs. Geo. Sorenson and son Oliver
went to Carlton Wednesday of last
week when Oliver went to consult
a doctor.
Mrs. Erwin Friedrich visited at her
home here Friday afternoon.
Milton Person went to Duluth Mon
day to see an eye specialist.
The South school held its first P
T. A. meeting Friday night with a
fine attendance.
Louis Pryor called at the Soren-
son home Monday afternoon.
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DanfOrth

Young peoples meeting will be held
at the Harry Hendricks home Satur-
day evening.
The choir will meet at the Martin
Johnson home Tuesday evening of
next week.
The Fisherman club of the Oliver
Presbyterian church of Minneapolis,
will be at the Danforth schoolhouse
Sunday, September 20. Sunday school
will be at 10 o'clock, followed by
picnic lunch. Each family is request
ed to bring silver, cups and plates
for themselves. Each lady from Dam
forth please bring pie in addition
to the regular lunch.
DR.. and Mrs. P. T. Dempsey of Rut-
ledge were dinner guests last Thurs
day at the Mrs. Aug. Anderson home.
Carl Alvar and Marian Hathaway
of Duluth, spent Friday afternoon at
the Carl Swanson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Oberg spent
Sunday at the Andrew Boo home
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Soderquist
and little son were dinner guests Sum-
day at the Ed Pauline home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Swanson and
sons and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Hend-
ricks and Betty Anne spent Sunday
afternoon at the Ole Roland home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Nelson and
children spent Sunday at the Ed
Caron home.
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Oak Lake

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Skinner are
back again in district 81, where Mr..
Skinner teaches.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arvid Anderson and
family were Sunday visitors at the
Elmer Lofgren home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Lindberg
were at the c. E. Anderson home Sat-
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dockstader of Moose
Lake, were Sunday visitors at the
Nels Lundbeck home.
Mervin Fiske of Superior, and
Dorothy Selvig of Duluth, spent the
weekend at the o. j. Fiske home.
Arne Anderson of Rush City, is
spending the week at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Anna Anderson, before
leaving for Rock Island, ILL.,, where
he will attend the Seminary.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-09-19

Of st. Paul, visited relatives in town
over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Johnson re-
turned home on Monday after a
weeks vacation.
Billy Slot visited his sister, Mrs.
Frank Mach, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. liner Carlson and
family of Sand Creek, and Mrs. Emma
Swanson of Danforth, were dinner
guests at the Ralph Wahlquist home
Sunday.
Ralph Wahlquist and Adrian Berg
lund, representatives from the Union
Presbyterian church of Kerrick, at
tended the annual meeting of the
Grindstone Lake Bible camp at Sand
stone Monday evening.
Don Small is back in town again.
He has been working for Whitmas
and Borg in Duluth.
Louis Hogan returned home last
Thursday after having spent the first
part of the week in Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L. Wahlquist and
Dolores spent Sunday in Minneapolis
visiting relatives.
James Hogan, Father Michael Ho-
gan and Patty, and Dolores Wahlquist
were Duluth callers Friday.
Vic Tomhave of Cloquet, spent Sum-
day in Kerrick.
Ed Rudisuhle of Minneapolis, was
a Kerrick visitor Tuesday of this
week.
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When You And
l We're Younger
Items taken from the Askov American
of Is and Is years ago.
twenty-five Years Ago.
(September %, 1879

About go from Askov, including
the band boys, attended the Pine
county fair last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Friday was Askov day and
nearly 5000 people were in atten-
dance then. They enjoyed base
ball game, horse racing, automobile
racing, aeroplane flight, etc.
Lewis Lindstrom has just complet-
ed drilling a we'll for N. A. Williams,
on his farm just north of Bruno. MIR.
Williams now has two fine wells OF
water, both drilled by MIR. Lind
Strom.
Miss Alice Sprague OF Bruno, took
little Kenneth Johnson to Minneapo-
lis Saturday for medical treatment
following an accident, as kenneth
was bitten by a dog at the school,
house Friday afternoon and 1t was
feared that the dog was mad. Inc
little lad however is doirg fine and
it is sincerely hoped that no bad re-
suits will follow.
Carl Miller has been busy the past
few days putting up nine morse
power Gade gasoline engine IN the
Askov Cooperative Associations
feed store. 1t is an air-cooled en-
CINE. Several other improvements
have been made at the feed store
such as putting in elevators and bins,
and grain can now be elevated to
and from the car very quickly.
Conrad Christensen of Duluth, is
in Askov visiting at the home OF his
brother. Andrew Christensen, east of
town. Mr.. Christensen is baker and
it is understood he intends opening
up a bakery in Askov.
Hogan Bros. of Kerrick, are ship
ping a carload of rye this week. This
is the first car of grain to be shipped
this season.
Carl Larsen, two sons and a SON.
in-law of Jackson county, were here
last week looking over the 24O acres
in Sandstone township which they
bought last spring. They expect to
move up here next spring.
L. P. Jacobsen, clerk of School Dis
lrlcl mo. IL, was III IHlS lily ldSl
Thursday before the board of county
commissioners in the interest of the
new school district which was formed
at that meeting. The new district
comprises the town of Dosey and sew
eral sections in Fleming and is taken
away from School District No. II. 1t
is better for all concerned that this
new district was formed as it is too
far away from Askov to be governed
by the local school board.
Sixteen girl friends or Miss Dag
mar Buck, bride-to-be, gave kitchen
shower at her home Saturday eve
ming. All the young ladies spent a
pleasant and enjoyable evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-09-19
their son and daughter-in-law, Rev.
and Mrs. Charles Hoffmeister.

their son and daughter-in-law, Rev !.
and Mrs. Charles Hoffmeister.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Hunt of Duluth
came Friday to visit old friends and
attend the Karnival.
Miss Katy Young was a Sunday
guest of Miss Grace Toering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Weser are now
located in their new home in Hinck-
ley, having moved in from the coun-
try Tuesday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Robar of Dull
nth visited home folks over the week
end and attended the Karnival.
Mrs. Harmon Smith of Duluth,
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Cole.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Musser and
family of Washburn, Wis.,, and Mr..
and Mrs. Rudolph Koepke and family
of st. Paul, visited at the Chris
Opsahl home Sunday.
The Parents Teachers association
will hold their first meeting of the
school year Monday evening, Septem-
Der 16 in the high school building.
This meeting is to be reception for
the teachers. Parents come and give
the teachers a royal welcome to our
community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur LindrOth of
Minneapolis, are spending this week
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Lindroth.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Harwig entertained
friends from Iowa over the weekend.
Mrs. Dilley of Markville, visited her
son-in-law and daughter and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Edin.
Mrs. Arnold Boyum (nee Hope
Ornburg), of Robbinsdale, spent sew
eral days last week with friends. Mrs.
Boyum was high school principal for
three years before her marriage last
spring.
Mrs. Berry of Minneapolis, is visit
ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Leo
Dennig at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Rosga of Mime
apolis spent the weekend with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rosga and Mrs.
Webster.