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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21
STATE OF MINNESOTA
COUNTY OF STEARNS

IN DISTRICT COURT
SEVENTH JUDICIAL, DISTRICT
Tn the matter of the Petit
ton of Joseph Klemm and
Mary A. Klemm to detach
a part Of the South half of
the Southwest quarter of ORDER
Section 4. Township 126.
Range "a from the City of
Sank Centre, Stearns
County, Minnesota.
Upon reading and filing the
petition of Joseph Klemm and
Mary A. Klemm to detach from the
CITY Of Sank Centre. Minnesota.
Stearns County, Minnesota:
That part Of the South half Of
the Southwest quarter(ShSW
W of Section four az, Town
shin one hundred twenty-six
ing easterly Of the right Of way
of the Great Northern Railway
Co. as the same is now located
and constructed over and
across said tract.
1T is ORDERED, that SATURDAY,
O'Clock A. M. be fixed as the time
and the Court Chambers in the
Court House in the City of st.
Cloud, Stearns County. Minnesota.
. as the place. for hearing said
It is further ordered that the
petitioners serve or cause to be
served a notice Of such hearing on
the Mavor or City Clerk Of said
CITY Of Sank Centre at least twenty
900 days before the time fixed
for said hearing: and further that
a copv Of said notice Of hearing be
published in the City Of Sank
Centre at least two weeks before
the time fixed for the hearing.
Dated March 7 1910.
JOSEPH r. HrMSL,
District Judee
CONKLTN AND SHTVELY
ATTORNEYS for Petitioner
Sank Centre. Minnesota.
Publish March 1921. 1910
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21

Harry Tanning, who has been
voted the best umpire in the Paci-
fic Coast League, has only one
arm.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21

Shoe soles are being made from
whale leather in Japan.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21

The rubber tire industry is now
this country's fourth manufactur-
ing business.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21

DISTRICT SCORING SHEET
First Round
Sank Centre 43; Brandon 81.
Bertha So; Swanville %.
Osakis %; Melrose 81.
Deer Creek Al; Long Prairie 40.
Semi-Finals
Bertha 81; Sank Centre 20.
Osakis 80; Deer Creek 20.
Consolation
Sank Centre 81; Deer Creek 80.
Finals
Osakis %; Berthe 70.
A fire in the Congressional Lib
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Assistant Secretary
Of Navy Post Goes
Tolewis Compton
President Nominutes
Friend and Aide
Of Charles Edison

Lewis Compton of New Jersey,
who has been serving as assistant
to Charles Edison at the Navy De-
partment, today was nominated As
sistant Secretary of the Navy to fill
the vacancy created when Mr.. Edi-
son was appointed Secretary.
The nomination was sent to the
Senate by President Roosevelt along
with that of Carroll Miller of Penn
sylvania to be an Interstate Com
merce commissioner for the term ex-
piring December 81, 1916.
MI. Compton, a close friend of
Mr.. Edison, has been serving in
the department here for the last
three years. A native of Perth
Amboy, N. j., he attended the pub
lie schools and Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy. He enlisted in the Naval Re-
serve in 1917, and served on sew
eral ships and stations before COM
manding the patrol boat Nirvana.
His time duty included that
of assistant navigation officer on
the transport U. S. S. Mallory. In
1919 he was assigned to the cod
ing section of naval communica-
tions here, and resigned from the
Navy in 1920 to enter business in
New York and New Jersey.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
St. Lawrence Waterway
Agreement Reported

BY the Associated Press.
A substantial agreement" on the
st. Lawrence Waterway has been
reached by United States and Ca
madam representatives.
The State Department announced
last night that the two delegations
of engineering advisers would re-
port to their respective govern
ments for decisions on questions Of
policy.
The three-day conference here
sought a basis for negotiation Of
ia new treaty providing for develop
ment of the waterway and st.
Lawrence water power. A previous
treaty was rejected by the Senate
The two delegations agreed to
go back to a 1926 plan calling for
construction of waterway ~ feet
around the international rapids Sec
ton Of the st. Lawrence and con-
struction of main dam in the
vicinity Of Barnhart Island, with
. powerhouse In each country and
Z control dam upstream.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Prof. Besteiro Succumbs;
Spanish Leftist Leader
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON, Jan. 25.-Dispatches re-
ceived here today said Prof. Julian
Besteiro, former Republican leader
in Spain, died of tuberculosis yes
terday in prison at Cordoba, Spain.
Prof. Besteiro had been in prison
since the Nationalists' victory last
March. On July 10 he was SEN
fenced to 80 years servitude after
a military tribunal convicted him of
helping to prolong the civil war.
A 69-year-old professor of philos-
ophy on the faculty of Madrid Uni
versity, Prof. Besteiro was the last
head of the Spanish Republican
regime. He was chief of the Madrid
Defense Council which surrendered
the city to the Nationalists last
March %.
Previously he had served Spain
as Minister to The Hague, president
of the Assembly and minister of
foreign affairs.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Better Is Appointed
Assistant to Ickes

Former Representative Alfred
Better of New York has been ap-
pointed to the post of assistant to
the Secretary of the Interior, it was
said today by Interior Department
officials.
The post is one of two assistant
ships which had not been filled for
some time. The appointment was
made by Secretary Ickes.
Mr.. Better, who was defeated for
reelection several years ago, is a
Democrat, and served as leader of
the P. w. A. forces in the House. He
will assume his new duties, it was
said, as soon as he is sworn in.
He was in Washington today.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Caldwell 10 Quit House
Al End Of Session

Representative Millard F. Caldwell
of Florida, recently named chairman
of the House Appropriations Sub
committee which will draft the Dis
trict appropriation bill, has an
nounced he will quit Congress at the
end of the present session to resume
the practice of law.
More than a week ago it was re-
ported that Mr.. Caldwell would
probably retire after the present ses-
sion, his fourth term. He made the
announcement at Pensacola, Fla,
when he was introducing Postmaster
General James A. Farley at the dedi-
cation of new Federal building.
Mr.. Caldwell is also chairman of
the House Patronage Committee.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
u. 5. Charges TaImadge
Tax Payments Deficient
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 25.-The
Federal Government has registered
claims for $1,62194 in back income
taxes against former Gov. Eugene
Talmadge, Democratic critic of New
Deal trade and agricultural policies
A hearing is set before Commis-
sioner John A. Tyson of the United
States Board of Tax Appeals Feb
ruary l on charges that Mr.. Tai
madge was deficient 81, ,525.47 in 1894
and $96.47 in 1885 payments.
An Atlanta lawyer and farmer,
Mr.. Talmadge contended the basic
amounts in question, $17,095.68 for
1884 and $2,7O9.12 for 1895, were
contributions and gifts or transfers
in bank accounts" incident to his
successful campaign for reelection
as chief executive of Georgia in 1884.
John E. Mcclure of Washington,
his attorney, declared after brief
hearing yesterday the income tax
commissioner had ruled publicly
campaign contributions are not in
come and yet in his deficiency letter
he claims that the Governor was
negligent in not reporting" them.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
u. S. Bars Materials in Mail
On Clippers to BeIligerents
Restriction Of Service to Written Matter
Held in Line With Neutrality Act
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
No ARTICLES or materials" may be
mailed hereafter to belligerent coun-
tries by transatlantic clipper
planes.
This, an official of the Post ONCE
Department said today, is in line
with the State Departments inter-
probation of the Neutrality Act.
Since Inauguration of trans
Atlantic airmail service, there has
been only one class Of mail-30 cents
a half ounce-and persons desiring
to pay the price could send almost
anything.
Under the new regulations, mo
articles or materials shall be ac-
cepted in the airmails for dispatch
by the transatlantic air service"
to belligerent countries or neutral
countries whose mails pass through
belligerent countries.
The effect of this, it was explained,
will be to limit the content of trans
Atlantic mail to written matter. An
exception is that anything copy
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Grounding Lodge BIockboI|s
President, Takes In B|ucksmiths

But in the final vote the men
taken in were Ernest P. Dyson and
]. Earl Newswanger, Quarryville
blacksmiths.
Mr.. Hensel said President Roose-
velt probably was too busy" just
now to take up the tasks of member
Ship-but might be elected later.
Vice President John Garner is
member-along with the President
of Finland and Col. Charles Lind
bergh. Mr.. Garner was elected last
year.
The rest all live in this vicinity
and turn out each Grounding Day
in high hats and nightgowns for the
long walk down Swamp Hollow way.
There they observe whether the
lodges favorite grounding sees his
shadows mighty sure way, they
say. Of telling how long cold weather
will last.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Much Contrubond Found
In Mail, Say British

LONDON, Jan. Is (F.-British
examination of $4,000 parcel post
packages from the Americas be-
tween october IL and January IL
has disclosed a wide variety of
contraband, informed sources here
have revealed.
Discussing Britain's vigil over
transatlantic mails, a British
spokesman declared last night that
evidence had been uncovered OF
traffic on an enormous scale" in
food for Germany from the United
States and South America.
Besides food, which he said was
shipped by private well-wishers and
German firms in the United States,
he said mail examination also had
disclosed a large-scale racket in
(See CLIPPER, Page A-l1.)
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Pact End 10 Strain
Relations With u. s,
Japan Declares
Hope Thot Negotiations
Will Lead to New Treoty
Expressed in Toxic
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Jan. ga foreign Office
statement today said expiration to-
morrow of the United States-Japa-
nese trade treaty would put the gen.
eral relations between the two ma
tions, as we'll as trade relations,
under strain"
1t said Japan hoped negotiations
between the two countries would re-
suit in new treaty.
The foreign Office said negotiations
still were in progress regarding a
new treaty or modus vivendi, but
unfortunately no agreement has
been reached so far, leaving Japan
and the United States without a
treaty"
Sought to Readjust Relations.
The statement explained that
when the United States abrogated
the pact. the Japanese government
sought to readjust relations ''in view
of the Importance - of the trade
relations and because Japan's policy
in the China affair is not aimed at
eliminating the just and reasonable
interests of third powers in China. :"
"On the contrary" it added, 1T is
firmly believed there are many fields
of cooperation between Japan and
third powers In creating new East
Asia"
Noting Washingtoh's decision to
refrain from levying additional
duties on Japanese goods. the foreign
Office said the japanese government
has no intention of discriminating
against American goods or vessels
and already has taken the necessary
measures in that regard"
No Difficulties Over Merchants.
1t said the United States in
tention of treating as temporary
visitors those Japanese merchants
residing in the United States by spe-
cial rights under the 1911 treaty SIS
not considered likely to cause spe-
ciall difficulties"
The Japanese government, it con-
cluded, still was continuing to exert
great efforts" to readjust Japanese
American relations.
1T is confidently hoped that
through the negotiations that are
being continued relations will be
restored to a normal state with a
treaty basis
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Deutschland, Home
Safely From Raids,
Renamed luetzow
Former Designation Kept
For Miehtier Worship,
Believed Being Built
By the Associated Press.

bs li1e hSSoCldleu ffeSS.
BERLIN, Jan. 25.-Germany an
nounced today that her pocket bat
tleship Deutschland returned home
recently sfter raiding merchant
shipping in the Atlantic since the
wars outbreak and also disclosed
that she had been renamed the
Luetzow in order to reserve her old
name for a mightier fighting ship.
Germany is believed to have five
35,0O0-ton battleships under con-
struction. One of these, the Ad-
miral Won Tirpitz, was launched last
April. Presumably one of the others
will be called the Deutschland.
Communique Tells of Return.
An official announcement said
Adolf Hitler had ordered remaining
OF the 10,000-ton Deutschland as the
high command communique told of
the warship's return.
The complete communique said:
mo special events in the west.
"Air force units carried out recon-
naissance flights over France and
Britain.
"The armored ship Deutschland
which has been conducting mercan-
tile warfare in the Atlantic since
the outbreak of war, returned home
recently"
Luetz0w to Be Renamed.
The original Luetzow, a heavy
cruiser, also will be renamed. The
nth OF new German series of
10,000-ton cruisers, it was launched
at Bremen July /. What its new
name will be was not disclosed.
The Deutschland was one Of three
10,000-ton pocket battleships which
Germany had at the start of the
war.
The Admiral Graf Spec was de-
stroyed by its own commander De-
cember II off Montevideo, Uruguay,
four days after fleeing to that port
in a running fight with three Brit
ish cruisers.
Scheer Reported Active.
The other, the Admiral Scheer,
was reported widely active in the
first months of the war, but the
Admiral Graf Specs crew said they
frequently masqueraded as the Ad-
miral Scheer
The Deutschland broke into the
headlines prominently with its cap.
ture of the American merchantmen
City OF Flint October 8. The City of
Flint was seized as contraband
carrier, but subsequently was taken
from the German prize crew by
Norwegian authorities and released.
She is due to reach Baltimore to-
morrow.
On November Is the Deutschland
sank with shellfire the British armed
merchant cruiser Rawalpindi near
Iceland.
The only other vessel definitely
known to have been sunk by the
Deutschland was the British freight
er Stonegate on October %.
Launched in 1881,
The Deutschland was launched in
1881, first of the pocket battleships,
heavily armored fast ships equipped
with 11-inch guns. Because of these
combined attributes they were
unique among naval vessels.
On May %, 1887, the Deutsch-
land was bombed by Spanish gov
ernment planes during the Spanish
civil war, % of the crew being
killed and SO wounded.
Two days later German warships
shelled the Spanish city of Almeria
and killed a score of persons in
reprisal.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
By the Associated Press.


QUARRYVILLE, Pa, Jan. 25.-
Two village blacksmiths won mem
bership today over the President of
the United States in this Southern
Pennsylvania community's most ex-
elusive order - the Slumbering
Grounding Lodge, which predicts"
the weather for the Nation every
February 2.
With only three living members
outside this quiet farming section,
the lodge had announced earlier 1t
was considering extending one of its
few new memberships to President
Roosevelt.
alternating Gov. George w. Hen
sci, jr.. explained that was because
the President had been 'kind to the
groundhogs" on his Hyde Park
estate.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Above Tonight
In Record Cold,
Costing One Life.
Capital Is Buffeted
By 42-MIe Wind
Following Snow

The coolest January the District
has seen in % years brought another
death today. as bowling winds drove
the mercury down to 18 degrees this
morning and swept fresh mass of
frigid air toward the city.
The Weather Bureau saw no re-
lief for shivering, snow-hampered
Washington and predicted that the
temperature would sink to degrees
tonight. Fair and continued cold
but nothing fancy in the way of
snowstorms or typhoons-was FORE
cast for tomorrow.
Winds of a velocity which some
times reached AZ miles an hour
whistled through Washington streets
early today, coming on the tail end
Of the storm which left 9.5 inches of
snow for citizens to contend with.
Man Dies of Exposure.
In this bitter weather during the
early morning James F. Rooney, So,
OF IS Sherman circle NV. met his
death. Mr.. Rooney, a proofreader
for the National Capital Press, Inc,
was pronounced dead of exposure
after he had been found uncon-
scious in the 800 block of Crittenden
street NV.
He left work early last night
some time before he was due to
Gut at midnight-and was appar-
emily on his way home when he
lost consciousness. His body was
not discovered until morning. Police
rushed him to Freedmen's Hospital.
But it was too late and doctor
pronounced pr n tan him dead Pf exposure
The winds piled snow in deep
drifts along roads in Maryland and
Virginia and hurled great waves
at beleagured ships in Chesapeake
Bay and off the Atlantic Coast.
Coast Guard cutters fought heavy
seas as they sped on rescue missions
Snow plows had chiseled paths
through all main highways in the
nearby States, officials said today,
but in many places traffic was pro-
ceeding only in one-way lanes.
Worst Snow Since 1896.
Hundreds of city workers, weary
after hours of work, continued their
efforts to clear the city streets-a
job that may cost the city $4,000
or more. Traffic was still creeping
along the streets and public trans
portation services were badly of
schedule during the morning rush
hour.
The snow was the worst in Wash
ington since 1886 and the Weather
Bureau revealed today that it was
part OF the most bitter January since
1918.
The average temperature thus far
in the month has been 26 degrees
seven degrees below normal. The
total snowfall during the month has
been 1873 inches, the heaviest in
years.
Normal snowfall for January is
6.3 inches and last year only rs
inches fell during the month.
The low reading of IS degrees was
recorded at 7:30 am, just as the
wind began to taper off. The wind
had reached its greatest velocity be-
tween the hours of $3.50 am. and
$50 am
Nothing Heard From Ship.
The Coast Guard communicat tions
center here said nothing further had
been received from the steamer City
Of Savannah. Ocean Steamship Co.
liner, or from the cutter Sebago,
which went to its assistance yester-
tSee WEATHER, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-01-25
DC. Pay Roll Tax Cut
Approval Predicted
As Hearing Closes
Increased Benefits
To Unemployed Also
Are Contemplated
BY JAMES E. CHINN,

Prediction that the Judiciary SUBJ
committee of the House District
Committee would report favorably
a bill to liberalize the local Unem-
ployment Compensation Act by re-
ducing the pay roll tax of employers
from 3 to 2.7 per cent and increas-
ing benefits to the jobless was made
today by Chairman McGehee.
The prediction was made at the
close Of a public hearing on the
bill, at which representatives of
Washington business interests and
taxpayers not only indorsed the
proposed changes in the law, but
urged that the pay roll tax be
further cut to point to peg the
unemployment compensation re-
serve fund at $4,000, 900. The fund
now exceeds $4,000 900.
Representative McGehee, a Mis-
sissippi Democrat, said he would
call a meeting Of his subcommittee
later in the week to act on the
bill. Several minor changes may
be made for purposes of clarifica-
ton, he explained.
Funds Continued Growth Seen.
Frederick P. H. Siddons, chair
man of the Insurance Committee of
the Washington Board of Trade.
said the bill contains changes of
merit" but would not give the de-
sired relief to the employer, since
1t would not permit the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board to lower
rates.
While this bill would be a fu-
ture saving to the taxpayer in the
District Of Columbia" he said, "the
reserve funds which now total
$4,000, 900 will continue to grow.
1T is understood that it costs
approximately s15O.0OO a month to
operate under the terms of the law,
while approximately $3.50 900 is be-
ing collected monthly. While the
tax reduction contained in the bill
cannot be estimated at this time.
we do understand that the benefits
Will be increased so that the cost
OF operating will be approximately
100000 a month rather than
$150,00O
Relief for Taxpayers.
Mr.. Siddons pointed out that the
Trade Board in the past had recon-
mended that the reserve fund be
fixed at 10,0O0 900 and that the Un-
employment Compensation Board
be given authority to lower the pay
roll tax or temporarily discontinue
1t until the reserve fund is reduced
to $10,00000O.
This procedure will insure to the
employer tax payer substantial re-
(See PAY ROLL TAX, Page A-2I )
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Tax Question Quiet,
Morgenthau Observes
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Although President Roosevelt
asked Congress three weeks ago to
levy $460, 0,000, 900 of special defense
taxes, Treasury Secretary Morgen-
thau said today: .
II have never seen the tax ques-
ton so dead"
He told reporters that not only
have congressional leaders failed to
consult him about the tax pro-
posals-he has not even heard q
whisper" from Capitol Hill.
Secretary Morgenthau also said
that, as far as he knew, expiration
of the Japanese commercial. treaty
tomorrow would cause no changes
in collection of customs duties on
Japanese products.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
British Fire on Plane
Over Thames Estuary

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-A plane be-
neved to be German flew over the
Thames Estuary at great height
today. British anti-aircraft guns
went into action.
Unidentified planes were reported
over the Shetland Islands late this
afternoon. Pursuit planes went up
to investigate.
The air ministry announced that
anti-aircraft guns fired last night
at an airplane of an east coast port
but later it was found the plane
was British. There were no cas-
ualtieS.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Chinese Plot 10 Kill Envoy
OF u. s., Says Japanese
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25.-Lt. Col.
Jiro Saito, japanese Army spokes-
man, said tonight he had received
information from Nanking of a
Chinese plot against the life of
United States Ambassador Nelson
r. Johnson, who left Marking this
morning on the American gunboat
Luzon en- route to Hankow.
Saito said he was informed the
plotters planned to attack the gum
boat, using either mines or artil-
lery, "in the hope of blaming the
Japanese and thus causing a crisis
ir Japanese-American relations 81
multaneously with the expiration
Of the Japanese-American trade
treaty"
Saito declined to disclose the
source of his information.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Greek Ship, Damaged
By Storm, Sends Call"
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Mackay
Radio Marine intercepted an "ur-
gent communication" from the
Greek steamship Andreas today in
which the master of the vessel ad-
vised that two lifeboats were dam
aged by severe weather and the
boat was listing to the port.
1--WE don't want immediate as
sistance,' the message said, "but
please all ships keep lookout for us"
The Coast Guard at Boston said
the 6.566-ton vessel was in heavy
weather about 60 miles northwest
of Bermuda.