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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

HE WATCHED LANDON-Sen-
ator Borah matted for Aft Landon's
campaign before "prejudging" him.
but he later confded: Il am not
for him"
his speech-which he secretly hoped
would stampede the delegates-I
countered Borah leaving his hotel.
1t was past midnight, hot and sticky.
"Come along, Robert, and walk
with me-" he said. cts cooler out
here"
So we walked about the deserted
streets and he talked about Hoover,
the convention, and ALT Landon.
Doubted LandOn's Ability.
They'll nominate Landon tomor-
row." he said. ''The stage is all
set. Hoover tried to run away
with the convention tonight, but they
don't want any of him. It will be
Landon and Knox, you mark my
word"
"And then what are you going to
do, Senator?"
81 don't know. I'll wait and see
what Landon says. But what I'm
wondering is what can he say. He
knows nothing about national or for
eign affairs. l am told he is a nice
gentleman, but the country needs
more than that in the White House
in these times. 1 don't want to pre-
Judge Landon. shall hear him out,
but 1 have strong bunch I will not
support him.
He Didn't, Either!
Borah's premonition was right.
Three months later spent day
with him in Boise as he campaigned
for his sixth senatorial term. We
had a long talk that night in his
room before he retired. l remarked
that hadn't heard him say word
during the day about Landon.
"And 1 don't intend to say any
thing about him." Borah replied
quietly. II am not for him."
"Are you for Roosevelt?"
"Well, Robert" he said, "I've got
a lot of Democratic friends in Idaho
and I think they know where I
stand" And then with a gentle smile
he added, "That's a pretty good
news story, isn't it?"
It certainly was. It was the big
scoop of the campaign.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01
Last NeWsman to See Borah
Recalls How Lion of Idaho
Kept Mum in 1886 Campaign
Didn't Favor Landon, So He
Played Ball With Home
State Dems.
BY ROBERT S. ALLEN

(COau,lior, cith Dre,o Pearson, of 'The
Washington Merry-Co.Round.")
released by Western Newspaper UnionJ
WASHINGTON. - The Sem
w ate just doesn't seem the
same without Senator Borah.
He was the first leader l
came to know intimately as
cub Washington reporter Is
years ago, and saw him last
the day before his fatal acct
dent I think I am the last news
man he talked to.
It was late in the afternoon. /
knew that the Presidents message
on the Finnish loan was due the
next day, and dropped into Borah's
office to get his views. Wrapped in
an army blanket, he was lying on
a couch, reading an article on trade
treaties. He motioned me to a chair,
which I pulled up near him. On the
marble mantle directly over him
was striking new photograph of
himself which he liked very much.
Duty Came First.
Borah looked well, but frail, and
recalling that during the Christmas
holiday he had told me he was think
ing of taking Mrs. Borah south, I
said, 'What about your trip"
81 guess that's off, Robert" he
replied. "Mrs. Borah won't stay if
1 don't, and I can't"
"Why not? Things aren't so active
now. A few weeks of warm wealth
er and sunshine would do you a lot
of good"
eyes, but l can't leave. Those
trade treaties are up and I've got
to be on hand to keep an eye on
developments. It's close fight and
we can't take any chances. I would
like a little rest, but I feel it's my
duty to stay on the job and oppose
this act"
"What about the Finnish loan?" I
asked.
"That's a very distressing diem
ma for me, Robert" he said. "My
heart goes out to those gallant peo-
pie, but at the same time I have
grave misgivings about lending
money to anyone in Europe. Once
we let down the bars we can't fore
see what it may lead to. We must
keep out of that mess regardless of
our personal sympathies.
Dilemma of 1886.
I remember another time when
he was in dilemma. 1t was in 1886.
That spring, at the age of II and
for the first time in his long career,
he decided to make serious try for
the presidency. There was consid-
cradle popular response, but the ma
chine politicians were against him.
He went to the Cleveland conven-
ton empty-handed-and he knew it.
The night Herbert Hoover made
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
fective. but If the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be withheld).
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01
If the Lights Go Out,
Look for a Muskrat!

ADRIAN, MICH.-Twice the head
lights of John Bates car went out
and twice he went to garage to
have defective wiring replaced. The
third time he suspected that some
strange agency was at work so he
placed a trap under the hood-and
caught a muskrat which had been
gnawing the wires.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

An interesting news item described
a bovine paradise" in northwestern
Iowa. The item says that new
dairy barn, recently constructed, pro-
vides for maternity ward for the
cows and each bossy has drinking
cup with running water in individual
managers of rounded concrete. The
cows quarters (not stables) are
equipped with sewage system, wash
ing facilities and Enthusiastically
controlled ventilating system.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01
know more about his qualifications
for third term.

l see where Morse ship is lost
near the coast of Japan Shucks, they
can just as well land, the island must
be uninhabited by this time, judging
from reports coming from China.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

The milking machinery is operated
by electricity so that human hands
never touch the milk. A glass-en-
closed Conservation" room connects
the milking parlor with cooling and
bottling rooms; stainless metal pipes
carry and cool the milk and the
barn, in addition to "bull pens" and
a calf nursery" has storage space
for 100 tons of feed with adjoining
silos of $50 tons capacity.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01
| Would Say
BY A. w. CONAWAY

The Republicans, in their national
convention this year, will be faced
with a militant farm bloc consisting
of approximately $50 delegates from
Northwest states. The demands OF
these fellows will be for better hand
ling of agriculture's problems in
Washington.
Why didn't that bunch come around
sooner? They remind me of the hus-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01
The number 100 is always reserved
for the Presidents car.

James Monroe received all but one
of the electoral votes in 1920 An
elector from New Hampshire voted
for John Q. Adams in order that no
president other than George Wash
ington should have the honor of re-
;eiving unanimous vote.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

l see where Congressman Pittenger
will press the fight for a Canadian
American treaty for development of
the st. Lawrence seaway. Pittenger
states that seaway progress will not
be interrupted by the coming general
election in Canada. He didn't or
maybe couldn't answer as to the COM
ing general election in this country
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

band who called at the home of a
party hostess and announced that he
had come only to take his wife home.
The hostess inquired: "My dear sir,
why didn't you come sooner?"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

1t didn't say, but suspect the OPP
orators of the paradise" cow farm
will get along in the old fashioned
atmosphere of coal stove and privy
if they are to rely on profits from the
product at prevailing prices.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

1 see where the Golden Gate Expo
sition came through its run with the
only major crime being reported as
$1000-armed robbery. Of course,
if the fair was true to form, there
was considerable legalized robbing
going on.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

Well, Woolworth made millions out
of 10-cent items and Wrigley makes
millions out of a penny stick of chew
ing gum there really should be
some hope left for dairy farmers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

President Roosevelt is reported to
be wearing an Anthony Eden hat.
Now, if someone will tell us whose
shoes he is going to get into, we will
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

We must have better training for
our men here in Minnesota. didn't
know until Governor Stassen selected
three out-of-state men for civil serv-
ice jobs that we were so woefully short
of men who could do things. He is
alleged to have said that there were
none here qualified for the work
WE'LL guess there HAS been pretty
heavy drain on the qualified young
men of the state since he became gov
ernor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

Apparently the Supreme Court JUS
tice is as obstinate as was the Scotch
policeman in London who was as
signed to keeping the crowd away
from in front of the Houses of Parlia-
ment. When a stout excited woman
endeavored to pass he restrained her
The woman exclaimed "I'm the wife
of the cabinet minister; you must let
me pass" The Scot eyed her I'M
perturbedly: Madam, you couldna
pass if we were the wife of a Pres
byterian meeniSter."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

To those who would see the United
States Supreme Court as a hallowed
group of unbiased men, might cite
what a certain writer said about Jus
tice James c. McReynolds, 78-year old
member of the court. Among other
things, showing Justice McReynolds'
unbiased and tolerant" attitude,
friends say that he will likely hold
onto his Supreme Court post until
after the election returns are in next
November, for he hopes he might
retire from the bench without being
supplanted by Roosevelt appointee
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

No one knows what the Republic
cans and Democrats will do when
they get at each other >. . it is much
easier to tell what they won't do.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

Furthermore the 78-year old cum
biased" judge has voted against the
Roosevelt administrator on every one
of Is vital New Deal tests brought
before the Court up to the middle of
1896 and in the current session he
has voted against the majority on II
occasions that's being unbiased
and tolerant till it hurts.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

Newspapers are filled with head
lines like this: Northwest Business
at 10-Year Top" yeh, we know
that, but so was one of our light
strings broken at the ceiling =. we
couldn't reach it and keep both feet
on the floor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

An item of news tells us that
woman in combat plane flies 800
miles per hour upside down." She
did what two-thirds of the world is
doing today the only difference
is she landed safely.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

He apparently was of the same
faith and belief during the World
war (peace at any price) when he
lodged being drafted into the United
States army.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-02-01

Said Earl Browder when a jury
convicted him of passport fraud:
''The verdict is but one more step in
the drive toward war" by golly,
for the next four years anyway, he
will be safe from draft lodging if
there is a war.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Churchill
Continued From First Page)

the Nazis are taking the food of the
defeated peoples for themselves.
Britain has $4,000 dead. wounded
and missing in little less than a
year of war. compared with 365.O00
in the first year of the last war, al
though countries and armies have
vanished in this conflict on scale
comparable only to 'barbaric times. B"
Britain. which he proclaimed
stronger today than ever before, be-
lieves she can continue the struggle
indefinitely and as long as the enemy
pleases and the longer it continues
the more rapid will be our approach
ment to that superiority in the air
upon which, in large measure, the
decision of the war depends.
British new air production, he
said, exceeds that of Germany, al
though Britain still is vastly out
numbered in the air itself; yet
American planes are just beginning
to come.
Cannon, rifles. machine guns.
cartridges and shells have been
ferried in immense quantities. and
safely from America, he said, and
"the British Army is at home-mors
than two million determined men
have rifles and bayonets in their
hands, and three-quarters of them
are in regular military formation y
"Our stocks of food of all kinds
are many times as great as in the
days of peace AS in Nelson S
Evening star., 1940-08-20

fense Of their Atlantic seaboard,
and President Roosevelt has made
it clear that he would like to dis
cuss with us and with the Domin-
ion OF Canada and with Newfound-
land the development of American
naval and air facilities in New
foundland and in the West Indies.
There is, of course. no question
of any transference of sovereignty
or of any action being taken against
the wishes of the various colonies
concerned, but for our part his
majesty's government is entirely
willing to accord defense facilities
to the United States on a 99-year
leasehold basis, and We feel sure
that our interests no less than theirs
and the interests of the colonies
themselves and of Canada and New
foundland will be served thereby.
Undoubtedly this process means
that these two great organizations
of the English-speaking democra-
cies, the British Empire and the
United States, will have to be some
what mixed up together in some
of their affairs for mutual and
general advantage.
For my own part, looking out upon
the future. I do not view the process
with any misgivings.
No one can stop it. Like the
Mississippi it just keeps rolling
along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full
food, inexorable, irrestlble, to broad
er lands and better days.
Evening star., 1940-08-20

day the maxim holds, Our first line
of defense is the enemy's ports. -
The Prime Minister, jeerirg at
Hitler's proclaimed total blockade
of England, declared bluntly that no
food would be allowed 20 reach any
country which has fallen to Hitler.
He said he regretted that he had 70
refuse American requests that food
be allowed to go to the people OF
France, Belgium and Holland
He conceded that the enemy are
still far more numerous i'll The air
than We" but declared that British
plane production now exceeds Ger
manys largely
We are sure of ourselves and cur
cause said the Prime Minister, and
he declared that, with control Of the
seas and the friendship of tho
United States, Britain can draw re.
sources from the whole world
Two or three years mean nothing
in the life of a nation, he told
the British: and, be the road long
or short rough or smooth, We mean
to reach our journeys end"
He based his refusal to allow
food to pass the British blockade
on the premise it would only pro.
long the agony of all Europe -
Then. somberly. he reviewed this
summers cataract of disaster" :"
warned that the puppet govern
ment" of France may be forced to
become Britain's foe at any mo-
ment" and declared that all the
ports from the North Cape to the
Spanish frontier might be used
for an invasion of Britain.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
$500 Per Trip Offer
To Ferry Planes 10
England Revealed
Proposition Outlined
To Oklahoma Flyers
By Soldier Of Fortune
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCldteu fIcSS
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug 20.-An
offer of $500 per trip to all takers
to ferry planes across the turbulent
North Atlantic to England had the
Oklahoma flying fraternity buzzing
today
Arriving unheralded, Col William
C. Brooks, flying soldier of fortune.
outlined this proposition and two
alternatives, according to aviators
he interviewed. For the pilots he
could not reach during his stay, he
left interview blanks and posters.
Later at Dallas, an aide said Col.
Brooks Is acting independently and
has no official connection with the
British government.
The supplemental offers were:
One, ferrying jobs in England. and,
two, commissions in the Canadian
Royal Air Force, with assurances
that those enlisting would serve only
as instructors and see no foreign
service.
Plans Carefully Drawn.
These offers bolstered reports cur
rent since the war began that Eng
land eventually would seek to ferry
American-ma ships across the
ocean, taking a chance on losing
only few through crashes or COM
bat rather than a whole shlpload
in a submarine or naval bombing
attack.
Plans for ferrying the fighting
ships across the water, Col. Brooks
explained. already have been care
fully drawn.
The planes" he said, will be
flown in groups from weu-pre-
pared base in Canada to a station
in the British Isles. Naturally, the
planes will be transported as safely
as possible, flying in groups and over
conveyed steamships as much as
possible Although that Will take
them a little farther than the direct
route. which is 1885 miles.
Each ship will have pilot. CO.
pilot and radio operator. The lead
ship will have more instruments and
a celestial navigator"
Jobs on Civilian Basis.
Base pay offered is $500 for the
pilot, s4O0 for the co-pilot and $500
for radio operator.
According to Col. Brooks, the jobs
are on a civilian basis, but with
salaries to be exempt from all
British taxation. Two transatlantic
trips a month would be guaranteed
and the crews would be flown back
to the United States.
The ferrying job in England, at
base wage of $3.50 week. is for
flying ships from the factory to the
field or from field to field in day.
| light and safety
Col. Brooks is known to every
veteran flyer in the Southwest. In
1887 he purchased airplanes and OBJ
tanned pilots to organize the Hon.
duras Air Force, which he headed
in action against a group of revolu-
| tionists who rose against President
Tiburcio Carias.
Evening star., 1940-08-20

disturbance is moving slowly eastward
over Eastern Maine. Houlton. l,0O4. Il milll-
bars (2a65 inches. with a trough extend
ing southwark over the ocean and thence
west -southwestward to the Georgia coast.
In this trough q wave disturbance is cen.
trail about 200 miles south southeast Ct
Cape Hatteras with lowest pressure about
| O0a millibars (2a.S0 inches). is nov
ing Acknowledgement Pressure IS rela-
lively low over Eastern Colorado. Denver
1859 millibsrs (30.03 inches, and over
the Plateau, Boise. Idaho. 1.Cll.9 millibars
(29SS inchesl A hieh-press're area is
moving eastward over the upper MISSISSIPPI
t3o.s6 inches. with a wedse extcndine
southwestward to Texas. Duriny, the last
% hours showers have occurred IN the
Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States
the eastern lower lake resion. along the
West Gulf Coast. in the south portion cf
the East Gulf States. ami in the middle
and southern Rocky. Mountain resion.
Temperatures have fallen from the MIssis-
sippi River eastward to the ATLANTIC Coast
and in the West Gulf States. while they
have risen in the northern Plains States.
Evening star., 1940-08-20

stated that in event of war, combat
squadrons will at once leave big air
bases where they can be bombed
while concentrated on the ground
and will be dispersed for safety.
Without an adequate system of
scattered, camouflaged airdromes,
available in advance of the emer-
gency, such dispersion might be
fatally delayed, as it was in Poland
and other victims of the blitzkrieg.
Observers who have visited Ger
many report that one of the reasons
for the comparative security Of the
German air force in the face Of
courageous British air raids, Is the
fact that cleverly concealed, scat
tered airdromes are available and
were available long before they were
needed.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Discusses Transfer
OF Naval Bases.

We have to think not only for our
selves, but for the lasting security of
the cause and principles for which
we are fighting.
Some months ago we came to the
conclusion that the interests of the
United States and of the British
Empire both required that the United
States should have facilities for the
naval and air defense of the West
ern Hemisphere against the attack
of Nazi power which might have
acquired temporary but lengthy con-
troll Of large part of Western Eu-
rope and its resources.
We have therefore decided, spon-
taneously and without being asked
or offered any inducement, to in
form the Government of the United
States that we should be glad to
place such defense facilities at their
disposal by leasing suitable sites in
our transatlantic possessions for
their greater security against the
unmeasured dangers Of the future,
The principle Of association of in
terests for common purposes be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States had developed even before
the war in the various agreements
reached about certain small islands
in the Pacific Ocean which have be-
come important as air fuelling
points. In all this line Of thought
we found ourselves in very close
harmony.
Like the Mississippi,
It Just Keeps Rolling Along"
Presently we learned that anx-
iefy Naa slso felt In the United
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Report
FURNISHED by the Z

Furnished
Coumbia-Fai continued cool tonight and tomorrow
gentle north and northwest winds
VnFar continued cool tonight tomorrow fair
Vrginia-Fair cool tonight
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Report for Last Fl Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
prom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. 81. 4:l0 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. 93.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 100 on July %.
Lowest, z, on January %.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, 30 per cent. at noon yesterday.
Lowest, Al per cent, At noon today.
River Report.
Potomac River cloudy. Shenandoah
muddy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac very
muddy At Great Falls today. d"
Tide Tables.
Uurnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow.
High Q:1a am. Q:56 m.
Low - 4:O1 am. 4:4l am.
HiRh Q:42 pm. 1921 D m.
Low - Ala pm. 4:4S pm.
The San and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today--- 5:26 s:55
sun, tomorrow---- o:25
Autouaobiis Mghts must b. turned On
one.hAn hour after sunset.