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Evening star., 1940-04-21
Tighter Liquor Curb
Near Schools Is Urqed

Tightening of the Districts Alco-
holic Beverage Control Act, to limit
liquor sales in the vicinity of play
grounds, schools and other institu-
tions was urged in a resolution
adopted by the District of Columbia
Public School Association Friday
night at a meeting in the District
Building.
The resolution asks, in effect, that
the act be changed to forbid the is
suance or renewal of any licenses
except retailers lAcense, Glass E, for
any sales within 600 feet, by direct
line, of Fairgrounds, school grounds,
colleges, universities, libraries, hos
pitfalls, churches or other public in
stitutions-except in downtown sec
tions of the city which are wholly
commercial for large areas. For
the latter, the resolution would have
the act leave the issuance of licenses
to the discretion of the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board.
The association also adopted a
resolution indorsing a proposal to
conduct an international EXPOSE
ton" here in 1943 in commemora-
ton of the 150th anniversary of the
laying of the corner stone of the
United States Capitol.
An address was delivered at the
meeting on Cancer, It's Prevention
and Control" by DR.. j. Rogers
Young of the Speakers Bureau,
Medical Society of the District of
Columbia.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

Vegetarian rats are given special
attention in an anti-rodent cam
paign begun in downtown residen-
tial area yesterday.
Every household and business con-
Germ on Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
streets between M and o streets
NV. received package contain
ing three types of rat poison-mixed
with hamburger, fish and oatmeal
Chats for the vegetarians).
Mixing and distribution were done
by members of the Young People S
Societies of the Chevy Chase (Md)
Presbyterian Church. They worked
at the Temple Baptist Church,
Tenth and N streets NV, aided by
several volunteers from Temple
Center and a grouL from the Met
ropolitan Baptist Church.
Dr.. Frank N. Jarvis of the Bio
logical Survey supervised the work
and saw to it that rats of all tastes
were taken care of.
Rats are like human beings, in
that no two of them have the same
food preferences" said DR.. Jarvis.
$50 we have the hamburger for the
meat eaters. the fish Canned sal
mon) for fish eaters and the oat-
Evening star., 1940-04-21
State Department Official
To Crown Blossom Queen

Ofhcials of the festival announced
today that six additional princesses
had been chosen.
They are Miss Gene Dell Sale of
Washington. d. c., representing
American University; Miss Nancy j..
Washington of Alexandria, Va, rep
resenting st. Agnes School; Miss
Jane Allen of Salisbury, Md, repre-
senting the Maryland State Horti-
cultural Society; Miss Dorothy Lee
Cox of Martinsburg. w. Va. repre-.
senting Shepherd State Teachers
College; Miss Ruth Douglas of Reed
vile, Va, representing Blackstone
College, and Miss Eugenia Lee Fargo
Of Baltimore, Md, representing St.
Mary's Female Seminary.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Envoy Of Panama
Pleads for Unity
Of Americas
Canal Society President
Receives Decoration
From Ambassador

The Ambassador of the Republic
of Panama, DR.. Don Jorge E. Boyd,
last night told the fifth annual re-
union banquet of the Panama Canal
Society of Washington at the May
flower Hotel that "the unity of the
Americas means their safety"
DR.. Boyd addressed approximately
100 members of the society, formed
of the men who built the short cut
between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans.
The Panamanian Ambassador s
speech preceded his presentation to
former Representative Maurice H.
Thatcher of Kentucky, president of
the society. and a member of the
Isthmian Canal Commission which
administered the building of the
waterway, the degree of Commenda-
dor con Plaza of the Order of Vasco
Nunez de Balboa in the name of
President Augusta Boyd of Panama.
Mr.. Thatcher expressed his pro-
found gratitude" to the govern
ment of the Central American Re-
public for the decoration.
Mr.. Thatcher. later in the ban
quet program, said he believed the
SIS 100000 bill for the construc-
ton of an additional set of locks
for the canal probably would be ap-
proved in conference. The Senate
has approved the item. It was re-
jected, however, by the House.
Mr.. Thatcher called on a num-
ber of the "old timers" who stuck
with the canal project through its
construction years, fighting yellow
fever and malaria, to reminisce.
At the end of the banquet, the
society held a business meeting and
elected officers. New president of
the society is William r. McCann
Of Hopewill, Va, who was craftsman
and assistant engineer for locks and
dams in the first division of the
canal at Culebra. J. Fred Huber of
Falls Church, Va, was elected vice
president and Mr.. Thatcher, Sec
retary and treasurer.
The society's auxiliary, composed
of the women who accompanied
their husbands to the canal during
the construction period, also dined
last night in another part of the
hotel. Guests of honor at the aux
iliary function were Sonora de Boyd
and Nine. Ricardo Alfaro, wife of
the former President of Panama.
Mrs. Aileen Gorgas Wrightson,
daughter of Gen. William G. Gorgas,
presided.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

$1,000 In cash and approximately
tS20 worth Of jewelry.
One Of the two holdup men BRAN
dished . revolver as the pair en-
tered the grocery store. and forced
Maxwell Walden, manager; Harwood
Pointer, . clerk, and four customers
into . back room before taking the
money from the cash register.
A total Of $1.043.S4 was obtained
from q safety deposit box in the
Office Of Charles H. Fearing, local
manager for the North Carolina
Mutual insurance Co., in the TOO
block Of Florida avenue NV, by a
burglar, who chiseled the top OF
the box, Mr.. Fearing told police. A
janitor ut the building discovered
the robbery.
Knife Used in Robbery.
Ferdinand Gruebel, night clerk
at the Fox Hotel, 916 Fourteenth
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Mefhodists 10 Open
First Conference
Since Unification
7S2 Delegates Will Meet
At Atlantic City
For Three Weeks
By the Associated Press.

0S tne ASsOClAteo freb8.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., April 20.
Representing the largest Protes-
tant church organization in the
United States, the Methodist Church
will open Wednesday its first general
conference since the uniting OF its
7,s56, 900 members at Kansas City
year ago.
For three weeks the 782 delegates
from the United States, Europe,
Asia, Africa and Latin America, rep
resenting 124 conferences, will legis-
late for the new denomination, re-
view articles of doctrine, coordinate
womens work and strengthen ma
chinery for administration of a far
flung spiritual empire.
Unification Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, and the Metho-
dist Protestant Church gaye the
Methodists $4,000 preachers In 49,
255 congregations scattered through
42,700 American communities. The
church has 5,926, 900 pupils in 5000
Sunday schools.
Budget Of $75,O00, 900.
The new Methodist Church's an
nual budget will be about $75, ,000, 900.
There are 45,432 church buildings
and 22,898 parsonages valued at
$565, ,474,000. Eighty-three hospitals
valued at $73,250,0 900 employ $500
nurses and provide treatment for
$4,000 patients annually. Forty
seven orphans homes with 81, ,0OO,- :
600 of buildings and endowments
care for $500 children; 5000 aged
are retired in church homes valued
and endowed at $16,5O0, 900.
Organized Methodism began in
England little more than two cen.
turtles ago, pioneered by John Wes-
ley, who, guided always by his
mothers advice, went. to oxford
University to prepare for a right
eous life"
For 40 years Wesley, the great
Circuit rider" rode horseback to
meeting places on his s,000-mile
circuit.
Enter New World.
Wesley's followers tricked into the
New World, the first In 1760. On
September 2, 1874, Wesley ordained
Thomas Coke of Bristol, England,
as superintendent of American
Methodists. with instructions for
him to ordain Francis Asbury as
joint superintendent.
Asbury refused to accept ordina-
ton unless American Methodists
were granted ecclesiastical inde-
pendence to match theh political
independence.
Coke told Asbury: Doctor, we will
call the preachers together, and
their voice shall be to me the voice
of God" During Christmas week
of 1884, so unordained preachers met
quietly for nine days in Lovely Lane
Chapel at Baltimore.
This was the famous christmas
conference" from which the Meth
odist Episcopal Church was born.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

street NV, told police two men
came into the hotel about midnight,
and robbed him of $17. He told
police one man stood in front Of
the desk while the other stepped
behind 1t, pressed the point Of .
knife against his ribs, and said:
Come on. Give me your money"
Mr.. Gruebel turned over the
money, and the two men fed down
the stairs into Fourteenth street.
He said one of them appeared to
have gun hidden in a coat pocket.
Mrs. Thelma s. Latimer, 1901
Kalmia road NV, told police =
wrist watch and two rings, all Of
platinum and set in diamonds, val
ued at $500, was missing from her
home. -..
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Grocery Robbery. /.
.Climaxes Day Of
Crime in District
Burglary Nets $l,M3;
And $500 Worth Of
JeweIry Is Missing

Two robbers obtained 500 last
night In holdup In q Sanitary gro
Gerry store In the 1900 block Of CAL
vert street NV, to top OF q day
which had netted thieves more than
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, April 20.-
Henry w. Grady, Assistant Secretary
of State, has accepted an invitation
to crown Senorita Lillian Somoza,
daughter of the President of Mica
ragua, as Queen Shenandoah XVII
at the annual Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival. Miss Somoza is in
the senior class at Gunston Hall
School in Washington.
The coronation will be held the
afternoon Of May 2, the first day
of the festival, in front of the
Handley High School here. It will
be followed by the "springtime"
pageant in which approximately
1000 school children will take part.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Y. N. G. A. Concert Today

The Central Y. M. c. A. will pre-
sent Everett Palmer, tenor, of the
Robert Frederick Freund Studies, at
o'clock this afternoon in the third
Of series of Sunday afternoon con-
certs at, 1876 G street NV. Mr.
Palmer will be accompanied by
Myrtle Alcorn.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
ADVERTISEMENT.
STUBBORN
RHEUMATIC PAIN
ADVERTISEMENT
When Irritated by Excess Uric Acid

Thousands take ALLENKU fee ~
pains caused by the equity phases Of rhsumA-
ism, neurits, lumbego or rheumatic back
ache when irritated by excess uric ecid q
similar circulating poisons. Such excess sci1
and poisons should soon start to leave your
body, and thus the terrible agony i oftea
relieved-no opiates.
Ask any live druggist in America for -
Q ounce bottle of ALLENRU - q liquid -
sests about IS esuta - savs this not3ea.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Cofe Damaged by Fire

LURAY, Va, April 20 R.-Mem-
bers of the Luray Fire Department
said fire caused about $500 damage
last night to the Panorama Res
taurant on Skyline Drive Firemen
said the blaze apparently started
from an oil heater.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
'PIowboy' Dies at SO

Fires oldest plowman, Michael
Delaney of Mountbutler. who died
recently aged SO was known all his
life as the plowboy."
Evening star., 1940-04-21

All aero clubs In Brazil have been
placed under government control.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

TALK TO MOST any motor car owner
L and he will probably tell you his car
is good one and let it 60 at that. But
talk to a Pontiac owner and chances are
you'll find him so tremendously enthusi.
astic that he will actually 60 out of his ,pay
to sell you on the idea of becoming a
Pontiac owner too!
And why shouldn't Pontiac owners be
our best statesmen? Where else, they say,
can you get such big car, with all the
advantages only big car can offer. that
is just as easy to buy and economical to
own as small car?
And remember, too, Pontiac is priced
right do,vn ,cifh the Lovesf!
Evening star., 1940-04-21

*DeIivered at Pontiac, Mich. Transtor.
fafion based on rail rates, state and local tares
W any,, optional equipment and accessories
-srtra. Prices are subject to change wifh.
osf notice. A General Motors Value.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

representa- tives of labor, agricul-
ture and the professions to confer on
more evenly distributing income
and balancing of prices"
Youth and Education.
Daniel Zero, president of Phila-
delphia Newman Club, discussed
youth and Education" declaring
that it was among youth that propa-
ganda agents in Germany and
Russia concentrated in their pro
gram of hate and distribution"
THE American Home and Family
was the topic of Paul Taggart, jr.
president of the Student Council
of Mount st. Mary's College, who
explained the Catholic Church's S
stand on birth control and divorce
Other officers elected for the
cosnming year were Alfred Bing-
ham, MIR. Zero and Hugh Hilferty
all Of Philadelphia, first, second
and third vice chairmen, respec-
lively; Charles Ferry of the George
Washington Alumni, fourth vice
chairman; George Mccormack OF
Philadelphia, fifth vice chairman;
Frances Maloney, recording secre-
tary; Joseph MCGOWAN, treasurer
and DR.. william A. Kavanaugh
chaplain, all of Philadelphia.
At a communion breakfast at
the hotel this morning delegates
were to hear the Right Rev. John A
Ryan and Associate Justice Harold
M. Stephens of the United States
Court of Appeals.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
Payments Started January I,
Two Years Earlier Than Law
Originally Provided; Wage
Tax Will Not Be Increased

Changes wrought in the social
security act by the last congress
were explained by officials of the
agency recently as they prepared to
start payments of monthly old-age
insurance and survivors benefits
January 1, two years earlier than
provided in the original act.
Explanations of changes were
drafted in an effort to answer in
quiries which have bombarded the
field office in 1872 Federal office
building.
In addition to the two-year adj
vance in the time when payments
will begin, two other amendments
concern almost every family in the
United States. They are:
Besides monthly payments to
insured wage Gamers IS or over,
monthly benefits will be paid to
aged wives and children Of this
group. Monthly benefits also
are provided for aged widows,
orphans. widows with minor
children, and-in some cases
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
Direct skehfief
RevertS To
Towns, Cities
Local Units Will Be
Reimbursed Under
Ruling of County Board
IN EFFECT JAN. |
Necessary Blanks
Will Be Furnished
Welfare Office Assists

Townships, cities and villages of
Stearns County on January 1st took
over control of direct relief, which
passed from the welfare office in
st. Cloud to the individual govern
mental agencies.
This change was made under a
resolution passed by the Stearns
County Board of Commissioners
last October. Following the first
of this year the townships must
make out budgets for its relief
clients, write relief orders and also
pay for orders.
AS in the past, Stearns county
will reimburse the townships rs
per cent for funds spent above the
one mill assessment. In the future
the county will have control over
direct relief, it was stressed. With
the exception of the WPA staff at
the relief office in st. Cloud, the
office will be closed.
Necessary blanks will be furnish
ed to the townships. All investi-
cations for WPA, old age assist
ance, aid to dependent children,
soldiers welfare and aid to the
blind will be done by the welfare
staff members.
Reports must be made monthly
to the welfare office in st. Cloud
by each agency administering it's
own relief, it was pointed out.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
Presidents
Ball Under
Guard Unit
Co. M Will Arrange
For Annual Event
Special Entertainment

In calling attention to the an
nual Presidents Ball, held for the
purpose of raising money for the
care of victims of infantile paraly-
sis, Ben Dubois, county chairman,
stated that this years event will
be under the direction Of Captain
Carl Fischer and members of Co.
M, National Guards.
At the present time plans call
for special entertainment events to
be held in connection with the ball,
announcement of which will be
made at a later date. The dance
will be held in the new school audi
forum on January 30th, provided
the building is completed at that
time.
The National Guard committee,
which will make arrangements for
special events, the dance and orch
estra, under the direction Of Cap
tain Fischer. includes Sergeant
Lloyd Billman, Sergeant Art Ros-
enwald, Sergeant Bill Cummings,
Sergeant Ed Peterson, Sergeant
John Dubois, Sergeant Art Cole,
Sergeant John Egan, Lieutenant J.
r. O'Gara and Lieutenant Donald
Cole. An advisory committee to
work in conjunction with the above
named, is made up Of the follow
ing men: DR.. ]. r. Dubois, r. L.
Scott, Dewey O'Gara, John ".
Kane, Supt. w. A. Kohl, M. ].
Fleming and Harley Forsyth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
Jersey Dairy
Changed
Hands Jan. |
C. H. Nelson, Sacred
Heart, New Owner
Is Years Experience

Concentrating a business deal
made sometime ago, c. H. Nelson,
Of Sacred Heart, took possession of
the Jersey Dairy on January LIST.
He purchased the business from
Ed Besser, who has been the sole
owner since he purchased the half
interest Of his partner and CO
founder, Charles Pendroy.
Mr.. Nelson, whose family con-
sists of his wife and three daugh-
ters, has rented the Wedge house
on Pine Street, where they are now
nicely located.
The new owner has had fifteen
years of experience in creamery
operation, is a buttermaker and has
had longtime experience in the
dairy business. He expects to con-
tinue along the lines Of his pre-
decessor, although he may make
some changes later.
Ed Besser, former owner, has Sc
cured a position as census taker,
working for the Federal govern
ment in the business census, which
will continue until sometime in
April.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
Farmers Urged To
&nroH For Study
Series of Three Farm
Management Lessons VIII
Be Held In County

Farmers of the county interested
in the farm management studies to-
be carried out in a series Of three
lessons over the county are urged
to send in their enrollments to the
county agents office at st. Cloud
at once.
The first of these schools will be
held on January % and 1t is hoped
that all enrollments will be in by
January 10.
All farm folks interested in cost
accounting work, choosing success
full and better paying farm pro-
jects, and other phases of farm
management work are urged to en-
roll for these three lesson studies
which are spaced about two weeks
apart beginning on January 23rd.
No formal enrolment application
is necessary. Dropping a line to
the county agents office or leav-
ing word at the Office will suffice.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
Sub.Zero Heather
Ends Natures Franks
Robins, Late Flowing,
ETC., Give Way To
Old Man Winter

Although below zero weather has
made the unusual warmth of Dec
ember just a memory, reports of
rare occurrences still drift into our
office. With ten to fifteen below
zero, such things as seeing robins,
budding plants, ETC., are a thing
of the past.
v. L. Prosser, Pine Street resi-
dent, reported that ne saw a robin
near his home last Thursday morn
ing, and Pat Dubois last week saw
a large flock of mallards in this
community.
Leo Unger, farmer west of Sank
Centre, did his last blowing on
December 18th, which he says was
the last day that it was possible
to pillow. He had fortified % acres,
which had been plowed earlier in
the fall. He decided that 1t would
be a good time to plow the fer
tilted ground, as he says double
blowing is a good way to kill Can
adian thistle. Leo said that he was
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
SdDings VIII Be
Made In 1910 Tan
Employers Of Less Than Eight
Employees Will Escape Tax
Change Went Into Effect Jan.

Employers in this city and
Stearns county who have less than
eight employees will escape the
present 2.7percent payroll tax they
have been paying under the unem-
ployment insurance act.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture the act was amended to the
extent that employers Of less than
eight employees in cities Of less
than 10000 population do not have
to pay the tax in 1910. After that
time, however, the act provides for
payments based on the payrolls but
when this part of the act is placed
in operation the past labor record
Of the employer will be taken into
account and If the record is salts
factory the employer then, too, may
be exempted from paying the tax.
It is reported that in the state
some $4,000 employers will not have
to pay the 81 percent tax during
1910. The federal law when origin
ally passed, exempted all employers
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-04
New Officers
For Testing
Association
Annual Meeting Douglas
Todd County Association
Of Dairymen

Andrew Beste, Osakis township
farmer, whose eighteen Brown
Swiss cows last year averaged 345
pounds butterfat each, was elected
1910 secretary-treasurer of the
Douglas-Todd County Cow Testing
Association at their annual meet
ing at the Osakis Hall, Tuesday,
December 10.
Clarence Titrud, of Clarissa,
whose % purebred Holstein cows
averaged $40 pounds of butterfat
last year was elected president of
the association. Incidentally Titrud
and son have four purebred Hol-
stein heifers now available for
Douglas County All club work.
Clarence Selensky, of Sank Cen
ire, whose thirteen purebred Brown
Swiss cows averaged 44S pounds
each was elected vice president.
Robert Lundberg, VIM. LAWN,
and Math Jennissen were elected
directors. Sam Haugdahl, of Bran
don community, whose "a Guern-
sey cows were right up with the
above top records, declined nomi-
nation stating it was impossible to
serve at this time.
In explanation it may be men
toned that any Douglas County
or Todd county farmer is eligible
to Join this farmer operated, direct
ed and controlled organization.
In this case twenty-three farm
ers have banded together and hired
Werner Kampsen, an experienced
dairyman familiar with milk and
cream testing, to come to their
places one day per month during
the year and test" their cows.
Mr.. Kampsen gives information
how the best producing herds are
feeding their herds and managing
their cows. He also tests the milk
Of each COW individually both night
and morning. Feed and grain used
is weighed.
At the end of each month and for
the year each farmer receives a
complete record Of which cows are
making or losing them money and
how much. Fifty cows were sold
from the twenty-three herds in 1898
as "star boarders" The cost OF
buying testing acid and wages for
the tester is $3.50 per month for
the smaller herds and $500 for
the larger herds. This is the only
and entire cost. There are still
openings for two or three more
farmers who may join by notifying
the following: Andrew Beste, Osa-
kis; Sam Haugdahl, Brandon; Mrs.
Johanna Olsen, Nelson; Carl ]. Mel
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