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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04
College Students Convert
Junk Into Store DISPLAYS

BRIDGEWATER, MASS. - Junk
for the dump yards is being used
by State Teachers college students
here to provide window displays for
local stores.
The work is part of the art ap-
probation course and the displays
are offered free to any storekeeper
who wants them.
One of the window displays con-
sisted of old soup cans, which were
dissected and then put together
again in the form of two figures
slipping soup from a bowl. The
backdrop for the scene was a Vene-
tian blind, rescued from an attic
and painted green and silver.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04
Hunt for Fortune
Left by Recluse

ST. CHARLES, MINI. - A
search has been started through
a ramshackle shed on the chance
a recluse had left a boarded for
tune there when he died.
Fred c. Smith, 81, who lived
alone after retiring as a school
teacher at Tracy, Mimi, was
found dead in the shack where he
lived for 80 years. About $50 in
cash was found in his pockets.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldred Parker made a

Mr.. and Mrs. Eldred Parker made a
trip to Pine City Monday.
Herman Gritzmacher left Tuesday
for Mankato to attend the funeral of
his brother-in-law who died Monday.
Bible school is being held at the
Presbyterian church for about a two
week period. A nice crowd of chill
dren are being instructed.
Charles Jacobs has been driving
the Fuhrmann truck while Frank
Mach has been laid up with a sprained
wrist.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04

Leadville, Colo, is the highest city,
10,140 feet above sea level. Other
settlements have greater attitudes, but
they are not claSsed as cities.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04

The Black Death in Europe in the
fourteenth century carried off more
than half the population, the loss of
life being estimated at 25,O0O,0OO.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04
Cleaning SpOnges

When sponges become soiled, they
can be more of a hindrance than a
help in cleaning. They will leave
unsightly smudges if you're not
careful. To clean sponges, soak for
an hour in boiling hot water to which
a tablespoon of ammonia has been
added to each quart of water. Then
squeeze the sponge as dry as you
can get it. Place the sponge in
fresh warm ammonia water (the
proportion, teaSpoonful to a
quartz. Work the sponge around
with your hands and rinse in plenty
of cold water.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04

1t is said that the famous Rogue"
diamond of Kimberley, stone weigh
ing 534 carats, has defied all attempts
to cut it. After three years of con-
tinuous cutting it has cut into the
revolving cutter plate instead.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04
Use Your Head !.

If to advice folks
work job the
it better Tell the boss about anything will
help If the crowd
unproftaby improperly leave them
track of public Read
Go in for sports like Have hobby follow
that
stake the chin
that rhead.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04

Five-cent bills were once issued
IN the United States.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04

Cleveland, Ohio, handles more iron
ore than any other place in the world
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-04

When the blood is heated it has g
tendency to become more acid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

of 25 miles a day, when the plunge into the
low countries started a month ago, they are
now finding every foot of the way harder to
travel.
1t appears that WEYGAND's strategy is to go
on with his retreat, On the present terms'
widening his lines to miss Paris for It's pny-
steal salvation, and contest each mile with
the same determination to give ground only
when it cannot be held. 1t will mean con-
tinued sacrifice, to be sure, not to his troops
alone, but to the Germans as well, who are
steadily exhausting their reserves of men and
materials at a tremendous rate. These tactics
cannot fail to have their effect and may, in
the end, prevail.
We must assume, therefore, that even the
taking of Paris itself will not spell the end
of the war in continental Europe, but con-
stitute merely another phase of the fighting.
Great Britain at last is sending heavy re-
serves to help WEYGAND. This time, under
his personal control, they may not fail. A
war of retreat, to be sure, is not the best way
to victory. But Washington won the revolu-
ton that way, when combating superior
forces.
And if, as may happen, the Germans con-
tinue to gain ground in France, until they
reach the southern frontier, REYNAUD says
they will not have conquered even
then. eve go to Africa" he says, if neces-
sary, square off against MUssoLIN1
and whatever forces the Nazis send to his
assistance there, or to the little areas France
has in America, without raising a white flag
so long as there is a man left to bear arms.
Can mortal heart resist a quickening beat at
such heroism? Certainly no American heart.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
DEFENSE BONDS

Sentiment in the senate is reported as
favorable to increasing the billion-dollar de-
tense tax bill passed by the house to double
or triple that figure; clear indication, we be.
lieve, of the mood congress is in respecting
national defense.
Because defense is costly and the nation
must look to it's people for money in larger
quantities than in any previous emergency,
Secretary of the Treasury MoRGENTHAU has
explained that buyers of the proposed defense
bonds will be required to pay taxes on their
holdings. There is some feeling among the
senators that this provision may retard sales,
but certainly if the spirit of the people is the
same as that of congress-, there will be no
holding back on that account.
The bonds will bear interest. If a tax were
levied which equalled the bonds earnings,
there could be no legitimate complaint. On
the contrary it ought to be viewed as a rea-
sonable contribution to the defense cause.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

"a man who has received fundamental train
ing in aiming, sight adjustment, trigger let
off and firing line discipline has received
training which will shorten his instruction
period for duty not only as an lntantryman
but also as an anti-aircraft gunner a naval
or seacoast gunner or bombardier."
This offers practically every man OF mill
tary age opportunity to learn the rudlments
of war. He will still lack maneuver training,
but the person who knows how to shoot a gun
with precision is a long way toward becoming
a competent soldier. This can be done with
out the national guard or any other branch
of the established military forces, and parti-
patton by a large number of private citizens
will relieve the government Of much expense
and effort in any subsequent call to service.
Wilmington can have a part in the move
ment which will be quite as effective as any
measures it adopts to promote the national
welfare.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
TRAINING WITH E

The National Rifle association, with head
quarters in Washington. has taken up the
fight for national defense in a constructive
way among its membership and potential
members.
A folder just distributed by the secretary
treasurer, c. B. LISTER, explains how branches
OF the national group can help prepare Amer.
lea for war, If war comes, in an efficient way.
1t describes certain tasks the members can I'M
dertake, chief of which is to prepare men to
bear arms-as they were not prepared in
1917-18.
Says the folder: "The first and most prac-
tlcal contribution we can make to national
defense is to use our knowledge of firearms
to teach others tens of thousands of others
= the elementary, basic facts of safe and &C.
curate small arms fire." Continuing, we read:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
PARIS NOT THE N

IN declaring Paris an open city," the
French give warning that, should it be
taken by the Germans, they will continue to
fight. This is given additional emphasis by
Premier REYNAUD who, in a message to Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT, declares: "We will go to
North Africa and, if need be, to our posses
sions in America" to continue the war against
Naziism. If this means anything at all it is
that army conquests have not subdued the
valiant spirit of the Allies-for England can
not fail to entertain the same view-and that
now as when the war started. Democratic
armies have suffered terrible defeats, but
democracy is still undaunted.
In making Paris an "open city," we are to
believe that the French armies still interpos-
ing between the Nazi juggernaut and the city
such opposition as their limited means per-
NIT, will not retire within it's boundaries and
so subject it to the destruction that fell upon
Warsaw, where a few held out to the end. To
do that would be wanton folly. Paris would
be RACED, its remaining population murdered,
its treasures lost forever. Abandonment, if it
cannot be retained, will be far better; and
its capture, from a military viewpoint, an
empty victory.
The Germans have failed in a weeks hard
battle to separate the French armies and
drive wedges between them, as was done in
Flanders, that each might be more easily cut
to pieces. Despite the odds against him, Gen.
eral WEYGAND has maintained the integrity of
his defense lines. What generations have
come have been Of minor Importance. The
Nazis, with their greater power, their tanks
and other mechanical units, their fleets of
warplanes, all in large quantities, have forced
the Allies back, but very slowly and with
tremendous losses to themselves. There has
been no rout, no hysteria, no weakening OF
morale. On the contrary, there has been in.
tensive, stubborn, well directed opposition
and stiff counter-attacking, which have put
the brakes on the German advance. Whereas
the Nazi hordes drove forward at a minimum
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
R INSURANCE

The NeW York Herald Tribune Wall Street
editor says the entrance of Italy into the Eu-
ropean war has posed additional problems for
marine insurance underwriters. They had al
ready discounted such a move by Italy by
quoting fairly high rates for cargo shipments
to and from Mediterranean ports. While the
rates may have appeared high to some export
ers, latest events have substantiated the un-
derwriters' action. Marine men point out that
one total loss may wipe out the earned premi-
ums which have been built up since the start
of the war.
1t is estimated that approximately so Unit
ed States vessels operate to and from the
Mediterranean, and at least one-third of them
are now tied up in those waters. In addition,
the underwriters have insured "argoes on
Italian and other vessels which are still at
sea. 1t is feared that a loss may be suffered
now that Italy's vessels are subject to Allied
capture.
The first reaction in the marine insurance
market has been to withdraw all rates on
shipments to or from Mediterranean ports.
Because of the fear of revealing their posi-
lions, Italian ships now at sea are out of con-
tact with their bases. Consequently, under
writer's will have no way of knowing if a loss
has been sustained until a claim is filed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK

WASHINGTON, June Is - President Roose-
welt has a way with him.
The other day when the international situa.
ton was as tense as all-get-out (name a day
recently when it hasn't been), 1 wandered into
the afternoon press conference. The Presidents
dome-shaped office was sardine-canned to the
screen doors.
You could almost feel the tension. The boys
who labor in the news marts were full of ques-
lions. Only capital etiquette kept them from
pouring out.
Then the President began to speak slowly,
casually like an actor building up to a dram
attic climax. He let them have it all at once.
Then, just as slowly, he backed away drop
ped OFF into a long, agonizing ,ull of explana-
ton. Then again he struck an important point,
and tripped off slowly to his exit line.
Took His Story
When the curtain came, there wasn't a man
Cor Woman) in the room who wasn't dying to
dash for a telephone or fresh air or a chair.
questions were forgotten. The things we really
wanted to know were buried by either a column
and a half Of good news or exhaustion.
Hours later, after the copy was all in, we
realized the things we really wanted to ask
would have to await another day,
That President Roosevelt-when it comes to
handling his public pronouncements-he is a
one.
Note to the Movie Critics: Don Ameche made
IA personal appearance here the other day be.
fore the house committee on interstate COM
merce. Although he played to standing room
only, his performance was lousy.
There being no advance billing on Don's an.
pearance, 1 don't see how all the capitol steno-
graphers and secretaries found out. That just
shows how fast the old grapevine travels. And
when natty, sunburned Don made his entrance
in Hollywood gray, the girls were jammed
around the committeeman table.
I think Don came to talk about the block
booking bill. He got in something about how
impossible it is for a producer to tell customers
what a picture is about before it's finished.
Then Representative Brown, Of the Ohio
Browns, started discussing his fan mail-not
Ameche's, Browns.
Shirley And Mickey, Too
Mr.. Brown had received a letter from Mr..
Ameche. Mr.. Ameche couldn't be sure whether
he wrote or just approved it. Which was all
right and according to best congressional ETH
quette until Mr.. Brown explained that he
and other members of the committee had re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under Council Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shoes.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvine
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
s5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, ~td'
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport. vd
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prodnc
ton through sustained-yteld methods
th~roughout~ Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial mt Resort Pro
motiona1 Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tau.
Ehipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for vhites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape groatn0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis SanGtoriun.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
Finland Plans To Pay
War Debt lnstallmen1

WASHINGTON, June 10 M =
Battle-scarred little Finland toas'
advised the United States thal SIT
would pay her $780, 1913 senl'al'
nual war debt installment as u'
ual and thus preserve a perfect It
cord of payments. -.
Hjalmar Procope, FlnnlSn D"+
lister, announced that the cheek va
ready and would be turned 0' Al
Saturday, when installmeN's WIZ
be due from most debtors
However, proposals are penpL5
in congress to return TO Ili'. ..
for reconstruction purposes aIu y,
a token of American respect W.
little nations financial honor az. ~.
military valor, both this wst a.
installment and the S234'Os' ~
paid last December.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

Because commercial air trans
port is growing so fast, and be-
cause it is an industry in which
personnel plays SO important a
role, those of us who are engaged
in it believe it offers unusual op-
portunities for the future.
1t is true that if we measure
commercial air transport in terms
of some of our bigger industries,
like, for instance, the railroads,
the motor a industry, the steel
industry and some of the other
professions and trades, the sum
total of jobs is relatively small at
present. But the percentage of
annual increase is quite high.
United Air Lines, for example,
has increased its personnel from
1000 employees to more than $500
employees in the last five months.
The same situation exists with
other air lines.
Air lines place great emphasis
on trained personnel, and no other
industry represents a better ex-
ample of the need of proper train
ing for a job. The reason airlines
have flown nearly Is months with
out fatality to passenger or crew
to establish a safety record with
out challenge is not merely be-
cause equipment has improved.
Trained personnel is a funda-
mental reason, for no airplane is
any better than the pilot who flies
1t, the mechanic who services it.
the meteorologist who plots a
course for it or, for that matter,
the clerk who sells a ticket to a
passenger boarding it.
Because it is an industry widely
regarded as having a great future
and because it is the kind of a
business to appeal to the imagina-
ton, commercial air trasport has
been fortunate in attracting high
type personnel. Yet there actu-
ally is a shortage of trained per-
sonnet.
Take, for example pilots. There
are thousands of flyers in the
United States, but airlines must
still 60 out and hunt for pilots
with the proper training to make
them airline prospects.
The same situation exists with
airline mechanics. There are lit
orally hundreds of thousands of
mechanics in the United States
good mechanics, too-but they
don't qualify as airplane motor
mechanics, or aeronautical radio
technicians, or propeller mechan-
les, or instrument technicians. The
airlines have found they have to
train their own men.
For 10 years United Air Lines
has operated the Boeing School of
Aeronautics in Oakland, Calf.
The school specializes in training
men for airline positions.
This year United started a new
student apprentice training school
for mechanics at it's overhaul base
at Cheyenne. Both of these extra
curricular efforts we're established
because of the need of trained
men.
NEXT: Outlook in Hollywood. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
HOLLYWOOD Sights And SOUNDS
.Bv Robin Coons.

Oscar for his work, but it is still
highly effective.
Paul Kriza is a good, Flooding.
honest family man, cashier Of a
small-toWn bank. Entrusted Wit
500, 900 on his first visit to New
York, he is mulcted by racket
GERS. When he learns that he is
believed a dead hero, he vaniShes
and forever pays the penalty fer
his one fling, thus protecting bis
family from disgrace.
The setting is 1925, a small
Pennsylvania town, but the period
is not sufficiently remote to save
the tale from the dated label
FriZa-in the old version a pro-
vincial Europeans too guilele8
for America. In this country lnom'
ma George probably would have
hired someone to stay with the
kids and traipsed to the city her,
self, thus frustrating the excellent
work of the siren (Angelus) before
it got under way. )
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
HONOR H FLAG

At the request of the American Legio1
Auxiliary of Wilmington the Star reprints a.
article from Flag Etiquette" a booklet pu
out to foster 100 per cent Americanism O.
Did Glory. We are glad we were asked t
it and heartily endorse the sentimen
The article reads:
When you see the Stars and Stripes dis
played, son, stand up and take off your
hat. Somebody may litter. 1t is in the
blood Of some to deride all expression of
noble sentiment. You may blaspheme in
the street and stagger drunken in public
places, and the bystanders will not pay
much attention to you; but if you should
get down on your knees and nay to AL
mighty God, or if you should md bare
headed while a company of old soldiers
marches by with flags in the breeze, some
people will think you are showing off.
But don't you mind! When Old Glory
comes along. salute and let them think
what they please! When you hear the
band play "The Sta~r-Spangled Banner"
while you are in a restaurant or hotel
AAAAS VIM = oP SNSA yOu 1loC
alone; stand there and don't be ashamed
of it, either!
For of all the signs and symbols since
the world began there is none other so
full of meaning as the Flag of this coun-
try. That piece of red, white and blue
bunting means five thousand years of
struggle upward. It is the full-grown
flower of ages of fighting for liberty. 1t
is the century plant of human hope in
bloom.
Your Flag stands for humanity, for an
equal opportunity to all the sons of men.
Of course we haven't arrived yet at that
goal; there are many injustices yet among
us, many senseless and cruel customs of
the past still clinging to US, but the only
hope of rightlng the wrongs of men lies in
the feeling produced in our bosoms by the
sight of that Flag.
Other flags mean a glorious past, this
Flag a glorious future. 1t is not so much
the flag of our fathers as it is the flag of
our children, and of all children's chill
dren yet unborn. 1t is the flag of tomor-
1OW. IL is Iue Signal OIL Inc GOOQ lime
Coming" 1t is not the flag of your king
1T is the flag of yourself and of all your
%neighbors.
Don't be ashamed when your throat
chokes and the tears come, as you see it
flying from the masts of our ships on all
the seas or floating from every flagstaff
of the republic. You will never have a
worthier emotion, reverence it as you
would reverence the signature of the
Diety.
Listen, son, the band is playing the
National Anthem - "The Star Spangled
Banner!' They have let loose Old Glory
yonder. Stand up-and others will stand
with you.
The tribute to the flag is offered to
the country in appeal to all men and
women of all races, colors and tongues,
that they may come to understand that
our flag is the symbol of liberty, and
learn to love it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

ADD WASHINGTON DAYBOOK -
ceived similar letters from Mickey
Rooney and Shirley Temple (re-
tired).
At about this time, Don went up
in his lines and didn't regain his
equilibrium until the session was
over. and the stenogs and secs
started screaming for autographs.
This was home ground, and the
Ameche knew just what to do and
say.
I couldn't get through the fem
mine phalanx. I wanted to ask Don
how he felt about his performance
And I'd bet a sarong to a SONG bv
Ameche that his answer wo,,,d
have been: boy, I'll never plav a
return engagement in congress-"
Notice To Ambulance Chasers
The federal communications com.
mission (the boys who rule tho
ether) is somewhat limited in int 70
state activities but it went in+o
high gear on a Complaint from
Illinois. The FEC wouldn't name
the town or persons involved, but it
lai1 down the law to an Illinois 49,
dertaking firm. If the firm 49,
sisted in using police radio calls for
tops on dispatching ambulancas ~
the seem Of traffic accidents for
the purpose of SOLICITING b,,si,osa
the FEC opined said undertaLars
soon woul have to undertake e to eat
themselves out of the klink.