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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
% Killed as Truck
Is Struck by Train
WORST TEXAS WRECK
IN HISTORY; II
SUFFER INJURIES

McAllen, Texas-(P)-Twenty-
three fruit pickers, mostly of
Mexican extraction, were killed
today in their orchard bound
truck which was struck squarely
in the center at a grade crossing
by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train. Seventeen other pickers
were injured.
1t was the most disastrous
wreck in Texas history.
The train crashed into the
truck at a crossing six miles east
of this. lower Rid Grande Valley
town. It carried the vehicle on it;
cowcatcher for about 600 yards.
Bodies were scattered along the
tracks.
Identification of the victims
was slow. Most of them were la
borers living in the farm section
around Alamo, Texas.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
PARIS SHOP PLANS
FORMAL OPENING

Spring flowers and spring styles
will be offered by the Paris shop
at the formal opening of its new
ly remCdeled quarters Wednes-
day and Thursday. Flowers will
be given as faVorS Wednesday,
Redecorated and rebuilt, inter
rior fittings are finished in natur-
al color, with burgundy inlaid lin
oleum flooring lending warmth to
the decorative scheme. Burgundy
is also the color of its homespun
dressing room Grapes. +
The west side of the shop, form
erly the hat department. has been
furnished with new built-in cases
tor coats while hat display count
ers have been moved to the west
rear of the building. In the hat
lection, as in all part of the store
where mirrors are used, f1uore-
scent lamps furnish daytime light.
Four enlarged fitting rooms,
each with a tull-length mirror,
have been built at the rear of the
store and there, too, is an altera-
ton and corset fitting room. The
office is still located IN a balcony
at the rear. Black trim sets off
the natural color of the booths
and counters and there are black
stripes through the marbelized
linoleum.
The Aune and Thune store is
another which has installed new
flooring, asphalt tile in brown and
tan squares with cream fiecks
through both. Only window dis
play counters are now used along
the sides of the store and solid
counters have been placed in the
center.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
ST. arkN New
'Co-0pDirector
JERRY MAHONEY NEW
SECRETARY; CLIP
FELL REELECTED

Sherman L. Park was elected a
director of the Scenic City Co
Operative Oil company at its an
nual meeting in the Legion hall
Monday, replacing A. M. Dennis
toun who served as director and
secretary since the establishment
of the cooperative in 1924. Mr..
Dennistoun, now an independent
oil dealer refused denomination
and. was given a rising vote of
thanks for his conscientious work
in the organization.
c. D. Clipfell, superintendent
of Redwood county schools, whose
term as director also expired, was
reelected. "The only president
the cooperative ever had," he
was renamed to that office when
directors organized after the
stockholders session.
Jerry Mahoney was elected
secretary by directors; Joe Shank
of Morgan was renamed vice.
president and c. E. Goodyear of
dhtOIl, ISdSuIS q.
About 225 persons attended the
annual session and 81 votes were
cast, Mr.. Clipfell receiving SO and
MFR. Park so. Both will have three
year terms. sssl.<- 4.s---sy<.e.s
Besides electing board mem
bers, cooperative stockholders
voted to leave the dividend on
capital stock at five per cent. It
had been suggested that they eli
inmate dividend payments and
turn the money into patronage
dividends.
John Vandermyde, president of
the American Farmers Mutual
Auto Insurance company and
Continued on page Iwo)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Glencoe Leads
RegionSchools
In Declam
RENVILLE, APPLETON
PLACE TWO, OLIVIA
GIRL HIGHLY RATED

Twenty towns were represent
ed in the regional declamatory
contest Monday at the high school
auditorium here and 80 boys and
girls were entered in the four di-
visions.
Glencoe High school led in the
honors with a superior rating in
each division: Arden Bullert with
"Shangri-La" in oratorical de-
clamation; Donald O'Donnell with
his original Grafton, ''The Old
World and the New" Charles
Walker, who recited a collection
of four poems in the interpreter
tive reading group and Margaret
Bean who drew do You Believe
That The Gallup Poll Threatens
Our Democracy" for her topic in
eXtemporaneous speaking.
Other superior winners were
Frank Wilcox of Montevideo and
Wesley Swanson of Renville who
gave 1.-THE Way of Life" and "'The
Monster in the Public Square" in
oratorical defamation; Leonard
Gierke of Appleton, whose origin
al grafton was Wanted, Efficient
Men," Geraldine Bachelor of
Renville who recited 1.-THE Win
dows to the South" John Dough-
erty of Appleton who gave "a
Tragedian in Spite of Himself"
and Virgil Antonsen of Buffalo
Lake with "The Congo" in inter-
pretative reading. Others rating
in the extemporaneous division
were Carolyn Pfeiffer of Olivia
and Jack Minium of New Ulm,
whom the judges, Joyce Gregory
of West High school and Harold
LeVander of Manchester, said de-
served superior plus.
Edmund Petracek of Redwood
Falls won very good rating in
the original oratory class and
Jean Lauterbach competed in the
interpretative reading.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Peace Doesn't Lift
moral EmbargOs"

Observation-Disclosures Presi-
dent Roosevelt indicating uneas-
mess over Finland's future, the
United States will continue to
regard Russia warily for some
time.
Th}s Ncame apparent today
when it was learned from a re-
liable source that the moral en-
bargos" against Russia imposed
by Mr.. Roosevelt and the, stale
department after the Soviet in
vasicn of Finland would be main
tanned Indefinitely, regardless OF
the Baltic peace.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Plans Rushed
For'4OCensus
ANSWERS MANDATORY
ENUMERATORS ARE
NOT TO TALK

Plans for the 1910 population
and agricultural census which
starts April 2 are being laid at
seventh district headquarters in
the Redwood Falls High school.
Leroy Hardy and Mrs. Joe
Greene have been recommended
as Redwood Falls enumerators by
the county Democratic committee
but have not been officially ap-
pointed as yet.
Redwood county gets 80 pop
ulation enumerators and the sew
enth district, 218. Two two-day
district training schools will be
held for counters and they must
pass examinations afterward.
The census will last two weeks
in cities over $500, a class which
includes Redwood Falls and a
month in rural districts and in
corporated towns of less than
$500. Extra time is required in
the country because of the dis
lance between homes and because
the farm census will be taken at
the same time as the population
count. .
The business census now un-
derway will probably continue
through the opening of the pop
ulation count. There are two Red
wood county business enumer-
atorS and IL in the district.
Albert P. Krost of Mankato is
head of the district office, replac-
ing James F. Coon of Rochester.
He is the third district census
chief since the office opened.
considerable circulation has
been given recently to an erron-
eous statement to the effect that
there is no legal compulsion to
respond to the inquiries of CEN
sus enumerators, according to
William l.. Austin, federal census
director.
"All persons are required by
law to give correct answers to
the inquiries of census enumer-
ators who are required to treat
census information as confidential
and divulgence of information
about any Individual or firm is
severely penalized.
Penalties range from $10C
fines or 60 days Imprisonment for
refusal to answer, up to $500 fines
or one year Imprisonment for
giving intentionally incorrect in
formation.
"Proprietors of hotels, apart
ments, boarding houses and SIM
liar enterprises who refuse to CO.
operate with the enumerator in
registering guests are subject to
fine of $500. Individuals or COM
mittees who conspire to cause an
Inaccurate count of a community
Continued on page Sky
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Young People Escape
Injury In Accident

Six young people escaped in
jury when their car left the road
two miles north of Morgan last
Thursday evening, leaped a six
foot ditch and hit a barbed wire
fence, straddling a steel fence
post.
Leonard Otto of Gibbon was
driver and occupants of the ma
chine were Irene and Evelyn
Kalk, Leona Geske and Gertrude
Otto, all of Redwood Falls and
Leonard Hansen of Gibbon. Miss
Geske is employed at the B. P
Kelly home and Miss Otto at the
DR.. 0. H. Johnson residence.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Rumania May Be
Spared Firms Fate

notwithstanding, an un-
improbable although non-offic-
ial source disclosed today, has
obtained a definite pledge from
Soviet Russia that Rumania will
be spared come what may in
southeastern Europe.
This assurance which probably
will be publicly documented soon
apparently has enabled German
diplomacy in turn to make Ruman-
la incline toward a Rum
anian non-aggression pact.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14

Redwood Falls firemen were
called out on a false alarm We'd
assday night.
A young man or boy reported a
fire at the Redwood Falls Farm
ers Elevator to the telephone Of
fee at 9:55 p. m. Asked his tele-
phone number, he gave 321 but
did not give name.
The fire department dashed to
the scene anticipating fighting a
serious blaze under adverse con-
ditions-bitter cold and a fairly
high wind. The elevator office
building was dark and locked and
a play of searchlights over the
elevator proper failed to reveal
any sign of blaze.
They returned to the fire hall
where Fire Chief j. M. Corbett
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Paid Secretary
Will Be Hired

Steps will be taken immediate
ly to find the best man available
f7T the job and hire him as secre2
tary Of the Redwood Falls Give
and Commerce association direct
ors decided at a breakfast meeting
Wednesday morning.
Reports of solicitors indicate
the association has raised slight
ly over the minimum amount
deemed necessary for launching
the new program. Approximate :
ly 20 per cent of firms and indi-
viduals on the lists had not been
seen, however, and several stores
had not yet heard from central
offices.
The directors have contacts
with several eligible men and ex-
pect to interview a score or more
before hiring.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Carrier Pigeon Is
MarOOned In City

A carrier pigeon is carrying on
along Second street in Redwood
Falls this week.
He appeared in front of Gallea's
bakery Wednesday. Harvey
Thompson, butcher at Dirlam's
market next door, picked him
from the snow and fed him after
an inspection which revealed that
he was banded but had no mes
sages on his person.
The bird is staying close by
Harvey, flying up and down the
business street and feeding at
Dirlam's. The metal band on one
leg is numbered NPA35 A347O.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Gazette Guesser
Picks Cardinals
To Take Tourney

Predictions-pure guesses
advanced by the Gazette
sports department on the
district ten tournament go
like this:
First round: every meet
has to have an upset, we
figure New Ulm to disap-
point Springfield in the first
round 20 to Is, Sleepy Eye
to take Gaylord Is to Is,
Redwood Falls to eliminate
Lamberton 30 to "a and
Morgan to vanquish Fairfax
80 to 20.
Second round: New Ulm
to beat Sleepy Eye % to Is,
Redwood Falls to beat Nor
gan 80 to 26.
Final: Redwood Falls 81,
New Ulm 80. Consolation
Morgan IS, Sleepy Eye 20.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Alarm R0uts Firemen From
Warm HOmes>>It's Prankster

checked with the telephone oper-
ator who received the alarm. The
number given by the caller is that
of Roy Warmers service station,
but Warner had locked the place
for the night Is minutes before
the call was made.
Honors for the biggest bite on
the false alarm 60 to Redwood
Falls newspapers who jumped to
the conclusion that since there
was no fire at the Redwood Falls
elevator, it must have been at the
North Redwood Farmers elevator.
They begged a ride to the village
while firemen were telephoning
there.
Persons who turn in false
alarms can be prosecuted under
state law, said Chief Corbett, eff
you can find them"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Delegation
To Protest
Zoo Removal
SCHOOLS JOIN FIGHT
WITH LETTERS TO
GOVERNOR STASSEN

A delegation from the Redwood
Falls Civic and Commerce asso-
Eciation will go to st. Paul to pro-
test removal of the Ramsey park
Esmall-animal zoo at meeting
with the state executive council
hit was decided at breakfast
gathering of directors in Hotel
Ramsey Wednesday. Julian E
IMorten, former secretary Of the
council, will head the group.
q The zoo was broken up and re-
|rnovsd from the park this week,
animals and birds being taken to
three different localities. Lyle
sTweet, former Redwood Falls
game warden now stationed at
Montevideo got two wolves, two
badgers and two raccoons while
the Canadian honkers, pheasants
and ducks went to Stanley Beer
who had made wild-bird pets a
hobby.
Charles Wagner, former Mint
cafe proprietor who gave the
monkey Betty to the park, read
of the ECO removal at Sartell in a
Minneapolis morning paper,
jumped into his car and came
over 100 miles to Redwood Falls
the same day to get Betty and the
other monkey, Bob"
Il want to be sure they'll get
as good care as they have been
having" he said, "I'll keep the
monkeys until such time as there's
a decision to return them to the
park"
Nearly 1000 letters written by
every school student in Redwood
Falls were mailed to Governor
Harold E. Stassen Friday. Each
one asked that the animals be
kept here because of the pleasure
children have in visiting them.
More pupils messages are going
to the governor from throughout
Redwood county this week at the
suggestion of Superintendent C.
d. Clipfell who sent out letters to
every rural school teacher in the
county at his own expense.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
ADMITS SHOOTING FATHER

st. Paul-tP}-Walter Winters,
assistant to the chief of the state
crime bureau announced today
that Melvin Schiller, %, of Buff
falo had signed confession that
he shot his father to death Mon
day. Winters said his operative
had received a free confession
and that he had reports Schiller
shot his father after a dispute ov-
er the older mans using the sons
shotgun to shoot at birds around
the home.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Seniors Try Out
For "What A Life"

High school seniors are trying
out this week for parts in their
class play, what A Life" three
act comedy in which Jackie Coo
gan toured the country during last
season after a successful run on
Broadway. Helen Peterson of the
English department will coach the
cast of 10 members.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Deladier To Explain
Conduct Of War

Paris-(P-The senate voted
unanimously this afternoon to go
into immediate secret session to
hear Premier Deladier explain
his conduct of the war to date.
The vote was taken after the
Premier himself, responding to
clamorous press comment on the
Russian-Finnish peace and pres
sure in parliament, offered to dis
cuss with the senators both the
war and the political situation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
IA Boys To Join
De M0lay Tuesday

Fourteen Redwood Falls youths
will be initiated into De Molay in
the lodge hall here Tuesday night,
with the Marshall drill team con-
Quoting the ceremonies.
ALI Master Masons are invited
to the event which begins at 8
p m. Lunch will be served.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Case Day Saturday

Krusemark and Palmer, imple-
ment dealers, will be hosts at Case
day in Redwood Falls Saturday.
Movies on power farming and a
trip through the factory will be
shown at the American Legion
hall, starting at 1880 p. m.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
County Snow Flows
Get First Workout
After 11-Inch Fall
1.13 INCHES OF NEED.
ED MOISTURE BOON
TO 1910 CROPS

Twelve Redwood county
highway plows steamed out
at 6 a. m. today to clear II
inches of snow from blocked
roads after one of the heav-
lest falls in years.
Drifts were three and four
feet high in places and some
roads were plugged, accord
ing to County Engineer Rich
ard Cook. Unless another
storm comes, he thinks snow
blowing will be completed be-
fore night.
1t is the first time this winter
that real blowing has been done.
Blading disposed of previous light
SHOWS.
N. B. Andersen's official gov
eminent measurement of much
needed precipitation which start
ed to fall Monday morning and
continued until late Wednesday
night, totalled 1.13 inches, or lis
inches of snow. Monday there
was 2 of an inch of moisture;
Tuesdays reading was SO of an
inch and Wednesdays SIS.
Travel was somewhat hazard
Gus but not at standstill. Thu
west-bound bus, arriving in Red
wood Falls on time, at 9.28 p. m.
Wednesday, tied up here over
night and a half-dozen passengers
were lodged at Hotel Redwood at
the bus company's expense. The
driver cancelled the Candy run
and left on schedule for Minnea-
polls at 8:42 this morning. The
passengers for the west were taxi
en- on the noon bus from the east.
Wilbur H. Lamberton had one
of the most irritating experiences
of the storm. He found his car
stuck when ne started to leave for
a Production Credit association
meeting at Marshall and was
forced to call a tow-car., After an
Unpleasant trip to the Lyon coun-
ty seat, he found the session had
been postponed.
Wayne Braker and a group Of
Redwood Falls High school wrest-
lers who came out from Minnea-
polls Wednesday afternoon saw
about Is automobiles stuck or
ditched along the highway from
the Twin Cities.
School operation and attend
ance suffered. Among Redwood
county schools closed today were
Milroy, Wabasso, Belview and
Delhi. The last three will not
open until March 25, after spring
vacation.
Redwood Falls schools were
operating as usual, although the
percentage of absences was high
er than usual. Seventy-four stud
ents were absent today of an en-
rollment of $50. OF these, 81 were
in the grades, six in junior hign
and II in senior high school.
Some of the absences were due to
illness and other causes other
than the storm.
The Vesta bus did not run We'd
nesday and was late this morning
but arrived at 9 a. m.
Both M and st. L trains arriv-
ed Wednesday night but the noon
Milwaukee train to Olivia through
which the community gets Star
route mail was an hour late.
Twin Cities newspapers were
also delayed this morning, COM
ing shortly after 8:25 a. m. just
few minutes before rural mail
carriers left on their routes. Both
L. P. Winter and Vern Pryor got
through on their routes WedneS-
day.
The v. C. Hopfenspirger auc-
ton at Clements, scheduled for
Wednesday, was postponed be-
cause of the snowstorm. 1t will
be held Monday, March Is.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
CASE BEFORE JURY

Minneapolis - up - Charles
Grunewald's case was given to a
district court jury in Minneapolis
at 10 a. m today. The deputy head
of the police morals squad then
returned to his office in the po-
lice department to await decis-
ion on his guilt or innocence on
charges of neglect of duty.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
vANDALs RAID SCHOOL

Vandals ransacked desks in the
Clements schoolhouse Sunday,
shut off the coal stoker and broke
windows. The crime was not re-
ported to the Redwood county
sheriff's office.
Evening star., 1940-04-10

not single dollar has been realized
by any Of the owners Of the proper
ties or by any Of the other general
claimants.
Accordingly, it is incorrect to state
that there is mo divergence of
opinion between the Government of
the United States and that of
Mexico" on the subject of expropria-
ton. AS stated in my note to you of
July 81, 1898, in which I was discuss
ing the appropriation of agrarian
properties, the taking of property
without adequate, effective and
prompt compensation is not expro-
priation, but is confiscation, and as
also stated IN that note, 1t is no less
confscation because there may be
an expressed intent to pay at some
time in the future.
1t is also stated in your memo
randum of March 16 that "since the
governments of Mexico and of the
United States have not expressed
their respective. points Of view as to
what should constitute a prompt,
equitable and adequate indemnity to
compensate the American oil COM
panies 1t would be prema-
ture to propose the possibility of
arbitation," and that the Mexican
government feels that "in order to
determine the amount of the in
demnity, the decision of the Mexican
courts should be awaited"
II ic difRoY,lt RI l.,
way this Government could have
made palmer its point of view as to
the compensation owing the Ameri-
can petroleum companies. Our rec
ords show that the obligation of
the Mexican government to make
compensation has been kept before
the Mexican government constantly
since the taking of the property. No
stone has been left unturned by this
Government to bring about a salts
factory arrangement for compensa-
ton. Moreover, the statement of
your government Is not in the ma
ture of things an adequate answer
to the suggestion that arbitation
would be an appropriate method of
settling the differences between our
two countries; nor is the statement
that the decision of the Mexican
courts should be awaited by any
means reassuring.
You further indicate in your men,
orandum that your government
would be disposed to accept the
good Offices of my Government In
order to discuss with the companies
the question of compensation. or, in
the alternative, to join with the
United States in the designation of
one or more experts to present and
discuss their points Of view regard
ing the calculation of the value of
the appropriated properties and re-
garding the form and guarantee of
payment Of the indemnity"
U. S. Has Already Used
Good Offices in Case.
My Government has already used
its good Offices in the promotion of
Evening star., 1940-04-10

there is seemingly . growing disre-
gard for the established principles
Of international law and orderly
processes and an increasing ten
dency to substitute force for pacific
methods OF settling controversies
1t Is all the more desirable that the
governments Of Mexico and the
United States, firm in their adher-
ence to the enlightened principles
advanced and supported by all the
American republics, should signify
their willingness to settle the dif-
ferences between them mentioned
in the preceding paragraph in the
friendly manner indicated.
With the submission to arbitration
Of the oil controversy and the ad-
justment Of the general claims mat
ter, the two governments would
then be in q position to go forward
at the same time with the negotia-
tions interrupted by the oil expro-
priation for a general settlement of
all other pending matters. This
Government earnestly urges this
course, as it has consistently done
in the past.
I shall be glad to learn whether
your government is favorably dis
posed to proceed along these lines.
Accept, Excellency. the renewed
assurances Of my highest considera-
ton.