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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

daughters of Lucan were Sunday
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. August
RaddatZ.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Kopischke
and Bonne Mae were Friday eve
nlng callers at Morgan.
I'd Volk and Frank Schulcl OF
Morgan were callers at Finlayson
Wednesday and Thursday.
The Clements school eighth
grade visited Wabasso High school
Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. Peter Prokosch,
Arnle and Florence were Satur-
day callers at New Ulm and Man
kalo.
MT. and Mrs. Richard Clements
were Sunday visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. GottlieD Hermann at Red
wood rails.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Dugas and
Gee. giana, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
WohlIord, Mrs. Augusta kIabundc
and Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Bloedow
and Dolores were Sunday callers
at New Ulm.
Carl Baltany and children of
BeivleW, MIR. and Mrs. Ambert
Meyer and children and Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent Meyer were Sunday
supper guests or Mr.. and Mrs.
Ebert Meyer.
Mrs. Charles Cannot and sons
lett MONDAY 10 spend a few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Helget Sr. at Sleepy Eye.
Mrs. Bert Bloedow, Mrs. Ben
Wohiford and MRS. Alfred Dugas
attended the funeral of Mrs. Tom
Carson at New Unn Monday at
ternoon.
Gordon Hemrick went to How
ara Lake SUNDAY 10 get mrs.
Hemrick. They will live in the
second story of the Ed Turner
home. Mr.. Henrick is employed
at the Botsford lumber yard here
Mrs. Theresa Laach and Betty
returned to Rochester Sunday at
Ter spending the week with Mrs
Joseph Seikora.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. r. Smith and
family CT Springfield and MIR. ano
Mrs. Leonard Berg and daughter
of Wabasso were sunday visitors
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Backer.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Mander-
field and son of Springfield spent
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

Stassen invited half dozen
leaders into his office, asked them
what they wanted. They told him
people were starving.
The governor tossed a pencil
and pad of paper across his
desk.
"Just write down the names of
any who are starving" he said.
swell get food for them. Nobody
is going to starve while l am
here" ...
Nobody picked up the pencil.
Stassen went out on the capitol
steps to meet the crowd. Some
body booed.
The governor turned to the
hecklers. 'NOf course, we're prob
ably going to disagree. That's no
reason we shouldn't preserve the
spirit of give and take, and of
fair criticism"
There was no more booing-and
no more marches on the state
house.
A few weeks ago he went up
against the biggest test of the la
Dor policy he inaugurated an at
tempt to end the industrial strife
that has flared in Minneapolis
and st. Paul for years.
Kept The Lights Burning
Employees of the power COM
pany that lights the two cities
threatened to walk out. Signs
pointed to blackout.
Stassen called both sides to his
office. Laborers went in first.
They came out, and company Of
ficials, equally grim, went in.
AS the alternate conferences
continued, both sides began to re-
lax. The word went around that
''The chief is talking turkey"
Presently both sides announced
they would try to iron out differ
ences. The lights stayed on.
No one, including Stassen,
knows today what he is going to
say to the Republicans next June
"a. But it is reasonably certain
that he will talk turkey 49,.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
CLEMENTS CLUB
WOMEN PLANT
WALNUT TREE
By Irma Klause

Clements, - WOmen'S Literary
club members planted a walnut
tree in the village park after their
meeting last Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Joseph Beran.
Alice Wilson was elected presi-
dent and Mrs. Henry Dahmes,
vice-president while Mrs. Nels
Jensen was reelected secretary
and Mrs. William Berg, treasurer.
Fourteen members responded to
roll Call by giving, my Favorite
Tree" and a paper, "Marys of the
Bible" was read by Mrs. Otto
Lindeman Mrs. Richard Glenn
ents gave an interesting talk on
the tied. Cross home hygiene
course and the hostess served
lunch. The May meeting, Guest
Day, will be. held at the nome of
Mrs. Jesse Slaymaker.
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Kcthe of
Springfield spent Sunday evening
with Mr.. ana Mrs. l.. H. Raddatz.
Rev. Cody gave the English SER
mon at Bethlehem Evangelical
I'LL tllCll
Rev. Christ Mack was unable to
be here.
Arnold Klause of Eden spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Emma Klause.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Ander-
son of Minneapolis brought Mrs.
Louise Clements home Saturday
evening. She took treatments at
University hospital for about two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Potter CT
Springveld and Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Quesenberry and !, family
of New Avon were Sunday visit
ors of Mr.. and Mrs. /. E. Bunnell.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Harmoning
of Sleepy Eye spent Friday eve
ming with Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Jacobsen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Backer and
son of Browns Valley spent We'd
nesday with Mr.. mad Mrs. Gust
Backer and visited friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Zeug and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

last week with Mrs. Manderfeld's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Neu-
decker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bengston
and family, Verona Bloedow and
Alva Thorston of Redwood Falls
spent Wednesday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Blcedow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Petes of
Window spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Turner.
MIR. and Mrs. Melvin Werner
were Wednesday evening visitors
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur George at
Lucan, in celebration of Mr..
Georges birthday.
MIR. and Mrs. E. G. Meierbachtol
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ro-
land Christensen of LIE Sueur and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred johnson were
Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. NJ.
F. Christensen.
Theresa Hahn of Wabasso is
employed at the Ed Turner home.
Mir. and Mrs. John P. Kagel,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Peterson,
Mrs. Hulda Hemmingson of Red
wood Falls, MIR. and Mrs. Ole Oh
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Miller Jensen
and MIR. and Mrs. Senius Jensen
of Shutdown were Saturday eve
ming visitors of Charles Johnson
at Iamberton in observance of his
eighty-seventh birthday.
Mrs. Charles Cannot and Alvi-
ma Lou accompanied Mrs. Roy
Brandt to the senior class play at
Springfield Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Clements
accompanied by Mrs. Emma
Klause, Erma and Elaine attended
the senior class play at Springfield
Friday evening.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
By JACK WILSON
(P) Feature Service

st. Paul-Just a little over two
years ago people began hearing
talk of a young lawyer in South
st. Paul who wanted to be COVER
nor of Minnesota.
His name was Harold E. Stas-
sen. Old-timers shrugged: never
heard of him.
Next June "a people all over
the country will turn on their
radios to hear Governor Stassen
deliver the keynote speech of the
national Republican convention at
Philadelphia.
People who never heard of him
two years ago know now that he's
only 33 years old and too young
to run for President, himself; that
he was only 81 when he rode a
wave of votes into the governors
office and swamped a powerful
Farmer-Labor regime.
He Woke Up The COP
They know he gave the state
Republican party a blood trans
fusion that revived it from eight
years of lethargy; that he shook
up the states business admins
tration and virtually baniShed la
Dor warfare from a section that
had had more than its share of
bloody strikes.
They don't know much about
his private life. His intimates in
sist there isn't much to know. His
salary is $7,00Qa year. He lives on
it, comfortably but quietly, in a
little house he built on Missis-
sippi river bluff in South St. Paul.
The house, he said when he NOV
ed in last spring, is complete with
mortgage, like the houses of
most young men in their first
$7,000-a-year job.
Takes His Work Home
Mrs. Stassen runs the house.
She attends occasional women's
organization meetings, but stays
in the background. A slender
dark-haired, attractive young
woman, she looks tiny beside her
towering, sandy-haired husband.
Currently her major concern is
the care of young Glen, the three
year-old son.
The demands of people clamor-
ing for the governors attention
don't leave him much time.
Whenever he does escape for an
evening with his family, he GUS
tomarily puts in several hours
with a debating machine, or con-
ming reports. e
In meeting the public and the
press, Stassen reveals an under
standing of details that has sur
prised political veterans.
He works best against bitter op-
position. A year ago he faced a
"relief lobby" march. There were
1900 marchers, bitter against
Stassen and the Republican adj
ministration. They loudly de-
manded a special relief session of
the legislature. 81 u
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
Meet keynoter Stassen
33-Year-Old Governor Who Woke Up
the COP Gets Chance to Show Stuff

on the caSe.-Ramsey park had
three new Chinese pheasants.
Park Commissioner Joseph Tyson
said the birds were extremely
nervous and timid and park visit
ors should refrain from doing
anything to make them IN the
least uncomfortable.-Mr. and Mrs.
L. P. Larson went to California
to visit the exposition.-Under the
Guardianship of John Lamber-
ton, the new "seven jitney," the
81 passenger motor bus made the
usual trip to meet the North Red
wood train after. a rain. ANY car
that can climb the North Red
wood hill after a deluge deserves
the iron cross. John D. Mclean
was secretary Of the Redwood
Falls Tennis club which had 20
members sponsoring development
of the two clay courts on the old
baseball diamond west of the
river.-The law firm of F. Clague
and T. 0. Streissguth was dissol-
we'd. = Maud Little closed her
school in the Virgins district
near Delhi with a picnic in the
Alonzo Neale grove.-Little Mich
olas Jenniges of Wanda was badly
bitten in the face by a dog.-H.
j. Heilman advertised that he
took eggs in trade for shoes and
stockings.-Eugene Schmidt sold
his Redwood Falls creamery route
to Frank Brewster, the sale also
including the Cadillac car which
Schmidt used in his work.-Susan
Lauterbach who was studying
music at the College of st. Teresa
in Winona gave piano recital
The first floor sample room of
Hotel Kahler was remodeled into
beautiful living room for the T.
c. McAllister family.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

FRANK SCOBIE OF SLEEPY EYE
no doubt held perfect (29) hand at crib
bage as reported in the press last week but
the reporter who described the hand as
three fves and jack, with a jack turned"
hasn't played in the big leagues.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

IT'S A PLEASANT TRAIT TO BE
able to see the humor in an unpleasant sit.
uation. H. G. Schmidt, whose farm buildings
suffered Saturday night, remarked in the Of
flee Monday morning that the insurance
agents in this vicinity aren't particularly
enjoying ''Gone With the Wind"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
so YEARS AGO

Anne Schmahl's ice wagon start
ed on its roundS.-F. Homer of
North Redwood went to college
H. D. Everett resumed his con-
nection with the livery business
in partnership with E. D. McClin-
took at the rink stable. Landlord
Geraldson took over Everett's Ex-
change hotel.-Furestine's saloon
at Sanborn was burned.-Sleepy
Eye was putting on metropolitan
airs with electric lights, voting for
$4,000 schoolhouse and having
a chain gang for the benefit of
tramps. = Mrs. Athey's grounds
were beautified by evergreen
hedges.-Under a new schedule,
the NJ and st. L train made the
trip from North Redwood to Min
neapolis in five hours.-Bessie
Stems of Lamberton was slightly
burned when her clothes ignited
while she was visiting her sister,
Mrs. N. v. Way.-C. D. Thomp-
son was taken sick and showed
symptoms of typhoid fever SO a
telegram brought his wife back
from Iowa.-While few owners
of lots in our cemetery had be-
slowed some attention on them,
they were the exception rather
than the rule.-At the assessors
meeting, the following rate of
valuation for stock and certain
personal property was agreed on:
Horses, three years or over, SIS;
cows, $40; work oxen, $50; wa
CONS and carriages, $40 to $50;
sheep, $1.50; hogs, per hundred
weight, $1.50; sewing and knitting
machines, So; watches and clocks,
81 to Sill; threshers, $500; dogs,
81 for males and So for females;
melodeons and organs, $40 to $40.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
Watch Their Dogs
During Mid-Week/

Hutchinson Dog owners here
have adopted a policy of watching
their dogs-especially Wednes-
days.
Several Hutchinson residents
have lost their favorite pups in
recent weeks and whether by
coincidence or not, the disappear
ances always come on Wednes-
days.
1t may be that a gang is max
ing the town on that day. Any
way, owners have been warned, if
they value their ''mongrels'' to
keep them tied up at least dur
ing the middle of the week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
1T IS SOMEWHAT REASSURING TO


read that another of Minnesota's good
towns, Fairmont, hasn't baseball team but
it doesn't answer the question so often ask
ed-What's the matter with the great
American game in Redwood Falls, and for
that matter in many towns in the 5000 to
10000 class.
A good many rural townships and viii
lagos manage to put quite preSentable teams
in the field and give them wholehearted
backing but Redwood Falls is going into it's
second straight year without a representa-
tive in any league.
The argument will be advanced that
golf, tennis and other sports Interfere and
there aren't enough fans to support team,
but certainly a town of $500 has as many
baseball enthusiasts as many of the smaller
places which manage to get together enough
gate to finish the season in the black.
There is no shortage of players for in
the city and ten mile radius allowed county
league towns are scores of young fellows
who would turn out if given the opportunity.
Probably the real weakness is lack of
leadership and backing. Recent teams scnle-
times have had one, or the other, but seldom
both. What fans turned out for early games
too often found little reason to come again.
Players haven't always been certain That
the best man for position would win it.
Accounting hasn't always been mace OF tick
ct sales and funds collected otherwise.
Fans have varying opinions on the best
method of building up a team, and stlmulat-
ing local baseball interest. n few can see
only club capable of holding a position in
one of the faster leagues of the section, with
several Salaried players. But a majority
believe that team should Ee butt up he
fore entry in league, or even anything
amounting to heavy tinarcicl backing, Is
asked. This summer they suggest tWlngnt
practices and twilight or perhaps night
games with neighbor teams which are oc-
cupied Sundays in league play. This would
not interfere where local boys are playing
with outside teams, but would assure avail
ability of likely material when the team
merits place in league another season.
3 The scheme is simple enough and should
be self-supporting. What it needs is fin
ancial and a playing manager to organize
the effort. 4
TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY, REA-
soned the woman who met the census taker
at the door and declared, "I'm &c. I've got 2
husband and three children, bathroom and
a mortgage-and now young man I'd like to
ask you some questions about the govern
ment."
.
IT'S A PLEASANT TRAIT TO BE
able to see the humor in an unpleasant sit
uation. H. C. Schmidt, whose farm buildings
suffered Saturday night, remarked in the Of
flee Monday morning that the insurance
agents in this vicinity aren't particularly
enjoying Gone With the Wind"
FRANK SCOBIE OF SLEEPY EYE
no doubt held perfect (29) hand at crib
bage as reported in the press last week but
the reporter who described the hand as
three fives and jack, with jack turned
hasn't played in the big leagues.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL BE
drafted for third term all right, says
Leon H. Brown, who adds that F. r. not only
sat by an open window but turned on fan,
to be sure
WITH ILLITERACY PRACTICALLY
extinct in this country, it's inconceivable,
but an occasional movie goer still believes
it's public-spirited to read aloud what few
movie titles are used in talking pictures.
HERE'S A MAN WITH A PRACTICAL
plan for cutting down the accident toll. He
says, make the young people earn enough
money to buy car before they are allowed
to drive one. We suspect he's in the jalopy
business.
WOULD-BE DICTATORS WHO FEEL
control of the press would make them all
powerful should observe Italy. Periodically,
Mussolini's press raves and rants about the
desirability of going to war. But the Ital-
ian public refuses to &c sold product it
knows isn't Is advertised.
o o
AUGUST ERICKSON OF SPRING
field is the number one editorial writer of
this vicinity SO it is always pleasant to catch
him cvading the ISSUE Last week he re-
marked, of dances, Years ago every young
IeiIow took his girl and by 1890 was ready
TO go hcme' Maybe "he" was but "his girl"
must have insisted On more dancing if we
can tel.eve the stories of the horse and bug
gy days Dad tells.
ADVOCATES OF GOVERNMENT RE-
gu'ation of business are disllusioned when
their theories are put in practice, mainly be-
cause OF the strange workings OF politics.
Right now in Washington, politically
bright congressman are working overtime
to get first professors of farm products ex-
Guided from the wage and hour law, passed
at the behest Of labor few sessions back.
1t isn't laborers the rural congressman are
solicitous about just now, nor are they wor-
ried about the professors. It's the farm vote
that has them excited-the word has come
up to the Legislative front that farmers don't
care much tor the law.
The wage and hour law served a good
purpose when it put a floor under wages.
There was justification enough for specify
ing that not less than 30 cents an hour (the
minimum at presently should be paid work.
ers, but the law tossed haymaker at the
working man, as we'll as the employer, when
it limited the hours Of work, subject to over
time penalties. The result: thousands of
workers not only had their hours but their
paychecks clipped. Farmers didn't get the
increased home market the higher wages
were supposed to assure.
But it isn't the work week (at present
AZ hours) which the rural congressman wish.
to change. You can't really be a friend of
anybody unless you grant him special privi-
eyes, and so the aim is to exempt professors
of farm products, rather than get at the
real defect in the law. Like the farmhands
and domestic help, excluded from social
security because of the fear of repercussions
at the polls, class of workers is to be de-
prived of what protection the law affords
because larger class has the respect of
every politician that breathes-at election
time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02
25 YEARS AGO

A Graceville and a Benson man
were arrested on arson charges
in connection with the burning of
the Seaforth hotel, insured for
$500. County Attorney Albert
Emerson, Sheriff Frank Hassen-
stab and Deputy Sheriff Harry
Beatty assisted state fire marshals
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-05-02

The name ''cattle" means prop
erty, and is related to the word
"chattel."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-29
Clara Hanson, Nenana Ice
 Pool Winner, of Juneau,
 To Be Married on Dec. 3

SEATTLE, Nov. 29.-Clara Han- sen, Nenana ice pool winner of 1940 and Ray Downey, son of Mir and Mrs. A. L. DoWney, of Boise, Idaho, formerly operator of the Signal Corps, United States Army, stati2n- ed at Anchorage, Alaska, now in Seattle, will wed December g at a candlestick ceremony at 7:30 O. clock in the evening in Tacoma.
 The ceremony will be performed by the Rev Hoff, at the Central Lutheran Church.
 The sister of the bride-to-be, Margaret Hanson, is coming from Washington, D. C. to be maid of hon. or, and MT. and Mrs Magnus Han son, of Juneau, parents, are coming south for the ceremony as is sis ter Thea. Ruth Hanson, of Ta- coma, and girl friend, Marjorie Goglandvick, of Sumner Wash, will also be in attendance.
 The grooms brother will be best man.
 Lila Murray, co-winner of the ice pool, is to give the couple away.
 The newlyweds will honeymoon in California and then return to Seattle to reside.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-29
LAST PLEA
 TO CHANG
 MADE NOW
Chinese National General Exhorted 10 Lay Down
 Arms-Work in Peace

SHANGHAI, Nov. % Wang Ching Wei has sent an open tele- gram to MT. Chiang Kai Shek, , exhorting the Chinese National Gen. eral to quit fighting and join Wang's Japanese sponsored Ranking gov ernment in peaceful cooperation with Japan.
 Chiang is not expected to reply to the message. however, which is described as the Hast exhortation" as a prelude to signing of treaty scheduled for tomorrow at Man. king. when, according to informed sources. Japan will formally rec ognize the Chinese regime spon- sored in opposition to that of Gen. Chiang Kai Shek.
 Wang Ching Wei will pledge to Tokyo virtually a complete and permanent control of military and economic affairs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-29
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Roose- welt isn't reelected yet, but you', be safe in giving much better odds than those offered before Novem- Der that he will be.
 Just how many times in the last 15O years this quadrennial joke has been aired in the nations jour- nals is anybody's guess. But it's true that Franklin D. Roosevelt will not be reelected for the third time until January G.
 On that date, Congress will as- semble in joint session at l pm Eastern standard time) with Vice President John N. Garner in the chair. AS President of the Senate MT. Garner will open the electoral certificates sent in under seal by the various states, hand them over to the tellers (two members of the House and two of the Senate).
 The tellers will tally them and hand the results back to MT. Gar ner who then (barring some ca- tastrophe that never has happened before when the popular vote stacked up anything like it did November 5 will announce that MT. Roosevelt is reelected by an electoral vote of 449 to 82. He will
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-29
Ndzi High Command Re- ports Scene of Devasfd-
 lion as Result, Assault
ROYAL AIR FORCE
 SHELLS GERMAN LAND
Important Reich Sections Hit-NdvaI Yards and
 Invasion Centers
tBy Associated Press)

England's teeming port of Liver pool, on the English Channel, suf- fered terrific night assault in which the German High Command said hundreds of Nazi bombers set fires that were visible for many. many miles.
 German pilots. returning to their bases, assert that the port of Liver pool was burning, flaming oil was pouring out upon the Ersey River as the result of bomb smashing oil tanks and a scene of devasta- ton was noted as the last raiders returned to bsaes shortly after day light today"
 The British communique, issued this forenoon, admitted damage was somewhat more extensive on Liverpool than fire indicated" but asserted the toll of human life was not heavy.
 RAF in Action
 British night bombers were also busy last night, pounding the Ger mans in widespread raids.
 Included in the night bombing by the British planes, were the naval yards at Stettin, the synthetic oil plant at Politz, the ports of Cux- haven, Mainz, Kontenz, Eindhoven. Dusseldorf and Mannheim. also the i1vp ciOy1 r,oy.tc of Artuar,> no,11x.,~,. and LeHavre.
 The German communique seldom mentions the results of the British raids but from underground" sources comes reports that the human toll is large and property damage exceedingly heavy
 Waterfront Hard Hit
 The furious assault on Liverpool is said to have been centered on the waterfront. bombs striking ware houses, docks, grain silos and oil stores.
 The attack on Liverpool adds an- other to the lengthening list of Brit ish ports bombed recently. among them Bristol. Plymouth and South ampton.
 Liverpool is Great Britain's ship ping center to the densely popu- lated and industrial midlands and vital artery for seaborne supplies to the Island Kingdom.
 London Raided
 LondoneIs today underwent the l000th hour of air raid alarm with German raiders stabbing the city sporadically again by daylight.