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Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-29
Leap Year Gals
Toke Over Govt

AURORA Ill.,. Feb 20. (UP)-Mayor Audrey Kesel
and leap year council of blondes and brunettes
all municipal offices today, and acting demurely as
possible under the circumstances took the oath of office
to get their man.. The cty's 5000 bachelors on
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-29
L.eVeeS Break to
Send Water Down
On Towns, Farms
Sacramento River Ravases Agricultural
Fields, Tire atens Additional Damage:
Other Areas Get Relief from Torrents

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20. (UP)-The food-swollen
Sacramento river smashed through evees and rushed over
farmlands in the rich agricultural valley of northern
California today, causing additional damage in flood
which already has drowned two persons made 5000 to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-29
Title to Corset
Sets off Dispute

NEW YORK, Feb. 30 (UP)-Mrs. Lillian Yellin, 49,
can take off her corset any day. without fear that
it will be snatched away from her
The question of ownership settled in Magistrate
Nicholas H. Pinos court last night the laws satisfsc-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-29
Finns Driven Back Under
Fierce Russian Attacks
Aimed at Strategic Citv
REDS Within Few Miles Of ViipuriWi+h
Defenders in Dangerous Position as
Result of New Drive, Communicate Saws

HELSlNKI PASSED by Censor), Feb 20 (UP)-1he
Red army occupation of Vpuri appeared to be only
question OF time tonight after communque admit
ted that Firms had been forced fall back new posi-
tons on the western half of the Mannerheim line
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-29
IA AMBLING
IL EPORTER

that go to describe feminine mil
linery.
First one and then another COM
mented, congratulating Mrs. Hood
Littlefield of Imperial on her fetch
ing new lid. Somehow, it had a
look that was different. Then
Mrs. Littlefie.d happened into the
Lhop wnere she had purchased the
hat and the saleslady dropped this
bOmbShell:
Il bes5 your pardon, but you are
wearing that hat backWards!'
Trifle Mixed
Some aspire to fame and some
have it thrust upon them, but to
S. T. Marshall it just happens
On a fishing trip with Bert
Lemons and Bill Clements, Marshall
dragged in the largest catfish of
the trio. Admringly he held it up,
watched the big, black so-and-so
Wriggle, then took out the hook
So far 90 good. At that juncture
his left hand tried to perform the
duties of his right and vice versa.
He threw the hook into the bot
tom of the boat and hurled the
fish back into the Colorado river!
Like the absent-minded professor
AS if that wasn't enough to spoil
Marshall's day of sport, another
incident took place later that top
ped it all off with a juicy flourish.
Close to the bank the men de-
cided to change places in the boat
and Marshall stood up to move.
He balanced himself with one hand
on branch of an overhanging tree.
: At that moment the boat moved
gently away from the shore and
flor a few seconds Marshall was in
precariOuS position with his feet
in the boat and his body hanging
far out over the side. That couldn't
last forever, and it didn't.
There was a splash as the boat
sailed Out from under him. Only
MarshallS disposition was damaged
Cheated
A small maiden came to Ell Cen
tro early Thursday morning, re-
markable for the fact that she will
be eligible for marriage soon after
her fourth birthday!
A precocious child? Rather. She
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank McCoWn of Holtville and
vas born at l2:l6 am. Considering
leap year. she will have a birthday
only once in every four years.
If at any time the young lady
would like to change her birthday,
RR will be very happy to assign her
his, Ia Robert Louis Stevenson
We have too many birthdays al
ready.
Meanwhile. pending the birthday
arrangement, she gets an oleander.
Just One Cloud
Ed Harris, promoter of the Tin
Lizzie derby at the fairgrounds, was
worried about the weather Thurs
day. At the time he called us the
sky was completely overcast.
What do you think about this
} cloud in the SKYE" he asked.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-29

Butter: Los Angeles SOC: but
terfat. Imper.ar Valley I. o. b. ranch.
grade A, 4Oc; manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream 29,ac.
l.. A. Hay: U. s. No. l Sl5.50-16;
L. S. No. 2 leafy S13.50-l4; Y. s. No.
? S11-S11.5O; Mpls. May flax Sl.9S
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-15
covered sheet, after sheet In her
~he %ho,,oht ~ tho Work

covered sheet, after sheet in her
notebook, she thought Of the work
for which he was responsible.
He was worried about the war.
AS attorney for the plane and auto
factories, the war boom tripled his
work at the office. New designs,
new contracts, new patents; and 8
more noticeable veil Of secrecy
descending over it all. A rigic
guarding Of files; a closer guarc
on carbon copies; ever a stricte1
check on shorthand notes.
It brought a sense Of world up
heaval closer somehow. Sue Mary
had discovered that by simply
switching off the war broadcast:
and merely skimming the storie:
the situation could remain remote
But it wasn't so easy now with the
feeling Of %tenseness existing in the
office.
And, of course, on Tuesdays ane
the evening with Nick and Vera
and Natalie one was bound to lis
ten. She was glad the coming cleo
ton was holding their interest
Their energies now were thrown
in that direction, and she hae
found herself gradually bein,
caught up in the thrill Of the com
ing battle.
Ito Be Continued)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-15
TRAVELLERS AID
PLANS CAMPAIGN
Annual Drive For Funds To
Be Conducted Here On
October 2, 3 And

Plans for the Travellers Aid 50.
ciety's annual financial campaign,
to be held on October 2, 8 and I,
will be completed at a meeting in
the private dining room at the Will
ington hotel at 1 o'clock, Tues
day, September "a.
Preliminary arrangements were
made at a meeting at the chamber
of commerce during the past week.
J. E. L. Wade, president, will be
chairman of the drive, assisted by
members of the board.
Officers of the local chapter OF
the society are:
Miss Julia E. Yopp, executive
secretary; Mrs. Herbert Bluethen-
thai, vice-president; Mrs. w. B.
Cooper, honorary vice-president;
Harry Solomon, treasurer; M r 4.
Bereniece Stellings, secretary.
Members of the board of direc.
tors: =.
Mrs. J. j. Allen, Mrs. Herbert
Bluethenthal, Mrs. T. E. Cooper,
Mrs. Rosco Doss, the Rev. Walter
B. Freed, Miss Mildred Hutatf,
Mrs. B. M. Jones, Mrs. A.. v. Lah-
iteau, Jack @. LeGrand, Mrs.
Grace Little, Mrs. c. D. Maffitt,
Howard A. Penton, Mrs. Henry
Peschau, George Rountree, Jr..
Harry Solomon, Mrs. Berniece
Stellings, Mrs. M. S. Willard, Mrs.
]. Walter Williamson, Mrs. c. Mob
Wilson, and Mrs. John E. Wood
hl1rn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-15
REALTY TRANSFERS

Real property conveyances re-
corded during the past week at
the office of Adrian B. Rhodes, re-
gister of deeds, follow:
James P. Mallette to M r S.
LOUISA b. Schiller, Jr., lots liz and
113, Shore Acres Development No.
2.
James P. Mallette to William B.
Schiller, Jr., property in Federal
Point township.
H. Elizabeth King to Mary Alice
Overman, part of lot is. block 4,
and all Of lot 16-A, block "A,
northern section, Carolina Beach.
Rosetta Smith to Bailey Arm
strong, part of lots l., 2, and 3,
block 81, city.
v. Sudbury to Leona c. James,
part Of lots 4 and S, block So, city.
John S. McEachern, Jr., to John
S. McEachern, ST., part of lot II,
block 7, Carolina Heights.
Maggie Boyd to Earl c. Napier,
property at Myrtle Grove Heights,
in Federal Point township.
William H. Carr to Josephine
Henry, lots 4, S, and g., block 9,
Fox subdivision.
Home Owners Loan Corporation
to William H. Roberts, lots l and
2, block 20, city.
G. Dudley Humphrey to William
M. Hill. lot l, block 16, West Mer-
GER place.
Woodus Kellum to William M.
Hill, lots 80, 80, Idlewild.
r. H. Holland to W. F. Bowen,
part of lot 6, block 495. city.
X. Stein to j. Stein, northern
half of lot 7, block 7, northern Sec
ton, Carolina Beach.
j. Stein to X. Stein, southern
half of lot 7, block 7, Carolina
Beach.
j. B. Sudbury to j. D. Hobbs,
tract of Harris and Gore property
in Harnett township.
w. H. Branson to R. L. Lam
caster, lot l, Handy property, At
lantic View subdivision, Wrights-
vile Sound.
The Free Will Gospel Missions,
Inc, to Lena Rackley, lots 5 and
II, block 538, city.
W. w. Switzerland to Louis j.
Coleman, two acre tract on Caro-
lima Beach road. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-15
Dancer Hitler Liked
Changes Her Name

PITTSBURGH, Sept. IA. Up
Miriam Verne, 21.year.old entertain
er whose dancing won favor from
Adolf Hitler, has changed her stage
name, her mother said today, be.
cause she was "a victim of anti.
Nazi persecution which caused her
embarrassment and cost her engage.
ments wherever she went"
Mrs. Albert C. Staley said her
daughter is now pursuing her career
under a new billing-no longer az
"the girl who danced for Hitler
She declined to disclose the new
name.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-15
SERIAL STORY
This Could Be Your Story
BY MARGUERITE GAHAGAN S ses1 sHs11sE ,e ;e
COPYRIGHT. 1910.
NEA INC.

took for granted her small room,
her tiny radio, her few cakes of
good soap and her n small bottle
of perfume.
Someone had entered the room
and Sue Mary came back to real
ity with a start. 1t was Mitzi Clark,
last years orchid debutante and
the oldest daughter. She looked
like her brother: blond hair, ex-
quisitely groomed, poised and un-
self-conscious.
With her was Joan Brant. Sue
Mary recognized her, too, from the
roto pictures. This year she was
society's No. l glamor girl.
1t was Mitz who spoke. You're
from fathers office"
Sue Mary's voice seemed
strange to her own ears. She tried
to be calm and assume the young
business woman role, but she felt
terribly gauche, awkward, wrongly
dressed.
Hell be down eventually" Nit
ri said, taking some books from the
desk. HE won't exercise, you
know" she explained, turning to
the other girl, land now he's work.
ing harder because of all this war
stuff"
I'm sick of hearing war all the
time,' Joan Brant said. offs c,1t
a terrible crimp in the social sea-
son. I would get a lousy break the
year I came out"
Mitzi laughed. Gould be worse,
Well, we have to get along" she
said to Sue Mary. Miss Brant's
being a deb, I'm being a former
deb. This is my afternoon at the
day nursery. Funny, but I get a
sort of kick out of it. Working with
those dirty, smelly little kids, I
mean. They have so little and are
so grateful.
Il think I'll help Alice Simpson
campaign for a new social center.
She's up to her neck in welfare
work and social reform. Oh, well,
it's something to do besides play
bridge and 60 to cocktail parties"
They were gone with a swish of
perfumed frocks and a CLEAN OF
sllken hose, the clicking of their
heels tapping a tune on the polish
ed floors. Sue Mary decided she
liked Mitzi; liked her more than
she liked her blond, polo-playing
brother. She didn't seem to pre-
tend, and she looked healthy and
clean and as though she might
have become a little tired of being
called an orchid deb.
Sue Mary wondered what Vera
and Natalie and Nick would say
about the girls. In the few times
she had been with them she had
come to sense the bitter under
current of their talk about t h e
upper classes"
At first she had thought it Just
the natural desire to have the lux.
aries, the ease, the fun that went
with that life: desires that she had
and took for granted. But she won
.ered now a little if it wasn't some
thing that went deeper. They were
so bitter about the idle rich
She didn't feel that way. She
didn't have Mitzi Clark because
she had looks and wealth and all
the good times that went with
money. And she didn't hate old M.
Ross Clark because he was a rich
man. After all, he was responsible
her pay check each week.
Her thoughts were interrupted
by his appearance at that very
moment and from then on she was
too busy to think of anything but
keeping up with his dictation.
While her fingers flew and she
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-15
All characters, organizations

VI oAAAAo S4oAto
and incidents of this serial
are entirely fictitious.
YESTERDAY: Sue Mary goes ia
Youth Progress headquarters.
helps Vera with tipping. T h e
place is a surprise to her, with
young people intent upon affairs
she has considered entirely out OF
her scope. Nick comes in, is glad
to see her there, asks her to go to
a concert with him.
SUE MARY MEETS IDLE RICH
CHAPTER VI
It was a benefit concert to help
war refugees and it was held in
a small hall crowded with intense
faced young people and a scatter
ing of older men and women whose
foreign faces were serious until the
music began. Some of it was fami-
liar to Sue Mary; most of it was
strange.
"That's by the modern Russian"
Nick told her during intermission.
You get the feeling of power, and
freedom, and mass happiness"
II liked the Tchaikowsky," she
said softly. II know that one."
Lavender and old Lace" Nick
said. Like you: old-fashioned and
very young-and sort of sweet. Fiji
ferent.
maybe there is something to
this stuff about the sheltered girl.
You're not like Vera or Natalie.
They know what it's all about, and
they'll get what they want. They're
real workers. No illusions. You'll
be a good worker, too. And yet
you're sweet the way you are"
He wasn't making love to her. 1t
was as though he was talking to
himself. There wasn't that some
thing in his voice that came to
Joe's when he said goodby after
kissing her good night.
Somehow it was hard to think
of Nick ever being sentimental;
not with his usual cynicism, his
worldliness, his drive and force.
Yet sometimes that evening,
when she looked into his eyes and
heard the music surging around
her in waves of beauty, she ex-
perienced an entirely new sensa-
tion-almost a heady feeling of
danger.
The office seemed bleak and dull
the next day. The five-day week
made it necessary to double up
on work. Kitty was gone and Miss
Grant kept Sue Mary busy. 1T was
last afternoon when Miss Grant
asked her to go to the Clark home.
"Mr. Ross isn't feeling well and
he wants to give some dictation,"
she explained. "Just notes." she
added quickly. "You can do it cas-
lily. I can't leave because some
clients are coming in. Now go
along. When you're through there
you a go home and finish up
that work in the morning."
1t was the first time Sue Mary
had been in such a home. The but
Ter who admitted her took her to
a small library with book-lined
walls and dark polished furniture.
Flowers gave a touch of color to
the room and pictures of family
groups in heavy, old-fashioned sill
yer frames, desk ornaments, and
a faint odor Of good tobacco made
it livable.
Like a movie set, she thought,
wishing she could relax and en-
joy, if only for these few moments,
the luxury about her. How strange
it must be to live in such a house
day after day; accepting tn e S e
things without even seeing them,
taking them for granted as she
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
Countrywide Weed
Meeting Next Week

A weed meeting will be held We'd
nesday, April "a, in the court house
in Pine City, according to an an
nouncement sent out by the State De-
partment of Agriculture
All local weed inspectors are asked
to attend and everyone interested in
weed control and eradication pro-
grams are invited to come to the
meeting. Definite progress in the
weed control problem was made in
1889 in nearly all Minnesota counties
and this work will be considered at
the county meeting and, together with
new plans, may be used as founda-
ton on which plans for this year can
be made. New phases of control
work and plans for cooperative eff
fort will be discussed. Practical field
work, guarantees, education and ex-
perience gained at the Lamberton
Weed Farm the past years will
serve as base on which plans can
be made for farm and neighborhood
programs.
Those in charge of the meeting for
the State Division of Weed and Seed
Control will be Sig Bjerken, D. W..
Frear and Sam Hammerbeck.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
international News Review

vinger and ever so many other cities.
Some of them-Oslo among them
still are in the hands of the Germans.
but others have been retaken from
the enemy, among them, it would
seem, being Bergen, Trondheim and
Narvik.
At War.
Norway is actually at war with
Germany; it has been so stated, of
ficially, and Great Britain as well as
France have welcomed Norway as
an ally. To attain that goal has been
one of the ambitions of the British
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston
Churchill who early in January in
sisted that Norway, Denmark, Sweden
and other small neutral countries
join forces with the Allied powers:
that demand has since been repeated
by other British statesmen, and as
Norway remained adamant in its de-
sire to preserve its strict neutrality,
more drastic methods were employed.
One of them, that of scattering mines
Continued ON Page ~
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
BY GEORG STRANDVOLD

Special interest continues to center
about Norway-the newest of Eu-
ropes theaters of war, and it is pos
sible that stirring events will take
place there in the near future, for
early this week contingent of Brit
ish expeditionary forces arrived for
the purpose of helping the Norwe-
gians drive out the Germans who in
vaded their country on April 9.
About twenty-four hours after the
beginning of the invasion the Berlin
government reported that "the occu-
patton of Norway is proceeding as
per schedule"
That was premature. Even plans
as perfect as Germans can make them,
risk being upset, and that happened
in this case. Something went wrong
somewhere-somebody made mis-
calculation-for apparently nobody
had thought that the Norwegians
would strike back. They did-at
Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Narvik,
Trondheim, Hamar, Elverum, Kongs-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
New Loan Terms
Now Available

Federal Land Bank borrowers who
made commissioner loans in 1888 and
1884 may now have their mortgages
extended or reamortized on very
favorable terms. These loans were
usually for a 10-year period and were
made on top of regular Federal
Land Bank Loan when the latter
could not be made in sufficient
amount to care for all the indebted
ness.
The new reamortization agreements
take the amount still due and instead
of the 10-year payments, extend the
mortgage from the present date OF
execution over 20-year period. For
example, if the original amount of a
commissioner loan was $1,000, the
semi-annual payments would have
been SOS each. If payments have
been kept up, the principal amount
still due would be approximately
$1,000, and this being again spread
over 20 years, the semi-annual pay
ment would be reduced to about $25
making it much easier for borrowers
to meet their payments under present
conditions. Borrowers wishing to
learn more about these arrangements
should contact their local association
secretaries for further information.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
Secretary Wallace
To Speak In State

Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace is to be guest speaker at a
Farmers Union mass meeting to be
held at the st. Paul auditorium Sat-
urday, April 81.
The secretary's address will be
broadcast over stations affiliated with
the National Broadcasting Company
using the regular Monthly Farmers
Union hour, 11:30 to 1915 Central
Standard Time, according to an an
nouncement by the st. Paul head
quarters of the Farmers Union Legis-
lative committee.
This is the first of several regional
meetings, the announcement states, in
behalf of the Farmers Union Debt
Adjustment bill, sponsored in the
U. S. Senate by Senators Wheeler,
LaFollette and Bankhead, and in the
House by Marvin Jones, chairman of
the House Agricultural committee.
The st. Paul meeting will begin at
1920 a. m. and Secretary Wallace
will speak to the auditorium audience
and over the air at 11:30 a. m.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
Care OF WOOdlOt
Part OF Program

Farmers who are planning on i'm
proving stand of forest trees under
the Agricultural Conservation pro-
gram this year to earn part of their
soil building allowance should notify
their community committeeman be-
fore the first of May if they have not
included the woodlot on the intention
form they signed this spring, accord
ing to Melvin Anderson, chairman
At a meeting of community COM
mitteemen held at Sturgeon Lake
Wednesday, April 10, instructions
were given by Parker Anderson, ex-
tension forester, and Ralph Childs
from the state Agricultural Conser-
walton office, as to what is required
for a good woodlot.
In the afternoon the community
committeeman went out in the woods
and visited stands of different kinds
of timber, and Parker Anderson ex-
planned what could be done to i'm
prove the various woodlots.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
Norman Farmer
Called By Death
Adolph Black Dies Tues
day; Will be Buried at
OWatOnna.

A Norman township farmer, Adolph
Black, 80 years of age, was called
by death at 2 a. m. Tuesday, April 16
He had been ill four and one-halt
months, succumbing to bronchial
asthma and complications.
Mr.. Black was born on June It,
1860 in Czecho-Slovakia and was
united in marriage there to Frances
Rysavy in 1885, They came to the
United States in 1892, settling at Owa-
tonna, and to Pine county in 1919,
to make their home on farm east
of Willow River Mrs. Black passed
away March 13, 1882.
Funeral services were held this
morning at 8:45 o'clock from the
Catholic church in Willow River, with
Father Majas officiating. The pail
bearers were William Smiglewski,
Chester Waletzko, Albert Waletzko,
Ed Bohaty, Jos. Dubie and Jos. Jur-
ash. The body will be taken to Owa-
tonna and a short service will be
held there Friday morning at the
home of Mrs. Kubicek, daughter of
the deceased. Interment will be
made in the family lot in Sacred
Heart cemetery at Owatonna beside
his wife.
The surviving children are Mrs.
Frank Kubicek (Frances), of Owa-
tonna, Rose at home, Mrs. Hubert
Moravec (Beatrice) of Milestone,
Saskatchewan, Canada. Also surviv-
ing are five grandchildren, two great
grandchildren and an aged brother,
Fred, of Owatonna.
Friends and neighbors extend SYM
pathy to the bereaved relatives in
their loss.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
Work Going Ahead
On r. E. A. Project

At meeting of the North Pine
Electric Cooperative held at the Will
low River hall April Is, the articles
of Incorporation were drawn up and
signed. In the absence of Attorney
M. B. Hurley, who was detained on
a case, County Agent Max McMillin
was in charge as acting attorney.
Among other business at the meet
ing Louis Brabec was elected treas
urer, the First State Bank of Finlay-
son was selected as a depository for
funds of the organization and May
10 was set as the deadline for men,
bership enrolment.
Friday evening, April 26, at 8
o'clock free talking picture on elec-
IRRIGATION will be shown in the Will
low River hall. Steve Calder of the
state Department of Agriculture, will
be the principal speaker and ques-
tons that may be brought up con-
corning the R. E. A. will be answered
The board of directors will hold a
meeting before the movies start.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-18
Club Members Get
Leadership Awards

Peggy Billman, junior leader of the
Bruno All Club, and Edward Key
port, junior leader of the Duquette
All Club were presented with certi-
ficates of award in recognition of their
outstanding leadership work, at the
rural leadership dinner which was
held at the Northeast Experiment Sta
ton at Duluth on Thursday, April T.
Each year as final wind-up of the
short course held at the Northeast
Experiment Station, dinner is given
at which master farmers and out
standing junior leaders from the
counties represented in that district
are presented with achievement
awards and elected to the senior
honor roll and the junior honor roll,
respectively.
Only the northern part of Pine
county is represented in this area,
and this year Peggy and Edward
were selected to represent that Sec
ton.