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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18

ceiver is left tuned to the inter-
national distress frequency and as
distress call comes in, an auto
matte alarm bell is set off in his
sleeping quarters as well as in the
radio room and the navigating
bridge.
The most dramatic call of that
kind which he received came in
January 1889 when he was taking
an afternoon siesta, customary
aboard the tanker. 1t was from
the Bermuda clipper Cavalier
which fell into the ocean 1870
miles from the position of his ship
and he followed the radio COM
munications involving the ship
until the victims were rescued.
His ship did not 60 to the scene
since another was closer.
Floyd left New York over a
week ago to meet his mother, Mrs.
Addie Chapman in Chicago. From
there they went to Lansing, Mich
igan to get new car which they
are driving to his mothers home
at Long Beach, California.
They arrived in Redwood Falls
Saturday and were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Kleaver until today
when they continued their trip to
California, accompanied by Mrs.
Chapman's sister, Mrs. Ella Root.
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Mrs. Davis Unhurt
AS Car Hits Pole
On Morton Street

Although her car was badly
damaged, Mrs. Frances Davis of
Redwood Falls escaped without a
scratch when her car crashed in
to a telephone pole as she swerv-
ed to avoid a child who darted
out into the street at Morton Sat-
urday morning.
Mrs. Davis was on her way
here from Winthrop where she
had been visiting her daughter,
when the accident occurred-and
10 minutes afterward she con-
tinued her trip to conduct a civil
service examination of five APP
plicants for the Belview post
master position.
The mishap happened near the
oil stations in the east section OF
Morton about $3.50 a. m.
It was the second accident of
the week for Mrs. Davis house.
hold. Thursday night, Elizabeth
Rigge, employed there, had a
nightmare and walked out of her
room, stepping off into space
down the stairway.
She sustained only sprained
foot and remained here until
Sunday when she went to her
home at Wood Lake for brief
time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18
Republicans
Plan County
Meet May 7
DELEGATES WILL BE
ELECTED MAY l IN
COUNTY PRECINCTS

Redwood county Republicans
will hold their annual convention
Tuesday, May 7, at the Redwood
county court house, w. R. Wer-
ring of Morgan, chairman and H.
B. West, Morgan, secretary, an
nounced this week.
The conclave, which opens at 2
o. M, will elect delegates to the
district and state conventions of
the party, these groups, in turn,
to elect delegates to the national
COP convention in Philadelphia
June "a.
Primaries for the election of
delegates to the county conven-
ton will be held in election dis
tricts throughout the county May
l from 7::30 to 9 p. m, most of
them at the regular community
polling places.
Each precinct is entitled to re-
presentation at the county con-
vention by one delegate at large
and one additional delegate for
each 100 votes, or fraction there
of, cast by the precinct for the
Republican candidate for COVER
nor at the general election of
1888. :,
Redwood Falls is entitled to
seven delegates from the first
ward and eight from the second
in accordance with the apportion-
ment.
The city caucus will be held in
the county commissioners room
at the courthouse.
Other precincts and the num-
Der of delegates allowed them are:
Townships: Brookville 3, Char
lestown 8, Delhi 2, Gales 2, Gram
lite Rock 3, Honnor 2, Johnson
vile 8, Kintire 3, Lamberton. 8,
Morgan 3, New Avon 3, North
Hero 2, Paxton 8, Redwood Falls
8, Sherman 2, Sheridan 8, SPRING
dale 2, Shutdown 8, Swedes Forest
2, Three Lakes 8, Underwood 3:
Vail 3, Vesta 3, Waterbury 3.
Westline 2, Willow Lake 8,
Villages: Belview 2, Clements 2,
Delhi 2. Lamberton 4, Lucan 2,
Milroy 2, Morgan 4, North Red
wood 2, Revere 2, Sanborn 8, Sea-
forth 2. Vesta 3, Wabasso 3, Wan
da 2, Walnut Grove 4.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18

81 spent all my money for radio,
so I decided to make my living at
it, said Floyd Chapman, CO.
owner Of Redwood Falls pioneer
radio receiver, who visited here
this week for the first time in 10
years on vacation from his work
as radio operator on Standard Oil
tankers plying between New York
and Texas oil field outlets.
After he left the city in June
1922, he took course for radio
telegraph operators in New York
and since November of that year
has worked aboard tankers, trav-
cling to nearly every part of the
world.
Eve been to South America
more times than / can count" he
said, giving Rio de Janiero his
vote as the most beautiful city in
the world. The Near East, the
west coast of Africa and Australia
are about the only places he miss
ed, he admitted.
Floyd and his brother Joe set
up an amateur radio station at
their home in the Minnesota VAL
ley below and west of the North
Redwood road, in 1921. At that
time they communicated with
''hams" in Sleepy Eye, SPRING
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MUSIC PROGRAM
WELL RECEIVED

Nine musical organizations OF
the school, directed by Muriel
Wickstrom and S. w. Limburg,
appeared on the program Mon
day evening in the auditorium.
Sponsored by the Parent Teacher
association the program has be-
come an annual event. The pro-
ceeds of $50 went into the music
department fund.
/, Especially interesting because
of the youthfulneSs of the per-
formers, the tonette ensemble be-
gan the concert enthusiastically
with simple arrangements of "Old
Black Joe" and sway Down Upon
the Swanee River" Another
young group, the Junior high girls
glee club sang two numbers with
Jean Stephany as their accom-
PIANIST.
The second band played two
selections activity" and "Mili-
tary Escort" marches, the latter a
number used last year on the high
Continued on page four)
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DIR. Alexander To
Speak At st. Louis

DR.. George A. Alexander of
Redwood Falls will be a principal
speaker before the hernia sec
ton of the forty-fourth annual
convention of the American Os-
teopathic association the week of
June "a at st. Louis.
He and Mrs. Alexander plan to
attend the event as well as the
twenty-fifth reunion of DR.. Alex
ander's class at the American
School of Osteopathy, located in
Kirksville, Missouri, which will
be held in connection with the
larger convention.
Dr. Alexander has been asked
to speak on, Hernia as an Occu-
pational Hazard" The conven-
tion will be attended by about
$500 osteopathic physicians and
surgeons and specialists from all
parts of North America.
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4 Truck Wheels
Stolen At Morgan

Morgan = Four truck wheels
and tires were stolen from VIII
liam Bloemke Tuesday night.
Two of the wheels were taken
off Bloemke's truck while the
other two, practically new were
not on the machine.
The thief removed a paddock
from the door of the garage on
Highway SO on the east edge of
Morgan where Bloemke keeps the
truck.
KIND and the Redwood coun-
ty sheriff's office are assisting the
Morgan police department in the
wheel search.
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jury Awards
Damages 10
Sanborn Man
S1,5OO VERDICT IN
ACCIDENT TRIAL;
LAST JURY CASE

William H. Schwartz, Sanborn
farmer, was awarded 81, 500 by a
Redwood county jury which de-
liberated five hours before return
ing the verdict against A. w.
Suttles, Mankato salesman, the
Brown and Williamson Tobacco
company and r. E. Fritz, the COM
pany's agent, at $3.50 p. m. Tues
day.
Schwartz, 40, brought the suit
for damages sustained in an auto
mobile accident a short distance
east of the Sanborn junction of
highways IA and II last October
5 when the machine in which he
was returning home from Spring
field and a Brown and Williamson
panel truck driven by Suttles,
sales representative for the to-
bacco company at that time, col
lided.
Before the jury returned the
verdict, L. D. Koegan, Mankato
attorney who represented Suttles,
said that if his client were as
sessed damages, the decision
would be appealed. 1t was evil.
dent from the manner in which
the case was built up for record
that Maugridge' Robb, Minneapo-
lis lawyer. who appeared for Fritz
and the tobacco, company, might
join Koegan in an appeal if the
case went against them.
Several Court Cases
It was the Last of three jury
trials at the spring term Of dis
trict court. Several other suits
scheduled for jury hearing were
settled by Tuesday afternoon and
one case, that of Mike and Joe
Lauterbach versus j. R. Keefe
was continued because of the abb
sence Of Leon H., Brown, plain
tits counsel, who was called to
IG6ffeyville, Kansas, Saturday
morning by the death of his uncle.
Judge Albert Emerson, on the
bench this session, returned this
morning with w. w. White, court
reporter and former Redwood
Falls resident to conduct cases of
law. He will also hear three ap-
plications for United States cit
'1zenship.
Suttles, 40 years old, married
and the father of two sons, had
been at Splett's Tavern at Lam
berton the night of the accident,
testimony disclosed, with Mrs.
lone Sullivan of Springfield,
widow. Springfield was in his
sales territory and he was stop
ing at the hotel there.
. At Splett's they had a beer
apiece in the bar section of the
building, both Suttles and Mrs.
Sullivan said, then went out and
into the restaurant section of the
place where they were joined by
another salesman and another
Springfield woman. Suttles drank
a highball, he admitted, then ate
and danced but drank only soft
drinks the rest of the evening.
Continued on page eight
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No Cause of
Action, Jurors
Decide Twice
MRS. EMMA GOOD AND
EMIL KRAUSE LOSE
DAMAGE SUITS

There was mo cause of action"
in the suit of Mrs. Emma Good of
Walnut Grove against J. Norman
Peterson, state liquor control
commissioner, Henry Nordlin, Ii.
quor inspector and Sheriff and
Mrs. L. j. Kise, a Redwood coun-
ty jury decided Friday afternoon.
1t was the second no cause Of
action verdict favoring enforce
ment officials at this term of
court. The previous afternoon a
Jury found no cause for the suit
of Emil Krause against Norris
Jorgenson, Morgan night police
man.
The Good case started as a $40
600 case for false arrest but by
the time Judge Emerson made his
charge to the jury Nordlin was
left as the lone defendant and the
matter had been reduced to two
questions: whether he was guilty
of malicious prosecution in swear
ing out complaint for search
involving the Good place
August 30, 1888 and whether he
made an illegal search of the
premises March %, 1889.
Mrs. Good operates a filling
station and small grocery store on
the east edge of Walnut Grove,
next to her home which was raid
ed by Nordlin and two federal
men in March 1889.
They found 13 quarts and one
pint of whiskey and Mrs. Good
appeared before Judge N. r. Ry-
erson in Redwood Falls municipal
court the next morning, charged
with possession of Intoxicating
liquor for sale without license.
Judge Ryerson found her guilty
and sentenced her to pay a fine of
SIS or spend a term of so days
in the Redwood county Jail where
she was committed, remaining
there for five days until she was
released on a writ of habeus cor
pus.
Her counsel, A. r. English of
Tracy, commended that Nordlin got
the search warrant in August and
later returned it to municipal
court where it was registered in
the docket with the notation,
nothing found"
In March, without filing new
complaint, English said, Nordlin
raided Mrs. Goods home and told
her she was under arrest.
Mrs. Good is respectable citiz-
en- English argued in his opening
statement, caring for her 80 year
old father and four children.
Although George A. Barnes, APP
pearing for Mr.. and Mrs. Kise
and Fred Furber, attorney for
Commissioner Peterson's bonding
company, made motions for dis
missal of the suit against their
clients several times during the
course of the trial, Judge Emerson
(Continuel on page y
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$l35,63O Here
InAAAChecks
2,S35 CHECKS, FINAL
COMPLIANCE PAY
MENTS, ARRIVE

Farmers are crowding into the
Redwood county AAA office in
Redwood Falls today and there's
a reason-$135, 630.10.
The money came Wednesday in
1885 checks representing final
payment for 1899 soil conserva-
ton to farmers in Lamberton,
Morgan, New Avon, North Hero,
Paxton, Redwood Falls, Sheridan,
Sherman, Springdale, Shutdown,
Swedes Forest, Three Lakes,
Waterbury, Westline and Willow
Lake townships as well as Delhi
and Kintire, each Of which are
the destination of a lone check.
There are a few struggling
checks to come to every county
township and the last of final
payments have not yet been re-
ceived.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18
MRS. STEINHlLBER
RITES WEDNESDAY
LONGTIME RESIDENT
OF COMMUNITY
DIED SUNDAY

Mrs. George w. Steinhilber, So.
died at her home just south of
Redwood Falls at las a. m. Sun
day after series of illnesses
which followed her injury in an
automobile accident last July TO-.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday afternoon at the
Redwood Falls Methodist church
by Rev. John Bostrom, with a
solo, Beautiful Isle of Some
where" by Henry Jaehning and
two selections by a quartet. Mrs.
Fred Page, Mrs. w. E. Paffrath,
Alden Sheffield and Mr.. Jaehning.
Pail bearers were Redwood
Falls and Renville county friends,
c. A. Luscher, Albert Lempke,
M. v. Kurschner, John Clausen,
Peter Bottage and Carl Corbul.
Burial was at Redwood Falls
cemetery.
Sarah E. Bell, daughter of Col
estus and Phoebe Crooks Bell,
was born December 3, 1870, in
Green county. Wisconsin and
moved with her parents to Rem
vile county where her father
operated a ferry across the Min
nesota river north of Delhi.
She. was married to Mr.. Stein
hilber March 20, 1889 in Renville
county and they moved to their
small farm here, IL years ago.
C,,rxixy;nn oro hov h,,ShonI a
daughter, Mrs. Harley McBroom
of Kandiyohi: four sons. Harry of
Renville. Richard of Milwaukee,
Frank of Minneapolis and Conrad
of Cannon Falls; four sisters, Mrs.
Ellen Stevenson of Fort Shaw.
Montana. Mrs. Mile Hainie and
Phoebe Bell of Delhi, Matte of
Danbury. Wisconsin and James
Bell of Redwood Falls.
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Boy, 9, Saves
Child, 7,From
Lake Redwood
BILL EDWARDS, DIR. M.
L. LOBB RESCUE
BLAIR BJERKE

The coolheadedness sef young
Bill Edwards and the clothing
worn by the victim combined to
save the life of Blair Bjerke, Z,
who fell into Lake Redwood from
the dam wall a few feet west of
the Redwood Falls Light and
Power company'S flume late Sat-
urday afternoon.
Bill, 9, and his brother Dick, 7,
who have an uncanny faculty for
being where things are happen
ing, were standing on the lake
bank behind the Herman Werder
residence when Blair, reaching
out over the deep water for a
stick, lost his balance and tum-
bled in.
Holding his BIB gun for the
little boy to grasp, Bill stood
on the retaining wall and
pulled Blair near. Then the
gun pulled apart but by that
time Blair was close enough
to be hauled up to safety.
DR.. M. L. Lobb, standing in
front of the Osteopathic Clinic,
saw woman standing on the
bridge under which the accident
occurred, waving her arms and
shouting that a baby had fallen
into the lake. He rushed into the
office and called the fire depart
ment before going to the Lake.
Blair had on a sheep lined jack
ct, tightly belted and DR.. Lobb
believes that the coat kept him
buoyed up for time.
The doctor took him home,
Every wet and pretty cold"
according to his mother. He
suffered no i'll effects, she
says.
Pointing out that the fire de-
partment could have done moth
ing to save the boy because the
men took time to dress for fire
and came without drowning-acci-
dent equipment, Chief j. M. Cor
bett reported that the department
had received a mistaken report
of the accident which led them to
believe they were going to a blaze
near the bridge.
In that instance the person who
placed the call was not to blame,
he said, but the incident marked
a good time for the issuance of q
warning to the public that, in
cases of water or asphyxiation
accidents, the person calling
should state to the operator that
it is not fire call but an appeal
for help.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18
975 MILLION FOR
WPA REQUESTED

Washington -(P- President
Roosevelt asked today for CTS
million dollars to run the WPA
next year and simultaneously
abandoned hope of getting from
congress the 400 million in new
taxes requested in January.
In letter to the speaker of
the house, Mr.. Roosevelt held
to his original budget figure for
WPA with one major exception
he asked permission to spend
the entire CTS million in eight
months if necessary to avoid suf-
fering and hardship. Last years
relief law required that the WPA
appropriation be spread over the
entire IL months fiscal period.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18
MORSE ATTACK


Stockholm, Sweden-(P)-Re-
ports reaching here from the
Norwegian frontier said today it
was only a question of hours be-
fore a Norwegian attack was
started against German positions
in the Trondheim district.
Swedish newspaper cores
pondents said the Norwegians
were concentrated on the inner
part of Trondheim ford and at a
railroad junction about 100 mil
es further north on the coast.
These reports said it was be-
lieved the British landed at Nam
SOS which they call the Britains'
best base for sending reinforce
ments to the Norwegians in that
area.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-18
TAKE EXAMINATIONS

Five state employees with
headquarters at Redwood Falls
are awaiting results of state civil
service examinations which they
took at Marshall Saturday. Game
Warden Al Boysen, Wesley Nc
Kay, weed inspector; Douglas
kise and Robert Hall, operators at
KIND and Magdalen Zitzmann
took the tests. Other state en-
ployees here were not obliged to
take them. Either they had taken
them before or were blanketed
in under the service period ruling.
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Father Dies

Funeral services for Carl Mel
son, rs, father of Gus N. Nelson,
were held Wednesday at De Smet,
South Dakota where he died
Monday evening. The Redwood
Falls druggist and his sister,
Christine Nelson, a nurse at Johns
Hopkins in Baltimore, were with
him at the time Of his death. Mrs.
G. N. Nelson went to De Smet
Tuesday to attend the rites.
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NAZIS CLAIM GAINS

Berlin-(P)-Germany declared
today that her forces repelling
Britain on land, in the air and at
sea steadily were strengthening
their grip on Norway-political as
well as military.
Authorized sources said Nor
wegian King Haakon had recog-
nized the provisional government
commission set up in German oc-
cupied areas of his kingdom.
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FIGURE INCLUDES
:. 20.
2 MORE PERMITS
ISSUED This WEEK
81 HOMES, APARTMENTS
CONSTRUCTED HERE !
SINCE MAY 1888

ATTENTION amateur census Sta-
tisticians! -
Since the count of 1880, build
ing or remodeling in Redwood
Falls has furnished homes for 164
families. ...-> .-..~..,..,
The Gazette's last survey OF
building permits at the city re-
corder's office showed that 1913
new homes or apartment units
had been constructed from 1880
until May /, 1888.
Since that time % new homes
have been built, are under con-
struction or are so far planned
that permits have been obtained
for them. Two more apartments
have been. added to original one
family houses and another to a
downtown building.
The estimated cost of that 1888
1910 home building alone-ex-
Guiding all remodeling which was
not for the purpose of establish
ing new living quarters, exclud-
ing all private garage construc-
ton, excluding all business place
building or improvement - is
$112,65O. This is the total of
probable costs usually low list
ed by owners on their building
permits and includes estimates on
proposed homes for which per-
mitS have been obtained to date.
E.. A. johnson and Ralph Ten
ney got official permission to
build houses in Redwood Falls
this week. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson
plan to have a one-story frame
house, Is by 81 feet in size, to be
located between the w. H. LAM
berton and Herman Jordan resi-
dences on East Fourth street. The
Tenney home will be next to that
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Tenney, on West Wyoming.
In the last eight months of 1888,
Mrs. William Redetzke, Glen
Jennings, Walter Wothe, Gus
johnson and Edward Ritz built
new houses while Tina Ackmann
added an apartment to her home,
New houses which went up in
1889 are owned by Gerald r.
Engeman, Henry Wilkinson,
Ralph Ballard, H. S. Aune, Leon
ard Schottenbauer, L. w. Foss-
hage, Mike Lauterbach, Leland
Doring, M. A. Crosby, Carl
Bjerke, Ben Hylland, John Sch
mechel, David Bieber, E. E. Lang
and L. w. GLOW, while Adrian
Wilson made his house into du-
plex and ]. F. Knudson added a
second story apartment to his
business building. % -
Home permits this year went
to: DR.. w. A. Heintzen, Theodore
Striepe, Louis Fenger, j. A.
Storts, E. A. Schulz and A. N.
Gandrud as well as Mr.. Johnson
and Mr.. Tenney. s..
Home building is not all the
construction activity for which
permits were obtained this week.
A. A. Sebring will rae the exist
ing building at his Redwood Auto
Wrecking company and put up a
sheet metal structure 40 by go
feet in size for an office and ware
house. -.
Mrs. M. J. Odlaug will remodel
the front porch of her home and
enclose it as sleeping porch and
Mrs. Mae Hegge has a permit to
remove the three porches on the
East Second street duplex which
she owns. .-...
E. B. Orion is building a
screened porch at the rear of his
house and fixing up his basement
office for air conditioning and
humidity control.
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Secures Position

Orville Radtke, selected from a
large group of applicants, has a
position with the Household Fin
ance corporation of Chicago and
left to begin work there Sunday.
After a few weeks he will be
transferred to the st. Paul office
where he will be employed until
his graduation from Hamline uni
versity in June. Orville is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Radtke of
Redwood Falls whom he visited
before going to Chicago.
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1000 Youths To Take Part in Festiva
uided in Redwood Falls During Last Deca
CITY COUNTED BUT TOTAL is
Deep, Dark Secret

mains unanswered.
Calls to the census office from
persons missed in the count up to
Monday night had fallen off
sharply by Tuesday noon and
only one such call was received
Wednesday.
Final editing of the figures here
will be completed by Friday Mr..
Krost said. ....
Then the office-and people in
Redwood FallS-will have to wait
for the release signal from Wash
ington, D. c.