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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
Carnival Will Be
Held Friday
Evening February ID
A NIGHT OF FUN
Sponsored By City
Service and Business
Organizations

Reasons over which the COM
mittee had no control, made
necessary a change in the date
Of the benefit carnival to be
staged for the local Battery
Headquarters Co., under the
sponsorship Of the Community
Club, the American Legion and
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
The new date is Friday eve
ming, February 18th, Of this
week, and the carnival will be
held In the Armory.
Plans for an elaborate event
have been made to raise funds for
the company, which on Monday
was indicted into national service.
Games of all kinds, including a
shooting gallery, fish pond, etc.,
will provide entertainment for both
young and old. Refreshments will
be served at a stand.
The entire event will be staged
in the nature Of a carnival, with
fortune tellers, and all the other
things necessary to complete the
setup. This carnival has been ar
ranged for fun and entertainment,
always with the thought in mind
to raise funds for the company.
When first discussed, 1t was the
plan Of the National Guard unit
to stage an event Of this kind. The
matter was brought before the
Community Club and the members
decided that it would be fitting
and proper that the club, with the
cooperation Of the service organi-
cations Of the city, sponsor the pro-
posed event, and thereby help to
make it successful. The money
made at this carnival will be pre-.
sented to the local unit to be used
as needed when in camp and or
the way to camp.
Mainly the funds are used fol
extra comforts and added things
that make for happiness. These
boys have gone into the service Of
our country and they are entitled
to the best that we can give them
Let's make it a big event, and lei
them know they have the support
Of their home town people. Don't
forget the benefit carnival Friday
night, February 18th, in the Arm
DRY. Come out and enjoy your.
selves and bring your friends. Fun
for everybody and everything fol-
fun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
Housed In Armory
AS Part of National
Defense Program
YEARS TRAINING
Mess Hall Located
In Zion Lutheran
Church Basement

History marched into Sank Gen.
tres Armory Monday morning.
For 80 khaki-clad young men con-
verging from all parts of the city
had moved into the Armory which
for an estimated ten days Is to be
their home and by $3.50 of that
memorable morning were definite
~ in the swing of things as soldiers
Of the United States-a feather In
the protecting wing of national de-
Tense now being cuddled about the
shoulder Of Uncle Sam.
At 1901 that morning Regi-
mental Headquarters Battery,
under the command of Captain
Carl s. Fischer, along with
147S men of the 217 coast ar
tiIlery, were officially indicted
into the armed forces of the
United States for at least one
years active training at Camp
Ham, California.
It is believed that within ten
days the unit will entrain for Camp
HAN.
Everything went off without a
hitch" officers Of the battery re-
ported. Induction was automatic,
painless, and without any signifi-
cant ceremonies to indicate that
here was precedent shattering &C
ton. For the first time in this
city a peacetime force Of men as
a unit entered the full time SER
vices Of the nation.
There was real evidence that the
boys were taking high pride in
their sudden emergence as soldiers
in the Army of the United States.
You're in the army now" and "1ey
soldier" were bantered laughingly
about by the men.
One said, 1.-THE fellows are pitch
ing In like they never did before"
Most of them are anxious to get
going. The quicker they leave the
armory and entrain for California
the better they will like it.
First day regular drill schedule
was foregone while men turned to
to get the armory shipe shape, for
it's their home" now. Some doff-
ed the khaki for blue denims were
scrubbing windows until they
shone like well FURNISHED pans.
Supplies issued equipment with
duffle bags, full packs and the in
evitable tin hat.
Communication got under way
Immediately and the field telephone
service was established with
phones connecting the captains
office with the upstairs quarters,
the registrant at the entrance, the
supply ROOM. and the mess hall.
Under Sergeant Arthur Cole a
squad strung wires to the Zion
Lutheran Church where mess Ser
geant John Dubois is holding forth
with his command Of cooks-and
the boys who peel the potatoes.
But by Tuesday regular drill
schedules were under way. Out
door hikes were planned and in
tensive drills to condition men were
being outlined, Sergeant Lloyd Bill
man announced at recall Monday.
You got an idea somehow that
the boys, green as they may be in
some Of the more technical aspects
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13

sible, as the committee would
like to know how many spon-
s0rs are needed to carry on the
club work this year. So reg
lister at once and don't forget
that March 18th is the closing
date.
Rules and regulations provide
that one farm boy or girl from
each family is eligible for member
ship. They must be between the
ages Of eight and sixteen.
Five breeds Of chickens have
been selected for the choice of
members as follows: White Rocks,
White Leghorns, Barred Rocks,
New Hampshire Reds, Buff Orp-
hingtons and Rhode Island Reds.
Birds selected must be Of a diff
ferent breed than those kept on
the farm Of the contestants par
ents. Boys and girls must live out
side Of Sank Centre to be eligible
for membership, and they must
agree to show one cockerel and one
pullet at the poultry show to be
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
POPULAR SPEAKER FOR
GRADUATION EXERCISES

Bryng Bryngelson, department
head of the speech clinic Of the
University of Minnesota, has ac-
copied an invitation to speak at
the 1871 commencement exer-
cises for the graduating seniors
Of the Sank Centre high school,
it was announced this week by
e. w. Olson, superintendent.
Commencement is to be Tues
day, May q. Mr.. Bryngelson will
speak on MANS Right to I'm
derstanding," he said in his &C
ceptance letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
John Ceynar New
Creamery Head
New Head Of Sank Lake
Creamery Chosen at Board
Meeting Friday Afternoon

John Ceynar, who resides in Get
ty Township. was chosen as the
new head Of the Sank Lake Coop
erative Creamery board at a meet
ing held at the creamery Friday
afternoon. Other officers were re-
lected as follows: F. j. Minette,
vice president; George Strauss,
secretary-treasurer. The members
Of the board Of directors are: Al
Westbrook, o. ]. Lying and Jos.
Zirbes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT

Fred Schwartz, proprietor of
Fred's Super Service, has added
another improvement to his bust
ness. He has installed a rapid
battery charger which will charge
a battery in thirty minutes with
out removing it from the car. This
is an expensive piece of equipment
and accurate in every detail, we
are informed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
Closing Date For
Membership Entrance
Is. March 18th
FIVE BREED CHOICE
Rules and Regulations
Slightly Changed
Join At Once!

Registration for membership in
the Sank Centre Boys and Girls
Poultry Club can be made from
now until March 18th, at the Chew
rolet Garage. This membership en-
titles any farm boy or girl to TWEEN
ty-five baby chicks aud ten pounds
Of feed, free.
It Il necessary that boys and
girls register as soon a. pos
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-13
Open ion Poultry @%4-

ence in membership as well as first
choice. For that reason boys and
girls should register at once at the
Chevrolet Garage. Join now! Be
a member of the Sank Centre Boys
and Girls Poultry Club! You may
look for some surprises, also!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
By JOHN w. DUNLAP

SACRAMENTO, April %. tUp)-
State legislators split into two fac
tions today over Assembly Speaker
Gordon Garland's bill to cut Cali
fornia taxes during the next two
years, which he said would save
"at least $6O,0O0,0O0, perhaps $780,
100000"
The Garland move was interpret
ed by some members as indication
he would be candidate for gover-
nor next year. He remained nom
committal on this point, declared the
tax drop was introduced because
OF the imperative neeG for reducing
state taxes" to offset staggering
federal defense taxes in the future
These reductions should apply to
all taxes alike and be for a limited
period of time" Garland said. State
expenditures must be reduced
and can be accomplished with no
corresponding loss in the efficiency
OF state governmental services"
Garland proposed to cut the re-
tall sales tax from three cents to
2l2 cents on the dollar, which he
estimated would save $37 100000 in
the two years. There would be a
horizontal Is per cent cut in other
taxes, with estimated savings as
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Alternative Tax
Program Studied

WASHINGTON. April % CUPl-.
The house ways and means COM
mittee. faced with treasury propos-
ais for drastic income taxes on the
little taxpayer today studied al
tentative" suggestions for more lux
ury taxes.
The committee still was bound to
official secrecy about the plan that
repeatedly would increase income
taxes in the lower brackets from
300 to 600 per cent through n grad
uated surtax to start at Il per cent
on the first dollar of taxable in
come.
The secrecy will be lifted tomor-
row. however. when Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau.
Jr.. will testify at the first public
hearing on the new tax program.
Several members of the way and
means committee indicated they
thought the treasury's program was
too drastic. They said c. E. STAN,
head of the staff of the joint con-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Gambling Status
Here Confused as
Court Bans Poker
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tiles have been working quietly with
the district attorneys office in az
effort to work out clear cut basis
of what is legal and what is not
10 govern Main street games in
the future. In fact, a meeting OF
card game operators with hCiet
OF Police r. R. Voyles had been
set for pm. Wednesday.
Both Chief Voyles and Mayor
Robert Hatton were taken aback
when informed of the appells.1e
court action. Both said they had
understood from the district at
torneys office that draw poker
was legal. so long as not operated
as banking game.
District Attorney Elmer Heald
reserved his opinion until he could
read the case involved but explain
ed that any action banning draw
poker under the decision, SO far
as Ell Centre is concerned, should
wait until the case has been carried
to the state supreme court for final
disposition.
1t was not known on what argu-
ments the ban on draw poker was
based. State law mentions specifi-
cally the games which may not be
played, among them stud poker.
Draw poker, however, is not men,
toned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
British Attempt
BoIkon Dunkirk
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Continued from Page j
the Snez canal. Australians from
The besieged port OF Tobruk again
struck hard at the enemy lines, 4
Cairo communiqne sad. and captur-
ed II Italian officers and 430 men
In one big raid In Ethiopia. the
British still pressed the Fascist
armies back but encountered severe
resistance before bessie. London re-
vealed that British force had raid
ed and damaged Bardia last Satur-
day.
PLYMOUTH RAIDED
Air activity over England con-
tinued with another great raid on
the historic Port of Plymouth
where the city appeared to be re-
duced almost to wreckage as a re-
suit of repeated oombardmentS
Many thousands of poorly clothed
and homeless refugees were stream
ing out of Plymouth.
Dispatches from Berlin and Rome
forecast the immediate end Of the
battle of Greece, probably by capt.
tulation of the remaining Greek
armies, and looked forward to new
blows against the British in the
Mediterranean, probably both al
Suez and Gibraltar.
The allied defeat in Greece was
attributed largely to lack of air
planes and heavy mechanical equip
ment to oppose the German armor-
ed ulvlslons, but in London the
British government declared Amer
ican-built airplanes were now going
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Taxpayers Can See
Where Dollars Go

A closeup of their million dol
lar investment in the El Centre
public school system will be ac-
corded taxpayers April % TO May
when they visit school in observ-
alton of National Public Schools
week.
The investment at Central Un-
ion high school, Douglass high
school and Central junior college
totalled $479,231 in buildings, s1l7,-
234 in equipment, and $4,000 in
sites or grand total of $636.465.
The elementary school investment
totaled 100000. OF this sum $342,-
999 were in buildings, S47076 in
equipment, and $4,000 in sites.
Grand total Tor the city was
81 ,036,530.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Specialist Urges
Poultry Expansion

The present egg-feed price ratio
favors increased poultry production
in areas such as Imperial VALLEY,
w. E. Newton, extension specialist
in poultry, told valley farmers early
in the week at a series of meetings,
according to Frank Beyschlag, coun-
ty farm advisor.
That factor, plus the current need
for increased production of food
and the guarantee by the govern
ment that a price will be main
tained should materially increase
the poultry industry in the county
Newton said.
The extension specialist spoke in
meetings at the high school, court
house, and at the Don Cruickshank
ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Rambling Reporter

Continued from Page One)
The first one-Which included
among other things, ID eggs
didn't somehow look quite right
So Mrs. Kirk tried again, miffed
by the first attempt. In went anoth-
er dozen eggs along with all the
other ingredients.
This one doesn't look quite right
eitheri" she complained, but her
husband, bit worried, hastened to
praise:
That's dandy. 1t really looks
swell. Don't bake any more OF
you'll upset the egg market"
Still with misgivings Mrs. Kirk
delivered the cake for the party
1t was afterwards won by Mrs.
Romeo Smith, herself a capable
authority on cakes.
That evening Mrs. Kirk had an
idea and inquired of her maid
Rosa:
Have you moved anything in
the Kitchen" Rosa immediately
owned up TO shifting the cream Of
tartar and the Soda Now, if you
are a cake baker you have already
swooned; but if you are Ike RR it
needed an explanation. Mrs. KIRK
put in soda instead of cream of
tartar and that's supposed to do
things to a cake.
One hasty bite of her first ex-
pertinent showed the second cake
must taste pretty awful, SO Mrs.
Kirk frantically phoned Mrs. Smith.
When finally reached, Mrs. Smith
blythely explained:
81 had another cake at home. so
l gave yours TO the w. j. Thorn
burg boys. They ate it all and
thought it was maryelousl'
Then it was time for Mrs. Kirk
TO sWoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Andrade Starts
Down Ghost Trail
is Casfoff Station
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point for the district from which
virtually all river control, operation
of the great lockwood gates and
weir construction was directed. II
was named after Don GuillermC
Andrade, vast landowner in lower
California, through whose land the
right of way for the first canal
system was traced.
Besides the Andrade move, district
directors Tuesday afternoon cleared
up another bloc of warrants, pur-
chasing warrants originally valued
at $3,016.55 for 80 cents on the dol.
lar or less. They rejected $2,315 in
warrants offered for sale at prices
ranging between IS and 90 cents on
the dollar.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Officer Describes
Tank Battle With
BIiizkrieg Army
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their artillery began laying dowr
a terrific barrage there. Yes.
think even you Americans woulo
agree it was a good Show
The narrator was among a group
of British tank officers and men
found here exchanging accounts OF
their adventures.
tGorrell's dispatch did not say
why the men were away from the
front. One implication was that
they might be in Athens for rest
One was quoted that his tank had
been put out OF commission. There
was no indication in his dispatch
that these men were being evacu-
ated from Greece
The officer said his unit had
undergone 10 consecutive days and
nights of fighting in the northern
Greek mountain passes. The same
unit distinguished itself in France
about year ago. The officer made
a point of that.
TELL THE WOMEN
7 suppose you'll want to write
bi tof a story about this" he told
me. And I guess its okay, in view
of the fact that our women will
want to know we're safe, TO tell
them that all of us are all right
Just say we're the same outfit that
came out OF Calais with only seven
officers and Is men alive. They'll
know"
He said his unit had obtained
some measure of revenge for its
defeat in France b. wrecking Is
! German tanks and shooting down
Il German airplanes in Greece,
without one OF our tanks being lost
by enemy action
| The dramatic meeting with the
main German force he described was
in the Phlorina sector, where the
Germans poured when the south
Jugoslav army collapsed. While I
talked to this officer four of his
buddies arrived. bearded, smeareG
with oil and mud. and wearing Their
battle dress. They hurriedly ex-
/ changed notes on their rear guard
! fighting from Phlorina to the Lar
iSa sector, a distance OF 100 miles.
| They told how German dive bomb
ers had swooped down like hawks on
their tanks, and how German tanks
had rushed them from behind cur
tains OF fire. They had stood up to
it all, and although they were very
tired on reaching here. they spoke
enthusiastically of the way their
units had performed
CLOSE SHAVE
You must have had a close shave
JIM a captain said TO a major.
Wasn't that you in that tank
barring the way at that little bridge
near Grevena when the Hun tanks
rushed it,"
Yes Major Jim replied. grim
ming, but I'd had that bridge we'll
taped for hours. My gunner prob
ably never fired more than a dozen
rounds but I had trained the gun
myself squarely on the center Of
the bridge. I held our fire until
the ferries were SO close to me that
if they had fired they would have
blown me all the way to Blighty
When l ordered the gunner to pull
the trigger.
"A shell went clean through the
center of the leading tank and
pierced the second one. There was
a big explosion and the bridge COL
lapsed. The rest of the Hun tanks
pulled out"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Lawmakers S pIit
On Tax Cut PI an

lOllOWS.
Bank corporation franchise tag
| $500, 900.
Personal income taA-$7,750,000.
Inheritance tax, S4,000000.
Gross premium tax on insurance
companies-S2,750, 10000.
Excise tax on distilled spirits
SO 100000.
Excise tax on beer and wines
$500,O0O.
while there may be some objec-
ton to the program l am recon-
mending," Garland SAID. Il am sure
the general citizenry of California,
confronted as it is by the great fin
ancial sacrifices it must make fol
national defense, will wholehearted-
ly support such a plan for its pro-
lection and relief"
The objection Garland foreSaw
came quickly from Seth Millington
chairman Of the assembly ways and
means committee and co-leader
with Garland of the So-called
ECONOMY bloc" and Senator Ed
Tickle of Carmel, chairman of the
revenue and taxation committee.
I'VE should not cut taxes until
we have cut down the deficit or
lowered some of the fixed charges
of state government, Millington
said.
And Tickle declared bluntly: "It
looks like somebody is playing pol
itics don't play politics and
I'm in favor of Wiping out the
deficit and building up cushion.
I can't speak for the other men,
bers of the senate, but I'm going
to oppose the bill. Isn't it foolish to
lower taxes during good times and
raise the taxes during a depres-
sion?"
Likewise, Gov. Culbert Olson has
made it plain he would veto any
bill to cut taxes at this session of
the legislature.
The entire move was based on
the governors prediction increas-
ing revenues from defense taxes
would remove the deficit of about
$45 100000 by the end of the 1941-
43 biennium and leave a surplus
of $1l000000
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23

gressional committee on internal
revenue taxation, also opposed q
number of the treasuy's proposals
and was suggesting easing the pro-
posed rates for the lower brackets
under S25,000-in favor of much
higher rates on such taxes as es-
tates and gifts. and by reyiving old
world taxes on boats and betting
tickets.
They described STAINS proposals
for estate and gift taxes as high
er" than the British wartime taxes
Several senators. including d
Worth Clark, D., Ida, and Robert
NJ. La Toilette, Prog. Wis, were
considering plans to offer amend
ments drastically increasing any
levies that eventually reach the
senate floor, on the theory that
the public Ought to be shown the
full effects of the national defense
spending program.
One senator was discussing
national lottery which he said ought
to raise Sl,0000O0,000 or more a
year.
Pinball machines and similar de-
vices were suggested by some house
committee members as another luc-
rative source of revenue.
President Roosevelt said yesterday
the contemplated S3,444 100000 in
crease in taxation could be absorbed
easily by the nation without dis
turbing consumer purchasing pow
er. He said the entire problem re-
volved around the willingness OF
the nation to make sacrifices for
complete national defense.
Treasury officials advocated re.
tention of the present exemptions
$500 for a single person, $1,000 fol
a married man. and S400 for each
child under 18 years of age. The
present 10 per cent earned income
credit allowed on incomes of $4,000
or less would be retained for COM
putting the normal tax but would
not be permitted in computation OF
surtaXes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
u. s. Turns Over 70
Torpedo Boats for
Use Against Nazis

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this work done in Canada" Knox
said. 1t would enable Canada to
increase her volume OF dollars fer
exchange purposes
Knox said it would be entirely
feasible" for the United States TO
purchase small craft from Canada
and then turn them over to Brit
ain under the terms of the lend
lease act.
Canada has to buy a lot of
things in tie United States" he
explained, and she is running
short of exchange. We have agreed
to purchase as many things as we
can from her To maintain her bal
ance"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-23
Coal Settlement
Seen; New Strikes
HI; Defense Jobs
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OF an AFL Truck Drivers local to
$500 drivers in Kansas City, Mo,
was watched for its possible effect
on deliveries OF materials to defense
factories and projects in Kansas
City and nearby towns.
AT the Wendnagel and Co., plant
at Chicago, producing steel for de-
tense construction projects, 100
AFL machinist staged a wildcat
strike to enforce demands for high
er wages without authorization BY
AFL district headquarters.
The UAW-CIO announced at De-
troit it would not recognize a 30
day waiting period invoked by the
Michigan labor mediation board to
delay threatened strikes in 80 Cen
eral Motors plants in the state. The
union claimed it did not plan to
call out workers on defense con-
tracts, thus making the boards
rule inapplicable.
The aluminium Company of
America announced it was extend
ing wage raises of eight cents an
hour to all 10000 employees in its
various plants. The raises were
granted after negotiations with the
GIG aluminium Workers and the
AFL In ational Aluminium
Workers.
Refusal of union drivers to pass
lines of ALL teamsters picketine
gravel pits at San Diego threaten
ed delay in completion of an air.
craft parts plant and a naval hous-
ing project. The union was protest
ing the use of non-union drivers to
haul gravel from the pits to con-
struction sites.