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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-21
Building Needs
For Defense
Will Increase

WASHINGTON - Charles
Taft. assistant coordinator o.
health, recreation and welfare in
the federal security agency. told
the senate public buildings com
mittee that present estimates for
the federal program TO build com
munity facilities In overcrowded
defense areas total 1926. 000. 900.
An authorized appropriation
81 $50. 100000 now before
congress viii BE sufficient for
now. but We win have 20 ask
for nercaAes later on he
said.
The estimates, Taft explained,
include sIO5. 5000 for schools;
si3s. DOC, 600 for hospitals and SAM
tary facilities; $4,000. 900 for
recreation centers; s12 000. 900 for
access roads and $1,000. 900 for
streets. Operating expenses. he
said. will be s23, 600. 900 for schools
and 5000 600 for the hospital and
sanitary facilities
~. ". Alves. o. the office OF edu-
cation. presented the committee
with six typical cases Of com
munities requiring federal aid for
schools. They include Mare Island
Navy Yard. Calf. which he said
needed facilities for 5000 addi-
tional pupils.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-21
Mutual Savings Banks Were
Founded in United States in 1916

as the soundness of the mutual
savings bank formula of opera
ton for the benefit of depositors
Is best evidenced that as of Jan. ],
125 years after they were starterd,
these two banks are able to show
deposits and assets running into
hundreds Of millions of dollars.
with the advent of federal de-
posit Insurance, providing imme-
date cash hquidity of insured de-
posits, savings deposited in a m0-
tual savings bank like Tacoma's
United Mutual offer safety and
liquidity that can be justly said
to be as assured as that provided
by postal savings or government
bonds"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-21

If you're not using it, sell it with
/ Fast-Action Times Want Ad
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25
State Pototo
Yield Twenty
Million Bushels

East Grand Forks. Mimi, Sept.
22-Minnesota potato growers are
answering the request Of Secret
airy Wickard and the Agricultural
Department for more FOOD For
Defense" with an estimated 10000
600 bushel crop of potatoes this
year.
Matching quality with quantity
Minnesota growers in most sections
Of the producing area are digging
potatoes this year that are as good
or better than have ever been sent
to the markets, according to H. F..
Skyberg, President of the Farmers
Cooperative Marketing Association.
"Our growers have steadily i'm
proved the quality Of their potatoes
during the past years." he said,
with the result that Minnesota
potatoes are beginning to gain
highly favorable name for them
selves in the country's markets"
1--WE have become increasingly
aware Of the Importance of provid-
ing the housewife with potatoes
that are clean and free from dirt,
and many Minnesota growers and
shippers have installed new wash
ing and drying equipment this
year that will greatly improve the
appearance of Minnesota potatoes,
Skyberg said.
He pointed out that last year
Minnesota potatoes were shipped
to points as distant as Texas,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

Fay Biedleman home Thursda,
evening. The next meeting will b
at the Leo Unger home October IL
Several from the Raymond Ash
ley Al Club took exhibits to the
Brooten Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Roquettt
and Lorita and ElDoris Smith were
dinner guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jake Roquette Wednes
day.
Mafcella and Marvin Judes Wis
tied at the Floyd Anderson home
near Grove Lake, Friday evening
Mrs. Roy Hamilton and Janette
visited at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs
w. Brummett Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Weiner and
children, of Foley, visited at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Bis.
aillon Sunday.
George Whitney and Dallas Ro-
quette called at the Howard Dom
Ike home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Morris and
'Arlyce were supper guests at the
Elmer Smith home Sunday evening
Albert Bisaillon called at the Roy
Hamilton home Monday.
Mrs. Clarence Kiken and son and
Martha Heidleman visited at the
Howard Domke home Thursday.
Lavonne Bisaillon and Harvey
Hansen spent Sunday in Willmal
and at the Sibley State Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hamilton call
ed at the George Whitney home
Friday.
Mrs. Walter Payne called at the
Henry Judes home Saturday after
noon.
Dallas Roquette is employed a,
the Hiram Robertson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Payne Wis
tied at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs
Axel Stromberg, at st. Paul, Sun
day. Mr.. Stromberg returned home
with them.
Clarence Domke spent Monday
and Tuesday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard johnson, nea,
Sank Centre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Smith ant
son and Mabel Smith, of Saul
Centre, and Mrs. Lee Cornell visit
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
George Whitney Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Heidlemal
and family moved to their new
home at Eagle Bend. Mrs. Emms
Payne and Arlo moved to the plac'
formerly occupied by Mr.. and Mrs
Heidleman.
Mrs. Roy Hamilton and Janett'
visited at the home of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Homer Hamilton, at West
port, Monday.
Mrs. Albert Bisaillon visited a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. john.
Steinhoff Thursday.
Mrs. Albert Bisaillon and La
vonne visited at the home of MI
and Mrs. Joe Rooney Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. I. Cowlthorl
visited M. D. Cowlthorp at tn,
Glenwood hospital Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hamilton ant
Janette and Mrs. Cummings called
at the Elmer Smith home Monday
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

the exception Of the American Civ
II war and the Mexican and Span
ish-American wars, all Of them
were fought In the Old World.
Suppose Washington had COM
mitted us to policy Of policing
the seas, as Roosevelt has done,
we would have been embroiled In
GA wars with which we would have
had little or no concern. Think
what it would have cost the Amer
lean taxpayers had Washington
laid down the principle of shoot
at sight" in foreign waters. The
cost would have beggared us and
we would now be as poverty strick-
en- as are Europe and the cooiie
countries of the Orient. Our stand
ard of living would be down to
their levels and many Of the COM
forts and conveniences that we
now enjoy would be beyond the
reach Of the masses.
merely pass this thought on to
my readers in the hope it will give
them food for reflection.
lax blu becomes Law
The President has approved the
new tax measure passed by Con-
gress and it is now the law of the
land. The measure imposes about
$500 million dollars in new
taxes, or nearly $50 on every man,
woman and child. We have been
told that it will be necessary to
pass another tax bill in the near
future, which will impose yet great
er burdens.
At the rate we are now spend
ing, the national debt limit of 65,-
900 million dollars will be reached
before the middle of next summer
and it will be necessary for the
third time in two years to increase
that limit-possibly to rs or 100000
million dollars. It costs money to
play Santa Claus to the world. Al
ready many are referring to Uncle
Sam as Uncle Sap.
Plain Gouging
A recent Associated Press report
from Chungking, China, is author
ity for the statement that the Bri-
tish-Burma government was col
lecting a toll of 1 per cent on all
American lend lease war material
going to China, which is a pretty
nice cut considering that both Bri-
tain and China are fighting for the
preservation of democracy. One
per cent may not seem very high
charge but when it is recalled that
this country is sending millions OF
dollars of war material to China
each month it will readily be seen
that the charge runs into respect
able figures. I am happy to say
that the State Department reports
that the toll levied by the British
Burma government has now been
lifted on Burma Road traffic. 1t
seems that no one ever overlooks
an opportunity to gouge Uncle
Sam, be he friend or foe.
Saw We Are At War
The Vermont legislature on Tues
day of last week adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that the United
States has been in "armed conflict"
since the Presidents speech of the
18th, wherein he announced that
he has ordered the Navy to shoot
and destroy Axis warships enter
ing American defensive waters. The
resolution appropriated $500,000 fol
the purpose of providing for pay,
ment of a $40 monthly bonus to
each Vermonter in our armed
forces, as provided by a law passed
during the World war.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25
CAPITOL
@-WeNC
What Is Democracy?
BY Representative Harold Knutson
of Minnesota

ENhdt - DCulOCIaSy
Many Americans are asking
themselves that question these
days. We pride ourselves upon be-
ing a Democracy but are we? The
national defense program was in
augurated for the purpose of pro-
viding all needed implements of
war for national security and safe
ty. To attain those detectives we
will probably spend so thousand
million dollars, according to esti-
mates by various Administration
officials. Millions Of workers are
now engaged in defense production
and each and every one of them
is compelled to pay dues to some
labor organization because this Ad-
ministration has tacitly approved
the idea that none but dues paying
members of a union shall be en-
ployed in the production of defense
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25
LILACS BLOOM
IN SEPTEMBER

They aren't supposed to, you UNI
derstand, but there they are
lilacs re-blooming in September.
On the farm home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Lietz the lilac bushes are
in bloom again, and Mrs. Lietz
brought a sample into this news
paper this week. They aren't very
large but they're fragrant, she
pointed out. It's the second crop
too, for she said they had bloomed
well in April. The re-blooming Is
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

Alabama and Ohio. to name a few,
and that there was reason to be-
lieve that the state crop this year
would reach an even wider mar
ket.
Skyberg said that potato digging
already underway In the state
would reach its peak this week,
and depending on favorable
weather be pretty well finished by
mid October.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25
G4EEeem7
Lyman Prairie

n0T. anu MIS-. AupiSy dyhS one
Marvin and Evelyn visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Payne Friday evening.
Mrs. Art Domke and children,
Geraldine, Vivian and Bernard, Wis
tied at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Judes Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Claude and
daughter, Betty Jean, and Gladys
Halstead were dinner guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs A. I. Cowl-
thorp Sunday.
ElDoris and LoLeta Smith at
tended the wedding of Shirley Ro-
ouette and Andrew Ritter at Osa-
kis Thursday, September II. FL
Doris was Miss Roquette's brides
maid.
Maxine Domke spent Saturday
night at the home of her aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard john
son.
Mrs. Lee Cornell, of Red Lake
Falls, arrived last Monday to at
tend the wedding of her niece, Lo-
Leta Smith, and spent the last week
visiting her sister, Mrs. Elmer
Smith, and her brother, George
Whitney. She returned home Mon
day.
Mrs. Emma Payne and Arlo, Mr..
Peter Tegland, Mrs. Aubrey Payne
and Mrs. Dallas Roquette were
dinner guests at the Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Payne home Friday.
The Birthday Club met at the
w. Brummett home Sunday in hon.
or of Mrs. Brummett and Mrs.
Cummings birthday anniversaries.
This birthday party was a dinner
event and included the families.
Mrs. Burdick spent Tuesday
night at the Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Smith home.
Mrs. Ernest Cook called at the
Aubrey Payne home Friday morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Morris and
Arlyce were dinner guests at the
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Smith home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Whitney
and Mrs. Lee Cornell, of Red Lake
Falls, were supper guests at the
Mabel Smith home at Sank Centre
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Markus and
daughters, Bernice and Marlene, of
st. Paul, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Abentroth, of Husty, Mr.. and Mrs.
Abe Miller and boys, Julius Nagel,
of St. Cloud, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Chris Doege, of Sank Centre, were
dinner guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Judes a week ago
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Burdick and
Joan and Joann Liebel, of Sank
Centre, visited at the Elmer Smith
home Wednesday.
Gladys, Evelyn and Marvin
Payne visited at the Emma Payne
home Sunday afternoon.
Elmer Domke called at the Ell.
mer Smith home Thursday.
Malvina Cummings, of Sank
Centre, visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Hamilton Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Elmer Smith and ElDoris
and Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Roquette
and Lorita visited at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Randall Sunday
afternoon.
Matt Cowlthorp was taken to the
Glenwood hospital Wednesday eve
ming. His friends wish him a
speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Johnson
and children were dinner guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Domke Sunday.
John Kennedy and DR.. Lawrence
Zelden, of Hutchinson, visited at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bisaillon Sunday.
Carl Uhlenkamp called at the
Elmer Smith home Monday.
The Raymond Ashley All Club
held its September meeting at the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

The taxpayer is beginning to
fear it will cost even more to
prime the cannon than it did to
prime the pump.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

just another popularity In an UNI
usual growing season that has
brought to date apple blossoms at
apple picking time. potatoes in
June. q fine crop of spiders.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

READ THE HERALD wANT-ADs
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25
FIBRE ROOF COATING

Pure liquid ss-
phalf mixed with
asbeseos. Will
not chip. pssi OF
run.
Evening star., 1941-12-17
| u. S. Rotioning
|Of Auto Tires
To Beqin Jan. a

Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son announced this afternoon that
Government rationing of automobile
tires would begin January 4.
Mr. Henderson said State and
local boards, which could serve as
the framework for other rationing
programs, would be established to
issue ration cards for tires to I'm
dividuals and agencies requiring
them for the maintenance of indus
trial efficiency and civilian health" ."
Civilian consumption of crude
rubber will be limited to 10000 tons
a month, he disclosed, compared
with present consumption rate of
about 47,000 tons.
He also said that the temporary
ban on sale of new automobile tires,
due to expire December %, had peen
extended until January pending
completion of details of the ration
ing plan.
After that date, the monthly quota
of crude rubber will be broken down
into State and county quotas chiefly
on the basis of automobile registra-
tions in each area.
Would-be purchasers of tires then
will be required to prove to local
rationing boards-whose members
will be drawn from local defense
councils-that they fall within
eligible groups.
Evening star., 1941-12-17
24.Hour Day,
7-Ddy Week
|sProgram
Labor and Industry
Leaders Are Told
Of New Obligations
By BLAIR BOLLES.

President Roosevelt today told
the members of the new indus
try-labor conference that we in
the United States have got to =
do perfectly unheard of things"
in order greatly to increase our
production program for the sake
of effectively fighting the war.
The President charged the COM
mittee, which was set up to find
way TO prevent strikes in war in
duStries and to keep the war goods
factories rolling seven days week.
every hour of the day, TO find plan
by tomorrow or the next day.
Committee Organizes.
The committee, composed Of IL
representatives of industry and IL
representatives Of labor and 2 i'm
partial moderators. organized here
today in meeting at the Federal
Reserve Building after a talk with
President Roosevelt at the White
House. The White House subse-
quently made public Mr.. Roosevelt's
informal remarks to the group.
Speed and more speed is essen.
tial," Mr.. Roosevelt said.
And that is why any kind of q
stoppage of work anywhere-even
if it seems to be something the aver
age manager of the plant or the
average worker in the plant does
not deem to be particularly i'm
portant to winning this war-may
be most important.
1--WE have to feel that we, all of
us, are subject to a self imposed
discipline. In other words, l think
you have-and am not telling you
in the sense of an executive order,
or as President. but as an American
citizen-that you must reach an
agreement"
The President told the members of
the committee that he had invited
them to Washington ito help win
this war, just as much as if you were
| in uniform" He said speed was q
vital factor in our future success and
reminded his listeners that I'VE are
not sitting on easy street." and that
our problems are serious.
Lets Fight Later"
He asked factions Of labor and in
dustry to put aside their disputes
with the light remark that after
this war is won, let's 60 back If We
want to, if we have to, to old Kill
| kenny" He added:
You know what a Kilkenny fight
is"
The essence of what Mr.. Roose-
velt said was this:
1T is just as necessary to turn
out equipment as it is to drill an
army. or build up a navy after the
equipment is turned out. Speed is
very, very much of the essence.
With speed goes something we all
know that we have got to have in
the next few weeks. We have got
greatly to increase our production
(See LABOR, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-12-17
Peace Plea

to use word which none of us like
and I don't either. The word is
must" I am applying the word
must" to you as individuals, and
to myself.
Own Personal Must"
A boy, the other day, was out in
a plane. The Government did not
tell him he had to dive on battle
ship and lose his life. That was his
must" his own personal must"
There was nothing in his orders that
told him he had to dive his plane
into a Japanese battleship. That
was young Kelly's own personal
must"
And each one of you, and I too.
we have our personal "mustS.'
So, when 1 use the word must" }"
I want you to appropriate it to your
selves, individually-as Americans.
We are here as group-industry
and labor-with chairman chosen
from the executive branch of the
Government, and a vice chairman
from the legislative branch of the
Government, to act. dug up the
word moderator" It's good word.
These two gentlemen are moder-
ators. I don't think they will have
to WELD any big stick. I think
rather they can truly act as exceed
ingly peaceful moderators in pre-
siding at your meetings.
I know, if I were a moderator, /
would want results-a complete
agreement. I would want some
thing else and, as moderator. l
might help get it. I want speed.
Speed now is of the essence. just
(See TEXT, Page A-lD
Evening star., 1941-12-17
Russians Sweeping
Nazi Armies Back
On Entire Front
Hundreds of Cities Token
As Germans Run Without
A Fight in Some Places
By the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Dec. II. - On the
whole Russian front, from far north
of long -besieged Leningrad to the
Black Sea, the Red army was re-
ported on the offensive today, tax
ing hundreds of towns and villages
in one sector after another in a
mighty winter sweep against the
Germans who were said in some in
stances to have run without fight.
(The German high command
confessed that Nazi troops are
shortening their lines" in va
rious" sectors Of the Russian
front.
CThe British Broadcasting Corp.
said that as a result of the Rus
sian offensive "all communica-
tions between LeniEgrad and
Moscow have been re-estab-
lished." The broadcast was heard
in New York by N. B. c.
In the southwest supplement to
the official communique said TO
villages were taken yesterday in
addition to Al settlements reclaimed
by the Soviet troops on Monday.
Large booty was reported falling to
the Russians.
An SIS regiment of Germans was
said to have been smashed, leaving
200 dead. in a battle for "K' in the
region of Tula, south of the capital.
In another sector, said Pravda,
1 500 Germans died in five days of
fighting featured by German counter
(See RIISSIA Page Az
Evening star., 1941-12-17
Robert F. CogsweI|
Appointed District
Rent Administrator
Induction Of Attorney
Into Office Will Woit
Until Funds Are Available

Robert F. Cogswell, lawyer here
since 1926, today was named by the
Commissioners as rent adhninis-
traitor for the District. The selection
was a surprise in that indications
had been given that the choice lay
between Frank Warren, counsel to
the Federal Communications Com
mission, a protege OF Chairman
McCarran of the Senate District
Committee, and Louis Laudick, re-
tired businessman, who had many
indorsers.
However, in announcing earlier
that the appointment probably
would be made today, the Commis-
sioners had warned reporters not to
go out on the limb" in speculation.
While it had been expected earlier
that Mr.. Cogswell would be sworn in
at once, Corporation Counsel Rich
mond B. Keech advised the Com
miSsioners the rent administrator
could not be sworn into Office until
funds were available for his en-
ployment. District ofiicials expect
RENT ADMINISTRATORS, Page AS
Evening star., 1941-12-17
Chinese Attack
Forces Jap Shift
At Hong Kong
British Report
No Change in Bottle
On Malay Peninsula
BULLETIN.

LONDON tP1. Large scale
Red Army maneuverS are in
progress near the Japanese
Manchukuoan border in ST.
IBERIA, the Chungking radio
reported tonight in quoting
broadcast from the Soviet
station at KhabarvoSk.
BY the Associated Press.
The Japanese, widening their
attacks still further in the West
ern Pacific, menaced the British
in three vital zones girdling the
China Sea today-Hong Kong,
the Malayan Peninsula and the
Island of Borneo.
Chinese forces, however, were re-
ported tonight to have delivered
such successful attacks north of
Hong Kong that the japanese were
compelled to shift reinforcements
to cope with the threat to their
rear in the Tamshui area, and the
Hong Kong communique reported
quiet night.
The British announced the Japa-
nese landing in Sarawak. a British
area on the northwest coast Of
Borneo.
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
Britain's commander in chief in
India, has completed arrangements
for coordination of the British
Indian and Far Eastern commands
to meet Japan's assaults on the
empire, Reuters reported in New
Delhi dispatch.
British Report No Change in Malaga.
Fighting like fanatics. the jap
aneSe were hurting themselves into
the teeth of British artillery and
machine-gm fire in a battle which
the British said might decide the
fate of Northwestern Malaga and its
principal city and island base,
Penang
4llC ol ltloll olll6dPOlC
announced tonight that there was
nothing new to report from Kedah
and Kelantan states, Malayan fronts
north of Singapore, indicating that
the situation there was stabilized.
In the air the R. A. F. carried
out wide Malayan reconnaissance
without meeting the foe, the COM
munique said.
The Malayan battle appeared to
be the core of the japanese master
plan so far, aimed ultimately at
Singapore, Britain's Oriental citadel.
But Hong Kong, second only to
Singapore as a bastion of British
strength. was under siege from its
Japanese-captured mainland area.
Hong Kong Has Quiet Night.
Although a military commentator
said air and military assaults on
Hong Kong had been increasing in
severity, today's communique from
the island city said the area had
spent quiet night apart from some
shelling in the early morning hours.
Little damage was reported and all
(See FAR EAST, Page A-3)