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Evening star., 1941-03-18

in February, the coolest was 19-
on February 10.
Little damage was reported here
as a result of the high winds. Fire
men answered several calls for
chimney fires. Banging shutters
and rattling windows, which dis
turbed the citys sleep, and the
mysterious hose-run epidemic were
the major inconveniences here.
Zero in Western Maryland.
The Eastern seaboard, from Maine
to the north of Florida, was shiver-
ing under the force of the storm.
The lowest temperature reported in
this area was from Big Savage
Mountain, in Western Maryland,
where the reading was zero.
Elsewhere in Maryland, the full
violence of the gale was felt. At
Frostburg tthe temperature tumbled
to above zero during the morning
and Oakland reported a 4-degree
low atfthat time..
Two inches Of snow drifted over
roadways in the Oakland section
and some school buses did not COM
plete their routes. Other buses left
schools at noon to insure return of
children to their homes by nightfall
State police headquarters reported
all State highways open, however.
The death toll in Minnesota
and North Dakota, center of the
storm area, increased to Ct as
additional frozen bodies were recov-
cred from snowdrifts and stalled
autos.
The deaths by States: North Da-
kota, 80; Minnesota, %; New York,
4; Wisconsin, 3; Ohio, 2; Michigan,
2, and Pennsylvania, l.
Temperatures moderated some
what in the Middle West, but sub
zero cold persisted in Wisconsin and
Minnesota. Early today Bemidji,
Evening star., 1941-03-18
Tax Appeals Boord Cuts
Mills Estate Payment

By the Associated Press.
The Tax Appeals Board decided
yesterday that the estate of Ogden L.
Mills, who died resident of New
York City october II, 1887, owed
s97.243 in income taxes for that
year. instead of s1O5 .49O, which the
Treasury had claimed.
The executors Of the estate, Ogden
PhippS and Roy c. Gasser, New
York City, had protested to the
board that the Internal Revenue
collector enormously had included
in the estate dividends on 1850
shares of Cerro de. Pasco copper
stock which they said did not ac-
crue."
Evening star., 1941-03-18

Mimi, was the coolest spot with a
reading of 20 below.
There was the tale in North Da-
kota about a woman who attempted
to walk only 20 feet from one stalled
car to another, only to lose her way
and perish in the binding blast of
snow and dust. driven by the gale,
which sometimes howled at IS miles
an hour.
Boy Dies in Snowdrift.
In contrast, Robert Taylor, 10,
Dazey, N. Oak, was rescued, hud-
died in a snowdrift with his twin
brother Dickie, who died just after
a searching party reached them. It
was a feeble wave of the dying
Dickie's arm that attracted rescuers
to the spot after they had found the
bodies of two other brothers, Leo,
II, and Donald, Is, nearby.
Fears for the safety of 20 persons
trapped on ice foes in Lake Superior
while fishing subsidized on reports
that all had reached the mainland
or islands off Michigans upper
peninsula.
Forty-mile winds drifted high
ways in Western and Central New
York, where temperatures ranged
from 7 to H. Wind and sleet storms
damaged utility lines in some Sec
tions of Maine. Names tempera-
lures ranged down to zero Gale
winds subsided in Massachusetts,.
Continued cold was forecast for New
Hampshire and Vermont, where the
mercury ranged from 10 to 20.
Except for Florida and the Gulf
Coast, the entire South had freezing
temperatures. Frost was forecast
for Northern and Central Florida
tomorrow, while near-freezing tenn
peratures were predicted for the
Gulf Coast.
Evening star., 1941-03-18

$1,000 ,000,0 900, instead of $500, ,000,-
900, and the amount available un-
der this bill for new aid becomes
sc, 500 100000 instead of $1,000, ,000,-
OOO."
Either the United States means
what it said in An Act to Promote
the Defense of the United States
and goes in Fundamentally, enthu-
siastically and eXpeditiously to be-
come the arsenal and storehouse of
defense articles for aid to the be-
leaguered democracies whom we
have avowed to assist in order to
promote our own defenses," the
committee said, "or we become
faltering welsher on the promises
we have held out to those brave
countries and their people. who are
looking in this direction for the ray
of sunshine that will illuminate the
dark pathway they are treading."
Marshalrs Testimony Supplied.
The report supplied this testimony
by Gen. George C. Marshall, Army
chief of staff, on the possibility that
the United States might strip itself
of necessary equipment in helping
other nations:
"I think that as we now have mat
tiers arranged the result will be to
our advantage. Our own actual re-
sources will not be diminished until
the finished products come off the
production line and are ready for
shipment. Increased production will
add to our strength until the time
for distribution begins.
81 will 60 further and say this:
That I would be a much happier
man today if I thought we had
reached a point in our production
development where we actually had
more capacity than we required.
That would be the most favorable
situation possible for us in view of
present conditions"
Details of proposed expenditures
had been withheld, the report said,
to keep from certain foreign gov
ernments and their diligent agents
detailed information which they
should not have" 1t added:
THE committee ventures to ex-
press the hope that what might be
considered by some to be interest
ing news to the citizens of this
country shall not become strategic
news elsewhere to the harm of the
very countries we are trying to assist
and to ourselves"
Salary Provision.
One provision written in the bill
by the committee forbids use of any
of the measures money for paying
the salary or wages of a person who
advocates, or is a member of an
organization which advocates, the
United States by force or violence.
Secretary Hull, urging the Appro-
priations Committee to approve the
$1,000 100000 appropriation, noted
that in the last two months still
more territory had been conquered
and said:
Several more are on the list for
| immediate seizure and SubJugatlon.
Upon the seas the menace of death
and disaster has grown. This coun-
try by now should have no longer
any illusions as to the nature or
magnitude of the dangers which
confront us.
"Our safety and the success of the
course upon which we have set our
selves demand the courage and the
wisdom to go full out in furnishing
adequate material aid to the nations
whose defense is necessary to our
defense. When we do this, we take
the most effective step possible in
the circumstances to keep war away
from our hemisphere, from our own
Nation.
Statements Released.
mo people in history have had
such opportunity to learn from the
Evening star., 1941-03-18

mittee of two-Sherman Dalrymple,
head of the Rubber Workers Union,
and David J. Mcdonald secretary
of the Steel Workers Union-would
set up headquarters here to publicize
the case.
Mr.. Murray declared that enemies
of labor seeking to undermine its Or
ganizations were aiming their at
tackS at labor leaders.
Evening star., 1941-03-18

For the year 1939-when the Dis
trict had its last epidemic-209 cases
were reported by March 18, and for
the whole year 3,731.
For the last year % cases were
reported up to March 18.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
Public School
Program For
Coming Year
Announce Halliday
For Registration
Open At 9 A. M.
FACULTY LIST
Information On
Buses and Nom
Resident Tuition Fees

Students, who will attend Sank
Centres public school, will be re-
quired to register at a halliday
session to be held Tuesday, Sep
TENDER End, opening day Of the
school. Glasses will be organized
and study will commence Septem-
Der Bird.
According to announcement of
Supt. E. w. Olson, school will start
at nine o'clock each morning dur
ing the year, to accommodate rur-
al pupils, who reside on the bus
routes.
Bus routes as established at the
close of school last season will re-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28

main essentially the same, with
few minor changes. Patrons on
the routes are asked to watch for
the buses the first two days until
definite schedules are setup and
announced.
Transportation charges for nom
resident pupils have been set by
the Board of Education at $3.50
per month per pupil for all routes
for the school year 1941-42. This
charge is payable in advance each
month unless the pupils home dis
trict has voted to pay transporta-
ton charges, in which case the
district board will make arrange
ments at the school office. The
charge for transportation has been
determined on a cost basis and
represents a lower rate than that
which prevails over the state. The
usual charge is $500 per month.
The rate has been set so that all
non-residents will pay the same.
For non-residents entering the
grades from the kindergarten thru
grade eight, the tuition charges
will be $500 per year. High
school students who are non-resi-
dents will pay no tuition If their
home district does not maintain
high school, as the state pays this
tuition. For comparison, the Min
neapolis schools charge non-resi-
dent elementary pupils $500 tut
ton.
It has been found that the cost
Of the many extra-curricular act
ivities sponsored by the school has
been higher than the revenue de-
rived from them, so an activity fee
will be required of Junior and Sem
Tor High School students this year.
The Board of Education cannot
legally pay for these activities. so
in order to continue them it is
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col. p
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
O. c.. Hardin,
NJ. Messer
Passed Away
Mr.. Hardin Buried In
Greenwood Cemetery
Sunday Afternoon
AGED So YEARS
Early West Union
Resident Buried In
st. Alexius Cemetery
Owen G. Hardin

Owen c. Hardin, resident of this
community since 1911, passed away
at his home on North Main Street
Thursday afternoon, August 81, at
2:25 o'clock. He had been i'll for
two years, although he was not
confined to his bed until a few
months before death.
Mr.. Hardin was born in Tama
County, Iowa, on October Is, 1884,
and his age at death was Sc years,
nine months and 20 days.
While residing at DeSmet, s. D.,
he met Miss Hazel Meeker, and
they were united in marriage on
November "a, 1910. They moved
to this community in 1911 and pur-
chased the Walter Barnette farm
in Ashley Township, which they
farmed for sometime. For a time
they resided in Sank Centre and
then took up farming OF the old
Diamond r rancn, north of Sank
Centre. For the past five years
they made their home in the city,
and for sometime Mr.. Hardin has
been employed as engineer at the
public schools.
Surviving besides the bereaved
wife are six children, four sons and
two daughters, viz: Mrs. Walter
Johnson, who resides four miles
west Of Sank Centre; Sergeant
Merle Hardin, of Camp Ham, Cali
fornia; Miss Tia Hardin, of Oma-
ha, Nebraska; Dale, Lorren and
John, at home. All of the children
were home for the funeral service.
Last rites were held Sunday af-
ternoon at two o'clock, at the
Methodist Church, with a large
group Of old friends in attendance.
The Rev. Runion, pastor of the
local church, and the Rev. M. L.
Brann, of Raymond, former pastor
Of the Sank Centre church, con-
Quoted the service. Interment was
in Greenwood cemetery. The pail
bearers were: Leo Friedrich, Bert
Quinn, Harry Hooper, Vern Soltau
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col. 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
Ne1e, Munich
BMtteYm0ker
State Wimmer
Four Leading Scorers
From Central Mime
sota-Two From Stearns

Two Stearns County buttermak-
ers scored high at the State Fair,
with four Of the leading scorers
from this section Of the state. Cas-
per J. Nathe, Of New Munich, OPP
orator at the New Munich cream
cry, took the blue ribbon for his
entry Of butter with a score of
95.25.
Runnerup in this competitive
event, marked by the heaviest en-
tries at the state fair in its 81
year history, was J. Erickson, Of
Swanvi1le.
Places In third, fourth and fifth
were awarded as follows: o. Erick-
son. Of Flensburg, 94.75; A. H. OBJ
ermiller, Albany, 94.5; G. M. Kjos,
Of Union Creamery, Blooming Prai-
RE, 04.25.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
Big Ones Are
Striking On
Sank Lake
Illinois Man Caught
First Fish in Lifetime,
A IA Founder

A Rock Falls, Illinois, man
caught the first fish Of his life
time, a 14-pound northern pike
yanked from Sank Lake waters
last weekend, as a Sank Lake re-
sorter reported lines and bait lost
and the big ones" biting in the
best fishing Of the current season.
George Simmer, resorter, report
ing the catches Of the week, said
that northern pike fishing is def
initely good and requests for Lab
or Day reservations indicate, he
said, one Of the best weekends of
the year.
A. L Castle Is the Illinois
man who last weekend not only
got his first fish and christen-
ed the career with q 14-pound-
or, but took home with him
the possession limit of eight,
all weighing from 4 to IA
pounds, Summer said.
Wednesday morning a party
from Wilmont got limits In north
erns weighing from to IL pounds,
CONTINUED on Page 10. Col. 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
SCHOOL, Open Sept. Ind
St. Paul's
Enrolment
Next Tuesday
Registration Starts At
8:45-Formal Opening
Wednesday, Sept. 3rd

st. Paups parochial school will
open Tuesday, September End, with
q morning session. Registration
will begin at 8:45. On Wednesday
will be the formal opening of the
school with q High Mass in honor
Of the Holy Ghost.
Children, who have reached the
age Of five before December 31st,
1871, will be admitted to the kim
dergarten, and those who will be
six years old before that date, may
enter the first grade.
There is no change in the teach
ing staff, but the grades may be
somewhat shifted depending on the
enrolment.
A complete program Is carried
out in the school which consists
Of the elementary course Of stud
les, religion, art and music. The
seventh and eighth grade boys will
be taught manual training by Mr..
G. Perry twice week, and oppor-
tunities in the kraft shop are avail
able to all pupils from the third
grade up.
The following is the school cal
endar for the Diocese of st. Cloud j:
Tuesday, September End, opening.
Tuesday, November II, class
rooms observance Of Armistice
Day. '+ls y
Wednesday, November 26th,
Thanksgiving vacation begins at
close of school day.
Monday, December 1, classes re-
sumed.
Monday, December 8, Immacu-
late Conception
Friday, December 10, Christmas
vacation begins at close Of school
day.
Monday, January 5, classes re-
sumed.
Friday, January 16, end of first
semester.
SECOND SEMESTER
Monday, January 10, second SEM
ester begins.
Tuesday, March 81, Easter vaca-
ton begins at close of school day.
Wednesday, April 8, classes re-
sumed.
Continued on Page 10. Col. ~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
8-Year-Old
Poultry Raiser
Successful
Member of Community
Clubs Boys and Girls
Poultry Club Project

An eight-year-old poultry raiser,
one Of more than a hundred en-
rolled in the Community Clubs
poultry club, is proud of his flock
Of twenty-five still intact-and
fond Of them too.
He's Anthony Swirtz, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Swirtz, who made
a personal report on the progress
of his flock to the Herald Monday.
The Herald is Anthony's sponsor.
The chickens have become his
pets, his mother said. They're so
tame, they follow him around. An
thongs proud Of his record Of
bringing them through from the
crucial baby chick stage to matur-
ing springer hens. He says he
likes chickens and his interest in
their growth Is keen.
He proudly compares the larger
size Of the New Hampshire red
breed he got in the poultry club
with his mothers smaller leghorn
variety. Mother, mine are big
ger" he points out. She said that
she had weighed some Of his at
over three pounds few weeks
ago.
The only prospect Of the poultry
business Anthony doesn't like at
the moment is the fact that they
will be killed sooner or later. There
were twenty-six in the original
flock he got, so they butchered
one for a chicken fry. He was
pretty blue, she confided.
When the big poultry show
comes around this fall, and all the
poultry club members are exhibit
ing their birds. Anthony says his
will be ready.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
Found Fine
Grain Fields
In Northwest
Interesting Trip To Vel
lowstone National Park
Enjoyed BY Local Folk

Splendid grain fields, which
promised yields Of extraordinary
size, were Of more than passing in
terest to B. H. Otte, of this COM
munity, who with Mrs. Otte and
daughter, Monica, the latter's girl
friend, Miss Arlie Ness, of Crook
ston, and Mrs. Henry Schwieters,
Of Melrose, enjoyed a trip to Vel
lowstone National Park, recently.
Oats yielding 100 bushels to the
acre and wheat at 81 bushels were
reported by Mr.. Otte. These fields
were in North Dakota, where grain
elevators and storage facilities are
being erected to care for the crop.
Many farmers had not threshed be-
cause they had no room to store
the grain and elevators and storage
space was filled, he said.
The party left a week ago Mon
day noon on a weeks vacation
trip, and enjoyed sights Of the
northwest and Yellowstone Nation
al Park. They returned to this
community on Monday night.
In the community Of Glendive,
Montana, they saw the large irri-
cation project, which is being ex-
banded to meet the demands Of
settlers. On one side Of the road
they saw a veritable paradise with
beautiful crops, while on the other
side Of the road there was no veg
citation whatsoever.
Mr.. Otto marvelled at the large
numbers Of silver dollars in use
in the West Change for ten dol.
lar and five dollar bills was made
in these silver dollars, which is
the medium of exchange in that
country. Leaving Glendive where
the thermometer registered 100 In
the shade, they passed into cooler
weather, and the next day in the
mountains they drove through
snow. They visited the splendid
tourist park in Minot, N. D., which
is the most beautiful they had ever
seen, said Mr.. Otte. They visited
Teddy Roosevelt's ranch and the
historical site Of Clusters Last
Stand. The party was interested
in silver mining at Cook, N. D., and
they were informed that from 80
to 100 tons Of silver per day were
shipped from that point.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
E.. SchOtten,Of
Willard, Killed
In Accident
Car Hit BY Train
Near Excelsior-Was
Employed AS Barber

Ernest Schotten, of Willard, who
was employed as barber at Elk
celsior, died at st. Mary's hospi-
tai, Minneapolis, Tuesday, of in
juries sustained when the car in
which he was riding struck a pas
senger-freight train at Manitou
crossing, three miles northwest OF
Excelsior.
Mr.. Schotten was q years old,
and had been a resident Of VII
lard for many years. He was born
in Melrose on May z, 1914. Fun
eral services will be held in VII
lard Friday morning, with the Rev.
Fettgather as celebrant Of the Re-
QUEEN Mass. The body was brought
to Sank Centre Tuesday evening
and taken from here to Willard
for burial.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
Company G. Took Part In
Regimemt0I Training Sunday
Unit Reviewed At
Camp Ripley By
1t. Governor Anderson

Sank Centres men of Company
G got their second look at a day
in the life of a soldier and their
first closeup of the states lieuten-
ant governor, c. Elmer Anderson,
Sunday.
That worked both ways. For
through the eyes Of Lieutenant
Governor Anderson, the state of
Minnesota got it's first official
glimpse of what its state troopers
of the First Service Regiment, Min
nesotas Defense Force-created last
November on the impending exod-
us of the states National Guard
Looked like.
With Brigadier-General C. A.
Green, as reviewing officer, the
lieutenant governor stood with the
reviewing hierarchy, as more than
300 men of eight outfits in the
regiment paraded in the regiment.
al review.
BY Monday men of the COM
pany had unofficially written
into the short history of the
outfit the slogan, Dear Nom"
Captured bodily from a cur
rently popular radio program
based on army life, the slogan
was on the lips Of half the COM
pany Sunday, Is by now the
outfits byword.
But aside from an unofficial
slogan, some sun-etched noses and
foreheads and wrinkled summer
uniforms and some more sore
shoulders, men of the conf
pany got more. This second as
sembly was by far larger than the
first, comprised the entire regi-
ment and brought men together
from Hutchinson to Brainerd, in
cluded for the first time the COM
pany Of st. Cloud, the medics of
st. Cloud and several other units
that had their company flags fly.
ing that day.
The lieutenant governor arrived
in the afternoon at the parade
ground at Camp Ripley just before
the review ceremonies. He drove
from headquarters to the parade
in the generals car flying the
white-starred red flag, familiar
military designation of general.
Attired in a light blue suit and
broad-brimmed summer straw hat,
the lieutenant governor was easily
distinguishable among the khaki
clad officers with whom he stood.
The review with visitors assemb-
led from the home stations Of the
companies was the highlight OF the
afternoon with the entire regiment
reviewed under the command OF
Colonel Henry Miller, headquarters
in Brainerd. Impressive parts OF
the ceremonies were the accom-
panying Of the colors to the review
CONTINUED on Page 10. Col. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-28
Melrose To1mshib Farmer
and REA Head Electy0cuted

zog was on the rear bumper
while the test was being made.
A short circuit Is believed to
have caused the electrocutiOn,
said Ignatius Lemm, Melr0se
City Clerk.
Mr.. HalOnen had been sup
erintendent for the Stearns
REA for the past 2 years and
under his supervision the lines
have been extended into neigh
boring counties. Mr.. Herzog,
SO years old, Is q well known
farmer Of the Melrose COM
munity.
Funeral services for Mr.. Her
FOG were held at Melrose We'd
nesday morning. Several peo-
pie from this city attended the
last rites.