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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
Corrections.
A. e. GUSTAFSON. County Supt.

SSSAOAASs
Because of errors in typing our
list of graduates, six names were &C
cidentally omitted. These passed all
the state examinations and bring our
total for 1871 to PIG rural gradu-
ates. Add them to your main list.
They are as follows: District IA, Du-
ane L. Nordeen; district As, Lorraine
A. Lewis; district 125, Donald Ketch-
UNI, Daniel Klein, Donna Lund and
Dean Riehm.
One of the new state laws takes
away the "two per cent limitation"
on the rural school clerks salary.
He may now receive what is voted
at the annual meeting, not to exceed
$50. Please cross out the two per
cent part pertaining to clerks salary.
School Meetings.
More than 60 rural districts in
Pine county find the supplemental
aids desirable and profitable and have
voted them again for the ensuing
year 1941-1942. A few other dis
tricts have Joined or rejoined this
group including district SO.
Schools 20, Al, SIS, 70, Sc, 108, 100,
no, lis, 118, 100 and 121 will remain
closed and transport pupils. Both
schools in District Al will be closed
also. District 80 will reopen because
of distance and increase in number
of children.
School district 83 has no convenient
roads or available place near to trans
port children, so every effort is being
made to complete new school build
ing or provide temporary building
Their WPA project has been held up
a long time because of lack of skilled
men. Their old building burned two
years ago.
Groningen, district 81, voted to en-
ploy two teachers. It may be wiser
and more economical for them to
transport grades 7 and and have
one teacher for grades one to six.
School district 1875, ID miles east
of Hinckley, voted to move the school,
house to a new site three-fourths of
d lille IlOl Ill VI IllSli" dy ~. "A ilC"
basement will be included in the
proposed project. The new location
is better and more accessible.
At a special meeting on June %,
Sturgeon Lake districts 40 and is
voted, 70 to IA, to consolidate. They
will both have the advantage of
transportation aids, and the use of
the new Sturgeon Lake three-room
school, now about completed A new
six-member board for this new dis
trict 1913 will be elected at meet
ing on July 16. Taxes will no doubt
remain the same as they are now,
because both old districts have been
earning the supplemental aids.
Oath of Office.
T. c. Engum says: "The new school
board members shall sign the accept
ance and oath blank found in the
clerks book. This must be done in
the presence of some one authorized
by law to administer the oath, such
as notary public, justice of the peace,
township clerk, etc. A school board
member has no authority to admin
ster any oath, and therefore cannot
act in that capacity when new men,
bers are qualified for office"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
News From The
Defense Front

From time to time, as space
permits, letters to home folks
from local volunteers and draft
ees in any branch of the United
States defense forces will be
published in the Askov Ameri-
can. In this manner friends and
relatives may get an insight into
the life of the boys in the camps
and on duty in this country or
it's possessions, and on the high
seas. If the letters are too long
they may of necessity have to
be cut down to the most inter-
esting details but any and all
missives will be welcomed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
Saving Democracy
At Home
BY c. III. Russell in
MankatO Free Press

The southern Minnesota COM
munity of Mankato is blessed
with an editor who thinks clearly
and has the courage of his con-
victions. He writes independent
ly as he views public issues, aft
er due consideration.
In the following article, Editor
Russell brings out that America
should not be anxious to tell
other countries what form of
government they are to have, but,
rather that we should put our
own house in order, check on our
selves, and set good example
to the world.
He says a volume when he
states that like Christianity, de-
mocracy cannot be promulgated
by fire and sword. It must come
from the hearts of men-not from
the mouths of cannon.
Editor Russell's editorial fol-
lows:
They're at it again. The tub
thumpers and the breast-beaters are
shouting their old refrain and John
Q. Public appears in a state of mind
to join the parade and start another
crusade. We're all set to 'save the
world for democracy" once more, by
which we really mean that we're in
a frame of mind to spend billions in
treasure and to sacrifice millions OF
lives, attempting to foist our form
of government on other peoples.
Unquestionably we need to spend
billions on our own defenses.
And just possibly we're going to be
dragged into this war in order to in
sure a world order in which a demo-
cracy like ours can be insured ar
opportunity to grow and progress ir
peace and security.
But let's stop right there, what
ever happens. Let's be honest anc
say that whatever we do regarding
this war will be done for reasons
of enlightened selfishness and mo-
with the silly idea of telling other
peoples of the world how they shall
live and what form of government
they are to have.
When we get in this crusadins
state of mind we lose our sense o.
perspective. We did back in 1917-18
We refused to see any of the flaw!
in our democracy and as conse.
quence they multiplied and flourishec
like weeds until we brought on thu
debacle of the twenties.
After all, there is just tremend.
GUS amount of improving necessary
in our own system of government
before we can hold it up to the worlc
as an example for others to follow
A lot of super-patriots do not like
to hear that but it's the truth never.
theless. The surest way to 'maks
the world safe for democracy" is tt
make democracy work better RICH
here at home. And we haven't done
that any too well in over $50 year!
of trying.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10

(COntlnueQ from rage ~
to the remark that, of course, the
German high command had fore
seen that desperate possibility,
and was prepared to meet it.
At that, there is no doubt that Hit
Ter is intensely anxious to enter Mos
cow in triumph, and to proclaim
himself the conqueror of Russia
There is, however, this to remember
that even should he take Moscow and
the entire western part of Russia,
he still would not have taken the
whole country, for that extends clear
through to the Pacific ocean, and
may for military and many other rea-
sons be exceedingly difficult to con-
quer.
Toward Ukraine.
The third principal German Of
fensive is headed in the direction of
the Ukraine-land of wheat and oil.
At the nazi party gathering in Nurem-
berg five years ago Hitler, in squirt
of ecstatic and hysterical eloquence,
proclaimed that if he only had the
Ukraine in his possession, the Ger
man people would at once become
more prosperous than at any form
er time in its history. So, you see,
with him it's an old story, forgotten
not even while he still was the treaty
friend of Stain
1t seems that his armies are trying
to get into the Ukraine from both
the west and the south at the same
time. The Southeastern part of
Poland serves as his springboard for
the western advance, and through
Bessarabia other divisions are march
ing north toward Kiev, the princi-
pal city of the Ukraine.
ood-Dripping Tales.
Out of the Russian war
come some blood-dripping reports,
and the outside world is led to believe
which may be true-that the battle
is the fiercest so far in this second
world war
There are CORY tales of thous-
ands and thousands of men-On
both sides-bei slaughtered
like SO many cattle; there are
bulletins describing rivers run
ming red with human blood; there
are dispatches giving details
about the heaps of dead bodies
along the highways of Russia.
The Russian claims as to the num-
Der of German killed and taken
prisoner deserve, it seems, as little
credence as do the German reports
on the vast number of dead and
captured Russians. One would think
that it is bad enough as it is, and
that it would not be necessary to
add imaginary details to a picture
which already is shaking the world
into profound horror.
Other Fronts.
While the German-Russian war is
developing, little seems to be going
on elsewhere, or, at least, but little
is heard about it. There may this
week be an armistice in Syria where
fighting has slowed down, and the
Libyan front apparently is relatively
quiet. So, for the m I'm en- the
struggle between Germany and Rus
STA attracts nearly all attention.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
fective. but If the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be Withheld).
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
1 am writing this second article,
hoping you'll print it for two reasons;
one, to warn anyone who writes to
anyone in an army camp to be very
careful of the proper addressing of
mail. Through no fault of yours, Mr..
Editor, because of my transfer, re-
ceived four copies of your paper
in two days. Two, quite lot has
happened since I last wrote. Now
1 know something of what is called
here, the second step of army train
ing. -- .
The group I came down with from
Fort Smelling graduated from the
field artillery school the sixteenth
of June. Then we were all classified
and transferred to other posts. How
ever, there were no 10 men from the
battery sent to the same post. Three
men besides myself were transferred
here, to the Eighth Observation Head
quarters battery. So far here we
have done nothing that we were
trained for the first three months.
The general idea seems to be to
teach us something about everything
until they find what we are best
qualified for.
One of the first things we learned
is to take and obey orders from any
officer without knowing or asking the
reason why. The orders always come
from some higher officer all the way
up to the President. Judging from
recent events I'd say they come even
farther than that.
The Fourth of July has come and
gone with nothing to distinguish it
from another holiday except a 81
gun salute fired at noon. The rest
of the day was strangely quiet around
camp. Most of the boys had left
the evening of the third on their
day passes.
One of the things 1 wondered about
was how the food was rationed to
give everyone equal amounts Now
after two weeks as ration clerk I
know something about it. There are
two different plans used. One, the
garrison ration, which allows the
mess sergeant so much money to buy
what is necessary to feed his battery
This he buys at the fort commissary
The other is the field ration. This
is rationed out by menus sent out
each week direct from Washington.
A certain amount of each article per
100 men. This is drawn each day
from the commissary. There are four
types of field ration, A, B, c and D,
each is a little less than the one be-
fore it. Field ration D consists of
four two-ounce bars of condensed
chocolate each day. My job will be
easy if we get to that. Here they
are using field ration A.
This may sound more like a per-
sonal letter than a newspaper article
but as I do not claim to be a re-
porter it will have to do.
1 want to extend thanks for the
copies of the Askov American sent
here. 1t is nice to know what's
going on back home.
Respectfully,
Private Don E. Ellison,
Hq. Btry. 9th F. A.
ObSn. Bn.
Fort Sill, Okla.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
The life insurance companies

The life insurance companies own
United States government bonds
amounting to twice the total public
debt of the country only "a years
ago. The companies contribution to
federal financing now aggregates
more than six billion dollars.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10

the Germans; in fact some of the
goods carried by the Robin Moor may
be shown to be contraband by British
definition.
Although this government has never
accepted those definitions, it is not
in the best position to argue, first,
because we adopted those definitions
ourselves after entering the World
war, and second, because our Neu-
trality law is supposed to keep
American ships from sailing into dan
gerous zones.
Unless President Roosevelt is pre-
pared to redraw the combat zones, he
will have to take measures for the
protection of American ships travel
ing to British or other Allied ports,
such as arming them or sending them
in conveys under naval escort.
The President can also demand
that hostilities in the waters around
the Americas cease, but if Germany
rejects the demand, the only course,
short of war, would be to retaliate in
some way that would make con-
tinuance of the operations too costly
to be worth while.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10

Fairmont Sentinel: We are strong
ly for the proposal to knock out the
SO per cent grand larceny bill and
establish per cent as a top legal
rate. And we'd go further and make
the law so strong that exacting more
by any subterfuge whatever would
forfeit the loan and send the blood
sucker to the rock pile.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Askov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-07-10
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW

CONTINUED from Page ~
to the remark that, of course, the
German high command had FORE
seen that desperate possibility,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
Continued on Page Four)
State Railway
Bond Issue
Is

Raleigh, July l0-tAlD-PlanH To
improve the roadbcd OF the State
controlled Atlantic and North Cai,
DINA Railroad and possibly I" puma
a spur line To Cherry Point adNahc-
ca another step today when Attorney
General Harry Mcmillan asked me
Utilities commission to approve IS
suancc OF 100000 in Improvement
bonds.
Tie railroad. which runs from
Morehcad City to GoldSboro, now Is
operated under lease by the Atlantic
and East Carolina Railway.
The act OF the legislature author-
lzed the State to borrow up 10 u
600 for The railroad, proNldlng lhe
borrowing was authorized by lle
governor and the council OF state.
Broughton and the council aIreaoy
have authorized issuance OF soo,ooo
OF that total. -,
The spur line to Cherry Point VIII
be necesSitated If the proposed >l4',-
$4,000 Marine base Is constructed
there.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
Hope Remains
For Nurses

Washington, July TO- (APN-N2-
lional headquarters OF the American
Red Cross. refusing to give up hope
for even nurses and onc Red Cross
worker feared oSt at sea, Waltct
anxiouslv today for further informa-
ton from the Navy or the State
department.
SIX of the nurses who sailed juno
5 for England aboard a British YES
sci are missing, Red Cross officials
reported their ship was t~orpedoed
about two weeks ago.
Mrs. Ruth breckenridge, society
woman OF Wlnston-Salem, N. G., a
volunteer, was aboard the Dutch
ship Maasdam, sunk several days
after il sailed from an Atlantic port
early IN June.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
Glass Chosen
For Honor

Washington, July lO.-(AFo-
\ conference of Senate Demo-
Gratis unanimously selected So
Nrar-olu senator Carter Glass,
Democrat. Virginia.. today to DC
president pro-tcmpOrc of the
chamber IN which he has served
for Fl years.
Glass will succeed the late sen
atOr Pat Harrison, Democrat,
Mississippi, when the Senate ra!i-
flies todaN'S conference selection.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
Statements
From Vichy
Contradict
Puzzling Complica-
tions Develop in Con-
necticn With Vichy
Proposal to End Con-
fIicf; Darlan Confers
With Germans.

Ni"hy. July 1O.-lNFD-Thc
French 5ieh command in Syria
declared tonight that Britain
t'v. Ear ha> IGNORED its request
for ~ arm;Sticc and "cOmbatS
are therefore continuing with
their accompaniment of violence
AID devastation"
TIE "~UmmUniuuc added that
"thc Responsibilities for it does
not rest with France"
NicnN, July l0.-(AP)- a
Vichv proposal of armi>tic to end
the month-old Syrian war be-
tween NichE forces and British
imperial troops and their de
GaGlli>tS comradc>-in-armS ran
into pulling complications today
as Vice Premier Admiral Jean
DarIan returned from Paris con-
]fcrcnceS with German officials.
The war continued and a con
tradirtion in NichN statements
cropped up.
Yesterday the authoritative Tclc-
,nondial news agency announce
hat Nichv was studying allied con
for an armisticc, requested b.
General Henri DENT. high commits
sioner and commander in chief il
Syria and Lebanon.
To-day u French statement said:
No reply has yet been made by
the Br.>~h authorities 10 Genera
Dentz. who. ON the contrary, Iount
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
Reds Claim
Main Front
Lines Hold
Berlin Radio Asserts
Five Heavy Bunkers of
Stain Line Captured
and 40 Soviet War
planes Destroyed.
By The Associated Prcss.)

BN The Associated Press.)
humiliation OF a German
motorized division of sSnT Is
00G men in the blocking of nazi
drives toward Moscow and
Leningrad was reported by the
Russians today, while the Ger
man high command again hid
details of the titantic battle rag
ing along d 2.0OO-m mile front.
On the vital 300-miIc central front,
q Soviet War bulletin declared Red
Army troops We're inllicting terrible
losses on the invaders and holding
last.
The Berlin radio asserted naZi
engineer shock troops had
stormed and captured five heavy
bunkers of the Stain line after
bitter fighting" and claimed de-
struction Of ITO Soviet war
planes.
Moreover. the radio said. German
columns advancing against the Stain
Ge1ensc system had destroyed 1913
Russian panZcr units and put the
rest to flight
In the south. the hungarian high
command reported the capture of
$4,000 Soviet prisoners by German
and Hungarian troops knitting into
Galicia.
The Germans, silent on any
specific gains, declared the
worlds two largest armies were
now fighting a decisive battle.
The nazi high command also
confirmed the capture of Salla.
fortified Russian town on the
Finnish border. after a Red
Army division was said to have
been "crushed1 in several days
OF fighting.
In general terms, the nazjs report
cd that the lett wing of Germany's
Baltic army Was pounding two
spearhcads -to Russian dCicnses-
one directed at Tallinn capital Of
Estonia: the other aimed al Lenin-
grad, Russia's second biggest city, at
the head OF the Guit of Finland.
Roughly, the main battle line ran
Eom Ostrov. near the LatiVan-Es-
tonian frontier. thence 100 miles
soGth to PoIotsk; 100 miles south
west To BorIsoN, on the Minsk to
Moscow highway: and 100 miles
>outhea~, to Bobruisk. on the Berc-
zinu river.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Considerable clOudines> with
scattered thundcrShOWerS Friday
and in the interior this alter
noon or tonight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
BRITISH
ITALIAN CITIES
Syracuse Raided In
Daylight; Ia Civilians
Killed, 80 Injured at
Naples.

Rome, July lO.-(AP)-Rc-
neWal of British air attacks ON
Italy proper after d lapse of
many weeks was reported today
by the Italian high commando
loW-lcvcl daylight thrust at
Syracuse and Il blow by night at
Naples which suited in II
civilians killed and 80 injured.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10
Taft Says
Navy Plans
Irish Base
Republican Senator
Says He Has Reliable
Authority for State
ment; Knox and Stark
Summoned B efore


Washington. July lO.-tAP)-
Senator Taft. Republicans. Ohio.
told the Senate tudaN that he
had heard weeks ago or re
Liable authority that the United
states wa constructing "A naval
air base Tor Great Britain in
northern Ircilnd.'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-07-10

Continued o. D9ge rs,
Evening star., 1941-04-25
Three Drug Concerns,
7 individuals DENY
Fixing InsuIin Price
PIeud Innocent in Trust
Case and Get 90 Doys
To Attack Indictment

Three of the Nations largest drug
manufacturers and seven individuals
associated with them, indicted on
charges of conspiracy to violate the
antitrust laws by fixing the price
of insulin, pleaded innocent in Dis
trict Court today when arraigned be-
fore Justice F. Dickinson Let's.
The accused firms are: Eli Lilly IL
Co., E. r. Squibb g. Sons and Sharpe
& Dohme, Inc; the individuals
named are Eli Lilly Charles J. Lynn,
Earl S. Retter Carlton H Palmer.
John P. Anderson, John s. ZinSser
and Eugene Hugh Long.
For Eli Lilly & Co, Mr.. Lilly,
president: Mr.. Lynn, vice president,
and Mr. Retter, sales director; ap-
peared on behalf of that corporation
and themselves individually; for the
Squibb concern, Mr. Palmer, chair
man. and Mr.. Anderson, also an
official, pleaded for themselves and
the concern; while Mr.. ZinSser,
president, and Mr.. Long, vice presi-
dent, likewise pleaded innocent for
themselves and Sharp IL Dohme, Inc.
BY request the defendants were
given go days in which to file legal
papers attacking the validity of the
indictment.
Kenneth L. Kimble and George
Wise, special assistants 10 the At
torney General, represent the Gov
eminent in the case. which was
heard by an additional grand jury.
Evening star., 1941-04-25

900 miners and 1000 coal producers
in eight Appalachian States and in
outlying mining areas where wage
contracts are based on the general
Appalachian agreement. Following
unsuccessful attempts to negotiate
an agreement. the case was certl-
fed to the board by Secretary
Perkins.
The mine workers demanded a
general wage increase of 81 day,
compared with $6 day in the North
and $3.50 in the South, scales which
prevailed under the two-year con-
tract which expired March 81.
Northern operators finally agreed to
accede to the unions terms. South
ern producers, however. withdrew
from the contract negotiations de-
claring they could not continue in
business if the wage diferential
we're eliminated.
Hearings May Be Long.
However. the Southerners offered
their employees an 11~per cent wage
increase. Lewis group held out for
a uniform contract in all mines.
If the mediators fail to win imme-
diate reOpening of the collierieS
while negotiations go forward. there
was a general belief that the hear
ings might be lengthy and involved.
Seriousness of the mounting fuel
shortage was underlined by two Off
cial agencies. The War Department
said the shortage had caused "dras-
tic curtailment in production of
ammonia. steel. textiles and other
products needed for defense. The
Buraeu of Mines said only about
two weeks supply of coal now was
| above ground
Evening star., 1941-04-25
Union Chief Pleads Guilty
In Theft of Funds
Fy the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 25-James j.
Bambrick. president of the New
York local of the Building Service
Employees International Union "A.
F. of L., pleaded guilty to second
degree grand larceny today in con-
nection with a theft of $4,000 from
the union.
Tearfully. the man who directed
the citys elevator strike of a few
years ago appeared before Judge
John A. Mullen in general sessions
to acknowledge his guilt, and then
told neWsmen:
Il have nothing TO say. 1t is prob
ably all for the best. I have written
a book about the union and this
book will show all of the facts"
Judge Mullen continued the union
leaders bail of $500 and set sem
fencing for May IA. The maximum
penalty is five years in prison.
Bambrick was the third official
convicted or pleading guilty in Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey S
sweeping investigation into the
unions affairs. George Scalise
former international president, was
convicted and sentenced to 10 to
20 years for theft of union funds.
Frank Gold a minor official, was
convicted of extortion.