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AXIS STEEL PROFITS

The crackdown on Axis assets, which State Department appeasers blocked for months, has revealed to officials many hidden loopholes through which Germany and Italy siphoned millions of dollars to finance subversive operations in this country and Latin America.
 Freezing the funds also disclosed that while the loopholes were plugged. Axis agents are still de- fiantly active.
 One case of this kind was a group of Italians who, shortly after the outbreak of war, organized a U. s. company to export high-grade steel, used in making machine tools and instruments. When Mussolini leaped into the fray as France was collapsing, shipments to Italy ceased.
 But the company continued to buy large quantities of the steel which it sold to U. s. users at fancy profits, as ever-mounting de- fense needs boosted prices. This money the company turned over to Italy.
 When the freezing order came blocking further transmission o1 funds, the company had on hand large stock of steel. It immedi- ately notified its U. s. customer
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Guardia's new Civil Defense Ad- ministration. He will be in charge of civilian morale. . :. Price regu- lator Leon Henderson has been ar guing for about a week with Ford and Chrysler, two companies which did not rescind the price increases announced some time ago. Gen. leral Motors was the only company which did notz,up prices on new models. :. .gtHenderson is now putting a price ceiling on cotton print goods, &
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MERRY-GO-ROUND PREDICTED IT

When the history of the year 1941 is written, probably the biggest event of the year will be re- corded Germany's declaration of war against Rus sa. Up until the night of June 21, foreign experts thought Hitler bluffing Even Walter Duranty, who spent lifetime in Russia for The New York Times predicted that Hitler would mot attack his ally.
 In view of this, the record of Drew Pearson and
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bound for the Interior. The ship landed from the south last night and is due to. make a round trip to Fairbanks.
 Another Lodestar is due from Se- attle and is expected to land here shortly after 4 o'clock this after noon.
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which went further than specified in their deal with Hitler. Within "A hours after the war broke, a German column was reported as having taken back Bukovina.
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Lodesfar Due
 From Seattle

With passengers waiting for the take off, and PAA officials waiting for weather, a northbound PAA Lodestar is at the Juneau airport
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MERRY-GO-ROUND

Ex-Governor Winant of New Hampshire, now Ambassador at London, is credited with selling an other ex-New Hampshire. Governor, Robert P. Bass. as the new min ister of propaganda" Bass, one of the many Republicans in the Roo- sevelt Administration. will func- ton under Republican Mayor La-
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More than 10000 conventions. an all-time record, will be held in the United States and Canada in 1941.
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ngsone Wernecke his Mayo investigate large ,f promising quartz claims.
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The Treadwell store closed Sunday for the first time continue this policy of being open only on week days
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Taku Village the of Eagles picnic given the
 members and their party from Douglas well.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19

if that means the loss of few lives
here and there, hundred thousand
or a million more or less.
There has, however, been no indi-
cation of the governors criticizing
or differing with his appointee, Sena-
tor Joseph H. Ball, in his advocating
naval Intervention now on the part
of America.
The nation is united on building a
strong national defense in these days
of war torn world, but on the ques-
ton of American entry into the
European war there is great diff
ference of opinion. A person is either
for or against entry into the war.
Questions and propaganda may be
presented in many different ways,
but it all SINNERS down to this:
Are you for or against war?
The governor certainly is playing
with a group that is for war and has
not stated that he is against war.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
THE THIRD MAN IN THE RING
(Chicago Daily Tribune)

Some French spokesman and COM
mentators both in Vichy and in Paris,
replying to Mr.. Roosevelt's ascrip-
ton of bad faith to the Petain gov
eminent, say that his better role in
Europe would be one of peacemaker.
The inspiration of these feelers may
be from Berlin. Some people think
the wind must be from that quarter
and that only Nazi stooges in France
are bowling to it. But why shouldn't
there be desire for peace in France?
France has lost a war. 1t supports
an army of occupation. It is block
AIDED as if it were an enemy country.
Its coast cities are bombed as enemy
bases by its late ally. 1t can barely
distinguish its present enemies from
its former allies. Its men are in war
prison camps. 1t is divided against
itself. 1t has lost temorarily at least
the power to rescue itself.
France has been defeated in wars
before this just as it has won them.
1t has had its triumphs and its humili-
ations. The enemy has been in the
streets Of Paris before. The French
have been at the receiving and the
debating end of peace tables. For
France the alternative to peace and
chance to recuperate is an indefinite
period of suffering, confusion and
decentralization.
The French are asked to wait until
they are rescued from the oppressor.
If they do not want to wait are they
to defer to the wishes of the rescuers
who must blast way through France
or other occupied territory when, if
ever, they come? The French may
prefer to take their chances, as they
have done before, with time as
the third man in the ring. The third
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19

in. The French nation for several
hundred years has been bled white
through constant wars first against
England and since 1870 against Ger
many. This has deteriorated the
manhood of France to the danger
line.
Millions of the best men of France
are rotting in German prison camps
and If imprisoned much longer will
be human wrecks. If the French
nation is to survive it's men must
be returned to it and its people fed,
or there cannot be any great French
nation in the future. Great and ia
tai realities are the results of war.
S. j. SIMONSEN.
Pease, MIMI, June IA, 1941.
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Editor Askov American:

Editor ASkOV American:
1t has been proposed that we hold
an election to vote whether or not
America is to enter the war. There
is no reason for us to think that Hit
Ter will recognize and honor such a
vote even if it was voted mo-"
He has said in his radio speeches
to his people that he will modernize
the world. That includes the United
States. He is taking every nation as
he goes, and had the Danish king dis
charge his representative in WASH
ington for making an agreement with
our President about building stations
on the coast of Greenland.
If Hitler had no intention to use the
northern Atlantic to get over here,
he would laugh off that.
We can not expect Hitler to let us
alone here even if we vote no war.
He knows that none of the countries
wanted him to make war on them,
and why should he favor us? He
will be here when our term comes
according to his plans in spite of our
will and vote if we let him have an
easy job of it.
If Germany takes England and Ire
land that will shorten her way to us,
so they can fly from there to Green
land (if we keep away from there)
and from there to Canada and U.s.
And if Germany takes England with
all she has, that would give her
something to fight us with. So l
think it should be plain that it is of
great interest to us that the Ger
mans are kept out of England.
Germany is getting help from all
her surrounding countries, either by
fear or force, with which to fight
England. All of that is aggressive war
or robbery. Is it then out of reason
that we help England with supplies?
When we do so it is our shipment
when on the way to England whether
it is paid for or not, as it hurts our
trade, so we will be in our right to
protect it. It would not be aggres-
sion by us to defend our shipments
When the Germans friends here in
America oppose such defense they are
working against the United States
and England, in favor of Germany.
1t would be terrible to get into war
with Germany but how can we be
saved otherwise? Hitler has told the
whole world how it is, and he is act
ing accordingly, and nothing will stop
him, unless he can be checked and
Germany kept down. The Germans
have been the aggressors for six wars
during my time and I have kept it on
my mind how all of them started.
The first was in Denmark in the year
1864 when I was IL years of age.
Not one of the wars was fought in
Germany; they were all German in
vasions in other countries.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd.
Minneapolis.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page II

(Cont1nued from Page -
nations, more or less closely allied
with Great Britain, formally agreed
that they would, in effect, fall or
stand together, come what may.
Churchill a few days earlier in
Parliament had had to defend himself
against criticism concerning the cam
paign in Greece and Crete, and his
main justification was that war is a
matter of risks. You cannot win
without risking something. But, of
course, you may suffer defeat. That
was what had happened in Greece
and Crete-just one of the very great
misfortunes of the war but, as he
thought it, unavoidable and, in the
end, justified.
In his House of Commons
speech Churchill openly declared
that he could not predict the out
come of the war, and in a speech
before the diplomats signing the
solidarity agreement with Great
Britain he averred that only
through sorrow and sacrifice may
mankind recover its lost glory;
he seemed, then, rather certain
that such recovery would be
made. But the cost would be in
calculable.
At about the time Churchill spoke,
there were also public utterances by
Darlan of Vichy-France and by Mus
solini of Italy. Darlan chiefly said
that since Germany seemed certain
of victory, the place of France would
be with the Germans, and Mussolini
Dragged about victories won, not by
him but by his far more powerful
and much cleverer partner, Hitler.
What About Russia?
During these last few days there
has again been great deal of specu-
lation as to the meaning and the
course of Soviet Russian foreign poll
cy. It has often been limited that
the official friendship between Ger
many and Russia is only skin-deep,
and there have been frequent rumors
of impending open conflict between
the two. But, so far, nothing has
happened to bear out the fears-or
collision.
Only this, that for some time
there have been rumOrs to the eff
feet that the Germans were mass
ing troops along Russian borders,
and that Hiflor xx,ac infant IN
getting control of the immense
wheat fields of Ukraine.
There also has been repeated
S tory-still unconfrmed-th hat a
couple of divisions of the German
army have arrived in Finland. Are
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
ANYTHING is POSSIBLE
5000 West River Blvd.
Minneapolis.
Editor ASkov American:

Editor ASkOV American:
The general European conception
of war was perhaps inadvertently
expressed by one of Mussolini's sons
who thought it was great sport to
bomb the natives huts in Ethiopia and
see the debris and the occupants fly
up in the air. Naturally, it would
not be sport if the Ethiopians bombed
Italians-it is just the way they look
at it. For centuries whenever the
ruling class of Europe thought that
the common people needed discipline
they would have war, more or less
the rich mans pastime.
Americans generally cannot toler-
ate war, except in self defense or
fighting for some ideal. They do
not consider it in the line of a sport,
like baseball or football. When told
that war is racket and a fake many
do not believe it, but, gradually start
to believe that some great ideal or
people are at stake. Last year when
mentioned that the French and
the English might be fighting each
other some of my best friends thought
that was going haywire and that 1
did not know my stuff. However,
when self-preservation is at stake
anything is possible.
The American people have been
educated to believe that the French
are the personification of liberty
many cannot conceive of the French
turning against their former allies.
Here again self-preservation comes
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
PETITION FOR HI. r. 2475 AS
AMENDED
Editor ASkoV American:

Editor Askov American:
The following petition is self-ex-
planatory:
"To the members of the Senate and
House of Representative of the Con-
gress of the United States:
WHEREAS, in the War Act of
1917 the Congress of the United States
included legislation forbidding the
exploitation of the men in the Army
and the Navy by liquor and COM
mercialized vice, even though liquor
was then forbidden in any military
unit, and
WHEREAS, in the Selective Serv-
ice Act the Congress of 1910 called
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
Government Issues
BY Hjalmar Petersen.
Political Badge No
Substitute

Following the recent overtime SeS-
sion of the Minnesota Legislature the
Union Advocate of st. Paul, criti-
cized the Legislature by saying that
"never has there been a more flag
rant and unmitigated lodging of col
lective responsibilities" and added
that ''never did a Governor reveal
sadder lack of leadership over his
own party than did Governor Stas-
sen during the 90-odd days the
Legislature was in session."
Editor Lockhart, who is very out
spoken and pronounced in his opin-
ions, was all out for the endorsed
candidates presented by the Farm
er-Labor Association in 1888 and
prior campaigns. At that time, he
said that the Minnesota Union Ad-
vocate would, of course, as hereto
fore 60 down the line for the en-
dorsed candidates, and added that
Farmer-Labor individuals filing indie
pendently of the Association endorse
ment in the primary election were
running without party platform and
were responsible only to themselves.
1t is, however, interesting and
cheering to note that Editor Lockhart
has made some observations since
the days of 1888, for his tune is now
altogether different. He writes:
Labor should know by now that
it must return to nonpartisan politics
with new vigor and new determi-
nation to profit from its plumbers OF
the past. 1t should know by now
that a political badge is not a sub
stitute for honest service, for red
blooded devotion to a principle, fol-
character and political virtue. La.
Dor should know that its hope of the
future is bound up in legislation and
not in political patronage, not in jobs
for few nor in subordinating ar
economic movement for a political
organization. Labor should not wait
until the fall campaign of 1912 before
coming to its senses"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
For or Against War?

When person is straddling the
fence it is difficult to keep up with
him. If he is quoted one way in a
newspaper, he comes back and says
it wasn't just that way, it should
have been the other way. When a
person is more definite in his views
and expressions there is not the op-
portunity for being misquoted.
Governor Stassen now says that
he was misquoted in Chicago paper,
which stated that he would go along
with the administrations foreign poll
cy even if it took the nation closer
to war. The governor tries to cor
rect it by saying:
81 merely said in Chicago inter-
view that 1 still felt the same as I
did last January, when 1 told the
council of state governments that
we must give united support to the
federal governments foreign policy.
Only history will tell whether any
action we take now is right. Neither
the interventionists nor the isola-
tionists can say positively that their
policies are right"
If it is true, as the governor says,
that neither the interventionists nor
isolationists can say positively that
their policies are right, then why
take any chances on war? We know
that war is costly, that it is murder
Gus, and we know also that the war
mongers agree, and reiterate again
snd again that they abhor war and
would like very much to avoid it.
AS long as it is guess work, as the
governor makes out, why gamble on
taking part in foreign wars, but let
us just simply get down to brass
tacks and build up good national
defense against attack.
The governor is doing his best to
be on both sides of this all important
war question. He thinks the Presi-
dent has been little too rough on
Lindbergh and that Senator Wheel
er in turn has been little too rough
on the President. He does not agree
with all of the Roosevelt admin
STATIONS foreign policies, and yet he
feels that the country should be
united in the nations foreign policy.
Apparently the governor gives dain-
ty little slap on the wrist of the
interventionists, but on the other
hand feels that it would be just too
bad not to 60 down the line for the
administration foreign policy, even
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19

the young men of the present time to
train for defense of our nation if need
be, and there now exists for these
young defenders no defense from
the activities of what General George
c. Marshall, chief of staff of the
Army of the United States, referred
to as "a sordid business for the ac-
emulation of money, namely, the
traffic in alcoholic beverages, and
since beer is now sold in the camps
by government authority, and since
commercialized prostitution in camp
areas threatens health, morals, and
efficiency of service, now, therefore,
"WE the undersigned citizens of
do respectfully petition you to vote
for H. R. BATS as amended as a con-
tribution to wholesome defense pro-
gram and re-enactment of legisla-
ton similar to that of 1917 and so
give to the young men of 1941 the
protection their fathers had in 1917"
The above mentioned bill is now
out of committee. Individuals and
interested should avail
themselves of the opportunity of ex-
pressing their wishes to their Sena-
tors, Henrik Shipstead and Jos. H.
Ball as well as to their Congress-
man Harold Knutson. These may
be addressed at the Senate and House
Office Buildings, respectively, Wash
ington, D. G.
MRS. HENRY BLASJO.
Sturgeon Lake, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
LEGISLATIVE OVERTIME.
(St. Paul Pioneer Press)


There has been much talk but no
action toward testing the legality of
the legislative sessions extending be-
yond the 80 working day period pre-
scribed in the state constitution. This
question should be settled by the
courts. Inasmuch as the recent ses-
sion went several days over the
time limit during which time much
important legislation was passed, this
is the proper time to make the test.
Those who favor the clock-stopping
dodge to avoid the restrictions of the
constitution contend that an outside
limit for extending the session is
established by the act that the COVER
nor must sign all bills within five
days after the close of the session.
But it is as logical for the governor
to stop the clock and cover the CAL
endar in his office as it is for the
legislators to do this in their cham
bers. Should he also adopt this plan
the Legislature might stay in session
indefinitely.
There are two good reasons why
these overtime sessions should be pro-
hibited by the courts. The first is
that they lessen respect of the peo-
pie for the law and for the Legisla-
ture. 1t is only reasonable for the
average citizen to believe that if the
Legislature is not bound by the con-
stitution no one else should be.
The second has to do with the type
of laws that may be forced through
during these overtime periods. Of
necessity, everything must be done
in a hurry. It is much easier for
tricky legislators or Hobbies to accom-
plish their purposes under these cir
cumstances than it would be if there
were time for full and deliberate
consideration. 1t would be far more
advisable to have a legal extra ses-
sion of the Legislature to solve prob
lens which the regular session did
not meet, than to attempt to crowd
some solution of these problems
through an illegal overtime period.
American advertising pavs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19

they, if it is true, bound for Russia?
No one knows. But, anyhow, two
divisions couldn't do much.
What may be of greater i'm
portance is the report that the
British are displaying quite un-
usual activity in an effort to wean
Russia away from Germany, and
that there appears to be some
kind of deep disagreement be-
tween Josef Stain, dictator Of
Russia, and some of his generals
in regard to the Soviet attitude
toward Hitler.
Whatever it all may be-there is
undoubtedly something going on,
and Russian manoeuvers may once
more fill the world with establishment.
But at this moment no one outside
Moscow knows what form they will
take, or when they will be carried
out.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19

man has had the upper hand before.
Are we to say that they must hold
out until we swing into action for
them? Our interventionists tell us
that we must preserve Great Britain
and the British fleet as our first line
OF defense. That is one proposition.
Does it carry with it the reconquest
OF Europe? The people on the war
benches should make their ideas
clearer.
What is their alternative to a peace
which did no injury to the British
empire and allowed continental Eu-
rope to settle with time?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American.
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, 1941-06-19
A Little Spice

A man remains solvent only so long
as he keeps his earning power ahead
of his "yearning" power.
Truth and love are twins in this
respect: The more they are shared,
the greater the share in the heart.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-06-19
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Conform With the Opinions of the
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