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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-14
Bruno Fair Date
Next Wednesday
Community Out to Surpass
1910 Event; New At
fractions on Program.

Wednesday of next week has been
set as the date for the 1941 Bruno
Community Fair and the committee
in charge again promises fine event.
The fair last year was marred by
rain but in spite of the weather con-
ditions it was one of the best fairs
in Bruno history and the community
is out to surpass it this year.
Cash Premiums.
Cash prizes will be given for farm
and garden products, canned and
baked goods, fancy work and flow
ers. First prize will be so cents
and second prize Is cents. The best
farm display will receive So and
second place S1.50. The sweepstakes
prize is $3.50. The same rules and
regulations used last year will again
prevail.
Among the other attractions on this
years program will be the Bruno
band to furnish music, merry-go-
round and ferris wheel, ball game
between the married men and single
men, tug-o-War contest and sports
of all kinds, a free movie in the eve
ming and dance to conclude the af-
fair.
Lists Display Rules.
The following rules have been set
by the committee in charge of the
various exhibits and those bringing in
displays are urged to observe the
regulations carefully:
Exhibits will be received until 10
a. m. on Wednesday. Judging will
start promptly at 10 o'clock and no
exhibits will be received after that
hour in competition for prizes.
If possible, please bring as much
as you can of your canned goods
and fancy work on Monday as this
will greatly tighten the work of those
in charge. All vegetables to be
clean, but not washed.
Exhibits must remain in place until
after 4 o'clock on Wednesday, at
which time premium checks will be
given out.
Field and Garden Display.
Following is the list of exhibits
wanted:
Corn-Minnesota No. Is, 10 ears;
Flint, 10 ears; Hybrid, 10 ears; corn
stalks, tallest corn, 3; cane, 3.
Bundle grain-Full length sheaves
to be tied in bundles not less than
three inches in diameter; oats, barley,
rye, wheat, red clover, alsike, tim
othy, millet.
Potatoes-12 of each variety: Me-
sabe, Katahdin, Early Ohio, Green
Mountain, Russell, Warba, Chippaway,
Bliss Triumph.
Vegetables Rutabagas, table, 3;
mangles, 3; parsnips, 6; carrots, 6;
onions, red, white and yellow, each;
tomatoes, red, green, each; sweet
corn, ears; pop corn, 6 ears; radish,
6; celery, 3; cabbage, flat, round, red,
2 each; cucumbers, ripe, 3; cucum-
bers, slicing, 6; cucumbers, picking,
IL; watermelon, pumpkin, squash,
muskmelon, 2 each.
Fruits-Apples, 6 each, crab apples,
6 each; plums, IL each.
Farm display-First prize, So; Sec
ond prize, $1.50.
Canned Goods.
Pint jars preferred. Vegetables
Peas, carrots, beets, corn, string beans,
tomatoes, green's and mixed vege-
tables.
Meats-Any kind.
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-14

Fairmont Sentinel: A war is like
a new house. 1t always costs more
than you thought it would, is harder
to pay for than you expected it
would be.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-14

Family Newspaper
DARE TO DO OUR DUTY
Let us have faith that
right makes might. and in
that faith let us to the end
dare to do our duty as we
understand it."
Abraham Lincoln.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-12-13
ON BRx G 6

he bid 5-Hearts. North might
count hIm as probably having a
Very fine art suit and leave him
n It even If short IN 1t himself
hut with good support If he bid
5-SDades. he might find the cards
disposed as they are. and take a
beating Anything he did might be
wrong. so he compromised on a
double. setting the opponents only
three tricks. for what to them
vas a fine sacrifice
Notice how much easier it was
for the fellows who showed their
spades the first time. They could
btI their hearts without a qualm
after West had proclaimed his
general weakness. Several Souths
made small slam N hearts, though
none bid 1t.
That jump bid, With fine play
ers, is considered primarily to
show a t~Wo-suiter. If it is a great
one-suiter. they can rebid it on
their next turn. The main point IS
this Don't double when you have
a tWo-suiter Of take out double
strength
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-12-13
TomorroN'S Problem

Dealer East Neither side vul-
rerable y
What Is the best action OF
South to take after East opens
the bidding on this deal with l.
Club
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
MANY TURNED BACK
Fan Out Over Britain for
Raids and Make Light.
Attack on London

LONDON, Feb. 23.-R-Strong
squadrons. of German fighters and
bombers roared across Dover
Strait today in what the Press AS
ISOLATION, a British news agency,
viewed as the start of the Nazi
luftwaffe's spring air offensive.
Most of the Germans were
turned back by British Spitfire and
anti-aircraft fire but the luftWaffe
persisted tonight. The raiders
famed out over Britain for wide
spead raids and carried out a
light attack against London.
Opening of Offensive
The Press Association said the
appearance of the German planes
heralded the opening of the enc
my's spring air offensive, fore
Swallowed by Saturdays patrol &C
tivities and small scale daylight
raids On southeast England
Raiders crossed the northeast
coast, dropping high explosives
and incendiaries and causing some
casualties and damage.
A lone raider was reported to
have dropped bombs in a south
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
German Officer Throws
Bottle At i. S. Minister

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 23.-RH
U. S. Minister George H. Earle
said tonight that a German army
major threw a champagne bottle
which just missed my head" in a
cafe skirmish last night when the
Nazi officer objected to the or
chestra striking up his requested
number - "Tipperary," a British
Void war marching song.
"The trouble began" Earle said
at a special press conference,
while exhibiting arm injuries suf-
fered in the scuffle, when the
German cornered me in a wash
room and demanded to know why
I had given the orchestra ten bucks
to play Tipperary.
II told him that was my bust
ness, and that Bulgaria was q
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
Administration May Accept
Further Amendments to
Lease-Lend Plan
COMMITTEE TO MEET
May Name Countries to
Which FIR. Could Pro-
vide War Materials
BY JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-tR-An
indication that the administration
might accept some further amend
ments to the British aid bill ap-
peared today when Chairman
George D-Ga.) said majority
members Of the senate Foreign
Relations committee would meet
this week to discuss "three or
four" proposed changes.
While George declined to dis
close which proposals would be
studied, it was learned that con-
sideration was being given to an
amendment which would name the
countries to which the President
could lease or lend war equip
ment.
May Enlarge Proposal
This amendment, it was under
stood. might enlarge upon the sug,
gestion of Wendell L. Willkie, 1910
republican presidential nominee
and supporter of the bill, that as
sistance be limited to the British
commonwealth, Greece and China.
This might be done by naming
these three, and providing in ad-
dition that the President could in
clude other countries which he felt
might be menaced by Axis threats.
As the measure stands now, ii
would permit the President to send
aid to any country whose defense
he deemed vital to the defense oil
the United States.
George said the purpose of the
meeting would be to chart the
course Of the committee propo.
nents of the bill when amendments
we're offered on the senate floor
later in the week. This group il
it included those who voted to re.
port the bill to the senate, woulc
be composed of IA democrats anc
Senator White R-Me.). Since thai
time, however, Senator Reynolds
D-NC), who voted to send the
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
DEFENDS WAR EFFORT
Upholds Fascist Regimes
Handling Of Unsuccess-
full Libyan Drive
|SAYS MORALE INTACT
Promises New Offensive on
Greeks; SCOTS at U. S.
Fears of Invasion

ROME, Feb. 23.-R-Premier
Mussolini, in an unheralded broad
cast to the Italian people defends
ed today the Fascist regimes
handling of the Libyan campaign,
announced the arrival of German
air and armored attachments in
Sicily and Libya, and declared
that "Italy, whatever happen, will
march with Germany to the end"
He promised a new Italian Of
|fensive against the Greeks, scoffed
at United States fears of an Axis
invasion of America, and assailed
what he called the small minority
of Italian 'weepers, grumblers and
snakes" left over from the Ma
sonic lodges whom we will smash
when and as we wish"
Morale Unbroken
Italian morale, he declared, can.
not be broken.
II Duce spoke for As minutes to
Rome Fascist leaders who h a d
been notified only a tew hours
earlier to come to the Adriano
theater. The rest of the nation
heard the speech from loudspeak
ers in public squares.
1t was Mussolini's first address
to the nation since Nov. ID, nearly
a month before the British often
sive opened in North Africa.
In defending his regime against
charges abroad that there h a d
been a lack of preparations for
the Libyan campaign, Mussolini
gave for the first time a sharp
idea of the men and supplies sent
to Libya for what the Italians had
expected would be an advance on
Egypt and seizure of the Nile and
Suez.
He said ID, 1000 officers and $685.
358 soldiers of two army corps
the fifth an the Notwithstanding
ten divisions of Italians and Lib
,ans had made up tn Italian
forces. There were 1924 al
non of all sizes, many of the most
recent model, 5 1886 machine guns,
Continued OH Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
British News Agency Views Large Nazi
Plane Attack AS Start Of Spring Drive
France and Siam May
Extend Truce Again

TOKYO, Feb. 24.-(Monday)-
R)-The truce between Thailand
and French IndO. China, already
once prolonged and scheduled to
expire again tomorrow, may be
extended a second time, 1t was
reported reliably today.
The contending Asiatic neigh
bors, brought together under ia
pans mediation, seem still to be
far from agreement and settle
ment negotiations ri making lit.
tie, if any, progress.
In the Japanese view, Indo.
China is trying to mark time,
watching development in the ORR
ent, while Japan, apparently anx-
ious and resentfuI over the ill.,
clinatiOn o. some French colo
NAL officials toward friendly re-
IatiOns with the United States
and Great Britain, is pressing
for a quick agreement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
SHORTAGES
BLAMED ON NAILS
U. S. Agriculture Agency
Says Germany Drained
Conquered Nations

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-tR-
Germany and not the British block
ade was blamed in an official re.
port today for critical food short.
ages in the Nazi-conquered nations
of Norway, Denmark, Holland
Belgium and France.
An agriculture department re-
port said that in an effort to make
up for food deficiencies at home
the Germans had drained the sub
jugated counties of supplies which
would have provided somewhat
better than minimum food require
ments."
The report was prepared by DR..
Frederick Strauss, agriculture de,
partment economist, for study Of
defense officials. It is to be sub
mitted to the White House early
this week.
Denmark, Norway, Holland,
Belgium and France would actu'
ly be able" 1T said, "to feed their
people, despite the British block.
ade, if Germany were not adjust.
ing their agricultural economies tc
her own food needs and their in.
dustrial machinery and transport
systems to her war effort.
There are those who argue that
we must send food to the con.
quered nations b~,ause thei7
peace = time food imports were
great and these have been cut oft
by the blockade. But these peace
time imports were needed largely
to produce food SURPRISES (meant,
dairy products, eggs) for export
The report asserted that the con.
clusion that the conquered nations
could solve their food problems il
left alone 'is unacceptable if one
pieces together such information
Continued on Page Three: Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
HULL IS POUNDED
BY NAZI B0MBERS
German News Agency Says
Great Fires Started Along
Lengthy Docks

BERLIN. Feb. 23.-R-The Eng
fish seaport of Hull was pounded
by German bombers last night,
the high command reported today,
and DNB, official German news
agency, simplifying the report SAID
great fires we're started along the
seven miles. of docks which line
the Humber river, % miles inland
from the North Sea.
The agency. pointed out that
these. docks are well known to be
the unloading point of large ship
ments of oil-bearing seeds.
One British Spitfire fighter was
shot down today in the cours OF
minor air activity over Britain,
DNB said. German planes secuted
far over England but only one
engaged a British plane and there
were no Nazi losses, the agency
reported.
Light battle planes also attacked
an airport in east England, a com
munique said, and destroyed a
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
1871 Outlook
1ermedBright
By Merchants
One Predicts Total Buying
Figure Of $150,0OO,O 900
For City and Area
SURVEY IS CONDUCTED
Various Executives of Re.
tail Establishments Ex-
press Opinions

Wilmington merchants, retail and
wholesale, forecast last night a %
per cent increase in total business
for the city during 1941 over last
year.
Some Of the merchants and bust.
nessmen showed even greater op
timism than that, one predicting
hat business will be five times
greater this year than in 1910, with
a total buying figure Of $3.50, 000, 900
coming up in Wilmington and its
trading
The opinions of representative
merchants and businessmen from
practically all lines of merchandising
was taken in a survey and, while
most of those interviewed expressed
views primarily on their particular
business, they were unanimously
agreed that A general uptrend in
buying will prevail for the entire
year.
For instance, a hardware dealer
stated business should be at least
five times above 1910 and since Will
mington is the nucleus for the entire
area IN which the defense projects
are going up, approximately $780,
600. coo should be spent in this ter
ritory.''
He said hat increased business
would not only come to the hardware
dealer, but to every type of mer-
chandising.
\ retail druggist forecast a "con-
sentative estimate of 25 per cent in
crease in business" This may pos
! siblv go as high as a 40 per cent
increase. he said.
Grocer's Opinion
:. retail grocer felt hat the in
! crease during 1871 for Wilmington
in his line of merchandising would
be about Is per CEN and possibly
20 per cent"
From a retail furniture dealer
came the prediction that there is evil
dence of a so per cen increase in
business "but to be conservative
Continued on Page Zen; Col A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
Turks Say Will Keep
Eye on Security Zone

ANKARA, Feb. %. - up -
Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru
Saracoglu declared tonight 'Tur-
key would be unable to remain
Indifferent to foreign activities
which might occur in her Sc
curity zone" His statement ap-
parently referred to the German
army's expected occupation of
Bulgaria.
Diplomatic quarters expressed
the belief that the statement was
prompted by the fact that Bull
garia has been interpreting the
6-day-old Turkish Bulgarian nom
aggression accord as meaning
that Turkey was Indifferent to a
Nazi march into Bulgaria SO
long as Turkeys frontiers Were
not violated.
The Saracogiu statement,
which will be published in to-
mOrrOW's edition of the govern
ment newspaper illus, conceded
with reports reaching here that
the German army had begun fill
tering into Bulgaria.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24

neutral country. He then followed
me outside and threw a champagne
bottle which just missed my head"
The incident occurred in a res-
taurant just around the corner
from the American legation.
In relating the incident Earle,
220 : pound former Pennsylvania
governor and World wal COM
mander of a submarine chaser,
said that after leaving the wash
room he returned to his table.
The orchestra still was playing
"Tipperary" and he joined with
others in singing it.
Kisses and booes came from 9TH
er diners, and the saber-scarred
German officer jumped to his feet
Continued on Page Ten; Col. H.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
BRITISH DRIVING
TOWARD CHEREN
Senegalese Troops Taking
Part in Offensive Against
Key Rail Town

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 23.|R-
British imperial soldiers and trav-
el-stained Senegalese troops who
rushed at least 1900 m S by
truck to join the British column
pushing into northern Eritrea
made Satisfactory" progress to-
day in the allied drive on the key
railway town of Cheren, it was
reported tonight.
A British communique gave the
first official information that a
Senegalese battalion had joined the
British in the northern wing of a
huge pincer movement on Cheren
and southern Eritrea.
The battalion went from the
French equatorial African province
of Chad to a Sudanese port and
there was taken by ship to the
Eritrean coast. 1t was believed
Continued on Page Ten; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
Army Orders

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The War
Department released the following Or
ders yesterday, dated Feb. 20:
Colonies
Howard, c. W., (Air Corps), relieved
from detail General Staff Corps,
Washington, D. c., to Charlotte, N. c.
Hossfeld, H., (retired), to active duty
in Historical Section, Army War Col
lege, Washington, D. C.
Deyine, M. A., Jr., SAW, General Staff
Corps, Buenos Aires, Argentina, to
Asuncion, Paraguay, reporting to
American Minister for duty.
Lang J. w.. Inf, Bogota, Colombia,
to Buenos Aires, Argentina, as Mill,
tary and Air Attache.
Perkins, c. B., Veterinary Corps, Fl.
Sam Houston, Texas, to headauar-
tiers, Third Army, San Antonio. Tex
Gilmer, A. G. A. c., New York City.
orders to Ft. Ontario, N. T., revoked
LIEUTENANT COLONELS
Mulcahy, NJ. j., Inf, one month leave,
March 1.
Stanley, S. W, Sig Corps, Blood, K. T..
Atwood. R. S., and Hawkins, s. F.,
c. A: c., promoted to Colonies, Regu,
lar Army.
Continued Oh Page Three; CoI. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24

OF smoke, which pervaded over
the whole section. While driving
blind in the smoke, he ran into
the rear of the truck, the collision
demolishing his car.
The crash caused a leak to de-
velop in the oil tank and within a
few seconds after the two occu-
pants of the a had been removed,
fire broke out and swept over the
a and truck.
Another oil tanker which came
up behind the first caught fire
from the first blaze and exploded,
sending flames in all directions,
officers stated. Both trucks and
the car were destroyed by the
flames. D.,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24

A third oil truck which was 60
ing in the same direction avoided
running into the fire by going into
the ditch a short distance away
from the scene.
ALI the truck drivers escaped in
jury .
The accident occurred about
$3.50 o'clock. The exact extent OF
the injuries of Sibbett and Miss
Jolly had not been determined last
night. However, they were not
burned in the conflagration.
Miss Jolly's sister, Elizabeth,
was killed in an automobile wreck
near H a | | S b o r O on Christmas
day. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
STIRLING ARRIVES
FOR LECTURE HERE
Admiral Will Discuss 'Chal-
lenge Across the Pacific .
Al School Tonight

Admiral Yates Stirling, former
chief of staff of the United States
fleet and internationally known
naval authority, will speak on the
subject, 1.-THE Challenge Across the
Pacific" in the New Hanover High
school auditorium tonight at 8:15
o'clock.
The lecture is being given under
the auspices of Wilmington Post
No. 10. American Legion.
Admiral Stirling arrived in Will
mington last night and will make
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
Two Injured, Two Oil Truck And Auto
Destroyed In Crash-Blast In Columbus

Two persons were seriously in
iured in an accident which pre-
coded by minutes an explosion and
the burning of two oil tanker
trucks and an automobile on the
highway in Columbus county, near
Lake Waccamaw, early last night.
Speed Sibbett, of Whiteville, and
Miss Mary Lee Jolly, of Free
man, are in the Columbus county
hospital at Whiteville for treat
ment of injuries. Miss Jolly is not
expected to live and Sibbett was
reported to be in a serious con-
dition.
Officers reported that Sibbett
was driving his car behind an oil
truck and ran into a dense blanket
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
ALL AUTO TRAFFIC
HALTED IN SOFIA
Police Begin Hunt for Bull
garians Spreading Anti
Nazi Leaflets
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 23.-7R-
Police halted all automobile traf-
fic in the Sofia district early this
afternoon and began a nationwide
hunt for Bulgarians spreading anti
German leaflets. These were
among accommodating signs of inn
pending Nazi military entrance in
to this country.
There was no explanation for the
orders to clear the highways. Bull
garian military transports were re-
ported on the mov but the neces-
Continued on Page Three: Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
D. -,
Persons Killed
In Train Auto Crash

!, NlhRSBURG, Fla, Feb. %.
, "a family of five persons was
" srade crossing in subur-
/ ++as-ias Park when their small
i destroyed by an Atlantic
Dine passenger train.
s' il, 7. Fischer, justice of the
p 1'llled the dead as Mr.. and
~ Mcconnell, of St. Peters
'ielf three small chill
he "N vas demolished, and the
se way SO badly damaged anoth-
tsron 10 pull the train into
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
COLUMBUS FARMER
IS KILLED IN WRECK
u. G. Hinson Dies When
Truck Overturns Near
New Hope Church

WHITEVILLE, Feb. 23.-U. G.
Hinson, %, young farmer of the
Pleasant Hill section near White
vile, was instantly killed a b o u t
2:30 o'clock this morning when the
pickup truck in which he was rid
ing, repeatedly driven by Gray
Hugh, of the S a m e community,
overturned hear the New Hope
church.
Hinson was pinned beneath the
car as it overturned in the middle
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Increasing cloudiness
and continued rather cold Monday and
Tuesday, followed by rain or SNOW
in mountains and rain in east and cen
raj portions Tuesday Or Tuesday night
(By .. 8. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. Yesterday
Temperature
1:3O a. m. IS; go a. nj. %; 1 80 p. m.
43; 1870 p. m. Al: maximum 46; mini
mum u mean So: normal 40.
Humidity
80 a. m. 43; 7 80 a. m. 46; 1:3O p. m.
%; go p. m. 40.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7;3O D. m.
coo inches. Total since first of the
month 2.52 inches.
Tides For Today
From Tide Tables published by r. s
Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low
Wilmington - S:36a 3:13a
S:53p 3:40p
M~asonboro Inlet - Gala l2:13a
6:52p u :44r
Sunrise 6:41a; sunset 6:03p: moonrise
J:40a: moonset 4:o6p.
Continued ON Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
INDUSTRY SETS new
RECORD in OUTPUT
Index of Industrial Produc.
ton During 1910 Aver
ages 122 Points

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-R-
Secretary Jones said today that
the total output of United States
industries in 1910 was the largest
in history.
The total for the year was not
only the highest, Jones said in a
statement, but lat no time dur
Continued OH Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
4 VERS ITALY
WILL REMAIN
WITH HITLER
Goering's Newspaper
Says II Duce's Talk
May Be Turning Point

BERLIN, Feb. 23.-(R-Pre.
mier Mussolini's speech today
may be recognized in time as the
turning point in the Mediterran.
can, spelling catastrophe for
Britain, Reichs Marshal Her.
mann Goering's newspaper, the
Essener National Zeitung, said
in an article to be published to.
morrow.
The first public utterance by
Mussolini following events in
Greece and Africa, the newspa-
per said, sis of the greatest i'm.
portance in the history of the
Mediterranean theater of war;"
1t said it showed an ''unshaka
BILE certainty of victor>."
A statement appearing in the
Frankfurter Zeitung today say.
ing that the Greek war may be
"blown away by spring storms"
was called to the attention of
newspapermen by the news serv.
ice, Dienst Aus Deutschland
usually credited with knowing
the line of official thought.