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Askov American., 1943-05-20
Ration Reminders

RATION BOOK No. 3-Mail carriers
will begin delivering application
cards for war ration book 3 to
homes beginning May 20 and con-
tinue delivering them until June s.
Beginning June l and continuing
through June 10, consumers will
mail applications to OPA mail CEN
terS.
SUGAR-Stamp No. IL in book !
good for 5 pounds until midnight
of May 81. Applications in writ
ing for sugar for home canning
may be made on and after May Is
at local boards.
COFFEE-Stamp No. % in book /
effective for one pound of coffee
until midnight, May 80.
MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE OILS
Red stamps in book lettered 'E, .
"F," &C" and "H" now in effect
and good until midnight of May 81
Red stamp u" becomes effective
May 3d. All good through May 81
Cents-per-pound ceiling prices on
beef, veal, lamb and mutton be-
come effective May II.
STAPLE GROCERIES-Specific price
ceilings in cents-per-unit 60 into
effect Monday, May II, in certain
communities.
CANNED GOODS-Blue stamps in
book 2 lettered &C." "H" and "J''
now in effect and good until mid
night of May 81.
SHOES-Stamp No. II in book l,
good for one pair until June Is.
FUEL OIL-Coupons Nos currently
valid for IL gallons each. These
coupons expire September 80.
GASOLINE-For "A" drivers, cou-
pom No. S, good for four gallons
each until midnight, May 81. "B''
and &C" coupons usable until date
put on coupon books by ration
boards. Coupons No. 6 in CAP
books valid beginning Saturday,
May %.
Motorists start making applica-
ton for new "A' books June %.
Forms will be available at ration
boards at that time. Applications
for new books can be handled by
mail.
TIRE INSPECTIONS coupon
holders must have second tire in
spection made by midnight, May
81. "B" coupon holders must have
their second inspection made by
June 80, and "a" coupon holders
must have their second inspection
made by September 80.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Lutheran World
Action Launches
Drive This Week
One Million Dollars Mini
mum Needed to Carry
Out Program for 1913.

Appealing directly to the Lutherans
of the nation Lutheran World Ac-
ton headquarters this week is OPEN
ing its 1943 drive, with $1,000,000
as the quota. Sunday, May %, has
been officially designated as open
ing day but volunteers and other
interested workers have already be-
gun the task of ingathering for this
undertaking of spiritual leadership.
s1,0o0.O00 Needed.
The $1,O0O,000 needed in 1943 has
been set as the minimum rather than
the maximum, officials report Of
this amount half is needed for the
ministry of the Service Commission,
which is looking after the needs of
Lutheran chaplains and the spiritual
care of men and women in the armed
service. At this writing there are
more than 800 Lutheran chaplains in
the armed forces, all of whom need
communion kits, prayer books and
literature to carry on their work
A supplementary ministry is carried
on by Lutheran service pastors in
about so service centers.
Special needs will be allotted $780,
900 of the quota. Of this amount
$4,000 will be for American SOL
diers now prisoners of the enemy
$4,000 for refugees from Nazi-dom-
mated lands; $4,000 to the interde-
nominational American Bible So
ciety; and $4,000 for unforeseen
emergencies.
To Keep Missions Alive.
The sum of S150,000 will be used
to further the work of the newly
organized Commission on American
Missions, an effort of the church to
keep up with the migrating popula-
ton. With 20 per cent of the citi-
zens of the United States having re-
located to take part in the defense
effort it was decided to launch q
special program of ministry to the
people in those defense areas.
The last $27O,OOO is to be used
for the missions abroad, in the far
corners of the world which are being
kept alive today only through Luth-
eran World Action. None of the for
eign missions has been entirely
abolished as a result of the war
Missionaries have gone from Den
mark, Finland, Germany, Norway
and Sweden, as well as America, and
most of those from foreign countries
can not now get any money from
their homelands. They will stay al
their posts and struggle along with
terribly inadequate supplies. They
will keep the mission open if they
can get from America the bare mini
mum support necessary to keeI
alive.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
New Salary Law
VotedBy County
Board Protested
Register of Deeds Halnlin
Obtains Restraining Or
der From Judge Stolberg.

The new county officers salary
law, passed during the recent leg
islative session and now known as
Chapter Is, S. F. No. 1873 which would
eliminate fees as county officers
payment, and instead, put all county
officials on a straight salary basis,
has been meeting with some oppo-
sition since the provisions of the law
were voted to be put into effect by
the Pine county board of commits
sioners at its April meeting.
The bill was sponsored in the state
Senate by c. Elmer Johnson of Alme-
lund and Representative Joseph E.
Therrien in the House.
Restraining Order Obtained.
The latest development is that
Register of Deeds P L. Hamlin has
obtained a restraining order from
Judge Alfred P. Stolberg, preventing
the county board from putting the
law into effect. The case will be
heard early in June. Under its pro-
vision, the law would have set the
register of deeds salary at $500 per
year, or reduction of about S140 as
compared to the 1912 receipts at the
office, and would have reduced the
clerk hire for the office from S2400
to $1,000 per annum.
Thus, under the new law the reg
lister of deeds would be required to
turn all fees into the county rev.
enue fund, take the stated salary of
$500 as set by the county board,
and the clerk hire of $1,000.
Other Salaries Set.
Salaries for other county offices
as set at the April meeting are as
follows: Auditor, $2700; treasurer
$24OO; judge of probate, $4,000; clerk
of court, $1,000; attorney, $1,000; sher-
iff, $240O; superintendent of schools,
$4,000 These salaries mean reduc-
ton in some cases and slight in
crease in others.
At the May session of the county
board it was also brought out that
the salaries of the county board men,
bers had been increased from S400
to $500 per annum by a special law
for Pine county, passed by the last
session of the legislature. This, how
ever, is a separate and distinct law
and is not now under attack by the
register of deeds, who plans only
to test the constitutionality of Chap
ter Is. Mr.. Hamlin states that
Chapter Is permits reduction of sal
aries in Pine county, while in all
other counties of the state, county
officers salaries were increased by
legislative action, Is to 25 per cent.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Report Cattle Crubs
In Sandstone Area

Cattle grubs, or the larval stage
of an insect. known as the heel fly
warble fly, or gadfly, have been
reported from the Sandstone area
County Agent Clyde P. Shumway
reported this week, and listed sew
eral ways of controlling them.
One means is to squeeze the larvae
out of the backs of the infected ami
mails and destroy them. Another is
to use paste of IL ounces of cube
or derris powder, six ounces of wet
table sulphur and enough water to
make gallon of mixture. This may
be applied with a sprinkler and
brushed thoroughly with a stiff
bristled brush Benzal may also be
injected into each grub hole with
an oil can.
Farmers with infected herds should
make every effort to control the cat
tie grubs, Mr.. Shumway said. Fur
ther information may be had from
him or local veterinarians.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
County Resident
Buried In Cities
Peter Nelson Had Made
HI O m e in Windemere
Township Since 1914.

Peter Nelson, town of Windemere
resident, was laid to rest in the
Union cemetery, st. Paul, last Sat-
urday afternoon following services
that morning at the Blomskog Luth-
eran church near Denham with Rev.
Oscar L. Olson officiating.
In failing health about eight years,
Mr.. Nelson was confined to the Moose
Lake Community hospital the past
Is months. He died Tuesday eve
ming, May IL, about 1890 o'clock.
To Windemere in 1914.
Mr.. Nelson was one of the early
pioneers in Windemere township,
coming there in 1914. He was born
in Kjallstrop, Malmohus Ian, Malmo,
Sweden, April IL, 1867, coming to
st. Paul, Mimi, as young man.
He was married in the capital city
October 2, 1889 to Elsie Engelsen,
who passed away four years later.
On December Is, 1899, he was mar
ried second time, to Mrs. Charlotte
Anderson, who died in 1914. Since
that time Mr.. Nelson had made his
home on the farm operated by his
son, Ernest.
Leaves Eight Children.
Five daughters and three sons sur
vive, they being Edna, Mrs. Morris
Behning, Duluth; Miss Hulda Nelson
and Violet, Mrs. Earl Olson, Stur-
geon Lake; Myrtle, Mrs. John Skog,
Proctor; and Esther, Mrs. Gust An
derson, at home; Elof and Ernest,
at home, and Raymond of Moose
Lake. There are IL grandchildren
and one great-grandchild. He also
leaves two brothers, Nels and An
drew Larson, both of Sturgeon Lake.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Temperance Day
To Be Observed

County Temperance day will be
observed Sunday, May %, in Pine
and Kanabec counties with repre-
sentatives of the United Temperance
Movement of Minnesota speaking at
many of the churches.
The speakers, and the churches
where they will appear, are as fol-
lows:
Left H. Awes, field secretary of the
United Temperance Movement: Meth
odist church, Rock Creek, 10 a. M;
Windemere Methodist church, IL a
M; Methodist church, Denhaln, 8
p. m.
H. B. Kildahl, associate director
of the United Temperance Movement:
Grace Lutheran church, Mora, II
a. m.
H. J. Yngve, field secretary: Hope
Lutheran church, Grasston, 9:45 a. m.
Emmanuel Lutheran church, Bruins
wick, 11:15 a. M; East Rock Creek
Methodist church, 8 p. m.
DR.. B. E. Bergesen: Hilman Bap-
tist church, Mora. IL a. m.
Ed. E. Sheasgreen: Bible church
Sandstone, II a. m.
Carl E. Carlson: Pokegama Metho.
dist church, Brook Park, 9 a. m.
Methodist church, Brook Park, IL
a. M; Methodist church, Mora, l1:15
a. m.
Roy Levin: Presbyterian church
Markville, 10 a. M; Presbyterian
church, Cloverton, HIS a. m.
Speakers will also appear in the
Presbyterian church, Friesland, al
9:45 a. m. and in the First Presby-
terian church, Hinckley, at IL a. m
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Stroke Fatal To
RutledgeWoman
Rites Yesterday
Mrs. Paul Datko Dies in
Duluth Hospital; Leaves
Husband, Eight Children.

The Rutledge community was sad
dened last week to learn of the death
of one of its respected citizens, Mrs.
Paul Datko, who passed away Friday
in a Duluth hospital after suffering
a stroke at the home of daughter,
Mrs. Henry Van Reese, of that city,
with whom she had been making a
visit.
She had been in poor health the
past year and went to Duluth sew
eral weeks ago.
Born at Cambridge.
Anna Siljenberg was born March
%, 1878, at Cambridge, this state,
the daughter of Erick and Kerstine
Siljenberg and was married at ST.
Paul Nov %, 1900 to Paul E. Datko.
The family came to Rutledge in 1908
Surviving Mrs. Datko are her hus-
band, four daughters, Florence, Mrs.
Henry Van Reese and Agnes, Mrs.
Peter Van Reese, both of Duluth;
Doris, Mrs. Carl Schilling, Detroit,
Mich; Lavina, at home; four sons,
Ernest, Vernon and Russell at home,
and Joseph in the armed forces. One
son died in infancy. Mrs. Datko also
leaves sister, Mrs. Bessie Freeman
in San Francisco, and three grand
children.
A Helpful Neighbor.
The deceased was a member of the
Cambridge Lutheran church. She
was a good wife and mother, help
full neighbors and was we'll liked by
her many friends.
The funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the Rutledge Bible church with Rev
E. Carlson of Hinckley officiating
Frank Bowers, Arthur Abrahamson
George Nelson, Arthur Jones, P. B.
Mcnamara and Fred Reuer carried
the body to its resting place in the
Lakeview cemetery.
Friends and neighbors extend SYM
pathy to the bereaved relatives.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Enjoys Beauties Of
Pacific Coast Area

From Mrs. Mari Stottrup,
Askov woman now in California,
comes another interesting letter
about her travels in western
points. In this article she tells
of her journey from Denver to
San Francisco, and down along
the coast to Los Angeles and
Solvang, describing the beauties
of the far west, and also telling
something of the life of the peo-
pie there. Her letter, in part,
follows:
1t is late writing about my trip
across the country from Denver last
fall, climbing the mountains on the
Exposition Limited, with a string
of coaches like small freight train
When swerving this way and that
to opposite sides the locomotives
could be seen from, our windows as
though coming back at the tail end
giving the eerie feeling of being
aboard a living monster snorting and
twitching to find its way up and on
but at times coming back, swapping
at it's tail.
Through Moffat Tunnel.
We had a sight-seers guide on
board, who made the route and its
scenery more knowable-as he easily
and well told us what we were seeing
along our route. We would pass
through II tunnels over % miles,
the last being the Moffat tunnel, a
feature of which 'the road'' was
rightfully proud. AS we came
through on the other side water was
released from a row of nozzles on
both sides of the train, thereby wash
ing off the SCOT and the CRIME and
giving us a feeling of shower bath,
gasping for breath without getting
wet.
l had thought to stop off in Salt
Lake City, but didn't have the
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Askov American., 1943-05-20
BY GEORG STRANDVOLD

Prime Minister Churchill's visit
in Washington is merely continual
ton of talks which he has carried
on with President Roosevelt on sew
eral former occasions, but the sig
nificance of this latest conference lies
in the probable fact that it will be
the last before the final act of the
war drama begins.
Since the Tunisian cities of
Tunis and Bizerte week ago
were captured from the Axis
forces by the Americans, the
British and the French, the stage
is set. 1t will be Europe.
For there is little doubt now-in
fact, no reason to doubt, at all-that
the Second Front is about to open
and that it will remain fercely active
until the day comes when Hitler and
his evil political machine are smashed
to smithereens.
Great Victory.
The Tunisian victory, as complete
as any on record, since it has lit
orally crushed all enemy resistance
on the entire front of the vast contin-
ent of Africa, was the result of bril-
liant strategy on the part of the
United Nations generals, and of eX-
ceptionally brave fighting on the
part of their soldiers. Even the de-
feated enemies reluctantly admit
that it was one of those victories
which will remain famous through
many ages.
The Axis powers lost every
square inch of land they had
ever laid claim to in Africa;
nearly all their generals were
taken prisoner; thousands upon
thousands of German and Ital-
ian soldiers are dead on the bat
tlefields, and not far from 200,-
900 of those left alive, now in the
prison camps of the United Ma
ti0ns. Furthermore, war equip
ment and supplies in such heaps
that the mere cataloguing of the
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Dies In Action On
North African Front

News of the death of their young
est son, Gordon Vettling, technician
5th grade, was received in a message
Wednesday of last week by Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Vettling of Brook Park.
He died in action in North Africa
March "a.
Memorial services will be held for
him at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
May %, at the Brook Park M. E.
church.
Friends extend deepest sympathy
to Mr.. and Mrs. Vettling and family
in the loss of their son and brother.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
See Trade Pacts
A Postwar Aid
Limiting Amendments is
Dangerous, States League
of Women Voters.

Trade agreements as key to post
war policy were championed by the
National League of Women Voters
in a recent broadcast.
The trade agreements act is de-
fined in their broadcast as "an at
tempt to break down artificial bar
riers to world trade-a method OF
bargaining with other countries tc
reduce barriers against us, in return
for our lowering excessively high
tariffs"
The danger to the extension of the
act, now before Congress, lies in the
attempts of the opposition to obtain
limiting amendments which would
endanger the effectiveness of the en-
tire policy, the league statement de-
clareS.
Dangerous.
Amendments which the League OF
Women Voters considers dangerous
are the following:
Amendments requiring agreements
to be approved by a two-thirds vote
of the senate or by majority of both
houses, or to lie before Congress fol
specified period, during which time
Congress could veto them by concur
rent resolutions.
Amendments requiring appoint
ment of an advisory committee rep
resenting special interest groups tc
help negotiate the agreements.
Amendments limiting extension to
less than three years.
Can be Lost.
"The program can be lost while
seeming to be won," the league de-
clares. adding such amendments
now would destroy the one success
full method we have found to bring
about a general reduction in trade
barriers.
Extension of the act with amend.
ments giving special interest groups
greater voice in negotiation woulc
hamstring the program.
Extension of the act for less thar
the usual three years will indicate
what may be fatal lack of confid-
ence in the objectives of the program
Extension of the act without
amendments will show the willing
ness of the U. S. to continue COOP
Grafton to promote world stability.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
International News Review

booty will take weeks, were cap
tured and may now be used on
other fronts against the forces
|. which did not get their final
chance to use it on the North
African front.
And now it is thought that the
United Nations general offensive
against Hitler on continental Europe
will start rather soon, but certainly
from more bases of operations than
that of the African coast. No one
outside the initiates knows at how
many points the terrific attack will
start.
Week of Terror. y
In certain sense it may, perhaps
be said that the general offensive
has already started; at least, the
bombardments of German industrial
centers by American, British and
Russian fliers have never been more
terrible than during the week of the
African victory. Huge air fleets
sailed through the air over the Euro
pean continent each day, each night.
showering thousands of tons of ex-
plosives on ill-defended targets
Duisburg and Emden were among the
cities where devastation set new
records.
Russian Front.
To the extent that Hitler is being
kept engaged on the eastern front so
that his men cannot be released for
fighting in the west when the general
offensive begins, Russia is already
an active part of the Second Front
And recently the Soviet armies
have been doing well in the Cau-
casus sector where the Nazis are
slowly but steadily retreating,
and where it loOks-at the mo-
ment of writing-as though they
will very soon have to surrender
the city of Novorossiisk.
In other sectors, changes of the
situation, existing for weeks, have
been few and insignificant, but al
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Askov American., 1943-05-20
County Quota OF
Farm Machinery
To Be Abolished
Freer Movement of States
Share Seen as Result of
Order.

Under a revised farm machinery
rationing order Charles w. Stickney
Minnesota USDA war board chair
man, has announced cancellation OF
county quotas on rationed farm ma
chinery Under the ruling tag re-
quirements to the county level are
abolished and machinery is only
tagged to specify the state in which
it is to be sold, resulting in freer
movement of the states quota.
Under the new system, purchase
certificates may be issued by the
county farm rationing committee only
after the applicant certifies that he
has located the machinery for which
the application is made and that to
the best of his knowledge, such ma
chinery will be transferred to him
if he is granted purchase certi-
ficate.
Certificates Still Needed.
Under no circumstances will g
farmer be able to purchase farm ma
chinery without purchase certi-
fcate issued by his local county farm
rationing committee, according to Mr.
Stickney. In issuing purchase certi-
fcates, the rationing committee will
continue to be guided by the appli-
cant's need for the machinery.
although the state quota for ma
chinery remains the same, the can
collation. of county quotas will enable
the state and county USDA wal
/ boards and rationing committees tc
move farm machinery into areas
where it is needed with the least
possible delay" Mr.. Stickney added
May Set Expiration Date.
In order to facilitate the move
ment of machinery, county farm ra-
tioning committees are given author
ity to set the expiration date of pur-
chase certificates between 10 and 6(
| days after issuance. Certificates may
be cancelled at any time after the
holder has had reasonable time tC
purchase the specified machinery.
Askov American., 1943-05-20
Farmers Urged To
Buy Wheat Now

All farmers in the county who
have been purchasing feed wheat are
urged by the Sandstone AAA office
to stock up with as much as possible
now as the supply may be curtailed
in the near future, with no more
being shipped to the various county
points where the bins are located.
Wheat bins at Cloverton will be
open every Monday, beginning with
May "a, until further notice, the
Sandstone office announced Tuesday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13
Directive

CCJctinued from Page Onel
fees, rcafirmed the Little Steel
formula" OF the War Labor Board
in the directive The Little Steel
plan holds wage increases to Is pc
cent Of levels prevailing in Janu.
airy. 1871.
But at the same time and this
was regarded in informed Labor
circles as important-it left some
loopholcs. According 10 the direc.
tive. the WLB can continue 10 grant
Is per cent wage increases unde'
the Little steel plan provided
workers involved have not received
any costofliying wage increase
since that time Under this. tho
miners could get about - cents a
day.
The board. which now is con.
Quoting hearings into the wage con
troyefsy between Lewis and the
country's coal operators also was
given authority in the dire-tive 20
make wage adjustments provided
such adjustments are within the
existing price structure and within
existing levels Of production costs.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13
Production

lCont nued from Page One)
terial and maupower shortages are
a result OF these lacks.
Pointing to recurring and bitter
conflicts such as that between the
synthetic rubber program and that
for production Of high octane gaso'
line for combat aircraft, the com
mi,tee asserted:
In no single phase OF the war
production program does central
lied control exist at the present
time.
This Is true Of materials, distri-
button. scheduling. use Of facilities,
and contracting. The evidence in
dicated that no machinery exists
for balancing the demands Of the
various claimant agencies in such
a way as to preclude the possibili-
ty Of one program obtaining man
power at the expense OF others.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13
Municipal Court

Appearing in court this morning
for his fifth offense, George Smith,
AIS First Ave, charged with assault
and battery by his wife, was sen
fenced to so days in Jail
Cloyce f. Leyh, SS3S Ford Rd..
was arrested by the state police and
was charged with dumping rubbish
on the highway. He was given
his choice of paying a fine of Sc plus
cleaning up the rubbish, or serving
20 days in jail, and was com
mitted.
Charged with being intoxicated
and disorderly, George O'Neil. SO7
W. Michigan Ave, was committed
to Jail for 20 days.
Fines for traffic violations were
paid by the following: Donald NJ.
Parrott so. and Robert McPhec,
50, speeding; Homer Smith, Paw
Pave $3.50, passing on hill; Rus.
sell Phillips, 80, and John Labeau,
50 double parking. and Robert
Walker, 81, blocking sidewalk and
speeding. Total of fines paid for
minor traffic violations was $40.