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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-04
Can Wings Stop
Leafs Record
Breakers Again?
BY LEWIS III. WALTER

With Jimmy Orlando back from
Punishment 10 help them or
Toronto ice for the first time In
three games against the Maple
Leafs, the Detroit Red Wings will
try TO put the handouts or
Ihockey's highest scoring team
again tonight.
Apparently il takes the Red
Wings TO do II. Jack Adams IHeH
are the only ones who have stopped
the record-breaking Toronto at
tack cold this season.
There's a real stake tonight and
in the return game at Detroit
Sunday. Second place and a chance
TO overtake the league-leading
Boston Bruins is the prize for
which the two teams will be
shooting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-04
THREE POINTS UP

Detroit is three points up now
and has played one more game
than the Leafs. II sgd Howe, who
has bagged four goals in the last
two games at Toronto. can set the
pace again for Detroit, the Wings
can pull ahead 10 safe lead.
The eyes of the thousands will
be on Orlando and Gaye Stewart
IToronto's prize rookie forward
tonight as the two skate against
each other for the first time since
the opening game between tho
clubs November z
Orlando and Stewart were
barred from appearing against
each other since their fight that
night, but the suspension has beer
lifted just in time for this big
series.
This will permit Stewart, lead
ing candidate for the Calde:
trophy, to make his only appear,
ance of the season in Detroit
Sunday. He is TO enter the Cana
dian navy next Wednesday.
Toronto will be making II:
second start since Syl Apps, their
lall-star center, suffered a broken
leg in the So defeat by Boston
last Saturday. The Leafs came
from behind TO tie Chicago without
him Sunday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Shoes On Ration
List: Will Take
WarStampNo.l7
Chairman DOrr of Local
Rationing Board Gives In
formation on Regulation.

George Dorr, chairman of the Pine
county war price and rationing
board, has expressed confidence that
citizens in his district will give their
full cooperation to the shoe ration
ing program which became effective
Tuesday of this week.
'The reason this ration program is
necessary" Mr.. Dorr said, "is be-
cause the American public have been
buying shoes faster than the manu-
facturers can make them. Heavy
sole leather and other types of leath-
er now being rationed are subject to
call by the United States armed
forces. That is why there will be a
cut in civilian shoes produced in
1943."
Not All Footwear Rationed.
Shoes that are rationed include:
Unused shoes made in whole or
in part of leather or with rubber
soles, including all ordinary types of
hard-soled moccasins, casual, play,
platform and rubber-soled athletic
shoes.
Shoes not rationed include:
Waterproof rubber footwear, in
Guiding rubber arctics, lurnberman's
overs, CATERS, work, storm and dress
rubbers, clogs and toe rubbers. CA
previous ration order already covers
six types of mems rubber boots and
rubber work shoes). Soft and hard
soled house and boudoir slippers in
Guiding scuffs, mules, romeos, operas,
soft-soled infants shoes and ballet
slippers. Shoe repairs are not ra-
toned.
Stamp Good Until June Is.
Mr.. Dorr pointed out the follow
ing facts which are important to
everyone in the community:
Beginning with Tuesday, February
9, every man, woman and child is
entitled to purchase one pair of shoes
in any store with the use of Stamp
II in war ration book one, the book
which is now used for coffee and
sugar. This stamp will be valid
through June Is, or slightly more than
four months.
This stamp is transferable between
members of family living in the
same household, Mr.. Dorr explained.
In cases where an individual does
not have a stamp he can use, and
can prove hardship if unable to
buy a pair of shoes, local boards may
issue a sugar purchase certificate
made valid for one pair of shoes.
~; Four Points.
The program has been worked out
simply, Mr.. porr added, urging con-
sumers to remember these four
points:
Stamp II in War ration book. one
is valid from February 9 to June IS.
In case of any orders by mail they
tear the stamp from the book and at
tach it to the mail order. When they
CONTINUED on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Employment Offices
List Needs For. Help

Employment openings listed this
week by the U. S. Employment Serv-
ice, with offices at Mora, Sandstone
and Pine City, include the following:
On the Alaskan Canadian road for
cooks, flunkies and male clerical
workers; shipyards at Portland, Ore,
for laborers, helpers, construction
and finish carpenters, and other
skilled workers; farm hands, wait
resses and domestic help; farm cou-
pies in southern Minnesota.
The Northwest Airlines, Incorpor-
ated, is conducting pooled interview
in the Mora office Tuesday through
Friday of this week from to 8
p. m. each day, for mechanically in
clined workers interested in training
for positions as electricians, me-
chanics and sheet metal workers on
airplanes. Good wages are paid while
in training and most of the work
will be done in Minnesota.
A four weeks free course for farm
boys between the ages of Is and Is
is being offered at the Minnesota
School at Morris, beginning February
Is. Transportation to Morris and all
expenses there are paid.
The Mora office of the employ
ment service is open from a. m.
to S D. m. each week day; the Sand
stone office at l p. m. on Wednes:,
days and the Pine City Office at 10
a. m. also on Wednesdays.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Pine City To Have
Machinery Meeting

Sponsored by the agricultural ex-
tension division, University Farm, a
farm machinery conservation day will
be held at Pine City Saturday, Feb
ruary 20, according to an announce
ment by Clyde P. Shumway, county
agent. The Pine City businessmen
will cooperate in sponsoring the
event. The meeting will begin at
1890 a. m.
The purpose of the meeting will
be to help farmers make their pres
ent machinery last longer and give
the maximum and most efficient serv-
ice next season with a minimum loss
of time The situation in regard to
new machinery and repairs will be
explained. A. r. Karr, extension
specialist of the University Farm
and Walter H. Engel, farm machin-
cry specialist, will be speakers on
the program.
Arrangements are being made by
the Pine City businessmen, headed
by Clair Nelson. Further announce
ments will be made later.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
ODT Asks Reports
On Idle Trucks

Idle trucks and other commercial
vehicles must be reported to the
nearest ODT office by the fifth of
each month, according to a release
this week from the Office of War
Information.
An idle truck is defined as one
that was not in operation for the
two weeks preceding the close of the
month. Reports must be made wheth-
er certificate of war necessity has
been issued for the vehicle or not, and
regardless of the reason the vehicle
was idle.
Reports may be made on form
Owns obtainable through local
county farm transportation commit
tees or the ODT at 200 Christie
Building, Duluth. Reports should be
submitted to the ODT district office
between March l and March S for
equipment idle between February Is
and % inclusive.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Officials To Act
In Recruiting Of
Farm Man Power
War Boards to Determine
Need; FSA, Employment
Service to Place Help.

The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture has recently completed arrange
ments to help farmers obtain reh-
able farm operators and laborers, and
working in close cooperation, the
county war boards, the U. S. En-
ployment service and the Farm Sc
curity Administration will try to
solve the difficult and important task
of recruiting farm workers and trans
porting them to farms where and
when needed.
Special Training if Wanted.
Paul H. Beeman, Pine County FSA
supervisor, states that special train
ing courses for youths between the
ages of Is to 81 years may be given,
if wanted, at the School of Agricul-
ture at Morris. This course is pri-
marily for youths now engaged in
farming on units that have surplus
manpower, or those who have lived
and worked on farms the greater part
of their lives, but may now be liv-
ing in towns or villages. The course
will begin February Is, so those in
terested are asked to contact Mr..
Beeman at the Pine City village hall
by Saturday morning, February 10.
County war boards will assume the
responsibility of determining the
labor requirements of each county:
U. S. Employment service and Farm
Security offices will handle the re-
cruiting and placement of all known
available farm workers. The Farm
Security Administration is prepared
to supervise and finance the trans
portation of these workers from re-
cruiting points to placement farms,
whenever such assistance is required
and is approved by the county war
board or U. S. Employment service.
Report Requirements.
If all farmers will report their
labor requirements to their county
war boards or an office of the U. S.
Employment service or Farm Secur-
ity Administration; and all single or
married men who are available as
farm operators or farm workers will
inform their nearest U. S. Employ
ment or Farm Security Administra-
ton office as to the type of farm
work for which they, are qualified,
the work of filling farm labor re-
quests will be greatly expedited and
it will be much easier for the De-
partment of Agriculture to effective
ly assist in relieving the present SER
ious farm labor situation. Ia 3.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Newspapers Of 1896 Bring
Memories of Pioneer Days

in 1896: For representative in con-
gress, Page Morris and Chas. A.
Towne; judge of district court, P. M
Crosby; representative in legislature,
August j. Anderson; county auditor,
j. H. Hay and Douglas Greenly;
county treasurer, G. ]. Albrecht and
John D.. Vaughn; sheriff, James Nc
Laughlin; register of deeds, James
Wandel and Gust Westberg; clerk of
court, Angus Gum and Henry j.
Rath. -, --.
John F.: Stone ran for court COM
missioner, unopposed; George T.
Stevens, John Hogan and E. Van
Horn for judge of probate; T. H.
McKusick and John Wilcox for coun-
ty attorney; A. G. Croker and Oscar
Oswald for county surveyor; o. s.
Watkins and D. w. Cowan for county
coroner: and E. T. Stephan and Robert
Blankenship for the office of super
intendent of schools.
Sandstone A Busy Place.
Sandstone was very busy place
before the turn of the century
Schools and churches were being
constructed, and the quarry was going
full blast. Banning, or as some called
it, Hen's Gate, also had stone
quarry. There were practically nc
roads in those days and until the
settlers came and cleared for farms
the old tote roads and the Govern
ment road west of Kettle river
served the travellers. What is now
the Northern Pacific Railway was
then the old st. Paul & Duluth Rail-
way.
CONTINUED on Pare 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
AskOv. Youth On
Top Judging Team

John Rote, son of MIR. and Mrs,
William Rote of Askov, was men,
Der of the student dairy and general
livestock Judging team from the
North Central School of Agriculture,
Grand Rapids, which won first place
and many honors at the sub-collegiate
judging contest held in connection
with the recent Red River Valley
Winter Shows at Crookston. Four
agricultural school teams from Min
nesota and one each from North Da-
kota and South Dakota were in the
competition. gl-o1
The North Central school team was
composed of Hugh Rieger, Northome
George Battles, Backus; John Rote
Askov; and Claude Branham, Park
Rapids. The team was high in judg-
ing dairy cattle, and also high in
judging all livestock, piling up lead
of 112 points over the Northwest
school team from Crookston that won
second place. ;tH So
Hugh Rieger was high point indi-
vidual of the contest and John Rote
was third high. Rote also was high
man in dairy cattle judging and was
fifth high in beef cattle. Rieger was
high Individual in judging hogs, Sec
ond in sheep and third in horses
Battles was fourth in beef, third ir
dairy and third in hogs. ~. 80
The team won numerous awards
because of their high placing as in
dividuals and returned with two team
trophies.
Rote is member of the senior
and advanced class at the North Gen.
trail school and an honor student
He also is member of the wrestling
team.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Dirt Roads and Hardships
no, Encouragement for
Early County Settlers.
BY BEN NELSON.

Let's 60 back to 1896, or AZ years
ago, in Pine county, and review
things as they were at that time.
What is now Askov was Partridge,
the name being changed several years
later. The community of Groningen
was Miller station. Howard Folsom
published the Friesland Journal, and
also the Pine County Courier at Sand
stone. .-
Papers in those days carried ads
by Davidson Bros, dealers in all
produce; Hotel Holland, at Friesland
Chas. Reinholson, wines, liquors
cigars; Sandre and Haroldson, Tail
ors; Mccormick Britt, Contractors &
Builders; Parish and Quinlan, livery
and feed stable; D. T. Rankin, horse
blankets; Geo. w. Legros, hotel al
Miller Station. Theo. F. Koch, with
offices at Hinckley, Friesland and
Miller station, advertised for sale
10000 acres of land.
Butter Ice Per Pound.
Number l northern wheat brought
73-73k cents per bushel, number 2
corn, 18-181ac; number 3 white oats
15-15kc; steers, $3.20-$3.75 per cwt.
hogs, $3.00-$3.30; butter, creamery
firsts, 1917 cents; turkeys, $40 cents
spring chickens, z cents.
Candidates for public offices were
as follows in the county election back
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
To Represent Pine
In District Contest

Wilfred Zalasnik, Pine City, men,
Der of the Fast Freighters Club, won
the Pine county Fourth Club speak
ing contest at the county seat last
Thursday and will represent this area
in the district contest.
His competitor will be from South
st. Louis county and the addresses
are to be broadcast from station
KDAL, Duluth, tomorrow afternoon
at AIS o'clock. The winning speech
will be heard over a Twin Cities
station February %.
The subject of the discussion is
What the Four Freedoms Mean to
Me-" Other county contestants TAX
ing part last Thursday were Betty
Robinson of Pine City, and Roy
Wahlberg, Sandstone. Miss Neff OF
the Pine City high school speech
department judged the contest.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
To Hold District
Meet AT Denham

The annual meeting of the Angus
tana Synod LutheranT churches of
the Carlton district viii be held
Tuesday at the Faith Lutheran church
OF Denhar1. =; . ss.s, go >.-s=. -.
At 1880 a: m. there will be COM
f1union, service at which Rev. Reu-
ben johnson of Carlton, and Rev. S.
Erling of Paisade, will preach. Fol-
lowing dinner there will be service
conducted by Rev. O. L. Nelson of
Cloquet, and Rev. J. Florentin An
derson of Kerrick. This will be fol-
lowed by the business session. The
public is cordially invited. 80
Rev., Oscar L. Olson is pastor OF
the Faith Lutheran church.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11

In our first year of war, produc-
ton of small arms ammunition in
creased more than $50 per cent and
it is still rising rapidly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Local Schools To
Sign Applicants
For War Book 2
Week of February 22-27
Set for Task; Point Sys-
tenn Effective March l.

Alphabetical groupings for regis
tration for war ration book number
two at Askov have been set in five
categories, for the evenings of Febru-
airy % through &c. Those not reg
istering on any of those days may
do so on Saturday forenoon, Febru-
airy 81.
All families at Askov whose last
name begins with the letter A to D
will register at the schoolhouse Mon
day, February %; those E to 1 will
be registered Tuesday evening; those
J, K and L on Wednesday evening;
M, N and o on Thursday; and P
through z on Friday evening The
time will be from o'clock to 9 each
evening, with the members of the
school faculty handling the work.
Superintendent Kenneth E. Anderson
will be in charge. If it is more con-
venient for person to register on a
different night of the week than the
one set for him, he may do so.
March 1 Deadline.
War ration books number two will
be required after March / for the
purchases of certain canned, dried
and frozen fruits and vegetables.
Retail sales of more than 200 items
to be rationed will be frozen" on
February 20 to give the American
people time to complete rationing and
food merchants an opportunity to
check their stocks.
One adult member of each family
should register for all. That per-
son should bring along to his school
house the following:
War Ration Book No. l for each
member of the family and declara-
ton of the number of cans, bottles,
packages or jars of eight ounces or
more of commercially processed
fruits, vegetables, soups, juices, cat
sup, chill and baby foods on hand
in the home, this list not to include
any such items that may have been
canned by the family at home. He
should also furnish a statement of
the amount of coffee on hand in the
house on the day of registration.
Need War Book No. 1.
If you do not have war ration book
number you can not get book num-
Der two at this time. You must
wait until two weeks after the reg
istration for book number two is
closed-until March Is at least-and
then go to your local rationing board
and register for both books.
Under the new regulation war ra-
ton book number two will allow a
total of 48 points" for each member
of the family for the month of March.
Stamps will have value Of 8, S,
and l. If family has more than
Ave cans of food per person on hand,
stamps will be removed from the
book in proportion to the excess
holdings. Official point values will
be made public as soon as stocks
are frozen"
Foods that need not be counted at
home in checking for the new books
include canned olives, canned meat
and fish, pickles, relish, jellies, jams,
preserves, spaghetti, macaroni, moo
dies and all home-canned foods.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Rites Today For
Kerrick W oman
Mrs. Duane Merriman Dies
at Pine City Hospital Sun
day Following Stroke.

Mrs. Elizabeth Merriman, wife of
Duane Merriman of Kerrick, passed
away at the Lakeside Memorial hos
pital in Pine City Sunday evening at
$50 o'clock as the result of stroke
suffered on Monday of last week.
She was taken to the hospital last
Saturday.
Elizabeth Schubert was united in
marriage to Duane Merriman in Octo-
Der 1902 at Minneapolis. They re-
sided in Mound a number of years
before moving in 1918 to Kerrick
where they purchased 40-acre farm
just east of the McGrath place. In
1925 they moved to a small house
on the Warren farm near Kerrick,
and several months ago, to the for
mer Henry Nyquist place.
A Kindly Person.
The deceased, who was 66 years
of age, was an unassuming and kind
ly person. She had not been in good
health the past few years and was
confined to her home most of the
time. Besides her husband she
leaves two brothers, Ernest Schubert
of Conception, Mo-, and Henry Scha-
bert of Portland, Ore; one sister,
Mrs. Cecilia Lyons of st. Paul.
Funeral services are being held
this forenoon at $50 o'clock from st.
Michael's Catholic church in Kerrick
with Father McEnery officiating
Burial will be in st. MichaePs ceme-
tory
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
Ration Calendar

February 15-Dead1ine for applica-
ton by restaurants, hotels and hos
pitfalls for February-March coffee
aIlotments. ri - :s..y.
February 20-Last day that canned
products can be bought until ration
ing under Book No. 2 starts. No
canned products sold after mid
night. -ay "a. ..! ...'
February 22-Fuel oil stamps for
Period expire. Their value is IL
gallons.
February 22-Registration for War
Ration Book No. 2 starts. Regis
tration will be on alphabetical basis
throughout the week at your dis
trict schoolhouse.
February 27-Last day for register
ing for War Ration Book No. 2.
February 28-Deadline for inspec-
ton of tires on passenger cars
owned by "B" and &c" mileage
ration coupon holders and for tires
on all commercial vehicles.
March Point rationing, with cou-
pons from War Ration Book No.
to be used on canned commodities,
goes into effect.
March l3-Beginning this date, per-
sons who do not have War Ration
Book No. l, can register with the
local ration board for both Books
No. l and 2.
March 31-Deadline for inspection OF
tires on passenger cars owned by
"a" mileage ration coupon holders
April 30-Fue1 Oil stamps for Period
No. expire. Good for IL gallons
each.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
International News Review.

tine-the strength to fight back eff
fectively. He and his armies seem
headed for Germany, and if the Rus
slams succeed in driving them that
far, there is no reason in the, world
why they would not make use of the
splendid opportunity to stage ar
actual invasion of Germany.
Peace Rumors.
= In connection with the Nazi de-
bacle in Russia, one hears lot of
runors limiting that Finland, fighting
as the ally of Germany, wants to sue
for peace, if possible; Risto Ryti, the
president of the Films, declares that
they have been in the war only for
the purpose of trying to take back
what the Russians took away. from
them during the winter of 1939-40,
and that this has been just about ac-
comphshed. =; 49, -.
For that reason Finland would
like to stop fighting, and to be-
come the friend Of the United
States, Great Britain and Sweden
that she used to be. Circum-
stances being what they are, it
may not be SO very easy to re-
store the feeling of friendship,
although there is in all countries
a realization of the exceedingly
difficult position into which Fin
land has been brought-therefore,
also, a good deal of sympathy
with the Finnish people.
Some have thought that forces in
Italy were active in a peace man
oeuver, and that this supposed fact
is the real reason why Mussolini
the other day discharged his son-in-
law, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano,
and eight other members of the cab
met. Getting his cues from Hitler.
Mussolini does not want to even
breathe wish for peace at the pres
ent time, no matter how deeply he
himself may desire it. 1t inks him
more than anything else that he has
lost Libya, the real cornerstone of
Continued on Page -
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-11
BY GEoRG STRANDvOLD

There is strong possibility that
by the time these lines are being
read, the Russian armies will have
taken Rostov away from the Ger
mans-Rostov and many other i'm
portant cities-and they are not far
from Kursk and Kharkov, either.
Hitler having suffered the tremen-
dous defeat at Stalingrad now is forced
to try to get two hundred thousand
of his men out Of the Caucasus where
the Soviet troops have locked them
UP and cut them off from all connec-
ton with other units Of the Nazi
armies.
1t has been reported that bands
all over Germany are playing
funeral marches because of the
continued disasters I'm Russia. "
These marches have led some per-
sons in this country to speculate upon
the possibility that Hitler is dead,
but it seems that the hope is COM
pletely groundless-the dirges are
the signs of defeat, the swan song
OF once mighty nation now ap-
preaching its doomsday.
Disappointment.
Altogether, the Russian campaign
has become the worst headache Hit
Ter has ever suffered. He started
out so sure of himself and his I'M
conquerable armies, and, for while,
rushed from victory to victory, hav-
ing the advantage of him who at
tacks without giving the other fellow
chance to prepare himself for de-
tense.
However, as soon as the Russians
got their breath, they began to
strike back with such force that the
Nazi triumphs became as many
humiliations, and whereas Hitler
about year ago was able to begin a
counter-offensive and to regain much
of the territory he had lost to the
Russians, it is considered extremely
doubtful that he has the strength this