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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-04

1t will be of interest to many in
this community to learn of the pro-
motion of Chaplain Leslie G. Williams
from First Lieutenant to the rank OF
Captain. Chaplain Williams has been
stationed at Kelly Field, Texas, with
the Army Air Force since April, 1912
At present he is Chaplain at the Cen
trail Instructors School. Chaplain
Williams has been in the armed
forces since December 6, 1941, serving
first with the Engineers at Fort Leon
ard Wood, Mo. Chaplain and Mrs,
Williams and children are residing
in San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Will
liams is the former Leona Starch of
Bruno.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-04

nurses are daily becoming more
scarce in civilian life.
Recognizing this fact every woman
here who possibly can will prepare
herself for this emergency by taking
a home nursing course which will be
organized by Mrs. H. j. Krech, Home
Nursing chairman of the Pine County
Chapter of the American Red Cross
at the Bruno School Friday, February
5, at 2:30 p. m. It will be taught
by the county nurse, Miss Bickmann,
r. N.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-04

argedistilleryin the country making whiskey
any more. They're all working day and night
making war alcohol for the government for
gunpowder, synthetic rubber, chemicals, and
medical supplies.
"Just as I told Ed down at the court
house this morning, the government simply
wouldn't be able to get all this alcohol it
needs in time if we didn't have these
distilleries available and on the jolt"
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Prime Minister w. L. MacKen-
zie King also was sent a message
expressing particular apprecia-
ton" over Canada's recognition.
The liberation committee releas-
I'd the texts of recognition declara-
tions by the governments-in-exile
of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Luxem.
burg, The Netherlands, Belgium,
and Yugoslavia. All except Poland
and Belgium took that step in
June, some two months before
Washington, London and Moscow
acted.
The six exiled governments used
the form requested by the French
committee, stating it was recogni.
zed as "the organization qualified
to ensure the conduct of the French
war effort within the framework
of inter-allied cooperation as well
as the administration and defense
of all French interests"
French opinion continues to re.
gard the Soviet action as the most
generous of any major Allied pow
er, while the restrictions which
hedged American recognition were
seen as in sharp contract to it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.-H-
This government policy toward
refugee groups claiming to repre-
sent the countries from which they
come is based on determination
to let peoples pick their own lead
ers when they can do so freely,
Adolf A. Berle, Jr., assistant Sec
retary of state, said today.
Replying to an inquiry of the
American Council on Public AT
fairs, Berle said in a letter made
public by the State Department
that Europeans organized outside
their native countries could not be
judged merely on the basis of the
political names they call each 9TH
er.
conservatives who have con-
sistently and vigorously fought
Fascism," he said, care often at
tackled by groups who also a~e
fighting Fascism but who are
pleading for particular reforms,
and these in turn are commonly
accused of being reactionary or
even Fascist. by the more radical
groups
The Council on Public Affairs,
through its secretary, M. B.
Schnapper, had inquired about as
sertions it said were recently
made "that the Department of
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In addition, Meany said, all
stages of government-fede
state, county, municipal-should
plan postwar public works projects
now and labor and management in
private enterprise should start
sitting down together to try to find
ways and means of increasing
peacetime production and achiev-
ing full employment"
Meany expressed belief failure
to "get beyond the talking stage"
on postwar planning during the
first world war caused much "un-
employment, suffering and disil-
lusionment afterwards.
He said two reasons the AFL re.
fused the inevitability of a post
war depression was expected de-
mand for vast private housing con-
struction and tremendous demands
for consumer goods which "have
practically vanished from the
shelves Of our retailers through
out the country
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State has pursued policy OF re-
buffing and ignoring exlled leao-
ers who look to a democ-atlc re-
vitalizatio.1 of Europe and tnat'
on the other hand, it has been ia
vorably disposed toward highly
conservative and reactionary per-
sons who are desirous Of retain
mo the evils of pre-war Europe.
The council said that such
charges have been particularly
emphatic Of late in connection
with the departments policy with
regard to Italy. Schnapper said he
did not believe them but asked
Qualification.
In his reply, Berle called such
charges amazing" and said that
refugees from Europe had been
admitted to safety in this country
and had here stated their views
freely through American free
speech and press to an extent
not permitted by any other coun-
try on earth"
LEADERS and groups of all
shades of thought have sought
here the refuge which we have
gladly offered" ne said. Many of
them have asked to be recognized
or accepted or dealt with as rep.
reseating the country from which
thew came. Their claims are
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
Giraud, deGauHe Send
Thanks To ToAMedLeaders
ANSWER: A pelican.

ALGIERS, Aug. 29-(P)-Gener-
ais Henri Giraud and Charles de
Gaulle, co-leaders of the French
Committee of National Liberation,
have cabled joint messages of ap-
probation to President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill, and Pre-
mier Joseph Stain for the diplo-
matte recognition given by the Al
lied government.
The two French chiefs informed
President Roosevelt of their real
satisfa ction" at the United States
decision and expressions of SYM
pathy, adding that these would re-
inforce collaboration between the
Allies and the French nation.
The cable to Churchill declared
that "the victory which is coming
and of which we have never des-
paired will find the people of the
two nations closely united in
peace"
The message to Stain praised the
magnificent action of the people
and of the heroic armies of the So
Wet Union" in contributing so lar
gely to common victory.
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ARMY'S new P-47
COMES TO COUNTY
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
ed in the art of being soldier.
expect my men to be able to cope
with any situation that may arise.
l know that this fighter group will
account for itself"
The group is still in its organiza-
tional stage. Colonel Meyer has as
his executive officer young flier
who has already accounted for
many Jap Zero fighters in the
Pacific theater-Major Andrew ].
Reynolds. The squadrons compris-
ing the fighter group are COM
manded by: Capt. John H. Pease,
who spent Is months in the Aleu-
tians as a fighter pilot; Capt. Har-
old N. Holt, who has served year
as fighter pilot in Panama; and
Capt. James L. Edminster, who
has seen two years active duty in
Panama.
The group adjutant, Lieutenant
J. L. Rhode, takes personal in
terest in every man in the outfit
and he makes it point to have a
personal interview with each new
man as he enters the group.
Lieutenant Rhode and three 9th
er officers of the group comprise
a "little Columbia club" at the
field, as all four attended Columbia
university. The other members OF
this select set are: Capt. Charles
Campbell, medical officer; Lieut..
Jams Welles, statistical officer;
and Lieut.. Robert Legg, weather
officer.
1t is hoped by group authorities
that the people of Wilmington Will
show great interest in their ac-
tivities while here.
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TAX ADVISORS
TO AID PUBLIC
CONTINUED from Page One)

made up Of salaries or commits
sions, which will amount to less
than $2,7O0 during 1913 is not re-
quired to file. And by the same
rule, married man living with
his wife whose income in wages
or salaries, both husband and wife,
amounts to $500 or less is not re-
quired to make a declaration.
Continuing he said these amounts
do not apply when such persons
enjoy additional income from 9TH
er sources, explaining that if such
a married couple has a total wage
income of, for instance, $1,000,
and in addition have rents or 9TH
er income, a declaration would be
required, and if single and not
head of a family the personal ex-
emption is reduced to $500.
T. D. 1921 provides that mem
bers of the military or naval for
ces of the United States, who are
in active service on September Is,
will not be required to file a
declaration. Those within the fill
ing status, however, must file their
regular return between January /
and March IS, 1914.
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destroyer and cruiser in size, "a
tordepo boats, IL submarines,
three minesweepers, and other pa
troll and depot ships)
A traveller on a ferry boat
reaching Helsingborg from Den
mark said he had heard that the
Danish royal guard was fighting
Germans in the barracks at the
capital. German planes circled
over Copenhagen all day in huge
numbers in ominous patrol.
The ships that escaped to Swe-
den carried about 400 persons,
many of them army and navy Of
ficers and personnel, and there
was speculation whether some gov
ernment members might have es-
capped. 1t was believed the mill
tary personnel will be interned.
All the ships docked at Lands
krona, except for one torpedo boat
which eluded guns of a German
submarine and airplane before
racing into Malmo on the south
ern tip of Sweden.
While the fate of King Christian
and the cabinet was uncertain,
Danes in Sweden considered it
likely they were all under house
arrest, and one report via Malmo
said German soldiers had occu-
pied Sorgenfri castle.
Denmark, once famed for it's
butter and bacon production, had
been under German sway since
the almost bloodless occupation
April 9, 1910, but now Danish
courts and the government were
swept aside by Won Hannecken, al
ready hated by the Danes. He is
known as a "Goering man."
His decree putting the country
entirely under the Nazi war boot
came in broadcast proclamation
at 4:10 a. m. today asserting that
"recent disturbances have shown
that Danish authorities are no
longer in a position to maintain
law and order" and that "disturh-
ances created by enemy agents
are directly pointed at German
armed forces"
The decree forbade all strikes,
imposed a curfew at dusk, banned
civil communications, and declar-
ed that "all incitement to strike to
the detriment of German armed
forces will be considered. as an en-
emy act and will usually be pun
ished by death.
Infringement of these regula-
tions will be dealt with by Ger
man military courts.
against acts of violence, illegal
assemblies, ETC., ruthless use of
arms will be made"
All assemblies of more than five
persons in public or private were
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State Department Official Says
REFUGEES To Pick O1un Leadership

often disputed by other leaders
and groups of the same nationali-
ty these claims properly
ought to be settled by the people
of their own country, not by the
State Department.
'The government of the United
States has been glad to receive
the suggestions, the ideas, the
plans, of all these free move
ments and their leaders. But de-
cision upon their claims rests not
in the hands of this government,
but in the hands of their own peo-
ple.'
Berle said that s'many wild
yarns, hardly worth the trouble of
denying, had apparently been
circulated by some foreign politi-
cal personages-he did not name
them-enjoying American hospital.
ity.
One such, he said, was a rumor
that Italian Count Ciano was in
the United States, another, that a
plan for a "Catholic Axis was
being elaborated in Washington;
third, that some kind of Fascist
federation of eastern Europe was
being aimed against Soviet Russia.
''They merit no attention." he
concluded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
3O7 NAZI PLANES
BLASTED BY u. 5.
EIGHTH AIRFORCE
TWO RAIDS TAKE TOLL
First Anniversary OF OPP
erations In Europe Is
Celebrated

LONDON, Aug. 29-P)-The U
S.Eighth Air Force celebrated its
first anniversary OF operations ir
the European theater by destroy
ing 307 enemy fighters in raids
against two German targets Aug.
II, European theater headquarters
announced today.
Fortresses attacking the Mes
serchmitt factory at Regensburs
destroyed 140 planes in the air and
subsequently flew shuttle run
to temporary bases in North Africa.
1t was previously announced that
a Fortress formation attacking the
ball and roller bearing plant at
Schweinfurt on the same day de-
stroyed lat fighters and 20 more
were brought down by Tunderbolts
in supporting operation.
Commenting on the Regensburg
operation, Brig. Gen. Frederick L.
Anderson, commanding the Eighth
Air Force bomber command, said.
"Our bomber crews destroyed
one of Germany's most important
aircraft factories, one which had
a potential production of more than
1000 fighters over the next six
months
They have also destroyed 140
of the enemy's first line operation
al fighter planes in addition to the
number probably destroyed or
damage. This was achieved at a
cost of % bombers and less than
200 men listed as missing in ac-
ton.
1T was great accomplish
ment."
1t was pointed out that the an
nounced toll of Nazi planes did not
include a number of newly COM
pleted fighters destroyed on the
ground at Reinsburg.
The Fortresses fought a running
battle from Antwerp to the Alps
with relays of enemy fighters.
The previous high for Eighth Air
Force heavy bombers was 81 fight
ers destroyed June II, when Will
helmshaven and Cuxhaven were
raided.
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NAM SAYS WAGES
EXCEEDING COSTS
Manufacturers Declare Sal.
aries Rising Faster
Than Prices

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-tR-The
National Association of Manufac-
turers reported today that "wages
paid by manufa cturers have been
rising more rapidly than the cost
of living"
In it's publication, ''Industry's S
View" the manufa cturers. group
asserted figures compiled by the
bureau of labor statistics "show
that since August 1889 average
weekly wages of workers in man
ufacturing establishments through.
out the country have gone up 92.4
per cent and living costs in this pc
riod august 1889 to June 1943)
have increased less than q per
cent"
The NAM added:
while price increases have
been given much publicity, the
sharp gains in wages usually have
been ignored in published reports.
Failure to consider wage increas.
es along with increases in living
costs has distorted the truth, has
created confusion and has led to
erroneous conclusions.
Declaring that the "1nain agita.
tion for pay boosts come from or
ganized groups concentrated in
manufa cturing industries" the
NAM asserted factory workers
comprised less than 40 per cent Of
the nations non-agricultural work.
ers and added:
IF there are present wage in.
justices they are to be found in
the white collar groups - certain.
ly not among the manufacturing
workers.
The association said that man
ufacturers profit. expressed as a
per centage of gross receipts ir
1912, was "a per cent smaller thar
in 1929 and "a per cent smaller
than in 1941.
Among conclusions drawn by the
NAM was one that "any further in
crease in salaries and wages will
boost the inflationary spiral by
increasing prices, which in turl
will be used as the basis for de
manding still larger wage rises
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
5000 NAzlS Die
UNDER RED DRIVE
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the PSel-Vorksla river valleys to
envelop Poltava, big Axis base IS
miles southwest of Kharkov on the
approaches to the Dnieper river
bend.
Forty villages were seized below
Bryansk, where the Russians said
their men beat off eight consecu-
tive counter-attacksa and killed 600
Germans west of Sevsk. The COM
munique spoke of wearing down
the enemy in that sector.
South of Sevsk the Russians over
ran Is villages and captured a
strongly fortified enemy defense
line. Four hundred Germans fell
in that one engagement, said the
communique recorded by the So
Wet monitor. In neighboring Sec
tor "a company of Germans (about
200 mem laid down their arms and
surrendered.
Thirty-four German planes were
shot down in the embattled Sevsk
salient, where a break-through to
the Bryansk-Kiev railway would
shatter German communications
between the southern and central
fronts. This toll was part of the
so reported destroyed during the
day for two-day bag of 1872 on
all fronts.
The Russians also knocked out
80 tanks during the day, Moscow S
bulletin said, on the basis of in
complete reports. That made two
day total of 100 enemy tanks de-
stroyed.
In addition to these impressive
figures on destroyed German equip
ment, the Russians said their
troops 'aptured four or more am
munition dumps and hundreds OF
guns of various caliber.
Exceptionally heavy fighting was
encountered southwest Of Zrniev,
20 miles below Kharkov, where the
Russians apparently were attempt
ing to seal off the thousands of
hard-pressed Germans in the Don
cts salient. Zmiev is so miles north
of Lozovaya, a junction on major
railway supplying the Germans to
the southeast.
Southwest of Zrniev our troops
advanced and captured several
populated Places" the communi-
que said. 1.-THE Germans are cling
ing to intermediate lines, resisting
| by heavy firing and frequently
making counter-attacks. Our units
beat off an enemy counter-attack
and wiped out no less than a bat
talon of Hitlerites."
Berlin broadcasts recorded by
the Associated Press acknowled-
ged Russian break-throughs in the
south, saying the Soviets were en-
ploying masses of tanks and in
| fantry.' The broadcast also said
the Russians had attacked Nazi
lines between Snnolensk and Vyaz-
ma, on the central front west of
Moscow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
Danes Scuttle Many Fleet Units
As Country Put Under War La1us

the Germans, yielding troops to
fight Yugoslav guerrillas and
Greeks but not to fight Russia.
He was able to keep the war-weary
country in the Axis camp, how
ever, despite the feelings of the
people who always have looked up
to mother Russia" for the role
played by the Cars in the strug-
giles for Bulgarian independence.
Boris never had dared, howev-
er, to lead his country into form
al war with Russia although he
had declared wa on Britain and
the United States.
The new king, Simeon II, is six
years-old, and King Boris broth
er, Prince Kyril, never has dem
onstrated the slightest trace of the
late kings political and admins
trative shrewdness.
All liberal and democratic par
ties in Bulgaria are suppressed,
but three main ones are known
to be continuing their existence
underground.
In Turkey there was speculation
that the change of Bulgarian kings
raised three possibilities.
1-Orderly establishment of
regency under German protection.
2-An army coup d'etat through
the Bulgarian army and Bulgarian
national police to place the coun-
try entirely in the hands of Berlin.
ga popular uprising which
would overthrow the monarchy
and establish Republican or So
cialist government under the sway
of Russia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
AFL Official Outlines
PlanFOrPOSt-WarWOrk

NEW YORK, Aug. 29-(P)ASec-
retary-Treasurer George Meany of
the American Federation of Labor
said today government and private
industry must work together and
prevent any threatened postwar de-
preston.
1--WE of the American Federation
of Labor" said Meany in a speech
broadcast by NBC, refuse to ac-
cept the theory that a depression
is inevitable after the war.
1--WE do not have to have a de-
preston and, as a matter of fact,
we must not have a depression.
Meany said the AFL had a post
war program which called for
providing jobs mot only for the
demobilized fighting men but also
for the millions Of men and wom-
en- who are now working in war
plants and will require new jobs
when peace comes"
Meany gave no details of the
AFL postwar plan, except to say
"private industry must supply the
bulk Of the jobs after the war
ends" and that government also
would have an important part to
play.
"The government" he said,
"has the responsibility Of encour-
aging industrial expansion. The
American Federation of Labor
holds that the government should
not only permit but stimulate op-
portunities to make a reasonable
and fair profit. An enterprise which
makes profit is willing to ex-
pand. Expansion spells more jobs,
and that is what labor will want"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
Obituaries
MRS. RUTH STARTLING

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth
Startling, of Winter Park, will be
conducted at three o'clock Mon
day afternoon at Sixth Street Ad-
vent Christian church by the Rev.
James Lee, the Rev. George San
ders, and the Rev. A. C. Thorpe.
Burial will follow in Oakdale ceme-
terry.
Active pallbearers will be David
King, George Rackley, Marion Pc
terson, Charley Rivenbark, Walter
Glenn, and James Ezzell.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Preston King, T. C. Taylor, R. C..
Pierce, and S. C. King.
The remains will lie at the
church from l p. m. until the
hour of the funeral service.
Mrs. Startling, wife of City Fire
man A. J. Startling, Jr., died in
James Walker Memorial hospital
at 9:45 p. m. Friday, less than
an hour after she had been crush
ed between two automobiles which
collied head-on on the Wrightsville
Beach highway at Winter Park.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
SOL0N ASSAILS
COP CONFEREycg
Senator Guffey Says M..,
ing Is Plainly A PoE,;s'
cal Movement

WASHINGTON, Aug. %
Senator Guffey (D-Pa) d.,,a =
today that the purpose Of tbs ,'5e' o'
publican public: conference to begin ne :,
Mackinac Ma i &C! Island, Mich, ssn+.I' sr At
per E lis as plainly politi.ppIs HtiepIsn'
the disguise of that r,rnos! ost az
transparent" '''poSe il
Guffy, chairman Of so
cratic senatorial Campaign Dsm0' e
mlttee' mt asserted that the 81 G I09,' % n
has a fierce factional w.n u,o'P'
hand" and added: wal on
THE prospective colIusior ),
tween the Willkieistic aIliOa I De-
operation program after ,eu tbe Co.
and the isolation sentiments s ..s.alt wal
utabie to some other Republic ,Io'
candidates, has little to do ~gt'aa ui.h
ternational results and much y. W III M
with internal G. 0. P. strsteyy %
Hence the session on ses. 81,
Vandenberg's home grounds ,aiy, S.i.,
membership largely comDosed WI, !,
pre-Pearl Harbor isolatior.,a,
leavened by considerable ,ss, arS",
of straddle-bugs, mostly affic,agg Tag
by the necessity of being resdv :.
vault to whatever side of the ter.. /"
seems most useful-and with W.
prospective marked absence vi, II,
Wendell Willkie himself"
Republican National Cbairr,,
Harrison E. Spangler, in annmmr'
ing the Mackinac Island meetina
said that the 49 members Of tbs
Republican postwar advisory co,n'
Gil will present to the nation
program for international coonpr.,
ton that will be beacon of IN,
ture peace to all the peoples Of bp
globe.")
Guffey prophesied that The Mar.
kinac conference would brine
forth "a series of platform blanks
that will cover every phase Of The
problem, and more or less sstute.
ly dodge them all"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30

A three-pronged air blow against
Foggia, Italy's largest air base.
and its ten satellite fields by Am
erlcan planes has left them a mass
OF wreckage. Flying from bases in
Africa, P-38 fighters swooped down
10 disrupt the defenses of the
fields. Then came huge armadas
OF fiylng Fortresses and Liberia
tors to drop tons of explosives. I'm
ternationaD
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30

Hogs will produce meat and lard
weighing about IS percent of their
live weight, and other meat ami
mails will produce about As percent
of their live weight in the form
of meat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30

During the past Is years, the
international air transport system
has marked up over 100000, ,O0OO
miles of international flying, most
of it overseas,
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ALLIED VESSEL LOSS
DROPS In PAST YEAR
CONTINUED from Page One)

York to River Plate, South Ameri-
ca, shipments, from Is per cent to
five per cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30

Cock-fighting is one Of the "a.
vorite sports in Puerto Rico.