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M'NnAV. FKBKTARV 5, 1939. it NOW! More man 800,000 rirrulation! a NOW: More Than SOfl.OOQ Circulation! DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER. UKMERAL F1VB YOUNG MAN WITH THE 'MAGIC BOOTS- If Cosfs BINGO BAN HITS morning before continuing its mile mercy flight to Santiago, Chile. Although on an errand of MERCY BOMBER IN CANAL ZONE RtnKPn--MiAAe ni the TlnnA VitvrIPARISH SfiHIiniS mercy, the plane was dispatched I from Langley Field, Virginia, un- jder orders simulating war eondU Speeding Medical TOUGH BATTLES Plays Part in Their Threatened Closing.

TRENTON, N. J. UT)-A recently-enforced county ban on bingo played a part Saturday in the Aid to Quake Zone. ARGENTINE CORN FRANCE FIELD. PANAMA OUTLOOK 'POOR CANAL ZONE (U.P.)-Thel wAsmxrrrrw 1ST- ami I i mi AHEAD OF HIM: United States army's "super fly- ur ing fortress." largest bombing department foreign trade threatened rtnsinp of Trentnn's! I IS 3 1 1111! plane In the world, landed here experts said Saturday latest re- 1 Friends See a Great Saturday night with a ton and jports from Argentina Indicated half of medical supplies for vie-1 that country would be in no Political Future.

tim of the Chilean earthquake, stronger competitive position in Carrying five air corps officers and six enlisted men, the bomber was to remain here until this the world's corn markets this season than last, when It harvested a very small crop. Stassen Continued from Page 1. several Catholic schools. Declaring that parochial schools might not reopen next fall "due to lack of finances." Catholic clergymen petitioned the city board of education to make provision in its 1939-40 budget for the education of more than 7,500 Catholic children. 'The request is not definitely linked to the bingo situation, but it is admitted that the ban on bingo has added materially to the extreme financial condition." the school board was told by Fiank I.

Casey," counnel for the pastors. JOSEPHS Jewelers Since 1871 1 1 In their alliance with labor. Even within single labor unions factions were at war with one another. Trw Story ol ilianvntu The Farmer-Labor party had i i I I reached its climax when Floyd Olson was governor of Minne Merry Fahrney, heire who ran count four marriages on her wedding ring finger, will have to pay fl.XWt to Altv. Benjamin Khrllih for services rendered In two divorce suits.

A Chicago, municipal judge entered a judgment against her for that amount Saturday. GOING HOME sota. hen Olson died or a stom-arh cancer while in office, In 1936, his rarty began 't8 death-walk. Two years later, when Harold Stassen came onto the scene, the John Strachey Won't Await Hearing; on Hi Entry. NEW YORK, N.

Y. (fl John Strachey, British author and lecturer, sailed for Farmer-Labor "united front" was breaking up fast. Changed Tactic. In this situation Minneapolis In home Saturday without seeing through his fight for unrestricted PRISON BOMBED BY TERRORISTS Fail to Smash Walls; Irish Blamed. LIVERPOOL.

ENGLAND (SUN mm dustrialists were smart enough to take a more moderate tone. The name of the old open shop Citizens Alliance was changed to Allied Industries, and Instead of trying to break up unons the organization is now driving bargains with unions. IManMMidMfipt Gov. and Mrs. Harold E.

Stassen and Their Son, Glen. entry into this country and still denying he is a communist. He said he could not wait an expected five months for the labor department hearing to which For about a year now Minne apolis has had no major industrial disputes. she, frequently profane. Stassen dresses quietly, speaks quietly.

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Walton prison houses numerous I opposition by attacking in an unexpected quarter. Governor Staa-sen has a genius for "sitting tight" the United States stbac hkv. circuit court recently ruled he was entitled after his visa was revoked on the grounds he was a communist. for being at the right place at the right time. 28 CHILDREN When the talk turns to the them is that the political control of the Farmer-Labor has been broken.

Whether they will continue to feel happy if Governor Stassen persists In his program and gets It enacted, is something the future must Finding a middle ground for business, labor and the farmer is Harold E. Stassen's Job. 'If He Can Do It' If he can do that in the next two years he should be able to get any office in Minnesota he feels like asking for. Two years after that and Governor Stassen will be 35. The Constitution of the United States sViys any native-born citizen of the United States may be elected president once he has passed his thirty-fifth birthday.

men roumiea up by police as a result of terroristic bombings blamed on the illegal Irish Republican army. presidency, Stassen is becomingly modest. "That is so remote," he said, that there isn't any use to talk government, consolidating bureaus and departments; to establish a real civil service; to economize without cutting down relief benefits; to curb the small loan sharks and to sponsor a labor relations act, a "little Wagner act," to help avoid and to settle labor disputes. He told labor he would not use the national guard "as a strikebreaking sgency." He promised encouragement to business, and to agriculture. Swept Into Office.

So Minnesota's voters last fall put Harold Stassen in the Italian renaissance state capital building at St. Paul. The same phenomenon elected 26-year-old C. Elmer Anderson, former Brainard, newsboy, as lieutenant governor, and overturned 74 seats in the Minnesota house of representatives. Anderson was elected without making a single speech during the campaign.

Democratic Speaker. The new house members promptly elected Lawrence M. Hall, 30, St. Cloud, lawyer and a Democrat, ss speaker. Once elected "baby gover about it.

I plan the future step CONWAY, S. C. P)-E. J. Roberts is a rival of the old woman in the shoe so far as children are concerned.

With the birth Saturday of a baby girl to his wife, the 69-year-old farmer claimed his twenty-eighth child. Roberta has been married twice Each wife, he said, had 14 children, six of whom have died. Mrs Roberts is 38. by step, but right now I'm trying to do a job well here. If you take your eye away from the ball you SHRINERS NAME BEFFA.

ST. LOUIS, MO. P) Harvey A. Beffa, of Moolah temple, St. Louis, wss elected president of the Central States Shrine association at its convention here Saturday.

Tulsa. was chosen for the 1940 convention. will lose the game." Filled the Gap. Harold Stassen didn't become governor of Minnesota at the age of 31 by taking his eye off the ball. Governor Stassen's own version of how that happened Is that the people of Minnesota were more liberal than the old guard Republicans, but not as liberal as the Farmer-Labor party so he stepped in the middle and got elected.

nor" of Minnesota, Harold Stassen's troubles are not! over. Steering a middle course be-1 Most of his friends thought he was just asking for a political beating by running for governor a youthful, unknown county at 12 Tube "PRESTOTUNE" torney. "labor problem." The old antagonisms are disappearing or at least Governor Stassen hopes they are. Governor Stassen' stands for moderation in Minnesota. Harold Edward Stassen was born Apr.

13, 1907, on a truck farm near South St. Paul. His father, William A. Stassen, still farms the 80-acre plot. Predominantly German his mother was born in Germany-Governor Stassen is blessed with a Norwegian name given him by a Norwegian, Czech, German father.

A Scandinavian name helps In Minnesota politics. Rapid Frogress. At 11 Harold Stassen was graduated from grammar school; at 15 from high school. After working for his father on the farm for a year he enrolled in the University of Minnesota, and after six years had both a liberal arts and a law degree. In college his classmates pronounced his name to rhyme with bass; now it is pronounced As a boy Governor Stassen worked at many things.

He tried raising skunks for the fur market once; while In college he clerked In a store, worked In a bakery, was a re-lie sleeping car conductor on a run between Minneapolis and Chicago, III. He found time for an active college career, however, winning a letter in debating, winning prizes for oratory, serving on the editorial board of the law school publication and serving as captain of a championship ROTC rifle' team. Steady Nerves. A crack shot, he blasted the' buttons off a sergeant's blouse once in an exhibition. Harold Stassen has steady nerves.

No campus radical, he did participate In the activities of a college society devoted to economic and political discussions and he led successfully an undergraduate movement to stop a university budget cut In the legislature. He had only a few run-ins with university authorities but they knew he was on the campus. Met and Married. First Battle. My first battle," said Gov ernor Stassen, "was with the old guard Republicans.

They never question their party. If the people wouldn't vote for the Republican candidates then they thought The result of a Big Special Purchase, directly from the the people were wrong; they just sat still, waiting for the No. 1218 people to see the light "It's easy to see how they could think that way remember Crosley Factory! ing the prosperous times before 1929. But I never knew good times. Maybe that's why I'm more progressive." 'Beat In the primaries "Beat Benson" was the watchword of all the tween the old guard Republicans and the Farmer-Laborites and getting his program enacted into law is not going to be easy.

In his budget message last week Governor Stassen presented figures predicated on a reorganization of governmental functions, and in- eluding a cut in his own depart-' ment, Budget Shaving. Under this, budget expenditures would be shaved by more than I three million dollars (according to I his own figures! instead of increased by 15 millions as suggested by the previous administration. One of the first acts of Governor Stassen was to fire 40 employes in the state relief administration and 87 highway department employes. He has consolidated the state crime bureau and the state highway patrol a move that labor fears, although the law says the highway patrol cannot be used in labor disputes. His legislative program is on the fire right now.

Hottest is the proposed state labor relations act. Governor Stassen "proposes to take suggestions from business and labor, combine them in a bill of his own to be presented to the legislature. Flaying With Fire. This is playing with fire, and Governor Stassen knows It. enemies of the then governor of Minnesota.

Many old guard Republicans entered the Farmer-Labor primaries to vote against Benson leaving the progressive Republicans to vote for Stassen in the Republican primaries, Benson was however, and so was Stassen giving the people of Minnesota a choice between a pretty definitely left-wing Farmer-La-borite and a "middle-of-the-road liberal" Republican, "The professional and clerical people," Governor Stassen says, "were feeling the press of the Farmer-Labor income tax. A part of the A. F. of L. resented Benson's connections with the C.I.O., and the farmers were dissatisfied with the New Deal farm EIGHT Instant Selective Favorite Stations He met Miss Esther Glewwe of South St.

Paul at the junior ball and married her soon after grad uation. They have one son, Glen, 3. Llrau S1 1 75 As a county attorney, Stassen participated personally in p.ogram. With your old radio several 'criminal manhunts, carrying the rifle he knew so well how to operate. When a farmers' milk strike threatened In 1932 he addressed a With a clear Republican majority in both houses of the legislature, Governor Stassen is going to bear a great share of responsibility for whatever portion of his program is or is not put into effect.

In making his appointments Governor Stassen has consulted the old guard Republicans but he has made his own decisions. This has led to some "The old Farmer-Labor smearing of Republicans Floyd Olson used it to perfection wouldn't work with me. They called me a 'tool of but they couldn't make the charge stick. CJ" Aavenisea Price was mass meeting, dissuaded the farmers from striking by agreeing to ct as their attorney. He negoti- Trade in your old radio No interest or carrying charges Convenient payments to suit We pay the freight in Iowa ted an increase in price for the farmers.

I private growling, and may break Strike Attorney. During a packing plant strike "My record showed I had rep-; out Into an open roar, or not, de In 1933 he participated in negotia pending on Stassen's handling of resented opponents of the pack the party leaders he is attempting ers in court, that I had represent tions, jailed three "agitators," then represented strike leaders in an ed farmers' co-operatives in cases! to work with, but not for. sction against the company get Striking Console Cabinet Exclusively at Davidsons in Des Moines! The illustration hardly does this beautiful stump walnut cabinet justice. This console style is of highly figured woods with sloping panel, pilasters and base of quarter-strip walnut. A truly handsome piece of furniture as well as a superb radio.

You'll be as proud to have it in your home as we are to offer it at this amazing February saving. ting them reinstated by carrying their plea to the NRA compliance board. Figure the savings on this sensational radio buy. You save exactly half. Imagine this superb radio equipped with 12 tubes, press button tuning for eight favorite stations, plug-in adapter for use with remote control.

3 bands, all wave We believe this the biggest radio buy of the year because it incorporates practically all of the latest improvements for radio reception. These things kept him busy but Stassen was just a big, young county attorney in South St, Paul until recently. He is 6 feet, 2 inches tall; weighs 213 pounds; against, the utilities and that 1 was fighting the old guard within the Republican party." And Harold Stassen had a program. Much of it was a pretty frank continuation of the Farmer-Labor liberal program. He did not attack the social principles of the Farmer-Labor party, but he put his finger on what most people in Minnesota consider to be the weaknesses of that program under Benson its waste and Inefficiency.

Reorganization. has thinning light hair; grayish Picking lions' teeth is a notoriously dangerous occupation, and Governor Staen knows that, too. Meanwhile, the Farmer-Labor minority in the legislature, far from helping Stassen stay out of the arms of the old guard Republicans, is predicting he will be there sooner or later, and giving him a shove for good measure. "Prove It." The attitude of many union labor leaders toward Governor Stassen, Is: "You call yourself a liberal, now let'a ee you prove it" Minneapolis business men, on the other hand, can hardly conceal eyes. Talks Like Olson.

People complimenting Governor Stassen's speaking ability say he WE PAY FREIGHT IN IOWA appears something like Floyd Ol son on the platform but the com' parison stops right there. Olson in private conversation was florid, expan- 7th and Walnut Telephone 3-31 31 PES MOINES Governor Stassen proposed to re organize and simplify the atatejtheir jubilation. The big thing- to i.