The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 24

Sunday, August 30, 1942 -MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE AND STAR JOURNAL PAGE 6 bl WITH THEIR HEADS, HEARTS AND HANDS Small Minnesota Communities More Than 'Doing Bit9 i 1 1 from the streets to go out and 7 I pick peas before they spoiled. 'l7'J sin' I 't ptw i I AS i fa -vdvw I A id i in War One shift from Johnson's plant went Into the fields several days a week after their regular eight hours work. But, with 4,100 acres of peas, they didn't lose an acre despite the labor shortage, they said. A room in the public high' school is open for Red Cross work five days a week. Since the fall of 1940, 903 knitted pieces, 185 layettes, 876 single garments.

and 40 toddle packs have beerfJI shipped. Mrs. Emerson Ward if chairman, of war production for the county. Started through the church guilds, the co-operation in Waseca, Janesville, New Richland and the other towns has been excellent, she said. There's never been a case of draft evasion in Waseca county, H.

W. Kritzer, draft board chairman, said. Leslie C. Johnston, Waseca, and William A. Pofahl, Waldorf are the other two on the board.

Two of them have sons regis- tered, and two of the three girli in the office have immediate, relatives in the war. FREE PICK UP and DELIVERY DRESSESV CLEANED Only GUARANTEED Quality Workmamhl, E. C. Ward (pointing), chief air raid warden instructor, and C. A.

Brozik, chief air raid warden, look at their map in the air control center in the basement of the city hall. The windows of the room already have been blacked out, telephones installed and spotters organized. Waseca has a war hero in Percy Bartelt (center) of the famous Flying Tigers. He now is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Bartelt; his wife and their one and one-half-year-old son, Edward. surveillance as any war plant, with guards stationed all around It "A delivery boy from one of the local firms went on vacation, and, because his substitute didn't carry a birth certificate, he couldn't get inside the door the its '4 nnn 1 hr; i.i''vto?rm'-r 111 4 5 BMBnnnnnnnnnnMBBBMIMMMBWfl 1 WHWUSJIiSfffflbtMti IMBBMWBMMWlMBlUMi illlll IIOTIIMt nMIWiTJU I tf i' A y- It mm iianniniiiiliin 1111111 imiiiiMii-r-T Waseca was among the first municipalities to put city funds into war bonds. Probate Judge Charles Spillane chairman of the water and light board, buys with city funds, a $25,000 war bond from Mrs. Esther Lueck as Dr. J.

L. Kubicek, mayor, looks on. whole two weeks," Dr. Kubicek said. "Guards took all his deliveries and papers at the door." The cannery has doubled Us output and its acreage this year and added a freex ing plant because it is canning food for the army.

More than 1,000 people, many from neighboring towns, are employed here. Peas, lima beans, and corn are the principal products canned, and in one week this summer, men and women were recruited Typical of many Waseca boys is Dick Sophy, 9, who buys war stamps from Norma Tews. war industry, the E. F. Johnson plant, which makes radio transmitters, and is on 24 hours a day production.

It's under as strict The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune doesn't think Minnesotans are complacent about the war and to prove it selected an average community in the state Waseca and sent a staff writer to find out what a "typial Main street" was doing about winning the war. What she learned is told in the following story. By CATHERINE QUEALY Staff Writer MAIN Street, Minnesota, has become a battle front. Yet, a stranger driving through one of these scenic little mid-western towns, bordered by quiet lakes and wooded farm lands, might miss the tremendous upheaval worldwide war has wrought here. He might even say to himself, "These people are not war con-icious." That's because it's an unspectacular kind of warfare these people are fighting with their heads and hearts and hands a struggle which has uprooted their lives, but left the surface smooth.

You can stand on Main street, as we stood on State street in Waseca (pop. 4,500) the other day, and be unaware of this be-cause there Is little fanfare, almost no display. Flags fly from many buildings, but there are no calliopes calling attention to war bonds or recruiting, and almost no men In uniform. Yet this quiet town in the heart of a pleasant farming country, known for its hog-raising and its fields of rich corn, has one of the best war bond records in the state, consistently going over its quota. Its scrap rubber collection yielded 90 tons from the county.

It has gone over Its quota on every drive. With 4,811 men in the county registered under selective serv-ice, it has sent some 500 men and two nurses into the armed forces. Waseca not war conscious? Drop into any of the stores or stop to talk on the street and they'll tell you about Mrs. Ida Hutchinson at Janesville with four sons in the service and four more to go; of Percy Bartelt, Waseca's Flying Tiger, just back after nine months in China with the American Volunteer group; of Mary Keeley, state director of Victory Aids, whose home is there. Waseca county's men are gone.

Right now, they're serving in Ireland, Australia, Iceland, Alaska, the New Caledonia Islands, and at camps all over this country, and on the high seas. In their places in Waseca, Janesville, New Richland, Waldorf and all the little communities are women and older men. Mrs. Hutchinson, a widow, is proud of her sons. Thomas, 27, was at Pearl Harbor; Frederick, 33, an army staff sergeant, is at Fort Knox, James, 36, is in the medical corps and was just a little way from being a doctor when he joined; Howard, 21, is in the air force.

Still to go are Earl, 18, who's attending a radio school in Glen-wood; George, 19; Robert, 26, and William, 23. "All my boys graduated from high school," Mrs. Hutch-Inson said. "They worked and come went to college. The ones that are gone all enlisted.

I think they're pretty wonderful." When the others go, all that will be left of her family of nine Iowa Man Heads Midwest Shrine DEADWOOD, S. D. UP) W. Wilson, past potentate of the Abu Bakr Temple, Sioux City, Iowa, was elected president of the Midwest Shrine association at conclusion of an annual two-day convention here He succeeds Lee A. Potter, Zulv rah temple, Minneapolis.

C. Hartley, past potentate of the Aad temple, Duluth, was elected vice president; Potentate Charles Foster, Osman temple, St. Paul, was named second vice president, and C. L. Phillips, Abu Bakr temple, Sioux City, secretary-treasurer.

Police Band Plays at Harriet Today Minneapolis Police ynd will the final band concert of the season at 8 p.m. today at Lake Harriet. Lt. Henry L. Smith is di rector.

The program: America iftrch: Sturi and Stripes Forever of Stephen Foiter Throw Out The Life Line: Rellflou overture Three eenice ketche ARMY Soldier onit NAVY Anchnri Aweigh Sousa Tobanl Hadley MARINES Marin Bym American Patrol United We Stand: Meacham Patrlotle (election Hayea Eoer of Beauty Concert Brpoki A'er Siinupt Intermezzo A. Pryor i 1 "it timni'-ll i i nr 'mm dren, with their each week, have hare." stamp day done their One of the largest bonds was bought by the water and light board of which Probate Judge Charles Spillane is chairman. Waseca was one of the first communities to buy bonds with municipal funds, and in the fall the board expects to put more money into them. Other board members are Emmons Smith and L. T.

Buchler. Dr. K'ubicek's job as civilian defense head is a 24 hour a day one. Long before the state asked for a salvage set-up, it was organized in Waseca. There are 210 air raid wardens in the county, and every one has made a diagram of his territory.

Emerson C. Ward, chief air raid warden instructor, showed us some of the diagrams. They've accounted for every house, every garden, clothesline, manhole," he said. "In each house, the location of the telephone is diagrammed, and the number recorded." The air raid control center is in the basement of the city hall in Waseca, the windows are blacked out already, and telephones connected. In the same building are the fire hall and headquarters of the auxiliary police.

Charles Brozik, chief air raid warden, is also in charge of navy recruiting in the county. Twenty to 30 airplane spot-ters are being trained for each township, and 50 to 70 per cent of them will be women, Ward said. W. Bathke, Waseca, is county director of the service. Observations posts will be manned 24 hours a day.

As if all this didn't bring the war close enough, Waseca ha a Dr. Wayne Hockett, a first lieutenant in the civil air patrol, drives to St. Thomas college in St. Paul several times each week to teach in the government's civil air patrol classes. In addition, he gives Instructions one night each week to the air patrol school In Mankato.

the time he was in China, and he never got our letters," Percy's white-haired mother said. Waseca counly has had one military funeral, that of Ensign Melvin C. Walleriom, son of the Rev. and Mrs. J.

C. Walledom of New Richland, who was killed in an airplane accident in California. John Stewart, one of their boys, was wounded at Pearl Harbor, and is thought to be still in a hospital. Not only Waseca county's 15,000 people, but even the pigs are helping to fight the war, they will tell you. The pigs figure in the bond drive, Lyle Rutledge county chairman, told us.

"Each farmer has been asked to designate one or more pigs as "Victory Pigs" and to clip or paint a on them. When the pigs are matured, they wiU be sold at a sale in Waseca and the proceeds will be used by the owners to purchase war bonds," he explained. The slogan is "A Pig Blitz for bonds sell a pig, buy a bond." In May, 1942, Waseca county's bond quota was $39,800. Sales were $59,951.25. In June, the quota was raised to $55,000 and sales went to $70,000.

In July, the quota was $83,400, and it was missed by only $3,000. This month, it looks as if they'll make the quota and make up $3,000, Rutledge said. "Members of the various village and township committees have co-operated splendidly," he said, "and the school chil- gregating places for them since their high school days. The town of Waseca has lost a veterinarian, Dr. Lei and ffHfv West; a physician, Dr.

George H. Olds, and a dentist, Dr. Harold Lorenz, all to the army, Two or three more doctors expect to go. Nurse Marguerite McGrat is now on duty Gill with the army, and Nurse Catherine Gill is stationed at a naval base in California. The only osteopathic phy.

sician in the county, Dr. Wayne Hockett, Waseca, has taken on a war job which keeps him going day and night. As first lieutenant in the civil air patrol, he leaves Waseca in the early afternoon four or five days a week, drives to St. Thomas college, St. Paul, to teach in the government ground work school, and is back home a little after midnight.

One night a week, he teaches in the government civil air patrol school at Mankato. With Dr. J. L. Kubicek, Waseca's mayor and head of civilian defense in the county, we drove down to Robert Bartelt's on the edge of Clear lake.

Since Percy came back from China, he and his wife, and son, Edward, one and one-half, have been living at his parents' home. The hero who is credited with having bagged seven Jap planes, is a tall, strapping fellow. He was in the army first, then served several years in the navy where he became an ensign. He resigned his commission to join the Flying Tigers. People around Waseca know by now that Percy doesn't want to talk very much about what he's been through.

But he answered questions at the testimonial dinner which the town gave for him last Wednesday. The Waseca Legion Commercial club sponsored it. "We din't hear from him all SRVE RADIOS. BICYCLES, BATTERIES, OIL and rhouiandt ot ether iramt for Noma and Car I Vis i '4 3k 'i2 I'M GRANDSTAND SHOW THIS AFTERFJOOn it NEW FAIR FEATURE! Cavalcade of Big Top Stars A Smashing Circus in Resplendent Regalia Three Ring Salvo to Our Colors Special Salute to Uncle Sam and Miss Liberty Direct from Chicago Stadium. New I Amazingly Funny! 78 SUPER THRILLERS! Kaleidoscopic, Jam-Packed Three Ring Circus of Endless Variety 150 Trained Animals.

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In the window of almost every house, the large ones that have been landmarks for years, and the smaller ones on the edge of town, are service flags, some with two, three and four stars. Three sons of Leo Collins are gone, two of them now in Ireland; George Somers has three sons in service, so has Chris Doss of Freedom township. Mrs. Stella Lust In Alma City said goodbye to four sons, and one of them died recently in northern Ireland. The N.

P. Nelsons have three sons gone as have the Henry Rohlfsens, the George Robrans and the Kopischkes. The Eich-horsts are managing the farm without the assistance of their four sons. Many families have two sons in service. Their going has created quite a problem on the 100 farms in the county.

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