The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 2

Wednesday Evening, November 29, 1939 Page Two APPLETON POST-CRESCENT PTlmatrr Advises First Class Mailing Of Christmas Cards Late Political Conventions arc More Than 1,000 Toys Received in Christmas Drive State, Already Groggy, May Have to Fight Highway Fund Diversion Critics in Court to the state treasury general fund consistently. The last three administrations in Wisconsin have found it advisable to "touch" the highway fund for sizeable amounts in order to prevent bankruptcy in the genera! fund, state records show. The Democratic Schmedeman administration did it, however, by legislative act. The LaFollette administration following Schmedeman did it, but it was not apparent until later because of the complications of state treasury bookkeeping. Not until the I -iw-so i 1 1 In 1 fj Given Support Proposals Find Faor Among Some eaders in Both Major Parties BY P.

HAROLD Ol.IVr.R Washington (I Suerestions for deferring the 19-10 political conventions and thereby shorten ins: the rar.naim found fom favor in both panic today, but Republican leaders declared they would not let President Rooscvt.t make the decision. Although not the idea at this time, the chief executive was described authoritatively at Warm Springs, Ga, yesterday as having discussed with recent visitor? the! advisability of olf both Democratic and Republican conventions until July or August. Ti.cy usually ara held in June. Economy was iiivun as the reason bv some proposing the delay. Others held that in these times of international crisis as campaign lasting from July to November would bore the Country and fet little results in the summer months.

Representative Ditter of renmyl-: vaniii chairman of the Republican copfrrewional campaign committer, asserted such reasoning was 'an et-: fort in-subordinate domestic issues. CHINESE GENERAL VISITS SON AT INDIANA U. Smilingly explaining that he flew to the United States from China to learn new war tactic, from the Army-Navy football game, General Wen Ying-Hsing (left), first Chinese graduated from the United States military academy, visited with his son, Henry L. Wen, Indiana university student, in Chicago, before going to Philadelphia for ths game. General Wen, now in charge of China's huge revenue guard, carried out a secret mission in Washington.

balance in the state treasury was less than the balance owed to the highway fund could it be shown, if only by indirection, that the state government had been using money which the legislaturs had decreed shall be used exclusively for highway maintenance, improvement, and construction, and state aids to localities for road and street purposes, More Frank This year the state administration in power has been more frank. During the legislative session and since, Republican spokesmen have discussed publicly what they described as necessary, a "diversion" of highway money from highways to pensions, relief, schools and oth- er state functions. Highway receipts are by law an- propriated quarterly to the highway commission, which in turn is directed by law to spend 'hem for specific highway purposes, at the end of the year during w-hich they are collected by the state treasury. At the present time the highway commission has technical claims upon the treasury for jZi.WMJ ouu, representing the excess of hinhway receipts over highway expenditures! in previous years. In addition the.

Post-Crescent Madison Bureau Madison Governor Hell's Republican administration, already struggling in a sea of legal troubles, may yet encounter another whjeh. could rock the state financial system to its foundations in the event of a court decision unfavorable to the administration, it was learned in various authoritative quarters. Secret meetings have been held, it has been learned, by persons affected by state highway expenditures and state highway taxes to discuss a court test of the power of the Heil administration to divert license fee and gasoline tax receipts from the highway fund which is earmarked for highway purposes to the general fund which is spent for the operation of the general state government. If the court test is decided upon, it will furnish a decision in one of the most controversial public issues in Wisconsin in many years, one in which Democra'ic, Republican and Progressive administrations have been Involved, each criticizing each other for a practice which sooner or later each found it expedient to adopt. Details Guarded Although details of the reported, discussion of a court case were closcly guarded, it was suggested that the highway construction industry, which views with alarm what it regards as a probable cessation of state highway construction work next year, among others may furnish the impetus for the court challenge.

Another source, it was held, may be the heavy motor vehicle taxpayers who have hoping for a reduction in their assessments and see little chance for it if highway revenues are diverted Pioneer Woman, 9 1, Dies at Rhinelander Rhinelander, Wis. Margaret Chafee, 94, one of the first white women in northeastern Wisconsin died in a hospital yesterday after a long illness. Her husband, hp late Charles Chafee. built the famous "Rapids House" here in the site now occupied by the post office. WHO WON THE ARGUMENT? Charlotte, N.

and Mrs. W. L. Thillips came to town and bought a new car. They started home in separate automobiles.

Wham? Bam! An accident. Phillips stepped out of one car, Mrs. Phillips out of the other. Fanners Who Plant Too Much Will Suffer Stiff Reductions Chairman John Hamilton of the appellee's plant, an ac-? RsptiMJcaft national committee, tion local in motive and local in ef- taid in.a ttntemcnt: 1 feet I Consider Late Convention rToct llpon jntorsstate com-5 "Mr. deep solicitude mcc WM mcrcW in.

about economy in political cam- cidontBl and retnote paigns is very amusing in view Jn its oriRinal suit the COmpanv his r.eord. Taxpayer. might well ask(vl a tolal of 53,5,5 372, treble the Superhighway 41 Grading Project Near Completion Lathers Construction Firm to Finish Job This Week "Mistake" Killer's Death Sentence Is Wisn ne WOUia uireti ms to federal Hamilton said the Republicans were interested in a late convention and had been studymg the idea or months, so that it was not a novel months, so proposal. "It seems to me" he added, "Pres- :j.n4 ie firrrrntini tn r.tvl state treasury has collected recent-1 AsheviUe, N. A three-ly $6,000,000 in highway taxes hour strikc tllat followea refusal by which have net vet been appropri-1 tne Carolina Power and Light com- when he undertakes to direct when 1her the company was ent, led the Republican party should hold trip dnmnces under the davits national convention Re- nnti-trust net in a federal d.s-publicans will not permit, him to or whether i must seek Ur.

vTT Vin ti chall ivipp aim where." On the Democratic side, Senator Harrison of Mississippi, a recent White House caller, said he was in "thorough accord with the idea holding the conventions off a little bit." He thought it would be pood strategy for the Democrats to defer theirs until September, leaving a little more than a month for the drive for votes. Republicans like Senator Van-denber? of Michigan, Senate Lead-der MFcNary of Oregon and House have favored holding their convention after the Democrats. Rare Airmail Stamps At State Hobby Show Milwaukee CT Four rare 1918 airmail stamps, valued by their owner at $25,000. have been sent here for display at the Wisconsin hobby exposition opening tomorrow in the Milwaukee auditorium. The stamps, owned by Mrs.

Ethel B. Stewart of New York, are so highly valued by philatelists because, through an error in printing, the illustration on each shows airplane flying upside down. ated to thf highway commission but will automatically be credited to that agency on- the date due However, the state treasury balance is only about $6,000,000, so that even if the highway commission has a legal right to $27,000,000. practically it rould not spend that amount if it decided to do so. That, argue critics of the "diversion" system, represents a loss to the highway system, and indirectly a loss to the highway taxpayers and others affected, such as highway contractors and materials dealers.

It was considered likely today that some such "aggrieved" person will start the court action if any is begun. Taxpayers in Town Of Grand Chute to Have $10 Tax Rate Mail Christmas cards with 3-cent so that they are sent first stmasler Stephen bauict; advised Christmas well wishers to- day in reminding that last year I over 5 000 Christmas greeting cards sent third class (with lj-cent stamps' were destroyed after the hohday hri ai.se they were incom- pletoiy and incorrectly addressed. I Sending a Christmas card first rlass means it may be sealed, contain writ inc. that it will be forwarded ''eiven dii eetciry service). and will be returned to the sender provided delivery eannot be made: and the sender's address is on the onvfin Sending a Christmas card I to a local destination by first class Service requires a 2-cent ft amp i and to an outside destination a 3- cent slamp.

lie said. Tliiid class cards, which are mailed with a lj-cent stamp, cannot be sealed, they will not be forwarded, must not contain writing and will not returned but are destroyed if delivery cannot bo made, he explained. Those rards also are hand'ed as circular mail, after first class mail is handled, he added. Court Shelves Damage Verdict 0 CONTINUED FROM FAGE 1 Aam0. it rrmtenHed the strikers caused.

Such multiple damages are allowed in convictions under the Sherman 1Mrust The court company'8 damage claims before the ease was submitted to the jury. The court explained today that the crux of the problem was i'i" luuui in i'ini sylvania. The union, it was held, was "not guilty of engaging in a combination or conspracy to restrain corn- CIO Unions Inject Vole Reprisal Into Madison Problem Madison 1V-Threat of election day voting reprisals from members of CIO unions were injected today In the highly partisan discussions of Madison's proposed $1,000,000,000 low rent housing program. The CIO council notified Mayor James R. Law it would oppose his re-election next spring because he had "proved beyond doubt" he was opposed to the Federal Housing Authority's offer to contribute toward the project.

It also declared that CIO members would oppose re-election of the aldermen who last week rejected the offer by a margin of 16 to 1, unless they reconsidered. A motion to revive the proposal was believed likely when the council meets Dec. 8. munication to Moscow. So did other nations.

Finland lias at least the moral support of her Scandinavian neighbors. The Balkans have been look-in? with sympathy on the difficulties of Finland another small country like themselves and they too fear extension of Russian influence over their peninsula. Indeed, it gives, to wonder whether Finland hasn't private assurances of something more than moral support in event of invasion. Certainly it is showing a mighty lot of confidence for, a little country to stand up to Russia the way it is. Delicate Situation In' any event the situation is full of dynamite.

An invasion might mean that Russia would be drawn into the European war, and that's about the last thing the Muscovites would want. Observers generally believe communist leader Stalin desires to remain neutral so the soviet can gain through the weakness of the belligerents. Even if a border war didn't eventuate immediately, an invasion of Finland would raise an issue which surely would have to be settled later. It would be a challenge to both France and England, and to every little country in Europe. It would accelerate the formation of a Balkan bloc to resist the advances of both Russia and Germanv.

It would cross Italy the wrong way, since Mussolini is anti-communist and apparently is trying to affiliate his country with the projected Balkan bloc. On the whole there isn't a single ihing to recommend military action by Russia, and plenty to indicate that it would be a most unwise move. Since Stalin hasn't shown himself prone to mafie unwise moves, one mieht expect that Russia would solve the present difficulty without resort to arms, although using the big stick on Finland to force acceptance of soviet terms. It remains to be seen whether Moscow has gone so far that it feels it can't back out without loss of face. Obviously the position is tense.

popping Daps Ziil (Cf)ristmas Census-Takers to Seek Data On Many Personal Questions BY XV. B. RAGSDALE I How are they lighted and heated? Washington l.T) The questions i How many radios and meehani-to be asked in the 1940 census, soon cal refrigerators do they have? to be shown to the public in a i What kind of rents arc paid? personal sort of way, will pry into What is the mortgage status? corners of American life that have i All these are topics on which the never been fully explored. New Deal economists have been In addition to the time-worn job seeking light for the last four or of finding out how many persons five years. Many of the administrate in the United States, and Ion's social endeavors have been where so that each state will aimed at the improvement of con-know how many members of con- ditions whose existence had been gress it is entitled to the census detected by partial surveys.

Project Rein? Carried On in Basement of Public Library Response to the solicitation by the Appleton Y.M.C.A. for used toys to be repaired and distributed among the city's needy children the day before Christmas has been 'very good," C. Bailey, boys director, said today. Bailey reported that more than toys were received in the drive last Saturday in which children bringing toys to the Sears Roebuck and Company store received theater tickets in exchange. Ma nclrpH npnnlff u-hn VinvA mrrp used toys to donate to call the YJVI.

u.a. xne wouia appreciare the donor's bringing contributions to the building, but will call at homes if this cannot be done. The toys are taken to the basement of the public library where several groups are doing the repairing and redecorating. County WPA reecreation leaders, under the direction of Mrs. Hazel F.

Bannister, and members of Hi-Y clubs are busy on the project. Members of the auxiliary of the Harvey Pierre post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, and of the Appleton Woman's club are dressing dolls. Bailey reported this morning that Women of the Moose have taken the responsibility of gathering together gifts for girls over 10 years of age, one of the most outstanding needs of the project. After the toys are ready, they are placed in baskets and boxes which are addressed to the various homes.

The deliveries are made the dav before Christmas. Asheville, N. in Darkness Three Hours pany to accede to union demands for a closed shop plunged this resort city of 55,000 into almost total darkness late last night. But at 2:30 a. today, C.

S. Walters, the company's vice president, announced that the' workers who walked out, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, had asked and been granted permission to return immediately to their posts. A conference of union spokesmen and officers of the power company was arranged for later in the day. Frpes Consolidation Of I. S.

Railroads Sheboygan Consolidation of railroads wherever feasible wa. urged by Judge Charles, M. Thomson of Chicago, trustee of the North Western road, in an address to the Sheboygan traffic club last night. He declared the nation was "over-railroaded" and added that one-third of the roads were "in the hands of the receivers or in process of reorganization under federal statute." President Roosevelt Ends His Vacation Warm SprinRs, Ga. (TV President Roosevelt ended a week's vacation today and left by special train for Asheville.

N. to visit one of his secretaries, Marvin H. Mclntyre, who has been convalescing from a long illness. Successful Parties From GORDON'S SPECIAL Orange Sherbet Extra fine and smooth, made the Gordon way. I Special.

Gallon Order early and we'll deliver In time for your Thanksgiving dinner. PARTY PACKS -g Any Flavor (icecream) I 25 (lira; Not Iced $1.00 PHONE 944 We Deliver up to 11 p.m. PLANT on N. Richmond at New 41 Include this Dessert VkV Analysis Shows Stalin Would Have Little to Gain, Much to Lose by Invasion of Finland Washington i.V) Farmers who plant more of the major crops in 1940 than the production goals set by the agriculture department will be subject to stiff deductions from government cash subsidies. Each farmer will receive planting allotments, but he will be free to comply with or ignore them.

However, only those who plant within their allotments will be eligible to share in the $725,000,000 authorized for farm subsidies. A cotton farmer will be eligible for soil conservation benefit payments at the rate of 1.6 cents a pound on the amount of cotton he normally produces on his cotton acreage allotment. For example, a farmer with an allotment of 10 acres and a normal production of 200 pounds an acre would receive payment on 2,000 pounds of cotton, or $2 if he planted no more than 10 acres. However, if he planted 13 acres, he would be subject to a penalty of 4 cents a pound on the normal production of the excess three acres, or $24. Thus his benefit payment would be but $8.

Excess plantings of four or more acres would make him in eligible for payments. In the case of corn, the soil-conservation rate will be 10 cents a bushel on the normal production of the individual farmer's acreage allotment. The penalty for overplant-ing will be 50 cents a bushel. A corn farmer with an allotment of 100 acres and a normal yield of 30 bushels an acre would be eligible for $300 in benefits. If he seeded 110 acres, his penalty would be $150, thereby reducing his subsidy by half.

Claim Dixie Davis Is Patient in Hospital Albuquerque, N. M. wan taciturn patient in an Albuquerque hospital was identified today as J. Richard "Dixie" Davis, ebullient one-time "kid mouthpiece" of Broadway. He is suffering from a serious intestinal ailment.

With him was his red-haired wife who signed the hospital register as Rose Buxton the maiden name of lovely Hope Dare, New York show girl who married Davis after his release this fall from prison. Davis, attorney for the slain Dutch Schultz, New York gangster, served a six-months sentence after turning state's witness in Thomas E. Dewey's smashing of the policy racket in New York City. He was freed in September. The patient was registered as Robert Buxton, a "rancher" of Garfield, and would neither admit nor deny he was Davis.

Shirley Temple Is Enrolled in School Hollywood To gain the asso ciation of girls of her own age, 10- year-old screen star Shirley Temple has enrolled in the seventh grade of a private school. Shirley's education heretofore has been through private tutors in her Santa Monica home and on movie lots between scenes. Her mother, Mrs. George Temple, felt it was time for her daughter to widen her personal friendships. Gets 10 Days for Reing Drunk and Disorderly Waupaca Tim Bremen, recently discharged from membership in the Wisconsin Veterans' Home, was arrested late Monday evening by Patrolman Harold Holly for being drunk and disorderly.

Arraigned before Justice S. W. Johnson Tuesday morning he pleaded guilty to the charge and was lodged in the county jail for 10 days. Reelect Minnesota Man as FCA Director Washington UV-F. F.

Hill, governor of the farm credit administration, announced today that Sam A. Rask, of Blooming Prairie, has been reelected by loan associations of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and North Dakota to a three-year term as an FCA director, beginning Jan. 1, 1940. The Grand Chute town board ef-i He also planned to see Miss Mar-fected economies in its 1940 budget Rarct Durand. another White House and taking advantage of the cut in employe, at Asheville.

Grading of the final Superhighway 41 link in Outagamie county is expected to be completed this week, according to W. Chapman, state supervising engineer. The $138,000 grading project was started early this summer by the Lathers Con struction company, Madison. The grading work included the filling for approaches for the two large concrete overheads built about a year ago by the Bloomer Con struction company and Allied Con struction company. The filling work has been completed and the large crew which at one time included more than 80 men has been cut to about 25.

Equipment is being moved from the job. Grading work was started near the northeast end of the link at Highway 47 where the superhighway at present is temporarily rerouted through the wes; end of Appleton. Final blading and leveling off of the topping on the southwest end of the link near Highway 10 is being completed this week. Seeding of the banks also is being completed. The of fill for the job included 250,000 yards of common borrow, 110,000 yards of rand topping and 65,000 yards of common excavation.

Some of the fill was obtained from pits near the route and these pits are being trimmed off and being cleaned up this week. A total of 181 trees has been planted along the route. These trees are ash, oak and hard maple. Approve Extension of Rural Electric Line In Dupont Township Madison The public service commission authorized the Wisconsin Gas and Electric company today to construct a $25,800 electric transmission line from West Bend to Ke-waskum to improve service in Fond du Lac and Washington counties. The line will connect parts of the company's system.

No customers will be served directly from it. It will involve costs of $20,000 for line material, $800 for right of way, and $5,000 for substantion facilities at West Bend. Rural electric line extensions authorized include: Wisconsin Power and Light company, lj miles in Rudolph town. Wood county; mile in Dupont town, Waupaca county; mile in Sun Prairie town, Dane county. The commission said it would investigate complaints against rates and rules of Shawano municipal water utility at a hearing here Dec.

7. Customers charged amounts paid for main extensions were discriminatory. Remodeling of Houses Will be Considered The city plans commission will meet at 11 o'clock Friday mrning in the office of Mayor Goodland to consider the application of Mrs. Clara Siekman who wants to remodel a large house on the southwest corner of Johnson and Durkee street to house four families. A city ordinance restricts apartment houses to two apartments except by special permission of the city.

FORMER ASSEMBLYMAN DIES IMatteville vIV- Harry Stephens, 82, retired storekeeper and former state assemblyman, died yesterday after an illness of three years. He also was a co-partner in the Blockhouse Mining company. NOVEMBER ROOFING SPE-CIAL SALE AT LIEBER'S, Ap-pleton, Phone 109. Necnoh, Phone 3600. Phone 3600.

Commuted to Life Sacramento (IV-Life imprisonment, instead of death on SanQuen-tin's gallows is Allan D. Boggs' penally for the "mistake shooting" of his wife. Governor Culbert Olson, who had reprieved Boggs three times, commuted the Dec. 15 death-sentence to a life term. "The commutation was granted," said the governor's executive secretary, M.

Stanley Mosk, "because of the background of the condemned man which pointed towards insanity and his habitual drunkenness." Boggs, 56, former Detroit, businessman, testified he shot and killed his wife, Sally, 37, when he mistook her 12-year-old son for "another man" in her bedroom at Santa Cruz April 17, 1937. Chrysler Dispute Ended; 150,000 to Return to Plants CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 fight broke out at the gates to the Dodge plant last Friday. Several persons, including two Detroit policemen, were injured. GOVERNOR'S COMMENT Lansing, Mich. (.1 Governor Luren D.

Dickinson of Michigan said today the protracted Chrysler labor dispute carried with it two lessons that "everybody loses" in such a stoppage and that the state should have authority to prevent such a halt in production. "There is no sense in a union making demands for twice as much as they expect to get." the governor said, "and for employers refusing to do anything about it at all. I am not saying that was the situation in this strike, but common-sense tells us some way must be found to prevent a situation where everybody loses." The governor commented that "industry loses two months production, workmen lost two months wages and probably lose a lot of public support. Every business in Detroit loses, and the city itself loses in property values and in prestige as an industrial center These differences should be settled without plants being closed down and men thrown out of work." Killoren Has Second Low Rid on REA Job Madison CTV-E. W.

Wylie, of St. Paul, submitted the low bid of $104,900.79 for construction of a 1J9 mile extension of Waupaca REA cooperative lines, the Wisconsin De velopment Authority announced today. Seven bids were opened at Iola yesterday. Second low bidder was Killoren Electric company, of Appleton, with $105,853.32. John A.

Becker, general manager of WDA, which is consulting engineer for the project, said the Waupaca co-op had 149 miles of line, and the extension would make electricity available to about 500 farms in the area of Tigerton and Wittenberg. State Capitol Will be Closed 2 Hours Earlier Madison Friday night and thereafter doors of the state capitol will be closed at 8 p. two hours earlier than usual, state engineer Charles Halbert announced today. "The change may effect small savings in light bills and the like," he said, "but the real purpose is to prevent petty vandalism by loiterersto protect the building and its contents." Halbert said one door would be left open for employes who work late. Dome lighting, he added will not be changed.

will ask a group of questions whose answers will be pieced into a mosaic of social conditions. A few of the new topics are: Whether homes are owned or rented and their value. School attendance and the highest grade completed. The citizenship of foreign-born residents. Changes of residence in the last five years.

Whether persons have jobs, are seeking jobs, and if not, why not; if they are looking for jobs, how long have they been out or work-, if they have jobs, what are they working at. Their salaries, wages or income, and the source. Other Questions What persons have social security accounts and the proportion of their wages or salary subject to tax. Besides this material, which will furnish the meat for economists to feed' upon for a decade, a separate list of questions is being prepared for a housing census. These, too, are virtually in final form, but no money has yet been provided for the survey.

This study, if made, will provide a complete picture of living conditions, asking such questions as: Where and what kind of houses do Americans live in? When were they built and are repairs needed. What kind of water supply, toilets and bathing facilities do they have? rOOOOOOOOOOOOG00300000C1 DANCING THANKSGIVING NIGHT MUSIC by WILLARD PETE AL'S TAVERN 1705 N. Richmond St rnnntv rnxts rerfurert the town tax rate lo $1o for 1940. a drop of $2, at a meeting Monday, according to Wayne Rowan, town clerk, xhe $10 $1 ot valuation is lcsg town costs which are charged to the various school dis- tricts in proportion to the cost of their schools. Rowan said the drop in county expenditures for 1910 represents! $1.15 of the cut in the town rate while the remaining slash of 85 cents was effected through general savings in town accounts.

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MILWAUKEE SOLVAY COKE Clean Economical Order Now LIEBER'S Neenah rhone 3600 Appleton Phone 109 of Nites by DEwrrr Mackenzie New York Russia's territorial and political expansion in eastern Europe since the beginning of the war has been brought to the danger point by the Soviet-Finnish clash over the Muscovites' demands on their tiny neighbor. Should Russia invade Finland there would be created in princf-ple a situation very similar to that which precipitated the Hitlerian war. That is to say, another small country would be called upon to defend its sovereignty. True, so far as we know, Finland has no defensive alliances with other states, as had Poland with the allies. However, the Finns have heavy moral backing the world over, and after all's said and done the present war is broader than the Tolish issue.

Allies Involved I The Anglo-French allies have an- nounced that they are out to ensure lasting peace by "ending abuses of force." It would be difficult in the long run to disassociate the 1 situation of Finland from this broad program, if that wee courrtry should be invaded. i Whatever may be the rights or wrongs of the Russo-Finnish argu- i rnent over the border incidents, the world is bound to maintain that it is absurd to suggest that a pin-head-size country like Finland would challenge the might of Russia to mortal combat By that same tok-1 en, rightly or wrongly, the onus of any invasion ef Finland would be placed on the soviet. Russia's annexation of eastern Po- land at the time of Hitler's conquest was held by England to be "clear- ly necessary for thy safety of Russia" The Soviet action in making the three smal Baltic states Esto- r.i.-, Latvia and Lithuania virtual I lrotectorates, wasn't criticized by I the allies, presumably because the BaMic trio acquiesced in the opera- tion, willingly otherwise. Finns Are Prepared The position of Finland, however. falls in another category.

The Finns are prepared to go to war to resist the Russian territorial demands. They have built up their cbs carefully and appear confident that they have something they could lubmit with assurance to world pinion. England has notified Russia that it hopes the dispute will be settled President Roosevelt i tomctime ago sent a similar com PI- LOU fiLLWiO' I Good Old Fashion 3 I mkA nnA I i CLUB 41 OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN THANKSGIVING PARTY NOV. 30th, 1939 feoturing BOB ANDERSON and his Entertaining Bar Novelties FLOOR SHOW Community Singir DELICIOUS FOOD WOMEN COOKS JERRY'S I All i THANKSGIVING DAY 1 THE OLD BRICK I TAVERN lift Walnut St. 3 I KNAPSTEIN BEER RED BAND STEINIES FOR LOVERS OF FINE BEER Tel.

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