Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 9

Wednesday, December 16, 1942 PAGE 9 Stoimajwlfe loromj tribune ONLY 6 FACE NATURAL GAS POLIO LEADER WILL OBSERVE Last Volunteers Sworn by Four A rmed Services rrrr-" 1 I PROSECUTION 111 BLACKOUT Murphy Plans Using Burgum's Gun to Bag City Auditorium 'Wolf City Council Rivals Disagree on Schemes for Maintaining Building Alderman Walter Murphy, liberal, was all set Tuesday night to Service Club War Activity Given? 'raise Service clubs, burying their ri. valries in co-operation, are not attempting to prove wars are won on the home front but are proving they cannot be won without the home front. An outline of what 2,000 Kiwanii clubs in the United States and KENNY CLINIC POOL SOUGHT ii WPB Would Relieve Shortages Northern Natural Gas FOR MIDWEST Burgum, conservative, has been loose with it against Minneapolisj which serves are doing to keep up mo through Minneapolis Bnd Publ'" welfare at home, Light and seven other'1 finishing men to th 'armed forces, was given Minne natural pipi'iine iuiii- ponies were asked Tuesday by war production board to pool their resources to relieve shortages of jras in the mid west. vorably at a Washington meeting of some 70 representatives of pipe line and distributing companies, said W. A.

Lyons, chief of supply -Minn Ja LT. COMM. CY OLSOX, ERVIX ERKKSON Last navy "volunteer" sworn in-new gob lives at 1M Portland avenue nished 4,000,000 books for men in s'on' jthe service, had planted 18,300 Vic- TO BE CONSIDERED tory gardens, had furnished 7,000 The plan, which will be consid-' pints of blood to the Red Cross, ered by a joint committee of the and had sent 7,500 men to the industry at Kansas City Friday, service, provides that gas resources of theL Dr. Gudakunst Will Attend Lectures Sister Elizabeth Kenny's long fight for recognition of her infantile paralysis treat ment approached a triumph ant climax this week with: Dr. D.

W. Gudakunst, medical director of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, New York, coming here to observe her work. Public officials and medical and civic leaders preparing to pay public tribute to her at dedication of the new Elizabeth Kenny institute, 1800 Chicago avenue, Thursday, and RKOPathe News sending a camera crew here to film the dedication proceedings for inclusion in a motion picture to be based on the life of the one-time A st a 1 i a bush nurse. Visit of Dr. Gudakunst, who is here to attend instructional lec tures and see special demonstrations of the Kenny treatment, cements the relationship between Kenny institute and the national foundation, which Dr.

Gudakunst said became interested in Miss Kenny's methods two years ago. Dedication of the institute will be at p.m., Thursday, followed by testimonial dinner at Nicollet hotel at 6:30 p.m. The public is Invited to both events, and Mayor Marvin L. Kline said he hoped attendance would be large, to demonstrate the city's appreciation for Sister Kenny's work. Tickets for the dinner can be obtained from Minneapolis Junior Association of Commerce, Minneapolis Civic Commerce offices or Downtown Ticket office.

ALDERMEN TALK OF GAS RATE CUT Caucus Fails to Map Plan for Revision liberals caucused Tuesday to discuss city gas rates, but wound up without mapping any course of action on proposed revisions. Under recent action of the city council, City Attorney Richard S. Wlggin and Nathan Harris, research engineer, were authorized to apply to the Federal Power Commission for gas rate adjustments, looking toward savings to consumers. After studying possibility of rescinding this action, the liberals agreed it should stand for the present, and negotiations should remain in the hands of Wiggin and Harris. Alderman A.

B. Fruen, chairman of the public utilities committee of the council, said his group would meet Wednesday to consider the negotiations. i i ii It 231 CARL KELLERSOX, ENSIGN DAVID J. BRECHT Great Lakes sailor from Ensign, gets "under the wire" to join merchant marine grab the gun that Alderman Harry loading the last few days, and cut This Man Says: GEORGE ARCHIBALD 3016 Sfrond atrniir S. Bowling and park board baseball srorekecper We'll beat Hitler, but lt will be a long, hard process.

He fights like a cornered rat and it's likely to be just as hard to dig him out. I think, though, the German people ate going to desert Hitler just like they deserted the Kaiser last time. In the last war, when the A leans got to the Rhine, the Germans walked out. They didn't want war when it was fought on their own Geo. Archibald land.

The people in Germany who know what it's all about are probably betting with each other as to how soon it's going to be over. They know what the United States can do. Yes, I think the end will be pretty close at hand for Hitler by this time next ear. Stop Signs WillFlourish Little Longer Stop signs will continue to flourish, and traffic semaphores will cast their cheery red glow unabated through the holiday season, regardless of gasoline rationing. That was the Word Tuesday night from officials studying a proposal to eliminate signs and signals wherever possible as a gasoline conservation measure.

What will be done after the holidays was still uncertain. The police department has undertaken to remove signs whenever possible, but the question of when is it safe to swap a slow sign for a full stoper Is too Involved for quirk decision, To get the answer, police will wait until motorists have finished their holiday driving and used up the tanks full of fuel with which they entered the rationing period, Then, they hope, they'll be able to judge what the "normal" flow of traffic will be, and where signs can be eliminated safely. men's reading taste is rather ex- pensive, the books retailing at $.150. 1 auditorium. The shooting whoever does it will come at a joint meeting of the Jways and means, and public grounds and buildings committees the city council at 9:30 a.m.

jWednesday. THREE OPTIONS When it's over, the committees will have to decide whether to: Blackout the auditorium as a war casualty, keeping only a skeleton crew to tend the fires so the building can be when necessary (Burgum's proposal); Shut the place up, but keep all employes on the city payroll in some other capacity so they will be available when needed (Murphy's plan); Find enough money some place to keep the auditorium operating as it has been, and hope for more business. The auditorium's treasury at present contains $15, and City Comptroller O. J. Turner has said he will not honor any more bills.

Burgum has been loading his big gun ever since last Friday, when he moved that the council close the auditorium for the duration. Tuesday, however, Murphy, chairman of the committee which directs operation of the auditorium served notice he is going to try to beat Burgum to the draw with Burgum's gun. PLANS DI AL DUTIES Outlining his plan, he said that "by adopting my program, we will relieve the financial stringency and at the same time retain all 11 auditorium employes on the city payroll. "There have Been many city employes who have left their jobs to go into military service, and undoubtedly there are places where these auditorium people can be used to advantage. "George Adams, the auditorium manager, for example, is an architectural engineer, and should be of value in the city engineer's office," Murphy's Idea is that Adams would work for city engineer until a customer for' the auditorium comes along, at which time Adams would resume his job as auditorium manager as long as the place is in use, Then he would go back to the engineer's office again.

The same would hold true for other employes. ADAMS HAS AX IDEA Adams, meanwhile, had his own suggestion to lay off two em ployes as a means of curtailing overhead. William Donnelly, business agent of the stage employes' union, objected to that one, on grounds the workers are entitled to two weeks' notice. Murphy said he understood from Adams the Auditorium had 14 attractions booked for January, But in the meantime, the wolf is howling on the doorstep, and the door, when rattled, produces an empty, hollow sound, like a gasoline service station. CHICAGO RABBI TALKS TONIGHT Rabbi Jacob J.

Weinstein, rabbi of K. A. M. temple, Chicago, will second speaker in the Adath jjeshurun lecture series Wednesday 8:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the synagogue, Thirty -fourth street land Dupont avenue S. His subject will be "Shall We Say Farewell to the Melting Pot?" Tickets for the lecture will be available at the door.

apolis Kiwanians at a fellowship dinner at Nicollet hotel Tuesday "ni Dy u- uie, person or (Chicago, secretary of Kiwanis In. temational. CREDITS LI BS wnpn 'he new renaissance 'When the comes af, the war organization! of fellowship likfl Kwani Ro optimist and others will have much cm)it coming Peterson said PelerSOn He praised the work of Minneapolis Kiwanis club, especially that in behalf of the underprivi. leged children. "With more women going Into war work, Kiwanis clubs have a new opportunity to lend their ef.

forts toward helping care for chil. dren in these families occupied with war production," Peterson advised. Roy A. Lathrop is president Minneapolis Kiwanis club. CREDIT RATING New Volume Ready for Distribution Distribution of the new "Yellow Book," annual Minneapolis credit guide used by stores, other business establishments and professional men as a record of paying habits of customers, will be started Wednesday.

The book supplies the onlv com. plete confidential Information to business concerns as to advisability of extending additional credit or opening new accounts. The new issue contains 1,622 pages, 80 more than last year's, and contains more than 750,000 ratings on Minneapolis store cus. tomers residing in the city and 136 other towns with a 25-mile radius. Persons whose credit ratings are listed have no oppor.

tunity to examine the book, sine its Information is confidential for use only of those who grant credit. The new book shows credit ratings of Minneapolis people average high, with slow pay cus tomers fewer, proportionately, than in most other cities. WALKERS TO DANCE Members of Minneapolis Municipal Hiking club will halt their Iwalking long enough to have a Christmas dance in Columbia Manor Wednesday night. HIM A ''I 1 BOOK OUT TODAY 11 :7 f-r i 1 1 i pluses in one area can be made available to some other section. WFB spokesmen contended the arrangement is necessary to asMire sufficient furl for steady war production.

WPB said the plan, a directive which requires approval of the eight companies to become operative, had been worked out with cooperation of other governmental fuel agencies, including office of solid fuels and petroleum administration for war, with approval of army and navy officials. ADJUSTMENTS PLANNED Joseph Swidler, counsel for WPB power division, said gas companies, when threatened with shortages of supplies, should first cut off consumer companies which can use coal, while refineries that have been using gas In their plants and shipping oil should now use oil. FOR LOST CROPS Washed-Out Farmers Get More Aid The-' slate executive-roundl; at a meeting in Gov. Harold E. Stas-sen's office late Tuesday appropriated an additional $10,000 for relief of certain farmers in Traverse, Wilkin and Grant counties who suffered crop losses In last spring's floods.

This brought to $21,000 the total appropriated for this purpose. It was brought out at the meeting that some farmers had planted fields three times and had been washed out each time. The council alo approved cancellation of several hundred unpaid income tax balances dating I hark to 103.1 and totaling S6.579.81. Amounts varied from 1 cent to around $15. In most cases, the council was told, Investigation showed the taxpayers had died and had left no estates.

0 GIVE MO.000 Alert Effectiveness Is Praised Complaints against six Minneapolis persons accused of failure to comply with blackout regulations were signed late Tuesday as authorities prepared to prosecute a comparatively small group of violators. Warrants will be issued Wednesday. Sixty complaints were signed after the last blackout, from which 22 prosecutions resulted. The small number now involved, said Ed Ryan of the police internal security department, emphasized the almost complete success of Monday night's arrangements. SPEEDY TRIAL In rural Hennepin county, one Incident resulted in arrest and quick trial of Roy Arkley, 5344 Humboldt avenue S.

Charged by an air raid warden with failing to stop his automobile and extinguish the lights while driving through Richfield, he was fined $50 by Justice Thomas L. Bergin. Myron Johnson, 26.34 Bryant avenue a passenger, was fined $5 on a charge of drunkenness. In St. Paul, Mrs.

Alvina O'Connor, 21, 586 St. Peter street, who failed to turn off a light when warned by a warden, was fined $25. 'A Minneapolis man, Ralph C. Gigenschau, 4919 Thirty-fourth avenue charged with driving his car without lights during the blackout in St. Paul, failed to appear In municipal court there Tuesday.

His bail of $25 was ordered forfeited. INVESTIGATING 2 CASES Cases of William Confer, proprietor of Jackson bar, 408 Wabasha street, St. Paul, where back bar lights were said to show through a blackout curtain, and of Deborah Allen, 304 E. Seventh street; St. Paul, said to have hit a warden and to have accused him of "snooping," were under investigation.

Meanwhile, plans were being completed for an unannounced blackout covering the nine-state area of Monday night's blackout. Preparations will include a more certain coverage of "blind" spots where air raid warning signals could not be clearly heard. 3 Minnesota Soldiers Are Jap Captives A War department Tuesday night named five northwest men, including three Minnesotans, In a list of 197 soldiers held prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippine islands. Capture of all had previously been revealed to their next of kin. At the same time, Mrs.

Carrie Bianchi, New Ulm, received word from the war department that her son, Capt. Willibald C. Bianchi, 27, congressional medal of honor winner for heroism on Bataan, is a prisoner of the Japanese. Bianchi was wounded three times when he voluntered to help wipe out enemy machine gun nests. Among the 197 on the war department list was Maj.

Thomas J. H. (Trap) Trapnell, former West Point football hero, who was awarded the distinguished service cross for bravery in destroying a bridge in the face of enemy fire last January. Men in this area on Tuesday night's list were: Lt. Robert P.

Aikman, whose wife lives at Remer, Minn. Ma.i. Roy E. McElfish, whose wife lives at Eveleth. Lt.

Col. Ernest B. Miller, commander of a Brainerd tank detach-'ment. Maj. Arthur George Christensen, son of P.

W. ChristenSen, Fargo, N. D. Maj. H.

K. Johnson, son of Mrs. H. C. Johnson, Grafton, N.

D. TAVERN MAN HELD IN RAID After Donald Griffis, 35, Bush Lake, brought into justice court for drunken driving, testified Tuesday he bought liquor In a beer tavern at Sixty-fourth street and Nicollet avenue, George Donalds, county tavern inspector, and Richfield police raided the place. They arrested Al Jensen, the proprietor. He will appear In justice court Wednesday. Don-aids said they found part of bottle of liquor.

Griffis rheanwhile was given 90 days, stayed to Dec. 29. CLEARANCE FIXE OIL PALVriXfiS Also Gift Pictures Si QP Values to ft. Now I0? PICTURES ASD FRAMING ZESKALGITS store 39 Sooth Blh Street HTiminTii i BERN ARD L. JOYCE, JOHN A.

LELWICA, LT. COMM. G. R. Mar DONALD Sf.

Thomas and St. Mary's freshmen take naval aviation oath just before midnight deadline St in here for war service midnight deadline for hours 8 to A Practical Gift for Him A bolt of 100 Wool fabric to ba made into custom tailored luit or coat of Kit choie of ttyl after Chriitmai. '45 Others $50 up TAILORING COMPANY 131 South Seventh U. S. Fighters of Today Show Highbrow Tastes Intellectually, the American fighting man of today apparently has come a long way from the 1917 variety who kept up his reading with a copy of LaVie Parisienne and his music by joining in "Hinky, Dinky, Parley Vous." A Minneapolis man discovered termeyer's 'Collection of Poems' that Tuesday when he went to a and the "Rubiyat of Omar Khay-book store to purchase what his yam, the manager of this and soldier-nephew requested fori other book stores reported.

Christmas not a pipe and tobacco: Incidentally, thp new 1' -T--im MALCOLM ROBERTSON, MAJ. W. L. HARDING Roosecvclt high boy living at Thirty-fifth avenue 8., is final "volunteer" sworn into marine corps A Hubert Wiife specialty Is line Linen Handkerchiefs Four "last men" were sworn Tuesday night, just before the Ta (I but a copy of "Viking Book of: roetry." In the bonk sertinn nf a loop store the man purchased the last ropy on the shelves. "We ran hardly keep up with the demand from service men for high class literature, especially the 'Viking Book of Louis Un- He'll Weor It If It Comet From Malmttedt'i Sweaters fspecio'y th'u ytar a swearer ii wecome gift.

Gie him lut- utiouslf sof 1 1 .50 coiAmere 10 OMer $eofers, J5.00 fo I2.59 SPECIAL G'Wi or men in service Itdm'tv NeciVeor lilt linttt Shirtt end Poomoi Importtd Hon Initialed or plain exquisite weaves made expressly for us by noted craftsmen of Ireland the finest to be had. Big, masculine throughout from weight of linen to breadth of hem, Hubert White handkerchiefs are doubly welcome. Initialed Handkerchiefs 65c fo $7.15 Plain Linens 55c and Upward TAe turnout rich brown Hubtrt Whift Gilt Sonet for th final touch completing enlistments begun before the President's order of Dec. 5 banned volunteer enlistments. Each was the last to be accepted by his branch of the service here.

One "first man" was Ensign David J. Brecht, shown administering the merchant marine oath to Carl Kellerson. Ensign Brecht was the first recruit to be sworn into the maritime service here after Pearl Harbor. IVEY'S CHOCOLATES 70o to per pound DINNERS LUNCHES SODAS FRENCH PASTRY IVEY'S NlMlItt at 10th AT. 4237 ITU LOOK AS WELL A YEAR FROM NOW Qlt is approved by the American Institute of Laundering, will come through countless washings.

0 Iu collar is cut to keep that fmart shape it'll always look as well as the day you buy it. It's styled so far ahead that you know it's right, even long months after you acquire it. WHITES OR PATTERNS T. ROBERGS IN RADISSON HOTEL IN ST. PAUL FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING Corntr Marcjuettt at Sixth.