Princeton-area farmer O. J. Odegard is the first to utilize the labor of Axis prisoners of war when he requests 100 Italian POWs for farm work due to the acute labor shortage in Mille Lacs County. Odegard is forced to pay the average wage for farm work, $3.00 per prisoner per day, and the prisoners and forty armed guards arrive from Camp Clark, Missouri, on September 5. Provided with kitchen facilities, the prisoners prepare their own food, and, in fact, they are such skilled cooks that their guards prefer their meals over standard army fare.