The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
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O|SL0YALTY PROBE
MAYOR AND CITY ATTORNEY
QUIT, PUTTING STOP TO IN
vEsTIGATioN.
s1,5oo,ooo TO AID SCHOOLS
State High School Board Votes to Pay
1917 Appointments to Schools
and Teachers Training
Departments.

torney Albert Pfaender Of New Ulm
have filed their respective resigna.
tons with the city clerk there, fol-
lowing orders by Governor Burnquist
suspending them from office pending
an investigation on charges of dis
loyalty for having participated in an
alleged anti-draft meeting at New Ulm.
Their designations, Governor Burn.
quist said, will end the pending in
vestigation on charges of disloyalty
against those officials.
The inquiry will be conducted on
similar charge against Louis Vogel,
auditor of Brown county and ex of
ficio chairman of the local exemption
board, the Governor said, in the alb
sence Of any report of his resignation
from Office.
X X X
State Aid for Schools.
The state high school board has
voted to pay in full 1917 apportion
ments totaling nearly $1,50O,O00 in
state aid to high and graded schools
and teachers training departments.
This action, following the boards
order for payment of $1,07O,921 deficits
in high and graded school aid means,
according to C.. G. Schulz, state SUI
perintendent of education, that the
latter payments, the legality of which
is to be tested in the courts, must
be drawn from the 1918 aid appropri.
alton, which necessarily will be pro-
rated at 40 per cent or less.
X X
Named Director of chidren's Bureau.
William w. Hodson, Minneapolis.
has been appointed director of the
children's bureau, which January
will become new active agency un.
der the State Board of Control.
Mr.. Hodson will begin his duties at
once on preliminary work and an or
ganization of perhaps twelve field
agents and other assistants to admin
lister the new law.
Establishment of the state chill
dren's bureau under model statutes
exacted by the last Legislature, ac
cording to recognized authorities, is
expected to make Minnesota the fore
most state among those guarding tbs
welfare of unfortunate children.
X X X
Mayo Proposal Accepted.
Regents Of the University of Min
nesota have accepted by unanimous
vote the proposal of Drs. William J.
and Charles H. Mayo for certain
changes in the contract affiliating with
fbo ,,piyoruifx fI,o Mo,,o fo,,ndo%io,, 60,
medical education and research.
By these changes the regents come
at once into absolute possession and
control of the foundation fund, amount
ing to $1,65034479. The trial affilia.
tion period is also ended and the
headquarters of the foundation may
be moved from Rochester to the uni
versity, or any other place in the
state, after % years. ,3
X X X
Hygienists Cannot Do Dental Work.
Dental hygienists" cannot be EN-.
ployed in Minnesota schools to supple.
ment the work of regular licensed den.
lists in caring for the health of the
teeth of school children, according tc
Lyndon A. Smith, attorney general, in
his ruling given in response to an in.
quiry addressed to him by the Mime.
apolis school board
So slight an operation as the pull.
ling of baby" tooth with string
constitutes a dental operation" un.
der the laws of Minnesota, and may
be performed for pay only by reg.
ularly authorized dentist, according to
the ruling of the attorney general.
X X
New Secretary for Commission.
H. w. Libby of Winona has been
elected secretary of the State, Pub,
lie Safety Commission, following acl
ceptance of the resignation of Secre.
tary John s. Pardee, Duluth, who has
gone to Washington to take charge
of publicity and advertising in the
organization under H. c.. Hoover, ma.
tional food administrator
Health Employees on Strike.
Four employees of the state board
of health on the first strike in the
history of the board have gone to
secure more wages. Frank Cleve,
Richard Saul, Howard Long and John
Alver, all Minneapolis men, are said
to have struck for an increase over
their wage of $35 per month. They
were employed to keep the laboratory
clean. 81
Ask Temperature Rule Raise.
A petition by Minnesota railroads
asking that the minimum temperature
at which perishable freight will be
handled be changed from degrees be
low zero to 10 degrees above zero, was
the subject of hearing In the Min.
nesota Railroad and Warehouse com
mission. The railroads contend that
under the 5-degree temperature rule
they receive much frozen fruit and
vegetables and there is no way of de
tecting at delivery whether or not it is
frozen. The petition was made through
the Moorhead inspection bureau
X 4 4
To Finish Portraits Of Officials.
Carl Bohnen, st. Paul artist re-
Gently returned from Germany, at the
Capitol, arranged with Secretary OF
state Schmahl to complete the com
mission to make portraits of past sec
retaries of state. He will begin por
traits in his st. Paul studio of 10
seph Travis Rosser and Charles l.
Chase, territorial secretaries, which
will complete the collection. The pom
traits will hang in the Capitol offic,
of the secretary of state, where thos,
of others who have held ths office n
ready adorn the wallis