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Evening star., 1939-12-13

phone conversations, nor do know
what special motives Mr.. Witt had
in making record of that par
ticular telephone conversation" Mr..
Dubinsky said in a statement. I'm
this instance, I wish to state that
his account is badly garbled
and entirely misleading"
Mr.. Dubinsky said his telephone
talk with Mr.. Witt came after the
board, in an Alpena, Mich, case de-
cided against his union, which, Mr..
Dubinsky added, had been chosen
as the exclusive bargaining agency.
He continued:
TN my conversation with Mr.. Witt
I expressed deep annoyance with
that decision and stated that it was
grossly unfair to have us spend
money for legal fees and other ex-
penses and the time of our Or
ganizers in the collection of sigma
lures only to have the new system
introduced by DR.. Leiserson CDR.
William M. Leiserson, board men,
ber) become retroactive in disregard
of our bona fide case and all our
work and money"
He said he then asked Mr.. Witt:
"Is this what we had to spend money
for?"
He also said that despite the ad-
verse decision I'VE still believe that
Mr.. Leiserson is a valuable member
of the board" and asserted he had
never stated to anybody that we
ever objected" to Mr.. Leiserson s
appointment.
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Labor Board
Continued From First Page.)

described as the boards "partiality"
to the G. I. o.
William w. Leiserson, N. L. R. B.
member, yesterday was questioned
by the committee. He spent most
of his time identifying memoranda
he had written to the other men,
berS of the board-J. Warren Mad
den, chairman, and Edwin S. Smith
complaining about cases he
thought had been delayed and criti-
cizing Secretary Witt.
Throughout the first two days of
the hearing Mr.. Leiserson-youngest
board members from the point of
service-had been pictured in his
own memoranda as a critic and a
dissenter. But just before he was
excused from the witness stand, he
made an impromptu statement to
explain his position.
II go ahead and think what I
think" he declared. But I know a
lot of people who think I'm damned
wrong"
Mr.. Leiserson also emphasized he
was proud of his individuality in
connection with his actions as a
member of the board.
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Red War Casualties
Flow Into Leningrad
In Steady Stream
Churches Are Converted
Into Hospitals to Care
For Numerous Wounded
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 13.-Churches in
Leningrad were converted into mill
tary hospitals today as steady
stream of Red Army casualties from
the Finnish fronts overtaxed the
city's regular hospital facilities.
While Tass, Soviet official news
agency, distributed without COM
ment Russia's rejection of the
League of Nations mediation offer
in the Finnish dispute, newspapers
gave glowing reports that Firms vel
coined their Russian "liberators" in
the army occupied sections.
Workers in the United States,
Britain and Sweden, the newspa-
pers said, welcomed the new Com
munist-headed Finnish peoples
government" set up at the border
village of Terijoki.
Red Star, organ Of the army,
said that workers of the United
States, as elsewhere throughout the
world, looked to the Soviet Union
for leadership.
On the diplomatic front, specu-
lation was aroused by the arrival
of DR.. Joseph Tiso, president Of
Slovakia, on an undisclosed mis-
sion.
A Red Army communique report
ed yesterday that troops occupied
two Finnish villages and the rail-
road station Of a third. The adj
vance was reported TO have reached
Markajarvi, 7 miles southwest Of
Salla and As miles within the from
tier in central Finland.
The Army announced the occH-
patton of Huntilla (Huunnukka) =,
about 80 miles from the Soviet bor-
der on the north bank of Lake
Ladoga,
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Dubinsky Says Witt
GorbIed Telephone Talk

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 R.-David
Dubinsky, labor union leader, pro-
tested yesterday that statements at
tributed to him and presented in
evidence in the House Committee
investigation of the National La
Dor Relations Board were badly
garbled and entirely misleading"
Mr.. Dubinsky, president of the
international Ladies Garment
Workers Union, took particular ex-
ception to a Labor Board memo
randum which said that DR.. Dublin
sky. in a telephone conversation
with Board Secretary Nathan Witt
about decision advise to his union,
remarked: That isn't what we pay
our money for"
II do not know whether Mr.. Witt
keeps written report of all tele-
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Double Tax PorIey
With Sweden Planned

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt has pro-
claimed a convention between the
United States and Sweden for the
avoidance of double taxation, effec-
tive January /.
The State Department said it was
the first of q series.
Double taxation would be the tax.
ing by both the United States and
Sweden of an American having an
income in Sweden or vice versa,
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Relief Unions Upheld ,
But Right 10 Strike
Denied by Roosevelt
W. P. A. Officials and
Workers Organizations
Pleased by Opinion
- the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
The w. p A. policy of refusing to
recognize strikes by relief workers
had fresh support today in an in
formal opinion of President Roose-
welt.
The Chief Executive, responding
to question at his press conference
late yesterday, gave what he called
a horseback opinion that w. P. A.
workers had right to organize the
same as any other Federal employees,
but that they could not strike
against the Government or create a
commotion and disturb the peace.
The comment found favor both
among w. P. A. officials who have
had to contend with w. p A. strikes
and disturbances in Minneapolis
and other cities, and officials of the
Workers Alliance, an organization
of relief workers.
LASER Glad of Restatement.
The question put to the President
concerned the situation in Mime
apolis, where many persons were
convicted, after a strike several
months ago, for violating a section
OF the Relief Act making it unlaw-
full to intimidate or coerce workers
to keep them from their jobs.
David LASER, head of the Work.
ers' Alliance, said he was glad the
President restated the opinion
given him Monday about the right
to organize.
Before leaving for Toledo and
Cleveland to "see what steps can be
taken" to improve the Ohio relief
situation, Mr.. LASER said some w.
P. A. supervisory officials had at
tempted to prevent relief workers
from joining his organization. He
added he had under consideration"
q protest march on the Ohio State
Capitol.
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement also re-
called one he made more than a
year ago to the effect that Fed
eral employees could organize to work
for better working conditions, but
that they coul dnot strike for pay
raises or shorter hours because these
were determined by Congress. They
could have their representatives ap-
pear before congressional commit
tees on these subjects, however, he
said.
Terms Fixed by Congress.
The same general rule is fol-
lowed by the w. P. A., an official
said.
1--WE never recognize strikes" he
said. Under the law we can't pay
workers for time not actually
worked. If they decide not to work
they just aren't paid.
1--WE can't negotiate with them
In collective bargaining because their
terms of employment are fixed by
Congress. There is a different re-
lationship than between private en-
ployers and their workers. Con-
gress not only appropriates the
money for w. P. A. wages, but fixes
the general conditions of employ
ment."
He said the w. P. A. recognized
the right to organize and had labor
relations Offices and appeals boards
to which the workers might carry
their complaints on "administra-
tive matters"
The Minneapolis strike, or ''pro-
test" as he called it, grew out of
the change in the relief law requir-
ing w. P. A. workers to work longer
hours for the same security wage
per month previously paid.
Evening star., 1939-12-13
Polar Beur Cubs Fed
From Bottle Die
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13-Despite day
and night care by Keeper Moody
Lentz, two polar bear cubs at the
St. Louis Zoo died today of weak
ness and exposure Zoo director
George Vierheller said it would have
been "a miracle" if the cubs had
survived.
Born Friday, they were taken out
OF the bear pit because on previous
occasions cubs were destroyed by the
other animals. Lentz fed them
milk from nursing bottles at hourly
intervals.
Evening star., 1939-12-13
on Libraries

Miss Clara w. Herbert, assistant
librarian of the Public Library, will
speak tonight at the regular meet
ing of the Rhode Island Avenue
Citizens Association, which marks
the 10th anniversary of the Wood
ridge branch library, Twenty
second street and Rhode Island
avenue NE. Miss Herbert's topic
will be "The Place OF the Library in
the Community" The meeting is to
be held in the branch library
building.
Evening star., 1939-12-13
ToIk on Mexico

An illustrated talk on Mexico will
be presented tonight to the Treas
ury Camera Club at the Public
Health Service Auditorium, by H. H.
Harris, program director Of the
club, who made color pictures on a
recent trip to Mexico.
Evening star., 1939-12-13

AT N. L. r. b. PROBE-Shown
as they appeared to Star Staff
Artist Sudduth during Ma
tional Labor Relations Board
investigation session yesterday
are Cleft to right Represent
ative Howard w. Smith of Vir-
ginia, House Committee Coun-
sci Edmund Toland and Board
Member William LeiSersOn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
ASKS FOREST
HEARING HERE
Congressional Committee Urge
to Gather Data First-Hand
on Cutover Area.

The Arrowhead may be the site of a
hearing to be conducted by a joint
congressional committee on forestry If
the group accepts an invitation extend
ed by Congressman William A. Pit
tenger.
The hearing will be conducted this
summer, with the purpose being to
gather facts and data pertaining to the
promotion of reforestation and wood
working industries in northern Mime
sofa and other Great Lakes cutover
area states.
This section is the scene of some of
the greatest reforestation projects in
the entire country, Congressman Pit
tenger pointed out in urging the hear
ing to be done before the work reaches
the proportions that conditions war
rant.
First hand information Of conditions
here would assist materially in speed
ing up the enlarging Of the program,
he said
Scheduled for Duluth, the hearing
would bring group of distinguished
congressman to the Arrowhead, includ-
ing Senator j. II. Bankhead Of Ala
bama, committee chairman; Senators
w. j. Balow of South Dakota, E. D.
Smith of South Carolina, D. w. Clark
Of Idaho, and G. L. McNary of Ore
gon, and Representatives Il. P. Fulmer
of South Carolina, Wall Doxey of
Mississippi, w. NJ. Pierce of Oregon,
D. A. Reed of New York and Il. l.
Englebright of California.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
LOOK THROUGH
WINDSHIELDS
Don't Use Them as a Parking
Place for Stickers, Says
Safety Worker.

Don't make your car look ike a
globe trotter's suit easel
Motorists with an affinity for travel
Stickers, advertising matter, match
covers, or campaign slogans, are warned
not to paste or otherwise display them
on any window, windshield or side wing
Of their automobile. This warning is
sounded by W. p RosenWaId. director
of the safety division, Minnesota High
way department
Mr.. Rosenwald pointed out that the
practice Of using stickers on any glass
of a car IS not only illegal but danger
Gus, because it obStructs the view and
may also distract his attention.
At this time of the year, when the
tourist influx is at its peak, motorists
want momentos to show their friends
the places they have visited Many re-
sorts provide their guests with ad-
vertising stickers to be placed on bag
gage and automobiles This, Mr..
Rosenwald says, is no doubt a good
advertising medium, but If the ac-
cident rate is to be reduced in Mime
sofa, not single hazard can be over
looked.
If drivers wish to display such ma
terlal, they may do so legally by attach
ing stickers to the bodies Of their AUTO
mobiles, below the glass line, on such
places as the trunk, side door, bumper.
or hub cap.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03

consin. The people on the Ranges gen.
orally favor this proposition, but it is
strenuously opposed by the people of
Duluth, especially coal and dock
workers, the coal miners, both operators
and workers, railroad interests, lakes
shipping, and other groups.
OF the two applications still in pro-
cess of consideration by the commits
sion, one is by the Kansas Pipe Line
and Gas company, and the other by
the North Dakota Consumers Gas COM
pany. The former asks to be author
lied to construct pipe line from the
Hugoton gas field in Kansas, through
the states of Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota, and to North Dakota and the
Mesaba Iron Range in Minnesota.
This concern has applied to the Re
construction Finance Corporation for
loan of S2O,OOO,OOO, but this applica-
ton has not yet been acted on, accord
ing to communication to Mr. Pitten-
ger from the federal power commits
sion.
The North Dakota Consumers Gas
company proposes to construct pipe
line from Mandan to Fargo and from
Fargo to Grand Forks in North Da-
kota, and from Grand Forks to Crook
ston, Minnesota, and thence east to
the Ranges.
Hearings have been held on both
of the applications and both sides have
fled briefs which the commission will
consider as soon as the examiners re-
port is filed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Sale of Is, ZOO Parcels Set for
Aug. IA; Method for Buying
Property Listed.

About a million and half acres Of
tax delinquent land will be put on the
auction block at a sale to be con-
Quoted in the courthouse at Duluth
Monday, Aug. IA, according to County
Auditor Walter H. Bergen.
Scheduled to start at 10 a. m, the
sale is expected TO attract large crowd
which will have an opportunity to pur-
chase 5000 parcels on the range and
5000 in the city of Duluth.
Persons interested in buying tax de-
linquent land may do so by attending
the sale and bidding in on the par
GELS as they are offered. High bidders
may complete their purchase by pay
ing down 10 per cent of the bid, and
guaranteeing the payment of the bal
ance in 10 annual inStallmentS, plus
taxes beginning with those for 1910
payable in 1871.
The sale will be conducted alphabet
cally according TO cities, villages, and
townships.
Property which will be included
in the coming sale may be repossesSed
by the persons originally owning it
by notifying the county auditor ten
days in advance of the sale, which
would be Aug. 4. The original owner
must agree to pay the appraisal price in
cash or 20 per cent of it and the bal
ance in 10 yearly inStaIlments. Cur
rent taxes must also be met.
All property included IN the sale has
been appraised, as required by law,
by a special county board, which in
cludes I. G. Wollan, deputy county au-
ditor; J. C. Helm, county supervisor of
assessments, and J. Allyn Scott, Du-
luth assessor.
Persons buying land will get it free
from all membranes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
HERE'S News
FOR ANGLERS
Winter Fishing Provision of
New Code "Discovered";
Ends Feb. Is.

Followers Of Izaak Walton will get
a crack at something they have wanted
for long time-winter fishing because
Of a provision in the newly revised
game and fish laws that has Just been
discovered
The new code specifies that the sea
son on pike, pickerel, and muskellunge
shall be from May Is to February Is,
and further states:
There shall be no order to change
the closing date of the seasons pre-
Scribed."
This means that the season may be
shortened from the opening end but
not from the closing date. It guaran-
tees an open winter fishing sea-
son, something that the department
has just learned existed in the laws.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
THE LOW DOWN
--from-
HICKORY GROVE

Being banker and sitting up there
alongside building vault, brother, that
looks like something.
But I just been reading where some
bankers, they had a convention, and
you know, those old spavins, they got
troubles, too-too much money.
But the cash, it belongs to the de-
positors. And on account of the way
business is now, with nobody borrowing
except Uncle Samuel-the bankers,
they got their hands full.
And people have been pointing at the
Old Boys and blamin' them for so much
that they talked about that, too, at the
convention. They been letting every
body call 'em horse-thief, but never
chirp. They kinda figure if they keep
the money safe for a person, so it will
be there and he can get it when he
wants it, that they are doing o. z.
Yours, with the low down,
10 SIERRA
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Growing With Your Child
University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Welfare

feelings the change to three meals a
day at the age of year Is gradually
made. BY this time, the sleep habits
of the baby have become well-estab-
lished, so that instead of two maps,
morning and afternoon, he is probably
taking one nap, and sleeping in all
about 1914 hours.
His sleep, his appetite and hap
piness, his bright appearance and re-
Spouse to life in general, in addition
to regular gains in weight, will tell us
whether our baby is doing well. But no
matter how well the baby seems to be
getting along, regular visits to a doctor
should be a rule for the first two years,
at least. The growing habit of taking
baby to the doctor while he is well,
instead of waiting until he is sick, has
greatly reduced the amount Of illness
in early childhood during recent wears.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
KEEPING BABY WELL

If a baby is gaining at about the
proper rate for his age, is happy, sleeps
well, cries little, and looks alert and
serene, We may be pretty sure he is
well-nourished and healthy. He will
under these conditions have firm and
resilient, rather than soft and flabby,
flesh. His color will be good, his skin
clear, and his eyes bright. He will eat
with appetite, and be fairly active.
For the first six months latter the
initial loss of weight just after BIRTH
the weekly gains should be somewhere
between five and eight ounces, for the
rest Of the year from two to four ounces.
Usually baby will have doubled his
weight by the age of five months, and
tripled it at year
A baby's health depends much on the
regularity and care with which he IS
fed. His chances of survival are better
if he is breasted. Every effort should
be made by the mother to establish
this form of feeding, If for no other
reason than the time and effort-saving
that results. The nursing mother is
independent of ice, milk supply and
eternal boiling Of bottles. She should
use great care, however, if she wants
her supply Of milk to be adequate, to
empty one breast each time the baby
nurses. If the baby cannot take as
much milk as the mother has, what
remains should be expressed from the
breast each time, in order to keep the
flow. The diet of the nursing mother
should be as carefully planned as that
for the expectant mother. Among some
who plead insufficient milk"
rs the reason for not nursing their
babies, a large proportion were found
10 include no milk in their own diet.
Even when using great care, the
mothers diet may be perfect, so it is
we'll to include cod liver oil and orange
Or tomato juice in the diet Of every
baby, bottle or breast fed. The doctor
under whose care the baby is will
regulate the amount to be given, also
'he time at which cereal and vegetables
should begin to be part of the baby's
det. Cereal is often added in the
bird or fourth month, strained vege-
,ables little later.
From regular three or four hour
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Million and Half Acres
Will be Sold for Taxes
Passing on White Line LGlU
To be RigidLy Enforced.

| Confident that motorists, in all re-
gionS where the new white lines" have
been placed and marked to indicate
no passing" zones, have had ample
time to understand their meaning, state
Highway patrolmen will start out next
week with orders which mean the arrest
of those motorists who refuse to abide
by them.
Eden Rowe, chief of the state High
way Patrol, announced Saturday that
the orders calling for a vigorous en-
forcement of the new no passing"
zones and arrest of violatorS are going
out TO all members of the state High
way Patrol
Chief Rowe took cognizance of the
fact that the Highway department has
not yet had time to place the white
lines and erect the corresponding mo
passing" zone markers on all of the
states vast trunk highway network.
However, he made it clear that dis
regard of the white line will not be
tolerated in any area where they have
been in effect sufficiently long for the
driving public to become acquainted
with their meaning. The white lines
are the simplest form of no passing"
zone indicator ever adopted on Mime
sofa highways, he pointed out.
On two-lane highways, whether on
curves, or approaches to Interests, the
presence of a white line on the drivers
side Of the center line simply means
that he cannot pass, nor cross the
centerline in an attempt to pass a
vehicle ahead until the white line on
his side of the center stripe has ter
minated.
On three-lane highways a white line
painted diagonally across the center
lane and continuing along the right
hand edge of that center lane simply
means that a n1otorist travelling on
that side of the highway is forbidden
to use the center lane for passing until
the white line on his side is terminated.
The new white line, no passing
zones, are so placed as to be reason
able and, therefore, deserving of COM
plete obedience" Chief Rowe said. In
no case do they extend for excessively
and unreasonably long stretches of
highway. They are placed only on
stretches where visibility is obscured
and attempts at passing are invitations
for death and injury.
"a In areas where they have been ap-
piled, they are no longer novelty and
almost every newspaper in the state has
carried graphic descriptions of their
meaning and their purpose. The trial
period, if there ever was one, is over.
Hereafter compliance with these lines
will be vigorously enforced"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
"I6 Years Without q Dent
In 'Er And This Happens.'

Fairmont-Otto Miedtke is sad, for a
record he's been building since 1923,
when he bought shiny, new Model T
Ford, was blasted-just like that. Otto
was coming out of an oil station when
along came Nick Malliet. "Whambo!"
And the front wheels on Otto's relic
did a croSs-eyed epIeptic's fandango.
When the machinery had stopped
rafting, one of the front wheels on
Otto's incubus pointed due south; the
other west by sou'west. Said Otto,
And to think that something like this
had to happen after 16 years without a
dent in 'er!'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Veterans Cemetery at
Fort Smelling Opened.

Any Ely soldier or sailor honorably
discharged from service in u. S. forces
in time Of war may be buried In a
new national cemetery recently dedica-
ted at Fort Smelling, near the Twin
Cities. What Arlington national Gene
terry is to the East, is what the SOL
diers' and Sailors cemetery at Fort
Smelling is to the middle west.
The site is an attractive one, located
on the edge of the army post property.
1t includes 176 acres. In the near fu-
ture the TOO soldiers who are buried in
the Fort Smelling cemetery will be
transferred to the new one.
Application for permission to enter
a deceased veteran at the new cemetery
can be made by addressing the Director
OF Cemetery, Fort Smelling, Minnesota.