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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-29
The figures show:
Puyallup, 1880: 1894.
Puyallup. 1910: 1891.

The 1910 figure probably will be
higher, might even pass the 5000
mark. Mrs. Malstrom said. ex-
planning that enumerators had not
quite finished their work in the
valley city.
Population in Puyallup at the
1920 census was 6.323. showing
about the same rate of increase
has been experienced over a 20
year period.
Population figures for Tacoma
viii not be completed for several
more days. possibly week or
more, Mrs. Malstrom said. She
also stated that figures on smaller
communities would not be ready
for some time.
Tacoma and Puyallup. as the
only cities in the county with
more than $500 population, alone
come under the two-week dead
line. which has been necessarily
prolonged. A month was allowed
by the government to enumerate
smaller communities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-29

STOCKHOLM = Allied air
craft carriers. penetrating
dangerously narrow fjords.
have rearhed Norway with
large numbers Of airplsRe< In
the first challenge TO Ger
mzny's virtual air monopoly Ia
the Scandinavian campaign, IL
WAS understood today.
I've and possibly three air.
craft carriers have arrived
under heavy aarsbip e~cort
and have pub secrstely inta
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-29

BANK TRANSACTIONS
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-29
PuyaHup Gain
In Population
Is 10 Per Cent

The city Of Puysllup could boast
Saturday OF a healthy increase in
population more than 10 per
cent-sceording to tentative fig
ures released by Mrs. Kathryn
Malstrom. director OF the U. s,
census in Pierce county.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-29
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Evening star., 1940-01-10
Crime Note

BISMARCK. N. OAK. Jan. 10
Py.-"You never thought you'd
Gve-to-see-the-day" item:
Henry Miller and Jerry Long were
sentenced to six months in Jail after
they admitted stealing . windmill,
Evening star., 1940-01-10
French Students to Re-enuct
Teaching Methods on Radio
Paul Junior High Glasses Will Sing,
Converse and Present Puppet PIoy

Students Of French at Paul Junior
High School will demonstrate pres
ent day methods Of teaching a for
eign language In the District public
schools in a special radio broadcast
at 4 pm. tomorrow over Station
WMAL.
The students, under direction of
their teacher, Mrs. Agnes N. Arnold,
will show how they learn to UNDER
stand and speak the French lam
guage through conversation, read
ing, dramatization, music and games.
There also will be songs by the
boys and girls glee clubs.
Part Of Educational Series.
The program will be supervised
by Principal T. F. Ferry and is spon-
s0red by The Star with the CO.
operation Of the National Broad
casting Co. and the Board of Edu-
cation as part of a series of educa-
tional programs by and for junior
high schools.
After an opening selection by the
girls chorus, Alice Lambros of OBI
will greet the radio audience and be
interviewed on the students reasons
for studying foreign language and
the value of 1t in future study and
appreciation Of the culture of other
peoples and countries.
During the broadcast the children
Evening star., 1940-01-10

will re-enact a typical French class
scene during which the students will
converse entirely in French under
the leadership Of Antoinette Call OF
Sal who will take the part of the
teacher. This episode will include
conversation on general topics such
Us health, weather, time of day and
the home followed by a reading ex-
ercise and finally quiz Of the pupils
comprehension of the passage read
bringing out essential points OF
grammar illustrated In the lesson.
will Give Puppet Play.
One of the high lights will be a
puppet play. This is one of the IA
vorite diversions of the French chill
dren and has been incorporated in
the junior high school curriculum.
The name of the play is "Guignol a
lEcole" cGuinol at SchoolD. The
puppet stage and lighting effects,
constructed by the boys of OBJ, and
the scenery and curtains, made by
the girls of the French Club, will
be set up in the radio studio. The
quaint little French puppet skit will
feature the voices of LeGrand
Everett. BAL, as Guinol and Ruth
Schimmel, Gal, as the professor.
The musical portion of the broad
cast will be under the direction of
Mrs. Isabelle Hampton. music
teacher at the school
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Finland
Continued From First Page)

sian divisions marched at the start
Of the war.
Equipment and personal belong
ings abandoned by the fleeing Rus
slams indicated the 44th Division
smashed southeast of Suomussalmi
was one of the Red Army's crack
units from the Polish campaign.
Defeat Of the 44th along a 4l.-
mile stretch of twisting highway
was the biggest Finnish victory of
the war.
Evidence Of the fierce three-dav
battle which began January S could
still be seen in scores of trucks
scattered along the highway and
cannon with piles of hundreds of
shells and shell caps still beside
them.
A Finnish general revealed that
victory might have belonged to the
Red Army if 1t had counter attacked
strongly. He expressed belief that
the counter-attack was not made
because of lack of reinforcements
and disorganization.
Finnish losses were small in the
three days of fighting, a Finnish
colonel in the Raate sector said, COM
pared with the thousands of Rus
slams killed and more than 1000
taken prisoner.
Victory Laid to Strategy.
In comparing the battles against
the two Russian divisions, the Firms
said the fight with the 163d Division
was rout while that with the 44th
was bitterly contested. Victory came
they declared, through superior STRAIT
egy with measure of luck.
The turning point in the bitter
battle was at the frontier when
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Company Unions
Held Entitled 10
MI. R. B. Protection
Court Refuses to Back
DisestubIish Order
Issued by Boord
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. l0.-The
National Labor Relations Board
must protect the rights of workers
In joining independent unions or in
remaining unorganized, the Ninth
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals held
here yesterday.
Company unions. in effect, were
restored to a standing of equality
with international unions by the
decision.
The case was that of the N. L..
R. B. versus the Sterling Electric
Motors Co. of Los Angeles, a manu-
featuring plant employing approxi-
mately TO workers, which the A. F.
of L. International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers sought to or
ganize
Enforcement Order Refused.
In its ruling, the Appellate Court
refused the N. l.. r. BIS request for
an enforcement order directing the
company to disestablish a company
union and to cease collective bar
gaining with an employees associa-
ton In addition, it denounced the
Labor Boards practice of not
making alleged company unions
parties to such proceedings. saying
that such failure violated the civil
rights OF independent workers or
ganization members.
The Circuit Court declined to fol-
low precedent of the United States
Supreme Court in a similar case,
holding that the higher tribunal
erred in the Pennsylvania and Pa
ciflc Greyhound cases." the rulings
in which, the Circuit said, were
deemed overruled in principle" by
later findings of the high court.
Three Options.
Judge William Denman wrote the
Circuit Court decision, with Judge
Clifton Mathews concurring. Judge
William Healy signed a dissenting
opinion which, while concurring in
the basic ruling, dissented in minor
particulars from the other two
judges findings.
The Circuit set up the principle
that employees have three options
with regard to their relations with
employers:
Il. They may join one of the
great outside unions.
%. They may organize themselves
in an inside or company union.
"3. They may decline to unionize
at all. and may deal individually
with their employer"
Evening star., 1940-01-10

Finnish ski patrols succeeded in de-
stroying a highway bridge which
kept the Russians from bringing up
reinforcements.
Fighting against the 44th was said
to have started December % when
the Firms learned the Russians were
ready to attack and in a surprise at
sault killed 200 Russian horses and
took some prisoners. The major
battle developed two weeks later.
The fierce fighting in this sector
almost completely demolished Suo-
mussalmi, a town of $500 All that
is left are gaunt chimneys, burnt
homes and shell-torn frame build
ings
Equipment Scattered.
Travelling through the battle area
I could see abandoned Russian
equipment stretched out along the
road. There were 260 trucks-all
with new tires-some driven of the
road into large square clearing III
the forest. There were tanks, some
of which weighed 10 tons and car
ried crews of four.
Two medical trucks with red
crosses painted on them stood with
doors open on the highway. In one
was a dead Russian.
Here and there were dugoutS with
evergreen branches as camouflage
on the roofs-the only entrench-
ments the Russians had been able to
establish.
Fighting extended back for about
a mile on either side of the highway.
Dead Russians seen along the road
were clad in good materials The
44th apparently was one Of the crack
Russian regiments in the Polish
campaign. Envelopes with Polish
postmarks and a truck containing
copies of Polish songs was seen.
Oficial Finnish figures on the war
booty seized from the 44th included
over 100 field guns, IS tanks, 10
armored cars, 260 trucks, 10 of which
were equipped with four anti-air-
Evening star., 1940-01-10
gan her service with the N. L. r. B.
December l, 1887.

gan her service with the N. L. r. b.
December l, 1887.
While she was with the Reset
tlement Administration, she said,
she was detailed to the Labor
Board for six weeks to aid the La
Toilette committee in its investi-
cation of civil liberties. Her serv-
ices were asked by Board Member
Edwin S. Smith. according to let
ters in evidence, and she was given
the assignment by Lee Pressman,
then counsel for r. A., now general
counsel for the C. I. o.
Got Job on Bar Admittance.
Mrs. Porter was followed on the
stand by Mrs. Carolyn E. Fortas,
former review attorney for the
board, now wife of the general
counsel for the bituminous coal
division of the Interior Department,
who said that she was given a job
in the review division of the Labor
Relations Board the same month
she was admitted to practice as a
lawyer.
The witness is now an attorney
in the tax division of the Justice
Department.
She said she was q graduate of
the Yale University Law School, was
admitted to the bar in March, 1898,
employed as a review attorney for
the Labor Board the same month,
and had analyzed evidence for the
board in about IS cases.
Mrs. Fortas was called to the
stand as counsel for the Investigate
ing committee continued his efforts
to show that young attorneys with
limited experience were relied upon
by the board to read and digest
evidence for it and to draft de-
cisions ordered by the board.
Chairman Smith placed in the
record a telegram to General Coun-
sci Fahy of the N. L. r. B. from
Jack Davis. an attorney in the
boards Litigation Division, in which
he vigorously denied charges at
the committee hearings that he told
workers at the Litchfield, ILL.,, case
of the American Radiator Co. that
he was working for the c. I. o."
and tried to get men to say they had
been locked out at the plant. Mr..
Davis said he would be available
whenever the committee wanted to
call him. The chairman said he
would be called later.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
craft guns; 20 tractors, 1900 horses
and 20 anti-tank guns.
Finnish Victories Win
Breathing SPELL

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 10 R).-Six
weeks of fierce defense and slashing
counterattacks against the Soviet
Russian invasion appear to have
won breathing spell for Finland.
Firms suggest their foe is tempo
rarily exhausted. An official Rus
sian acknowledgment Of a with
drawal on the central eastern front
tends to bear this out.
How long the lull will last Finnish
military quarters cannot say, but
they presume it is merely the quiet
before the storm of great Red Of
fensive most likely to break on the
Karelian Isthmus.
Red forces have been concentrat-
ing fresh manpower on the isthmus
front the past two weeks Advance
posts have protected themselves
against possible Finnish counter
thrusts by digging in and throwing
up barbed wire barricades.
Some reports reaching Copen-
hagen say the Russians have about
200 900 soldiers in Karelia.
The breathing spell would permit
a further solidification of Finnish
defenses and a filling in of the Rus
sian front line, particularly on the
middle eastern front. where within
10 days the Finnish high command
reported smashing two Russian divi-
sionS.
Noteworthy were the Finnish and
Russian communiques. the former
covering Mondays situation and the
latter Tuesdays. The Firms report
ed the day passed quietly every
where"-a fact which a Finnish
spokesman considered very sig
nificant." The Russians acknowl-
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Wiedemann Her.
To Help Plan Return
OF 400 Nazi Seamen
Columbus Crewmen of
Militory Age to Be Sent
Home Via Pacific
Bs the Associated Press.

Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, German
consul general at San Francisco
flew here today to discuss with EN-
bassy officials how to return mill
tary-age seamen OF the scuttled
liner Columbus to Germany, via San
Francisco and Asia.
Hans Thomson, German Charge
d'Affaires, summoned Capt. Wiede-
mann, who was Corpl Adolf Hit
ler's captain in the World War. to
talk over plans for housing the 400
odd Omcers and men in the Cali
fornia city until passage over the
Pacific could be arranged. The
officers and men of military age go
from Ellis Island, where they are
now being held, with some ITS
others too young or too old to fight,
to San Francisco, there to take
boats to some point on the Trans
Siberian Railroad.
Herbert Scholz, German consul
at Boston. was to arrive later in the
day to talk to DR.. Thomson. Mr..
Scholz Is expected to be asked for
help on arranging transportation to
the West Coast.
State and Labor Department off,
cials, the German Embassy and
officials of the North German Lloyd
Line. who have been working to-
gether on how best to get the
stranded seamen home, decided on
a plan which. essentially, would call
for sea transportation. on Japanese
or other foreign vessels
To evade British attempts to cap
ture the Germans at sea, the PLAN
ners decided to scatter the men, a
few to each vessel used. The North
German Lloyd Line, which owned
the Columbus, would pay for trans
portation.
No specific time was set, but it
was said that departure from Ellis
Island had been arranged for
within few days" The plans
were subject to change at any time.
No guarantees as to the German
sailors safety at sea was sought
from the British. presumably on
the ground that the British could
not be expected to pledge it. In
the present European War, as in
the World War, the British Navy
has been taking Germans off neu-
trail vessels.
AS for the boys and older men
not OF military age, detained at
Ellis Island, it was arranged to
send them to the Mediterranean or
Europe aboard neutral vessels, when
ever it might become feasible.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Nominations
Continued From First Page J

report favorably today the nomi-
nations of Rear Admiral Samuel M.
Robinson to be chief of the Nays
Bureau of Engineering and Rear
Admiral Alexander H. Van Keuren
to be chief of the Bureau of Con-
struction and Repair.
Other nominations approved
unanimously by the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee:
Breckenridge Long of Missouri
to be Assistant Secretary of State.
George S. Messersmith of Della
ware to be Ambassador to Cuba.
John Cudahy of Wisconsin to be
Ambassador to Belgium.
r. Henry Norweb of Ohio to be
Minister to Peru.
Robert M. Scotten Of Michigan
to be Minister to the Dominican
Republic
Clarence E. Gauss of Connecticut
to be Minister to Australia, a newly
created post.
The Senate Finance Committee
also approved:
John l.. Sullivan, Manchester. N.
H., to serve as Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury to fill vacancy.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Prices 10 Be Listed
Monday for G.W.T.W,
Finnish Benefit
Response Has Been
Overwhelming Says
Dr.. Edmund Walsh
y Wash ,.s..ians who

- y WSsiE ,...ians who
!. ,-en clamoring to 80 to the
Finnish relief benefit showing of
Gone With the Wind will be ac-
quainted Monday with the admis-
sion price scale for the special per-
formance, according to an announce
ment by the Rev. DR.. Edmund A..
Walsh. chairman of the Washing
ton unit Of the Finnish Relief Fund.
Literally, the response has been
overwhelming" DR.. Walsh declared,
referring to the pre-announcement
demand for tickets at whatever
the price"
I'VE have arrived at a tentative
scale of prices which sets aside q
large block of seats at a figure not
far above the regular box office
SCALE" he said.
DR.. Walsh added that places where
tickets are to be on sale also will
be made public Monday.
An anonymous contributor bought
out the Palace Theater for the eve
ming performance January n and
presented the entire house" to the
relief fund.
Commenting on the dispatch to
Helsinki Of F. Dorsey Stephens and
w. Hallam Tuck as representatives
of former President Hoover, national
director of the fund. Milton M.
Brown, local executive secretary,
said: Il am convinced that the re-
lief needs Of refugee women and
children in Finland are increasingly
urgent"
Further, it is a source of much
satisfaction for contributors to the
fund to realize that their donations
will be capably disbursed by able
and experienced administrators in
Finland"
Mr.. Brown paid tribute to Messrs.
Stephens and Tuck as experienced re-
lief administrators, noting he had
been associated with them in Bel
GUM during the World War.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Anti-Curdenos Forces
Form New Organization
Nv the ASSociated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10-Organ-
ization of the Party for National
Revolutionary Unification, headed
by supporters of Gen. Juan Andrea
Almazan. independent presidential
candidate, was announced today.
The new organization was seen in
political quarters as uniting various
independent political units under
one anti-government platform, with
Gen. Almazan as its candidate to
succeed President LaZaro CardenaS
in the election July l.
The new organization will set .
date for a national convention to
name a candidate.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Decisions Seen Spur
To Revision Move

House critics of the National
Labor Relations Board predicted to-
day that two circuit court decisions
against the board would intensity
congressional sentiment for revi-
sions in the Wagner Act.
Representative Ramspeck, Demo-
crat, of Georgia of the Labor Com
mittee said the decisions indicated
that the board was trying to con-
strue the law according to its own
idea of what ought to be in it.
There apparently will be much
more willingness on both sides to
consider amendments this year than
there was last" he added.
Members of the special commit
tee investigating the board said the
decisions proved their contentious
that the board sometimes abuses the
discretion which Congress vested
In it and that 1t occasionally COM
bines the duties Of prosecutor and
Judge.
Order Issued in 1888.
Mr.. Ramspeck said his construc-
ton of the law led him to believe
that negotiations around a con-
ference table which lead to an
agreement satisfy the provisions of
the statute"
The Labor Board order in the
Inland Steel Co. case was issued in
1888 and was the first to call for a
written contract on employer-em-
ploye agreements.
In other cases where the board
since has called for written con-
tracts, it has cited the language of
the Supreme Court in 1888 decl-
sion. The court said then:
"The (Wagner) act contemplates
the making of contracts with labor
organizations. That is the manifest
objective in providing for collective
bargaining"
Boards Position.
Based on the Supreme Court view,
the board has stated that his
torically, this collective agreement
had normally taken the form of a
written contract between employer
and the labor organization, naming
the parties to the agreement and
signed by the parties"
Concerning the absence OF def
mite requirement in the act for writ
ten agreements, the board said In
another case:
"Since Congress could not set out
in detail every step required by the
duty to bargain in good. faith, the
boards Interpretation clearly is not
barred by the omission of express
reference to signed agreements from
section (5 of the act.
At the time of the boards hearing
on the Inland case, Ernest S. Bal
lard. counsel for the company, con-
tended the Wagner Act docs not by
direct language or necessary infer
ence require wage agreements to
be reduced to writing and signed.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
edged . withdrawal east Of soumus.

edged . withdrawal east Of soumus.
salmi.
The Russian communique dated
the Withdrawals as Of yesterday. It
said, in part:
"On January 9, in the Ukhta Sec
tor, fighting between infantry units
took place, as a result Of which
Soviet troops withdrew several kilo-
meters east of Suommussalmi."
It was the first Russian acknowl-
edgement of a withdrawal. While 1t
added only scant detail on other
operations-of a minor nature-the
communique was elaborate enough
to break a series Of laconic an.
nouncements of the nothing impor.
tant-to-report variety.
The Finnish communique, on
the other hand, was the shortest yet
issued.
Evening star., 1940-01-10
Labor Board Order
In Inland Steel
Case Reversed
Act Does Not Require
Contracts in Writing,
Appeals Court Holds
d the Associated Press,

- the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. l0.-The Wagner
Act does not require collective bar
gaining contracts to be in writing
In the opinion of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals.
The courts view was announced
yesterday in a decision reversing an
order by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board in the Inland Steel Co.
case.
In its order of November II, 1888
the N. L. R. B. ordered Inland to
withdraw recognition of an inde-
pendent union, bargain with the c.
I. o. Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee, and put into writing any
agreement that might be reached.
The courts opinion, written by
Judge j Earl Major with Judges
William M. Sparks and Evan A.
Evans ocncurring, held that the
Wagner Act requires collective bar
gaining, but not agreement.
Contract Issue in Strike.
The board recognizes that signed
agreements are not required by the
act in all instances and that an
oral agreement would not be in
valid if acceptable to both parties, -
the opinion said.
The statute is barren of an ex-
press language requiring a signed
agreement and it must be held that
no such agreement is required un-
less we are authorized to read into
the term collective bargaining the
condition that all agreements, not
some, must be reduced in writing"
A written contract was the ma
tor issue in the 1887 little steel"
strike against Inland and three
other independents.
The court directed the Labor
Board to hold new hearing in the
Inland case. sustaining the COM
pany's contention that it had been
denied a full and fair hearing by
Charles A. Wood, N. L. r. B. trial
examiner.
Examiner Assailed.
Asserting the trial examiner
cllOWCu IlOolllc dtGlGUuc lOWdIu
the company, the court said his con-
duct plainly discloses he laid aside
all semblance of serving in a judi
cial capacity
In general, the opinion continued.
the examiner devoted little time to
the examination of witnesses ia
vorable to the board, but much
time to the Inland witnesses. "ap-
parently for the purpose of impair
ing the credit or weight to be at
tached to their testimony"
This record as a whole" the
court added, "discloses the danger of
imposing upon single agency the
multiple duties of prosecutor, judge,
jury and eXecutioner."
The court added that it inferred
the examiner realized the record
was subject to attack because of his
biased conduct and sought to fore
stall such attack by threatening
Gnland's) counsel with exposure or
counterattack.