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vea Minneapolis Morning Tribune rj Nov. 23, 1344 As Close as Sisters, Say Friends PHONE STRIL Continued From Page One THE TRIPLETS Continued From Page One TEACHER HELD Continued From Paye On of Dead Teacher and Her Roommate By BETTY MARVTN Moraine Tribune (staff Writer Teacher friends of Minnie M. Easthagen, former kindergarten teacher at Fulton school who was found dead in a Rochester, hotel room, agreed that "no sisters ever were any closer" than Miss Easthagen and Nellie V. Gilberson. Fulton teachers who often had been entertained at the Morning- CflUGDU I fi ELEVEN POLICEMEN from North side station, headed ly Capt.

Roland Helin, rode to the Red Cross blood donor center In a patrol wagon late Wednesday to donate blood. They were members of the three different shifts. Shown as they marched out of the patrol are, left to right, Capt. Helin, and Patrolmen K. J.

Meyers, H. L. Wickenberg, M. F. Jaeche, D.

L. Bloomquist, A. J. Oakvick, II. O.

Hubbard, W. B. Heinzen, Andrew Kormanik, J. L. Schaefer and C.

C. LaPalme. phone employe who loves his or her country to respond to the call to duty and to return to work at once." physician that she had found Miss Easthagen dead in their room at the hotel Tuesday noon. After finding the body of Miss Easthagen, with whom she had lived at 4206 Branson avenue, MorningNide, for several years, Miss Gilberson told the doctor, she became panicky and returned here. The physician telephoned the Rochester hotel after hearing her story, and a hotel detective went to the room which the two teachers had occupied and discovered the body.

SCRATCHES ON THROAT Death, according to Dr. J. E. Crewe, Olmsted county coroner, may have been caused by strangulation. He cited in support of his theory that there were scratches on the victim's throat and that she had bitten her tongue and lip.

Miss Gilberson was highly nervous during her interrogation, Scan-Ian declared, and he intimated her answers were not always coherent. Dr. Crewe has ordered an jn. quest for Friday, when a toxlco i i i lit i ll completed. Scanlan said he had been told by Miss Gilhrrnon that neither he nor Mis Eattliagrn, who taught kindergarten at Fulton school, had been able to work for several months because of Illness.

They both left Minneapolis for Rochester Tuesday morning and registered at'the Mayo clinic, but did not undergo any examination. Miss Gilberson, Scnnlnn said, told him she and Miss Easthagen obtained a double room with twin beds at a Rochester hotel during the forenoon. ROOM KErT NEAT Miss Easthagen, according to Miss Gilberson's story to Scanlan, had bern in a feeble condition for some time and had been unable to rise from a bed or chair without assistance. She said the dead teacher previously had gone to Rochester for medical attention. Miss Gilberson had taught kin-1 dergarten at Audubon and Lake Harriet schools and Miss Easthagen handled similar classes at Fulton school.

Scanlan revealed that the room which the two teacher occupied was neatly kept, with their garments still In the suitcases. Miss Easthagen had been dead from five to seven hours when her body was found. She was lying on her back, with her hands cross- ed over her chest, and the bedclothes were pulled up to her neck. SSSSSteCJ" jj I side home of the two women said the two teachers "meant every thing" to each other. "Minnie often said she didn't know what she would do without Nell," said one teacher.

"Why, I have a letter here from her which was written Nov. 2 from Rochester, on their first trip to the clinic, which says, 'It has been so wonderful to have Nell with me as I could not have got ten around without her assistance in this busy HADN'T TAUGHT THIS YEAR Miss Easthagen had not taught school this year because of her health, and Miss Gilberson was on leave of absence from Audubon and Lake Harriet schools so she could care for her. Teachers at Fulton had not seen or talked on the phone to either of the two since they left on the first trip to Rochester, Oct. 25. Miss Gilberson taught at Lake Harriet school the opening week and at Audubon until her tempo rary leave of absence Oct.

24. UNDER A GREAT STRAIN "Miss Gilbertson was completely crushed by Miss Easthagen's ill ness," said a teacher at Lake Harriet school, who has known Miss Gilberson for many years. "She was never one to talk much but you could plainly see what a great strain she was under. "The two teachers have lived together for at least 16 years so naturally they were very close." One possible explanation for the fact Miss Gilberson left Rochester without reporting the death of her friend, was given by a neighbor who said: miss ouoerson was a very nervous type of person who might have been so disturbed at discoV' eringthe death of her friend that she rushed home to Minneapolis where she could someone she knew of it." School authorities said Wednes day that several parents of school children in the Lake Harriet dis- had telephoned to say their 'relations wth the teacher always had been "very pleasant." F. IT.

HEAD RE-ELECTED DENVER (INS) James G. Pat-ton of Denver was unanimously re-elected president of the National Farmers' Union at the organization's annual convention here Wednesday, unofficial reports disclosed. in a washtub is quite a job, Mrs. Anderson admits. Her husband seconds the motion, because he helps, and so do Marl and Laurie Lee.

But even though things are crowded, the triplets have thrived amazingly in the past year. When they were born Peter weighed four pounds, seven and one-half ounces; Paul weighed four pounds, three ounces, and Pamela weighed three pounds, six and one-half ounces. They were so tiny they had to be kept in an incubator for six weeks, and didn't get home until New Year's day. But now the boys each weigh 20 pounds, four ounces, and Pamela is doing fine, too, at 18 pounds, four ounces. They all can stand, and each is taking the first uncertain steps.

When the triplets are all together, Mrs. Anderson tells them apart quite easily, but separately, she has to take a second look to make sure which is which. Once Peter was fed twice by mistake and Paul went hungry, a situation which he corrected eventually by lusty yells. GIRL IS A SCREAMER Pamela is much more serious than her two brothers, but If they pick on her long enough, she emits shrieks which scare the daylights out of them, according to Mrs. Anderson.

Peter gets into the most mischief of the three and demands the most attention, "but gets it only when grandma is around," Mrs. Anderson revealed. They're all good-natured, but Paul laughs the most. At their first birthday party, the Ifrinleta wersn't rmrtirlilarlv 1m. pressed by the occasion, but seemed to approve the extra excitement.

FATHER STILL AMAZED Anderson, who is a guard for General Mills, hasn't yet quite got used to the fact he's the father of triplets, but Marlys and Laurie Lee are pretty calm about it by now. "It's wonderful to have the babies giving here for the first Thanks- at home," MrsT Anderson said, "and nothing could make us more thankful than an opportunity to have a bigger house, where we'd at least have room for all three cribs." "And that washing machine," added Anderson. Marshal Voroshilov Fired From Russ Post MOSCOW JP A five-line item in the Russian press announced Wednesday that Marshal Klementi Y. Voroshilov "has been released from his duties as a member of the state committee of STRIKE LEADERS LOSE AIR PRIORITY WASHINGTON (2D Ohio telephone strikers' representatives who Wednesday rejected a war labor board demand for a return to work, asserted Wednesday night the WLB had cancelled their plane priorities. The Ohio union leaders came here by plane Tuesday for the hearings.

At WLB, it was stated there was no essential reason for them to return by plane. workers to end a wartime strike." A virtual appeal for a nation wide walkout was made by Robert G. Pollock, president of the Ohio union. a Pollock's position was that he, was unable to see how a union leader eould "conscientious 1 ask a girl making $21 a week to work alongside a girl making $39.25 a week, both doing the same work." The WLB had set 10 a.m.J Wednesday morning, as a dead-; line for ending the strike, butj continued hearings after the; union decided to go on with the walkout. Bricker Demands Strikers Return COLUMBUS, OHIO UP) Gov.

John W. Bricker Wednesday night declared "every patriotic citizen of Ohio is stunned at defiance by the leaders of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers of their government in the midst of war." Declaring there "is no justification for a strike during the war," Bricker appealed "to every tele- Union Here Gives No Hint of Strike Roy Anderson, Minnesota slate chairman of the Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers, was unavailable Wednesday evening for a statement on action Twin Cities operators might take in connection with the strike of telephone workers in Ohio and other eastern states. 4'U of M' Educators Attend Ohio Meeting Four University of Minnesota educators will have prominent parts in panel discussions at the annual meeting of National Council for Social Studies in Cleveland, which opens there Thursday and will continue through Friday and Saturday. They are Horace T. Morse, associate director of general college; A.

C. Krey, professor of history; Edgar B. Wesley, professor of education, and Dorothy Merideth, instructor at the University high school. FRANCE OKAYS FOREIGN POLICY PARIS CP) The French consultative assembly voted confidence lnthe government's foreign policy Wednesday after hearing a discourse by Gen. Charles De Gaulle in which the provisional chief asserted France was ready to participate in an international organization for world peace.

In his speech De Gaulle referred to the Pacific war, declaring that France was determined to recover the colony of Indo-China. 'GHOST PLANE Continued From Page One in preparation for a crash landing in a populated area, and throughout the afternoon excited residents of Chicago and its suburbs phoned in reports of seeing the plane, while a farmer near Kenosha, nervously notified authorities a large plane had buzzed over his farm. AUTOPILOT DOES JOB But when the plane Identified as the unnamed Flying Fortress reported to have crashed in Minnesota's Lake county, about 325 air miles from the point where it was abandoned, aviation authorities admitted they had erred in estimating the plane's course, and in underestimating the efficacy of the automatic pilot. Purpose of the autopilot is to hold the flight of an airplane to a pre-determined course; the autopilot maintaining the attitude and altitude of a plane in the air better than a human pilot possibly could, according to aeronautical engineers. It makes lightning-like adjustment of aileron and elevator controls to compensate for gusts of wind which might tend to put the ship in a spin.

It makes these changes faster than a human pilot and much faster than one whose reactions have been slowed by long hours of flying. Great physical strength is required to work the controls of a Flying Fortress when one of Its engines is disabled, but the autopilot can work them with ease. GAINED ALTITUDE Engineers said the "ghost" ship probably gained some altitude when it picked up flying speed as its gas load became lighter, then plunged into a spin or a stall when the fuel finally was exhausted. Forest Ranger Robert Merz and two assistants at the Isabella for est ranger station started for the! scene of the reported crash, five miles distant, but because of the difficult terrain positive identifica tion of the plane was not made until several hours later. The plane, which burst into flames after It crashed, was prac tically destroyed, but was Identified through its numbers as a Sioux City army base plane.

til? that only on an emergency basis. Local service on automatic tele-phones was not affected. Operators leaving a union meet ing here Wednesday night said the strike would continue and picket lines would be thrown around telephone buildings Thurs day. In Chicago, Edwin R. Hackett, attorney for the Illinois Telephone Traffic union, said Mrs.

Anne Beiv scoter, president of the organiza tion, had notified heads of 22 lo cals in Illinois to take Immediate action on the Ohio telephone workers' request for support of their strike. NO SYMPATHY' EV INDIANA However, despite efforts of the Ohio workers to cause widespread walkouts, it became apparent the unions in some areas at least were averse to joining in the strike. The Indiana Bell Traffic Employes' union declared itself not In sympathy with the Ohio strike. "It behooves all workers to stay on their jobs and continue without interruption their efforts toward winning the war," the Indiana statement said. At Des Moines, Miss Arle Van Dyke, president of the traffic division of the Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers, said officers of the union had decided to give "moral support" to the striking Ohio workers, but added that she was "positive wc will not walk out." NO N.

W. STRIKE SEEN She said she understood that would be the attitude of all union locals in the five-state area of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, served by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. The Ohio union leaders had flatly spurned a WLR order to halt the strike. Presentation of the case to the White House might be a prelude to government seizure of the Ohio companies, after which it would be illegal for anyone to foster a strike. However, there was a chance the President might resort to another appeal -to the workers first.

WILL DELAY DECISION The war Jabor board, in its message to Washington operators, warned that a walkout could do them no good. Phillip L. Carman, board official who signed the telegram, called attention to a pending case before WLB Involving a dispute between the local union and the Chesapeake and Potomac company. "Should an interruption to service occur," he said, "the national war labor board under its established policy will not act on the merits of your case, and the work stoppage will only succeed in delaying final decision in that case." UNION LEADERS HIT Nathan P. Feinsinger, WLB hearing chairman, told the union leaders the case was the only one he could recall where "union officers have refused to make an af- ii'i "All-in-One" PARAUOX vest pocket HEARING AID More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Wrt If a plrasant wit to overcome loote plat discomfort.

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