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The Washington times., 1923-12-31
Clues 1924 Rules
For Modern Judas
By GUIDO MAYR.
(Who played the role of Judas in the Passion Play at
Oherammerganl.

(Copyrish
NEW YORK, Dee. 31.-Every has in him something
of Judas Oscar Wilde wrote, "For each kills the
thing he loves in his Ballad of Reading Gao He might
well have written: For each berays the thing
he loves AS go through life untrue, betray,
in large things, times, well in small matters
But with the Judas that almost be said to be inherent
human be enent. 1t is the evil Judas of
the modern world the ulas who betrays mankind for
thirty piece of silver who should warming
The Washington times., 1923-12-31
NORFOLK POLICE SEEK
MAN WHO FIRED GARAGE

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 81
Police today are searching for a
negro who Is said to have fled with
Jug in his arms as flames burst
from garage In the Atlantic City
section early this morning. Two
expensive automobiles were de-
strOyed.
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INVISIBLE
RULE IS
POLICY
Paris Begins Evacuation Year
After Entry Into
Area,
BY international News Service.

PARIS, Dec. 31.-France has
begun to withdraw troops from the
Ruhr, 1.-THE coal and iron area OF
western Germany, it was Off
cially announced today, but the
district will not evacuated until
France is satisfied on the repara-
lions issue.
Invisible Occupation"
A foreign office statement said
that during the present month
three French regiments had been
recalled from the Ruhr.
1t is assumed that this is the
first step in Frances new policy
Of invisible occupation"
France had previously promised
invisible occupation" under Ger.
tain conditions and the question was
again brought up when direct nego-
tiations were opened between Ber-
lin and Paris.
BY invisible occupation" 1t is
likely that the German police may
be brought back-at least part of
them-to maintain order.
French and Belgian troops oc-
cupied the Ruhr just one year ago,
lacking sixteen days. Since that
time the two armies have been re-
inforced from time to time.
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Cold Wave Coming East.

Cold wave warnings We're issued
today by the United States Weather
Bureau for Western PENNSYLVANIA,
Ohio. West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
South Carolina. northwest Florida,
Western North Carolina and
extreme western Virginia.
Rain or snow is predicted for all
States east OF the Mississippi liver
during the next twenty four hours
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DEATHS BY FIRE ARE
RESULT OF COLD WAVE

DENVER. Col, Dec. 31.-One
person was known to be dead, an
other was reported burned to death,
and several are suffering from in
juries and exposure following a
series of fires in Denver caused by
overheated furnaces and stoves.
necessitated by the severest cold
wave that the city has known for
wears,
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Winter Weather DUE n. Y.

NEW YORK. Dec. 3l.-Old Man
Winter has made new years reso-
luton. the Weather Bureau an.
nounced today. Beginning tomOr.
row he will quit masquerading and
be himself, bringing icy blasts and
snow.
Rains which began last night and
continued today will turn to snow
tomorrow, according to the Weather
Bureau. The freezing gales from
he West are headed toward the At
lantic coast.
T0day's raw weather, 1t was ex
planned, came from the Maine NOUN.
tains on blast from the north.
east. The wind is due to shift be.
fore tomorrow.
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N. Y. Gets City Morgue
Ready for Ne1U Year
By JACK CARBERRY,
international News Serv,ce

NEW YORK, Dec 31--New York today prepared for one
OF It's most riotous New Year
liquor flood has deluged the city Twenty steamers
had deposited their and departed.
pected to be sold before night Hundreds automobile
loads OF Whlskey have been Canadian rodr
The Washington times., 1923-12-31

themselves they place cross on
the backs of the poor.
No better New Year command has
ever been written, believe, than
Shakespeare's words: ITO thine own
self be true. Thou canst not then
be false to any man."
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Killed, Report Says.

SHANGHAI, China, Dec 31.-Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Hoff and Mrs. j.
kilen, captured American mis-
sionaries, have been killed by the
bandits who took them prisoners.
according to a report here from
Tsao Yang.
The notorious bandit, Laoyangren
is reported to have made the attack
on the American missionaries. Re-
port of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs.
Hoff has not been confirmed.
The Washington times., 1923-12-31
SNOW STORM SWEEPING TOWARD CAPITA
THE WEATHER

Rain tonight. Tuesday
rain, probably changing to
snow. Mild temperature to-
night, becoming much cold
err Tuesday afternoon and
night; moderate shifting
winds, becoming fresh to
strong northwest.
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w iide
World.
BY Herbert Kaufman

" ERE are the outstanding
factors in Americas 1928
score: Half the gold on
earth in our pockets, a billion
and a half increase in the value
of farm crops, billion more on
savings bank deposit, three bill
lions worth of fresh enterprise,
q million carloads of freight in
weekly transit, 25 per cent
fewer business failures, living
costs 1 per cent up, but wage
averages 8h per cent higher and
20 per cent above 1914 earnings.
Happy Ne1v Year!
Hands Across the Rio
The Washington times., 1923-12-31

AIRS. BRIDGER HAHEN
W1 sues the Famous Players
Lasky Company for a million
dollars for disappearing
the character of her father
in the film version of Emerson
Hough's Covered Wagon"
Tully Marshall, who depicts the
old scout as a drunken squaw-
man, thinks he should be
thanked for immortalizing the
family name.
A jury, however, will Judge
} whether the lady owes a debt
of gratitude or the producers
q lump of damages.
Those who have seen the pic
ture would be inclined to say
that there's considerable excuse
CONTINUED on Page 3. Column g.
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z PROSECUTORS
READY To AID
MRS. Stokes
By JACK CARBERRY.
International N0Iva GaFvANA

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-The power
of two States, Illinois and New York
Joined forces today for a woman's
honor.
Charles S. Wharton, assistant
States attorney of Cook county, Ill.
and Ferdinand Pecora, assistant dis
trict attorney of New York, present
ed themselves to Charles Erbstein
and Samuel Untermyer, trial coun-
sci for Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes,
defendant in the divorce action be-
ing pressed by her seventy-three-
year-old husband, William Earl
Dodge Stokes, ready to testify In
the woman's behalf.
Edgar r. Wallace, San Francisco
oil man and alleged correspondent
in the case, also asserted he was
ready to testify.
Mrs. Stokes, armed with her
diary of her married llfo. was pre-.
pared to take the stand to refute
the charge built up by her husba nd
with the aid Of twsnty.Ono w.t.
nesses, twelve of thcm negroes,
that she nnL Wallace had been
seen, on many occasions. in an
alleged 'Iove nest" maintained by
the San Francisco man In New
York.
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BABY
I0THERI5
FREED
Jury Ignores Charge Against
Girl Who Abandoned VIII
lard Ir1fant.

Nellie Blanche Plymale, beauti-
fuf unwed mother Of the rnonth-old
baby boy that was abandoned at
the Willard Hotel in July, will not
have to stand trial for the aban-
donment.
The grand jury today ignored
the case against the pretty Lynch
burg, Va, mother and refused to
hand down an indictment. Miss
Plymale is free to go with her love-
child.
Fireman 10 Accused.
Countryside interest was aroused
In the case at the time the baby
was found In q room at the hotel.
Miss PIymale registered at the
hotel and left the baby In the
room half an hour later.
July 26 Miss Plymale returned
to Washington 10 face the music. /"
She and a companion went to the
Washington Hotel and called the
police. Detective Sergeant Patrick
O'Brien went to- the hotel and Ar-
rested her.
Miss Plymale told the police that
a Lynchburg fireman was the
father of her baby.
Now Working Here.
The baby. nicknamed willard
JONES' was born here at the Co
lumbia Hospital under the name
Of Smith. When Miss Plymale
registered at the hotel she did so
under the name Of Jones, ard at
that time she sought to mislead
the police by giving Harrisburg,
Pa, address.
Miss Plymale is now working in
Washington, seeking to earn
enough money to care for her baby
properly. She said when she gave
herself up she did so because she
wanted to see her baby so badly.
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COL. COOLIDGE is PLEASED
AT CAL JOINING CHURCH

church; he usually anyway but nothing could
have pleased me more declared Col John G. Coolidge
father OF President Coolidge, when informed by Washing
ton Times correspondent that distinguished son had
become member of the First Congregational Church at
Washington. ~
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Colonel Coolidge, busy with har-
vesting and other home affairs, had
not read in the newspapers of the
Presidents act.
I'm glad. too, that he Joined the
Congregational Church. His wife
was member Of that church, and
so was his stepmother: my mother
was a member Of the Baptist
Church."
Colonel Coolidge, while not a
member Of any church, attends the
union religious services held each
Sunday in the little white church
edifice at Plymouth notch. but a
stones throw from the house where
the President was born.
Gal was always a good Christian,
firm believer in God" was his
simple comment.
Colonel Coolidge denied the re.
Continued on Page 3. Column -
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Stars Led Him
toDrop Wife
For Affinity

GRACE LUCILLE MASON.
By KENT COCHRAN.
InternationaI News Service staff
Correanondent.


SAN DIEGO. Cal, Oct. 23.-E.
Drew Clark, central figure in the
probe Of the mysterious disappear
ance Of George e. schicl. today was
subjected to the first intensive grill
ing since his arrest a week ago on
the charge Of forgery. The sheriff.
Department Of Justice agents, and
Burns detectives fired question after
question at the man; who is declared
by George Schick's wife to be the
father Of her unborn child.
For the first three days foIlowinR
the arrest Of Clark, Mrs. Eta Mae
Clark and Mrs. Schick ON charges
of obtaining possession of Schick'E
attorney, which. Mrs. Schick now
confesses was forged, the authori.
ties concentrated their attention on
Mrs. Schick. She then confessed
Now, the officers say, they propose
TO turn their attention to the bust
ness associate Of the strangely miss
ing man and the woman from whom
he obtained an interlocutory decree
Of divorce In San Francisco two
months after Schick dropped from
sight. The authorities have stated
they have q clear case Of murder
against Clark with one link missing
-Schick's body must be found to es
tablish the corpus delecti.
District Attorney Kempley said to
day that he was ready to file an In
formation charging murder in case
the scientific examination Of the
charred bones found about the CLARK
home on Mission drive, declared" by
DR.. H, A. Thompson, bone specialist
20 be from a human body.
Eta Mae Clark, the beautiful and
accomplished former wife of Clark
Continued on Page 8, Column g.
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Lorraine
FINDS PEGGY
AN ALIAS
TIMES. STAFF PHOTO

Weary Of explaining to friends,
who flocked to extend sympathy,
that she was not the peggy
Lorraine" abandoned at Walter
Reed Hospital in a nude condition
Friday night, Peggy Lorraine,
1917 Thirteenth street northwest,
of Montreal, Canada, today ap-
pealed to The Washington Times
to aid her in identifying the
young girl and artists model who
had apparently so boldly "bor-
rowed" her name and reputation
to save herself from unweleome
notoriety.
The Real peggy"
II am Peggy Lorraine" the beau
tiful young woman tearfully ex-
planned to The Times today. "But,"
she continued, 'you can see that
I am not in the least injured and
1 am not In Gallinger Hospital and
assuredly was not frolicking about
Walter Reed Hospital in a nude
condition Friday night. shudder
to think Of it.
"It's the strangest case I ever
Continued eR Rase q. Column -
The Washington times., 1923-10-23
LOEWS COLUMBIA SHOWS
ZEV-PAPYRUS RACE FILM

The Zev-Papyrus race, in all It's
details, is transported to the screen
this week as an extra added attrac.
ton at Loew's Columbia Theater.
International Newsreel has captured
this turf classic in the celluloid, and
so graphic is the feat that one can
imagine he is actually at the track;
save, of course, for the absence of
the cries Of race.maddened turf fol-
lowers.
The picture will be held as spe-
cial attraction throughout the week.
Papyrus is now en- route to England,
and a crestfallen and vanquished
piece of horseflesh, but the film
shows only the valiant Papyrus
urging every last vestige OF his
strength to defeat the wondrous Zev.
Lovers of the turf cannot afford to
miss this picture Of one of the great
est sporting events of the age.
The Washington times., 1923-10-23
HOBO HELD
IN CLINE
CASE
Tramp Arrested Here Fits De.
scription Of Man Sought
in Staying.

The nysteriOns tramp who Is
being sought by the Haserstewn
authorities in connection with the
brutal murder Of John Cline and
his wife last week may be under
arrest here.
Policeman Heiser, Of the Tenth
precinct, last night arrested a
tramp near the University station
at Brookland.
This mans description tallies
with that of the tramp being
sought in connection with the
murders and he is being held here
at the Tenth precinct pending
word from the Maryland authori-
ties.
Denies Connection With Crime.
The tramp gave the name Of
Urbanek Alois. He said that hi
had no home and he gave his age
as forty-three.
Alois was taken before Inspector
Of Detectives Grant today for ques
tioning. He denied emphatically
that he was in any way connected
with the Hagerstown crime.
VIII Be Held.
Police officials, however, believ,
his description so closely follow
that Of the Hagerstown tramp tina
he should be held for "investiEa
tion."
Alois said that "he Just Travelled
over the country" wherever h,
wanted to go. He appears to be O
the harmless type.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, Oct. 23.-
Rearrest Of two boys, sons OF
prominent Hagerstown men, wht
were questioned last week in con
(ContinTed on Para CoI,,u.,. sN
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THE WEATHER

Rain tonight and Wednes-
day; little change in tenn
perature; fresh, possibly
strong northeast winds.
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JUDGE CHAS. S. HATFIELD
SAID TO BE IMPROVED

The condition of Judge Charles S
Hatfield, Of the United States Court
of Customs Appeals, who is seriously
i'll with Influenza has remained un
changed since yesterday, it was an
nounced today at his home.
Judge Hatfield has lived in Wash
ington only a short time. He came
to this city from Ohio.
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so KILLED WHEN
. CREEK REBELS
BOMB TRAIN
Counter-ReVoIution QueIIed, Is
Report, With Many Sur
rendering Arms,

ATHENS, Oct. 23.-A report was
received here today that a rebe1
airplane bombed government
troop train, killing thirty.
The counter-revclution seemed to
have been quelled, although iso
lated disorders were reported. Gen.
eral Othonaios has departed upon
a destroyer with orders te suppress
all revolutionary bands
Laying Down Arms.
General Plastiras has issued a
proclamation to the mutineers,
many of whom are laying down
their arms. No bloodshed from
battle has been reported.
Director Vlacho, of the news
paper Kathimerini has been or
dered court-martialed.
An airplane flew over Schmitari
scattering warnings that the place
would be bombarded unless the
rebels laid down their arms.
Calls On King.
The premier called upon the
King and reported the situation
we'll in hand.
The rising is regarded in some
circles as a prediction gesture.
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BY International News Service.
PARIS. Oct. 23.-Twelve per-
sons were killed in fighting At
Mayence, former headquarters of
the French army of occupation ON
the Rhine, said dispatch to the
newspaper Soir this afternoon.
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BelittIe Revolt.

Belittle Revolt.
BY International News Service.
LONDON, Oct 23-The Greek
legation was officially advised to-
day that the Athens government Is
not seriously endangered by the
counterroyalist revolution which
has broken out in Greece"
The revolt was headed by M.
Metaxis, head of the Greek royalist
party. It centered In Corinth.
The Washington times., 1923-10-23
SEC. DENBY AT CABINET
MEETING ON CRUTCHES

Secretary Of the Navy DENLY ar.
rived at the White House on
crutches today for the Cabinet meet
ing. His left foot was operated on
last week in New York.
He expects to resume his duties
at the Navy Department within a
few weeks.
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SECESSION
FORCES At
AK ARE
ROUTED
Federal Troops Give BattIa =
Separatists But Republic
Movement Sweeps on.

BY international News Service.
LUEBECK, Germany. Oct. 23.
Reds who seized Hamburg today
have torn up the railway tracks
between Hamburg and LuebecH.
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Army Mutiny Put Down.


PARIS, Oct. 23.-A mutiny broke
out In the Greek army at Cavala,
Drama, Chalois, and Verrie. hut It
has been suppressed, the Greek
legation announced today. The
mutiny continues at Corinth. Pat
ras and Calmata. Admiral G0udas
has been arrested,
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Hines Testifies Somebody
Bought Oil Enough to Last
for Hundred Years.
~ WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON.

A trail Of waste, extravaganza
and ineficiency marred the care
given Americas disabled soldiers
by the United States Veterans
Bureau during the year 1922, ac-
eording to evidence submitted to-
day to a special Senate investi-
eating committee.
Hint At Sensations.
The Senatorial investigation was
resumed with the director, Brig. Gen.
Frank T. Hines, testifying to acts of
alleged waste and acknowledgement
under the rule of his predecessor,
Col. G. r. Forbes. Both Hines and
MAI. Gen. John F. Organ, special
investigator. have hinted at "sensa,
tions'' to come in evidence to be
produced later.
A touch of drama was given the
session today by the presence o1
Forbes, a decidedly sick man, who
is unable to walk without q cane
The former director, against whose
management most of the testimony
a directed, was waiting to tell his
side OF the story"
He, too. has promised "sensa
ton" when he takes the witness
stand. His defense will include thu
publication Of dozen letters, writer
him while director by the late Presi
dent Harding, and which are said to
indorse his administration of the
Veterans Bureau.
Forbes Practically on Trial.
Although Forbes is practically
ron trial. at the investigation. the
. committee ruled he could not in
kterrogate witnesses, but would have
% take the stand In his own de
Pnse. Friends Of the former di
ctor, as q result, are charging
Is to be made the goat" OF
investigation.
nder examination by Organ
ctor Hines today continued &c
Id story of minor extrava
kes. OF protracted red tape
he care of disabled veterans
OF alleged wasteful expendi
date. this evidence revealed
ific instances in the use oi
homes, kilograms and govern
{ transportation by bureau EN-
eg. Hfnse told of reducing Ions
hnce telephone charges alone
n $500 In January to $25 In
gust.
Oil for 100 Years"
another instance was the pur
ase by the bureau of "enougf
blishing oil to last 100 years.
This charge, made by Senate,
Reed. Republican, OF Pennsylvania
chairman OF the committee, wa.
1 affirmed by Hines. Reed also de
! manded q report on ''over-employ
ment" in the sixth, ninth and thir
8 teenth disqualification districts, will
headquarters respectively In New
Orleans, st. Louis and Seattle. Eyi
donce indicated there are NOR,
bureau employees than soldier pa
a tentS In these districts.
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BY s. ID. WEYER.

BY International News Service.
BERLIN, Oct. 23.-Commun-
lists who seized Hamburg this
morning were elected later in the
day by police, according to adj
vices reaching this city this eve-
ming.
Twenty persons were killed and
forty wounded earlier in the day
when the Reds took possession Of
the great German port.
Secessionists Beaten.
A dispatch from Aachen (Aix-
a-Chapelle) said the federal troops
had elected the secessionists after
battle.
(Aachen was the first city seized.
by the separatists. A Rhineland
republic was proclaimed there Sum
day.
Rhineland separatists have seized
the university city of Bonn.
RuIr Is Affected.
The secessionist movement SWEPT
A dispatcn from the "Rhiueland
front" just before noon said the
separatists were holding Dueren,
Eschelier, Erkelenz, and Stolberg,
but had suffered severe setbacks at
Treves and Coblenz
Reichswehr troops were reported
on their way to Chemnitz and sWies-
baden to give battle to the seces-
sionists and reds who had instituted
violent riots there.
The separatists seized Duieberg
on the northern edge Of the Ruhr
coal fields, hosting the Rhenish
republican flag over the city hall.
Disorders Spread.
The whole German situation had
become more turbulent. Fighting
and disorders were reported from
numerous districts.
German officials are confident
that the Rhenish republic move
ment Is losing headway, despite the
speed with which 1t extended on
Monday.
The South German situation is
causing anxiety. Following the
action of Munich in taking over the
seventh division of Reichswehr
under the ''trusteeship" OF the
Bavarian government, Minister OF
Defense Bessler ordered additional
reinforcements of reichswehr in
Saxony, the Red state adjoining
Bavaria on the east.
$4,000 Troops In SaxOny.
About $4,000 Federal troops are
being massed in Saxony, The
government regards the situation
in Saxony as well I'm hand, but
there is some trepidation over the
future course of the Bavarian ma.
tionalists.
The strike movement through
esntrnl Germany has grown, adding
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-12-27
THOUSANDS AT RITES
FOR HELEN HAMILTON
Little sufferer lrft nm Influence That
VIII Help t." ss,s i,c,.
Jamrs Lard.

Camden, y. Ja Dee, e7.~-EAery
wish Of l3-year-old Helen Hamilton,
who for nearly year prayed for
death rs the result OF a leaky heart,
vas carried out yesterday afternoon
4, tho funeral from io5 North Fourth
strret. Camden.
Several thousand OF sorrowing folk
we're In attendance. including Mayor
King aud he city commissioners. Al
that was mortal Of the little girl
whose bravery In suffering made her
famous Throughout the land vas laid
in white coffin. shc worc a white
satin dress. q wrist watch. aud "a
slender gold chain and lprkct Vas
around her neck. The little girls
face showed hr terrible suffering she
had gone through Thr namrpair
dictated by the child several weeks
ago read: Helen " Hamilton. Moth
er's Darling. Sleeping With Jesus
The Req. James Lord. pastor OF
Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal
church. conducting the services said:
Little Helen Hamilton has lcr be-
hind her AN influence that will per-
mancntly help and inspire US. Her
faith IN the Heavenly Father was tre-
mcndous. The reality Of the heaven
~ life was shown by he questions rhs
asked no personally. The beautiful
mate rial gifts she received from Tar
aud near did not take her heart from
the treasure She laid UP IN Haven
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-12-27

The animal Christmas tree and cH-
erciscs OF ST. Gabriol's Sunday school
will be held at the Athletic HAN SAT-
urday evening. An are invited To al
tend,
The ladies' OF the Sacred Heart
church will hold their next whist So
cial in the church parors Monday
evening, January {. Mrs. l.. Holiuan
will entertain.
Miss Georgia Kelsey has returned
10 her home on Main street after
spending the past few days as the
guests OF relatives IN New britain.
William Elton OF Boston. Mass, Is
spending the holidays rs the guest Of
his sister, Mrs. George Lawrence, a,
her home on Main street.
Miss Fuller OF Vermont is the guest
OF her parents, Rev aud Mrs. 4. G..
Fuller at their nome in this place,