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The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

IT. the old days when a girl l wore a fraternity pin it meant an engagement. The sheik of today says it only means necking privi- leges.
 First fapper: Tt says here that an ostrich sees very little;t and on the other hand, it digests everything
 Second fapper: (giggling): :, My stars! What an ideal hus- band an ostrich would make"
 "Ou title sweet mans. Give nicey omans dreat bigum kiss"
 Pipe down on the baby mush. madam. and say which kind you prefer: tn peck and jump kind like Ma gives Pa, or the soul touching kind like Ma gives tn ice man"
 Two Scots were visiting a Lon don moving picture show where the enterprising management serv- ed cup of tea and biscuit free at 4 o'clock. At D. m. one of seen all the pictures now. What about goin' out?" "Awell," Jock said thoughtfully, you can gang if you like Georgie but I'm stayin' on to my supper"
 Speaking of football, many a man has advanced $1,000 for his sons education and got only a quarterback.
 When the electrician tells us he will put in a light plug for us tomorrow and then don't show up. we suppose he is going on the theory that tomorrow never comes.
 They say Scotchman loves good yarn as long as it is not at his own expense.
 And that reminds us of the story Of the Scotchman who. after his beloved wife had been laid at rest. decided to erect monument to her memory. After selecting a suitable stone during the course of extended shopping, he inquired as to the cost of an inscription. On learning that the charge would be based on the number of letters, and that punctuation marks count ed the same as letters. he went home and evolved an inscription like this:
 Here Lies
 MA WYE
 Born Feby. 30. 1872
 Died July 16.. 1921 "Let Her RIP" ~
 One can hardly doubt that his Rest in Peace" was any less sincere by reason of the absence of periods after the last three letters.
 Another on the ScOtchman,
 A lung tester was recently set up on the main street of Edin- burgh. You dropped a penny in
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

Our Washington and Lincoln 8 birthday program is progressing nicely and will be given on the evening of February 21st, as the twenty-second is legal holiday, and we will observe it as such.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

"Can a leopard change his spots?"
 "Of course. silly: when he gets tired of one spot he can so to another"
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

heartily concur in their judgement
 The natives are doing fairly well in the trapping and hunting this winter, but not as well as we would like to see them do, We would like to see them get enough furs to establish small cooperative trading establishment of their own, as there is no trad ing post in the village. The mat ter of freight is the big item, but they should have store here. This winter has taught them lesson as to what can happen, as they have not gone to Golovin but once for food. and they have been pretty hard hit for food, but they. were gritty enough to stick to their quarantine rules until it was safe, or practically SO, before they ventured to Golovin. They are still afraid to go over thers and stay all night, for fear of coming in contact with some one who has the smallpox. They are getting pretty hungry for -four. coffee. milk and lard, which they have been short of this winter. but I think there will be some of these things sent to Film soon. to relieve them of their hunger.
 The natives are all out hunting or at the reindeer herd, so we are expecting another good catch of furs before the season closes.
 The radio does not cease to he
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

The radio does not cease to be surce of entertainment for the
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

Someone threw a head of cab bage at an Irish orator while he
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
Another on the Scotchman.


 A lung tester was recently set up on the main street of Edin- burgh. You dropped a penny in the slot. blew into tube and it measured your lung capacity, and if you could blow hard enough to force the hand clear around the dial you got your penny back. The first morning after the tester was set up on the Edinburgh thorough fare 8 Scotchmen were found dead on the sidewalk beside it.
 Inscriptions on hivvers belong ing to Junior high school students in the States are frequently anus ing. An exchange reports one such rambling along the street bearing the sign in white paint: Seven days in this makes one weak
 Someone threw a head of cab ho Yr;o ~-zko, ,,,L;Io la
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

IT. the old days when a girl wore a fraternity pin it meant an engagement. The sheik of today says it only means necking privi- leges.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
Here Lies
 MA WYE Born Feby. 30. 1872 Died July 1s. 1921 "Let Her RIP"

One can hardly doubt that his Rest in Peace" was any less sincere by reason of the absence of periods after the last three letters.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

We are still under quarantine, as there is a few cases of smallpox yet at Isaac's Point. and we do not want 1t to get started in our village so our council is still main- taining the quarantine. and we heartily concur in their judgement
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

First dapper: Tt says here that an ostrich sees very little;i and on the other hand, it digests everything
 Second fapper: (giggling): My stars! What an ideal hus- band an ostrich would make"
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

"Ou title sweet mans. Give nicey omans dreat bigum kiss. |"
 Pipe down on the baby mush. madam. and say which kind you prefer; tn peck and jump kind like Ma gives Pa, or the soul touching kind like Ma gives tn ice man"
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
ROOFS AND GLASS CRASH
AS WIND RAKES CAPITAL
145 Children Flee Portable School as Gale
Causes Widespread Minor Damage, One
Woman Being Injured

A 30-to-45-mile gale which raked
Washington this morning. attended by
lowering temperatures. injured one
pedestrian blew in windows, took metal
roofs off number of houses, shattered
street lights in many sections Of the
city and uprooted numerous shade
trees. menacing pedestrians and motor
lists with flying limbs and debris.
The lone casualty reported up to
noon today was Mrs Anna E. Elliott,
1913 M street, who was cut about the
head by flying glass when the wind
shattered lamp globe at Thomas
Circle and Massachusetts, avenue and
blew the fragments about her. She was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
RQ!JHSTE|N GUARD
SLAIN IN FLORIDA
Mystery Clouds Shooting,
Similar to Murder of New
York Gambler.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated HfeSS.
NEW YORK March Police we're
informed today that the man killed in
a shooting affray at the Miami-Bilt-
more Hotel, in Coral Gables. Fla, was
Thomas tFatty) Walsh, former body
guard of Arnold Rothstein.
After the Coral Gables shooting the
name Tom Walsh was found in the
clothing of the dead man. but he was
not Immediately connected with the
former Rothstein aide. This morning,
however, Miami police informed au-
thorities here that they had de-
termined the man killed was FATTY
Walsh was questioned after Roth
stein was killed, but was released when
he said he had left the gamblers en-
ploy two months before because he de-
cided that RothStein was too cheap"
Today. however, police expressed the be-
lief that the Walsh killing was an after
math of the Rothstein shooting.
The police theory was that Walsh
had talked too much about what he
professed to know of the Rothstein
murder. and that he was slain by
friends of Hyman Biller. who with Nc
Manus and two unidentified men are
under indictment in the Rothstein kill
ing.
New York detectives. who attended
the recent Sharkey- -Stribling fight at
Miami. returned with word that Walsh
was at the Florida resort Dragging that
he had worked for Rothstein. The po-
lice believe that friends of Biller feared
that Walsh might learn OF BtllerS
whereabouts and tell the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
STEWART DEFEAT
PREDICTED BY FOES
8,446, Votes Are Cast in
Battle to Decide Board
Craftsmanship.

WHITING, Ind, March with all
the solemnity of a church gathering,
the annual meeting of stock holders Of
the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was
held in the community house here today
in a session regarded as certain to re-
suit in defeat of Col. Robert w. Stewart
for reelection as chairman of the board
of directors.
The board of election reported that a
total of 8,446,120 votes had been cast,
l7,4l0 being represented in person and
7,628,710 being proxies.
After the report of the board had been
approved, the minutes of the meeting
were read by Felix T. Graham. secre-
tary The election of the directors was
deferred until after Mr.. Stewart had
read his annual business report
The best information available before
the annual meeting was called to order
at noon was that Col. Stewart, farm
boy-lawyer- politician Rough Rider and
62-year-old chairman of the company's
board, was whipped, that the Rockefel-
ler forces, assaulting his moral fitness,
had more than enough proxies to end
his ii years leadership.
nor would he make advance claims of
victory, as did his antagonists He said
he had made an energetic campaign for
support; that he had majority of the
stockholders behind him, though they
might not represent majority of the
stock; that his fellow directors had
given him their Endorsement.
Proxies only counted today and Mr.
Rockefeller's field leader-Winthrop w.
Aldrich of New York-went to today S
meeting with the announcement that
the Rockefeller faction held control.
At the last minute the talk had
turned not to who would win but to
how great an advantage the Rockefeller
group would possess. The estimates
ran from 1,000,0 900 to 100000 votes as
votes are counted in shares of the COM
pany's stock. The Rockefeller forces
claimed control of SO per cent of the
company's 5000, 900 votable shares. The
claim was made after check of all
proxies had been made.
To these advance statements of VIC
tory there was no answer from the
Stewart camp Col Stewart himself
said he was too busy to talk to news
paper men yesterday. His associates
would offer no comment. Whatever the
preliminary check of proxies may have
shown, Col. Stewart made clear that
he had no intention of bowing before
the votes were cast and that he would
be present and active at todays meet
ing.
Should Col. Stewart lose, there would
be three vacancies on the directorate to
be filled. It was understood that the
Rockefeller leaders had decided that
these vacancies should be filled by the
election of Dr. William M. Burton
former president; Thomas S. Cooke
now in charge of manufacturing for the
Pan American Petroleum Transporta-
ton Corporation, subsidiary, and DR.
Continued on Page 2, Column. 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
WORLDWIDE BANK
IS URGED BY YOUNG
International Clearing House
to Oversee Reparations
Proposed in Paris.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER.

BY Gable Dispatch to The Star and the
CHICAGO Daily News. Copyright 1923.
PARIS, March IA new and sensa-
tional idea has suddenly emerged from
the negotiations of the reparations ex-
perts What Owen D. Young, as presi-
dent of the experts committee. now pro-
poses to his colleagues is nothing less
than the creation of a great central
international banking institute, or clear
ing house, with headquarters at The
Hague, and with all the great national
banks as members.
This central banking committee would
not only replace the Reparations Com
mission and the Dawes organizations
and oversee all the technical details
of the new reparations plan, such as
payments in kind. transfer safeguards
and the gradual marketing of German
bonds, but it would deal with all ques-
tions of international finance which are
of common interest-for example, the
interaction of gold movements, the in
teraction of bank discount rates. great
credit problems. currency stabilization
and exchange rates.
Banks Power Recognized.
All students of International affairs
know that while the League of Nations
is still experimental. the league of the
great national banks, though not form
ally organized, has been a fundamental
factor of international solidarity for the
last five years. The heads of the
American Federal Reserve, the Reichs-
bank, the Banque de France and the
Bank of England have been meeting
repeatedly in New York. London and
Paris, and from their quiet deliberations
have resulted the stabilization of the
German franc. Polish. Rumanian and
other currencieS, as well as measures
designed to prevent contagious financial
crises in any particular country.
Mr. Young's idea is to give a formal
status to this hitherto informal banking
arrangement and to confide to it the
administration OF the reparations plan.
Circumvents Suspicion.
The scheme is so bold and yet so SIM
pie that it almost takes the breath
away. The only criticism thus far
made against it Is that 1t would give
the banks too much international pow
er. To circumvent this suspicion OF a
superstate, Mr.. Young suggests that
the governments should also appoint
official representatives to a permanent
committee: while the issue is not being
raised for the present, 1t is obvious that
such a committee, If founded. would
sooner or later probably be asked to help
administer certain details of the war
debt payments to the United States. 1t
would also be the ideal body for under
taking a final financial settlement and
credit arrangement with Soviet Rus
sia--indeed, the proposal Is so rich in
possibilities that 1t is difficult even to
foreSee them all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
DRY UNIT CHANGE
|. LIKELY TO Be SOON
Officials Say Justice Depart
ment Already Has Major
Responsibility.

Transfer of the Prohibition Bureau
with its present personnel from the
Treasury Department to the Depart
ment of Justice probably will be recon-
mended to Congress In advance of a
general study of reorganization of the
Government, it was indicated today in
administration circles.
DR.. James M. Doran, prohibition COM
missioner, is said to have proved him.
self highly satisfactory as head of that
branch of prohibition enforcement and
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is
understood to have recommended that
he be retained when the change is
made.
No Bad Effects Feared.
Separation of the Prohibition Bureau
from its allied units, the Coast Guard
and Customs Bureau, would not have a
bad effect upon results, In the opinion
Of Treasury officials, even though the
Prohibition Bureau under the new plan
would be placed In an entirely different
department.
The three principal Treasury units in
inforcing prohibition, the Coast Guard,
the Customs Bureau and the Prohibi-
ton Bureau, are in realty now separate
units. Very close cooperation also
exists at the present time between the
Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury
Department and the Department of
Justice itself.
At the Treasury it was pointed out
that the Department of Justice Is now
holding the major responsibility any
way by prosecuting all cases on which
evidence is developed by Treasury De-
partment personnel. So the problem
of coordination and cooperation Is
not expected to be disturbed in case the
Prohibition Bureau should be switched
by law as it now stands to the Depart
ment of Justice.
Revenue Collection Problems.
There are, of course, it was pointed
out. revenue collection problems rising
in connection with the enforcement OF
prohibition, such as medicinal liquor
and certain taxes for illegal sale. But
this would not raise great difhcultles,
officiaIs feel. The former prohibition
unit was part of the Internal Revenue
Bureau. When the unit became a
bureau, however, it was separated from
the Internal Revenue Bureau. But the
administration of collecting revenues
has not been disturbed by the separ-
alton.
The new Jones' law, which makes a
violation of five phases of the Volstead
act felonies instead of misdemeanors,
will probably result in improved en-
forcement of prohibition, according to
the opinion of some high ofhcials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
GUESTS ARE TERRIFIED.
! Fashionable Hotel Thrown Into Tur-
| noil by Shooting ARRAY

Fashionable Hotel Thrown Into Tur-
moil by Shooting ARRAY.
MIAMI, Fla. March complete
mystery today surrounded the shooting
ARRAY in which Tom Walsh was killed,
and another wounded in the chest and
arm, and a score of fashionable guests
at the smart resort hotel thrown into
confusion.
Miami police, cooperating with the
Dade County Sheriff's Office and the
police of Coral Gables, learned that
card game had been in progress In a
suite on the fourteenth floor of the hotel.
which is one of the newest of the Bilt-
more chain, when a dispute arose.
Several pistol shots were said to nave
been fred. Officers called by hotel en-
ployes found the body of Walsh lying
on the floor beneath card table. Ar
thur L. Clark of 567 West l4sth street,
New York City, was the injured man.
A bullet pierced his left chest and enter
ed his left arm. Physicians said ne was
not seriously wounded.
Attempts by police to question Clark
we're fruitless. Beyond Identifying
himself he refused to give any details
of the affair. telling officers you can
ask me all the questions YOU want, but
I won't say thing
Under persistent questioning this
morning, however. Clark talked.
Clark, according to the police, gave
the impression that the Staying of Walsh
would be of importance in New York
City and officials Immediately communi-
Gated with New York police in an effort
to find solution of the Staying.
His statement that he and Walsh lived
together in the Miami Biltmore contra
dicted a nreyin,fs assertion from him
that he had lived alone at residence In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
SISTER SHIP OF VESTRIS
GROUNDED IN STORM
Wrecking Tugs Go to Assistance of
Liner Van Dyck on Easterly Side
of Governors Island.
Iu the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March THE Lamport
g. Holt liner. Van Dyck, sister ship
of the Vestris, went aground off Gov
ernor's Island in the upper bay this
NOR hing, as she battled whole gale
on her way to her pier from Buenos
Aires.
Wrecking tugs went Immediately to
the assistance of the 13,000-ton liner.
She was in no danger as she stuck
fast in the mud off the easterly side OF
he island She had 275 passengers.
The 60-mile northwest wind blew
down a l5-foot section of smokestack
on the Hotel Claridge and sent the
huge fragment crashing through the
roof of a cafeteria on West Fourty-
fourth street. Twenty-Five employees
and score of patrons of the restaurant
escaped injury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07

removed to Emergency Hospital in an
ambulance and treated by DR.. Leon
Gordon.
When the wind dislodged corner of
the roof of one of four portable school
buildings on the Grant road site of the
proposed B. w. Murch School at 1890
o'clock las children we're rushed into
the open and sent home.
Informed of this occurrence, DR.. F. w.
Ballou. superintendent of schools. i'm
mediately ordered the dismissal of
classes in all portables to avert possible
disaster No further trouble of this ma
ture was reported.
The roof was damaged during the
noon hour recess when no children
we're in the frame structure and only a
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
DRY LAW WILL BE ENFORCED.
NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS
Has Not Had Time Yet to
Evolve PIan-May Ask
More Funds.
Mitchell Believes Inquiry by
Commission Will Improve
Conditions.
BY CHARLES ID. WATKINS.
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

A slender, smiling dspper man with
a youthful face. who would rather shoot
wild life with motion picture camera
than rife, emphasized today that the
national prohibition law will be in
forced.
President Hoover's inaugural ad-
dress should be platform enough for
the Department of Justice" William
D. Mitchell, the new Attorney General
said. Then he smiled over the prob
lens of the first "a hours in office and
added: Il have not had time to work
out any scheme for handling the prohi-
bition question
Wiry and sparkling of eye, Mr.. Mitch
ell has the look of a man who would
much prefer to be tramping a pack
trail in his hunting clothes than to be
sitting at desk In the National Cap
ital dressed Immediately.
But confidence in himself and his
willingness to devote his best to his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07

work is his outstanding characteristic.
Although he has not had time to de-
eide on how best to handle prohibition
he did not hesitate to say that if he
found the work of his department was
increased through the transfer of the
Prohibition Bureau from the Treasury
to the Department of Justice ne would
ask for more funds to carry on the
work. If, as President Hoover wishes
the Prohibition Bureau is placed
under the supervision of the Depart
ment of Justice 1t will mean an i'm
mense increase in the work of the de-
partment. The prospects of this. how
Continued on Page 2. Column u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
ENGLAND REFUSES
CHINESE NAVY AID
Daily Express Declares Request for
Help in Reconstructing Fleet
Is Denied.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, March T. The London
Daily Express today stated that the
British government had refused re-
ouest from the Nationalist government
of China for the aid of two or three
naval officers in reconstructing the Chi
nese feet,
The paper said that Comdr. w. T..
Barr. an officer in the Chinese navy,
had been in London on a secret mission
for the purpose of enlisting the CO.
operation of British naval authorities.
An agreement between Great Britain,
italy, Japan and the United States.
placing an embargo on arms to China
said the Express, was the reason for
the British governments refusal.
The paper added that there was a
desire in semi-official quarters for :.
removal of the embargo, based on arlx-
iety lest China place big orders for ma
val material in Germany. The Express
claimed to understand that the British
government would not oppose the lift
ing of the embargo If the other powers
consented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
New York Town Flies Flags at Half Staff
For Topper Who Spent Half of Life in Jail

brief spell of freedom he was sent to
Good Samaritan Hospital. His only
request was that he be allowed to die in
the Jail, which he called home" In
this he was disappointed. as he died yes
terday at the hospital.
County officials Immediately raised
among themselves $1,000 for his fu-
neral, and ordered that the courthouse
be closed today while he is buried.
Each Christmas for many years Wha-
len was given a special Christmas par
ty by the Rockland County officials, who
regarded him as somewhat of a hero
since some years ago he saved the Jail
from destruction by discovering a fire