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INDICTED FOR ENTERTAINMENT

WASHINGTON, April II, [P)- G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the board of F. H. Smith and Company, an investment firm, was indicted by the grand jury of the District of Columbia. On charge of embedding one million, one hundred and tifty-six thousand dol lars of the company's funds.
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12

!aid of republican voters, was de- signed and provided to memoralize congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of re- pealhng the eighteenth amend ment, died in committee. In the senate's efforts to consider it. it failed in the last two minutes Of the legislature,
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12
O1fCOeof Hkz1' Mickey, ''the Terrier"
 The Spinsters were decidely

amusing. Nome's algest aud fence enjoyed itself hugely as all that was said and done was up- roariously funny and from the beginning with the designing spin sters as the second number for the eveningh amusement it became funnier and funnier right up to the end with the black face ar lists doing their stuff and dis playing their nin ble witticisms.
 One never knows or realizes what can be done in Nome with it's rare talent until something is put on for the oldtimers and new corners. All that is required to do things well, is to organize it properly and then the show is on. As an audience, Nome is to be thankfu that there are some of it's we'll meaning citizens who not only possess the ability but have the knack of doing their best for public entertainment.
 1 The Spinsters came on, follow ing our young and popular violin ists, Richard Lee, who was ac- companied on the piano by Emily Tolet, gave his Nome friends of rusic the privilege of listening to his wonderful art-the perfect beauty that under his hands, the least became as significant as the greatest in music.
 And so the spinsters came on, singly, naturally of course. for | spinsters are single, so it seems as their mightiest of efforts were displayed in secuning double bless edness from Nomeis offering of gay old bachelors. Under the ab- la and eyer moving guidance of Flossie Kissum. president of the Spinsters, the last annual vail of old maids was called to order in convention assembled before Nome's most critical audience. Gay col ors in sight and gay colored~ out o'-sisbts. recalled days gone by may we all be thankful that those days have gone by-Arabella Kant !slighter, as chaplain, was at her best in the opening prayer. as all well meaning conventions must op- en with prayer-"T don't, Oh Lord! lask much, but for Gods sake send us a MANI" The convention song I"Oh You Wonderful Man" was 1 followed by reports from the chair. |spinsters of various committees
 Tilie Ketchum reported on Ways land Means and we discovered jusT
 how it is done-Prudence Penny | (Continued on Page Two.)
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12

score of 62O won the grand booby, a $500 bill Es,H. Gagen. scored 610, won the grand booby for the men. All prizes were mounted in glass frames. After the card gam $ 'he committee served refresh mems then dancing coaa!uded the even'ng.
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12
EASTER PARTY

Given by Women of MOosheart
 Legion. Cards, Dancing, and Refreshments. Saturday, April 10, 9 PM. Moose Hall Adm. 75ct6.
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12
GRAHAM ENRoUTE NOME

News received late today state; Pilot Graham left Fairbanks -hortly after 1 PM. this afternoon J. D. being among those on board.
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12
ORDERS FAVORABLE REPORT
 ON EIELSON MEMORIAL

WASHINGTON, April 12, R)- The Senate Lands Committee or dered favorable report to the Senate on the bill naming Copper Mountain in Mt Mckinley Nation al Park, Mount Eielson."
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12

Nome is the quitting base for all .'aska exploring expeditions.
The Nome nugget., 1930-04-12
ANOTHER VESSEL ADDED ON NOME RUN
FIFTEEN ARE KILLED TRAIl-BlJS WRECK

DRAMATIC SHOW AT \ B HALL
 LAST SATURDAY PROVES
 GRAND SUCCESS
 Spinster Cast
 Flossie kissum zee Hortense Lewis Arabella Kantslighter -..----...---------- ..-....--. Tillie StangrOom Abregail Seizum .,--..Irene Jacobs Prudence Penny Charlotte Potter Tillie Ketchum - Audrey Buchanen Hannah Hugsome. Ruth Hellerich Priscilla Tightwad ...-----.----.----.,- --.-....... Florence Kinney Charity Longface Emma Davis Hannah, (made over) ....---.-..---.- --..-.-.--...-.....-..- Marjory Braafladt Professor Make-Over --.---------.-- Curtis Jacobs Collector of Fleas ----------------------- .....-..-...!. Mickey, ''the Terrier"
 The SpinSteIB were decidely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
.SAFERMOTHERHOOD
IS SHOWN BY TEST
New York Experiment Held
Proof Prenatal Care Will
Cut Mortality.

BY RALPH w. LOBENSTINE, NJ. d.
Consulting director Obstetric and Gyne-
cological Service, New York MISERY and
Child's Hospital, and q member OF sew
eral ORGANIZATIONS and committees con-
cerned with the improvement of mater
nifty care in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

principal contribution of the Maternity
Center Association to the results shown
by DR.. Dublin's report?" the answer
might be that this organization went
into a certain section and established
centerS to teach people there the need
for adequate maternity care, and, work.
ing with hospitals, physicians and mid
wives, procured that care for them. OF
course, no single pattern of machinery
is adapted for use everywhere, and in
different parts of the country different
facilities are needed. But everywhere
the condition precedent to improvement
is an informed public demanding ade-
quate maternity care.
What use will parents make of this
outstanding report bearing the author
ity of an internationally known statis-
tician? There is nothing strikingly new
in the methods disclosed. 1t is only the
evidence presented by the record as a
whole that is new.
Perhaps the Maternity Center Asso-
citation has been successful in a high
degree in persuading women to accept
and follow the regulations prescribed
and approved by medical boards of
many institutions of recognized stand
ing, as well as in aiding women to get
proper medical care. But public health
these things for a long time, with no
appreciate effect on the vital statistics.
Now that this convincing evidence
transcends mere advice, will other COM
munities effect procedures to save
women in the most important crisis in
their lives?
Italy, Denmark and five other nations
have maternal death rates less than
half that of the United States which is
twenty-Second on the roster of the
nations of the world. In many of these
countries the results have commonly
been achieved by plenary legislation re-
curing obedience. In the United States
improvement cannot be expected by
such drastic action without the &C.
quiescence of popular opinion. Little
progress in this direction is to be noted.
We have already refused to address
ourselves adequately to this problem for
at least Is years-a quarter OF the
proverbial hundred. If we are to i'm
prove conditions we must face them,
not rationalize. The humiliating con-
clusion from DR.. Dublin's report-that
this national disgrace can be removed
when, as people, we set out to remove
its unacceptable.
(Copyright, 1885, by North American News
paper Alliance.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
WIDOW FOUND DEAD
WITH HER ARM TIED
Maid Discovers Body in Gas
Filled Room-PoIice Re-
port Suicide.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FEeSs.
NEW YORK, December 23.-Seated
before the open jets of a gas range Win
her left arm tied to a pipe to keep her
from falling, Mrs. Elizabeth Dick, young
widow of a New York broker, was found
dead yesterday In her East Thirty-sixth
street apartment.
A colored maid discovered her body
and police called her death suicide
The family physician said MRS. DICK
had grieved much at the death OF her
husband, Julian Dick, who was acct
dentally shot to death 10 years ago, and
recently an antique shop which she
opened in Greenwich Village had failed
She had spent much time In sanitariums
in the last year.
Mrs. Dick was we'll known and active
in society. She was SO. Before he1
marriage she was Elizabeth T1ncher oil
Topeka, Kans. Her husband, at ~, was
the youngest broker ever admitted tc
membership in the New York Stock Ex-
change.
In Mrs. Dicks apartment police found
a note addressed to Gerald BROOKS
younger brother of George, which SAID
It am sorry, time will tell Another
note read: Gerald, nothing that has
happened between us was the cause OF
this"
In a note for her sister, Mrs. A. Stew
art, 1915 North oregon street, Ell PaSo
Tex, she left a list of bank and broker
age accounts with the request that the
sister take them over. Police said the
accounts indicated she had not suf-
fered financial reverses.
George and Gerald Brooks are sons
of Belvidere Brooks, once general man
ager of the Western Union Telegraph
Co
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

ness Of methods for preventing and
Furnishing such disgraceful episodes. :"
The announcement of Chairman
George Fort Milton, editor of the Chat
tanooga News. also stated "if such q
step seems necessary the project would
include preparation of uniform anti
lynching law for presentation TO the
various States for their adoption.
AS causative factors of mob violence
discussed at a meeting here yesterday
the commission listed tensions result
ing from economic competition OF
racial groups, the interacting effect of
pauperized education and community
backwardness and the cultural and re-
ligious backgrounds of communities in
which lynchings occur"
The commission by resolution ten
dered It's thanks and appreciation to
Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, director of
women's work of the Commission on
Interracial Cooperation. and her asso-
ciates.
The commission also by resolution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
BLAST SNUFFS OUT
GAS WELL FLAMES
Menace Continued by Gusher,
However, After 45-Pound
Nitro Shot.
Rx the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
WEWOKA, Okla, December 23.-The
burning No. A. B. Douglas gas well,
in the Wewwoka field, was snuffed out
yesterday with a 45-pound shot of nitro
gelatin, but its wild flow of oil and gas
continued to create a menace.
Two brothers, fire eaters" of the
Midcontinent oil fields, extinguished the
150-foot flame with the powerful blast
after an airplane trip to Tulsa for the
explosive. Attempts to shoot out" the
well failed yesterday.
M M. Kinley and Harry Kinley, the
brothers, crept to the gasser's edge
under the protection of a stream of
water, placed the asbestos covered nitro
on a shelf" and exploded it by cleo
tricity
The flame, burning since early Fri
day, snapped out.
Whipped by strong wind, the gas
and oil blew southeast, away from the
edge of Wewoka.
It sprayed an ol-pumping station
and drenched United States highway
27O, causing detour of all traffic be-
tween here and Holdenville. The gasser,
with an estimated daily flow OF 10000
600 cubic feet of gas and and 300 BAR
rels of oil, is a mile south OF this city
of 10000 population.
Oficials of the Deep Rock Corpora
ton. producers of the Douglas, believed
from one to three days would be re-
quired to cap the well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
Trains Fumigated.

The latest method of cleaning rail-
way carriages is that used by the Ger
man federal railways. The carriage Is
run into a huge air-tigf1t cylinder INTO
which is pumped a strong disinfectant
oas The carriage remains IN the gas
long enough to allow it to penetrate
every chink and corner, so that all
harmful bacteria are killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
STUDY OF LYNCHING
PROBLEM UNDER WAY
North Carolina Law School to Re
view State Statutes Aimed
at Mob Violence.

ATLANTA, December 23.-The South
ern Commission on the Study of Lynch
ing today announced the University of
North Carolina Law School would un-
dertake survey of laws now on State
statute books regarding the prevention
of lynching and other crimes of mob
violence, the apprehension and pun
ishment of lynchers and the effective
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
Hunt on for Bank Bandits.

APACHE, Okla, December % (R1.-
Robbers who kidnapped j. w. Pieratt,
cashier, after looting the American Ne
tional Bank of $4,000 late yesterday,
we're sought over Western Oklahoma
today.
Pieratt was freed late last night near
Ell Reno, Okla, after several hours of
driving with the money In sack at his
feet He said his two captors joked and
made no attempt to harm him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

Maryville, Mo-, the unit of the National
Guard there and other peace agencies
for their courageous, vigorous and ef~
fective work in preventing a threatened
| lynching."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
CAR LINES BONUS VOTED

Operators of Large Fleet to Give
a. 5 Per Cent of Salaries.
CHICAGO, December % R.-
Charles E. McSweeney. president Of
the American Steel Car Lines, Inc.
announced yesterday that the company
will distribute as Christmas bonus to
all employees per cent of their annual
salaries. -a
The American Steel Car Lines op-
crate fleet of more than 1900 tank
cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

Details of Killing of Father Mar
Gus Ho by Chinese Reds Received.

Gus Ho by Chinese Reds Received.
SHANGHAI, December % [R.-De-
tails of the death of the Chinese Cath
Ollie missionary, Father Marcus Ho at
the hands of Chinese Communist bands
in mountainous southeast Hupeh Prov
ince have been received here.
The priest was driven out of his parish
in November, but returned to rescue his
vestments and sacred vessels Com
munists seized him when he arrived at
the mission station and stripped and
beat him numerically.
Then they blinded him with lime and
led him a short distance from the sta
ton with a rope tied around his neck,
with which they slowly strangled him.
He was buried without a coffin.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26
S 8 D D D 90 D D
UTILITY DEAL

Frank T. Hulswit, president
American Commonwealths Power
Corporation, announced today the
American Commonwealths Power
Corporation had entered into an
agreement with the American
Utilities and General Corporation
for the joint acquisition Of the
$30,0O0,000 Dominion Gas and
Electric Company. from the In
ernational Company.
American CommonWealths will
rave a more than so per cent in
crest in the Dominion Gas,
which controls Canadian Western
Natural Gas, Light, Heat and
'ower Company, Ltd; Northwest
nrn Utilities Ltd. Canadian Util
ties Ltd, Union Power Company
ltd, Nanaimo Electric Light
Power and Heating Company Ltd
and certain miscellaneous inves-
ments. These companies produce
and distribute natural gas and
electric light and power in Al
berta. Saskatchewan and British
Columbia.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26
Local Stocks

(Furnished by w, b Hibbs & Coz
SALES
Capital Traction Co., 3@5812'
1O6$812, 1O058l2. 200 58E2.
Liberty National Bank, lO@2OO'
Columbia Sand and Gravel ptd"
5@9014. ~ -
Lanston Monotype, 1O@115, 10
Oils, 10@115.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 100
97A. oooa
c. & P. Tel. of Va. S., $1,000
1O2.
National Mtge. and Invest. pfd"
100m5. 100@5. .oa
Peoples Drug Stores pfd.' 100
1O3.
Real Est. mtge. & Trust pfd.,
4O06Ms, 4O@65s. 1.50O06A8.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas IS A. $5OOQ
1O2, $5OO@1O2.
Mergenthaler, 2O@97, 1O~97'
1O097.
Lanston Monotype, 1O@1l5, 10
OILS.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio is, $1,000@a6, $4,000 86,
$2,OO0@86H, $1,00O@S6A.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26
Dividend
Rate Is Cut in Half

NEW YORK. June 26 1NSD.
Anaconda Copper Company cut
its dividend in half today, by the
declaration of quarterly diVi-
dend of 3712c, payable August 1S
to holders of record July II. This
places the stock on $3.50 an
nual basis as against ST paid
previously.
Additional reductions were also
announced by subsidiary COM
panies of Anaconda. Greene Can
anea Copper declared quarterly
dividend of rs cents. placing the
stock on a SO annual basis.
against SO previously paid. while
the Andes Copper Company placed
it's stock on a $l.5O annual basis
by declaring a quarterly dividend
of 37Ia cents. The previous rate
was SO annually.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26

the trusts help to spur a bull
market. On the other hand their
selling can make a bear market.
Bearish sentiment is being en-
couraged by apparently we'll
founded reports that many i'm
portant operators who hold places
on investment trust and corpora
tion directorates are discouraging
purchase of common stock by
their companies at this time be-
cause they believe further liquida.
ton is to come. Tt4ey base their
pessimistic predictions on the
action of the commodity markets
and the foundational industries.
U. S. Steel common at yester
days low of 1919, was within
15s of the panic low registered
in November. With Wall Street
anticipating further unfavorable
news from the Steel industry, the
outlook for Steel common is any.
thing but optimistic.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26
HULSW|T BUYS
UTILITY

Sale of the Canadian properties
of International Utilities Com.
pany, which has been expected in
Wall Street for some time, was
announced yesterday by Frank T
HulSwit, president Of American
CommonwealthS Power Corpora
ton, which with American Util-
tiles and General, the G. E. Ba'-
rett untility holding company has
purchased Dominion Gas and
Electric from the Chandler utility
holding company.
Coming after the sale of Inter
national Utilities Kentucky prop
critics to the insult interests, this
acquisition completes the con-
version of the Chandler company
from a utility holding company
into an investment trust special
izing in utility securities. 1t has
been understood for some time
that the Chandler interests were
seeking to make of International
Securities Corporation General,
with which they have been eX
tremely successful.
erican CommonwealthS
Power Corporation will control
over so per cent of the Dominion
Gas and Electric Company, which
organized under the laws of Della
ware controls Canadian Western
National Gas, Light. Heat and
Power Company. Ltd: Northwest
ern Utilities, Ltd; Canadian Util-
tiles, Ltd: Union Power Company,
Ltd; Nanaimo Electric Light,
Power and Heating Company,
Ltd. and certain miscellaneous in
veStmentS. These companies pro-
duce. transport and distribute
natural gas and (or) electric
light and power to over 100 COM
munitieS in the provinces of Al
berta. Saskatchewan and British
Columbia in Canada, having an
estimated population of over 245,
900.
The properties include natural
gas reserves in the Bow Island
and Viking fields and contracts
for the purchase of natural gas
from the Turner Valley fields
which. in the opinion of engi.
neerS, have total gas reserves
amounting to not less than 175,-
900, 900, 900 cubic feet, in addition
to probable gas reserves or pros
pective gas acreage near the pipe
lines of the system which should
develop additional reserves of sew
eral hundred billion cubic feet of
natural gas. Eight hundred and
seven miles of main and diStri-
buting lines are now in operation
The electric subsidiaries gener-
ate and distribute electric light
and power in SO communities in
the provinces of Alberta, SaS-
katcheWan and British Columbia,
and have over $50 miles of elec-
trio transmission lines in opera
ton.
Gross earnings of this newly
acquired company for the IL
months ended April 80, 1880,
were $4,100.000, and net earnings
of over 50. 100000. Immediate ex-
tension of the system is contem-
plated, which should add very
substantial earnings to the syS-
tenn of American Commonwealths
Power Corporation.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26

The Federal Reserve Boards
condition statement of weekly re-
porting member banks in leading
cities on June l8 shows increases
for the week Of 1896, 1000, 600 in
loans and investments, $l93,OOO,.-
900 in Government deposits and
$46, 100000 in time deposits, and
decreases of $48, 1000, 900 in net de-
mand deposits and $4,000,0OO in
borrowings from Federal Reserve
Banks.
Loans on securities. which at
all reporting banks were $5l ,OOO,-
600 above the previous weeks
total. increased $87 10000 in the
New York district and $4,000, 600
in the Chicago district. and de-
clined $4,000. 900 in the Boston
district. 100000 in the Kansas
City district and $4,000, 600 IN
the Cleveland district. "All
other, loans increased $50 0OO. 600
in the New York district, $32,-
100000 in the Chicago district,
The Washington times., 1930-06-26
MILLS IS named.
MANAGER

HARTFORD, June 26.-Appoint-
ment of Harold F. Mills as man
ager of the Pacific Coast depart
ment of the Aetna Insurance Com
pany and the World Fire and Ma
rine Insurance Company, was an
nounced today by President Ralph
B. Ives. Mr.. Mills will succeed
Frederick H Rhoads, who died
suddenly in his San Francisco of.
flee on June 13. Mr.. Mills has
been assistant manager of the Pa
cific department since 1928.
He was born in New Zealand in
1880 and was educated in the
grammar and high schools in
Sonoma county, Calf. His in
surance career began in San Fran
cisco in 1898 when he entered the
office of the Pennsylvania Fire
Insurance Company. While thus
engaged, Mr.. Mills also found time
to study law. and in 1904 he was
admitted to the California bar.
At this time he seriously conSid-
cred taking up the legal protes-
sion, but decided to remain in the
insurance business.
In 1906 he accepted a position
as chief clerk in the Pacific DC
partment of the Phenix of Brook
lyn, later representing that com
pany in the field. He entered the
service of the Aetna Insurance
Company in 1912 and represented
the company in the Mountain and
California fields until 1919, when
he was appointed agency superin'
tendent.
The Washington times., 1930-06-26
CHANGE IN RATE
LAW SEEN

Senator H. D. Larcade, jr, of
Opelousas, has in the Louisiana
senate a bill to amend act 302 of
1926, the law establishing the
state Insurance Commission. and
the Louisiana Rating and Fire
Prevention Bureau. 1t is thought
in some quarters to have been in
troduced at the instance of the
State Insurance Commission.
One amendment proposes to in
crease the salaries of the three
members of the Insurance Com
mission from $4,000 each to $4,000
each. This amendment was
turned down by the senate COM
mittee to which it was referred.
Another amendment extends
the time permitted the companies
in which to file their premium
and loss experience from April 80
to June 30. Favorably reported.
The third amendment would
fix AZ per cent as the maximum
expense ratio to be allowed in
determining underwriting profit.
which is the basis on which fire
rates are raised or lowered. This
is the figure which the com
DanieS agreed in 1927 represented
the expense ratio. but since that
time they have reported the ratio
as As per cent or even higher.
This section of the bill was ia
yorably reported by the Senate
Committee.
Still another amendment pro-
poses to strike out that portion
Of the law which requires each
and every fire insurance company
to file with the Insurance Com
mission the rate of commission
which it pays its agents. said
rate being required to be uniform
throughout the State. The great
majority of the companies are
paying 20 per cent fiat, but PROB
ably a dozen are paying more.
This amendment would leave the
matter of commission to agents
entirely open. In other words,
il will be optional with each com.
pany what rate of commission it
may care to pay to it's agents and
this rate need not be uniform
throughout the State. This section
was favorably reported by the
Senate Committee.
1t has been discovered that the
title of Act 3O2 of 1926 says moth
ing about regulating commissions
paid to agents. This omission ap.
parently makes that particular
section of the law unconstitu
t,onal and invalid, but nobody SO
far has tested it.