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The Nome nugget., 1934-03-03
NOME STRATEGIC AIR BASE

tNL ttA Dy OS'ASA ies, Nome is~once again proclaim cd to he the air base for the res cue of the 101 Russians adr.ft on ice foes in the Arctic Ocean between Cape Prince of Wales Alaska, and Cape Serge, on the Siberian shores. due to the sink ing of the Russian ice breaker some 1A niles of the @.sSiberian coast and at last reports the group were drifting in northern dir t-tion towards Wales on q large ire foe.
 Several women and children are among those adrift on ice foes. Reports state that they had food for two months, but that was nearly month ago. The cap- tain of the vessel evidently took precautions when his ship was in danger, to care for the wants of those aboard the ice imprisoned snip, and landed cargoes of sup plies and bedding, fuel and etc, ip case of the ship being crushed by the ice. and 8 hiking. However, no time should be lost in the at tempt to rescue the people now fharooned on the ice.
 Nugget believes that if it is possible to rescue them from the American de, that the refugees should be brought to Nome where they can receive every attention, food and shelter until such ar engagements can be made to return them to their own country. If they were landed on the Siberia n coast, there is not settlement large enough to care for their wants and needs and further- more could not be picked up by vessel until next August at the earliest. By bringing them to Nome they could either await transportation in June by steam CT or can be transported by plane and boat to Seattle and return ed to their country that way
 Tn any event 1t Is case of rem dersng assistance to 1O1 people who are in dire need of help and we as Americans must not lose track of the fact that the Soviet government sent planes to the search and rescue of Pilot Ben Ellison and Earl Borland, a few years ago when the American pilots lost their lives on the Si- berian Arctic coast, and again last summer when the Soviets sent plane to Anadyr, Siberia to bring the round-the-world fiiel Jimmy Mattern to Nome. The Soyiets showed their stuff, and it is now up to us on this side of the continent to do our stun in return for humanity's sake al
The Nome nugget., 1934-03-03
VIENNA REvOLUTIONIZISG GOVERNMENT
tBy The Associated Pressl

VIENNA, March For the first time since Dollfuss shelyed the parliament year ago, the government frankly cast consti- tutional policies into the political waste basket and let it be known that it intends to rule by natural law which stands above the con stitu tion.'
The Nome nugget., 1934-03-03
CHAMBER GOES INTO ACTION

Following is telegram sent to Delegate Dimond by the local chamber of commerce in referen- ce to ding in the rescue of the l0I Rnssians adrift on Arctic ice does:
The Nome nugget., 1934-03-03
NARROWED RUSSIANS WILL BE RESCUED
NOME BASE FOR RESCUE OPERA TlONS
CARNERA DEFEATS LOUGHRAN
 IN FIFTEEN ROUNDS
CBy The Associated Press)

'F IT 4i0oOS- IstVV N4 'I S5o
 MIAMI Feb 2S The cham pioDship Camera 4Loughran fight, scheduled for tonigth, has been postponed to Thursday night, March 1st.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
CLOTH|NG.F|
; LOSES EAGLE

BALTIMORE, July 26.-L.
Greif and Brother, Inc, one of
the worlds largest clothing manu-
featuring companies, today felt
the effects of a blow dealt it yes
terday when the NRA refused the
company the right to use Blue
Eagle labels on its products.
This means that the company,
which employs 1000 persons, will
be unable to sell its output, as re-
tailers are prevented by their code
from handling goods which do not
bear the NRA insignia.
Action of the NRA followed the
ruling of a United States District
Court which lifted from NRA
authorities a restraining order OBJ
tanned previously by the Greif
Company. NRA officials denied the
use of the Blue Eagle on the
ground the company had violated
the wage section of the mems
clothing code.
Testifying in court in support OF
their attempt to restrain the NRA
from taking away their Blue
Eagle, officials of the company
said the firm had orders pending
for $1,000 garments, valued at
$3.50, 900.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
Orphans at Outing Agree
Elks Are Swell GUYS

turned out to be Morton Lucks,
9-year-old ward of the Jewish
Foster Home. To Morton, lunch
was the feature of the whole day.
AS the carrousel came to a STOP
he admitted:
II think the hot dogs were
the best thing of alI.'
Before he could be questioned
further. he was off to the Old
Mill and the reporter followed.
This attraction, usually a
rendezvous for romantic persons
of more mature age, was equally
popular with the very younger
set"
They're Swell Guys"
The airplane swing was next
Here the reporter rode with Mary
Alice Sale, 13-year-old ward of the
Hillcrest Orphanage. She liked
the coaster dip and the airplanes
best: she had been on the similar
outing which the Elks held last
year and thought they were the
grandest hosts a person could
have.
But the final and most concise
opinion was voiced by a tousle
headed yo1ngster as he started
home. His comment was:
81 think these Elks are swell
guys"
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
PARRISH, BANK
THUG, HUNTED

WAYCRoSs, Ca, July 26
1.N.SO.-Lonnie Parrish, Geor-
gia bank robber recently brought
here from oneida, N. Y, where
he fought extradition. was the
object of an extensive man hunt
today following his escape from
Pierce county guards yesterday.
Blood hounds were used in
seeking the bandits trail among
the swamps and heavy under
brush near Big Greek, where Par
rish escaped.
Officers expressed confidence
that Parrish would be taken to-
day, since it was believed he
could not make much headway
in his flight because of the
shackles on his legs land the in
tense heat.
Parrish was convicted Of rob-
bing o Patterson (GaJ bank.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
BY KENNETH ROMNEY, Jr.

ny MENNExh NOMNEX, JF.
washington orphans don't have
such a tough time of it after all!
Not when they have a bunch Of
foster-fathers like the local Elks'
Lodge.
This was the conclusion reached
yesterday by a Washington Times
reporter who visited Glen Echo
Park while the lodge was staging
its annual party for the city's
orphans.
At the park, the reporter was
surrounded by a crowd of happy,
carefree youngsters, all APPARENTLY
bent on going somewhere just as
quickly as possible. He followed
the crowd and soon was seated on
o tan antelope in the carrousel.
Lunch Was Best
Little Bernice Patterson, 9-year.
old miss from the Montgomery
County Social Service League,
rode on his left. Miss Patterson
was thoroughly thrilled by the
whole affair. Lunch, of hot dogs
and lemonade, had just been
served and Bernice shyly confided
that she had eaten so much she
was nearly sick.
A blond little lad rode on the
reporters right, q little lad who
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
Woman, rs, Injured
In Fall From Roof

Virginia Wood, colored, rs, Of
the HOO block Fairmont st. N.
w., was seriously 9njured early
today when she fell two floors
from a porch roof at her home.
She had climbed through a win
dow to the roof to escape the
heat inside the house. She is
in Freedmen's Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
Page County Claims
Record Wheat Yield

LURAY, Va, July ga yield
of 81 bushels of wheat to the
acre, q record for Page county
and probably for the State, is re-
ported here by c. D. Price, of
Stanley, president of the vir'
ginia state Gamers Association.
Other yields near here are As
and 46 bushels,
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
Picnic Is Planned
Bu Hotel Workers

A public picnic and lawn party
will be held by the Washington
Branch of the International &C.
neva Association of Hotel, Club
and Restaurant Executives and
Employees at the Montgomery
Country Club in Silver Spring,
Md, Sunday at 2 p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
2 Thugs Take $50
At Nolan Motor Co.

Two armed white men early
today entered the Nolan Motor
Company, HOO block of Eight
eenth st. N. w. and robbed the
cash register Of about $50. The
robbers forced William Sample,
night manager, to lie on the
floor, while they were looting the
register and until they made their
exit.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
SAAR GUARDED,
AIR TENSE

sAARBRU KEN, July 26
G.N.SO.-The entire international
police force of this little disputed
territory lying between Germany
and France was mobiliZed today
including the reserves. The Saar
commission cancelled all leaves
and held everyone in the bar
racks in readiness for any event
uality.
The Saar commission governs
this territory for the League of
Nations. The territory has in
creasingly become a bone Of con-
tention as the plebescite arranged
for in the Treaty of Versailles to
determine its possession, ap'
proaches.
On January Is, the Saar resi-
dents will express by ballots their
choice of returning to German
rule, going to France or remain
ing under League of Nations
supervision.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
SPONSORS LAWN PARTY

The Golden Links Missionary
Society of the Alexandria Meth
odist Church, South, will sponsor
lawn party tonight on the
church lawn at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
Travel Manners.

Coming out in a tender from the
dock at Southampton to a liner New
York bound, an American who hap
pens to be not at all ashamed of his
country heard these words spoken by
some unseen member of the company
crowded in the tiny cabin I'm wise
to these foreigners, so I said to him,
Ten pounds; take it or leave it, and
he needed the money so bad that he
let me have it for that
The traveller recognized at once that
he was indeed headed homeward. The
voice, the manner the attitude of the
successful bargainer were those of a
fellow countryman. Practically all
the citizens of the United States one
encounters in Europe are wise to
these foreigners" and many make
their wisdom known to all who per-
force must listen. Hence much of the
dislike which these foreigners" feel
toward Yankee" tourists.
But Americans are not the only Of
tenders against the unwfitten code Of
Evening star., 1934-03-15
travel manners. Russians, Germans,

travel manners. Russians, Germans,
Frenchmen, Italians, Canadians and
Australians also may be noisy, bel
ligerent. quarrelsome, boastful and
greedy. Rudeness is a common fall
ing among all types of men. The
most aristocratic Of aristocrats may
be intolerant, mean, presumptuous
Perhaps the discourtesy so conspicu-
Gus among travellers is a relic of the
era when accommodations were so
scant that it was imperative either to
battle or bribe to obtain even a modi-
cum OF comfort or convenience.
Whatever its causes, the problem is
both large and general Those who 20
about New York In the subways or
about Washington in trolley cars or
busses are familiar with the fact that
a higher standard of manners is
wanted. Each trip has it's lesson in
that regard. People there are who
appear to make it an invariable prac-
tice to be as annoying as possible
Their conduct is resented but rarely
is anything done about it. The vic
Tins submit with a fatalistic convic-
tion that 1t is lust one of those
things" But many little Mr.. Milque-
toast on occasion must long for the
power of Jack Dempsey to punish
some particularly offensive individual.
Maybe the day at last will dawn
when good manners will become con-
tagious enough to bring about the
correction so sadly needed. Mean
while, every traveller who does not
wish to be hated by his temporary
companions can make it a personal
rule not to be any more of nuisance
than he can help.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
How City Post Office Work Was
Done in the Old SeatOn Building

, to move 1t about yard-then gave
up in despair sat down on the sack
and burst out crying II can't do it."
he walled. I'm just not strong
enough-and I need the job. I've got
an old mother to care for. How dis
appointed she will bel I reported
the case to H. P. and said what I
could for the boy. Well. H. P. had
the reputation Of being a hard
boiled boss, "a savage chief of still
more savage men," but he had
heart. and the boy was put at work
which did not demand brute strength
and made good
Another nice clean little job we
Clerks had to do The Mail Bag
Repair Shop was on the upper floors
of the old building and our duty was
to pack all the old dirty bags that
came in on the elevator and pull it
up. Often load came which We
could not then stop to handle and
they were just dumped down the ele-
vator shaft to the cellar, where-at
our leisure G)-We could dispose of
them. You note I said pull them up"
1 mean just that, for the elevator
worked only by hauling on the big
rope which ran over pulley at the
top of the building, and it was
mans job.
We had one "lavatory"-as it would
be called now, though to US it was
simply a wash bowl Near it reposed
hunk of Rabbits Best Laundry Soap,
and a roller towel, replaced semi
occasionally by comparatively whole
and clean one, did duty for the whole
gang. absorbing what dirt 'he Babbit
loosened-or failed to remove We
had not at that time learned the word
sanitary" and perhaps it was just as
well.
When there was a very heavy lain
the water had habit Of backing from
the sewer and up through our ele-
CANT wash-bowl. and one night had
to take hatchet and cut a hole in
the floor to let it run into the cellar
to avoid wetting the bags Of mail
on the racks.
The old building was at times in
spected by the District building in
spector (Entwistle, believe), and re-
peatedly condemned as unsafe, but
nothing was done to "shore it up" as
recommended. One day, after an in
spection, the inspector came to us and
said: Boys, there is a weight of 80
tons-bags and machinery-hanging
over your heads. If you ever see a
crack in the wall, or hear a noise you
don't understand, get out of here
id quick, and don't stop to get
your hats. II that mess ever starts
it will never stop until 1t hits the
cellar" Just how near such tragedy
as later happened at the old Ford
Theater building came to being here
first enacted is hard to say, but GER
tain it is that for many weeks we
worked with this menace hanging
over our heads, never knowing what
moment We might have to run for
our lives-or be crushed under tons
of brick and timber-a sacrifice to
Government "red tape" and neglect.
Such were the handicaps under
which we worked, but I don't recol-
lect that there was half the kicking
done by the clerks that there is
now, nor as much talk in Congress Of
what should be done to remedy work
ing conditions" of Government en-
ployes Perhaps some of them need
to go through the mill we did to cause
them to realize present advantages?
Vienna, Va. j. F. OERTEL.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
Prompt Remedy.

Establishment of additional branch
stations to handle emergency relief
in the District and the assignment
Of policemen to the work of investi-
eating the immediate needs Of ap-
plicants for relief are important steps
in expediting response to pleas for
emergency aid. But what seems
equally important is the attitude of
officials toward criticism Of the
tardiness with which relief machinery
has In certain cases functioned.
Neither Commissioner Allen nor Leroy
Halbert, relief director, has been con-
cerned with defense of shortcomings.
Their wholehearted desire has been
to correct, by any means at hand,
the conditions that contribute to un-
necessary delay in furnishing emer-
gency assistance.
Everybody must realize the tre-
mendous task created through the
assumption of emergency relief re-
sponsibility by a public agency. The
increase in demands for relief has
been great. The capacity of the ma
chinery to handle the demands has
been sorely taxed. There will neces-
sarily continue to be certain imper-
fections in its operation. But this
does not alter the fact that the de-
lection of faults and their correction
to increase efficiency is the common
aim Of taxpayers and officials alike.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
Britain's Treaty Navy.

Great Britain, with the approval Of
toward the construction of a treaty
navy, thus paralleling action with re-
Spect to the United States Navy lately
taken by Congress BY the end OF
1886, when the present naval limita-
ton treaties expire, the British fleet
will possess in all categories of ships
the full total tonnage permitted under
those treaties.
Current appropriations, compre-
hending 1884 expenditure, are $751;
274000, representing an increase Of
SIS 5,138,4 400 over last year The Brit
ish require to spend less money sud
denly than We do. to attain treaty
navy dimensions, because they have
sensibly been steadily gravitating to-
ward those levels over a period of
years since the Washington Confer
ence Of 1922, while the United
States has as Systematically Jagged
behind. necessitating the provision
now of more than s750.00O,OOO. to be
spread over the next five years, in
order to enable us to approach full
treaty figures. Apparently the Brit
ish reckon on attaining a treaty navy
within two years. Due to our delayed
start in that direction. 1t will be 1899
before the United States fleet will be
at treaty strength.
Apart from the major Importance
Of the British decision to construct
and maintain treaty navy. the Lon
don admirality's determination to stick
to the capital ship'-the battleship
Of a maximum tonnage Of 35,000-is
noteworthy. Several years ago Britain
suggested reducing capital ships to q
maximum Of $4,000 tons. The pro-
posal met with general opposition, in
cluding that of the United States,
which successfully maintained that
the battleship floating fortress" is
the backbone Of a fleet, despite the
contentious of some naval experts that
it is an anachronism.
The British have now come around
to the American theory that heavily
armored large ships, adequately pro-
tected against submarine torpedoes.
gunfire Of an opposing ship or bombs
from the air, and able to remain afioat
under any form of attack, are essential
to a modern fleet and constitute its
surest shield. Naturally, the British
feet, like our own, will include a full
complement of auxiliary craft, espe-
cially effective cruiser squadrons, but
for such rule of the waves" as Brit
ANNA may have future need she in
tends to place main reliance on big
gunned big battleships.
Great Britain's treaty-navy plans
supply ample justification, if any were
needed, for the recent action OF Con-
gress in insuring a treaty navy for
the United States, which is, OF course,
guaranteed parity with the British
feet. These developments are, to be
sure, not encouraging for the cause
of disarmament, but with world politi-
cal conditions as menacing as they are
in countless directions no other course
is open to British or American states
manship.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
President Widely Supported
In His New Tariff PROPOSAL

The Santa Monica Evening outlook.
however, is concerned over this "abdi-
cation of congressional power and its
delegation to the President" and the
Wichita Eagle likewise looks askance
at certain phases of the prospective
trade reciprocity agreements and
states that foreign trade can be in
creased by building upon present
foundations and not by destroying
them"
The development of freer COM
mercial relations with foreign coun-
tries along the lines suggested by the
administration and advocated with
CONTINGENCIES by Secretary Hull
should materially supplement the
American recovery movement. bene-
fitting also other nations" thinks the
Hartford Times. I'VE have had am
pie opportunity to see during the past
few years that distractions to inter
national trade lead to economic con-
troversies," observes the Nashville
Tennessean. They can even lead TO
wars. On the other side, reciprocal
agreements create good will as we'll as
business" Though the United States
is almost an empire in itself. it can
not produce everything it needs" the
Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette sug-
gests, concluding that international
trade necessarily works both ways and
If we want to sell now We shall have
TO accept goods in return"
It appears evident to the Nashville
Banner that "the suggestion of Mr..
Roosevelt that he be clothed with
power to negotiate and promulgate re-
ciprocal tariff treaties will encounter
strong opposition in Congress, partic-
ularly in the Senate" This paper,
however, quotes Democratic leaders as
confident that "the measure will pass
substantially in the form originally
suggested by the President
1T would give us a chance to get
something resembling a scientific tariff
greatest log-rolling games" admits the
Syracuse Herald "On the other
hand" continues this paper, at would
give the President enormous new pow
erS and-to all intents and purposes
take from the representatives Of the
people one of their most important
functions
The Columbus Dispatch suggests
that "a complete analysis Of Americas
situation with respect to favored ma
ton rights under existing and pro-
posed tariff laws should be clarified
for the country and to its satisfaction
before the radical departure called for
under the reciprocal trade agreement
plan is finally acted upon"
The Middle West, the Omaha World
Herald declares, will support the new
program. TT has been the principal
sufferer through the policy of eco
nomic isolation pursued since Wilson
was President" concludes the Omaha
paper. TT should be among the first
to feel the benefits Of healing the
WOUNDS Of that policy"
Evening star., 1934-03-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Final Monosyllable.
This is the way that folks progress:
Since days Of long ago,
Some people have been saying yes"
While other folks said no"
The very longest argument
That you have ever heard
Will melt, by general consent,
Into single word.
Though splendid words are multiplied
BY nations far and near
As Though interpreters were tried
To make our meaning clear,
The real worth that must be done
Is thinking hard and slow
Till conscience finds a word-just
one
And that is "yes" or mo"
Evening star., 1934-03-15

Newspaper comment discloses that
President Roosevelt is widely support
ed in his request for authority to ne
gotiate reciprocal tariffs. On the
other hand, there is considerable op-
position from those who object to
congressional abdication Of tariff
making powers.
President Roosevelt is right in re-
garding the stimulation of foreign
trade as q vital part of the recovery
program" declares the Boston Tran
script. This would be impossible
through a tedious and log rolling gen.
eral tariff revision, especially when
time is one of the essential elements
OF the program; and Secretary Hull
made no more practical point before
the Committee on Ways and Means
this week than when he said that
many important foreign nations had
equipped their executives to make
trade agreements, which they had
been doing for the last two years,
while the United States remained
helpless to take any action Of that
kind"
lIG IdI IOoI- 4l4OuAlC AAAlNio N'oN
there is opposition from those who
think that is too much power to give
any individual, and from others who
are afraid their own industries might
suffer-" but is convinced that there
is no other method by which the de-
sired agreements can be obtained" In
this connection the Brooklyn Times
Union remarks every industrial ma
tion, including our good nelghbor
Canada to the north, regards tariff
schedule changes as matter wholly
affecting the business of the country,
and notifications are possible in every
case by executive action" The Phil
adelphia Evening Bulletin believes
that "even ardent protectionists admit
that in the present phases of interna-
tional trade relations the tariff prob
lem becomes a matter Of negotiations
and adjustments, of give and take. If
national products are to find their
reasonable and desirable world mar
kets"
Thinking in the broadcast way"
says the Danbury News Times, 1T is
likely that this power exercised by
the President would be less disturb
ing than when it is used by Congress"