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The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-27

The first winter mail was taken to all points by plane. Mail car Tier LeVan has made over his mail sled and will soon be leaving here for Nome.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-27

sale by the above-named Court and the delivery of a proper con- veyance of title.
 Dated this 5th day of Nov ember, 1886.
 PETE A. BLOMQUIST,
 Administrator.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-27

A kid party is on for Saturday night. So look out for the kid dies!
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-27
FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1886.

Boettiger declined to comment beyond saying: "the paper will speak for itself.'
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-27

ness policies. His only direction is to make it the best newspap- CT in Seattle.
Evening star., 1936-06-04
COMMITTEE VOTES
WALSH-HEALEY BILL
Requires Contractors Dealing
With U. s. to Observe 40
Hour Work Week.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Walsh -Healey bill. amended to
require contractors dealing with the
Government to observe 40-hour work
week in their plants, was approved
yesterday by the House Judiciary Com
mittee.
Chairman Summers was instructed to
work for its passage before adjourn
ment. He said he could not say when
he would try to get it before the House
for consideration.
AS approved by the Senate last ses-
sion, the meaSure-Strongly backed by
organized labor-would have required
contractors and subcontractors to con-
form to wage and hour regulatio
fixed by the Government. Some Re-
publicans called 1t an attempt to re-
vive N. r. A.
After the measure lay dormant in
the House for long time, Chairman
Healey OF judiciary subcommittee
brought out revised bill. but it was
Evening star., 1936-06-04
Traffic
CONNECTIONS
THIRD-oFFENSE SPEEDING.

THIRD-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
John E. Wesley, Alb Sixtieth street
northeast, $50 or 80 days.
SECOND -OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Edward j. Sheehan, 1855 Calvert
street, SIS.
Richard M. Williams, 2211 Thirty
first street southeast, S25.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Harvey Gettinger, 1914 street. $40.
Harry S. Walsh, New Jersey. $40.
Robert Fribush, 1872 Whitaker
street, $25.
Joe Baker, 92S New Jersey avenue.
$40.
Alice M. Serrill, SO Whittier street,
IS.
Frank S. Ceortino, 437 Luray place.
IS.
James H. Kerns, 6s5 I street south
west, SIS.
Irving seigel, 4so0 Ninth street
northeast, SIS.
George T. di zerega, 1456 Spring
road, IS.
Morris Dobschultz, 80 Atlantic street
southeast, $40.
Robert R. Jackson, 4420 Sheriff
road northeast, $40.
Albert Tate, 1888 Sixteenth street,
$40.
Jesse L. Richardson, 2sos Fifteenth
street, $40.
Francis l.. Baker, 1920 Third street
northeast, $40.
Flody P. Gibson. Virginia, $40.
Richard Miller. 491o1a Mead street
northeast, $40.
Mack r. Barbon, 1911 Franklin
street northeast, SIS.
Samuel Frackel, 3l77 Porter street,
$40.
Charles M. Ffncham, 1908 Ben
nings road, SIS.
Louis G. Brown, Maryland. $25.
Henry B. Fields, 1926 Sixth street,
$40.
Charles r. Chapman, 2408 Second
street southeast, IS.
PERMITS SUSPENDED.
Harry R. Ober, 5718 Third street,
IS days, second offense.
Thomas r. Palmer, 4129 New
Hampshire avenue, 80 days.
Percy Parmes, l242 Fifth street,
80 days.
Evening star., 1936-06-04

Homer A. Patterson, 1850 e street
northeast, 80 days.
Hilda H. Perry. 1892 Thirty-first
street, 80 days.
orville A. Platt, 2s4l Monroe street
northeast, 80 days.
Harry L. Purdum, s1s Quintana
place, 80 days.
Donald r. Roger, 46 seaton place,
80 days.
Bernard F. Saul, 222A Wyoming
avenue, revoked.
Frank A. Schaefer. 34ol Sixteenth
street, Is days.
Marjorie p. Schauffler, 207 First
street northeast, Is days.
Louis Simon, 1925 Twenty-ninth
street, 80 days.
Howard L. Smith, 1922 @ street,
revoked.
George F. Stowe, sl4 New Jersey
avenue. 80 days.
Nance Suber, Fordham road and
Upton street, 80 days.
Clarence H. Swider, 3349 Nichols
avenue southeast, 80 days.
Ernest r. Tear, Riggs road north
east, IS days.
William T. Tumulty, 49l5 Seventh
street, Is days.
Edward K. Valentine, pit Sheridan
street, Is days.
Arthur H. Walker. 14os Eleventh
street, revoked
Harry E. Wallace, l08 Fourth street
southeast, 80 days.
Herman H. Waller. 524 Park road,
IS days.
Wilson Warder, lilo South Carolina
avenue southeast, 80 days.
Isrel Wiener, 1900 Georgia avenue,
30 days.
Evening star., 1936-06-04
zON|NG HEARINGS
CONTINUE TODAY
Commission May Decide on
28 Petitions-Freeman
Among Directors.

Failing to complete hearings on a
huge docket of requested coming
changes during an all-day session yes
terday, the District Zoning Commis-
sion today was to hear arguments on
13 of the advertised petitions.
At the conclusion, the commission
will meet in executive session to con-
slider decisions on a total of %
changes in property classification,
which brought more than $50 wit
nesses to the District Building.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bish-
op of Washington, was among num-
Der who registered opposition yester-
day to a change in classification OF
property at Thirty-eighth and Ma
comb streets to permit park-and-
shop development. BY letter, Bishop
Freeman said he was opposed to an
increase in commercial activities in
the area near the Cathedral.
Another proposal for park-and-
shop project was heard on a request
for a change in zoning of lot on
the east side of Wisconsin avenue
between the District line and Jenifer
street. Ringgold Hart, attorney for
the proponents, said the owner was
willing to dedicate 1900 square feet
of the rear portion of the property
for city playground use, as an argu-
nent for the change from residential
to first commercial use.
Charles c. Glover, jr., represented
by Sidney F. Taliaferro, former Dis
trict Commissioner as counsel, at yes
terdays session protested change
proposed by the commission which
would give an "A-restricted" classi-
fication to property within the area
bounded by Massachusetts, avenue
Nebraska avenue, Newark street, New
Mexico avenue and the Glover Park
way, now zoned a residential "A" and
first commercial areas. The change
was offered by the commission to pro-
tect the Glover Parkway from en-
croachment by fats or apartments.
A proposal to change the classifica-
ton of property at the northwest
corner of Newark street and Connecti-
cut avenue from residential to first
commercial was opposed by many
speakers, including w. Gwynn Gar
diner, Hugh Frampton, and J. Dallas
Grady. It was supported by Bates
Warren and Julian Brylawski.
Evening star., 1936-06-04

voted down and then tabled on April
80. Later it was taken up again and
completely revised today.
As amended, 1t would require q per-
son or firm selling the Government
$4,000 or more worth Of materials to
observe an 8-hour day, 40-hour week
and pay the prevailing wage In the
community.
No worker under IS could be en-
ployed and "sweatshops," convict labor
and homework" would be banned.
Evening star., 1936-06-04
OAK TREE PRESENTED
Brigadier Rein Beall Chapter,
D. A. R., Elects Officers.

By Stan Correspondent of The Star.
CHEVY CHASE Md, June A.
Miss Byrd Belt has been elected regent
of the Brigadier Rein Beall Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, with Mrs. William E. Northam,
vice regent.
Mrs. George Waters was named
treasurer, Mrs. Theodore Benson,
secretary; Miss Susie c. Beall, secre-
tary: Miss Molly Hall, historian, and
Mrs. William Ingersoll, librarian.
The chapters presentation of an
oak tree to the historic grove main
tanned at Washington College in
Chestertown, Md, was reported.
Evening star., 1936-06-04

Mrs. Reginald Munson was elected
first vice regent; Mrs. william S.
Brown, second vice regent; Mrs. E. L.
McNair, recording secretary; Mrs.
A. J. Webb. corresponding secretary;
Evening star., 1936-06-04

Mrs. George N. Lester, treasurer; Mrs.
John Bethune, librarian; Mrs. c. N.
McGroarty, historian; Miss Anna;
Margaret Lester, registrar, and Mrs..
A. P. Eastman, chaplain.
Evening star., 1936-06-04

You would not trade the grateful
relief and comfort for a hundred
dollars that a single box of Poslam
often brings 20 itching, infiamed,
eczema-tortured skin. You can
tell you are going to be helped
because the very first touch of this
concentrated, yet gentle ointment
usually soothes the irritation and
burning at once. Don't delay your
relief. Get a box Of Poslam right
away. at your druggist, Soc, or we
will send you a convincing trial
free. Just write:
POSLAM CO., Desk 2,
254 West 54th St., New York, NY.
Evening star., 1936-06-04

Although blind, L. H. Barker Of
Redcar. England, rides to hounds,
judges cattle and sheep, runs a poul-
try farm and dances.
Evening star., 1936-06-04
D: "A. R. CHAPTER ELECTS
er.cial Dispatch to The Star.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, June A.
Miss Gertrude Orr has been elected
regent of the Falls Church Chapter
Of the D. A. r., 1t was announced
yesterday.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

Continued on Eighth Page.)
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5 feet away from the needle. /"
manipulates a '1ong- distance" stylus,
which carves the number. II the
stylus moves a half inch, the num-
Der will be only one-one-hundredth
of an inch in height.
The bureau scientists have also per-
fected a projection machine for read
ing these numbers from q safe dis
tance Of feet away from the test
specimen. The average therapeutic
worker can use q magnifying glass for
this purpose without personal danger,
because he might have occasion to
identify the numbers on his radium
needles only two or three times q year,
whereas many times In single day
the Federal experts must do SO.
Since always, by means Of these pro-
tectiye devices and numerous others,
the bureau scientists are able to main-
tain distance Of 10 inches to feet
away from the dangerous element
they are studying. there Is very little
risk to their health. Indeed, never
has o Federal radium specialist
suffered even the slightest skin burn
during bis research work, and perioM-
Evening star., 1936-03-29

is a place rich In Indian iegendry.
The name Hungry Mother" de-
rived from q pathetic story dating
from the earliest days of white settle
ment, when Daniel Boone and his
coon-skinned hunters were first max
ing their way across the mountains.
A band Of Indians, so it is said, at
tackled group Of pioneers, slaughtered
the men and made prisoners OF the
women and children. Among the
prisoners was a woman with a child
about 2 years old. She escaped with
her baby and fed up the swift creek,
blazing a trail by which rescuers
might be able to follow her. It was
late Summer, with food growing scarce
in the woods.
Several weeks later rescue party
did take up the trail. They found the
woman dead of starvation. She had
given all the food she had been able
to garner to the baby. The child was
clinging to its mothers body, pleading:
Use so hungry, mama"
Curiously enough, it Is recalled both
the Hungry Mother and Douthat tracts
once before were parts of what
amounted to a State or national
park, They marked the southernmost
limits of the great public hunting pre-
serve maintained by the Iroquois Ma
ton, which actually was policed BY
aboriginal game wardens" and kept
as public trust.
THE Douthat area in particular,
there Is reason to believe, has
been inhabited from an incalculable
antiquity. There last Summer N. M.
Briscoe, archaeological worker Of the
park service, found five Folsom arrow
heads, the distinctive artifacts Of the
earliest known inhabitants Of North
America, who appear to have been
here in the closing days Of the last
ice age.
In the past, Mr.. Burson points out,
Virginia has been almost entirely with
out mountain lake resorts. There has
been only one small natural mountain
lake in the State, near Blacksburg.
This also has become practically
State park in another way-as q
biological research station Of the Uni
versity Of Virginia.
The Old Dominion's chief attraction
to tourists in the past has been its
historical shrines. These have been
left largely out of consideration in
setting up the new State park system
and are being cared for in another
way. The sites have been selected for
their scenic and recreational values.
They have been particularly designed,
Mr.. Burson says, to provide attractive.
low priced and adequately supervised
vacation lands for those who cannot
afford to 60 to commercial resorts.
Most Of them are In easy driving
distance of both Washington and
Richmond. The largest, the Hungry
Mother tract, Is less than q days
drive from the National Capital
Evening star., 1936-03-29

has handled about 10 times as much
radium as did the late Nine. Curie,
who discovered the precious element.
First Of all, DR.. Curtiss explains GER
tain elementary but highly interesting
facts about the metal, which Is about
sc, 900 times worth It's weight in gold
and sells on the commercial market for
$4,000 gram.
How big is gram? About the size
Of tiny tube less than an eighth Of
an inch square.
"Radium is a f1ercely active sub
stance, which emits three kinds Of
rays, alpha rays, beta rays and gamma
rays, named in the order Of their dis
covery from the first three letters Of
the Greek alphabet.
alpha rays are atoms Of helium.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

for fishing. In addition to the log
cabins, a large swimming pool has
been installed.
Fifth Is the Douthat State Park,
covering 5000 acres in Bath and AL
leghany Counties, near Clifton Forge.
Here also q large artificial lake for
bathing and boating has been con-
structed by damming q mountain
stream. The whole is mountainous
area of cut-over timber land on which
new growth has made considerable
progress. The woods are full Of noun
tain laurel and rhododendron. The
latter Is expected to be in full bloom
about the time the park is opened.
Log cabins suitable for the rigors Of
mountain Springtimes have been built.
Sixth is the Hungry Mother State
Park-3,5 500 acres Of mountain and
hollow along Hungry Mother Greek
west Of Marion, in the Trail Of the
Lonesome Pine" country. The creek
has been blocked to create a large
artificial lake. This also Is place OF
laurel and rhododendron, Of excellent
trout fishing and Of hard Winters,
ideal for skiing and tobogganing. 1t
Evening star., 1936-03-29

eally the scientists are given q thor
ough physical examination.
CHAIL we now make an imaginary
~ visit to the bureaus radium test
ing laboratories and examine for our
selves some of the most interesting Of
the new safety gadgets? All right,
let's 60.
The laboratories are on the third
floor Of the east building in the heart
of the exclusive residence section Of
upper Connecticut avenue. You enter
room 317, q small ofice, and are privi-
legged to meet the internationally
known physicists, DR.. curtiss and Miss
Torrey. DR.. Curtiss is an amiable,
black -hsired man, about 40 years old.
and Miss ToFYey, bureau o6ncials claim,
Evening star., 1936-03-29

which carry a positive charge. They
are expelled from the radium atoms at
speeds Of the order Of 10000 miles a
second.
'Beta rays are negative electrons,
expelled at much higher speeds closely
approaching the velocity Of light
1876, 900 miles q second. Because they
are lighter than alpha particles, they
can penetrate material through which
alpha rays cannot pass.
Gamma rays are similar in nature
to ordinary light, but have q wave
length very much shorter and conse-
quently are more penetrating. As a
striking example from our own test
program, one or two milligrams Of
fairly pure radiun, inclosed in a
leaden tube, with walls Inch thick,
are able to discharge rapidly q gold
leaf electroscope held anywhere near 1t.
"Radium preparations are also self
luminous and possess an extraordinary
power of bringing about chemical
action. For instance, they color glass
mostly in purple and brown shades.
"The presence Of radiuua produces
Evening star., 1936-03-29
By Thomas r. Henry.

face. He had succeeded at last in
picking up few acres and pointed
it out on map. Burson's heart stop
ped pounding. BY a strange coinci.
dence, the C. C. C. camp was Just
about on the edge Of the purchased
land.
The c. c. G. companies poured into
Virginia and the National Park Serv-
ice sent its experts At times Burson
has had as many as 1000 men work.
ing under his direction-and working
hard, without costing Virginia cent
Here is the new State park system
as it stands at present:
Westmoreland State Park, 1000 acres
out of the old Lee estate of Stafford
about 80 miles below Washington on
the Potomac, with a half-mile Of one
of the finest river beaches in either
Virginia OF Maryland. 1t was burned
over timber land covered by an al
most in1penetrable tangle Of new
growth. There were few small farms
on which nobody was able to make a
living. The tangle has been cut away
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Workers From Death Dealing Rays
Ingenious Method Employed
to Keep Element Beyond
Possible Danger.

extremely marked physiological ef-
fects, destroying tissues when the
radiations act upon them too long or
too intensively. Fortunately for med
ical science, the radiations also destroy
disease cells Of certain types as well
as normal tissue. This Is notably the
case in cancers, other malignant
tumors and in certain non-malignant
tumors."
WHAT is purity in radium, and how
w does 1t concern the bureau
scientists? Bear in mind, first Of all
Dr. Curtiss explains), that all COM
mercial radium Is in the form of
radium salt and a radium salt, in turn,
chloride or sulphate. Strictly speak
ing, there Is no such thing on the
market as pure radium." However,
most of the radium salt sold in the
United Statas is accompanied by a
certificate, issued by the Bureau Of
Standards, stating the precise amount
Of radiation it gives OF. Oddly enough,
the certificate never states whether
or not there actually Is any radium
present!
Practically all the radium used in
this country and elsewhere in the
world Is prepared by the Radium
Beige Co. In Brussels. There radium
Is purified in the final stages by q
process known as fractional distilla-
tion," which removes all foreign mat
ter other than the bromide or chloride
occurring with the radium in nature.
The official judgment Of the bureau
scientists, after almost countless tests
Of sample radium in their laboratories,
Is this: Ordinarily. II q radium salt Is
90 per cent radium bromide or chlo-
ride, 1t Is considered Of fair degree
Of purity. It Is q safe generalization,
DR.. Curtiss says, that practically all
the so-called radium on the American
commercial market is around 90 per
cent radium salt. Bear In mind. how
ever. that the radioactive properties
of piece of radtum, that Is to say,
the strength Of its gamma rays, are
entirely independent Of the particular
chemical combination Of radium with
other elements.
Strictly speaking, then. what the
Bureau Of Standards experts are called
upon to do daily, IS their most i'm
(Coutiuued on Eighth Page.)
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range where are found the unique
"iairystones," tiny stone CruciflxeS OF
various proportions. They occur as
crystalline structures in soft rock, from
which they can easily be hewn. Geo.
logically they still are a mystery.
Somehow a legend has grown up
about them-that they were the tears
shed by the angels on the Good Friday
of the Crucihxion. Virginia historians
have been unable to trace the origin
of this legend. Strangely, they seem
never to have attracted the attention
Of the Indians who once inhabited the
territory. Archeologists engaged in the
State park work have found none Of
them in aboriginal graves. They occur
in some Of the oldest rocks in the
world, dating back at least a half bill
lion years.
FOURTH is the staunton River State
Park, at the confluence Of the
Dan and Staunton Rivers about
Roanoke. This tract Of about 1900
acres also Is characterized by lovely
mountain scenery and opportunities
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Remote Laboratory Is Used
for Research Activities
With Valuable Metal.
Bv James ". Miller.

IN A remote Washington laboratory
the other day two scientists, q
man and woman, unwrapped an
l. enormous crate. Armed with
hammers, they worked with feverish
haSte, so that within half an hour
their job was done.
Whereupon the gentleman turned
to the lady and remarked: Mice
going, Miss Torrey. Looks as II we
had something worth while here"
And so they had. The crate, which
they now examined with unconcealed
pride, contained their own brain
child" a truly marvellous new device,
the only one of its kind in the world,
which enables research workers to
test radium, the most dangerous metal
known, without the slightest danger OF
their being unduly exposed to the
death dealing gamma rays.
The two scientists, DR.. L. r. Curtiss
and Constance L. Torrey Of the United
States Bureau Of Standards, after q
years research, developed the idea
for the revolutionary machine toward
the close Of 1885 and detailed New
York manufacturer to build the actual
apparatus.
Most of the commercial radium prep
arations now being tested for purity"
with the aid of the new device, and
others also developed within recent
months, are the so-called "radium
needles" and tubes, widely used in
therapeutic work by the medical pro-
fession. They may contain as little
as one, or as high as 100, milligrams
of radium, and often are only an
eigth Of an inch long and one-thirty-
second of an inch in diameter.
FREQUENTLY a medical agency win
buy a dozen or so Of these tiny
needles" They may have about the
sans size and appearance, and it Is
necessary to have an identifying num-
Der cut on each individual needle, so
they can be told apart. In such case
the medical agency will send the
needles to the Bureau Of Standards,
whereupon this procedure win be fol-
lowed:
First, the piece Of test radium Is
placed under a diamond point and
clamped securely in position. Next
the operator Of the new cutting de-
vice, stationed In perfect safety about
Evening star., 1936-03-29

The cabins are designed to rent for
approximately SIS a week, which Is
expected to meet all the costs Of up
keep and amortize the small invest
ment in 10 years. They will be open to
all corners. The beach will be public.
In designing this park Mr.. Burson had
particularly in mind the City Of Wash
ington.
Second in the chain Is the Sea-
shore State Park on Cape Henry, al
most adjoining Virginia Beach-ap-
proximately 1000 acres of beach and
sand dunes with a backing Of live
oak forest festooned with Spanish
Evening star., 1936-03-29

moss. Here also cottages are to be
rented at bare cost price.
Next is the Fairystone State Park,
in the mountains of Patrick County.
Here q large mountain lake has
been made by damning q stream,
the tangled underbrush cleared away.
the streams stocked with fish and the
woods with game, and log cabins erect
ed. The park has been laid out both
as a Summer and Winter resort. It
will afford plentiful opportunity. Mr..
Burson believes, for Winter sports.
This park covers approximately 5000
acres. It includes virtually the entire
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Acquires Magnificent
SOOOO-Land Donated With Work Clearing
Building by c. c. Federal Expense

~ View from the entrance road in Fairy Stone State
Park ) Typical mountain trails in Douthat State Park
(3) View from the cliffs in Wesmoreland State Park
~ Hungry Mother Greek in the State park bearing the
same name. (5) A cabin in Fairy Stone State Park
(6) One of the many stone picnic ovens in Vrsinia's
State parks. ( Cypress pools in Seashore State Park
Evening star., 1936-03-29

VIRTUALLY all the materials for
the buildings and roads have been
salvaged from the area itself. The
c. C. C. men have hewn logs and
made shingles. They have made the
substantial furniture for the cabins.
The cabins stand on high cliff look
ing down over the Potomac. Each Is
to be fully furnished and equipped
with an electric range. The park con-
tains some Of the finest scenery in
the Northern Neck. It virtually ad-
joins the Wakefield estate, birthplace
Of George Washington, which now Is
national monument under the Ma
tional Park Service. A few miles be-
low Is the other national shrine, the
ancestral home Of the Lee family.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

so that 1t now Is o clean grove. Run
ming water and electricity have been
Installed. Roads have been built.
About q dozen log cabins, each de-
signed for five persons, have been
erected. A fine modern bath house Is
In place.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

Engraving microscopic numbers a radium prepa-
ration for Identification by medical agencies. The
operator B w. Brown sitting in perfect safety, feet
from the radium, manipulaes stylus the only machine
of its kind in the world which has been developed by
Bureau of Standards scientists after years of research