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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-12-02
A GOOD
 OLD CUSTOM

{ By Elizabeth Cole, Acting Pub licity Director National Tubercu- losis Association.)
 Old customs, old costumes, pomp and circumstance were glowingly recalled last spring at the elabor- ate Coronation of King GeorgeVl. Ditch digger and banker alike read newspapers and heard radio broadcasts describing details of this ceremony, centuries old.
 At this Christmas season anoth- CT reminder of customs of the olden days is appearing in our own country. The penny Christ mas Seal this year depicts a jolly and colorful town crier. Garbed in his warm capped cloak of blue and his three cornered hat he brings to mind one of the most popular and ancient characters of many lands--the man who went from house to house in the small towns and villages to warn of dangers,spread the news,and pro- tect the house holders.
 The earliest settlers in all parts of our country brought from their various homelands this custom of having bell ringer, town crier, or a night watchman go about at night to guard their homes and warn against Indians or maraud- ing bandits. The Dutch folk who settled New Amsterdam about the middle of the seventeenth century observed the custom of their home country with the ring ing of curfeW from the church belfrey at eight o'clock. This was the signal for all hausfraus to cover their fires with ashes; then all the family retired. Cosy and warm in their huge feather beds they had every feeling of safety, for each night through the lanes of the town (now New York City) boldly marched the sturdy "Kloppermann," or rattle watch. This he was called be- cause of the large Hopper or rat tie he carried and whirled loudly at each door. The shriu cracking sound re-echoing in, the stiffness of the night made known he was there to protect them In his other hand he carried strong staff, lighted lanthorn and a brass bound hourglass by which he told the time. He called out the hours throughout the night and at break of day he would cry, "A fair morning and all's we'll"
 In the Boston town records for 1638 is a notice of the custom of crying lost animals "a stray SOW that had been taken in the corne, and often Cryed' but without sue cess in finding its owner. In New England the town crier was paid to make announcements and only those licensed by the selectmen could cry without paying fines. Twopence was paid the "cryer" for each announcement made in the meeting house and sixpence for those up and down the street
 Noted in Boston was James Will son for his jovial temperament and his facetious comments. Over the entrance of the Exchange Coffee House building is hand bell with the date 1795 on it, an ancient tavern symbol of "Old Wilson" "One can hear now the clang of Wilson's ponderous bell' writes Robert Means Lawrence in New England Colonial Life," "and the hoarse, thick tones of his voice, as clad in purple cloak and wearing a cooked hat, he perambulated the streets, cry ing Sales at Auction and Child Yx,~f 0S co,,4 ,.nc.yap3, Hn a11uavS
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-12-02

i r. gh. watehmen, were ito inquire discree'ly if tn re Wss any eX- cuse warranting the noise They must especially check dancing, or singing, and admonish the revel- lers for disturbing the public peace. During this period there wer. also two bellmen who went about to call out the hours of the night and othe" interesting infor- mation.
 The bellman came to New Eng land from England and we have mention of him n the Diary of Samuel Johnson of Boswell. He writes. T staid up till the bell man cam, by with his bell, just under my window, as was writ ing this very line, and cried, Past one of the clock and cold, fros- l ty, windy morning.
 1 Some c-iers waxed poetic and shouted their messages in verse YtSZZ LII mick.t .:pilld,c :. - One of them from "Old Street Criss of London" by Oscar E. Norman was:
 List good people all! Past ten
 o'clock the houre l call.
 Now say your prayers and take
 your rest
 With conscience clear and sins
 confessed.
 I bid you all good night; Good night!
 The criers went about proclaim ing ordinances, summoning the citizens to meetings, and to re- mind people of such duties as "to have all cattle and hogs out of the fiaids," or, Have water at your doors for rear of fires"
 Only last spring we found a notice in a New York newspaper (Sun, March l6) telling how the town crier ran through the streets of the ancient village of Hadden- ham, England, ringing his bell and summoning "all able bodied men to report on the river bank to aid in combating flood waters which threatened to overWhelm one hundred square miles of the richest farm land in Great Bri- tain." The account went on to say how Town Crier George Chapman broke all precedent by donning ordinary clothes instead of his regular criers uniform to run through the streets calling Volunteers are urgently needed at the river banks"
 In this country the town of Provincetown on Cape Cod, Mass achusetts, still has its town crier, one Amos Kubik. He made his first appearance at the time of the tercentenary in 1883 when in new uniform with spangles, wide belt, large buckles, and black hat he walked down the street ringing his brass bell and booming out the news of the day. Children and groWnups trailed him down the street to hear this sort of an announcement: Hear ye! Hear ye! The first whale seen in Provincetown for twenty years is on exhibition today be- hind Matheson's store. Come and see the monster of the deep! And bring the children for a lesson in zoology Ten cents admission"
 This town crier came to New York in 1885 and the Times in a write up May ? said of him .. Amos is the only town crier extant and he takes his role seriously. He will cry up any thing but wants it written out in advance. His present method is to begin all announcements with three 'Hark yes. each preceded by two clangs on his dinner bell" . He has learned to re- fer to himself as better medium than newspapers because of some thing he calls instant effect"
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-12-02

FOR SALE-Medium sized coal heating stove, in good condition. Inquire at Nugget Office.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21

OAKLAND, July 81. UR)-Shoot-
ing for match with Fred Apos-
toll and possibly with Champion
Freddie Steele, Young Corbett III
of Fresno meets Joe Smallwood,
Philadelphia middleweight tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
ESCAPE ARTIST
FOILED AFTER
IND ATTEMPT

FRESNO, July 81. UP) -- George
Thompson, prison escape artist. lay
manacled today in Fresno county
Jail after his second unsuccessful
attempt to break out was foiled
by vigilance of sheriffs officers.
Undersheriff Jack Tarr discov-
cred camouflaged hole in the
brick wall Of the antiquated Fresno
Jail when Thompson had been re-
moved from his cell to talk with
relatives. The prisoner had chip
ped mortar from around seven
bricks, using crude picks fashioned
from pair of spoons he had SNUG
gle1 into the cell.
The hole was big enough to ad-
NIT Thompson's body. Thompson,
convicted yesterday on two-year-
old automobile theft charges. was a
participant in Monterey jail break
in which Baby Face" Nelson es-
capped and since has made good a
break from the Hanford Jail He is
under life sentence at Folsom as
an habitual criminal. Trial on the
first escape attempt here has been
scheduled for Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
Tail Tying Fad's
Origin Divulged

BERKELEY, July 81. CUR - A
gangling gent named Pete drove his
dilapidated automobile into Ber-
kelley today from the plains or hill
country-he wouldn't say where
and divulged with some reticence
the origin of the fad of tying tails
on automobile radiators.
Pete said the boys up his way
started cleaning up coyotes. Each
time a predator was bagged, the
successful huntsman would tie the
tail on his automobile.
Poor marksmen soon became en-
vious and started buying tails for
exhibition purposes, he explained,
with the result that imitation fox
and coyote tails appeared in store
windows and the fad was born.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
U.S.WOuld
Search For
Rich, Poor

WASHINGTON, July 21. .U.H-
The United States navy stood ready
today to conduct for any citizen,
rich or poor, an exhaustive search
such as it made in the mid-Pacific
islands for Amelia Earhart and her
navigator, Fred Noonan.
President Roosevelt said at his
press conference yesterday that
the navy's ships and plans would
have gone into action though the
victim had been poor fisherman,
if information available gave any
hope for q rescue.
Reports that the search for Miss
Earhart and her navigator, Fred
Noonan, cost more than $4,000,000
were described as incorrect by the
president. Actual cost of the search
cannot be estimated, he said.
Because many fliers must have
certain number of hours in the
air each year, Mr.. Roosevelt ex-
planned, money spent to send the
fleet of planes of the aircraft car
rier Lexington among the islands
where Miss Earhart's round-the-
world plane was believed to have
come down would have been used
in maneuvers regardless of the
search.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
WOMAN VICTIM
OF HIT-RUNNER
AT SAN PEDRO

SAN PEDRO, July 81. UR)-Mrs.
Leila Medina, 81, a native of Pa
mama, was seriously injured early
today by hit-and-run driver while
crossing Harbor boulevard.
Both her legs and her left arm
were broken and she was other
wise cut and bruised. After emer-
gency treatment she was removed
to the General hospital in Los An
geles.
Radio police seeking the hit-and-
run car, found a small roadster
with battered fender and blood
stains parked on a side street. In
a nearby house they took into GUS
tody Hollis, NJ. Taylor, 27, sailor
who, the officers said had been
drinking Taylor was booked on
suspicion of falling to render aid
after an accident and hit-and-run
driving.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
War Danger
Cancels All
Trip Plans


LONDON, July FL. U.P)-Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain has
asked all cabinet ministers to re-
main i'm Great Britain throughout
the vacation season because of the
danger of the international situa-
ton, il was understood today.
Because of the request several
members have had to cancel plans
for their customary vacations on
the continent, and Lord Hailsham,
who is Lord Chancellor, a projected
trip to South America.
Chamberlain, it was understood,
wants every cabinet member to be
where he can reach London within
a few hours for a possible emer-
gency meeting. Parliament adjourns
July 30 until the end of October.
1t was understood that foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden would re-
main in the south of England
where he could remain in closest
touch with the foreign office.
Chamberlain's request came as it
appeared that the Spanish non-in-
tervention committee work was
dangerously near collapse.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21

LOS ANGELES. July 81. UR)-
Dave Beck, Pacific Coast American
Federation of Labor leader, and
Harry Bridges, newly appointed
west coast head for the Committee
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
Eleanor Patterson
Leases Paper

WASHINGTON, July 81. WR)-The
Washington Herald announced to-
day that Mrs. Eleanor Patterson
has leased the Washington Times
from William Randolph Hearst for
five years.
In April Mrs. Patterson leased
from Hearst the Herald morning
paper which she had edited and
published for seven years. The
Times is an afternoon paper.
She said in a letter to Hearst:
GO. at the end of five years, I
pledge to return to you two prop
critics of which you will be justly
proud"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
Coast Labor Leaders to Launch
Battle For Control of Unions

for Industrial Organization, will
launch fight here August l for
control of the Transfers Union,
labor leaders predicted today.
A jurisdictional dispute now is
raging here over teamsters and
warehouse workers.
Bridges claims teamsters and
warehouse employees belong in the
international longShoremen' aSSo-
citation and the Associated Ware
housemen'S Union, CLIO. affiliates,
while Beck and the A. F.. of l..
claim they belong in the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters
and the affiliated warehousemen's
union.
Twenty-one new organizers were
chosen to lead the Beck forces
in the impending battle. G. j. Hy-
ans, spokesman for the Beck forces,
said.
He claimed $4,000 truck drivers
have been organized under the A.
F.. of l.. in the Los Angeles district.
''It is the largest organization
of teamsters west of Chicago Hy-
ans said
Bridges Is expected to come here
from San Francisco to meet the
A. F.. of L. challenge. Twelve new
international Longshoremen's as
sociation organizers are here to
aid in the teamSters fight, CIO
headquarters announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21

Officer Robbed,
Forced 10 Walk

JOPLIN. Mo. July q up A.
B Sampson. a pairolman here. was
chagrined and tried today. A rob-
Der who held him NJ last night
not only took his gun and automo-
bile but forced him and his COM
panion. Miss Lorraine Shoemaker.
to walk several miles back 10 town.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
THIEVES LOOT
BORDER HOMES

CALEXICO, July 21-Housebrea-
kers entered a hotel and q dwelling
house in Calexico this week and
helped themselves to an electric
razor, 80 cents, two wrist watches,
a child's ring and an undetermined
quantity of silver.
Entrance to the Virginia hotel
was gained via rear stairway.
The thieves drilled hole in a
window sill at the Dave Churno
home, AS Rosemont, crossed porch
and went through an open window
into the house. Calexico police and
deputy sheriffs are investigating.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
Texan Must Face
Mann Act Charge

PHOENIX. July 81. (UP)-Drew
L. Turner, %. Ell Paso, Tex, laborer,
was held in jail here today to await
trial in federal court on Mann act
charges growing out of the alleged
transportation of a 15-year- old girl
from Ell Paso to Phoenix for i'm
moral purposes.
Turner's bond was set at $1,000
after he waived hearing before US
Commissioner Daniel Hurley
The girl was removed to the va
vapai county Jail at Prescott and
held under $500 bond as a material
witness.
They were arrested yesterday in
different section of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
BOYS DESCRIBE
CAPITAL TRIP
BEFORE LIONS

Tales of the Boy Scout Jamboree
in Washington were told at Lions
club Tuesday by Paul Hahn and
Norman Dupont, jr. Scouts Of
troop No. 3.
Scout Hahn described the trip
to and from the nations capital.
The delegation from Imperial
county totaled "a. Young Dupont
described camp life and activities
and the points of interest visited.
They were introduced by DR.. Nor
man E. Dupont.
Bert Mitchell was chairman of
the day. Homer CLANCY of Santa
Ana was the only club visitor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
Auction Philosophy
By d. l.. ZINN

Folks, thought the Democrats grooming Gov
ernor Lehman for their next presidential candidate
and presumed he would be the presidents choice but
looks like the picture changing When the president
lost Senator Joe Robinson he lost his wheel horse Who
will take senator Joes place and who will be big enough
to fill his shoes? Will it be Sen. Barkley?
This is the incest summer [ have far
in my twenty-four summers here. We haven't had over
five six hot nights far These cooling systems
raising thunder with people in the mountains with
cabins to rent for the My barber tells he is
doing twice his regular summer business. You can't
hardly find a parking place Main street daytime
evening" and here it is July 21st.
Some in the printing office made big mistake
and slipped old last week ad in Tuesdays paper
There will be no Community sale Friday. Our next
community sale will be Friday July 30th, sell what you
want to and buy what you need
I'll be seein' you.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
PAROLE ABUSE
TO BE PROBED

LOS ANGELES, July 81. UP)-
The Los Angeles county grand jury
will probe abuses and inefficiencics
in the county and city parole sys-
tenn, according to an announcement
today by Deputy District Attorney
U. u Blalock.
District Attorney Buron Fits.
Sheriff Eugene w. Biscailuz and
Chief of Police James f. Davis.
board members, will be subpoenaed
to produce parole records and to
testify as to operation of the pa
role system, Blalock said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
Central Press

Can ROAD race on Labor Day be-
cause there is no hope of complet-
ing American cars that can COM
pete successfully with foreign en-
trants.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21
OFFICIALS ABANDON
RACE PLANS

. NEW YORK, July q. Un) -
Roosevelt raceway officials have
given up plans for an Pan-Ameri-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-21

only type world middle
photo developed by the u S. Army
mobile unit of the arlerys Seeing department
with familiar basket
pears the oldype balloon frequently
the to guide artillery fire. However when
this fashion, the bag flown from cable manned by
and remains stationary drifts with
tozed bottom
the familiar basket the
with metal rudde the balloon mobility
and speed high 81 miles hour still
ments carried at Sill Okla.
Evening star., 1937-12-31
RECEIVER is ASKED
FOR HEARST HOLDING
Stakeholder Also Seeks Cancella.
tion of 100000 Shares
of Corporation.

NEW YORK. Dec. 81 P)-Rudolph
Kohlroser. stockholder in Hearst
Consolidated Publications, Inc, filed
suit yesterday in Federal Court for
the appointment of receiver for the
corporation, an accounting by its
Board Of Directors and cancellation
of 1000, 600 shares OF common stock
Of the corporation.
T. j. White. vice president of Amer
lcan Newspapers. Inc, parent firm Of
Hearst's newspaper holdings, said of
the suit:
The court calendars are flooded
with suits of this type against cor
porations. The record of Hearst Con-
solidated to its shareholders speaks
for itself. The matter will be taken
care of in due course"
The complaint asserted that in
1880 William Randolph Hearst con-
ceived plan to issue stock in the new
corporation. with the purpose of hay
ing it to take over various corporations
owned by him "at prices that would
yield many millions of dollars in
excess Of their true value"
Mr.. Kohlroser. who declined to
describe his stockholdings beyond a
statement that the amount at issue
in the suit exceeded $4,000, asked
that the defendants, including direc-
tors of the corporation. be required
to account for all profits realized by
them and all losses to the corporation
and its security holders caused by the
sale to 1t Of securities in other con-
Germs at "exorbitant and excessive
prices"
Evening star., 1937-12-31

| noped she was going to make a long
stay.
She was. she said. She was tired
OF the city. she wanted TO remain
with them the rest o. the summer
and that evening she packed her bags
and set off for the neighboring town
OF Goodwin, to visit her old college
chum, Kitty Rogers. She remained
with Kitty overnight. then, like a
Gagged animal, she told Kitty she was
going down to Megler to look for a
job. To keep moving. she knew, was
the only SurceaSe to her tortured
heart. She wondered if she'd ever
be able to remain in one place for
more than day again.
A week later, sitting IN a railroad
station in the town of Rafner, waiting
for a train to take her back to
Sharonport, Hernia began to wonder
If she hadn't better look up good
sanitarium and turn her troubles over
to pair of doctors.
CHE stood up and headed for the
ticket window, having a vague,
silly notion of inquiring about sani-
tariums, when the platform door
opened and a young man came in.
He stared at her She stared back.
Why, Mr. Wheaton,"
Miss Bassett! Fancy meeting you
here!" His eyes had a burned out
look. His cheeks were sunken.
tvhot-T
up this vay?"
Yes. I've been chasing a client.
First to shapnport. then TO- Goodwin,
then to Megler, then to Rainer. It's
been quite a chase
Hernia felt that the floor was be-
ginning to tilt. She reached out a
hand to steady herself He caught it.
She could hear his voice as though
he were calling to her from a long
way of
do you think for one minute" he
was saying harshly, that I would
have kept you as my secretary when
you were costing me money with your
silly mistakes? Why, you're the worst
secretary I've ever had. I tried to
FIRE you a dozen times and couldn't
Then-1 tried doing what you're
doing. I went away Saturday morn
ing because-well, Miss Lewis for
warded me your letter this
thing that you're doing is no good
1t doesn't help or change things.
Don't you know that by now?"
She nodded dumbly People in the
| station were at first little amused
then startled at the way h. took her
into his arms. She didn't care about
the people. Absurdly, deliciously. she
was thinking of what a silly, misun-
derstanding person Freda Macarthur
really was.
(Copyrisht. 1877
Evening star., 1937-12-31
PARTISAN UNIONS
' O'''OiSO ;:
HIT EMPLOYERS
ASK Government Act to Curb
"Provocation and Mis-.
conduct"
By the Associated Press.

~ ehe hnsoClAte0 k1e&0.
PARIS. Dec. 3l-The Central TX,
ecutive Committee Of all Paris labor
unions today stinny informed the peo-
pies Front government that workers
looked TO it for "a more energetic st.
titude" against "provocation and mis-
conduct" by employers.
'The governments task, instead OF
directing its energy against workers.
Is to act against employers who vio-
late laws and make them renounce
their provocation and misconduct" the
committee declared formally.
The statement, adopted list night,
also condemned tactics of Premier
Camille Chautemps in ending a walk
out of 10000 municipal employees.
Chautemps had threatened TO mobfl-
ize the strikers into the army and
force their return to work under
military orders.
The public service strike tied up
Paris transportation during Wednes-
day and hindered other services, in
cluding water, gas and electricity
The committee declared the con-
tinuance of employer misconduct"
was 'intolerable'' and unless it were
stopped we shall call an assembly OF
union secretaries to look into the situ-
alton and take action"
The committee also criticized the
use of army trucks for food and news
paper deliveries during truckmens
strike and criticized the official warn
ing that factories occupied by other
strikers, including those in the food
industry, might be forcibly emptied.
Such an evacuation would heighten
the anger and discomfort of all work.
ers and would result in a united de-
fense action" the committee said.
Evening star., 1937-12-31

en- route to the front on the trains,
as we'll as in the hut established here
She was a member of the women's
board Of the House of Mercy, of the
George Washington University Hos
pital and of Columbia Hospital.
She was also allied with various
charitable societies. the American
Federation Of Art, the hglish-Speak-
ing Union. the Archaeological Society
and the Society for the Preservation
of Wild Flowers.
The rarely lovely gardens at The
Rocks, estate of her son and his
family overlooking Rock Creek Park
are products of her skill in planning
and planting.
Mrs. Gaillard will be buried in
Arlington beside her soldier husband,
whose hardships and triumphs she
shared.