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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-26
Catholic Ladies Party A Success
 Despite Storm

Despite the stormy condition las. night, the Catholic ladies soc!al was attended by at least fifty people who braved the wea- the- and enjoyed an excellent evening of whist and bridge at S. Joseph's Hall on Steadman avenue Delicious refreshments were served by the ladies
 Mrs. Norvin Lewis won first prize in the whist game, Almer Rydeen second; Mrs. Chas. Berg won the lady. consolation prize, and Eddie Shedley for the gents.
 Bridge prizes were awarded as follows: First prize Mrs. Almer Rydeen and Calvin Pool; Conso- lation prizes went to Mrs. Ben Mozee and Arnold Thommen.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-26
ADVICE TO WINDSOR

The suggestion has been made that Edward Wind sor the former King of England, come to America to make his home Before he does he might well consider the advice of c K Stover of Philadelphia Mir Stover heard about the suggestion that the former Emperor might come over here he sat right down and wrote to the editor Of the Philadelphia Record, giving eight specific why he thought the exking should con- slider well before acting Here, he advises Is what will happen to Mir Windsor II he should come to American shores
 l. Hallway on your trip across the Atlantic you will be greeted by l3268 reporters, photographers sob sisters promoters and Grover Whaen-on liners, row. boats, arplanes and submarines
 2. On your arrival in New York Roman holiday will be declared and minimum of 100000 baskets of rubbish will be ernptied your head by way of grac ious sautaton.
 3. You will immediately receive several hundred propositions to ndorSe aXatives birdseed the radio, at S25,000 per broadcast.
 4. Eighteen ex-chorus girls will bring suit for breach of promise (and promise of juicy headines)
 5 Four hundred and five threats of Kidnapping will be to Mrs. Simpson. You in turn will receive many requests for donations to homes for indgen alli gators.
 G. Royalist cult will be formed in California at- tracing thousands of partsans at 5000 yearly dues (including subscriptions to Royalist Weekly").
 T. For the next 46 years the smallest detail of your
 life will be of the greatest possible interest to the demo- cratic American public-Whether it be the way you part your hair or the length of your shoe laces.
 s. Hearst papers will print weekly editorials on your right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution However you will have to throw three Universal photo graphers out of your bathroom every night.
 MT. Stover concludes his advice with the sugges- tion that if the exking wants to pick out country oth- than his homeland that he try Ethiopia or some other remote
 While we can't agree with the Phadelphian on the Ethiopia angle, rather suggesting that Canada ranch for his former majesty it must be admitted there IS great amount of truth in what Mr. Stover stressed We do make our welcomes effusive to say the least when celebrity a near-celebry is sighted outside of Fire Island rounding into the Golden Gate. But after all, why not? Isn't it excellent protection against anybody sneaking into this country without due notice? How would it be to carry it little further and extend Stover welcome to every undesirable
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-26

Speaking building erat6n Of Labor vention William Green of president roared his dapprova! of the tactics of John Lewis and that the would collapse Green shown during his At the right
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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-26

alien that hoves the horizon well the ceieorl- ties? Identified in such . manner the ism boys wouldn't have much chance 10 work from within.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-26
Sure Cure for Seasickness

Scotchman- Doctor, what can do to prevent sea sickness2"
 Doctor-"Have you dirne?" Scotchman-fYes sir"
 Doctor-"Well, hold it between your teeth"
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-26

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Evening star., 1937-02-13
School Teacher
Pays 5000 for
Flood Diamond
Buyer of Stone Mailed
Star Refuses to
DiUuLge Name.

A school teacher who refused to
disclose her name today paid $500
for the mystery diamond sent to The
Star by an anonymous West Virginian
to be sold for the aid of flood sufferers.
The teacher, who is about As, entered
the jewelry store of Gait & Bro. at
GOT Thirteenth street this morning
and remarked to Salesman Carl Hos
ken:
THAT diamond should have been
bought long ago. am going to buy 1t
myself"
The diamond has been in q Gait
window since Monday evening. 1t was
sent to The Star in an unregistered
envelope from Charlestown, w. Va, &C
companied by an unsigned letter,
which said the diamond owner had
no money to turn over to the Red
Cross for flood relief and so was offer
ing the diamond.
When this mornings purchaser
heard that q Star reporter was on the
way to the jewelry store, she hurried
away after leaving instructions that
her name was to remain a secret.
She told Hosxen she was undecided
what to do with the diamond.
IT would not buy this one if 1t were
not for the cause in which it is Of
fered," she was quoted as saying.
However, she made bargain buy,
for the stone, weighing 1872 karats,
was appraised at from $700 to $3.50
in retail value.
The $500 will be turned over at
once to the Red Cross. Galt's made
the sale, without commission. after
displaying the stone in its windows
for six days.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
PHONE RATE CUTS
WILL SAVE $4,000
Tolls Are Lowered Between D. G.
and Nearby Points in
Two States,

Savings Of approximately $4,000 a
year in telephone toll charges be-
tween Washington and nearby Mary
land and Virginia points will accrue
to customers in this area through re-
duced tariffs effective today. The new
rates were announced by the Federal
Communications Commission.
The principal effect to Washington
users is the reduction to a local status
Of calls from the Capital to Rockville,
Berwyn, Bradley, Capitol Heights.
Greenwood, Hillside, Hyattsville,
Kensington, Marlboro and Silver
Spring in Maryland, and Alexandria,
Clarendon, Falls Church, jackson,
Ridge and Walnut in Virginia.
In addition, calls between suburban
points also participate in the reduc-
ton, each charge involved being de-
creased by S cents. The commission
announced the following suburban
changes with the new rates as fol-
lows:
Berwyn and Alexandria, 10 cents;
Bradley and Alexandria, 10 cents:
Bradley and Clarendon, cents;
Bradley and Falls Church, 5 cents;
Capitol Heights and Alexandria, 5
cents; Hyattsville and Clarendon, 5
cents; Capitol Heights and Claren-
don, cents; Capitol Heights and
Falls Church, 10 cents: Hyattsville
and Falls Church, 10 cents: Hyattsville
ton and Clarendon, cents: Marl-
boro and Clarendon, Is cents: Rock
vile and Clarendon, 10 cents; Rock
vile and Falls Church, 10 cents; Sill
yer Spring and Alexandria, 10 cents;
Silver Spring and Clarendon, S cents.
The new rates follow q series of
conferences between representatives
Of the telephone division Of the COM
mission and representatives Of the
following telephone companies: The
Chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone
Co., the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone 90. Of Baltimore City and the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. Of Virginia.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
MRS. SIMPSON ENDS
SECLUSION AT PARTY
Gay Riviera Society Halls Her
Attendance at Dinner Given
by Henry Clews, Jr.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CANNES, France, February 13.-
Gay society Of the French Riviera to-
day welcomed Wallis Simpsons end
ing of the seclusion that has guarded
her since she left England before the
abdication of Edward VIII.
While no further engagements were
announced Immediately, her attend
ance as guest OF honor last night at
q dinner given by Henry Clews, jr., OF
New York, was understood to mean
she was ready to take her place In
the resorts round Of parties.
The dinner-dance at which she
made her 1887 Riviera debut was pro'
nounced q great success. despite 7
eager crowds that fiocked to the
restaurant when word Of the party
leaked out.
The woman for whose love the
Duke of Windsor renounced his EN-.
pire slipped in unohserved by a side
door, escorted by her hosts at the
Villa Lou Wei, Mr.: and Mrs. Herman
L. Rogers of New York.
Drawn curtains and screens placed
about the table shielded the Clews
party from the gaze Of the curious,
while a crooner and soft music pro-
vided entertainment. The guests in
cluded many Of the most prominent
members Of the Riviera's information.
al society.
Mrs. Simpson wore dress Of black
lace with single strand Of pearls.
She seemed in good spirits and danced
twice with Nicolas Biographies, head Of
the Greek syndicate which controls
the baccarat table at French casinos.
Included in the party were Countess
Marie Louise Du Bourg, the Marquise
De Lamberty. Countess Fanny De Ia
Sale and Sir Pomeroy Burton and
LADY Burton.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
TRIO INVADE HOME,
FATALLY BEAT MAN
Marylander Captured After Leap
From Second Floor-Attack
Followed Tavern Fight.
By tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, February 13.-Hale-
thorpe police reported James Brooks,
A, died en- route to a hospital
today after he had been severely
beaten by three men who broke into
Brooks Landsdowne home.
Police said Brooks leaped from .
second-story window to escape his
attackers. The trio captured him,
however and beat him into uncon-
sciousness, police said.
II never saw anybody beaten up so
badly" Patrolman Norman Brooks
(no relation) said.
Investigating officers said they
knew the three men and that two
have police records.
The attack was the result OF o
fight, involving James Brooks and
the other three men, In . tavern,
police said.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
COIOred Youth,
I34OthersOut at
NaraI academy
Failures and Physical
Defects Lead to
designations.

The designations Of 1876 Naval Acad-
emy midshipmen, including James
Lee Johnson, jr, colored. of 1887 S
street, were approved today by Sec
retary Of the Navy Swanson.
Navy officials said the men were
asked to resign because of deficiencies
in their studies and physical defects.
Previously six additional midshipmen,
knowing they were going to fail in
their work, resigned, apd these also
were approved today.
johnson, the first colored youth
to enter the Academy since 1874, re-
portedly failed on three counts, any
one Of which could have brought
about his dismissal.
Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers.
superintendent Of the academy, said
johnson had too many dement's, de-
flcient eyesight and had failed in
English.
Appointed by Representative Arthur
w. Mitchell, colored, of Chicago,
johnson entered the academy as a
plebe in September.
Mitchell and members Of JohnSon's
family could not be reached today
for comment.
Records of the Navy Department
show no. colored midshipman ever
graduated from the Naval Academy.
These three colored midshipmen
previously were at the academy:
James H. Conyers, Alonzo c. Nc
Clennan and Henry Edwin Baker, jr.
Conyers was appointed a cadet mid
shipman from South Carolina on Sep
tember 81, 1872. He resigned Novem-
Der II, 1873, due to deficiency in his
studies. McC1ennan was appointed
a cadet midshipman September 25,
1873, also from South Carolina. He
resigned January Z, 1874, ION account
of being badly deficient IN studies"
Baker was appointed September "a,
1874, from Mississippi. On Novem-
Der 4, 1875, he was dismissed for ap-
plying a very profane and vile epithet
1Caa ACADEMY. Page A-9)
Evening star., 1937-02-13
|ALMER|A Uttered.
WITH DEAD AFTER.
BOMBING BY AIR
Buildings Demolished Over.
night as Evacuation of
PopuIace Is Speeded.
FREIGHTER CARRYING
REFUGEES SHELLED
Madrid Government Claims In
surgent Ground Forces Are Held
in Check Near Madrid.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The taking OF Malaga from the
Socialists early in the week has
been tollo,Ded by activities on all
fighting fronts OF major drive pro-
portions to cut Of supplies from
Madrid and bring to close the
cipil ipar Which began last Summer.
Discovery OF more German and
Italian soldiers among the insuroent
forces has been interpreted as indi-
eating the Fascist purpose OF maxi
ing it an early pictorv.
BY the Associated Press.
VALENCIA, February ia bitter
insurgent aerial raid on Almeria filled
the streets with dead and demolished
several buildings overnight, reports
reaching the Socialist Spanish gov
ernment said today.
The number Of dead was not known.
Bodies still were being pulled from
the debris of houses in the workers
section. Evacuation of the civil pop
ulace, ordered yesterday In the face
of an insurgent advance from Malaga,
was speeded up.
Today the freighter Montetoro, car
rying 81 Almeria refugees, limped into
Valencia Harbor with great bomb
holes in her decks and her pilot house
blown away. The master said an in
surgent plane, at sea, dropped 500
pound bomb squarely on the ship.
Troops Held in Check.
Government troops, meantime. con-
tended they were holding the insur-
gent ground forces in check near
Motril, west of Almeria. and that a
government offensive in the Granda
and Cordoba sectors of Fascist-held
Spain was progressing.
Insurgent naval bombardments
along the Mediterranean coast north
from here struck three towns, official
reports said today, and destroyed three
houses.
Several projectiles fell into Alboraya,
a suburb to the north, and later into
Machistre and Almacera, further up
the coast. -
Bombings From Ship.
All the bombardments. it was be-
lieved, came from one Fascist ship.
As it reached Sagunto, about l8 miles
north Of this seat Of the Socialist gov
ernment, the vessel came close to the
shore, but was forced out to sea again
by the fire Of land batteries.
Residents along the shelled stretch
Of seaboard feared insurgents were at
(See MADRID, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-02-13
STEEL CONFERENCE.
ASKED BY UNIONS.
Leaders Make Move After
Navy Admits Shortage
Blocks ShipbuiIding.

Union labor leaders today asked the
Labor Department for a conference
on the wage and hour provisions of
the Walsh -Healey act.
In this connection, the Navy De-
partment denied that steel short
age occasioned by the refusal Of steel
manufacturers to bid under terms of
the Walsh Healey act had forced dis
continuance of work on three subma-
rines and six destroyers. Instead, it
was explained by Capt. William G..
Du Bose, assistant chief of the Bu-
reau of Construction and Repair, work
on these vessels has not been started
because of the steel shortage. The
Navy. he said, will not begin con-
struction of a vessel until the bulk of
the steel needed is in sight.
Refuses to Bid.
Labor leaders asked for the confer
ence after it was learned the refusal
Of steel manufacturers to bid on Gov
ernment contracts had prevented the
Navy from securing 100000 of
25,000,000 pounds of steel it needs for
the nine ships.
William Green, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, and
John Frey. president of the fedora
tion's Metal Trades Department, asked
that the conference be set for Monday.
Attributing their difficulties to pro-
visions Of the Walsh-Healey act for
bidding firms holding Government
contract for more than $4,000 to en-
ploy child labor. pay less than pre-
vailing minimum wages or work en-
ployes more than 40 hours a week,
Navy officials were reported consider
ing drastic steps lest the building of
two battleships also be delayed.
The Navy high command already
has asked the Labor Department to set
aside the labor requirements, and there
were reports President Roosevelt
would be asked for special permission
to have the battleship contracts
awarded to private builders, who could
buy steel without enforcing the labor
regulations.
No Answer to Requests.
The President said he had not heard
from his requests early this week for
reports on the situation from the Navy
and Labor Departments.
In addition to steel, the Navy is
having difficulty securing other ma
terials.
Capt. Du Bose said that, because
the Navy cannot obtain the necessary
steel, several hundred men at the
Portsmouth. N. H., Navy Yard, where
the submarines Sculpin and Squalus
have been assigned, will be laid off
shortly unless the steel is forthcom-
ing.
At the Mare Island (Calif.) yard,
where the submarine Swordfish Is to
be built, Capt. Du Bose said the work
load will not be affected for some time.
due to repairs of vessels Of the fleet.
The Norfolk, Boston, Charleston Is.
c. and Philadelphia Navy Yards will
have their pay rolls cut in varying de-
grees due to the lay-of incident to the
lack Of steel.
The Navy also has had difficulty re-
Gently in obtaining oil, alcohol, ma
chine tools, copper and steel for its
current requirements.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
Plot to Kid,ap Quintuplets
Is Believed BY Police a Hoax

The story Of the "kidnap plot" re-
putedly Matched on q Toronto Buffalo
bus, first was told in an anonymous
telephone call to the wife Of an Etobi-
coke township constable yesterday.
A husky voiced man informed the
constable's wife he had eavesdropped
on two swarthy bus passengers who
talked of "snatching" two Of the lit
tie girls and muttered confidently:
Everything Is arranged"
Efforts to trace the caller, who ap-
parently left the bus at Long Branch,
were fruitless.
Provincial Premier Michael Hep
lsee QUINTUPLETs, Page A-s.)
Evening star., 1937-02-13
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February l3.-Gov.
Frank Murphy Of Michigan, worn by
his labors in connection with settle
ment of the General Motors strike, ar
rived in New York today, pleased be-
cause "a strike Of such magnitude
was settled without firing and rioting. I"
ut will all be futile, however," he
said, unless we devise some formula
to keep industrial society from being
plagued by this economic paralysis
without destroying fundamental rights
such as the right TO strike and the
right to private property"
The blue.eyed opyernoe-'-~>sded
Evening star., 1937-02-13

TORONTO, February Is Canadian
Press) The government protectors OF
Canada's famous Dionne quintuplets
encharged provincial police today with
sitting every shred of q story that 1.-TWO
foreign looking" men were plotting to
kidnap two of the pretty little sisters.
Police were inclined to believe the
tale was q hoax. They denied reports
the two guards who walk wary beat
behind the steel 8-foot quintuplet
nursery fence near Callander had been
reinforced, but there was every evi.
dence, their vigilance had been in
creased,
Evening star., 1937-02-13
Rich Spinster
adopts Infant
Despite Protest
Claim, That Wealth
Might ''SpOi" Girl
Fails in Court.
BY the Associated Press.

BROOKLINE, Mass, February 13.-
A tiny 11-months-old baby girl awoke
today in a 25-room mansion, no longer
one of struggling family Of five, but
the adopted daughter Of millionaire
spinster whose wealth she some day
will inherit
The child was pretty Marjorie Ann
Maddox, daughter of Somerville
travelling man and his wife. Her
adoption by wealthy Miss Rosamond
Hunt was approved yesterday by
Judge Joseph r. McCoole despite the
objection of the State Department of
Public Welfare that wealth might
"spoil' the child. Parents of the
child had assented.
Marjorie left two brothers behind
her at the twofamily house where
she lived until Miss Hunt took an in
terest in her. They were Richard,
about 3. and Chester, year younger.
Today. in the luxurious Hunt home,
she had all the comforts $1,205 900
would buy. Miss Hunts estate. in
herited from her mother in 1882, was
appraised at that amount last August.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
FILM VICE RAID SHARES
BOOK OF. "BIG NAMES"
Prominent Executives and Actors
and Six Women on List Seized
at Apartment.
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fIeSs.
HOLLYWOOD, February 13.-
Names Of prominent motion picture
executives and actors were included,
Sheriff's Capt. George Contreras said
today. in black book seized in film
land vice raid. Six names Of women
were listed.
Records confiscated showed vice re-
ceipts totaling thousands Of dollars
monthly, Capt. Contreras said.
The raid yesterday, in which two
women and a man were arrested at an
apartment on suspicion Of pandering,
was the second here this year.
Early in January deputies arrested
two women on morals charges and
seized what Contreras termed "handi-
cap diaries" These listed party girls"
by age, experience and physical charms.
Celebrities were mentioned as their
patrons, Contreras said.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
SHIP T|E-UP LOOMS
ON PACIFIC COAST
Sailing of Two Vessels
Awaits Outcome of Battle
on Copeland Act.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Copeland act providing for issu-
dnce Of continuous discharge books
for all seanen resulted from Fed
eral investigation into operation OF
ocean mail subsidies and led to
picketing OF Commerce Depart
nlent Building here recently by
striking seamen.
Maritime strike began last Oc-
tober on Pacific Coast after failure
to reneU contract concluded in
1884, and led to ualkouts OF long
shoremen, sedmen and ships officers.
Ey the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February ia
threatened tie-up of West Coast ship
ping by seamen protesting against tht
Copeland act approached a crisis to-
day, the first test of a court order de-
laying its enforcement.
A deputy Federal shipping commits
sioner here sought instructions from
Washington after three maritime
unions obtained the Federal Court
order to restrain him from enforcing
the act. Sailing Of two Dollar liners
awaited his action.
Act Provisions Protested.
The unions, representing sailors
firemen, cooks and stewards, long have
protested against provisions Of the act
requiring all crew members below
masters to carry records Of their EN-.
ployment and ability.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York, sponsor of the law passed las
year, charged in Washington tha'
Communists" were back of the oppo.
sition to the continuous discharge
books.
"A Majority of the seamen on tht
West Coast are in favor Of the books,
he declared. "but they are intimidatee
by the gang in control"
Effect Of Books Disputed.
The unions have protested bitterly
that it provides a means for employer.
to blacklist men for union activity
Sponsors Of the bill contend it viii
protect the jobs of efficient workers.
United States Shipping Commits.
sioner John Rylander two days age
announced seamen must obtain dis.
charge books before he would give ship.
permission to clear port.