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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-10-28

prised entirely of Alaska food from all over the territory and an Alaskan program. The menu was as follows:
 Shrimp Cocktail from Northern Light Chapter No. l2, Petersburg;
 King Salmon from Aurora Chap ter No. 3, Ketchikan; Crab Salad from Cordova chap ter No. 2, Cordova;
 Roast Reindeer from Alaska Chapter No. 1, Nome;
 Potatoes from Seward chapter No. 10, Seward;
 Cabbage from Naomi chapter No. g, Skagway;
 Carrots from Nugget chapter No. 2, Douglas;
 Butter and Cranberry sauce from Anchorage chapter No. 8, Anchorage;
 Blueberry Shortcake from Mid night Sun Chapter Mo- 6, Fair banks, Alaska.
 Table decorations were furnish ed from various chapters consist ing of individual flags. wild cot ton, birch bark place cards, and Walrus teeth favors.
 The roast reindeer from Nome was served on a huge silver plat ter carried into the dining room by four colored walters.
 Some of the features of the pro- gram which followed for the en- tertainment of 750 guests, consist ed of Eskimo dances in reindeer parkas and mukluks and motion pictures of Alaskan life. The dances were performed by Alas kan delegates under the direction of Mrs. Boucher, who reports that it was a difficult task with the mercury around ninety degrees. The motion pictures depicted na- tive life, local scenes and con- trasting scenes from Anchorage, Alaska.
 Another feature of the enter tainment was the presentation of the Alaskan flag. This flag was made in Seward at the Jessie Lee Home and presented to the Most Worthy Grand Matron, Mrs Fran ceS Haun, Mrs. Haun, it will be remembered visited Nome in 1885 and endeared herself to many Nomeites during her brief stay. While in the States, Mrs. Bou- cher also visited in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, with MT. Boucher's family then went on to St. Paul and Chi cago where she did extensive buy ing for Polet's Stores in the form of Christmas toys and novelties and other new menh andise.
 The Committee in Charge of l The Alaska Dinner, consisted of Mrs. Emily P. Boucher Chair man of Nome, Mrs. Lillian Wat son of Juneau, Mrs. Luther Hess of Fairbanks, H C Numan of Ret chikan, and Calvin C Hazelet of Cordova.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-10-28
California Banker Dies

Hillsborough, Calf, (P)-Wm Henry Crocker, California bank CT, financier and philanthropist, died Saturday night at the age of 76. He was a son of one of the old vests wealthiest families.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-10-28

Save $2 by paying in ad. 1ance for your subscription
Evening star., 1937-05-02

you have somebody who has managed to absorb
tenth of what know you can teach him
about this business, send him along. For cover
ing the courthouse and city hall, writing some
sports, handling bit of copy, covering five or
six night meetings week, besides doing his
regular beat, which is the rest of the town, I'll
lay fifteen dollars on the line every Saturday.
come wind come weather.
But don't send me (a) a Lad that knows all
about the business, because he was managing
editor of the campus daily, (b) anyone who
is writing a play, or (c) one of the class
conscious boys who is member in good stand
ing of the Reform the World Association. l
will be able to bear it also if he is able to
spell little.
So trot him out, Jim, and III give your lad
a chance That's how big hearted am.
Yours, Emmett Kerry
BLYTHE UNIVERSITY
School Of journalism.
Office of the Dean.
Aug. II, 1896.
Mr.. Emmett Kerry, Editor & Prop.
The Mercury, Winnegan.
Dear Doc:
Well, me Lad, you've certainly come to
Evening star., 1937-05-02

the right shop when you asked me to recon-
mend bright young journalist for your poor
old newspaper. I'm shipping you under sepa-
rate cover one of our Grade-A graduates,
guaranteed to please, the bright particular
star of my last journalism class and has the
makings of first-class reporter. The name is
Sidney Harrow, and the kid should arrive
shortly after you get this letter.
l think it would be swell if every young
reporter could work for time on small
time daily because of the broad experience it
affords and told young Harrow that working
for crackerjack newspaperman like yourself
would be worth more than the difference in pay
on big sheet right now, 50 that both of you
get break.
Please treat the youngster kindly, Doc, and
you'll bless the day you had the inspiration to
write to me for help.
Yours, Jim Dryden.
Evening star., 1937-05-02

THE WINNEGAN MERCURY
"Centrdl Vests Licest Newspaper
Aug. 9, 1896.
Mr.. James Dryden, Dean,
School of Journalism,
Blythe University.
Dear Jim:
Here am, starting out to be great editor,
and not reporter in the shop. Dad didn't
need much staff when he was alive, because
everything in town came to him anyway. He
also had old Dave Tracy. who still believes
that all news in Winnegan comes in on the
trains, which he has been meeting for thirty
years.
It seemed all right when left here to go
to the Chicago Sentinel, and l didn't pay much
attention to the paper then. But now that the
Mercury has been thrown into my lap. l find
I've got to do something about it. As matter
of fact, the paper has been slipping pretty
badly in the last few years, while Dad was III,
and it's just barely breaking even. I've got to
have smart reporter, and can't afford to pay
any such money as a good newspaperman ought
to get So if one of your bright-eyed and eager
graduates is looking for a chance to break into
journalism with both feet, here's his chance.
Now (here comes the diplomatic touch) if
Evening star., 1937-05-02

of the facts of life Such innocence! don't
even dare send the child to cover story at the,
hospital, for fear she'll find out things her Z
mother never told her. and that would be per-
fectly terrible.
I've got her writing society and some local
meetings, reading copy and proofs. The rest.
of the town I'm covering myself, in addition
to trying to administer business of the paper.
Your little chick resents the society stuff not
that blame her - and 50 far she hasn't been
so hot.
I've tried to explain to her the names tha+
Evening star., 1937-05-02
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Newspaper
correspo

Dear Jim: Aug. ID, l93o.f y
l might have known it! l suppose it's myt
own fault, but honestly thought that you'll
would have sense enough to know that Il
couldn't use girl. And such girl! No wonder
she got high marks in your classes, you old rout!
don't know what gave you the idea that
l was casting Ziegfeld chorus instead OF
stating newspaper. If you had to send me
gal reporter. did it have to be dazzer?
And you really should have taught her some
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
BulWer-LyttOn Book
Next i'm Times Offer.

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sixteenth in the series Of 20 to
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If you prefer another book,
copies of volumes offered to Times
readers over the past is weeks are
available at the coupon exchange
stations or through arrangements
made by your carrier boy.
Your summer holidays will be
much better spent if you take
along a few volumes of the Worlds
Greatest Literature.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

A few of the thousands Of Times
readers who last week saved seven
days coupons from The Wash
ington Times and Sunday Herald
had their copies of Benvenuto
Cellini's autobiography delivered
to their homes yesterday. It was
the fifteenth book in the Worlds
Greatest Literature series offered
in the book-a-week plan.
Coupon No. / in this weeks offer
appeared yesterday in the Sunday
Herald. No. 2 is in today's Times.
Save five more coupons and at
the end of the week present them
to one of the SO coupon exchange
stations, plus 80 cents library fee,
and you will be given volume Of
Edward Bulwer-Lytton'S Last
Days Of Pompeii."
This stirring, romantic tale Of
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
WOMAN FOUND
DEAD IN WOODS
NEAR HOME
Rifle Is Discovered
Beside Body of
MaryIander

LANHANI, Md, May 17.-sought
since late. yesterday for question.
ing in connection with the mys.
ferrous shooting of his wife, Mrs.
Mabel v. Hartman, IS, Paul H.
Hartman today gave himself up
to police at Upper Marlboro.
When Hartman walked into the
police station, States Attorney
Alan Bowie and Sergt. Ralph
Brown, of the Prince Georges
county police, were comforting on
the case.
Both questioned him and then
ordered hi mheld for further inves-
tlgation. Hartman said he and his
wife had quarreled early Saturday
and that he left the house after
ward and drove to his fathers
home at Boyertown, Pa.
Remaining in the Pennsylvania
town Saturday night an all day
Sunday, Hartman said he returned
home late Sunday to learn that
his wife had been shot and that
his children were staying with
neighborS. When told that police
were looking for him, Hartman
added. he went to Upper Marlboro
to give himself up.
Mrs. Hartman's body was found
in the woods 100 yards from her
home here at / p. m. yesterday by
her 10-yearold son, Billy.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
wed disastrous to the fur

Gotten proved disastrous to the fur.
niture.
At one time the sight of a cock.
roach sent shivers of apprehension
down Mrs. Mann's spine-now she
ronchalantly brushes out the
spiders and other poisonous in
sects that infest her cot when she
sleeps in a tent under tropical
skies.
She's a quiet little person is Mrs.
Mann, with very little to say. She
lets her husband, whose converse
ton is spiced with wit, do the talk.
ing.
Saved Little wildcats
Once when an African fur
trader brought two Abyssinian
wildcats to President Roosevelt
and the President politely but
firmly presented them to the Zoo,
Mrs. Mann saved the exhausted
little strangers lives through her
constant nursing. Today they are
part Of the Zoos collection. Nor
have they forgotten the little lady
who gave them the best raw ham,
burger obtainable several times a
day for four months.
incidentally she can tell you just
what to feed a baby elephant,
snake. lion cub or wart hog. She's
had lots Of experience.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
FRAUD CHARGE
IS MADE

]. L. Poffenbarger, sol L st. N.
w., a contractor, was arraigned to-
day before United States Commits.
sioner Turnage on. a charge Of
conspiracy to defraud the United
States Government under the Fed
eral Housing Act.
The arraignment came as a re.
suit of a telegram from Tyler, Tex.
where Poffenbarger has been in.
dicted. Albert Brick, attorney for
Poffenbarger, stated the charges
came as a result of differences
between his client and a former
partner, who were engaged in SELL
ing and installing refrigerators in
Texas.
A hearing was set by Commits.
sioner Turnage for August II, and
Poffenbarger posted $4,000 bond.
He is native of Harrisonburg, Va.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
ALL NEW TAXES
HERE ST0UTLY
OPPOSED
Commissioners Worry
As Groups Battle
Each Proposal

Sales taxes, income taxes or
privilege : of doing business taxes ?
Or all three?
District officials worried with
this puzzle today as they faced
the necessity of whipping a tax
program for the District into
shape for passage by Congress
if Congress approves their recon.
Observation-Disclosures now and
June 80, end of the fiscal year.
They were between fires on all
three proposals as opponents OF
sales, income and business taxes
shouted their opposition to the
proposed levies and protagonists
of the several systems fought for
their viewpoint.
Opposition BlOcs Busy
Motor clubs appeared to favor
anything but new gasoline or au-
tomobile taxes.
Everybody with an income high
enough to be assessed apparently
is opposed to an income tax for
the District.
Sales taxes such as New York
city adopted many months ago
to deal with the relief load are
objected to by most Of the mer-
chants.
Business organizations gener-
ally, as represented by the Board
of Trade and Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, are
opposed to any new taxes which
would place an additional burden
on business.
Property owners, with real estate
and investment groups as their
spokesmen, object to any jump
in the real estate levies.
Must Find New Sources
But, with an impending deficit
of $500, 900 in sight. even with
the adoption of insurance, motor
vehicle and inheritance taxes
which it is estimated will yield
$4,000, 900, the commissioners and
their aides who have been studying
the problem declared that unless
real estate taxes are to be raised
it will be necessary to find new
sources of income in one or more
of the alternatives under consid-
Grafton.
If a sales tax should be decided
on it was apparent today that It
will at once become the center of
fight in the House, with Repre-
sentative Jack Nichols CD, Of
Oklahoma, as its principal pro-
tagonist and Representative Dirk.
sen d., of Illinois, leading the
opposition.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

Ah8S3@NSN
aprons an event to be remen-
bered.
Tans Prettily
Mrs. Mann is one Of the most
adaptable persons in the world.
She goes every place bill" goes,
be it the opera or the jungles Of
British Guiana. Though she loves
to tramp through tropical forests
in hip-length boots, she insists
on taking her powder puff and
mirror along: And she doesn't
have to worry about her COM
plexion because, being a brunette,
an additional coat of tan doesn't
hurt.
Her home is full of treasures
garnered from Spain, Japan, Ger
many, the Philippines and China.
The guest bathroom is more
often used by baby wildcat than
a guest. The snakes like the tub
because it's so nice and slippery.
Likes Big Cats
Occasionally Mrs. Mann be-
comes so attached to a pet she
has "mothered" that she keeps it
too long. This, especially as far as
lions and tigers are concerned. has
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Record of Convictions
In Traffic Court

, George R. Harrison, $3.50 Jay
st. N. E.. SIS.
Charles o. Holland, jr.. 1887
owen Pl. N. w., $40.
Richard C. Myers, $50 Elmer.
son st. N. w., $40.
Leonard H. Duvall, 4423 Alton
Pl. N. W., $40.
]. A. sampsell. 80 W st. N
W., $40.
Edgar A. Huguley. jr.. 1881
Owen Pl. N. w., $40.
Daniel w. Howard, 1910 Thir
ty-fifth st. N. w., $40.
George H. Duckett, 1645 v ST.
s. E., $40.
John A. Lagana, 203 Third st
S. E., $40.
James M. Streflin, 1918 Har
ward st. N. w.. $40.
Continued on Page FL, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Ken Murray
Says:

I see that marriage statistics
are up since we snapped out of
the depression. When young
folks were going around jOblesS.
1 don't know how many l heard
say that they'd never get mar
ried. But / noticed the cities
kept right on building school
houses.
Now the newlywedS are COM
planning about the high price of
food. Well, it is a little higher,
but what do they expect? A
couple of centuries back. Robin
son CrusOe and Friday lived on
a budget of Is cents a week. But
CrusOe didn't have to buy any
meat for Friday.
When all is said and done,
there's only one reason why two
can't live as cheaply as one.
And that's because it's too ex.
penSive.
Copyright, 1897. by Mcknight
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
TIP
W|NSPR|zE

First prize in The Washington
Times weekly newstip contest was
awarded today to the person who
telephoned The Times with first.
hand information on the finding
of a mans body floating in the Pc.
tomac River near Indian Head,
Md.
A secondary award was made to
the tipster who informed The
Times that an Alexandria (Va)
police court judge fined his brother
for a traffic violation.
Other prizes were awarded to
the alert persons who reported a
fire in the refining plant of Ross
Ign (Va0 oil company, a dog left
for payment Of rental fees on a
boat at the Airport Basin, in lieu
of cash, an aged woman's refusal
to vacate her home which was be-
ing RACED, and the mysterious dis
appearance and return of a Con-
gressman'S automobile.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Second Offense Speeding

Second Offense Speeding
Nathaniel Brodie, 5013 Ayers
Pl. S. E., $35.
Robert T. Jordan, 500 Twen'
ty-second st. N. W., SIS.
Louis Perry. 1246 Twenty-sev.
enth st. N. W.. $40.
Jesse L. Lawson, 1907 Ninth
st. N. w., $40.
Charles Brice, jr., 52s Twenty.
sixth st. N. w., $40.
First Offense Speeding
Thomas L. Redd, Maryland,
$25.
William w. D. Yarnall, 230
Twelfth st. S. W., $40.
A. z. Thomas, 5519 Thirtieth
st. N. w., $40.
Irving White, 144O Meridian
Pl, N. W., $40.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Transportation Club
To Meet Thursday

The annual spring luncheon of
the Washington Transportation
Club will be held in the Raleigh
Hotel at 1890 p. m. Thursday.
Earl A. TRACER, chief of the
naturalist division of the National
Park Service, will give an illus
trated lecture on Interpreting
Geology in our National Parks"
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Child Health Topic

Mrs. Josephine Pittman Pres
colt, director of the District Health
Department Bureau of Nursing.
will address members of the Hub
bard Elementary School PIT. A.
on Child Health" at 2:15 o'clock
in the school auditorium.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Spectator Is Hi
By Baseball Bal

Anthony Tucci, Is, TOO block
Seventh st. s. E., watching a
sandlot baseball game at Seventh
and o Streets N. W., yesterday
was struck on the head with a
bat. Tucci, treated at Garfield
Hospital, told police he didn't
know whether it was an accident
or not. His condition Is not
serious.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED

for vom: No. FsnoFs GoOUes :
Volume No EFankn' AgtO6SsraDhy Volume No Dumas
Re- PsSs ~ scot; No NJ as s.
Book" Treasure Stevenson
coupons 49h
Building 1917
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

I meditated this evening also
on the plan of a certain man who
has been brooding over Mrs.
Roosevelt's idea of salaries for
wives.
The man wants to put an ad in
the papers, to read:
Help Wanted-Settled woman
to act as wife-general, stay nights.
Must have good disposition. Do
plain cooking. Understand chill.
dren. State age. References.
Good salary to right person"
The meditative mind still churn'
ing, turns to the Saturdays
beautiful, big reception at the
Danish Legation in honor of the
silver Jubilee of the rule of King
Christian K Of Denmark.
While we were enjoying the
hearty, smiling hospitality of Min
lister Otto WadSted at the Crescent
Place Legation gardens, Copen
hagen was celebrating its festive
day with feudal abandon.
Fifty prisoners were given their
freedom. Danish sailors were given
50 cents apiece to buy sweets
There was dancing and music in
the streets. Christian and his
Queen, Alexandrine, rode in a
grand procession in an open car
riage drawn by four black horses
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

Oh well, there may be Kings
and Queens in Fairy Tale Capitals
like London and Copenhagen.
But give me Virginia reel on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

Living in the Nations Capital,
tDhich is rapidly becoming one
of the foremost cultural centerS
of the tDorld, are numerous So
ctety 1Donen tDlto, rather than
contine their activities to social
functions Glo1se, haze gone In
for arts In q serious tU1y.
A fen haze turned profess
Stonnl, but most of them haze
studied sculpture, painting and
ceramics, or tDritte1I books and
toStered musical centerS for
their oWn pleasure and that of
their families and friends.
Personality stories on these
wonen and their 1Dork tOtll be
printed in a series by The Wash
ington Times.
At present she's in SumaLra
helping her husband, DR.. William
M. Mann, bag game for the Ma
tional Geological Park. And she's
the only woman member of the
party, officially known as "The
National Geographic Society,
Smithsonian Institution Sumatra
Exposition"
Despite her Size-she Is five
feet three inches tall-the jungles
hold no terrors for Lucy" Mann,
She is an explorer with two SINH.
lar expeditions to her credit. When
she married DR.. Mann II years
ago she didn't know a rhinoceroS
from a hippopotamus. Now she is
a zoologist of considerable merit.
She is also a writer Of jungle
books that really sell.
Follows the Doctor
Mrs. Mann could always write,
however. Before her marriage
to the Scientistexplorer, she was
on the editorial staff of the Won
ans Home Companion.
Her other accomplishments in
clude knitting her own sports
frocks and cooking appetizing for
eign dishes picked up in various
out-of-the-way parts of the globe.
The doctor himself is an ex-
cellent cook and a dinner at the
Mann apartment on Adams
Mill Road with the doctor
appropriately bedecked in an
white chefs cap and
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

A Virginia Reel party at the
White House has other useful pos.
Sibilities, for, as charming and
worthy as the Roosevelts may be,
1t isn't often that they have with
them, in the flesh and more or less
in their power, as many gimlet-
eyed colurnnists and as many
noble editors who fight the New
Deal (because of their souls con.
victions) as will gather together on
May %.
I like to think Of these gentle
men and ladies of the penetrating
typewriters weaving in the figures
of the Grand Change with the
gentlemen and ladies of the Cab.
met, who will be on view. that
evening.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
NOW
Go Reel Dancing
At White House
FOR EXERCISE
BY HELEN EssARY

Home again in my simple villa
and palpitating after an hour OF
bowling and skipping in the Vir'
ginia Reel at the White House.
Old-fashioned dances are to
be done this year at President
and Mrs. Roosevelt's annual news
paper party on May %.
So we went to 1900 Pennsyl-
vania Avenue to choose our part
ners and rehearSe.
The Roosevelts were blithe as
May crickets. I marveled for
the 735, 295th time at the many
talents of the President and his
Lady.
While his Lady was marshal
ing a half-dozen famous Washing
ton correspondents and their as:
sorted brides into weakened
line, I remembered an after
dinner chat with Sir Wilmott
Lewis in the Georgetown drawing
room of Ralph Snowden Hill.
Sir Wilmott, as you know, is
the Washington representative OF
the London Times. We were dis
cuSsing women women are more
or less on the British mind at the
moment).
Eleanor Roosevelt" said Sir
Wilmott, in his big deep voice, lis
q very first-class person. There
aren't so many of them, you know"
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

Undoubtedly Eleanor Roosevelt
Is a firSt-clasS organizer. You do
what she says, brightly.
Other aging bones than mine
creaked as we skidded over the
East Room floor. ..
I'VE used to be good at this, !"
we cried, breathlessly.
Henry Ford ought to come to
the newspaper dance, we said
later. He loves square dances,
Turkey in the Straw" and Pop,
Goes the Weazel." On this com.
mon passion, Franklin and Henry
might make up their labor differ.
ences.
I personally suspect there is also
o Supreme Court justice or two
who would like to swing a care
free foot and bow low to his
partner. Even to "SasS-shay"
chow in Heavens name did I spell
the word when I was 16) with a
pretty lady while the Marine Band
fiddlerS Scrape their music.
In this merry Maytime disguise,
the Supreme Court might easily
be induced to dance to White
House tune. Indeed, the White
House might use the Virginia Reel
for the Supreme Court elimination
dance-now that the battle of the
courts is on fiercely again. And
retire the old fellow who heaves
the hardest as he swings his
partner.