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The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02

such things should be left entirely to Virginia and me, without outside | interference whatever"
 Tn that case, son, the firm of Dana x Son, attorneys. is no longer Tn existence. You are discharged, busted! You will also be cut from my will"
 Merrill grinned.
 Cut away. You have the final say-so there"
 And you, Virginia" said MT. Macey severely, Twill receive sim liar treatment. Of course, for the time being you may remain here. But you need expect no inheritance from me; your weekly allowance will also be discontinued"
 Virginia stood up and her face was grave.
 Very well, father. My answer is the same as Merrils s. I'll not submit to any such tyranny"
 She turned and started toward the door, Merrill close to her heels. They were part way out when MT. Dana spoke.
 Merrill"
 The youth turned and waited.
 Come back in here. Both of you. This thing has gone far enough. Mir. Macey and I thought-hoped you two would fall in love. We wanted you to. And we got tired of waiting. We tried to force you into this thing-by threats. I can see now we were wrong. After all, every one must choose for himself in such matters"
 Merrill came quickly across the room and placed his arm around his fathers shoulder.
 I'm sorry. dad. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings-but, well, I'm glad you see it our way"
 On the opposite side of the table Virginia was clinging to the neck of old MT. Macey.
 The two old men looked at each other and grinned sheepishly.
 The two young people looked at each other and smiled happily.
 And now" said Virginia, "now that we've won. Merrill, I suppose it's all right to tell?"
 Merrill nodded.
 "Of course. No good to keep it a secret"
 MT. Dana and MT Macey looked puzzled. And Virginia said happily, Tt isn't that Merrill and I don't love each other. We do, very much. It's simply that we're like our old dads-stubborn and independent. Nobody was going to tell us what to do. Not even our pops. And so when we first got wind of this thing last week and were told about this proposed conference tonight, we just slipped away and got married that very day, without any one tell. ing us we could or couldn't"
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02
Fashionable Woman Needs
 Four Complications a Day

A really fashionable woman needs at least four complexions a day one for each change of costume, a beauty expert testified in Clerken- well county court, England. the other day. The beauty expert of the Daily Mail was immediately sent to salon in Bond street to ascertain whether the testimony had been an eXaggeration She was told:
 The woman of fashion changes her complexion as often as she changes her clothes.
 For luncheon party she wears light makeup, with but dusting of cheek rouge and lipstick of lighter shade to that which she uses under artificial light.
 Rushing about town from one place to another ravages the make up. When the smart woman is ready to have luncheon She has worn her makeup for four hours, and it needs repair before she is ready to attend her luncheon party.
 By three o'clock her complexion is old again, and if she has a tea en- gagement or an early cocktail party she needs to vary her make up in changing from her morning clothes to afternoon dress. She re- moves powder, lipstick and rouge, using her second-grade makeup, with all three cosmetics of slightly darker shade than those of the morning.
 This complexion is worn only for an hour or two, for she drastically changes it again for evening wear. If she is clever, she uses makeup to tone with the gown she is wear ing, as much as to tone with her own coloring.
 During a long evening women may remove and replace that make up again. Every fashionable hotel now provides for its women guests as many as 30 shades of powders. rouges and lipsticks.
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02
N0ughts for Naught

The Armenian merchants arith. metic is somewhat elastic, as when he asks $200 for an embroidered tablecloth and accepts $2. An Eng fish official tells of an instance when adjusting claims of the allied sub- jects for damages in the Near East after the war. An Armenian asked for $500, ,00O damages, was awarded $400 and insisted he should have $500. But you asked for $500, 900 originally" they told him. That's nothing" with a shrug of his shoul- ders, my lawyer just added a few noughts."
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02
Snake Rattles Don't Count

A persistent and popular notion is that the age of rattlesnake may be told by counting the rings or but tons of the rattle, each one of which is supposed to represent a year Tn his life. This is entirely erroneous. says a writer in the Detroit News because they actually take on an average of three each year Vibra- ton at the tip is so pronounced that very frequently a segment is brok- en off and lost. Some small speci- mems carry more buttons than some twice their size.
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02
Smuggled Rubber Tree Seed

After Columbus and other early pioneers to the New World reported the strange elastic substance made by Indians from the juice of trees, the world was searched for such trees. A few were found in the East, but their rubber couldn't measure up to the South American brand. So, enterprising English men smuggled rubber tree seeds from South America and planted them in Ceylon. From these the cultivation spread to other nearby islands.
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02
Anise of Parsley Family

The true anise is a member of the parsley family, native to southern Europe. It is a slender plant, tive to four feet tall, with opposite oval sharply serrate leaves. Somewhat branched at the top the branches end in interrupted spikes of small blue flowers each a half inch long. The tubular calyx is also purplish blue adding color to the Towering spike. The decided odor Of the flower spike gives the name anise hyssop; botanists call it Agastache anethiodora and it is also known as fragrant giant hyssop.
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02
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ADVENTURERS' CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE HIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE RSELFl
"Tusk of the Wild Boar" By FLOYD GIBBONS
 Famous Headline Hunter

IT ELLO EVERYBODY:
 We'll, sir here's story that starts out with another story long time ago got letter sent to the Adventur ers Club from Java the Dutch East Indies, way the other side of the world It from Kaboel whose address Panggoengweg Mo- legal Java, and Kaboel said that he'd read in the paper that giving away money and would please send him hundred dollars be- cause he very poor.
 telling him couldn't send him adventure enough print in this Java, because the from Kaboel
 Incidentally, another all to be clubs custom that all be signed going Kaboel 
 "Kaboel is the have. am blooded Jav-
 do family names'
 On a Weeks Hunt in the Jungle.
 lots adventures, boar hunt he with his neighbOrs weeks hunting 1929 taking with them supply dendeng which prepared with spices. They the for days, walking stopping early after
 
 During nights they slept the ground rolled in blankets After that they in country where the wild boar were Then climbed and passed the night in them On the third day they pitched camp and
The Nome nugget., 1938-06-02

First looked holes drink their thirst They found several and and his dad hid in growth of hem The first night they killed three boars and carried them back
 On night eight clock a came of jungle hiding the on his again. his eyes gaming malevony was ing them like a hurricane.
 guns they using single shot ana
 Kaboels yelled him
 while dashed off another direction
 only of he picked The yards him, the his life but he coUIDNT oUTRN THAT BOAR Foot by foot it the Kaboel the scant yard behind
 Neat Trick That Fooled the Boar.
 There time to climb that tree then The boar would have Kaboes legs pieces with his sks while he trying get Kaboe his trick known all boar hunters As he neared the he reached and caught with his handswumg himself sharply around
 The boar WENT THUNDERNG BY HIM Before he could ten yards and that all the Kabo needed Before the animal could turn around kaboe had started up the tree The boar he just too late By the time he reached the tree again Kaboe sitting pretty of the lower limbs.
 But the boar giving yet. He
 boe then he began walk that
 he went paving the ground with his hoo and stopping
 and then to glare into the tree at Kaboel
 thought would short uccumbed his tired waiting tired waiting for Kaboel down. Hour Dusk turned into night and the night Still the hadn't Still he waiting kill that creature who had sung him with his shooting stick
 Kaboe Tied Himself in the Tree.
 Kaboel getting sleepy but he fought sleep twice caught himself falling doze and brought himself awake just landed the ground would be ripped and ramed death by the boar in matter of seconds-minutes at the most.
 Still he body fatigue He searched his pocketnd found Picking comfortable spot the branches of the tree he tied himself to the trunk
 Sleeping nothing the Javanese sraddng uncomfortable enough taking secured He dozed when he awoe again morning The boar 1n, animals mid daylight Kaboel And Kaboel climbed down the tree and started back to
Evening star., 1938-02-28
"TOOtle Horn
Say japanese
Traffic Rules

The dos and donts for English
speaking motorists in Japan were
translated recently in 4 Japanese city.
and printed copies were passed out
to tourists. The list Of rules. reprinted
by the Civilian Conservation Corps
Safety Bulletin from the official bull
le:in Of the United States engineer
Office in Providence, R. l., follows:
AT the rise of the hand Of the
policeman stop rapidly. Do not pass
him by or otherwise disrespect him.
If pedestrian obstacle your path,
tootle horn melodiously. II he con-
tinues obstacle, tootle horn vigorously
and give vocal warning, such as Hay
Hay.
If wandering horse by roadside
obstacle your path, beware that he
do not take fright as you pass him.
Go soothingly by or stop by roadside
till he pass away.
If road NOPE obstacle your path,
refrain from pass on hill or curve
Follow patiently till road arrive at
straight, level stretch. then tootle
horn melodiously and step on. pass
ing at left and waving hand courte-
'ously to honorable road NOPE in
passing.
Beware of greasy corner where
lurk skid demon. Cease step on. ap-
proach slowly, round cautiously, re-
sumo step on gradually
Evening star., 1938-02-28
DEATHF0R EDITOR
URGED IN MOSCOW
Stage Set for Purge Trial of
21-SensationaI Dis
closures Seen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. Feb. 2s.-The two lead
ing Soviet newspapers, Pravda and
1zvestia, both edited at various times
by Nikolai Bucharin, indicated today
that death awaited him and 20 others
who are to go on trial Wednesday in
the latest episode Of Joseph Stains
purge Of enemies Of his regime.
The stage was set for one Of the
most sensational OF Russia's recent
series OF trials of fallen Soviet lead
ers. Treason and murder were the
main charges. The list Of defendants
was larger than in any Of the previous
Moscow trials.
Pravda. Communist party organ.
said the accused would pay dearly"
for the lives Of Maxim Gorky, the
famous writer: Vyacheslaff Menzhin-
sky. once head Of the secret police.
and Valerian V. Kuibishef1, chief Of
the first five-year plan.
Deaths Basis of Charges.
The deaths of these three, previously
laid to natural causes, were, in part,
the basis of charges of q murder
treason plot on which the 81 will be
tried before military tribunal.
Izvestia, the government organ. said
Nothing and nobody will save them"
Implying that Gorky had been
poisoned, Izl lestia used the metaphor: !:
The snakes bite was fatal to the
lion"
Joseph E. Davies, retiring United
States Ambassador to the Soviet
Union. was expected to follow the
trial with unusual interest since one
Of the defendants, N. N. Krestinsky.
former assistant foreign commisssr,
was the first Soviet official to receive
him when he took the Moscow post.
Davies saw Krestinsky in January,
1887. to ask for an appointment with
Michael Kalinin, head of the All-Rus-
sia Central Executive Committee, to
present his credentials.
Romm May Re Called.
Whether Vladimir Romm. former
Washington correspondent of the news
paper IZvestia, again would be brought
from prison to testify against his friend
Bukharin as he did against Karl
Dadek year ago could not be as
certaineG.
Except for the murder charges and
Evening star., 1938-02-28
LEGISLATORS DEBATE
U. S. WAR POSSIBILITIES
Brewster and Izac Use Panay
Bombing Incident to Press
Points Over Radio.

BY the Associated Press.
Representatives Brewster, Democrat.
Of Maine, and Izac. Democrat, Of
California, argued last night the ques-
tion of whether administration policies
might lead to war.
In a radio discussion Mr.. Brewster
said provocative incidents are ap-
parently invited by keeping Ameri-
can boys in the war zone" He men,
toned the Japanese bombing Of the
American gunboat Panay.
Mr.. lac took the Panay bombing
as the text for an opposite conten-
ton
Here was an incident ready made
II any one was searching for q proper
occasion" to plunge the country into
war, he declared.
Mr.. Brewster said the 20 per cent
fleet expansion proposed by President
Roosevelt cannot be construed as
other than indicating an American
intention to engage in power diplo-
macy under the guise of promoting
world peace and security"
Evening star., 1938-02-28
HAITI GIVEN $25O,OOO
TOWARD INDEMNITIES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti, February
28.-The Haitian government has re-
ceived a check for s25o,000 from the
Dominican government, representing
the initial payment Of indemnities
totaling s750,000 for the October kill
tngs of Haitians in Dominican terri
tory.
The payment followed formal rati-
fication yesterday Of an agreement
settling Haiti's grievances. The bal
ance Of the indemnities, to be applied
to the relief of destitute refugees and
families Of the victims of the killings,
Is to be, paid in annual installments
Of 100000.
Haitian officials had declared $4,000
Of their compatriots had been killed in
Dominican territory.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
CHAUTEMPSB BILLS
ONLAB0R RUSHED
Code Measures Constitute
Fresh Threat to Life
of Cabinet.
b. the Associated Press.

PARIS, Feb. 28-Premier Camille
Chautemps, with the life Of his cab
met again at stake, struggled today
to push through Parliament the first
two bills of the proposed French la
Dor code.
The bills, providing compulsory ar
bitration of labor disputes and set
ting up new collective contracts, were
designed to replace the arbitration
law and contracts expiring at mid
night tonight.
AS Parliament grappled with the
labor problem. 1900 employees of the
Marseille Gas Co. began a strike in
which they occupied the company
Offices, demanding a collective bargain
ing agreement.
Chautemps' problem was to get the
bills through before the midnight
deadline. The cabinet was empowered
to decree temporary extension Of the
old laws, but the premier was seeking
to stabilize the situation with perma-
nent new laws.
The Senate, overriding Chautemps'
objections, adopted the first bill yes
terday with amendments which the
premier plainly warned might block
agreement with the Chamber of
Deputies and force his government to
resign
The bill adopted by the Senate was
q compromise measure authorizing
an adjustment of workers wages
every six months, in the event Of liv-
ing costs rising 10 per cent. The
Chamber Of Deputies had passed a
similar bill fixing per cent as the
living cost increase at which wages
would be readjusted.
After passing its 10 per cent bill
the Senate sent it to the Chamber of
Deputies and prepared to take a vote
today on the second section of the la
Dor code-providing for new COL
lective labor contracts.
The Chamber Labor Committee
quickly rejected the Senate COM
promise clause today, voting Is to 2
to return the bill to its original pro-
visions. The Lower House will debate
the question later.
Evening star., 1938-02-28

an alleged plot in 1918 to assassinate
Lenin, the case against Bukharin is
similar to that against Radek, with
Trotsky again an absent defendant.
The impression prevailed in some
foreign circles after the Radek trial
that Romm, his usefulness ended
might have been shot secretly along
with Dmitri Bukhartseff, former
1zvestia correspondent in Berlin, who
also testified at the Radek trial.
1t was impossible to learn from
Soviet officials whether Romm and
Bukhartseff still were alive.
Foreign observers in any event con-
sidered it probable they have not been
brought to public trial because they
lacked the importance Of stars among
the purge's countless victims.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
Brilliant Minds
Seen for All If
ScienceC Chose
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
A race of human beings possessinr
the intellectual ability Of Einstein or
Aristotle can be produced, . prominent
geneticist said today. II human selec-
ton could be placed on q scientific
basis.
Instead, it is tending the other wav.
Paul Popenoe Of Los Angeles declared
in an article in the Journal Of Heredi.
ty. Present trends in human genetics.
he said, point toward the production
OF race Of superidiots who will be
too stupid to live"
If a superman could arrange human
marriages at will, he could produce
results that by present standards are
almost incredible" Mr.. Popenoe said.
"Humanly speaking, there are almost
no limits to the possibilities Of selec-
ton for intelligence. and q race could
be produced, the least intelligent in
dividual Of which would have a greater
intellect than Aristotle, Goethe or
Newton"
Recent experiments with rats have
shown that by breeding the most In
telligent animals it is possible to de-
velop superintelligence.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
TENOR "TOO POLITE"

NEW YORK, Feb. % (P).-Giovanni
Martinelli, the tenor, irked by a light
diet imposed by physicians after he
was overcome by acute indigestion
during performance at the Metro
politan Opera House Saturday, at
tributed his predicament today to
''politeness.
Martinelli blamed his illness on crab
meat, dish he does not ordinarily
eat. but of which he said he had
partaken at dinner party out of
courtesy. He said he would be able
to fulfill singing engagements later
this week.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
DEBATE ON RELIEF

The subject Of relief appropriations
for the District will be debated at the
meeting tonight Of the Monday Eve
ming Club at the Y. w. c. A. Building,
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
Rufus S. Lusk of the WASHINGTON
Taxpayers Association, Sydney r.
Katz of the Committee of Industrial
Organization and DR.. Frederick Per-
kins of the Board of Public Welfare will
participate in the debate. Repre-
sentatives of the Board of Trade and
the American Federation Of Labor also
have been invited to present views.
Miss Anne P. Halliday of the Coun-
Gil OF Social Agencies has been selected
by the club to act as chairman.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
MAIL GETS THROUGH

BLISS, N. Y. R.-Winter's SHOWS
hold no terrors for Edris Morgan, rural
mail carrier.
When roads are blocked with drifts
and other automobiles remain garage
bound, Morgan rolls out his "snowmo-
bile a revamped auto, equipped with
eight wheels and mounted on skis,
plus caterpillar tread in the rear.
1T bucks snow drifts with the
greatest Of ease" Morgan saws.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
FRENCH RESIST JAPANESE.
Wire Barricades Thrown Up After
Policeman Is Insulted,
~ REGINALD sWEETLAND.

ny hErlNAiD SWEElLASD.
Chicago Daily. News Correspondent.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 28.-The French
police hastily put up barbed wire bar
ricsdes. turned out armored-car ma
chine guns, and threw special police
cordons across the boundary between
the French concession and the Inter-
national Settlement at the Bund,
shortly after noon today when jap
enese troops attempted to take SO
military trucks through the concession.
For two hours the situation was the
most critical in Shanghai's hectic
career since the war moved westward.
A japanese soldier drew a pistol and
struck a French policeman across the
face, but second japanese drew his
bayonet and knocked the pistol from
his companions hand Other troops,
some obviously under the influence of
liquor, jeered at the British Shanghai
Club and passing Britishers, while
mobs of Chinese gathered and re-
mained milling around for two hours
until the japanese soldiers withdrew
in their trucks.
While the Franch authorities have
been permitting limited number of
Japanese troops, aboard trucks and
military cars, to pass through the
concession en- route to war-devastated
Nantao. the French today declared
that the Japanese had exceeded the
usual daily quota, and hence believed
1t expedient to refuse them transit.
This was the second unpleasant
incident in the last "a hours and fol-
lows the attack by Japanese soldier
on two Germans, horseback riding in
the Hungjao area in western Shang-
hal. The soldier inflicted serious
eye wound on DR.. Edward Brit, call
ing him an English pig" DR.. Brit
: and his companion, Hans Tiefen-
bacher, were saved by the timely in
tervention of two Chinese members
Of the newly formed Chinese admin
istration police force.
Early this morning japanese mill
tary and consular officials expressed
regrets and promised to take the nee
essary steps" against the assailant
who, 1t has been revealed, is a cook
attached to the Japanese army and
supply corps.
(copyriEht. 1888, by Chicago Daily News,
Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-02-28
Fire Engine Gas Proof.

To be prepared for air raids, Pres
ton. England, has purchased fire
engine which is inclosed 50 that the
fireman in charge may work inside
and be protected from poison gas. All
the other fire fighters have been
equipped with gas masks.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
FRANCE TO PRESERVE
POLYNESIAN TEMPLE
Ancient Edifice in Tahitian


Islands Was Scene of Many
Human Sacrifices.
By the Associated Press.
PAPEETE. Tahiti.-The ancient
temple of Tapu Ia Puatea on the
Island Of RaiateA, scene of human
sacrifices in prehistoric times, is to
be preserved under a decree by the
President Of France. The edict Is
intended to salvage all traces Of
ancient Polynesian culture in French
Oceania.
The notes of ]. M. Orsmond, an
early missionary, recently edited by
his granddaughter, Miss Teuira Henry.
describe Tapu Ia Puatea as the most
ancient of all royal "marae," or island
temples.
Considerable damage has been done
by trees growing through the temple
masonry, but scientists say the struc-
ture can be restored.
Evening star., 1938-02-28
BALKANS RECOGNIZE
ETHIOPIAN CONQUEST
Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania and
Turkey Make Decision
at Conference.

p the Associated Press.
ANKARA. Turkey, Feb. 28.-The
Balkan entente countries - Greece,
Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey
decides today to recognize Italys
conquest of Ethiopia.
An announcement to this effect
was made at the conclusion of the
countries conference on Balkan af-
fairs.
The four states also decided to send
commercial agents to Gen. Francisco
Franco, leader of insurgent Spain,
although they will continue their
policy Of nonintervention in the
Spanish civil war. The entente states
will accredit diplomatic representa-
tives. Consequently, the four states
hope Italy will adhere to the Montreux
convention whereby the Dardanelles
were rearmed.
Evening star., 1938-02-28

Prices Of motion picture theater
tickets In Germany are rising.