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The Nome nugget., 1939-07-28
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED

The Nome Daily Nugget carries several forms of printing blanks for your convenience - Dredge Logs, thawing and drill reports Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode Location Notices. Vouchers,
 Special Power of Attorney forms
The Nome nugget., 1939-07-28

Bellingham n 1917 and has reg istry of 1790 gross tons. Capt. O. A. Johanson will be master of the vessel which will be manned by a crew of 26 men.
The Nome nugget., 1939-07-28

be difficult enough to train rigor- ously officers and men in an eff fective way.
The Nome nugget., 1939-07-28

You can save 200 by paying six months in advance for your sub scription to The Nome Nugget.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Eve Examinations
For Drivers Endorsed

The District Medical Society's S
safety program in so far as it relates
to eye examinations for prospective
motor car operators has been in
dorsed by DR.. Edwin H. Silver, chair
man of the Motor Vision Commission
of the American Optometric Asso-
citation.
In a statement made public yes
terday, DR.. Silver emphasized the
necessity of examining prospective
drivers for so-called tunnel" or
barrel vision in driving. He said
the American Optometric Associa-
ton already had co-operated with
officials of number of States in
setting up simple visual tests for
drivers. The association, he said,
has had a group of scientists con-
stantly at work for the past Is years.
The Medical Society's Committee
on Automobile Accidents recently
recommended that applicants for re-
newal of drivers licenses be required
to have their eyes re-examined.
Further recommendation was for
amending the form now being signed
by the eye physician recommending
that persons who have qualified for
drivers licenses be permitted to
drive in certain cases either with
or without glasses"
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer has been in conference with
the physicians committee, it was
learned, in regard also to the prob
lem Of barrel vision" and sintends
to look further into the Question.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Rural Housing Plan
Wins Commendation

The Senate-approved amendment
to the United States Housing Act,
proposing to earmark 100000 900
for rural housing, received the COM
mendation today of the Rev. Edgar
Schneider, 0. S. B., director of
the Rural Life Bureau of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conference.
The amendment is scheduled for
consideration on the floor of the
House Of Representatives tomorrow.
Father Schneider, in a letter to
Representative Henry B. Steagall,
chairman of the House Committee
on Banking and Currency which
reported out the amendment re-
Gently, declared that there is need
for vigorous attack on our rural
housing problem"
"Remedying the rural housing
situation as proposed under the
Wagner Act amendment" Father
Schneider said, should in nowise
compete with private industry. In
deed, private industry is not in
terested in undertaking the job.
There is not enough in it. However,
If undertaken as proposed in the
amendment, the money spent should
increase employment in the building
industries. At the same time it
should improve demand for agri-
cultural products and to bring re-
turns to the f11mer in the form
Of better prices for his products"
Evening star., 1939-07-31

Mills. A pipe line is now being
constructed from the Patuxent River
to the Northwest branch of the
Anacostia River, he said, and ulti-
mately it will be necessary to build
a reservoir at the Patuxent River.
Evidences of erosion on virtually
every acre of the surrounding farm
land furnished the clue to the rapid
rate of sitting, the Conservation
Service report said. Half the drain
age area is under cultivation, and
one-fourth is in pasture or is idle.
Fertile Top Soil Lost.
Many fields have lost SO much
fertile top soil that they have been
allowed to revert to a cover of
weeds and other inferior vegeta-
ton" the report asserted.
An erosion control program, in
Guiding contour cultivation, pasture
improvement and reforestation of
steep slopes, probably would halt the
sedimentation of the reservoir. serv-
ice officials stated. A 1884 survey of
sitting in lake at High Point, N. c.,
showed a heavy rate of sedimenta-
ton. A program of erosion con-
troll on the watershed was begun.
In 1888, after four years of the
program. follow-up survey was
made, and the rate of sedimentation
was found to have been cut in half,
the service officials reported
Evening star., 1939-07-31

The younger Mr.. Roper at one time
was executive secretary of the Dem
ocratic National Committee.
Mr.. Roper was found unconscious
in the garage by his 7-year-old son.
Richard, who summoned Mrs. Monte
B. Roper, the wife and mother. Mr..
Roper was taken to the hospital after
being revived by the Fire Rescue
Squad.
The engine Of the automobile, it is
said. apparently had been left run
ming for a short while after the au-
tomobile had been taken into the
garage. but had stopped when Mr..
Roper was found The Ropers had
returned from a nearby Maryland
beach shortly before the mishap.
One of Mr.. Roper's brothers, Capt.
Harry M. Roper. U. S. A., is on leave
here and staying at the fathers
home, 300l Woodland drive. Another
brother is Comdr. John w. Roper, U.
S. NJ, who is stationed at the Naval
Academy.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
tangible Tax Returns
Pour Into Office
OF Assessor
10000 Persons File
With 5000 Missing.
Soy Officials

An avalanche of tangible personal
property tax returns poured into the
District tax assessors Office today,
and shortly after noon Deputy AS
SCISSOR c. A. Russell disclosed that
only about 5000 persons had failed
to file their returns.
Mr. Russell said approximately
10000 returns have been received up
to the present time. His department
estimates there were about $4,000
personal tax returns due this year.
Those who fail to make the returns
today will be subject to a 20 per cent
penalty. The personal tax Office will
remain open until pm. today to
receive returns from late comers and
the Office also will accept any returns
postmarked before midnight tonight.
Meanwhile, the tax collectors s
office was being swamped by requests
for dog licenses, which must be
renewed today. Hundreds of dog
owners crowded through the Office
all morning and by noon more than
600 new licenses had been issued.
Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers
said this brought the total to ap-
proximately 8,000-more than 10000
below the number of licenses issued
during the last year.
Mr.. Towers said he expected to
issue a total of around 1900 today.
Under the Districts new tax law
the Intangible tax is repealed, but
personal returns must be made on
stock in trade t'and equipment,
household furniture over 81 900 in
value. jewelry. boats and any other
tangible personal property. 80.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Heavy Sedimentotion Reported
Running Burnt Mills Reservoir

A continuation of the present rate
Of sedimentation will ruin the Burnt
Mills Md Reservoir as water
supply within the next nine years"
the Soil Conservation Service re-
ported yesterday.
The service recommended an ero-
sion control program as a means of
curtaillng the storage depletion of
the reservoir, the capacity of which,
investigation showed, has been re-
duced from 55,000,0OO gallons to
30 ,000,00 gallons since its COM
pletion in 1890 The S95 900 reser-
voir is in a narrow section of the
northwest branch of the Anacostia
River near Silver Spring.
Used as Intake Receiver.
Harry Shaw, deputy chief engi-
neer of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, pointed out
that the Burnt Mills Reservoir was
a small structure that was never
intended to be used to take care
OF the ultimate water needs of the
suburban sanitary district.
The heavy rate of sedimentation
at Burnt Mills as reported by the
Soil Conservation Service is true.
Mr.. Shaw said, but he added, the
reservoir is used, and will be used
for the most part as an intake re-
ceiver from which we will draw
water to the filter plant at Burnt
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Service Wholesale Trade
Gain Is S5OO,O0O,0O0

A Commerce Department report
showing a half billion dollar gain
in the volume of service wholesale
trade today offered proof of i'm
proved business conditions in the
first six months of 1889 as COM
pared to the corresponding period
in 1898.
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins
reported that the service wholesale
trade volume, including such con-
sumers' durable goods as household
furnishings and jewelry, amounted
to $500 100000 in the first six
months of this year. This is an
increase of $5OO,OOO,000 as COM
pared to the first six months of
1898.
May sales showed a II per cent
increase and June sales an 8 per
cent gain over last year. Jewelry
registered a 26 per cent increase
over the six months of 1898, and
house furnishings showed 10 per
cent gain. Lumber and building
materials were up 18 per cent.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Great Falls
Bridge Bill
Rewritten
Measure Would Give
New Span to U. S.
After Amortization

The bill introduced recently by
! Senator Glass of Virginia to author
lie a new -liquidating bridge
across the Potomac near Great
Falls has been rewritten to meet
the wishes of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and
may be acted on within a day or
two by Senate Commerce Subcom-
mittee.
In revised form the measure
would convey the structure to the
United States instead of to Mary
land and Virginia, for operation as
a free bridge by the National Park
Service. after the cost of conStruc-
ton has been amortized. Tolls
would be charged only until the
bridge had been paid for.
1t is understood that private funds
will be available to finance the
project if the bill becomes law.
In transmitting the views of the
al N dlio
Chairman Frederic A. Delano said
1.-The commission voted that 1t pre-
fers a free bridge be constructed
across the Potomac River, with the
necessary approaches to said bridge,
at an early date, and that Congress
appropriate the money therefor, as
authorized in the George Washing
o1 Do Ant
"If, however, Congress does not
consider such an appropriation feas-
ible at this time, the commission Of
fers no objection to the proposed
/, toll bridge, provided the bill is
amended in the following essential
particulars
Most important of the changes
listed was that the bridge ultimately
go to the National Park Service as
part of the Memorial Parkway. Other
changes were that location and de-
sign be passed on by the Secretary
of War and the Park and Planning
Commission, and that authority be
included under which the United
States could acquire the bridge at
any time.
The Public Roads Administration
of the new Federal Works Agency
reported adversely on the bill on
the ground that there are already
four free bridges across the Potomac
between the District and Virginia
and also one between Maryland and
Virginia at Point of Rocks. This
agency also took the view that 'it is
not apparent to this administration
that highway toll bridge at the
location proposed can ever be ex-
pected to amortize its cost of con-
struction."
Evening star., 1939-07-31
G.W.U. Faculty Wants
New Hatchet Staff,
Group Declares
Seeks Power to Pick
Editors. Student Rights
Committee Says

The Committee for the Defense
of Student Rights at George WASH
ington University today declared the
university's Publications Committee.
composed OF faculty members, Is
seeking power to name next years
staff of editors for the Hatchet. uni
versity newspaper, at one fell swoop
and without reference to those now
on the staff
The Defense Committee was
formed after the Publications Com
mittee previously refused to approve
25year-old Frank Ford Burnet's
election as editor of the publication.
Everett Bellows, chairman of the
student group, asserted Jle Fac
ulty Committee has asked the uni
versity trustees for power to reor-
ganize administration of the
Hatchet, and, if this is not done by
opening of the fall term, to "be
fully empowered to appoint a full
staff and board of editors for the
ensuing year
A partial denial of this statement
was made later today by Prof
De Witt Bennett, chairman of the
Student Life Committee, which
forwards requests of the Pubhca-
tions Committee to the trustees. He
said the committee wishes power to
name an emergency" staff for the
paper until it has undergone re-
organization, but he felt sure the
present group of editors would be
asked to remain in control.
Mr.. Burnet probably would not
be allowed to continue as acting
editor, he said, but authority pre-
sumably would rest in the hands
of the Board of Editors as a whole.
The trustees have so far not con-
ferred any power of reorganization
on the Publications Committee, he
said, and he could give no idea of
when the trustees will meet to dis
cusS the point. Their next officially
scheduled meeting is October IL, it
was said at the univerSity's Press
Bureau, and the initial fall issue
of the Hatchet is usually published
on September 81.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Committee Backs
Virginia 'sPresent
Vote Requirements
Three Of Five Members
Of Young Democratic
Group in Accord
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, July 3l.-Three
of the f1ve-member Capitation Tax
Committee of the Young Democratic
Clubs of Virginia recommended yes
terday after nearly two years of
study that the present requirements
for voting in the State remain un-
changed
Dean M. Ray Doubles of the Uni
verslty of Richmond Law School
submitted minority report urging
a change requiring payment of one
years poll tax instead of three as
a prerequisite to voting.
The fifth member of the group,
Daniel Weymouth, Heathsville. said
he would present another minority
report later differing rather
sharply" from the other committee
members.
The viewpoints on the subject will
be placed formally before the State
convention of Young Democrats at
Roanoke August 1926. President
Robert Lane Anderson, Marion, said
a suggestion that the clubs poll the
membership individually on the poll
tax question would be made there.
The majority report said: THE
payment of any poll tax merely evi-
dences the taxpayers interest in
public affairs, and the further re-
qulrement of the payment of such
tax for three years is but a further
requirement evidencing a more sin
cere. bona fide, and sustained inter-
est.
TO modify the requirement from
three years to one year would not be
a test of sustained interest, and
would permit greater opportunity for
the unscrupulous citizen to pay the
poll taxes of others for the year of
a particular election only"
Dean Doubles also proposed that
persons with incomes of less than
$500 a year be permitted to donate
one day of work in payment of the
poll tax. The majority termed this
too cumbersome to be practical"
and open to corruption in its ad-
ministration."
Committee members concurring in
the majority report were Mrs. joan
Marshall, Newport News: Charles R..
Fenwick. East Falls Church, and
Richard S. Wright, jr., Woodstock.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Marine Battalion
Begins Training
Al Quantico
1t. Burrows Receives
Captains Commission
As Truin Leaves

The 5th Battalion. Fleet Marine
Corps Reserve, left Washington yes
terday for its tenth annual field
training period at Quantico, Va. The
only units not participating we're
Company E of Alexandria and Com
pany G of Roanoke.
They will join the rest of the bat
talon, however, on August 13, when
a parade. review and inspection will
be held upon return here. This will
be the first time that the full
strength of the battalion, 526 men,
has been mustered in the District,
The marines arrived at Quantico
with one more captain in their
ranks than when they first gathered
at Union Station. A commission
signed by Acting Secretary of the
Navy Edison arrived just as the men
swung on board their train. It was
presented to First 1t. William J.
Burrows, commanding officer of the
headquarters company. Capt. Bur-
rows practices law here.
Just four of those who bepan
training 10 years ago still remain in
the battalion. They are 1t. Col
Harvey L. Miller, Capt. John e
Fondahl, Gunner Myron E. Thomp-
son and First Sergt. Harry w. War
ner. Capt. Fondahl was not with
MS men yesterday, since he is on
duty at Camp Perry, Ohio, prepar-
ing for national rifle matches.
Pvt. Maynard Daniels, former Dis
trlct amateur boxing champion, flew
all the way from San Francisco
where he is now a professional
heavyweight boxer, to rejoin his
company.
The unit commanders are 1t. Col
Harvey L. Miller, Maj. William w.
Stickney, Capt. William J. Bur-
rows, 1t. Comdr. Don S. Knowlton
First 1t. Arthur E. Harper, Capt.
John w. Augustine, First 1t. Robert
E. Copes, Capt. Justice M. Chambers,
Capt. Otto L. Rogers, First 1t. Al
fred E. Marks. Capt. Ralph M. King
and Capt. Charles B. Nerren.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Rites for foot Man

UNDERHILL, VT, July 81 (P.-
Funeral services were arranged to-
day for 7-foot-tall Hiram Bogue, rs,
whose family gained local fame as
the "tallest in the world" because
all 10 children were over 6 feet and
some of his sons over Z.
Mr.. Bogue left his widow, who was
OF ordinary height; seven sons and
three daughters, Tallest of the 10
is Max Bogue ceBurlington. 7 feet 2
inches.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
R. F. G. Aide to Make
Survey of Ecuador
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
Of11cials disclosed today that
Frank w. Fetter, representative
of the Reconstruction Finance Corp,
had left for Ecuador at that govern
ment's request to make general
economic survey of the South Amer
ican Republic.
Regarding reports from the Ecua-
dorean capital that loan might
be requested by that country, State
Department officials and Ambassa-
dor Colon Eloy Alfaro declined COM
ment.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Purse Snutchers
Rob Two Women

Shirley Edwards, 922 Seventeenth
street NV, reported that her
purse, contained SITS, was snatched
from her by a colored man as
she walked near Fifteenth and X
streets NV. early yesterday.
Mrs. Helen DAILY, 453 Massachu-
sets avenue NV, told police that
a colored youth seized her purse,
containing IS, yeaterday near her
home.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
D. c. Ruinbow Veterans
Elect Witherite

James E. Witherite will head the
District Chapter of the Rainbow Di-
vision Veterans during the coming
year, it was announced today. Ber-
nard v. Rhodes was named honorary
president.
Other officers include Frank M.
Stockton, first vice president; Walter
E. Fillman, second vice president;
Col. A. L. Smith, third vice presi-
dent; Maj. H. j. Bryson, fourth vice
president; Joseph M. Cohen, secre-
tary; Irving H. Silverberg, treasurer;
Frank E. Hill, sergeant at arms, and
Fred w, Jordan, color sergeant.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

of his home at
1925 Woodland
drive NV, was
reported recover
ing today in
Emergency Hos
pital.
Mr.. r op e r,
who is president
of an air-condi-
tioning firm, is
a son of former
S e CT e t ary OF
Commerce Dan
iel c. Roper,
now Minister to
Canada and who
ic in nffau,a
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Baby and Man
Are Killed in
Hit-Run Crash
Eight Others Hurt
In Accident Near
Laurel
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters. for the
24-hour period ending at 8 am.
yesterday:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, SO.
Motorists injured. II.
Motorists arrested, 265.
Pedestrians injured, IL.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, %.
The traffic record for the "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured, T.
Motorists arrested. rs.
Pedestrians injured. 5.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, 3.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

cally injured in the same crash. DR..
Tuckerman lives at 1920 H street
NV.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tully Atkins and
their 8-year-old son Jack of Alex
andria, Va, were hurt in an acci-
dent in Charlottesville "a, yester-
day in which six other ersons were
injured.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Bond Concerts

BY the United States Navy Band
at the east front of the Capitol
tonight at 730 o'clock 1t. Charles
Benter leader; Charles Brendler,
assistant leader.
The Program.
March, "Flagships of the Air"
1t. Benter
Rhapsody. Second Hungarian
Rhapsody List
Solo for trombone, "reminiscences
of Switzerland" -Liberati
Musician Homer Phillips.
Waltzes from The Rosenkavalier,"
Strauss
''Toccato and Fugue in D Minor
Bach
Humoresque on The Music Goes
Round and Round" arr. Weber
Symphonic Poem, Universal
Judgement -Nardis
Tone poem, "Finlandia" Sibelius
The National Anthem
BY the United States Army Band
in the District of Columbia World
War Memorial tonight at 7:30
o'clock. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader; Karl Hubner, assistant
The Program.
March, Colosseum" Vandercook
Overture. Prince Igor" Borodine
Modern medley, 'Rhythmoods,
Ellington
Lyric piece, Midsummer Nights
Serenade"- AlbeniZ
Quartet, Two Pairs of Slippers"
Putnam
Messrs. Keig Garvin Clarence
Hurrel, Randolph Walters and
William Vogelson, trombonists.
Mosaic, Operate Favorites" Tobani
Poetic mood, Scenes From the
Sierras- Bennett
March, King Cotton" Sousa
The Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine
Band at the Marine Barracks to-
night at 8 o'clock. Capt. Taylor
Branson. leader; William F. San
telmann, second leader.
The Program.
March, The Steelman" Belsterling
Overture, "Anacreon' Cherubini
Song of the Bayou" Rube Bloom
Cornet solo, "Napoli" Bellstedt
Musician Winfred Kemp
Grand scenes from Andrea
Chenier" ---G Giordano
Waltz, Emperor" Strauss
xylophone solo, Gypsy Airs"
De Sarasate
Musician Charles Owen.
"Siegfrieds Rhine Journey" from
Dusk of the Gods" Wagner
ION the Trail" from suite Grand
Canyon ---------- -- Grofe
Grand march, "Slav," Tschalkowsky
The Marines Hymn"
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Army Band
In the Army Band Auditorium to-
morrow at 2 pm. Capt. Thomas F..
Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assist
ant leader.
The Program.
Paso Doble. "Bravada" -CurZon
Morceau, Midsummer Nights
Serenade" AlbeniZ
Medley syncope, "Rhythmoods,
Ellington
Waltz, 1.-THE Magic of Love" Vanis
Marimba trio, "Recuerdos del
Pasado" ---------Ve Velasco
Charles Hershey, Clyde Bowman
and Joseph Young, marimbistas;
Harry Savage, string bass.
Characteristic, "Cinderella's Bridal
Procession" -------------D Dicker
March, American Legion" Parker
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Patterson in !. c. c. Post

w. j. Patterson of North Dakota
look office today as a member of the
interstate Commerce Commission.
he succeeded Frank McManamy,
whose term expired. Mr.. Patterson
mas been director OF the commYA
SONS Bureau of Safety.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Roper's Son, Victim
OF Fumes, Recovering

Richard Fred Roper, 81. who was
overcome by carbon monoxide gas
early last night while changing
tire on his automobile in the garage
Evening star., 1939-07-31

BY the United States Navy Band
at the east front of the Capitol
tonight at 7:30 o'clock. 1t Charles
Benter, leader; Charles Brendler,
assistant leader.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-17
CHAPTER y1-continued

On this same afternoon little Lucy
Logan was writing to Delafeld
Sinms.
sit seems like a dream, lover,
that you are to come for me in Feb
ruary, and that then We'll be mar
ried. And that all the rest of my
life I am to belong to you.
"Del, it isn't because you are rich.
OF course I shall adore the things
you can do for me. am not going
to pretend that I shan't. But if you
were poor, I'd work for you-live
for you. Oh, Del, / do hope that you
will believe it.
"The other day, Mr.. Towne said
in one of his letters that you had
always been tickle, that there had
been lots of girls, Eloise Harper
before Edith. And I wanted to
scream right out and say, 1T isn't
true. He hasn't ever really cared
before this But of course couldn't.
But / broke pencil point, and as
for Mr.. Towne, who is he to say
such things about you? I haven't TAX
en- his letters for the last three
years for nothing. There's always
somebody-the last one was Mrs.
Laramore, and now he has his eye
on little Jane Barnes, whose broth
err found Miss Towne's bag and the
ring. She's rather a darling, but
I hope she won't think he is in
earnest.
''And now, my dear and my dar-
ling, goodnight. I wonder how I
dare call you that. But I am al
ways saying it to myself, and at
night I ask God to keep you-safe."