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P a4 BIG CONCERN LEASES | GOLD FIELD AT NOME | ‘Will Dredge Wide Area for Pre- cious Metal—Increased Out- put Is Predicted. 1’ By the Associated Press. | NOME, Alaska, May 7. | telegrams here the United S —Radio-cable- sterday reported that Smelting, -Refining and Mining had orbed the Nome Mines poration, formerly owned by the Miami Corporation of Chicago. i'he property acquired includell a large tract of gold-bearing ground, | with power plants and dredges just on the outskirts of Nome. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 7.—Norman C. Stines, general manager of the Hammon Gold Field, a corporation, announced yesterday that lease of properties of the Miami Corporation of Chicago gave his concern control of the Nome, Alaska, gold area. Gold | Is obtained there by large operations with dredges. Stines pronounced the deal one of the largest in the history of Alaska and presaging enormous development of the Nome district. He stated that the Hammon Corporation is owned by the United States Smelting, Refin- ing and Mining Co. Asks ;rmit to Change Name. Samuel Dinowitzer, 1300 C street southwest, tells the District Supreme Court that his name is difficult to spell and that it causes him embarrass- ment. He seeks permission to change his name to Denwitt, to correspond with the name of his uncle, I. Den- witt, with whom he is associated in business. Attorney H. G. Robertson appears for the petitioner. THE EVENING' STAR, WASHINGTON, BITTER PARTISANSHIP GONE, EDITOR AVERS| Baker Says Truth, Ably Presented, Is Tendency in Newspaper . ‘World Today. D. C, THURSDAY, MEXICO WILL PAY OFF FOREIGN CREDITORS $1,000,000 in De lo Huerta Drafts on New York Will Also Be Liquidated. faith with its readers and the source of its news and in the observance of the ethics of its profession, Mr. Baker said. The bitterly partisan newspaper, happily, has gone, and & brighter one come,*he added, with highly organized team work instead of the old-time in- dividuality. “I predict that as the days go by we will have fewer newspapers and better, and that we will learn to think more in world terms and not merely in terms of our own backyard,” he said. Baker denied that “we have sold es body and soul to the adver- By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Mo., May 7 —The tendency is more to painstaking effort lin the presentation of today's news, which must be truthful, ably written, and so worth-while in every way “that editors cannot leave it out,” Elbert H. Baker, president of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, told students of the School of Journalism of the Univer- sity of Missouri vesterday. Mr. Baker is a member of the board of directors of the Associated Press. Every worth-while newspaper keeps By the Associated Pre NEW ORLEANS, May 7.—Mexico will pay its commercial debts to out- side creditors within four months and approximately $5,000,000 in obligations of the government of Mexico mer- |chants in claims against past admin- istrations will be paid within three months, Arturo M. Elis, former Mexi- can consul general at New Orleans and now fiscal agent and consul general at New York, announced here yesterda ~ Mr. Elias said, Ordered to Training School. Lieut. Col. Paul E. Howe, Sanitary Corps Reserve, has been ordered from this city to Carlisle, Pa., for training at the Army Medical Field Service School. in addition, drafts 1000 Entire bbbk g s = LEvery One Well Worth More MAY 7 drawn against an unnamed fiscal egent in New York by Gen. De la Huerta, amounting to $1,000,000, will be paid by August 18. SUIT ASKS $5,000,000. Two Smelting Companies Defend- ants in New York Action. NEW YORK, May 7 (A.P.).—Sum- ,mons In a suit to recover $5,000 000 from the American Smelting and Re- fining Co., and the Northern Peru Mining and Smelting Co., was filed on behalf of Willlam Bell Taylor and the General Minerals Corporation. Freudenberg & Mattuck, attor- neys for the plaintiffs, would not di- vulge details of the suit, saying that no complain had yet been prepared. Detailed information of the basis of the suit had not been received at the offices of the American Smelting and Refining Co. 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Gustav Strube won two of the prizes—one of* $1,000 ‘for a concerto | for the violin with an orchestra, and the second of $400 for a scherzo fo the string uartet, nown as “Ar- lequinade.” Theodore Hemberger won $400, in the chamber music division of the contest. Both Strube and Hemberger wele born in Germany. Gustav Mehner, Grove City. Pa was given honorable mention in the chamber music division for a ‘ro mantic suite.” Judges were Henry Hadley, Rubin Goldmark and Chalmers Clifton, al of New York. No plano compositions or songs submitted were considered worthy of prizes. The Friends of American Music or ganization was founded by N. Deru bertis, conductor of the Little Sym phony Orchestra of Kansas City Detailed as Instructor. Capt. Roy C. Moore, 1st Field Artil lery, at Fort Sill, Okla., has been de tailed as military instructor at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexing ton, Va. S