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JUDGE SUMMONS FINE DEFAULTERS 24 Convicted in Anne Arundel Must Explain Failure to Pay Assessments. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 11.—Twenty- four persons convicted at criminal trials in the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court and ordered to pay fines have de- faulted and have been notified to ap- pear before Judge Nicholas H. Green to ex]i‘r‘:lm why their fines have not been paid. The persons summoned to explain their non-payment were sentenced by former Judge Robert Moss. They were given extended periods to meet their fines. In some cases Judge Green will give added periods of from 10 to 90 days in which the fines must be paid. Oth- ers will be sent to jail because of the default. The Anne Arundel County Jail is now | Jjammed to its capacity, there being 51 prisoners confined there. The capacity is 38. Space is so scarce that persons convicted of minor charges have been lodged in the death cell. Morris Legum, professional bondsman, forfeited $1,000 in cash when Laurence H. Gorsuch failed to appear for his ap- al of a drunken driving conviction ed by Police Justice Willlam H. Baldwin of Millersville. Former Justice of the Peace Harry E. Melvin, given a suspended sentence be- cause of illness, was ordered to report back to jail to continue his sentence. —_— BUSINESS GROUP FAVORS SCHOOL LEVY INCREASE Herndon Chamber of Commerce Supports Boost in Taxes for Instruction. pecial Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va., March 11.—Increase the Fairfax County levy from 90 ents to $1 was urged by the Herndon Chamber of Commerce here today, in a resolution which specified that the in- crease should be used for school pur- oses. The step was taken, it was said, oth to preclude any reduction in teach- ers' salaries and a shortening of the #school term. All of the former officers of the cham- ber were re-elected, as follows: A. H. XKirk, president; William Middleton, vice president, and H. A. Sager, secretary and treasurer. Rev. Chancellor N. Brown of the Herndon Baptist Church addressed the meeting on the present economic con- ditions, and pointed out the optimism generally in the face of such stressing conditions. Luncheon was served by the Corban Club. LEGAL BATTLE IMPENDS OVER TAX ON MERCHANTS | Newly Formed Business Men's As- sociation Prepares to Fight Capitol Heights Ordinance. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md.. March 11.—A legal battle will be fought if the Town Council enforces the new business license tax ordinance. the newly formed Business Men's Associa- tion announced last night. It said that it would not contest the legality of the ordinance unless it is enforced on some of its members. The Business Men’s Association will cell a meeting Tuesday night to or- ganize a taxpayers' association. Jacch Boyer announced. He said the or- ganization would be for the purpose of seeking' lower town taxes. D. Of A. TO INITIATE #Booster” Meeting to Be Held Thursday in Clarendon. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., March 11— frwelve councils of the Daughters of America which comprise District No. 1 will participate in a “Booster” meeting | in Odd Fellows' Hall here Thursday pight. A iarge class of candidates will be | fnitiated and the ritualistic work will be exemplified by the degree teams of (Arlington, No. 32; Cherrydale, No. 11. Betsy Ross, No. 21, Providence, No. 9 end Ballston, No, 20. A number of ational officers from Richmond and orfolk have accepted invitations to at- tend. —_— 1 | BALL IS POSTPONED Waryland General Assembly Event Set Back to March 23. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md. March 11.—Be- cause of the bank holiday, members of the Entertainment Committee of the General Assembly announced today that the biennial Assembly ball, sched- uled for March 16 at St. John's College, had been postponed to March 23. i S s Philippine Official to Speak. SILVER SPRING, Md, March 11 '(Special). —Marcial P. Lichauco, assist- ant attorney general of the Philippine Tslands, will be the speaker at a meet- ing of the Silver Spring Lions Club Muesday night at the Takoma Inn. i Firemen Plan Dance. GREATER CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., March 11 (Special) —An old-fashioned round and square dance will be given in the fire house here, under the auspices of the Greater Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Department next Sat- urday night. Alphabet Is Nearly Exhausted Naming; Dozen Children Couple Began With A and Has Only Y and Z Open. By the Associated Press. CHIPLEY, Fla, March 11.—A, B, C, D,EFCHTIJ KL MN R.z 8, T, U, V, W, X—but That's the way B. F. Pate, father of 12 children and 79-year-old resident, explained it here ay. He said as the children were born he and Mrs. Pate followed the letters of the alpha- bet when it came to names. So of the family of Pate there are Alan Benjamin, Clara Delia, Elizabeth Fannie, Gustavus Houston, Ida Jose- phine, Kince Lee, Millard Napoleon, | Oma Pearl, Quinton Rebeccah, Sidney Thomas, Uriah Vanderbilt, Willigm | Xavier and—Ralph. Yes, Ralph is an adopted son and his names do not begin with Y and Z, but he was welcomed into the family just the same. - COLLEGE HEADS RATED GOOD BUSINESS MEN Pny-n:-You-Qo Policy Credited for Philanthrophy's Showing Dur-. ing Depression. NEW YORK.—May the pastor and the college president be better fitted to give advice on business than the busi- ness man himself? A. C. Marts, head of a firm of finan- cial counselors for philanthropic insti- tutions, thinks the depression has shown the answer to be “yes.” In support of his belief he presents these findings: Of 54,000 church edifices of six de- nominations, only 23, or one out of 2,344, | have been lost during the past three | years because of finances. The record for 680 privately con- trolled four-year colleges is 17 closed, or one out of 40; for 4.790 voluntary hos- pitals, 106, or one out of 45. But of approximately 2,100,000 com- mercial and industrial concerns in 1929, 96,000, or one out of 22, have failed to survive the storm; while of 25300 banks, 4300, or one out of six, have gone under. Marts sees two reasons for philan- thropy's better showing. One is that | “big business usually operates on bor- rowed capital, while philanthropy fol- lows a more conservative ‘pay-as-you-go’ | policy.” The other is the “unselfish attitude” of the executives of philanthropic in- stitutions. “They have not only ac- cepted salary cuts,” he says; “they have actually asked for them in many cast HAGERSTOWN ELECTRIC PLANT SHOWS PROFIT Total of $144,373 Reported in Ex- cess by $7,925 of Any Pre- vious Year's Net Gain. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 11.—A net profit of $144,373.18, exceeding by $7.- |925.88 any previous year's profit, was re- | turned by Hagerstown's municipal elec- | tric light plant the last fiscal year,: it | was announced today. The large profit, | despite the depression and falling off of | business, was made possible by econo- | mies exceeding $15,000, J. V. Jamison, | who supervises the plant, said today. A | tax reduction of 15 cents was made pos- | sible by last vear's profits and an addi- | tional "10-cent reduction in taxes was | promised for this year. FINGERPRINTS FAIL TWICE | Only Two Men in 10,000 Unable to Make Impressions. CHARLESTON, S. C. () —Only two men in more than 10,000 who have ap- peared before the Charleston police bu- reau of identification could not be fingerprinted. George T. Warren, jr., fingerprint ex- pert, explained that one of these men, a railroad fireman, had been burned several years before and that the other showed only a series of bumps when the impressions of his fingers were taken. ‘Warren says, however, a person who has been burned does not escape identi- fication entirely, for the print of his feet or part of the palm of his hand can be taken. FIRE LOSS KEPT DOWN Town of 1,500 Homes Has Toll for Year of $5.95. OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (#)—A fire loss of $5.95 for the year 1932 is shown by records of the Old Hickory Fire De- partment. Old Hickory is an industrial com- munity of 1,500 homes, with a paid fire department of 12 men. A volunteer fire fighters’ organization in the factories is composed of 60 men. A system of fire prevention is followed by officials and residents of the com- munity to co-operate by keeping their premises clean and free from hazards.' Most of the houses in Old Hickory are of frame construction. PR o R Will Plan for Lodge Session. CLARENDON, Va.,, March 11 (Spe- cial) —Preparations for its participa- tion in the Rebekah Assembly session to be held in Winchester May 23, 24 and 25 will be made by Clarendon Rebekah Lodge, No 28, at a meeting Monday night. Degree rehearsal will be one of the features 5 RECONCILIATION AND PRESS SOUG Police Chief Also Has Closed Office to Newspapers, and | 15, Business Men Seek Bpecial Dispateh to The Sta: RICHMOND, Va., March 11.—A group of Richmond business men, it Was Jearned today, have been endeavoring for several weeks to bring Mayor J. Fulmer Bright and the local newspapers together. Although but little progress has been made so far, hope is held out that their efiorts will eventually be growned with success. - ‘The mayor and rth:h ‘newspapers Iclu;a to the ting of e ways early in \hnunry.p.:h!n he announced that he had grown weary of their constant eriticism of 'his administration. Any matters of record would still be avail- sble to reporters, he said, but there would be no other news for the press. Maj. Robert B. Jordan, chief of po- Yice, who had also become aggrieved at criticism by the press of the methods employed by him in attempting to curb the activities here of ‘“reds” and other radicals, followed suit with the an- pouncement that he was also clamping down the lid on news of his depart- ment. When it developed that not even the arrest books at police stations were svallable to the press, under the new of things, the Times-Dispatch in- inted mandaimus proceedings L’flb:mn 10" of the Virginia BETWEEN MAYO HT IN RICHMOND to Bring Agreement. suppress the news. The whot Was that the court held that the chief would have to make public records of finished business, but that was as far as the; ruling went. As a consequence the lid was clamped down tighter than ever on all other kinds of news. Since then the papers have had to get the news as best they could. The News-Leader has been makinLg a specialty of running a daily list of robberies, picked up around town. In each story attention is called to the fact that the police had no news to give out about them and that so far as could be learned no arrests had been made. ‘These tactics, it is reported, are b;cu;nml somewhat irritating to the chief. According to those who claim to know, the mayor has laid down terms| of conciliation which neither paper hul been will to accept. It is said that he insists that the es-Dispatch shall fire its chief editor and that the other paper shall come cut with an editorial ;’,T the front page making apology to m. Mayor Bright is now serving his third term and still has three more years in office. In addition to discharging duuunlmyorheflnm.&qmmfi ;| a5 commander of an infs regiment ‘Hational Gused, proposed the | session Judge Lynn Chapter met March 7 Mrs. Prederic L. Syler, 1728 P and Mrs. Edward gent, presided in the absence of the re- gent, Mrs. Harry R. Fulton. Mrs. John Lester Barr, chairman of Approved Schools, was guest speaker. Richard Arnold Chapter met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Edward L. Montgomery, Fairmont Seminary, with Mrs. Julia Nolen Hay as assisting hostess. The regent, Miss Ella Espey, presided. The chapter will celebrate its twenty-first birthday anniversary at a luncheon at the Shoreham Hotel March 18. Mrs. David Caldwell, vice presi- dent general; Miss Helen Harman, can- didate for vice president general; Mrs. John Lester Barr, State chairman of A&proved Schools; Mrs. S. H. Beasley, state chairman of Americanism, and Miss Maud Aiton, principal Americani- zation School, spoke. A musical program was arranged by Miss Aiton from members of the school and citizenship classes. Mrs. Ruth Wid- mer, in her native Swiss costume, gave | folk songs, accompanying herself on the accordion. Mrs. Sola Holmen gave | folk songs in her Danish costume.| There were vocal selections by Mrs. Anne Yage McGuffey, and piano selec- tions were by Mme. Zalipsky. Guests were Miss Georgia E. Hudson and Mrs. Patterson of Potomac Chap- ter, Miss Harriet M. Chase of Capt. Wendell Wolfe, Miss. Margaret I Fraser of Maj. L'Enfant and Miss Ford E. Young, a prospective member. The State Americanism Committee met at the Americanization School, Mrs. Stanley Beasley, chairman, presiding. The speaker was Dean Fox of the Cath- olic University Law School. H The following chapters were as having contributed to the Americani- zation School soup and milk fund: Col. John Donelson, Capt. Wendell Wolfe, Frances Scott, Sarah Franklin, Victory, Dolly Madison, Patriots’ Me- morial. i The next be held March 29. The State Entertainment Committee will hold a luncheon at Memorial Con- tinental Hall on the %)emng day of the State Conference, arch 14, at 1 o'clock, for the State officers and dele- meeting will Comll?ring Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player, He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 national | championships since 1924. | ] methods than those already de- scribed that it may be inadvisable to add to the collection at this time. However, the correspondence that | reaches me frem all parts of the United | States regarding| my methods as ex- | the | | Jump Raises to Five. {‘ T is so _extremely seldom that the responding hand feels impelled to make a slam try through other published < proved that they are appteciated by; an enormous num- | ber of profound | students of the| game to whom| every detai]. every | nuance is of real| interest. So I will devote this article | to a very rare re- sponse. When I have so| enormous hand| r. that I know we ¥ have either a small slam or & grand'slam, the former being apparently sure if my partner has only two and one-half primary tricks for his opening bid, and assuming that I myself have no forcing off-suit, but do positively solidfy my partner’s trump holding, I will bid five, either in a major or in a minor; this constitutes a command to my partner to bid six if | his bid is & normal one as regards the | primary tricks in his hand and bid seven if he has a clear extra pri- mary trick. In other words, it is an application of the leeway principle—| a deliberate underbid of a trick, saying, “if your bid is minimum but normal, bid six—I guarantee it; if you have a| primary trick to spare, bid seven—it is a certainty.” | If my partner had bid one heart, I would consider these conditions ful-| Veterans of Foreign Wars Meetings This Week. Monday—Front Line Post, 808 I street; Federal Post Auxiliary, ‘Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massa- chusetts avenue; Pront Line Auxiliary, Continental Hotel. Tuesday—National Capital Post. Pythian Temple; National Capital Auxiliary, Pythian Tem- ple; Peary Ship, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club; Follow-Me Post, Continental Hotel; Advance Pest, Continental Hotel. ‘Wednesday—Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards Post, 1108 Connecti- cut avenue. Thursday—Washington Police and Firemen Post, Hamilton Hotel; Herbert L. Edmonds Post, Hamiiton Hotel: Equality Walter Reed Post, Pythian Temple. J. G. Strobel, department relief offi- cer, Teports financially assisting several needy comrades and their families, who needed aid. At the last meeting of the Council of Administration National Senior Vice Comdr. James E. Van Zandt and De- partment Comdr. Clements of Texas made addresses. uality Walter Reed Post, No. 284, will hold its regular meeting March 16 at Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street. e entire membership is urged to Disabled American Veterans At the semi-monthly meeting of the Department Executive Committee Wed- nesday evening, Department Junior Vice Comdr. Kehoe, chairman of the ‘Membership Committee, submitted plans of his committee for a membership drive during the next 60 days. He an- nounced two cups will be awarded to the chapters showing the greatest gains in membership—the Comdr. Joseph Ashi Cup and another cup, presented by B. C. McNeil. ‘The plans of the committee embrace one appeal by letter to eligibles, two personal solicitation visits and a mon- ster mass meeting, to be given ‘under the auspices of the committee some time during the early part of April. At this meeting, the date of which will be an- nounced later, there will be speakers who can present to the interested dis- abled veterans authentic information concerning all matters of interest to them. The speakers will include mem- bers of Congress, who will discuss legisiation during the coming which will affect disabled vet- erans; National. Legislal Capt. Thomas Kirby, puse the Jeglalitive itive. , who will Bmasions Q. | h | guests to meet Dr. Healy, Mrs. David | bid seven hearts if he has the spade %‘ I obligations. %pz will preside. Among the will be Mrs. David' M| me?unflu secre- general, and Mrs. G. P. Kemway, me it of England. Mrs. Willlam , chairman of Entertainment, ;ill‘lubee in charge, assisted by her com- Dorothy Hancock Chapter held its March meeting at Avignone Freres. The hostesses were Mrs. Harvey D. Jacob, {l.::.mfllrry Feehan and Mrs. M. A. g Sons and Daughters of the Republic & check sufficient to permit five more children to attend the D. A. R. camp next Summer, Maj. L’Enfant Chapter held its fourth annual guest night program on national defense, March 2, at the Washington Club. The program was arranged by the chairman, Mrs. Albert N. Baggs. Dr. Thomas H. Healy, as- sistant dean, Georgetown University, spoke. on “The Future of National Defense.” The musical numbers were presented by a section of the Army Band assisted by Miss Elza Hottinger. The regent, Miss Fraser, invited the D. Caldwell, vice president N. S. D. A R.; Mrs. Harry C. Grove, regent of the District, and the follow- ing State officers, Mrs. F. B. Linton| and Mrs. Jean Labat. During the social the following chapter officers poured: Mrs. Edward G. Wright, Mrs, Sterling Bockoven, Mrs. Arthur W. Harkness and Miss Margaret A. Bloomfield. The hostesses were the chapter officers, Miss Margaret I. Fraser, Mrs. Sterling Bockoven, Mrs. Edward G. Wright, Mrs. Edwin S. Bettelheim, Miss Helen E. Bliss, Mrs. Paul J. Christian, Mrs. Arthur W. Harkness, Miss Margaret A. Bloomfield and Mrs. Albert N. Baggs. . Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter met March 7 at the home of Miss Frances general, for a benefit to be given the first week in May. Guests of honor were Mrs. Pedro Capo-Rodriguez, State re- cording secretary, and Mrs. Jean Labat, State corresponding secretary. Mrs. Labat told some of her amusing ex- periences with the pages at the D. A. R. Congress. Mrs. Clayton Emig sang. | filled by a responding hand containing Spades—K Q X Diamonds—A K Hearts—A J x x Clubs—QJxx | To bid, the opener must have ace of spades, king and queen of hearts and king of clubs, assuming he has a | heart and diamond two-suiter. Over | my five heart response he will only be confirming his two and one-half tricks by bidding six hearts. With the ace of clubs, ace of spades and king and queen of hearts, that is still only one- half trick over, not a clear trick in reserve, and six would still be all he should bid. But with the same cards in the singleton ace of clubs or spades, his bid is seven. Counting the Loserg, In other words, reverting toour stand- ard of measurement for big hands, when my hand seems to prove that| we have only one trick to lose at the most, I bid five and ask my partner to bid six to confirm his bid and to bid seven if he has a clear trick I did not know of when I responded. In the example given, if partner had five hearts to the king, queen and four clubs to the ace. king for his bid, his response would be six ‘clubs. I would reply with six hearts, showing that I still fear the loss of one—but only one —trick. This leaves it up to him to | ace, otherwise to pass. Generally, however, you will find that your slams will be reached through | more’ gradual bidding as permitted by forcing take-outs in another suit or| massed primary tricks as shown by the BETHESDA WOMAN’S CLUB TO HEAR LECTURE Dr. William 4. Wilbur, Provost of G. W., Will Discuss “Pil- grim’'s Progress.” Special Dispateh to The Star. BETHESDA, Md, March 11.—-Dr. William Allen Wilbur, provost of George Washington University, will deliver a lecture on “ 's Progress” at the meeting of the Woman’s Club of Be- thesda Tuesday at 3 p.m. Dr. Wilpur's talk the club will hold & short business mee:ing. An informal reception in honor of presidents of women’s clubs in the Be- thesda area, who have been invited to attend the meeting, will follow the lec- ture. Mrs. Rudolph Allen, president of the Maryland Federation of X Clubs; Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen, presi- dent of the Montgomery County Fed- eration of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Karl hnnm".cgnldmz of the Woman's Club of vy Chase; Mrs. Irving M. Day, president of the Woman’s Club of Somerset; Mrs. Benjamin Potter, president of the Newcomb Club, and Mrs. Emory Bogley, president of the ‘Woman's Club of Friendship Heights, will assist Mrs. E. M. Willis, president of the Bethesda club, in receiving. 4 Landscaping Talk Scheduled. BALLSTON, Va., March 11 (Special). —W. F. Sunderman, landscape archi- tect will k on landscaping at the meeting of the Neighborhood Garden Club, which will be held at the home of Mrs. Frank L. Ball, Waverly Hills, Mon- day evening. Fire Executives to Meet. RIVERDALE, Md., March 11 (Spe- cial) —A meeting of the executive board of the local fire department, headed by Chief Edward C. Stewart, together with the Fire Committee of the Council. will be held Wednesday evening at the h of W. W. Thompson, 4 Monroe avenus, University Park, Md. Or, Instructions have been issued by 3d Corps Area headquarters governing the 1933 Summer training camps for Re- serve officers of the District of Colum- bia. _Existing instructions from the War Department require that training funds be so utilized that at least 80 per cent of the Reserve officers trained ized Reserves | be of the various arms. The propor- tion of officers of feld grades to be | ordered to duty during the fiscal year ! may not exceed 10 per cent of the total number of trainees. District fleld officers ordered to active duty will be employed to the fullest extent in the conduct of training and tactical exer- cises. Every effort will be made to train the maximum number of cap- tains and lieutenants. In the selection of District Reserve officers for active duty training this Summer, the policy of the War Depart- ment is that srelermce be given to those units and individuals who have participated in the inactive duty train- ing prescribed by the corps area com- mander and have received the less recent active duty training. Accord- ingly local Reserve officers will be divided into the following priorities for active duty training: Priority 1—(a) appropriate unit commanders, (b) Re- serve officers who by suitable prepara- tion on an inactive status have demon- strated their fithess for active duty training, (c) R. O, T. C. graduates who desire active duty training during the first Summer after graduation, (d) other recent R. O. T. C. graduates and (e) in making selections in this priority preference will be given to those offi- Cdt'rls who have had the less recent active uty. Priority 2—(a) Reserve officers who ve failed to prepare themselves as in 1-b above and who have mnot- received active duty training during the preced- ing four years and who may with such training establish their eligibility for reappointment with full privileges. District Reserve officers belonging to the following Reserve units will undergo their 1933 active duty training at the places and on the dates indicated: 305th Medical Regiment and 364th Medical Regiment, at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., from July 9 to 22; 80th Division jump no-trump responses. I was really tempted to write this particular article to show you how new weapons are forged out of old steel.| The jump raises were extensively used | by the old-timers—and are still being used in many other countries—without any inkling of how infinitely more ef- | fective they would become when con- | fined to their proper function as here explained. The modern bidding system | is an organic whole, each part fulfills a_ definite task, fitting into its place without overcrowding or leaving & space for fog to enter. (Copyright, 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on contract that are addressed to this news- paper with self-addressed stamped envelope. present, as the delegates for the next department encampment will be se- lected. There. will be shown films on the construction of Boulder Dam. The department commander held a meeting composed of all post com- manders in the department headquar- ters to make plans for the coming buddy poppy - drive National Capi Post, No. 127, held an oben house in Pythian Temple March 4 to entertain the visiting com- rades from the several States. Pront Line Auxiliary held its last meeting at the Hotel Continental. social nad bingo party followed. The next regular business meeting will be March 13 in the Continental Hotel. Equality Walter Reed Auxiliary, No. 284, met at the Continental Hotel March 1. Mrs. J. P. Haynes was obligated. A bingo party was held March 9 at Mount Alto Hospital. The next meeting of the auxiliary will be held on March 15 at the home of Mrs, Marguerite Shaw, 1613 Isherwood street northeast. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Follow-Me Post, No. 1830, held their meeting at ‘Woodman's Hall on Grant place Marc! 6. A report was made on the bingo Eflrty given by Mrs. T. E. Fawcett at er home, 1404 Allison street. ‘The auxiliary social will be held at the home of Mrs. William E. Melton, 5518 Kansas avenue, March 28. Rehabilitation Chairman Ralph Cham- bers, who will discuss rehabilitation, and such other speakers as may have information of interest to disabled vet- erans. National Comdr. William Conley, who was in Wash: for the inaugural ceremonies, left this city Wednesday for a trip that will carry him through the various ns of New York and New England, visiting D. A. V. chapters and inspecting hospitals. Comdr. Con- Lake, Albany, Boston, ford, New York, Newark, Philadelphia and Baltimore before returning to ‘Washington March 25. Comdr. Herbert Church of Ace-Ras- mussen Chapter has_announced the resignation of Earl G. Hendricks as adjutant. Federal Chapter, No. 6, will hold its next: regular meeting Wednesday eve- ning-in the. Art Galleries of the Sears, Quartermaster Train and the 62d Cavalry Division Quartermaster Train, Holabird quartermmster _depot, Md. from July 9 to 22; 313th Fleld Artillery. {at Fort Hoyle, Md. from August 20{telephoned the club and explained | to September 2: 343d Engincers and | near-midnight dash back to the post 376th Engineers, at Fort Humphreys, Va., from July 23 to August 5; 322d Signal Battalion and the 62d Signal ‘Troop, at Fort George G. Meade, Md., from July 9 to 22; 320th Infantry and the 80th Division Signal Company, at Fort George G. Meade, Md., from July 23 to August 5; 913th Coast Artillery, at Fort Monroe, Va., from July 23 to Au- gust 5; 622d Coast Artillery, at Fort Monroe, Va., from August 6 to 19, and the 306th Cavalry, at Fort Myer, Va, from August 6 to 19. ‘The place and date of training of colored Reserve officers of-the District will be announced iater. Reserve quartermasters of the Dis- trict will meet at local Reserve head- quarters tomorrow evening under Maj. D. H. Cowles. Reserve officers of the Coast Artillery and Air Corps will hold their instructional conference at head- quarters Tuesday evening. Capt. T. C. C. Fong, Medical Reserve, will be the speaker at the Pield Artillery con- ference, to be held at headquarters Wedneeday evening. Cavalry Reserve officers meet at headquarters Tuesday evening. March 19 at 9:30 a.m. Cavalry Reserve officers will meet at the Fort Myer riding hall for instruction in equitation. The following Reserve officers of the District have been relieved from duty assignment as indicated: Capts. Donald A| O- Woolf, Air Reserve, from 409th At- tack Squadron; Oscar A. Reed, Air Reserve (Silver Spring, Md.), from the 404th Pursuit Squadron, and Irvin L. Clark, Air Reserve (Takoma Park, Md.), from the 409th Attack Squadron; First Lieut. Ernest A. Cutrell, Air Re- serve, from the 335th Service Squadron; First Lieut. Emst A. Cutrell, Air Re- serve, from the 409th Attack Squadron. The following second lieutenants of Air Reserve have been relieved from assignment to the 409th Attack Squadron: Gregory F. Keenan, Jack H. Neale, John G. Tilton and Archi- bald R. Towner. Second Lieut. James h | E. McParland, Air Reserve, is relieved from assignment to the 862d Observa- tion Squadron. First Lieut. Howard W. McKinley, Air Reserve (Clarendon. Va.), is relieved from assignment to the 409th Attack Squadron. the first of the year, and to the addi- ‘tional honor of already having 45 mem- bers above the quota set for it by na- tional headquarters. t Comdr. Joseph Ashi re- quests all ex-service men, and all others having work to be done, or knowledge ‘where re exists an opportunity for @ disabled veteran to find employment, to call Department Employment Officer John Arthur Shaw, at National 8472, Branch 141. Fourth District Executive Committee- man Lee T. Turner last week announced the completion of the organization of a Disabled American Veterans chapter in Hagerstown. This makes four chap- ters now organized in Maryland and cama.lt:cm-n ‘nlme;n l;:pa soon t: be al organize a department. Baltimore, Cumberland and Annapolis now have organized chapters. A meeting of the newly Falls Church chapter, George Wash- ington, No. 20, will be held tomorrow evening. Anthony M. Bellony is the acting commander. Election of officers will take place. A of the Executive Commit- tee of the newly formed State ment of Virginia will be held next Sat- | April Roebuck Co., 1106 Connecticut avenue, | urda: will receive the when 65 new ter has se- mambers gnog Oa{ t‘:%urlu Younih%;'w'zr will meet pext Thursdsy in Twelfth Street Besnch of- the Ye M. O & BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. ,mvlmennlfluremuunbryhu- atelic exhibition contest, sponsored by the Washington Boy Scout Stamp Club snd the stamp department of The Star, yesterday received their certificates of merit. They sssembled at Boy Scout headquarters, and Mrs. Catharine L. Manning, philatelic curator, the Smith- sonian Institution, made the presenta- tions. ‘Those rewarded for their philatelic knowledge and skill were Russell C. Bangham, Teed Wilcox, Frank B. Smith, Damon Runyon, jr.; Richard P. Padgett, Marjory Ranney, Jan Rus, Andy Cavanaugh and Helen E.-Osmun. The following were accorded honorable mention and were given certificates to that effect: Peter Annot, Lloyd Jones, Ed Connor, Ned Kimmel, Stewart Baker, Jack Boyden, Philip Walker, Mary Bass, Virginia Pennington, Lucile Kirsch, Jane Kirsch. e winning specimens have been on e ition at Garfinckel's, Pourteenth and P streets, since Thursday. Albert P. Kunze, leader; Washington Stamp Club of the Alr, reports concern- ing the Imauguration day cachet sponsored by the club: “The average collector generally is unacquainted with the miniature drama associated with the routine of responding to a popular demand. Many were the stories un- wittingly told between the lines of the unending stream of letters received. Families separated by wide stretches of country were reunited through listings | in requests for .cachets sent in by de- voted members. In other instances several collectors in a single family, all living under the same roof, called for their own individual copies of the im- pression. One letter, requesting a single | cachet, bore two signatures, and the text dsclosed the applicants to be a | bride and groom, jointly writing for a cacheted envelope to add to their united | collection. Another request was from | ‘a very old lady,’ according to her own statement, who wrote: ‘Please send just | one to each of my grandchildren. That | is all I can afford. It will make them happy.' She made no request for her- self, but the club sent her a special cover with its corporate best wishes. “A mother, lonely for an only son | attending & military school, came to the office in person to ask a special dispen- | sation ‘if it would not be too much ' trouble.’ She wished to be allowed to include three words—'Love from Mother’ | —in the envelope addressed to her boy.| If that souvenir of President Roosevelt's inauguration, carrying the greatest mes- | sage a pen can write, brings as much pleasure to the son as its senders countenance disclosed, there will be no price commensurate in future years to the value of the memento. “In distant Montana another cover will give happiness to an old man who, living in & ranch cabin, far from any town, finds recreation in his stamp col- lection, stretching his imagination to conjure visions of great events taking place in scenes he never may see again “The work of addressing envelopes, adding fillers, backstamping, applying | the two-colored cachet and affixing stamps proceeded day after day in preparation for March 4. On March | 3, when we thought we had reached the approximate end of our task, & representation of the cachet appeared in The Star, and almost simultaneously a new stream of requesis arrived at the club headquarters at Station WOL. A call for more help had to be sent out. A second office was required. It was a busy scene. All day Saturday the/ rush continued. The envelopes were hurried to the post office in taxicabs and by messengers. The department | demonstrated its co-operative capacity. | A special cancelling machine had been set up in order that collectors might have clean and clear cancellations. “At 10 o'clock Saturday nigh! batch | of envelopes was brought to t! tten- | ticn of J. B. Hortscamp, foreman of | the mailing division. Not one of the lot bore a stamp. He realized how disappointed the addressees would be if they were returned to the club or| forwarded marked ‘postage due’ He | LA | | office followed to rectify the error, and | | the cacheted covers went on their way. “Altogether, it was & very exciting and gratifying experience. When oc- casion of national import again pre- | sents itself, the Stamp Club of the Air will endeavor to meet the demand of | collectors to the best of its lb\hlies."‘ Mr. Kunze will speak for Station WOL at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon. | concluding his series of lectures on the Columbian series of 1893. Those whp‘ have been - following his addresses should inspect the doors of the east Eortnl of the Capitol. They are of ronze, cast in Munich, Germany, the | work of Randolph Rogers, American | sculptor. Ten panels represent l.he‘l career of Christopher Columbus from boyhood to death, and & semi-circular space over the doors is filled with & portrayal of the great navigator's land- | ing at Watlings Island, October 12,/ 1492. A supposed portrait of Columbus | crowns the entrance. No authentic por- trait exists, ‘The philatelic world mourns Arthur Hind of Utica, N. Y., who died at Miami, March 1. He was the most celebrated ~collector in the United States, and the value of his stamps has been estimated at millions of dollars, Among his specimens was an issue of British Guiana which cost him $36,000; a pair_of early Mauritius stamps for which he paid about $40,000, and many rare Hawallan, Confederate and Uni(ed‘ States provisionals. A British collection which he bought some years ago was valued at $170.000, & French collection at $63,000. An Englishman by birth, an American by naturalization, he had been interested in philately for more than 40.years and often was a com- petitor at auctions against King George V. 1t is reported that his stamps will be offered for sale at New York within the next few weeks or months. Emil Bruechig, a New York dealer, announces that he has sold a block \of four of the 24-eent 1918 United States airmall inverts for $15,000, “the largest price paid for s philatelic item in re- cent years.” The Associated Press says: “Because of the tales and the prices connected with these stamps they have become almost legendary. A dealer, buying several sheets of the first offi- cial United States airmail issue the day they came out, May 13, 1918. noticed that one of the sheets contained the airplane printed upside down. His 100 were the only ones that got into cir- culation. He sold them for $15.000, and they found their way into the hands of Col. E. R. Green. Rumors that Col. Green's collection went down With his yacht catapulteq the value of those he 'hae sold in spite of the fact that the | reports were proved false. A single Kne;:‘imvn s0ld in New York recently for $2,750.” New cachets are as follows: March 15. Andrew Jackson’s birthday, aponsored bv Charles E. Haight, Fifth street and Twelfth avenue, Mendota, ., each cover B cents, addressing, envelope, stamp and cachet supplied; March 17, St. Patrick’s day, sponsored by Lynn McDowell, jr., 3409 R street, Washing- ton; March 21, “American Army of Two,” sponsored by Satult Stamp Club, Rev. James A. Simons, Scituate Cen- ter, Mass., each cover 5 cents, address- ing, envelope, stamp and cachet sup- B D spanssicd oy . G Hering: tion; sponsore . G. ton, 9 Guelick avenue, Clearfield, . Pony Express anniversary, G. J. Luhn, 314 Felix Mo., each cover 5 envelope, B sary of the Territory of Mississippi. eponsored by J. K. Galswinkler, 4902 North Avers avenue, Chicago, IIl Russia has & new set of 21 stamps | or! The values ! representing the cifferent peoples of its popu ation. are 1 to 10, 14, 15, 20, 30 and 35 kopecs, the 15k having seven designs. “Hand- some peasant women, dressed in native costume; burnoosed, dark-skinned men driving tractors; nomadic tribes, cotton pickers—these are some of the subjects pictured. A Samoyede, dressed in a parka, rides a sled drawn by reindeers, while In the background flames the aurora berealis (10k). A Birobidjan Hebrew watches an excavaling machine at work (4k). A hooded Koriakian, seated in a kayak surrounded by fce floes, sights a harpoon gun (20k). The 5k, picturing a family of Tunguses, pre- sents sn interesting study because of the contraste. The father's spear and the tepee-like tent suggest that the familv are nomads; yet the mother is reading a newspape:. Incidentallv, the group includes a <og. making Russia the third country to place canines on its_stamps.” Panama is putting back into circu- lation some of the stamps it had de- monetized. The 1926 Congreso ce Boli- var issue is appearing with the over- print, “Habilitado"—"made good again.” ‘The government of Chile has author- ized a new set of airmail stamps for exterior use. There will be 21, values, and the designs will be selected by com- petition. The different values and quantities are: 25,000 copies of 10, 15, 30, 40 and 50 centavos; 50,000 of 60, 70 and 80 centavos; 75.000 of 1, 2, 3. 4, 5 6 8 and 10 pesos; 10,000 of 20 and 30 pesos, and 5000 of 40 and 50 pesos. The Paraguay Zeppelin airmail issue of 1932 has been ‘surcharged in black w new values and the phrase. “Correos — Feliz Ano Neuvo— 1933 changing the status of the stamps to that of regular postage. Two values of the 1926 Algeria post- age due stamps have been provisionally surcharged with new values, as follows: XD; on 30c, bistre, and 1fr on 60c, dull red. ‘Trans - Jordania has a new series of 13 denominations <howing archeologi- cal glories of the past, as well as a lew subjects of modern signifi- cance. The ruined temple of Artemis at Jerash (Gerasa) is depicted in the 5m and 100m. d signs. The Nym- phoeum of the same place a) pears on the 2m. The castle at Ajlun, probably built by the Cru- saders, decorates the 10m and 200m varieties. El Khazneh, the treasure house of the Pharaohs, -called, at Petra, “the city of ruins.” is used for the 15m and 500m. A Saracen castle at Kerak is represented on the 4m. The 20m gives the Allenby Bridge acress the Jordan, the 50m a grazing scene, and races CedvvcecTarry ¥ T eTTe 4 |the 1 pound a portrait of Emir Ab- dullah. Guatemals has retired the 3-cent purple stamp bearing the portrait of Dr. Lorenzo Montufar. China has brought out a set of four stamps in tribute to the memory of Prime Minister Tau, who died in office. | They are: 2c, olive green: 5c, yellow green: 25c, gray blue, and $1, red. Czechoslovakia has a new stamp, 60h, red violet, showing & portrait of Dr. Miroslav Tyrs in picturesque native cos- tume. Collectors are watching for examples of the 10c. red orange, 1931 Peru issue accidentally printed with entire design reversed. Uruguay has a new 15m. black issue, the first of its kind to b2 authorized. s Vs > rrrrerrrsrrrses, SRR e w e e Nicaragua has a novel set to com- memorate the opening of the Rivas Railway. The stamps have no gum and are 2': by 1% inches in size. The values are 1, 2. 5, 10 and 15 centavos for regular postage; 15, 29, 25, 50 and 100 centavos for airmall. show scenes along the new line. The Christian Science Menitor says: “It is not generally known that at one of the largest post offices in the City of Berlin there is an information bureau where clerks may be consulted upon business matters in aimost any known language. Information can be obtained in 22 languages. Every post office clerk in this department has been thoroughiy grounded in the language assigned to him. Those speaking Japanese and Chinese have studied at the Berlin Ori- ental Seminary. The solitary exception appears to be Yiddish, but when infor- mation in that tongue is required, a rabbi of the nearby synagogue is con- sulted. Even the foreign consulates frequently come with requests to this bureau. Business men from other coun- tries, spending a short time in Berlin, find it of inestimable advantage.” ‘When a mail plane was forced down in the hills of the Desert of Wadihalfa, Egypt, camels were loaded with cans of gasoline and rushed to the spot to sup- ply a deficiency of fuel. King George V has contributed a number of rare stamps for a special sale to be held in the interest of the Royal Ear Hospital, London. Add to the list of eminent collectors the name of the Crown Prince of Sweden, whose specialty is early Euro- pean issues. Gen. Ttalo Balbo, Italian air minister, recently revealed that the total cost of his squadron flight to Brazil—$150,000— was covered by the sale of special air- mail stamps. ‘The largest post office in the world is asserted to be that at Chicago, dedi- cnul:n?nd opened for service February 15 James Wright, a middle miner of Library, Pa., is the coal ortunate of & gradually accumulated attic, and eventually Wright began to investigate philatelic prices. “I have letters dating back to 1800, he sa) STAMP DEALE! H. A. ROBINETTE ot tha meet Albums mmhh“—l‘m‘l The designs | DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA HEAR OFFICERS SPEAK National Director and Organizer Is Among Guests at Clarendon Meeting. Spedlal Dispatch to The St CLARENDON, Va., March 11.—Ad- dresses by National and State officers featured a meeting of the Daughters of Isabella, No. 247, held Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Nellie Burrows. Prominent among the guests were Mrs. Agnes .Zeller, national director and or- ganizer; Mrs, Alice Bicksler, national director; Mrs. J. Wahl, Washington re- gent; Mrs. Mary Haskell, State regent; Mrs. Mary »fanning, and Mrs. Mary Tavenne: frcm the District of Columbia organizations. The local chapter was represented at the recent banquet held in honor of visiting directors of the organization at the Mayflower in Washington by Mrs. Nellie Burrows, regent: Mrs, Catherine Beldwin, Mrs. Catherine Burrows, Miss Jelen Burrows, Mrs. Lucia Fraber, Miss Regina Fraber and Mrs. Marguerite ‘Wizeman. Community Centers Community centers in divisions 1-9 are preparing for the annual Children’s Festival in May. Prior to the city- wide festival each center will stege its own community festival. Dramatic activities in the centers in divisions 10-13 are developing among the adult groups, many of the drama leaders holding weekly forums with Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest at Franklin School Building. The District of Columbia Recreation Institute, at Garnet-Patter- son Center,” which holds regular Tues- day evening sessions this month, dé- voted largely to the interests of drama, will be addressed this week at 8 o'clock | by Denis E. Connell, speaking on “Ama-~ | teur Play Production.” Leading events this week in the cen- ters in divisions 1-9 are the week end | communty program at East Washington [c:nm Saturday night, featuring mov- | ing pictures, music and dancing, under | the supervision of Mrs. L. W. Hardy, general _secretary of the Community Center Department for thes: divisions. Southeast Center will feature this week a basket ball tournament between | teams playing at Hine Building. and also Friday, at 9:30 pm., there will be old-fashioned dancing in the Hine gym= nasium On Wednesday evening at this cen- ter, at 7:30, citizens of the southeas section of the city are invited to re- hearse with the Southeast Glee Club, under the leadership of Mrs. A. H. Bryde, "the “sing” (o be followed by a social evening of cards and games. At Buchanan Auditorium, which is in- cluded in Southeast Community Cen- ter, a young people’s dance will be held Thursday at 9 p.m. Thomson Center features Gaelic study groups on Thursday evening this week, the beginners, at 7:30, under the di- | rection of Miss Mary O'Sullivan, and the advanced group, at 8 o'clock, di- rected by Rev. James R. Geary. On Friday, at 9 o'clock, a social dance for adults will be held under the instruc- tion of Mrs. Jeanette P. Tolford. Burroughs Center will hold a dance and card party Saturday night for the woung people and adults of the com- munity and cards under the leadership of Mrs. Mirabel Lindsay. At Langley Center is a new group in contract bridge instruction, beginning Saturdey at 7:30 pm. McKinley Center announces a series of A. A. U. games this week, on Mon- day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7 pm. “Not envelopes, just letters folded and stamped with a stencil, ‘Three cents paid’ I also have a large number of stamps which date back to the begin= ning of the postage stamp era about 1840.” A New York dealer offered him a large sum for the collection, but the bid was declined. Henry Beckett, writing in the New York Evening Post, declares: “A real philatelist speaks a language that only the brotherhood knows, but they will listen by the hour. Few outsiders have any clear potion of what makes a stamp valuable to collectors. Technical details, of course, are a matter of pro- found scholarship, but there are a few. basic principles that may be under- stood. Essentially. the whole business is paradoxical. The more worthless a stamp gets the more valuable it is. If a stamp becomes obsolete, so that it twon't take a letter even around the -block, the collectors begin to take no- tice. I a stamp contains errors in printing, and is generally all wrong, and open to suspicion by the postmas- ter, then the colleciors appreciate it. ‘The Louisiana Purchase commemora= tives, issued Avril 30, 1904, were printed in the following quantities: 1 cent, 79,- 779.200; 2 cent, 149,498,741; and 5 cent, 7,981,341, President Roosevelt has given recess appointments to four Assistant Post- masters General. They are: Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Cheyenne, Wyo., First As- sistant; Willilam Washington Howes, Huron, S. Dak., Second Assistant; Clin- ton B. Eilenberger, Stroudsburg. Pa., Third Assistant. and Silliman Evans, Fort Wayne, Tex, Fourth Assistant. Mr. O'Mahoney and Mr. Howes are law- yers and members of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Eilenberger is a banker and has been treasurer of the Democratic Committee of his home State, and Mr. Evans is a former news- paper man, who in recent years has represented air transportation interests in Washington. So far as is known none of the group has been interested in philately. Presidefit Roosevelt has approved a new stamp to commemorate the end of the Revolutionary War. The design will show Washington headquarters at New- burgh, N. Y. The denomination will be 3 cents. Representative Randolph (Democrat, West Virginia) on Friday proposed in the House the issuance of a memorial postage stamp to the late Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. ‘The Washington branch of the So- ciety of Philatelic Americans has de- cided to publish a monthly bulletin. A. H. Whitney will be editor. At Tues- day evening’s meeting Maj. Earl Lan- dreth was elected an honorary mem- ber. The regular weekly gathering will be held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at 1103 Vermont avenue. There will be lw:l‘llfind exchange. The public is in- vited. ‘The Washington Philatelic Society will meet Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Hotel Carlton, Sixteenth street. Philip 8. Warren will discuss the stamps of Austria. A new assoclation of junior collectors is belng sponsored by D. Francis O'Sul- livan, 4221 Seventh street northwest, and boys and girls of the Petworth- Grant Circle neighborhood are invited to join. Meetings will be held every other Monday. FAULTY PLUMBING ency Shep en wheels. Let us check your plumb imate on your needs NO! 0462 ST. N:W COlumbia 241G - 18