Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1935, Page 24

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. President Roosevelt has pledged his help to the campaign for a Memorial day stamp, sponsored by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic in tribute to the fallen heroes of all wars. Don Grieve, stamp editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, declares: ‘“Postmaster General Farley has thrown a phila- telic bombshell that will shake stamp collecting . . . All this, of course, is an answer to the demand of philatel- ists that he do something about the “favor’ sheets he has distributed. This manner of handling the situation is one way to clear it up, but it will cost collectors $2,000,000. It would be much cheaper and simpler to call in all the ‘favors’ and perforate them.” Richard McP. Cabeen, in the Chicago Tribune for February 24, says: “The congressional investiga- tion of the Postmaster General with regard to sheets of unfinished stamps, which he is charged with having dis- tributed to particular friends, seems to have been put on a blind siding and the switch key thrown away. However, it is announced that all stamps which have reached the pub- lic in this manner will be rejssued or reprinted in the same unfinished condition and placed on sale for col- lectors through the Philatelic Agency. | This will require careful work and checking by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for a variation in color or shade, or the use of a plate with a differing number from that used for the presentation sheets, will nulli- fy this gesture of the Post Office De- partment to a great extent. Opinion is divided regarding this latest move to regain the favor of the collectors, many taking the sand that insult is being added to injury.” Linn's Weekly Stamp News, Feb- ruary 23. joins the anvil chorus with the verdict: “The results are out, Now, for $200 every collector in the country can have nice big sheets just like Gen. Farley gave to President Roosevelt.” Representative Charles D. Millard has had his address on the Postmas- ter General's imperforates reprinted from the Congressional Record and will supply copies to collectors on re- quest. Applicants should inclose postage. Interest in foreign stamps, dealers report, has been stimulated by the reaction to Post Office Department “errors.” A New York philatelic broker says. “In more than 20 vears I have never witnessed such a drastic change in sentiment.” Harrison Young writes: “The Far- ley reprints, we may hope, will have at least the good effect of killing off the ‘neglected’ Presidents scheme which the department has been nurs- ing to its heart for two years past. Not even Mr. Farley can have the hardihood to believe that collectors might be persuaded to buy two un- wanted sets in one season.” In reply to the question, “Why doesn’t the United States get out a set of bicolors?” Weekly Philatelic Gossip answers: “There is enough monkey-business already with stamps in only one color.” The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced more than 12,000, 000,000 stamps in 1934. i\l William Shrader's suggestion for & series of stamps to depict the monu- mental public buildings of Washington remains in a condition of “suspended animation,” but meanwhile Sweden brings out & pictorial set of six de- nominations in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish Parliament, as follows: 5-ore, Law Courts: 10-ore, Exchange; 15-ore, Great Church; 25-ore, House of the Nobles; 35-ore, House of Par- liament, and 60-ore coat of arms. The jubilee commemoratives of the British Empire will run to approx- imately 172 different denominations in 43 distinct Colonial sets of four. But the cost to collectors will not be ex- cessive, and it is indicated that the investment necessary will be amply Jjustified. Those who wish to pur- chase the entire series should place their orders promptly. Any reputable dealer will be able to supply the set to customers who apply in time. Rumania has two new stamps pro- viding additional portraits of King Carol II. The values are: 50 bani, dark brown, and 6 lei, brown red. In the former the monarch ap- pears in sim- ple informal dress; in the latter he is ar- rayed in all the trappings of military eminence and grandeur. Po- litical observ- ers believe that his control of his country is ancertain, and a phila- telic writer declares: “It is quite pos- sible that these two stamps may very well be the last tc portray the vain and peacock-like King Carol.” Brazil has brought out four stamps in tribute to Father Jose de Anchieta (1533-1597), “the Apostle of the New World,” & man whose “genius, devo- tion and pertinacious courage laid the foundations of Jesuit power so deeply in South America that its effects re- main to this day,” but who, strangely e, T sTamps. STAMP ALBUMS k Books. Catalogues, New Sets, Single ips. Philatelic Supplies. all and see me. I also BUY Collections. Harry B. Mason, 918 F N.W. i reeta G Gova, nudelax;ep-é:x. cataloguing 5 50 e fg' rm'i’nm{: i5c; plete Goya Set. alues. $1.35. mouRt Stamp Co. 66J Nassau S York SPECIAL ELOPES FOR WHITNEY'S STAMP MART 1107_Pa. Ave.. Next to_Star Office. Stamps—Coins—Autographs Bought and Seld Hobby Shop 716 17th St. N.W. DIst. 1272 - )dan — Somaliland — B e A0, s Caribean Archer —Algerian — Central Americans — Brit Colonials. _This magnicarocious collection ee for Bc tamp Co.. pt. W. 8. & 1 Pa Ne: THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHI NGTON, enough, hitherto has been almost totally unknown outside his own coun- try. Sent to instruct the Indians, An- chieta learned their language, wrote a grammar for it and text books in it, composed hymns, conducted divine service and taught school so effective- ly as to convert “even the then un- | born.” Repeatedly, he saved Portu- guese expeditions and colonies which otherwise would have been destroyed by his native followers. When taken hostage, he seized the opportunity to pursue his missionary purpose among his captors. And in the end he died in his_work. The stamps in his honor are of simple design. He is shown in his clerical robes and bearing a cross. Indians surround him. | Values listed for the set are 200 | reis, yellow brown: 300 reis, purple; | | 20, | 700 reis, blue, and 1,000 reis, green. Curacao has & new 10-cent airmail stamp of the 1931 type, square in proportions, light blue in color and showing a sym- bolic figure rep- resenting the spirit of flight. The composition has been criti- cized as being “too heavy"” in character. Airpost designs, it is said, should have something of .the grace which is distinctive of a plane in motion over the earth. Cachets are announced as follows: Merch 12, seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of William Jennings Bryan, G. W. Wilson, Champion, Nebr.; March 15, arrival of H. M. 8. Danae, H. E. ‘Warner, box 1795, St. Petersburg, Fla.; | March 15, U..S. 8. Monaghan com- | missioned date, Leo A. Schupp, 19 | Adams street, Kingston, N. Y.; March airport dedication, Henry W. Crawford, Branchville, N. J.; April 14, seventy-fifth anniversary of Pony Express, Louis F. Ditzel, 2332 Calver- ton Heights avenue, Baltimore, and | April 28, airport dedication, Newton, N. J., Mr. Crawford, as above. Standard size 6% envelopes, self- addressed and stamped, are specified. Inclose 1 cent forwarding fee for each cover wanted. ‘The Pacific Navigation Line, 311| California street, San Francisco, Calif., is arranging a philatelic tour of the South Pacific. Calls will be made | at Cocos, Galapagos, Juan Fernandez, Easter, Pitcairn, Tin Can and Christ- mas Islands. Collectors interested mav address E. C. Sharpe in care of the P. N. L. office as above. Thomas H. Graham, 31 Melbourne GET-READY | or lthe ’ APS CONVENTION | Betty Ellen Perkins, 9 years old, signals to the stamp collecting |" public her conviction that now is the time to get ready for the American | Philatelic Society Convention and Exhibiticn to be held in Washington | next August. The sentiment is approved with enthusiasm by Philip Simms Warren, chairman of the Convention chairman of the Exhibition Committee. quested to write to either of these leaders in care of the Hotel Carlton, convention headquarters. Committee, and by Albert F. Kunze, Those willing to help are re- —Star Staff Photo. Switzerland announces the over- printing of two airmail stamps to | meet a change in rates. The first of these is the 15-centime, deep green and light green, disarmament issue of 1932, surcharged “10,” and the sec- ong is the 15-centime, red, brown and apple green denomination of 1923, similarly overprinted. Belgium has two new “winged wheel” official stamps—the recently issued 70-centime King Leopold type | and the 35-centime Hermes type of | 1932, overprinted with the symbol ml red. SPACIOUS COMFORT . DISTRICT MOTOR COMPANY 1515 14th St. N.W.—POtomac 1000 BOYER-SHIPLEY SALES, INC. Capitol Heights, Md. A avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arranging a series of cachets for the colorial jubilee issues of the British Empire, May 6 Little America covers, autographed by Admiral Byrd, will sell at $5 each, according to reports from New York. The number of birds represented in the stamp designs of the world is 48. | Eagles appear on United States issues of 1851, 1869, 1911 and 1934. Collectors interested in the “Maja “(Continued on Twelfth T . AND A RIDE WIT COAST-IN AUTO WORKS, INC. 712 E Street S.E.—LIncoln 9393 COLLEGE PARK AUTO PLACE College Park, Md. STAGE BY VIRGINL 8 MR. McKIN- LEY watched Sonia Sabini move about the stage during the first two acts of the play he was | more than ever en- thralled by the pure loveliness of |her young voice, her sweet face, her fresh, slender fig- ure. . | Mr. MecKinley had reached that | certain age and po- sition of affluence when he fancied himself as a ro- mantic gallant. But not to his wife. | No, she was old— almost as old as he was—and she had lost the last vestige of that glamorous fascina- tion which belongs | only to youth. Of course, he loved her—but she didn't thrill him as the young exquisite Sonia | Sabini did, for instance. Sonla was youth, and Mr. McKinley saw romance and charm in her be- cause, perhaps, his own youth was gone irrevocably. “She’s quite good, isn’t she?” Mrs. | McKinley said as the curtain went down for a 20-minute intermission, “Sonia Sabini, I mean.” McKinley's eyes lost some of their dreaminess as they looked on his “A Young Man . shoulders. What would she say if he told her that as soon as Sonia could arrange time he was going to take her—in all the glory of her young | beauty—to the most exquisite dinner | his taste could arrange? And after | that dinner—well, his fate was in thei | 1ap of the gods. “Uh, excuse me, Agnes,” he mut- tered to his wife. Five minutes later he was backstage | | —standing just outside Sonia Sabini’s dressing room door. At his knock, an older boy or a young man who looked about 19 or 20 came out, closing the door behind him. “Sonia says she's sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. McKinley. She sent me out to entertain you.” He moved his hands awkwardly. “I—I do this for Sonia sometimes. McKinley gazed enviously at this young man who was so close, so inti- mate with Sonia. But a second glance showed him that the boy was ill-at- ease, awkward, unsure of himself— and McKinley smiled rather patron- izingly. After all, he thought, it takes age to give & man poise and sophisti- | | cation. A young woman like Sonia ‘muldn't admire a mere callow school- boyish chap. “It's very good of you, Mr.——" he ipaused questioningly. “My name is Bob Allen. Uh—sorry. Forgot to introduce myself.” McKinley smiled again. “Very glad to know you, Mister Allen. Are you in the play? I don’t recognize you offstage.” Allen stuck his hands in his pockets and jerked them out nervously as if he recalled it was bad manners to stand with his hands in his pockets. “No, sir, I'm not in the play. I—I just sorta hang around. Run er- wife's rather puffy face and matronly | D.- C, DAILY SHORT STORY YOUTH His Wife's Puffy Face and Matronly Shoulders Obtruded Upon the Vision of Sonia’s Beauty. A WOODALL. rands and other things to help out.” “I see,” McKin- ley drew out his watch, “U'm afraid there won't be much chance for 8 chat with Miss Sabini before the last act.” “Oh, there’ll be plenty of time!” Allen exclaimed eagerly. “The mater doesn't go, on right away.” McKinley looked puzzled. “But— Sonia?” Allen burst into & raucous laugh— that ended in & squeak. “Gee, you didn’'t know? Sonla is my mother. I call her the mater. Yes, sir, she fools lots of pecple. Why, I've got & sister older'n me who is married and has a baby!” “What!” That exclamation of sur- | prise and shock—almost of horror— escaped McKinley before he could stop “She—she looks so young! I never | dreamed——" Sonia the mother of | this—this gawky young man! And a | grandmother! Why, she was old! | Maybe as old as he was; even as old as Agnes! | “You've no idea how Sonia works | to keep looking young, Allen went | on chattily. “She’s in there now with a mud pack on her face. She has to diet, exercise, have her face lifted, get lots and lots of rest—oh, it's a tough racket trying to keep young!" Mud packs—face lifted! McKinley was suddenly nauseated. He had . . Came Out” been fooled, hoodwinked by a diet. | | Why, he had almost taken her out to dinner, and he might have fallen in love with her—and she was a grand- mother! “Uh, tell your-m-mother I'm sorry T can't wait any longer. Nearly time for the curtain.” He made his way back and leaned across his seat to his wife. ‘“Agnes, d'you mind if we go home now? I've got—a touch of lumbago.” “Of course, ou poor dear. care much for the play anyw: Backstage in Sonia Sabini’s dress- ing room, Bob Allen and Sonia were wiping tears of laughter from their cheeks. On the floor near a huge basket of roses lay a card and beneath Mr. McKinley's name was written “For your beautiful youth.” “Bob,” Sonia was saying. “you did that young-boy act marvelously. I was afraid you were layingit on thick about the ‘grandchild'—buUt the mud pack was perfect!” “It was a good act, wasn't it?” Bob Allen smiled in quite the man-about- town fashion. “That old fool won't bother you any more. Say, wouldn't it be great if I got a chance to do my young-boy act on the stage? Until I do, I've got a feeling I'll just go on being a butler in your plays!” “And my darling, darling husband!" (Copyright. 1935.) I didn't | Temorrow — “Storm Signal” by Moses Schere, deals with a love- stricken young pilot who found ro- mance in the midst of a thunderstorm | high in the air. | Storm Does Much Damage. A thunderstorm, hailstorm and tor- nado combined did much damage near | phone wires, broke window panes and | Ethiopian air forces. .| Caliph, Australia, recently. The wind | smashed crockery in kitchens exposed | New York on the Europa February 22 | tore roofs from houses and carried them away, cut down trees just as H THE RHYTHM lir a huge roller had passed over them | and sliced wheat off at the roots. The hail mowed down grain, severed tele- | by the wind. The rain damaged roads iand drowned pouitry. ARCH 3, 1935—PART ONE. Y. W.C. A. AT HOME HOSTESSES NAMED Park View Chapter Meets Today. Membership Group to Con- vene Tomorrow. Mrs. P. B. Ashburn, Mrs. Arja Mor- gan and Mrs. Horace Wood, members of the Park View Chapter of the Y. W. C. A, will be hostesses for the at home today at 4 p.m., preceding the music | hour at 5 o'clock at Seventeenth and | K streets. | The Membership Committee will meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in the board room. The E Street Commit- tee will meet at 614 E street at 12:45 Monday. The Chevy Chase Chapter will meet at the home of Mrs. W. L. New, 208 Primrose street, Tuesday, for luncheon at 12:30. Mrs. Wilson Compton will be the guest speaker. ‘The Roosevelt Girl Reserve Cabinet will meet at the home of Betty Craig today. The Girl Reserve Club, at 614 E street, will meet at 4 Monday of each week instead of Thursday. The Senior High School Girl Reserve Council will meet Wednesday at 4. Miss Mabel R. Cook will organize a new Girl Reserve group at the Albright Evangelical Church Wednesday at |3:15 pm. The Roosevelt Girl Reserve Club will meet at the Y. W. C. A. | Thursday afternoon. The third Junior High School Rhythmic and Social Dancing Class will be held at 4 pm. | Thursday. All Girl Reserve Junior | High School clubs will meet together {at the Y. W. C. A, Friday at 4 pm. | Reservations must be in by 5 p.m. Wednesday. | The Senior High School Girl Re- | serve Rhythmic and Social Dancing | Class will have a dance Saturday eve- ing. “Fashions of Spring” will be pre- sented at the Business and Profes- sional Women's dinner at 6:30 | March 5. The Business and Professional ! Women’s Department Committee will meet Tuesday at 5:15 to complete | plans for a banquet March 26. The bridge group for business women and their friends will meet Wednesday at the Y. W. C. A. at 7:30. | " Business meetings are scheduled for | the Xenos Club Wednesday at 7:30 | pm. and the Blue Triangle Club Thursday at 8:15 p.m. The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club will | follow its rehearsal March 7 with a party at the home of Mary Worthley. | The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club has been asked to sing for Mu Pho Epsilon, | Musical Sorority March 11. The children’s music hour at 614 E street will meet Monday at 4:30 p.m. Edythe Marmion Brosius, harpist, will give a program on the Irish harp for the Wednesday Women's Club at 614 E street March 6 at 4 pm A committee of the Wednesday Club of the industrial department, under | the chairmanship of Miss Edna | Schraeder, will meet to plan for a | bridge party March 6 at 7:30. | The Thursday Club will meet for supper in the cafeteria March 7 at 6. SPEEDS TO ETHIOPIA Harlem Colored Flyer Going to Fly for Emperor Reaches Britain. SOUTHAMPTON. 2 (#).—Col. Hubert Julian, Harlem col- ored aviator en route to Ethiopia to offer his service. to Emperor Haile | Selassie, said on his arrival today, “I | do not mind whether I am a colonel or a private.” Julian was once & commander of the He sailed from to proffer his services to the Emperor !in the current dispute with Italy. Conquerin g Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living comtract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team, now disbanded, and has won 24 mational champion- ships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, includes the one-over-ome principle, which the Sims group of players was the first to employ.and develop. Sign-off Slam Try. T SOUNDS paradoxical that a bid | | may be a sign-off and yet be a | slam try at the same time. Never- are very rare and seldom seen in captivity. North's opening bid is debatable. Strictly speaking, it is not quite & two no-trump bid, yet who shall deny that a bit of shading is per- missible? North’s hand, being loaded with aces and kings—the only ten ace is in hearts—is not a declarer type of hand. The correct bid is one spade. coupled with a sincere prayer that South may find enough to bid one no-trump. Therefore, North bid two no-trumps which | theless, there are such creatures | in the bridge 200, though they | hand, is interested in & slam; but not a grand slam. No matter what South holds, he has no right to take North out of three no-trumps into s minor suit unless he is willing to slam. ‘What if he holds seven clubs to the jack? For all he knows, North may have the ace, king, queen. It so hap- pens that North's fit on the above hand is dublous, but that is neither here nor there. Let us be purists. Under ordinary circumstances, a bid cf four clubs by South is a off, | but in view of iNorth’s opening did it |1s both a sign-off and a slam try. It says, “Partner, I am willing to play the hand in six clubs or in six no- trumps if you are positive that you can get into my hand. I hold at least a six-card club suit, but my hand in general is nothing to write home to mother about.” Since his club support was meager, | North merely bid five clubs. South | gleefully went into six, secure in the knowledge that his partner would n bid seven. As a matter of fact, seve: depends on either dropping or su cessfully finessing for the king d trumps; but, as I have said before, don't want to play those hands f seven. Tomorrow’s Hand. A few judicious queens and jacks in | the South hand. and North,is inter- | ested in 150 aces and game. rarity of six honor tricks in one hand | compensates for the shading. In the |event that South holds any sort of suit, & slam is almost certain. No | matter how many leaps and bounds North may make subsequently, one | spade will not bring the mellow glow to South’s heart that a bid of two no-trumps will. South’s response is hard and fast— three clubs. Since South has disposed of his doubleton, North may bid three no-trumps and hope that South has an entry. Otherwise three no-trumps may turn out to be one no-trump. Naturally, South, with his freakish ‘The | We would hardly advocate bidding six no-trumps on the North-South holdin®. (it seems necessary on the above hand to explain which side would bid it); but nevertheless, six no= trumps is what North made. The hand, we are reluctantly forced to admit, played nicely. When we think of all the small slams we have bid that have gone down because of a five-nothing division in trumps! (Copyright. 1935.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on t that are addressed to this naws- Der with a seif-addressed. astamped Velope. Who AAre You’.; BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. England, March | THIS is an ancient English sur- name, its ancestral home for many generations being in Rowley, in the East Riding of County York. Rowley is near the River Humber. The name of Tenney was repre- | sented in America as early as 1638, when Thomas Tenney and his wife, Ann Parratt Tenney, affiliated them- selves with a company of about 20 families led by Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, who emigrated to this country and settled on the north shore of Massa- chusetts Bay. They named their set- tlement Rowley in honor of their former English home Thomas Tenney at once became active in the affairs of his adopted land. and was a prominent man in his community. He was chosen town marshal, selectman. ensign of militia and was a landowner of considerable importance. His son, John Tenney, served in King Phillip's War, in 1676, and his grandson, Samuel (b. 1667) of Bradford, Mass., was & member of the Colonial Assembly and lieutenant in the Continental Army. Tenneys are found living in many sections of the United States today, most of them being descendants o the ancestor mentioned. (Copyright. 1935.) THERE'S REST AND THERE'S ZEST IN A CHRYSLER * —J'r’s WOR cars. . . but it’s just pure pleasufe * * K to drive some * * back seat passengers cradled between the axles. OF YOUR WALK to drive or ride in a Chrysler. A new kind of motor car travel came into existence with the Chrysler Airflow. 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