Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1935, Page 6

SMALL ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY No need to buy large quan- tities of lumber and millwork for small repair jobs. Here at J. Frank Kelly you can buy any quantity of material desired. Prices are no higher. We offer you first-class, sea- soned material at lowest pos- sible prices and make delivery without extra cost. When you need lumber and millwork or any kind of building materials, get in touch with us. J. FRANK ELLY Lumber & Millwork 2121 Ga. Ave. NOrth 1341 THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO VISIT THE BOURSE being held at the Carlton Hotel this week in connection with the American Phila- telic Society Convention. Displays and offerings of Stamps, Albums, etc. Free copies of leading Phila- telic Publications. Open each day at noon The doctor recommends it | obbit, i N (i {M AN ALCOHOL RUB } IN SOOTHING CREAM FORM! YOU'LL LIKE ME BETTER THAN LIQUID RUBBING on sale - at all Drug Stores $5.65 New York Deily ‘one wey, cosches only. Lv. 12.30 4. w. $16%° Ni 1 Augunt 16, 17, 30, 31 o oM, Tardm: S tember 3. sleeping car fares. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Prompt Help For Itching Eczema It's wonderful the way soothing, cool- ing Zemo brings prompt relief to itching, burning skin, even in severe cases. Itching soon stops when Zemo touches tender and irritated skin be- cause of its rare ingredients. To re- lieve Rashes, Ringworm, and comfort the irritation of Eczema and Pimples, always use clean, soothing Zemo. In- sist on genuine Zemo. Approved by Good Honsekeeping Bureau, No. 4874, 35¢, 60c, §$1. All Druggist. 'BANDITS Ki ICKES IS SPEAKER 10 PHILATELISTS |Hoover Asks Membership in Society as Business Session Opens. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The first business session of the Golden Jubilee Convention of the American Philatelic Society got under way at the Hotel Carlton this morn- ing, with 300 members and a large gallery of friends in attendance. Capt. Howard F. Clark greeted the assembly in the name of the District Commissioners. Secretary of the In- terior Ickes was introduced by Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman, a member of the General Committee. The Sec- retary insisted that he was “only a barnyard variety of stamp collector who has had lots of fun collecting, and not a philatelist, whose pleasure it is to study stamps for little cracks and other minor faults.” “Collecting,” the Secretary con- tinued, “is distinguished from other ‘alleged mental diseases’ by being contagious. I didn’t become a col- lector myself until I was old enough | to know better. An innocent wish to fill some of the vacant spaces in my son Raymond's album got me into it. Now I am an avid and fir- rational general collector, with a cer- tain disposition to specialize in United States and Brtish colonials. Finds Mental Peace. “I think we can defend our hobby. | Psychologists appear to be agreed that a hobby is a good thing. Espe- | cially as we grow older we find we need something outside our ordinary routine work to occupy our leisure, to give us recreation and mental peace.” Secretary Ickes urged the society to | make it & duty to keep stamp collect- | ing “clean.” Those who break the | rules, he insisted, should feel the rod of the organization's wrath. During the morning a message from former President Herbert Hoover was read, in which he applied for mem- | bership in the American Philatelic Sc- | ciety and the Washington Philatelic Society. It was announced that the former President has been a “hermit” collector for 40 years. Mayo Dudley, chairman of the Cre- dentials Committee, gave newspaper men a statement of the results of the recent ballot for officers for.1935-1937. | The regular slate, headed by Eugenc Klein of Philadelphia, was elected by an 8 to 1 majority. 500 at Reception. At the national officers’ reception at the National Museum last evening about 500 members and friends were | present. * Those in the receiving line included: Roscoe B. Martin, presi- dent; Carter Glass, jr., vice presi- dent; Dr. Holland A. Davis, secretary; | Howard H. Elliott, treasurer; Dr. Ellis Haworth, president, ‘Washington | Philatelic Society; Philip Simms War- | ren, chairman, General Committee; | Albert F. Kunze, chairman, Exhibi- | tion Committee, and Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, philatelic curator, Smith- sonian Institution. | The convention bourse at the Carl- | ton also attracted a large crowd. Opened at noon by J. Harry Jenkins | | of the Associated Press, chairman of | | the Bourse Committee, it brought to- | gether more than a score of the lead- | ing dealers of the Atlantic seaboard, | among them Robert W. Hooper, 15- | year-old Washington schoolboy, said | to be the youngest stamp merchant in the United States. All regular sessions of the conven- tion, the bourse and the exhibition, | are open to the public. DNAP GAS STATION MAN East Falls Church Attendant Is| Released at Bridge—Second Place Robbed. ‘Washington police today are aid- g in the search for four highway- | men who early today robbed an East | Falls Church, Va., filling station, kid- naped the attendant, who later was freed, and escaped into the District | over Chain Bridge. The possibility that the same group | held up and robbed another filling | station near Woodbridge, Va., about | two hours earlier, is being investi- | gated. The automobiles in both | crimes were practically identical and bore similar District license plates. A quartet of robbers between the ages of 25 and 30 drove into the East Falls Church station about 3 | am. and asked Henry Butler, the attendant, to repair the carburetor and supply & quart of oil, according to Sergt. Alton Shoemate of the Falls Church police. As Butler turned his back to get the oil, one of the men pushed a | gun in his side and forced him to | get into the automobile, a new Ford | coach, while a second man rifled the | cash drawer of $36.22. Butler was ordered to keep quiet or “be shot,” he told police, as the car | sped through Falls Church to Chain | Bridge, where he was released with the admonition to “keep your mouth shut.” Butler obtained the license number of the car, which had been issued for anothér automobile. A similar car, manned by three men of about the same ages, was used in the hold-up at Hampden's filling sta- tion, on the Richmond Highway, about 1am. The amount taken from Hampden was undetermined. INSURANCE POLICIES INVOLVED IN SALE Home Beneficial Association BEYI“ All Virginia Industrial Paper From Provident. All Virginia industrial insurance policies of the Provident Relief Asso- ciation of Washington have been pur- chased by the Home Beneficial Asso- ciation of Virginia, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Rich- mond. In making the announcement, M. D. Nunnally, president of the Home Beneficial Co., said the Provident Re- lief” Association will continue its op- erations in Washington. The sale included approximately 35,000 policies, representing about $2,000,000 insurance in force. It was said at the Provident Relief Association’s offices at 2451 Eight- eenth street that the sale of the Vir- ginia policies confines the organiza- tion’s activities strictly to the Capital. In operation about 42 years, the Provident Relief Association has out- standing policies in the District total- ing approximately $1,098,000. THE EVENING Huge Stove Ready for White House President Roosevelt’s favorite dish of scrambled eggs will be frizzled over a flameless fire when the Chicago- made electric kitchen is hooked up to the Executive Mansion next week. The stainless steel thromium cooking Included in its flexible arrangements is a range just suitable for the Presi- unit, 24 feet long, cost about $5,000. dent's family, but the stove battery, with its ensemble of ranges, roasters, bakers, soup and sto griddle, can cook a formal dinner for 150 persons. George A. Hughes is the inventor. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, kettles and —Wide World Photo. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. NO PRIVACY HERE. HE private life of farmers in Maryland is getting less pri- vate all the time. I University of Maryland Ex- tension Service officials recently made a survey which disclosed such inti- mate details as: More than half of the farm women still use the old-fashioned washboard method of doing the family laundry. About 96 per cent of the families cook with wood and coal stoves, while 42 per cent use oil stoves during the Summer months. x x X x CHANCE FOR ECONOMY. Your Uncle Sam occasionally can be redundant, too. On the trucks used by the F. A. C. A. the painted words Federal Alcohol Con- trol Administration are preceded in equally large lettering by the let- ters “U. 8.” Xk * LEGISLATIVE PI. EVERY schoolboy knows—or at least should know—that pi is the un- varylng ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Conse- quently, Richard Mattoon of 101 Cedar avenue, Takoma Park, was skeptical when he read in a book that the Kansas Legislature at one time tried to change pi from 3.14159 to an even number by statutory en- actment. Commenting on what strange things State legislatures will do if you let them, Mattoon investigated. Replies received to his inquiries indicate that @ World's largest and fastest ship. For England and France. Firsi. Tourist. and Third. Superb food. See your Travel TAKE YOUR CAR ABROAD WITH YOU Coming Events Cast Their Shado ANNUAL ADVANCE SALE! Society Brand and Sheldon Overcoats Read about Wednesday Star (Aug. 14) THE HECHT (0. | not only in Kansas but also in South | Carolina, Arkansas, Wisconsin and | | Iowa has the curious law been pro- | posed. In Indiana about 30 years ago a| bill was introduced “to relieve the burden on school childreg by adop'- | | 32 as the legal value of Di.” and in | | North Carolina a backwoods member of the Lower se declared he wi “tired of using such a fool decimal fraction as 3.14159” and presented a bill to make pi equal to 3.1, * x * x DID YOU KNOW—1? Two kinds of $1 bills circulate in Washington. The first, promising to pay to the bearer a legal tender silver dollar, is not legal tender itself. The second, promising to pay “$1 in silver,” which means silver bullion, not legal tender, is legal tender itself, and bears that notation upon its face. * x % % PLEA. T WOULD be funny if it wasn't| pathetic—this neighborly attitude out-of-town applicants for Govern- | ment jobs assume, when writing to| | friends for assistance. A Washing- | ton woman was the recipient of an | intercessory letter the other day that | anq the animal lived for a number of | 922 N. Y. Ave. N.W. ran_something like this: | “Dear Carrie: I have been told that they are taking on extra workers at the Government's Bureau of Archives, and of course no one knows better | than you do how I have always loved | diving into dusty records and old | and valuable antiquities. Couldn't you run down and put in a little per- | sonal plea for me? You know what a way you had in Orangeburg get- ting the boys off for a “fish fry” on Saturday afternoons when their bosses needed them most; make goo- goo eyes at some of those high-ups in that Bureau of Archives and get me a job, and I'll ever be your grate- | ful — * ox x % IT OUGHT TO BE. The telephone at the Traffic Bu- reau rang. An accident! “Where?” a policeman wanted to know. “On Q street.” “Where?” “Q street—'Q’ as in cucumber.” * k% % HEIRLOOM. VOLUME 1, No. 1, of the Prairie City, dated Terre Haute, Ind., No- | vember 12, 1850, is about to pass into Agent. hy, General Agent, F. H. Mu 924 Fifteenth St. N.W. Tel. Met. 1440. WS . .« it in the F STREET AT SEVENTH © o e NATIONAL 5100 the hands of the third generation, ‘This now solled, tattered, one-pazz‘ little newspaper, whose sole item of “news” in eight columns is a refer- ence to the change in hours for the | opening of the town market, has be- come an heirloom in the family of | James B. Edmunds, 2d, general agent | of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere | Marquette Railroads and past presi- | dent of the Washington Kiwanis Club. | For the Prairie City notes in fits masthead that one J. B. Edmunds is | its co-editor and publisher, and that Edmunds is father to J. B, 2d. Recently the worm-eaten little sheet, still legible with its 85-year-old jokes and self-laudatory “introduc- tory,” came to rest at the home of J. B, 2d. He has a son, James B. So volume, 1, No. 1, is about to be- come the possession of J. B, 3d. * x * x “TROPHY.” R. WILLIAM M. MANN, superin- | tendent of the National Zoologi- cal Park, on the second floor of his | office, done in Colonial style, has 2 tiger skin which many visitors en- | vision as one of the fruits of the chase—a trophy gleaned by the genial | doctor in one of his forays abroad to get suitable animals for the Zoo here. | But the doctor himself gives quite | a different explanation of the tiger | skin from what the imaginative visitor conjures up. He says that it came | from an old circus tiger, which had such a bad case of the mange that he | | was given to the Zoo. An astute keeper cured up the case of mange, Best for baking, cooking and preserving Wednesday, Thursday and riday TWO OPTICAL SPECIALS @ Distance or reading, white or pink gold-filled frames, rim or rimless. @ Kryptok Invisible Bifocals (lenses anly). vision in one. Regular price for Special for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Only NOTE: Regular fee for examination omitted on these three days. Your eye comfort and proper eye examination and fit. My twenty years’ practice assures this confidence. DR. W. F. FINN Eyesight Specialist 9 AM, to6PM, TAKE ELEVATOR TO 3rd FLOOR Copyright 1935, by Dr. W. P, Finn, RUPTURE SPECIALIST Phone ME. 0218 305-307 MeGill Bld 908-914 G N.W, which smashed twice on its transcon- tinental trip, is now to be made so absolutely unsmashable that only un- reasonable Monica, Calif. opment section of the Bureau of Air | cording to Geisse, who drew attention | Save 25% to 50% TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1935. FAMILY AIRPLANE 10 BE INPROVED Commerce Department to Work on Flivver Ship Until It Is Perfect. The unsmashable flivver plane, bnormal use or abuse of the controls” will be able to injure it. The Department of Commerce plans to work toward perfecting the Waterman tailless family ship until it is safe as a toddler. Even desk-bound employes of the Bureau of Air Com- merce will be asked to take the plane up after engineers have added im- provements. Last night it hung suspended from a beam at Washington Airport while mechanics welded the landing gear, smashed on the plane’s arrival at the Airport after a 10-day trip from Santa John H. Geisse, chief of the devel- Commerce, suffered the same type of accident when he landed at Lordsburg, N. Mex., where his Eastward trip was temporarily halted for welding. Geisse hadn't flown for years, but he was ready for another spin in his 95-horsepower sky scooter this after- noon. “In its present condition, it must be termed experimental and is not ex- actly foolproof, but it is very close to being s0,” Geisse commented yester- day as he watched the mechanics commence repairs on the ship. Three Wheels Give Safety. The chief safety feature on the ship is the use of three equal-size wheels, which permits security in landing. For even though the landing gear is ripped, . Air Commerce officials have pointed out, the plane stays upright. The three-wheel principle was dis- | carded 25 years ago, when it was used on a Curtiss ship which quickly went out of fashion. Planes in the interval have been equipped with two big wheels and one little wheel in the | rear. | “This just shows there is nothing new under the sun,” Fred J. Neely, Air Commerce official, pointed out. “Ev- | erything on this ship has been tried | before, but we intend to get the great- est possible effectiveness out of all the ideas we are using.” | “It is practically impossible to ne&‘ into trouble on landing except by ac- tually running into an obstacle,” ac- to the lack of serious consequences of his landing mishap yesterday. When the plane is finally put on | the market it will probably be far dif- | years to delight young and old Wash- ington. 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WHERE OTHERS FAIL WE SUCCEED Our “Common Sense” Supports for Rupture Are Entirely Different From All Others Different in Principle, Material, Construction and Application Consider These Facts WE DO NOT employ steel springs, elastic belts, adhesive plasters or under straps. as they are not sani- comfortable or necessary in treating hernia. ‘We Do Guarantee To return and retain the rupture at once to the comfort and nlny"o‘; the atient. L B NO__MOI CHARGE, AcCEET | MO MONEY Mr. Baker will remain at our rooms this week only and we invite you to call and see how you can get relief without dis- comfort and injury. Ask for Wm. H. Baker at Parkside Hotel Eye St. off 14th St., Apt. 805 Powers and Johnson, Since 1860. ferent from what it is today. The engine will be changed, the outer cov- ering will be different and the buc- kling landing gear will probably have been improved to the point where ‘welding jobs will no longer be needed. Lands at 80 M.P.H. Even at present, the plane can be landed at 80 miles per hour without danger to passengers and pilot, Geisse says. The trick is to jam on the brakes as soon as the -hip touches the ground. You don't even have to be a good judge of distance to drop this metal bird to the ground Geisse declared: “The plane can be glided straight into a landing without any flaring near the ground, which removes en- tirely the need of any accurate judg- ment of height above the ground. “It is practically impossible to get into trouble on landing except by ac- tually running into an obstacle. “The visibility of the plane is ex- cellent, agd except in rough weather only the rudder need be used to hold to the desired course. Turns can also be made using only the rudder.” Parking the Waterman is cheap and easy. “By putting the plane into a hangar wing first, or sidewise, a hangar of about 22-foot span can be used. As hangar construction costs mount rapidly with increase in span, this is an important consideration,” said Geisse. e TO QUIT POLITICS House Member From California Will Not Seek Re-election. GLENDALE, Calif., August 13 (#).— John Steven McGroarty, Democrat, poet and Representative from the eleventh California district, announced yesterday he will not seek re-election because “I am not cut out to be a politician.” The official poet laureate of Cali- fornia, he will be 73 August 20. "SALADA" The Perfect Tea for ICED NOW!! TEA for the first time!! NEW AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OIL BURNER "9 NATIONAL SUPPLY CO. E. C. GRA 1328 New York Ave. is yours. installed and ready for operation, at the amazingly low price of $199.50:!!* The newest burner on the market . . . particularly designed for the small home . . . with full approval of the Na- tional Board of Fire Under- writers and the Board of Standards and Appeals. 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