Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1936, Page 30

D—6 RAINBOW DIVISION REUNION PLANNED Neagle to Lead D. C. Group to National Meeting at Kansas City. Headed by Honorary President Eimer F. Neagle. members of the Dis- trict of Columbia Society of the 42d | (Rainbow) Division, will leave here | next Wecnesday to attend the eight- | eenth national reurdon, to be held at | Kansas City, Mo., opening July 12 and continuing through July 15. The other official delegates from this | area include M. Manning Marcus, | honorary national president; Walker | H. Colston, past honorary chapter president: Edward J. Mahan, past vice president; Vice Presidents Win- field Scott Lynn and Huber B. Schultz, J. M. Cohan, Harold B. Rodier, the editor of the national official publication of the R. D. V., the Rainbow Reveille; William Humiay. chapter president; Bentley Mulford, | chairman of the R. D. V. Medals of | Valor Committee; Roland E. Packard, | also of that committee, and Bernard V. Rhodes, treasurer. Following is a brief outline of the pregram for the conclave: July 12—Registration at the Meuhle- boch Hotel: 8 pm., reception for R. D. V. and its auxiliary. July 13—2 pm., opening assembly, with members of the auxiliary invited. | Address of welcome by Col. Ruby D. | Garrett, national president, nnd; speeches by other distinguished cfficials; 8 pm.: “Days of '49 Car-| nival and Wild West Show,” Municipal | Auditorium. | July 14—10 am. assembly. commit- | tee meetings, and session of the aux- | liary: 12:30 pm. luncheon for the| members of the auxiliary: 6:30 p.m.,| annual banguet, (one-half hour of the | program will be broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System): 11:45 p.m., Champagne hour, with Col. J. Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and former commanding officer of the 117th Engineer Train of the Rainbow Division, presiding. This will be conducted at the Liberty Me- morial. July 15—10 am. assembly, with memorial services for the Rainbowers who have died since the 1935 national reunion was held at Dashington, D. C. selections of 1937 national reunion place; election of national officers; 2 pm, sight seeing tours. 8 p.m., stag emoker and party for the auxiliary. C. T. U. NEW \\Y Northeast Suburban Union met at $he home of Mrs. Richard L. Scheffler, @lenbrook road, Edgemore, Md., for a garden picnic. Mrs. Edna Proctor was | assisting hostess. The guests included Mrs. Beck. Mrs. Chester Smith, Mrs. Richard Boss, Mrs. T. C. Pearce, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Harry Foss, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs, Mary McKillen, Mrs Leary and Mrs. M. E. Poole. Mrs. Scheffler presented Mrs. Proctor with shoulder afgan in recognition of her interest in the union. Music and moving pictures completed the pro- gram. A silver-medal contest was given by the Northwest Union at Calvary Bap- tist Church. under the direction of Rev. Alice Allen. Those taking part were Marjorie Duvall, Marie Louise Ralph, Betty Lawrence and Loyce Gooch. The recitations were inter- epersed with a solo by Mrs. E. H. Fret- well and a piano duet by Mrs. John ACROSS. . Thong. | 6. Possessing flavor. | | 11. Plea of being in another | place. | 16. Keen to cut 21. Crownlike head ornament. Sultan’s decree. Ecclesiastical scarf. Stone roller. . Kind of tree. | 26. Posters. | 27. Musical composition. . All by one’s self. . Controls Small island. Fetters. Frees from fault. Three-sided figures 110 Place of ingress. | 111 Imprint. | Persia. tus Slow moving person. | 115. Siouan Indian. | 117, Airplane inclosure. | 118. 46. Phe last. 119. 47. Firmly established or 120 | fixed. | 124 52. Land measure. 1125, | 3. Arabian nature demons. | 130. | 55. Swagger. | 5™ Fright. | 58. College officials. 60. Playthings. 62. Sharply contested. 64. Consecrated: French. | 65. Knave. | 67. Encounters. 92. 94. 96. 97. 99 101. 22. 23 |24 25 103. 104. 106 )31. 108, 132 33. 35 37 1 39. 40 41. 42. | 131. | 133. | 135. 136. t 137, 138 9. Buffoon. . Wanting in color. . Musical performance. Pertaining to the rise and fall of the ocean. . Ring set with one diamond. . Spoken. Dined. Calls upon officially. Miners. Oxlike quadruped. | Fold at front of a coat. Made an appointment with. | Directed a missile. Understanding. Pinnacle of ice. Mineral deposits. Energetic. Make easier to be endured. Citylike. | Moved with celerity. | Additional to. | Lurk. Plant shoot Glaringly offensive. Borders of an object. Superior seaman. Large examination halls 40 in Germany. Being the one of two. Claw. Gone by: Fr. Species of geese Long-continued practice. Not suitable. THE SUNDAY SUNDAY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE DOWN. . Doorkeeper of Amphitheater . Edible root. . Pronounced wi initial ‘s’ active. Altar cloths. condition. Receive into 2 13. 14 15 Mass of cast Make ready: Silicate of cal manganese. 16 scampers. 17. Piercer. 18. | 1¢ i 20 134 |36 33 Breaks. Constrain. Lively person. Annoys. Ditch. 41. Paravane. a2 43 | 44 9 | 46. |47 Crude Bin of fish. Lubricated. . Not reserved. . Alms boxes. 147. Braid of hair, Cause to move. . Half diameters. . Became markedly Leading to nothing. . Determine the future Symbol of honor. Wild, headlong Make reparation Leok with amusement Skelcton organization. Body of water. Sweet substance. | 69. A weight for precious | stones. | 71. Nostril: Obs. | 72. Preserved as | something sacred. | 74. Boring tool. | 76. Thanksgiving birds. Kind of jacket. 13 | 14 | 141 142 | 143. | 144, i 145, I 146. 0. Expulsion from home. Forgive. Backs of necks. A ne‘er-do-well Yielded. Irregularly notched. Prepare for use. Ingress. Dial. . A n2me: ment: Var, . Settled. . Disappointed. . Woody plants. Latin. American black snake. . Hindu woman’s gar- STAR, WASHINGTON, Amount a person is rated. . Measure capacity. A shrub. . Flower, . Dorsal. . Frozen. . Networks. ‘Underground worker. . Puzzled by questioning. . Venomous snake. . Bay window. Pertaining to the nose Shut tight. . Indian’s tent. . Surgical thread. . Slanting. . To send or let in: Rare. . Female ruff. . Finished. Ascertain the flavor of. To divorce the wife: Mahcm. law. a lodge center. ith a family material. Archaic cium and «| amazing lake when he landed on Tri- D. C. JULY LAKE OF ASPHALT ISWORLD WONDER Tar-Like Substance, Used| in Road Making, Ages Old. SOBO, Trinidad, British West In- | dies (#).—Whether or not all roads, lead to Rome, it is certain thousands | of them, running through many parts | of the world, have their beginning here in a circle covering 110 acres. The answer to the conundrum is that here is the famous asphalt lake which is one of the wonders of the world. From the solidified surface of this black mass, men daily dig the tar- like substance used to make surfaces | for roads, sidewalks and the like. The asphalt is said to be hundreds of thousands of years old, the deposit left when an oil lake evaporated. Out of this country were covered Wwith todon bones and well preserved trees from ages past. Columbus Made Mistake. Columbus, quite likely, saw this 5, nidad, although he seems to have been mainly concerned with the fool’s gold which he found on the beach and mis- took for the real thing. He sent a shipload of it back home | with the statement that the sands of ths country were covered with gold, but he probably would have re- ceived more thanks if he had asphalt instead. It is recorded that Sir Walter Raleigh caulked his ships with this | asphalt on one of his expeditiors. | The lake is circular, with a cone- | | shaped basin, the extreme depth being | about 285 feet. The surface is fairly | hard and blocks can be chipped out | very easily with a pick. Underneath, | however, it is still soft, and a hole dug one day will be full of asphalt the | next. Supply Will Be Exhausted. This does not mean though that a fresh supply of asphait is boiling up { out of the ground. The lake level is | much lower than it was when the | removal of the substance was begun on a big scale a few years ago. Ulti- | ‘malely the supply will be exhausted, | 1t is said, but & lot still is left. The asphalt is porus and contains | some water when first dug. At a | plant near the shore, the moisture is | dried out and the substance softened | s0 it can be poured into barrels for shipment. Naturally Trinidad highways are built {of asphalt. Road repairs are very simple. Small pieces of asphalt are | scattered over worn places and the sun | quickly softens them sufficiently so they fill any holes. Fish “on” Lake. One of the most asion:shing things 08 100, 102 1 105, 107. | 109. 112 114 116. i 118, Short story. Washer woman Boldly. Egyptian river. Algonquian In Track of a deer. Strike with amazc Small fortress. To look upon. Continued attemp: gain. Barrel maker. Swordlike weapon. Healer. Franciscan missicn Hindu queens. Bodily contour. Violent detonation A floor polisher. Out of the way. Islands. Necessarily. Former emperor. Presently. to 119 120, 121 122 123. 124. | 125. 126. 127. 128. 129 132. 134. R. Thomas and Mrs. Fretwell. The judges were H. Wadleigh. Mrs. J. E. Wright and Miss Flossie Street. Miss Loyce Gooch won the silver pin presented by Mrs. William N. Garner, president of this union. Northwest Union met with Mrs. John R. Thomas, Takoma Park, for it last meeting of the Summer. The president Mrs, Willlam N. Garner, presided. The devotional was led by Mrs. Manuel Kline, who spoke on *Pioneers.” Mrs. Richard Boss, guest soloist, fang and also joined with Mrs. Blanche Burton in a duet, accompanied by Mrs. Jonn R. Thomas at the piano. Miss Frankie Knibb, Mrs. H. T. Todd and Mrs. J. R. Wood were appointed as Nominating Committee to select officers for the ensuing year, to report at the September 17 meeting at Cal- vary Baptist Church. Mary Pollock Union met at the home of Mrs. L. W. Marshall, 3700 Bangor street, Summitt Park, Tuesday evening. Meeting called to order by the president, Mrs. Ladd. Mrs. Jean Graves, devotional director, gave a ecripture and talk. The death of Mrs. Mary C. Ladd wzs reported. Selections were rendered by Rev. Glenn Faucett, pastor of East Wash- ington Baptist Church, on his musical faw, accompanied by Mrs. William Prchaska. Clyde Crouch.was the guest Epoaker. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Fletcher in Berwyn, Md., July 28. ‘ D. A. R. ACTIVITIES Mrs. Joseph W. Saunders, State chairman, District of Columbia, Junior American Citizens, D. A. R.. met with the Executive Committee, Jean War- field. Mrs. H. S. Parsons, Elizabeth Smith. Mrs. A. F. Kempton and Mary Lee Goddard, at the home of Mrs. Kempton, and planned their trip to Port Tobacco, Md. Arrangements are being made there for five clubs of girls and boys, com- pricing several hundred members. The smaller girls under 10 will go to Holiday House, the Summer home of the Girls' Friendly Society. Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Haig were guests. Betsy_Ross girls and boys of 106 members meet at Friendship House on Saturday afternoons. Our Flag Chapter met at the home of the regent, Mrs. J. Caldwell Jen- kins, at Middleberg, Va. Silent tribute was paid the memory of Dr. Ellen Spencer Mussey and Mrs. Charles A. Appleby. The chapter voted to send a child to the Summer camp. Officers elected were: Mrs. William J. La Varre, regent; Mrs. Corbin ‘Thompson, vice regent; Mrs. William Goff Sears, chaplain; Miss Mary A. Kauffman, corresponding secretary; Mrs. George A. Eastment, treasurer; Mrs. Grattan Kerans, delegate. Phone Adjusts Sound for Deaf. British postal engineers have in- vented for persons whose hearing is below normal, a telephone which will enable them to increase the volume TEMPLE HEIGHTS | Patriotic Observance to Be Under Direction of Dr. John C. Palmer. Patriotic day will be observed at | the open-air religious services on | Temple Heights today at 4 p.m., under direction of Dr. John €. Palmer, grend chaplain of the Grand Lodge ! of Masons. Rabbi Solomon Metz of Adath Israel Hebrew Congregation will de- liver the address. The musical pro- gram will be under direction of J. be rendered by George A. Myers, | Boal. Special guests today will be mem- bers of the following blue lodges: La Fayette, Myron M. Parker, Mount Pleasant and Samuel Gompers, to- gether with members of the following chapters of the Eastern Star: Co- lumbia, Lebanon, Gavel and Mount Pleasant, all with their families. The public is welcome. The uniformed units of Capitol For- est, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, attended the birthday celebration and cere- monial of Baltimore Forest there on June 27. The supreme Tall Cedar of the members ot the Supreme Forest were present and made H. Curly Byrd, presi- dent of Maryland University, and J. Purdon Wright, potentate of Bomar at sight. The supreme Tall Cedar was presented with a set of silver by Balti- more Forest. Man Has Throat Stretched. Swallowing of caustic acid 25 years ago was the cause of the admittance to a hospital in Melbourne, Australia, of a man whose life was in danger. When 3 years old he accidentally took the acid, and it caused severe burns to the throat. The scar grew gradually until it blocked the gullet. While eating meat recently a piece of the food stuck in his throat, which had to be stretched with probes be- fore the obstruction could be removed. The man probably will be compelled to have his throat stretched period- ically for the rest of his life. Mark Shepherdess’ Grave. A tombstone provided by public subscription, was unveiled in Cran- shaws Churchyard, in the valley of the Lammermuir Hills, Berwickshire, England, to Mrs. Jean Punton. For over a quarter of & ceniury she was a shepardess of the sheep farm of Priestlaw. Mrs. Punton had charge of 500 sheep, trained her own dogs of incoming sounds by turning a knob. . and won numerous prizes st shows both for sheep and sheepdogs. 4 PROCRAM TODAY Walter Humphrey. Vocal solos will | tenor, accompanied by Mrs. Frank | United States, Walter I. Fisher, and | Temple, A. A. O. M. S, Tall Cedars| MILITAWILL GET NEW DIRECTORY First Volume Since 1931 Being Prepared by War Department. get a new directory of its personnel by the beginning of next year, it was indicated at the War Department. Although the Army directory is issued each year, there has not been & di- rectory of Guard officers and organi- zations since September 30, 1831. There have been so many changes |in personnel and in the allocation | of units to the various States, as well | as changes in units that the directory | issued then is practically useless. | The gigantic task of collecting the | data necessary for the preparation of this volume already has been started in the National Guard Bureau of the War Department, and the informa- Lack of funds has been given as the reason for failure to get out this important volume, and it has not been issued during the years when the Government was cutting its ex- penses. It ceased at the beginning of the governmental economy wave. It is estimated that the cost of pre- paring and printing the volume will be approximately $26,000. In order to cut down the cost to this figure, it was said, it will be necessary to eliminate from the book the history of National Guard organizations, and for this purpose the old book should be retained. These histories, it was indicated, require about one hundred pages. National Guard officials have been striving for a long time to have the issuance of the book revived, as it is valuable in the units, giving as it does the personal history of each officer in the Guard, his training and education, as well as war service, if any. S ——— Army Airmail Service. Brazil's Army airmail service last year covered 564,262 miles in 443 trips, carrying 40,505 pounds of cor- respondence and 403 passengers, with 92 per cent regularitg in schedules. L3 ‘The National Guard is expected to | tion will be as of the current July 1.| VETERANS TOHEAR RANKINAND HINES Others on Program of Con- ' vention at- Milwaukee July 20 to 25. Representative John E. Rankin of | Mississippi, chairman of the Vet- erans’ Committee, will be one of the | principal speakers at the sixteenth | national convention of the Disabled | American Veterans in Milwaukee | July 20 to 25. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans' affairs, will be among the speakers. | As a number of delegates and mem- | bers will go from Washington by au- tomobile to Milwaukee, the plan to have a special train for the local, | Maryland. Virginia and West Vir- ginia delegations has been discarded. Due to the national convention, the July meeting of the District of Co- lumbia .Department Executive Com- mittee has been canceled. but the meeting will be called together next month to consider reports brought back by the delegates to Milwaukee. With Comdr. Burr Lenhart pre- | siding. a meeting of Federal Chapter will be held at the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines' Club, Eleventi and L streets, July 13. The Rea Chapter, with Comdr. Howard Starr presiding, will hold ity monthly meeting following the na- | July 30. FIRECRACKER BLAMED Pants Ripped 2 Blocks Away When Dog Attacks Man. KENNEWICK, Wash. (#).—Indi- rectly though it was, Walt Knowles’ giant firecrackers ripped the pants of a man two blocks away. Soon after he fired them a man raced up and shouted, “Look what you did to my pants!” Knowles assured him no one was in sight when the crackers were fired. “I was going down a street two blocks away,” the irate man said, “when your firecrackers exploded. A dog I was passing jumped at me. Look what he did.” . Women Attacked by Owl. Swooping like a vampire, an owl | which frequents the tombstones in the cemetery in Aldershot, England, has been attacking men and women. It has set upon many walking on Cem- etery Hill, a lonely road ringing the large burial grounds. Albert Wakem, who was attacked by the bird, said that many women are now-afraid to pass the spot at night. R. H. Diment reported that the owl flew down and gave him a terrific blow on the back of his meck, blood from the wound covering hig shirt and collar. tional convention at the Moose Hall | about the Asphalt Lake is that there | are live fish in it. or rather ¢n it. Although the lake is virtually level, because of the evening up process which goes on, there are numerous slight depressions in which rain col- lects. Fish about an inch and a half ! long live in the pools. | Science probably can where these little fellows came fr but the | natives don't know. Throughout the| greater part of the vear, there is suf- ficient rain to kesp the depressions filled, but during the short dry scason | the more shallow of them dry up, leav- | ing the fish in a very hot spot. However. that doesn't worry the fish a bit. In fact they snap their tails at it and start unconcernedly off across country to find a depression that still | | has water in it. floppinz cons'd=rable distances over the asphait to new pools. say DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA i | The degree team of Esther Ccuncil! ! conferred the degree on a class Thurs- day evening. The new members are: Mr. and Mrs. George Rowe. Miss Min- nie Perry and Miss Emily Higgs. Installation of officers will be held July 8 | | The last session of Anacostia Coun- | cil was conducted by the councilor, | Mrs. Mary Plumb. The deputy, Mrs.' Harriet J. Fairall, of Martha Dan- dridge Council gave a short talk. | Golden Rule Council initiated Mrs. Orva E. Stone. Mrs. Ida Mae Prisson. | Mrs. Violet Schaff, Mrs. Louise K. Enos, Mrs. Sarah Heflin, Mrs. Glvorma Moore, Mrs. Eva Gray and Mrs. Phyllis | Flippin. The degrees were exempli- ed by the degree team. There will be | | no further initiations until September. Installation of officers will feature the meeting July 10. | Betsy Ross Council elected the fol- | lowing officers: Councilor, Blanche | Whipp; associate councilor, Olive Yow- | ell; vice councilor, Pansy Anderson; associate vice councilor. Marie Koenig; recording secretary, Maude A. Wine, re-elected; assistant recording secre- | tary, Ida S. Frazier. re-elected; finan- | cial secretary, Ella Treynor; treasurer, | Alden K. Wine, re-elected; conductor, | Bessie Crandell; warden, Charles | Whitney, re-elected: Inside sentinel, | Miss Marjorie Wine; outside sentinel, | Rose N. Barrach, and representatives | to the State Council sessions: Mrs. | Martha Inscore, Mrs. Ella Pellowe and Mrs. Grace Duckett. | They were inducted into office, with Deputy Mrs. Lillian Martin as in- stalling officer. | The past councilors of Esther | | Council will hold their annual picnic | at Miller’s cabin, in Rock Creek Park, July 7 at 6 pm. Friends and their children are invited. | Friendship Council convened. with Acting Councilor Mildred Stevens pre- siding. Miss Dorothy Donnelly and Mrs. Ethel Brooddus were elected to membership. The applications of Mrs. Ruby Moran and Mr. Howard Lewis | were received. Miss Dorothy Donnelly and Mrs. Ethel Brooddus were initiated by the drill team of PFidelity Council. A “shower” was held for a bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. William Ghelmine, who were married in Bal- timore, Md. Installation of officers will take place July 10. ANOTHER YEAR TO WAIT Boy Denied Legal Right to Fire | Gift Firecrackers. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY (&) —Fifteen- year-old Avard Booth told the City Commission: “My cousin sent me & bunch of firecrackers. I know it's against the law to set 'em off, but I don’t want to throw them away. I'd sure like to shoot 'em off, if it would be okeh with you.” Said the commission: denied.” “Petition - | signs showing peasants in colorful 1936—PART TWO. The Post Office Departme maintains a fleet, one unit of nt, incredible as it may seem, which is the Mail Boat trhich transports transatlantic letters and parcel post to the Man- hattan piers from steamers lying at Quarantine in New York harbor. expedient, BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. As forecast several weeks ago, the Several hours of precious time cre saved by the —Star Staff Photo. | stage coach; 40f. blue; 52f, orange; | 60f, violet, and 80f, slate green, plane INTEREST RENEWED IN BLUE UNIFORM Army Personnel Discusses Study Underway in War Departmen Army personnel renewed interest last week in the return of the blue dress uniform following the War De- | partment announcement that studies are being made “on a newly designed tunic of rolled-collar design which will replace the familiar field uniform of olive-drab for off-duty wear.” More than seven years ago when Dwight F. Davis was Secretary of | War, the optional wearing of the blue | uniform at the expense of the wearer was authorized and instructions were issued at this same time that officers, warrant officers and enlisted men of the Army were authorized, but not required, to wear the blue uniforms. Ever since its abandonment during the World War, there has been a growing demand in the Army for a return to the historic blue dress, and the studies now being made indicate | that little additional expense will he | involved in procuring the new dress National Parks stamps have been re- | OVer Budapest: Ip. green: 2p, claret, | uniform. moved from the sales list of the Phila- telic Agency. Robert E. Fellers, superintendent of the Division of Stamps, will represent the Post Office Department at Walla Walla, Wash., when the Oregon Ter- ritory commemorative goes on sale there Tuesday, July 14. First-day arrangements at Astoria, Oreg., will be in charge of Robert C. King, assistant superintendent, while at Lewiston, kdaho, Mrs. Louise P. Shawen, Mr. Fellers' seeretary, will supervise procedure. Other assignments Chamberlin. former philatelic agent, Daniel, Wyo., and Miss Karen Hanson agency sales clerk, Missoula, Mont. The design shown above has becn ! drawn by August Dietz, editor Stamp and Cover Collecting, Richmond, and submitted to Alvan W. Hall. director Bureau of Engraving and Printing. as a practical sugzestion for the 4-cent denomination of the forthcoming Army | heroes series. Portraits considered the best avail- able of the two Confederate l>aders scheduled to be honcred are shown— Gen. Robert E. Lee on one side and Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson on the other. But the central area is rescrved for the principal feature of the composition. namely, a reprcduction in outline of Frederick Healpin's beautiful engrav- ing, “The Last Mceting.” in which Lee and Jackson are depicted on horse- back exchanging a final greeting Helpin, it will be remembcred the engraver of the b:ct of the of the Confederacy. H Dietz believes, should be recognizad in the manner proposed. Trans-Pacific airmail depar.ucs have been announced for July 8, 15 and 22. The Philippine trade commissioner. Barr Building, Farragut square, ad- vises that a 2-cent dcnomination has been added to the Rizal series. Total [ cost of the set of three. thercfore. will be 22 cents instead of 21 cents. The stemps should be available here late this month. Sccialist leader as- sessinated in Paris during the exciting incident to the beginnine ef the World War. will be commemoraied in a ~lamp to be issued by the French postal authorities July 31. Meanwhile, two stamps in tribute to Rouget de Lisle, author of “La Mar- seillaise,” French national anthem, haev been released. The 20-cent value presents the statue of the poet exe- cuted by Bartholdi; the 40-cent de- nomination, a sculptured portrait of one of the rebel women of 1793 taken from the base of the Arc de Triomphe. Jean Jaures. Australia is to have a series of three stamps to mark the centenary of South Australia. The values an- nounced are: 2d, red; 3d, blue, and 1sh, green. A view of the original settlement of Adelaide and a view of King William street in the present city of Adelaide will appear in the design, with a vignette of the so- called “proclamaton tree” of Glenelg. New regular postage stamps also are forecast for Australia—a set showing native animals, not excluding the famous koala bear. The recent Anzac commemoratives of New Zealand are scheduled to be rare. Sale was discontinued on June 20, and all remainders were destroyed. Italian Somaliland has a new air- mail stamp—a native girl watching a | plane in flight over the desert; 1L, | deep biue. The latest philatelic product of Rumania is & charity set intended to mark the sixth anniversary of the | beginning of King Carol's reign and also to raise funds for welfare work. Seven values are represented, the de- costumes—350b plus 50b, brown; 1L plus 1L, violet; 2L plus 1L. green; |3L plus 1L, carmine; 4L plus 2L, orange: 6L plus 3L, olive; 10L plus 5L, blue. A 5ku, green and red, denomination has been added to Turkey's current Red Crescent series. For the tercentenary of Utrecht University the postal authorities of The Netherlands have issued two stamps of surpassing beauty. _Bnlh are triangular in format and printed in photogravure. The first, 6c, car- mine-lake, shows the helmeted head of an armed woman, perhaps Pallas Athene; the second, 1224c, deep blue, a portrait of Gisbertus Voetius (1588- 1676), Dutch theologian, appointed a member of the Utrecht faculty in 1634. The new airpost stamps of Hungary, placed on sale May 8, are modernistic in design but not unattractive. De- denominations are: 10f, emerald; 208, scarlet, and 36f, brown, plane and T ' | 50c, and 5p, indigo, plane flying through space. Sweden on May 23 brought out a special airmail stamp to mark the ! opening of the Bromma Aerodrome. ‘The design shows a plane over a map, 50-ore, blue. Algeria has eight new pictorials, recess-printed at the French govern- ment printing works in Paris. The official list is: 10c. emerald, view of the admiralty, Algiers, engraved by Hourriez; 15c, lake, Marabouts, Tug- are: H. C. 8urt, by Feltesse: 25c. magenta. Grand | Mosque, Jamaa-el-Kebir, Algiers, by A. Delzers: 40c. puce. same as 15c; red, same as 10c; 1fr, brown, same |as 25c¢; 1.50fr, turquoise, Colomb Bechar-Oued, by Decaris; 1.75fr, lake, erdaia, czpital of the Mzab coun- Bulgaria announces a pestage series of simple design. The first denor released is the 15s. gre: tionalized representation flowers and fruits. Elephants appear in the designs of stamps issued by Mozambique. 1894; Mozambique Co., 1918; North Borneo, 1909; Sierra Leone. 1933; Straits Settlements. 1900: Abvssinia (Ethi- opia). 1919: Congo. 1894, 1910, 1923 and 1931; Eritrea, 1934: Jaipur. 1931; Italian Somaliland, 1903, and Liberia, 1892. new regular but effective nation to be 1—a conven- of national Ornithologists insist that the lyre bird shown on the New South Wales stemps of 1838 and the Australia stemps of 1913 is “incorrectly drawn.” watermarks include: 82. Western Australia; Eag Albania, and 223, Ger- many; L 159. Norwayr, and 207, Fstonia: and Springbok. 177, South Africa, and 201, South Africa and Southwest Africa. nited States Postage 1869.” Fred J. Melville Iy owing to a peculi- of perforating common to nearly all United States postage stamps, the designs are often cut right into by the perforating machine. The hunt for fine copies, well centered. should add | zest to the collector’s pursuit, however, | and if a rule be made to take only | specimens that come up to a particular standard of condition the result will be well worth the extra trouble and the comparatively moderate extra ex- pense. A fine copy of a United States stamp with maregins periorated all arcund and well centered is a thing of rare beauty.” Zoological Swan, Non-collectors with stamps to sell ,are warned to leave them on cover Recently a large accumulation of Mneteenth century specimens came on the local market at approximately 5 per cent of their uncamaged value. | About nine copies in every ten had been hopelessly ruined by being trim- med with scissors. The owner had spent hours of labor literally but of course unwittingly mutilating her property. It happened that she had the excuse of being blind as well as misinformed. When the puppet Emperor Pu Yi of Manchukuo was elevated to the throne of that unhappy country. pres- entation sets of stamps were distrib- uted to the attending dignitaries. A single series later sold for $50 in Zurich. But more recently the sou- venirs have appeared in the Paris Bourse, large quantities of them being cffered at 60 cents a set. Explana- tions are awaited from both Manchu- kuo and Japan. Meanwhile, collec- tors are advised to bsware of fraud. | Eugene Klein, pT'l’slden! of the United States commissioner at the International Philatelic Exhibition, | Johannesburg. South Africa, Novem- ber 2 to 14. He will leave soon after the Omaha convention and will return in time for the Cleveland congress. Carl P. Baker is stamp editor of the Daily Gazette, Gastonia, N. C. The British Museum is being criti- cized for neglecting the famous Tap- ling collection. No expert philatelist priceless stamps and covers in the frames are being allowed to deterio- rate and “nearly the whole of the postal stationery is stowed away in cupboards, where apparently the trustees are | content to leave it out of sight and out of mind.” To correct misconceptions, it may be stated authoritatively that the late King Fuad was an active, not merely a theoretical, philatelist. He collected the stamps of all countries and de- clined to specialize in the issues of his own. But he did purchase the Eid and Mackenzie Low Egyptian col- lections as well as fine showings of Syria, Trans-Jordania and the Hejaz, sitions that his reputation as a spe- clalist arose. His interest in general collecting remained with him until the last hours of his life. He had | commissioned a London expert to help him to put his albums in order and it is hoped that they will be maintained and kept up to date by his successor, the former Prince Farouk. The silver cup of the Twenty-third Philatelic Congress of Great Britain, | held at Paignton, June 9 to 12, was awarded to L. C. C. Nicholson for a paper entitled: “How to Run a Phila- telic Society Successfully.” Fred J. Melville, writing in the Stamp Lover, London, says: “America is very stamp-conscious now-—123,- 000,000 people are getting spoon-fed aimost daily with stamp news and American Philatelic Society, will be | is employed by the institution, the | and it probably was from those acqui- | The first lot of warrant officer ex- amination papers have been received by the War Department and the tech- nical parts thereof sent to the sei- eral branches concerned for mark- | ing and grading. | Maj. A. Pledger Sullivan is chair- I man of the Central Board that is charged with the task of marking the general exgmination. He will be as- sisted in this work by Majs. A. J. Perry and Maj. French C. Simpson. Navy. The following officers reported for duty at the Navy Department last week: Comdrs. J. C. Clark and W. | Trammell to the Bureau of Naval Operations; Comdrs. R. M. Hinckley, C. M. Yates, Lieut. Comdr. J. G. Cras« ford and Lieuts. S. W. DuBois and F. | J. Bell to the Bureau of Navigation; | Lieut. Comdr. H. M. Martin and Lieut. C. A. Ferriter to the hydrographic of« fice, Lieut. Comdr. J Wright to the Bureau of Ordnance, Capt. A. J. Chan- try to the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Comdr. C. R. Baker to the | Naval Dispensary and Comdr. J. P. | Owen to the Naval Hospital here. | | A course in naval architecture has been added to the curriculum at Tem- ple University. Comdr. §. E. Dudley, Lieut. Comdr. N. W. Gokey and Lieut. J. H. Ellison, from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, will act as instructors ine augurating the naval architecture | course. which will cover four years and be given under the auspices of the technical department of the univer- sity’s evening extension division. | "talk, but it is largely concentrated on the productions of Washington. Mar: serious philatelists were deploring this tremendous trend to the recent na- tional philatelic productions, and are seeking to divert some of it into wider | fields. including foreign stamps. Not that the modern issues of the Unit:d States lack philatelic interest— are full of it—but with such vast num- bers pursuing the same line of col- lecting. there have been excesses in speculation, and it is alleged that th~ recent issues have been link=d up with an unwholesome amount of political wire-pulling. “The fact remains that every one (well, nearly every one) from the President at the White House and his cabinet ministers, down to the shoe- blacks in the street, is collecting or dabbling in stamps as they might have done in stocks and shares. A great amount of genuine educational work has been carried on through stamps |in th2 schools, colleges and universie ties, and today there is scarcely a town of any size in the United States that has not its own philatelic society. There must be over a hundred live philatelic societies and clubs within a 100-mile radius of New York.” The Madonna and Child shown in the latest Mother's day stamp of Aus- tria is a reproduction in miniature of a painting in the Art History Museum, Vienna. It is the work of Albrecht Durer, one of the greatest artists who ever has lived. Junior collectors are | advised to read the story of his career as it appears in the standard encyclo- pedias, | To commemorate the life and work of Desiderius Erasmus, great Dutch philosopher, “first man of letters in Eurcpe” and “one of the principal architects of modern civilization,” the Washington Erasmus Committee, it {has been announced, will sponsor a | special cachet for Sunday, July 12 Collectors should send standard-size | 624, self-addressed. stamped envelopes | to Dr. Lester K. Born, president, | 1789 Lanier place W. L. Cross, 2004 North Monroe | street, Cherrydale, Va. has discov- ered an interesting variety of the 13- cent, blue-green, Benjamin Harrison stamp of 1926 (Scott's 622). A thin line, very distinct. runs through the forehead of the President as he ap- pears in this copy. The direction is from top to bottom, and the mark | undoubtedly is constant Any reader knowing the plate num- | ber will be conferring a favor by come | municating with Mr. Cross. | The Capital Precancel Club will meet | at the home of Alden H. Whitney, 132 Longfellow street northwest, tomor- | row evening at 8. All interested in the specialty are invited to attend, The Collectors Club, Branch 5, So- ciety of Philatelic Americans, will meet |at the Thomson School, Twelfth | street, Tuesday evening at 8. Mrs. Milton H. Cullen will exhibit British Jubilees and covers. Visitors welcome. In the recent election of the so- ciety, F. A. Bickert, president; E. V. Haines, vice president; C. Hercus Just, secretary, and Willam E. Kingswell, treasurer, were confirmed in office for another year. The Washington Philatelic Society will meet at the Hotel Carlton, Six- teenth street, Wednesday evening at 8. Lewis H. Flint will show and discuss early United States stamps. Public invited. STAMPS. | 218 17th St N. e stri 2 | WHITNEY'’S STAMP MART 102_12th St. N.W. Met. 6593 STAMP ALBUMS RY 918 F NW. s