Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1936, Page 47

. MLITA PROPERTY 10 BE EXAMINED U. S. Officer to Check All Equipment Issued Local Troops. A complete inventory of all physical property loaned the District National Guard by the War Department has been ordered by local militia head- quarters, and the task of checking has been started by the United States in- spector instructor assigned to the local troops by the War Department. The check will give a complete picture of not only what equipment the guard has on hand. but will indi- cate what additions are needed not only to carry out a complete training program both in the armory and during the field training encampment, but also in the event that it is called into the service should a national emer- gency develop. The companies which were inven- toried during the past week were the Headquarters and Service Company, Medical Department Detachment, and Companies A, B and C, 121st Engi- neers; the Medical Department De- tachment and Headquarters Detach- ment and Combat Train and Batteries A, B and C, 260th Coast Artillery; Headquarters Company, Headquarters Detachment, Special Troops; Head- quarters Detachment, 29th Division; 20th Division Military Police Com- pany and Medical Department De- tachment, 29th Division and Head- quarters Company and Company A, | 104th Quartermaster Regiment. Dates for the examination of the property of the older units are as fol- lows: December 7, Company C, 121st En- gineers; Headquarters Detachment, 2d Battalion, 260th Coast Artillery, and Company A, 272d Infantry. December 8—Company E, 121st En- gineers, Battery E, 260th Coast Artil- | | Ty. December 9—Battery F, 260th Coast Artillery; December 10, property of the United States property and disbursing officer at the armory, and December 11, property of the United States property and disbursing officer at the rifle range at Camp Simms. Officers have been elected by. the newly-organized Non-commissioned | Officers’ Club of the 121st Regiment | of Engineers as follows: Sergt S. L.| Roskes, Company A, president; Sergt. | A. G. Conlyn, Company C, vice presi- dent; Corpl. L. M. Sheers, Headquar- ters and Service Company, secretary, and Sergt. A. J. Sweeney, Company D, treasurer. Comprehensive plans for the con- | duct of schools for line officers of the Engineer Regiment have been made by Col. John W. Oehmann. All offi- cers have been instructed to present themselves at each class in order that they will benefit by the whole course, as different subjects will be taken up by a special instructor’ at each ses- sion. The remaining sessions of the school ‘will be held in the armory. This week the class will be instructed in pho- togrammetry by Master Sergt. Frank B. Kaye, and the following week, on December 18, the same subject will be discussed by Lieut. Leath. On January 29, Lieut. Hamilton will instruct on road building; February 5, Lieut. February 19, Lieut. Peldt, camouflag March 5, Lieut. Jackson, demolition; March 19, rifie marksmanship, Lieut. Tanner; April 2, rifie marksmanship, Lieut. W. J. Conlyn, and April 16, au- tomatic rifie and pistol marksmanship, Lieut. Hall. Recruits enlisting in the 121st Regi- ' ment of Engineers during the year are to have the benefit of considerable special instruction before they are sent to the ranks of the various com- mands for routine duties. By the time they are graduated from the new Recruit School, which has been or- dered established, they will be so well trained in the duties of the soldier that they will not tend to hold back the armory instruction of the older men, and also they will be better fitted to keep up with these men dur- ing their training camp work next Summer, it was pointed out. Orders have been issued directing each company commander to send to the school his best non-commissioned officer and these will form the faculty of the school. They also must be men who are regular in their attend- ance at the weekly drills. Each of the instructors will be required to remain with the schuul only for two months, s0 that a period of rotation will be provided, which will avoid a company being handicapped by having its best | men away all the time. All recruits joining the regiment will be required to take the course | in the school. The normal period of § recruit training will consist of six ses- | sions, the first two drills being with his company to complete his enlist- ment and issuance of equipment and the next four in the Recruit School. A detailed and progressive program of instruction has been provided for the school and will end with an ex- amination during the fourth session at the Recruit School. If the recruit passes he will be sent to the regi- ment. Pvis. (Pirst Class) James R. Mitchell and John A. Porch have been pro- moted to corporals in Company A, 121st Engineers. Pvt. Lewis Heiss has been transferred from the inactive to the active list of the 20th Division, Military Police Company, and Pvts. George A. Predi- ani and Ellis R. Pitts, to the active list of Company C, 121st Engineers. On account of business or educa- tional interference with tne perform- ance of military duty the following have been transferred from the active to the inactive lists of their respective :commands: Pvt. Joseph A. Cipolari, Company A, 104th Quartermaster Regiment; Pxt. Joseph Abramson, Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers; Pvt. Claude E. Cooper, Company A, 121st Engineers; Thomas J. Schatsman and Paschal ‘Williams, Company C, 121st Engineers; Pvts. George T. Caravas and William R. Colbert, Company E, 12ist En- Lieut. Louis M. Swingle, Headquar- | ters Detachment, 2d Battalion, 260th Coast Artillery, has been transferred | to Battery A, same regiment, and| Lieut. James H. Heizer, from Battery A, to the Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train. U. S. Has Half of Phones. More than half the world’s tele- are in the United States, al- ‘we have only about 6 per eent ‘world’s population. | | Revenues Increase. Philippines’ goyernment revenues are larger than were expected. LY Martin will discuss bridges; | |DAUGHTE?S OF AMERICAI Brookland Council will honor the State and national officers and com- mittees in visitation Thursday eve- ning at 3501 Twelfth street northeast at 8:30. Independent Council entertained the State and national officers at visita- tion Monday evening with a play, “Boss by Strategy,” presented by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hinson and the vice councilor, Mrs. Nona Jones. Mrs. Klein also entertained with character- istic sketches. 3 Kenilworth Council met, with Mrs. Katherine Willie presiding. The chair- man of the State Benevolence Com- mittee, Mrs. Myers, explained “The Club Plan.” Past Councilor Naomi I. Gibson was appointed press cor- respondent. Fidelity Council held second nomi- nation of officers. Esther Council met, with Mrs. Grace Richards in the chair. Mrs. Ethel Alderson announced a card party January 27 for the benefit of the Past Councilor's Association. Election of officers will be held next meeting. The council plans to co-operate with Reno Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., with |a Christmas party for the children of their members. At the last meeting of Anacostia Council first nomination of officers was held with Miss Anna Torney, councilor, presiding. Violin solos were played by Charles Fowler, accompanied at the piano by Vice Councilor Margaret Gibbons. tions were rendered by Mrs. Gibbons, Mrs. Mary Plumb, Mrs. Anna Sansbury and Mrs, Daisy Smith- son. Triumph Council met, with Asso- ciate Councilor Virginia Moulden pre- siding. Initiation was held. The fol- lowing received the degrees: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Griffith, Mrs. Ramona Migeot and Mrs. Lina Dare PFisclue for Triumph Council, and Mrs. Cora Lee Thomas for Unity Council. Nomi- nation of officers were held. Golden Rule Council concluded nomination of officers. Election will feature the next meeting. I Y. W. C. A. NEWS l Christmas in many lands will be the theme of the Senior High School Girl Reserve Christmas celebration Friday at 6 o'clock. Christmas gifts from around the world, representing many of the countries in which the Y. W. C. A. is organized, will be hung on the Association Christmas tree & few days before Christmas. | Xenos Club meeting Wednesday will | be devoted to the preparation of a | Christmas party to be given the fol- | lowing week for children of St. Vin- | cent’s Home. Blue Triangle Club of Young Business Women will have & supper Wednesday at 6:15. At 8:15 Miss Mabel Cook will be the guest | speaker for a special Christmas pro- gram. |~ Public affairs study group for busi- ! ness girls will meet Thursday at 5:15 p.m. An international Christmas festival | and world market, spon®red by the ! industrial-nationality groups and World Fellowship Committee, will be held December 17 from 4 p.m. until midnight. | Committees for the week include: Monday at 11, Chapter Council and | at 1, E Street Committee at 614 E | street; Tuesday at 11, public affairs; | Wednesday at 4 p.m., hospitality; Friday at 11, K Street House, and at 1, industrial nationality. ‘The Wednesday Club of 614 E street | will meet December 9 for an illus- | trated lecture, “Travel Pictures | Through Virginia.” Music will be | turnished by a hillbilly orchestra, and | Mrs. James W. Anderson will be hostess. Mount Pleasant Chapter will hold a | luncheon meeting at the Fairfax. De- cember 9 at 12:30 p.m. Members and friends of the Y. W. C. A. are invited to the at home hour | | today at 4 pm. preceding the music hour at 5 p.m. at Seventeenth and K streets. The program of Christmas caroling at the Y. W. C. A. is being planned | and copies will be available about De- | cember 15. December 11 at 8 pm. Epsilon Chapter, Phi Sigma Epsilon Sorority, held a dinner meeting last ‘Thursday at Collier’s Inn. The formal third-degree ceremony was adminis- tered to Miss Inez Gravalles and Miss | Margaret Crow. The toastmistress | was Mrs Louise Garrett. The guest of honor was Mrs. Margaret Frances, | president of the Supreme Council of | Phi Sigma Epsilon. One of the features was a one-act play given by Misses Marion Fairley d Eunice Allard, Mrs. Altha Rhodes and Mrs. Louise Garrett. Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Gamma, | graduate women's sorority, will meet today at 3 o'clock at Columbian {House, Twenty-first and G streets. Hostesses for the tea, which will fol- low the meeting, are Mrs. Thomas E. Kissling, Mrs. John Graf, Mrs. Law- rence Stafford, Mrs. James W. Suber, Miss Irma Belk and Miss Prances Alexander. Delta Chapter of Chi Sigma soror- | ity will entertain the following “rush” girls at a breakfast at Wesley Hall toda: Betty Saffell, Rachel Virginia Parker, Olive Huebner, Isa- bel Connors, Katherine Taylor, Paul- ine Reeley. Ann Mitchell, Bernice Putnam, Katherine Cotter, Dorothy Matter, Jean Claire Hunt. The Washington Alumnae Club of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority will hold 8 Christmas party at the home of | Mrs. William A. Shannon, 501 Aspen street, December 10. The assisting hostesses are Miss Vivian Vestal and Mrs. Maria Woods. Members of the active and alumnae chapters at Goucher College, Balti- more, Md., have also been invited. Mrs. James R. Rolls entertained members of the Washington Alumnae Pvts. | Association of Gamma Phi Beta So- rority at & supper meeting Wednesday. Pollowing a discussion of the instal- lation of the association as an alum- nae chapter, which will take place in Pebruary, Mrs. Margaret Meany Younger, province director, outlined details of her recent inspection tour of Gamma Phi Beta chapters in the South. Jazz Makes Worm Turn. Jass may save the silk industry of Japan by killing one of its worst en- emies. A Japanese scientist, says a ‘Tokio dispatch, declares that the syn- copation has fatal effect on & para- site worm which is attacking silk. ‘The maggot so greatly detests jazs that when near a phonograph playing the strains it burrows deep into the body of the silkworm to get away from the sound, and there it dies of suf- focation in less than half an hour. Iy Quartet selec- | Mae | The Education Council will meet| Long, | THE SUNDAY. Secrets of the Secret Service...B Ll Message About a “Baby Boy” Led to a Counter- feiter Operating From In- side San Quentin Prison. | | Mysterious silence has chml:uied the activities of the United States Secret Service for more than a half century. The country has marveled over the breaking up of coun- terfeiting rings and capture of the men involved in this nefarious business, but the details have heretofore been buried in the terse report, “Case closed.” How the Secret Service succeeded—the meth- ods used, the dangers faced, the thrill-packed battles—is now described in a series of articles of which this is the third. The fourth in the series will appear next Sunday. Ne. 3. THE SAN QUENTIN CASE. LL was quiet on the Western front, not a counterfeiter oper- | ated on the Pacific Coast. Suddenly Seattle, San Rafael and San Francisco began to bristle with phony $10 Federal Reserve notes. New Year eve, 1935, saw a flock of these bills passed on taxicab drivers | in the three cities. It was a veritable | orgy of counterfeiting. The Secret Service went into action. Since only one” of these peculiar notes appeared east of the Rocky | Mountains the chase for counterfeiters | confined itself to the Far West. On one day—February 10, 1936— three arrests were made in the afore- mentioned cities. Pieced together, they uncovered one of the greatest coun- terfeit conspiracies of modern times— and the trail led directly to San Quen- tin, the largest penitentiary in Amer- ica, with 6,000 prisoners. | Involved in this master plot were five convicts behind the bars, two con- | victs out on parole and two civilians. For two years they plied their trade— one year to get organized and equipped, another year spent to spread results of their counterfeit craftsmanship. Only for an innocent-enough look- | ing telegram sent one day from Seattle | | to an inmate in San Quentin, the con- | | spiracy might have gone along farther. The telegram read: “Baby boy arrived stop alice doing well. “GALE."” This message was sent to Jack T. Lewis, an expert photographer serving | | a stretch in San Quentin. | Lewis was working in the prison photoengraving plant. He had been | assistant there to Daniel R. Wilson, foreman of the photoengraving outfit, who was out on parole. Whether it was Wilson or Lewis who devised this counterfeiting scheme Secret Service operatives will never know. Each man blames the other. Anyway, Secret Service agents | cracked the case when they made | three separate arrests in one day. On the morning of February 10, 1936, they picked up Thomas Bell, 39, on the streets of San Rafael. Bell. a native of Scotland, had just passed a queer $10 bill on a taxicab driver. They got Bell before he even so much as touched the pistol in his hip pocket. Shortly after that, on the same day | in Sacramento, Secret Service men} landed Clifford L. Parr, a photo- | | engraver, who had dispensed with a | number of $10 Federal Reserve notes. | Parr went along peaceably after agents | | got the drop on him. That night in San Francisco Secret | Service agents arrested Daniel R. Wil- |son, 31, for passing more than 22| counterfeit notes, all of $10 denom- | ination. XAMINATION of these men proved | them all ex-convicts—on parole | from San Quentin, Wilson the former ! foreman of the engraving plant there. Parr also had been employed in the same plant. Circumstances began to add up. Down to San Quentin went Capt. | Thomas B. Foster, the head of the United States Secret Service in San | Francisco—San Quentin, that desolate | peninsula 25 miles north of the Golden Gate. With the chief were “Tex” Strange and “Phil” Geauque, two ace operatives who had broken the case. With members of the Prison Board | and prison officials headed by Warden James B. Holohan, now retired, the Secret Service put on their act in the | big board room at San Quentin. | For five hours the show went on, | with one central character playing a | leading role. That was the nervous convict, Jack Lewis. He was jittery as he faced the Secret Service men. | face. Outside a howling wind dashed ing the penitentiary. Hot coffee and cigarettes started Jack Lewis to talk. In “con” language he “turned on the sewer.” Inmates of San Quentin, employes, a detective sergeant in Los Angeles—every one that Jack Lewis held a grudge against —became unwittingly involved in an amazing counterfeiting plot inside the world's greatest prison. Lewis told how it all began in the dark room of the photoengraving plant at San Quentin. In the early morning hours Jack Lewis worked in his improvised coun- terfeiter's den. Lights were shaded 50 the beams of electricity fell only on the bills being made. Notes were aged by folding and rub- bing them together. Placed in a pil- lowslip, the bills were held above a | bucket of boiling water and steamed. A secret panel, operated by a spring at the entrance to the photoengraving plant, concealed the plates. The base of a huge camera had been rigged up as the mysterious hiding place for counterfeiting tools. When the money was made and ready for the market the first object of the gang was to purchase a $1,000 Government bond—to be counter- feited, as a start to a fortune. Outside confederates were to be salesmen for the boys on the inside —and a salesman who provided pho- tographic equipment for the engrav- ing plant was contact man. First thing he did was to carry out 330 of the $10 bills, which he shipped to Seattle, receipt acknowledged by the “Baby Boy Arrived” telegram. EXOIT‘D. Jack Lewis took three hours to tell his dramatic story. Then the Secre} Service men took him in hand. They told him things he never dreamed they could know; how he had tried to involve the innocent wife of a fellow convict by sending ber 10 of the counterfeit bills; how he had inveigled an outsider into helping him and then “put the finger” on the man; how he had doubled-crossed any number of per- sons. Outsmarted by the Secret Service, Jack Lewis admitied every STAR, WASHINGTON. |seal and serial numbers was discov- His gray clothing set off his chalky | breakers against the seawall surround- | D. C, DECEMBER 6, 1936—PART TW 0 y John Jay Daly In the early morning hours Jack Lewis worked in his improvised counterfeiter's den within the walls of San Quentin Prison. officials wanted to compliment the Secret Service men, all “Tex” Strange sald was: “Let’s beat it and get a cup of coffee.” Before they “beat it,” howewer, they staged their final raid on the engraving plant in San Quentin ‘and there, hidden behind pictures of motion picture actresses, found enough counterfeit money to pay a king's ransom. Above the ceiling in the dark room were found seven copper “face” plates | and five copper “back” plates for| counterfeit $10 notes and a set of plates for $1 silver certificates. Paper with the imprint of the Treasury ered in great quantity. With all equipment and parapher- nalia furnished by the State of Cali- fornia as part of the prison equipment, these conspirators went out to beat Uncle Sam in a big way. It is esti- mated they printed $12,000 in spurious notes. Daniel Wilson's brother-in-law, Clif- ford Parr, was the plate engraver, but the greater part of the work was done by Lewis, the expert photoengraver. Through the innocent co-operation of a salesman from a San Prancisco photographic supply house a great number of packages went out of San Quentin. All contained counterfeit notes. Loretto, whose real name was John Paul Rossi. He passed several hun- dred in Seattle and vitinity. In San Francisco a man named They were mailed to Jack | Norman Glickman rented a post-office box in the name of Davis and there received some of these notes. Secret Service men, catching Glickman in the act, found he had a brother-in- law, Bernard Kent, in San Quentin— and the trail was opened. Glickman was the man who brought the only note east of the Rockies. He passed it in Chicago. Yet Glickman, when tried by & jury, was acquitted—even though, he admitted guilt. This aroused the Secret Service men. They went out to get others, and they did. Before they stopped, the chief of the prison commissary department was involved. He was Louis J. Murray, a civilian employe, who fell readily into the plans of Lewis and Wilson. Agents found that Murray had carried as many as 100 counterfeit notes out of prison. The trail led to Daniel Wilson's home—where he held forth on pa- role—and here 14 notes were dis- covered. Francisco and Seatttle was being infested with these counterfeit bills, even after some of thé gang had been cut off from the source of supply. In the dead letter office in Seattle reposed a package addressed to Gale Halter, a package sent by Jack Lewis. Gale was sender of the “Baby Boy Arrived” telegram. Opened, the pack- age disgorged 213 of the San Quentin counterfeit notes—and that was the | last of the species. The fact that the principals in- volved in this counterfeiting case were formerly engaged or were working in \the photoengraving plant in prison ,kept them from suspicion, for a time | at least. Naturally, one would expect | & well-regulated prison to keep tab | on the goings-on within those prison | walls, but after all there is a certain amount of relaxation after a convict | has seemingly shown an inclination | to obey the pirson rules and make no trouble. It was on this theory that Lewis | worked. He was a good engraver, in the sense that reproduction plates are produced, and in his capacity as a ! workman there he had access to all the chemicals, zinc for plates and | other material necessary. | Doing the prison work required of | them over a period of months natu- rally would allay suspicion. At times when he was seen working at nights. | I NEWS OF THE CLUBS I (Continued !n!li Fourth Page.) Literarischer Verein, when Henry Gre- gor, composer-pianist, will be the lec- turer, is December 19 at 8 p.m. The Sunshine and Community So- eiety will meet at the home of Mrs. 8. W. Morris, 1414 Kennedy street, at 1:30 tomorrow. Mrs. Eugene E. ‘Thompson, president, will preside. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Ivan J. Riley, chairman; Mrs. E. S. Henry, Mrs. John F. King, Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt, Mrs. John B. Morrey, Mrs. John C. Mulford, Mrs. G. U. Rosé, jr.; Mrs. F. E. Waring and Mrs. Frederick Yates. ‘There will be a “shower” of Christ- mas gifts for the old ladies’ home on Wisconsin avenue in addition to a cash appropriation. ‘The annual Christmas party will be held for the children at Gospel Mis- sion. . Mrs. William 8. Henry, Mrs. James Oliver, Mrs. Willlam 8. Graham, Mrs. Myron Witters, Mrs. A. W. Koehler and Mrs. Roland Whitehurst, members of the Chevy Chase Club, will sing. The Writers' League will meet at Thomson School next Thursday at 8:15 pm. There will be a program >f short stories and verse by Mrs. Agnes Wright, Mrs. Elizabeth Aldrich, Mrs. E. 8. Bennett, Miss Katherine M. Hopson and Miss Ivy Lindsley. At the last meeting Mrs. L. W. Tilton | read an informative article on trends in writing. Miss Elizabeth Laymon pre- | sented an atmosphere story and Mayne R. Coe gave a character sketch. Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War met at 1222 New Hampshire | avenue, with President Eva G. Garis presiding. A flag will be presented to the Bible School of the Brookland Baptist Church today at 10 am. Alice Mead, patriotic instructor, will have charge. Nomination of officers resulted as follows: Sylvia D. MacLaughlin, pres- ident; Clara Holbrook, senior vice president; Martha Mangum, junion vice president; Alice Mead and Mrs. | Jordon, patriotic instructors, and Eva | G. Garis, Anna Horn, Hattie Canada, Lavina Bashford and Margaret Bradt, | council members. Angela F. Small and Mrs. H. W. Cor- ' ton were admitted to membership. Department of the Potomac, Wom- |en's Relief Corps Auxiliary to the | Grand Army, will serve a turkey dinner | | December 10 at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Seventh street. ARMORY AID SEEN IN CHANGE OF LAW Proposed New Naval Official Could Fight for Need Here. While the local chapter of the United States Naval Reserve has not taken a definite stand on the proposed changes in the Naval Reserve act of 1925 to be offered to the coming Congress, the belief has been expressed in some cir- cles the proposed establishment of a separate bureau and assistant secretary for Naval Reserve affairs might aid the local reservists in their efforts to ob- tain a new armory building here. Should Congress provide for this change in the law, it was pointed out, the local reservists could present their armory problem direct to such an offi- cial, who might be convinced of the poor conditions under which the naval reservists in the National Capitdl are working. The complaint has come from Naval Reserve organizations throughout the country that their needs are frequently side-stepped in favor of the Regular estabiishment, when the matter comes up of cutting the appropriations. If the reservists could have some one in the depart- ment to make their fights for them in the Naval Committees, they feel that they would fair better than und®r the present conditions, when their re- quests first must run the gauntlet of departmental officials, whose primary interest is in the Regular establish- | ment. | The local Naval Reservists have | found this out to some extent in their | efforts to obtain an appropriation for |® new armory here. Their plans and | estimates received the approval of | Navy Yard officials and it was under- | stood that they received O. K. in | some branches of the Navy Depart- ment. However, when the matter went to Congress. and the latter | asked the Navy Department for a rec- | ommendation, word came from some | department official that the program was not in accordance with the Presi- dent’s economy program. This action has resulted in such | disappointment to the civilian naval officers here that they are now work- ing on plans to get the matter before | | The League of American Pen Wom- | congress and are seeking aid to put he could easlly use it as an excuse op announces a Christmas sales exhibit | tpejr project through some congres- ALL the West Coast around Bnnl that the job he was doing had to be rushed. In his dark room. which was a part | of the plant, he was alone for long intervals. He was presumably in the Pprocess of etching or developing legiti- | mate work, which he always kept alongside of him. But he always had !thc spurious work there also and was successful in his counterfeiting His biggest job was getting the spurious money into circulation. How | that was done has already been re- | counted. | (Copyright by Ledser Syndicate. reserved.) Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES, Majer. Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken. world's ieading team-of-four. inventors of *he system that has beaten every other syst (Davia Burnstine. Merwin D. Theory of Responses. N OUR discussion of the modern theory of bidding we have so far oconfined ourselves to the opening bid. This week we are ready to Ro into the theory of responses, pa:- | ticularly as applied to the opening bid of one of a suit. As a first step, we devided responses into two classes— limiting and exploratory. Limiting responses include the pass. all bids in no-trump and all raises of partner’s suit. Let us first con- sider the pass. It has been consid- ered advisable to respond with prac- tically any values whatsoever. Our experience has been that with most hands the dividing line between & pass and a response is a high-card value of 3 and 2 honors; in other words. a king and queen or ace and 10. With more you should always respond. ‘With less you should pass unless your hand has distributional values. With exactly that you are borderline. Next we proceed to the one no- trump response, which always shows a weak hand, s minimum high-card value of 3 (with less you pass) and maximum of 6!2 (an average hand in high cards). With a more than aver- age hand n high cards, a player should be able to find some response other than one no-trump. The jump response to two no- trump is forcing to game and shows 2 high-card value of 8!2 to 10. It invites a slam only if the opening | bidder has substantial excess values. | The three-no-trump response is rarely made. It shows a high-card value of 10%2 to 12 and is definitely a slam invitation, although with & minimum pass. The raise to two of partner's suit | is not & particularly strong bid. While indicating about the same strength a5 the one-no-trump response, it shows that we think there will be some advantage in playing the hand in partner's suit. The exact significance of jump raises of partner’s suit to either three or four was long & subject for con- troversy. One school played the jump to four as a shutout and the jump to three as a strong bid. Another played the jump to four as a slam invitation, and stronger than the | jump to three. The modern theory | is that both bids show approximately the same playing strength. The jump to three is forcing to game and the jump to four is a bid of game. The difference is that the jump to three shows a flexible hand with a sub- stantial high-card value (84 or more), while the jump to four indicates that our support is distributional and that our high-card value is 6 or less. The following hands are examples of these responses: Spades A QxXx Hearts KxxXx Diamonds Q x x X Clubs x High-card value, 7, we jump part- ner’s opening bid of one spade or one heart to three, forcing the game and st the same time showing a sub- | stantial high-card value. Spades KxxxXx Hearts AXXXX Diamonds x Clubs x High-card value, 5, we jump part- ner’s opening one spade or one heart bid to four. ‘The exploratory responses, of course, consist of bids in & new suit. The first of these is the one-over-one. ‘The one-over-one is & neutral re- spanse in that it may be made with strong hand the original bidder will naturally | em in- existernce.) Our partner opens with one club; we respond with one diamond even though our high-card value is but 2. 'he reason for responding is two- fold: First, if we pass, we give away | our weakness; secondly, if we bid. | there may be a chance that we will | improve the contract. At the same | time we have not taken the bidding | past the one level. However, if partner opens with one heart or one spade. we should pass. It is inadvisable to give a one no- trump response with a high-card value of but 2, while a response of two diamonds would take the bidding | past the one no-trump level. | It is important to note that since | | take the contract past this one no- | trump level, it need not show any | | | response. Of course the one-over- | one might indicate & very big hand.| For example, partner bids one club, and we hold: Spades A x Hearts A x Diamonds A K Clubs Qx We bid only one diamond. But with | this hand we are going to make a, jump forcing bid on the next round, and if our partner shows any signs | of additional values, we will undoubt- | edly carry the hand to a slam con- | tract. Unlike the one-over-one, which is & joint product of practically all bridge players, the explanatory re- spohse of two in & lower-ranking suit is practically entirely our own prod- uct. Like the one-over-one, it cannot be passed. Unlike the one-over-one, which may be a very weak chance- giving response, it must be a strength- showing bid. The reason is self-evi- dent—you have passed the one no- trump level. There are five distinct uses for this bid, illustrated as follows (partner's opening bid in a been one spade): | x x XXX High-card value, 5. Two diamonds |18 the logical and only bid. Should partner rebid his spades to two, we pass; while if he bids two no-trump, we raise to three no-trump. Type 2— Spades Qx Hearts Qx Diamonds K Q x x Clubs KJx ‘This hand, with & high-card value of 7% with six honors, is entirely too strong for a one-no-trump re- sponse, but at the same time is not quite strong enough for a game-forc- ing response of two no-trump. A two-diamond response enables us to make a bid of two no-trump on the second round (highly invitational, but not forcing) in the event that partner rebids to two spades. KJixx This hand is entirely too strong for & mere raise to two spades and at the same time too weak for a jump to three. Accordingly, we respond with two diamonds. If partner’s second bid is two spades, we now raise to three spades, strongly inviting game but at the same time giving him a chance to stop with & minimum open- 'l‘vpok— 4 fulfills all the requirements for a two no-trump response. However, if we respond with two no-trump and part- ner bids either three spades or three | no-trump, we would have no chance | to show our diamonds. While game | would be safe, we might easily miss |a slam. Therefore, we respond with two diamonds. Type 5— Spades x Hearts x xx x Dismonds A Q x x All rishts | beginning December 7. Hazel C. | Menk, art chairman, requests artists who have pictures for sale to bring | them to the studio. Lily Hunt will be the hostess at the Wednesday rendezvous, from 2 to 6 p.m. The chairman of the poetry group, Evelyn Norcross Sherrill, asks members to bring an original tanka (Japanese form), preferably about Christmas. Oblique and analysed rhyme will be | discussed. Anna Priestly will give an | informal talk. The Wheel of Progress met Novem- ber 27 at the Washington Hotel. Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, national president general, presided. | Entertainment followed the business !meet.in(. The members voted their | disapproval of the establishment of an | abattoir in the District. | Mrs. Amy Albia Buston rendered a {solo. R. J. C. Dorsey gave a talk on “The Protection of the Constitution.” Gen. Amos Fries told of his and others’ work in trying to prevent the teaching of the principles of com- munism in the public schools sional friends in the hope that theyv can overcome the Navy Department's objection. All the money that has | been requested for an armory would | be used in construction, as the site now is available in the Washington | yard. | [ | | | Y. M. C. A. News ‘The Interstate Older Boys' Confer- ence will hold its closing sessions to- day at the Wilmington Y. M. C. A, James C. Ingram, boys' work director, heads the Washington delegation. A luncheon meeting of the Mem- bership and Service Committee will be held at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow. ‘The Dramatic Club will hold a re- hearsal meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m Page McK Etchison, religious work di- rector, will speak at the Mothers' Club | in Silver Spring, Md., at 8:30 p.m. The Flying Club will hold & meeting at 8 o'clock in room 100. A meeting of the Glee Club will be | held Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. Clubs AKxx The Capitol Hill History Club met The Weekly Staff Conference will High-card value, 9. This is the type | ‘Wednesday at the Kenesaw, with Mrs. | be held Thursday at 9:30 am. The {of hand which accounts for many Shook and Mrs. Wallace as hostesses. pormitory Bowling League will meet hard-luck stories. Should the re- | Mrs. Elliot gave a paper on Sicily and | 4t the Y alleys at 8 pm. Charles C. | sponder immediately bid two no-trumg Corsica and Miss Stine gave a talk on | Gjllman has called a rehearsal of the ! his partner, holding the king and a her recent trip to Guatemala. MisS pramatic Club at 8 oclock. Page | small heart, is likely to bid game in | Graham of Pittsburgh was a guest. McK. Etchison will speak at the West- no-trump, whereupon a heart lead | The next meeting will be held al minster Presbyterian Church at 8 might quickly defeat the contract.| the home of Mrs. Walter R. Metz, ek | (3-cent). However, should responder bid two diamonds and the original bidder | then bid two-no-trump, a three-no- | trump contract would be safe, since the one-over-one response does mnot & heart lead would be up to declarer’s king of hearts. Incidentally, should partner’s rebid over two diamonds be more strength than a one no-trump two spades, we would bid four spades. | (Copyright, 1936.) The FPour Aces will be pleased to an- swer letters from readers if a stamped self-addressed envelope i h each communication system of contract bridse send with you (3-cent) _seli-addressed. hrxe 13 size envelope to the Four Aces. Inc.. West Porty-second stréet. New York City and you will receive an outline with- out any charge. The next article in this series will appear tomorrow. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE A meeting of the Entertainment and House Committee of Columbia Lodge night to arrange a program for Christmas. George C. Eddleman announces a dance in the lodge room December 12 from 9 to 12. At the meeting on last Tuesday night Dictator Russell B. Martin urged the members to assist the women in | making up the Christmas box to be sent to the Moose Home for the Aged | in Moosehaven. Fla., by giving tobacco | and pipes for the men. | Women of the Moose. Mrs. Emily Giles, assistant chairman of the Social Service Committee, is making arrangements for a bingo and card party at the conclusion of the business meeting December 11 &t Moose Hall, 1414 I street. The pro- | ceeds will be used to provide baskets | of food for needy families at Christmas. | Mrs. Prances Baldwin, chairman of the Social Service Committee, has formed a sewing group, which meets at her home, 623 A street northeast, Monday and Wednesday evenings. Miss Lavina Platt, chairman of the Mooseheart Committee, is collecting toys and other small gifts to be in- cluded in the box to be sent at Christmas to 15 boys at Dixie Hall, Mooseheart. Mrs. Pauline Miller and Mrs. Mar- garet Bates have been appointed guides for the six-month period beginning January 1, and will be installed by Senior Regent Mrs. Susie Sorenson at the December 11 meeting of the chapter. There will be no meeting December 25. Modern G@irl Shocks. after serving 15 years in Peterhead, Scotland, on a charge of culpable homicide, he found great changes in traffic, in fashions, in speech, in man- ners, but the greatest of all was in girls. Comparing the 1936 miss with that of 1921 he said in Glasgow: “Their make-up is heavier and the girls have their eyebrows plucked to » thin little line, and the few remain- ing hairs, darkened with something. Seeing girls amoke cigarettes, “he- man fashion” slso shocked him, but the women were much smarter in their dress, Boyle admitted, and even factory girls, who used to wear ahawls, locked better. A will be held in the club room Tuesday | When Charles Boyle was released | 11727 Taylor street, with Mrs. Stanley H. Beasley assisting. The Woman's Guild of American University.—A program by the stu- | dents, suggestive of the Christmas spirit, will feature the meeting Decem- ber 8 at 11 o'clock in the women's residence hall on the campus. Selec- |tions will be given by the special ' | chorus group, under the leadership of {Mrs. James McLain, director music. Orville A. Hitchcock, {:mrge of the department of public | speaking, will present one of his stu- dents in a Christmas reading. Following the business meeting, | when Mrs. Harry C. Oberholser, presi- | dent, will preside, luncheon will be served. The hostesses will be Mrs. H. P. Barrs, Mrs. W. S. Dewhirst, Mrs. |F. W. Lathrop, Mrs. James Shera | Montgomery, Mrs. Glenn F. Rouse and | Mrs. Ellery Stowell. Marietta Park Woman’s Club.—The | philanthropic group had luncheon | Thursday at the Fairfax Hotel. ‘The art group will meet December 8 at the home of Mrs. I. L. Stormont. The junior group meets every | Thursday from 3:30 to 5, at the Paul Junior High School Community Cen- ter. Mrs. John D. Kiley, chairman, and Mrs. William H. Hargrave, assist- ant, are in charge of the activities of this group. The officers are: Miss Fayne Ruth | Kiley, president; Miss Rosalie Nebel, first vice president; Murphy, second vice president; Miss Barbara Hay Hargrave, third vice | president; Miss Patricia Ritter, cor- | responding secretary; Miss Mary Mil- ler, recording secretary; Miss Marion Mess, treasurer, and Miss Bertha Auth, custodian. The Petworth Woman's Club will | meet tomorrow in the Petworth School 8t 8 pm. Mrs. Arthur C. Fowle will | sing a French Christmas carol. Mrs. | Christmas carol. The music section will provide a program. The philanthropic section will dis- tribute red stockings to the members to be filled with gifts and returned to the chairman. These stockings with clothing will be given to worthy chil- dren in time for Christmas. Mrs. Willlam Van Pelt will enter- tain the hospitality section on Wed- nesday at 1 pm. | Twentieth Century Club—C. L. Sa- velli, Italian exchange fellow in, polit- ical acience at the American Univer- sity Graduate School, will be the speaker at the international outlook section tomorrow at the Y. W. C. A. | on the subject, “The Position of Italy in Foreign Affairs.” Mrs. Charles Will Wright will speak on Italian opinion as reflected among friends in the United States. ‘The Nature section will have an out- door session on Wednesday. Mem- bers will meet at 10:30 am. at the Connecticut avenue entrance to the Zo0. The civics-education section will have a luncheon at 132:30 p.m. Thurs- day at the Y. W. C. A. Dr. Fred Kelly of the United States Bureau of Education will speak on “Civic Training i Colleges.” Reservations 4 of | in| W. A. Keese, Mrs. Pred J. Kelly. Mrs. | Miss Mary M. | Leonard Russie will render a German | The Debating Club will meet in | room 219 at 8:30 p.m. Friday. The Riding Club will meet at the Riverside Stable, Saturday at 2 p.m. Irving L. Koch will give the weekly radio talk over Station WMAL at 5:30 p.m. on “John's Vision.” The South- | eastern University freshman law dance will be held at the Broadmoor st 10 p.m. Wind Frees Vultures. During a recent gale in Scotiand a cage of vulturej at the Edinburgh Zoo was turned inside out, freeing all the birds. e | may be made through Mrs. E. Fla- velle Koss. Park View Woman's Club—The Ex- | ecutive Board met Tuesday with Mrs. Warren H. Wagner, the president, 7708 Morningside drive. Luncheon | was served. | The next meeting of the club will be held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. A. G. Harries, 628 Quebec place at 8 p.m. The president, Mrs. Warren H. ‘Wagner, will preside. Miss Grace Meyer, teacher of dra- matics at the Park View Platoon | School, will direct a group of her | pupils in sketches from “The Christ- mas Carol” by Charles Dickens: a | group of members of the club will | lead in singing Christmas carols. Re- freshments will be served. The Educational Committee will meet December 10 with Mrs. Fred S. Walker, 760 Rock Creek Church road | The speaker will be Miss Elizabeth | Peet, dean of women at Gallaudet | College. Luncheon will be served. | The literary section met Tuesday | evening with Mrs. George W. Evans, | 752 Rock Creek Church road. “The | Fine Art of Reading,” by Emmett Rogers, was reviewed by Mrs. Murray. | Games were played and refreshments | were served. | Voteless District of Columbia League of Women Voters—Mrs. Willlam H. Sayin will speak on “The Relation Be- tween the Parent-Teacher Association and the Public Scheols” before Mrs. Edward Chapin's department of gov= ernment and education at the Wom- en's City Clut Wednesday at 13:15 pm. The sub-committee on housing of the District of Columbia League of Women Voters will meet at the home of Mrs. Alexander Hawes, 1640 Twen- ty-first street tomorrow at 2 p.m. Mrs. Florence will discuss with the group the Wagner housing bill which was introduced at the last session of Con- gress. Mrs. J. C. McCaskill's sub-commit- tee on co-operatives held a luncheon meeting at the Women's City Club November 30. Miss Nancy Elliott spoke on “Co-operatives in England.” Mrs. Henry Ghalmers, Mrs. C. S. Duncan and Mrs. M. O. Lorenz con- ducted a discussion Tuesday on “How Shall We- Attain World Peace” before the class in “Active Citizenship™ at the Mount Vernon Seminary. The department of government and foreign policy met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. M. O. Lorenz. Mrs. Wile liam Slade reviewed the Spanish site uation.