Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1936, Page 33

JOREIGN MOTHERS GUESTS OF D. A.R. Americanization School Li- brary Is Scene of Christ- mas Tea. The group of foreign mothers who are studying English for their natu- ralization examinations at the Ameri- canization School, Tenth and H streets, were guests Thursday of the Americanization Committee of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion at the annual Christmas tea Mrs. Alexander H. Bell and Miss Kathrina L. Harvey, chairman and vice chairman, respectively, received the guests at the door of the school & Jibrary, which was soon filled to over- ’ flowing. Mrs. Helen Kiernan Vasa of the faculty led in the singing of Christmas songs by the assembly and directed a program given by three students in native costumes—Mrs. Nasis Astestos of Greece and Miss Irene Chodaniewiez of Poland and Mrs. Nina Montero Lataif of Panama. Mrs. Angelina Aquilino sang “O Solo Mio.” Assisting at the tea table were Mrs. Walter W. Husband, Mrs, Theo- dore S. Palmer, Mrs. Joseph F. Gross, Mrs. Benjamin M. Connelly and Mrs. Robert M. Ferguson. Mrs. Bell and Miss Harvey presented each guest with a candy basket and a Christmas card | The committee held a business meeting and voted to send all money rereived at the D. A. R. booth at the recent bazaar to the principal of the school, Miss Maude E. Aiton, to be used for Christmas baskets for needy families and for educational work. This committee will meet January 14 in the library at the Americaniza- tion School. The Historical Research Committee has undertaken the gathering of a rare manuscript collection. Originals are being sought from chapter mem- bers. Only originals and first prints of historic value will be accepted. Original commissions or pension pa pers, land grants, first recordings and first printings of Colonial or early Republic affairs, journals or narra- tives of historic interest, first news- pers of early date bearing accounts of historic events, theater, concert and lecture programs of value, first issues of magazines and records cov- ering the formation of early industries are desired. The collection will not be confined to the Revolutionary period, but will be a record of Early American life. B. P. 0. ELKS I Plans have been completed for the New Year eve party in the Elks' Club Thursday. A buffet supper will be served from 9 p.m. to midnight and dancing from 9:30 p.m. until closing time, under the direction of Fred Ber- ger, chairman of the Entertainment Committee. Edwin S. Puller, chairman of the Selective Campaign Committee, is conducting & drive for a large class of candidates to be inducted into the order on January 13, when an initia- | tion ceremony will be held. The class | will be designated the New Year class. | The next regional meeting of the Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia State Association will be | held at Towsen, Md., January 10. GAROLS TO BE SUNG INY. W. C. A. LOBBY Blue Triangle Club Members to @ive Yule Numbers This Afternoon. | Christmas carols will be sung in the | lobby of the Y. W. C. A. at Seventeenth | and K streets at 5:30 p.m. today by | Marjory Allen, Marion Allen, Louise Danforth and Catherine Richardson of the Blue Triangle Club. There will be no regular music hour. Thelma | Norton of the Xenos Club will be hos- | tess for the at home from 4 to 5. | Girls from Strong Residence will sing Christmas carols in the lobby Monday at 6 pm. | Xenos Club of the business and professional women's department is having a Christmas dance Tuesday in Barker Hall from 9 to 12. | Kamp Kahlert Council will have & Winter festival at Sudley, Md., De- cember 30. M. Florence Dunlap, camp |director, and Helen Miller, president | of the kamp kouncil, will have charge. | Camp Counsellors during the 1936 | | season will have their annual Winter | | reunion at Kamp Kahlert January 3. Senior High School Girl Reserves will entertain their friends at a| | Christmas dance Wednesday from 9 | to 12 in Barker Hall. Isabelle Grogan, Martha Moss, Ellen Lauck and Helen Sherwood are planning for feature dances and refreshments. Senior High School Girl Reserve council are being entertained at | luncheon tomorrow at the home of Frances Hill, council representative from Woodrow Wilson High School. | The girls will meet at the Y. W. C. A. at 12:30. Woodrow Wilson Girl Reserve cabi- | net members will have a luncheon | meeting at the home of Mary Lesta | without any military training what- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT! GUARD INGREASE 1S EXPEGTED HERE Added Personnel May Call for Naming Command- ing General. Another increase in the nuaber of troops allocated to the District Guard is expected to be provided shortly. It is believed the local organization will be allocated some of the increase pro- vided by Congress for the militia throughout the country. In addition to the regular troops assigned here, Washington has been allocated some of the divisional organization, as the majority of its troops are a part of the 29th National Guard Division, the other States included in this area being Maryland and Virginia. When the new organizations are authorized here and the recruiting is perfected, it will increase the ime portance of the local Guard to such an extent, it was said, that the War Department may feel it necessary to comply with the organic act and ap- point a commanding general for the local militia. There has been a va- cancy in this position for more than two years, or since the death of Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan. Since the death of the command- ing general, the affairs of the local Guard have been handled by the next senior officer in rank, Col. John W. Oehmann, who, in addition to the heavy duties of the brigade command, has had to carry out the important duties incident to the command of the 121st Regiment of Engineers. There are several officers who are candidates for the generalship. Col. Oehmann, by virtue of seniority, is next in line. However, the law does ot require that the generaliship go to the senior officer. If the President 20 desired, he could take any civilian, soever, and make him commanding general. However, in the past this has never been done. While the President of the United States is directed by law to make the appointment, it was pointed out ob- viously that official does not give de- | tailed consideration to the matter. | Buch a recommendation for appointe ment originates with the War Depart- ment, which is in close touch with local military affairs. The various names have been before officials of the department, but at the time they were atelic Christmas. bers of his cabinet presented him with & beautiful ALYESE HOTALY bA FRNNOESEE. KUIBJEN 20GU BOTEL INPERJAL pusdaus ] ts..« Two covers from the collection of Emil F. Hirschberger of Washington, reproduced above, show four of the beautiful new charity stamps of Austria and (lower) current issues of Albania. The latter envelope is addressed to the sister of King Zogu. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. President Roosevelt enjoyed & phile One of the mem- album of United States stamps in part-sheet form. From an undisciosed source there came to the White House a frame of multi-colored proofs of all the postal issues from 1893 to date, attractively arranged and mounted. A cover of unusual size was addressed to the Chief Executive in half-cent stamps neatly applied to spell his name: other covers reached him with no address except his pho- ~—Star Staff Photo. Philatelic Agency, as usual, profited by the Christmas rush, and at postal sta- tions throughout the city there was & demand for the new one-cent Army and Navy commemoratives—produced in undated homage to George Wash- { ington, Nathaniel Green, John Paul | Jones and John Barry—for greeting | card use. The King Edward issues of Great Britain, philatelic souvenirs of the most notably newsworthy event in the history of 1936, still hold their grasp on philatelic attention. Col- lectors, it seems, desire specimens in D. C, DECEMBER 27, 1936—PART TWO sented to his alma mater by Thatcher ‘Thayer, class of 1 Thirteen-star cancellations are available at Hay Springs, Nebr., where the postmaster knows & philatelic postmark from the other kind. A Washington collector who thought to please a child presumed to trust the Post Office Department to co-operate. He mailed the youngster a first-day cover bearing the l-cent Army snd Navy stamps, released December 15. The letter reached its destination on December 21, canceled upside down and with the pertraits of the Revo- lutionz.ry heroes defaced with an irk- covered thumb. According to Nicolas Sanabria, the present value of the 24-cent airmail invert of 1918 is $4,000 a copy. Guarantors of the Tipex exhibition, held at Grand Central Palace, New York, in May, have been repaid 100 per cent of their advances. The total amount returned to sponsors was in excess of $35,000. To test the illustrations law, W. P. Campbell, stamp editor, Vancouver Evening Columbian, has reproduced the Oregon Territory commemorative, eliminating only those words which have the effect of constituting the de- sign valid as a theoretical “govern- ment security.” Meanwhile, the Atlanta Constitu- tion, in its rotogravure section for De- cember 20, illustrated two covers ad- dressed to Santa Claus, Ind. The prohibition which has handi- capped philately in America for years apparently is being smashed to smith- ereens, and Congress, when it meets, will have nothing left to do but ratify its destruction. It is open secret that the Govern- ment does not wish the principle in- volved to be aired in court, His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah, Muzzafar-ul-Mulk-Wal Mumulak, Ni- 2am-ul-Mulk, Nizan-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Asman Al Khan Bahadur Fatch Jung. Nizam of Hyderabad, In- | dia, reputed “the wealthiest man in | the world,” is celebrating his silver | Jubilee by issuing a series of stamps. | ‘The next stamps of Australia will be printed on rotary presses, similar to ! those in use in the Bureau of Engrav- | ing and Printing. These new machines | have been installed at Melbourne re- | cently. For the Olympic games to be held at Nanizales, the Colombian Republic will bring out six stamps—values, 3c, Sc, 10c, 15¢, 50c and 1P. Don Bloch, Forestry Service, has in his collection a most remarkable copy of the 1l-cent Franklin blue | stamp of 1873. It bears a cancella- tion which appears to be an effigy of Jackson. but experts who have President James Buchanan; numerous early covers, patriotics, soldiers’ fair envelopes, prisoners’ letters, postmas- ters’ provisionals, private carriers, match and medicine stamps, postal meters and Farley reprints in position ‘blocks. It is understood that Mr. Fox will continue collecting foreign issues. France may bring out a stamp to commemorate the Battle of the Marne. If 50, the design will include & portrait of Gen. Joffre, Belgium’s charity stamps for 1936 show a portrail of Prince Baudouin, son of King Leopold III and the late Queen Astrid. The values are: 10c plus 5c, 25¢ plus4 5¢c, 35¢ plus 5c, 50¢ | plus S¢, 75¢ plus 5¢, 1 fr. plus 25c, | 1.75 fr plus 25¢c and 2.45 fr plus 2.55 fr. | The Swedish poét office has issued an official list of post cards, letter cards and stamped envelopes for the golden jubliee of the Swedish Phila- telic Society. Charlotte Hughes, writing in the | New York Times, declares: “Collect- ing postmarks in addition to being fascinating in itself, is the poor man's delight.” The 1937 convention of the Pre- cancel Stamp Society will be held at Minneapolis, August 20 to 23. Frank P. McKibben, Cumberland Valley, Pa., stamp collector well- known in Washington, died November 27, aged 65. He was a man of many talents and great gifts—bridge builder, | authority on electric welding, for 13 years a teacher at Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, later professor at Lehigh University and at Union College, then city engineer of Sche- nectady and consulting engineer of | the General Electric Co. His most recent work was with P. W. A at| Harrisburg. Within a few days of | the end of his life, he still was en- gaged in perfecting the albums in which he had entered his philatelic treasures, | B | Robert D. Byrnes, stamp editor of | the Hartford Courant, says: “Au-| thority to reproduce United States | stamps not only would aid greatly in their study by collectors, but would clear the way for the import into this country of foreign catalogues, some of which are of great value to spe- cialists, now barred because United States stamps are illustrated and foreign stamps are not defaced.” Dr. H. Scudder Mekeel, son of the late Charles H. Mekeel of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News, is anthropolo- gist of the United States Indian Serv- ice. He does not practice the phila- | telic art, but still is interested in the hobby to which his father contributed | 80 much time and effort in days gone by. VETERANS' J0BS ARE SAFEGUARDED Presidential Order Held Guarantee Despite Pend- ing Reductions. Safeguarding of veteran employment {in all Government departments, regue~ lar establishments and emergency agencies, despite pending force re= ductions, has been guaranteed by | Presidential order, according to word received here by Comdr. George Arm- strong, Post No. 1627, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. President Roosevelt's dictum fol lowed closely upon a recent confer- ence between the Chief Executive and Comdr. in Chief Bernard W. Kearney of the V. F. W, at which the veterans’ leader presented the mandates of the 1936 V. F. W. encampment to Presi- dent Roosevelt. Included in the man- dates was a proposal that special preference be given ex-service men in all Government employment. Plans for the annual “Hello Amer- ica” banquet are being completed. This annual affair, at which time recruits are initiated in more than 3.400 posts of the V. F. W., participa- ting by radio, throughout the United States, will probably be held in the Hotel Astor, New York, instead of Washington, D. C., early in February, Headed by Post Relief Officer Wal~ ter P. Boehm, the following members of Washington Post met in the post club rooms last Wednesday evening to fill and distribute Christmas baskets to the needy veterans of the city: Paul Gray, John J. Reardon, Fred W, Wacker, Archie Turner, Jess Snyder, William Bennett and Comdr. John J. Keehan. The post will meet tomorrow evene ing at Dufffs Sea Grill. The report of Senior Vice Comdr. Roy W. Keeses on the new drill program for the Sons of Washington Post and the report of Junior Vice Comdr. Fred W. Wacker on the post'’s Midwinter dance will feature the meeting, which will open promptly at 8:15 p.m, according to Comdr. Keehan, Open house will be held by the Ladies'’ Auxiliary of the District at the Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massa- chussetts avenue, New Year day from 5t0 7 pm. Post and auxiliary mem- bers are invited. Refreshments will be served. Mrs. Roberta M. Fawcett, president of the District auxiliary has an- nounced that the annual dinner in : - : honor of th considered shortly after the death of | tograph. seen it beileve that it really i a| JAI¥ Das brougnt out a mew series r of the national president, Mrs fer typifying the all-American A Wakeman. program adviser for the Nl b | Wilson Club, Tuesday at 1 p.m. girl is being sought by the Junior Daughters. Entries are to be submit- ted by young D. A. R's at General education, music such. | Gen. Stephan it was contended that and | there was no need of a general officer the | health education classes will resume junior poster contest headquarters at Tegular schedule January 4. I Due to the holidays, the Post Office here, since there was no brigade as | Department Division of Stamps was | quiescent during the last week. The quantity. Some are waiting for the market to stabilize, others are buying as heavily as their means will permit | on the theory that it would be con- trary to public policy to continue curious kind of double transfer—one | portrait superimposed upon another, The Bociety for the Propagation of | of four values for conquered Ethiopia —10c, light brown; 20c, purple; 75c, | orange brown, and 125L, slate blue. | The designs show a stern and un- Gladys Mooney of Detroit, Mich., will be held at the Lafayette Hotel, Janu= ary 25. National Capital Post, No. 127, met happy portrait of King Victor Em- | the Faith has decided to sell its vast| manuel. A rinting the portraits of the abd Tuesday, with Comdr. John De Continental Hall before March 1. p 8 Latote Abdicated | accumulation of covers bearing nine- | - & the conference at the Mayflower Hotel o~ eand Christmas party of Louisa Adams ] 13 The new poster, when selected at on April 20, will be the official poster of the junior groups within D. A. R. chapters. It will be approximately 13 by 16 inches and any D. A. R. member may compete for the prizes offered by the national society. Judge Lynn Chapter plans to mark | with an official marker the grave of Lieut. John Shaw, one of the Revo- lutionary ancestors of its organizing regent, Mrs. Bertha Robbins. The next meeting of the chapter will be at the home of Mrs. John S. Pratt, 6331 Utah avenue, January 5. Fort McHenry Chapter met Tues- day evening at the Evangeline, the regent, Mrs. W. A. Hartman, pre- siding. Miss Linda Nance. State treasurer, was the guest speaker. Hostesses, Mrs. W. A. Hartman, Miss Gwendolin Tay- lor and Miss Viola Reece. The members contributed toys and clothing for the duffel bag to be sent the children of Crossnore School. A card party will be held the eve- ning of January 21 at the Chestnut Farms Dairy. Miss Jean Bishop sang several se- | Jections, accompanied by Mrs. Jewell Downs at the piano. | The singing of Christmas carols by | the group and the reading of Christ- mas poems of the thirteenth century by the vice regent, Miss Catherine Watkins, were features of a meeting Chapter at the home of the regent, | Mrs. Brinkley E. Callicott, on Lega- tion street. She was assisted in en- tertaining by her mother, Mrs. W. A. | Chaffee, and Mrs. Harry Morris, recording secretary. . Report was made that boxes have been sent to Crossnore and articles | ‘were requested which may be sent to Ellis Island early in January. Mrs. Herbert R. Eck will entertain | the Capt. Joseph Magruder Chapter | &t her home, 820 Richmond avenue, | Bilver 8pring, Md., January 8. Al- ternates to the Continental Congress will be elected. “Historic Washington” will be the | subject of a talk by Albert Bowker | of the Potomac Society, C. A. R., be- fore the Potomac Chapter on January 13. Miss Blackistone, 29 East Brad- ley lane, Chevy Chase, will be the hostess. Mrs. A. Eugene Barr is chairman of the Thirteen Colonies card party, which will take place some time in January. She will be assisted by Mrs. William C. Cleary, Mrs. G. H. Alex- ander, Miss Flora Shinn and Mrs. ‘Thomas Elkins. The patriotic work of the chapter has been in the form of contribu- tions to"the Correct Use of the Flag Committee and the Museum Com- mittee, Mrs. Florence Coyle, Miss Belle Bnyder and Miss Gertrude Snyder are new members. Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter will meet at the home of Miss, Phebe 8tine, 1883 Columbia road, Jll’unry 5. ‘Miss Josephine Baker will present a musical program. Paint Factory Is Fireproof. A 100 per cent fireproof factory has been opened et Birmingham, England, for manufacture of enamels, varnishes and lacquers. Solution to YesterGay's Puzzle. [RIEISIP!I TIEMRIATIABILE] IRIOVI [AIT/OMIIETS] MAIIGLIEEMBIOINYRIAIT] S| INOBIL EMNAIDIA] 5 OlGIEES! [E]E MIME] CIANDMLIONIC HIRIAMP] L TMARSHALMLER] [T NISIAP SIAL O E MIRIE] ESIPloISIEMNEGRIESIS] ST EPMTREISSELS] [ LTI NIETMIOIO N @mrgfimm [DIEBIOINIA[LIR] CUIR] SUNDAY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE 10 Unfastens. 15 Faithful: Scot. 19 A pointed arch. 20 Second planet from the sun. 21 A chafflike bract. 22 Glorify. 24 More unusual. 25 Be ready for. 26 Conform. 217 Sign of zodiac. 28 Those who mulct, 30 Missiles. 32 Pertaining to Tunis. 34To examine in detail. 35 Networks of nerves. 36 Entice. 317 Flavor. 38 Worthless leaving. 39 Bound to secrecy. 40 A Northern Euro- pean, 41 Exist. 42 Written com- position. 45 Speed contests. 46 A portion. 47 A sign of the zodiac. 51 Anu's partner. 52 Shows displeasure. 53 Cease. 54 The blare of a trumpet or horn. 55 Tatter. 56 Seventh planet from the sun. 57 Companion: colloq. 8 Fourth planet from the sun. 59 Strike lightly. 0 A prefix meaning threefold. 61 Classifies. 62 Make a misplay. 63 Learning. 64 Gaelic. 65 Pagans: obs. 67 Sheltered side. 68 Flog. 69 A sign of the zodiac. 70 Ripped. 71 Method of working. 74 Wine: Tag. 75 Masts. 77 Gentle. 78 Delved. 79 Things which correspond to other things, 82 Mountein lake. 83 Facile, 84 Male beings. 85 Masculine name. 87 Corded fabrie. 88 High priest. 89 Temple. 90 Rocky crag. 91 A sign of the zodiac. 92 Short sleep. 93 Tending to evade, 95 Courts. 96 A sign of the zodiac. 97 Throw. 98 A sign of the zodiac. 99 Avoid. 100 Twilled cotton cloths, 101 Untidy. 102 Like. 103 A short-necked river duck. 104 Meditator. 105 Establish. 106 The hut of & hermit, 109 Labor for breath, 110 Anticipated. 111 A character in the poem, “Jerusalem Delivered.” 115 A sign of the zodiac. 117 Long-nosed animal. 118 A sign of the zodiac: var. 119 Combining form used to indicate connection with. 120 Swift. 122 Plerce quadruped. 124 Russian walfhounds. 125 Tree of the genus Acer. 126 Practical: rare. 127 Russian prison camp. 128 Potato: dial. 129 Caustic alkaline solutions. 130 Marine mammals. 131 Reposes. 132 Historical periods. [} 1Bird of South America. 2 Auto accessories. 3 Article of clothing. 4 Nearest planet to the sun. 5 Members of Hunlike peo- ple of the sixth and ninth centuries. 6 Moisture night. 7 Collection of anecdotes. 8 Without a leader. 9 Property in general. 10 Mexican Indian. 11 Cushions. 12 Note of Guido's. seale. 13 Bighth planet ffdm the sun, 148ixth planet from the condensed at sun. 1580n of Jacob. 16 Having being. 17 Heart cavities. 18 County in Colorado. 19 Toward the mouth. 23 Protracted. 29 Superlative ending. 31 Free. 33 Symbol of neon. 35 Gape of the mouth of a bird. 36 Flaceid. 39 Flout. 40 A simpleton. 41 Interdictions. 42Third planet from the sun. 43 Trap. 64 Pertaining to an epoch. 66 Trumpet. 67 Conducted. 68 Large. 69 Tartar tribe who overran much of the Roman Em- pire. 71 River in France. 72 A fold. 73 Large cask. 74 Tropical American shrub: var. 75 Precipitous. 76 Member of a low Sudra cast. 77 Numerous. 79 Arabian military eom- | manders: var. 80 Moving parts chinery. 81 Put to certain use. 83 Organs of hearing. 84 Satellite. 85 Restrained. 86 Fossil resin. 89 Enemies. 90 A department in France. 91 A mineral. 94 Capable of being climbed. 95 Pronoun. 97 Sixfold. 99 Perceive by the senses. 100 Fifth planet of the sun. 101 Move from one country to another. 103 A sign of the sodiac. 104 Loosely tangled mass, 405 Away from. 106 Still. 107 Like in value. 108 Choppy. 109 Jumbled type. 110 The underworld. 111 Land measures. 1120ne of a breed of dwarf cattle. 113 French protectorate in Northwest Africa. 114 Actual being: Latin. of ma- 116 Female deer. 3 117 Money drawer. 118 Olan. 121 Hawaiian starch plant. 133 Aeriform fluid. A | quotes a New York dealer, unidenti- | | should devote the bulk of his stamp sovereign. The Susan B. Anthony stamp has been precanceied for Baltimore and Chicago. Also for Milford and Mont- ville, Conn.; Creve Coeur, Mo.; Ho: boken, N. J.; Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Morristown, Tenn.; Beaver Dam, Fort Atknson, Menasha and Sun Prairie. Wis, From Cape Town comes word of & | new 1%;p, dark green and gold, issue | for the Union of South Africa. The de- | sign shows derricks and skyscrapers. | Waterlow & Sons, London, are | manufacturing a new regular postage series for Peru. The 10c, red, depicts the mail-runner of Inca times, and the 50c. mustard | yellow, represents the buildings of | the University of Lima, founded in 1551, Mexico has overprinted copies of the 10c. violet, Cross of Lalenque | | stamp (type A-113) for the First| National Labor, Medicine and Hy- | | glene Congress, held in Mexico City. | Collecting philatelic exhibition stamps and miniature souvenir sheets | recently has developed into a recog- | nized specialty. Such novelties may | be had from Algeria, the Argentine | Republic, Australia, Austria, Belgium, | Brazil, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, | JDanzu;. Denmark, Pinland, France, | Germany, Hungary, Japan, Liechten- stein, Luxemburg, Monaco, the Neth- erlands, Peru, Poland, Rumania, Rus- sia, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, Uruguay and the United States, Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News fled, as follows: “Why a so-called | stamp collector of limited means money to mint sheets of current is- | sues has always been a mystery to us. All right, buy a single and a block of everything new, but devote the bal- ance of your budget to building up your collection and not in accumu- lating a dealer's stock.” Scott's 1937 specialized United States catalogue, with many lddlAi tions and improvements, will be pub- lished January 15. Costa Rica again is making use of | stamps as propaganda for its claims to Cocos Island. Two new issues show a map of the tiny spot on the Pacific with galleons on either side and the" inscription “Isla del Coco” beneath. The values are 5c, yellow-green, and 10c, carmine rose. The Parliament stamps of Japan are attractive additions to the list of issues of architectural significance. They are large horizontal oblongs, two of the four showing the main facade of the new legislative hall and two the grand staircase, which is a deco- rative feature of the interior. The values are given as 1l4s, green; 3s, brown-violet; 6s, carmine red, and 10s, blue. Great Britain has a new 5p, orange- brown, type D-1, postage due, printed on paper watermarked “ESR.” Spencer Anderson reports that the 1-cent National Parks stamp has béen found imperforate horizontally. The 2-cent, 5-cent and 7-cent denomi- nations also are known part-perforate. All will be listed as varieties. < The labels to advertise the Pexip exhibition in Paris June 18 to 27, are available in blocks of four in differ- ent colors, priced at 4 francs for the set of %0. ciety and widely known for his schol- arly interest in stamp tollecting, died at Phoenix, Aris, about December 1. Ambherst College possesses what is said to be the first air post letter ever carried aloft. It was written by Dr. John Jeffries, & Boston scientist who flourished approximately a cen- tury and & half ago, and was pra- & teenth century stamps and post- marks. According to the New York! Sun, the archives of the mission or- | ganization contain at least 10.000 philatelic treasures. These are to be offered at auction in London, the first lot having been sold December 12. ; Mrs. Eugene Klein, wife of the pres- ident of the American Philatelic So- city, is il in a Philadelphia hospital. Reports from London to the effect that stamps already are in prepara- | tion for the reign of King George VI seem to be premature. No official | announcement has been authorized as | yet. ‘The 8-cent olive bistre airmail stamp of 1932 has disappeared from the Philatelic Agency sales list. For the New Year the Javanese ' postal authorities have announced a special cancellation of decorative | character. Trans-Pacific arimail rates are des- tined to be reduced, if current rumors are to be trusted. ‘The Post Office Department offi- | cials frowned on a Christmas stamp | for 1936, but may be more friendly to the suggestion in 1937. Concerning & book recently pub- lished in England, the following pas- | sages are quoted from the London Ob- server. “Count Lavallette was postmaster general to Emperor Napoleon, and | his position was so essentially a key | position that he was in close contact | for over 20 years with the Emperor. Every student of the imperial organ- | ization, so vast, so complex, and so | heavily overcentralized, realizes at | once how much Napoleon depended on | his dispatches. Whenever he halted at any place, however small and re- mote, on a campaign the first thing | he did was to demand his letters, and | Harry A. Fox has sold his collection | of United States stamps, covers, es= | says, proofs and miscellaneous ma- terial to Charles Kohen, proprietor of the Hobby Shop. Included in the four albums represented in the trans- action are: A complete set of card- | board proofs of all United States issues from 1847 to 1902: a complete | set of the initial printings of the it was Lavallette's business to see that | he got them. His memoirs, therefore, | are full of intimate personal touches, | and are an important historical docu- | ment of the period. This first vol- ume, translated and edited by the late Aldersey Whité, who died as the book | was going through the press, begins with the count’s recollections of the beginning of the Revolution and takes the story down to 1805. | series of 1902, marked “Specimen” | and accompanied by a letter of au- | thentification dated March 23, 1903, | the stamps of Cuba, 1899; 48 essays | |in different color combinations for | by the menace to France in the northe | the United States series of 1869 19 | specimen essays with gum and grill | of the same series; many trial essays and experimental proofs of miscel- laneous early United States issues in rich colors: numerous uncatalogued revenue stamps; essays of Franklirrand | Washington portraits of 1869; trial col- | or proofs of New York postmasters’ is | sues of 1845; 23 essays of 3-cent United | -States, 1851: a complete set of proofs of all departmental stamps: a curious series of experimental essays on gold- beaters’ skin; an imperforate block | of 1861 1-cent, claret, with label n-; tached: “Stamp of no value without coupon to be removed only by the postmaster”; paper proofs of Philip- pine Islands issues; cardboard proofs of many United States revenues; vari- ous revenue checks, used and un- used; a cover bearing the frank of Royalty IN STAMP DESIGNS. King George VI first was represented in the philatelic ga’{lerfl of portraits when he appeared as Prince Albert in the Newfoundland 4c stamp of 1911. He was introduced again as Duke of York in the Canada 2c issue of 1935. Meanwhile, his daughter, the little Prin- cess Elizabeth, was shown on the 6c Newfoundland of 1931. Her picture also adorned the Canada 1c of the King George V Silver Jubilee set. The new Queen, as Duchess of York, was portrayed on the 7c value Io‘:t;.u Newfoundland series of ) “The young man, who was 20 years | old. marched with the National Guard | to Versailles, was in the Tuileries when | the Swiss were massacred, and helped | |and signed by Third Assistant Post- | two ladies to escape from La Force ! master General Edwin C. Madden; a before the murders began. | complete set of cardboard proofs of | for him, his youthful mind was dis- | Luckily tracted from the sight of such horrors | east, and he hurried off to join the | Army of the Rhine. Those were the | days of the Revolutionary generals, | Dumouriez, Custine, Hoche, and Piche- gru, but as the wars went on Napo- leonic names began to appear. Thus | Lavallette brilliantly describes Desa:x, whom everyone adored, and the cold, intellectual Gouvion St. Cyr, and then he comes to Bonaparte himself, post- | ing the artillery which fired the whiff | of grape-shot. But his high moment did not come until the campaign of | Italy and his appointment to the | staff of the great man. Now the pag- | eant of figures begins in real earnest —Marmont, the gunner; Dutroc, who | was killed in 1813; Junot, beaten by Wellesley at Vimeiro; cunning Mas- sena, swashbuckling Augereau, and the rest of the galaxy. Lavallette knew them all intimately. He records his conversation with' Brueyx on the ‘Orient’ in Aboukir roadstead, he stood beside Napoleon at the siege of Acre, he watched Murat's cavalry smashing into the Turkish ranks at Mount Ta- bor and he was one of the handful who embarked on the hazardous voy- age home through the British cordons. Of their diversions on board he writes: ‘The days were spent in reading and in argument: the inexhaustible know!- edge of the two learned men occupied our days in a most agreeable manner. Often Plutarch came to our help; and sometimes during the long evenings the general-in-chief told us ghost stories, a type of entertainment in which he was very clever.’ This is a facet of that endlessly astonishing brain which is new to me. “But in 1801 the count’s active mili- tary service came abruptly to an end, to his intense disgust, when he was ordered by the first consul to take over the office of postmaster general in the civil service and was set to work to organize the messenger service on basic principles laid down by Na- poleon. The principle was ‘that the riders of each posting station carried the cabinet dispatches contained in a wallet of which he and I each had a key. Each rider, at the next stopping place, handed in a little book in which the name of each post office was en- tered and in which the time of ar- rival and departure had to be set down. A fine and, if the offense was committed more than once, severe penalties was the punishment for losing the book and for negligence on the postmaster's part in entering the time of arrival and departure.’” The Washington Stamp Club of the Alr, Albert ¥, Kunse, leader, will meet ) Mayo presiding. Equality-Walter Reed Post, No. 284, which was organized in December, 1919, celebrated its seventeenth an- niversary Monday at the W. O. W. Hall. Honor guests were Department Comdr. Wallach A. McCathran, Past Department Comdr. Daniel J. Camp- bell and Past Department Comdr. George J. Neuner, first Department | Comdr. of the V. F. W. in the District of Columbia. At its last meeting Potomac Pom, 1085, elected the following officers: Commander. James A. Sheehan: senior vice commander, Charles J. Bussius; junior vice commander, Wilson L. Jones; quartermaster, Edwin W. Ware ren; post advocate. Sumner Perry; officer of the day, Robert S. Bonar; surgeon, Stephan Uhlarik; chaplain, Hervert A. Church. The following officers were appointed by the come mander: Adjutant, Frank R. Heise; sergeant major, Robert 8. Bonar; quartermaster sergeant, Harry V., Krichton: historian, Edwin L. Con- nelly: patriotic instructor, Wesley L. Jones; guard, Henry J. Bosmans: color bearers, Lawrence R. Loveland and Charles O. Sage: bugler, Thomas L. Dabbs; relief officer, Robert S. Bonar. Child Inventur;:i:ied. Russia is seeing to it that child mechanics are supplied with the ar- ticles needed in their inventive enter- prices. It maintains a store in Moscow for this purpose and has a consultation service with a specially trained force, The government recently made & sure vey of the activities of the 100,000 members of the Moscow central chil dren’s station. Youngsters are build~ ing 56 children's railways, a dozen river, lake or seaports and airplane models with gasoline engines, Kills Cobra With Knife. Nicko Van Beeck of Hoopstad, South Africa. had a thrilling encounter with a cobra which had killed two of his dogs and whose head he cut off with a pocket knife after a third dog had grappled with the reptile. Fruit Preserved in Gas. By the use of a perfected system Great Britain is preserving fresh fruit in gas and other forms of storage for as long as six months, and expects to be able to maintain an all-the-year- round supply for the market. —_— over station WOL tomorrow evening at 9:15. The Washington Collectors’ Club, Branch 5. Society of Philatelic Amer= fcans, will meet at the Thomson School, Twelfth street, Tuesday eves ning at 8. Col. Karl Truesdale will speak on “The Stamps of China" and will exhibit selected specimens from his collection. Visitors welcome. The Washington Philatelic Society will meet at the Hotel Carlton, Sixe teenth street, Wednesday evening, Louls J. Heath will discuss and exe hibit airmail stamps. Public invited. e e D STAMPS. | scotTs 1937 spECIALIZED . 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