Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1937, Page 5

MERRILL POSTAL DEAL FUNDS TRIP 15,000 Coronation Covers to Be Sold to Philatelists at $5 Retail. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. + Philatelic profits on the 15,000 coro- nation first covers carried to London and back will pay the expense of Dick Merrill's spectacular trans-At- lantic adventure. ‘These envelopes are to be sold wholesale to dealers who are in- tending to distribute them through- out the philatelic fraternity at $5 each. Plans for the enterprise were worked out several weeks ago. A mimeo- Jgraphed circular letter then, on May 8, was sent to a selected list of stamp and cover dealers. This communica- tion bore the name of the Anglo- American Good - Will Coronation Flight, Inc., 1107 National Press Building, and read as follows: “Dear Dealer: We have engaged Dick Merrill to fly to London and » back to carry a limited quantity of first-day covers. These will be the only airmail flight covers of the coronation in existence and we are dealing only through recognized stamp dealers in making distribu- tion to the public—another innova- tion. Special Good-Will Cachet. “We are using a special 4% by 914 sized lightweight envelope with red, white and blue border. A United 8tates airmail stamp is affixed, and a New York cancellation postmark is provided, showing day and hour of departure. A special good-will cachet is also stamped on. “Upon arrival at Croydon Airport ‘in London the same envelopes are stamped with a unique special coro- nation cachet and, affixed is a special coronation stamp with London post- mark showing nearest hour to depart- ure on the flight back to the United Btates. The return flight is planned directly after the coronation ocere- monies are over. Envelopes are again postmarked date of arrival in United States. * * * All envelopes of the flight are in blank so the dealer may write in any name desired or sell them blank to his customers. “We plan to make distribution only through dealers, allowing a 50 per cent discount on purchases. The advance rale retail price is $3 each, after which the retail price goes to $5. Advance orders at the $3 price are accepted on condition that no responsibility is assumed by us for loss or damage in flight. We also reserve right to limit quantities to 100 covers per dealer, refunding any balance due. Arrangements Held “Usual.” . Merril], local philatelists estimated yesterday, stands to profit approxi- mately $30,000 from the transaction. The covers he carried were stamped with 6-cent airmall stamps with *“handed back” or ‘‘courtesy” cancel- lations at the general post office, New York, May 8, 2 pm, 1ll2d British stamps canceled in London May 13, 2:15 pm., and 2-cent Army “com- 1nemoratives” canceled “to order” at the general post office, New York, May 14, 5 pm. Post Office Department officials said there was nothing unusual about the errangements. Similar courtesies, they explained yesterday, have been ex- tended to other fiyers in the past. — BIG D. C. DELEGATION WILL ATTEND PARLEY National Conference of Social Work to Meet Next Week at Indianapolis. ‘Washington, because of the number of Federal welfare projects located here, will send one of the largest dele- gations to the National Conference on Bocial Work, which will open a seven- day session at Indianapolis next Sun- day. Fifty-three other national social .work organizations will meet simul- taneously as associate groups of the conference. Between 8,000 and 10,000 delegates are expected to attend the meeting. More than 400 speakers are scheduled to address the daily sessions. More than 300 Individual meetings have been arranged. Seven special committees have been created by the conference to deal with current welfare problems, including special relief, care of the aged, chil- dren’s institutions, the adult offender, social aspects of public housing, public health and the use of statistical in- * formation in social work. In addition, five permanent conference sections will eonduct sessions, covering public wel- fare administration, social action, community organizations, case work and group work. Speakers participating in the five general sessions of the conference will include Miss Edith Abbott, its presi- dent; Senator Wagner of New York, Gov. Murphy of Michigan, Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, son of the late Presi- dent; Mayor Neville Miller of Louis- ville, Ky.: Judge Florence E. Allen of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Cleveland, and Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard Uni- versity. . The conference was organized in 1874. It is a discussion organization, adopting no platforms or resolutions on public issues. OLD ENGLISH STATUTE IS CITED IN APPEAL Town Officials Seek to Evade Court Costs Using Act as Basis. By the Associated Press. GREENSBURG, Pa, May 15— Counsel for Mayor James Gold and Chief of Police Joseph Lescanac of Monessen, Pa., appealed to an ancient faw of King Charles II today in an attempt to set aside $83.10 court costs awarded against the two officials in & damage suit. « A jury awarded $1 to Ira Bird, & teacher in the School of Jehova Wit~ Desses, & religious sect, who charged he was illegally arrested when the school was closed. Bird asked for $25,000 damages. Defense Attorney Vincent R. Smith filed a petition with the Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court for a rule setting aside the costs. *le based his petition on an old English law adopted by Pennsyl- vania at the forming of the Com- monwealth. Smith asserted the law provided bosts in a trespass case involving a werdict of less than 40 shillings ($10) eould not exceed the amount of the Werdict, .THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 16, 1937—PART O Shine Before President Merrill’'s Attention to Shoes Delays Roosevelt Reception. Airport. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was delayed in meeting up with two of the most daring flyers in the world yesterday when one of the pair, Dick Merrill, stopped to get a shoe shine. “Come on, Dick,” Al Lodwick, & press impressario for one of the airline companies said, Washington Airport as ‘“dead-heads” |on an Eastern Airline plane. “Come | on, the President is waiting to greeL you.” It was noon and the President wanted to see the boys at 12:15. Merrill had flagged a shoe shine boy in the airport lobby. “Gosh,” the fiyer said, looking at his mud-caked shoes, “I can't take all this mud into the White House.” So they let a fast-flying shoe shiner get to work taking off mud from two shoes that had trodden two far-apart airports in two days—Southport, Eng- land, on Friday, and Floyd Bennett Field, New York, on Saturday. Lambie, by getting less sleep after the trip, had his shoes shined in New York. Consequently, when Merrill and Lambie arrived at the White House, they were dancers. Contract With Reception. Arrival in Washington yesterday of these two men, the first flyers ever ‘to complete a round-trip air cross- ing of the North Atlantic like an every-day occurence, was in deep con- trast to the reception given them in New York on Friday. Then 5,000 spectators gathered on the field and almost mobbed the flyers. Yesterday, since no one—outside the official airship family and a few newspaper men and photographers— knew the two flyers were on their way to town, only a small group was on hand to greet them. They were flown jick from Newark Airport by their 1S buddies of the airlines, Bob Min- n..: and Leo Cloney. Al Lodwick, Clint Mosher, correspondent of the sengers, ‘Washington inspector for the Department of Com- merce, and Ben Smith, Wall Street broker, who backed the flight. No one knew the boys were on the way to see the President and so no one made arrangements for an official reception at the ariport. There was the White House. All arrangements for the President’s reception of the Gladstone Williams, newspaper man. So hurriedly were the arrangements made that even the White House police force was not notified—and the fiyers had to be identified as they went through the doors leading to the executive offices. Greeted by McKenna. When they got inside, however, the dean of all White House greeters, Pat McKenna, knew what it was all about, ushered them into the offices of Col. Marvin McIntyre, and final arrange- ments were made for a real old-fash- loned presidential reception in the main part of the mansion—as Presi- dent Roosevelt had not gone to his office yesterday morning. On the way from the airport to the White House, Merrill and Lambie sat on the back seat of a 20-cent cab with their backer, Smith, and recalled some of the t.hru].s of their trip. It seems the boys had quite a bit of trouble with the gasoline tanks, owing to the way the load was dlsm‘mud— too far back. “It made her wobble,” Mernll ex- Pplained. “Next time that ought to be rem- edied,” Smith said. “Youre telling us” Lambie re- marked, and explained with gestures how the twin-motored monoplane they flew had a fore-and-aft movement they had not counted on, until the best part of the gas was gone. Inci- dentally, they plan a round-trip to AVOID ACIDITY will save yourself s lot of future trouble from & Washington acid sons. Pho m.v‘ 1082 for a1 Good )Iellth is precious. Protect shortly after Jack | Lambie and Merrill came into the | spic and span as tap, Aboard ship were four other pas- | Brooklyn Eagle; Lowell Harding, air | no police escort from-the airport to | fiyers had been made hurriedly by |- The round-trip Atlantic flyers, Dick Merrill (right) ana Jack Lambie, pictured yesterday as they landed at Washington —Star Staff Photo. Paris sometime between August 1 and 31. After the session with the President, during which the flyers presented the Chief Executive with an airmall letter that bore a new coronation stamp and told the President details of their two- way journey over the Atlantic, the boys were rushed down to the airport, put aboard & 1 o'clock plane and | flown again, as “dead heads,” back | to New York. Today, to get away from flying, they are going horseback riding in West- chester—where their backer has a country estate. DORIS DUKE TO RUSSIA Will Visit Moscow With Husband as Guest of Davies. LONDON, May 15 (#).—Doris Duke Cromwell, reputedly the richest girl in the world, will visit Moscow in June with her husband, J. H. R. { Cromwell, the guests of United States | Ambassador Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Davies. Cromwell, who is co-author with Hugo Czerwonky of the newly pub- lished book, “In Defense of Capi- talism,” made the announcement to- day. The Cromwells came here for the coronation. They will visit Paris and Berlin before going to Moscow. various prices. QUALITY ], CENEAL ELECTRIC MOTOR—the stand @ mator for high quehty. Ingspemsive to aviet. Bui wiing ence 2. bui for contineous duly. - Latest do conceold terminas shminate” actdenel con- 3. 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She would like to be good friends with both Italy and Great Britain, which are hav- ing new friction. But both Rome and London are pressing her for an outright choice. If such a choice becomes inevitable, Germany will be able to weigh all pros and cons and command an attractive price for her favors. On the side of better Anglo-Ger- man relations are these factors: Press Hails “Sucoesses.” ‘The controlled evening press spoke jubilantly of the ‘“great successes” Marshal Werner von Blomberg, the war minister, has achieved in recent “negotiations” in London during the coronation period. Diplomats profess to know that Ambassador, is charged with the spe- cial mission of making clear that further support of Italy and the in- surgents in the Spanish war may some day prove embarrassing to the Reich. So pleased were German authori- ties with the possibilities of rap- prochement held out by Henderson that the press was instructed to give the coronation of King George VI a big and sympathetic “play.” (Italy,on the contrary, boycotted the coronation as & news story because British news- papers have jeered at the prowess, or lack of it, of Italians fighting in Spain.) The English sent the Duke and Duchess of Kent to a coronation re- ception given in London by Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Am- bassador. Warmth Toward Rome Cooled. Baron Konstantin von Neurath, the Reich foreign minister, was cour- teous and friendly on his visit to Rome recently but declined to com- mit Germany to anything beyond “‘a parallelism of intellect and views.” It is an open secret in the Welhelm- strasse that Mussolini wanted, in- stead, whole-hearted German sup- port in Spain. British diplomacy, it is believed, kept Germany from this. 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