davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-09-02

bottom. Study the mountain to the
right of the central peak. If don't
miss my guess, you will find a full
face looking at you"
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was
the actual designer of the new 16-cent
airmail special delivery stamp, placed
on sale st Chicago Thursday and in
Washington Friday. Alvin w. Hall.
director, Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, has the Chief Executives
original pencil sketch.
Preliminary reports for the airpost-
messenger service combination indi-
cate a Chicago sale of $4,000 and a
total Washington sale of approxi-
mately 10000.
Mr.. Roosevelt is especially inter-
ested in the stamps of the Argentine
Republic just now. He has the coun-
try practically complete except for six
exceedingly scarce specimens.
Collectors may purchase as many
copies of the 81 duck hunters
license stamp as they wish. Post
masters have been authorized to
meet the philatelic demand in any
quantity, and only one certificate
will be required of an applicant.
The Associated Press reports: 'The
Nazi government of Germany has
turned to the postage stamp as an
aid in its campaign in connection
with the Saar plebiscite to be held
next January Is. 1t has issued two
stamps significant of the occasion.
Both are designed to urge the re-
turn of the Saar basin to the Father
Evening star., 1934-09-02
INCOME OF FARMERS
INCREASED IN KANSAS
Official Estimates Place Value Of
Crops at s2os, ,ooo, 900, Exclusive
of Governments $46, 600, 900.
By the Associated Press


TOPEKA, Kans., September L.
Rising prices for agricultural products,
together with financial benefit pay
ments, give Kansas farmers this year
a potential income greater than any
year since 1881, despite the drought.
Based on oficial reports Of yields
Of Kansas crops as Of August /,
and on current prices, the States
farm products will bring approx
mately $209, 100000.
In addition, farmers of the State
have received or will receive by next
February $46,000,00 from the Fed
eral Government in wheat, corn and
hog program payments. This makes
q total potential income of $685.
600, 600.
In 1888 the total value Of farm
products was estimated by the State
Board of Agriculture at 8220, 0,612, 900
and in 1892 at $203, ,s69, 900.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
PAIR TOURING HUNGARY
ON MOTOR CYCLE HURT
American Manufacturer and Wife
Injured Near DebrecZen.
Condition Critical.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DEBRECzEN, Hungary, September
1.-B. S. Howarth, 2S, Of Louisville,
KY, and described as IAN American
manufacturer and preacher" was IN
University Hospital today suffering
with conclusion Of the brain.
He was injured while he and his
wife were travelling in a motor cycle
and Sidecar on a road near Debreczen.
Mrs. Howarth also was critically in
jured, suffering broken leg and a
broken arm, but doctors said she
would be able to leave the hospital
within five or six weeks. Surgeons
said they believed they could save
Howarth with an operation. He was
unconscious "A hours.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

Comparison of the new King
George stamps Of Great Britain shows
that in addition to the use of the
photogravure process of printing some
design changes have been made" the
Associated Press also says.
For instance, an effect of light
and shade Is used for the, first time
and there is an increased richness and
depth of color. In the 1-penny there
are numerous design alterations, quite
noticeable when the old and new
stamps are placed side by side.
THE same is true of the 212-penny.
I'm addition to the frame changes
in these stamps, ti.re Kings head is
slightly smaller with darker back
ground, making it stand out more. In
the u penny stamp the only changes
are deeper coloring and darker back
ground around the Kings head.
I'm the higher values, the stamps
will continue to be printed by the re-
cess process, but with the background
altered to enhance their appearance
as in the stamps Of the lower de-
nominations.
| A4OoAAWAAA4C, IllC llL1o11
Department announces that Great
Britain residents use on the average
Of 100000 stamps a day, while last
year l08,000,000 more stamps were
purchased than in the previous IL
months"
For use in the Spanish possession of
Cape JUDY in Africa, the 1928 set of
stamps issued on behalf of the Spanish
protectorate in Morocco has been sur
charged in black or red. "Cabo Judy"
In addition to the regular postage, the
20 centimes special delivery also has
been surcharged.
Bulgaria announces a series of COM
memoratives for the anniversary OF
the Battle Of Shipka Jass, 1877. Six
values are indicated, but each unit
will be printed In two different colors
making total of IL stamps in all.
Ecuador will have a new 1-sucre
horizontal stamp of small size, rose
carmine In color.
Mexico is bringing out two series Of
stamps to raise funds for the Nationa
University, Mexico City. A regular
postal series will include: 1c, light
green. native with baby; SC, dull
green, Indian with bow and arrow
l0c, carmine, Indian head; zoe, ultra.
marine, pottery making; SOC, brown
black, Indian; 40c, sepia, potter!
making; soc, blue, Indian artisan; 1p
carmine and black, Indian artist; 5p
brown and sepia, Indian maid kneel
ing, and l0p. sepia and violet, offering
to stone diety. For airpost there vii
be: 20c, orange yellow. plane owe
mountains; soc, magenta and violet
plane over pyramids: soc, olive greer
and sepia. plane over mountain land
scape; 75c, black .aand green, plan
Evening star., 1934-09-02

its beams on the German eagle over
which in white letters is 'Saar.'
Germany also prepared two addi-
tional special stamps on behalf Of
the annual Nazi party convention in
Nuremberg. The denominations, like
the Saar stamps, are and IL pfen-
nigs. Their designs are identical, with
huge swastika sun rising from be-
hind the ancient castle of Nuremberg.
Besides, an announcement comes
from Berlin that the current Hinden-
berg stamps of the values of 3, S, 6,
8. IL and is pfennigs will appear for
short time with a black mourning
border in tribute to the deceased
President"
Evening star., 1934-09-02
CHANCELLOR CAPTIVE
Italians Believed Guarded Schuss

Italians Believed Guarded Schuss-
mig Was Lawbreaker.
ROME (P.-Chancellor SchusSnig
has returned to Austria, but an Incl
dent Of his visit to Premier Mussolini
has reached Rome.
Going from Florence to Genoa, his
automobile bore no license plates as q
safeguard against enemies. Police
cars preceded and followed it. Resi-
dents along the route, thinking the
police had captured a carload Of gang
sters, heartily cheered the officers.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
SARAH BOWERMAN

scene Of this new romance Of the
French war In which Britain was IN
volved because of the towering ambi-
ton of Napoleon.
The Free Fishers of Forth were q
brotherhood of sea folk, secret, silent,
not entirely law-abiding. ITO be a
long as one obeyed its rules. posse
of stalwart allies" But there was
the other side of the question; to be
member also meant obligation to
run risks for the other members.
Anthony Lammas, after brief fling
as a soldier in France, had secured
through the good offices of his patron,
Lord Showdown, a position as a pro-
fessor of logic and rhetoric in the
University of st. Andrew, with emolu-
ments which amounted tn the goodly
sum, for a bachelor, of 319 pounds a
year. He was only %, but had settled
down to the quiet life of scholar and
had already been advanced to the POST
of questor. 1t would have shocked
some of his colleagues If they had
seen the young questor, licensed min
lister of the kirk and professor of
philosophy, on a certain night drink
ing toddy and singing wild songs
with a crowd of shaggy seafarers in
a boat shed on a windy bench of Fife.
In explanation there was a long
story. He had always ioved the sea
and had almost embarked on it for
a career. AS a boy he had had his
best friends among men Of the sea
La 6o TECh0re
as the final authority of his world.
When he had chosen scholarship in
stead of the sea he had told his
friends jestingly that they must make
him the chaplain of the order and
they had taken the suggestion seri-
ously and had appointed him chaplain
at a special sederunt. When he was
called upon for an unusual duty the
Free Fishers helped. He set Jut for
London to save Lord BelseS, son of
hisN patron, Lord Showdown. from
probable death in a duel at the hand
Of Sir Turnour Wyse, one of the best
shots in England. In his quest Re was
aided by Jock Kinloch, 8 brother Free
Fisher, who guided him to the object
of his search, not in London, but on
the barren and sinister estate of
Hungrygrain, on the Firth of Forth.
He not only saved the life of young
Belses and the honor of Kirsty Evan
dale, but uncovered a plot which
threatened the safety Of England.
And the supposed villain turned out
to be a bulwark of England.
r +
THE KING OF THE ARCHERS. Bv
Rene Bazin. Translated from the
French by Mary Russell. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
p ENE BAZIN, veteran defender IN
~ fiction Of French family life and
religion, produced long roll of novels,
all of the same type. His best work
was done some years ago, but he was
not content to rest on his laurels as
an Academician, but continued to
write almost until his death, in 1882,
at the age of 70. He began writing
fiction at 80, after abandoning his In
tention to enter the priesthood, and
becoming a lawyer. His last novel,
published In 1892, was "Magnificat. I"
THE King of the Archers' is an
earlier one, not before translated.
Alfred DemeeSter, elderly weaver OF
Flanders, has won the title Of King of
the Archers by his skill with bow and
arrow. Arthur Vincke, wool sorter,
still in the prime of life, is called
Emperor because he has been King
three times running. Both men live
in the seaport town Of Roubaix. Their
Evening star., 1934-09-02

work and their sports share their in
terest almost equally. Demeester is
urged by Vincke to enter again for
the great Summer competition In
archery. st want you to be an En-
peror, too," he says. "We'n be two
Emperors in Roubaix" The story tells
how Demeester loses his title of King.
1t also gives picture of French nome
life in an industrial town, through the
affairs of Demeester's daughter Ade-
line and her daughter Claire, who
make their home with the old weaver,
all working together in order to buy
the house In which they live.
X X \
TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. BY Ed
ward Shanks. indianapolis: The
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
THROUGH the story of Dickens of
the same name the real and SYM
holical meanings of Tom Tiddler's
Ground have come to be known to
most people. In the old English game
the players rush into forbidden zone
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Fire Bell for Village Phone.

To make the only telephone in a
Derbyshire village of England efficient
a fire bell has been installed outside
the post Office, home of the instru-
ment. Whenever a call comes from
the outside world the fire bell gives
the alarm. At least half dozen viii
layers rush to the phone and either
take the call themselves or find the
individual for whom it was intended.
Every child In the village has been
instructed how to use the telephone.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Conquering Contract
By p. Hal SIMS.

Do you bid two no trumps7 or you
bid your no trump, and your partner
makes forcing take-out Of three
clubs. Now what? If you are making
sound original no-trump openings
when you don't have q partial, how
Is your partner to read your bid when
you do have a part scorer Do you
say: Partner, and opponents, bid
one no trump when we have go on
score, it's a psychic"
Of course, fine partner can often
read q psychic without any prompt
ing remark. One such player heard
an original no-trump bid from his
partner-there was q vulnerable over
call Of two spades from one Of the
opponents, and he held the following:
Spades Axx Diamonds AKxx
Hearts A AK Clubs AK
Problem: Assuming the opponents
to be men of normal intelligence,
what has the opener got for his bid?
That's what the holder Of this five
primary trick hand thought, too. Dis
daining to double, he bid two no
trumps, which was made on the nose,
and the opener got credit for $50
aces.
have been accused Of being slightly
rahid on the subject Of sound original
no trumps. but I firmly believe that
the monetary advantage gained by q
psychic or semipSychic no trump
(once you have inculcated the idea
in your opponents heads, that all your
no-trump bids are gilt-edged) is COM
pletely nullified by your inability to
handle either force or a double from
your partner. I have built up O sys-
tenn Of no-trump bidding, involving a
number Of inferential responses. based
on the assumed strength of the open
ing bid. Destroy the foundation, and
the whole structure topples.
(copyriGht. 1934)
Mr. Sims will anSwar all fnou{riae a.,
Evening star., 1934-09-02

lan0. One, o.
pfennig, shows on
a dark back
ground two hands
holding a lump of
earth, on which
is impressed in
large letters the
word, 'Saar.' The
other, IL pfen-
nigs, has a swas-
kilyo c1Iv1 nocfiv10
Evening star., 1934-09-02

Mr.. Sims Is universally acclaimed the
greatest Hiring contract and auction
player. He Uds captain Of the renowned
-Four Horsemen" team, notD disbdrded,
aud he's tDon "a national champion
ships since 1924. These articles are
bdsed on the Sims system. iDhich
includes the oRe-oDer-one principle,
phich the Sims group OF players ,ods
the first to employ and develop.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Bidding With a Partial.

1DluulnS Win q 1aIIldA'
~ NCE you get ''the bug" OF
A opening light when you have
a partial on game, you may
~ very easily carry it to ex-
tremes. I have seen a num-
Der Of players bid an original one
no trump in that position-said no
trump to consist Of at least trick
and q half. They argue this way:
MY left-hsnd opponent Is afraid
to overcall with two diamonds be-
cause he believes my no trump bid
to be very strong. Now my partner
bids two spades, and the other OPP
ponent is also afraid to overcall. Thus
we get the bid at two spades, and
maybe we make 1t"
That old remark about not being
able to fool all of the people all OF
the time still holds good. After q
few experiences, East and West will
realize what Is going on, and the
first thing you know, you will be
doubled at one no trump with fatal
results.
"Ah!" answers the party Of the
first part. That time happen to
have q sound no trump bid, and ]
make it"
All. very well. but suppose this sit
uation comes, up. You bid q phoney
no trump. the left-hand opponent
overcalls with two spades, and your
partner doubles. Two spades doubled
naturally gives the opponents game.
How do you feel about leaving the
double in? How can you take it out?
Evening star., 1934-09-02
(cOpyriEht. 1934.)

Mr.. Sims will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed TO this news
paper with q self addressed. stamped en-
velope.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
THE vICOMTE IN THE KITCHEN.
BY Vicomte de Mauduit. New
York: Coyici-Friede.

THE Countess of Warwick in her in
L PRODUCTION to this epicurean cook
cry book says: 1T has been said, surely
of England, that God sends the food and
the Devil the cooks The Vicomte
de Mauduit has come to the assistance
of the English-speaking world. He is
a born cook" The Vicomte's recipes
show that he can be as extravagant
as the most luxurious gourmet could
desire, yet, with true French thrift,
abhors waste and can find a use for
every eatable scrap. So his book is
not for the rich alone. He covers the
whole terrain Of cookery, from cock
tails and hors-d' 'oeuvres to sweets, pud-
dings, cakes and CONNECTIONS, invalid
cookery, "old wives cures" and season.
able menus. In chapter on the kitch-
en-, he suggests that the kitchen should
be even cleaner and more attractive
than the reception room. He expresses
horror at the idea of cooking in en-
ameled vessels; earthenware or cop
per Is the only permissible material.
An important kitchen utensil Is the
cooks tasting spoon, for "all good
cooks must have among other things
good palate, which upon tasting will
stir his or her imagination" Shell
fish, the Vicomte imparts, should be
eaten on the day when they are taken
from the sea, for even If they remain
alive afterward, they develop a melan-
choly which shows in their dull eyes
symptom for which they cannot be
blamed, but which creates a poison In
their flesh.
The Vicomte in explaining the title
of his book and his right to authori-
tartan discussion Of cookery says that
he has literally spent sixth Of his
life in the kitchen or among kitchen
affairs, whether in his various homes
or during his travels. when he has in
vestigated hotel restaurants and kitch-
ems. The recipes are his own way Of
cooking things and many are his own
invention. Though he does not tell
Evening star., 1934-09-02

George w. Hawse writes: place
the 9-cent Glacier Park stamp ver-
tically, with u. S. Postage at the
Evening star., 1934-09-02
PUBLIC LIBRARY
THE STRIKE.

~ EEPING abreast of the cur
rent strikes is a difdcult
~ problem these days when Ia
n n Dor troubles are breaking out
at all points of the country
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
Public Library presents short list Of
recent magazine articles on the gen.
eral aspects Of the strike In its his
torical, social and economic signifi-
canoe. Many comments on partic-
ular strikes during the year 1933-34
may be found by consulting the vol
umes Of the Readers Guide to Pc
riodical Literature for July, 1883
June, 1884 and August, 1884.
The Washington times., 1934-02-15
Mrs. Roper Fetes
Mrs. Rainey

Mrs. Ienry T. Rainey, wife Of
the Speaker of the House Of
Representatives, was the guest
in whose honor Mrs. Daniel c.
Roper, wife of the Secretary Of
Commerce. entertained at .
buffet luncheon today, at her
home in Woodland Drive. The
company numbered so.
X X x
Mrs. Charles C. Deming has
as her guest in her apartment
at the Shoreham for a few days.
Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd, who
arrived Tuesday from her home
in Winchester, Va.
X u
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Sui
Ivan were hosts at dinner at
the Shoreham last evening.
Their guests were Lieut.. and
Mrs. Emil j. Peterson, of Fort
Humphreys, Mr.. and Mrs. Por.
ter Oglesby, Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn.
ton w. Owen, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ned C. Brooks.
X y
Mrs. Dean E. Brown, of WASH
ington, has joined Mr.. Dean e.
Brown, jr., at the Berkshire Ho"
tel in New York.
The Washington times., 1934-02-15
Looking on
With z&MJ Goex

I hope the happy coming of
repeal into the District of Co
lumbia won't slowly kill the
Montgomery county dispensar-
les.
Going to a dispensary is a
particular sort Of social event.
At parties one usually meets
pleasant people-at least they
seem pleasant for the moment.
At the markets, one gossips with
ones friends and relations,
while patient clerks wait nearby
with great sacks of nourish-
ment.
A trip to a dispensary is a
friendly reunion with a touch
of adventure.
In the long lines waiting with
money in hand to move up to
the grilled windows which bar
ricade shelves of bottles, are
always people you somehow
wouldn't expect to find there.
People who likewise are sur
prised to see you in such a
neighborhood. So you laugh a
little selfconsciously, and hav-
ing discovered each other in
the same circumstance, become
closer friends. Together you
turn to the study of the long
white slips-the dlspensary's
liquor prices of the moment.
Merely reading the names on
the price list brings a flutter
of excitement. Names unknown
to a prohibition generation that
spelled its exhilaration-Scotch
and Gin.
Let me see - Amontillado
Sherry! Mercy, didn't Poe
write some evil story about A
Cask of Amontillado. Imagine,
having it in ones own home.
And Liebfraumilch Rhein!
All, the drink that Henry
Mencken did a sonnet about!
Haut Barsac! The genteel
dinner wine of English family
life.
Sparkling Burgundy. labelled
Chauvenet Red Cap! An in
spiration for a poet or a poetess.
And Champagne made by
Mumm, for the heavy head that
followed the night before.
Into another world the dis
pensary takes you. Perhaps
after the District comes into
it's own about the first Of
March, the shops and hotels
may provide the same atmos-
phere.
At the dispensaries, however,
one may buy the once'forbid-
den, may acquire ones light
hearted sociability in the name
of good citizenship. At least
this is true at the Montgomery
county dispenSary where the
met operating profit is dedi-
Gated by law and enacted by
the Maryland legislature to pay
off Montgomery county school,
roads and other general con-
struction bonds"
The manager Of the Bethesda
dispensary Is o former bank
The Washington times., 1934-02-15
SPRING FASHION FORECAST DEGREES GIBSON GIRL MODELS AND
Envoy Of Chile
Dinner Host
Last Night

The Ambassador Of Chile,
Senor Don Manuel Trucco, en-
tertained at dinner last even
ing, at the Embassy in Massa-
chusettS Avenue, when his
guests were, the Ambassador Of
Peru, Senior Don Manuel de
Freyre y Santander; the Am
bassador of Brazil and Nine.
de Lima e Silva, the AmbssSa-
dor of Argentina and Sonora de
Espil, the Ambassador Of Ger
many, Herr Hans Luther, with
his daughter, Fraulein Gertraud
Luther; the Minister of Ecua-
dor, Senior Captain Colon Eloy
Alfaro; Representative and Mrs.
Fred Britten, the former United
States Ambassador to Chile and
Mrs. William S. Culbertson, the
Attache of the Belgian Embassy
and Nine. Walravens, Col. and
Mrs. George C. Thorpe, Col. and
Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim,
Senorita Graciela Trucco and
Senorita Rebecca Trucco, daueh-
ters of the host; and the Second
Secretary of the Embassy, Senor
Don Mario Rodriguez.
The Washington times., 1934-02-15
Bridge Luncheon

Mrs. Harry Lewis entertained
q party at luncheon at the
Madrillon, the group remaining
later for an afternoon of bridge
in the Mayan room. The guests
included Mrs. Hiram johnson,
Mrs. Harry Grosner, Mrs. Philip
Lustine, Mrs. A. Atlas, Mrs.
Julius Lieberman. Mrs. Harry
Hurwitz, Mrs. william Berman,
and Mrs. Albert Blitz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haywood Hardy
have as their guest at the May
flower the latter's sister, Miss
Carol Jane Bibb, of Charlottes-
vile, Va. Mr.. Hardy was the
former special assistant to the
Attorney General of the United
States.
Mrs. Charles B. Warren, Of
New York, is making a brief
stay in Washington at the May
flower en- route to Palm Beach.
She is accompanied by Mrs. c.
H. Bliss, the former Miss Nash,
of Kenowsha, Wis.
X X
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson. wife
of the Secretary of the Navy,
will be the guest of honor at a
small luncheon to be given by
Mrs. Guy Goff on Wednesday,
February 81.
The Washington times., 1934-02-15
Dinner For Visitors

Representative and Mrs. Fred
Biermann and Representative
and Mrs. Edward C. Eicher en-
tertained at dinner last evening
at the Lafayette in honor of Mr..
Craig Schaeffer and Mr.. E. H.
Pollard, of Fort Madison, Iowa.
Those in the company included
Representative and Mrs. Ber-
nard M. Jacobsen, of Iowa, Miss
Betty Eicher and Mr.. James
France.
Mr.. Schaeffer and Mr.. Pollard
will leave today for New York,
where they will be joined by
their respective wives and after
a few days visit there they will
return to the Capital for a So
journ before proceeding to Hot
Springs, Virginia, ~ ---
The Washington times., 1934-02-15
Mrs. Roosevelt
At Dedication

Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the
President, and Mrs. Morgen-
thau, wife of the Secretary of
the Treasury, will attend the
Master Farmers dinner this ev-
ening, as guests of Miss Flora
Rose, head of the Economics
Department at Cornell Univer-
sity.
Earlier in the day the First
Lady and Mrs. Morgenthau at
tended the dedication of Mar
tina Van Rensselaer, Hall, the
new Home Economics Building
at the University.